The atmosphere at the scene dropped to freezing point in an instant.
Out of sight, Shen Lin, Zhang Yuan, and He Tu were all prepared to confront the evil spirits.
Under the table, the remaining ink rope and red ghost candle were held firmly by Shen Lin. Zhang Yuan's lighter was ready, and they were sure to light the ghost candle in an instant.
Shen Lin knew very well that in the face of the terror of Dongwang Village, the Red Ghost Candle's abilities might be stretched thin, but in the face of such pressure, a little more help would be better, and adding up a little can give them some advantages.
He Tu's body has been trembling slightly. If you look closely, you can see something beating under the skin wrapped in his clothes. On the exposed flesh tissue in the eye sockets, the blue-black texture is getting heavier and heavier. His face is also the same. It became more and more ferocious, making people feel as if a ghost would pop out of his body in the next second.
Ji He was holding a pistol. He didn't even know his ghost ability. He could only rely on a golden pistol that Shen Lin had given him to save his life. Whether it was useful or not was another matter. thing.
Seeing that He Tu's condition was getting more and more serious, and he might explode in the next second, Shen Lin handed the ghost candle in his hand to Zhang Yuan and grabbed him. He Tu's stiff body suddenly softened, and he looked at it in confusion. Xiang Shenlin.
Shen Lin shook his head and just looked at the old man on the table silently. Until now, he had not felt the slightest sign of a terrorist invasion.
The evil ghost in front of them didn't seem to attack them.
Regardless of whether the thing opposite was a ghost puzzle or a ghost slave, this was the first time Shen Lin encountered such a situation. Even through the rotten flesh, Shen Lin could feel the old man's satisfied smile.
He and the people around him seemed not to have noticed the changes in the old man from beginning to end, and turned a blind eye to it all.
At this moment, a strange scene happened again. With the surrounding lanterns reflecting each other, the old man's body, which was about to decay, gradually returned to its original appearance. During the whole process, his movements of wiping his mouth never changed, until his appearance returned to normal. Then he put down his hand with satisfaction.
"What? Is there anything else?" The old man looked at Shen Lin and the four of them, seeming to feel that their current appearance was strange.
"No, I'm waiting for you to speak. The elder didn't move. How dare we leave the table without authorization." Shen Lin replied with a smile, but he never let go of the ink rope in his hand, and even tightened it a little tighter. .
"Hey, that's right. You people from this big place just have good looks. Okay, it's getting late. I'm afraid the worship ceremony will start soon. If you are interested, go and see it together. If you are not interested, go home and rest early. Go ahead." The old man waved his hand cheerfully.
"Okay, old man, let's go visit the worship hall later. Now we're strolling around the yard. Don't worry, we won't go to places we shouldn't go. Even if we finally meet the Yan family, a wealthy family in the countryside, then Besides, this house is quite unique and I want to see more of it." Shen Lin stood up.
Zhang Yuan and Ji He hurriedly followed, especially Ji He, as fast as he could.
Before leaving, Ji He turned around twice. The impact of the scene just now was so powerful that he can't forget it even now.
"Let's go." He Tu went up and slapped Ji He directly on the head, forcing his head back to the right position, and glared at him again.
"Okay, okay." The old man said goodbye with a smile, and there was nothing strange about him.
Shen Lin and the other four walked through the banquet almost stiffly, with everything in their hands soaked with sweat, and finally found a place in the house where there was no one around.
"What the hell is that thing? How can it be alive while maintaining intelligence?" In a secluded corner, He Tu couldn't help but say something. He himself also has a ghost realm and has a certain understanding of ghost slaves. The transformation of ghost slaves is irreversible. , which itself is a process of human body dying. A living person transformed into a ghost slave will slowly approach the corpse.
But I have never heard that a corpse can come back to life after becoming a ghost slave. This is simply unbelievable.
"I don't know, everything in Dongwang Village is beyond our understanding." Shen Lin glanced at the direction of the banquet subconsciously, "Dongwang Village is not only peaceful at the moment, there is more than one ghost here, and we don't even know how many ghosts there are. , everything here maintains a strange balance, and it is very likely that this balance has a certain correction effect, so when we accidentally destroy the balance, Li Gui's own balance and stability will make everything normal again."
"Then what happened just now? How did what we said irritate him?" He Tu's heart has not stopped until now. Everything he has experienced here is very different from before.
The previous incidents were basically about looking for patterns or looking for evil spirits. If you have strong hard power, you can directly suppress them. If you don’t have enough hard power, you can analyze the patterns. The regularity of evil ghosts is simple enough. If you can analyze it, your winning rate can be increased by 50%.
But the scenes at the moment are unpredictable, every step you take is like walking on thin ice, and you don't know when you will step on a landmine and be wiped out.
"These villagers or outsiders are all here. They have probably lost their awareness of their own death or identity, and are living here in a very deformed form. They think everything is normal, but when we reveal When an abnormal scene occurs, the abnormal logic in their subconscious will be destroyed." Zhang Yuan thought for a while and decided to change to a more general explanation.
"Have you seen The Matrix? Nothing is wrong when everyone lives in a virtual world, but when someone shows you the bugs in this world, you will feel that nothing is right."
"Then why did he return to normal?" He Tu was a little confused.
"Didn't I just say it? It's very likely that everything here is too complicated. The weird balance formed between multiple ghosts is self-contained and has a certain balance repair effect. When we break the balance, everything here will automatically Repair." Zhang Yuan said.
"Then we can be bolder in our actions. The balance here will be restored anyway." He Tu looked at a few people and wanted to ask for advice. He really wanted to get out of this hellish place quickly.
Shen Lin frowned. "In a sense, Li Gui's balance is very stable, but it is also very fragile. Stability means that as long as the balance is achieved and there is no external pressure, it can last for a long time."
"But once external pressure intervenes, it is very likely that this stable system will collapse. Dongwang Village is a special case. This system has too many evil ghosts to balance, so it has automatic repair."
"But everything has a degree. In a system of 10,000 gears, a small misalignment of a certain pinion may be corrected by the system, but a jamming of the core gear may directly bring down the balance of the entire system."
(End of chapter)
