Chapter 54: The Village
Standing at the entrance of the village, the ghosts can only go here. They all looked at me and chanted a mantra in their hearts, using the results of this time of practice: raising spirit flags at the four corners of the village. When the ghost officials saw the flags rising, they immediately went over and connected the four spirit flags with chains. When they were done, they threw themselves at me. , I still want to smoke a cigarette and get back to work.
With everyone's "congratulations", I walked towards the village. In this uninhabited village, there are only ghosts. I didn't have any scruples, so I took out the one-strand pestle and tried to let my ghost aura spread as much as possible.
The whole village is full of dilapidated houses. Not even snakes, rats, insects and ants, let alone people, a real dead place. I came to a clearing in the center of the village and waited quietly for a while, but there was still no movement. Take out the one-strand pestle, plunge into the ground, and conduct your ghost qi to the ground through the one-strand pestle. Then use your own ghost qi as a traction to extract all these underground ghost qi. At first, it was going well, but gradually I felt a reaction force wrestling with me; There have been some changes around us, too.
In front of those dilapidated houses, and in these lifeless lands, some dark shadows slowly appeared. All of them were angry, some of them had long necks, some had big mouths, and some even had rotten faces of soul bodies...... The hanged, the starved, the face scratched in pain......
They just looked around me and looked at me; But there is no intention of going forward. I also looked at them warily, and to be honest, I was a little hairy in my heart right now. I was in the middle of the village, if dozens of ghosts suddenly burst out; I'm definitely going to lose.
"It's quite rare for a living person to be indifferent." An old voice came from a nearby house that was relatively intact.
Looking for prestige, I saw an old man sitting in the doorway, but there was no chair behind him. But this old man reminds me of the kind of ghoul evil ghost I encountered in Qingji Temple before, and the evil ghost that forcibly attaches itself to the body and "resurrects". But looking at this old man, he doesn't look like the three-legged cat he met in Qingjiguan, and he doesn't look easy to mess with. The people I encountered in Qingji Temple before couldn't speak, and could only rely on brute force to rush around; The person in front of me not only can speak, but also knows that I am a yincha. But being able to talk proves that there is something to talk about.
"Old gentleman." I bowed my hand to him and bowed.
"I know how to be polite, you can go. I don't want to or dare to go against Yin Si, and you don't hate it. "What the old man said is true, I believe that he must have this strength if he wants to clean me up. He didn't attack me because I represented Yin Si at the moment. But if when the fish dies and the net is broken, he won't even care if he will offend Yin Si if he will be destroyed.
"The old gentleman knows who I am, and naturally knows why I am here. I walked in a hurry, and I didn't bring incense with me. I hope the old gentleman will not dislike it. With that, I pulled out my cigarette and lit one and stuck it on the ground.
The old man seemed very satisfied with my actions, and even smiled: "Little ghost, you are indeed very interesting. But the kind of place that Yin Si can enter if you understand people's feelings and sophistication; Besides, you're still a living person. ”
"Things must be done; But fortunately, no one bothered now. What are we going to talk about? So saying, I found a nearby rock and sat down. The one-strand pestle on the ground was put away, and the ghosts around him were gone, leaving only the old man still sitting on a non-existent chair at the door.
Seeing me sit down, the old man was stunned. Then he stood up and slid on tiptoe to the point where I was not far away. Sure enough, it was a ghoul, and there was still some distance before I could already smell a rotting sour smell.
"It's good that I haven't talked to anyone for a long time. You little ghost may be said to be a bad person, but you are also a living person. I'm not a monk, but I don't feel your fear. The old man returned to his previous sitting position, but there was still nothing behind him, and he just sat out of thin air.
"Don't tell the old man, I was a little hairy before. But now that I see you, I am more down-to-earth, and being able to speak proves that you are not the kind of unreasonable. When the old gentleman came out, there were two results: either the matter should be closed, and let me go back and have an explanation; Either tell me to bring back a message and never come here again. "I lit two cigarettes this time, one was still on the ground, and the other was smoked by myself.
The old man sighed with emotion: "The future life is terrifying, I see that you are not very old; It's rare to be able to see things in such a situation. Let me tell you about this village. ”
It turned out that this old man was actually a wandering monk who accidentally fell and injured himself while collecting medicine in the mountains. When he returned to this village, he later found that there were only some elderly people with limited mobility in this village. Many young people have already gone out to work or moved directly, and these old people who cannot move away have been living in the villages they have left for generations. In order to survive, seventy or eighty people have to carry hoes to the fields, how can there be any fields in this kind of mountain? The so-called fields are just a gentle slope or a very small flat land next to it to which some potatoes or corn are grown. The priest also saw that even if these old men died, no one would come to bury them; Can only rot at home. So he found some materials to set up a formation, so that the people here could continue to live in this village even if they died. As a result, they died before they were finished, but this place became a place of death where they couldn't get in and couldn't get out. He forcibly attached himself to his corpse to accomplish all this, but after all, his ability was limited, and the resentment that people could not die peacefully accumulated day and night; He didn't dare to take the next step now.