At the same time, the fat man also heard the sound, and his eyes became alert: "What is the sound?"

Jiang Cheng walked towards the door, but did not open the door. He just looked out through the gap in the middle of the door. After a while, the increasingly rapid sounds slowly subsided, and then there was a sound of banging wooden clappers.

"Boom."

"Boom.

The sound was constantly moving. Judging from the direction, it was coming from the courtyard gate, and it was the same way they came.

Jiang Cheng squinted his eyes and saw someone holding a big white lantern from a distance, standing next to the wing where Yu Chengmu and the others were.

After a while, someone came out of the side room and seemed to be having a conversation.

Jiang Cheng silently counted the time and turned to look at the fat man: "Let's go, the watchman is here." After speaking, Jiang Cheng opened the door and walked out. The fat man hurriedly followed after taking a sip of hot tea.

By the time Jiang Cheng and Fatty arrived, Chen Hao's group and Jia Jinliang Abiao had already arrived, and standing in front of them now was an old man wearing a black robe and a white cloth belt around his waist.

The old man's right arm was still wrapped with a tattered red cloth.

Everyone's attention was focused more on the lantern held by the old man. On the white lantern was a blood-red word "Die" written clearly on the surface.

The inscriptions are drawn like dragons and snakes, reflecting the erratic candlelight, giving people an unreal illusion.

Yu Chengmu looked at the lanterns and the old man's clothes, and seemed to see something. His eyelids couldn't help but twitch a few times, and then he cupped his hands with a very respectful attitude: "Senior can come and give me some advice, but I am scared.'

The old man raised the lantern, and through the light, everyone could vaguely see the old man's face. Pang Xiaofeng, the timidest one, suddenly changed his face. The right side of the old man's face was completely destroyed, as if it had been torn off by the claws of a beast.

, on the remaining half of the left face, a triangular one-eye is embedded in the eye socket, with a faint edge reflecting in the middle of the slightly closed eyelids.

After a moment, a hoarse voice sounded, like gravel rubbing against the glass, "You guys who scooped up corpses and I, who worked on the job, were of the same lineage thousands of years ago, and you won't give in to calling me "senior".'

"Let's stop talking. Tonight, the corpse collector will go to the mourning hall to keep vigil. I will give you a few instructions. Please listen carefully."

"Senior, please speak." Yu Chengmu became more and more respectful.

"Don't go together for the night vigil. If there are too many people gathered and angry, something may happen out of thin air. You go one by one, and each of you will stay for one stick of incense. When the incense burns out, you can leave." The voice of the watchman was mixed in the wind.

It doesn't sound real.

Chen Hao lowered his voice: "Senior, does everyone have to keep vigil?"

His question was very appropriate. After all, it was already close to the third watch. There were 11 of them. According to the calculation of half an hour for one stick of incense, it would be dawn before the last person was guarded.

The watchman tilted his head to look at him. Being stared at by the gaze, Chen Hao felt like a thorn in his back. "Hu Yi Yi, Hu Yi" the clock operator said.

one

A strange gasping sound, like a muffled laugh: "Of course not all of them, there are 5 people, 5 people are enough."

The watchman's eyes swept over the people in front of him and suddenly said: "Just the five people closest to me!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, but it was too late to retreat at this time.

Five people, Yu Chengmu, Pang Xiaofeng, Lei Mingyu, A Biao and Fatty, won the prize.

Several people came out one after another and stood in front of the watchman.

In fact, Jiang Cheng was the fifth one, but before he could walk out, the fat man pinched him secretly, and the fat man beside him walked up first.

Just as Jiang Cheng was about to speak, out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the watchman took out a pen holder-like object from his arms, and there was a rattling sound inside. It was a lottery bucket!

Are they going to draw lots?

The fat man turned his back to Jiang Cheng and made a reassuring gesture to him.

The watchman's eyes scanned the faces of the five people one by one. After a moment, he handed the bucket to Lei Mingyu, "Let's start with you. You draw lots to decide the order."

Lei Mingyu sneered, without shaking, he took out one and handed it to the watchman, "That's it.

The fat man was very close and secretly stretched his neck to look at the signature. There were a bunch of ghost symbols on it, but he didn't recognize a single word.

The watchman glanced at it and said in an announcing voice: "Sign it."

Chen Hao exhaled slightly after hearing this.

Next was Yu Chengmu. Yu Chengmu took the bucket of lottery tickets respectfully. First he held the bucket and whispered a few words in a low voice. Then he shook the bucket three times to the left and three times to the right. Finally, he gently shook the bucket.

Gently shake out a lot.

When he saw the ghost talisman signed, Yu Chengmu frowned slightly, but he didn't look worried.

"Winning the draw," the watchman announced.

The next one was the fat man. The fat man stretched out his hand to sign for the bucket. Because his hand was too fat, it almost got stuck. When Yu Chengmu saw it, he couldn't help but sneered and shook his head. This man really has no awe at all. In a place like this, he still

Dare to be so reckless without fear of retribution.

But the next second, he couldn't laugh anymore. The watchman looked at the lot, then raised his head and looked at the fat man's innocent face, "Sign it."

Jiang Cheng's heart relaxed

The hearts of the remaining two people were raised.

The top numbers are gone, the top numbers are gone, the winning numbers are gone, then... what's left?

When A Biao heard the news that he had won the lottery, a trace of panic appeared on his calm face. However, Pang Xiaofeng had received the lottery, and his calves were even weak at this moment.

"The top one will be the first one to keep vigil." The watchman put away the bucket of lottery tickets and said calmly, "Then the next one will be in line, and the bottom one will be the last one to keep vigil.'

At this time, both A Biao and Pang Xiaofeng's expressions became brighter.

Fatty: “???’

The watchman was not prepared to explain. He raised his legs and walked towards the side room where Yu Chengmu and the others were staying. Everyone followed him in confusion. The watchman took out two conical trinkets from his arms and threw them on the table.

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"You can find the incense that counts time in the mourning hall. You must use the thickest white candle in front of the mourning hall to light the incense. Remember, no matter what happens in the middle, you are not allowed to leave.

"These two little things are left for you in case of emergencies." As he said this, the watchman took out some more from his arms and distributed them to everyone. "Two for each room, please keep them."

Jiang Cheng took it and weighed it with his hands. The texture was thick and hard, and it was covered with a dark green shell. Jiang Cheng couldn't guess what was inside.

"Senior." Jia Jinliang said with a smile, "How to use this thing, and when will it be used?"

"Just light it with fire." The watchman said quietly: "As for when to use it, you will know when the time comes.

Frustrated, Jia Jinliang didn't dare to ask any more questions. The watchman in front of him was obviously not a good person.

Standing up, the watchman walked out and turned around when he reached the door. "Also, remember, the mourning hall is at the west end of the house. In front of the hall, there is an old locust tree planted in the old days. There is a bell under the locust tree.

The five of you must ring the bell before entering and when you leave. When you hear the bell, it is time to change people.'

"Five people, five sticks of incense, and if each stick lasts for half an hour, they may not survive until dawn." Jiang Cheng suddenly said: "Isn't that okay, senior?'

A hint of sullenness appeared on the watchman's frightened face, "Didn't you understand what I said?

The next second, the clock watcher suddenly stopped, his mouth opened slightly, and his single eye stared at Jiang Cheng. First it narrowed slightly, and then suddenly opened wide again.

Yu Chengmu looked strange and asked in a low voice: "Senior?"

The watchman seemed to have woken up from a dream at this moment, and after leaving the words "It will start in a quarter of an hour, you can take care of yourself", he held the lantern and staggered away. His right leg seemed to be injured.

After the watchman left, everyone turned their attention to Jiang Cheng, but Jiang Cheng himself didn't know why.

Time was running out. Jiang Cheng wanted to take the fat man away quickly, but was stopped by the shameless Jia Jinliang, "Don't leave yet. It's fate that we met here. We should work together in the same boat.'

"In my opinion, how about we all leave each other's contact information and share it once we have information?'

Although we knew he had bad intentions, we didn't break up with each other after all, so we left each other's contact information.

"We are the first, we have to prepare first." Jiang Cheng pulled the fat man away.

On the way, the fat man was crying and said, "Doctor, what the hell do you think this is? Am I being targeted? Why am I the first to go to the vigil after being signed? Isn't this the best sign?'

"It's quite strange, but you don't have to worry too much. The probability of someone dying as soon as you go up is low. The danger may be greater this time as you go to the back." After thinking about it, Jiang Cheng continued: "But you also have to be careful. If you are not careful,

If you touch a taboo, it's hard to talk about it."

Speaking of taboos, Fatty took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and looked at Jiang Cheng curiously. He lowered his voice and said, "The look in the man's eyes at you just now was so strange. He seemed to have noticed something."

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng slowed down and seemed to be thinking about this issue.

"Has he discovered that he has no brothers?" the fat man asked in a low voice.

Jiang Cheng shook his head, "No, I've thought of this too, but I just tried to wake Wu up, and he didn't respond at all. If Wu shows up on his own initiative, I don't believe the night watcher can find out.'

If the watchman really has this kind of ethics, then Jiang Cheng would suspect that he is the big boss in this dungeon world.

After a while, Jiang Cheng made an analysis that made the fat man's hair stand on end: "If I look at a person with that look, then I will think that this person is familiar to me, but I can't think of where I have seen it before, or that this person is familiar to me."

I know him, but I don't understand why he suddenly appeared here.'

"You mean the watchman...has seen you before?" The fat man couldn't help but tremble. This guess was really scary. When the night wind blew, the goosebumps on his body stood up.

Jiang Cheng didn't stop until he could see the big locust tree from a distance, "I won't give it to you, Fatty, you better be smart." After saying that, Jiang Cheng took out a piece of the thing given by the watchman and gave it to Fatty.

He explained: "We don't know yet whether this thing is good or bad, but you remember, unless you are at the end of your rope, don't use this thing..."

"I know...I know, doctor." The fat man took it nervously. He seemed to feel that it was not safe to hold it in his hand, so he stuffed it into his pocket.

"Also, when you arrive, you should observe more, but you can only look. Try not to touch it with your hands, and don't use your mobile phone. I won't call you, and you shouldn't call me."

"good!'
To be continued...