Chapter 49: The Ghost Market on Earth
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Fujian corpse painters have always been a very mysterious group, Zhang Wuren once told me that this group of people is not very numerous, acts both right and evil, and has a relatively good temper.
Their inheritance is also very strange, not relying on family inheritance like the Shandong Tie family, nor relying on the inheritance of master and apprentice like Shanxi Lao Yaguan, but selecting inheritors from the corpse.
To put it simply, only corpses that have been painted by them can become a corpse painter.
We didn't want to care about the broken matter of the bee hanging neck mountain at all, so the aftermath was handed over to Li Rutie, a group of Gu Master Allianceists. We asked Li Rutie to draw the address of the corpse worker, but at this time, Li Rutie's attitude suddenly became awkward.
He said: "The Fujian corpse painters have no intersection with us, so I have only heard of their abilities, but I have not really seen them. However, there are also people in our Gu Master Alliance in Fujian, you go to Wutong Town, Yongtai County to find a person named Li Sanming, although he is a Gu Master, but after all, he is a local in Fujian, and he may be able to give you a clue.
A dead horse is a live horse doctor, which is the current situation of me and Zhang Wuren. We don't know if we can find the corpse painter, or if the corpse painter will help us. But now I can only pass it head-on.
Fortunately, Li Rutie was still righteous, not only introduced the local people in Fujian, but also arranged a car for us to send us to Tengchong County.
In Tengchong County, we rested for a few days before booking a ticket to Fuzhou. During this period, we also contacted Li Rutie and asked him if Colonel Di Ming had captured Xing Maniac and found the Black Buddha? But the news I got was not very good, because Colonel Di Ming completely cut off contact after crossing the border.
It's chaotic over there, and it's the territory of the head descenders. Colonel Di Ming's arrest operation did not know whether it went smoothly or not. But we didn't care about him, and after his body recovered a little, we booked a ticket to Fuzhou.
After arriving in Fuzhou, I took the shuttle bus to Yongtai County, and when I found Wutong Town, it was already afternoon.
We called Li Sanming first, but no one answered after a long time. I said to Zhang Wuren: Lao Zhang, do these people have a bad habit of not answering the phone?
Zhang Wuren shook his head, indicating that he wanted to see if he was busy or not. Generally speaking, those who do our job, once they take the job, their mobile phones will be turned off. Otherwise, in the middle of the night, you are desperate with the ghost, and suddenly the mobile phone calls, what is the most dazzling national style?
I was almost amused by his words, but fortunately, Li Rutie also gave us a specific address, and immediately went directly to the door along Wutong Road.
Li Sanming's house is the most common kind of small courtyard in the south of Fujian, but the door is closed in the courtyard, and no one answered after we shouted for a long time. Instead, he called out the neighbors next to him. The neighbor was shirtless, shaking a fan, looking us up and down, and asked if we had come to see Li Daxian to see something.
I nodded hurriedly, then handed over a cigarette and asked him if Li Daxian was not at home? The neighbor took the cigarette and said, "It's a bad luck that you're here." Li Daxian took a job in Lianshan Village and hasn't been back for three or four days.
I secretly shouted that it was not good, because we just eat yin and yang rice, and generally speaking, even if we receive some tricky work, it is impossible not to come back for three or four days. What's more, Lianshan Village is not very far away. Isn't something wrong?
So I asked the neighbor: Hey, big brother, do you know what kind of job Li Daxian is taking?
The neighbor said it looked like there was a ghost market over there. The two villagers of Lianshan Village lost their souls, and Li Daxian was invited to go over to see what was going on.
The two of us were stunned when they heard this, and the neighbor said, don't worry, Li Daxian is very capable, and he will come back in less than two days. There are hotels in town, so you can go and stay first.
But where do Zhang Wuren and I have the leisure to sleep? Because the place where Li Sanming went turned out to be a ghost market!
I gritted my teeth with hatred, why hasn't anything been going well lately? Isn't Li Sanming a Gu master? What kind of effort did he go to the ghost market to toss around! If we die, where do we go to find the corpse painters?
The reason why I am worried about Li Sanming is because the ghost market is not something that ordinary exorcists can play with at all. In that place, the living enter and the dead come out, and the soul will be imprisoned by the ghost market forever, and it will never be able to return to the yang world.
I looked at Zhang Wuren and said, "Lao Zhang, what should we do?" In waiting?
Zhang Wuren shook his head and said, waiting is the most passive. Li Sanming has been gone for three or four days, and if he could come back, he would have come back a long time ago. Until now, the phone has not been connected, there is no trace, and eighty percent are trapped in the ghost market. Lao He, I want to go over and have a look.
I was shocked and said, "You don't want to die?" It's easy to enter the ghost market with our skills, but how can we get out?
Zhang Wuren said, Lao He, since you have entered this circle, you have to take care of the affairs in this circle. It's not something we can do if we don't save when we die, not to mention that if Li Sanming dies, who will take us to find the corpse painter?
I'm still hesitating, because the ghost market is not a place for the living. Unless there is a specific means and luck, you can't get out if you go in. Don't look at the two of us who have been having a lot of fun recently, and we've even fought in human skin and corpse clothes, but this thing in the ghost market is two completely different things from those ghosts.
Zhang Wuren said: Don't think about it, we have to go over and have a look anyway. If you retreat when you encounter difficulties, you are not a qualified exorcist.
I was a little helpless, so I had to nod. At that moment, the two of us packed up our things, found a van to pull live, and went straight to Lianshan Village.
Because we couldn't get in time, it was dark when we arrived in Lianshan Village. The village is relatively small, with only forty or fifty households. After we went in, we inquired, and under the pretext that we were here to ask Li Daxian for help, it was easy to learn where the ghost market appeared.
Locals told us that Li Daxian had been in for three days and four nights, and he had not come out yet. Now the people in the village are so frightened that no one dares to go out at night.
We didn't even eat, so we just walked out of the village, and after ten minutes, we turned over a small hill. Standing on the hill and looking down, you can see a faint light under the mountain.
The lighting is obvious, and at first glance it looks like some village with lights on. But Zhang Wuren only glanced at it and determined that the place was the legendary ghost market.
Ghost markets do not open in specific places, and once opened, they generally do not stay for more than seven days. If we can't bring Li Sanming's soul back within seven days, we will basically be hopeless. In the same way, if we can't leave the ghost city before it disappears, we will stay there forever.
From a high place, the scale of the ghost market is not very large, from east to west, it is about 300 meters long, there is only one street, and there are no forks. If we go in, we will definitely go in from one end and come out from the other. During this period, we can't go back, otherwise the ghosts in the ghost market will recognize us as living people, and no one will want to leave at that time.
We both put it together and decided to go inside. At that moment, Zhang Wuren took out the Styx water from his bag, sprinkled it all on us, put on a swarthy glove, patted me on both shoulders, and finally took out a brush and drew a strange Buddhist text on my forehead.
The water of the River Styx covers our yang energy, patting our shoulders and drawing talismans on our eyebrows to extinguish the three fires in us. You must know that there are three fires in the living, and only when the flames are extinguished will the Yin spirit be regarded as a living person.
After checking the equipment, the cross crossbow, the demon stab, the tantric iron rod, the soul flashlight and the gossip mirror, the cinnabar and the red rope rune paper are also quite a lot, and after making sure that there is no problem, he cautiously began to descend the slope.
As we walked, we sprinkled a lot of cinnabar on the road, and at intervals, we planted a small flag to guide the way. You know, this thing is a way back when we come back, and if the ghost rushes out of the ghost market by then, this thing can help us stop it.
Because of the decoration along the way, it took us a full two hours to reach the entrance of the ghost market. Up close, the entrance to the ghost market is no different from a normal village. The only difference is that the street at the entrance is lit up with a green soul-attracting lamp. The function of this lamp is actually to attract local lonely ghosts, mountain spirits and wild monsters to come in and trade.
In fact, some people with great skills can also get in, but it's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out. If one really accidentally falls into it, this life is probably lost.
I stood at the door of the street and looked at the soul-attracting lamp above my head, nodded slightly at Zhang Wuren, and walked in without hesitation.