"Did you hear that? Someone died again yesterday, and it was the daughter-in-law of the Li family...... At night, she suddenly went crazy, muttering that her deceased husband was calling herself, and before her family could stop her, she ran out at night. Her family was dead when they found her this morning, I heard...... The body is fragmented, and there is also a layer of white hair......"

"It's not just the Li family, but the three brothers of the Yang family in Jiqi Village outside the city are gone...... They were drunk last night, and when they heard a baby crying outside the village, they went out to check on it together, but they never returned...... The people in their village couldn't find anyone after looking for a day, and they all went to the city to report the case to the government just now. ”

"Hey...... If you add it up like this, I'm afraid that more than a dozen people have died this month, right? It's only the beginning of the month, and if it goes on like this, I don't know when it will be a ......."

"Early this morning, I saw Li Yuanwai's family driving away...... I heard that I was going to move out of Taiping Town and never come back...... The rich and powerful have gradually moved away, how can we, the ordinary people, live?"

......

There are few pedestrians on the street, and a few old people in the twilight of the street sit chatting gloomily, and the autumn wind turns to roll up pieces of yellow leaves, like old yellow charms, floating in groups.

Jiang Yuan walked briskly through the streets, he had no time to listen to the idle chatter of these old men in the twilight. It was already terribly overcast, and it looked like a rainstorm was coming.

Jiang Yuan is nineteen this year, his eyes are very deep, the bridge of his nose is straight, although he has nothing to do with handsomeness, he also looks quite elegant. It's just that at this time, his expression was full of exhaustion and confusion, which made the whole person even more shabby.

There were still a few yellowed scrolls in the bamboo basket on his back, but apparently today's business was not good, and not a single book could be sold, and it seemed that dinner could only be those two cold and hard steamed buns.

In the blink of an eye, it has been five days since he came to this world inexplicably.

From an office worker who was playing games with nothing, he suddenly became a poor scholar who was so poor that it was difficult for him to wash and eat, and this change is still difficult for him to accept.

This seems to be a world similar to that of ancient China, but it is full of mysteries and weirdness......

A month ago, when the merchants and their men returned from receiving the goods, it was already night, and they saw two red lanterns hanging high in the dark place in the forest. The man fled in terror, but the merchant insisted on checking it out, and no one saw him again.

Half a month ago, 21 members of four families in Lupo Village in the west of the city all died tragically in the village, and most of the corpses lost their brains. The case caused a sensation, and the government sent people to investigate the case, and the two arresters suddenly went crazy for some reason, drew swords and killed each other.

Three days ago, a person in the night market suddenly shouted in horror, bluntly saying that he saw a leaderless person slowly passing by, but even though he was close at hand, no one else saw him except this person. The next day, the man died in his bed at home, and his head was missing.

......

Jiang Yuan has heard enough of such rumors, especially in the past few months, strange and terrifying things have emerged in an endless stream, and they are becoming more and more frequent, and people in Taiping Town have long been panicked.

"Boom!"

A thunderclap resounded across the land, and Jiang Yuan couldn't help but speed up the pace of going home.

When passing through an alleyway, I saw two people from the village carrying out a corpse wrapped in a straw mat from the alley, and when the wind swept in, they lifted the straw mat and kicked it, revealing a face full of maggots.

"That's ...... The beggar I saw yesterday ......"

Jiang Yuan saw that dead face, and his heart jumped suddenly:

"He's dead...... It's been less than a day since he died, and it's already rotten so badly?"

The corpse collector threw the corpse wrapped in a straw mat on the cart, and then pushed the dead man away with a blank face.

Jiang Yuan's brows furrowed even deeper:

"In this turbulent situation, I have crossed into the identity of such a poor scholar, and I don't even have food and clothing, let alone the strength to protect myself...... I don't know if I'll be carried away like this tomorrow......"

Now Jiang Yuan not only has no relatives, but is even so poor that it is difficult to even live.

The family can be said to be surrounded by four walls, and the only possessions are a pile of books. The owner of this body originally intended to rely on reading books to make a fortune, so he valued those books more than anything else.

And now, Jiang Yuan has to rely on selling books to fill his stomach.

Between the wounds, a round object suddenly rolled to Jiang Yuan's feet.

It was a round ball made of rattan with a red knot tied to it.

Jiang Yuan leaned over to pick up the rattan ball, turned his head, and saw a little girl with pigtails standing in a dim alleyway, staring at her with big eyes.

"This is yours?" Jiang Yuan shook the rattan ball in his hand at the little girl.

The little girl, dressed in bright red and green clothes, grinned at Jiang Yuan in the shadows.

Jiang Yuan walked into the alleyway, came to the little girl and squatted down, the high walls on both sides almost blocked the light out of the alley.

"Give it back to you!" Jiang Yuan handed the rattan ball to the little girl.

The little girlfriend didn't look at the rattan ball, she still looked at Jiang Yuan directly.

"I don't want ......," she said, "I want it...... It's you!"

Suddenly!

I saw that the little girl's face was rapidly rotting, the yellow thick corpse water flowed down the sticky hair to the bridge of the nose, and the fair skin also became jet black, like a moldy apple. She opened her purple-black mouth, and fine fangs could be seen in the gushing black water.

The cold and strange aura came to the face in an instant.

She suddenly stretched out her hand and grabbed Jiang Yuan's face at once.

The little girl's hands were as cold as ice cubes, and in an instant, half of Jiang Yuan's face was numb.

Jiang Yuan's hair stood on end, and he sat on the ground in fright.

When I looked again, the dark alleyway was empty, and the little girl disappeared in an instant.

"Just now...... Is it a hallucination?"

And the rattan ball ...... It's still in your own hands!

A clammy coldness rose from the depths of Jiang Yuan's heart, and he only felt like he was falling into an ice cave.

Hurriedly throwing away the rattan ball in his hand, Jiang Yuan left the alley quickly.

After walking out of the dimly lit alley and back into the street, the cold air seemed to be lighter.

Jiang Yuan was frightened and walked quickly, but almost bumped into a passerby.

"Don't you have long eyes?" the passerby yelled angrily.

Jiang Yuan was shocked and had no time to entangle, so he hurriedly apologized:

"Sorry ......"

However, the passer-by suddenly seemed to see a ghost, pointed at Jiang Yuan's face and screamed in horror:

"That'...... Is that...... Ghost...... Ghost Mudra!"

Jiang Yuan couldn't see his face, and he didn't understand what the passerby meant.

He ...... He's hit an evil spirit!" The passerby shouted in horror as he quickly retreated and tried to get away from Jiang Yuan, "He hit a ghost!"

Jiang Yuan wanted to step forward and ask for an explanation, but passers-by were so frightened that they turned around and fled.

The few pedestrians on the street were attracted by the shouts from this side and looked towards Jiang Yuan.

At this glance, the faces of the pedestrians changed drastically, as if they had seen a plague god, and they scattered in fright, and whispered at the same time:

"That man...... ......There are ghost handprints on his face! He won't survive tonight!"

"Let's stay away from him! Don't be tainted by his bad luck, or we will bring ourselves harm!"

"He still looks so young...... I don't know which family he is, he is so unlucky to run into evil, and he is about to die at a young age, hey......"

......

Jiang Yuan's heart seemed to sink to the bottom of the cold river, he didn't know what was on his face, could it be ...... Something to do with that scary little girl just now?

The pedestrians around looked at Jiang Yuan with fear and pity, Jiang Yuan couldn't stand such a look, he covered his face and hurriedly left.

Coming to a small ditch, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but squat down and check his face on the water.

I saw that in the reflection of the slightly rippling water, on the right side of his cheek, a black and small five-finger handprint clearly appeared on it.

He couldn't help but think of the words that circulated in the town:

Those who collide with evil spirits will be left with a mark, and at midnight there will be demons looking for the seal to ask for their lives, and no one will be able to see the sun the next day.

Jiang Yuan only felt that he was chilling all over his body, and he hurriedly picked up water from the ditch to scrub the black handprints on his face, but even if his skin hurt after washing, he couldn't wash it off.

It was as if it had seeped into the flesh.

"What exactly did I do...... Why should you be treated like this!"