Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 60

Xue Liangliang asked first: "Xiaoyuan, are there any marks on the three of us but not on you?"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded and said, "The facial features of the three of you are all very bad now, which means that you are in a very bad state of bad luck. Although the theory of fortune and feng shui is not absolutely accurate, it can at least show that you have been involved in something. I originally thought that I should be the same, but strangely, I am not."

"Binbin, give me your notebook and pen."

"Brother Liang, here you go."

Xue Liangliang turned over a page, drew a square frame on it, and then drew two small figures at the top and bottom, representing four people.

Finally, on the left side of the frame, he drew a door.

“Use the process of elimination.

After we got off the train, we went to eat together and then got on Zhu Yang's truck. During this period, Xiao Yuan never separated from us. There were only three outsiders we met on the way, besides Zhu Yang, there were the master and apprentice from the repair shop.

So, this paragraph can be ruled out and we can move on.”

Tan Wenbin asked, "Why can't we go on to the next part, like the night we were in the truck?"

"Because things had already started at that time, Zhu Yang's disappearance can be regarded as a sign. Moreover, since Xiao Yuan said that the three of us were unlucky, does the punctured tire count? If this is counted, the timeline can be pushed forward and perfectly include the time when the four of us were in the car together. Do you understand?"

"I think... I understand."

"Then it can be locked on the train."

"But there are too many people on the train."

Xue Liangliang shook his head: "Not much actually, because we spend most of our time in the soft sleeper compartment, which is an absolutely clean area, because Xiaoyuan is fine.

In addition, I remember very clearly that the three of us had never gone out as a group.

Therefore, it could only be the intersection of the three of us touching each other when we went out separately."

"Well, let's each recount our experiences of leaving the soft sleeper. Do you want to tell us about going to the toilet?"

"Runsheng, let's talk first." Xue Liangliang pointed at Runsheng, "You just smoked a stick of incense when you got on the bus. If I remember correctly, you never smoked again after that, right?"

Runsheng scratched his head, thought hard, and replied, "Is that right?"

Xue Liangliang frowned slightly, then raised his hand decisively:

"If I remember correctly, you only went to smoke once, because halfway through I asked you why you didn't go to smoke, and you said that the incense you brought this time was better and you should use it to eat, and you can't smoke it casually."

"I..." Runsheng was a little confused, "I think I did say that."

"What's wrong with you?" Tan Wenbin reached out and touched Runsheng's forehead. "You don't have a fever?"

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Runsheng silently, then turned to look at Xue Liangliang.

Xue Liangliang continued to ask: "On the train, every time Xiaoyuan went to the toilet in the lower bunk, you accompanied him, Runsheng, so this route can be ruled out.

In other words, the only time you could get contaminated with dirt was when you went to smoke right after getting on the bus.

Now, you talk about the people and things you saw that time, no, narrow the scope a little bit, who you had contact with, it can be physical contact or interaction, talk about this first. "

Runsheng tried hard to recall the story while stumbling over his words.

Until he talked about giving candy to a little girl who was "crying out for help" to her grandmother, Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin both raised their hands to signal that they should stop there.

Xue Liangliang: "I gave him a box lunch."

Tan Wenbin: "I gave him a breakfast."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the two of them and said, "Give me a detailed description of what this old lady is wearing."

After listening to the two's descriptions, Li Zhuiyuan pursed his lips and said:
"She must have found it, because when I saw the old lady, there was no little girl beside her. Instead, there was an urn wrapped in cloth."

Strictly speaking, Xue Liangliang's method of elimination is actually not very rigorous and has many loopholes, but this is a common pragmatic way of thinking on his part. He first ignores the corners and tries to eliminate the problem in the largest possible range. If he doesn't find the problem, he will then go into details about the corners.

Xue Liangliang closed the notebook and said, "It's that little girl. Xiaoyuan is really capable of sneaking around, so the little girl didn't dare to let him see her or maybe... Xiaoyuan is not easily fooled by 'eyes'."

Tan Wenbin was puzzled and said, "But, we clearly gave her food, why did she want to harm us? Isn't this repaying kindness with enmity?"

Xue Liangliang looked at Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan tried to analyze it: "It is inappropriate to use the social moral standards of living people to adapt to such dirty things. Moreover, even if we take a step back, the little girl may not have intended to harm you, but her behavior has caused harm to you."

Tan Wenbin pointed at his own face, then at Xue Liangliang and Runsheng: "What does she want to do? Because we gave her food, so she wants us to continue giving her food?"

Xue Liangliang asked: "Xiaoyuan, I remember you used the method of setting up an altar table to solve this kind of problem before, so can you do the same this time?"

Tan Wenbin patted his thigh and said, "But our luggage and food and drinks are all on the truck. Now the truck is gone, where can we get the tribute? We do have incense."

Xue Liangliang: "There are quite a few things hanging outside the village. In order to solve the current problem, you can let me risk running into the village alone to get some things to set up the table. I will leave money."

Li Zhuiyuan: "No, if she's just a starving ghost, it will bring bad luck to people, but she won't be so fierce. She wants to eat, not to drain the pond to catch fish. At most, she will pester you, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless the 'hungry' that little girl meant she wanted your life span."

As soon as these words were spoken, the three of them fell silent.

Li Zhuiyuan continued, "Only if I really wanted you to die would I create this kind of frail and old appearance for you."

Tan Wenbin spread his hands and said, "Hasn't she been put into the urn and turned into ashes? She's already dead, what's the point of her still having a long life?"

Xue Liangliang said, "Her grandmother is old and may be dying soon. She is not asking for it for herself, but for her grandmother."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Xue Liangliang again, and then looked at Runsheng who was trying hard to follow his thoughts.

Tan Wenbin cursed: "That does make sense. Damn, the kid is so scary. If I could go back to the train and see her again, I would pour her ashes into the toilet!"

Anyone who is killed for doing good things will be particularly angry.

Li Zhuiyuan said: "She may not be on the train anymore, but she may be with you."

Tan Wenbin: “Hiccup!”

This is scary.

Although the current situation is very strange, I can only temporarily not get out and have not encountered any direct danger. But when I know that kind of thing is right next to me, the feeling is completely different.

Xue Liangliang immediately asked: "Xiaoyuan, did you see it?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "I didn't see it, but I guess it was on you. At that time in the morning, it might have been on you, Brother Liangliang."

"On me?"

"Because you are very different from who you were before. You were obviously more flustered before, your thinking was not clear, and the questions you asked were also very low-level."

Xue Liangliang pointed at his nose and asked, "Do I have one?"

"I may not feel anything about this kind of thing. I have experienced something similar."

Li Zhuiyuan had experienced his great-grandfather's good fortune, so he thought his bad luck should be similar.

"If she was on me before, and now she is on me..." Xue Liangliang said, and looked at Runsheng.

Obviously, he had already noticed that something was wrong with Runsheng.

Tan Wenbin finally realized that although Runsheng was taciturn and looked dull and honest, he was actually quite thoughtful, especially in terms of memory. Every time Xiaoyuan told him a series of positions and requirements, he would remember and complete them.

But Runsheng just now seemed very dull, and he seemed to be racking his brains to recall something.

"Me?" Runsheng raised his hand and began to feel his body. "Where is she?"

Then, Runsheng took out a piece of talisman paper and stuck it on his forehead.

Then I took it off and found that there was no color change.

"Xiaoyuan, no."

"She shouldn't be dead."

"What should we do?" Runsheng clenched his fists. "If she is on me, I won't follow you. You three can try to run outside. Maybe you can get out."

After a pause, Runsheng pointed at Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin and said, "Or you can stay here with me and let Xiaoyuan run out alone. Xiaoyuan is clean. He couldn't go out before because of us."

Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin both nodded, obviously agreeing with this plan.

Li Zhuiyuan rejected the proposal: "We can't do that. I don't think that little girl can make such a big scene. We are now entering a separate strange area.

Originally, we should not be able to enter, and even if we wanted to enter, it would be difficult. But because she followed us, we were guided and triggered by her and entered.

Therefore, it is highly likely that we will not be able to leave here easily, whether she is here or not."

Tan Wenbin kept shouting in annoyance: "What should I do! What should I do! What should I do!"

Li Zhuiyuan and Xue Liangliang glanced at Tan Wenbin at the same time, then immediately looked away.

Just as Runsheng was about to speak, Li Zhuiyuan interrupted him:
"Brother Runsheng, don't say anything. Just sit here and hold my hand. I'll try the corpse retriever's method to see if I can help you break her."

Runsheng nodded vigorously and reached out to grab Li Zhuiyuan's hand.

Li Zhuiyuan pulled his hand out again and then grabbed Runsheng himself.

The boy's fingertips were already red from having been pressed with ink.

Next, Li Zhuiyuan turned over the compass in front of him with his other hand, opened the card slot at the bottom, and pinched a pinch of white powder on it with his fingertips.

Since we had to take public transportation, it was not convenient to carry equipment like the Yellow River shovel, but we did bring all the small items we could.

This comes from Ding Dalin's compass, which has grooves on it, and Li Zhuiyuan originally had a fan with various groove designs, which was filled with powders for different purposes.

In fact, the use of the fan is relatively useless. In ancient times, it was normal to carry a fan around with you, but in modern times it is a bit strange.

Therefore, Li Zhuiyuan transferred all the special powders that would be needed under the compass. Anyway, Runsheng would carry the compass with him no matter what.

"Brother Runsheng, get ready, it's time to start."

Runsheng nodded vigorously again and remained silent obediently.

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes, and before entering the Yin state, he suddenly let go of Runsheng's hand and grabbed Tan Wenbin instead.

The Yin-yang move was successful!

In Li Zhuiyuan's sight, the other three people disappeared, only a little girl in red stood in front of him, her hand held by him.

The last time he moved to the Yin, he was leaning on Runsheng, but the little girl was not on Runsheng at that time, so she avoided his Yin detection.

But just now, Runsheng had obviously recovered and his mind became sharp again, but Tan Wenbin showed a rare loss of emotional control.

Reasonable suspicion, she heard the conversation between the four people, and shifted her focus from Runsheng to Tan Wenbin.

But it was obvious that she couldn't outsmart others when it came to tricks.

Xue Liangliang and Li Zhuiyuan had actually discovered it, but deliberately kept it quiet.

"Brother, I'm so hungry."

The girl pleaded to Li Zhuiyuan with a shy look on her face.

She is indeed very cute and easy to be pitied. No wonder Xue Liangliang and the other two all helped her.

But unfortunately, Li Zhuiyuan does not have such unnecessary emotions.

Perhaps she also noticed this, so she didn't attack the younger brother.

Li Zhuiyuan raised his other hand and slapped her.

In reality, Li Zhuiyuan was still sitting there motionless, but the white dust pinched by his fingertips rose up without wind and floated towards Tan Wenbin, or to be exact, towards the back of Tan Wenbin's neck.

Tan Wenbin's nose felt itchy and he couldn't help but sneeze.

But soon, he felt a chill on his neck, as if a large piece of ice was sticking to it. Then, there was a burning pain, like a mixture of ice and fire. He felt as if the large piece of skin was about to roll up.

While in the Yin state, Li Zhuiyuan saw the girl screaming.

"Come on!"

She ran away, her figure gradually fading into the distance.

Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head and looked at the piece of the girl's arm in his hand. It was bloody, like a lotus root oozing blood.

The embarrassing thing now is that Li Zhuiyuan is not sure whether he should chase her or not. He has never tried fighting in the Yin state, and he doesn't know how to fight. Should he chase her, fight with her, and kill her?

But how can we define it as killing her? Her arms are already here, but she is not “dead” yet.

Or, use the method in Wei Zhengdao's Black Book to see if you can control her?
But it seems that this girl is not dead, her body has turned into ashes.

As he was hesitating, the opportunity was missed, because as the girl ran away, her figure became fainter and fainter until it disappeared.

This is also a good result. I drove her away by myself.

No wonder it’s called “Exorcism”.

This kind of thing would be difficult to handle even for someone with the right professional background, let alone someone like me who is in a cross-disciplinary field.

So can she return to the urn next, or will she become a wandering ghost and eventually disappear?
Let it dissipate, it's what you deserve anyway.

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes, his consciousness began to rise, and soon, he finished walking in the dark.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that Runsheng, Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin each had put a talisman paper on themselves.

Li Zhuiyuan: "This talisman paper is useless."

Runsheng retorted: "It worked. It just transferred from me to Binbin, so it didn't change color."

It was obvious that everyone had figured out the situation, because the back of Tan Wenbin's neck was now blue and black and it was still very painful.

"Hiss... She actually sneaked up on me, damn it!"

Xue Liangliang checked his injuries and joked, "Maybe she was hanging around your neck most of the time."

"Fuck, it's true. I was wondering why I couldn't memorize English words. I forget them as soon as I memorize them!"

Li Zhuiyuan said: "She has been driven away, and she will most likely not come back. Even if she comes back, the worst that can happen is that we can drive her away again."

As he spoke, Li Zhuiyuan looked down at his hands. It was obvious that the arm was no longer visible and did not exist in reality. Even so, Li Zhuiyuan still picked up the dead leaves on the ground and rubbed his hands.

He observed the faces of the three people again. Although it was impossible for them to return to their original state all at once, they had become much lighter than the previous "darkness".

"Now, what we should consider is how to leave here." Xue Liangliang pointed to the village, "If we can't find other ways to break the impasse, then I can only suspect that the key to getting out is in the village."

"There are people in that village. I saw them, but I don't know if they are alive."

Runsheng said: "If you want to go into the village, let's go now, while I'm not too hungry and I still have strength."

"Give me some more time, I'll think of a solution."

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the compass again, stood up and began to observe the Feng Shui.

Xue Liangliang followed Li Zhuiyuan, while Runsheng was giving a massage to the back of Tan Wenbin's neck.

"Be gentle, be gentle, it hurts!"

“If there is normality, there will be no pain; if there is pain, there will be no pain.”

Li Zhuiyuan didn't walk far. He first looked at the village, then at the path, and then lowered his head to fiddle with the compass.

In fact, at this moment, he had already given up. If he had been able to think of a solution, he would have used it long ago. Now he was just making a final struggle because he really didn't want to enter that village.

"Xiaoyuan, I think we can really try the method I mentioned. Let's go into the village and take a look."

"Brother Liangliang, your personal experience is a special case. The last time you were able to come out was because someone outside put pressure on Baijia Town."

"Xiao Yuan, you misunderstood. What I meant is, since we want to go out but can't, does that mean that going in means going out, and it's the other way around?"

Li Zhuiyuan realized that he really misunderstood Brother Liangliang. At the same time, he felt that Brother Liangliang was really useful without being hung up by that little girl.

"If we want to verify this, we can divide the group into two groups. One group stays where they are, and the other group runs along a specific route, and then observes and records it. For example, we can run around a corner or in a circle to see how they return to the starting point in the end."

"No, no, we can't separate."

"That……"

"I would rather we all rush into the village together."

"Well, Xiaoyuan, you make the decision."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the Feng Shui for a while, but in the end he couldn't see anything, so he could only say, "Everyone, check your pockets to see if you have any snacks or candies. Give them all to Brother Runsheng."

There was some food, but not much, just enough for Runsheng to fill his teeth. He lit ten incense sticks and chewed them all in his mouth, then pulled out a lot of grass and leaves, chewed and swallowed them as well.

This behavior was a bit too aggressive, but he also wanted to increase his satiety. In fact, for him, incense was like a condiment. He couldn't get much energy from it, and the little he could get was not enough for his body to digest it.

But no matter what, Runsheng's belly was indeed bulging.

"Xiaoyuan, I'm ready!"

"Let's go into the village before it gets dark."

It would be a more humane choice to continue staying here, but there are only tree barks and leaves here and no proper food. Staying here will only make everyone's condition worse and worse, and they will just be waiting to die.

As soon as the four arrived at the entrance of the village, they stopped because they heard some noise.

Tan Wenbin asked, "What's that sound?"

"It's so messy, so near and yet so far." Xue Liangliang looked around, but there were only sounds and no clues.

Li Zhuiyuan's ears were trembling slightly. He said, "There are gongs, drums, suona, and the sound of chanting, as if someone is performing a ritual."

Then, Li Zhuiyuan paced at the entrance of the village. He lowered his head and looked at his feet. This was the central area where the sound came from.

Looking forward, Li Zhuiyuan discovered a pair of shallow footprints in front of him.

"Get out of the way, be careful!"

Everyone immediately made way and stared at that position.

The footprints gradually deepened, and four depressions appeared directly in front of the footprints.

"Brother Runsheng, come on!"

"Ok!"

Runsheng took a steel pipe, came to the footprints and waved it continuously, but he couldn't hit anything.

At the same time, no unusual changes took place in him.

"Stop, Brother Runsheng."

Runsheng stopped and began to breathe steadily.

Li Zhuiyuan came closer, squatted down, and carefully observed the two concave marks that were very close to each other.

Xue Liangliang also squatted over to look at it together: "This is a human footprint, it should be a boot, but these four dents, what are they?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Table."

"table?"

"It should be a table. Also, the sound of this instrument is like that of a band."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tan Wenbin, who was standing outside, shouted, "Be careful, fire!"

A floating fireball appeared above Li Zhuiyuan and Xue Liangliang's heads, and it ignited Xue Liangliang's clothes and hair. He immediately dodged and slapped it hard with his hands, thus extinguishing it without causing any harm to himself.

Because Li Zhuiyuan was short, the fireball was floating above his head at some distance, so he did not dodge. Instead, he looked up and observed the direction of the fireball.

As he watched, his hands were waving slightly, as if he was making plans and predictions.

Suddenly, the fireball began to move quickly, making a large circle with a much larger amplitude than before.

While Li Zhuiyuan was staring at it, he also looked at the marks of the four table legs below.

In my mind, the habit of my great-grandfather when performing rituals emerged. He would first hold yellow paper and light it with a candle, then wave it in front of the altar while chanting scriptures. During the process, he would also hold the yellow paper and walk around the altar in a circle.

When the yellow paper is about to burn your hands, throw it into a bowl filled with duck blood, chicken blood, or pig blood.

Now, just wait for the next step.

"His..."

The fireball fell downwards, was extinguished instantly, and disappeared without any sparks flying.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up while patting the mud off his trouser legs, and said to his three companions, "Someone is performing a ritual right where we are now."

Tan Wenbin screamed, "Ghosts can perform rituals? That's too anti-Tian Gang!"

"Snapped!"

Runsheng took out a piece of talisman paper and slapped it on Tan Wenbin's forehead with such force that Tan Wenbin took several steps back.

The talisman paper did not change color.

Tan Wenbin pulled his collar and asked Runsheng to look at the talisman paper on his neck: "I have this one here, can't you look at it first before putting on a new one?"

"Who told you to suddenly become emotional again?"

"I believe what my brother Yuan said, but the idea of ​​ghosts performing rituals is just too unbelievable."

Xue Liangliang said solemnly: "Maybe, the one who performed the ritual was not a ghost."

Tan Wenbin: "If they are not ghosts, then why can't we see them?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Maybe, we are the ghosts now."

Li Zhuiyuan remembered that the last time he went to the underworld, he heard shouting and cursing from the village, saying that some beast had kicked down his door.

Tan Wenbin: "Brother, who is doing this ritual..."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Maybe, it was made for us, because we kicked and broke two doors this morning. A ghost that can kick doors must be fierce enough to scare the villagers so much that they even invited a 'master' to perform a ritual."

However, the Taoist priest or monk who was invited did not seem to have much Taoist skills. With just a little bit of effect, his level was probably comparable to that of his own grandfather.

Tan Wenbin reached out and pinched Runsheng's arm hard, and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Runsheng shook his head: "It doesn't hurt."

Then, Runsheng reached out and grabbed Tan Wenbin's arm:

"Ooooh! It hurts!"

Xue Liangliang walked up to Li Zhuiyuan and said, "Xiaoyuan, are we ghosts now?"

"Brother Liangliang, I don't understand this matter either. I haven't done anything evil. Also, I think you have more personal experience than me in this matter and have the right to speak."

Runsheng: "Yes, you did something naughty."

Xue Liangliang immediately took a deep breath and said, "She is not a dead person, nor a ghost. She... doesn't look like a living person either."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Neither human nor ghost, this is quite consistent with our current situation."

Xue Liangliang raised his hand to indicate that he was thinking: "I often recall the experience of going to Baijia Town a long time ago..."

"Brother Liangliang, there's no need to recall. You went there every day a while ago."

"Oh, yes, that's right. So now I feel that the environment we are in is similar to Baijia Town. It exists at the bottom of the river, but it doesn't really exist.

You see, the Yangtze River is not the sea. It is not that deep and not that wide. A cross-river bridge will have to be built there in the future. If there really was an exploreable town located there, it would have been discovered long ago.

After I returned to school, I went to the library to look up information..."

"What did you find?"

"I didn't find anything. Then I went to consult the club in our school."

"Societies?"

"It's a club for paranormal enthusiasts. The female president gave a relatively reasonable explanation for my story. She said it might be a space layer."

"Did she tell you, Brother Liangliang, how to leave this space?"

"No, she even doubted whether the town I was talking about was real and begged me to take her there to see it."

To prove that he was not possessed by the little girl again, Tan Wenbin asked a very reasonable question: "Brother Liang, you have been to the inter-dimensional space many times, how did you get out?"

Xue Liangliang waved his hands and said perfunctorily, "Every time I come out confused."

Tan Wenbin didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

Runsheng: "Every time I come out comfortably."

Xue Liangliang raised his voice: "The layout of each place is different. Baijia Town is controlled by her. I only need to jump into the river in that area to get in. When I get out, I feel dizzy and lie on the shore.

I think this place is not controlled. It is not man-made but formed naturally, otherwise these villagers would not be scared enough to ask people to perform rituals.

Xiaoyuan, let’s go in and take a look. For example, the exits of the ancestral hall or the well in the center of the village are usually in locations like this.”

"Well, let's go."

As the four of them walked towards the village, the sound of musical instruments was heard again at the same place, and the fireball appeared again.

Everyone looked back and realized that the second ritual had begun, so they didn't take it seriously anymore.

After entering the village, most of the doors were closed, but some were open. The houses with open doors were relatively dilapidated.

There are no Spring Festival couplets or door god statues on both sides of the doors of these houses.

Tan Wenbin also noticed this and muttered, "My mother asked me to put up the Chinese character 'Fu' and Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival, but I thought it was annoying. I was so stupid."

Xue Liangliang also responded: "I will also paste the doors of the construction site dormitories in the future."

Everyone came to the old well in the center of the village, which might be the landmark for getting out. Runsheng took the lead, tied the rope, and went down the well with a steel pipe in his mouth.

The others were waiting patiently at the wellhead.

Xue Liangliang asked: "Xiaoyuan, Runsheng didn't go into the well water. Did he go out?"

Tan Wenbin: "Don't worry, if the exit is really down there, Runsheng will come out and tell us."

Li Zhuiyuan asked in return: "If he goes out, can he come back in if he knows where the entrance is?"

"Oh, yeah, what should we do then? If he really goes out, we..."

"Brother Binbin, pull the rope up a bit and see if you can straighten it."

"Okay." Tan Wenbin began to reel in the rope at the side of the well. As he was reeling, the rope below became tighter and he could feel the force coming back. "Runsheng is still down there. He just pulled the rope twice. I felt it."

Xue Liangliang worriedly asked, "He's been down there for a long time, is he okay?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "No, Brother Runsheng is very good at swimming."

Li Zhuiyuan was very sure about this matter. After all, Brother Runsheng was a man who could fight with the dead underwater.

"Xiao Yuan, I have another question. How do you explain the corpse water in the two rooms we entered earlier?"

"Maybe an old man was sick in bed there and passed away."

"The corpse water in the second room is in the closet. You can't stay sick in the closet, right?"

"Maybe something was left behind. Isn't it a custom in some places to eat the placenta?"

Xue Liangliang: "Xiaoyuan, how did you manage to give me such a reasonable explanation so calmly and quickly?"

Li Zhuiyuan said in a deep voice: "Because I don't want to think of the worst possible outcome."

Xue Liangliang was confused at first, but then he understood and responded, "Yes, that's terrible, especially for Zhu Yang."

"Hey!" Tan Wenbin shouted with a tangled look on his face, "Can you two please consider my feelings? I'm still listening. Don't skip anything!"

At this time, there was a noise coming from the well. It was Runsheng coming up.

He climbed out of the well and said, "This well is very deep. I have dived to the bottom and there is no exit."

"Brother Runsheng, do you want to take a break?"

"I can't rest." Runsheng touched his stomach, "I'm already hungry."

Li Zhuiyuan pointed to the corn cobs hanging on the door of the house in front of him and said, "There is food there."

Runsheng asked in surprise: "Can I eat it?"

"Eat it. In their eyes, it's just another haunting."

Runsheng immediately took down a bunch of corn and started eating it without cooking or roasting it.

Li Zhuiyuan and Xue Liangliang also took one each and took a bite. They found the taste was really bad, but at this moment, everyone could eat as much as they could.

Tan Wenbin ran out of the house and said, "Eat this, eat this. There is bacon hanging in the house. I brought it here."

Xue Liangliang: "Is there still this thing inside?"

"Everything else is moldy, including the dishes on the table, but the bacon is okay. I just took a bite and it's a little oily, but it's for energy, so I don't care.

Here you are, Runsheng."

Runsheng took it, took a big bite, then he slowed down his chewing speed. He didn't spit it out, but swallowed it while chewing.

Tan Wenbin asked, "How is it? Does it taste good, Runsheng?"

Runsheng: "This is dirty meat."

Li Zhuiyuan and Xue Liangliang were immediately shocked.

Tan Wenbin: "Of course it's dirty. Everything inside is dirty. The room is full of dust, but I have shaken off all the dust on top."

Li Zhuiyuan reminded him, "Brother Binbin, the dirty meat Runsheng is talking about is not the meat of livestock."

"If it's not livestock meat, then what kind of meat is it? Could it be... Ugh!"

Runsheng patted Tan Wenbin on the back and comforted him, "Don't vomit, it's all energy."

"vomit!"

Li Zhuiyuan said calmly: "Let's go to the ancestral hall."

The four of them walked towards the largest building in the house. At the door stood two stone lions and an old plaque hung above it, but the words on the plaque were not clear.

It was not because it had fallen into disrepair, but because when I got closer, I suddenly discovered that a large amount of water was dripping down from the eaves of the ancestral hall, like a small waterfall, just covering the plaque.

"What kind of decoration style is this?" Xue Liangliang looked at Li Zhuiyuan, "Or is it that what we see now is invisible in reality?"

"Well, water has no source, the earth has no reservoir, and it is invisible in reality."

Tan Wenbin said excitedly: "The exit is right here!"

Because this building is the most special and can present an "atmosphere" that is different from reality, the exit is most likely here.

Xue Liangliang asked: "Xiaoyuan, how does Feng Shui explain this situation?"

"When ancient emperors were building mausoleums, the biggest taboo was water leakage, which was considered a bad omen. Whenever such a thing happened, the craftsmen and officials in charge of building the mausoleum would be guilty of a serious crime.

The ancestral hall is a place for the fortune of a village, a family, and a clan. This kind of water flowing into a waterfall can only be said to be:
[The debt of sin is like water, and the good deeds are greatly lost. The words on the plaque are invisible, and the ancestors are ashamed to see it. 】

Brother Runsheng, smash the door of the ancestral hall."

"it is good!"

Runsheng stepped forward and began to bang on the door. The door of the ancestral hall was obviously stronger than the door of a residential house, but Runsheng was Runsheng after all. After a series of heavy kicks, the door of the ancestral hall was finally kicked open.

The four of them walked in, and as soon as they stepped down the stairs, they were all stunned.

You can see a waterfall outside the ancestral hall. Naturally, there is a lot of water accumulated there. Every drop of water represents a sin.

But if it was just a pond inside the ancestral hall, everyone wouldn't be so shocked.

The reason is that the pond is densely packed with people.

This was the first time the four had seen "people" since entering the village, and there were so many of them.

Everyone had their eyes closed, their faces as pale as paper, and they were swaying gently in the water with the current. They were all dead people.

The one standing at the front, seemingly the latest to join the group and also the one closest to the four of them, was the truck driver Zhu Yang.

Tan Wenbin said in disbelief: "Zhu Yang, is he dead? Didn't he not enter this space with us? Then he should still be in reality now."

Li Zhuiyuan: "So, he is dead."

Tan Wenbin swallowed his saliva: "Why...why?"

Li Zhuiyuan pointed to the ground below him, then pointed to the outside of the ancestral hall, and said:

"Because this place... is a village of car bandits and road bullies!"

(End of this chapter)