This is a bloody world.
There is no sun or moon above our heads, so there is no distinction between day and night here. There are only thick blood-colored clouds that are always a single color when looking up.
Jin An carefully hid behind the door of a Fushou shop and looked outside for half an hour.
After entering the stone gate, instead of seeing a dark world in front of me, I inexplicably appeared in a bloody town with no sun, no moon, and only thick blood clouds in the sky.
The bloody town is surrounded by dark mountains and jungles whose outlines are unclear. It seems that there is a great terror hidden in those deep mountains and old forests, always choosing people and devouring those who accidentally break in.
The architectural style of Blood Town is not the earthen wall and dome style of the Western Regions, but the Han architectural style of blue bricks and black tiles.
At this time, Jin An's thoughts were like lightning, and countless thoughts collided in his mind. He probably already knew what all this was going on.
He seemed to be trapped in a world similar to a dream. In this dream, he had another identity. In the dream, he was just an ordinary person. None of his cultivation, yellow talismans, and weapons were brought into the dream.
What is most likely to appear behind the stone gate?
Of course it's the ghost mother.
If this bloody world is really a dream, that means he is trapped in the ghost mother's bloody dream! This is not a dream that normal people have, this is clearly a nightmare as gloomy as hell! Thinking of this, Jin An was horrified. The little girl, the ghost mother, has always been inside the stone gate. She has never left!
It is very likely that as soon as he and Mr. Yiyun entered the stone gate, they were dragged into her nightmare world by the ghost mother and experienced the dream with her!
The more Jin An thought about it, the more he frowned. Unexpectedly, he and Mr. Yiyun were dragged into her dream by the ghost mother without even realizing it. Without any warning, just how strong is this ghost mother?
But from a side perspective, this is also good news. The ghost mother did not kill them at the beginning, which shows that the ghost mother is not that kind of murderous maniac or madman. At least his life can be saved temporarily.
Thinking of this, he had to face another question, what did the ghost mother want to do, and why did she drag them into her private nightmare world?
Is it because a person has been sealed away for too long, and she is just pranking others to accompany her to experience the nightmare of hell?
Or does the ghost mother have some deep intention and wants them to find some clues in her nightmare world? Similar to asking people for help? If this is the case, could this bloody town be the place where the little girl with the ghost mother was born and grew up?
Just when Jin An was carefully hiding behind the door and looking at the dead and bloody town outside, hehe——
There was a very slight movement, like the sound of someone standing behind him breathing softly, which made him turn around and look behind him in surprise.
He looked at this dark and gloomy Fushou shop with some uncertainty. He had experienced so many absurd and weird things in less than a year, and he was still alive and well because he was cautious by nature and absolutely did not believe in hallucinations or auditory hallucinations. I'm pretty sure I heard a slight movement behind him just now.
It was pitch dark inside the Fu Shou store. Jin An wanted to find a weapon to defend himself, but in the end he only found a feather duster to clean the dust.
Although this thing may not really be able to defend himself, as he is just an ordinary person in the ghost mother's nightmare world, he can only be better than nothing. If a thief breaks into the store, it is better to have a feather duster in his hand than to fight the thief with bare hands.
Jin An, who had a feather duster in his hand, landed lightly on his feet and quietly touched the place where the sound came from.
The experience of more than half a year has made him brave. Now that he has become an ordinary person in the nightmare of the ghost mother, his only remaining greatest advantage is the heart of a leopard and the courage of a leopard. At this time, he did not intend to sit back and wait for death, but planned to take the initiative.
He still hasn't figured out what is going on in this bloody nightmare world. He plans to solve the potential crisis in Fushou shop first, and then find a way to slowly understand the ghost mother's nightmare and find the lost Master Yiyun.
The Fu Shou store was quiet and dark. From time to time, I saw a few men and women placed against the wall to prick people, which would startle people and make them think they were seeing ghosts.
Those men and women, with their paper-pierced faces and heavy makeup, quietly leaning against the wall, looked very sinister.
Walking through the lobby and opening the old gray curtain, the back hall is a place similar to a warehouse, with several rows of shelves. There is also a wooden staircase in the back hall that leads to the second floor.
This Fu Shou store is a two-story building.
Suddenly, Gululu, Jin An kicked something under his feet. The object rolled all the way to the shelf, making a crisp sound in the eerily quiet room where Jin An was the only one.
Jin An frowned and stood still for a while. Seeing that there was no other abnormal movement in the Fu Shou store, he bent down to find what the thing he accidentally kicked just now was.
It turned out to be a red candle used to worship the dead or visit graves.
"It's a pity that there is no Huozhezi. It's useless even if you give me a cart of candles now." Jin An muttered in his heart, picked up the red candle on the ground and put it gently on the shelf.
Then, he searched the shelves to see if he could find any igniting items such as fire folds, although he knew that the probability was very low.
In fact, the sight in the dark is not very good, it is not much different from being unable to see the five fingers. Jin An almost relies on touching with his hands to distinguish the items on the shelves.
There are many miscellaneous items on the shelves, including yellow paper, incense candles, the shroud of the old man who died, etc.
But the most important thing is the lanterns.
There were unburned candles in those lanterns, and the lanterns were attached to a small handle. Jin An also found a note on each lantern.
Unfortunately, it was dark now and he couldn't see clearly what was written on those notes.
However, Jin An can also guess what the purpose of these lanterns placed in Fushou shop is. He has seen lanterns with similar notes in Uncle Lin's coffin shop. Uncle Lin said that these are soul lanterns. These soul lanterns The people living there are all lonely ghosts who have died in a foreign land without relatives to claim them. The names of the deceased are written on those notes.
In fact, this soul lamp is the same as the ghost altar placed in the temple where Buddhist sutras are redeeming it day and night. Once it is almost redeemed, it can re-enter the reincarnation.
Incense in temples is expensive, and some poor families who have little money will leave their relatives who died in vain in a Fushou shop to be saved.
Thanks to Jin An's bravery, he was not frightened by the soul lanterns on these rows of shelves. Ordinary people who were less timid would have been overwhelmed by the gloomy sight of paper pricking people, paper money, and soul lanterns. The Fu Shou store was so scared that I pissed myself.
