"This isn't a problem with the painting!" Red Lotus said, but Xiao Yue bounced back and said disapprovingly,"It's just a blank scroll!”
Shi Xiangke understood Red Lotus 'meaning. "Don't you think it's strange?" he asked. There was not a single speck of dust on this painting, which was completely different from the things around the house!”Hearing his words, Xiao Yue went in to take a look and shouted,"There really isn't a speck of dust!"
Shi Xiangke took down the scroll and looked at it. Except for the fact that there was no dust on it, it looked like a brand new blank scroll. Red Lotus stood beside him. The weak candlelight shone on the scroll. Shi Xiangke was holding the scroll diagonally to her. She saw the traces of water on the scroll. She quickly took it from Shi Xiangke's hand. Shi Xiangke was startled by her hasty action.
Hong Lian opened the scroll and looked sideways at the candlelight. As expected, there were dried marks on the painting, but she couldn't see what was drawn on it.
"Come and take a look at this painting.”Red Lotus glanced at Shi Xiangke and said.
Shi Xiangke immediately walked over and looked at the painting according to Hong Lian's instructions. Her surprised face made Xiao Yue suspicious. However, seeing the two of them so close to each other, Xiao Yue couldn't help but squeeze between them and say,"Let me take a look too. What is it?"
Shi Xiangke looked at it for a few times, but he couldn't see what it was.
"It's Guanyin!" Xiao Yue said.
"Guanyin?" Red Lotus was surprised. She pulled the painting back and looked at it carefully. After a long time, she confirmed Xiaoyue's answer. It was indeed Guanyin!
"It really is Guanyin!"
"Why didn't the Guanyin painting show up? Why is it still hanging here?”Shi Xiangke couldn't guess.
"Could it be that the paintings drawn with white vinegar ink can't be seen when they dry? I heard that as long as they are wet and dried over the fire, they can be seen!”Xiao Yue said. She had seen her sister in the family use the same method before. Once the words were dry, there would be no trace left.
Hong Lian shook her head. She did not agree with what Xiao Yue said because it was not simple.
Hong Lian stretched out her finger and touched the painting. She wanted to feel it through touch, but unexpectedly, her finger was electrocuted, causing Hong Lian to quickly retract her hand, as if something was stopping her.
"What's wrong?" Shi Xiangke looked at her and asked.
"Painting? The painting is so strange!" Red Lotus looked at the painting, wanting to find something suspicious.
"Strange?"
"Paintings are strange to begin with!" Xiao Yue said. Didn't they say that there was no dust on this painting?
Shi Xiangke didn't say anything. She also reached out her hand to the painting, but was immediately bounced back by the light blue light emitted from the painting.
"It's a barrier!" Shi Xiangke said with certainty.
"Barrier?" Hong Lian looked at the painting suspiciously. How could a painting have a barrier?
"Who could have set up the barrier?" Xiao Yue asked. Enchantments were usually set up by powerful demons and wizards. People outside the enchantment couldn't see what was happening inside.
"Looks like there's really something wrong with this painting!”
"Can you think of a way to break the barrier?" Red Lotus asked.
Shi Xiangke took out a white ring from her sleeve. She chanted a spell. The ring quickly left her hand and flew into the air. It grew ten times larger and emitted a white light, shooting toward the scroll painting on the table. The scroll painting was immediately broken and flew up. The pale blue light that came out of the scroll painting shattered in an instant. The white light disappeared. The scroll painting lost its support and fell to the ground, lying on the table quietly as if nothing had happened. The ring also returned to its original size and returned to Shi Xiangke's hand.
The two women looked at him.
"It's already done!" Shi Xiangke said.
"Are you done?" Hong Lian looked at the unchanging portrait and was a little uncertain. She stretched out her hand to feel it, and indeed, it did not stop the feeling of being bounced back. At this moment, Hong Lian's expression changed. Looking at the portrait, her finger was actually slowly sucked into it.
Shi Xiangke and Xiaoyue almost jumped up in shock.
"What happened?"
"I don't know." Red Lotus said anxiously. She wanted to pull her finger back, but she sank deeper and deeper.
At this moment, the scroll gave out a strong light, illuminating the whole room so brightly that people could open their eyes. Until Hong Lian screamed, Shi Xiangke could barely see that Hong Lian's body was about to be absorbed by the scroll. She didn't think much about it and tried to pull her out. Unexpectedly, she was dragged into the scroll. The light disappeared when the two of them were completely absorbed. Xiao Yue looked at the scroll in a daze. She couldn't believe that they had disappeared just like that.
"Husband!"
It was dark all around. Shi Xiangke's arm hurt from the fall. Looking at the two pairs of green eyes shining in the dark, his heart still trembled. Fortunately, he had gotten used to it. Those were Red Lotus 'eyes. Otherwise, he would have rushed over and grabbed them.
They didn't know where the hell this place was, but the air was filled with the stench of rotting corpses. They couldn't stand it because it was too pungent.
Originally, demons could see everything in the dark, but in this godforsaken place, no matter how hard Hong Lian looked around, it was still dark. Now, she was like a blind mouse.
"Are you here?" Hong Lian's voice sounded, which made the atmosphere even more strange. She reached out her hand, trying to find where Shi Xiangke was. At this moment, Shi Xiangke grabbed her arm and said,"I'm here!"
"Did anything happen?" Shi Xiangke held her in the dark and asked worriedly.
"Where is this place?" Hong Lian shook her head and asked. Why can't I see anything!"
"In the scroll, we were sucked into the scroll!”Shi Xiangke said, taking out the candle she carried with her and lighting it.
In an instant, a dim candlelight illuminated Hong Lian's face, and Shi Xiangke's handsome face appeared in front of her.
Red Lotus grabbed Shi Xiangke's sleeve. Shi Xiangke extended the candlelight forward. He wanted to see this place clearly, but perhaps it was too dark. The weak candlelight still could not see the surrounding things clearly.
They didn't know if this was a cave or some other place.
"The smell is so strong, I can't stand it!”Red Lotus frowned and complained. Shi Xiangke took the candle and tried to fumble forward. Red Lotus pulled him and followed him closely. Suddenly, something tripped her and made her fall to the ground.
"How did it go?" Shi Xiangyu pulled her, trying to pull her up. Red Lotus angrily touched the stumbling block on the ground to see what it was. With the help of the candlelight, perhaps she could not see it clearly at first glance, but after a second look, Red Lotus's eyes widened completely. What she was holding in her hand was a human bone.
Shi Xiangke was surprised to see that.
Even if it was a demon, she would be afraid.
Immediately, Red Lotus was so scared that she threw it away and quickly pulled it up to run behind Shi Xiangke. However, her foot slipped on something hard and twisted her foot. Red Lotus was shocked to see that it was a human skull lying on the ground!
Finally, Shi Xiangke cast a spell to illuminate the darkness. Looking around, the two couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The place where they were standing was actually surrounded by eerie white bones. There were also a few human corpses that were so rotten that their bones could be seen. Thousands of maggots were crawling on the corpses. It made one's hair stand on end. Coupled with the rancid smell in the air, it made one feel disgusted!
"Why would there be a human corpse here?" Red Lotus was puzzled.
"It seems that these are the people who have disappeared in the past twenty years!”Shi Xiangke said.
"Those missing people are all here?”Hong Lian looked up at him in surprise.
"Probably! Wasn't it said that no one who entered the courtyard had ever come out? Then these people were very likely to be them!”It was definitely these people.
"How did these people die in this scroll painting?”Hong Lian scanned her surroundings. There were still a few drops of blood at her feet. Hong Lian was puzzled. There were still blood stains here. She looked over and saw two men in armor lying there. They seemed to have just died. One look and she knew that they were important figures.
Red Lotus pulled the corner of Shi Xiangke's clothes and signaled him to take a look. Sure enough, Shi Xiangke walked over without saying anything. Red Lotus quickly followed.
Shi Xiangke squatted down and looked at the two intact bodies. It was hard to tell how they died with their rotten bones.
A man in his thirties was lying on the ground, his left chest covered in red blood. It was a bloody hole. His heart had been dug out, and blood was still flowing from the wound. The temperature was still high. It was obvious that his heart had been dug out not long ago. The other man had also lost his heart.
Shi Xiangke looked around. Those people died because their hearts were dug out.
Hong Lian looked at the bloody hole on the ground and couldn't help but think of Su He. Su He's heart had also been dug out, but the wound was different. Su He had been cut open from the back with a knife. The wounds on these two people seemed to have been dug out directly from their chests by someone. Such a technique was definitely the work of a demon.
In fact, Shi Xiangke also agreed. The mysterious scroll painting had set up a barrier. The corpses inside the scroll painting were definitely monsters. A monster sealed in the scroll painting had eaten human hearts to revive and escape.
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