Chapter 4 The weird cellar
The morning sunshine is still projecting into Xiao Rui's bedroom through the window. Recently, Xiao Rui has been used to the first thing she does when she wakes up every morning is to see Liang Chen beside her, hoping that a miracle will happen. Of course, today is no exception, but it is like every time, and always disappointed in the end with hope.
Today is July 18. In a blink of an eye, Liang Chen had been in a coma for half a month, and there was still no sign of awakening. During this half month, except for some strange things that happened when he opened his diary a few days ago, Xiao Rui had never encountered anything unusual.
But there are reasons for the incident. Although the diary disappeared, Xiao Rui still remembers the contents clearly. What did her husband see? All this happened after he moved here. So if you want to figure out what her husband had experienced in the past three months, you can only start with this ancient house, which is the current home.
Today, after seeing off her daughter, Xiao Rui did not return home, but went to a library in the town. If you want to learn about a certain period of history, the only way is to books that record the long years.
After some inquiry, the library administrator's answer was "There is no record of that house."
Xiao Rui couldn't believe that her house was built so strangely, and it was impossible that she would not have any relevant records.
So she walked among the bookshelf and looked for her own goals.
Sometimes, people are confused about certain things and cannot calm their minds, so it is easy to ignore the truth in those corners. But Xiao Rui is different. She has no other thoughts in her heart, just blindly believes that there must be records in that ancient house. Finally, she found a book called "Centenary History" in the corner of the last bookshelf.
This book should have not been read for a long time, and a thick layer of gray fell on it.
After a brief look, it recorded some of the history of the town for a hundred years, which is very suitable for Xiao Rui. What she wanted to explore was the dusty past.
So she borrowed the book from the administrator and returned home.
When Xiao Rui returned home, she changed her clothes, opened the bedroom door and looked at Liang Chen who was lying motionless on the bed. In fact, since the recent days, Xiao Rui could always feel that Liang Chen was by her side. Even she herself didn't know what was going on.
Xiao Rui, sitting at the desk, slowly opened the book about the century-old history of the entire town brought back from the library.
But from the directory, it seems that there is no clue that she needs. After flipping over and over, it only introduces the origin of this town. Xiao Rui, who was a little discouraged, continued to read it. At this time, a few words on it attracted her attention.
This is an article about what happened before the town. This place was originally a village called Zhaojia Village. After some reason, all the people in the village disappeared overnight. For a long time since then, this place has been a homeless land. Until someone paid for the rebuilding of the place and turned it into the current town.
Although there are only a few short words, Xiao Rui reads it very seriously, because the old man mentioned this before. It seems that if you want to figure out what her husband has experienced, you must first unravel the secrets of your own family.
This reminded Xiao Rui of the old man's advice.
"Child, take your family out of there quickly, that's an unknown place."
Xiao Rui put down the book, raised her head and looked around the study. What secret is hidden in this house?
So she began to recall that her husband's every move since he moved here, his abnormality should have started not long after moving here. Liang Chen had gone to the cellar behind the house that morning to put things in the cellar. After returning, something was wrong, until he was unconscious, and it became more and more serious.
Then it is possible that the beginning of everything is in that cellar.
Xiao Rui was very happy about this and finally found some useful information. She was also secretly blaming herself for why she didn't think about what happened before earlier.
So she stood up and ran to the back of the house quickly.
After a while, Xiao Rui came to the back of the ancient house, which was extremely desolate and overgrown with weeds. Obviously, Liang Chen had never been here after he was unconscious, so naturally the places where no one cleaned would become deserted.
After searching for a while, I finally found the entrance to the cellar among a pile of weeds.
This is a flat iron door, with rust on it, which shows how long it has existed here.
After opening this door, what caught my eye was a downward staircase. The staircase was very long. Xiao Rui didn't understand who would dig such a deep cellar. What was it used for?
In this way, Xiao Rui slowly walked down with questions.
Her breathing was a little rapid. It was too strange here. The long stairs seemed to be out of reach. Both sides were walls, and there was only the distance between the stairs in the middle.
Finally, after walking for a long time, the vision became wider. The entire underground space was not very large, and many things were piled up in a mess. Because it was underground all year round, no one often opened the door to let the air enter, resulting in a decay smell everywhere. Xiao Rui looked here and there, there seemed to be nothing special. Just as she was depressed, the piano in the corner attracted her attention.
Judging from the appearance of this piano, it should be a while ago, with the rusty keys and the decaying piano stand. There seems to be a score in front of it.
Xiao Rui walked over, observed the piano, and picked up the piano score. In fact, when she was in college, Xiao Rui still had some research on music. Although she had never been exposed to it after marriage, her solid foundation resulted in the result of being able to hum by picking up the score.
After watching for a while, Xiao Rui felt that the melody was pretty good, so she started humming with the score. However, as she hummed, the piano in front of her sounded a "buzzing". The sound was like someone pressing the keys in the high notes. The sharp sound scared Xiao Rui subconsciously threw away the score and took a step back.
What happened just now? How could this piano sound by itself?
At this time, Xiao Rui looked at the piano, which was completely different from the previous feeling. Although the piano was quietly placed there as she had just come in, after what happened just now, looking at the piano, it seemed that it was full of strange auras of fear of people everywhere. Even the entire underground space seemed so terrifying, quiet and annoying.
Xiao Rui could not continue here anymore. She was like staying in a coffin, which was creepy.
So Xiao Rui quickly stepped out of the cellar, closed the door and ran back to the house.
At night, Xiao Rui lay on the bed and looked at Liang Chen in front of her and recalled carefully what she had experienced recently. She started with the missing diary and then went to the weird piano in the cellar. These were like fragments and were unable to connect them, and she could not understand what was going on from it.
As she thought about it, sleepiness swept over Xiao Rui's nerves, so she slowly closed her eyes.
Chapter completed!