Chapter 5: The Shadow of the Dead

As soon as the face surnamed Bai was cloudy, I knew that there was no play, and hurriedly said: "It's okay if you don't teach, let me follow you to see for a long time." ”

A lot of things have happened in the past few days, the Mai pie and Miao Gu who came to the door after the grandfather's accident, I just know that they are very powerful, what is the specific relationship, and I am confused until now, and the only way to figure out a clue at this time is to start with the surname Bai, not to mention that she should have asked something just now, so she was in a hurry to go out.

But what I'm most afraid of is that she finds the whereabouts of the paper coffin, so I have to follow it.

"Put away your thoughts." The surname Bai saw through what I was thinking, and said coldly: "I stayed, not for the paper coffin!" ”

"Not for the paper coffin?" I sneered, she was treating me like a three-year-old child, and mocked: "Could it be that you took a fancy to me and deliberately stayed?" ”

The surnamed Bai glanced at me ugly, didn't pay attention, and explained to himself: "I'll leave tomorrow morning, as long as you don't go out of the door, you can keep safe." If someone brings something over during this period, you can just accept it. ”

I knew that it was no longer fun to follow, and I was thinking about how much I could ask, but before I could speak, the surnamed Bai turned around and went upstairs, and my stomach was also angry at this time, and I gurgled wildly.

I was running to the toilet in the first half of the night, and that's not all, the surname Bai went and returned, sitting on the sofa watching me go in and out, with a smile on my face, I was so angry in my heart that I wanted to go over and strangle her to death.

The second half of the night stopped a little, but I had no strength to care about her, so I staggered back to my room, fell into bed and slept until noon, and when I woke up, the surname Bai was gone.

I drank some hot salt water, didn't dare to go out during the day, and slept with my head covered when it was dark, ignoring any noise outside.

It wasn't until the evening of the third day, when I was watching TV, that I suddenly heard a quick knock on the door, and I grabbed the bamboo strips on the table and walked into the courtyard to ask: Who?

"Is it Mr. An's house?" The man outside the door responded.

I opened the door nervously and saw five people standing outside, all in suits and leather shoes. The knocker on the door was a middle-aged man, and when he saw me, he said, "Mr. An, someone asked me to bring something to the white girl." ”

The four youths behind him carried a long object covered with a red cloth, which felt like a box. The surnamed Bai confessed that he would accept something if he had it, so I didn't think much about it and let them carry it in and put it in the yard.

After the person left, I closed the door, walked around the box a few times, curious about what was inside, hesitated, reached out and opened the red one, but the moment the red cloth was opened, my whole body trembled.

It was nothing else, it was a paper coffin, exactly like the one I saw when I was a child.

I threw away the red cloth, took a few steps back, and sat on the ground for a long time before I recovered.

At this time, it was already very dark, and I had a shadow of the paper coffin since I was a child, so I ran back to the house and locked the door in fear, and my back was already drenched in cold sweat.

Grandpa has already entrusted the paper coffin to someone else, and it will be returned in two years, why is it being sent back now? Could it be that something happened to the person he had entrusted to?

But if something happens to the person who entrusts it, the purpose of the person who wants the paper coffin has been achieved, and it is impossible to send it back.

I thought about the problem when I heard a rustling sound in the yard and at first thought it was the leaves being blown by the wind, but after a few minutes, the sound became much louder, like someone was tearing the paper, one after another.

And just as the strange noise became louder, the lights in the room flashed a few times and suddenly went out.

The fear was infinitely magnified in the darkness, and the hairs on my neck stood up, but I remembered that the surname Bai had said that as long as I didn't go out of the gate, nothing would happen, and I felt a little calmer. But after thinking about it, what I am receiving now is a paper coffin, the source of all things, and her words can still work?

The rustling sound continued for a while, and suddenly it turned into a creaking sound, and I was completely blown up now, because this sound was very familiar to me, exactly the same as what I heard when I was a child, it was a paper coffin about to open.

I jerked up from the couch and leaned over to the crack in the door to look out.

I don't know when the white fog rose in the courtyard, and the paper coffin loomed in the middle, which looked even more weird, and with the creaking sound, the lid of the paper coffin was slowly moving.

I didn't dare to breathe, I clung to the door frame, my eyes widened. It didn't take long for the coffin lid to be completely opened, the white mist also dissipated, and a black shadow slowly sat up in the paper coffin, which paused for a few seconds and fell lightly to the ground.

The paper coffin is so thin that it is impossible to hold a corpse, but what comes out of it looks like a person.

I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead, continued to star, and after the black shadow came out, I walked directly towards the door, and turned back slightly to the door, but unfortunately I still couldn't see clearly, and then turned around and disappeared around the corner of the door.

The surnamed Bai asked me not to go out of the gate to keep safe, but at this time, something ran out of the paper coffin, and I was unwilling to understand it.

After hesitating for a few seconds, hatred still prevailed over reason, and it also aroused my blood, I gritted my teeth and opened the door and chased out, and I didn't look at the paper coffin on the way, and I was relieved when I got out of the gate, pinched the blood bamboo on my waist in my hand, looked around, and saw that the black shadow was walking towards the back mountain path in the south, and hurriedly followed.

That's how I do things, either I don't do it, and I don't hesitate to do it, and I don't think about the consequences.

When the shadow reached the foot of the mountain, the speed suddenly increased, and I trotted to catch up, until I followed the mountain, and saw it sitting on the stone on the side of the mountain in the distance, and I hurriedly squatted in the weeds, and listened carefully, it seemed to be talking to itself, and from time to time it let out a gloomy strange laugh.

After a few minutes, it was still like this, and I couldn't help it, and was about to rush out to see what was going on, but the moment I got up, someone suddenly grabbed my shoulder.

I dared to walk out of the door, and I was desperately prepared in my heart, and the blood bamboo pulled out with my backhand, grabbed a stone on the ground with my left hand, and didn't see who it was, and smashed it on the other party's head.

However, the person behind me reacted quickly, the person took half a step forward, turned his head sideways to avoid the stone in my hand, and hit his shoulder in the crook of my hand, and the whole arm suddenly lost consciousness, and the stone also fell to the ground, and the blood bamboo was pinched by him.

I was about to raise my foot and kick it over, when he suddenly "shh I saw his face clearly, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a small flat head. The force of his hand was so great that I had to crouch down.

He pointed to the black shadow on the edge of the cliff and said, "That's a corpse shadow, and if it finds it, it will die." ”

"Corpse shadows?" I was a little surprised.

The living have shadows, the dead also have shadows, and few people usually pay attention to their shadows, but if you pay attention often, you will find that sometimes the actions of the shadows may not be synchronized with the owner.

The living are fine, they are bound by yang energy, and they can't get out of the mess. But the soul of the newly deceased has not yet left the body, and the soul is very light, if there is no shelter on the corpse, the soul will be pressed by the light to the shadow of the ground, forming a corpse shadow.

When I was a child, my grandfather used to say this, and I thought it was a story, but I didn't expect it to be there.

I thought to myself, I tried to take back the blood bamboo with force in my hand, but the young man's hand was like a steel chisel. I asked helplessly, "Who are you?" ”

"My name is Zhang Xu, my master is the one who keeps the paper coffin for your grandfather, and after we got the paper coffin, we found that it was tampered with, and we had to send it back. I'm here to solve this problem. ”

I didn't believe the young man's words, but the paper coffin was indeed the one that my grandfather hid in the utility room, so I could only ask tentatively: "Since you sent it back, why did you say that it was given to the surname Bai?" ”

"Because the thing is hers." Zhang Xu saw my concerns, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, the surname Bai will come, this is what your grandfather calculated early in the morning, and now the paper coffin is placed in front of her, and she can't take it away." ”

I frowned, and the surname Bai also said that she didn't stay for the paper coffin, is that really the case?

Zhang Xu saw that I was still hesitant, and said impatiently: "Could it be that I still lie to you?" ”

I don't know if he cheated or not, but he came at the right time and had to be careful.

But Zhang Xu said that he was the apprentice of the person entrusted by his grandfather, and the excuse was very good, because I didn't know who my grandfather gave the paper coffin to, so naturally I couldn't verify it.

But as long as it doesn't hurt me, the rest of the story will be talked about later. I thought about something, didn't continue to communicate with him, looked back at the corpse on the cliffside, saw that it was still talking to itself, and hadn't noticed us yet, and asked Zhang Xu: "What is it doing?" ”

Zhang Xu said: "When the moon rises, you will know!" ”

A few minutes later, the moon rose out of the mountain, and the moment the moonlight sprinkled down, the corpse suddenly stood up, its body began to become transparent, and a fist-sized blood-colored bead appeared in its abdomen, which was very conspicuous.

Seeing this, the young man took out a bronze mirror from his arms, jumped out and pointed the mirror at the corpse and shouted, and the pillar of light reflected by the bronze mirror shone on the corpse.

The corpse was illuminated by the bronze mirror, its neck turned stiffly, and it slowly turned its head to look at us, and the moment it turned back, I was stunned.

Its outline is vague, but it is easily recognizable, and it turns out to be exactly the same as the surname Bai. My back is cold, isn't the surname Bai a living person?

Before I could ask Zhang Xu, the corpse figure smiled weirdly, and the form began to dissipate, and the light of the bronze mirror couldn't suppress it at all.

Seeing that it had disappeared, Zhang Xu pulled me around and ran: "Quick, go home!" ”

I thought I would be able to figure something out by following along, but I didn't think it would be even more messy now. With Zhang Xu's dragging, the two ran frantically down the mountain. As soon as we entered the village, we saw four men in red carrying paper coffins out of my house and hurrying to the northern wilderness.