Chapter 32

I was moving upwards on one side, I also had to avoid the ghostly faces on the branches, it was very difficult to move. Looking up at Lin Tian, I saw that he had already reached the top of the tree and was sitting in the middle of a few branches, looking at me with a smile on his face, as if to say again, Tan Xi, you come up!

The fire in my heart is getting bigger and bigger, I really don't believe this evil. Tightly grasping the trunk of the tree and climbed up! Ding Ding anxiously looked at me under the tree, waited for a while, seemed to be unable to bear it, turned his head and ran back to the house, banging the door shut.

I cursed in my mouth, this guy really does not care about us when he encounters trouble. But think carefully and I am a little strange, Lin Tian and Ding Ding are counted in the face of the tree of the road, but I in addition to feel that this screaming is very noisy, there is no other feeling, not to mention the kind of influence by the confusion of the human mind.

But now the situation does not have time for me to consider, I can only work hard to climb towards the top, it is not easy to go up some, and then an unsteady slipped down, hands and feet are scratched quite a lot of skin.

我咬着牙，在这树上努力的稳住身子，林天就像个傻鸟一样嘿嘿笑着，看着我的一举一动，等这事情结束，我要还有力气，绝对收拾他一顿！

I managed to climb halfway up, the higher the tree trunk goes, the more ghost faces there are, densely packed, all out of my reach. The faces were all clear and gray, distorted beyond recognition, countless eyes staring at me, giving me goosebumps.

I was less than a meter away from Lin Tian, but I just couldn't touch him. I could only be ruthless and use my hands and feet towards those ghost faces, using my strength to continue climbing upwards.

But as soon as my hands landed on the ghosts' faces, I felt as if I had touched a dead skin, cold and suddenly sunken, as if there was no flesh inside, not even a point for me to focus on. It was as if I would rip this face skin off the tree if I pulled hard enough.

I was trapped like this, unable to move an inch in the middle of the trunk. I was in agony when I turned my head and saw the light of a candle flame in the room. I hurriedly yelled Tintin's name and he answered from inside, thankful he could hear me!

I shouted, bring me the whole torch!

Tintin said, "Oh" again, and I saw his shadow going about the house, and waited half a day before the door burst open, and he ran out with a torch in his hand. When I looked at it, it was just a piece of wood with some cloth tied to it, and the fire wasn't burning very big. I only felt that the cloth was somewhat familiar, and only after thinking about it did I realize that it was Lin Tian's clothes.

So much waste in the house is not used, this guy even removed Lin Tian's clothes.

But now it's better than nothing, I lie on a branch, enough half a day to take the torch in my hand, Ding Ding see the task is accomplished, and drip run back to the house.

I have something in my hand, the heart also has a bottom, raised the torch towards the ghost face in front of me to burn.

As soon as I got close, the screams of the ghost face became even more mournful. My ears buzzed, and I almost fell from the tree unsteadily.

But the ghost face's reaction also reinforced my idea, after all, it is something that grows out of a tree, all of them are afraid of fire.

The ghost face in front of me couldn't stand the temperature of the flame, and suddenly a black smoke came out, the smell choked people can't breathe, the whole face quickly dried up, sticking to the trunk of the tree no longer move.

I saw that there was a door, began to roast one by one, burning a path for myself.

By the light of the fire, I then saw what the slippery stuff on the bark was. The whole tree was now a dark red color, even on me.

Underneath the bark of this sphinx tree, blood was actually continuously flowing out, and when it was roasted by the flame in my hand, it dried up and congealed　　in the blink of an eye.

I managed to burn out a crack and climbed upwards once again, Lin Tian was sitting in the tree branch above me, smilingly looking at all this. I reached out and pulled his feet, but seemed to know that I was going to take him out of here, and actually panicked, and was busy clinging to the trunk of the tree beside me.

I saw that pulling was not moving, and calling him did not respond. I could only crawl closer to him again, leaning on top of the tree branch in front of him. Now Lin Tian is on my side, but the new trouble is that I don't know how to get him down, if I have to hard resist him to climb down, it would be better for the two of us to fall straight down and tumble.

My position, both front and back, as far as the eye could see, was densely populated with human faces. I gripped the torch in my hand tightly, wanted to look around, this look, suddenly froze.

In the center of the tree branch in front of me, right between Lin Tian and I, there was a ghostly face there as well, so distorted that it was no longer recognizable, but I could still see that this person was, surprisingly, my grandfather!

He howled in agony, and like the other ghosts and monsters around him, he seemed to be suffering from a torment that came from nowhere. Still, one pair of eyes looked straight at me, causing my heart to palpitate.

I almost shouted out, but just at this moment, the mournful howling in my ears suddenly stopped, as if the music in the stereo suddenly lost its power, and came to a halt!

It was also at this instant that those human faces were suddenly sucked into the trunk of the tree with a whoosh. There was no longer a trace of them!

The surroundings were suddenly silent, this sudden change made my spirit tighten, but my ears were still buzzing and ringing.

Lin Tian froze for a moment, he rubbed his eyes and suddenly screamed, saying Holy shit Tan Xi, what are you doing! Why are you covered in blood!

As soon as I looked at him like this, I knew that he was out of control. But Lin Tian obviously didn't react to what place he was in, he just wanted to move, his body lurched and almost fell off the tree branch.

I panicked and pulled him back, being accidentally burned by the torch in my hand. It hurt so much that I grimaced.

Only then did Lin Tian realize where he was, he looked down and sucked in a mouthful of cold air, asking me, what's the situation here? How did I end up here.

I saw that he had absolutely no memory of what had happened earlier, and I didn't have the strength to explain, only saying that I would go down first.

Lin Tian also knew that the situation was not good, "hmm", before slowly straightening up, followed me to tiptoe towards the tree to climb down. I just guessed under a branch, Lin Tian suddenly pulled me a bit, I looked at him puzzled, asked what's wrong?

He looked up towards the attic and said Who is that person?

I frowned and followed his gaze, and saw that on the roof attic, behind the only small window, there was a dark shadow standing, coldly looking at us.

I thought at first that it was Tintin running up there, but when I turned my head, I realized that the candlelight was still on downstairs, and Tintin was still climbing in the doorway looking at us.

A chill ran through me, how could there be someone in this old mansion!

I looked up to the attic again, and the figure behind the window suddenly disappeared. Lin Tian was also filled with a shocked expression, before he could say anything, I shouted towards Ding Ding, Ding Ding be careful, there is someone in the house!

Ding Ding also two out of the level, shouted inside, yes, I've been here all along!

Lin Tian was speechless and shouted through the interface, not you! There are other people upstairs, be careful!

Ding Ding banged the door of the room and pushed it open, quickly ran out, asking what's the situation?

Lin Tian and I managed to climb down from the tree, both of us were in shock, still a little weak-kneed, just looking up at the attic.

Ding Ding scratched his head, said we came when we did not look at it, the house in addition to where we where people.

I looked straight at the black attic, said we did not go to the roof to see, there is a small compartment, need a ladder to go up.

The attic of my old house, that is, the roof slanting cover of that small piece of space, the room wall has a small mouth, previously used to store some of my grandfather's old things, usually no one went up, sometimes my grandfather went up to turn over things, I was only curious to follow followed up once or twice only.

The height of that kind of place is simply not enough for a person to stand, so in addition to placing some miscellaneous things, simply can not do anything.

Normally, I can't even think of such a place.

But I was sure I had just watched a figure in that small window, but not knowing whether it was a person or a ghost, I didn't dare to check it out at random for a while.

We stood in the courtyard for a while, Lin Tian had no impression about the human face tree just now, only said, there are three of us, there is nothing to be afraid of, there is no ladder in the attic, that person wants to come down, unless he jumps out from the roof! Let's get some guys ready and go up there and see who it really is.

I said it was best not to act rashly now, if it was a person it would be fine, if it was a ghost, Tintin might not be able to do anything about it.

Ding Ding heard a very unconvincing, said how I can not help, there can not be ghosts around, as long as there are, will be sucked into this tree!

Lin Tian froze for a moment, asked what face tree?

I'm too lazy to explain, Ding Ding also said vigorously, rushed to Lin Tian drank, you look at yourself now what look, by the ghosts? I don't know how many ghosts are hiding in this tree, Tan Xi and I had a hard time hiding, what are you running out to mess around?

Lin Tian on the things just now know nothing at all, listening to Ding Ding tone is not good, also tensed up his face, scolded, I what! I fell asleep in bed and opened my eyes on this tree! A look at Tan Xi sitting in front of me thought he climbed my bed. I have not cursed it, you yell what!

Ding Ding held his breath, a look of aggression, and did not dare to speak.

I said come on, now is not the time to yell. Let's go and block the exit of the attic first, and wait for dawn to go up and look. Can't see clearly now, be careful of being smothered.

Hearing my persuasion, the two only then subsided. If it continues, I can't do anything about these two masters.

We whispered together, the three of us will not sleep tonight, ready to guard the attic under the passage. If that person wants to run, he can really only jump down from the roof.

But I was still a little uncertain about the current situation, and busily asked Ding Ding, are you sure that there can't be any ghosts in this neighborhood?

Ding Ding nodded, said yes, you do not find that have been following your shadow girl are gone.

I looked down and saw that my shadow had returned to normal, and was no longer that woman's appearance earlier. I don't know when she disappeared, but it seems that she is also afraid of this Sphinx Tree.