Chapter 24: The Mysterious Serpentine Robe

  His fourth brother touched his head and suddenly stopped talking, only staring at the window with a look of horror in his eyes, as if he had seen an evil spirit. Gradually, even his breathing became rapid. Under the lamp light, big drops of sweat began to seep out from his forehead, wetting his collar.

  Seeing the fourth brother like this, everyone is uneasy and looks out the window. Outside the window, except for the endless black night and the occasional sound of a few stray cats' mournful cries, what else exists?

  "Fourth brother, are you okay?" With a worried heart, fearing that Fourth Brother might have lost his soul, he hastily patted the dazed Fourth Brother with great force and loudly shouted at him to wake him up.

  After being photographed by me, my fourth brother shivered and held the lamp in front of his face. Under the lamplight, I saw that my fourth brother's face was very pale, and he had been frightened to this extent for some unknown reason.

  Fourth brother paused and wiped the cold sweat from his face, continuing to speak anxiously: "Perhaps this earring and snake-shaped pattern have something to do with those two mysterious people who suddenly appeared."

  "Who is this mysterious person?" Old Six exclaimed.

  Fourth brother did not understand why the old sixth directly put down the lamp and walked to the corner of the house, took out a piece of clothing from the big box in the corner of the house, couldn't figure out what he was doing with the clothes, felt that his behavior at this time was very unreasonable, had some signs of being possessed.

  He brought the clothes to our front and gently spread out that neatly folded garment. My fourth brother excitedly said, "Come take a look at this strange clothing."

  Everyone thought it was strange and quickly approached the clothes to observe them carefully. The clothes in front of them were extremely wide and large, and it would be better to say that they were a robe rather than clothes, made up of black and white silk materials. The back of the clothes was black with scales and printed with a fierce snake pattern with its mouth open and tongue sticking out. The front of the clothes was white with horizontal stripes. There was even a very wide hat at the back of the collar.

  "You've all seen clothes with lines and styles like this, and the texture... I think it's not something that can be handmade in our current era." The fourth brother said calmly.

  "Where did you get this strange outfit from?" I asked curiously.

  The fourth brother did not answer and directly put on his clothes. After dressing up, he asked everyone: "Do you think this dress fits me?"

  "The sleeves are too big and the hem is too long, it's all dragging on the ground. Especially that huge hat on the back of your head can cover up half of your body." Huo Ling quickly shook her head in denial, not thinking much about it, and made a judgment based on a woman's intuition about dressing...

  "Sister-in-law has good eyesight." Fourth brother smiled and said.

  After taking off his clothes, the fourth brother held the clothes and admired them for a while, but suddenly he smiled evilly and quickly put the clothes on the old six who was standing still beside him. The panicked old six didn't move at all, letting the fourth brother arrange him freely. The fourth brother quickly buttoned up the buttons and also put the hat on the back of the old six's head.

  After dressing up Lao Liu, the fourth brother looked around him for a long time and said: "Lao Liu, put your big knife behind you, lower your head, and walk slowly in the room for a few steps to see."

  Lao Liu nodded and began to move quietly inside the house. Seeing this, Fourth Brother quickly covered the light with his hand, and the room suddenly darkened. In the dimness, Lao Liu seemed to be several inches taller than usual, and his whole person looked more majestic and powerful. His face was hidden behind a large hat, making him look very mysterious, and the large knife on his back made people feel like he was emitting a deadly aura, just like a god of death.

  "I think this suit is just right for Lao Liu's tall and large stature," said the second brother with a smile.

  "It's no good." Fourth Brother shook his head.

  "Why not? Anyway, you wear it and it doesn't fit." There was a hint of anger in the second brother's words, perhaps he felt that the fourth brother was being too stingy, unwilling to even give up one piece of clothing.

  "This garment cannot be given to Old Six because... it belongs to Master Tianyu." Fourth Brother said coldly, the same sneer spreading across his mouth as before.

  "How did you know this dress was Master's? I've never seen him wear it." I asked in surprise, seeing the unusual expression on Fourth Brother's face.

  "Yes, it's Master Tianyu's clothes, perhaps also made for a certain mysterious person." Fourth brother suddenly stared blankly out the window, muttering to himself.

  Fourth brother's words are not unreasonable. Master's physique when he was young should be similar to that of Old Six, or perhaps even more majestic than him. That piece of clothing on his body is quite fitting. But how did Fourth Brother know this? I didn't even know about it. Master has been unconscious for two months, and it's impossible for Fourth Brother to have learned it from Master himself.

  "Right, Old Four must have drawn his conclusions from that mysterious person." I thought to myself.

  "I was just about to ask him what had happened, but my fourth brother seemed to know what I was thinking and said: 'That day, I was idle and worried about the safety of Master Tianyu, so I thought I'd go to his small hut on the mountain top to see if I could find anything. Before I even reached the top, I saw something shining in the sunlight from halfway up the cliff, and my curiosity got the better of me, so I carefully climbed down using a rope. When I arrived at the place where the light was coming from, I realized it was just a corner of this garment sticking out from between the rocks, reflecting the sun's rays because of its silk texture. At the time, I didn't think much of it and only picked it up because I was impressed by the garment's durability. After bringing it back, I examined it carefully for a long time but couldn't find anything unusual, just that it looked like a snake to me - the back is black with scale-like patterns, while the front is white with stripe-like patterns. Does everyone else think so too?"

  Fourth brother's words reminded me that the clothes and snake skin were indeed similar. Fourth brother saw us nodding, looking out the window with a shocked expression, and continued to say: "Of course, at that time I absolutely wouldn't have thought of putting these clothes on Master Tianyu until... until ten days ago that night."