Chapter 306 The Living Messenger
“I collect three beauties in the mountains, and the stones are shining with the vines and vines; I resent the young master and forget to return home, and I have no time to think about you.”
“People in the mountains. The fragrance is like Du Ruo, drinking from the stone spring is shaded by pines and cypresses, you are thinking about me but you are suspicious; the rain is filled with thunder, and the squaws are chirping at night. "
The memorial text fell slowly, like weeping. Complaint, as if frightening ghosts and gods.
At the end of the memorial ceremony, the air seemed to be still, until the old village chief's last words fell.
Heaven and earth listen to the gods.
“Please God!”
The old locust tree began to shake, and the villagers prostrated themselves on the ground with solemn expressions.
Dingling bells
A wind chime seemed to be ringing, and a wooden sign fell. The old village chief reached out and grabbed the wooden sign.
Immediately afterwards, the old village chief said:
"Sacrifice!"
Not long after he finished speaking, several big men wearing coarse linen clothes and red masks carried the A bloody coffin appeared.
He walked straight to the altar, the coffin was placed on the altar, and the big man stepped back.
The old village chief walked up to the altar solemnly, holding three sticks of lit black incense in his hand.
"The sacrifice has been offered, please take your seat!"
The black incense was inserted into the incense burner, and black smoke filled the air. The old village chief bowed his head and exited the altar.
"Salute! Exit!"
The old village chief said loudly, and for a while the sound of kowtows was heard.
Then, the old village chief took the lead and left the old locust tree. At this point, the first day of sacrifice ended.
On the roof, Lin Qian watched all this with an expressionless face, and the green and red color on his body slowly faded away.
Stepping out, Lin Qian returned to the yard, already knowing most of the truth in her heart.
There are people inside the coffin, and people are sacrifices.
That ritual was triggering Li Gui's killing pattern, but why it was done, Lin Qian didn't know.
“Living sacrifice is interesting.”
Lin Qian let out a breath, then looked down at Coco and found that the little girl was already awake, but still confused.
It seems that he was awakened by the movement just now.
"Dad, Keke is hungry!" Keke rubbed his eyes and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
Lin Qian was dumbfounded and said nothing. He took out a peach from his pocket and handed it over.
As soon as he saw the peach, Coco's eyes immediately lit up, and he reached out and took a bite.
Lin Qian smiled and said nothing. She turned to look outside the door and raised her brows.
I saw Huang Hui pushing open the door and walking in, and behind her were three people, two men and one woman, dressed in very retro styles, as if they were only in the Republic of China.
As soon as Huang Hui entered the door, she pointed at Lin Qian and said:
"It's him. He didn't go to the sacrifice. He didn't want to go himself, and he didn't allow several of my classmates to go. "
Hearing Huang Hui's words, the woman among the three nodded and said with a smile:
"Excuse me, after this time, I will ask the village chief to take you to contact the spiritual official."
"Really! That's great..."
Huang Hui She was so excited that she almost jumped up, but before she could finish her words, she fell to the ground with a plop and fainted.
The woman frowned when she saw this scene, obviously a little unhappy.
But she looked at the three big red cocoons in the yard, and then at the bride in Lin Qian's arms, and thought for a while but didn't say anything.
Although she didn't say anything, the two men beside her looked at Lin Qian with sullen faces and cold eyes. One of them immediately said:
"If you do this, you will Not afraid of death?"
Lin Qian shifted his gaze and looked at the man, his eyes narrowed:
"You want to die?"
When the man heard this As he spoke, his eyes instantly became fierce:
"You are looking for death!"
As he said this, he wanted to step forward and kill Lin Qian. Lin Qian didn't care, but at this moment, the woman stretched out her hand to stop the man.
“Don’t forget what we are doing this time.”
Hearing this, the man was slightly silent. After thinking for a while, he did not continue to step forward. Instead, he stepped back, but His eyes were always staring at Lin Qian fiercely.
The woman didn’t care when she saw this, but smiled and said to Lin Qian:
"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Liu Meng. The two people next to me are Wang Shou and Tan San. We used to be messengers on the fourth floor of the Ghost Post Office."
"Don't be surprised, I know. You are also a messenger, don’t deny it. If a ghost controller like you didn’t come here to deliver a message, you might not even know there is such a place.”
The woman looked at it with a smile. Lin Qian was looking forward to the expression on this young man's face.
But after waiting for a while, she was a little disappointed. The young man just looked at her expressionlessly, just looking at her.
"Oh~ It's you. Some people said that you are dead. It seems that the intelligence is wrong, but it doesn't matter. I don't care about this."
"Then what? What do you want to express?"
Lin Qian's expression was extremely calm. He didn't care about the identities of these people. Although he was a little surprised that they were still alive, there are some things that are not worth seeing too much. Strange.
Hearing Lin Qian’s words, Liu Meng was not surprised. He just smiled and nodded:
“It’s a very interesting messenger. In this case, let’s get straight to the point.”< br>
“We are here this time to invite you to participate in the sacrifice. I wonder if you are willing?”
"Don't refuse in a hurry. I believe you have also read the taboos in the letter. Does it tell you not to participate in the sacrifice?"
"Haha... That is actually just killing you. What happened last night You must have heard it, isn’t it weird?”
“Isn’t it scary when a ghost knocks on the door but you don’t know where it is?”
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"We came here in the same way at the beginning. Like you, we also did not agree to the village chief to participate in the sacrifice at the first time. The result was like this, being harassed by ghosts every day."
"This is only the first time. It’s only one day, and the evil spirits will not enter the yard, but it will be different on the second and third days. I think you should understand what I mean.”
Liu Meng's eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and she looked at Lin Qian with a strange smile.
"This is the consequence of not participating in the sacrifice. The sacrifice lasts for nine days. If you don't participate in the sacrifice, you will not survive the nine days at all, let alone leave here after sending the letter."
"So, You should understand which is more important. Young man, participate in the sacrifice honestly. This will do you no harm at all. This is a good thing. If you participate in the sacrifice, you will I will no longer be troubled by the resurgence of the evil ghost. "
"Look, I am the best example. When I first came here, the resurgence of the evil ghost was already in sight, but you see, I am still alive and well. And my appearance has not changed at all, I am still in my mid-twenties.”
“You know, I am already 80 years old~”
"Young man, participate in the sacrifice, eternal life is right before your eyes."
Liu Meng looked at Lin Qian, her eyes full of smiles, and the same was true for Wang Shou and Tan San next to her.
Lin Qian looked at these three people with thoughtful eyes:
"Immortality and eternal youth are really a very tempting condition."
"It's a pity, if I were blind, I might not believe it."
In Lin Qian's eyes, these three people were alive, but their lives were too outrageous.
He never believed that a ghost master who had not become an alien could live forever.
Lin Qian looked at Liu Meng coldly, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:
"Should I participate in the sacrifice or not?"
Hearing Lin Qian's words, Liu Meng's eyes narrowed slightly, and the smile on her face slowly disappeared, but soon she started laughing again:
"Believe me, you will participate. I never lie."
"Don't even think about killing us, we can't die."
After saying that, Liu Meng looked at it. Without looking at Lin Qian, he turned around and left.
Tan San and Wang Shou just sneered and turned and left.
Lin Qian just looked at them without speaking. She lowered her head and looked at Huang Hui lying on the ground, her eyes flickering slightly.
"It's interesting. The things in the Coffin Village are really scary."
"Suppress the evil ghosts and revive them, and you will stay young forever. As long as you don't leave the Coffin Village, you won't die."
"It sounds good, but is it really like this?"
Lin Qian smiled and didn't care too much.
Looking up at the sky, the sun was still rising.
"Go to the wishing well and take a look, if you can take it away directly."
Thinking about it, Lin Qian glanced at the three red cocoons next to him, said nothing, and walked out of the yard.
On a street, Liu Meng and three others walked towards the old house in the south.
"Liu Meng, why don't we force him to participate in the sacrifice? As for being so gentle?" Tan San asked with some confusion.
"Yes, there are three of us, but we can't restrain him? Besides, we can't die. If we really have to spend it, he can't afford it." Wang Shou also said.
Hearing their doubts, Liu Meng was not surprised. He just shook his head and said:
"This is the first day of the sacrifice. If things get serious and interfere with the sacrifice, are you responsible? Or are you responsible? The stakes are too high to let you do whatever you want."
"If it doesn't matter on the third day of the sacrifice, you can just do it, but today is only the first day, and the sacrifice is only the first day. At the beginning, if something goes wrong and the sacrifice goes wrong, we will all be dead."
"What do you think we live on? Oh, forget it, you know."
"No matter what, he will participate in the sacrifice. He can't escape. Believe me, I will make him have to participate in the sacrifice tomorrow at most."
Liu Meng was very confident, with disdain for Lin Qian in her eyes.
Hearing Liu Meng's words, Tan San and Wang Shou looked at each other and did not speak any more.
"By the way, what's going on with Zhao Cai? Is he still looking for a way to leave?" Liu Meng suddenly asked.
"Well, Zhao Cai and Zhou Li have never given up. No, they didn't come to participate in today's sacrifice." Tan San said.
"Haha... If you don't give up until you reach the Yellow River, do you really think you can get out? If you could get out, we wouldn't have been here for sixty years."
"Besides, you will die if you go out. It's not like they don't know. Why not live a good life here? Do you want to die that much?"
Liu Meng sneered and looked in one direction, shook her head and was not there. What to say, Tan San and Wang Shou remained silent, their eyes flickering slightly.
"Okay, you go back first, and I'll go to the wishing well." Liu Meng said.
"Yes, we understand." Tan San and Wang Shou nodded without rejecting.
Liu Meng ignored them, turned around and walked into an alley, and quickly disappeared.
Wang Shou and Tan San watched Liu Meng leave without saying a word and left silently.
To the east, on a street near the old locust tree, there is a well built in the center of the road called the Wish Well.
Liu Meng stood by this bottomless well, her eyes calm, just like the water in the well, there was no ripple in the ancient well.
“I said, you will participate in the sacrifice.”
Liu Meng laughed, took out a piece of cold silver from his pocket, and threw it away without thinking. She went in and closed her eyes.
After a while, Liu Meng opened her eyes, looked at the mouth of the well, turned around and left without staying any longer.
Just as she left, there was a sound in the well, a splash, as if something fell into the water.
Hearing this voice, Liu Meng smiled and left without looking back.
The well water rippled gently, and then returned to calm.
On West Street, Lin Qian put his hands in his pockets and walked on the street. The surrounding villagers looked at him indifferently.
Lin Qian didn't care about this. He looked at the bride holding his hand and sighed, feeling helpless.
Keke was jumping up and down on the bluestone in front, while Lin Qian just looked at it with a smile on his lips.
After seeing Lin Qian, the villagers seemed to be particularly repulsive, as if they were looking at the god of plague, fearing to avoid him.
As long as they see Lin Qian coming, they will hide away, and those with children will ask them to hide in the house quickly.
Lin Qian Leng watched all this and felt very calm.
"They're all garbage."
Coco ran back, looked up at Lin Qian, and pointed to a small river not far away:
"Dad, let's go catch fish. The fish is delicious.”
Following the direction of Ke Ke’s finger, there is a small river, only about three meters wide.
The depth is estimated to be more than one meter. The water is very clear and there are quite large fish in it.
"Well, you can, but don't be in a hurry. It won't be too late to go after dad goes to see something first." Lin Qian pressed the little girl's head and shook it.
Keke shook it along Lin Qian’s hand, feeling happy:
“Yeah, yeah, I listen to daddy.”
Lin Qian smiled and turned for Keke Pick a direction and keep moving forward.
Through several streets, Lin Qian soon came to the east side of the wishing well.
Looking at the quiet well, Lin Qian was a little silent. He tapped his fingers in the air and found that nothing happened.
He was a little confused, but soon he seemed to have thought of something. After hesitating for a while, he actually turned and left.
Keke didn’t understand what her father was doing, but she didn’t care and continued to run and jump with her father.
"A slightly similar supernatural being, if nothing else, is what Mr. Li is looking for." Lin Qian thought in his mind.
"This thing has to be taken away, but not now. After the ghost in the sacrifice appears in reality, I will eat it and then start packing."
"If you can't kill him, there will be no one in this world who is still alive after being eaten by me." Lin Qian laughed, thinking of that woman Liu Meng, scarlet flashed across Lin Qian's eyes.
Walking on the street, ignoring those weird eyes, Lin Qian came to the river.
Keke was very excited when he saw the water. He took off his shoes and started playing in the water. Lin Qian didn't care what accident happened to Keke, and just sat on a willow tree by the river that stretched out of the water.
Quietly watching Keke play in the water, the deepest river water is only more than one meter, and the shallowest water only reaches Keke’s calf.
How tall Coco is is enough to show how shallow the water is.
The sun shines on the water, reflecting the whiteness of the pebbles in the river. The wicker falls vertically into the water and moves with the water.
Lin Qian, who was sitting on a willow branch, looked at this scene very calmly. In front of the temple in the west, a starving ghost appeared there.
The same is true for the mountains in the north. Lin Qian asked the hungry ghosts to check the situation. There were no hungry ghosts at the old houses in the north and south. There was no need. There were people living there, probably the messengers.
It has been confirmed at the temple that the temple is a ghost, which is quite scary.
On the other side of the mountain, the fierce ghosts are also terrifying. The hungry ghosts were attacked just as they entered.
Lin Qian didn't pay too much attention to this and turned to look at the old locust tree in the center of the village.
The locust leaves are swaying, and the black wooden signs on them collide with each other, which looks very beautiful.
The coffin on the altar has disappeared, and I don’t know when it happened.
However, Lin Qian can be sure that the person in the coffin is dead, truly dead.
When he saw those villagers, Lin Qian discovered one thing. These villagers were real living people, no different from living people outside.
They can also eat and sleep, and they can also reproduce.
It looks extremely normal, but this is exactly the most abnormal thing.
Living people and ghosts coexist in perfect peace. As long as sacrifices are offered during sacrifices, they can continue to live like this.
And Lin Qian also discovered that the immortality and eternal youth mentioned by Liu Meng were only for ghost controllers and had no effect on ordinary people.
Because, he saw old people in the village, and there was more than one, among which the old village chief was the best example.
The old village chief is not a ghost master, he is just an ordinary person, but he seems to be a little special and seems to be immortal.
"It's really an interesting village. The longer you stay here, the more interesting it becomes." Lin Qian looked at the old locust tree that didn't know how old it was.
He felt that the evil ghost might appear from there, and of course it might appear from the altar.
As for that, Lin Qian didn't know, she just suspected it. However, these are not important. She will know after all the sacrifices are over.
“Dad, look, there is a kitten!”
Coco stepped on the water and ran over at a trot. Holding a white kitten in his hand, he raised his head and shouted to Lin Qian.
Hearing Coco's shout, Lin Qian came back from his thoughts. When he heard the sound, he looked over and saw Coco holding up a snow-white kitten and smiling at him.
“Ghost?”
Lin Qian appeared in front of Coco, stepped on the water, squatted down and took the kitten from Coco’s hand.
The kitten's body was very soft and exuded a coldness. Lin Qian stared at the white cat's eyes, which were green and scattered.
"Ghost cat?"
Looking at the white cat with slightly rotating pupils, Lin Qian was a little surprised. This thing is an alien, and it is an alien with cat consciousness.
This thing is just like the Tibetan Mastiff Xiaohei, it can understand human speech.
“Where did it come from?”
Lin Qian handed the kitten to Coco and did not choose to eat it.
"It ran here on its own." Coco held the kitten in her arms and stroked it. The kitten didn't resist and seemed to like Coco's strokes very much.
"Is that so?" Lin Qian looked around.
“Dad, can Keke keep it?”
Keke held the white cat and looked at Lin Qian longingly.
The white cat seemed to understand what Coco said. It turned its little head and stared at Lin Qian with its dilated green pupils, as if it wanted him to agree.
"Well, you can, but remember not to eat it." Lin Qian thought for a while and did not refuse Coco's request.
"Okay, dad is the best." Coco hugged Lin Qian directly.
Lin Qian smiled, touched Coco's little head and said:
"Okay, let's go play."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Coco hurriedly He nodded, then hugged the little white cat and started running in the river. It could be seen that he was really happy.
Lin Qian just looked at it, thoughtfully in his eyes:
"A wild alien, or an animal, was brought here by Coco?"
"Or?"
< br>Lin Qian turned to look at the Cunning Bride, thought for a while and shook her head:
"It shouldn't be possible. How could the Cunning Bride recruit ghosts just to find a playmate for Coco? She doesn't have one. Consciousness.”
"It must have been Coco who invited him here."
Lin Qian looked at Coco playing with the white cat, smiled, turned around and reappeared in the willow tree.
"Everything becomes interesting." (End of Chapter)