"You're worried about them too, aren't you?" Cheng Xin sighed as he looked at him, feeling a little headache, "These two people are just messing around..."
"No, I'm worried about the funeral NPC." Liao Guan said with some trepidation, "The two of them don't seem to be going to the funeral, but to kill and silence."
"... Rather than worrying about this, you might as well worry about them kidnapping another npc, or bringing that corpse back as a prop..." Yan Chuchu glanced at the leading driver and complained.
The two protagonists who sacrificed their lives for righteousness obviously did not feel the complaints from their teammates behind their backs. Chu Tianshu followed behind the funeral procession, looking for cover and rushing left and right, while covering Lin Huai behind him: "Be careful, we are doing a latent mission, don't let them find us."
Lin Huai looked at the thin utility pole that Chu Tianshu relied on for shelter, and looked up at the sky: "I think they have already discovered us."
However, Chu Tianshu seemed to be quite happy with it. While adding drama to himself, he left strange marks on the earthen walls on both sides with chalk. Lin Huai looked at him and asked curiously, "Are you really just loitering outside the cemetery instead of going in?"
"Yeah, it's too dangerous to go in now." Chu Tianshu said, "I'm just flirting, not stupid."
Lin Huaixu rolled his eyes: "...so you know you're coquettish."
"... There are so many people in the cemetery now, if you go in to dig the grave, you will be surrounded and beaten by the villagers." Chu Tianshu said, "So wait until midnight when no one is around before going to rob the tomb. If you are lucky, except for a freshly baked corpse. I can also meet a few ghosts wandering around the cemetery."
"... Huh? So you're just afraid of being surrounded by the villagers and beaten?"
"Otherwise?" Chu Tianshu chewed the grass leaves in his mouth, "Sometimes, the human heart is more terrifying than ghosts and gods."
"Because of the tomb robbery, did you enter the tomb robbery note mode so soon..."
The two complained to each other, and the coffin was finally carried to the cemetery outside the village entrance by the funeral crowd. It is said to be a cemetery, but it is actually just a piece of land covered with loess bags. There is a long wooden sign on the soil bag, on which is the name and date of birth and death of the deceased. Now there is one more wooden sign in this row upon row.
They stood by, quietly watching the coffin being buried in the ground. Seeing that the coffin was buried in the loess, the orphan and widow almost fainted several times. A handful of loess was sprinkled on the coffin lid, and the deceased in the coffin was officially sunk from the world into the underworld.
"Amitabha." Chu Tianshu drew a triangle on his chest, "Goddess of the Evernight, may your soul rest in peace."
"Good, good." Lin Huai drew a moon on his chest, "God of steam and machinery, I hope you will be a ghost before you are interrogated by us... and you will have a good pregnancy in your next life."
The two squatted in the grass, quietly waiting for the mourners to leave. Unexpectedly, after crying for a long time in front of the grave, the group of people started chatting again, as if they still had something to say.
Gradually, there were quarrels in the cemetery, and the young widow at the head seemed to have thought of something, and her face was flushed with anger. She rolled up her sleeves and strode to the edge of the cemetery. Seeing her appearance, several people followed in panic.
If the widow hadn't left, Lin Huai and the others would have never noticed that there was also a small grave at the outermost edge of the cemetery. Compared with other tombs, this tomb is quite small, pitifully sitting on the edge of the cemetery, against the side of the mountain, separated by all the tombs.
"Bah!" Lin Huai could hear the widow's voice from a long distance away, "I was a vixen when I was alive, and I'm still a monster after death... What's the matter with killing my man? Come find me! Find me!"
After she spit, she still couldn't understand her hatred, stretched out her foot and even kicked the wooden sign on the dirt bag. Seeing this, several men were completely panicked. They rushed forward with a roar, dragged the woman who was still struggling to hold her up in shock and fear: "You're crazy! How could you..."
"Why can't I! I don't have a man anymore! I don't have a husband anymore!" the woman wailed loudly, "This vixen seduced people when he was alive, and he won't let us go after death..."
Her words were quickly blocked by several people, and the men dragged her away from the grave, swearing at her and kicking her hands and feet. Chu Tianshu and Lin Huai looked at each other, Chu Tianshu made a mouth shape: "Go and have a look."
Lin Huai nodded.
The two hid in the grass and moved slowly towards the small grave. After a long time, the crying woman was finally taken away by the men, and the eerie cemetery also returned to its former tranquility.
God, it finally got dark.
In the boundless twilight, the two finally stood up from the grass. Just as they were about to step out, they heard the system prompt: "The first step of the mission 'Jiangcun' has been completed, stay in Jiangcun, please return quickly Jiangcun village chief's house, and choose your own room."
"...so fast..." Lin Huai heard Chu Tianshu's mumbling voice, and then Chu Tianshu turned to him: "In that case, would you like to live with me?"
Lin Huai was startled by his jumping thinking: "What?"
"Since you are willing, there is no need for us to go back and choose roommates now." Chu Tianshu answered the next words on his own, and then he patted Lin Huai's shoulder, "Let's go, let's go and see Look at that grave bag."
"Hey..." Lin Huaixu raised his eyes, "You just turned me into your roommate..."
As he said that, Chu Tianshu pulled Lin Huai and stepped into the cemetery.
The mud in the cemetery is very wet and soft, and it is absolutely difficult to walk on. It took a while for the two of them to arrive near the grave. After seeing the small grave, Lin Huai felt flustered for no reason.
"Uh… "
Chu Tianshu squatted down and looked at the wooden sign on the grave, apparently not finding anything unusual about him: "This wooden sign is different from the one next to it, it is dark red, and there are some strange patterns on it... Ren... Ren Chun?"
He read out the name on the wooden sign, and then looked at the dates of her birth and death: "2016... died three years ago? Born in February, died in August... Hey, there are some strange pictures on this wooden sign. The patterns of…”
As he spoke, he saw Lin Huai touching the wooden sign with his finger as if possessed by a demon.
"you… "
The next moment, he heard Lin Huai seem to let out a very soft scream, and withdrew his hand as if he had been scalded. Chu Tianshu was taken aback, he hurriedly stood up, and pushed Lin Huai away from the grave: "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing." Lin Huai withdrew her finger and carried it behind her back.
Chu Tianshu looked him up and down suspiciously, and after confirming that the other party looked calm, he breathed a sigh of relief: "You scared me, I thought you were bewitched."
"I'm fine." Lin Huai said in a cold tone he had never heard before, "Let's go back."
"Okay." Chu Tianshu seemed to be unaware of the words. After turning around, he suddenly said: "Your hand..."
Lin Huai narrowed his eyes slightly.
Before he showed a defensive look, Chu Tianshu's next words floated out: "...it seems to be stained with paint, remember to wash it when you go back later. Why do you touch everything with your hands casually? This time the paint is not dry. , what should I do if there is poison on it next time?"
Lin Huai:
The two walked back along the way they came. It was getting dark, and under the endless night sky, the cemetery in the suburbs seemed more and more endless. In the darkness, there are small dots of light flickering.
It was bit by bit of green light, flickering and flickering faintly in the cemetery like a pitch-black swamp.
There was a wind blowing through the cemetery, and the howling of foxes could be heard faintly.
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" it cried.
Lin Huai followed Chu Tianshu step by step, and he stuffed his right hand in his trouser pocket after being strongly burned by Taomu.
pain.
"A momentary carelessness actually caught that person's Taoism..." He was hurt thinking, "It hurts... When I find the instigator, I will wring his head off."
Along the way, the two passed through many graves, neither of them spoke, only the sound of the wind lingered between them.
This should have been a boring and frightening journey, but Lin Huai was not alone, because the fantasy of killing always accompanied his loneliness and warmed his heart.
When he got out of his fantasy, the two had already reached the edge of the cemetery. At this moment, Lin Huai raised his head and saw Chu Tianshu's back in front of him.
stopped.
Then, he turned around slowly.
"Lin Huai." He heard the other party's voice, "Behind you... look back."
His voice was so solemn, and those deep eyes were also staring straight at the direction behind Lin Huai.
This was the first time that Lin Huai looked at Chu Tianshu's face so closely. Before that, they had never looked at each other face to face.
It wasn't until this moment that he realized... Chu Tianshu's eyelashes were actually curled up a little.
Therefore, it took him half a minute to react to Chu Tianshu's words.
... behind
my back
Behind me... is there a ghost
At that moment Lin Huai became excited. It's been a long time since he saw such a ghost who dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head...
He turned around and saw the vast cemetery and the gloomy green will-o'-the-wisp above it.
"Do you see the will-o'-the-wisps all over the ground, do they look like fireflies all over the sky?" Chu Tianshu's admiring voice came from behind him, "It's like stars on the ground... so beautiful."
Lin Huai: ...
"My childhood dream was to take a walk in a forest full of fireflies with my favorite person." Chu Tianshu said, "Look, the purple sky, green fire, yellow ground, how beautiful..."
Lin Huai watched for two minutes.
He has never paid so much attention to the details of his life in the past as he does today. Since he can remember, he has been imprisoned in the cemetery in Wen County. In the lonely grave thousands of miles away, all he could see was the blood mist, and the dry well in the middle of the blood mist that bound him.
He has seen too much lonely graves and killings, too many dead trees and will-o'-the-wisps. But at this moment... He actually felt that these will-o'-the-wisps really looked a little like fireflies.
"Let's go, let's go back." Chu Tianshu's voice broke his appreciation, "If we don't go back, there will be no food."
As he spoke, he stretched out his left hand and pulled Lin Huai up from the cemetery. His hands were warm, but Lin Huai's were cold. However, that right hand held Lin Huai very tightly.
"Why do you use your left hand?" Lin Huai asked softly.
"I'm afraid of getting the paint on your right hand." Chu Tianshu answered honestly.
Lin Huai lowered his head and smiled: "Do you know what that wooden sign was made of?"
"It's peach wood." He said, "With peach wood as a stele, it can suppress the ghosts under the grave, and can also burn the limbs of ghosts... Maybe my hands are the wounds from the burns?"
After speaking, he raised his smiling face and looked at Chu Tianshu leisurely.
However, Chu Tianshu just looked at him with almost pitying eyes: "It's been 9102 years, please don't be so superstitious."
Lin Huai: ...
"I know you second-year middle school students always like to add some strange settings to yourself, such as Gundam Pilots, Kami Sama from the New World..." Chu Tianshu said, "But if we don't go back, the last piece of meat will be lost." They're about to be snatched away. Be good, come up with me."