Chapter 9: In the Mass Grave
Ling Cheng chatted with Xiao Yaoyao with his mind, and continued to walk forward, this mountain col was long and narrow, and it took more than half an hour to reach the end, and there was a pass ahead, and at this time, a figure was walking down from the pass.
Ling Cheng stopped and looked at the other party a few times, it was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, dressed as a peasant, with mud on his body, and a hoe on his shoulder, he should be a local villager who went to work in the mountain pass.
However, this villager gave people a grotesque feeling, and Ling Cheng couldn't tell what the reason was.
"Huh? Young man, I think you're very nasty, aren't you from us? ”
After the two approached, the middle-aged man looked at Ling Cheng suspiciously.
"Yes, I'm not a villager here, I'm from the city."
Ling Cheng replied.
"Then what are you doing here?"
The middle-aged man's gaze at Ling Cheng immediately became strange, and his tone was also full of compulsion.
"Uncle, I'm a good citizen, not the kind of person who steals chickens and dogs, just came here to play."
Ling Cheng felt a little funny, obviously the other party suspected that he had come here to do something like stealing chickens and dogs, but he could also understand that he was a foreigner, and suddenly appeared in this mountain pass, which would inevitably make people suspicious.
"Come here to play?"
The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows and looked at Ling Cheng suspiciously.
"Yes, I'm an outdoor enthusiast who came here to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and I'm going to camp here tonight."
Ling Cheng replied seriously.
Seeing that Ling Cheng was loyal, he didn't look like a villain, so the middle-aged man also believed Ling Cheng's words.
"If you want to camp, camp here, but don't go over that pass." He said and pointed to the pass behind him.
"Why?"
"You are not a local, you don't know anything about us here, let me tell you the truth, behind the pass is our village's cemetery, that place is haunted, and our village people dare not go there at night."
The middle-aged man replied seriously.
"Uncle, thank you for the reminder, but I like exciting things, so I decided to go camping in that cemetery to see those ghosts."
Ling Cheng's purpose in going to the mass grave was to find ghosts and catch ghosts, and he wouldn't go if there were no ghosts, so he bypassed the middle-aged man and strode towards the front pass.
"Stinky boy, I see that you are really impatient, when you see a ghost later, you will cry, and it will be too late to regret it......"
The middle-aged man's scolding sounded in the rear, but Ling Cheng ignored it, first, he had to go to the mass grave to catch ghosts, and second, the original intention of people scolding him was also out of kindness.
The scolding behind him gradually faded away, and Ling Cheng also went up to the pass.
"Brother Ling Cheng, you ran into a ghost just now."
Xiao Yaoyao's voice suddenly sounded in her head.
"What? Did I run into a ghost? Ling Cheng was in his heart.
"Yes, that villager just now is not a human but a ghost."
Xiao Yaoyao replied with certainty.
Ling Cheng took a light breath, hurriedly turned around and looked back, standing on the pass, he could see through the col below at a glance, but there was no trace of the middle-aged man, there was no doubt that the man he saw just now was a ghost, because if he was a human, it would be impossible to get out of the col so quickly, and he would definitely not hide.
If it were a human being, it could be judged that it was out of good intentions when he reminded himself not to enter the mass grave, and the man was not a human being, but a ghost, so it may not be out of kindness, but a vain attempt to prevent himself from entering their territory.
Thinking of the ghost scolding himself just now, Ling Cheng couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, and wanted to clean up the ghost, but unfortunately he was nowhere to be found.
"Xiao Yaoyao, why didn't you tell me earlier, otherwise I would have arrested him and thrown him to hell at that time."
"Uh...... Brother Ling Cheng, are you angry with Yaoyao? ”
"No, it's just a little regrettable."
Ling Cheng really didn't mean to blame Xiao Yaoyao, he just let the ghost run away, and he was a little regretful.
"The reason why I didn't tell you in time is because Yaoyao can feel that the strength of that ghost is higher than mine, I'm afraid I can't beat him, otherwise Yaoyao would have taken action to clean him up." Xiao Yaoyao explained.
"I see, that's really my brother misunderstood Xiao Yaoyao."
Ling Cheng smiled, "Then let's let that ghost thing go and go into the mass grave to catch other ghosts." ”
"Well, let's catch the other ghosts."
Xiao Yaoyao said in an old-fashioned manner, "If you encounter an existence that you can't provoke, you should avoid it, this is not cowardice, but wisdom, be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, and leave the green mountains without worrying about no firewood." ”
"You little girl, you quote the scriptures...... Your ghost sister taught you again? Ling Cheng asked with a smile.
"Yes, my ghost sister taught me, but I don't need her to teach me, I also understand these truths." Xiao Yaoyao replied.
"That's smart." Ling Cheng couldn't help but praise again.
"Hee-hee." Xiao Yaoyao's happy laughter sounded in Ling Cheng's head.
Ling Cheng crossed the pass, and in front of him was a slope, and he could see that many graves were scattered on the slope, and the raised graves were connected into a large area, and everywhere he could see were dead people.
Some of the graves are old, obviously no one sacrifices, the graves are full of weeds, the rat holes are faint, some of the tombstones have fallen, the graves are seriously eroded under the rain over the years, the coffins on the ground are exposed, some of the coffins are rotten, you can see the white bones inside, it looks quite desolate.
There are also some new graves that have not been buried for a long time, and the fresh loess on the tomb bag is inserted with bright soul flags, which are waving in the wind and stimulating the facial features, which is a different kind of desolation.
Ling Cheng sat on the hillside and waited, in this mass grave, a depressed mood arose.
After taking two breaths, Ling Cheng calmed down his depressed mood, at this time the sky was not completely dark, and the ghosts that came out of the day and night had not yet appeared, he continued to wait patiently.
"Xiao Yaoyao, there's no one here, come out."
Ling Cheng said.
"Brother Ling Cheng, in fact, Yaoyao is not afraid of people, but afraid of the sun, although the sun has gone down now, the afterglow will still affect my body, so I still wait until the sky is completely dark, and then come out of your body." Xiao Yaoyao replied.
"Alright then, you'll just keep hiding in my body and wait until it gets dark."
Ling Cheng asked, "The ghost I met just now doesn't seem to be afraid of the sun?" ”
"There are no ghosts who are not afraid of the sun, even the ghost king is afraid of the sun, but the higher the cultivation, the stronger the resistance to the sun." Xiao Yaoyao said, "That ghost just now appeared at the risk of being burned by the sun in order to prevent you from entering the mass grave. ”
Hearing Xiao Yaoyao's words, I really gained knowledge again.
Xiao Yaoyao's ghost age is not very old, but she has a wealth of knowledge about the ghost prison underworld, and Ling Cheng, who has now become the agent of the ghost mission, is also necessary to understand this knowledge because of the needs of work.
Next, he continued to chat with Xiao Yaoyao, waiting for night to fall.