Xie Chen sat in the car and looked at the wedding shop the old steward mentioned.
When he was in the ancient house, he already knew that every NPC in this dungeon had visual effects.
The same thing will appear differently in the eyes of people with different identities.
This is the subtle influence of part of the ghost story world.
But even if he knows it, he still doesn't have a direct solution.
We can only take one step at a time.
Bang.
The old steward got out of the car and opened the door on Xiechen's side, looking at him expressionlessly from behind.
Although Xie Chen got out of the car, she still glanced at him involuntarily.
From the time he came to the ancient house until now, Xie Chen always felt that there was a strange feeling in him that he couldn't explain.
From him, Xie Chen didn't feel any vitality related to living people.
When the old steward turned around and walked towards the white shop.
Xie Chen couldn't help but rub his eyebrows.
It seems that there is basically no normal living person in this copy.
As soon as he stepped into Baishipu's store, a cold atmosphere filled the air.
Xie Chen looked at the paper money and funeral objects on the counter, feeling a little bit horrified.
"Hey, it's a rare visitor."
Xie Chen squinted his eyes and looked towards the inner room of the shop, where the sound came from.
But he held his breath and stared for a while, but no one showed up at all.
Xie Chen shifted his perspective, and a distorted face with dislocated facial features appeared in front of him.
The eyes and mouth looked like they were glued together.
Xie Chen felt a little nauseous, but from the voice just now, he guessed that the owner of this white shop was the paper matchmaker who had sent him the invitation earlier.
"Young man, you came so quickly."
"It's really unexpected that he didn't die after entering the house."
As the paper matchmaker spoke, black blood kept oozing out of her mouth.
The paper next to the mouth was soaked in blood and almost rotten and fell to the ground, but it still didn't care and just let it hang.
Xie Chen covered his mouth and nose and turned around, looking up and down at the things on the counter without paying any attention to them.
The matchmaker's crooked eyes immediately turned cold.
The old steward on the side saw it and asked.
"Purchase some wedding items, flower baskets, wreaths, paper crafts..."
Halfway through the old steward's words, Xie Chen's pupils shrank and he immediately interrupted him.
[There is a three-day preparation period for a wedding. Before the wedding, a series of items such as red candles, wedding clothes, window paper, brazier, red sedan chair, gold hairpins, etc. should be prepared in advance, which determines whether the wedding can proceed normally. 】
According to this rule, wedding items are considered normal.
But weren’t the things the old steward just uttered just for funerals?
The rules clearly require you to prepare wedding utensils, but there is only a wedding shop in the copy.
As soon as the old steward opened his mouth, he really pushed himself into the fire pit of violating the rules. What is this?
It was clear that he only gave up if he wanted to die.
The old steward was interrupted by Xie Chen, but his face remained expressionless and he asked in an extremely calm manner.
"Uncle, is there any problem?"
"These are what Madam asked me to prepare this morning."
Only then did Xie Chen suddenly realize that the lady the old steward was talking about was definitely not the doll, but the mother-in-law who had been rumored so strangely.
No wonder he asked the old steward to prepare these for his return.
The second half of the third rule clearly states that nothing bad should appear in the house.
Just the few things that the old steward just read at the beginning, for me, even if only one of them appeared in the ancient house, they were lethal.
Xie Chen hugged him back, then squinted at the paper matchmaker and corrected what the old steward had just said.
"Wedding ceremony with red candles, brazier with paper windows, red sedan chair and gold hairpin."
"Do you have these in your store?"
One side of the paper matchmaker's head was tilted ninety degrees.
Seeing its disgusting appearance, Xie Chen couldn't help but twitch his face, and then he was about to walk out the door.
The paper matchmaker let out a burst of harsh laughter.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of Xie Chen, his short body blocking the only way out.
"Don't be so anxious. Where are you going?"
The paper matchmaker exhaled slightly towards the front, and the two pieces of white paper flew away and immediately turned into two blank paper figures with pale faces.
One on the left and one on the right, they blocked the main entrance of the white shop.
The paper matchmaker immediately turned around and came to the door of the inner room, turned her head back and said with a smile: "Of course there are these things, but you have to come and see them in person."
Xie Chen stared at the paper matchmaker expressionlessly, then shook his head, wiped the bodies of the two paper figures, and walked out of the dressing room.
If I don’t want to buy it, can it still force me to buy it and sell it?
Looking at the retro car parked in front of the white goods shop, Xie Chen felt a headache again. He had to turn around and shout to the old steward: "Go back first. There is still time. It won't be too late to come over and take a look."
The old steward in the shop looked obviously embarrassed after hearing this. It wasn't until Xie Chen shouted, "I'll explain it to Madam," that the old steward slowly walked out.
The paper matchmaker didn't stop them this time, but looked at the two people leaving with a grin. No one knew what it was thinking.
After returning to the car, Xie Chen took out the pocket watch in his pocket and studied it again.
The time up there moves very slowly, and even the stopwatch takes several breaths to move once.
Xie Chen opened the back cover of the watch and pointed it at the sun, hoping to see any subtle clues clearly under the sunlight.
But it turned out that these were all in vain.
"What is the use of this thing..."
Xie Chen was about to close it, but his vision suddenly went dark.
The car window on the side was blocked by a figure.
Xie Chen immediately turned around and saw a bloody palm print slapped on the car window.
The thick blood slid down the glass and finally seeped into the gap in the car door.
Xie Chen didn't dare to breathe loudly, so he could only swallow.
The old steward has not returned to the car until now.
The only view of the car window on the side was blocked by the bloody handprint.
Xie Chen couldn't see clearly what was going on outside through it, let alone open the car door and get out.
If it weren't for the key, Xie Chen would have just driven away in this shabby car.
Tick-tick...tick-tock...
The blood slid down the car door and dripped to the ground.
Now Xie Chen's mind was filled with the sight of blood droplets and splashes of blood.
Boom.
The car door was opened, and the expressionless old steward got into the driver's seat.
Then the car started.
Xie Chen moved his body and looked him up and down, fearing that there was something different about him, and even more worried that he might be possessed.
Unfortunately, after watching for a long time, Xie Chen didn't see any clues.
Still the same skin and bones, the same lifeless look.
Xie Chen turned his head and wanted to confirm again what exactly what happened just had to do with him.
It's just that he didn't turn around, but when he did, his heart skipped a beat.
Not to mention the bloody handprints, even the blood stains on the car window had disappeared without a trace.
It was as if everything that had just happened was his own hallucination.
As soon as the car stopped, Xie Chen's body leaned forward.
"Uncle, we're here."
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"What's coming?"
Xie Chen frowned and asked him with a surprised look on his face.
The old steward also looked puzzled and said to Xie Chen: "Of course it's a wedding shop, otherwise where else could it be?"
"Didn't Madam ask us to buy pre-wedding items? Your wedding date with the lady is coming soon, so you really need to hurry up and make preparations."
Xie Chen froze on the spot.
There's nothing wrong with what the old steward said. Is the place he just went to, the white-collar shop, really his hallucination?
Xiechen pursed her lips, gritted her teeth and asked, "By the way, what are you preparing for when Madam wants us to come out?"
"After all, it's my first time getting married and I don't have much experience in this area."
The old steward looked at Xie Chen with a puzzled look on his face. He was stunned for a while before replying: "What can a pre-wedding shop sell?"
"It's nothing more than offering red candles and gold vessels and sweets."
"Of course there are sedans and so on. When the time comes, the lady will probably have to sit in a sedan."
There is nothing wrong with what the old steward said.
It's just that the more normal he behaves now, the more flustered Xie Chen becomes.
His normality meant that none of the people he had just met were normal.
Even I may not be normal.
Xie Chen groped all over his body, and finally tore out a small piece of paper on his back with a scarlet symbol drawn on it.
Xie Chen didn't know what it meant.
But when I think about the paper matchmaker approaching me so many times, the most likely one is it.
Xie Chen clenched it into a ball of paper, got out of the car and threw it into the garbage truck next to it.
"Uncle, let's go in."
The old steward pointed to the wedding shop in front and said hoarsely.
Xie Chen nodded gently.
Before they could enter, a middle-aged woman walked out of the store. She probably heard the sound of parking at the door and knew that there were customers in the store.
The woman looked at Xiechen up and down, and then asked with a smile: "Sir, what do you need?"
Xie Chen felt speechless when she asked him this question.
I have already arrived at the wedding shop. If I don’t buy wedding items, what else can I do?
Of course, complaints are complaints, and these words were not spoken directly.
"Let me consider."
When Xie Chen entered the store, the woman also walked in, following Xie Chen with a smile.
Only then did Xie Chen realize that the old steward had been standing beside the car since he got off the car, with no intention of following him in.
This made Xie Chen more and more certain that everything that had just happened was definitely an illusion.
It's just that there is no way to figure out what methods the paper matchmaker used.
Besides, this is a world of ghost stories, and everything cannot be explained in terms of normality, which is the most annoying thing.
Until now, Xie Chen began to doubt whether the clearance conditions given by the system were correct.
After all, based on the current plot advancement, many things are contradictory to the previous rules.
If even the clearance rules conflict with the plot,
So what should I do to pass the level with my life saved?
Each of these questions is enough to make Xie Chen's head explode. The key is that he can't give an answer in a short time.
This made Xie Chen once again place his hope on the pocket watch. After all, it could save him once. Even if it didn't happen a second time, it should have other functions.
As long as one or two can be discovered, the safety in this copy should be greatly improved.
Seeing that Xie Chen had been looking back for so long, the woman asked him with some confusion: "Sir, is there any problem?"
After reacting, Xie Chen smiled awkwardly and said, "No, no, you introduce me first."
After hearing this, the woman smiled and nodded.
Immediately afterwards, he led Xie Chen to the counter of the main store, raising his hand to introduce an extremely gorgeous wedding dress.
"This is a new product in our store. It is quite solid in terms of workmanship and materials. It is luxurious yet elegant, bright yet simple. Sir, what do you think of it?"
Xie Chen looked in the direction the woman pointed. This was an extremely gorgeous wedding dress with phoenix patterns.
Indeed, as the woman said, this wedding dress looks great no matter how picky you are.
It was the price that made Xie Chen take a breath.
But he pretended to be calm. After all, it is one thing to not be able to afford it, but he must not be regarded as a loser.
"Are there any others? I'll take a look at the others."
Xie Chen pretended to be calm and turned around, just as the woman smiled and was about to introduce other high-priced gadgets.
But Xie Chen patted his head and said, "By the way, red candles, window paper braziers, do you have these little things?"
Xie Chen is naturally not stupid. He can't afford the expensive ones, so he will change the subject and start with the cheap ones. When the time comes, he will say that he didn't like the others after buying them, and he won't really be looked down upon.
For this kind of thing, Xie Chen is very good at it. After all, he has been working as a social worker outside for several years, so it is a necessary skill.
"Yes, sir, but we provide these things as gifts. You can rest assured that you don't need to spend any extra money to buy them."
"We are a century-old store and we have guarantees. Customers like you can also buy with confidence."
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After hearing this, Xie Chen froze on the spot and even felt a little at a loss.
But that wedding dress is naturally impossible to buy.
"Is there any sedan in the store? Choose a nicer one."
The helpless Xiechen had no choice but to change the topic again.
"Yes sir, please come with me first."
"This one is made of fine nanmu, and the style is more elegant, but the price is already relatively cheap in our store."
After hearing this, Xie Chen's cheeks twitched slightly.
Generally speaking, if you can say this in a store, the price will never be much different.
Including the accompanying items, our store can offer a 10% discount, so the total is 8,800.
Eight thousand eighty-eight dollars for a red sedan chair?
After hearing this, Xie Chen's cheeks were more than just twitching.
If he were to empty his pockets now, he would be able to collect up to eight hundred yuan at most.
Xie Chen was in a dilemma, and finally decided to go back home. After all, he had no money and could not pretend to be rich.
Just as he turned around, a bright red note attached to the sedan caught Xie Chen's attention.
