"Young man, the guards said you could help us get rid of the spirits?" The old village chief trembled, but his eyes were shrewd. Zheng Hao smiled warmly and said, "I saw the notice you posted next to the city gate, it's a ghost, right?" ”

The old village chief nodded and said: "Yes, but it's not just a ghost, we are worried that telling the truth will make the passing adventurers panic, in fact, for your strength, I think you should be able to trust, after all, not every adventurer has the courage to go into the terrifying forest, they are more just wandering merchants." ”

"So tell me how many ghosts there are?" Zheng Hao said.

The old village chief said: "The origin of these ghosts is actually very clear to us, about three hundred years ago, the specific time has not been documented, but in the oral story, it was the so-called middle of the first industrial revolution, we have a crazy and cruel knight family here, they are the lords of our area, at that time people went out to work and made a lot of money, but the stupid knight lord thought that all the money earned by the people in the territory should belong to him, although the people at that time got insight outside, However, it has not yet been freed from the consciousness of the aristocracy, so although it is unreasonable, no one raises objections. ”

The old village chief took a sip of water and continued: "Later, a lady of knowledge married into the territory, but the stupid knight lord actually planned to exercise the right of the first night, and the people frantically resisted, but the knight killed the people of the territory, and the people were afraid. The next day, the lady returned to the territory, already full ......of cruelty and rage, and when she was discovered, she hung herself in the barn and carved a strange magic circle out of the blood of livestock. Later, the knight's family began to die, starting with his youngest son, without exception, who were castrated and died in terror. ”

In the back story, Zheng Hao can already guess that it is nothing more than that the female ghost is still not satisfied after killing the knight's family, and she resents the people in the village for not helping her at that time. Sure enough, as Zheng Hao expected, after the female ghost killed the knight, she first found her husband, who died with a smile and relief, but more innocent villagers were subjected to bloody revenge.

There is a legend in the village that a woman in blood-colored clothes wanders at night, but people gradually find that the way people die has also begun to become strange, some of them burned themselves, but there are no traces of burning around, you must know that the period is a wooden structure of the house, it is absolutely impossible to burn yourself. Some people were stabbed and died on the streets for no reason, and some people were even found starving to death in the barn, knowing that there was a pile of food around him, but he just starved to death......

The village is dying every day, once on the verge of destruction, but it always endures, and the devil seems to be intent on playing with the death of their descendants for generations. It was not that no one had ever intended to leave the village, but those who left the village never lived for six days, and eventually the number six became synonymous with the devil in the village, and it was known that they had been cursed for generations.

However, God always gives people hope, and a pastor came to the village, who led the people to build a church, suppressed the devil at the feet of Christ, and told the people to face the devil bravely, and only people with strong faith can use time to completely destroy the devil.

The church is still standing after 170 years, but after the devil brought death and plague a hundred years ago, the icon of Christ fell down and people could no longer re-erect it, and the former church became a gathering place for the devil.

But they didn't go on a killing spree as they had been rumored, and they seemed to be constrained by the inhabitants on a regular basis, which may be a legacy of Christ. "The legacy of Christ? That's not necessarily, this world does not have the breath of Shinto, it should be the instinctive regulation of the world's will, but I don't know why the world's will in this world chooses to manifest with the help of the image of heaven. Zheng Hao thought.

"That's not right!" Zheng Hao thought again: "This world has been eroded by the power of hell, and the will of the world is powerless to reach out to support human beings, so what is restraining these ghosts?" Zheng Hao was thinking, and the old village chief continued: "Then young adventurer, are you willing to help us, if you feel powerless to help us, then please leave tomorrow!" Don't anger the devil, at least we can live now. ”

Speaking of which, the old village chief's eyes were cloudy, he was undoubtedly lucky, more than seventy spring and autumn, he carefully followed the law of sunrise and sunset, when the sun went down, he would never step out of the door, and he would always carry holy water, garlic, and silver crosses around him, and lived to be seventy years old cautiously.

But what he didn't know was that the holy water, garlic, and silver cross in his hand had long since lost their effect, and the will of the world stipulated that these things would be useful to evil and the devil, so that they would be useful, but now the will of the world was too busy to take care of itself, and these things had long lost their restraint on the devil.

Zheng Hao and Hua Qiangu walked to the inn, at this time it was completely dark, only patrolling soldiers and drunks were left on the street, the soldiers acted collectively, carrying torches, lighting the roads in the village, the ghosts generally did not find them, but the drunks were sloppy and dirty, mingling in the dark corners, what made the ghosts happy more than such prey.

In the hotel, Zheng Hao and Hua Qiangu sat in the corner of the hall, the dry and astringent black bread Zheng Hao must not be used to eating, and took a bite like a try, Zheng Hao felt that this thing should be fed to the pigs. After letting the proprietress take away the black bread, Zheng Hao pretended to take out a piece of fresh Warcraft meat from his backpack. Looking at the hungry wolf-like eyes of the proprietress, Zheng Hao said: "We can't eat much, just two plates so thick, and the rest will be considered the travel expenses for our stay." ”

"Thank you for your generosity." As soon as the scene was finished, the proprietress went to the back kitchen. Zheng Hao said: "Xiao Gu, but there are only a few ghosts, or will I hand it over to you?" ”

"Master, that's a ghost, Xiao Gu is a little scared." Hua Qiangu blinked his eyes, with a cute tone, and he didn't look scared at all. Zheng Hao smiled: "You lazy virtue doesn't know who to learn from." ”

"This is called that where there is a teacher, there must be a disciple." Hua Qiangu said mischievously. Zheng Hao was helpless, "Okay! All right! Let's see how the master catches ghosts! ”