Chapter 47 Chapter 47: I finally saw the ancient building of the Zhang family

The fat man patted me, and he trembled just like me. I thought to myself, it's finally here, it's really not easy.Tears are about to fall. The whole building was dark, without any light source, presenting an ominous atmosphere.I never thought that the Zhang Family Ancient Building would be such a huge building. where are they?The urgency in my heart burst out: "Zhang Qiling!" I yelled. There were bursts of echoes coming from the cave in the empty mine. I yelled several times, and the echoes almost filled the entire space. I said in my heart: It is absolutely impossible not to hear it.If they are still alive, it is absolutely impossible not to hear.

Wait until the echo slowly disappears, and the whole space returns to the cold silence that makes people feel cold. I waited, gasping for breath, for a response from anywhere. However, I waited a long, long time, and the silence was not broken.My insecurities started to roll in, along with the nightmare that was always in me. What if they were really all dead? The question that I have been reluctant to think about has now rushed in front of me, and I can no longer escape. There was no echo, everything was deadly quiet, as if we were the first visitors in nearly a thousand years, and even the sleeping dead could not be awakened.

"Let's go." The fat man patted me on the shoulder, "Whether it's life or death, you have to see it with your own eyes. Didn't your uncle say that?" I lit a cigarette, took three puffs, then threw it to the ground: "Let's go!" The door of the Zhangjia Ancient Building was completely off-white. When I touched it, I found that it was full of dust.The door was very decayed, and the window paper on it was completely rotted, and it was dark inside. I looked at those square windows—a typical Qing Dynasty building, and it really was the handwriting of Xiang Lei.

"Here." The fat man said to me.I could just see that the dust had been knocked off in a few places on the panes.The fat man went up and pushed, and the door was pushed open. There was a harsh creak on the hinges, and dust kicked up everywhere. The fat man and I immediately took a step back, covered our mouths, and waited for the dust to fall slowly. The fat man and I looked at each other, and the fat man made a gesture of "please first".I tilted my head and said, "Didn't you take the lead in the past?" The fat man said: "This is not a chance for you to show off. If you can't do it, then I will come."

I took a breath: "Okay, then I won't be polite." Then I walked towards the door. It was pitch black inside, and I scanned it with a flashlight, and saw a huge space.It is a huge floor, with four pillars standing in the middle of the hall. There is nothing on this floor, I just saw a lot of equipment spread out in the middle of the room. When we walked over, we found that it was indeed Poker Bottle's equipment bag, covered with white dust.The fat man looked at the beams above his head. It was completely in the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty, with countless patterns on the roof.Now, the whole building is pale white no matter from which angle it is viewed.

"Why is this place so big?" The fat man squatted down and shook a package, and I realized it was a food package.The white ash on the bag was shaken up, and I suddenly felt uncomfortable, so I immediately pulled the fat man back. The fat man covered his mouth and looked at his hands, which were already red from the heat. "The dust of strong alkali." He said, "The deformed buddy didn't lie to us. It seems that the little brother and the others encountered it once, otherwise the equipment would not be covered by such a thick powder." "The things are here, but where are the people?" I said, thinking that not all of them will be melted away, even if they are melted, there will be traces.

I think the atmosphere is a bit weird, but I can't tell where the problem is.The fat man asked me to treat my wound first. There is strong alkali dust here. If it gets on the wound, it will be troublesome. In the confusion just now, I didn't notice that the place where the insect bites no longer bleeds, but if it is not treated, it is likely to fester. After I finished bandaging, I looked at the fat man's watch, and the fat man asked me if I wanted to find it separately.I thought about it, but still don't think so.Who knows what will happen in this building, two people will die together, it will be settled once and for all, not so much trouble.

The fat man turned on the flashlight, slowly shaking off the powder on the equipment bit by bit, and saw that a lot of equipment was opened.He went up to check, and said: "The gas mask and flashlight are not there. They should have put down their equipment here, and then went to explore lightly." There is a huge hole in the center of the ceiling of the hall of the ancient building, which should be formed by corrosion, and the shape of the edge of the hole is very irregular.There are also many pieces of rotten wood on the ground, all of which have become cotton-like things, covered under a thick white powder.We use a flashlight to shine upwards, and we can see the ceiling on the upper floor, which is the same situation.

The first floor is clear at a glance, we walked to the side.According to Feng Shui theory and Lei's consistent design habits, the best location for the stairs of an ancient building should be on the edge of the building, usually on the east side.Of course, for such a large building, there should be stairs in all four directions, otherwise the running distance would be too long and troublesome. But we searched carefully around the hall several times, but we didn't find the stairs going up.The fat man muttered, "Could it be that the stairs are outside the ancient building? In the design of the ancient building, there is a kind of staircase specially used for viewing, winding up the ancient building."

I thought to myself, shit, what's so good about this place.I went out and walked around, and found that Shifeng Lei agreed with my philosophy, and I also thought that there was nothing to see, and there were still no stairs outside. Damn, is it true that the Zhang family are all Ximen Chuixue, who can go upstairs just by pulling up their pants, don't they need stairs at all? Back in the building, the fat man went to look for the rope in their luggage, and found that the rope was gone, so he said, "Maybe there are no stairs in this place. They took the rope with them, maybe they used it to go upstairs."

"Then there must be a place where the rope can be used." I said to myself.There is strong alkali powder everywhere, there is no gas mask, and dust is everywhere when there is a shock. Needless to say, if you inhale it, if you squint your eyes, you may be blind in an instant. Just when I couldn't figure it out, I suddenly remembered what Xiaohua told me about the geomantic omen here by the lake.The Zhang family ancient building is located in a place where the bones are sucked out. The so-called dragon tower halls are all for the purpose of long-term peace, but the Zhang family ancient building is the opposite. It swallows the energy of the dragon veins and destroys the momentum of the dragon veins. I seem to have heard before that some places need to abolish the stairs to achieve a certain feng shui effect. But abolished does not mean that it is really not used, but just that they will not build visible stairs, but will mark invisible stairs.There's definitely room for a second floor here. We continued our search, and soon concentrated our attention on several pillars.Several unicorns are carved on the pillars, their bodies look like dragons, and the heads of several unicorns are very prominent. The fat man kicked a few times, kicked off the relatively floating dust, and hid aside.When the dust calmed down, I wrapped my mouth and nose with clothes and climbed up. Sure enough, it is here.We stepped on the head of the unicorn and quickly climbed to the top of the pillar.After pushing it, I found that the floor above did not move at all. "It's stuck." Fatty said.After speaking, a large amount of white ash was shaken from above, and the fat man immediately jumped down and ran away, coughing continuously, and the phlegm he coughed up was already bloody. "You can't stay in this place for a long time. Even if the mechanism doesn't activate, the internal organs will rot after a long time." He said.As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a click, and the unicorn that he stepped on just now actually moved.Then a staircase descended from above. Fatty and I exchanged glances, and immediately climbed up cautiously.As soon as the flashlight shone, our hearts shook.We can see that on the second floor of the ancient building, there are countless shelves, hundreds of which can be seen at a glance, each of which is like the upper, middle and lower berths of a train, but with more layers. What makes people very uncomfortable is that we can clearly see that the shelves are full of iron figurines.