The debate between Xiao Li and Xiao Huangben finally ended in Xiao Li's victory.
Xiao Huang originally insisted, but after probing Xiao Li's attitude several times, he felt Xiao Li's determination, so he gave up the idea of letting him (accompany him) sleep alone in a room.
As a result, Xiao Li wrapped a quilt and slept in the farthest corner of Datong's shop for one night. The bed here was very hard, making him uncomfortable. After the other reincarnations got up early, he had to get up with him.
There is no such thing as running water here. They had to fetch water one by one for washing. It was extremely difficult. Zhu Yiting put a cold towel on his face and complained: "It was bad enough to hit a ghost, and I had to fetch water myself. I thought I was in Metamorphosis."
Yongchun pushed him away, he held a dozen steamed buns in his hand, and was giving everyone breakfast one by one, when he heard the words, he immediately replied: "You are lucky to be able to stand here and talk now, I have experienced a world before. , In the old forest in the deep mountains, let alone washing your face, you have to solve the problem by yourself in the depths of the woods, but going to the toilet alone is dangerous, so in the end we all pulled together in groups, and I didn’t know that the elementary school students were holding hands. Where's the toilet?"
Zhu Yiting had never heard him mention this. He thought about his painful experience of holding back his urine last night, and he couldn't help but sigh for a while: "...It's really tragic!"
Shi Ye couldn't listen anymore, he coughed and interrupted Zhu Yiting's conversation: "Before the ghosts find us, let's go to the village chief to inquire about the situation - some people lead away the village chief, some How about someone sneaking into the village chief's house to find out what's going on? The eloquent person is responsible for attracting the village chief, and the courageous one enters the house, does anyone recommend it?"
Shi Ye's plan divides the reincarnators into two parts, but the part that slips into the village chief's house is obviously more dangerous than the former - who knows what's in the village chief's house? If there really are ghosts, doesn't that mean that sheep go into tigers' mouths
Therefore, after Shi Ye's plan was spoken, the scene fell into a cold spot for a while.
Xiao Li said lightly at this moment: "I'll go, I'm very interested in what's in his house."
Zhu Yiting quickly turned his head to look at him, and his heart suddenly struggled—according to the post, Sherlock was very good. If he could keep up with him, his chances of survival would surely improve, but he usually acts alone. I don't know what the consequences of acting with him will be. I heard that someone at the top of the reincarnation leaderboard also likes solo solo, never with other reincarnators...
He pondered for a moment, and decided to act from his heart and counsel first.
Except for Xiao Li, no one else took the initiative to recommend themselves. Shi Ye looked around in disappointment, and then said: "Then Sherlock, please. The villagers ask about the customs and strange things here."
Tao Fei recommended himself to ask the villagers, and Shi Ye led the rest to the village chief's house.
This morning, Juhun Village was not as quiet as usual. When the first rooster crowing, someone hurriedly went to find the village chief. When the person came, the village chief was preparing breakfast in the house. , was suddenly rushed in without knocking on the door, and the village chief Wu Shan was almost choked to death by the salted duck egg he just put in his mouth.
The woman known as Hu Niu still had a look of fear on her face. She rested her hands on the table and panted, "No, the village chief, something big has happened! Zhang Chang and Sister Li, they are both dead, so just Die in front of Zhang Tao's mourning hall!"
Wu Shan's complexion changed greatly, and the chopsticks he was holding in his hand also fell to the ground.
"I went to see Sister Li to feed the chickens this morning, but I found that she wasn't there. I looked around and couldn't find it. I asked a few people and they said they didn't see it. I searched from house to house, and finally found it in Zhang Chang's house. The bodies of Mrs. Li and Zhang Chang, and Zhang Tao's coffin next to them! Village chief, what the hell is going on, why don't we know why Zhang Tao died?!" Hu Niu recalled the scene at that time, and she was waiting to be beaten. A chill.
Wu Shan was silent for a long time after listening, and he bent his back as if he had suffered a blow.
"The village chief... Could it be that... her soul... has come back?!" In the silence of the village chief, Hu Niu speculated, "Since that incident, our village has never been peaceful, and it has been difficult to calm down recently. After a while, this incident happened again..."
"Shut up!" Wu Shan raised his face observantly, the wrinkles curved back and forth on his skin like earthworms, he gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't I tell you not to mention that?"
"The village chief..." Hu Niu said, startled by his face.
"Okay, Hu Niu, I'm going to bury them with you," Wu Shan also realized this, he managed to force a smile, "It won't be about that. Look, now I've invited reporters, Reporting on our village, even if we don’t do our old job, we can successfully transform and support ourselves, as long as this incident passes…”
He repeated as if trying to convince himself: "As long as this is over."
Hu Niu looked at him hesitantly, Wu Shan waved at her and walked out of the house with her.
This also led to the fact that when Shi Ye and others led the reincarnators to come here, only the village chief's wife was in the house. Shi Ye immediately realized that something was wrong in the village, causing the village chief to leave. He immediately divided another wave of people to search for the seat of the village chief, and he followed a three-pronged approach.
Zhu Yiting watched Shi Ye and others walk away, the young man straightened his clothes, showed a perfect smile, and walked towards the village chief's wife with the two friends behind him.
She was lowering her head to dig well water, when she caught a glimpse of Zhu Yiting's clothes out of the corner of her eyes, she immediately raised her head: "Mr. Reporter? Is there anything wrong?"
Zhu Yiting showed his skills in dealing with relatives and friends on weekdays: "I'll come here to investigate, you look very good today."
The village chief's wife touched her face: "Where is it, Mr. reporter, please stop joking."
Xiao Li took advantage of this time to turn over from the outside of the village chief's fence and walked into the village chief's house.
This house is a little bigger than the others, but it is also quite simple. There are not many things in the house. It is divided into two parts: kitchen, living room, and bedroom, which are connected to each other.
The sky outside is very dark, and the dark cloud hangs heavily in the sky. It doesn't look like morning at all, but like evening.
Xiao Li first walked to the bedroom, flipped through the other person's bedside table, and found a pile of books about the village's agricultural construction. In addition, there were some daily necessities, which were of little value.
He walked further away, squinted his eyes and looked around for a week, then bent down and dragged out a box from the bed with an ancient copper lock hanging on it.
Xiao Li flicked the copper lock with his fingers and looked around, trying to find an iron wire to use as a tool - just as he was about to search elsewhere, a strand of hair slowly stretched out from the boy's pocket. It came out, became longer and longer, and stabbed into the keyhole of the copper lock.
With a "click", the copper lock opened, and Tan Li retracted her hair.
Xiao Li touched the small head exposed by the puppet in his pocket, took off the copper lock, and opened the box. He saw a small box inside. There were several scarecrows made by hand in the box. Very scary.
In addition, there is a bracelet, and a booklet.
Just as he was about to reach out and take the booklet, one of the scarecrows turned his neck slowly, and a real grimace appeared on the face that was all straw and without facial features!
Xiao Li's outstretched hand paused in mid-air.
The grimace slowly opened its mouth at him—
Xiao Li turned the whole box over and buckled it on the bed. The scarecrow was submerged in the box, his eyes went black, and he closed his mouth at a loss.
There was a faint cat's meow in the distance, Xiao Li quickly glanced into the distance, and then withdrew his gaze.
The boy removed the box, picked up the booklet, and put the scarecrow in again. He opened the booklet and saw a formula recorded on it, followed by a detailed explanation. This was some kind of soul-gathering ceremony.
Xiao Li rummaged through the booklet, stuffed the contents of the box back, put it back into the box, locked it, pushed it back, and so on.
Next, he roughly searched the village chief's house again, but he didn't find any bigger clues, so he jumped out of the window.
While the reincarnators were in action, the entire Soul Gathering Village was undergoing tremendous changes.
A man who had just returned from the field was shirtless and looked comfortable, sitting by the side of the house nibbling on white-faced steamed buns.
There was a figure walking towards him in the distance, a middle-aged woman who was wearing sackcloth and holding a black box in her hand.
The man looked up and greeted the other party with a smile: "Isn't this Mrs. Li? What's the matter, what's your reason for coming here?"
Sister Li turned her back to the light, and her face looked bad. She looked down at the man with a condescending expression on her face, and said word by word, "Gang, I have something here for you that you forgot."
A just took the black box curiously: "Yo, what is this? Did I forget?"
"Take it apart and have a look." Sister Li said grimly, and she turned to leave.
The man looked up at her back. He always felt that Mrs. Li was a little weird today. It was an inexplicable feeling. He looked at the sky, fearing that it would rain in the afternoon, so he decided to finish the work at hand before unpacking the box.
Ah Gang returned to the field, bent over and pulled up the weeds in the field.
Time passed by, and he was about to pull it halfway, when he saw the well-known Bao Inquirer in the village hurriedly passing by the small road in front of his house, looking extremely frightened.
A-Gang suddenly became curious and stopped the other party: "Bao inquired, what's wrong with you? Your daughter-in-law was stolen?"
Bao Tuanting stopped and waved at him: "Don't mention it, Sister Li and Zhang Chang are dead, you know? It's a terrible death, and the village chief wants to hide it!"
The handful of weeds that A Gang had just pulled out fell to the ground, and he stammered and asked, "How could it be? She... She came to see me just now!"
Baotou's face changed suddenly when he heard the words: "What?! Sister Li's body was still at Zhang Chang's house before, and I just came back from there! You fucking hit a ghost in the daytime?"
"But... look at this, this is what she left behind!" A-Gang subconsciously turned around to look for the black box as evidence that Sister Li had been there. He shook his legs and ran back to the eaves, picking up the black box, "she said This is what I lost..."
"Don't! Don't! Hurry up and throw it away!" Bao Tuo staggered his gaze and didn't dare to look at it, "I'm afraid it's not peaceful in this village!"
Ah Gang looked down at the black box in his hand, and suddenly ran wildly, throwing it away in the trash can, he was relieved, thinking it was over.
This kind of thing happened just now, and Agang was no longer in the mood to continue farming. He closed the house and went out to chat with other people in the village.
He didn't come back until nightfall, but as soon as he came back, he was stunned.
The black box, at some point in time, returned to the front of his house and was placed upright at the door.
Ah Gang swallowed, his thoughts seemed to be bewitched by some object, he felt a part of himself was in the box, he wanted to open it - under the moonlight, the man approached the box and moved towards it Reach out.
—
At the same time, Chase shop.
A candle lit the house, Shi Ye stood beside the bed, and exchanged today's information with the reincarnators: "We went to follow the village chief and found that he went to the house of a man named 'Zhang Chang', over there Three people have died, the killing from the ghosts has already begun, and we don't know how long it will be our turn."
Tao Fei took it up: "According to the information from the villagers, the three people who died were Zhang Tao, Zhang Chang, and Sister Li. The village chief kept asking to hide it. I don't know why, but the clues may be black boxes. "
Zhu Yiting was holding a corncob in his hand, which was given to him by the village chief's wife after he was so excited. It must be the key. I don't know if it has something to do with the customs here. Anyone who opens it will die... The box of death? I think of a possibility, Pandora's box, do you know? Maybe this black box is like Pandora's box, Once opened, it will emit the curse of the Specter."
Yongchun didn't laugh at Zhu Yiting as usual, because he thought the other party's fart was justified - so Yongchun turned his target to Shi Ye and others: "You guys have been out for so long, so you just inquired about this? Do you have any other news?"
He blinked his eyes, and pointedly turned his gaze to the black-haired boy beside the oil lamp.
Xiao Li was very close to the oil lamp, he looked at the flames, and the flames were reflected in those black eyes - he turned his head slightly, and recalled today's harvest: "This village used to gather souls for a living, for the sake of The dead call souls, but for some reason they have stopped doing this. They perform the ritual of gathering souls by making scarecrows. The summoned souls will cover the scarecrows at first, and then they can transfer to the original body - that's why this village Because there is no threshold, it is convenient for souls to enter and exit."
Yongchun: "..."
Zhu Yiting: "..."
—Wait, this is too much information, too detailed! Sherlock, how do you know so much!
"These are recorded by the village chief." Xiao Li went on to express his speculation, "- Also, it is not necessarily that the person who gets the box and opens it will die. Is it possible that... only the person who will die will die. Will people get this box? Both possibilities will exist, and neither possibility can be ruled out at present.”
Under the brightly extinguished oil lamp, his words made Zhu Yiting's scalp tingle, because he faintly realized that Sherlock's state at this time was not right. It seemed that the other party... was very excited, which was different from his usual lazy and indifferent appearance. It's the same, he said so many words in one breath!
"But what kind of person is a mortal person?" Xiao Li raised his index finger, approached the flame, and lowered his tone as if talking to himself.
And that cat meowing... also made him very concerned.
Before he could finish speaking, there was a knocking sound of "dong, dong, dong" from the door of the reincarnator.
The expressions of everyone in the room changed, and the people closest to the door looked at each other, but did not dare to make a sound for a while.
In the silence, Xiao Li stood up. He came to the door and heard the third knock on the door. He inserted in the gap between the knocks and said, "We don't have any express delivery."
Shi Ye, who was always ready with the ghost exorcism charm: "..."
- This man is poisonous
Xiao Li thought for a while and added, "We didn't order takeout either."
Shi Ye: ? ?
- This man is poisonous!
As soon as Xiao Li finished speaking, the knocking outside the door stopped strangely, and then a cold and hard voice sounded: "I'm not a deliveryman, I'm A Gang, I'm looking for Shi Ye, he has something left with me Now, I'll give it back to him."
Shi Ye, who was named by him, turned pale, and he couldn't wait to swallow the ghost pill, holding the ghost talisman in his hand, and cold sweat dripping from his forehead: "I didn't lose anything, you recognized the wrong person, go back."
"It's yours." A-Gang said firmly, "Open the door, and I'll return it to you."
Shi Ye pressed the door bolt tightly: "I told you it wasn't mine!"
A-Gang insisted: "Why don't you take it apart and take a look? If it's yours, you can take it. If it's not yours, I'll take it back."
Shi Ye stretched out his hand and affixed the ghost exorcism talisman to the door bolt. He was frightened by Xiao Li's speculation about the "mortal person" - why did the ghost stare at him! Why! His cold sweat soaked his entire back, and his voice completely lost his usual calmness: "I won't watch, get out of here!"
Xiao Li was pushed aside by him. Before he had time to do anything, A Gang outside the door had a strangely erratic voice: "But it must be delivered to you... Look at the window, Shi Ye."
As soon as Ah Gang finished speaking, there was a movement from the half-opened window. A black box squeezed in through the crack of the window with difficulty. It rolled over the wall and finally stopped in the center of the room.