The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 521 This house is not just this house? What does it mean? Riddler is forbidden!
"How about it?"

"Any clues?"

The instructor let go of Shen Le's hand, squeezed to the edge of the cordon, and stretched his neck to look. The trace examiner who was taking the footprints waved his hand impatiently:
"Step back, step back! The ground is trampled all over. I can't see clearly how many people came and left! Really, they didn't even know how to protect the scene—"

He complained twice, then lay down and continued to work. Speaking of these people, while reporting the case to them, they also found people from the Special Affairs Bureau.

Now, there is incense ash everywhere, around the well, inside the well, on the mud floor, and inside the house, and there are strange traces everywhere.

What a lot of trouble it caused them to find clues!

It is so difficult to eliminate all these traces!
Also, how could a person disappear after falling into such a small well? This is totally unscientific...

"Boss, don't be anxious. Take a rest first and let them work." Shen Le supported his mentor's elbow and led him back gently to stand in the corridor.

As he walked, he slightly practiced his Qi, spreading his spiritual power. The talisman in his Dantian vibrated slightly, and the ground beneath his feet naturally gave him feedback:

There is no gap.

There are no large gaps.

Under that ancient well, there is not even a groundwater layer half a foot high, let alone a hole or pit big enough to hide a person.

The groundwater that was supposed to exist had long since dried up and stopped flowing for who knows how many years. The soil above the water layer had also been pressed down by gravity over a long period of time, leaving not a single drop of it...

"Shen Le, the tutor is relying on you!" The old professor grabbed Shen Le's arm and said anxiously:

"The lives of your fellow apprentices are counting on you. You must bring them back safely!"

He was so angry that his feet swayed and he was about to fall. Several people from the Special Affairs Bureau were watching carefully nearby. The temple keeper of the Tianhou Temple came over and supported him:
"Professor Han, don't worry. We asked for divination when we came here, and Mazu said they are safe now and their lives are not in danger!"

Ah this...

Shen Le turned his head to look at her, and reluctantly swallowed his complaints. Then he looked at the instructor, who also looked like he wanted to criticize her but was too embarrassed to do so:
Madam, even if our mentor is not a staunch materialist, it is unlikely that you can expect him to have much faith in God.

If you tell him, "We have consulted the divination in front of Mazu," it will not be very convincing to him...

"Boss, don't worry, don't worry." Shen Le patted the back of his hands repeatedly and carefully helped him out of the ancient house and into the car driven by the Special Affairs Bureau.

With my palm on the back of his neck, a warm current slowly flowed into him:

"Don't worry, leave it to me. Have a good sleep first... Don't wait for me to find the person, you won't be able to hold on..."

As he gently advised, the instructor's eyelids slowly drooped, and soon he began to snore softly. Shen Le jumped out of the back seat of the car and waved to his two junior brothers:

"Send the instructor to where you live, keep an eye on him, and let him have a good sleep. Leave this to me, and don't let him come over again."

The two junior brothers nodded. Shen Le watched them leave, returned to the old house, and stood in front of the old well:

"How about it?"

[I didn’t sense any ghosts! ]

The little oil lamp was the first to report. When Shen Le first came in, it followed the electrical wires inside and outside the house and touched everywhere.

It cannot be said that there was no negative energy wherever I went, after all, it was such an old house, but I certainly didn't feel any ghosts or monsters causing trouble.

Therefore, the solution to this disappearance case is definitely not to beat up the bad guy and order him to hand over the missing person...

[I... Is there a faucet here? Can you turn on the faucet so I can go down and feel around? ]

Yun Kun followed suit. Shen Le dispersed his spiritual power, walked to the bathroom, and turned on the faucet.

Clear tap water poured out, and Yun Kun jumped out of the backpack impatiently and landed in the sink. It spun one, two, three times, and then jumped back into Shen Le's hand:
[It’s not the water vein’s problem… I can’t contact the water vein here, it’s impossible that the power of the water vein swept them away! ]

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Shen Le wiped it dry and stuffed it into his backpack. In the backpack, Xiaomei Zhong poked her head out and whispered:

[I feel something is wrong...]

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

Shen Le took out the pen holder. Zhong Xiaomei poked half of her head out from Zhong Kui's shoulder and shook her head:
[I don’t know. But, I just feel something is wrong…]

Shen Le also felt that something was wrong. It wasn't the ancient well, the bathroom, the beams, or any specific place.

The whole old house has a strange feeling, like I couldn't fall asleep until 3 a.m. last night, and I woke up this morning shaky and not quite awake.

I wasn't really sick, but something just felt wrong...

"Do you need to come out and take a look?"

He put the pen holder on the sink, paused for a moment, then took it out of the bathroom and put it on the dirt floor behind the house. The pen holder made a rustling sound and rose to about three feet high.

Then, clay figurines as long as fingers jumped out of the pen holder one by one and formed a long row.

They didn't seem to intend to take Shen Le with them, and just sank into the ground on their own. Shen Le immediately frowned:
strange!
Why do these clay figurines seem to have suddenly disappeared?
It wasn't a physical disappearance, but a disappearance in his mental sense. They suddenly disappeared, and he could no longer track them, as if they no longer existed in this world...

Shen Le exerted his mental power, trying to cover the entire ancient house, from the tiles above to the bottom of the ancient well, and then to all the soil and foundation at the height of the bottom of the well.

I searched again and again, even touching the cockroaches under the wall, but still couldn't find the clay figurines. After waiting for a long time, the clay figurines suddenly popped out collectively, jumped back into the pen holder, and disappeared.

"How is it? Did you find the abnormal point?"

Shen Le asked nervously. Zhong Xiaomei retreated behind Zhong Kui and shook her head:

[I didn’t find it. But it feels… not right. This house, not just this house…] What the hell?!
Is this house a spirit?
Has it become a spiritual tool?
I made a miniature model of my old house, which is interconnected. I can operate the miniature model to resist foreign invasion and resist thunder disasters. It’s not that outrageous!
Shen Le frowned and walked around the ancient well three more times, but still couldn't find a breakthrough. He looked around expectantly. Several practitioners from the Special Affairs Bureau looked embarrassed and shook their heads at him:

"We have tried all the methods we can use... Mr. Shen, now it all depends on you..."

Shen Le gritted his teeth, tightened the straps of his backpack around his chest and under his arms, and sat cross-legged. He made a "quiet" gesture to the practitioners, closed his eyes, and began to mobilize his strength:
Earth!

The power of earth!

Tolerate me!
Protect me!
Let me go underground and take a look at this house to see what the secret is and why it can swallow people!

Shen Le's body sank into the mud inch by inch, foot by foot. He sank very slowly and carefully, and as he sank, he could feel the changes in the entire house:

There was no change. The whole old house was covered with a faint layer of spiritual energy, which did not collide with or merge with the earth power mobilized by Shen Le.

Shen Le felt as if this old house was not in this world and was not disturbed by his earth power at all...

Not in this world?
Not here… ?
Shen Le carefully controlled the power of earth and searched a large circle under the old house, even expanding a little further out. He dodged left and right, avoiding the enemy:

This pipe has a gurgling sound inside it, it is either a water pipe or a sewage pipe;

This pipe, the little oil lamp reminded him as soon as it came on, was an electric wire, so he should stay as far away from it as possible;
This pipe contains the hidden power of fire, it's probably a gas pipe... If it touches it and there is an explosion, he might be able to defend himself, but at least hundreds of households around will have their gas cut off!
Well, you don't know until you burrow underground, and once you burrow underground, you'll be shocked. Now it seems that Ah Lu's request for a map of all the pipelines in the town is not unreasonable!
He circled around the ancient well seven or eight times and felt the entire foundation of the ancient house, but still couldn't figure out what was going on.

With no other options, he slowly rose from the ground and shook his head at the practitioners:
"did not find."

"Is there nothing underground?" The old Taoist priest from Qingyuan Mountain stepped forward and waved the whisk in his hand. Shen Le felt a breeze on his face, and all the dust he had been covered with disappeared, and he felt refreshed.

He spread his hands:

"There is no way I can find it. Let me think about it and see if there is any other way..."

"So, do we want to expand the search area?"

The one sent by Guanyue Temple clenched his fists and frowned. The incense ash was scattered all over the house, but there was no abnormality, which meant that no demon dared to do evil in front of Guan Shengdijun:

Or, were the two missing people taken far away? The incense ash in the temple can only be sprinkled in this area...

"Being not."

Shen Le shook his head and closed his eyes again. This time, he did not slowly sink into the ground, but disappeared without a trace with a whoosh.
Just now, the clay figurines under Zhong Xiaomei's command said that something felt wrong and that this house "was not this house".

Then, using the same method as them, we should be able to find the person!

In his dantian, the talisman glowed brightly. The talisman for traveling back and forth that he had obtained from the clay figurines, and the integrated version of the talisman for traveling back and forth that he had obtained from the copper plate, enveloped him and carried him through the void.

Shen Le felt himself disappear in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was already above the vast ocean:
Oops, I went through the head!
At that moment just now, I did feel something different... I have to go back to where I was and put it on again...

He tried to locate it again, and tried to put it back on again. As soon as he moved, he felt something was wrong:

The landing point is off!

This method of transmission, without an anchor point, can easily deviate several kilometers!
Anyway
Shen Le emerged from the ground in annoyance, called a car, and returned to the old house in a dusty state. After thinking for a while, he took out the pen holder from his backpack and discussed with it:

"Little sister Zhong, stay here and don't move. Let your clay figurines spread out in formation. I'll try. During the teleportation process, can I use you as a locator to control me from going too far?"

Zhong Xiaomei naturally couldn't refuse him. The clay figurines found a separate room and arranged them into a wedding procession. Shen Le sat cross-legged beside them, trying to feel their fluctuations and activated the talisman again:
Teleport!
The landing point was off, and too many people ran away... Fortunately, this time, they ran to the Tianhou Temple, where everyone was on the same side and did not laugh at him...

Send again!
“There’s someone in the well!!!”

The policeman who was still busy at the well screamed. Two policemen rushed over and looked into the well expectantly:

Will the person who jumped into the well and disappeared emerge from the well? !
Shen Le: "Ah, sorry...just pretend you didn't see anything..."

He nodded and smiled cheekily, then climbed out of the ancient well. He returned to the clay figurines and teleported again:
"what……"

At the moment when the teleportation talisman was about to move, Shen Le truly felt something different. This house, this old house that the mentor and his fellow apprentices were repairing, really had something unusual:

A strange existence appeared on the old house standing on the ground. It felt like a person's body and soul, which should be one and the same at ordinary times;

But at this time, the soul was separated from the body a little bit. It was still attached to the body, but it was shaking slightly, like two accurately superimposed layers, one of which was stuck to the side;
The inconsistency is so slight that the edges are just a little blurry, and it's almost impossible to notice if you don't pay attention.

Even if they noticed it, they couldn't tell the difference between the two layers, which one was the body and which one was the soul...

"We'll just have to try more." Shen Le patiently tried again and again.

It is good to be able to find an entry point. If you can find an entry point, it means you have a handle to break the deadlock.
At least, he wouldn't be like the other practitioners who are still wandering around in circles, unable to tell what went wrong...

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. He activated the teleportation talisman again and again, strictly controlling the precision of the transmission.

It cannot spread beyond the scope of the house and cannot reach the roof. It can only spread from one room to another, from the room to the yard or the corridor, or from the house to the ancient well.

After transmitting more, he soon discovered the problem:
The ancient house in the fantasy seemed like a thick curtain draped over the ancient house in reality. I teleported too fast and it was easy to pass through two layers of curtains and return directly to reality.

Only by slowing down and passing through a layer of curtain can you enter the illusory ancient house.

"Then let's try a few more times... Junior brothers and sisters, be patient, I'm coming!"

He kept trying, constantly improving his control. When he was hungry, he would eat a few spiritual fruits to quickly fill his stomach;
When you feel tired, take a sip of spiritual liquid to relieve your mental strength.

Finally, after countless attempts, Shen Le opened his eyes and found himself in another world:
"This is where?"

"There are people in front! Junior brothers and sisters, are you in front?"

(End of this chapter)