Lu Yanli followed the crowd out. At first, the people around him kept their voices down and didn't dare to speak, but after they went out, they relaxed a lot and started chatting with each other.
Lili remained in the mourning hall, looking left and right. She patted the coffin and said something, then swaggered out with her hands behind her back.
The village head stayed behind and locked the door. The yard was dead silent.
After a while, a sharp scratching sound was heard from inside the coffin.
At this time, Lu Yanli received a message from Luo Ying. She asked Lu Yanli to find a way to escape and went to the yard, saying that she had an important discovery.
Lu Yanli did not stop and greeted everyone naturally. After walking around, he did not see Lili. He disappeared in the crowd in a few flashes and quietly went to the other side of the courtyard.
Luo Ying was standing there waiting. When she saw Lu Yanli coming, she whispered, "We need to go in and open the coffin now. This old woman has something we want."
"But it's only been a short while since you faked your death."
Luo Ying shook her head: "It's okay, I have a way. I let you go because you have her scent on you. The old woman won't hurt you for the time being."
"What do you have on you?"
Luo Ying said: "Don't worry about it. Anyway, we won't be able to leave until she is buried. The cemetery in this village is a forbidden area. I can't enter without the guidance of a villager."
Seeing that such a thing seemed to be very important, Lu Yanli deepened his original guess.
Sure enough, she did not come here just for the purpose of preaching.
Luo Ying said: "It is glorious to make necessary sacrifices for the sake of God's gospel. Know that God is above and He will surely bless you."
Lu Yanli didn't believe in the "God" who could fulfill wishes in strange ways only after paying a price, but now, he was eager to know what this "God" wanted.
What is there in Shangxian Village that even this "God" would covet
They carefully pried open the lock and entered the courtyard. There was still unburned paper money in the two fire pots placed in front of the main hall. A pale paper figurine with a red mouth was sitting beside the fire pot, smiling.
Under the wreath, a rooster with its neck slashed was dead, and next to it was a small bowl of thick chicken blood. Lili had just used the blood to seal the coffin.
Luo Ying brought some unknown tool and started to remove the nails. She was very fast and could remove one nail in less than ten seconds. Lu Yanli collected the nails for her and kept an eye out for other people.
When she was halfway through pulling out the nail, a strange sound was heard.
There is something scratching inside.
Luo Ying's expression was solemn: "Sure enough, he is pretending to be dead. Be careful later." However, she did not slow down, but moved faster.
"Are you sure?" Lu Yanli asked her.
Luo Ying nodded firmly: "As long as we don't get discovered by the villagers."
As she spoke, she pulled out the last nail.
The scratching sounds inside the coffin stopped abruptly.
There was a barely perceptible solemnity in her eyes. She placed her hand on the coffin lid and hesitated for a long time before slowly pushing forward.
With a creaking sound.
The coffin lid slowly opened.
A strong stench hit them in the face, almost suffocating them. The stench seemed to be tinged with color, steaming into mist, and the two of them immediately avoided it to avoid any toxins in the air.
It took a long time for Luo Ying to come forward.
In the coffin, there lay quietly an old lady with a sunken face, dressed in a colorful silk shroud. What caught people's attention at first sight was not the jade ornaments in her ears, wrists and mouth, but the fuzz on her skinny face.
That was clearly the fur of a mammal. The whole face looked like both a cat and a human, with exposed fangs. The hands on the waist also had sharp claws, which was particularly terrifying.
Luo Ying calmed herself down, threw a small object into the coffin, and then motioned Lu Yanli to stretch out his hand.
"Take out the thing in her mouth." Luo Ying said softly, handing Lu Yanli a plastic glove.
Seeing Lu Yanli hesitate, she urged him, "You stay at that person's house for a few days. She won't touch you for the time being. Hurry up, take it and leave!"
Only then did Lu Yanli put on gloves, stretched out his hand, and slowly explored.
I also don't know what it is that Luo Ying took so much effort to get.
There was a strangely shaped jade artifact in the old lady's mouth. It was because the jade artifact stretched her mouth open that two rows of fangs were exposed.
When his fingertips reached the jade artifact, a cold breath hit his face, and his fingers were almost frozen even through the gloves. After a slight pause, he quickly pulled out the jade artifact.
"Hurry!" Luo Ying urged, her hands already on the edge of the coffin, pushing hard. Unexpectedly, inside the coffin, the old lady lying on the soft silk suddenly opened her eyes wide! Then, she stood up straight in the coffin!
"Oh no!" Luo Ying subconsciously pushed the coffin lid forward with force, but what she didn't expect was that just before she closed the lid, the old lady seemed to have intelligence and dragged Lu Yanli, who had not yet completely withdrawn his hand, into the coffin.
Everything happened unexpectedly in a short moment. The coffin suddenly closed and the old lady jumped out. She stepped on the coffin lid and let out a wild beast-like roar from her throat.
"Who's in there?!" the villagers' shouts were heard.
The old lady stared at Luo Ying with her vertical pupils for a moment, which made her feel terrified. Then, she pounced on her, and scratched Luo Ying, who was unable to dodge, with her sharp claws. She leaped into the air several times and disappeared.
Luo Ying didn't care about anything else. She endured the pain and hurriedly hammered in two or three nails before fleeing. Before leaving, she said, "I'll find you! Hang in there."
Lu Yanli was left lying in the pitch-black coffin. He tried to push open the coffin lid and escape, but the door to the courtyard had been pushed open by someone.
"What's going on? Is there a commotion again?" It was the anxious voice of the villager.
There were several villagers following him. After seeing the situation clearly, they were shocked: "Villager, the nails of the coffin..."
"The chicken blood line is also broken!"
"Hurry up! Nail it!"
Lu Yanli didn't care about anything else and immediately called for help, but the coffin seemed to be made of some special material. He shouted a few words, but the people outside still didn't hear him and just talked to themselves. He decisively shut up to avoid consuming oxygen, and then reached out and knocked on the wall of the coffin.
"Wait, there's a sound in the coffin, in the coffin!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Nail it quickly! Bury it quickly!"
The regular knocking sounds did not let the villagers suspect that there were any living people inside. The old lady's resurrection as a corpse during the day had already scared them half to death. After hurriedly nailing the coffin shut, the villagers used chicken blood to pull out silk threads and glued the coffin lid shut.
"Grandma said, if there are still corpses, we should bury them quickly. Don't worry about the time, just send them off!" The village chief gave an order and everyone hurriedly called for people outside. Soon, more than a dozen strong young men came and stood in the yard, shouting and making a lot of noise.
Uncle Zhang was also among them. He looked around but didn't see Lu Yanli. He thought he was being lazy and couldn't help but curse him inwardly.
The great grandmother's lesson is still there, but the son must not fail... Uncle Zhang had no choice but to follow in the team.
He was a strong and sturdy man, so the villagers naturally gave him the job of carrying the coffin.
The group quickly divided the work, and soon the sound of sobbing suona could be heard all over the courtyard.
It was high-pitched and loud, making the soles of one's feet tremble all the way to the top of one's head, and it almost blew into one's soul.
Lu Yanli lay in the coffin, his body stiff.
Perhaps it was because of the jade or there was something wrong with the coffin, but a chill came from all directions, and Lu Yanli's limbs slowly stiffened.
He wanted to make a sound, but found it extremely difficult, and even his throat seemed to be blocked by the cold.
What's going on...
What should... do
The coldness was so severe that it could freeze even one's thoughts. Lu Yanli lay on the soft silk, but he felt as if he was in an ice cellar.
So cold…
He slowly curled up his body and shivered.
Suddenly, I felt light under my body.
The coffin was lifted up and carried outside.
Lu Yanli could not hear clearly the shouting of the villagers, the crying of others, or the mixed sounds of firecrackers, suona and erhu. He curled up in the large coffin, with soft and cold silk under him. He kept trembling, which made the originally flat mat messed up. He covered himself with it in an attempt to absorb some warmth.
The courtyard door was open, and the mountain wind howled, bringing with it the unique scent of the mountains and forests.
On the winding highway, a car was speeding, its headlights illuminating the road ahead.
"Listen, there seems to be some sound." Lin Chu leaned against the rear window and suddenly widened her eyes. She lowered the window and a little noisy music could be heard faintly in the wind.
Yu Xianguang listened for a while and wondered, "Why does it sound like a funeral music?"
"Is there a funeral?"
There was a funeral procession, which meant they were close to the village. They were excited for a while, but then they started to feel uneasy.
"Tell me, who would go to a funeral so late at night..."
After a while, someone in the car asked softly.
"Okay, don't say so much, take a look first. By the way, everyone remember to be careful in what you say and do and don't commit any taboos." Lin Xueyuan said.
The vehicle continued to move forward, and unexpectedly, the mountain road that was originally indicated in the navigation as still several dozen kilometers long soon came to an end. We drove into a flat area, with dark green trees dancing in the wind on both sides.
After driving forward for a while, the sound of the suona became closer and closer. In the distance, a long team could be vaguely seen, shuttling through the dense forest.
It really was a funeral procession!
Two young men in the front raised their hands and scattered yellow and white paper money all over the sky. Behind them, there were mourners in mourning. In the middle of the procession, a group of strong men carried a coffin.
The coffin was very heavy, and the thick wooden bars were slightly bent under the weight. If the farmers were not used to doing heavy work, they might not be able to walk so smoothly. Even so, there were several people carrying solid wooden stools following the team, allowing them to stop and rest at any time.
There were shadows, and they were all people. This made everyone in the car feel much more at ease.
The people on the other side also obviously saw our headlights. The car slowed down and stopped only when it got closer. Gradually, the two sides met.
Seeing that there might be villagers ahead, several taskers got off the car one after another. An Xingyu was the first to greet the person in the front row of the team, saying that he was a returnee from another place who came back to worship his ancestors.
"Ah?... Oh, are you all here to worship your ancestors? Welcome, welcome. A few days ago, there were two people in the village who came to worship their ancestors, but they are not here now. They are probably resting in the village." The villagers were very enthusiastic, and the leading villager was even more so. If they were not holding things in their hands, they might have given this group of people a hug.
’s words made the taskers look at each other in bewilderment.
Are there other people who worship their ancestors
Are you guys also on a mission
Before we could ask too many questions, the villager we were talking to said, "Hey, young man, we are still busy. Let's not talk about it for now. Just go back to the village as soon as possible."
Yu Huan asked: "How long will it take to get to the village now?"
One of the team pointed back and said, "Go down the main road and don't turn. Just drive forward and you will see it in about ten minutes."
It's so close? But the navigation system said it would take several hours ten minutes ago.
Have we been spinning around just now
Yu Huan held back his words, his eyes filled with doubt. The villagers thanked him and returned to the car. At the same time, the navigation system sounded again: "... It's still 3.5 kilometers to Shangxian Village..."
The sweet electronic female voice makes people's scalps tingle.
Although they had experienced some strange events, they still had to go to Tiger Mountain. After Xie Ziqing and Yu Huan exchanged the driver's seat, they let the funeral procession pass by the car.
Lin Chu leaned on the side window, smiled and greeted the villagers, her eyes scanning everyone. When the heavy coffin passed by less than a meter in front of her, Lin Chu vaguely heard some sound.
That sound... came from the coffin!
Although Lin Chu had prepared herself mentally for the fact that she would inevitably encounter supernatural events that could not be explained by science during the mission, facing death directly was different from strange phenomena after all. In an instant, the hairs on her body stood up, and the trembling pleasure that made her scalp tingle made Lin Chu's breathing a little rapid.
After a person dies, can he or she have any other form besides turning into a corpse and slowly rotting
What kind of existence is a ghost? Why do ghosts exist in this world
She tensed her hands unconsciously, and her strong desire for knowledge made her hastily say "I'll follow you to see", then she pulled the car and followed him. With her cute smile, she asked the villagers: "Can I worship with you? Don't worry, I won't make trouble."
The villagers who were so enthusiastic just now immediately waved their hands and refused: "No, girls are born with strong yin energy, go back quickly."
Hearing such a nonsensical reason as heavy Yin energy, Lin Chu spread her hands and said, "Okay, then I'll go back." After that, she walked back and got back into the car under the gaze of the villagers.
The others had not expected Lin Chu to do this. Before they could say anything, Lin Chu said, "Drive forward a little. I'll quietly get out of the car and catch up with you."
"But they told you not to follow them."
"No, let me take a look." Lin Chu looked at the team in the rearview mirror, "I heard a little noise in the coffin just now, so I need to take a look. Don't worry, I won't commit suicide easily."
After hearing this, everyone was even more horrified. Yu Xianguang grabbed Lin Chu's sleeve and begged her, "Can you please stop running around? Let's just stay in the village."
Lin Chu shook his head and pulled down his father's hand: "According to the mission results posted on the website, many missions require active attack and search for clues. If you just wait, you will most likely die in confusion."
"Also, did you notice? This funeral procession was obviously going in the wrong direction. We just came down this road. Did you see the cemetery at that time?"
Everyone else shook their heads.
"So, are we going to take the body somewhere to bury it?"
This question stumped everyone.
The vehicle was moving slowly forward, and the team in the mirror was getting smaller and smaller. Lin Chu said softly: "Okay, please stop here."
Yu Huan stepped on the brakes, not knowing whether to admire her or pray for her. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Be careful, don't get into trouble."
Lin Chu nodded: "Don't worry, I'll contact you anytime by text." After that, she quickly pulled the car door and jumped out. She had just changed into a dark coat and disappeared into the night.
The funeral procession continued to move forward, and Lin Chu fell far behind. Thanks to the band, the loud and powerful music was particularly obvious in the dark night. Lin Chu could easily keep up.
She walked carefully along the way, turned the brightness of her phone to the lowest setting, drew a route on the memo and saved it at any time, and stared at the team ahead without blinking.
The team's route was indeed a bit strange. After walking along the road we were taking for a while, they suddenly turned forward and headed towards a jungle where there was no road opened up.
What's going on
Lin Chu recorded it, secretly took a few photos and sent them to the group, and then continued to follow.
In the group, several people stared with their eyes wide open, trying hard to identify the photos she took. Yu Xianguang did the same, flipping through them one by one. Suddenly, his pupils shrank sharply, and a chill climbed up his spine, enveloping his entire body, making him shiver.
"Hurry up and look at the seventh picture, the upper left corner! Is it my illusion?!" After Yu Xianguang reacted quickly, he immediately reminded the others. Unconsciously, his throat became extremely dry.
Hearing this, Lin Xueyuan subconsciously took out the phone from a distance and slid it back carefully. An Xingyu also switched to the seventh picture, spread two fingers apart, and zoomed in on the upper left corner that Yu Xianguang mentioned.
The main scenery in the photo is trees, and it can be seen that she has entered a forest. What terrifies Yu Xianguang is that in the upper left corner, behind the layers of branches, there is a vague old man's face!
An Xingyu's heart was trembling violently, but he didn't show it on his face. He zoomed in on the picture again and found that the old man's face looked a little strange.
It was skinny, green, with a green face and fangs but covered with fur. At first glance, it looked a bit like a civet cat.
"Tell Lin Chu, it might be dangerous." An Xingyu said.
I edited the picture, circled it in red, and sent it to the other party again, but there was no response from the other party.
Lin Chu didn't know what they had discovered. In her eyes, the scene before her was perfectly normal. Every time she ran forward, she took a few photos and posted them. However, she didn't receive any feedback on her phone at all!
"What should I do? Chuchu is still sending messages! She didn't reply to me." Yu Xianguang became more and more anxious the more he read.
There were a lot of pictures in the group, as well as her own records, such as how many meters in a certain direction, how it felt, etc. But in the pictures she posted, the old lady with a cat face was getting closer and closer, and getting bigger and bigger!
"I guess he's been bewitched. This kind of situation often happened in previous missions." An Xingyu took a deep breath and scrolled down the photos one by one. "From now on, everyone, don't look at your phone. I'll be the only one watching. If anything weird happens, I'll throw the phone away immediately."
An Xingyu brought a spare mobile phone with him. After he made his suggestion, the other people were already very scared and immediately exited the chat interface. Only An Xingyu was still studying them one by one.
Soon, we arrived at Shangxian Village.
On the other side, Lin Chu followed the team, turning left and right, and walked forward along the unopened path in the forest. She calculated the route in her mind and found that this team was clearly going around the mountain in front of them.
Go around behind the mountain
She was puzzled.
In the coffin, Lu Yanli was almost completely stiff.
He still remembered what Luo Ying had thrown into the coffin. He used his last bit of strength to try to find it, then grasped it in his hand, barely regaining a bit of clarity.
Now... in the coffin...
No, there has to be a way out.
The coffin below still felt like it was suspended in the air, and the team was still moving forward.
Where are we going to take it? Where are we going to bury this coffin
At this moment, the funeral procession finally reached the edge of the forest.
The first person stepped out, followed by the next.
When the coffin was completely carried out of the woods, Lu Yanli was surprised that the stiffness in his body suddenly disappeared!
It was as if the feeling of being frozen just now was not an illusion. In one hand, he was holding the thing that Luo Ying had thrown into the coffin, and the other hand was unconsciously holding the jade in the old lady's mouth. He was lying in the coffin and could feel the oxygen gradually becoming thinner.
I heard some noise outside.
"We're finally here. Let's work harder and move forward!"
"We are not afraid of accidents when we get here. Hurry up and bury it quickly."
"Where is the old lady's grave?"
The voices of the villagers were heard through the thick layer of clothing, but they were not very clear. All I could hear was him leading the way.
Lu Yanli let his breathing become slower, then reached into his pocket and fumbled for a metal knife. After recalling the structure of the coffin, he found a place and began to drill a hole.
Now, you need to breathe.
The sound of drilling wood was not loud, but it was not easy to ignore. One of the big men carrying the coffin froze.
"Village, village, there are still sounds inside."
The village chief was shocked and waved his hands repeatedly: "Hurry, hurry, hurry! Hurry up!"
Lu Yanli could sense that the team was moving faster. He tried to keep his breathing steady, and his hands never stopped. Soon, a small hole no bigger than half the size of a fingernail was dug out of the heavy coffin.
The location he chose was right under the shadow of the coffin lid, so no one would notice the many small holes. As soon as Lu Yanli dug through the hole, he leaned over to the small hole and greedily breathed in the fresh air.
Until now, I have had time to think.
What happened just now? Why did that stiff and cold feeling disappear in an instant
Looking through the small hole, Lu Yanli watched the team advance. He was thinking about how to escape when, inexplicably, he picked up the bone whistle given to him by Lili.
Do you want to do this
Lu Yanli didn't want to use this card unless it was absolutely necessary, and it might anger Lili. He reached out and knocked on the inner wall of the coffin, while cutting the coffin lid with a knife, trying to call for help.
Now, everyone heard the noise.
"Boom boom, boom boom..."
The sound came from inside the coffin.
The big men carrying the coffin still didn't hear any human voice, and their legs were almost limp with fear. The villagers were also very frightened, but they still encouraged them.
"Don't be afraid! Everything will be fine once you get here, hurry up!"
As they were talking, the grave they had originally chosen for the old lady arrived.
The villagers all breathed a sigh of relief, hurried forward, carefully aimed at the grave that had been dug long ago, and slowly lowered the coffin. As soon as they unloaded the coffin, they rubbed their shoulders and shook their hands with backache.
"Don't waste time, bury it quickly!" The village chief was anxious and angry. He was the first to pick up a shovel and scoop up a shovel of dirt and throw it on the ground.
The other villagers did the same thing, filling the ground one after another. There were at least 10 to 20 people, each with a shovel, and soon most of the coffins were buried.
There was a rustling sound, and the lid of the coffin fell on it.
Lu Yanli knew that if he didn't take action, he would really be buried by them.
Pick up the bone whistle and blow it softly.
"What's going on? It's suddenly so windy?"
"Hurry up! Don't worry about it for now, everything will be fine once the soil is filled in."
"Wait, did you hear the dog barking?" the person who spoke first asked doubtfully.
Not only him, but everyone else heard it. Lin Chu, who was hiding in the bushes, suddenly widened his eyes.
A giant dog with more than half of its skin and flesh peeled off, revealing its white bones, was running to an unknown place. It ran too fast, creating a foul wind that almost swept away its hiding place. The giant dog kept running, roaring and charging forward. In a blink of an eye, it had already jumped in front of the grave.
“Ghost!!!”
“Run!”
Only a few villagers saw Lili taking her to fish for food, but the rest of them, seeing nothing of this, immediately dropped their shovels and ran away. However, it was no use. Awang, who was always hungry, jumped lightly in front of a slower villager and waved his claws, and the villager's head fell to the ground and rolled away.
Lin Chu, who witnessed all this, tensed up, sprayed some pepper water and pepper powder on himself, and quietly moved inside.
She suddenly felt that she had touched something hard.
When he looked back, he saw an old lady with a gaunt and pale face, green face and fangs, still wearing shroud, standing quietly behind him.
At that moment, Lin Chu almost used all his speed, leaped out of the bushes like a cannonball, and rushed straight into the grave.
The dog did not eat the villager it had just killed, but just sniffed it. It might not be interested in fresh human flesh, and it did not make any movement towards the body in the coffin, which meant that the body in the coffin was either fresh or an accomplice.
In comparison, she would rather take a gamble!
She stuck to the edge of the grave. The villagers hadn't filled it up completely just now, so it was easy to hide in the grave. And just as she had guessed, the giant dog roared and rushed towards the old lady.
Lin Chu breathed a sigh of relief.
It wasn't until now that she realized something was wrong.
Little by little, the teeth-grinding cutting sound came from the inner wall of the coffin.
Is the stuff inside going to come out?!
Lin Chu was startled, and just as she was about to crawl out, she found that the dog and the old lady were still not far away. Her intuition did not detect any sense of crisis from the coffin in front of her, which made Lin Chu feel relieved.
She took out her cell phone, took a photo from the right angle, then took out a plastic bag and tweezers from her pocket, and carefully picked up a little bit of blood from the thread on the side of the coffin.
Could this be the blood of a ghost
Seeing this possibility, Lin Chu couldn't help but get excited.
Lin Chu looked out for the first time and saw that the big dog and the old lady were far away. She immediately climbed out of the pit and ran out.
Little did she know that it was because she took away a key section of the chicken blood thread that the coffin lid was able to move, causing all the blood threads to break.
The heavy wooden cover was slowly pushed open.
A pale-faced man sat up inside.