Chapter 0963 – Spiders and Butterflies
Although this Japanese-style old mansion only had a few rooms, it gave people the feeling as if it was a maze, some rooms were connected to each other, seemingly separated by a partition in the middle, but in fact, that partition was a wooden door that could be slid and pulled.
The layout of the whole room was very weird, five bedrooms corresponded to the five organs of the human body, and Chen Ge also found the remnants of scrolls with scriptures written on them in each bedroom respectively.
Although the overall building was in Japanese style, those remnant scrolls were in traditional Chinese characters, most of which were out-of-the-way characters, and Chen Ge only recognized gold, wood, water, fire and earth on them.
”Five bedrooms, five human organs, five elements ……” The sound of a wind chime rang in his ears, Chen Ge turned back to look, he had always been curious about where this wind chime was coming from, and this was the second time he had heard this sound.
”Have you noticed that this mansion resembles a person lying on the ground?” The policeman’s attitude towards Chen Ge was now very good, he was like a follower, always chasing after Chen Ge, wherever Chen Ge went he ran to.
”Person?”
”Yeah, the room we came in is a human head, the left and right compartments are human arms, below that are human legs, and this aisle in the middle is a human body. That shrine is at the end of the corridor, as if it’s like it’s being stepped on.” The policeman’s words had given Chen Ge some inspiration.
”If we compare the entire building to a person, then this building layout is like a living person suppressing the shrine.”
”A person stepping on a god?” A brilliant light flashed in the policeman’s eyes, and he fiercely shouted at Chen Ge, “I get it! The person stepped on the god! That’s why a pair of red high heels appeared in the shrine!”
The entire first half of the reasoning was fine, but it went completely off the rails later on, and Chen Ge wanted to warn the other party, but the policeman was so excited that he loudly shared his discovery with the other tourists.
While the other tourists were discussing enthusiastically, Chen Ge stood quietly in the corridor: “The theme of this room is a curse, a curse can also be a reincarnation that spreads from the malice of the first person, to pass the level you have to first figure out what has happened here.”
”I found the DV in the first bedroom, it recorded seven young men coming to the old mansion to spend the night, the DV didn’t say what happened to those seven men, but the probability of them surviving is basically zero, that’s seven lives.”
”In the second bedroom was a large pile of clothing, all of which was caked with dirt, as if it had just been taken out of a mud puddle. Compare that to what the owner of the mansion in the first compartment had said, that the parents of the owner of the mansion had been caught in a mudslide and the whole family had been buried, and that the clothes they had been wearing at the time of their deaths must have been covered with mud and water.”
”So the clothes piled up in the second bedroom most likely belonged to the mansion owner’s parents, and as for the reason for their accident, it’s most likely related to the shrine as well.”
Chen Ge stroked his chin, quietly organizing the clues in his mind, “According to the owner of the mansion, on the day of her parents’ accident, it was raining heavily outside, and the roads in this small mountain village are very difficult to walk on, and judging from the villagers’ reactions the surrounding area should be frequented by natural disasters such as mudslides. The owner of the house is a local resident, naturally very clear about all this, so why are they still bent on leaving?”
The answer was self-evident, Chen Ge turned back to the shrine, “They probably opened the shrine as well, and even if they didn’t, they must have found something very dangerous, so they were forced to leave! But they didn’t think that even after leaving the old mansion, they still couldn’t escape the shadow of death, this should be the power of the curse.”
”Then there was the third bedroom, where I found a tilted over offering table with a black and white photo of an old man on it, the weird thing is that the old man in that photo was taken with his back to the camera, and his face couldn’t be seen. Apart from that, I also saw a lot of children’s toys in the third bedroom, and those toys were hidden under the offering table.”
”The items in the third compartment reminded me of the story the man in the DV had told, that on the day the old man was buried, the young grandson opened the shrine and disappeared. If the youngest grandson has also died, then that’s two more lives.”
”The one common thread that exists between these events is that the people involved may have opened the shrines.”
The first three bedrooms housed the deceased’s belongings, and from the fourth bedroom onward, things changed inside.
”I found traces of a fire burning in the fourth bedroom, the walls of that bedroom were blackened and everything in the room was burned, who burned that room? And why did they burn everything in the bedroom?”
Not being able to figure it out, Chen Ge skipped this question for the time being, “Disregarding the fourth bedroom, the situation in the fifth bedroom is also very odd, this room should be a woman’s room, with mirrors along the walls, all kinds of beautiful traditional clothes in the closet, and some boxes used for make-up. The owner of the room is supposed to be a young woman, but why is there a black and white photo of a posed old woman enshrined on the other side of the room?”
”The fifth bedroom creates a sense of cutthroatness, and what makes it even weirder is that the black and white photo of the old lady is facing the room, giving the impression that she’s looking at the new clothes in the room and smiling.”
”What is the reason that the black and white photo of the old grandfather in the third bedroom is taken with his back to the camera and the black and white photo of the old lady is taken facing the camera? What has happened to this large family?”
Chen Ge was thinking, when that child’s voice suddenly appeared again, “Losing their wings butterflies feel pain, but why do they still tear off their wings?”
This ethereal voice appeared violently, startling Chen Ge, “Maybe it’s because they are jealous of the beauty of the butterflies, some ugly people like to destroy those things that are more beautiful than themselves, as if they will become beautiful that way.”
”Ugly people? Grandma isn’t an ugly person ……,” the child seemed to mumble.
”Grandma? She tore off the butterfly’s wings?”
”Eh.” The child seemed a little upset.
”You’re lonely here all by yourself, aren’t you? Can I be your friend?” Chen Ge tried to make his speech as slow as possible.
”I’m with Grandpa, he doesn’t let me wander around. He’s afraid that Grandma will know about my existence and keeps me hiding in my room.” There was a hint of innocence in the child’s voice, he was like a blank sheet of paper.
”That means the most terrifying person in this mansion is Grandma?” Chen Ge slowly raised his hand, he wanted to be sure of one thing.
A coldness came from his fingertips, there was indeed something standing on his side, it wasn’t a projection!
”Can you take me to meet your grandfather?” Before Chen Ge could wait for the child to reply, he heard the wind chime again, it was the third time the wind chime had sounded.
”Grandma is here, I should go back.” The boy’s voice gradually became smaller, and Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to look behind him and found a four or five year old child running into the third bedroom.
He was about to chase after him when he suddenly felt the wooden partitions on both sides of the corridor vibrate, and a giant spider bigger than an adult crawled out of that room that was covered in talismans.
Screams erupted as that spider scuttled across the walls and ceiling, her arms as human as they come, with a dried up human head.
”A projection?” The monster was so realistically made that even Chen Ge had a numbing sensation when he looked at it, “Worthy of being a hell-level difficulty, this thing isn’t just scary anymore, it also brings a physical discomfort.”
The spiders seemed to recognize Chen Ge and crawled towards him at high speed.
Chen Ge saw that the situation was not good and led the spider to hurry to join his other teammates.