Lian Shan gave Li Zheng three sticks of incense with a confused look on his face.
When he was offering incense and bowing, the only words that kept running through his mind were "so weird". The real owner stood next to him, and then he took incense and offered incense to others.
I don’t know if he received my incense...
No, no, no, it’s too weird, Lianshan, stop it, don’t think about it anymore.
Li Zheng adapted well to this. He even calmly picked up one of the tablets and threw it into the brazier after finishing the incense on Lianshan. Except for his surname Li, all the tablets enshrined on the table were surnamed Wang.
Not only did he occupy the most distinguished position, he also threw the man named Wang into the brazier. Lianshan was heartbroken by this, but he was not a fool. He quickly guessed that the tablet should not exist, and burning it was the correct way to deal with it.
"Boss Li, Li." Lian Shan couldn't resist the curiosity in his heart, and in order to offset the fear in his heart after entering the ancestral hall, he asked: "Why is your longevity card here?"
Li Zheng replied calmly, "I've been here before."
Most of them don't want to say anything.
Lianshan nodded "Oh," knowing that this might involve personal privacy, so he wisely stopped asking. Then, Li Zheng said: "Pack some incense ash and take it away."
"Okay." Lianshan started to work honestly. The search and rescue department's backpacks are fully equipped, including various transparent bags, folding boxes, etc., as well as gloves, test tubes, small shovels, etc.
"Don't take things you shouldn't take, don't explore what they are, and don't look up." Li Zheng directed.
Lian Shan just happened to touch something in the incense ash through his gloves. The incense ash was obviously dry and warm, but he felt like he touched something greasy and cool. It felt a little disgusting at first, as if he was touching an octopus.
At the same time, the candlelight suddenly swayed, and the voice of a male ghost with a thin throat penetrated directly into his ears, "I hate it, I touched someone else's house! Ouch!"
It's killing me.
Lianshan's scalp was numb, but he didn't dare to move, for fear of fouling or knocking over the incense burner, so he could only forcefully let go of the thing, and then controlled his stiff body to continue taking the incense ashes.
The male ghosts are crying, and the mountains are like mourning for their heirs.
Everyone feels dirty.
Li Zheng seemed as if he hadn't heard anything.
If Lianshan looked up, he would find ghosts hanging on the beams of the ancestral hall. They all looked like Ah Piao, with no entity. The water droplets dripping from the soaked water ghost would not leave any traces on the ground. There was no gray and black residue on the burnt mummy, and the severed corpse with its tongue sticking out. Those with broken arms and legs each had their own way of dying, as if they were hanging there for an exhibition.
Countless pairs of eyes stared at the people below, and ghosts were whispering, which turned into strange and strange sounds. Lianshan didn't touch them, so he didn't know what they were talking about.
Li Zheng heard it clearly.
"Hey, hey, he's here again."
"What a terrible foreigner."
"Help, help, help, help..."
"Why isn't he dead yet? Dad, Mom, I don't want to get married to him anymore, eh..."
…
Li Zheng turned a deaf ear.
After Lianshan had taken out the incense ashes without any danger, Li Zheng took out another paper origami flower from his pocket.
The peach blossoms were thrown into the brazier. Lianshan can see clearly,
Before the peach blossom entered the brazier,
There were obvious traces of folded paper, but when it was swallowed by the flames, it looked like a real peach blossom and was not burned immediately.
He suddenly remembered another elementary gap - paper folding Momoyama.
Everything there is made of paper. Could this peach blossom also come from there?
"Let's go." Before he could ask, Li Zheng had already put on his bamboo hat and left. Lian Shan quickly collected the incense ashes and followed closely. The moment he stepped out of the door of the ancestral hall, he was stunned again.
In the small courtyard outside the door, there was a peach tree at some point. The flowers are burning brightly, and the falling flowers are colorful.
Li Zheng: "Go and break a peach branch."
When the boss spoke, Lian Shan couldn't bear to be surprised and quickly stepped forward to break off the peach branches. There is almost no difference between the peach tree and the real thing. If you reach out and touch it, it has a real rough texture. If you get close, you can smell the faint fragrance of the peach blossoms. He broke one off based on his feeling, and when he was about to break another one, Li Zheng's calm but slightly cold voice came from behind, "Don't be greedy for too much."
Lianshan was startled and quickly came to his senses. Why did he break the second one out of nowhere? He was obviously not a greedy person. Thinking of this, Lianshan quickly backed away with the peach branch, not even looking at the peach tree a second time.
Li Zheng didn't say anything more and took him out of the ancestral hall quickly.
There were no NPCs staying in the ancestral hall during the day. Lian Shan keenly caught a glimpse of the ghost outside the ancestral hall behind the archway. The moment he saw them, he hid in the shadows as if he was electrocuted. The black shadows on the ground were squirming, and I didn't know how many ghosts were hidden inside.
They are shaking.
Is it because of Li Zheng's presence or Taozhi?
In any case, Lian Shan breathed a sigh of relief when he was bathed in the sunshine again, but Li Zheng's expression gradually condensed under the black gauze.
If Que Ge successfully met Lao San, they should have arrived by now. But now that no one can be seen, it means that Que Ge has not found the third child, or something has happened.
This is not a good sign.
Just at this moment, the dog barked from far away to near. The two of them paused, and saw Dahuang rushing over like a whirlwind, and then braked suddenly and stopped in front of them, saying loudly "Woof!"
Li Zheng was thoughtful, his eyes swept over its body, and he quickly reached out and took out a small paper roll from the square scarf wrapped on its head. Unfolding the paper, Que Ge's words appeared before his eyes.
[The third child is in danger, come quickly]
"Woof woof!" Dahuang urged, and before they could react, he ran forward in a hurry.
Lianshan couldn't bear to be surprised that the rhubarb could still deliver messages. Out of the instinct of a search and rescue team member, he ran after it. Of course, Li Zheng was not slower than him. The two of them and one dog passed through half of the town at the fastest speed and came to a deserted temple.
When they arrived, Que Ge was fighting ghosts. He pushed the ghosts into the dry well in the courtyard and kicked them in, doing so neatly. In front of the Buddha statue in the temple, lying in a coma was the third child.
Li Zheng went to see Lao San, and Lianshan ran towards Que Ge. As soon as he brought the peach branches closer, the ghosts in the dry well became quieter. When he looked in, he saw that there were several ghosts crowded in!
Que Ge glanced at the peach branches and didn't ask any questions. Troublesome Lianshan was watching here, then turned and ran into the temple, "When I arrived at the tavern, there was pouring wine on the table of the tavern, and I hadn't had time to wipe it off. On the ground. There is something that fell. I suspect it belongs to Lao San, so let Dahuang
smell(),
”
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"what?"
Que Ge spread out his hand, and inside it lay a copper coin strung with red thread. It looked like it had been there for some time, and the red lines had darkened, but the copper plate was very shiny, and it looked like it had been picked up and played with frequently.
"It is indeed his." Li Zheng said.
"How is he now?"
"Lost soul."
Que Ge frowned. Losing the soul is one of the common foul symptoms of yin and yang eyes. It proves that the person has entangled with ghosts, committed some taboo or fallen into some trap, but the specific time and time are still unclear. In short, after the living soul leaves the body, he himself will fall into a deep sleep, and the lost soul will wander around the town.
Seven days is a time limit. If they want to crack it, they must find the key NPC in the town, the goddess, and she will call the soul.
"Did you see his soul along the way?" Li Zheng asked.
"No, I don't know where he went." Que Ge said in a deep voice. It is also very dangerous for the soul to wander around, because the soul at this time is "demented". If the body loses its soul and the soul loses its mind, it will make mistakes without knowing it. If he is not found and taken into custody in time, he will become insane due to a foul before the soul is summoned.
But what Que Ge can't figure out is that the third child has been hiding in the cracks all year round, and even if his strength is not as good as that of the senior, he is definitely not inferior. It's definitely not his first time with Yin Yang Eyes. How could he make such a stupid mistake?
"Could it be related to the big change in the gap? The town that seems to have remained unchanged has actually changed subtly. Are those changes the cause of the third child's accident?"
There is no doubt that this is the most logical inference, and Lian Shan, who was guarding the wellhead, nodded in agreement.
Que Ge then talked about another thing that concerned her, "When I was in the tavern, I heard from other townspeople NPCs that many babies were born in the town during this period, and the whole town was filled with joy. , held a lot of banquets, and ordered a lot of wine from the tavern. But I remember when I came here before, my senior said that the NPCs in this town are immortal and immortal, so where will the new life come from? ?”
baby? Hearing this, Lianshan, who was standing under the bright sun, felt a chill for some reason. He thought again of the white flags and paper money that day. Death or life, there was an evil spirit in such a town.
He quickly changed his mind, "Is this the so-called change?"
Li Zheng stood up and answered calmly: "Your seniors probably haven't told you that here, Yin and Yang are opposite, and the cycle of life and death is a reincarnation."
An answer was ready to come out, Que Ge said: "A baby born is a person who died in the heavy snow?"
Lianshan was stunned, "What kind of convenient reincarnation is this?"
"The iteration method of Yin and Yang Eyes has always been like this." Li Zheng seemed to be smiling, but his tone was stained with frost and snow, "The wanderers who die here will also be born as babies."
Lianshan couldn't help but ask: "What about their ghosts?"
Li Zheng: "Keep the same appearance as when you died until the baby grows up. In this town, only time flows for babies. They will grow up according to the established destiny line, have their own characters and stories, and gradually integrate into this town , and when he reaches the same age as when he died, his time stops.”
In this way, the ghost of Town Citizen A and Town Citizen A are facing each other again. Death and life are like the two sides of yin and yang.
Que Ge then thought, weren't all the town NPCs wanderers when they were alive? Every NPC actually comes from this. There is one ghost for each living person, and the ghost is what they looked like when they first actually died.
They were in such a hurry when they came last time that the seniors really didn't have time to explain it in such detail. But... Que Ge still felt that Li Zheng knew more than what he seemed. Just like when he was at the dock.
"You are here to guard the third child." Li Zheng quickly made a decision and arranged for Que Ge to stay in the ruined temple. Then he looked at Lianshan, "You take Dahuang to look for the departed soul of the third child. As long as the peach branches are there, as long as If you don’t actively provoke the ghosts, they won’t be able to hurt you.”
Que Ge: "I can go too."
Li Zheng asked three times: "Did I make you fight with a ghost? Did I make you commit a foul? What are you going to do, have a party with the ghosts?"
Que Ge's breathing was stagnant, and the back of his neck felt cold. Lian Shan didn't even dare to speak. The boss's eyes were so scary. His tone was so light, but why would it feel as heavy as a stone if he was hit?
"Where are you going, senior?" Que Ge finally asked after seeing Li Zheng walking outside.
"Look for the goddess." Li Zheng didn't even look back.
Disappointing teacher.
A disobedient school girl.
Li Zheng felt that his life was full of troubles.
What is Xiao Ming, the only junior who is truly afraid of death and obedient who comforts the seniors, doing now? He also sang praises to the Cat God in the temple. !
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