Verse 42: 'The Living' and the 'Dead'

The fat brother laughed and said, "How is it, it's fun here, right?" The last time Ye Yi and I came into this kind of place, it was the feeling of slowly moving from modern times to ancient times. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This time we're the opposite. ”

I felt ridiculous, it was incredible.

The old-fashioned stalls around are gradually replaced by fast food trucks and restaurants.

The feeling here is very weird, it makes people feel like they are out of time.

The fat brother said, "You feel it too?" ”

I nodded and said, "yes, it's a strange feeling, but I don't see the slightest bit of dissonance, as if everything is natural." ”

"That's right, this is like a corridor of time, condensing the development of our world from ancient times to the present on this street, Ye Yi and I have studied it, and the conclusion is that there is no fault in time, so when the scene is changed, it will not make people feel strange. Ye Yi once said that it can be described here as a hundred years in one step. ”

I involuntarily nodded in agreement.

"Is there such a place in many places?" I asked the fat man.

The fat man shook his head and sighed: "As far as I know, only a few ancient cities will have this kind of ghost market, and I have been mixing around M City for so long, and I haven't found that it really shouldn't be." ”

I was suddenly curious, curious about the fat man's behavior after encountering this so-called ghost market.

You know,The purpose of tonight is to find the secondary talisman in the Imperial Spirit Rune.,Although the ghost market is very peculiar.,But now in this case,It seems that more attention should be paid to the existence of the secondary talisman.,Rather than the ghost market, right? But now the fat man's behavior is very ...... Interested, well, that's right, that's how it is described.

So, I reminded: "Fat brother, it's okay to wander around." I'm going to find a secondary talisman. ”

The fat man looked at me and said, "You can find clues here." ”

I was stunned, can you find clues in this unrelated place? Isn't there something else the fat man wants to hide from me? Then he asked, "What is there to find here?" ”

The fat man said: "If you can find clues here, the effect can exceed the value brought by the secondary symbol." ”

I was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

The fat man looked around and said, "Do you remember what the Xiang family does?" ”

I said, "Yes, Soul Swallower." ”

"And what about here?" The fat man said.

My heart was stunned, and then I thought of the saying that the Xiang family swallowed the spirit, there is nothing else here, except for the two of us big living people, but they are all ...... Oh, my God!

I shuddered all of a sudden, and my heart rose to my throat. In my opinion, it is just an unusual tour.

For the people of the Xiang family, this kind of place is an incomparably rich cafeteria!

The fat man saw my concern and said, "It's not what you think, but it's ...... Well,, I'm not good at analogy. It's as if when we come into this world, we are eternal passers-by who don't eat the fireworks of the world, and when we come, no matter how much power we have, we will never change. And for people with the Xiang family, as long as they dare to violate certain rules, they will change from passers-by to beggars, don't look at their low status, but they can eat from it, whether it is good or bad. Damn, if you're lucky here, you'll always find food for his evil spirit. ”

While I don't know what the rules will be violated, I'm sure there must be a reason for that. But I didn't bother to ask, so I said, "Then let's look for it, and if that doesn't work, we'll have to go find another place quickly." The power of this talisman will be born day by day. ”

The fat man said: "Well, you pay attention to it, see if there is any kind of ghost with deep resentment wandering here, and if you find it, tell me." ”

I asked, "How do you pay attention?"

The fat man said: "The face is red, and the color of the eyeballs is wrong." It's a lot of resentment, and this kind of thing is here, just like a bed bug that can cause cancerous white blood cells. It is also the target of the family members. ”

I nodded, it was not easy to see the red-faced ghost in the green light.

But in order to be able to find Xiangwang River as soon as possible, we can't let go of any valuable clues, even if we look for a needle in a haystack.

And the fat man also swore that clues could be found here. We have to work hard to distinguish every 'person' who passes by.

Looking closely, I noticed that the 'people' here are particularly strange, as if their expressions are never the same.

There is an eternal smile with a smile on his face, and there is a crying face, and the shopkeeper who keeps shedding tears in his eyes, but is still holding a plate. There is also a grin, sticking out his tongue, his eyes are blood-red but his face is pale, and there is obviously a circle of strangulation marks on his neck.

I suddenly understood what kind of expression these people seemed to have at the end of their lives, that is, what kind of attitude.

However, it's not right!

I'm confused, this place is logically sandwiched between the human world and the ghost world, although it is under the jurisdiction of the ghost world, but in fact, the location is in the human world. So, these dead people...... Isn't it time to be reincarnated, or because after experiencing the baptism of the ghost world, you are out of the category of obsessed ghosts, and you can think like a living person?

There is a way that people have a hundred years of life, and ghosts enjoy a thousand years of light.

This means that people can only live for a maximum of 100 years. And if you are a ghost, you can live for a thousand years, which is why it is always said that the origin of a thousand-year-old ghost.

So I've never been surprised to see countless 'people' from different dynasties walking around this street.

However, this observation now has led me to such a discovery. I have to wonder, what the hell is going on?

The fat brother looked at me next to me and asked, "What's wrong?" Something amiss? ”

I shook my head and nodded again.

The fat man asked, "What did you find?" ”

I replied, "The people here don't seem to have changed their expressions?" ”

The fat man smiled and said, "This! I also found out when Ye Yi and I came, do you know why you don't let you meddle? Here's why. ”

I don't understand.

The fat man continued: "The 'people' here all come in from the outside. ”

I nodded, and it was.

"So, actually, these are the spirits out there. It's not really a ghost from the ghost world, you can think of it this way, they come here to work and consume. Do you understand? If we're nosy, then because of the nosy, we'll go out with all these things. Cause and effect will involve us, and it will not be so simple to send away or extinguish. You have to help him fulfill his wish in order to end the cause and effect. This is also the special relationship in this place, so some causal relationships are particularly fragile and strong here. ”

I don't understand much, but I can understand a little bit. So I frowned and asked, "In that case, wouldn't the Spirit Eaters devouring the lonely souls and wild ghosts here also have to be contaminated with such cause and effect?" ”

The fat man smiled at me kindly and said, "Brother Yang is indeed smart, and it is precisely because of this relationship that the particularity of the Xiang family is apparent. Reap what you sow! Do you understand? This idiom can be used not only on people, but also on these ghosts. The people of the Xiang family can use the evil spirit to devour the evil spirit, and skillfully avoid the cause and effect here. ”

Awesome, awesome! The people of the Xiang family are really evil, even Ye Yi and Zhao Lei will find troublesome things, but in the methods of the Xiang family, they can actually achieve it by exploiting such a loophole.

Well, it's no wonder that the fat man asked me to look for the kind of 'person' who is very resentful, so it is quite related.

"Taught." I said seriously.

The fat man smiled: "This is also what Ye Yi taught me back then, look for it again, this ghost market is not big, if you can't find it, we will go back." ”

I nodded, turned my head and continued to search.

The two of us walked around the ghost market slowly, and I also enjoyed the strange scenery, although it was not as beautiful as the scenery......

After we had walked for another ten minutes or so, I was amazed to see a curtain of light appear not far ahead, just like when we came in.

At this moment, the fat man suddenly grabbed me.

"What's wrong, fat brother?" I couldn't help but ask, in fact, I was just about to ask the fat man what the light curtain I saw in front of me, and I wanted to ask him if he was at the end of it.

The fat man dragged me and said, "Look there." He pointed to a stall with his other hand.

I looked over and looked, but I didn't think anything was out of the ordinary. Just as I was about to respond, my eyes fell on the side of the stall.

A piece of red paper!

No, it should be a piece of paper money in the shape of a knife coin.

Unlike the copper paper money that we threw on the ground when we came in, this is a paper coin in the shape of a knife coin, it is lying quietly on the ground, in this world where green is the main tone, the red is so dazzling, and I didn't even notice it in the first place!

"This is? Someone came in? I whispered, and besides, I felt a little nervous.

The fat man nodded and said, "Be careful." ”

I asked, "Is it someone from the Xiang family?" ”

The fat man shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "Not necessarily, but the people who can produce knife money and paper money are all ways passed down from the ancient family." ”

I said, "We're guarding here?" ”

The fat man said: "It's useless, if he wants to go, we won't find it at all, take three steps back and go out, the people who come come in from here, and we come in on the other side." The other party wants to escape, suddenly turns around, takes three steps back, and it will disappear completely. And...... The most important thing is that in the ghost market, we can't tell who is alive and who is dead. ”

[The origin of paper money: Folk belief that the custom of burning paper money comes from the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that You Xiucai, a disciple of Cai Lun, the inventor of papermaking, came up with a trick to sell "paper": You Xiucai pretended to be seriously ill and died, and his wife told all the neighbors that if the paper was cut into the shape of a "copper coin" and burned to bribe the gods, the dead would be resurrected. The neighbors didn't believe it, and when You's wife burned, You was resurrected immediately. As a result, "paper" immediately became the best-selling product. Other versions of this legend are much the same, except that the main character, You Xiucai, is replaced by Cai Lun himself, or Cai Lun's brother Cai Mo. 】