Chapter 14: Funeral (3) - Ledger
The three incense sticks burned slowly, and the red-orange sparks at the top disappeared from time to time, Yu Xing watched and watched as he lay down, waiting quietly in an increasingly strange atmosphere.
Of course, he didn't have to wait for the time of "one stick of incense", and after a while, three incense sticks of the same type showed completely different burning speeds, and the length was also differentiated.
"Long, long, short......"
In the incense burner in front of me, the left and middle two incense sticks are of equal length, and the right one burns a little faster, which is already a lot shorter than the other two.
This trend is basically stable, Yu Xing muttered twice, searching for the meaning of this form of incense in the incense spectrum in his mind, and after a while, he chuckled: "Urging incense ah......"
This is a very fierce incense form, urging incense, which means that black and white impermanence comes to urge life, and within a month, someone in the family of the incense burner will be in danger.
"I thought it would be filial piety, after all, everyone here is wearing white mourning clothes...... The result is such an angry life-urging incense. Yu Xing sighed softly, and there was some unpredictable smile in his tone, "I just don't know, this incense burner refers to me, or to the shopkeeper who used to use this incense burner?" ”
As soon as his faint tail fell, there was a gust of wind in the closed shop, and Yu Xing's robe fluttered in the sudden wind, and he sat up straight, reaching out to block the bangs that kept hitting his face.
The weirdness reached its peak at this moment, Yu Xingxuan squinted, and caught a glimpse of something moving.
He tilted his head to look at the largest portrait in four corners.
This is an old man, the years have left deep marks on his face, the furrows are becoming more and more obvious in the black and white color, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes are piled up into fishtails, and his chapped lips move......
The smiling expression instantly changed to an exaggerated laugh.
The old man's dull eyes suddenly burst into a grim light, his eyebrows were exaggeratedly raised, and his eyes were downward, as if he had come to life.
Yu Xing tapped his fingers on the table twice, and before he could say hello, the photo next to the old man's portrait frame had the same change.
Like a spider web, all the statues in the store laughed silently, and in a pair of eyes, the eyeballs rolled, and they all looked at the place where Yu Xing was sitting, revealing undisguised malice.
Yu Xing shrank back in the face of the gazes of countless miserable white dead faces, looking a little scared.
After two seconds, he couldn't hold back and teased: "Ha, is it really me who is urging the incense?" ”
[…… Is he really scared or fake? ]
[One thing to say, this scene makes me creepy, okay]
[Why do I think this fortunate personality is a little distorted?,Is he more alienated?]
[From the moment he suddenly lit incense seriously, I was suddenly a little scared of him, and I always felt like the kind of person who was possessed by a demon]
[Why?] Because he is too skilled in lighting incense? ]
[Intuition, I looked at him, and suddenly felt that he was a good match for the environment, and seemed to have faded away from the modern temperament]
[Also, not being scared by ghosts, being scared by "anchors", I'm used to it]
[The newcomer, Leng Jiu and Zhao Ruru converged, they both seem to care about this luck, I'll come over and take a look]
[Come and see plus one, I just saw such a high-energy picture when I came]
[Above, don't say it, this little brother's scorpion tail braid on the back of his head really has a sense of age]
"Ahem......" Yu Xing didn't say hello in the end, because as soon as he opened his mouth, he found that the stale smell unique to the funeral parlor swept over.
The dust flew straight into his eyes, forcing him to close his eyes, and he had to compromise briefly, and after closing his eyes, his vigilance was put to the maximum.
Those malicious gazes are gone.
At the same time as Yu Xing closed his eyes, footsteps suddenly sounded in his ears, not one, but many, walking around where he was sitting, and it seemed that there were many people circling around him.
But in this closed store, people will definitely not be able to enter, so what is coming is self-evident.
As soon as Yu Xing's nerves moved, he planned to squint and observe what the hell was going on.
Wait a minute......
Can't open your eyes?
His heart sank, and he felt a pair of cold hands reach out from behind him, covering his eyes.
An irresistible pressure covered Yu Xing's eyelids, making him completely unable to complete the action of opening his eyes, and could only passively listen to this sudden sound.
There was a moment of tension in his body, Yu Xing thought about it and stood up directly.
The hands in his eyes seemed to be just two palms, and he stood up straight, not feeling the extra weight behind his back, and his movements were not restricted.
So he walked out of the counter with the memory he had just made, and raised his hand to touch in the direction where the footsteps came.
If a physical ghost arrives, he should be able to touch it, right?
No...... Nothing, so it's really a pure spirit?
He had no idea what a terrible act he had made, and after coming to a vague conclusion, there were more noisy human voices in the footsteps, far and near.
"Did you hear that? Boss Liu, he ......"
"Tut-tut, yes, I didn't expect this Boss Liu to look like a human on the surface, and he doesn't do anything!"
"Don't let him hear it, I think this man is very evil......"
"Eh, Lao Jia, I'll give you two stacks of paper money on credit, I'm out of stock in my store, pay the bill tomorrow!"
"Okay, take it yourself."
"Eh, Lao Jia, you said that Boss Liu ......"
The voices of these people were mixed together, making it difficult to tell who was who, Yu Xing stopped and listened, tried to distinguish for a while, and found that these people were all talking about Boss Liu, but they refused to say what Boss Liu did directly, and they were all riddlers.
“……”
He was silent for a while, and finally found a good opportunity to insert the topic: "Boss Liu is here!" ”
The surrounding voices were silent, and someone seemed to be in a hurry: "It's over!" Will Boss Liu hear it!? ”
However, of course, Boss Liu did not come, and after a few seconds, the surrounding voices resumed their noisy shouting as if they had not heard Yu Xing speak.
It seems that whatever I do will not affect them...... Yu Xing said secretly in his heart, and suddenly his face turned away, keenly aware that the "person" who said that he wanted to pay on credit was beside him.
Without hesitation, he reached to his side again.
[Ahhh I rely on this is the picture of Semir dropping San! ]
[It's scary, I'm glad you're sober, don't touch it!] ]
[I'll go, he's really bold, ordinary people should sit in their seats and listen quietly at this time]
[I'm dead, I'm really watching a horror movie]
[How can he be so calm, it's not a puzzle, it's a ghost, a ghost!] ]
[It's so exciting, does he want to touch it or doesn't want to touch it?] ]
Yu Xing has no vision now, but the audience in the live broadcast room is not watching a black screen, but a third-person perspective.
He will never know how many people he has made an indelible impression on his touching actions.
From the audience's point of view, this small funeral shop is crowded with "people".
Some were shopping, some were talking mysteriously, some were walking to the counter and signing the notebook.
The mouths of these "people" have been non-stop, discussing what Boss Liu Boss Liu, as if they can never stop, their bodies are transparent, without exception, their faces are pale, like paper-folded dummies, and their faces are far from being as normal as the words spoken, but hideous and painful, and their eyebrows and eyes are wrinkled together.
Yu Xing's face had a pair of ownerless hands at some point, the fingers were slender, the same white, but the wrists were connected to the air, hidden in the dim light.
The fearless man stared at the ghost hand on his face, raised his arm, touched east and west, and passed through the ghost shadows around him, as if he was stuck in a quagmire, and every time he touched it, he left a hand of blood red.
The ghosts stared at the human beings walking around with a vicious expression, but none of the ghosts made a move on him, and their tone did not change, mentioning Boss Liu's name as if they were chattering.
The effect of the whole scene is like a little white rabbit blindfolded into the wolf's den, recognizing the wolf as a husky, thinking that the wolves did not find him, but he didn't know that all the wolves were just pretending, but in fact, they were staring at him with an addictive gaze.
Just when the barrage was swiping the screen, Yu Xing ran into a ghost standing on the side of a low shelf because of walking around, and this ghost said "It's not a person!" I will no longer buy goods at Liu Bingxian's house! The body floated up quietly, away from Yu Xing's body.
It had an expression on its face that was almost resentful, looked at Yu Xing's smooth neck, and then raised its hand to touch its own, and a reddish-brown scar circled hideously, announcing the fact that it had been strangled.
[Don't go, brother, can't I call you brother, I'm most afraid of the deduction of ghosts]
[Are they not able to kill?] ]
Finally, Yu Xing felt the movement in his ears quietly weaken, the sound of footsteps and conversation faded, and the pressure on his eyelids also faded.
When everything calmed down, he tilted his head and lifted his eyelids.
The store is still the same store, and it is calm.
The statues hanging on the walls are back to normal, revealing the illusion of dignity and sadness in the near death.
The incense on the counter burned to the bottom and was extinguished.
He noticed something slipping through his hand, and when he looked down, he saw that all ten of his fingers were covered in flowing blood.
“……”
The blood was cold and dirty, Yu Xing looked left and right, wiped his hand on the gold ingots, and wiped it until it was clean, then he whispered, "Sure enough, I still touched it." ”
Live room audience: "......"
He was very calm, turned his head to look at the counter, and sure enough, after the period of blindness just now, there was an extra book with a black cover on the counter.
Approached and picked it up, there was no name on the book cover, and the words "account book" were written crookedly with a brush.
Yu Xing opened the book, and the first few pages were normal records, the cost of purchase, how much was sold, how much money was earned, and the shopping expenses of the owner of this store.
Turning to the back, large blank spaces began to appear in the notebook, until the last few pages, the black ink gradually changed to blood, and the content of the record began to be strange.
[On the X day of the XX month, Liu Bingxian gave a posthumous image frame on credit, and the second yuan was collected. Unpaid (crossed out), paid in full. 】
[On the X day of the XX month, Wang Rong gave a bundle of No. 2 incense candles on credit, three yuan. Unpaid (crossed out), paid in full. 】
[On the XX day of the XX month, Liu Xue gave a paper cutter on credit, two yuan and three cents. Unpaid (crossed out), paid in full. 】
[On the X day of the XX month, Sun Chong gave two bundles of paper ingots on credit, one yuan. Unpaid】
[On the X day of the XX month, Liu Bingxian gave a posthumous image frame on credit, and the second yuan was collected. Unpaid】
……
Later, the ink has completely turned blood, as if the writer is not writing with ink, but with blood as a material.
The entire ledger is full of evil spirits, and the blood-red names are like being sketched by the judge, sentenced to death, and about to end their longevity and fall to the underworld.
If you think about it carefully, it's a little bit of a side, after all, the life-urging incense is in the legend, and it is the precursor of black and white impermanence coming to hook the soul and urge the soul.
The date on it is the same as the paper on the door that Yu Xing picked up, the handwriting is blurry and illegible, and it can only be seen that from a certain day, all the accounts on credit behind have not been returned.
There were still a few pieces of paper left in the back, and Yu Xing flipped through them in the spirit of reading them.
[XX year X day, fortunately three sticks of No. 2 incense, three cents, not returned]
“……?”
The title of his personality mask is also the name in the name written in blood ink, just like Liu Bing's ancestors and Sun Chong and others.
He was stunned for a moment, and then cried and laughed: "I used your three incense sticks, not to complete the prompt you left, do you count me on credit?" ”
The account book did not answer him, but the handwriting was sonorous, as if to emphasize a fact.
Obviously, judging from everything Yu Xing saw after entering the ghost alley, the people who have not paid off the credit should not have escaped a single dead word.
Disembodied ghosts want to kill people more often than rules, and in the same way, living people have to avoid falling into their traps, and they have to be careful everywhere, which is why many deducers would rather encounter powerful physical demons than ethereal spirits.
Now, all the people who paid on credit are dead, so Yu Xing's name follows closely, does it mean that he will also die if he takes the account of Boss Jia on credit?
This kind of deduction, no detail can be ignored.
Yu Xing looked at the dazzling blood-colored name, "snorted", and coaxed into the book: "Don't make trouble, just because I haven't been here, do you think, if I don't order these three incense sticks, I won't be able to see what you want to convey?" If I don't see it, you'll have to wait a long time for someone to wait, right? ”
"This matter is one yard to one yard, I took your entrustment, and by the way, I used your things, not bought. Since it is not a purchase, how can it be said that it is on credit? ”
[What is he doing?] Reasoning with ghosts? ]
[hhh, how stupid, stupid, stupid]
[Writing names with a bloody pen, this is a big taboo, you don't laugh so easily, if you don't handle it well, he may really fall into a dead end]
The barrage didn't say a few words, and I heard a "stab".
Yu Xing tore off the night paper with his name written on it, and put it in the red cloth bag hanging around his waist as if nothing happened: "I won't embarrass you, you see, now there is no me in the account book, right?" As long as I don't write it, it means that I don't have credit. ”
He closed the ledger and turned back to the page just now, and sure enough, he didn't see the new blood words refreshed.
That is, his credit record in the ledger was erased.
[Is it really possible to the groove?] ]
[Awesome, this brain circuit, as long as I tear the paper, I don't have credit?] ]
Many viewers saw that a faint smile appeared on the corner of Yu Xing's mouth.
Because, on the panel that only Yu Xing can see, two pieces of information were swiped.
[You have obtained the key item "Lucky Credit Record", which can be placed in the Oni Cloth Bag]
[You have obtained the key item, the ghost cloth bag has been activated]
[The ghost cloth bag can collect key items in this deduction, and the space is unlimited]
[Your title stunning schemer has come into play, and the fraud success rate has increased.] 】
[You are trying to defraud the owner of the Jia shop]
[Behavior judgment - success of fraud]