The arrival of the day did not blow away the haze of last night. Everyone had heavy dark circles under their eyelids when they gathered downstairs in the hall. Obviously, no one could sleep well in this environment.
What's more, the weather doesn't know what's going on, it's like a ghost, and it has been drizzling since the morning.
The rain in Lingxi Mountain is different from the kind of heavy rain that comes and goes in a hurry. It is densely packed, like continuous needles and threads. From the window of the hotel, it looks like a green map in the south of the Yangtze River, with misty rain everywhere.
President Hu hardly slept all night. He brought the rest of the company to the hotel lobby early in the morning, trying to find the hotel owner and ask him how to get out, but he was shocked when he saw the corpse just after he left the room.
The corpse that was originally on the ground seemed to have been dragged, and the blood splashed from the back of the head due to the impact pulled out a long trace on the ground.
President Hu was still in shock when someone stood behind him and said:
"Someone moved the body?"
As soon as President Hu turned his head, he happened to meet Jiang Linwen's line of sight.
The other party's eyes were full of defensiveness, and Mr. Hu looked at it with fear. He stammered: "I don't know, I saw this as soon as I came out. Isn't this someone I have to ask you?"
Mr. Hu asked himself and his employees that it was the first time to hit a ghost, and they were afraid to die. How could they have the courage to move the body in the middle of the night when no one was there.
Jiang Linwen stopped talking. Now there are quite a few internal differences among the reincarnators. Except for the team members who have known each other for a long time, almost no one is holding a group, let alone asking about this kind of thing - if you ask people, they will not say anything.
He used to be a "big brother" in the team, and he was used to leading the reincarnation. When he met this dungeon, he had a lot of thoughts in his mind. Ruo and others can't escape suspicion.
President Hu: "Would you like to call those people out and ask?"
He didn't quite believe in the idea of a ghost at first, but after the eerie laughter and bloody handprints came out yesterday, he believed it by seven points, and now he is only afraid - who would go to the hall to move the corpse without sleeping at night
Jiang Linwen: "...Also."
It was daytime now. According to the prompt of the mission, the evil ghost would kill the next time at night, so he did not refuse, and went to knock on the door of the reincarnator with Mr. Hu and others.
Even if there are uncooperative partners, as the number of others increases, they choose to go downstairs.
But the rest all answered uniformly that they had not come down to carry the body:
"What am I doing with that thing?"
Jiang Linwen: "Then those of you who live near the stairs, did you hear people coming downstairs in the middle of the night?"
"No, there's no movement at all," said the bald man who lived closest to the stairs on the first floor. "I hardly dared to sleep last night. I just listened to the sound and didn't hear anything."
"Wei Ning, think about it again?" President Hu asked.
The bald man Wei Ning said: "Really not, can you still believe my memory, Mr. Hu?"
Judging from Wei Ning's expression, his answer did not seem to be a fake.
Whose body would it be moving
Could it be the innkeeper...? He hadn't appeared since last night until now, and the reincarnators searched the hotel and couldn't find him or the chef.
Xiao Li squatted down beside the corpse, picked up one of its hands, put it back, and suddenly said, "No one else moved."
Jiang Linwen, who had been observing him, immediately asked, "What do you mean?"
Xiao Li stood up straight: "Look at the blood, if it was dragging, it should be a scratch, but now there are gaps in the blood on the ground, deep and shallow, it looks more like he crawled."
President Hu said in astonishment, "But he's already dead. Didn't he die last night?"
"Impossible," said a dark-skinned samsara, "I checked it, and I've already died."
Jiang Linwen looked at the mottled blood on the ground.
If it's really like what Xiao Li said, then the answer is only...
In the middle of the night when they all left, the corpse killed by the evil spirit moved by itself.
Now it is close to the stairs. If it continues, maybe it will walk up the stairs by itself...
Jiang Linwen clenched his fists because of his association. He turned to the reincarnators: "I can't find the hotel owner now. Let's put the body in a place first. Who will come with me?"
Ye Zeqing walked out, and they and Jiang Linwen locked the body in a storage room at the back of the hotel.
When closing the door of the storage room tightly, he looked up at the sky outside. Even in the daytime, it was still such a gray and cloudy sky, which gave people a bad premonition.
The hotel became more and more weird as time went by, and they had to speed up the time to find the incarnation of the evil ghost, but now there is no clue, only one walking on tiptoe.
Usually walks like this, it should be a girl, like a cat, without causing any movement.
The women in the hotel are now serious suspects...
And what does it mean to close your eyes in the task prompt? He was lying in bed last night thinking with his eyes closed, but he still couldn't think of anything.
Jiang Linwen sighed deeply.
On the other side, Xiao Li stood at the gate of the hotel. He held up a purple umbrella and walked into the rain.
When he took the first step, Ye Zeqing just came back from the storage room where the corpse was stored. Seeing this, he quickly followed in three steps.
Needless to say, Zheng Yi had already followed behind him quite consciously.
Xiao Li glanced at them, but did not stop each other.
The umbrellas held by Zheng Yi and the others were taken out from under the drawer at the front desk of the hotel. Different from the quaint purple umbrella painting style, they were two fancy little flower umbrellas.
The rain on the horizon in the distance formed a line, dyeing the green mountains all over the place.
Zheng Yi: "What are you doing out?"
Xiao Li: "Do a side quest."
"There are side quests here? What quests?"
Xiao Li shook the eternal soul umbrella in his hand: "It was drawn by lottery and has a seal on it, which can be lifted in this world."
Zheng Yi: "Damn it, this kind of thing is usually an artifact, why didn't you take it out and use it?"
Ye Zeqing also sighed: "I usually draw inedible bread, and the best one is a one-time life-saving tool. What's your luck?"
In fact, Zheng Yi really wanted to answer Ye Zeqing, "This is the end of Mo Chui, who made Sherlock the Emperor of Europe?", but he didn't want to embarrass Xiao Li in person, so he held back.
Xiao Li paused and answered Zheng Yi's question: "...It was useful, but you didn't see it."
Zheng Yi asked curiously, "What's the function of this umbrella?"
He has already figured out many ways to use umbrellas, such as being able to shoot bullets from the head of the umbrella together, or separating an absolute field from a realistic point of view.
Xiao Li glanced at him and seemed to be wondering about his question: "Sheltering the rain."
Zheng Yi: "..."
No problem.
In Xiao Li's hands, this umbrella only has the function of covering the rain.
… Maybe even cover the shower head for the little black cat
In short, it is a very return to the basics (violent things) usage.
Zheng Yi covered his arm, which was completely soaked by the drizzle, and he said, "Where are we going to unseal it?"
Xiao Li: "Dongfang, I don't know exactly where it is. There should be a reminder when it arrives."
He thought for a while, and then added: "The weather is bad, you can go back first, I didn't arrive after a quarter of an hour's walk last night, it should be quite far."
They rounded the big boulder ahead, stepped on the dirt, and headed east.
Zheng Yi shook his head sharply: "I don't want to stay in that hotel any more. It gives me a very depressing feeling inside. Although it's not that bad outside, it's better to follow you."
The important thing is to feel safe.
The group continued to walk forward. When they passed a large forest, Zheng Yi suddenly stopped. He pointed to the depths of the forest in front of him: "Did you see a few figures in front of you?"
The branches of the big tree in front were deeply inserted into the soil, and a few black shadows walked into the depths like ghosts, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Zheng Yi thought it was his hallucination, but then he heard Xiao Li also say: "It's the two people who live on the third floor."
I don't know the name.
Ye Zeqing: "What are they doing here?"
Xiao Li: "Maybe come out and let the wind out."
In normal times, maybe Xiao Li would follow along to take a look, but now due to some obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is going to complete his side quest first.
After about half an hour, they walked out of the woods and they saw a village.
A small village surrounded by wooden fences, overgrown with weeds, the grass grows as high as half a human being.
Xiao Li immediately thought of the dead village Lingxi Village in Lin Ruo's mouth, but the grass outside the village in front of him was lush, but the village was peaceful and not uninhabited.
At this moment, Xiao Huangben gave a shock: [Side quest: Complete what she wants, and you can get what you want.]
she…
Xiao Li put Xiao Huangben back and walked into the village with an umbrella.
As soon as he walked in, he realized that something was wrong-because there were obvious signs of activity, and there were still a lot of people.
However, after Xiao Li saw the faces of the people in this village, he secretly corrected his statement, because—
The villagers have a towel over their shoulders and hold umbrellas to look at the crops; the peasant women stand under the eaves, holding their rice bowls and looking at this line of strangers, which cannot be seen from outside the village.
What's even more terrifying is that the flesh on the villagers' faces is drooping in the air, flowing with pus, while some of the peasant women have their chests hollowed out, and some are completely skeletons.
One**
Xiao Li held the umbrella and looked at the other party without changing his color.
Ye Zeqing gave a "Huh?" and whispered suspiciously: "The people here look normal, but they have a strong ghostly energy on their bodies, so they should not be alive."
Xiao Li slowed down: "...the 'they' you see are normal people?"
Ye Zeqing: "Yes, ordinary people, what you see is different from us?"
Xiao Li: "It should be because of the umbrella. I saw them after they died."
Ye Zeqing looked at the surrounding villagers in horror, so many ghosts...
He looked at Xiao Li's calm appearance again, and couldn't help but sighed that the other party's psychological quality was strong, as expected of Moriarty and Hercule!
Double beef fork.
Xiao Li walked into the village, analyzing as he walked: "Well, it seems that most of the people in this village were eaten by... ? "
Ye Zeqing: "..."
cause discomfort.
Xiao Li turned around a farmhouse, and across the door, there was an old lady with white hair and a fairly intact head, grabbing Xiao Li's wrist: "Jinjin, why are you standing with outsiders? Let your husband see it. Aren't you going to be beaten again?"
Xiao Li: ? ?
husband
At this moment, he felt the little Huang Ben in his pocket shake, he put one hand in his pocket without seeing it, and looked at the old lady: "Jinjin...?"
One of the old lady's eyeballs fell, she didn't see Xiao Li's abnormality, and continued to him: "Go back, come, I have half a steamed bun here, you are hungry, look at you thin. Hey, I think you are also pitiful, why did you find this family?"
Xiao Li grabbed her wrist: "Wait, this old woman, who is 'I'?"
Old lady: "Jinjin?"
Xiao Li put down his hand: "Sorry, I—"
Before he could finish his sentence, a man walked menacingly from a farmhouse on the right. He was the most ferocious and most complete of the group of ** people, but his tongue was very long and sticking out. Like a hanged ghost.
The unfamiliar man grabbed Xiao Li and said impatiently, "I'll tell you where you've been, why don't you cook? If you don't cook, I'll tell you, you won't eat at night!"
Xiao Li calmly shook off his hand and called him tentatively: "...Old..."
- He couldn't say the word "public" anyway.
Xiaohuangben turns on the vibration mode.
The man frowned and looked disgusted. He didn't look at Xiao Li, but turned to Ye Zeqing and the others, and said with a sneer, "This is your friend from the city? ."
Zheng Yi: "..."
Ye Zeqing: "..."
Xiao Li gestured at them, and he had a few guesses in his heart, and followed the other party's words: "Yes, they are my friends."
The man didn't give face at all, rolled his eyes and said, "Let them go quickly, what kind of friends are you looking for? Do you regret marrying me? Xu Jin, let me tell you, you married me voluntarily, so don't hurry back and do it. Do you want to starve us to death?"
Xiao Li: "..."
I just want to beat people.
The man walked back to the brick house and shouted at Xiao Li from a distance, "Hurry up!"
The old lady behind him sighed: "Sorry, Jinjin, you should just do as he said, and you can get less beatings."
She returned to the house on crutches.
Zheng Yi pointed to the room: "What's the situation?"
"This umbrella triggers the subplot." Xiao Li tried to guess, "The owner of the umbrella should be Jinjin. I was holding the umbrella, and they regarded me as Jinjin. They didn't know that they were dead..."
Then he muttered to himself: "Eternal Soul Umbrella, does it mean that the souls of the villagers are trapped here forever?"
Zheng Yi: "Judging from the conversation just now, I have been very unhappy."
Not only unhappy, but simply without status, like a cooking machine.
According to the information disclosed by Xu Jin's husband, Xu Jin should be a girl from the city with a wealthy family. I don't know why he was blinded by love and married this man. After marrying, his status was low, not only cooking and washing clothes to serve him , had to endure his taunts.
If this is the case, then as the owner of the Eternal Soul Umbrella, what did Xu Jin want to do by letting him see this scene
Revenge for her
Xiao Li: "You guys wait here for a while, I'll go in and take a look."
He walked into Xu Jin's house and found that it was a rather simple farm house, with brick furniture, only a layer of straw on the bed, and nothing.
In stark contrast to this bedroom is another house with a thick quilt on the kang, which looks like Xu Jin's husband lives.
When Xiao Li came in, the man was sitting on the rattan chair with his legs crossed: "Aren't you going to cook yet?"
Xiao Li was holding an umbrella even in the house. He looked down at each other and said slowly, "I think it's better for you to cook."
The man's movements suddenly stopped, like pressing the pause button, and an incredible look appeared on his face: "What did you say?"
Xiao Li repeated it expressionlessly: "If you want to eat, do it yourself."
It took a full five seconds for the man to react, and he jumped up from the chair: "Xu Jin, what the hell are you talking about?! I knew that you, Miss, you can't bear the pain, right? He said to me, love me only, and serve me for the rest of your life, but you can't stand it now?!"
Xiao Li stood there: "...how did I tell you back then?"
The man sneered and said, "It's not like 'I love you, I want to take care of you all my life, and I'm willing to come no matter what your home looks like', but now you want to go back? There are two men at the door, why don't you Follow them?"
Xiao Li said in a low voice, "...I don't know why Xu Jin likes you."
Man: "What did you say?!"
He obviously heard it, but he couldn't understand the meaning of Xiao Li's words, he just thought that Xu Jin was insulting him.
So he rolled up his sleeves, lifted the rolling pin beside him, and called towards Xiao Li.
Xiao Li didn't move at all, and the doll's hair extended infinitely, spreading out along his pocket, tying him firmly, and blocking his mouth by the way.
The rolling pin fell to the ground with a clatter.
The man was tied in place, his eyes revealing indescribable horror: "Uhhh?!"
The doll climbed out and turned into a girl in a thick coat. She stared at the other person with her mindless pupils, and squeezed the man even tighter.
The man struggled violently, but the act caused the strands of hair to wrap more tightly around his flesh.
Xiao Li picked up the rolling pin on the ground, put it in his hand and weighed it. With a little strength, he hit the man—
He didn't use too much force, the stick hit Xu Jin's husband's arm, and just after the first hit, the scene in front of Xiao Li changed like water ripples.
…
In the next second, the interior of this brick house changed.
It was still Xu Jin's husband. He was standing on the edge of the table with a broken bowl on the ground.
"You keep saying you love me, but what's the result? You can't even cook a dish, are you still a woman?" the man said with spittle.
Now Xiao Li has a guess about this side quest - is it to make up for Xu Jin's choice
This time, he didn't fight back directly. He kept holding on to the umbrella in his hand and took a step back to avoid the opponent's saliva.
The man vented his emotions: "I want to ask me for money to buy a mirror, what kind of mirror do you want? I thought your family was rich, but in the end your parents cut ties with you, and you can't get a penny, what a loss Well, someone else still has a dowry!"
Xiao Li didn't speak until the man himself felt dry, then he kicked the broken piece of porcelain scoldingly and went back to his room to sleep.
According to the decoration of the bedroom, Xu Jin should be sleeping in the straw pile.
Xiao Li turned the umbrella handle in his hand, he came out of the house and looked up at the moonlight above his head.
Xiao Li said to the umbrella: "I think it's faster for you to divorce directly, why bother?"
Behind him, in Xu Jin's husband's bedroom, Zhou Ying stood by his bedside.
The pale boy bent over in the moonlight, staring closely at the sleeping man on the bed.
Xu Jin's husband was sleeping, and he only felt an itch on his nose, as if something had fallen on it.
He rubbed his nose several times to no avail. In the end he could only endure the sleepiness and open his eyes to see if a mosquito had landed on the tip of his nose, but as soon as he opened his eyes, he suddenly followed in front of him A pair of gray pupils looked at each other.
It was a child. His pale complexion and blue lips all revealed his identity. He was not a human being, but a ghost.
And this ghost child has been standing by his bed, watching him, waiting for him to wake up!
The ghost child turned his head and smiled at him: "Come and play with me... play a game?"
Xu Jin's husband: "Ah-"
He jumped up like crazy, and rolled down the end of the bed in a tumble: "Go away, go away!"
Xu Jin's husband wanted to rush out of the door, but a strand of long hair hung from the roof, blocking the door firmly, blocking his escape.
The little boy approached him: "This game, if you lose, you will die."
Screams pierced the silence.
…
Once again the illusion was shattered, and Xiao Li returned to reality.
In reality, there is a circle of straw rope hanging from the cantilever beam on the roof of the brick house, and a person's neck is hung on the straw rope.
Looking at the facial features, it is Xu Jin's husband.
It's just that now he is no longer a living person, but has returned to the way he was when he died. He was hung on a straw rope with a pale face and became a hanged ghost.
—This is what the whole Lingxi Village really looks like.
Just as Xiao Li raised his head to look at him, the hanged ghost on the hanging beam suddenly rose up without wind, his legs swayed back and forth regularly, and then his whole body sank, as if he wanted to clamp Xiao directly. chestnut head.
There was a hint of resentment in the hanged ghost's eyes, and it was mixed with joy because he imagined the picture of the man in front of him being picked up and killed by him—
But in the next second, Xiao Li bent down and walked nimbly to avoid the hanged ghost's feet.
Not only that, but a figure appeared in his original seat.
It was tall and covered with a layer of black mucus. It used to have two heads, but because of Bloody Mary, there was only one head left, which was the ghoul.
And the hanged ghost's feet just caught the only remaining head of the ghoul.
Hanged Ghost: "... ??"
Wait, how come it doesn't seem like the width of the clipped object is quite what he thought—
The ghoul flashed its eyeless pupils, it looked up coldly, with icy anger, grabbed the hanged ghost's feet with both hands, and pulled it down, forcibly pulling it from the hanging beam. down.
Then the ghoul turned his head 180 degrees and looked at Xiao Li.
Xiao Li waved at it: "The reserve grain I gave you, eat it cleanly, no thanks."
Ghoul: "..."
It thought about it and didn't want to say thank you