Seventeen.

The man was wrapped in a white cloth, with only his feet exposed, and was grabbed by the Immortal Boy and dragged all the way out of the inn.

Closer, judging by his size and the muddy cloth shoes on his feet, I recognized that this person should be the old Taoist priest.

But why did the Underworld wrap him so tightly, and he didn't move all the way?

When he looked at the young man suspiciously, he had already arrived at the coffin, and casually threw his feet to the ground, and the white cloth spread out, revealing half of the old Taoist priest's body inside.

"What's wrong with him?" asked as he was about to climb down from the coffin, but the young man reached out to block me, and then patted the lid of the coffin:

"Don't come down yet, I need your help. ”

"Oh?" I was a little surprised, I didn't expect such a powerful person to ask me for help. "What do you want me to help with?"

"Get the first thing out of here for me. He tapped the lid again.

"What?" he said to make my heart chuckle.

Anyone who has heard the story about this coffin told by the old Taoist priest before, can roughly guess with his toes what kind of thing it would be if there was something in this coffin. Besides, I heard the faint sound of breathing inside, and I already felt creepy just sitting on it and listening to it, and you want me to take that thing out......?" You, not kidding?"

"No kidding. He saw the fear in my eyes, so he answered categorically and explained it cleanly: "Only your body, which is neither yin nor yang, can touch the thing that is not yin or yang, so only you can help me take it out."

I wonder if the body he is referring to is that although I am still alive, my body is no different from a dead person because of the thing that came out of the well of Hades, so I am a half-dead person.

So what does it mean to be in a coffin that is neither yin nor yang?

Pondering, I cautiously approached the opening in the lid of the coffin, wanting to look inside and see what I could see.

But for a long time, I only saw a black and slimy lump, and I wanted to get closer, but I didn't dare, even if the young man was next to me, but where did I dare to continue to get closer, at least half a meter away from the mouth, I could clearly feel that there was a burst of cold air flowing out of the coffin, that was really breathing inside, and this breath carried a strong smell of rot in the sewer.

Therefore, where you dare to get closer, let alone reach in.

So after thinking about it, I looked up and asked him, "...... Are you going to take it out now?"

"It's now. ”

“...... Didn't you hear the old Taoist priest say that it would be unlucky to open the coffin before the time came......

"He said that the coffin was opened, and now the coffin lid automatically cracked out, which was providence. ”

"Oh...... Providence...... So what if something inside bites me. ”

When I asked, I couldn't help but blush slightly when I saw a smile on his face.

"You're afraid that thing inside will bite you. Then he asked.

I nodded.

"It's okay, it won't bite you, that thing can only possess you, but it can't get on your body that is neither yin nor yang. ”

"Oh......" Since he said that, it didn't seem interesting to cringe any longer, so I took two strong breaths, and I slowly reached out under his calm gaze, and reached into the hole that was just right for my hand to reach in.

As soon as I stepped in, I only felt that my whole arm seemed to stiffen, because the air in the hole was even colder, and it swirled around my arm, as if it was looking for an opportunity to burrow into my arm at any moment.

"Don't be afraid, find that thing. Seeing this, the young man said to me lightly.

With his words, I seemed to be a little more bold again, so after touching the head of the coffin for a long time, it seemed that I didn't touch anything except the feeling of yin and measurement, so I simply pressed my body towards the hole, and then almost stuffed my entire arm into the coffin.

This time I finally felt like I had hit something.

The location is about where I sit, between the head of the coffin and the middle of the coffin.

It felt like a piece of cloth to the touch, but it was damp, and there was something rough and hard wrapped around it, and it was as cold as ice.

"I got it!" I immediately looked up and said to the Underworld, "It looks like a piece of cloth or something." ”

"Pull it out. ”

"I tried, but it was wrapped tightly around something. ”

"Do what you can. ”

"Oh......"

Do the best I can...... It seemed like there was no other way to pull it out of what was wrapping around it with brute force. But that is bound to tear it up, isn't it?, I stretched my arm inward again, groping slowly upwards along the fabric, wondering if I could find something stronger, and then pulling it out with all my might.

I know it's never going to be as simple as a piece of cloth.

To put it bluntly, the place I touched just now should be the edge under a piece of clothing. But the clothes were really small, so I fumbled all the way along the fabric, and soon I felt the body wearing the dress.

It's also very small.

Such a small body must be a doll.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but remember the words of the old Taoist priest before, when he said that there was a woman's cry in this coffin, he speculated that maybe the driver who had fallen into the evil spirit put his doll in the coffin without anyone noticing.

Not only did I feel a chill when I thought about it, because the doll was really weird.

Although there is no clear evidence that it is all its fault, the freight driver did go crazy after having it, and the death of the driver's daughter was more or less related to the doll entering their house. What's more, there are those things about the coffin in the back, all of which made me immediately shrink my hand, and subconsciously wanted to stay away from this thing.

But just as I was about to lift my shoulders, I realized that my arm was stuck, and I couldn't move for a long time.

"What's wrong. Seeing this, the young man raised his eyebrows and asked.

“...... That thing seems to be the doll that the old Taoist priest said......"

"Take it out. ”

The answer is still clean and to the point. I don't know if it was because of these words, or if there was some kind of calming but compelling magic in the man's eyes, I involuntarily sank down again and reached for the thing in the coffin.

I vaguely felt like I had touched something furry, thinking it was a doll's hair.

It sent a shiver down my shoulder, and without hesitation, I gritted my teeth and grabbed the object's body and pumped it upwards.

Strange to say, I thought it was tightly wrapped in the cold stuff in the coffin, and I might not be able to □□ it out of the entanglement at once with my brute strength.

But just then I heard a heavy □□ sigh from the coffin.

Immediately after a crisp click, the thing suddenly looked like it was at least a few kilograms lighter, and I pulled it up from the bottom of the coffin.

At the same time, my body was also affected by this momentum, and I was caught off guard and rolled off the coffin. Fortunately, he was quickly grabbed by the eyes of the young man, otherwise half of the arm of the body fell to the ground and was stuck in the coffin, but I was afraid that this arm would be broken immediately.

After settling back down on the coffin, I pulled my arm out of the hole.

At this time, I saw that what I was holding in my hand was indeed a doll.

Very old-fashioned kind of dolls of the seventies and eighties, the head and limbs are plastic, and the body is filled with cotton.

There are a few vines standing on the skirt that is not red but not red, black and not black, they should be the things that I just ripped off the doll, at first glance they look no different from ordinary vines, but the color is red, red and black, and there are some plasma-like things sliding down at the fractures, and exuding a thick fishy smell.

The doll's body stinks even more.

Like a salted ribbon fish, it was so smoked that I almost vomited, and I was busy trying to hand it to the Underworld, but out of curiosity about the Taoist priest's words, I still glanced at its face the moment the Immortal reached out to take it.

The sight almost scared me so much that I almost got it straight out.

How can it be so scary......

The body of the doll is filled with a living adult face, and you say that it is scary or not. Underworld

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Chapter 80 of the text Blood Coffin XVII.