Chapter 16 - A Deafening Roar

At this time, I was already relaxed but as soon as he said this, I grew afraid again. The moonlight seeped from the window, and far from being creepy, it looked quite beautiful. I watched Qin Yi Heng use a few of his methods to scan the spirit's existence, and can only smoke from a side. After some time, I began to fall asleep and I suddenly felt an earthquake-like sensation which is followed by a deafening roar, almost like a storm hitting me in my face. This noise is actually so loud that it caused me to fear that the house will actually collapse. But, far from caring about it, I can only look around to ask someone for help to save my life.


After running for a long time, I can feel something pulling my clothes. At this moment, I was so surprised that I can only struggle, but the thing behind me pushed my back. Just as I was struggling, a hand clamped my shoulder. I can only shout, but the roar was so loud that I was unable to hear my own voice. Not only my own voice, but it felt as if all the voices in this world had been drowned out by the roar. The sound seemed to shatter every cell in a human body, and within a few seconds, my whole body started to feel an intense pain. At this moment, I could care less about the hand that is holding me back, as the pain caused me to kneel down to the floor. This kind of pain is indescribable and different from any kind of pain I had ever known. At this moment, I even thought of dying. I thought that death might be a good thing. Not only will it free me from this horrible suffering, it will also free me from this miserable world.


It was at this moment that I was able to hear a metallic sound, the sound is very small, but it was not swallowed by the roar, but it resonates deeply inside my ear. After listening to this sound, my body began to relax a bit and the pain started to disappear. Unexpectedly, this metallic sound grew louder, and clearer by the second, and that roar started to disappear, and I was able to hear Qin Yi Heng's voice calling onto me. He was shouting my name loudly and it brought me reality, and I saw him standing while holding a bell. I didn't know if I had punched him in the nose, but he had a nosebleed.


I sat on the floor now, breathing heavily for a long time. I think this is the scariest place in the house, this sort of noise, let alone humans, no living beings would be able to survive against it. Is this deafening roar the cause for the body of the young man to be dismembered? The suffering that I felt earlier was actually so horrible that I couldn't bring myself to think about what would have happened if it was not stopped.


After smoking three sticks of cigarettes, I was finally able to regain my composure. I finally asked Qin Yi Heng whether he had heard the loud roar earlier. He shook his head and said he didn't hear it, he was actually busy when he suddenly heard my shout, and when he turned his head, I was already running to save my own life.


I thought, how could this be? Why am I the only one able to hear that deafening roar? Is the roar actually able to only be heard by certain people? However according to Liu Zhi's words, he was also able to hear that roar, what similarities could he and I possibly have? But the thing that I'm sure that he deliberately understated the power of this roar when he was describing it.


I asked Qin Yi Heng about this. He pondered a long time and told me that perhaps this voice did not exist, or in other words, it might not be an actual physical voice. To put it simply, it could be an auditory hallucination. However, he doesn't think that it is an auditory hallucination, because this roar is real, but as I was able to hear it, this might perhaps be caused by the fact that I have a strong yin energy. As he mentioned previously, what can be explained is science and what cannot be explained is metaphysics. Those who heard supernatural noises are not actually influenced by auditory hallucinations, but because the wavelength band of the sound corresponds directly to the person, so those noises can only be heard by this kind of a person. Furthermore, most people usually have a wrong understanding that because temples are blessed by gods, temples must be the most yang place. In fact, the truth was the contrary and the temple is a place where the yin energy is extremely strong. The Buddhist philosophy is to save all living beings, and they do not distinguish between saving ghosts or gods. Therefore, if you are not a spiritual practitioner, you should not stay in a temple for a long period of time.


After listening to Qin Yi Heng's words, I understood a few things. It turned out that when Liu Zhi talked about this house, Qin Yi Heng had already guessed that Liu Zhi was able to hear the noise because his yin energy is strong, but he couldn't verify this. So, he used me as a guinea pig and went to the temple to cover me with the scent of the incense burner for a long time. In order to verify the voice's existence, he had used me as a guinea pig. Even though I was very angry, but as the matter had already passed by and we were after all involved together in this business of putting our lives in risk for profit, therefore after thinking about it for a while, this grievance should be considered settled considering that I had also punched his nose.


Qin Yi Heng also explained to me, that the small bell was the soul-attracting bell held by the people who walked in the front during a funeral procession. It was used to hook the soul of the dead and to let them embark on the road to reincarnation. Ordinary people would consider the bell's sound normal, but a possessed person would feel very uncomfortable when they hear the bell's ringing. When it comes to sounds that are able to exorcise evil spirits, you may not understand it, but in a strict sense, mantra chanting should be counted as one of those sounds capable of warding off evil spirits. And there are many kind of sounds used to ward off evil spirits, including the sounds of some artifacts and some creatures. With that said, he simply mentioned a few of the most powerful voices in warding off evil spirits. Legend has it that the sound of a broken tiger bone is the most effective in warding off evil spirits, and can awaken people who had been possessed by carnal desires, and while the sound might not be very loud, it is still very effective. Another sound would be the crying sound of an emperor's son, once this voice is heard; all monsters can cover their ears. In comparison to those two sounds, another sound that is effective but easier to hear is the sound of the bells in the temple at noon.


After listening to Qin Yi Heng's explanation, I actually don't have time to marvel at the wonders of metaphysics, as the problem actually lies in front of us. As I was able to hear that deafening roar, this means that a spirit is residing in this house. However despite Qin Yi Heng's best efforts, we are still unable to catch it, this is so troublesome.


Both Qin Yi Heng and I sat on the floor and had wanted to discuss this. Obviously, as I was unable to give any useful inputs, after saying a few words; I gave him time to ponder this and smoked by myself in the hall while walking around it. The villa's inside is actually very spacious, and as the two of us have become silent, now I can hear the sound of my own heartbeat. Qin Yi Heng called me and told me that he had already contemplated the matter regarding this house, but couldn't come into a conclusion and that we should return home as for now, and discuss further tomorrow. I agreed with him and just like that, we packed our things and prepared to return back.


As we have prepared a lot today, there are a lot of well-known and unfamiliar equipment on the floor. When we packed our things into the bag, I suddenly feel very nervous and I could feel someone watching us, so I couldn't help but be vigilant and looked around with my peripheral light. However, despite the decent visibility, the sight was still blurred by the darkness of the night. I looked around for a while but didn't see anything. I wanted to talk to Qin Yi Heng about this but when I looked at him; he was also looking at me meaningfully.


At this moment I am very sure that there is someone in this house except for us, I could feel cold sweat starting to cover my body, and I had wished to talk to Qin Yi Heng about how to cope with it. But, the house was too quiet and I was afraid that the other party would hear it. I kept trying to signal to him with my eyes that I can feel it too.


Qin Yi Heng started to cough and asked me whether I know where the Tianshan stone is, and whether I see it anywhere. When he asked me that, he gave me a small wink.


I thought, damn, even though I knew he was signaling something to me, but under these circumstances, as he had not explained it to me previously, I still did not know what he meant.


During the period in which I am still in a daze, Qin Yi Heng suddenly leapt from beside me, and went straight to the upward staircase at the corner. His action was so sudden and it was too late for me to keep up with him. In addition, as I was nervous, my legs were limp and I couldn't run as fast. When I reached the mouth of the staircase, he's already in the second floor, and from the floor below I can hear the sound of footsteps, which certainly can't belong to Qin Yi Heng alone! However at this time, who could be here in the house? Before I was able to collect my thoughts, I suddenly heard a loud bang from the doorway in the first floor. When I turned to glance, it seemed that the Zhong Kui statue had been pushed down.


I am standing at the middle of the stairs, not at the top or the bottom. It appears that there is not only one enemy, if Qin Yi Heng and I were to separate, I'm afraid we won't have a chance. Thinking of it in this manner, I decided to go upstairs to help him. At this moment, my hesitation had started to disappear. However as soon as I was about to go upstairs, Qin Yi Heng was actually running downstairs. He told me that the person upstairs. The person upstairs is very familiar with the house's layout, when he tried to overtake that person he saw a person's shadow, however the shadow disappeared all of a sudden. When he prepared to search that room, when he heard the noise downstairs, he walked down in a hurry as he wanted to know what had happened to me.


I told Qin Yi Heng that someone has toppled the Zhong Kui statue, and his expression changed immediately, he said, that's not good, we should leave this place as soon as possible, we have been trapped. Someone wants to release the spirit that the Zhong Kui is holding down!


I have never seen Qin Yi Heng this nervous previously, he immediately moved. He had to drag and rush us downstairs by force. However, just before we are about to reach the house's entrance, we immediately stopped our footsteps, because we can clearly see that there is a shadow standing in the house's entrance.      

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