Chapter 225: The Devil's Funeral

Chapter 225

"W-What law? What is the law? I don't understand—"

When Old Man Zhang heard Zhao Fusheng's words, his shriveled old face showed a blank look.

"Powerful ghosts have their own set of rules for killing."

Zhao Fusheng patiently explained:

"After a person dies, random ghosts revivenation, and once a ghost disaster is formed, there will be a ghost domain, which is the ghost hitting the wall as the saying goes." She explained the principle of ghost hitting the wall.

Lin Laoba, Cao Dazong and others witnessed the murder of ghosts tonight, and they knew the horror of ghosts, and when they heard her explanation, they all listened carefully.

"After being in the ghost domain, everyone theoretically has the probability of being killed by ghosts, but although ghosts are terrifying, people have lost their minds and sanity after they die and become ghosts, and they can only be walking dead."

Zhao Fusheng's gaze swept over the villagers:

"Ghosts have no mind, and they only kill by instinct. In fact, ghost killing has its own set of logical rules, take Guo Wei's Lao Tzu as an example-"

Guo Wei was stunned when he heard his name, raised his head to look at her, and Zhao Fusheng said:

"After it becomes a ghost, it is entrenched on the stove of the Guo family, as long as someone sits in front of the stove and puts a bowl on the stove, these are taboos, and it will be associated with ghosts, and then marked by ghosts."

When Wu Shaochun heard this, there was a thoughtful look on his face.

He used to live in Gotou Village under the rule of Wan'an County, although he used to sell goods for the people of Huanggang Village, compared with ordinary villagers, he was a little insightful.

But after entering the Demon Suppression Division, it can be regarded as truly opening the door to another world.

Ghosts may resurgce at any time, and once the ghosts appear, the villagers will be at a loss for what to do, and the chances of making mistakes will be greatly increased, which in turn will increase the mortality rate.

Take Kuailiang Village, which Wu Shaochun once personally participated in, as an example.

After Zhuang Siniang's ghost was revived, she slaughtered Kuailiang Village, and the villagers indirectly killed Zhuangjia Village.

I don't know how many hundreds of people died in this ghost disaster, and the blood flowed like a river.

Zhao Fusheng patiently explained the law of ghosts to the people of Fengmen Village at this time, probably hoping that when the ghost case happened again, these villagers could reduce panic, increase the chance of self-rescue, and avoid more deaths.

And from this thought, Wu Shaochun was keenly aware that the situation in Wan'an County was probably far more severe than he imagined.

"In this case, you should try to avoid touching these key things, as long as you don't violate the law of ghosts, even if you are in the same room with ghosts, you won't die." After Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, he looked at Guo Wei:

"Guo Wei is a good example, since the accident of his wife and children, he should not have been in the kitchen, touched the stove - right?"

"Yes." Guo Wei heard Zhao Fusheng talking to himself, beat his spirits, and endured his grief and said:

"I've been in a daze these days, and I don't feel hungry, and I don't have any rice at home—"

After Li Da Luozi came to loot 300 Wen, with the disappearance of his wife, he became a frightened bird and kept hiding in the room.

I don't know if his family is poor, he has long been used to hunger, or he is too sad, and his activity is not large, and he has been carrying it for so long.

"I see." When Lin Laoba and the others heard this, they were overjoyed:

"In other words, even if we have ghosts, we don't have to be afraid, and if we master the method of dealing with ghosts, we can also kill ghosts."

"Idiot."

Zhao Fusheng couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted a reprimand:

"I said that the law of ghosts is to let you try to save your lives under the shroud of the ghost domain, and report to the Demon Suppression Division first after an accident, instead of letting you fight with ghosts."

She was almost amused by the villagers' incomprehension:

"Don't force me to slap you."

“……”

Lin Laoba, who spoke, showed a stupid look, and the others didn't dare to speak out again.

Zhao Fusheng looked at Old Man Zhang and motioned for him to continue.

Old man Zhang was originally extremely frightened because he experienced a ghost disaster tonight and recalled the situation of hitting a ghost back then, and his mentality was on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, Zhao Fusheng made an extra interruption and let him slow down.

He heard some things about the 'law' of ghosts, and although the thinking of older people is much worse than that of young people, he vaguely understands one thing: that is, he did not violate the taboo of ghosts back then, so he was lucky to save his life.

Old man Zhang didn't dare to be as bold as Lin Laoba at this age, and he had the intention of fighting with powerful ghosts, as long as he was alive, he was lucky.

Therefore, after he relieved himself, he saw Zhao Fusheng signaling him to continue, so he said:

"I don't know any rules, but at that time I felt that the coffin on my shoulder was sinking, there was smoke coming out of the coffin, and the wooden beams of the coffin were as cold as ice, firmly stuck to my shoulder, and I couldn't shake it off."

He took a deep breath:

"I was very scared at the time, but I peeked at that Master Xie and didn't stop, and I was afraid that I would withdraw halfway and ask me to return the money afterwards-"

That's five copper coins, and you can buy a lot of rice.

"I turned my heart sideways, held the wooden pole of the coffin, gritted my teeth and walked forward."

And Old Man Zhang went right.

The cowardly but stingy side of his temperament saved his life.

After the 'ghost mourning' began, no one could quit.

Old man Zhang continued to carry the coffin, so that the 'ghost funeral' ceremony was not disrupted.

But the rest of the people in the company didn't have such a good fate.

The first to suffer is the person who leads the suona.

It was the old man who played the suona found in the next village, he was standing in front of the coffin, and he didn't know that he was going to do this 'ghost funeral' at the beginning.

He didn't know that there was a ghost case in Fengmen Village, but he knew that many people had died, and the county officials came to review the matter.

After that, the village chief of Fengmen Village said that he wanted to hold a funeral, and found him at a price of 20 yuan.

It wasn't a small amount, and he was impressed.

At the time of the incident, Li Neng was in front of his left hand side, and after he blew the suona, he saw with his own eyes that the incense in the hands of the adult from the county was spontaneously combusting, and then his feet were covered with bizarre red shoes, and then the whole person disappeared from everyone's eyes.

In fright, he forgot to blow the suona.

At this moment, Xie Jingsheng drank:

"Keep blowing, don't stop."

But at this time, where can the old man who plays suona still listen to him.

The strange appearance of red shoes and the sudden disappearance of the envoy made him collapse.

Frightened, he hurriedly threw away the suona in his hand and wanted to escape from the funeral team.

But at the moment when he took a step, the order that had disappeared caused Li Neng to run out of the coffin again and kill him.

After 43 years, the old man Zhang still remembers the heart-wrenching scene at that time - the old man who played suona was brutally killed by a powerful ghost, and blood splattered all over the ground, dyeing the mourning road red.

As soon as someone died, the team panicked.

One of the people who carried the coffin was also terrified, and at the moment of fleeing, his head was torn apart by Li Neng in a cruel way.

After his death, the headless body still carried the coffin firmly.

"Don't run, don't hide!"

Seeing that the team was about to be in chaos, Xie Jingsheng's cold voice sounded in the bloody field:

"The funeral will be done well, as long as the funeral is not chaotic, the ghosts will not kill people indiscriminately. Whoever dares to flee without permission deserves to be fed to the ghosts! ”

As he shouted, he picked up the suona that the old man who had thrown on the ground before, and he didn't care that the suona was full of blood, so he put it to his mouth and began to blow.

Xie Jingsheng is a ghost master, but unexpectedly, his suona actually played well.

When the mournful music sounded again, Li Neng, who was frantically slaughtering the crowd, suddenly stopped.

The killing frenzy stopped for a moment.

Xie Jingsheng had already said what he had to say, he blew the suona and strode forward with the blood flowing on the ground that gathered into a river.

The crowd that was killed by the ghosts was temporarily out of the crisis.

……

When Old Man Zhang said this, he shuddered:

"My lord, it's terrible, I didn't dare to run with the coffin at that time, and the two who wanted to run were killed by ghosts."

These 'people' who lost their heads did not fall, and still maintained their mission in life, carrying the coffin with a headless corpse.

Xie Jingsheng blew the suona to open the way in front, and the peer ordered the envoy to wave the banknotes, and people avoided everywhere he went.

This special group of 'ghost mourners' went straight to the mountains behind Fengmen Village.

"There is an old grave in the mountain, and when I arrived, Master Xie began to call for people to fall into the coffin."

It's weird to say.

When Old Man Zhang began to find out that something was wrong with the coffin, the coffin with the ghost couldn't be put down anyway, and at this moment, with Xie Jingsheng's 'falling coffin', the great suction on the coffin disappeared instantly.

The coffin, which had sunk more than a thousand catties, became light and fluttering in an instant, and automatically fell to the ground.

When the atmosphere was weird, Xie Jingsheng shouted:

"The gods return to the temple, the ghosts return to the grave, and the ghosts return to the mountains and forests."

As soon as his voice fell, the lid of the coffin was suddenly pushed open by the 'person' from inside, and a pale man sat up.

And the old man Zhang, who was standing by the coffin, saw very clearly that this was no longer the previous envoy Li Neng.

It was another face who held the incense - and one of the big names in the Demon Suppression Division.

At this time, the complexion of 'he' showed a yellowish color that was impossible for a living person, and his skin seemed to have lost all blood, like a fish skin that had been dried for a long time.

A pair of eyes lost their luster, and the whole person looked like a dried corpse.

It held three half-burned ghost incense sticks in its hands, and wore a pair of embroidered shoes as red as blood on its shriveled feet.

By that time it was already dark.

The dead man sitting up in the coffin, the messenger with a makeshift face, the strange red shoes, the headless corpses and the living standing at the corners of the coffin, the many funeral processions spilled with dried blood - all these things reveal the horror of this 'ghost funeral'.

After receiving Xie Jingsheng's order, the ghost holding the incense twisted his body and walked towards the tomb stiffly and awkwardly.

With each step, it left a blood-red footprint on the ground.

But the incense in its hand rose white smoke, and wherever the smoke went, it smoothed out the footprints.

"I watched it pick an old grave and drill into it, and when it was in the grave, the Master Xie shouted, 'Seal the grave.'" ”

After shouting, the two frightened villagers trembled and shoveled two shovels of soil with shovels that had been prepared earlier, which meant that the grave was sealed.

As soon as the ceremony was completed, the two headless corpses standing in the corner of the coffin fell to the ground with a thud.

A stench of corpses that had been rotting for many days spread from these corpses, and the coffin placed next to Old Man Zhang also quickly decayed, and it instantly rotted into a shelf.

In the crowd, many people also fell to the ground one after another, turning into dried corpses.

Old man Zhang accidentally picked up a life.

He thought that it was only two coffin bearers who had an accident, and when he wanted to meet the other coffin bearer, he turned his head to look and found that the chest of the other coffin bearer had already broken a hole the size of a bowl, and the internal organs had already been wiped out by the ghost, and at this time, only a human skeleton was left and collapsed by the coffin.

There were 40 or 50 participants in this 'ghost funeral', and in the end, only seven or eight people survived, and Old Man Zhang was one of them.

Xie Jingsheng paid a heavy price for sending this ghost back then, and his companions ordered all eight people to die, and dozens of ordinary villagers who died because of the 'ghost funeral' alone died tragically.

Fortunately, although there were many people who died, this ghost case was relatively 'successful', and there has never been a similar red-shoe ghost case under the rule of Wan'an County since then, which shows Xie Jingsheng's ability.

……

Old man Zhang finished telling the story of the Red Shoes ghost case that year, and no one spoke in the hall of the Zhang family for a long time.

After many years, this strange 'ghost funeral' was told by one of the survivors who participated in the event, which added to the fear.

Everyone's backs were numb, and through Old Man Zhang's words, they could almost imagine the scene back then.

Zhao Fusheng was still thinking carefully about Old Man Zhang's words, sorting out the clues and details of this ghost case.

Her eyes fell on Old Man Zhang, who was trembling and fidgeting at her.

"Zhang Laosan, are you sure that when you saw Ling Envoy Li Neng die, you were wearing a pair of red shoes?"

As soon as her voice fell, Old Man Zhang swore a curse:

"My lord, it's true, if I lie, I will not die well!"

Cao Dazong might as well interject coldly: "You are old, and you will not lose money if you die, if you lie, it is better for your family to lose money." ”

Old man Zhang's face turned from white to red, from red to black, and he said almost angrily:

"Drop it, drop it! If I'm lying, then drop the money, drop, drop, drop the three pennies-"

'Poof. ’

Lin Laoba couldn't help but sneer.

Old man Zhang was a little annoyed and turned his head to argue with him.

At this moment, Wu Shaochun leaned over and asked Zhao Fusheng in a low voice.

"My lord, could he have misremembered or talked nonsense?"

Zhao Fusheng smiled, turned his head and asked the little girl who was leaning next to her:

"What do you think of Man Zhou?"

The little girl replied crisply:

"No, it won't."

"Yes." Zhao Fusheng nodded and glanced at the little girl, this child is keen.

Wu Shaochun was stunned.

Kuai Manzhou didn't seem to listen carefully to what Old Man Zhang said from beginning to end, she had been playing with her sleeves, why was she so sure at this time?

"Zhang Laosan's memory is good."

Zhao Fusheng seemed to see the confusion on Wu Shaochun's face, and explained:

"The person who handled the Red Shoe Ghost case was a very powerful ghost handler who was temporarily transferred from the Demon Division of the county government town 43 years ago, named Xie Jingsheng."

As soon as she said this, Wu Shaochun was also a smart person, and immediately understood what she meant.

43 years ago, when Zhang Laoer mentioned the past, he could still clearly call out the three words 'Master Xie', which is enough to see that he has an amazing memory - or that he has a particularly deep impression of this ghost case of nine deaths and a lifetime.

Since he remembers it well, the chances of remembering it incorrectly are slim.

In addition, Zhao Fusheng deliberately mentioned 'tax exemption', Wu Shaochun, who was born in a village family, knows the allure of these two words best.