Zhang Fan looked at the ground on the shore. The font messages left by Wishing Lake were being erased continuously, and cold sweat could not help but break out on his forehead.
Sacrificing two red ghosts to Wishing Lake within a month is no longer a joke. Do you really think that the red-clothed ghost is just a piece of shit on the street, someone who can be found casually?
Let’s not talk about whether he can find them or not. To take a step back, even if there are two red ghosts in front of him now, what can he use to fight against them?
Currently, there is only one chance to use the body spirit. If Zhang Fan uses it once, he will die from the body spirit's resurrection. Therefore, even if there is a dangerous situation in the future, he cannot use the body spirit.
Once he encounters the red-clothed devil, Zhang Fan really has no choice but to wait for death. What's more, Zhang Fan was lucky enough to successfully complete the transaction of sacrificing a red ghost this time, and got a big deal. Feng Hui helped him capture it.
As for whether I can have such good luck next time, that's up to me. Zhang Fan kept in mind the four methods of controlling the host spirit.
The third and fourth methods, looking for a devil or a taboo ghost, are too fanciful and not practical at all.
As for finding a terrifying host spirit, it is also very dangerous. Just fighting against the dark ghost shadow, their group was almost annihilated, so this method cannot be adopted.
Now it seems that it is very easy to control the balance of the host spirit with a red ghost.
Of course, the ease here is only for the other three methods. Zhang Fan casually destroyed the pebble with the font of Wishing Lake engraved on it and left the suburbs with a long sigh.
The problem of the host spirit may not be solved in a short time. Unable to summon the host spirit, with my current supernatural means, there is no way to fight against the red-clothed ghost. If I do, I will die.
Zhang Fan walked out of the suburbs and came to the road, ready to stop a taxi and go back. However, the terrain here was remote and there were very few vehicles. He waited for a long time and did not see one. Even when he was about to give up, this Just then a taxi happened to pass by.
At 14:23 in the afternoon, Zhang Fan finally rushed back to the store. Now the store has basically been decorated. The decoration team masters know Zhang Fan's temperament and like efficiency and quality. They all hold their breath and decorate meticulously.
Soon, the day passed, and around 22:18 in the evening, the masters of the decoration team collapsed on the ground, panting and tired.
In order to complete the decoration as soon as possible, the group of them didn't have much rest today, and they didn't even have time to drink water. They all worked hard on the decoration. Fortunately, it was finally completed within one day.
Zhang Fan was very satisfied when he saw the newly renovated store that looked exactly like what he had imagined. He settled their fees on the spot and even paid an extra five thousand yuan per person.
The masters of the decoration team who got the money were very grateful to Zhang Fan, the sponsor, and expressed their gratitude one after another, saying that if they have any decoration work next time, they can just contact them.
After bidding farewell to the masters of the decoration team, Zhang Fan and Wang Fugui sat on the sofa on the first floor and breathed a deep sigh of relief.
Now that the store is completely renovated, it will be officially opened another day. As for the opening of the business, the supernatural office should not be too blatant. After all, many people in this society still do not believe that there are ghosts in the world.
So you have to come secretly in private, and at this time you have to do a business on the surface. It's called Maoshan Incense Candle Shop. As the name suggests, it sells some Maoshan props such as ghost coins, gold ingots, peach wood swords, and Bagua mirrors.
As for why it was called this name, Zhang Fan mainly thought of Sai Laoxian, who was a Taoist master from Maoshan during his lifetime.
Once you have thought of a name, you can officially open the business. Zhang Fan talked with Wang Fugui for a while and briefly explained his thoughts to him. Wang Fugui agreed very much after hearing this.
Looking at the time, it was already 23:08 in the evening, and in 52 minutes it would be 24:00.
It was getting late now, and Zhang Fan planned to go back to the hotel with Wang Fugui to sleep. But just as they turned off the lights in the store, suddenly, an eerie little whirlwind whistled in from outside the door.
Zhang Fan frowned slightly when he saw this, because he felt a supernatural wave pouring into the shop.
"It seems that the ghost that the shop owner mentioned before has come in!!" Zhang Fan frowned and smiled slightly, but did not take the ghost to heart.
It would be fine if the owner of the store is still the owner now, but now, the owner of this store has changed, and he is the owner. If he dares to barge in so blatantly, it would be too disrespectful to him.
"Guhaji!!" Zhang Fan summoned the white-clothed ghost Guhaji from the ghost frame. I heard from the shop owner during the day that this ghost seemed to be a child ghost, and Guhaji was also a ghost doll. Now it was just right for me to let Guhaji deal with this child ghost.
With the appearance of Guhaji, the lights in the entire store flickered on and off, and bursts of cold breath suddenly emerged.
Wang Fugui on the side took a deep breath and was frightened when he saw Guhaji.
"Go and bring over the ghost who just broke in. Be careful and don't attack too harshly!!" Zhang Fan ordered Guhaji.
After hearing this, Guhaji stared with a pair of bloody eyes, nodded, and then used his hands and feet to crawl towards a certain place quickly.
After a few minutes, Guhaji dragged a naked child with one hand and returned to Zhang Fan's side.
This kid was short in stature and very thin. He looked like he was only five or six years old. He was screaming with fear on his face and struggling desperately to break free from Guhaji's clutches.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free. Guhaji's ghostly hands were motionless, as if they were made of pig iron, holding him tightly.
"Is this a black ghost type ghost?" Zhang Fan waved his hand, signaling Guhaji to let go of the child ghost.
Guhaji nodded, let go of the child ghost, squeaked a few times, and stepped aside, but did not leave. Instead, he looked at the child ghost with a vigilant expression, and kept making bursts of strange screams and roars. , it seems that as long as this kid dares to do anything out of line to Zhang Fan, he will rush over without hesitation and tear him into pieces.
"Tell me, why do you always come here to cause trouble in the middle of the night?" Zhang Fan didn't know whether the other party could understand his words, so he decided to ask with the idea of giving it a try.
"Brother...don't...don't hurt me..." The child ghost looked at Guhaji beside him with fear on his face, trembling with fear.
"You can actually speak?" Zhang Fan was stunned when he saw this.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you!!" Zhang Fan smiled and told the kid not to be nervous.
"Tell me, why do you always come to the store to cause trouble in the middle of the night?" Zhang Fan asked with a smile on his face while sitting on the sofa.
"I...no...I didn't mean it!! Because...there is my mother's...aura here, but...I can't find her Yeah..." The kid was trembling, not daring to hide anything, so he said quickly.
"Your mother's breath?" Hearing this, Zhang Fan's heart moved slightly.
"I lost my way with my mother...but I feel like she is here...but...I have been looking here for a long time...and I still can't find her..." The child ghost opened his big black eyes full of tears and cried.
"Kid, don't worry! Tell me where your mother's aura appeared?!" Zhang Fan touched his chin, thought for a while, and said.
"It's right down there!!" The kid pointed at the bottom of the floor tiles in the innermost corner of the first floor.
"Oh? Just wait a minute, I'll go over and take a look!" Zhang Fan followed the kid's instructions and came to the corner.
"Is this here?" Zhang Fan asked.
"Yes!" The kid nodded. After listening, Zhang Fan leaned down and groped around on the floor. After groping for a few times, his brows furrowed.
Because he found that the floor tile was actually loose, with a puzzled expression, Zhang Fan tugged on the floor tile with his fingers and slowly lifted it up.
When the floor tiles were lifted, there was a hole underneath. Under the hole, a white urn was placed.
Taking out the urn, Zhang Fan found that the urn was covered with tadpole-like black runes, densely covering the entire urn.
"Old Immortal, what does this rune mean?" The black rune was very strange. Zhang Fan couldn't understand what it was, so he quickly asked Sai Lao Xian.
"This is a charm that traps ghosts. It can trap the ghost inside so that she cannot escape. Gee, this method is really vicious. He wants the ghost in the urn to never be reincarnated!" Mr. Sai said. Xian yawned and said lazily.
"Is it the kid's mother who's trapped inside?" Zhang Fan murmured to himself. Having said this, Zhang Fan opened the lid of the urn.
The moment the urn was opened, a ball of pitch-black gas flew out of it. The moment it landed, it transformed into a female ghost wearing a black sweater.
This is a female ghost with a ponytail. At this time, her soul has collapsed and she is very weak.
"Mom!!" The female ghost appeared, and the child ghost looked overjoyed and hurriedly jumped up into the female ghost's arms.
"Xiao Tao?"
"My child, why are you here?" Seeing her child, the female ghost's empty eyes shed black blood, and she hugged the child ghost.
"It's big brother, I found you for me!!" Xiao Tao glanced at Zhang Fan and said.
"Thank you, sir, for helping us reunite mother and son!" The female ghost in black sweater thanked Zhang Fan gratefully.
"It's okay, this is what I should do. I can't just sit idly by if I encounter someone. Why are you trapped in this urn?" Zhang Fan waved his hand to tell the other party not to be so polite, and then asked again.
"This is our home during our lifetime... After we passed away, our souls continued to reside here. However, the good times did not last long, and this place was occupied by outsiders. I didn't want to have too much trouble with them, I just wanted to be safe. We are trying to survive here, but they still found someone to expel us, mother and son. During the fight, I was unfortunately trapped in the urn. Without your timely rescue, I would probably be out of my mind in a short time."
"We have all become ghosts now. Please don't do anything to us, sir. We, mother and son, will leave here immediately and never come back!" With that said, the female ghost in black sweater was about to take Xiao Tao away.
After listening to what the other party said, Zhang Fan sighed, with complicated meanings in his eyes. It seems that this is also a pair of miserable people.
They wanted to spend every day quietly here, but they never thought that a certain shop owner would find someone to deal with them and almost kill her.
"Wait a minute!!" The moment the female ghost in black sweater and Xiao Tao stepped out of the store door, Zhang Fan called out to them.
"Sir... do you have anything else?" The female ghost in black sweater held Xiao Tao's hand and asked timidly.
She knew that the young man in front of her was definitely something extraordinary, and maybe even if she really attacked him, she wouldn't be a match for him.
"You said this was your home, right?"
"Since this is your home, you don't have to leave, just stay here with peace of mind. After all...I am the boss here now, and I have the right to let you stay!!"
"Well...I still lack some cleaning staff here...If you don't mind, you can stay and help me! In return, I will try my best to help you fulfill your unfulfilled wishes! !" Zhang Fan walked forward with a smile, wanting the female ghost in black sweater and Xiao Tao to stay.
Hearing what Zhang Fan said, the female ghost in black sweater shed tears in her eyes, and she knelt down with Xiao Tao: "Thank you, boss, for taking us in. We will definitely work well here!!"
"It's nothing, it's just a little effort. Okay, then we are all our own friends from now on! You don't have to be so polite to me. By the way, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Zhang Fan!" Zhang Fan said with a smile, with a hint of cordiality in his words.
"My name is Su Mei'e, and he is my son Xiaotao!" The female ghost in black sweater quickly introduced herself.
"Okay! I've written it down!"
"I hope you can adapt to working here as soon as possible. It's getting late, so we'll go back first. Well... I'll see you tomorrow morning!" Zhang Fan said hello to Su Mei'e and opened the shop. He lowered the rolling shutter door and left with Wang Fugui.
Watching Zhang Fan and his two men leave, Su Mei'e was in a bad mood. After being silent for a long time, she said to Xiao Tao seriously: "Brother Zhang Fan, you are a good person. We must help him properly from now on." !!"... Early the next morning, Zhang Fan and Wang Fugui came to the store. As soon as they entered, they found that the entire store was extremely clean, tidy and spotless.
"Sir, you are here!" Su Mei'e and Xiao Tao stood inside the door and bowed to Zhang Fan, like waiters with good attitudes.
"Thank you! You did a great job!" Zhang Fan gave Su Mei'e a thumbs up.
"This is what we should do!!" Su Mei'e laughed. Zhang Fan talked with Su Mei'e and the others for a while, then took Wang Fugui out.
He wants to go out to wholesale some incense candles, ghost coins, and other sacrificial items, and hang up the store's plaque at the same time.
After finishing these things, his supernatural agency can be considered truly open for business. Time passed quickly and everything needed to open the store was ready.
After doing this, Zhang Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief. Calculating the time, after 24:00 tonight, it is time to return to the hell maze.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were still a few hours before 24:00, Zhang Fan decided to get some sleep first in order to cope with the upcoming maze scene.
After returning to the hotel, Zhang Fan quickly fell asleep. It wasn't until 23:50 that he was awakened by the alarm. Ten minutes later, a thick black mist flooded the world in front of him.
When he appeared, Zhang Fan found himself back in the farmyard of the transfer station. After saying hello to the wind chimes swinging in the courtyard, Zhang Fan directly chose to enter the maze scene.
The dizzying discomfort came into his heart. Zhang Fan felt his eyes blur. The next moment, he found himself in a dark, cold and gloomy jungle. At the same time, the sound of the system sounded in Zhang Fan's mind. Swing up.
[Ding dong! System prompt: Survivor, you have arrived at the hell maze, a terrifying scene - the jungle hut. [What kind of terrifying crisis is hidden in the creepy jungle hut?
If you want to survive? Please go deep into it and try to explore it! 】【Every inadvertent choice you make may bring different directions for your next life or death, so please choose carefully!
】【Task Tip 1: You cannot bring any ghosts into this maze scene! 】【Task Tip 2: The amulet can only be used once in this maze scene!
】【Task Tip 3: Please try to survive for three days. If you are still alive within three days, this scene task will be deemed completed!
】The system's voice disappeared after introducing the maze scene. After hearing this, Zhang Fan's expression suddenly changed and he couldn't help but curse: "Grandma, did you make a mistake? Why can't you summon the devil in these maze scenes? And even the amulet can only be used once. The difficulty is that he It's getting higher and higher, is it obvious that you want to play with me to death?" Zhang Fan was so angry that he really wanted to scream to the sky and vent his dissatisfaction.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, he quickly covered it and looked around nervously, fearing that some terrifying ghost would suddenly come out.
In the terrifying maze scene, without the help of ghosts, any attack by ghosts is basically a dead end.
Sighing, Zhang Fan began to look around. The whole world was pitch black, as if it were in the dark night. A crescent moon was hidden in the dark clouds, emitting little bits of light.
This is a densely wooded jungle. The land in the jungle was very wet and muddy, with all kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling across it. The air was filled with a disgusting smell, and the temperature was extremely low and terrifying. Even Zhang Fan, who was wearing thick clothes, felt a little uncomfortable. Shivering from the cold.
For a moment, Zhang Fan withdrew his gaze. He found that he seemed to be the only one here, and there seemed to be no other survivors.
"Don't tell me, I'm the only one participating in this jungle hut scene!!" Zhang Fan looked a little ugly and murmured in a low voice.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a possibility. Zhang Fan quickly and cautiously turned around and found that he was really the only one here, with no other survivors.
At this time, Zhang Fan's face became extremely gloomy and he wanted to curse. Originally, the survival rate in such a terrifying maze scene was very low, but now it was good that he was the only one participating. In this situation where the ghosts could not be summoned to fight, wouldn't it be clear that his life would be taken?
Just when Zhang Fan was feeling depressed, a noisy and tinny sound came from a certain direction in the distance.
Hearing this sound, Zhang Fan immediately stood up and his expression became solemn. In this dark jungle at night, any strange noises are most likely made by ghosts.
Just when Zhang Fan was hesitating whether to step forward, a weak moan suddenly sounded.
"It seems to be a human being!" After hearing this, Zhang Fan suddenly felt something in his heart. He listened carefully and found that it was really coming from a living person.
"Could it be a survivor?" Zhang Fan's face moved slightly and he said to himself.
"Forget it, let's go and have a look. If we are survivors, we happen to be traveling together. If not, it's not too late to run away!" Zhang Fan fully understands the principle of finding wealth and wealth in danger. In this terrifying maze scene, In the process, one more person means more strength. If he is really allowed to do it alone, he is really sure that he can survive.
Zhang Fan plucked up the courage, took out the coffin nail from the system backpack and held it in his hand. With a vigilant face, he followed the source of the sound and walked over.
After walking for several minutes through trees covered with barbs and muddy soil, Zhang Fan finally arrived at the location of the sound.
Looking through the subtle moonlight, Zhang Fan found a person lying under a tree not far away.
"He's really a human!" Upon seeing this, Zhang Fan swallowed his saliva and ran over without stopping.
Only when he got completely close did he finally see the man's appearance. I saw that this was a little girl who looked only eight or nine years old.
This little girl wears double ponytails, looks pure and cute, and has a porcelain doll face, but this face is pale and bloodless, full of morbidity. She wears a tattered black robe, He was thin and dirty, like a wandering child. He was lying on the muddy ground dying, gasping for air.
"Are you okay?" Zhang Fan carefully helped the little girl up and asked with concern.
"Hungry...hungry...so hungry...!" The little girl shouted in a weak voice that she was so hungry.
"Are you hungry?" Hearing this, Zhang Fan sighed, took out a piece of bread from the system backpack and handed it to the little girl: "Eat, you won't be hungry after eating this!!" The little girl stretched out her hand weakly. , grabbed the bread, and ate it hungrily.
She ate so much that she didn't even chew. She stuffed it into her mouth and swallowed it hard. Seeing her looking like a starving ghost, Zhang Fan was afraid that she would choke, so he hurriedly took out another bottle of mineral water from the system backpack and opened it for her and handed it over.
The little girl took the mineral water and drank it all in just a few sips. Soon the bread and mineral water were eaten, and the little girl regained some energy: "Thank you!" the little girl thanked Zhang Fan.
Zhang Fan didn't take this to heart. He just smiled and asked her if she was a survivor. But the little girl was confused by what Zhang Fan asked and shook her head.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan shook his head with a wry smile. It seemed that he had recognized the wrong person. I thought they were survivors, but I didn’t expect them to be native residents of this scene world.
The little girl who had eaten and drank enough stood up, said to Zhang Fan, I'm going home, and then slowly turned around and walked towards the jungle in the distance.
But when she completely left Zhang Fan's sight, she suddenly turned around and looked towards Zhang Fan.
At this moment, the little girl's original pair of dark eyes lit up with a strange crimson color. Then, the next moment, they dimmed again. Finally, the little girl turned her head and truly left.
