Suddenly, there was a noisy sound of footsteps outside, as if a group of ghosts had found the attic and had reached the door. Mao Zhen fumbled on the wall for a few times and actually opened it. Inside was a square about one meter high. He climbed in and said to Chen Yang, "Come in quickly."
At the critical moment, Chen Yang climbed in. Mao Zhen closed the wall, and the two of them sat in the square. The square fell like an elevator, and the moment it fell, he heard the ghost outside just break the door open.
Chen Yang: "Where are we going?"
Mao Zhen: "Leave the Yunchi Hot Spring Bath. The outside is now surrounded by ghosts, and the mistress of the Nameless House will be here soon. I heard that her skin was lost. Did you steal it?"
Chen Yang: “Yeah.”
"Still there?"
Chen Yang: "I just traded with two kids and gave it to them. They probably haven't digested it yet. Is the hostess of the nameless house a painted skin ghost?" According to folklore, the painted skin ghost can take off the beauty skin on his face, hold a pen and paint on the beauty's face, and draw the appearance of a peerless beauty. The actual situation is that the painted skin ghost peels off the beauty's skin and puts it on himself. Different beauty faces have different beauty skins.
Mao Zhen said, "Yes. Do you know that because of the intervention of the Heavenly Master, no human has broken into the cemetery for a long time? The one or two people who break in occasionally may not be beauties. The human skin used by the Painted Skin Ghost is hundreds of years old. It has been damaged a long time ago. She has to take careful care of it every day, and has to cover herself with a black veil when meeting others. As a result, you directly stole her human skin and threw it to the two little ghosts to eat. Tsk tsk, she will definitely go crazy." His tone was full of gloating.
The square was turbulent for a while, then stopped. Mao Zhen opened the wall and walked down, and Chen Yang also went down. In front of him seemed to be the boiler room of Yunchi Hot Spring Bath, where water was boiled. The temperature was very high, and Chen Yang was soon sweating. The boiler room was very quiet, without a single ghost. Going around some large cabinets, in front was a stove and a huge boiler, and the sound of hot water boiling in the boiler was heard. The boiler had no cover, and the steam quickly filled the entire boiler, making it almost impossible to see the road clearly.
There was a blazing green flame under the boiler, and human bones could be vaguely seen as firewood. Chen Yang remembered the "white firewood" mentioned by the two boys, which turned out to be human bones. He took a look and turned around: "Where do we go now?"
Mao Zhen suddenly said, "Something is approaching, hide first." They hid and saw two boys carrying a fat ghost in. They stopped in front of the stove and sniffed the air, then said in unison, "The smell of a living soul."
They put the ghosts aside and sniffed the scent of living souls in the air to find them. Mao Zhen had been trapped in the Yin house for more than 20 years. Although he was also a living soul, he had long been contaminated by the Yin house's resentment and was assimilated to the point that he could hardly detect the breath of living souls. So he turned to Chen Yang and said silently: "Invisibility."
Taoist invisibility is not really hiding the body, but hiding one's yang energy and breath, so that ghosts can't detect anything unusual. Therefore, in the eyes of ghosts, it is tantamount to invisibility. Chen Yang pulled out a section of the red rope on his wrist and tied a special and complex knot on his middle finger. This is the Yang-locking knot, which locks the yang energy and ghosts can't detect it.
As expected, the two boys stopped walking quickly: "No smell." They hesitated for a while, and turned back to find that the "white pig" broke free and tried to escape. They immediately returned to the original place, one held down the "white pig", and the other took out a butcher knife from the side and gently cut the "white pig's" throat, and put the bucket in front of him to catch the blood. When the blood flowed out, the two boys worked together to carry the "white pig" up the ten steps, to the stove, and threw the "white pig" into the boiler to wait for it to be boiled and skinned.
The mist filled the air, and Chen Yang and Mao Zhen took this opportunity to escape from the boiler room. Mao Zhen said, "They will capture the ghosts who come to the bath, drain their blood and extract their bones, use the bones as firewood, and make the blood and flesh into special spices for bathing. They will stuff their internal organs with rock sugar and feed them to hungry ghosts. After all, hungry ghosts are the most unpicky and will eat anything. So there are not only a large number of ghosts outside the bath, but also many hungry ghosts around the boiler room."
Chen Yang walked out of the boiler room, which was at the end of the corridor. There was a small dim light on within five meters of the corridor. The weak light was useless in the darkness, and almost the entire corridor was plunged into darkness.
Mao Zhen said, "Hungry ghosts won't appear within the light, so just walk along the light." He looked back at the Cistanche knot on Chen Yang's middle finger and said, "The Cistanche knot can only be used for five minutes at most. If it's used for too long, it will damage your Yang energy. We have to leave the corridor within five minutes. Those hungry ghosts are going crazy and will even eat ghosts."
Chen Yang's eyebrows moved, and he caught a glimpse of Mao Zhen's serious face from the corner of his eye. "I know." After saying that, he walked forward, stepping on the light. The light flickered on and off, adding to the horror of the moment. There was a low humming sound in the darkness, like the whispers of unknown monsters. Chen Yang clearly felt that the hungry ghosts hiding in the darkness were drooling and looking at him greedily. When he accidentally touched the darkness, there would be hungry ghosts trying to drag him into the darkness by force.
Once dragged into the darkness, hordes of hungry ghosts will swarm over and devour them.
Mao Zhen said, "Because there are groups of hungry ghosts in the boiler room, usually no ghosts dare to come over. Old Man Yun in the Yunchi hot spring bath, including his wife, son, and grandson, are all evil ghosts who feed hungry ghosts, so the hungry ghosts will not harm them."
"I can see it. He's coming down." Chen Yang looked at the old man Yun in front of him, whose body was covered with charred marks, without stopping.
This bathhouse used to have a very good business in the world of the living, because the materials used in the bathhouse are very special. The bathhouse recipe is said to be passed down from ancestors, but in fact, when Old Man Yun was young, he killed his friend's family and stole their bathhouse recipe. Later, Old Man Yun's two grandsons fell into the boiling boiler and were scalded. The daughter-in-law went crazy, and the son, who was weak and afraid of his father all his life, became a violent maniac. Later, a fire broke out in the Yunchi Bathhouse, and everyone was burned to death.
Old Man Yun insisted that he had died in vain, so he opened an identical hot spring bath in the beamless tomb. In fact, he was not so foolish as to deceive himself, but he was too smart and knew that even if he was reincarnated, he would be reincarnated as an animal for a hundred lifetimes. So he would rather squat in the beamless tomb, waiting for the soul to break in one day, so that he could get the upper hand and return to the world of the living.
Chen Yang took off the bronze coin on his wrist, pulled it into a long whip, and swung it into the darkness when Old Man Yun rushed over. Old Man Yun couldn't believe it. He thought that Chen Yang should not dare to use any Taoist magic under the threat of the hordes of hungry ghosts around him. Once he used Taoist magic, he would definitely need to mobilize the Yang world, expose his identity, and trigger a riot of hungry ghosts.
Old man Ke Yun didn't know that the Taoism that Chen Yang learned was the Ghost Taoism. Ghost Taoists associate with ghosts and are born with strong yin and weak yang. In the world of the living, this kind of physique will inevitably attract evil ghosts, but in the Yin house, it becomes a good amulet.
The hungry ghosts held Old Man Yun's hands and feet, then pounced on him and ate him. They had been hungry for too long. Chen Yang wrapped the long whip around his waist and questioned Mao Zhen, "Didn't you say that the hungry ghosts raised by Old Man Yun wouldn't hurt him?"
Mao Zhen smiled bitterly: "Even a dog that is usually very loyal will eat its master when it is extremely hungry. Not to mention a irrational monster like a hungry ghost."
Chen Yang glanced at the hungry ghosts who were ready to move, moved his lips, and then shouted in a low voice: "Run!" As soon as the words fell, he and Mao Zhen ran away quickly, and the lights behind them suddenly shattered one by one, and darkness gradually enveloped the corridor. The hungry ghosts, who seemed even hungrier after tasting the ghosts, pounced on them madly.
He ran to the staircase at the end of the corridor and waited for Mao Zhen to come in. Chen Yang slammed the wooden door shut and locked it. Behind the wooden door, the corridor was filled with hungry ghosts. Chen Yang breathed a sigh of relief: "Walk outside now? Will we encounter other ghosts?"
Mao Zhen: "No." He led Chen Yang upstairs, but opened the wall halfway and climbed in. He said: "This is a road that few people know about. It was originally used for fire escape. Hehe, if I hadn't bribed those two little ghosts, I really wouldn't have known it. By the way, I warn you, don't trust all the ghosts in the cemetery, because they are extremely greedy by nature. So you can't trust them, but you can trade with them."
Chen Yang followed him and climbed out of the Yunchi bath and came out of another house. Mao Zhen climbed to the fifth floor of the house and opened the window of a room: "Come in." He also threatened the lit lanterns below that if they dared to scream, he would pull out their tongues immediately.
Chen Yang entered the room and closed the window. Through the window, he could see a large group of ghosts surrounding the entrance of the Yunchi Hot Spring Bath. There was also a tall ghost with red muscles and no skin standing in front of the ghosts. This ghost had an ugly face and jagged teeth like saw teeth. It should be the mistress of the Nameless House, also known as the Painted Skin Ghost.
After a while, several ghosts took the two boys to the Painted Skin Ghost. The Painted Skin Ghost grabbed the two boys, sniffed them for a while, and suddenly tore them in half in anger and threw them to the ground. Chen Yang was a little far away and vaguely heard the word "skin".
The Painted Skin Ghost suddenly looked up at the window where Chen Yang was, but saw that the window was empty. Chen Yang was leaning against the wall at this time, and he hid immediately when the Painted Skin Ghost looked up.
At this moment, the door in front of him was suddenly opened. Chen Yang reacted quickly and grabbed the person who came in. The person resisted and turned around. The two recognized each other in an instant. "Zhang Qiudao?"
Zhang Qiudao was stunned, then heaved a sigh of relief: "Why did you come here?"
At the same time, in the old house, Kou Xuanling bumped into someone while hiding and fought with him. The more he fought, the more he found that the other person's movements were familiar, so he called out tentatively. The other person stopped moving, and the two walked under the light to recognize each other.
Kou Xuanling saw the other person's face clearly and found that he was not mistaken. He asked, "Zhang Qiudao, why did you come here?"