In the center of the forbidden area, Lin Chu leaned against an open space far away from the tombs and moved forward carefully, being careful not to touch the tombstones.
She was still feeling cold all over, and when she reached out to touch herself, her nails were so sharp and hard that they almost scratched her face.
But she doesn't regret it too much.
According to other taskers, as long as they are healthy, the curse will naturally disappear after the task is completed.
The only problem now is that she looks like she has the sequelae of entering the forbidden area. How can she go back to the village to participate in the ancestor worship without letting the villagers miss her
Lin Chu lay down in the sun. After feeling better, he managed to take out a piece of compressed biscuit from his waist bag and ate it slowly, thinking as he ate.
Lu Yanli promised that he would try his best to delay the village guardian deity and then send a message to me, but I haven't received any message from him until now.
Either he is successful, or he is stuck and unable to develop.
Of course, there is another possibility.
Lin Chu took another breath, propped himself up, and stared at the message he had sent on the screen.
No one else moved, including Yu Xianguang.
So, there's something evil about this area, right
Not knowing what happened to Yu Xianguang, she thought with some distress that when she returned, that guy would probably cry with her for a long time again.
So, where should I go now
This forbidden area is so small that the restricted vision is not obvious at night, but in the daytime, when you look at a person sitting on a nearly 1,000 square meter field with layer upon layer of gravestones as dense as bones arranged in rows, it is easy to mistake yourself for a wandering ghost.
She sat up and looked down, and inexplicably felt a sense of sadness welling up from the bottom of her heart. Lin Chu shook her head to get rid of the unnecessary melancholy.
She was never sentimental, and this emotion was not hers. Lin Chu took a deep breath again and walked away along the circle she was currently in.
She wanted to try it out in a circle.
Under the tomb-robbing cave is a mausoleum. Is the mausoleum authentic? And whose mausoleum is it
Only after she actually walked around the circle and measured it with her steps did she realize that this forbidden area was too small. This was still the area closer to the center of the circle. She walked for more than 20 minutes and still couldn't see the end. The scenery around her was exactly the same and seemed to have no changes. If she hadn't looked at the names on the tombstones from time to time, she might have thought she was walking in circles.
On the other side, everyone is worried.
Old Mrs. Li felt something was strange and was afraid that the body would turn into a corpse, so Lili hurriedly dealt with it and asked her family to carry the body for burial. This funeral was even simpler, without even a mourning hall. They just modified the mourning hall that was set up at the village chief's house last night.
But the problem was that Mrs. Li was in good health and had never taken a portrait of her deceased father because she felt there was no urgency. Now that she was gone suddenly, the only photo studio in the village was unable to take a photo of her.
You can't pose for a photo with your eyes closed, right? That's inappropriate.
It was Lu Yanli who took the initiative to say that he was good at drawing and that his sketches were different from photos. The others were skeptical, but after seeing him casually draw a few stick figures, they immediately asked him to start drawing.
Now, he was sitting in the mourning hall, sketching the person in the coffin bit by bit.
Lili squatted in the yard like a cat, rubbing her head against her knees, staring at the person who was painting with a cold face.
If he wasn't useful...
She gritted her teeth unwillingly, then suddenly thought of something else, with a look of interest on her face.
Lu Yanli sat beside the coffin and drew a sketch bit by bit. After a while, Lili stood up, shook her ears and ran over to take a look. This sight made her frown.
"Why don't you draw eyes?" She pointed to a vague circle in the eye socket, and her hair was about to explode.
Lu Yanli said honestly: "I'm afraid if I draw it, she won't see me."
Lili was very angry.
But due to the rules, she couldn't deny it. After all, this was part of her plan. After turning around twice in a hurry, she had to stare at the other person angrily and stop writing.
"I've finished the painting. Can you please paint the eyes?" Lu Yanli left the portrait on the chair and prepared to leave.
It is hard to repay favors from people, and even harder to repay favors from ghosts. After all, he has been protected, and if this debt is really pursued, it may be a death warrant in the future.
Lili was helpless. She had just killed someone and couldn't do anything else for a while. She could only watch the other person get up and try to leave.
"Wait, stop."
Lu Yanli stopped.
"Where is Luo Ying?"
Lu Yanli shook his head: "I don't know." He really didn't know. Although he had a guess, Luo Ying didn't tell him, so he couldn't take it seriously.
"Where's Lin Chu?"
Lu Yanli still said, "I don't know."
Before leaving, Lin Chu was still in the forbidden area, but now he didn't know where Lin Chu was going.
Hearing this, Lili was finally satisfied and revealed a malicious smile.
"I know where she is." She smiled happily.
"I know that she also broke into the forbidden area and you met. She must not have left yet. Ask her to come back and catch two fish for me, and I will forgive her." Lili said in a little girl's tender voice, "Now, you can contact each other."
There's no way a ghost could be so kind!
Lu Yanli's first reaction was doubt. He knew these things too well. Even if they were restored to their original state after a newcomer entered, their strange nature could not be changed.
Although he really needed Lin Chu's aggressiveness, but now...
The little girl in the red dress had shining eyes, as if she was waiting for his rejection.
"Hurry up, or it will be you..."
Lu Yanli did not refuse, he took out his cell phone and called the other party.
Lin Chu is still moving forward.
To her surprise, some different roads finally appeared ahead. The gently curved road showed a sharp angle of about fifty to sixty degrees a few hundred meters ahead, extending to the other end.
Finally there is a breakthrough!
Lin Chu was overjoyed. She took a few photos and uploaded them to the cloud. She also drew the pictures on the memo. As she continued to move forward, a phone call came in.
Strange, is communication possible now
When I looked at the caller ID, it was actually Lu Yanli.
Lin Chu picked up the phone suspiciously.
"Lin Chu?"
Lin Chu cleared his throat: "It's me."
"Come back now."
Perhaps because of the bad signal, Lu Yanli's voice sounded a little rustling, as if an electric current was passing through it.
"I'll pick you up at the village entrance. I have a way." There was a light cough from the other end of the phone.
"Try to be quick. I'll only wait for you until six in the afternoon." He coughed again, as if he was cold.
There are still seven hours until six o'clock in the afternoon.
"I won't wait for you in the eighth hour. We all miss you, especially Lin Xueyuan. Cough, cough, cough..." Another light cough.
"She's worried about you..."
…
Lin Chuyi started to listen slowly, and as he listened, his eyes widened.
Each cough ended with the beginning of each sentence, clearly telling her: You are in a forbidden area, and she has discovered it!
The news made her shudder.
Who is “ta”? Should I go back
After thinking it over, she still couldn't come up with a plan. She looked at the sharp corners of the tombstones in front of her, gritted her teeth, and continued forward.
Let’s talk about it after I get back in circle.
No matter what that "ta" is, it should not be able to enter the forbidden area, otherwise it would have come to capture her long ago. Why would it threaten Lu Yanli to call her back
Lu Yanli hung up the phone and coughed twice.
His face was still a little pale, as if he had not rested enough. In addition, he was wearing little clothes and stood in the main room, letting the cold wind blow back and blow on him. He looked weak.
Lili's face was even paler than his. Standing next to the paper doll beside the coffin, it was hard to tell which one looked more like a paper doll. After a long while, she opened her mouth, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth: "You can go now."
After saying that, she came to the incense burner in front of the mourning hall, grabbed a handful of incense ash and scattered it on the ground, then turned around and walked towards him, followed him, and closed the door.
Silence returned to the courtyard.
After a while, a thin rustling sound was heard.
It was like an old man moving his hands and feet lightly, sighing and coughing.
A row of footprints gradually appeared on the incense ash on the ground. The footprints were not small, and they walked towards the door step by step.
After a long time, the villagers, at Lili's signal, carefully opened the courtyard, saw the footprints on the ground, and cheered.
Old Mrs. Li is back!
They immediately arranged a schedule like they did last night, and they all carried the coffin to the tomb together. Lu Yanli was originally assigned to replace Uncle Zhang, but he looked pale and weak, and coughed violently, and anyone who saw him would worry that the coffin would crush him, so he changed his job to scatter paper money.
He had just arrived and had no idea where to go. Yan Guangyao lent him a linen shirt, put it on his head, tied a black ribbon on his arm, and then carried the basket to the village.
Even in winter, the sunlight was cold and could not warm me up. A line of people walked towards the city, the leader holding up Hei's portrait. The skinny old lady had a warm smile, but her eyes looked a little unnatural.
Before leaving the village, Lu Yanli clearly saw Zhang Huixuan standing in the crowd. He looked even sicker, and the cold wind seemed to be able to blow him down. His eyes stared at her, but she never took a step out of the village.
Lu Yanli recalled what Zhang Bo said.
From this point of view, Zhang Huixuan obviously cannot leave this village.
Why
Lu Yanli suddenly thought of what Lili said, her "aunt".
In the whole village, Zhang Huixuan was probably the most rude person to Lili. All other villagers were very respectful to her except him. He was wary of her and was not very polite in his words. He often taught her a lesson in a fatherly manner.
The entire funeral procession was both noisy and silent, with only the deafening sound of suona and the sharp metallic collision sounds of cymbals. There was not even a single person crying.
Old Mrs. Li has been living alone without her children. Fortunately, the villagers are united and willing to help her with her afterlife.
Several other taskers were also in the funeral procession, except Lin Xueyuan. She stayed in the village on the grounds that "the yin energy was too strong" and had to find opportunities on her own and wander around.
An Xingyu tried to talk to Lu Yanli several times, but the whole team was silent. He didn't dare to speak. He could only watch the man in front of him move forward step by step. When he raised his hand, yellow round paper money with square holes flew all over the sky and was blown away by the wind.
What they didn't see was that a woman was following closely behind the team, about a hundred meters away.
That person was Luo Ying, whom Lili had been looking for for a long time. No one knew where he had been during this period. Anyway, he looked a little embarrassed. But at this moment, his face was full of excitement.
It's not that they didn't send people in the past, but the few guys guarding the village were really powerful. No matter how many they sent, they never came back. Later, the organization learned its lesson and only sent one or two people to sneak in under the name of villagers, and finally they managed to find out some information.
As the year draws to a close, those things locked up in the mountain behind the village start to move. The few pseudo-immortals guarding the village are too busy to handle it, and for unknown reasons, their power gradually weakens, which gives them an opportunity.
Luo Ying lurks in the forest like a silent ghost.
She needed to get something to suppress the zombies before sneaking into the forbidden area.
But she couldn't do it herself. On the first day she entered the village, she deliberately offended the villagers, so she didn't get the blessing of the "guardian gods" and didn't have their scent on her body.
The upside was that it was difficult for them to find her quickly, but the downside was that she was also ostracized by the entire village.
We still need to let Lu Yanli take action.
Luo Ying thought about it and moved forward step by step.
She also didn't notice that a little girl in a red dress was standing not far behind her, quietly staring at her back.
After a while, the little girl grinned, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Just when Lu Yan had finished spreading all the paper money in the gift basket, the forbidden area opened.
At that time, Lin Chu was slowly circling back from the other side.
She walked on a high place, looking out into the distance, her gaze passing through layers of tombstones and the forest where the wind blew green waves, and on the side, there was a scarlet river flowing slowly.
This color always reminds her of bad things.
If Lu Yanli or An Xingyu were here, they would definitely feel familiar. But Lin Chu had never seen them before. Her usually smart mind only felt that they looked a little familiar, as if she had heard them described somewhere before. She memorized it in her mind and continued on her way.
Faintly, there was the sound of some noisy music coming from the wind, and when I listened carefully, I realized it was funeral music.
Is there anyone missing again
Lin Chu was surprised and quickened his pace.
She took advantage of her high place where others couldn't see her and moved forward quickly.
Since she heard the sound, she thought it was not too far away, especially since her energy had almost recovered now. Apart from some hair growing on her body and something not quite right with her eyes, there was nothing unusual about her.
Lin Chu soon reached the end.
Those were the pointed corners of another mausoleum, almost exactly the same as the one he had encountered before.
Lin Chu carefully described the route he had just taken in his mind, with mixed emotions.
Why does it feel a bit like... an eye
It also resembles the hollow shape of the Pisces jade pendant that he had held before.
As she rounded the sharp corner, she saw, as expected, a long queue that was moving forward like ants due to the long distance.
She sat down among the tombstones, bent over, and tried hard to see through the layers of tombstones so as not to be discovered by them. Soon, she found a familiar figure among the crowd.
Lu Yanli, An Xingyu, Yu Huan and Xie Ziqing were all there.
There are no women in the team, so Lin Xueyuan should be in the village.
So... what about the little fish
Where did Yu Xianguang go? !
Lin Chu was startled and realized the problem. He couldn't help but tremble as he huddled behind the tombstone.
She knew Yu Xianguang very well. He was a coward and a crybaby. He always liked to drag others into doing things, so it was more difficult than anything else to leave him alone.
Did he stay in the village by himself
Lin Chu originally planned to stay in the forbidden area. She always claimed that discovery and research were the ultimate meaning of life, but now...
An inexplicable palpitation surged from deep within her heart. She didn't know why, but she realized that Yu Xianguang might have died. This conjecture caused a strong emotion called regret to surge in her heart.
Before he knew it, Lin Chu found that his hands were shaking.
She hid quietly behind the tombstone, letting the cold air from high up erode her bit by bit. Only after the group of people finished their work and left did she walk down bit by bit.
The brain that seemed to be frozen just now began to move.
They dug a new grave.
Normally, the body of a deceased person should be placed for a period of time before being buried, and then an auspicious day should be chosen for the funeral. If the dates of the two deceased persons' deaths were close, it would not matter if they were buried on the same day. In addition, the deceased person yesterday had a corpse transformation, so he needed to be buried immediately.
So, today's... should be the same, right
I don't know what this villain used to suppress it.
Lin Chu's gaze seemed to see through the layers of soil piled up on the grave and saw the jade pendant in the coffin.
Lu Yanli took the Pisces jade pendant, and she was not sure whether he had returned it to the village. But she knew that the jade pendant had saved her life. If it hadn't been for the jade pendant, she would have died immediately after going down.
If she wants to go down to the tomb again, she must have more jade pendants or things with similar effects.
Lin Chu looked at the tombstone again, her eyes unconsciously sweeping across the row of tombstones behind Old Lady Li. Thinking of Yu Xianguang, she finally suppressed her emotions, put on the hood of her sweatshirt, and slowly walked back.
There are still two hours until six o'clock in the afternoon.
Lu Yanli was waiting at the entrance of the village as he said, along with Lin Xueyuan and An Xingyu, while the other two men had gone to eat. Seeing Lin Chu really coming back, Lin Xueyuan was a little bit unbelievable, and happily went forward to pull her, but An Xingyu stopped him, with a serious look in his eyes, and shook his head at her.
The reason was simple: Lili appeared at the entrance of the village at noon.
She still had a strong smell of blood on her body, but her expression was not satisfied, but even more gloomy. Lin Xueyuan immediately retracted his gaze, guessing that the other party seemed to have failed in a hunting match just now.
The red color of the little girl's skirt was even brighter and more vivid, so rich that red liquid could almost drip out. The look in her eyes as she gazed at Lin Chu was filled with undisguised malice.
"You, come here and catch fish for me." Lili smiled at her.
She smiled happily, but that smile seemed to have malicious intentions.
Lin Chu had more or less figured out the rules. As long as she didn't violate the village rules and Lili's requirements, her life could still be saved. Seeing that Lili was obviously unhappy and wanted to punish herself, Lin Chu didn't bother to send Yu Xianguang's message, nodded to Lu Yanli, and walked towards Lili.
"You guys come over here too." Lili pointed her finger, "Also, call the other two people over as well."
Lu Yanli and An Xingyu looked at each other but hadn't responded yet. Lili was already urging them impatiently. Seeing this, Lin Xueyuan hurriedly called them and asked them to gather at the reservoir immediately.
A man walked towards the reservoir.
I don’t know what Lili was thinking about, but she became happier and happier as she walked, humming an unknown ballad, and her two pigtails jumped up and down.
If you listen to the song carefully, the lyrics are creepy.
"Dad is dying soon, let my sister take his place..."
"My sister cries every day, crying because she is too cold..."
Lin Chu felt cold as soon as she heard it, and immediately took two steps back, letting the tender child's voice float past her ears. Lu Yanli also heard the lyrics clearly, and immediately thought of the "Aunt" in Lili's mouth.
Is this song sung by Zhang Huixuan and his sister
Lin Chu had no idea, nor did she know what the "fishing" activity Lili mentioned was. She followed Lili forward, and when she saw a broken bridge, a strong stench came from her nose.
But seeing that the four people around him obviously did not show any strange expressions, Lin Chu had to swallow his doubts and continued to follow Lili and walk onto the broken bridge.
She looked down and finally found the source of the stench. She endured it again and again and finally suppressed the urge to vomit.
"Hurry up and catch fish for me. Remember to catch two, otherwise you will go down and become my fish."
Lin Chu exhaled slowly, and instantly understood what Lili meant by "catching fish".
Obviously, Lili didn't ask others to come over to help. She sat on the edge of the bridge, looking at her with interest, and the others didn't understand why, so they could only watch.
Lin Chu was very calm. He squatted down and sat beside the broken bridge. He reached out and opened the bait bucket beside him.
In the bucket, there were two eyeballs and ten fingers, all swollen.
Lin Chu was stunned for a moment, but suppressed his nausea and put the bait on the hook as if nothing had happened.
Seeing the sharp hook piercing her finger, Lili laughed even more happily and clapped her hands to urge her: "Hurry up! Awang is hungry."
With a flick of the fishing rod, the fish hook enters the water.
The calm water surface immediately began to surge, and one swollen and pale corpse after another scrambled to tear at the corpses like a school of fish seeing feed, stirring up an even stronger stench.
The buoy shook violently and the fishing line was stretched straight in an instant.
A fish has taken the bait!
Lin Chu immediately reeled in the line and pulled it up suddenly.
She liked fishing and had gone fishing with Yu Xianguang before. If it was an ordinary fish, she would have to let the fish wrestle with the opponent while it was still in the water. But now this "fish" obviously could not be treated with ordinary methods, otherwise she would be the only one who would waste all her energy.
She calmed down, placed the fishing rod on the railing to form a support point, pressed down hard, and reeled in the line quickly.
Soon, she saw the "fish" she had hooked.
A man and a corpse looked at each other through the railings.
Lin Chu was completely stunned.
She blinked to make sure she saw it right, but as she blinked, two tears fell from her eyes.
For a moment, Lin Chu wanted to throw the fishing rod at Lili. She wanted to kill her and throw the little girl into the water. But another string of reason suppressed her impulse. The terrible and necessary calmness even made her increase her strength immediately after shedding her tears.
There was a sound of water breaking, and a swollen corpse was pulled into the air, then fell heavily onto the bridge due to inertia. It thrashed twice and then stopped moving.
Lili finally saw what she wanted to see. She jumped down from the railing happily, clapping her hands and laughing: "I finally caught a fish. You are so awesome."
She tilted her head, and if it weren't for her sharp teeth, she would have looked like a delicate and pretty little girl.
Lin Chu clenched his teeth and said nothing.
Several other people also recognized the identity of the corpse. Lin Xueyuan turned his head away reluctantly and heard Lili's threat again.
"Turn around! Watch carefully."
After that, she shouted, "Awang! Awang, come out quickly!"
A fishy wind blew by, and a half-boned giant dog ran out of the forest and stopped in front of Lili.
"Eat quickly." Lili reached out and stroked Awang's head, raising her chin.
"You..." The nails dug into the palm of her hand, causing sharp pain. As soon as Lin Chu uttered a word, Lili looked at her with a smile: "What do you want to say?"
Awang wagged his tail and ate the food with relish.