Li Leping, who looked like a character in an old-fashioned photo in black and white, suddenly stood up from the bench. Although his face was still indifferent, his eyes flickered slightly at this moment, as if he was watching something happen before his eyes.
He now seems to be in this supernaturally constructed city, but a pair of eyes can also see the real situation through the sleepwalker's body.
It's just that at this time, the sleepwalker's body was stuck in the strange mire. The mud was squeezing his body, making it impossible for him to move, let alone get out of the trap. In front of him, there was a dark mud, so it was impossible to look at it.
There is no difference.
But at the next moment.
He felt that the mud pressing down on his body seemed to be softening.
The restraints from the thick soil are gradually disappearing, and the dampness and cold feeling from the mud are also fading away.
"Did Jiang Hao succeed?"
Li Leping was not surprised by this. He knew that the only possibility of escape was to restrict the source of the ghost swamp in the hall. Only when the source was suppressed could he recover from the quagmire.
And now that he feels that his body is recovering and the suppression from the silt is disappearing, it means that Jiang Hao has lived up to his high expectations and successfully discerned a way to solve today's predicament.
"Although the source has been suppressed, the supernatural residue of the silt is still on my body. Until I get rid of these residues, my body is still unable to move."
Although the suppression of the swamp was gradually losing its effect, a part of the silt still remained on his body, making it impossible for him to use the supernatural power of the sleepwalker, and even to move.
However, his eyes had regained sight at this time.
At this moment, he saw it.
I saw where I was and what was going on around me.
A scene like hell appeared before my eyes.
There seemed to be an empty ground here, but in his line of sight, he had already seen no less than ten corpses covered in mud like his. Most of these corpses showed a human shape, and a few were more mutilated, like a human body.
The dismembered remains.
There is no doubt that these motionless corpses covered in mud like his are all ghosts, and they are the ghosts swallowed up by the ghost swamp.
"This is...the flower field?"
Although his body has not yet been freed from the shackles of the mud, Li Leping's eyes kept turning, and finally his eyes stayed beside him.
Several dead flowers were stuck in the mud next to him, emitting a strange stench.
He had seen this flower before, just a few days ago.
That was when he had just arrived here on the ghost train. When he followed a path to the ghost temple, there was a flower field planted with this kind of flower on both sides of the path.
"So the place where the swamp eventually leads is the flower field outside the temple?"
"No, I can't say that. It should be said that the swamp may have always been under the flower field. At the same time, many ghosts were buried in this swamp. It was just that at the beginning, the swamp was covered by the flowers above, so I
Didn’t realize that.”
The dead flowers showed that this place was the flower field I had seen before, but it seemed that as the ceremony in the temple began, the supernatural power of this flower field gradually lost its effect, and then the mire underneath and many evil spirits were released.
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"These things are not important now. Now we have to take action before other ghosts break free from the shackles of the mud."
Looking at the motionless corpses nearby, Li Leping chose to forget a memory without hesitation.
The memory of encountering a ghost swamp and being dragged into it suddenly disappeared.
Losing this part of the memory of the attack, for him, means that what happened in this period has disappeared.
Erasing the past of the attack, the sleepwalker's body instantly returned to the state before the attack.
The putrid smell of mud on his body also disappeared at this time.
At this moment, Li Leping, who had truly recovered his ability to move in reality, stood up.
Although the crisis has passed, there are still many dangers around.
These evil ghosts lying on the ground who were also swallowed up by the swamp will probably be able to break free from their restraints in a short time and escape like him.
"We cannot let these ghosts lie here. The door of the temple cannot be closed. If these ghosts are not dealt with as soon as possible, then they are likely to follow the third and fourth messengers and others in the subsequent rituals.
The ghosts behind them entered the temple together."
He took out a golden rope, came to a ghost lying on the ground and was covered in mud, and tied it up with the rope.
"String all these ghosts together, drag them to the bamboo forest and bury them all at once."
He came to another ghost and trapped it on the golden rope.
While the mud had not dispersed and the suppression effect had not expired, Li Leping quickly tied up each ghost with a rope, and tied them to the same rope.
Fortunately, the rope was long enough, and the ghosts were connected together by the rope, just like the knots on the rope.
Suddenly.
Li Leping stopped in front of a corpse and looked at the outline of the corpse. His numb eyes moved slightly at this moment, as if he had seen this corpse somewhere before.
There was a corpse lying quietly in front of him. The corpse was about the size of a child, but it looked a bit scary, because the corpse had only one body, but two heads, like branched branches.
A freak.
And the most tingling thing is that these two not-so-big heads look like they belong to a boy and a girl respectively. Although he can’t see the faces clearly, Li Leping still vaguely judged the two figures based on the outline of their heads.
What happened to the head?
"Are they the little boy and the little girl? Why are they here?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Leping, who had a supernatural confrontation with the scary pair of children, would not admit it. He was very sure that this weird corpse must belong to the little boy and the little girl.
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What just makes him feel puzzled is why their bodies appear here?
"Could it be that these two children were also attacked by that ghost swamp?"
Li Leping couldn't help but his eyelids twitched. After thinking about it carefully, he thought it was not impossible.
Ghosts that do not exist in reality are an extremely difficult supernatural event for ghost controllers, but for ghosts that also do not exist in reality, it may not be difficult at all.
Just because he couldn't easily touch the source of boys and girls didn't mean that the ghost swamp couldn't.
"Calculating it this way, as long as there are no problems on Jiang Hao's side, plus the male and female ghosts lying in front of me, the three sources of supernatural beings that have appeared in the hall should be restricted."
After tying up the strange man and woman with ropes, Li Leping's eyes narrowed slightly, looking a little confused.
"However, there are a total of four oil lamps in the main hall. If one lamp goes out, it means that a ghost has entered the main hall, then even if you include the ghost that was wandering at the entrance of the hall and never came in, the total number of ghosts that appeared today is only
three."
"Three ghosts, four lights, the number is obviously not right."
Li Leping believed that it was impossible for the oil lamp in the main hall to be extinguished for no reason.
And judging from the previous situation, after every oil lamp is extinguished, someone will be attacked immediately.
Therefore, the extinguishing of the oil lamp cannot be a coincidence. It must represent a warning to the living people in the hall that a ghost has entered.
"So, there is probably another ghost that needs to be dealt with?"
Li Leping had something in mind, but the difficulty was that he had no evidence to prove the existence of the fourth ghost.
Turn around and look at the temple standing at the end.
The bright moonlight still hangs over the temple. Although the light emitted is not very bright, for this person, the light is as precious as water in the desert. This crescent moon in the sky is like a bright tower in the dark night.
The lighthouse on the sea prevents people from getting lost in this ghost place.
"Go back and take a look first."
There was no time to waste. After confirming that all nearby ghosts had been tied up by him, Li Leping pulled the rope and dragged a group of mud-covered ghosts towards the distant temple just like the characters in mythology who patrol the world and lure away evil spirits.
As soon as you enter the door.
Li Leping saw a broken paper man or horse lying on the floor of the temple.
This is the messenger who came back with the ghost to participate in today's ceremony. However, compared to the first messenger who came back, this messenger looks even more embarrassed at this moment. The four legs of the paper horse are covered with dirty mud.
Not to mention, you can still see a lot of cracks on the body that were forcibly torn apart.
In addition, the clearest thing is the palm print located behind the paper horse. This is a messy color, including black, white, red, green, blue and yellow, as if someone's hands are covered in paint.
, and then patted the paper horse while it was not paying attention.
"I imprisoned this paper man and horse together."
Now that he saw it, Li Leping didn't want to ignore it. What's more, the paper man and paper horse itself was a supernatural product, so of course he couldn't let it be placed here.
I just squatted down, flattened the paper man and paper horse, folded them and wrapped them in gold foil.
"Team Li?"
Jiang Hao's voice suddenly came from the front, with a hint of surprise in his tone.
Look up.
Jiang Hao was wearing a pair of golden gloves. At this moment, he was carrying a man covered in mud in one hand and a mottled paint bucket in the other. He walked down the steps. When he saw Li Leping, he immediately walked quickly with a happy face.
Come this way.
Behind him, the two ghost masters who were still alive followed him closely.
"it's me."
Li Leping, who had recovered his sleepwalking ghost body, was still wearing the mask Jiang Hao lent him, so it was not surprising to recognize him.
"Are you planning to take these two ghosts to the bamboo forest and bury them?"
After the meeting, Li Leping didn't talk nonsense and looked at what Jiang Hao was carrying.
A man covered in mud looks like his limbs are weak.
A rusty paint bucket filled with gray paint.
There is no doubt that the appearance of these two ghosts is very consistent with Li Leping's understanding of the supernatural phenomena in the hall.
"right."
"Me too, then let's talk as we walk and explain clearly what happened in the hall later."
Li Leping lifted the rope in his hand and looked along the rope. He could see a series of ghosts being restrained by the golden rope, and a string of corpses lying on the ground, which he had dragged all the way here.
These ghosts were only temporarily suppressed by the supernatural residue on their bodies, including the two ghosts in Jiang Hao's hands.
If it is not dealt with as soon as possible, the ghost will soon wake up once it gets rid of its restrictions.
"OK."
While Jiang Hao and Li Leping walked towards the bamboo planted in the temple, he talked about what happened in the main hall just now: "The situation in the main hall has been stabilized. I covered the floor with a yellow cloth, and then
A swamp was revealed, and the ghost that came out of the coffin immediately attacked the source of the swamp."
As he spoke, Jiang Hao also raised a strange object that was full of mud in his hand, or looked like a clay figure.
"As for this paint bucket, it appeared after I spread the yellow cloth at the entrance of the temple. Originally, the paint inside was not so peaceful, and it directly showed the appearance of a colorful human body. However, after it appeared, it was also coffin
The ghost inside attacked, and now it looks like this." He looked at the calm gray paint in the paint bucket and said.
In just two sentences, the danger that just happened in the hall was summarized.
"What about the ghost in the coffin?" Li Leping asked.
"It's back in the coffin. The ghost seems to return to the coffin on its own after having no target for a period of time." Jiang Hao replied.
"Is this so..."
Li Leping nodded, then showed doubts on his face. As he walked, he looked at the paint bucket and the clay figurine in Jiang Hao's hand: "I have touched that piece of yellow cloth and know the effect of yellow cloth. Even if the human skin has it, it will not exist."
The ability to manifest ghosts in reality, but it only has the ability to make them appear, and does not have the ability to truly pull ghosts into reality."
The human skin on the yellow cloth allows you to see the supernatural, but it does not mean that you can actually touch the supernatural itself.
Just like the ghost smoke deployed by Li Leping, even if Jiang Hao saw the ghost smoke, it did not mean that he could truly touch Li Leping who was in the ghost realm of ghost smoke.
"So why can you catch these two ghosts that don't exist in reality?" Li Leping asked.
The supernatural has only appeared, but the boundary between the supernatural and reality has not been broken.
The same was true for the boy and girl he was tying up with a rope at the moment. If they hadn't been covered with a layer of mud, he wouldn't have been able to touch this pair of little boys and girls that didn't exist in reality.
But now Jiang Hao has caught two ghosts in his hands that should not exist in reality.
It seemed that he expected Li Leping to ask this question, so Jiang Hao immediately explained: "Captain Li, look at the hands of this clay figurine."
"hand?"
Li Leping squinted his eyes and observed carefully.
After a while, he noticed something unusual.
This soft-looking clay figurine seems to be wearing a ring on its hand.
A black ring.
It's just that there is no metallic luster on the surface of this black ring. The dull color is more like a section of burnt human bones, showing a burnt black color.
This section of human bone seems to be the part of the finger bone.
A curved, burnt black finger bone was worn on the body of a clay figurine that was also covered in black. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to spot this unusual place.
"Is this... conferring the Nether Ring?"
Suddenly.
Looking at this ring-like finger bone, Li Leping thought of another ceremony that would also be held on that day when the folk water and land ceremony was held.