Volume 1 Huangquan December, Chapter 87: Old Trick Repeated
With Shi Wuqi's repeated assurance that "I have no interest in living people" and his explanation of the causes and consequences, a few people reluctantly believed him. A big reason for this was that they had known him for so long, and he was indeed not a lustful person.
Heart-wrenching people.
He'd better not be.
"But I haven't even taken a bath yet," Dai Luan murmured to the side. She knew that Shanhai would definitely not let her go into the water after all this trouble. Mu Wan thought for a long time and told them that she did not see anything.
abnormal.
"If it were a female ghost and a succubus, she would probably harm the man if she appeared in a man's bath." Shan Hai analyzed.
"Damn, luckily I'm smart."
"Aren't you not interested in living people? This doesn't count."
"My interest is limited." Shi Wuqi suddenly hugged Miss Qi next to him tightly, "I have a strong interest in specific talents."
Shan Hai sighed and told them to stop making trouble. He suggested asking the shopkeeper if there had been any accidents here. They were here to help, so maybe the shopkeeper would tell the truth.
"Then I'll go find him."
Aluan raised his hand and volunteered, then opened the door without any explanation and ran into the corridor.
It was night, and the corridor was long and dark. Because there were no customers, the shop owners did not light lights on both sides. There was no end in sight to the dark road, and it seemed like something would rush over at any moment.
Aluan stared at the darkness in front of him for a long time.
"Go again tomorrow."
She ran back and sat cross-legged back to her original position.
"Hey, when did our eldest lady become so timid?" Shi Wuqi tapped the table with his closed fan bone, teasing her.
Even Mu Wan was a little curious: "How many have you seen? How can you be afraid of such monsters?"
"Psychological shadow!"
Shan Hai turned to look at her: "Have you seen this kind of monster before?"
"It's not that different. When I was a child, I went on a long trip with my father and lived in another house. They seemed to be having some kind of meeting, but many of them brought their wives and children. A group of friends and I were in another house.
In a room, everyone gathers together to tell ghost stories."
"What a coincidence. When I was a child, whenever the master was away, the senior brothers and sisters would gather around and tell stories at night."
"Was your childhood so colorful?" The two elders looked at them with confused eyes.
"Really. I've heard something related to bathtubs. A little boy told me about a monster that tasted dirt. He said that the bathtub in their house was dirty and couldn't be cleaned no matter how hard he washed it. He didn't find out until he passed by the bathroom in the middle of the night.
There was a monster licking the bathtub, and the more he licked, the dirtier it became. He fainted from fright, peed his pants, and had a high fever for three days. Later, the family hired someone to get rid of the monster."
"Ah, I heard senior sister Yan Muxue talk about one, and it still leaves a deep impression on me," Mu Wan recalled, "It seems to be about a monster named Jiao Shushu, who was left unchanged after the wooden basin was abandoned. He peeked at people without paying attention.
The face on the water. If you peek at it again at night, the monster will let the basin bracket wrap around your sleeve and make your face disappear."
"Well, there is indeed such a monster." Shanhai said.
Shi Wuqi said: "Isn't this the Laughing Wolf you're talking about?"
"When you say that, why is it not scary at all?"
Even a little irritating.
"Speaking of which, does this game of getting together to tell ghost stories have a name?"
Shan Hai knew the answer to Mu Wan's question.
"Hundred Ghost Lantern?"
"Yes, it's the Hundred Ghost Lantern. Legend has it that the ghosts from hell turn into humans and trick people into playing this game. Light a hundred candles, tell a story and blow out one. When the last candle is extinguished, everyone involved will be
Taken to hell. Is this legend true?"
"You'll know after you try it. The question is, where are the candles?"
"Why are you so excited, Shi? Are you a ghost? Do you want me to take a look at you with the Eight Desolations Mirror of Shanhai?"
Shan Hai shook his head and said he didn't know either.
"After all, the operation is generally not so strict. For example, usually no one specially finds a hundred candles, and in the end, basically everyone falls asleep."
Shi Wuqi stretched out: "That's right. There are quite a few similar games. To put it bluntly, they are all quite death-defying."
Aluan asked again: "For example, what about the Disk Fairy and the Pen Fairy? Are those real too?"
"Don't make trouble." Shanhai frowned, "Those are all derived from Fuji. Don't think it's just a game. It's easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. What's more, the immortals invited are all demons, ghosts, spies and resentful spirits.
——They are all about attracting souls and damaging the moral character."
"If you want to talk about fighting with monsters directly, I can bear it. If it comes to ghosts, I'm really a bit embarrassed."
"Huh? Is Aluan afraid of ghosts?"
"Ghosts are transformed from humans." Aluan said seriously.
It was getting late, but neither girl had the intention to go back to the house to rest. Even though there was no topic to continue, the five of them still sat upright, staring at each other.
"Are you two going to let me sleep with you?" Shi Wuqi finally said, "What, are you scared?"
"Absolutely not."
"No."
"Then you should go!"
"Leave in a minute."
"Go right now."
"You guys should move a little bit!"
Strange to say, these two girls were the only ones telling strange stories, but now they were unwilling to move. Strange to say, maybe it was due to psychological suggestion, but the whole hotel became a little cold.
Shan Hai spread the mattress aside and turned to them and said:
"If you are really not afraid, I have a few more stories to tell you."
"goodbye."
"Farewell."
The two of them each held one of Miss Qi's arms and left their room.
"The candlestick stays!"
However, no one paid any attention to him.
Shi Wuqi rolled his eyes in the darkness.
"Speaking of mountains and seas, and the story of hundreds of ghost lanterns, is it true?"
"I don't know. Do you really want to try?"
"It makes no sense, forget it. But what do you think of the thing I saw today?"
Shan Hai slowly lay down and pulled the cup upward.
"Perhaps it is a drowned woman, a woman who drowned in the bath, and is used to tempt men to eat or to find a scapegoat. There may be many things we don't know about this hotel. We'd better ask the shopkeeper tomorrow morning."
"What if he doesn't say it?"
"Don't you have ten thousand ways to make people talk?"
Alas, Master Lin has learned badly.
Shi Wuqi was speechless and lay down to rest.
The girls' houses were not far away, but it was really difficult for them to move. If Miss Qi could speak, she would definitely complain about these two idiots.
"Mu Wan, tell me"
"What?"
"Why should we panic? Miss Qi, isn't she also a monster?"
"you are right."
As if being comforted, Mu Wan loosened his hand, straightened the hem of his clothes with one hand, and held an umbrella with the other hand. Ah Luan was holding the candlestick that came from their table, and suddenly froze again. Mu Wan was just wondering, and found Ah Luan
Luan turned his head and stopped moving. He turned his back to her and pointed stiffly at the ground. She looked over.
There are obviously three people, but they project the shadow of four people.
"I got one"
Whether it's really "an extra person" or the candlestick ghost is causing trouble, it's enough to make people drink a pot.
Ah Luan's hand slipped and the candlestick fell to the ground, and his eyes immediately fell into darkness. Mu Wan groped hurriedly on the ground, finally picked up the candlestick and lit it with spiritual power. As soon as the fire lit up, it went out again. This was repeated six or seven times.
, she was a little angry.
Until the last time, the flame finally stopped going out.
blue.
It cannot be extinguished even if it is blown.
"Mu Wan, Mu Wan" Dai Luan grabbed her wrist, "Two possibilities. One, we are dreaming."
"Impossible, it hurts me so much when you pinch me."
"Well, this is a haunted house."
The two stared at each other blankly. At this time, a drop of water fell from the ceiling. Their first reaction was that the house was leaking, but it was impossible. The weather outside was very good and there was no sound of rain at all. They slowly
He raised his stiff head and saw a woman's face.
Not Miss Qi.
There is only one face.
After this face, a long, long neck stretched out from nowhere, spreading like a snake on the roof. Mu Wan picked up the umbrella and instinctively wanted to stab it, but was pulled by Aluan and ran away.
Almost tripped.
"No, wait, what should Miss Qi do?"
"A woman who never abandons must have two skills. I believe she can do it!"
"Even if you say so"
The loose wooden floor creaked when stepped on, but the sound in the ears was much noisier, as if there were many pursuers behind them, which was unsettling. Mu Wan clearly remembered that Shanhai's room was next to it, and they had not walked a few steps at all.
But after running for a long time, he still seemed to be standing still, and he didn't see a single door at all.
"etc!"
Mu Wan shook off Aluan's hand, holding his knees with one hand and holding an umbrella with the other, panting from exhaustion.
"This lady is weird. Aluan, don't you think something is wrong? We"
Mu Wan felt that her eyes had slightly adapted to the darkness, and the candlestick she had just left had long been abandoned. She straightened up and suddenly realized that she seemed to be the only one in the entire corridor. She talked for a long time and called Aluan for a long time, but nothing happened.
No one responded.
Someone's voice seemed to come from outside the window with wooden bars on the wall, which was very obvious in the quiet night. But she couldn't hear what was specifically said, so she got closer. She saw a well outside the window, and porcelain came from inside.
The sound of friction.
"Three, four, five"
Is it called the monster that counts plates? She had only heard from her classmates before that if there was one less plate at the end of the count, it would be a big trouble. Although she did not believe in this evil at the time, at this moment, she still pressed against the wall and tiptoed.
The ground slipped away.
As for Aluan, it took him a long time to run before he felt something was wrong.
She turned her head, panted, and leaned against a window.
"Mu Wan, what on earth is going on!"
Mu Wan, who had been keeping her head down, suddenly raised her head, and what appeared in front of her was a face that was so clean that even the facial features no longer existed.
