With snow-white hair, cloudy eyes, and few teeth, she is the old lady in the shroud shop.
"Wait, wait." My voice was trembling with excitement: "You, are you the one who asked me to burn the paper?"
The old woman stopped and looked at me with a piercing smile.
Qiao Mu was also taken aback, glanced at the old woman, and asked me, "Have you met?"
The old woman put her hand on Qiao Mu's shoulder, and moved very slowly, but Qiao Mu didn't seem to see it.
Just when the old woman put her hand on Qiao Mu's shoulder, Qiao Mu's expression and movements froze instantly. The look in his eyes was slowly dimming, and then his whole body turned into wisps of black smoke, which floated into the old woman's nose.
The old woman sniffled, and said regretfully, "It's a pity, it's not too late."
I watched this scene, and even though I was a ghost now, I still felt an inexplicable chill.
The old woman didn't have the kindness when she first met, she was a ghost among ghosts.
The old woman walked towards me slowly: "By the way, it seems that I haven't paid you the money last time."
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and showed an ugly smile: "No, no, no need."
The old woman smiled and put her hand on my shoulder. I was completely desperate in my heart, and I even thought about what kind of fate I would face in the next moment.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the old woman took her hand away, and I still didn't turn into black smoke and be eaten by the old woman.
The old woman laughed, her mouth was empty and toothless.
"You're a good boy, you're such a good boy."
I calmed down a bit, I don't think the old lady needs to tease me before eating me.
"You, who are you?"
"Me, they all call me ghost mother-in-law. Of course, some people call me ghost saint."
Ghost mother-in-law and ghost saint, these two names are very strange to me. Suddenly, I thought of a question.
I have seen the old woman in Yangjian, and there is a holy word in her name. Could she be one of the twin saints who escaped from the twin holy towers
"You, are you one of the two holy towers?"
The ghost mother-in-law laughed again, very happily.
"I said, you are a good boy."
My face suddenly changed, the Shuangshengta and Fanlou can be regarded as sworn enemies. But the ghost mother-in-law is the boss of the Twin Holy Towers. It would be fine if I was just an ordinary ghost king.
It's so good that I can't die, but I am the master of Fanlou.
I stared at the ghost mother-in-law, not daring to blink.
But the ghost mother-in-law looked at me kindly: "Son, don't be afraid, we are on one side, you are the holy son of our Twin Holy Towers."
Saying that, the ghost mother-in-law touched my head, gave me an encouraging look and walked out.
I didn't recover from my daze until the ghost mother-in-law disappeared for a long time.
I don't understand what the ghost mother-in-law said, but when the ghost mother-in-law's hand was placed on my head, what I felt was not terror but attachment.
The kind of attachment a child has for his or her elders.
No, she must have done something to me. There was a little panic in my heart, I was very worried, what did the ghost mother-in-law do to me that I didn't know, which made me have such a strange feeling.
I feel that my mind is full of mess, although I tried my best to convince myself that what the ghost mother-in-law said was just to disintegrate my fighting spirit. But the feeling of attachment in my heart became stronger and stronger amid my vigorous resistance.
I don't know how long it took, and I haven't woken up from the entanglement. Suddenly, my feet softened and I fell to the ground. I just realized that I can move.
The first thing he did when he got up was to rush to the door, even though he clearly knew that the ghost mother-in-law had been away for a long time. I still opened the door without hesitation.
The alley that should have been empty was full of people.
A muscular man was pushing a unicycle and walked past me. A woman in ancient costume held a paper umbrella and looked at the handicrafts on one side of the stall, while the owner of the stall bumped his head to one side, talking to his neighbor.
This is exactly the scene I couldn't see just now, and there is no sign of the ghost mother in this scene.
I stood blankly at the door, and the panic in my heart became more intense. I was very worried, and I was trapped here just like what Qiao Mu said, waiting for the hope that I don't know when it will come.
The people in the alley didn't look at me, which at least gave me some comfort, maybe I didn't blend in here like a tree.
And to test all this, it's actually very simple.
I tried my best to calm down the messy thoughts in my mind, and stepped out of the room. I just have to go to the end of the alley to know if I'm going to be stuck here.
But what I didn't expect was that as soon as I stepped out of the room, the noisy voices around me suddenly quieted down, and everyone stopped moving and turned to look at me.
From their eyes, I can't see any emotion, but this kind of eyes that seem to have no emotion makes me feel even more chilling.
A feeling of despair welled up in my heart.
I narrowed my eyes slightly, blaming all the negative emotions on the ghost mother-in-law, and forced myself to cheer up.
Looking at the awl on the back of his hand, he secretly decided in his heart that since he couldn't escape, he should use his own fists to punch him out.
Gritting my teeth and making a decision, I walked down the street step by step, towards the corner of the alley.
In the alley, everyone was still looking at me, their eyes following me, but no one wanted to stop me.
When I reached the corner of the alley, I stopped. I remember very clearly that once I turned this corner, I would go back across the alley and start all over again.
I slowly stretched out my hand, and the dark cone pattern on the back of my hand emitted a faint black light. I didn't touch anything with my hand, and I didn't let it go. I just raised my hand and stepped forward step by step.
The flustered heart gradually calmed down, and slowly, I felt that my hand seemed to touch something.
Although I couldn't see it, the black light of the underworld cone began to increase continuously. As if fighting against something. And I heard the howling of ghosts, no, I didn't hear it, this constant howling sound appeared directly in my mind.
Perhaps, I found the right direction, I roared, and took a big step forward regardless of the huge repulsive force.
There was a huge pain in my hand, and there was a "click" sound, as if my hand bones were breaking.
But the pain didn't last long. There was a sound like a balloon bursting, and I felt that the front was empty. Before I could rejoice, I felt a huge force hitting my back.
I was knocked into a stagger, and then I saw countless ghosts screaming and passing by me, running forward quickly, including a strong man pushing a cart and a woman holding an umbrella.