Chapter 12: Cleveland's Curse (3)

  Jiang Feng walked behind him, his two eyes fixed tightly on Chen Long's back, fearing that the mysterious ghost would separate them.

  "Ah Long, I've heard that when you encounter a ghost hitting the wall, there are several methods to get out. For example, squatting on the spot and smoking a cigarette, or peeing, can make us leave. Don't you think we can try these two methods?" After walking slowly for a few steps, Jiang Feng couldn't bear the speed anymore and spoke in a low voice, glancing around as if afraid of being overheard by ghosts.

  "Who told you?" Chen Long replied with a sentence, seemingly not paying much attention.

  "Haha, I heard it from the old men in the countryside. But you wouldn't believe me, I'm telling you, someone allegedly escaped from the Ghost Beating Wall by pulling on a cow's tail." Jiang Feng saw that Chen Long had stopped moving, thinking he believed him, and took out his cigarette box, puffing away with an air of mystery.

  Chen Long took a torch and said thoughtfully, "The 'ghost hitting the wall' is just making people walk in circles, creating an illusion. The two legs of a person have a slight difference in the length of their steps, and now it seems that we unknowingly walked around this stone house earlier, but we can't see it. The walls we see may not be real either. Now you start feeling the wall from the left side, I'll take care of the right side, if there's anything strange, just let me know."

  "What's a strange place?" Jiang Feng narrowed his eyes and asked Chen Long, gazing at his blurry face.

  "For example, the difference in texture, where a piece is recessed or protruding. Just take a look ~ The ghost hitting the wall is like the ancient people's formation method, there must be an array eye, as long as it's strange somewhere, just say something." Chen Long extinguished the cigarette butt and put his hands on the wall to start feeling around.

  Two people were basically taking one step and stopping for half a day, which made Chen Long somewhat impatient. He then concentrated his spiritual power into his eyes and opened the Heavenly Eye. The Heavenly Eye was even more mysterious than the Yin-Yang Eye, as the latter could only see ghosts and spirits, while the former could see even more extraordinary things.

  For example, various smells lingering in the air, all kinds of life activities in space, abnormal things, and even with strong magical powers, you can see fragments of scenes that happened in this space in the past.

  Under the eyes of the heavens, space seemed to have undergone a rift, and various colors of light mixed together in Chen Long's eyes, causing him to feel a brief dizziness. His hands formed several seals, striking out in all directions before focusing his mind to observe. Contrary to Chen Long's expectations, he had thought that these few attacking spells would be enough to reveal some clues, but it seemed like they were like stones sinking into the ocean, with very little effect.

  Letting Jiang Feng search on the left was just to distract him, Chen Long didn't expect him to find anything. Who knew that at a time when Chen Long was at a loss for what to do, he heard Jiang Feng's suppressed cry of surprise.

  "What's wrong?" Chen Long thought he had encountered danger, and with a flash of movement, he arrived in front of Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng seemed to be intently looking up at a stone slab embedded in the wall, seemingly unaware of Chen Long's arrival.

  "What's wrong? Have you found something?" Chen Long patted his shoulder and also cast his gaze onto the stone.

  This is a piece of stone that looks very ordinary, located above the heads of two people, with several corners exposed outside the wall at a considerable distance. The entire stone house is stacked up with such stones, and even Chen Long's Tianyan can't see any unusual place on this stone.

  Jiang Feng heard Chen Long's words and finally reacted, stretching out his hand to touch the stone on top of his head but then shrinking back: "Strange! Just now when I was at the back, it seemed like this stone was at a position similar to my nose, how did it get so high in just an instant?"

  Chen Long stretched out his left hand and lightly touched the stone under Jiang Feng's worried gaze. It felt cool to the touch, with a slightly cold and eerie feeling like that of a dead body.

  Chen Long licked his lips, curled up the corners of his mouth, as if mocking himself, and seemed to be sneering at the ghostly creature behind him. He took out a talisman, bit open his finger, used the oozing blood to draw a few symbols, muttered a few incantations in a low voice, waved his hand, and the talisman stuck to the stone.

  "This is a talisman I begged from a master of Buddhist law, dyed with blood, it can dispel all illusions." Chen Long explained briefly and then pulled Jiang Feng forward in big strides.

  Chen Long had previously walked into a misunderstanding, always thinking that what he saw was an illusion, and thus hesitated to solve this so-called "ghost hitting the wall". In fact, all the substances in this house space are constantly twisting and deforming, which is why Chen Long and others would return to their original place. Now that the movement of substances in the sealed space has been stopped, the problem is naturally solved.

  After walking a few steps, they arrived at the room where Jiang Shifu and others were. At this time, the fog had dissipated somewhat. Chen Long first looked around the corridor and saw that Cai Guozhong was not there, his heart tightened, and he hastily pushed open the slightly ajar door and went in.

  Everything in front of Chen Long's eyes froze instantly, and he couldn't move a step. Then Jiang Feng, who walked in later, let out a low cry of terror, his eyes barely concealing the shock. He was someone who had mixed with the Taoist sects, what kind of scene hadn't he seen on the edge of a knife? But what he saw in front of him now suddenly overturned his understanding.

  Originally thought that being chopped off with missing hands and feet, internal organs hanging out, eyes gouged out, nose cut off, and ears sliced off was the worst. However, the scene in front of him made even someone as calm as Jiang Feng feel a surge of nausea. He swallowed his saliva, forcing down the urge to vomit, and glanced at Chen Long's face, only to see that except for his pale complexion and clenched fists, he didn't show any signs of fear. Jiang Feng was puzzled by Chen Long's composure, but wisely chose not to ask.

  Yuan Hua and Cai Guozhong were lying on the ground, unconscious, it was unclear whether they were dead or not. The ropes that had bound Jiang Shifu and the stool were scattered all over the floor. On the bed where Zhou Shifu's body had been placed, there were now only fragments of flesh and internal organs, with fingers and toes mixed in, still barely recognizable. The ruptured intestines emitted waves of foul odor, the heart, lungs, liver and other organs had already turned into mush, if not for their distinctive colors and cells different from those of the flesh, it would have been impossible to identify these fragments amidst the blood.

  The skeleton and some larger bones were all gone, Chen Long judged that there were two people based on the number of fingers and the amount of flesh and organ fragments. The skulls of the two people were also gone, because Chen Long did not see eyes, nose, and ears, even the fragments were gone. So it can be confirmed that the murderer killed Jiang Shifu, then cut off their heads, disassembled the skeleton, and chopped up the body with a sharp object.

  Chen Long was certain that this wasn't the work of an evil spirit, because he couldn't sense any ghostly aura on the minced meat. Moreover, ghosts wouldn't go to such great lengths to kill someone, they would either scare them to death or simply kill them outright, there's no way they would do something so gruesome.

  Humans are actually much more terrifying than ghosts and monsters.

  The two people on the ground did not die, they just fainted, and Chen Long walked out of the room.

  With a kick, Chen Long burst into Yuan Tian's room and cast an awakening spell to rouse him (earlier, Chen Long had taught Jiang Feng the Six Ding Protection Spell, which could not only awaken him but also ward off evil spirits; now that there was no danger, just waking Yuan Tian up would suffice).

  Before Yuan Tian could react, Chen Long dragged him back to the original room, his face gloomy and silent.

  Yuan Tianzheng wanted to complain a few words, but suddenly saw the scene on the bed and was shocked. He subconsciously dry heaved for a while before cautiously sneaking a peek.

  After a long time, he finally let out a desperate cry: "Good heavens! This must be Cleveland's curse!" Tell your friends