Chapter 25: The Ancestral Home is Haunted 2

  Pangzi thought that as Chen Tong's identity, he shouldn't be living in this ancestral house, but Chen Tong said he would also be here at night.

  Chen Tong wanted Tian Qi and his family to live in the main house in the middle, while he himself lived in the west wing, but was refused by Tian Qi, who thought it would be more suitable for the master to live in the main house.

  It doesn't matter which room to live in, because at this moment everyone is outside. Chen Tong sent people to move the tables and chairs, which was also what Tian Qi required. If they really went back to sleep, it wouldn't be their purpose for coming.

  It was fine at first, after dinner the sky wasn't completely dark yet, sitting in the old house drinking tea was also relaxing. However, as the sun set, the surroundings also entered a pitch black darkness. From being able to vaguely see people around me to complete darkness.

  Quietly, no one made a sound, only the occasional bird calls and the breathing of the fat boy, at this moment, the rural night was quiet.

  At that moment, someone's flashlight suddenly lit up in their hand, shining directly on the face of the person next to them. Many people have had this experience - when it's pitch black and a light is suddenly shone on your face, it's a very terrifying thing, an inexplicable eeriness.

  Tian Qi and the three others were fine, after all they had also experienced some things. The beautiful assistant was frightened and screamed, in a panic she grabbed Chen Tong's hand.

  "Turn off the flashlight!" Chen Tong showed displeasure, then patted his assistant's hand with the other hand to comfort him.

  Tian Qi didn't seem to notice, but Pangzi understood that the beautiful assistant and Chen Tong's relationship was definitely not ordinary, and he subconsciously stuck out his tongue.

  "Boss, I didn't turn on the flashlight, it lit up by itself..." The burly bodyguard felt embarrassed being scolded by his boss, but he couldn't conceal the fear in his voice.

  He didn't lie, because Chen Tong hadn't spoken yet when almost at the same time three other bodyguards' flashlights also lit up, and the light shone straight onto each other's faces.

  Four burly men with four flashlights shining on their eerie faces!

  "Shut up!" Chen Tong was really angry this time, "Settle the wages and get out of here by tomorrow!" These four bodyguards had been with him for a long time and were always very serious and responsible. He couldn't understand why they would gang up on him like this today, in this situation.

  "Boss, the flashlight wasn't turned on by us, it's been off all along." As he spoke, one of the bodyguards, who seemed to be the leader of the four, handed the lit flashlight to Chen Tong.

  "Tian Qi, take a look," Chen Tong took over the flashlight and looked at it for a moment, his face changing from sunny to cloudy, obviously the bodyguard was right.

  Tian Qi took over the flashlight and found that the switch was indeed off. However, whether it was turned on or off, the flashlight remained lit, out of control.

  "Take down the battery and have a look," said the fat man.

  "This is a solar-powered flashlight, without battery," Qiu said.

  "Let it shine like this," Tian Qi thought to himself whether he should destroy the flashlight, but after some consideration, although this was a bit strange, at least having light was better than being in complete darkness.

  Everyone continued to wait, and apart from the flashlight interlude, another hour passed without anything out of the ordinary happening.

  Continuing to wait is not a solution, Tian Qi's plan from the beginning was that if they could spot any abnormalities it would be for the best, but if not then there would only be one way left.

  Enter the east wing room.

  "I'll send two people with you," said Chen Tong.

  "No need, I'll go in myself," Tian Qi refused. In this situation, having one more person wouldn't add to the safety, on the contrary, the people around you might suddenly turn against you at any moment, not that they want to.

  "Be careful," Qiu Shen said as he was about to enter the house.

  Tian Qi nodded, he was also very nervous at this moment, knowing that there were tigers in the mountain but still heading towards the tiger mountain.

  He held a black stick in his hand, Tian Qi lowered his head and sidled into the east wing room. The door of the east wing room was originally not very big, it was a single-leaf door with hinges, the door leaf was severely skewed due to its age, if it were a fat person, they would definitely not be able to squeeze in.

  Just as Tianqi's two feet stepped into the east wing, the scene in front of him changed completely. It was no longer the two rooms he had observed during the day. The stove and kang were gone. Tianqi shone his flashlight around and found that the room was empty and devoid of anything. Moreover, the house had become semi-circular, with only the middle position allowing Tianqi to stand upright, while other areas required him to bend down.

  "Is this an illusion?" Tian Qi wanted to find the door of the house, but he found that the house didn't have a door at all. The surroundings were all sealed and tightly closed.

  Tianqi Ma walked to the edge of the wall, stretched out his hand to touch it, and the feeling was similar to that during the day, a bit like human skin. When he was studying for his Ph.D. abroad, he knew a professor who taught archaeology, and once wore gloves to touch a mummy, with dry and shriveled skin, sunken abdomen, very much like this feeling now.

  Look at this layout again, isn't it a tomb? However, such tombs are now rare, and most of them are in the form of standing monuments and urns. In Southeast Asia, some wealthy people still choose to be buried in this way after death.

  With a preliminary judgment, Tian Qi was no longer so tense. The reason why the east wing house is strange may be because someone is buried here.

  With the black stick in hand, Tian Qi wanted to use it to strike the wall, and this should restore the house to its original appearance. The black stick can disperse souls, so dealing with this one shouldn't be a problem either.

  But all of this was just Tian Qi's wishful thinking. He tried for half a day, but found no effect at all, which means he was trapped here.

  "Damn it!" Tian Qi suddenly shouted loudly, his emotions filled with violence and discontent.

  Just as he finished shouting that sentence, his body suddenly shuddered with a chill. Although he had been trying to find the exit with his black stick for half a day, his emotions were still calm, but the words he had just shouted out were clearly his own.

  Not only is there no way out, but it can also affect people's emotions.

  Tian Qi stood still, calming his mind and eliminating some negative emotions. If he really wasn't careful and was affected, it was entirely possible that he would lose control and end up killing himself.

  "Fat brother! Deep hatred! Director Chen! Are you there?" Now the only way is to shout for people, they are just outside the house and should be able to hear his voice.

  Outside the house, it's another scene.

  "Tianqi has been in there for half a day, is everything okay?" After waiting for about half an hour, Tianqi was still in the room. Although Fatso asked him a few questions outside and he replied that everything was fine, the room wasn't that big, it would only take half a minute to look around, why did it take so long?

  "The flashlight is still on, and when we asked him, he always said it was nothing," said Fatso.

  Chou Shen didn't say a word, he always felt that something was not quite right, but he also couldn't easily enter the house. Tian Qi had said before going in that no one else should go in until he came out, just in case something unexpected happened.

  "Tian Qi, what have you found?" Qiu Shen asked loudly.

  "I'm fine!" Tian Qi's voice came quickly.

  Just then, Qiu Shen rushed into the room at the fastest speed, and everyone had no time to react.

  Just as Qiu Shen entered the house, everyone's flashlights went out, including the one Tian Qi brought into the house.

  Tian Qi woke up at noon on the second day, and he had entered the east wing house at 10 o'clock in the evening.

  "What's going on? How did I...?" Tian Qi opened his eyes to find himself lying in bed, apparently in the village clinic. Everyone was crowded into this small room.

  "You've finally woken up! If something unexpected had happened to you, how would I have explained it to the Matchmaker?" Chen Tong's suspended heart was finally at ease.

  "What have you been up to, kid? Luckily, Chou Shen found out in time and rescued you!" Fatso looked like he was scolding, but Tian Qi knew he was concerned.

  "I only remember entering the house, and then...". Tian Qi instinctively felt that something must have happened afterwards, but he couldn't recall anything at all, just like he had fallen into a deep sleep and slept soundly without even having any dreams.

  Then, Fatso recounted the whole thing again. Chou Shēn found him lying on the ground, and as for what had happened in between, only he knew.

  However, in the process of stating that Fatso said it was Qiu Shen who went to save him, even Chen Tong couldn't help but take a few more glances at Qiu Shen. At that moment, he discovered something unusual and quickly entered the house. Given the crooked state of the door, one would need to be careful and squeeze in sideways to enter, but he seemed to do so effortlessly.

  What's even more incomprehensible is that after he went in, all the flashlights went out, Tian Qi fell down and yet he was fine, and could still rescue people.

  At that time, the Old Man of the Moon introduced this student to Chen Tong and said that he was eccentric and taciturn. Now it seems that it's not so simple. Judging from his skills, he might be even more formidable than Tian Qi, but he is just more low-key.

  His deep-seated personality would never go into explanations for it, let alone that he himself didn't even know why it was like this.

  However, Tian Qi understood that he would never forget what Zhang Xin had said, "A deep hatred is not a person of this world."