Walking into the courtyard, Lin Qian immediately saw Liu Qi and Wang Yi sitting in a chair, shivering and hugging each other.
The two people's faces were pale and their eyes were extremely dark, obviously the result of not sleeping all night last night.
Thinking about it, who could fall asleep with all the noise last night? Who would have the guts to fall asleep?
Seeing Lin Qian coming back, Liu Qi and Wang Yi stood up quickly as if they had seen the savior, and then said tremblingly:
"No one can be seen in the mirror. There is obviously no water in the water tank, but after a while there will be a splashing sound."
"There is obviously nothing on the beams, but we just heard something shaking there...this...this is still some problems, and there are many weird things."
"We are both scared, so... so..."
Lin Qian looked at the trembling two people, thought for a while, nodded and said:
"Well, it's excusable, but don't worry, it's just some ghosts."
Lin Qian walked to the stone table and sat down, observing the situation of Tian Yunxiao and the three of them.
The situation is not bad, the ghost has died, the balance is being established, and he will wake up tomorrow at most.
Glancing at Coco, this little girl was holding a white cat and learning to fly.
The plane was naturally the little white cat. Looking at the kitten holding a peach in its paws, Lin Qian silently withdrew his gaze.
Hearing Lin Qian's words, Liu Qi and Wang Yi turned even paler. They couldn't help but look at their room, thought about it and sat back on the stone chairs.
They felt that with Lin Qian by their side, they had a great chance of survival.
Lin Qian didn't care. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was getting dark again.
The time here seems to be very strange. Sometimes it is long and sometimes it is short. For example, yesterday, the time yesterday was a little longer. When it got dark, it was nine o'clock in the afternoon.
When daybreak came, it was twelve o'clock at noon.
It gets dark today at seven o'clock in the afternoon. There is no pattern and it is very chaotic.
The light in the sky quickly disappeared, and the darkness began to express its emotions.
Black clouds rolled in, overwhelming the moonlight. Knocking on the door, scratching, footsteps and the faint shout also sounded at the same time.
Lin Qian turned his head and glanced at the wall. The little girl was already standing on the wall, staring down at everyone in the yard.
There was a look of malice in his eyes, and his twisted face was very penetrating.
Liu Qi and Wang Yi hugged each other on the spot, and their bodies began to tremble involuntarily.
Lin Qian's eyes were calm, and she was playing with the bride's hands, occasionally adjusting the hem of the bride's skirt.
He was very relaxed and content, and it was obvious that he didn't care about these things.
Although the noise is a bit annoying, just pretend you can't hear it.
After looking at Coco, well, Coco was not affected at all. The little girl ran to the corner with the little white cat in her arms, and raised her head to see the little girl.
"Dad, why is this young lady standing so tall, and why does she look so delicious!"
Coco looked back at Lin Qian and asked with some confusion.
"You're talking about this, maybe she thinks the scenery up there is nice. As for why it looks so delicious to her, it's because she can't eat it." Lin Qian said with a smile.
After hearing her father's explanation, Coco nodded and thought about the same truth:
"It seems that it tastes good because you can't eat it."
Coco wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, and then walked back with some reluctance.
Lin Qian did not continue talking and concentrated on adjusting the bride's skirt.
Liu Qi and Wang Yi were both numb. They were trembling there, not even daring to raise their heads.
The knocking on the door continued, but this time it was obviously a bit strange. It sounded as if someone was knocking on the door instead of someone outside.
The same goes for scratching at the door, and the footsteps are more intensive, and they are all lingering in front of the door.
Lin Qian also discovered this change. From this, it can be seen that this is the change Liu Meng mentioned.
I have to say, it's quite interesting, at least that's what Lin Qian thinks.
The bride's wedding dress slipped through Lin Qian's hands, smooth and delicate, and the bride leaned quietly against Lin Qian's body, very quiet and indifferent.
Coco sat on the stone chair, lying on the stone table, watching the little white cat eating the big peach bite by bite, its little eyes narrowed into crescents, and its little feet swayed slightly, looking very happy.
It took a long time, and the night began to show its power. At this moment, Lin Qian's movement of adjusting the bride's skirt paused slightly. After thinking about it, he stopped and turned to look at Tian Yunxiao's position.
The red cocoon shook slightly, the red thread began to disappear, and Tian Yunxiao opened his eyes first.
He raised his arm and looked carefully, then laughed:
"Is it a ghost in a dream? Captain Lin, your methods are really terrifying."
Tian Yunxiao pushed up his glasses, his eyes filled with smiles.
"Looking at you, I feel pretty good. What are your chances of becoming an outlier this time?"
Lin Qian stretched out his hand to grab the water droplets that swept out from Tian Yunxiao's eyebrows, and said.
"It's hard to say, I guess there's a 20-30% chance." Tian Yunxiao thought about it and said.
"Is this so? It's not low." Lin Qian said.
It is not easy to become an outlier. Tian Yunxiao is confident that he has a 20 to 30 percent chance, which shows that he is very sure.
Tian Yunxiao smiled and said nothing. He looked around and frowned:
"It can be seen that there are quite a few evil ghosts. How about I go deal with them?"
But at this point, Tian Yunxiao shook his head again and said:
"I guess it won't work. Team Lin didn't move anything. I guess the result will be the same."
After saying that, Tian Yunxiao smiled and sat down next to Liu Qi. He glanced at the ghost standing on the courtyard wall and stopped paying attention. Instead, he looked at the white cat on the table with interest.
Lin Qian smiled, he is a smart guy.
Tian Yunxiao was the first to come out. This is not surprising. He is already much stronger than Xu Qingxiao and Song Yu.
However, now that Tian Yunxiao has come out, Xu Qingxiao and Song Yu should be here soon.
"Old Tian, you?" Liu Qi looked at Tian Yunxiao hesitantly, a little unsure whether he was Tian Yunxiao.
After all, the temperaments of the two of them are as good as the other. Tian Yunxiao used to be polite, well-informed, and a scholar.
And now Tian Yunxiao looks extremely confident, with a smile in his eyes and a strange temperament, like an elegant... fox?
Liu Qi was a little unsure whether the person in front of him was Tian Yunxiao or his classmate.
"What's wrong?" Tian Yunxiao turned to look at Liu Qi.
Looking at Tian Yunxiao's warm smile, Liu Qi shuddered:
"No, it's nothing, I just feel like you are different."
Tian Yunxiao smiled and didn't pay too much attention. He turned around and continued to stare at the scary white cat.
This is the scary thing about Captain Lin's family. This white cat can easily kill him, but now this white cat is sitting on the table, holding a peach and gnawing there.
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And he was very docile to that little girl.
Liu Qi saw that Tian Yunxiao had no interest in talking, so he wisely stopped talking nonsense.
He also knew that after coming out of the red cocoon, Tian Yunxiao was no longer from the same world as him.
He understands very well.
But he didn't care about this. With a familiar person beside him, he felt a little more at ease, at least he didn't have to be so nervous.
Lin Qian looked at the red cocoons of Xu Qingxiao and Song Yu without saying anything. As time passed slowly, an hour after Tian Yunxiao came out.
The red cocoons of Xu Qingxiao and Song Yu began to disappear at the same time, and they appeared in everyone's eyes in just a blink of an eye.
"Zuzhen, it's not bad, exactly the same."
Xu Qingxiao touched a twisted and winding black line on his skin, grinning with a strange smile.
Song Yu looked at the black skin on his body and frowned, then something strange appeared, the skin began to change color, and a sound of flesh and blood was ripped apart.
A piece of human skin suddenly appeared in the air. Song Yu smiled and stretched out her hand to wear the piece of human skin. This was her original skin, but it was covered by the ghost skin.
But now, she peeled off this layer of skin and wore it outside.
"It looks comfortable this way. How can you look so elegant in the dark?" Song Yu muttered.
Seeing this scene, Liu Qi shrank, swallowed, and felt a chill on his back.
His classmates seem to be no longer human beings...
"Why are there so many ghosts here?" Xu Qingxiao frowned and looked around, his eyes thoughtful.
"It's just a ghost." Song Yu stared at Lin Qian, but when she saw the bride in Lin Qian's arms, she looked away.
Lin Qian looked at Song Yu with a playful smile:
"Want my skin?"
Hearing Lin Qian's words, Song Yu smiled, neither denying nor admitting.
Lin Qian didn't take it seriously. There was someone who could peel off his skin, but it wouldn't be Song Yu.
"You three, go to Dajiang City after you leave. There are not enough manpower there." Lin Qian said.
"Yeah, okay." Tian Yunxiao nodded.
"That's no problem." Xu Qingxiao smiled and nodded.
"Okay." Song Yu nodded.
Lin Qian didn't say anything, and looked up at the sky. It was twelve o'clock in the morning, and the night was actually fading.
The sky began to turn fish-belly white, the golden sun began to rise, and it was dawn.
And it was also at this time that the knocking, scratching, footsteps, and the ghost standing on the wall all disappeared, just in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, the knock on the door rang again, and the old village chief’s voice appeared:
"The sacrificial activities will begin soon. Those who want to participate in the sacrificial ceremony can gather under the old locust tree."
Lin Qian knocked on the table, and Huang Hui, who had fallen to the ground, suddenly opened her eyes and stood up.
Then he opened the door and walked out. The old village chief smiled and nodded to Huang Hui and said:
"Good boy, go ahead. I will take you to see the spiritual official for this sacrifice."
Hearing the old village chief's words, Huang Hui suddenly had a smile on his face:
"Really! Thank you, old village chief! Thank you, old village chief!"
Huang Hui bent down and bowed to the old village chief to thank him.
The old village chief just smiled, and then stared at Lin Qian and the others, part of the smile on his face disappeared slightly:
"Young man, I advise you to participate in the sacrifice. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee your life safety."
"The villagers are already very dissatisfied with you. If you still insist on being stubborn, it's better to blame us for not warning you in advance. Young man, don't say you didn't predict what you said!"
After speaking, the old village chief glanced at Lin Qian and others coldly, then turned around and left with Huang Hui.
Lin Qian looked at the back of the old village chief with a calm expression.
Tian Yunxiao had a smile in his eyes and stared at the old village chief without saying a word.
"Captain Lin, can you kill this old man?" Xu Qingxiao asked.
"Why are you so murderous? It's not too late to wait until I get his skin off." Song Yu stroked his arm with a smile on his face.
Lin Qian glanced at the two people, not paying much attention, and said calmly:
"You cannot kill the sacrifice."
Hearing this, Tian Yunxiao was a little surprised, Xu Qingxiao was a little disappointed, and Song Yu was extremely indifferent.
"Is that so? Forget it." Song Yu said.
Lin Qian didn't care. He reached the roof of the second floor in a flash and looked in the direction of the old locust tree.
It was still there just like yesterday, with villagers kneeling on the ground quietly and reciting obscure rituals. If you listen carefully, you can find that today's rituals seem to be different from yesterday's.
The old locust tree remains unchanged, its leaves swaying and moving the wooden sign below.
The old village chief walked slowly through the crowd, walked to the old locust tree, and knelt down, just like yesterday.
As soon as the old village chief appeared, everyone stopped chanting and waited for the old village chief to take the lead.
The old locust tree was swaying unsteadily, and Lin Qian squinted at it. He wanted to see what today's memorial inscription was.
Tian Yunxiao looked up at Lin Qian and thought for a while before joining in the fun.
Xu Qingxiao wanted to go up, but unfortunately he was stared at by a pair of green eyes, so he didn't dare to move. The same was true for Song Yu.
But suddenly, the expressions of the three of them changed slightly. The three of them looked at each other and understood that something was wrong.
They all looked up and saw that Lin Qian's body was constantly flashing green and red, and his whole body seemed to be illusory.
At the same time, one, or should not be said to be one, but a group of people's chanting sounded in their ears.
"The bathing orchid bath is full of fragrance, the flowers and clothes are as beautiful as flowers, the spirit is curled up and left, and the death is not yet young."
"Jian will come to the longevity palace, and the sun and the moon will shine together, and the dragon will ride on the emperor's clothes, chatting and flying around in Zhouzhang."
"The Emperor of Spirit has descended, and his dog is far away in the clouds. He can see Jizhou with more than enough, but across the four seas, there is nothing left to do."
"I miss my husband so much that I am very tired and worried."
Tian Yunxiao narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly uttered a sentence:
"Nine songs, Lord Yun Zhong."
"What are they worshiping? Why would they use this?" Xu Qingxiao frowned, a little confused.
Song Yu looked at Lin Qian solemnly, his eyes flickering slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Lin Qian had some doubts in her eyes and looked in the direction of the old locust tree:
"Yun Zhongjun? Today is Yunzhongjun? Are they all Jiu Ge?"
Lin Qian was very strange:
"Sacrifice to mountain ghosts, sacrifice to Daze? What on earth are they offering sacrifices to?"
At this moment, as the old village chief finished reciting the sacrificial inscription, everyone fell silent.
The old village chief stood up slowly with a solemn expression:
"God laying ceremony!"
As soon as the words blurted out, the old locust tree suddenly shook. With a plop, the wind chime sounded again. Two black wooden signs fell off and were caught by the old village chief.
The old village chief looked at the wooden sign in his hand, nodded, and then shouted:
"Sacrifice!"
His voice was as solemn as the old village chief's face.
As soon as he finished speaking, seven or eight big men wearing coarse linen clothes and red masks appeared.
They carried two red lacquer coffins onto the altar. One of the coffins shook slightly, as if something was struggling inside.
Everyone saw this scene, but no one cared. Instead, their faces were full of envy.
The coffin was placed on the altar just like yesterday. Scratching sounds came from a coffin, and there was also a faint sound of crying, which seemed to be a woman's voice.
But no one cared about it. The old village chief walked up to the altar with two sticks of black incense and inserted the black incense into the incense burner. Black smoke swirled in the air and then went straight into the two coffins.
Seeing this scene, the old village chief withdrew from the altar expressionlessly.
"The sacrifices have been opened, let's pay homage to the gods!"
The old village chief shouted, then took the lead and knelt down, kowtowing and saluting just like yesterday.
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Everyone kowtowed immediately.
"Accepted! Exit!"
The old village chief stood up, turned around and walked outside. As he passed through the crowd, everyone gave way as if they were giving way to the gods.
The old village chief walked calmly, but suddenly he turned his head and looked in a direction, which was the direction where Lin Qian was standing.
With an indifferent expression, he looked at Lin Qian and left the crowd.
Qinghong began to disappear, and the restart ended. Lin Qian looked at everything calmly.
The old locust tree is still an old locust tree, and the sacrifices are still sacrifices, but today's sacrifices and rituals have changed.
There were no other changes. The sacrifices were still held normally, and Lin Qian still did not attend the sacrifices.
“Interesting place.”
Lin Qian came down from the roof and returned to the yard. He glanced at Tian Yunxiao and the three of them and said calmly:
"Find your own room."
"Okay." Tian Yunxiao pushed up his glasses, then got up and went to find the room.
Xu Qingxiao and Song Yu both smiled and said nothing, the same thing.
As long as Liu Qi and Wang Yi are still trembling.
Lin Qian didn't care and sat down on the stone chair, recalling in his mind what happened when the starving ghost entered the sacrificial activity.
Just now he let the starving ghost quietly walk under the old locust tree, and the result was very strange. Before the sacrifice began, it was quiet, peaceful, and nothing weird at all.
But when the sacrificial activities started, all the starving ghosts died instantly and then returned to their original bodies.
Recalling the situation at that time, Lin Qian was certain that he did not find any supernatural fluctuations, not even a little bit.
It feels like a starving ghost is being attacked out of thin air.
"It's like an attack from the past. There's no way to avoid it, and you can't feel it."
Lin Qian tapped the table gently:
"In the past? If that was the case, there would be some trouble."
Looking around, Lin Qian's eyes deepened as she thought of the ghost on the courtyard wall:
"If it really existed in the past, then a lot of things would make sense."
"No wonder I can't find a ghost. It turns out that these things were not given to me at the same time."
"If this is really the case, then I have a solution, but I still have to confirm it. If I guess wrong, it will be a big joke."
Thinking of this, Lin Qian began to plan. He had to find a way to determine whether the source ghost of Ling Coffin Village was really in the past time. If so, where was this point in time.
He couldn't just rush past it. If he restarted the past, God knows at what time it would appear. When supernatural beings collided, no one knew what would happen.
"You have to give it a try. If it doesn't work, then just wait for the sacrifice to end and the evil ghost will come out and eat it."
"There are only seven days left, not too long." Lin Qian thought.
At this moment, the old village chief opened the door and walked in alone.