"Look for someone!" I raised my hand and flicked half of the copper coin onto the table in the open space. The half of the copper coin was spinning on the table for a long time before it stopped. I also clearly felt that the eyes of the people behind the three gates were condensed, and none of the three people made a sound.
I said in a deep voice: "Is the person I'm looking for not in the town?"
The three of them still didn't make a sound, so I handed over my hand and said, "In that case, I'm sorry to bother you all. Let's go!"
"Wait a minute!" Just as I was about to turn around, an unkempt man suddenly appeared on the street of the small town. The yellow cloth army coat he wore had not been changed for who knows how many years, and there was cotton lint everywhere. Most of his face was obscured by tangled hair, and the only thing that could be seen clearly was his chapped lips.
The man said in a low voice: "Come with me! I know where the person you are looking for is."
I glanced at Ye Xun, who quietly moved away from me, covering each other and followed the man into the depths of the town. The man led me to a house: "The person you are looking for is probably him!"
When I looked in the direction of the other person's finger, I saw a mummy.
The clothes on the mummy had long since disappeared, and the only thing that could prove his identity during his lifetime was a money sword that fell in his hand. The big coin on the edge of the sword had been broken into half, and it looked like it had been chopped off in half with a knife.
I took out the big coin that Mother Fox gave me and checked it up. The gaps in the copper coin were perfect. It seemed that the half of the copper coin in my hand came from this sword.
I turned to the man and asked, "Who is this body?"
"I don't know!" The man shook his head and said, "When I came, the body was here."
I stared at him closely and asked, "Who are you?"
"I don't want to say it!" The man's words clearly contained some indifference to the world. This kind of person no longer cares about his own life or death. Perhaps death is also a kind of relief for him.
Just as I was about to speak, there were several muffled sounds coming from outside the town. It sounded like someone had moved their hands at the entrance of the town. Ye Xun and I looked at each other and walked away at the same time. By the time we arrived at the door of the inn, all the detectives led by Bai Yan had dispersed and broke into the town. Only the leading experts were standing in the open space. There were three unkempt and indistinguishable people kneeling in front of him.
Bai Yan was fighting these people just now.
I looked at Bai Yan coldly and said, "Friend, have you read the wrong time?"
Juefa sneered and said: "The time is in our hands. We say the time has arrived, but who dares to say it has not?"
When I was about to speak, Tao Yu stretched out his hand and pulled me on my lapel. Although I didn't understand what Tao Yu meant, I knew that he didn't want me to make a move with him.
I reached out to Juefa and raised my thumb: "Very good! I hope you can calculate the time accurately every time!"
Just as I turned around to leave, Juefa suddenly said: "Now that we have come in, according to the rules of the Detective Hand, it is your turn to go out. Please invite me!"
I was about to have a seizure when I turned around, but Tao Yu lowered his voice and said, "Give it to him!"
When I frowned and looked at Tao Yu, the latter winked at me twice. It seemed that Tao Yu had something to say but didn't want the other party to hear anything.
"Let's go!" When I suppressed my anger and passed by Juefa, the latter laughed coldly: "I thought that the swords of gods and ghosts could be drawn at each other if they disagreed. It's boring, it's really boring!"
"When I raise the knife, I hope you still have a chance to speak harshly!" I strode out of Tianshakou without even looking at Jufa. The person who just led us into Tianshakou didn't follow us out. He didn't even go outside to see the excitement. It was as if everything outside had nothing to do with him. The only thing he wanted to do was to stay in an adobe house and wait to die.
I walked until I was near the flagpole, then turned around and asked Tao Yu, "What did you see? You must get me out."
Tao Yu's face turned pale and he said, "Those three people are all dead."
"What did you say?" I looked at Tao Yu inexplicably and said, "Are you mistaken?"
"I'm not wrong! I can't be wrong." Tao Yu said: "Did you see the chains around their necks? Those are the chains hung by dead people..."
I vaguely remember that half of the gold necklaces seemed to be exposed on the open necklines of those three people.
Tao Yu was afraid that I wouldn't understand, so he quickly took out a necklace from his body and said, "Look, I also have this kind of chain. This is the rule of the Buddhist sect of the Wugui Sect. People of the Buddhist sect cannot go out without any belongings after death. This A gold chain is something Buddhist disciples keep for themselves in the underworld. Buddhist disciples steal everything except money chains. Even when they find that their fellow disciples don’t have money chains, they will help them bring them.”
I took Tao Yu's necklace and took a look at it. The necklace was shaped like copper coins connected one after another. Although the coins were only the size of soybeans, they were meticulously cast. Each one was engraved with "So-and-so Tongbao". words.
Before I could say anything, Ye Xun frowned and said, "Don't your Ghostless Sect not believe in ghosts and gods?"
Ye Xun has never been in the antique shop, so naturally he doesn't know the secret. Only people with a clear conscience in this world can truly not believe in ghosts and gods. As long as a person has done something wrong, the more he says he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, the more he will believe it behind closed doors. Especially among those tomb robbers who specialize in profiting from dead people, none of them do not believe in ghosts and gods. When I first heard the name Wugui Sect, I felt that they were implying that they did not believe in ghosts and gods. Otherwise, why would they call it Wugui Sect
Tao Yu glared at Ye Xun and said nothing, but I held up the necklace and said, "Could the three of them get the necklace from some dead person? Just like the person we saw just now!"
"Impossible!" Tao Yu shook his head and said: "We Buddhists are afraid that we will have nothing to take with us after we die. Everyone will quench poison on the chain. Unless you are a poison master like Doudu, otherwise, don't even think about taking us away. To buy road money.”
Tao Yu was right, only thieves would make small money, and a person of Doudu's level would never lower his status for a gold chain worth several thousand dollars.
I frowned and said, "But I clearly saw anger in them just now..."
When I said this, my face couldn't help but change. I did see anger through the door just now, but the anger was very thin. At first glance, it looked like there was a person standing behind the door who was about to die.
I squinted my eyes, and Ye Xun whispered: "Wang Huan, what should we do now?"
"Cold salad!" I sneered: "Let's go out and take a nap first!"
I said I was sleeping, but in fact I didn't go very far from the entrance of Tianshakou. I was resting at the entrance. When I slept until midnight, I suddenly felt something swimming back and forth on my body. It felt like He squatted next to me silently and glanced back and forth around me from head to toe without emotion. Soon after, the man put two or two fingers on my body and measured it several times.
Is he measuring my height
I was suddenly startled, and cold sweat broke out on my forehead instantly.
At that time, I wanted to wake up but couldn't. I can only let the other person make gestures back and forth on me.
I remember hearing someone say that coffin makers in the past never used rulers when making coffins. They would either just make a coffin that was a little taller than an ordinary person, or they would use hands or ropes to measure the dead person. Legend has it that the inventor of the ruler was Lu Ban, the ancestor of carpenters. The ruler has the same role in the human world as the scale beam. It not only represents measurement, but also represents justice. Ghosts are most afraid of things that represent fairness and justice. As soon as the ruler is placed on the dead body, the soul of the deceased will be scattered. Therefore, the coffin maker only uses his hands instead of the ruler to measure the dead person.
Why did a coffin maker appear next to me in the middle of the night
The other person's fingers moved across my body several times in succession, and then he slowly took them back. I seemed to hear the other person open something like a ledger, write two things on it, and then slowly turned around and moved towards Ye Xun's direction. .
As I struggled desperately, I opened my eyes suddenly, but the first thing I saw was a beam above my head. When the cold sweat soaked the back of my clothes again, Ye Xun and Tao Yu sat down from me at the same time. stand up.
"What is this place?"
"Why am I in the house!"
When Ye Xun and Tao Yu exclaimed at the same time, I also saw the surrounding environment clearly.
The three of us not only returned to Tianshakou Town, but were also sent into a room. Everyone was lying on a removed door panel, with their heads facing inside and their feet facing outside. This was clearly What a person looks like after death but before being placed in the coffin. Except that we were not put into shrouds, we were no different from the four dead people who were thrown into the house!
When I quickly rushed to the door, Bai Yan also appeared in the ancient town with his magic hand: "How did you get in?"
I looked at Bai Yan: "He was carried in by ghosts!"
Bai Yan's face became extremely ugly, and Juefa beside him said coldly: "Wang Huan, since you violated the rules of the Exploring Hand, don't blame us..."
"Shut up!" Bai Yan stopped drinking and said: "Since you have come in, then stay here! But don't make trouble for us!"
After Bai Yan finished speaking, he returned to the room without looking back. I nodded to Ye Xun, who quietly helped me cover the door, but I jumped out of the door and quietly walked towards the place where Bai Yan and the others were. In a private house, I put my ear to the wall and listened to the noise in the house.
Juefa complained not long after he entered the door: "Bai Yan, why did you stop me? What a great opportunity just now? As long as we seize the handle and kill Wang Huan, even the Snow Demon Fox can't say anything? You won't let me touch him. , isn’t it a missed opportunity?”
Before Bai Yan could speak, Ren Tianqing spoke first: "Is the Snow Demon Fox a reasonable person? The consequences of angering the Snow Demon Fox are not the responsibility that you and I can bear."