Chapter 1: The Grave Keeper
"—On the other side of the lake in the dry forest, there are undead spirits who eat children!"
It was originally just a lie from the village warning the children not to approach the lake to avoid falling overboard, and the older children would have been skeptical.
Until a mysterious young man actually lives in a long-abandoned wooden hut by the lake, even the most seasoned hunter in the village is increasingly reluctant to approach it.
The former mass graves were cut open one by one, and while more and more tombstones were repaired, more corpses followed.
No one knows where the dead came from, but every night there are always young people carrying swaying lanterns and dragging corpse trucks back to the cemetery.
To this day, when an old man talks about the undead who eat children, half of them are so frightened that they can't get wet.
Before this strange thing became a panic spread, the village first called the catchers from nearby Lingxia County to see if it was a person or a ghost living here.
Whether it is a madman of the Heaven and Earth Society, or a demon or a monster that is unwarranted, all evil spirits have nowhere to escape in front of the guillotine of the six doors.
Even after a false alarm, the village gradually became alienated from the new owner of the cemetery.
On the one hand, people felt that the cemetery was gloomy, and on the other hand, they also felt that the young man who lived in the cemetery was a little scary.
During the day, the owner of the cemetery never went out, but at night he always appeared in the woods with a lantern.
Eating in the cemetery, sleeping in the cemetery, and staying with the dead every day, so that others do not speculate is simply impossible to stop.
Looking at the cemetery, which was shrouded in shadows all day long, and the strange sounds that came from under the black soil from time to time at night, the village began to draw a clear line of separation from the dry forest.
It's as if this side is the world of the living, and that side is the land of the dead.
Shi Ren also deeply agrees with this.
He looked at the neatly lined tombstones in front of him and knew in his heart that it was time to expand the cemetery.
At that time, seeing that the villagers deliberately surrounded the dry forest with wooden fences, Shi Ren was somewhat glad that this group of well-wishers had given him such a large area of open space.
Before moving here, Shi Ren was worried about whether he would come into conflict with the local residents, after all, not long after working at the last cemetery, panicked locals rushed into the cemetery overnight and burned everything he had.
But at the thought that he was going to open up wasteland to the north of the dry forest and repair the wall, Shi Ren's body couldn't help but ache.
That's all a great project that he completed with a brick, a shovel, and sweat!
Standing next to the tomb that had just been dug, Shi Ren waved out the system panel.
【Cemetery System】
Host: Shi Ren
Wealth: 5430 Yin Spirit
System Level: Lv1
Open functions: cemetery monitoring, corpse search revelation, exchange mall, personal attributes
[Cemetery No. 1 Data (Destroyed)]
[No. 2 cemetery data (current)]
"Enter the exchange mall function. After Shi Ren's consciousness entered the interface of the mall, he crossed the food and daily necessities area, and what appeared was the exchange list for the cemetery's special.
【Exchange Mall Lv1 Opened】
Stone Tombstones: Monumental Carriers of the Burial Place of the Deceased (50 Yin Spirits)
Wooden Coffin: Cabinet to Hold the Body (150 Yin Spirits)
Cart for the Carriage: Two-wheeled simple vehicle (300 Yin Spirits)
Gravekeeper's Hammer: A one-handed hammer that symbolizes the inviolability of the land (1000 Yin Spirits)
Corpse Keeper's Crossbow: A crossbow that symbolizes an inviolable place (2000 Yin Spirits)
Undertaker Lv1: Obtain the technique of applying makeup to the deceased, and even apply it to yourself when necessary (8000 Yin Spirits)
Gravedigger Lv2: Gain the ability to dig graves faster to bury the dead (5000 Yin Spirits)
Graveyard System Lv2: Gain improved system capabilities (10,000 Yin Spirits)
"Exchange for one tombstone coffin. ”
As the prompt sounded in his mind, looking at the tombstone and coffin rising from the sensational soil in front of him, Shi Ren didn't say a word, and began to open the coffin lid with ease, and then put the body on the cart into the wooden coffin, and then pushed the coffin with the lid nailed into the grave that had been dug for burial.
On the tombstone is an inscription that has been carved by the system.
"—The Nameless Man Rests in Peace"
"—May the road to the afterlife be free of suffering"
Looking at the words on the stone tablet, Shi Ren put the picked white flowers in front of the tomb and stood quietly in silence.
He was not a native of this world, and in the previous life, Shi Ren was arranged to work in the cemetery from the welfare home, but he was transported to this world without warning two months ago, and obtained a system called the cemetery by accident.
The cemetery system is not so much the golden finger of the traverser, but rather a job for Shiren who is in another world.
As long as he keeps burying corpses or opening new burial grounds, he can be rewarded with Yin Spirits.
While skills and weapons, for example, require a large number of Yin Spirits to redeem, some food, drink, and daily necessities require only a fraction of them.
In the previous life, those traversers were either farming in another world, or engaging in some kind of industrial revolution, although these seemed to have nothing to do with Shi Ren.
However, as long as Shi Ren runs the cemetery well, at least he will not have to worry about eating and drinking, and a stable and comfortable life will still be guaranteed.
The pursuit of dominating the world, Shi Ren really doesn't, he belongs to the type who is content with the status quo, and has no ambitions, so he lives a quiet life in the cemetery.
Moreover, the world is in the era of hegemony, although the level of civilization is still in the age of cold weapons, but in the period of war and chaos, even within the territory of the country, there are many deserters entrenched in the mountains and forests.
The profession of grave keeper is more like a protective color in contemporary times, and aborigines who fear ghosts and gods will choose to bypass the gloomy cemetery even in extraordinary times.
Of course, there are exceptions, and the No. 1 cemetery where Shiren was first placed was burned down by people who rioted out of fear.
Because they had a system of food and drink, the villagers who were afraid that they would stay in the cemetery all day and night actually thought that they were ghouls, and they chose to carry torches into the cemetery overnight before reporting to the police.
If it weren't for the destruction of the cemetery, the system randomly teleported Shi Ren to a new safe place in advance, and in the face of those crazy mobs with hoes and sickles, Shi Ren really didn't know how to escape alive.
However, this escape measure is not a foolproof plan after all, the system only has one chance to evacuate oneself in the cemetery once a month, and Shiren can only rely on himself when the skill cools down and when acting outside the cemetery.
[The corpse is successfully buried, and 100 Yin Spirits are obtained]
As the system's prompt ended, Shi Ren came back to his senses from his memories and directly exchanged for the Grave Keeper's Hammer.
He had also exchanged this small and delicate one-handed hammer for one, which was really a weapon for self-defense, but when the No. 1 cemetery was captured, Shi Ren fled in a panic, and all his belongings were left there.
Feeling the cold texture of the one-handed hammer, Shi Ren then called up his personal attributes.
[Personal attribute: Host Shiren]
Strength: 14
Health: 19
Endurance: 14
Sensory: 11
Inspiration:1
Skills: Gravedigger Lv1 (You will be able to dig the grave and bury the dead faster), Unpredictable Lv1 (outsiders will be more reluctant to pay attention to you), Grave Keeper Lv1 (You will temporarily improve your physical fitness while guarding the Pure Land of the Dead), Corpse Carrier Lv2 (You will resist the negative effects of corpses to a certain extent when transporting corpses), Tomb God Protector Lv1 (mysterious power is protecting you)
"Whew, has your health improved a bit? ”
Shi Ren moved his muscles and bones, it has been two months since he came to this world, except for the strength and endurance feeling much stronger than before, there is no real feeling in other aspects.
However, he has been in the fog in the inspiration column of the attributes, and when he first crossed over, the other attributes were basically about 10, but the inspiration grew from scratch, and what kind of ability does it represent Shi Ren?
Shi Ren didn't know, and he didn't want to think about it.
Just as Shi Ren was about to take the one-handed hammer back to the wooden house, a high-pitched shout came from the gate outside the cemetery.