Chapter 1: Hutong Horror
The night quietly brought cold and darkness into the city, and the streets were filled with a cold smell. Qi Lu heard the bite of a beast in a dim corner, and when he opened his eyes, there was an ugly-looking black cat looking for food in the rancid garbage can.
"Remember, you're going to disguise yourself as a recent graduate of a technical school, your parents are laid-off workers, and you need a job to earn a living now!"
Lao Wu's advice was still echoing in Qi Lu's mind, and he subconsciously looked up at the dazzling fonts of the Laojie funeral home on the signboard on the upper right, and a wry smile flashed at the corner of his mouth.
No matter how you say it, you can be regarded as a company owner, but you have to be reduced to applying for a job as a corpse mover in a funeral home? Qi Lu was reluctant in his heart, but he also had to admit that he really couldn't think of a better way than this choice. So he sighed softly and went to the small shop next door to buy a pack of cigarettes.
In the mist, Qi Lu saw a woman staggering towards him, and the snow-colored printed gown couldn't cover her petite and plump figure.
Seeing that the other party was a beauty, Qi Lu suddenly became excited, and his eyes became ambiguous, and he couldn't wait to whistle at her.
The beauty is getting closer and closer, and she has come to him, I don't know if it's because the makeup is too thick, or if she was born with such a cold face, Qi Lu saw that there was no trace of blood on that pretty face.
"Wow!" The beauty actually vomited on his side.
"Miss, ...... you" Qi Lu frowned slightly, the strong smell of wine wafted straight towards his nostrils, and he subconsciously covered his face with his hand.
"Did I throw up on you?" The voice of the beautiful woman is very good.
"Nope."
"Then what are you talking about!" The beauty staggered towards the alley on the right side of the old street funeral home.
"Miss!" Qi Lu thought about it again and again, but still stopped her.
"You...... What do you want to do? ”
"Do you want me to give you a ride?" It was late at night, and there were not many pedestrians in the alley where the beauty passed, and Qi Lu was worried that something would happen to her alone.
"Humph! Don't think I don't know...... What kind of heart do you have!" The beauty burped, and then said to Qi Lu in a warning tone: "My dad is going to come out to pick me up, don't make any mess of it." ”
Qi Lu had good intentions, but he was misunderstood by the beauty, so he had to shrug his shoulders and smoke the unburned cigarette.
The air instantly became dull, and there were few pedestrians on the street, and after Qi Lu saw the black cat howl a few times, he seemed to see something terrible, and he climbed over the street railing in panic and disappeared into the darkness.
"Ahh There was a sudden scream in the darkness, and then it fell silent again, and Qi Lu was attracted by this sudden scream.
The sound came from that alley, very similar to the cry of the drunken beauty just now, Qi Lu realized that she might be in danger, and quickly threw away the cigarette and ran towards the alley.
The alley was pitch black, and there was no weirdness about it.
Was what I just heard just a hallucination? But the cry was so clear that it didn't look like an auditory hallucination. It was about a two-minute walk to the end of the alley, and the drunken woman couldn't have walked out in the blink of an eye.
But her people, there is no one else in the alley except Qi Lu, could she have disappeared out of thin air?
"In addition to the supernatural events at the Laojie funeral home, you also have to pay attention to the alley on the side. In less than a month, two women died there, both supposedly scared to death, and I think there is some connection between it and the funeral home's corpse rampage. ”
This is Qi Lu's special explanation to him before leaving, and it suddenly sounded in his mind at this moment, Qi Lu couldn't help but be vigilant, and when he walked towards the depths of the alley, his right hand had instinctively reached into his arms.
The streetlights on the side of the road went out suddenly in the blink of an eye, and the waning moon silently burrowed out of the clouds, red as blood, and a strange pattern was quietly printed in the narrow world.
"Da! Da! Da ......"
Qi Lu heard the crisp sound of horses' hooves behind him, strange, who would have the leisure to ride a horse here in the middle of the night?
Qi Lu turned around in surprise to take a look, but found that there was nothing behind him, as if the sound of the horse's hooves and the woman's exclamation were illusions generated by his own ears.
Just when Qi Lu was confused, he felt that the scenery around him began to ripple like flowing water, but it was only the blink of an eye, and the strange ripples faded away.
Just when Qi Lu was thinking about whether he was hallucinating even his eyes, an even weirder scene happened in front of him!
The exit ahead of him vanished before his eyes, replaced by a towering stone wall. Not only that, but even the entrance to the alley was gone, and the entire alley was connected into a wall that trapped Qi Lu in it, and he felt as if he was in an enclosed space, and the only thing he could see was the blood moon overhead.
There was a faint strange smell that permeated the space, like the smell of burning sulfur.
Demonic? Qi Lu couldn't be sure, but the instinctive reaction he had cultivated over the years in his demon slaying career had made him wait for him, and from the finger that was quickly stretched out from his arms, a golden spirit rune was blown by the cold wind.
A mist rose on the ground, and a strange light veil wandered in the wind, and in the haze a gray horse appeared in front of Qi Lu, and in front of the horse was a tall man on a leash.
The man wore a high pointed hat and was dressed in black, with only half of his face left, and the other half of his flesh and blood were blurred, as if he had been deliberately disfigured. What's even more disgusting is that the long tongue in his mouth actually reached all the way down to the bottom of his knee.
"Black impermanence!?" Qi Lu's brows furrowed, and he secretly said in his heart: Could it be that my yang shou has arrived, and he can't hook my soul? If that's the case, then it's impermanent, why didn't I see him?
Just as Qi Lu was guessing, Black Impermanence and the gray horse suddenly disappeared, followed by the sound of horses' hooves behind Qi Lu, he looked back again, and Black Impermanence and the gray horse appeared in front of him again. Only this time, on horseback was a skeleton, his skinny bony hand holding a pitch-black scythe, and his hollow eyes burned with an unsettling cyan flame.
"Black Impermanence and the Death Knight?" At first glance, seeing this unbelievable scene, Qi Lu felt like he had broken into the legendary scene of the Doomsday Trial.
Joke! How could the spirit-seducing messengers of Eastern and Western myths and legends appear at the same time! It was just a moment of hesitation, and Qi Lu immediately calmed down.
"It's too dark and gloomy, and the light is coming quickly. Wind and fire and thunder, all evils dissipate, Edict! Qi Lu pushed his palm forward, and the talisman caught in his finger flew straight towards the two evil spirits in front of him like lightning!
"Boom!"
Black Impermanence and the Death Knight disappeared, the rune paper fell to the ground weakly, the mist gradually receded, the wall blocking Qi Lu in front of him also lost its trace, and the entire alley also returned to the same way Qi Lu first entered.
Are they really death messengers from the underworld? Qi Lu was not sure, because he did not notice the existence of evil qi from the underworld in the alley. But the only thing that is certain is that Lao Wu is right, there are incredible strange events around the funeral home.
I really should have followed Lao Wu's advice and shouldn't have come here to survey the terrain in advance. Qi Lu looked around coldly, but nothing supernatural happened.
It seems that it is impossible for anything strange to happen tonight, Qi Lu breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked out of the alley, planning to go back to sleep well, and tomorrow he can recuperate enough to apply for the disgusting job of moving corpses.
But Qi Lu didn't notice that the dark green garbage can behind him was emitting a strange red light.