Chapter 86. Imprint Of Vinegar Pot
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
There was nothing unusual about the stairwell. It was similar to all the stairwells in high-rise residential areas, and the lighting was a little dim.
In order to save resources, stairwells are usually equipped with voice-activated lights. When Du Yan walked to the next floor, the lights on the upper floor went out.
He looked back, the dark corridor above was like an unknown giant beast, with its bloody mouth wide open, wanting to devour everything. Looking down, it was also dim, and the stairs seemed to have no end.
Du Yan sighed: “It seems that this stairwell is not peaceful either.”
But compared to the elevator, the stairs at least give him power to control. If he were in the elevator, in the small space, whether he lives or dies, everything is at the disposal of others.
Choose the lesser of two evils. Even though the stairwell was definitely not peaceful, Du Yan could only choose to find a way out from the stairwell.
He continued to walk down, neither fast nor slow. The number at the corner of the stairs slowly changed from “18” to the single digit, and finally to “1”.
Du Yan opened the fire exit door directly but found that there was a whole cement wall outside the door, which sealed the exit tightly without any gaps. After getting the expected result, Du Yan just calmly let go and let the fire exit door close automatically.
The exit was blocked by a cement wall, but he didn’t find it strange. If he could get out so easily, it would be even more bizarre.
Du Yan thought about it, turned back, and walked up again, but he only walked up one flight of stairs. The number that appeared in front of him was not “2”, but “18”. He opened the fire exit door and saw that it was indeed the corridor outside Tian Luo’s house.
Du Yan closed the door and continued walking down, arriving at the first level again.
He opened the fire exit door as usual, and the outside was still tightly sealed by the cement wall.
Du Yan let go of his hand and walked down the stairs. It was not strange for a residential building to have “-1”, “-2”, or “-3”. After all, most of them have parking lots several levels underground.
However, when he walked past the third level, the situation became a little different. The stairs that were supposed to be paved with tiles gradually turned into cement stairs, and the walls became mottled, like an old-fashioned community that has been destroyed by time.
Du Yan put his hands in his trouser pockets, seemingly strolling leisurely, not paying much attention to the changing environment around him.
The further down he went, the voice-activated light source turned into the old-fashioned one. The yellow light bulb hung on the top, still swaying in the windless air, and Du Yan’s shadow was also swaying on the stairs.
Du Yan walked a few steps and stopped at a corner. He lowered his head and stared at his own shadow. He didn’t know if it was because the light on this floor was too strong or for some other reason, but his shadow was distorted.
Du Yan stopped and watched the shadow beneath his feet twist as if it had been electrocuted, and even began to slowly leave the ground. He raised his eyebrows and said: “I advise you not to come out.”
Du Yan finally pulled his hand out of his pocket, holding a yellow talisman paper between his slender fingertips. He just shook the talisman paper lightly in the air, and the talisman paper stood up like a hard object.
The shadow that slightly left the ground seemed to understand Du Yan’s hint. It trembled violently and then returned to the ground to calm down. Du Yan put his hands back into his trouser pockets, continued to go downstairs, and walked into the floor. He saw a little girl in a dress squatting at the corner of the corridor.
Du Yan walked past without looking away, as if he hadn’t seen the little girl. However, when he reached the next level, there was still a little girl in the corner.
Same clothes, same hairstyle, everything indicates that it is the same person.
Du Yan continued to walk down, but he could see the little girl in every corner of every level. He finally stopped.
The little girl, with her hair done in a princess style and wearing a lace princess dress, curled up and squatted facing the corner. She sobbed in grievance, and her thin shoulders trembled from crying.
Du Yan just stared at her back in silence. Apart from the crying of the little girl, the surroundings were completely silent.
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps because she saw that Du Yan had no intention of speaking, the little girl sobbed and asked: “Shushu, why are you ignoring me?”
Du Yan replied: “You call me Shushu, of course I don’t want to pay attention to you.”
The little girl seemed to be choked and was silent for a moment before she said: “Da Gege, why are you ignoring me?”
Du Yan replied coldly: “You are not my child, why should I care about you?”
This is when the little girl was silent for a longer time. When she spoke again, she stopped sobbing: “Da Gege, can you take me to find my baba? He ran away with another woman and didn’t want me and my mama anymore.”
Du Yan said: “Your baba didn’t run away with me. Where can I find him? You can find him yourself.”
Then he continued to walk down, and at the corner of the stairs, he saw the little girl again.
But the little girl was no longer squatting there but standing with her back to the corner. After hearing Du Yan’s footsteps coming downstairs, she turned her head silently.
The little girl’s face turned around, and it was both normal and abnormal. It was normal because her facial features were complete and nothing was missing, it was abnormal because she was a little too thin, and her cheeks were sunken, as if she had been hungry for a long time.
She spoke, still in her childish voice: “I looked for him. I was looking for my baba. Later, I found him in his company. They had moved out. There was no one in the building. I was locked in there for a long, long time. I was so scared. I was really scared. Why didn’t my baba come to save me…”
Du Yan looked at her for a long while, listened to the little girl’s tragic story, and then said: “Oh.”
It’s not that Du Yan had such a hard heart, it’s just that this little girl was naughty, and Du Yan had seen through her tricks.
Probably, the purpose was to use the miserable life to arouse people’s sympathy. Once sympathy is born, the little girl will ask him to borrow his body to find her father. At that time, his answer doesn’t matter, if it is yes, he will be possessed by the little girl, and if he refuses, he will be swallowed by the little girl who starves to death.
Du Yan didn’t fall for it, and the stairs still had no end. Now, the sign indicating the floor number at the corner had disappeared, and there was still the little girl who kept appearing. However, it wasn’t that the little girl kept appearing on the next level, but that he had never left this level.
Du Yan probably already understood the structure of this staircase. Others might think that the staircase really has no end and will extend to nowhere.
In fact, it was the ghosts that affected his brain waves and the overlapping of space that made the stairs seem endless. He never left this level.
In fact, as long as he finds the most critical point and solves it, he can leave this level. The facts in front of him were very obvious, the key point lies in the little girl.
The little girl in front of him looked weak and harmless, but she exuded a strong aura of murderous intent and blood, proving that countless innocent people had died at her hands.
Even if Du Yan had a soft heart, he would not use it on such a fierce ghost. He directly pulled out the peach wood dagger from his backpack.
When the little girl saw the peach wood dagger, her expression suddenly turned fierce, and she screamed: “Bad guy! You are a bad guy! Bad guys deserve to die!”
After she finished speaking, her mouth opened wider. It was only a cherry-like mouth, but it opened wider and wider. When it reached its limit, Du Yan heard a ‘click’ sound. The little girl’s jaw was dislocated because it opened too much.
However, the little girl in front of him did not feel any pain. She opened her mouth with her hands, and sharp teeth emerged. She kicked her feet and rushed towards Du Yan.
Du Yan reacted very quickly and dodged to the side. The little girl ran towards the wall, but she stepped directly on the wall, twisted her body in the air, and flew towards Du Yan again.
The little girl who looked so weak just now now looked like a wild beast, as fast as a flash of lightning.
Du Yan was just a mortal, so his speed was naturally not as fast as that of this fierce ghost. In addition, the space was narrow, and he was not careful, so his left arm was cut by the little girl’s nails.
Du Yan looked distressed: “I didn’t want to use such a brutal trick, but…”
Before he finished speaking, he used the peach wood dagger in his hand to wipe the wound on his arm. The blood-stained peach wood dagger shone brightly, and the entire stairwell was filled with this dazzling light.
The fierce ghost screamed, covered her face, and rolled to the ground.
Du Yan walked over and looked at the fierce ghost rolling on the ground.
The little girl’s voice returned to her childish voice. She cried and begged: “Da Gege, I didn’t mean it. I just wanted to see my baba again. Please let me go…
Du Yan’s expression slightly changed, as if he was touched. The little girl had already rolled to Du Yan’s feet and seemed to sense the other party’s softening. She moved her body, hooked her five fingers, and clawed toward Du Yan’s chest.
She saw Du Yan was about to die under her claws, but the fierce ghost stopped in mid-air. She looked down in disbelief, looking at the peach wood dagger that pierced through her chest.
“I calculated that your baba is probably waiting for you down there. He will give you a ride. No need to be grateful.” Du Yan said coldly: “But before that, he will probably settle the lives you have taken. Goodbye.”
The fierce ghost on the peach wood dagger turned into smoke and disappeared in the air, leaving no trace at all. Du Yan took out a tissue from his backpack and wiped the peach wood dagger carefully.
Hiss——
He raised his hand and touched his left shoulder, where the imprint left by a vinegar pot was getting hot.
“Tsk, things are getting troublesome.”
Du Yan was a little distressed. When he left, he promised Xiao Lang to leave an imprint on his shoulder before he was allowed to leave. This imprint will monitor everything about him, including whether anyone touches him for a long time or gets injured.
Now that his arm was injured, Xiao Lang probably knew that, and if he didn’t leave this place soon, that person would probably break out of the formation and run here.
Chapter 85. Take The Elevator Or The Stairwell?
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare
T/N-: 2 chapters today. And I’ve used Ah Luo instead of Xiao Luo(original) as how Tian Luo’s grandparents addressed him. It is confusing when there are a character with Xiao in their name.
Now that he couldn’t find the reason, Du Yan asked more carefully: “I heard from Tian Luo that you two died of illness. Was there anything unusual at that time?”
The old man suddenly remembered something and said: “Hearing you say that, I remember it now. When my family sent me to the hospital, I had already lost consciousness. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in my room at home. At that time, I didn’t realize I was dead yet, but I heard a strange sound outside the window.”
“Strange noise?”
The old man replied: “It was the sound of someone walking by dragging a chain, humming a song as he walked, but our house is on the 18th floor…”
Du Yan thought for a moment and hummed a few words: “Is this the song you heard?”
The old man nodded, and the old lady next to him also said that she had heard it at the time.
Du Yan explained: “What you heard was the soul-enchanting song. The sound of dragging the chains was the ghost messenger from the underworld coming to lead you to reincarnation.”
The old man suddenly realized and said: “No wonder I couldn’t help but float outside when I heard this song, but when I walked to the window, I didn’t know what pulled me back.”
The old lady said: “Me too.”
The situation was getting weirder now. The second bedroom Du Yan had been in just now was not set up with a formation to trap the soul, and the two elderly did not seem to be stuck in the world of the living due to obsession.
Du Yan asked: “The power that pulled you back must have a source, do you have any idea?”
They looked at each other, and the old man said hesitantly: “The source of the power that held me back seemed to be Ah Luo. When Ah Luo went to college in the past two years, I felt that the restrictions on us became a little lighter, and we could even go out to other places, but every time he came back, we were confined to this room and could not go anywhere else.”
The old lady nodded: “After he came back a few days ago, I suddenly found that I could touch things in the house. Then I patted Ah Luo’s mother on the shoulder and said something to her. I didn’t expect that when I came to my senses, it was already like this now.”
The source lies with Tian Luo? Du Yan suddenly remembered what the old lady said, and he asked: “You just said that you want to see Tian Luo get married and have children, and the yin energy in your body became particularly strong that time.”
Seeing the old lady’s puzzled expression, he explained: “This shows that you are very obsessed with it. Logically speaking, getting married and having children is a necessary stage in his life, but why are you so worried?”
The old lady hesitated for a long time before she made up her mind and said: “Because, because Ah Luo doesn’t seem to like girls, he’s a homosexual.”
Du Yan looked dazed and asked: “How did you know?”
The old lady replied: “One time when I was walking outside, I saw him hugging a boy. I originally thought that young people today were like this, but then I saw the boy kiss his face. I became a little worried, so together with the old man I asked Ah Luo in private.”
The old man said: “The child did not deny it at all, and directly said that he had never liked girls since he was a child, and his heart would beat faster only when he was with boys. At that time, we were afraid that the child would run away from home on impulse, so we comforted him and said it was okay as long as he was happy.”
“But as elders, how could we not worry about our grandson’s life?” said the old lady: “We just thought he was just ignorant, and he would realize how absurd it was when he grew up.”
Du Yan suddenly understood why Tian Luo was obsessed with the two old people because his grandparents were the only people in the world who knew his secret. Only with his grandparents could he open his heart and show his true self.
So when his grandparents passed away, he was totally unable to accept it and even became so obsessed that he trapped the souls of the two elderly people in his home.
However, it was very rare that the souls of two elderly people can be retained by the obsession of one person alone. It seems that Tian Luo is a person with a heavy mind and a strong obsession. Thinking of this, Du Yan felt that something was wrong.
Now Tian Luo likes boys and has a strong obsession in his heart. Coupled with the abnormal situation in the entire community, something must have happened to Tian Luo.
However, things had come to this point. Du Yan could not just leave the two old people alone. Secondly, he had been trapped. Instead of thinking about how to escape immediately, he should think of a way to fight back.
Du Yan said directly: “Now I have almost understood the cause and effect. If you two do not have any obsessions and do not do evil, it will not be difficult to send you to reincarnation.”
The two elders were both clear-minded people. Although they were a little reluctant, they also knew that staying in the world of the living would only bring trouble to their descendants, so they agreed to Du Yan’s proposal.
Du Yan stood in the living room, watching the shadows of two elderly appear in the air. They smiled and said to Du Yan: “Thank you for your help, young man.”
Afterward, a soft white light appeared on their bodies, and then they disappeared without a trace. Du Yan walked forward to check on Tian Luo’s parents and found that they were just a little weak and fainted on the sofa, and they were not injured.
After confirming, Du Yan did not leave, but took out a small knife from his backpack, and then said softly: “Sorry, this is the trouble caused by your son, lend me some of your blood.”
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When Du Yan opened the door, Tian Luo was standing at the door with no expression on his face. It was unknown how long he had been standing outside the door.
Seeing Du Yan coming out, he smiled and said: “Where are you going?”
Du Yan replied: “Now that the matter has been resolved, I will, of course, leave.”
Tian Luo walked in, his tone sounding very polite: “It’s a rare opportunity for you to come here, please stay and have a meal.”
Du Yan refused: “No, I have something else to do.”
After saying that, he walked out the door.
“Wait.” Tian Luo grabbed Du Yan’s arm and said: “I finally got you into the trap, Master Du, it won’t be that easy for you to leave.”
Du Yan’s expression remained unchanged, as if he had anticipated Tian Luo’s behavior. He asked coldly: “Who are you? Why are you attached to Tian Luo?”
Tian Luo’s expression was a little strange. He was a little panicked at first, and then he smiled grimly: “I was attracted by his obsession. This young man is a good seedling. But after he saw some things that happened in the hotel, the dark side of his heart expanded infinitely. It can even drag the entire community into Shunping Ghost City.”
Du Yan did not respond, thinking about what happened in the hotel he was referring to, probably the messy things Xiao Lang did that night.
Tian Luo didn’t care that Du Yan didn’t respond and continued: “Train him well. This young man can definitely become a general under me.”
Du Yan frowned slightly and finally said: “Shunping’s Ghost King.”
Tian Luo smiled: “You are quite knowledgeable.”
Hearing the other party admit his identity, Du Yan still didn’t even move his eyebrows. He lowered his eyes slightly and moved his gaze to the other party’s hand, still holding his arm: “I advise you to let me go quickly.”
Just when Tian Luo was somewhat puzzled, a blinding light burst out from where his hand and Du Yan’s arm touched. Even Shunping Ghost King was injured by this sudden attack.
He screamed and took several steps back.
Du Yan finally smiled: “Because there is a vinegar pot, no one is allowed to touch me for more than three minutes, and it’s just been three minutes.”
After all, Shunping’s Ghost King was very powerful. Although his strength was greatly reduced due to being attached to Tian Luo, he still recovered in a very short time. He roared in extreme anger, dark red patterns began to appear on his face, and his eyes also turned a strange red.
Just as Tian Luo was about to rush in front of Du Yan, golden light spread from under his feet, and golden lines instantly covered the entire room, turning into a large net that trapped him tightly.
“What the hell did you do!”
Du Yan did not answer. Only a fool would say such nonsense. He turned and left but heard the other party suppress his emotions and said in a creepy tone: “This little trick won’t trap me for long.”
Du Yan turned around, ready to shut out Tian Luo’s weird laughter behind the door.
The moment he closed the door, Tian Luo’s expression turned panic again: “Master Du, save me, save me, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have been deceived and tricked you into coming here.”
“Sorry, now is not the time to save you.” After saying that, he closed the door without hesitation.
The moment he closed the door, he heard a voice from inside: “You can’t leave this Sophora Flower Garden.”
Du Yan knew that this little trick of his could not trap the Shunping’s Ghost King for too long. He could buy some time because the other party was attached to Tian Luo’s body. He used the blood of Tian Luo’s parents, who were connected to him by blood, to set up a formation that could temporarily lock the Shunping’s Ghost King in Tian Luo’s body and prevent him from leaving the house for the time being.
Although it was only a short time, it was enough for Du Yan.
Du Yan was standing in front of the elevator, hesitating about how to leave. Just then, the elevator reached the 18th floor, and the elevator door slowly opened.
There was someone in the elevator, a thin old man. He stood in the corner with his back to the elevator door, looking very serious, and not sure what he was looking at.
Du Yan did not go in, and the elevator door remained open, with no intention of closing.
The skinny old man suddenly said in a low voice: “Young man, do you want to take the elevator? If you want to get up, hurry up. It’s very rude to keep pressing the elevator door to tease the elderly…”
Du Yan replied: “No need, I’ll take the stairs.”
The skinny old man turned around, revealing half of his face that looked like it had been flattened by something. He smiled, revealing his dark red gums with few remaining teeth: “Young man, it’s good to use the stairs for exercise.”
After saying this, the elevator door closed and went down. Du Yan watched the number on the screen slowly change from “18” to “1”.
However, the numbers did not stop changing, but changed from “1” to “-1” and “-2”, and did not stop until it reached “-18”.
Looking at this incredible scene, Du Yan just sighed softly: “It seems that I really can only take the stairs.”
After saying this, he turned around, pushed open the fire exit door, and walked into the stairwell without hesitation.
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Chapter 84. Whose Obsession
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
Tian Luo’s house was on the 18th floor, the one closest to the inside. When the two entered Tian Luo’s house, there was no one inside.
Tian Luo looked a little embarrassed: “My mom probably went out to pick up waste again, and my dad probably went to the supermarket to get bargains. There seems to be a sale going on today.”
After that, he laughed at himself and said: “In just a few short days, I have gotten to know their daily routines very well.”
Du Yan said directly: “While they are not here, we can go to your grandparents’ room to take a look.”
Tian Luo nodded, and the two walked into the second bedroom. The second bedroom faces north, and the furniture inside was all old-fashioned wooden furniture. As soon as he enters, he can feel the atmosphere of antiquity.
Du Yan only took a quick look and found that the whole room was filled with a very heavy yin energy.
He asked Tian Luo: “After your grandparents passed away, did you find anything unusual in this room?”
Tian Luo shook his head first, then said with uncertainty: “If I have to say something unusual about it, it’s probably that this second bedroom is particularly cool. Even in the hottest time of summer, there is no need to turn on the air conditioner.”
Du Yan said: “It’s normal for rooms facing north to be cooler.”
“Not only that, when I was in high school, I got air conditioning sickness one summer. I didn’t dare to turn on the air conditioner anymore and slept here at night. As a result, in the middle of the night, I suddenly felt a suffocating feeling in my chest and regained consciousness. My body seemed to be pressed down by something, and I couldn’t move.”
“Sleep paralysis?”
Tian Luo nodded: “My mom said the same thing. She later stopped allowing me to sleep in this room. After that, the second bedroom was basically only used to store things, and few people went in.”
Du Yan felt that this was a little strange. He thought about it and asked: “Tian Luo, let me ask you a question that may be a little offensive. Before your grandparents passed away, did they have any unfulfilled wishes? Or, in other words, were there any things that didn’t go as planned?”
Tian Luo thought for a moment, shook his head, and said: “No, in fact, our family has a good relationship. Although my grandmother was a little uncomfortable with my mom’s love of dressing up, my dad is quite good at adjusting the relationship, so there were generally no major conflicts. The relationship with other relatives is also very good. Anyway, relatives and friends all say that grandparents were blessed with children and grandchildren and that they lived a very comfortable life in their old age.”
When Tian Luo said these words, his expression was natural, and his eyes were calm. In Du Yan’s opinion, he was not lying. Even if there was some hidden secret, at least from what Tian Luo knew, his grandparents lived a very happy life in their later years.
Du Yan asked again: “Let me ask again, how did your grandparents pass away?”
Tian Luo frankly said: “In fact, they were old and always had problems here and there. My grandfather had cardiovascular problems, and my grandmother had a cerebral hemorrhage. Both of them died after being sent to the hospital. In fact, relatives in my hometown said that it was a happy funeral for both of them, and they did not suffer too much pain and passed away quickly.”
Du Yan nodded, indicating that he understood: “Is there any photo album or something I can take a look at, maybe a family photo of your grandparents or something like that?”
Upon hearing this, Tian Luo took out several thick photo albums from an old-fashioned bookshelf nearby and handed them to Du Yan.
Du Yan flipped through the photo album. Even though his emotional intelligence was not very high, he could tell from these photos that they were indeed harmonious and beautiful. When the two elderly people took the photo, there was a sense of peace and happiness in their eyes.
The latter part of the album should be the family pictures after the elderly passed away, and the two old people were missing. Du Yan studied it more carefully and found that the two old people were indeed missing, whether in reality or invisible to ordinary people.
That’s very strange. Judging from the concentration of yin energy here, the souls of these two old people probably haven’t left this room since the day they died.
What’s even more bizarre was that this room had a strong negative energy but no hostility. It can be said that the ghosts of the two old people have no offensive power.
Generally speaking, only those with strong obsessions will linger in the world of the living after death and be unwilling to leave. However, as the ghosts stay for a long time, their rationality becomes weaker and weaker, and there will always be darkness in people’s hearts. As rationality weakens, this darkness will evolve into various kinds of grievances or hostility.
Therefore, after death, except for some special circumstances, the best way for a person to return is to reincarnate. Because if one stays in the world of the living for too long, he or she will eventually become an irrational ghost or a wandering spirit.
Just as Du Yan was thinking about why the souls of the two old men were trapped here, the sound of a door opening was heard outside the room, followed by the sound of a conversation.
Tian Luo said: “It should be my parents who are back.”
Now that the protagonists had returned, it was not convenient for the two to stay in the room any longer, so they went to the living room.
Tian Luo introduced him to his parents: “Mom and Dad, this is my college classmate, Du Yan. He came here for a trip and came to visit us.”
Du Yan smiled and nodded: “Shushu, Ayi, sorry to bother you.”
He frowned slightly. It was indeed the case. In Du Yan’s eyes, the couple standing in front of him were not a middle-aged couple but a gray-haired old couple. Whether it was the wrinkles at the corners of their eyes or their cloudy eyes, they all showed that they were no longer young.
Du Yan was familiar with the faces of these two old people. They were the old couple that appeared in the photo album just now. Sure enough, the previous speculation was completely correct. The ghosts that were now attached to Tian Luo’s parents were his grandparents.
Du Yan winked at Tian Luo and said: “Sorry, I need to go to the bathroom.”
Tian Luo understood, stood up, and took Du Yan to the bathroom. From an angle that could not be seen in the living room, Du Yan lowered his voice and said to Tian Luo: “It is not convenient for you to be present for what is happening later. It is best to find a reason to go out.”
Tian Luo nodded, indicating that he understood.
After Du Yan pretended to solve the problem and returned to the living room, Tian Luo suddenly slapped his head and said: “Aiya, I forgot to buy some drinks.”
Mother Tian smiled and said: “You young people just like to drink whatever. Drinking tea is great.”
Tian Luo said: “It’s so hot now, how can we drink hot tea?”
Mother Tian looked disapproving, but she still spoke lovingly: “Then go buy it quickly, do you have the money?”
After saying that, Mother Tian was about to take out cash from her pocket, but Tian Luo shook his hands repeatedly: “Nowadays, people pay with their mobile phones, so there is no need for cash.”
After Tian Luo left, Du Yan sat directly opposite Tian Luo’s parents. He said straight to the point: “Shushu, Ayi, oh, no, I should call you Yeye, Nainai. I believe you also know that it is not a good thing to insist on staying in the world of the living.”
(* Yeye=Grandfather and Nainai=Grandmother)
The two people in front of him showed a little panic on their faces but still did not admit it. Father Tian smiled stiffly and said: “You kid, what nonsense are you talking about? Don’t joke with Shushu and Ayi.”
Du Yan simply took out a peachwood dagger from his backpack and said: “When you see this dagger, you should know that I am not an ordinary person. Unfortunately, my job is to exorcise ghosts and demons.”
The expressions of the two people in front of him became increasingly flustered, and they seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Seeing this, Du Yan continued: “You don’t need to hide anything in front of me. I can tell your origins at a glance. Two elders, if you are willing to communicate well, maybe I can give you some suggestions.”
Seeing that the two people’s expressions were becoming more relaxed, he paused for a moment and said: “You have been trapped in this room, and you may not know much about the other world. The negative energy of ghosts is fatal to the living.”
Mother Tian’s face turned pale all of a sudden, and she asked anxiously: “What kind of danger will there be?”
Du Yan replied: “Yin and Yang are incompatible. The stronger the Yin, the weaker the Yang. You are attached to Tian Luo’s parents, and the Yin in your body will slowly infect them. When the Yang in their body becomes extremely weak, they can no longer stay in the world of the living.”
Father Tian asked: “What does this mean?”
Du Yan smiled lightly and said cruelly: “I mean, they will die.”
The meaning revealed in Du Yan’s words finally broke the psychological defenses of the two people in front of him.
Tian Luo’s mother, or now Tian Luo’s grandmother, said with tears in her eyes: “I never thought there would be such serious consequences. I just wanted to stay in this world for a while longer and watch my grandson get married and have children. That’s all.”
Du Yan didn’t really care about other people’s family affairs. He was more concerned about what special abilities this ordinary old couple had that allowed them to stay in this world for such a long time.
He asked: “When you died, was there something you were unwilling to accept, or did you have a strong hatred towards someone, which led to you not going to reincarnation after death?”
They thought about it carefully and looked confused.
The old man said: “Although we are not rich and noble, and we had a hard time when we were young, our children are filial and our grandsons are promising and have always had good grades. We don’t have anything to let go of.”
He paused and added: “As for any enemies, it is even more impossible. We are ordinary people who have always been kind to others. How can there be any deep hatred?”
The old lady nodded and said: “Yes, I was actually very sad when the old man passed away, and I always wanted to follow him. Now that my children have started their own families and careers, it would not cause any trouble for them if the elderly like us passed away early. How could I be unwilling to leave?”
Du Yan frowned slightly, thinking that this was a bit strange. If staying in the world of the living was not the intention of the two old men, then why?
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Chapter 83. Sophora Flower Garden
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
Du Yan knew that Xiao Lang’s words were now very credible. Since he had no other relationship with Tian Luo, there should be no problem with Tian Luo’s request for help.
At this time, Xiao Ba reminded him: “Don’t forget, Xiao Lang and Tian Luo are both men. Without knowing Xiao Lang’s sexual orientation, Tian Luo would definitely hide his feelings.”
Du Yan heard this and thought that what Xiao Ba said was reasonable, so he asked Xiao Lang again: “Tian Luo, has he ever had a girlfriend or crush?”
Although Xiao Lang didn’t understand why Du Yan asked this, he thought about it honestly and gave an answer: “Tian Luo seemed to be quite popular in high school. Some girls in our class liked him very much, and it seems that one of them had a relationship with him. He also consulted me about love problems in college.”
At this point, Xiao Lang suddenly stopped talking and then added: “But I have never been in love, so how can I be someone else’s love guru?”
Du Yan completely ignored Xiao Lang’s expression of loyalty and quickly turned his attention to how to smoothly check on Tian Luo’s parents. From Tian Luo’s description just now, it seems that the matter was already very serious. If it was not resolved, Tian Luo’s parents’ lives may be in danger.
Du Yan thought of this and said directly to Xiao Lang: “I have to go to Shunping City. Tian Luo is in danger. I must go and see what’s going on.”
Xiao Lang was somewhat reluctant: “Are you going to go again? Shall I go with you?”
Du Yan refused: “Your refining is at a critical juncture now. You can’t leave, otherwise I don’t know what accidents will happen. Don’t worry, except for the appearance of Ghost King of Shunping in person, there will be no problem for me in protecting myself.”
Generally, Du Yan didn’t easily change his decisions, not to mention that the life and death of Tian Luo’s parents were related to the extent to which the nightmare will be eliminated in the future.
In this dream, Xiao Lang is a young man with very positive values. If an innocent person died tragically because of him, he would definitely feel very guilty.
In addition, Tian Luo was his junior in high school. If his parents were haunted and killed by the evil spirit because of Xiao Lang, he would feel even more guilty, and this guilt would make the nightmare impossible to eliminate completely. For Du Yan, who pursues perfection, he absolutely can not tolerate such a thing happening.
Even if the dream-eating factor is not taken into account, although Du Yan had positioned himself as a villain, that was only related to Xiao Lang. He couldn’t just sit there and watch innocent people die tragically while he did nothing.
So Du Yan decided to set off to Shunping City immediately to see what happened to Tian Luo’s parents.
In the end, Du Yan almost gave up his bottom line and agreed to one condition of Xiao Lang before he was able to leave the ancient village. After Du Yan arrived in Shunping City, he met Tian Luo, who had been waiting for a long time at the bus stop.
Tian Luo’s face was pale, with two big dark circles under his eyes, and he looked very frightened. His current appearance fits the image of a very worried child whose parents are haunted by evil spirits.
As soon as Tian Luo saw Du Yan, he said: “I’m really sorry to bother you. I really don’t know what to do.”
Du Yan nodded and greeted him. Tian Luo’s home was not too far from the bus stop, so the two decided to walk there and exchange information on the way.
Du Yan and Tian Luo were not too familiar with each other. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Du Yan got straight to the point.
Du Yan asked: “Tell me in detail what happened in the past few days, don’t leave out any details.”
Perhaps it was because of what happened in the past few days that Tian Luo was very frightened. When Du Yan asked, his face turned pale again, and it took him a while to organize his words.
Tian Luo said: “After my parents came back this time, they seemed a little strange. My mom is a very fashionable person. She usually puts on makeup before going out. But this time, I don’t know why, she was unkempt and didn’t put on makeup. She looked like an old lady all day long and even walked around the community in her pajamas.”
Du Yan knew that this little change alone would not have frightened Tian Luo so much, so he asked again: “And then?”
“She has become even more aggressive these past two days. She began to rummage through plastic bottles and discarded delivery boxes from the community’s classified trash cans, brought them home, cleaned and washed them all and piled them on the balcony, saying she would keep them and sell them for money.” Tian Luo paused and said: “There is something wrong with my dad, too. He is a person who pays great attention to health. Generally, he will not eat the food that was left overnight. Any unfinished food will be thrown away on the spot.”
“But after coming back this time, I don’t know why but he wanted to heat up and eat some dishes that had been left over for two or three days, and he couldn’t bear to eat freshly cooked dishes and had to put them in the refrigerator until the next meal. He had always said that eating leftovers is very harmful to the body, and he never ate a single bite of leftovers.”
“It’s really strange that two people’s temperaments changed drastically at the same time.” Du Yan asked: “From your description, these habits are usually retained by elderly people who have experienced hard times. Do you have any deceased elders who have these living habits?”
Hearing Du Yan say this, Tian Luo showed an expression of sudden enlightenment on his face: “Now that you remind me of this, I remember that when my grandfather was alive, he liked to keep leftovers and would not eat them all. And my grandmother also liked to pick up bottles and waste paper in the community and sell them for money.”
Du Yan said: “It seems that the matter may be related to your grandparents.”
The more Tian Luo talked, the more he felt that this was the case: “When I went out this morning, I found that they were sleeping in the second bedroom. The second bedroom was the room where my grandparents lived before they passed away. After they passed away, the room was empty and basically just used to store some things.”
He frowned and added: “By the way, my mom also found the clothes left by my grandmother and wore them.”
Du Yan asked again: “Did they do anything to hurt you?”
Tian Luo shook his head and said: “That’s not the case. On the contrary, my grandparents loved me very much, without any principles, and they would save all the good things for me to eat. My parents were more strict, but this time, their attitude towards me was exactly like that of my grandparents.”
At this point, Tian Luo said with some hesitation: “If the ghosts in my parents are really my grandparents, could you please not hurt them?”
Du Yan said: “Our sect all emphasizes the cycle of cause and effect and will not kill ghosts without any reason.”
Seeing that Tian Luo looked relieved and looked much better, he asked: “How long has your grandparents been dead?”
If they passed away recently, the two old people have unfulfilled wishes and are lingering here, unwilling to reincarnate. Later, because of Tian Luo, they were affected by Xiao Lang’s ability and were able to contact people in the world of the living and possessed Tian Luo’s parents.
This may be the reason, but Tian Luo’s answer surprised Du Yan.
“My grandfather passed away eight years ago, and my grandmother passed away a year later.”
Du Yan was stunned. If they had not been reincarnated for such a long time, they would either become a fierce ghost due to resentment or become a wandering soul without consciousness. But now, from Tian Luo’s description, the souls attached to his parents were neither fierce ghosts nor wandering souls.
The situation seemed a bit complicated, and Du Yan couldn’t figure it out for a while. Fortunately, while the two were talking, they had almost reached Tian Luo’s community.
Tian Luo’s community was a new type of community, with small high-rise buildings, separate lanes for people and vehicles, and the residential density was not high.
However, when he stepped into the community, Du Yan felt that something was wrong. The community garden was empty, and there were almost no people in sight.
Du Yan asked: “Is the occupancy rate of your community low?”
Tian Luo shook his head and said: “The community is basically full. I felt something was wrong when I first came back, but I don’t like going out, so I just thought that no one was out that day.”
His face turned pale, and he said: “Until one night, when I went downstairs to buy something, I found that there were a lot of people in the community. There were really a lot of people. Some looked like neighbors I had seen before, and some were strangers. Then I felt that something was getting wrong.”
Du Yan took a quick look at the community garden but didn’t find much that was wrong. It seemed that at least during the day, this community was normal.
As for the situation at night, he can only know it after nightfall. According to what Tian Luo said, perhaps at night, this community overlapped with Shunping Ghost City to some extent, which led to the occurrence of strange events.
“Let’s go to your house first.”
Tian Luo nodded and led Du Yan to the building where his home was.
Tian Luo’s home was in Sophora Flower Garden in the community. As soon as he entered the elevator, Du Yan frowned, different from the situation in the community, this Sophora Flower Garden was extremely abnormal.
To put it simply, the whole Sophora Flower Garden was filled with gloomy air, and it was eerie everywhere.
While waiting for the elevator, Du Yan asked Tian Luo: “Have you met your neighbors who live in the same building in the past two days?”
Tian Luo was a little surprised: “I have seen them before, what’s the matter?”
“Do these neighbors seem to have something wrong with them?”
Tian Luo recalled carefully for a moment and said: “Now that you reminded me, I just remembered that when I greeted my neighbors these days, they didn’t pay much attention to me… Oh, the house next door also has a big dog. It used to be so cute that it had to walk at least twice a day. After coming back this time, I haven’t seen it once.”
Thinking of this, Tian Luo shuddered again: “I saw her yesterday and asked her where the dog was. She actually smiled and said, ‘aren’t I just walking the dog now?’ But she was obviously the only one there at the time…”
At this moment, the elevator reached the first floor, and the elevator door opened to both sides. A middle-aged woman with a stiff face walked out of the elevator and walked past without looking around.
The moment Tian Luo saw her, he took a step back and covered his mouth. After the two of them entered the elevator, he whispered to Du Yan: “The person just now is Ayi, who raised the dog I mentioned.”
Du Yan also knew that something was wrong with this Sophora Flower Garden because he saw a shadow with a wagging tail behind the middle-aged woman.
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Chapter 82. Tian Luo Plea For Help
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
Several people inside and outside the door looked at each other in silence, and the scene was very awkward.
Fortunately, Du Yan was always able to remain calm in such situations and find a solution to the problem very quickly. He glanced at Xiao Lang and said: “Give them back their memories of me.”
Xiao Lang showed an unhappy expression on his face: “You belong to me, so I don’t want them to know about you.”
After a short time together, Du Yan already knew exactly how to deal with the ghost in front of him. Du Yan has never been a person who cares much about other people’s eyes. He directly pulled Xiao Lang over and kissed him on the lips.
“Okay, yours. Stop talking nonsense and do whatever I tell you to do.”
“!”
The group of friends in front of the door were almost looking for their own eyes all over the floor.
Xiao Lang was finally satisfied, and he didn’t make any moves. He just saw the eyes of the people in front of him widen and widen, and finally fell into disbelief.
After a while, Liang Fei, who had the biggest heart, was the first to accept the fact. He asked: “What the hell is going on? Du Yan, you are a celestial master. So what happened before…”
Du Yan briefly told several people the truth of the matter, and it took some time for everyone to accept the fact of Xiao Lang’s death.
Liang Fei covered his chest and asked after a while: “That, Xiao Lang, I’m sorry, I stabbed you to death, this…”
Du Yan said: “This is not your fault. You were at most a means used by the malicious ghost to kill people. No one puts the blame on murder weapon.”
Although Liang Fei became a weapon in Du Yan’s mouth, he felt strangely comforted, and the guilt in his heart also faded a lot.
At this time, Zhou Tian remembered something and asked softly: “Will Liang Fei be possessed again?”
Du Yan glanced at Xiao Lang: “Where is the peddler?”
Xiao Lang was very obedient at this time, almost following every instruction.
After a while, a figure slowly appeared in the center of the ancestral hall. It was a young man dressed in an ancient costume with delicate features.
As soon as he appeared, he bowed deeply to Liang Fei: “XiongTai, I had no choice but to borrow your body. I am really sorry. I am grateful for your kindness. If I can be of any use to you in the future, I will never refuse.”
(*XiongTai=brother)
“…”
In these few short days, Xiao Lang’s friends have experienced a lot, and they have quickly accepted everything in front of them.
Liang Fei waved his hands: “No, it doesn’t matter. If Xiao Lang doesn’t blame you, I won’t either…”
The peddler said with a bitter face: “I accidentally hurt my Lord at that time, and now I really want to bang my head against a pillar and die.”
“…” Du Yan said: “You are already a ghost.”
Xiao Lang’s face did not look good. Although his memory was confused, he remembered some fragments after the peddler’s reminder: “You wanted to hurt Du Yan at that time, I just let you work for me for a few hundred years, which was a bargain for you.”
While everyone was still communicating with Xiao Lang, Du Yan took the opportunity to confirm the situation in the ancestral hall. Although everyone accepted these unscientific things, some things still had to be handled properly to avoid causing panic.
He found that Fan Shi’s body had disappeared, and he thought that Fan Shi had kept it well. As a powerful ghost, the most important thing is the body. It can be said that the body is the only weakness of these powerful ghosts.
When the peddler was attached to Liang Fei, he was bitten by Du Yan’s tongue and Xiao Lang’s blood, but he was only injured and left and did not turn into ashes. The reason was that his body was placed in Fan Shi’s coffin. As long as the body is not completely destroyed, he will not completely vanish.
Relatively speaking, the more complete the corpse is, the more powerful the ghost is, and the shorter the recovery time after being injured.
Now that Fan Shi has broken out of the formation, she will naturally find a place to preserve her body to avoid being harmed and unable to recover her energy, which will eventually lead to her demise.
When Xiao Lang breaks out of the formation, the first thing he will do is to preserve his body.
However, in addition to the disappearance of Fan Shi’s body, Du Yan also discovered that the black notebook he left in the ancestral hall was also missing.
He glanced at Xiao Lang and asked in a low voice: “Did you pick up anything in the ancestral hall?”
Xiao Lang looked innocent: “What? I didn’t see anything.”
Du Yan said clearly: “The black notebook, I dropped it here.”
Seeing that he couldn’t hide it, Xiao Lang started to act like a rogue: “I picked it up, but that’s what I picked up so it is mine, even you are mine, and the notebook and everything else are even more mine.”
Du Yan did not try to argue with the confused ghost and asked directly: “Didn’t you read the content inside?”
Xiao Lang put on a righteous and awe-inspiring face and said: “The notebook looks like a diary to me. It belongs to your privacy. It is very impolite to casually look through other people’s diaries.”
“…”
Du Yan finally couldn’t continue the conversation with this crazy and somewhat silly ghost in front of him.
Xiao Lang was now just a fool who acts on instinct. He has his own logic. If he wants to discuss other things, he should wait until the complete Xiao Lang breaks out of the formation.
The conventional Ghost King refining formation requires at least 81 days, but Xiao Lang’s situation was very special, and Du Yan had made some improvements to the formation. It will only take about seven days for Xiao Lang to leave the formation.
Du Yan told Xiao Lang’s friends about the refinement of Ghost King. Because only Ghost King can exist in this world in a state similar to that of a living person.
After Xiao Lang becomes Ghost King, he can communicate with Yin and Yang, and he can even live the same life as before if he wants. Now that Xiao Lang’s death was a foregone conclusion, turning him into Ghost King was a perfect and happy result for everyone.
Du Yan also told them frankly that judging from the current situation, Shunping Ghost City did not intend to let them leave for some unknown reason. If they wanted to leave now, they could only wait until Xiao Lang truly became Ghost King.
Everyone had no choice but to stay in the ancient village for a while. However, a normal person couldn’t stay in a place like the ancestral hall for a long time, let alone live in it for a long time, so everyone could only choose to stay in a farmhouse next to the ancient village.
Under Xiao Lang’s entanglement, Du Yan basically stayed in the ancestral hall except for going to the village to meet his physiological needs such as eating and drinking. With the powerful Xiao Lang around, the surveillance cameras in the village could not capture Du Yan at all.
In fact, from Du Yan’s own will, he also felt that it was more appropriate for him to monitor the progress of Ghost King’s refining in the ancestral hall.
The thrilling time seemed to have passed by in a flash, and the people spent a few quiet days in the ancient village.
Just when Xiao Lang’s refining was about to be completed, he received a message for help on his mobile phone. The message came from Tian Luo, who was now alone in Shunping City.
After Xiao Lang released the hint he had secretly held in his friend’s mind, Tian Luo naturally remembered the existence of Xiao Lang and Du Yan, but he was unaware of the fact that Xiao Lang was already dead.
The message for help was very simple, just asking Xiao Lang if he had Du Yan’s contact information, as he had encountered some strange things in the past few days. Tian Luo did not have Du Yan’s contact information, so when he encountered strange situations that he could not explain, he could only find Xiao Lang to pass the message to him.
Seeing this, Du Yan directly called him using Xiao Lang’s cell phone.
Tian Luo said on the phone that his parents had become a little weird after returning home this time. Their strange behaviors were somewhat similar to Liang Fei’s that day. After thinking about it, he always wondered whether his parents were possessed by evil ghosts or something like Liang Fei.
Tian Luo was just an ordinary college student. Now that he was in this situation, the only person he could think of who might be able to solve the problem was Celestial Master Du Yan.
After hanging up the phone, Du Yan was thinking about what Tian Luo had said on the phone just now.
Logically speaking, if Tian Luo was in trouble, Du Yan couldn’t just stand by and watch him die.
Just at this moment, Du Yan remembered a plot in the movie. In the movie, the person who caused everyone to fall into Shunping Ghost City was Tian Luo, a girl who had a crush on Xiao Lang for a long time.
Because she was crazy about Xiao Lang but never got a response, she finally broke down and lost her mind due to the various strange events in Shunping City and was deceived and used by the evil spirit.
The malicious ghost in Shunping Ghost City used her to break the seal on Xiao Lang, completely releasing his abilities, causing Xiao Lang and his companions to be trapped in Shunping Ghost City and unable to escape, leading to the tragedy of all of them being wiped out.
Although the entire plot was now very different from the movie, and Tian Luo’s gender had also changed from female to male, he didn’t look like the character in the movie who was crazy about Xiao Lang.
However, Du Yan still asked Xiao Lang carefully: “What is your relationship with Tian Luo?”
When Xiao Lang heard this question, he was immediately delighted and couldn’t control his smile: “Are you jealous?”
Du Yan was stunned, not following Xiao Lang’s train of thought at all. He asked: “Jealous of what?”
Xiao Lang put on a soothing look and said: “You don’t have to be embarrassed. It is very normal for couples to have possessiveness towards each other. If you mind Tian Luo, I will not associate with him.”
Du Yan finally couldn’t help rolling his eyes and said to him: “Stop boosting your ego, just answer whatever I ask you.”
Xiao Lang finally calmed down. Although he still had an unconcealable joy in his eyes, at least he stopped talking nonsense.
“Tian Luo is my junior from high school to college. We were from the same place, so I sometimes looked out for him in college.”
Xiao Lang frowned and answered Du Yan, after recalling for a moment. Although Xiao Lang in front of him was only a ghost, the refining was almost completed, so his memory was gradually returning to normal, not as messy as before.
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Chapter 81. He Is Xiao Lang
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
But why did these death row prisoners die in this place, and in such a huge number? Du Yan walked forward a little further and found that the entire cave was filled with piles of corpses of various sizes.
What is the truth about the past of the Wanshi Ridge in Shunping City? Anyway, the historical records that the entire city’s people were slaughtered and the bodies were dumped there are not very reliable now.
He waved his hand secretly in the distance, and Fan Shi, who was leading the way, understood Du Yan’s intention very cleverly and came to Du Yan’s side in an instant.
Du Yan glanced back to make sure that no one would hear what he was saying at this moment, so he lowered his voice and asked Fan Shi: “Do you know what’s going on with these piles of corpses in front of you?”
Fan Shi took a look, shook her head, and said: “The existence of the Wanshi Ridge is much longer than the time I was alive. The only thing I know is that this burial ground is related to the person who is in charge of Shunping Ghost City.”
When Fan Shi mentioned ‘that person’ again, Du Yan had already made a preliminary guess about it. He said bluntly: “The one you are talking about is the ghost king who controls Shunping Ghost City?”
Fan Shi covered her lips with her sleeve and whispered: “I am a low-level ghost, so I can not tell the name of that person. He is in charge of all ghosts. Now, under the protection of the Lord, I am temporarily excluded from his list.”
At this point, Fan Shi suddenly put down her hand, and the gentle expression on her face disappeared: “Once I mention him, he will definitely find out, but he is my enemy, and I don’t want to be his subordinate no matter what. However, now I have no power to fight him, so I can only avoid his spearhead for the time being.”
Du Yan saw that when Fan Shi said these words, her eyes showed deep hatred that could not be concealed. It seemed that she was not lying. Fan Shi had almost never stepped out of the ancient village in her life, from human to ghost. Why did Fan Shi have such hatred for the Shunping’s current Ghost King?
Du Yan did not dwell on this matter any further because from Fan Shi’s expression and her vague words, he knew that he would not be able to get any more information from her.
Only after meeting Xiao Lang could he know more truth, but Du Yan had a guess in his mind.
Fan Shi had almost killed all the people in the village who had committed evil deeds against her. Only two people remained unpunished, one was the clan leader at the time, and the other was Fan Shi’s son.
Compared to the clan leader, Du Yan felt that Fan Shi hated her son more. The culprit of the whole tragedy could be said to be Fan Shi’s son, Sun Wenhao.
However, after Sun Wenhao reported Fan Shi, he left the village and almost never came back. After taking revenge, Fan Shi was also trapped in the underground ancestral hall of the ancient village and could not leave.
After returning from the ancient village, Du Yan looked up information about Sun Wenhao. After leaving the village, this ungrateful man was recognized by his superiors and became the county magistrate in a nearby county.
Afterward, Sun Wenhao requested a title for Fan Shi and erected a chastity archway. He rose to high positions on the heels of his mother’s corpse and eventually became an official in the capital. It can be said that he had a successful career and a smooth life.
He used his mother’s death to rise to the top. However, Sun Wenhao himself did not receive any punishment. After Fan Shi emerged, she will definitely know these facts, and her hatred for him will naturally not be eliminated.
Just don’t know what kind of connection exists between Sun Wenhao and the Ghost King, who has existed for who knows how many years.
Du Yan looked at Fan Shi and nodded: “Let’s go see your Lord.”
Fan Shi bowed and then appeared at the fork in the road ahead.
Du Yan returned to the group and said: “Let’s continue to move forward.”
After walking a few steps, Liang Fei finally couldn’t suppress his curiosity and asked: “Xiao Lang, you just looked over there for a long time, what on earth is that pile of stuff?”
Du Yan said casually: “Do you know what this place was called before?”
People were puzzled and asked: “Isn’t it called Wanren Ridge?”
Du Yan smiled, but he was walking in the front, so no one behind him saw his somewhat sinister smile.
“It was renamed Wanren Ridge after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This mountain range was originally called Wanshi Ridge.” Du Yan paused: “As for those piles of things just now, they are the reason why this place is called Wanshi Ridge. What we have seen should only be a small part of it.”
After Du Yan finished speaking, he did not speak again, and no one dared to ask any more questions. They felt that if they continued to ask, they would probably only get a fact that would scare everyone to death.
Some things are better left unsaid.
Everyone continued to walk forward in silence. After walking for an unknown amount of time, they turned a corner and saw a familiar gate.
The group stopped and stared at the familiar vermilion gate in surprise.
Liang Fei directly expressed his surprise: “What’s going on? How come there is an ancestral hall here?”
After saying this, he paused again: “But it’s really strange. When I first saw the gate, I felt that it was natural for this place to have this ancestral hall. I even felt that the gate of this ancestral hall looked familiar. Could it be that I have been here in my dream?”
Du Yan glanced at him and said: “Of course you have been here. I found you here.”
Before everyone could react, Du Yan raised his hand to push the door of the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall in the village had left a big psychological shadow on everyone, and everyone was shocked by his action.
Liang Fei, who was closest to him, quickly grabbed Du Yan’s arm and said: “Xiao Lang, don’t be impulsive. It’s strange that there is an ancestral hall in this place. Who knows what’s inside.”
Before Du Yan could reply, Liang Fei suddenly felt a chill down his spine, as if he was being stared at by a powerful beast. He shuddered and subconsciously loosened his hand. The moment he loosened his hand, the creepy feeling disappeared instantly.
Things have come to this point, and Du Yan feels that there is no need to pretend to be Xiao Lang anymore.
He turned around and scanned everyone with a cold gaze: “Don’t call me Xiao Lang, Xiao Lang you are looking for is inside.”
Just when everyone was confused and at a loss, the door of the ancestral hall opened to both sides silently without any wind.
The ancestral hall was very empty, and its structure was no different from other ancestral hall in the village. If it weren’t for the stone coffin in the center, it would look like just an ordinary ancestral hall.
The sarcophagus in the center daunted Xiao Lang’s friends, but Du Yan stepped onto the steps without hesitation. He saw that the lid of the sarcophagus was still tightly closed, which showed that Xiao Lang had not been completely refined yet, so why would Fan Shi willingly become Xiao Lang’s subordinate?
Du Yan realized that the people behind him didn’t seem to catch up. He looked back and found that everyone’s face was pale, and they were very afraid of the sarcophagus.
Du Yan had no choice but to step over the threshold and enter the ancestral hall to prove that there was no danger inside. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the ancestral hall, the door behind him slammed shut, leaving the others outside.
Du Yan turned around subconsciously to open the door, but he felt a cold chest hugging him.
The man rested his head on his shoulder, put his hands on Du Yan’s waist, and asked in a low voice: “Do you want to run away? Why do you always want to leave me? Are they going to take you away? I heard it all. They invited you to go to other places to play. They are all people who covet you with bad intentions.”
“…” When Du Yan heard this crazy tone, he knew that the ghost behind him was still the incomplete Xiao Lang.
“You are the one who caused the trouble in the tunnel?” Du Yan said seriously: “Let go.”
The hand on his waist was withdrawn, and Du Yan was able to turn around. There was a dim light in the ancestral hall, and when Du Yan turned around, he saw a familiar face.
The person in front of him was neither Cheng Yu nor He Jin, but Xiao Lang himself. Judging from the current situation, the refining process should be good. Even though the ghost in front of him was a completely irrational ghost, it was much more normal than before.
When Xiao Lang saw Du Yan looking over, a pitiful expression appeared on his face: “You secretly wanted to escape, and this time you were cruel to me?”
Du Yan was irritated by his plaintive tone and shuddered: “Speak properly, who did you learn this from?”
Xiao Lang was honest and said directly: “The peddler told me that in front of the person you love, you have to show weakness at the right time to shake the other person’s iron heart.”
Xiao Lang in front of him didn’t have the aura of a ghost king at all. Du Yan even began to wonder if there was something wrong with his formation.
He wanted to go over and check it out, but Xiao Lang hugged him again and said in a taunting tone: “No, you can’t leave.”
“I just wanted to go to the front to check on the condition of the sarcophagus. I was not leaving. The situation outside is unknown, so you’d better let your friends inside first.”
“No.” Xiao Lang refused firmly: “They want to take you away, I won’t let them in.”
Du Yan explained: “I didn’t want to leave, I just noticed that something was wrong with the train they were on, so I followed them to ensure their safety.”
Xiao Lang, however, had a distrustful expression on his face: “I don’t believe you. You had already turned into me previously, why didn’t you stay in Shunping and try to leave by train? Now that you are Xiao Lang, you should stay in Shunping.”
What kind of messed-up logic is this? Du Yan finally realized that it was impossible to reason with this ghost who only had emotions but no reason.
He pinched his brows and could only stroke his hair: “Just because I am Xiao Lang, I should ensure the safety of your friends, right? What’s more, in the current situation, I am not strong enough to fight against Shunping Ghost City. How could I leave without permission when I rely on you to protect me?”
Xiao Lang showed a satisfied smile on his face, then waved his hand, and the door of the ancestral hall opened again.
The people standing at the door could see two figures in the center of the ancestral hall. They seemed to have just woken up from a dream. What was going on?
The slightly taller one was obviously their friend Xiao Lang. Who is the young man standing next to them who has been with them since yesterday?
Liang Fei looked puzzled and asked: “Xiao Lang?”
He turned his gaze to Du Yan, who was standing beside him: “He is Xiao Lang, then who are you? Why do you have to pretend to be Xiao Lang and stay with us?”
Before Du Yan could open his mouth, he saw Xiao Lang’s hand on his shoulder.
Then, the group of people standing at the door saw Xiao Lang saying in a matter-of-fact tone: “He is my lawful partner, so of course he can represent me outside.”
“…” Everyone was stunned.
Du Yan covered his face, unable to bear to look. What on earth was wrong with the ghost next to him? He felt so unreliable, could he really defeat Shunping’s Ghost King?
For the first time, Celestial Master Du Yan felt a little worried about the road ahead.
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Chapter 80. Truth About Wanshi Ridge
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
There was no light in this long and narrow passage, and it was even darker than the tunnel. Fortunately, they were all traveling, and they brought outdoor flashlights with them, which had a long battery life and a wide range of illumination.
In order to save power, only Liang Fei, who was walking in the front, and Du Yan, who was walking in the back, each turned on a flashlight.
The inner wall of the passage was very smooth, without any unnecessary carvings, and it felt like an air-raid shelter, but it was much narrower than an air-raid shelter. People have no idea what the purpose of this passage was.
After walking along the passage for a while, they suddenly heard a long train whistle from behind them. Then, they heard the train start moving.
The group paused for a moment but did not dare to look back.
At this time, Du Yan said: “Why did you stop? Are you going to go back through the tunnel?”
The people in front of him shook their heads wildly, thinking about the wooden faces that had just been pressed against the glass.
“No, no, no, don’t go back, keep moving forward.”
In the long and narrow passage, it was silent, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of people’s footsteps. Not sure how long they walked, and everyone felt that they had almost emptied their mind, and only their legs were moving mechanically.
The seemingly endless narrow passage was about to destroy everyone’s sanity. At this critical point, the passage came to an end.
The view in front of them suddenly opened up, and the wind blowing was cold. Everyone stopped at this moment.
Perhaps out of fear of the unknown, Liang Fei subconsciously shone the flashlight towards the ground, like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, not daring to face reality.
Du Yan raised the flashlight in his hand and asked: “What’s wrong?”
Outdoor flashlights use xenon light sources, which can emit light far away. When Du Yan raised the flashlight in his hand, everyone realized that the space in front of them was surprisingly large.
Liang Fei exclaimed: “What kind of place is this?”
Du Yan took a look and said: “It should be a natural cave.”
After speaking, he moved the flashlight and scanned the surrounding area roughly. It can be seen from the surrounding stone walls and the long stalactites hanging upside down from the cave roof that this place was indeed a natural karst cave, as Du Yan said.
Zhou Tian had always been careful. Now that she was in an open space, her fear had eased. She immediately noticed something wrong: “Look ahead. The scope of this cave may be more than what is in front of us.”
Everyone looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, the height in front of them gradually decreased, but it still looked like a deep cave that led to nowhere.
After Zhou Tian’s reminder, everyone turned on their flashlights and started looking for a way out. They found that there were at least five or six forks in this huge cave.
Liang Fei was very frustrated: “It’s over. In this cave, I can’t tell East from West. Which direction should we go?”
Xu Yuan also looked worried: “It is easiest to get lost in a cave. Perhaps the most reliable way is to find the water source and follow the direction of the underground river.”
Wei Zizhe said: “Underground rivers are not necessarily reliable. I have been to a cave before. The underground river there extended to a certain place, and the mountain wall and the river surface were completely integrated together. There was no way to get out…”
For a moment, everyone was hesitant as to whether or not to continue moving forward.
Du Yan pulled out a compass from his backpack and said: “Based on the direction of the tunnel and the time we have walked, if we walk a little further, we will return to a familiar place.”
When Liang Fei heard this, he came forward and said: “Wow, bro, is this official merchandise of Xunlong Dianxue you have? It’s so realistic, can it really work?”
“…” Du Yan looked at him speechlessly: “You missed the point. Only you and I have been to the familiar place I just mentioned.”
Liang Fei suddenly had an idea: “Are you talking about the cave under the ancient village well? These caves are connected?”
Du Yan nodded and said: “According to my calculations, if we go in that direction, we should reach the ancient village.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone’s eyes were focused on Du Yan’s face, all with horrified expressions.
Zhou Tian’s emotions, which had just calmed down, were suddenly suspended in mid-air again. She said blankly: “I don’t want to go to that weird place in the ancient village again.”
Wei Zizhe said: “How about we just go back?”
Du Yan said: “Comparatively speaking, the ancient village is much safer than the unknown tunnel and the inexplicable train behind…”
As soon as Du Yan spoke, everyone started to hesitate again. Everyone in the ancient village, in fact, except for Liang Fei’s unexpected fit, didn’t seem to see anything scary, but the strange passenger on the train just now was witnessed by everyone.
Liang Fei immediately changed sides and said: “I also think it would be better to go to the ancient village. At worst, we can just leave right after we get out of there.”
“Well, I agree.” Xu Yuan also nodded and said: “However, there are so many forks in the road ahead, and it is also a problem which one to go.”
Du Yan replied: “Don’t worry about this at all, just follow me.”
The reason why Du Yan was so sure was simple, because at the intersection of one of the forks in the road, there stood a woman in red. The beautiful woman gently waved at Du Yan.
The source of danger in the ancient village lies in the vengeful ghost Fan Shi. Now, Fan Shi was leading the way and had become Xiao Lang’s subordinate. Even if Xiao Lang hated him because of the notebook left by Du Yan, he would not vent his anger on his roommates who spent day and night with him.
Therefore, the trip to the ancient village was completely risk-free for other people.
The group followed Du Yan forward, but before they reached the fork in the road, Liang Fei did something weird again.
He said very embarrassedly: “Sorry, I have urgent needs and I want to go and take care of it.”
Wei Zizhe couldn’t help but complain: “Why do you have so many problems?”
Liang Fei scratched his head and said in defense: “Didn’t I drink a cup of milk tea before we set off? You know milk tea is a diuretic. I originally wanted to go to the toilet after getting on the train, but who would rush to go in that situation? I have tried my best to hold it in until now. You don’t want to see me peeing in my pants, do you?”
After saying that, Liang Fei walked to the side. Xu Yuan asked at this time: “Do you want me to accompany you?”
Liang Fei paused and rejected the idea: “I’m not an elementary student. I’m afraid I won’t be able to pee if you accompany me.”
Although Liang Fei refused Xu Yuan’s company, for safety reasons, the others still used flashlights to shine on Liang Fei to prevent him from walking out of sight, while Zhou Tian turned her back.
Liang Fei only walked forward a dozen steps. After all, he would still feel a little scared if he was too far away in such a dark place.
After a while, the sound of the water stopped, Liang Fei quickly solved the problem, and everything went smoothly.
However, when he was walking back, he tripped over something and almost fell to the ground. Liang Fei reacted very quickly and used one hand to hold on to the giant stalactite next to him to stabilize his body.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he put his hand on it, he let out a scream, then hurriedly let go and fell down on his butt on the ground.
“Why are you so startled?” Xu Yuan said to him while walking towards Liang Fei.
Liang Fei pointed at the giant stalactite and said: “What is that?”
The light sources in everyone’s hands shone in the direction of Liang Fei’s finger. They saw a human hand sticking out from the pile of stalactite-like objects. The hand was not a skeleton but shriveled up as a mummy, with brown skin tightly attached to the hand bones, looking emaciated.
The hand stretched outward, as if it had tried to struggle to escape from this place before dying. It stood there alone, looking very strange.
When Liang Fei saw it clearly, he rushed back, rolling and crawling, and pulled Xu Yuan, who was halfway there, back to the group.
Du Yan, however, headed in that direction with a flashlight in hand. Xu Yuan called out from behind: “Xiao Lang, what are you looking for?”
Du Yan said: “It doesn’t matter, it’s just a hand, and it won’t move. Let me see what’s going on?”
It’s just a hand, nothing more? The nonchalant tone of the person in front suddenly calmed down the somewhat panicked people.
Du Yan stopped in front of the giant stalactite and found that this stalactite-like object was more than ten meters high, and there were several similar stalactite piles next to it.
He moved closer, shone the flashlight on it, and carefully examined it from top to bottom for a long time. Du Yan frowned and found that what he saw was not a stalactite at all, but a huge pile of petrified corpses.
The hand that Liang Fei reached up happened to be stretched out alone, and it was not petrified, which was what Liang Fei discovered.
Du Yan put a flashlight on it and shone it over, and the outlines of the corpses inside were vaguely revealed. Judging from the clothes that were not completely rotten, these were probably the corpses of the wandering ghosts who liked to block the tunnel.
“It’s just some fossils. I’ll go over there and take a look.” Du Yan said and walked towards another pile of corpses.
The pile of corpses here was not as petrified as that one, and the piled corpses were clearer. Du Yan took a closer look and found that the origin of these corpses was somewhat different from what he guessed.
There were records in the history of Shunping City that it was once massacred due to war, and almost all the people in the city were killed. According to unofficial history, the corpses were thrown into the nearby mountains, so the mountain was called ‘Wanshi Ridge’ by the locals.
With these data as evidence, Du Yan’s first thought when he saw the pile of corpses was that these were civilians who died in the massacre. However, it now appears that these corpses were not civilians.
These corpses were well preserved in a special environment. Du Yan found the same characteristics on almost every corpse with its face exposed. On their faces, the word ‘criminal’ was marked.
These corpses were clearly the prisoners on death row in ancient times, not the civilians at all.
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Chapter 79. Ghost Train
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
T/N-: Two chapters.
Du Yan, the only one who could control the situation, stood silently in the aisle. He had no time to appease everyone’s emotions at the moment, and his full attention was on the things outside the window.
The lights in the carriage were not too bright, and if one got close to the glass, they could see the tunnel wall outside. Although each section of the entire tunnel looked similar, Du Yan observed it very carefully.
The place where the train pulled up now was exactly the same as the place where the train accidentally stopped when they came to Shunping City. Because looking from the direction where Du Yan was standing, there was a crescent-shaped gap in the tunnel wall. Last time when the train stopped, he also saw this gap when he looked out of the window.
Just when Du Yan wanted to get closer to confirm, he suddenly frowned and took a step back. It turned out that within just a few minutes, things outside the window started to get uneasy.
In the dark space, many distorted shadows appeared out of thin air, and then the carriage windows were filled with distorted and rotten faces.
Du Yan slightly shifted his gaze, feeling that this place was really not suitable for him, and these resentful ghosts were really too unsightly.
However, the actions of the vengeful ghosts this time did not seem to be unconscious. As long as Du Yan’s eyes fell on them, those faces would desperately squeeze forward, while squeezing, they opened their rotten lipless mouths, as if they wanted to say something.
Although Du Yan was not afraid of these ghosts, the scene in front of him was too shocking to the eyes, and he couldn’t hide in someone’s arms like Zhou Tian and not look at this mess.
Du Yan pinched his brows and raised his hand to knock on the window glass, hoping to quiet these ghosts. Perhaps Du Yan’s knock last time was still fresh in the memory of these unconscious resentful ghosts because as soon as he raised his hand, the large space on the windows became empty in an instant.
The resentful ghosts who were still trying their best to show off, pushing and stepping on others, backed away crazily.
“…”
Du Yan was speechless as he watched this funny scene. If it weren’t for the fact that these ghosts looked so ugly, he would have even laughed out loud.
Seeing Du Yan stop knocking on the window, the ghosts surrounded him fearlessly, seeming to be trying to make some sound.
These resentful ghosts who died in ancient times had no idea that the windows of the sleeper compartment had excellent sound insulation. Even if they were howling loudly outside, Du Yan could not hear what they were saying.
Among a group of stupid ghosts, there will always be some smarter ones. One of the ghosts finally noticed that Du Yan seemed unable to hear their voices, so he stood outside the window and started gesturing.
Unfortunately, he had decayed to the point where only skin and flesh were left, and his limbs were extremely stiff. Even if he used all his strength, Du Yan could not receive his message through the window glass.
Just when Du Yan was thinking about whether to go down and see what these resentful ghosts wanted to do, something strange happened.
Everything was just like the last time they were trapped in the tunnel. Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound in the distance, and the bottom of the train was also shaking slightly. However, all this was a little different from the last time.
This time, the sound sounded particularly real, like a real landslide. Everyone in the carriage held their breath and waited for the sound that would only be heard when a landslide occurred to pass over.
Not sure how long it took, but the surroundings finally became quiet.
The broadcast in the carriage started to play again, but it had a static sound and the female voice coming from inside was also very old-fashioned, like the kind of voice that only appeared in movies from the 1960s and 1970s.
The sound of the broadcast was creepy, and the content was even more terrifying.
“Dear passengers, there is a landslide in the tunnel ahead. Please do not get off the train and wait patiently for rescue…”
Under the current circumstances, the content of this broadcast was so absurd that it was almost laughable.
Liang Fei said directly: “No, we can’t just sit here and wait for death. The train just happened to stop, let’s get off first.”
Xu Yuan pulled him back and said: “Don’t be too impulsive. We don’t know what the situation is outside right now.”
Zhou Tian nodded: “It looks scarier outside, but at least the light is on inside the carriage.”
This time, Wei Zizhe did not agree with her but said softly: “I think there might be a way out if we go down and take a look.”
Du Yan did not join their discussion but continued to look out the window. Just as he was wondering whether it was safer to get off the train or stay in it. The ghosts that were crowded in front of the carriage window suddenly dispersed to both sides. The nearby tunnel wall disappeared, replaced by a deep and seemingly endless darkness.
In the darkness, a faint light suddenly appeared, and a figure slowly walked out of the darkness. She was wearing a red wedding dress, and her figure was graceful.
Du Yan originally thought it was the ghost bride who had gone to reincarnate in the hotel. When he was wondering why she backed out and continued staying in this world, the figure was outside the window in an instant.
Du Yan was slightly stunned when he saw the ghost bride’s face clearly. The beautiful face in front of him was exactly the fierce ghost Fan Shi from the ancient village.
Seeing Du Yan looking at her, Fan Shi smiled slightly and then bowed. Perhaps Fan Shi’s level was much higher than those wandering ghosts beside her. Her soft voice penetrated the glass window and fell into Du Yan’s ears.
Fan Shi’s voice was not gentle and pleasant: “Du GongZi, Lord asked me to tell you something. It would be best if you get off the train here.”
Du Yan did not agree, but asked: “Lord? Who is your Lord?”
Fan Shi pursed her lips and smiled again and said softly: “I’m sorry, GongZi. I dare not reveal Lord’s identity without his approval. If you have any questions, you might as well ask him in person. After all, as long as it is your question, Lord will definitely tell you everything.”
Du Yan was not a fool. Since Fan Shi has spoken to this point, his guess has been confirmed to 70-80%. Unexpectedly, Xiao Lang had conquered Fan Shi in such a short period of time. But now that Xiao Lang has not come in person, it proves that he is not Ghost King yet and can not leave the refining formation for the time being.
Du Yan asked again: “Your Lord, is it Ghost King?”
Fan Shi replied: “No, although Lord has great potential, he can not be called Ghost King until he kills that person.”
At this point, Fan Shi blinked her eyes and smiled a little nervously: “GongZi, why don’t you get off the train first and talk later? I saw that your companions behind you are almost scared out of their wits by you.”
Hearing what Fan Shi said, Du Yan turned around and saw that everyone was staring at him in horror.
In this situation, it was inevitably a bit awkward. After all, other people couldn’t see Fan Shi, and Du Yan’s behavior just now was completely like a psychopath talking to himself in front of the glass window.
However, Du Yan was Du Yan, after all, and even in such an embarrassing situation, the expression on his face did not change at all.
He said calmly: “Get off the train. This carriage is not a place to stay for long. Staying here will only make it more dangerous.”
Everyone didn’t know why, especially the roommates who lived with Xiao Lang day and night, always felt that Xiao Lang in front of them was a little different from the previous one.
When he stood in the aisle and asked everyone to get out of the train coldly, even if he didn’t give any reason, people unconsciously wanted to do as he said.
Liang Fei suddenly said: “Xiao Lang, you look like a mysterious expert at first.”
Du Yan glanced at him and said: “Stop talking nonsense and get out of the train.”
The group walked directly to the carriage connection. The door of the train had been opened at some point. The dark tunnel made everyone a little hesitant.
Du Yan got out of the train and turned back to say: “Everyone, get off. If you stay up there, I don’t know what the weirdos in other compartments will do.”
When everyone heard this, they shuddered and quickly followed Du Yan out of the train. As soon as they got out of the train, everyone was stunned. Logically, they should be in the tunnel now.
After getting off the train, the first thing they saw should be the tunnel wall, but what appeared before them was a long and narrow passage.
The gateway of the passage was wide open on the tunnel wall, and the edges were not very regular, as if someone had roughly smashed it open with a sledgehammer.
Du Yan walked over, took a closer look, and said: “It should be the landslide that opened this entrance. The passage inside was built by humans, and it should have been sealed up later.”
Liang Fei was bold and came over to shine the light of his cell phone into the passage: “This looks like a tomb passage.”
After he said that, Zhou Tian took several steps back: “No, don’t go in, how about we just go forward along the tunnel?”
Du Yan shook his head: “The landslide just now was probably not fake. Even if we go forward along the tunnel, we will most likely see a tunnel blocked by boulders.”
Wei Zizhe was also a little hesitant: “Didn’t this happen last time? Maybe the sound of the landslide was just an auditory hallucination?”
After listening to this, Du Yan glanced at the train behind them and suddenly smiled. Although he was good-looking, in this situation, his smile made everyone shiver.
Liang Fei begged for mercy: “Bro, if you have something to say, just say it, don’t smile.”
Du Yan retracted his smile and said softly: “This tunnel is so long. If the ghost train behind you comes halfway through, what should we do?”
After hearing what he said, everyone looked back unconsciously.
This sight almost frightened them to death!
It turned out that the dark compartments had been lit up at some point, and those strange passengers all turned their heads to the glass, staring at the people standing in the tunnel with wooden faces.
“Oh my god! Go, go, go, hurry up.” Liang Fei screamed and dived into the passage in front of him.
The others didn’t say anything more and followed Liang Fei inside. Du Yan walked slowly at the end and even had time to take a look at the increasingly terrifying ghost train.
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Chapter 78. Green Train
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare
Shunping’s railway station was very unique. Shunping was a thousand-year-old city with little industry. In recent years, it has tried to develop tourism, and to develop tourism, it was natural to improve transportation.
The Shunping Railway Station was quite old. The government spent a lot of money to renovate the interior of the railway station, but retained the unique exterior decoration, striving to ensure that the railway station would not disrupt the overall classical charm of Shunping City.
During this time, the railway station was not too crowded. Students studying away from home had already returned home, and the school term had not started yet. In addition to the landslide incident a while ago, there were fewer people coming to travel for a while.
The ticket hall was on the left side of the waiting hall. Perhaps all the funds were used up in renovating the waiting hall, so the reconstruction of the ticket hall was postponed indefinitely.
The light in the dilapidated ticket hall was very dim. The huge ticket hall was empty. There was only one ticket window in the long row that was showing normal ticket sales.
As soon as Liang Fei stepped into the ticket office and looked around, he couldn’t help but say: “No way, even though there are not many people buying tickets, isn’t it too exaggerated to turn on any lights?”
Xu Yuan smiled and said: “What do you know? Now, everyone is trying to save energy and reduce emissions. It’s broad daylight and there aren’t many people, so of course the lights won’t be turned on.”
The group headed straight for the only open ticket window. There was no light on inside the window, and the glass hadn’t been cleaned for who knows how long, so it was gray.
Liang Fei lowered his voice and said to Du Yan: “I think you should give some advice to your government. The glass of the ticket window is so dirty, it really affects the image of the city.”
Du Yan responded casually. He was not the real Xiao Lang, and he could not tell whether the ticket hall was originally in such a shabby state or if there was something strange about it.
The only local, Tian Luo, went home last night, so naturally, no one knew the true situation of the ticket hall. However, when Du Yan stepped into the ticket hall, he had already taken in the situation of the entire hall, and he did not find anything strange.
The ticket seller sitting behind the counter, although his face was not clearly visible due to the dirty glass, in Du Yan’s eyes, he was just an ordinary person, not surrounded by evil spirits, nor was he a ghost.
A few minutes later, Xu Yuan came back after buying the ticket. Du Yan glanced at the ticket in his hand. It was made of red paper, and there was nothing unusual about it.
Du Yan secretly searched the train number on his phone and found that this train was indeed available on the official website. It seemed that the ticket was normal and there was no problem.
He always had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, thinking that Xiao Lang’s friends might not be able to leave Shunping so easily.
Since they had decided to leave, they wandered around Shunping City and went to the station when it was almost time.
The railway station in Shunping was not a high-speed railway station, so one can buy a platform ticket to see off people to the platform. Du Yan was still a little worried, so he bought a platform ticket to see off everyone to the platform.
The platform was empty, with only a few of them waiting for the train to arrive.
The weather today was not very good. It was sunny in the morning, but now it is covered by dark clouds and looks like it is going to rain.
Perhaps it was because they wanted to leave this strange place called Shunping. Everyone was in a relaxed mood, chatting and talking about their plans after returning home.
Not long after, a long whistle sounded in the distance, and several people on the platform subconsciously looked in the direction of the railway track. A bright and dazzling light lit up in the distance, and it was obvious that the train was about to arrive at the station.
When the train stopped at the platform, no one got off, so Xiao Lang’s friends quickly got on the train.
Shunping was a small station, and the train only stopped for a few minutes. Then the train slowly drove away. However, at this moment, Du Yan suddenly saw something that shouldn’t have appeared at this moment.
The train they were riding was a K-prefixed express train with red and white carriages. However, just as the train started, Du Yan saw the shadow of a green skin suddenly appear outside the carriage.
As the train gradually accelerated, the entire train turned into a green train. And it was not a new type of green train, but an old-fashioned green train that can almost only be seen in TV dramas.
Du Yan thought to himself that something was wrong and ran out. The surrounding environment changed with the train, and the entire platform became dilapidated.
The staff who were maintaining order on the platform had disappeared, and Du Yan ran after the train without hesitation. Fortunately, this old-fashioned green train was very slow, and he was able to keep up with it.
Afterward, Du Yan jumped up and climbed onto the platform, protruding from the rear of the train. He flipped over onto the platform, opened the door, and walked directly into the carriage.
The old-fashioned train door made a loud noise when it was opened from the outside. However, when Du Yan stepped into the carriage, no one looked at him.
The carriage was full, and every seat was occupied. Everyone had a wooden face and no expression. When Du Yan came in, they didn’t even blink.
The interior decoration of the entire carriage was completely similar to that of the early green trains. There was no air conditioning, the windows could be opened halfway, and the seat backs were straight. The artificial leather seats were connected as a whole, without specific seats.
The people sitting in the seats were all wearing clothes from the 1960s and 1970s, washed out, and some with patches. Everyone had a numb expression on their face, looking weathered.
Anyone would be frightened by this bizarre scene and want to jump out of the train immediately, but Du Yan walked forward calmly.
Sure enough, the uncertain premonition that had been lingering in Du Yan’s mind since he was in the ticket hall was not groundless. This train now clearly belonged to another Shunping City.
He had no time to waste now. He must first find Xiao Lang’s friends and ordinary college students. Who knows what they will encounter on this ghost train.
Du Yan walked all the way, and when he finally entered a certain carriage, everything in front of him became a little different. It was no longer a shabby seating compartment but a modern sleeper compartment.
Du Yan heard the sound of chatting when he got to the next cabin. The atmosphere was very relaxed and happy. It seemed that Xiao Lang’s friends had not noticed the difference between trains.
There were only a few of them in the entire sleeper compartment, and Du Yan’s appearance surprised everyone.
Liang Fei’s eyes widened: “Bro, are you here to surprise us?”
Wei Zizhe smiled and said: “Why, you are reluctant to leave us, and after thinking it over, you decided to go to the neighboring city with us to have some fun?”
Although everyone in front of him looked relaxed, Du Yan had to be the bad guy who broke the peace of the times. In this situation, if anyone went to the connection between the carriages to get water or go to the toilet, they would notice something unusual in the next carriage.
Du Yan sat down and said directly: “There is something wrong with this train.”
Everyone had experienced strange things in the ancient village, and after hearing what Du Yan said, the smiles on their faces disappeared instantly.
Zhou Tian was the most sensitive. As soon as Du Yan finished speaking, she felt her hair stand on end. She asked with a trembling voice: “There, there is something wrong?”
Du Yan said: “Come with me, but stay calm. There is no big problem for now.”
The group quietly followed Du Yan to the connection point, and he didn’t need to say anything more. Anyone with eyes could see what was wrong with this train.
seating compartment, it was impossible for every window to be opened and have such a simple decoration without air conditioning.
What’s more, their sleeper compartment was so empty, but the seating compartment next to it was packed, with almost every seat occupied.
When everyone saw the person sitting in the seat clearly, they felt even more terrified. Zhou Tian even almost screamed out in shock. Fortunately, she quickly covered her mouth and silently stepped back a few steps.
Even so, her voice was still heard, but those people with numb faces remained motionless, like statues with a very old feel.
Everyone quietly closed the door at the connection point and returned to their own cabin. After staring at each other for a while, Liang Fei finally asked: “What should we do now?”
Du Yan spread his hands and said: “We are on the train now, there is nothing we can do. Let’s see if we can get off at the next station.”
Although Du Yan tried to comfort everyone, he had already guessed in his heart that this group of people would most likely not be able to leave Shunping.
The carriage suddenly fell silent. In this situation, no one was in the mood to chat. They could only stare out the window in a daze, begging to get to the next station as soon as possible.
Not long after, the carriage suddenly went dark. Zhou Tian was already as nervous as a taut string, and the sudden darkness made her tremble. If Wei Zize hadn’t been quick to hug her, her scream might have pierced the carriage.
“It’s a tunnel.” Du Yan reminded them.
As he finished speaking, the lights in the carriage came on. Du Yan stood up and took a look at the adjacent carriages and found that except for the carriage they were in, the adjacent carriages were all pitch black.
The sleeper compartment they were in seemed to have been taken from the original train by some strange force and put together on this green train. It was so out of place.
Wei Zizhe saw Zhou Tian was shaking so badly that he said to her: “After this tunnel, we will reach the station soon. We can get off then.”
Liang Fei also nodded and said: “Yes, during the last time, this tunnel was nothing special, just a little long.”
The atmosphere eased slightly, the train carriage shook violently, and then slowly stopped.
Zhou Tian’s tense mood had reached its peak, and she was a little broken. She suppressed her voice and sobbed: “What’s the matter? I just want to have a good time on vacation. What’s going on? Why did the train stop again?”
Everyone present was feeling a little nervous. Even Wei Zizhe just patted Zhou Tian’s back soothingly. He wanted to comfort her but found that he couldn’t say a word.
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Chapter 77. Leaving Shunping
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare
The morning sunshine finally penetrated all the fog and drove away the darkness in the room.
Du Yan sat up from the bed, still not coming to his senses. He covered his face and said with some frustration: “Have I fallen to the point where I have to rely on sexual temptation? Love really makes people degenerate.”
Xiao Ba was silent for a moment: “I think Xiao Lang should be frustrated. You were too cruel. You just used the blood from the tip of your tongue to drive him away.”
Du Yan didn’t feel guilty at all: “Based on his neurotic state yesterday, if he continues to develop, he will become completely irrational and controlled by obsession. I am considering the overall situation.”
Now that Xiao Lang was injured, he should have returned to his body to recuperate. If things go well, the other party will appear as the Ghost King next time.
Although Du Yan had confirmed that the ghost haunting him was indeed Xiao Lang, he still had too many questions in his mind that could not be answered.
For example, why did Xiao Lang suddenly become Cheng Yu, and then He Jin, and his memory seemed to be confused. In his confused memory, there were memories of him as Xiao Lang, as well as memories of him as Cheng Yu and He Jin.
Xiao Lang’s memory then switched to different people, and this was just one of the strange things.
Another thing Du Yan still couldn’t figure out was why Xiao Lang’s friends would think Du Yan was Xiao Lang himself and completely forget about Du Yan’s existence. Even Xiao Lang’s parents, who were not in Shunping City at the moment, were affected by this.
Although extremely powerful ghosts can indeed tamper with people’s memories by affecting their brain waves, the strange situation happening to Du Yan must be caused by the ghost of Xiao Lang who was haunting him, but what was his purpose in doing these things?
Du Yan stood up and walked to the window. He suddenly remembered what Xiao Lang had repeatedly emphasized last night: “You are mine. You can’t look at others, and you can’t leave me.”
He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and at that moment, he connected with the thoughts of the crazy ghost last night, as if they were connected in spirit. The ghost acted completely on instinct and obsession without much rational thinking.
If this was the case, could it be that deep down in Xiao Lang’s heart, he wanted to lock him up in a small dark room, not wanting anyone to see him, and not wanting Du Yan to leave him? Therefore, Xiao Lang’s ghost unconsciously affected the memories of his friends, completely erasing the existence of Du Yan from the memories of those friends. Another key point was Xiao Lang’s words ‘You are mine’. Now that Xiao Lang is dead, he can not prove this in front of everyone, so the ghost’s strong obsession can only be expressed in another twisted way.
If you become me, then it’s as good as you are mine, because in the eyes of all, you are me. This way of thinking, which is incomprehensible to normal people, is somewhat natural to a powerful ghost, so Du Yan became Xiao Lang.
Xiao Ba finally couldn’t help but sigh: “I really think you and this dream lord are a perfect match.”
Du Yan asked: “Why do you say that?”
Xiao Ba replied: “Both of you have very unique trains of thought. Only you can understand such a weird logic.”
“…”
However, all of this was just Du Yan’s speculation. Du Yan’s character in this world was just a novice. His strength was good, but he had little practical experience. He didn’t know whether these analyses were reliable.
Du Yan got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face. The cool water made his mind clear.
To prove whether this guess was reliable, the method was very simple. Perhaps he was dumbed down by Xiao Lang’s inexplicable actions, so he didn’t think of it at first.
Du Yan mocked himself in his heart, then walked out of the room, picked up his phone, and made a call.
The person he called was his master in this world. Du Yan’s master had never met Xiao Lang, so Xiao Lang naturally had no idea of his master’s existence.
If the facts were similar to what Du Yan analyzed, then Xiao Lang can not affect the memory in his master’s brain.
After the call was connected, the voice coming from the receiver was very familiar, and the words spoken were not beyond Du Yan’s expectations.
“Little Yan, I really want to call you. Is there something wrong with your training? Just now, I saw that there was a faint black energy lingering on the jade token you left in the sect. Are you being haunted by a fierce ghost and unable to get rid of it?”
Du Yan confessed: “Shifu, I recently met a person with a very special soul. He had the potential to be a ghost king. I could see from his face that his time was up and he would die unexpectedly soon, so I followed him to look for opportunities.”
Du Yan told his master what had happened recently, cutting out the beginning and the end, using a way that made sense in this worldview.
Then, he expressed his previous speculations.
There was silence on the other end of the phone, probably because he was thinking. About a minute later, Master spoke again: “Your analysis is not unreasonable. His friends mistook you for Xiao Lang, probably because they were unconsciously influenced by the ghost, and their memory was tampered with.”
Du Yan asked again: “Logically speaking, I have already used the formation to trap him in his body. If he is not a ghost king, he has no ability to leave. He just died not long ago. How could he have the ability to attach himself to me and follow me back?”
Master replied: “In fact, there are records of such exceptions in the sect’s scriptures. At that time, there was a senior in our sect, and the ghost he refined was his enemy. As you know, the deeper the hatred between each other, the more intense the emotions, and the stronger the ghost refined, but he didn’t expect that person’s fate to be a bit special. Before the ghost was refined and formed, it broke out of the formation and killed the senior.”
Du Yan asked: “Is it similar to Xiao Lang’s situation?”
“No, but this kind of special soul has one thing in common, that is, compared to ordinary people, they have stronger control over their souls, so he was able to leave his body several times before.”
“Even if he could leave his body, it wouldn’t be that easy for him to leave the formation, right?” Du Yan said.
“Indeed. The ability to refine and control the ghosts is the sect’s most important treasure. Even the ghost king can’t easily escape.” Master paused: “But if only a part of it leaves, it will be much simpler.”
“Part?” Du Yan had a guess in his mind after hearing this.
“Well, you know that people have three immortal souls and seven mortal forms, three souls are You Jing, Tai Guang, and Shuang Ling. Among them, You Jing, this part of soul is the master of emotions and desire. Since this kind of people have an extremely strong ability to control their own souls, if they just separate one soul and leave, the formation will not be triggered.”
(*You Jing/Ghostly spirit/EQ, Tai Guang/Earthly spirit/Life force and Shuang Ling/Heavenly spirit/IQ)
Du Yan understood immediately: “Shifu, you mean that Xiao Lang actually only had one soul that left his body and became a ghost that entangled me. Judging from what he did, it was You Jing that broke out of the formation?”
Master said: “This is my guess. As for the changing appearance, it is normal for ghosts to transform into the appearance of their previous lives based on memory fragments. The specific situation may be best confirmed by you personally.”
Although Cheng Yu and He Jin were not Xiao Lang’s previous lives, this reason can still explain it. The three identities were actually the same person. Even if he forgot the experiences of the first two dreams, some fragments would still remain in his subconscious.
“Well, thank you, Shifu.” Du Yan was about to hang up the phone when he heard another instruction from the other end.
“Although you are the best disciple in the sect, you are a novice and lack experience. Don’t be reckless. If you encounter something you can’t solve, contact me immediately and don’t be stubborn.”
“Shifu, I know.”
Du Yan hung up the call with his master, wondering whether he should go back to the ancient village to check on Xiao Lang’s condition.
Ding Dong——
The doorbell rang, and Du Yan stood up to open the door. Standing at the door were Xiao Lang’s friends.
It was still quite early, around seven o’clock. Du Yan thought that after what happened yesterday, these people would have to rest until at least nine o’clock before they would have the strength to get up and go out.
“You guys got up so early?” Du Yan asked.
Everyone smiled awkwardly: “Let’s go downstairs and have breakfast.”
Seeing this, Du Yan knew that they probably had something important to say, so he turned around to get his things and went to the restaurant with everyone to have breakfast.
When breakfast was almost over, Xiao Lang’s friends looked at each other, then at Du Yan, with some hesitation on their faces, but no one spoke.
Du Yan spoke directly to break the deadlock and said: “Just say whatever you want to say.”
Then Liang Fei spoke up. He was a straightforward person and said straight to the point: “Xiao Lang, we discussed it last night and decided to buy train tickets today. You know what happened in the ancient village. It really scared us…”
Zhou Tian, who may have felt that Liang Fei was too direct, took over the conversation and said: “Xiao Lang, I’m really sorry about this. Don’t blame them, I’m really too timid. It was me who suggested leaving today, and under the current circumstances, no one is in the mood to continue playing, so we decided to buy tickets and leave today.”
Du Yan waved his hands and said with a smile: “I wouldn’t think much about it. It’s normal for you to want to leave. Don’t make it seem like you’ve done something wrong. I should be the one to apologize for not being a good host.”
In fact, everyone’s temporary decision to leave this matter actually suits Du Yan’s wishes.
The situation with Xiao Lang was a little bit abnormal now, Du Yan must find an opportunity to go back to the ancient village to confirm it. At this juncture, Du Yan did not have much time to protect his friends.
Even if they didn’t ask to leave, Du Yan would find a reason to persuade them to leave as soon as possible. Now that they asked to leave, it saved Du Yan the trouble.
Seeing that Du Yan was not angry at all, everyone relaxed their expressions, and the atmosphere at the table began to liven up.
As Liang Fei was talking, he became interested again: “Why don’t we travel together to other places? There is a well-developed scenic spot not far from Shunping. I heard it’s very good. Xiao Lang, how about going with us?”
Du Yan shook his head and said: “Forget it, my parents will be back in two days. I haven’t seen them for a long time, so I’d better stay at home and accompany them.”
Everyone felt a little regretful, but no one said much. After all, they were roommates, and there were plenty of opportunities for them to hang out together.
Since they had reached a consensus, after breakfast, they headed straight to the railway station, intending to buy today’s train tickets to leave Shunping City.
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