fairy family

Chapter 59: Test the Ghost Messenger, Eat Mud and Talk Ghostly
As soon as the whip sounded, many candidates started running towards the deserted village in the distance.

Some of them ran very fast, fearing that they would fall behind and not be able to find suitable medicinal herbs when they entered the deserted village.

At this time, the Red Snake Lady shouted loudly behind the crowd:

"Although this level requires you to collect herbs, you don't have to do it that way. Also, I call this level 'Testing the Ghosts', don't say I didn't remind you."

This voice entered the ears of everyone, making many candidates confused. Those candidates who ran in the front looked back repeatedly, as if they wanted to run back and ask Madam Red Snake in detail.

But after the examiner, Mrs. Red Snake, gave the hint, she folded her hands, jumped into the air, sat on the roof of the carriage, looked at everyone with a smile, and didn't say another word.

Yu Que was originally in the front row entering the village. When he heard the voice of Madam Red Snake, he became alert and slowed down his pace.

Qian Huazhen next to him also slowed down. He came close to him and whispered:

"Brother Yu, you are smarter than me! What do you mean by not having to use the method of collecting herbs? And what is the 'test ghost messenger'? Could it be that if you do well in this test, you can be given a job as a ghost messenger?"

The term "ghost catcher" has many meanings in this world. It can refer to a certain type of ghost or god that can take away souls, or it can refer to an official in the government office who specializes in handling the souls of the common people.

If everyone at the scene passes the county school entrance examination, and after graduation, if they fail the Taoist palace entrance examination, they have a certain chance to enter the local government office as a ghost messenger. However, the "ghost messenger examination" may have a different meaning in today's ghost examination context.

"Let's go into the village and take a look first." Yu Que responded to Qian Huazhen in a deep voice.

The two of them gathered together, in the middle of the crowd, and rushed forward neither fast nor slow.

In addition, while walking, Yu Que's attention was not only focused on the front, but also on a certain person.

The other party was also in the middle of the crowd and had a good understanding with him.

This person is Fu Ling.

On the way into the village, the two men's eyes met from time to time. Both of them had cold eyes, and it was obvious that they were ready to deal with each other in the deserted village.

So when entering the village, Yu Que threw a sentence to Qian Huazhen beside him:

"Brother Qian, I have karma to settle, so I won't go with you, so as not to implicate you."

After he finished speaking, without waiting for Qian Huazhen, who looked confused, to reply, he floated away from the crowd and drifted towards a corner of the deserted village.

Qian Huazhen looked stunned, but he didn't think Yu Que was making excuses and didn't want to partner with him.

Because in the first exam, the words "Yuque" were heard by all the candidates, and someone hated him so much that he wanted to eat him alive.

Sure enough, after Yu Que left, another figure whooshed away with him.

Qian Huazhen saw the man clearly, and he quickly wrapped his robe around him, muttering, "He's fighting to the death right after entering the village, he's really energetic... He's not afraid of getting seriously injured and being picked up by others."

As he spoke, Qian Huazhen was reminded of the feud between Yu Que and Fu Ling, and the idea of ​​finding someone to join forces with him instantly disappeared.

The boy immediately broke away from the crowd and ran into the deserted village alone.

As he ran, he thought to himself, "It's better for me to look for the medicine by myself and not find it than to go with someone else and end up getting beaten up by their accomplice."

Among the many candidates, there are many who have the same considerations as Qian Huazhen. Yu Que, who just left, chose to go alone for the same reason.

In addition, many candidates chose to travel in groups. They planned to work together to collect herbs in the deserted village, or even to steal herbs.

The eyes of these people flickered: "The examiner said that you don't have to pick herbs by 'picking' them, so doesn't that mean you can 'rob' them?!"

However, after entering the village, the candidates, who were originally in high spirits, felt a sense of depression in their hearts.

All I saw were corpses, some lying dead on the mountain path, some hanging from trees and roofs. Clouds of cold fog rolled through the deserted village, making the dead silent environment seem extremely eerie.

The village was cold and quiet. Nearly two hundred candidates dispersed into the village. Although it was not completely calm, it did not cause much of a splash either.

Yu Que ignored the corpses in the deserted village. He wrapped his spiritual consciousness around himself and walked into the village in an orderly manner.

Once in the village.

He realized that the further he went into the village, the more obvious the gathering of negative energy and corpse energy became. If there really were broken branches and leaves of rare treasures here, they must have fallen in the deepest part of the village.

Suddenly, there was a clang-clang sound!
The sound of a gong rang out strangely in the deserted village, and there were murmuring voices:
"Ho-ho-cluck, cluck-cluck-cluck."

The sound immediately startled all the nearby candidates, including Yu Que.

None of the people who went to take the exam tonight carried a gong with them, and the examiner had already said that the people in this village were all dead.

There are ghosts!

This thought popped up in everyone's mind.

If you encounter a ghost in the wild, you must not act rashly, especially in a dangerous place like this where the entire village has been killed.

Yu Que's hair immediately stood up. He looked around and saw a haystack nearby. He dodged and jumped into the haystack, covering himself with the haystack, and then dared not even breathe.

Around him were the other candidates, including Fu Ling.

They all hid in the bushes or jumped onto the roof. There was a water tank next to someone, and without having time to worry too much, he jumped into the tank.

Soon, the sound of the gong became closer.

Under the vigilant gaze of the people around, a staggering dried corpse appeared in front of everyone. It had a big head and thin limbs, and was stumbling around holding a gong. It was indeed not a human, but it was beating night watch in the village like a human.

Many candidates had this thought in their minds:

"Is this a zombie ghost? Or a night watchman ghost?"

They waited until the night watchman slowly passed by, and then the candidates hiding in the surroundings slipped out like cats or mice, intending to continue going deeper into the village.

But as soon as they appeared, they looked up and found that the night watch ghost that had just passed by had strangely turned back and was standing on the road, staring at them. This scene scared the candidates so much that they immediately wanted to take the initiative and kill the night watch ghost.

Fortunately, Yu Que landed in the crowd and was relatively close to the night watchman. He immediately whispered:
"Wait! Don't do anything."

Except for Fu Ling in the dark who had a fierce look on his face, the rest of the people subconsciously stopped and looked at Yu Que.

Yu Que was a person who had made a great splash in both exams and was quite capable. Therefore, in such a spooky environment, the other candidates naturally subconsciously followed his advice.

Yu Que bowed to the people around him, frowned slightly, looked around, and suddenly went into a nearly half-collapsed house next to him, and took out a handful of firewood ash and a handful of pot ash.

He used a little water from the water tank to knead the firewood ash into the size of an egg, and then rubbed it with the soot from the pot.

Then, Yu Que endured it and stuffed the black mud pill into his mouth with an uncomfortable look on his face.

He opened his mouth and made a strange sound, then walked towards the night watchman behind him.

Seeing this, the other candidates' eyes lit up: "Yes, that ghost was talking just now. We can listen to what it said and see if we can communicate."

"As expected, he is a strong candidate for the top spot in the literature exam. He even managed to remember the trick of 'eating mud and talking nonsense' in a hurry."

The so-called "eating mud and talking nonsense" means that after a person dies, the ghost becomes light and the voice he speaks is sharp and thin, even stranger than that of a eunuch, as if there is a pool of thick phlegm in his mouth.

Even though the immortals can understand the ghost talk of ghosts, the ghosts are unconscious and cannot understand human talk, so the two cannot communicate normally.

Therefore, if the immortals want to communicate with ghosts and gods, they often need to become like them, with their mouths filled with thick phlegm, so that the ghosts and gods can understand what they say.

This is especially necessary when facing ghosts and gods with more advanced spiritual powers.

On the contrary, some ghosts who have just died may still be able to speak normally, but as time goes by after death, just like a corpse stiffens and the vocal cords fall, the ghost will increasingly forget human language and only understand ghost language.

Yu Que walked up to the night watch ghost, eating a mud pill in his mouth, and communicated with the other party in a strange voice:

"Dude, what are you doing out here so late at night?"

"Beat the night watch, beat the night watch." The mummy's throat gurgled, making a vague snapping sound that was even stranger than his.

Yu Que said again: "Go further into the village, do you know what's there?"

The night watchman made a hoarse sound: "Yes, there are messengers, they are fierce, stay away, don't go."

Hearing the word "policeman", Yu Que's eyebrows raised slightly, and he instantly thought of the term "examination ghost policeman" used by the examiner.

He persuaded the other party with kindness and took out a gold ingot chestnut from his sleeve, tempting the other party: "What will happen when you see the police?"

The night watchman's eyes sparkled. He stared at the golden ingot chestnut and said in a whirring voice, "Give it to me, give it to me."

Yu Que was not stingy. He threw the precious chestnut out. The night watchman caught it and said happily:
"Recruiting people, no no, they are recruiting ghosts. They are recruiting ghosts, you can go and do the work."

Giggle, the mummy wanted to stuff the chestnut into its mouth and eat it, but its teeth couldn't open, and it was very anxious.

Yu Que and several other candidates around him listened to the night watchman's answer and vaguely understood what it meant.

Their faces were horrified, and they all asked in shock: "Could it be that the ghosts here are forming a ghost group, or is there a big ghost gathering here?"

Recruiting ghosts to do errands has a similar meaning to "recruiting soldiers and buying horses."

Those who dare to do such things are either immortals who are recruiting soldiers, or big ghosts who want to roar in groups.

If it was the latter, the depths of the village were undoubtedly extremely dangerous. Such ghosts and gods that could gather a crowd must be evil creatures of the eighth-grade rampant gods, and they were not something that a group of students like them could touch.

But at the same time, the examinees also had a look of covetousness in their eyes.

Since ancient times, the more dangerous a place is, the more bizarre and unique its scenery is, and the more benefits it has.

Besides, they were still taking the exam, and there were examiners outside to look after them. If there was any danger, the examiners would not put everyone in a life-or-death situation.

Yu Que was thinking and had already decided to go to the place where "ghosts were captured and worked" to take a look.

Just at this moment, someone with a mouthful of mud suddenly bowed to Yu Que, then shouted something vaguely, wanting to talk to the night watchman.

Yu Que did not stop him and stepped aside.

"Mumbling this and that, how can we go in without being discovered..."

But the few words this person said made the night watchman ghost confused. It stood there in a daze, not understanding anything at all.

Yu Que looked at the man carefully and couldn't help but sneer.

He first spit out the mud in his mouth with a "Puh" sound, and then he spoke:
"This old man, eating mud and talking nonsense, is eating it, not swallowing it, but just holding it in your mouth."

The candidate who came forward to question him suddenly looked bitter. He opened his teeth and clucked a few times, then rolled his eyes and started to dry heave on the spot.

It turned out that this guy swallowed the mud pill directly into his stomach, and then talked to the night watchman ghost.

This man has no morals and speaks nonsense in a confusing way. Naturally, even ghosts can't understand him.

Moreover, this man was not like Yu Que. He did not use firewood ash specially for the purpose. Instead, in a hurry, he just grabbed a handful of mud from the ground, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it in.

"Ugh!" Thinking of this, the candidate who was eating mud felt even more disgusted. He also felt a foul odor in his mouth and retched even louder.

Seeing this move, Yu Que, who was standing next to him, shook his head.

In fact, there was no need for this person to interrogate him. Yu Que had already figured out how to sneak into the depths of the village safely...

(End of this chapter)