Xu Wang gently pushed the Moon Gate open, and the door panel let out a low "squeak", like a whimper.
The four of them filed in.
As Qian Ai, who was at the end, stepped into the East Courtyard, the door slammed shut behind the four of them, shocking the four of them.
Xu Wang turned around and went to pull the door panel again, but the door could not be opened.
The colder wind than the western courtyard pierced through people's clothes.
And the scenery in front of you—if the broken walls and ruins are considered scenery—is even more desolate and desolate than the Western Courtyard.
Withered trees fell, the pond was dry, the silt all over the floor gave off a stench, and the pavilion at the end of the corridor had collapsed. Under the cold moonlight, among the cluttered wreckage, there seemed to be ghosts swaying.
The four partners can conclude that the last time they came to 5/23, they had never been to the boundary of the East Court.
"Didn't you say that the feng shui here is good..." Qian Ai said in a very low voice, with a face full of words.
Wu Sheng sighed lightly: "You have to think in reverse."
Qian Ai: "… "
Wu Sheng: "..."
Qian Ai: "And then? No more?"
Shouldn't I explain further! ! !
"It's so stupid," Xu Wang grabbed Lao Qian and whispered, "What he means is that this kind of place, people seem to be disturbing, and ghosts may be the best comfort zone, understand?"
Qian Ai understood: "... a hell on earth, a fairyland among ghosts."
"Captain, don't think Brother Qian is stupid," Kuang Jinxin leaned over, endured the joy, and whispered, "Think about it, if Brother Sheng has a look, Brother Qian will understand it in seconds. One word, Brother Qian is just like you, Read it now to understand the full meaning…”
Wu Sheng silently looked up at the sky.
"Old Qian," Xu Wang immediately turned his head and patted his teammates' shoulders with great sincerity, "You don't have to improve, just keep the status quo, it's good."
Qian Ai: "… "
"How many of you—" A ghost roar came from not far away, the sound quality was that of a ghost voice, but the momentum was very righteous and awe-inspiring, "Just say you, stand there and don't move!"
As soon as the words fell, a ghost had rushed in front of them.
He was around forty, lean, with pointed mouths and monkey cheeks, his face was as pale as a dead man, his lips were black, and his only eyes were dripping, which made him better than other ghosts in terms of "liveness".
"How did you get in?" Di Liu looked up and down the four of them vigilantly.
"We... we climbed over the wall and came in." Xu Wang didn't change his expression, but his heart didn't beat.
"Lonely ghost, homeless," Wu Sheng added, "Come here to find a place to stay."
Xu Wang, Qian Ai, and Kuang Jinxin: "..."
My own strategist watched "Liao Zhai" with a PAD on the train yesterday. He didn't learn the law of controlling ghosts clearly. He definitely remembered these ancient lines.
"If you don't go through the gate, what a wall to climb over." Di Liu scolded, but his hostility was obviously weaker, "If the boss knows that I didn't watch the door and let the ghosts get in, I really have to be nailed to death again. ."
be again
Xu Wang didn't find any obvious scars on Di Liu Luanzhuan's body. He always thought that he was poisoned to death. Now he heard the voice and looked again, only to find that he had a thick nail on the cover of the sky. The nails have been completely immersed in the brain, and only the nail heads are left outside, which are covered by messy hair, and can't be found if you don't pay attention.
"Okay," the Crucified Ghost breathed a sigh of relief, "Thanks I found you, let's go, I'll take you to see the boss, whether you can stay here, you have to listen to the boss."
The four partners looked at each other - this is the boss
Xu Wang pursed his lips - what if this boss asks us to go undercover again
Qian Ai's eyes widened - The Infernal Affairs is the middle way? !
Kuang Jinxin wrinkled his face - it's too difficult...
Wu Sheng's forehead - no one will design the script to be an infinite loop!
"Why are you winking," Nailed Ghost took two steps, and when he looked back, he found that the four of them didn't move, and said impatiently, "Follow up."
The four of them converged their minds, increased their speed to keep up, and followed the crucified ghost in the corridor, and finally came to a small and remote deserted courtyard.
The yard can see the head at a glance, only a crooked neck tree that will not fall down, and a well under the tree.
Xu Wang looked at the Crucified Ghost in confusion: "Your boss... in the well?"
"Don't be blinded by your eyes," the Crucified Ghost suddenly sank. "You look at it as a well, but in fact it is the door leading to the deep courtyard."
"So let's go next..." Xu Wang had a bad feeling.
Nailed Ghost: "Throw in the well together."
He knows it! ! !
The four people and one ghost came to the mouth of the well, and the nailed ghost suddenly took two steps back and made a gesture of invitation: "Let's jump."
Xu Wang quickly gave in: "You come first."
"Hurry up, don't wait for me to kick you." The crucified ghost's tone became fierce again, and there was a hint of... urgency in the fierceness
Xu Wang narrowed his eyes slightly and stood still.
Wu Sheng suddenly pulled him behind him, blocking him from negotiating with the nailed ghost: "We can jump first, but don't stay so far away, you have to guard the well and watch us."
The nailed ghosts were silent, staring at them, and a trace of black gas suddenly appeared at the head of Tianling Gai's nails.
In the next second, the nailed ghost suddenly stepped forward, aimed at the defenseless Kuang Jinxin, and pushed hard down the well!
Kuang Jinxin tilted his body and fell straight head down!
Qian Ai's breath stagnated, and he stretched out his hand to catch it. However, everything happened so fast that he didn't have time to catch it, and Jin Xin had already fallen!
"Small situation—" Qian Ai shouted loudly at the dark underground!
Wu Sheng, on the other hand, manipulated the catching vine to stretch out its vines and quickly slid into the well to chase people!
"I'm fine..." In the well, there was finally a faint reply from Kuang Jinxin.
After a while, a classmate Kuang, who had his severed hand tightly grasped by the back collar, was taken out of the well and saw the light of day again.
The arresting vine did not catch up with classmate Kuang, and they survived by relying on their own stationery.
Qian Ai and Wu Sheng were amazed.
This is not a broken hand, this is the iron arm of God! ! !
Here, at the moment when Kuang Jinxin fell, Xu Wang manipulated the spirit behind him and directly entangled the crucified ghost, the tighter the entanglement!
Can ghosts be strangled? Xu Wang was not sure. But right now, he couldn't think of a better way to kill this guy.
Just as he was thinking about it, a black figure suddenly rushed over from the dark corner, hugged the waist of the nailed ghost, and rushed to the well in one breath!
Kuang Jinxin had already come out of the well, and the three friends instinctively avoided when they saw a group of ghosts coming quickly.
The shadow pressed his back, lifted his legs, and directly shoved the nailed ghost into the well!
Everything only happened in an instant, the speed of the shadow was so fast that people couldn't see his appearance at all, and it also made it too late for the crucified ghost to do any resistance!
Hearing a "dong" sound, the nailed ghost seemed to have fallen to the bottom of a dry well, and the next moment, the entire courtyard heard his shrill howl!
That howl stabbed people's scalp to numb and their hearts trembled.
Fortunately, it quickly weakened, and then it was silent again.
A group of blue ghost fire slowly floated out of the well and fell into the hands of the shadow.
Only then did the four of them see clearly that Hei Ying was a young man in his twenties, but his face was yellow and skinny, and he was described as haggard, even in a ghost.
"He lied to you," Ghost Shadow said, with an honesty in his voice, "He's not a gatekeeper, he's a ghost eater."
Xu Wang: "Huh?"
Wu Sheng: "Eat, ghost?"
Qian Ai, Kuang Jinxin: "..."
Let the military officer think about it, what is going on with the inexplicable cuteness...
"It's eating ghosts, ghosts." The yellow-faced muscles couldn't bear to give them a look, the originally cloudy eyes turned clear, "He specially picked new ghosts to start, and when he tricked them, he pushed them into the well, and waited for the soul to be refined. Come out and he will eat it again."
"What happens to the ghost that was pushed down?" Xu Wang asked.
The face was yellow and the muscles were thin and said, "The moment the soul was brought up, it was gone."
"We are new ghosts and inexperienced," Wu Junshi's words have become the routine opening remarks for questions, "Ghosts, can't we fall into the well?"
"It's not that you can't fall into the well, it's not that you can't fall into this well," the yellow-faced muscle was thin and looked down at the well, and said solemnly, "This well is called the Soul Refining Well, as long as it falls, no matter how powerful you are, you will have to obediently be taken out of the soul. "
The four of them looked around the courtyard, but couldn't see that there was such a deadly well hidden in such an inconspicuous and remote corner.
Qian Ai was afraid of breaking out in a cold sweat: "I said, in such a dangerous place, you can't draw a cordon, put up a sign or something?"
The yellow-faced muscle was thin and stared at him for a while, and then said with joy, "No one has ever thought about it that way."
"Every ghost sweeps the snow in front of the door, who cares if the ghosts put frost on the tiles. This kind of bad habit is brought from the world to the ghost house," Qian Ai shook his head in disappointment. "I didn't expect the ghost world to be so indifferent, alas."
Wu Sheng and Kuang Jinxin took away their teammates who were too devoted to their roles and replaced them with Captain Xu.
"This is the soul in your hand?" Xu Wang stared at the ghost fire for a long time.
"Well, eating it can increase ghost power," handed it over with a thin face, "Look, who eats it?"
Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, Qian Ai, and Kuang Jinxin: "..."
The biggest sadness in the world is that I finally met a good ghost who is united and friendly, and I can't share the "Dabu Pill".
Xu Wang smiled dryly: "Well, you saved us, how can we still want this, you can keep it for yourself."
The yellow-faced muscle was thin and looked at them for a while, and finally nodded, "Ah-huh", and ate the soul.
The four partners looked at them seriously, but they couldn't see any change in the yellowish skin and thin skin.
… may be the internal force
Just thinking about it randomly, the yellow-faced muscle and thin stomach suddenly grunted.
Xu Wang looked at him in confusion: "A ghost is still hungry?"
With a yellow face and thin skin, he scratched his head embarrassedly: "I'm a starving ghost."
Four partners: "… "
Logical full marks, no flaws.
"Speaking of which, I just heard you talk to Ghost Eaters, are you looking for a place to stay?" The Hungry Ghost asked suddenly.
Suddenly turning to the topic, Xu Wang restrained his thoughts and became serious: "Yes."
The starving ghost held on to his shriveled belly, as if he would be less hungry in this way: "If you don't choose, just live in the underworld."
Wu Sheng: "Underworld?"
The starving ghost nodded: "Yes, it is here, and there are several courtyards in front, collectively referred to as the underworld. You can live wherever you want, and no one will care."
Wu Sheng heard the clue: "Apart from the underworld, is there anything else?"
"Well, the yard further inside is the 'human world'," said the starving ghost. "The 'human world' is more ghostly than the underworld, but not everyone can go there. You have to find a manager and pass the assessment. Row."
"Underworld, human world," Qian Ai said awkwardly, a haunted house still has so many classes, "Why don't you go to the sky, make a celestial wind."
The starving ghost: "Yes, the boss lives in the innermost, the heaven."
"..." Qian Ai tried to smile, "As expected of the boss, his ideals are lofty."
Xu Wang probably understood: "If we want to live in a better place and live closer to the boss, we must pass at least two assessments."
The starving ghost looked at him a little surprised: "Do you really want to go to the heaven? It's very difficult. There is a ghost spring, and the boss won't let people in easily. Those who can live in the heaven are big ghosts."
Ghost Spring!
The four partners were shocked, but they didn't expect that they would get the information in this way.
In the sudden silence, a severed hand suddenly gently pulled the corner of the starving ghost's clothes.
The starving ghost turned his head and saw no ghost. He lowered his head again, only to see Kuang Jinxin crouching on the ground.
"Little hungry," said Kuang Jinxin tentatively, "Can I ask you about one, no, two ghosts?"
"..." Suddenly having a new name made the Hungry Ghost feel a bit complicated, but the other party shouted very kindly, so in that complexity, a little bit... Not bad
"Who do you want to ask?"
"The Merry Ghost and the Dream Ghost," Kuang Jinxin asked, "do you know where they live?"
With Guiquan's information, the rest is of course the badge.
"It's in the underworld," the starving ghost didn't even think about it, "I don't know which hospital, but it's definitely not in the human world."
Xu Wang leaned over: "So sure?"
The starving ghost nodded: "The romantic ghost is not qualified. The dream ghost is very afraid of ghosts and always hides in places where there are no ghosts. It is impossible to take the initiative to find the manager, and I heard that the further inward the yard is, the smaller the yard, if the dream ghost goes in, the more There's nowhere to hide."
Xu Wang exchanged glances with the three friends, and then said to the starving ghost: "That's it, if we want to go to the human world, can you take us to the steward?"
The starving ghost frowned and persuaded: "Do you really want to go? Actually, it's pretty good here..."
"Ghosts go to high places, water flows to low places." Xu Wang is now very proficient in nonsense, "but the four of us haven't agreed on opinions, can we talk again?"
"Okay," the starving ghost agreed happily, squatted down, and pressed Gululu's stomach, "you all gave me your soul, if you really want to enter the world, I will take you to find a manager."
The starving ghosts here are honestly waiting.
The four friends over there got together and held a "Want Want Team Temporary Small Meeting".
"The ghost spring is in the heaven, and the badge is in the underworld. If we can't find the save point, we can only divide our troops." Wu Sheng hit the key.
Qian Ai sighed: "I didn't find the save point last time I came here. I think I won't look for it this time, and just split up and act."
Kuang Jinxin said: "I agree with Brother Qian. If other teams' tasks are simple, it will leave us less time. Instead of finding a save point where we don't know where, it is better to complete more specific tasks and badges."
Xu Wang pulled everyone to a small meeting, which is what he meant: "Then it's settled, Wu Sheng and I will go to the heavens to find Guiquan to file the papers, and Lao Qian and Xiao Kuang will stay here and look for badges."
A minute later, the four partners returned to the starving ghost.
The starving ghost is still curious about the outcome of the meeting: "It's settled?"
"Well," Xu Wang pointed to himself and Wu Sheng, "Let's go to the human world. Of course, it would be better if we could live in the heavenly realm." He also pointed to Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin.
Qian Ai: "… "
Stay in the government. This sounds so ominous! Can't we say underground workers? A negative tier 1 Patronus is also fine!
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