Master once said that ghosts are retained because they violate the 49-day period after death, but even so, they only exist in the human world, and there must be a time limit, which is longer or shorter, depending on the strength of the ghost's own obsession. And the master also said that he had seen the longest surviving ones, and it would not be more than two or three hundred years, which was still the period when the ghosts remained in the world, and it was possible to continuously absorb other yin qi to replenish themselves. More often than not, the longer you spend in the sun, the more you will be consumed, just like a battery that will eventually run out.

So when Qin Bukong said that these people were ghosts for a hundred years, I couldn't understand it for a while, not to mention why there were so many "old-school" ghosts, could it be said that in the past hundred years, these people have not done anything beyond their deaths? Did they all choose to stay rather than leave? At present, there are more people living on the street than on weekdays.

Qin Bukong said that these ghosts are not necessarily "unexceeded", but more "dead". Haven't you noticed that although they behave a little abnormally, some of them still talk in twos and threes, and they don't turn to look at us until we get closer, have you ever seen ghosts chatting with each other?

I didn't speak, Qin Bukong's answer didn't solve my doubts, after all, seeing is believing. He went on to say that all of this is because of the word "魑", the so-called "魑", is a general term for a kind of ghosts, and what they are best at is to confuse the living, and the reason why we don't see the living now and are all ghosts is because we are deluded.

I said to Qin Bukong, do you mean, it's like the kind of illusion we encountered when we broke the Jingmen earlier? We experience a lot of visions, but in reality our bodies are in place, everything is in our minds. Qin Bukong said that it was a bit similar, but it was obviously different, these various ghosts we saw now were really there, if you walked over and provoked it, you would definitely encounter an attack.

As we spoke, we crossed two more intersections, and the ghosts became more and more numerous, but all of them stood still, as if they had no intention of attacking us, or rather, they were waiting for their moment. My heart was pounding, because as we approached the dock, the ghosts around us were almost in a state of being in the middle of the road, and the roadside was so full of ghosts that we could only walk on the side of the road.

So I began to subconsciously lower my head not to look at these ghosts, and walked quickly with Qin Bukong. When we arrived at the dock, we needed to buy a ticket for the boat, and there was a person sitting in the ticket hall, but like the ghosts, this person still looked at us with a blank face. At this time, Songzi whispered behind me, Situ, don't you have to buy a ticket to take the boat? What are we going to buy it for, the paper money? Before I could answer, Qin Bukong said, what else do you want to buy, let's get on the boat directly.

So the three of us crossed the ticket hall and jumped straight onto the boat, but no one or any ghost stopped us from us for evading our fares, just stared at us.

The river crossing boat is different from the long-distance boat, because the time is very short, so only more than ten rows of horizontal and three rows of longitudinal benches are placed on the deck to facilitate those who cross the river. And when we got on the boat, there were already a lot of people sitting in the cabin, and there were people standing around, and I saw that there was no one on one of the benches, so I said to Qin Bukong, there is a place there. Qin Bukong stopped me and said, don't sit, stand, don't you think it's strange? There were seats, but the people around them were still standing. I noticed it as soon as I saw it, so I listened to Qin Bukong's words, and the three of us stood on the deck near the cockpit, close together.

In the process of waiting, people kept getting on the ship, and soon the ship was saturated, and I don't know if it was my delusion, I always felt that today's ship was loaded with more people than ever before. After waiting for more than ten minutes, with the sound of two or three air horns, the engine under the sole deck began to roar, and the hull gradually moved away from the barge and headed towards the center of the river.

I glanced at the cabin, and all the passengers on board did not say a word, but looked at us from far and near. It's not even the kind of sneaky view, but it stands straight in front of us, and then looks at us. Except for the sound of the engine and the sound of the waves crashing on the deck, the silence at the moment made me feel terrible.

And what was even more terrifying was that when I looked back at the dock where we had boarded the boat, it was bustling with people, even the streets in the distance and on the way down the dock, but everywhere I could see, where I could walk for pedestrians, it was full of people facing us. If we first began to notice that something was wrong, there were only a few dozen ghosts as far as the eye could see, not counting the group on the ship, there were at least four or five hundred people standing on the docks, barges, and roads alone.

And this unknown gaze just makes me uneasy. Because you have no idea what the other person is trying to do. The three of us are like people who have broken into the Netherworld at this moment, and compared to these ghosts, we have become different. However, the streets are still familiar, and the vehicles are functioning normally, but all the people have changed.

From the beginning of the river crossing to the time when the boat docked again, it only took more than ten minutes, but in these more than ten minutes, I was extremely tormented. Matsuko also kept his head down and grabbed the hem of his clothes with both hands, and his feet were still trembling slightly. I firmly believe that it was because the river breeze was cold, because I myself was shivering slightly.

It had been foreseen that when the ship docked, there would be a group of people standing on the edge of the pier, looking at us as before. Hankou is an area that opened in the early years and has always been a very prosperous area. If there are more people here, it means that the number of ghosts we see will also increase. After all, the number of ghosts has been increasing since then. After getting off the boat, I looked up slightly, and the scene in front of me confirmed my suspicion, but unlike the other side of the river, when we walked before, there was always a passage for us to walk, but now there is not, and a small road from the road to the dock was originally very narrow, and it could only walk about four or five people in parallel, and it was even more slowly jammed at the moment. In other words, if we want to get through, the only way is to push the ghosts in our way to the side.

At this moment, Qin Bukong was also stumped. He had been standing still since we had disembarked, and soon there was a whistle behind me, and the boat that had carried us across the river was now returning to the other side of the river, and when I turned to look at the boat, I saw that the "passengers" who had crossed the river with us were still standing almost in place, and were still staring at us as the boat departed. It is worth mentioning that the place where we stood on the deck is still empty, and a piece is missing.

At the current location of the dock where we are, we have to walk for almost twenty minutes to walk along the stairs to the side of the road, before we can reach the alley outside Qin Bukong's house. However, this uphill staircase, a distance of four or five hundred meters, looked up from the bottom, but the road was tightly blocked, and none of us looked at us without speaking, it felt very much like the crowd fleeing when the war broke out. I asked Qin Bukong in a low voice what to do now. Qin Bukong asked me, what are you carrying in that bag? I said nothing, just some charms, wooden figures, incense sticks and something. He asked me again what the charms were for, and I said that some were used to make talismans, some were used to seal doors, and some were indeed used to drive away ghosts, but there were too many of them, I was afraid I couldn't handle them!

Qin Bukong nodded, if it is really right, my few more than ten charms, even if one can deal with ten ghosts, it is far from enough. So Qin Bukong asked again, what about your Yin soldiers? Is the quantity sufficient?

What he said reminded me that although my soldiers and horses are not very numerous, there are about forty or fifty of them who have not practiced enough and have gone beyond them, and their abilities are not bad. These ghosts in front of me, although they all look very specific, they don't look like dead people or ghosts with green skin and green faces, hideous and terrifying, the ghost in the blue tunic that Qin Bukong cleaned up by the river before should be the same size as these in front of him, these guys are not even my opponents alone, how can they compete with my soldiers and horses?

So I said to Qin Bukong, I can try, if my soldiers and horses can't stop it, I will know in advance. Qin Bukong nodded, and then asked me to switch places with him. Songzi actually followed me and moved a step forward, so it became the formation of me at the head and behind Qin Bukong's palace.

The closest ghost in front of me, about five or six paces. So I took advantage of the fact that the other party had not reacted yet, so I took out the incense, burned the paper, and summoned my soldiers and horses, instructing me not to kill, but to open the way. The wind by the river was very strong, so I couldn't tell whether the smoke had been ordered or not, but after waiting for more than ten seconds with experience, I slowly moved forward with the incense in my hand.

A stick of incense can burn for about half an hour, and of course that is in a windless environment. Now that we're by the river, the time will be shortened. If I'm going to rush home in a stick of incense, I'll have to move faster at this point. The soldiers and horses act like bodyguards on both sides, they surround the three of us in a circle, and in this circle, it is relatively safe. So as I got closer to the ghosts, they seemed to be squeezed aside by something.

I turned my head to Qin Bukong and said, it seems to be feasible!