1TWITF[C Chapter 69

Chapter 69

In the center of the forbidden area, Lin Chu leaned against an open space away from the cluster of graves, carefully moving outwards, being careful not to touch the tombstones.

She was still freezing all over. When she reached out to touch herself, her nails were sharp and cold, almost scratching her own face.

But she didn’t regret it too much.

According to other mission participants, as long as she didn’t die, the curse would naturally disappear after the mission was completed.

The only problem now was that her appearance clearly showed the aftereffects of entering the forbidden area. How could she return to the village to participate in the ancestor worship without being beaten to death by the villagers?

Lin Chu lay down and basked in the sun for a while. Feeling a little better, she Try hard took out a compressed biscuit from her close-fitting waist bag and slowly ate it, thinking as she ate.

Lu Yanli had promised that he would try his best to stall the village’s guardian spirits and then send her a message, but she hadn’t received any news from him yet.

Either he was dead, or he was trapped and unable to send a message.

Of course, there was another possibility.

Lin Chu took another breath, propped herself up, and stared at the information she had sent on the screen.

The others hadn’t made any moves either, including Yu XianGuang.

So, there must be something strange about this area?

I wonder how Yu XianGuang is doing, she thought with some distress. When she gets back, that guy will probably cry with her for a long time again.

So, where should she go now?

This forbidden area was too large. The visual limitations were not obvious at night, but when viewed during the day, sitting alone among nearly a thousand square meters of white, bone-like tombstones arranged in layers, it was easy to think of herself as a lonely wandering ghost.

She wasn’t one to be sentimental, this emotion wasn’t hers. Lin Chu took another deep breath and walked away along the circle she was currently in.

She wanted to try going around in a circle.

Beneath the tomb robbing cave was a mausoleum. Did the mausoleum have a main entrance? And whose mausoleum would it be?

On the other side, everyone was worried.

But the problem was that Granny Li was usually healthy, and since she didn’t think it was urgent, she hadn’t taken a photo before her death. Now that she had suddenly passed away, the only photo studio in the village couldn’t take photos of the dead.

Now, he was sitting in the mourning hall, sketching the person in the coffin little by little.

Lili squatted in the yard like a cat, rubbing her head against her knees, staring coldly at the person who was drawing.

If he wasn’t still useful…

She gritted her teeth unhappily, then thought of something else and looked interested.

Lu Yanli sat by the coffin, slowly drawing a sketch. After a while, Lili stood up, shook her ears, and ran over to watch. This made her frown.

“Why aren’t you drawing the eyes?” She pointed to the empty circle inside the eye socket, her hair almost standing on end.

Lu Yanli said honestly, “I’m afraid that if I draw them, she will see me.”

Lili was very angry.

But due to the rules, she couldn’t deny it, after all, this was also part of her plan. After pacing back and forth anxiously, she had no choice but to angrily watch the other party stop writing.

Human kindness is difficult to repay, “ghost kindness” is even more difficult. After all, he had been sheltered before, and if he was really held accountable, this debt might be a talisman for later.

“Wait, stop right there.”

Lu Yanli stopped.

“Where is Luo Ying?”

Lu Yanli shook his head: “I don’t know.” He really didn’t know. Although he had a guess, Luo Ying hadn’t told him, so this guess couldn’t be taken seriously.

“What about Lin Chu?”

Lu Yanli still said, “I don’t know.”

Lin Chu was still in the forbidden area before he left, but now he didn’t know where Lin Chu would go.

Hearing this, Lili finally felt satisfied and showed a malicious smile.

“I know where she is.” She smiled happily.

There’s no way ghosts would be so kind!

Lu Yanli’s first reaction was suspicion. He knew these things too well. Even if they reverted to their pre-mutation appearance after outsiders entered, it was impossible to change their eerie nature.

Although he really needed Lin Chu’s recklessness, but now…

The red-dressed little girl’s eyes were shining, as if waiting for him to refuse.

Lu Yanli didn’t refuse, took out his phone and called the other party.

Lin Chu was still moving forward.

To her surprise, there were finally some different roads ahead. The gentle arc-shaped outer circle presented an angle of about fifty or sixty degrees at the front end, extending to the other end.

Finally, there’s a breakthrough!

Strange, is communication possible now?

Looking at the caller ID, it was actually Lu Yanli.

Lin Chu suspiciously answered the phone.

“Lin Chu?”

Lin Chu cleared her throat: “It’s me.”

“Come back now.”

Probably because the signal was bad, Lu Yanli’s voice sounded a bit rustling, as if there was an electric current passing through.

“Try to be as fast as possible, I’ll only wait for you until six in the afternoon.” He coughed again, seeming to be freezing.

Now it was seven hours until six in the afternoon.

“I won’t wait for you after the eighth hour, everyone misses you, especially Lin Xueyuan, cough cough cough…” There was another series of light coughs.

“She’s very worried about you…”

…

Lin Chu listened slowly at first, but as she listened, her eyes widened.

Ending with every cough, the beginnings of each sentence spoken by the other party were clearly telling her: You’re in the forbidden area, she’s discovered!

This news made her instantly shudder.

Who is “TA”? Should she go back or not?

After thinking about it, she couldn’t come to a conclusion. She looked at the sharp angle formed by the tombstones in front of her, bit her teeth, and continued forward.

She’ll talk about it when she circles back.

No matter what that “TA” was, it shouldn’t be able to enter the forbidden area, otherwise it would have come to catch her long ago, why threaten Lu Yanli to have him call her back?

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His face was still a little pale, as if he hadn’t rested well. Plus, he was wearing less, standing in the main room letting the cold wind pour in, looking weak.

After saying that, she came to the incense burner in front of the mourning hall, grabbed a handful of incense ash and sprinkled it on the ground, then turned and walked outside, closing the courtyard door behind the other party.

The courtyard returned to dead silence.

After a while, a soft, rustling sound began to rise.

It was like an old man moving lightly, sighing, coughing.

On the incense ash on the ground, a row of footprints gradually appeared, the footprints were not large, and they walked out step by step.

After a long time, the villagers carefully opened the courtyard door at Lili’s signal and cheered when they saw the footprints on the ground.

Granny Li had returned!

They immediately followed the same plan as last night, and everyone carried the coffin out together. Lu Yanli was originally assigned to replace Zhang Bo’s position, but he looked pale and weak, and coughed badly. Anyone who looked at him would worry that the coffin would crush him, so he changed to a different job – scattering paper money.

He was a newcomer, and he didn’t have any equipment. Yan Guangyao lent him a set of sackcloth clothes, put it on the outside, tied a black ribbon on his arm, and walked out with a basket.

It was winter, and the sun was cold, and it didn’t warm the body at all. A line of people blew and beat, and walked outward. The person in the lead held a black and white portrait. The thin old lady had a kind smile, but her eyes were a little unnatural.

Lu Yanli. recalled what Zhang Bo said.

Looking at it this way, Zhang Huixuan clearly couldn’t leave this village.

Why?

Lu Yanli suddenly thought of what Lili said, her “aunt.”

In the entire village, Zhang Huixuan was probably the most impolite to Lili. All the other villagers were respectful, but he was the only one who was wary and not too polite, often using the guise of a father to teach her a lesson.

The entire funeral procession was both noisy and silent, with only the deafening sound of the suona and the sharp metallic clanging of the cymbals, without even a wailing person.

Granny Li’s children were not by her side, and she had been living alone. Fortunately, the villagers were united and willing to help her take care of the funeral.

An Xingyu tried to talk to Lu Yanli several times, but the whole team was quiet, and he didn’t dare to speak. He could only watch as the person in front of him took one step after another, raising his hand and scattering yellow and white round square-hole paper money all over the sky, which was blown away by the wind.

That person was Luo Ying, who Lili had been looking for for a long time. I don’t know where he had been during this time. In short, the whole person looked a little embarrassed, but at this moment, his face was full of excitement.

In the past, they had sent people, but the things guarding the village were indeed very powerful. No matter how many people they sent, they would never return. Later, the organization learned to be smart and only sent one or two people to sneak in under the guise of villagers, and finally found out some news.

As the end of the year approached, those things locked in the back mountain of the village had big moves, and the pseudo-immortals guarding the village were too busy. In addition, for unknown reasons, their power slowly weakened, which gave them this opportunity.

Luo Ying lurked in the forest, like a silent ghost.

She needed to get the thing that suppressed the corpse change, and then sneak into the forbidden area.

But she couldn’t get it herself. On the first day of entering the village, she deliberately offended the villagers. For this reason, she did not get the protection of the “guardian spirit,” and she did not get their aura.

The advantage was that it was difficult for them to quickly find themselves, but the disadvantage was that she was also repelled by the entire village.

She still needed Lu Yanli to do it.

Luo Ying thought in her heart, and moved forward little by little.

She didn’t notice that a red-dressed little girl was standing not far behind her, quietly watching her back.

After a long while, the little girl grinned, revealing a mouthful of white fangs.

Just as the paper money in Lu Yanli’s basket was exhausted, the forbidden area arrived.

At that time, Lin Chu was slowly circling back from the other side.

She walked high, looking down at the distance. Her eyes passed through layers of tombstones and the outer side of the forest where the green waves were blown by the wind. There was a scarlet river flowing slowly.

This color always reminded her of bad things.

If Lu Yanli or An Xingyu were here, they would definitely feel familiar. But Lin Chu had never seen it. Her always clever mind only felt a little familiar, as if she had heard it described somewhere. She kept it in her heart and continued to move forward.

Vaguely, some noisy music came from the wind, and after listening carefully, it was funeral music.

Did someone die again?

Lin Chu was shocked and quickened her pace.

She relied on being high up so that others couldn’t see her, and quickly moved forward.

Since she heard the sound, it shouldn’t be too far, especially since her energy had almost recovered now. Apart from growing hair on her body and her eyes being a little wrong, there were no other abnormalities.

Lin Chu quickly reached the end.

It was another sharp angle arranged by the mausoleum, almost exactly the same as the one she had encountered before.

Lin Chu carefully traced the route she had just taken in her mind, with complex thoughts.

How does it feel, a bit like… an eye?

It was also a bit like the shape of the hollowed-out center of the double fish jade pendant she had obtained before.

Going around that sharp angle, sure enough, she saw a long line of people coming like ants due to the distance.

She sat in the tombstone, bent down, and tried to look through the layers of tombstones, not letting them find herself. Soon, she found familiar figures in the crowd.

Lu Yanli, An Xingyu, Yu Huan, and Xie Ziqing were all there.

There were no women in the team, so Lin Xueyuan should be in the village.

Then… what about Xiao Yu?

Where did Yu Xianguang go?!

Lin Chu was shocked and realized this problem. The figure hiding behind the tombstone couldn’t help trembling.

She knew Yu Xianguang very well. That person was cowardly and easy to cry, and liked to pull others to do everything with him. It was harder to let him be alone than anything else.

Would he stay in the village by himself?

Lin Chu originally planned to stay in the forbidden area all the time. She had always prided herself on discovery and research being the greatest truths in her life, but now…

An unprovoked palpitation surged from the depths of her heart. For some reason, she just realized that something might have happened to Yu Xianguang. And this guess made some kind of strong emotion called regret surge in her heart.

Unconsciously, Lin Chu found that her hands were shaking.

The brain that seemed to be frozen just now began to function.

They had just buried a new tomb.

So, today’s one… should also be, right?

I wonder what thing this dead person is suppressed with.

Lin Chu’s gaze seemed to see through the layers of accumulated soil on the tomb and saw the jade pendant in the coffin.

Lin Chu looked at the tombstone again, and her gaze unconsciously swept across a row of tombstones behind Granny Li. Recalling Yu Xianguang, she finally suppressed her emotions, put on the hood of her hoodie, and slowly walked back.

It was two hours before six in the afternoon.

Lu Yanli was indeed waiting at the entrance of the village as he said, along with Lin Xueyuan and An Xingyu. The other two men had gone to eat. Seeing that Lin Chu really came back, Lin Xueyuan was a little incredulous and happily went forward to pull her, but was stopped by An Xingyu. The latter’s eyes were solemn and shook her head at her.

The reason was nothing else, Lili appeared at the entrance of the village at some point.

The red color of the red-dressed little girl’s skirt was even more vivid, so strong that it almost dripped out red liquid. The look in her eyes when she looked at Lin Chu was full of undisguised malice.

She smiled happily, but no matter how you looked at the smile, it looked like she had malicious intentions.

Lu Yanli and An Xingyu looked at each other. Before they could respond, Lili was already urging impatiently. Seeing this, Lin Xueyuan hurriedly called them and asked them to go to the reservoir to gather.

A group of people walked towards the reservoir.

If you listen carefully to that ballad, the lyrics are creepy.

“Daddy is about to die, let my sister replace him…”

“My sister cries every day, crying that she’s too cold…”

Lin Chu felt a chill on her body after hearing it, and immediately took two steps back, letting the childish voice drift past her ears. Lu Yanli also heard the lyrics clearly, and immediately thought of Lili’s “aunt.”

Is this song about Zhang Huixuan and his sister?

Lin Chu didn’t know, and she didn’t know what activity Lili’s “catching fish” was. Following behind Lili, when she saw a broken bridge, a strong stench came to her nostrils.

But seeing that the four people next to her obviously didn’t show anything strange, Lin Chu had to swallow the question in her mouth and continued to follow Lili and walk on the broken bridge.

Lin Chu slowly exhaled, and instantly understood what Lili’s “catching fish” meant.

Obviously, Lili didn’t mean for the others to come over to help. She sat on the edge of the bridge, resting her chin in her hands with interest, and watched her. The other people didn’t know why, so they had to watch.

Lin Chu was very calm, squatted down and sat on the edge of the broken bridge, and reached out to open the bait bucket next to her.

In the bucket, there were two eyeballs and ten fingers, all soaked and swollen.

Lin Chu was stunned, resisted the nausea, and calmly put the bait on the fish hook.

With a flick of the fishing rod, the fish hook entered the water.

The float shook violently, and the fishing line tightened in an instant.

A “fish” was hooked!

She knew how to fish, and had fished with Yu Xianguang before. If it were ordinary fish, she would still need to fight the other party while the fish was still in the water, but the “fish” now obviously couldn’t be treated in an ordinary way, otherwise the only one who would be exhausted would be herself.

Soon, she saw the “fish” she had hooked.

Across the railing, a person and a corpse “looked” at each other.

Lin Chu was stunned.

She blinked her eyes to make sure she wasn’t mistaken, but with this blink, two tears fell from her eyes.

For a moment, Lin Chu wanted to slam the fishing rod on Lili, she wanted to kill the other party, she wanted to throw this little girl into the water as well. But another string called reason Death her impulses, the terrible, damn calm, even made her increase her strength immediately after shedding her tears.

The sound of water breaking was heard, and a swollen corpse was dragged into the air and slammed onto the bridge deck with inertia. It fluttered twice and stopped moving.

Lili finally saw the scene she wanted to see, and jumped off the railing happily, clapping her hands and laughing: “I finally caught it, you are so amazing.”

She tilted her head, and if it wasn’t for the mouthful of fangs, she would look like a delicate and beautiful little girl.

Lin Chu gritted her teeth, not saying a word.

The others also recognized the identity of the corpse, Lin Xueyuan turned her head unbearably, and heard Lili’s threat.

“Turn around! Watch carefully.”

After saying that, she shouted loudly: “Awang! Awang, come out quickly!”

The bloody wind blew, and a giant dog with half bones ran out of the forest and stopped in front of Lili.

“Eat it quickly.” Lili reached out and stroked Awang’s head, raising her chin.

“You…” Her fingernails stabbed into her palm hard, with a sharp pain. Lin Chu just uttered a word, and Lili looked at her with a grin: “What do you want to say?”

Awang shook his tail and ate heartily.