As soon as he entered the courtyard, Yan Yan had a very strange feeling.
——Is the yard in front of you different from before?
The swing is still the same swing, and the yard is still the same, but the scene in the sky is strange.
Yan Yan couldn't help but stop, raised his head and stared at the sky.
She finally realized something was strange.
Even the clouds in the sky are motionless.
White clouds and gray dogs, the clouds in the sky are always changing and cannot remain still like a picture.
"Ah Yao, come here and see."
Outside a side room in the yard, Qingyu waved her hand to Yan Yan to look inside.
Yan Yan came to the door of the side room, paused, turned his head and glanced at Qingyu, lowered his eyes and walked into the side room.
——Qingyu has always followed the rules and never waved to greet people in that way.
The moment you step into the side room, the room is filled with criss-crossing transparent threads. As long as someone enters the house, their whole body will be controlled by these threads.
She let the threads wrap around her body, and the threads controlled her to move forward until she reached the middle of the side room.
Above the room, where the black light could not reach, greedy eyes were staring at her.
Yan Yan tried hard not to move his eyes but to look at the things above the room.
The grotesque puppets were hung up one by one.
The long and thin limbs, the short round torso, and the extremely weird head are all pieced together.
"Crunch——"
A puppet suddenly appeared in front of Yan Yan and walked towards her in a stiff posture. Its slender legs could not support the entire puppet, and its torso, which was smaller than its head, could not control its limbs and head.
The head is tilted left and right, and the limbs are flexing their teeth and claws. If there is no trunk connected, the limbs and head may go their separate ways.
Yan Yan looked calmly at the puppet in front of her who dared to approach her.
The long and pointed chin was lifted upwards with a "crunch", revealing the large mouth blocked underneath.
The bloody mouth opened wider and wider until it could bite off Yan Yan's head, and he pounced towards her.
…
The puppet's big mouth was still gnawing hard on Yan Yan's head, but it couldn't close its mouth no matter what.
The threads on Yan Yan's hands were melted by her, and he opened the puppet's mouth up and down. There were dense circles of teeth-like things squirming inside.
"Like to open your mouth? Then keep it open."
After saying this, Yan Yan used both hands to slowly open the puppet from its mouth, tearing the corners of its mouth until the body was separated.
After she let go, the puppet's head did not fall to the ground, but continued to hang on the puppet's body, controlled by threads, and hung on the beam.
Yan Yan also understood at this time that this was not a ghost beating the wall at all, nor was it a ghost realm. The ghosts here did not have that ability yet. This was a ghost covering their eyes.
It seemed that they were led into a ghost wall, but in fact all this was just what they saw after being blinded by ghosts.
After Yan Yan cracked the ghost blindfold, everything in front of her disappeared, and she was still standing at the door of the swing yard.
Standing next to him was Qingyu. He seemed to have lost his soul and stood motionless, not even blinking.
Yan Yao reached out and patted his shoulder. Qingyu blinked before she woke up.
"I..." Qingyu turned to look at Yan Yan, "That was... a ghost covering his eyes just now?"
Yan Yan nodded, "What did you see inside?"
"Puppet." Qingyu was stunned.
He obviously took Yan Yan to the courtyard, but as soon as he entered the courtyard, he felt that everything was different.
He is a Taoist priest, and he will feel particularly uncomfortable when he goes to places with strong Yin energy. Just as he was about to pull Yan Yan away, he saw Yan Yan, who was by his side, appear at the door of the side room.
"Qingyu, this way." Yan Yan smiled softly and charmingly.
This smile would make people fall in love if it appeared on any woman's face, but it could not appear on Yan Yan's face.
This kind of smile appeared on her face, just like crocodile tears, a weasel giving New Year greetings to a rooster, smiling at the dead than at the living.
Qingyu subconsciously wanted to stay away from that unreal Yan Yu.
As soon as he took a step back, he hit a wall of flesh behind him.
He turned around and saw that it was Yan Yu. He thought it was the real Yan Yu. When he was about to open his mouth to speak, he saw this Yan Yu holding him with both hands from behind.
Just as the graceful figure was about to close up, Qingyu pushed him away and he quickly walked into the side room.
He would rather enter this unknown side house than face such Yan Yan.
--terrible.
After entering the side room, a layer of golden light appeared all over Qingyu, melting the threads that touched him. The golden light then followed the threads and melted to the puppets on the beams.
The melted stumps fell from above. Before he could see clearly, he returned to the entrance of the yard when he regained consciousness.
"Let's go, this time I don't believe you and dare to cover our eyes." Yan Yan raised his feet and walked into the yard, "If you still dare, I will dig out the eyeballs and give them to it to see if it has the ability to take them."
Qingyu wiped away the cold sweat with a helpless smile on her face.
This is Yan Yan. If he wants her charming smile, she can just give him an eyeball.
What Qingyu wanted to pull Yan Yan to look at before was the puppets placed randomly in the room. These puppets were all real puppets, and he couldn't get rid of them all.
Yan Yan had been to this yard with swings before, but had never entered the house. He really didn't know that there were so many puppets placed in the house.
Each one is vivid, but not as scary as the ghost's eyes.
Yan Yan picked up a puppet and asked, "What can these puppets be used for?"
"Puppet show, children's toys, or used for worship." Qingyu thought for a while and said.
Yan Yan was surprised: "Enshrine?"
"It is used to make statues of gods. There are many wooden statues. Most ordinary people have wooden statues in their homes." Qingyu explained.
Yan Yan nodded: "These may have been left by the carpenter, I'll go ask."
The person who came to tidy up the mansion was a carpenter's shop that Yan Yan found at random. There was a street full of furniture shops, so she simply took over the entire street and just needed to tidy up her ghost mansion.
In a carpenter's shop on a small street called East Street.
"Bang!" With a sound, Yan Yan placed the puppets he was holding on the table of the shop.
"I asked you to clean up the house, so you put this thing in the house to scare us?" Yan Yan snapped, "Do you think I'm easy to bully?!"
Qingyu followed behind, laughing inwardly.
Before coming, Yan Yan said that she had learned a trick to suppress first and then raise the alarm, so as to preemptively strike. As long as she looked like she was looking for trouble, she would be able to scare the carpenter shop.
At least it can save you a lot of nonsense between the two, and you can get the answers you want as quickly as possible.
He asked at the time: "Wouldn't this make people think you are looking for trouble? What if they report it to the police?"
"This requires you to play a white face." Yan Yan patted his shoulder solemnly, "This important task will be left to you. If you can't play a white face well, we will really go to the county government."
Qingyu: "..."
There was only one woman polishing the wood carvings in the carpenter's shop. Seeing the menace coming, she quickly put down the wood carvings in her hands, with a look of panic on her face.
"This girl..."
"Is this something from your shop? Are you putting this thing in our house to scare us to death?" Yan Yan said angrily.
Qingyu looked at the woman with a wry smile on her face and told Yan Yan to calm down.
The woman picked up the puppet and looked at it carefully, then nodded, "It is indeed my husband's craftsmanship, but our shop does not make puppets." She was also confused as to why the husband would make puppets for this girl's family.
"Since it was your husband-in-law who did it, let him explain it. I want to see if he wants to scare a weak woman like me to death."
Hearing this, Qingyu almost forgot to stop her: "..." Weak woman, who are you talking about?
"My father-in-law went out to do some work and hasn't come back for half a month." The woman apologized, "Can you wait for me to go look for it?"
"You go look for it, what will you do if you run away?" Yan Yan curled his lips, "I'll look for it if you tell me which one it is. Don't worry, I'll spare your husband half of his life."
Qingyu reluctantly said: If you say this, the woman will not dare to tell her.
The woman was an honest person, and she was really afraid that her husband would put the doll in the girl's house to scare others, so she told Yan Yu where the family lived.
Hearing this, Yan Yu and Qing Yu paused on the spot, neither of them spoke.
"Girl?" the woman added, "that place is very evil, girl, I'd better take a few more people there."
"Oh." Yan Yan nodded blankly.
She and Qingyu looked at each other and asked uncertainly, "Do you think the place where that family lives looks familiar?"
Qingyu nodded.
It's not their ghost house.
"He really went to that mansion and never came back." Yan Yan asked uncertainly.
The woman said: "Of course, not only my husband-in-law, but also people from all the shops on this street went to that house, and they haven't come back yet."
"It's been half a month and there's no one to look for you?" Yan Yan asked.
The woman said with a sad face: "We went to look for him, but the person he was looking for didn't even come back, so we didn't dare to let him go anymore."
I wonder if this woman is careless. She knew that those who went there would never come back, yet she asked Yan Yan to take a few more people there. She really wanted to harm her, but now she told them about it.
.
Staring at the doll she put on the table, Yan Yan suddenly had a terrible thought.
"How many people are there in that mansion?" Yan Yan asked.
The woman made a mental calculation and said, "There are more than twenty."
"More than twenty?" Qingyu knew what Yan Yan wanted to ask.
"Twenty...twenty-four."
Yan Yan and Qing Yu's hearts skipped a beat.
There are twenty-three dolls in the house.
It wouldn't matter if it was a big difference, but it's only one difference.
Qingyu calmly picked up all the puppets on the table and said, "Okay, let's go to that mansion and look for them."
After saying that, he took Yan Yan and left.
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Shen Beizhu drank medicine for another day and cooked delicious meals with evil intentions. By the time Yan Yan and Qing Yu returned home, his body had almost recovered.
Hearing that the two of them were in the hall, he rushed over.
As soon as they arrived at the hall, they saw Yan Yan and Qing Yu propping up their chins and looking at the dolls placed on the table.
Shen Beizhu felt frightened when he saw the doll, but he still endured it and sat down at the table and moved the wooden stool further away.
"Why did you get so many dolls?"
"This is not a doll, this is a human being." Yan Yu propped his chin on his hand, his head bouncing as he spoke.
Shen Beizhu looked at the round heads on the table that were as big as red dates, "You tell me these are human beings?"
Yan Yan raised his head and thought for a moment: "As expected, all the craftsmen who come to the ghost house have turned into dolls."
"A haunted house?" Shen Beizhu said with a sharp end, "Is this a haunted house?!"
He was so angry that he actually thought that Yan Yan could find a normal mansion.
Haunted house?
It really suits her taste.
"I bought this mansion for just one copper plate. It's pretty good, okay?" Yan Yan frowned.
Shen Beizhu choked.
A copper plate, a thousand-acre mansion.
It's really great.
"Then what do you want to do now by staring at these puppets transformed by individuals? Hold a puppet show?" Shen Beizhu stretched out a finger and tapped one of the puppets.
The dignified eldest son of Prince Shen's Mansion now has a lot of cowards.
Yan Yan almost choked to death, "These are human lives, and you're using them as a show?!"
Shen Beizhu was stunned for a moment and said in shock: "These dolls are really transformed from living people? How is that possible!"
"I don't believe it either, but now all the craftsmen who came to the house are gone, but there are these dolls." Yan Yan was helpless.
Qingyu continued, "There are twenty-four missing craftsmen, and there are twenty-three dolls here. The one with the fewest will definitely know what he has found."
Shen Beizhu asked: "Who is the young one?"
Yan Yan paused and looked at Qingyu: "Who do you think it could be?"
"The craftsman in the carpenter's shop, his wife said that these are his husband's craftsmanship, so only he can make these dolls." Qingyu said in a deep voice.
Yan Yan was thinking the same thing as Qing Yu.
But at the moment, they don't know where the carpenter is, and they have never seen anything that can turn a living person into a doll.
"Ah Yao, can the trick you used at Sishui's house help you find out what happened to the doll?" Qingyu thought for a while and said.
Yan Yan shook his head, "It only works if the person is dead, and there is also a corpse."
Her revolving door only conjured up the last memories from the corpse.
"This counts as death, right? Can you still live after turning into a doll?" Shen Beizhu looked at the doll with difficulty.
"How about you give it a try?" Qingyu asked.
Yan Yan stared at the puppet on the table in silence.
If she tried, she would definitely be able to transform into a revolving lantern.
It's just that she has never tried it on dolls transformed from living people. If the ghost power is not controlled well, these dolls will eventually dissipate, including the twenty-three people who may still be alive.
Just like Pei Lin before, if she had restrained her ghost power, Pei Lin might not be so quick to die.
Evil thoughts floated around Yan Yan.
It has stayed with Yan Yu longer than them, and it knows Yan Yu's thoughts better.
Once she takes action, there is no room for maneuver.
"Boss, let me try." Hu Xin said.
Yan Yao and Qing Yu looked at the evil heart together. Shen Beizhu was startled and looked at the empty place in front of him with lingering fear.
"Wrong intentions~" Yan Yan's eyes filled with tears, "Your ghost skills are much better than mine." Qing Yu turned around and said happily, "My little devil is very powerful."
Qingyu nodded in shock.
The evil magic technique is to use part of the body or soul to find the remaining part, but the part you are looking for will disappear after finding the remaining part.
And the more parts used as guides, the higher the accuracy of the found directions.
If it wants to use a puppet to find the soul of a living person, it must use the puppet as a guide, so a puppet must be sacrificed.
Wu Xin randomly picked up a doll on the table and burned it in his hands. The burning ashes flew up without wind, and Wu Xin chased him out first.
Shen Beizhu watched in shock as the doll floated out of thin air and suddenly burned into a ball of ashes. After that, Yan Yan and Qing Yu ran out following the ashes.
He wanted to follow him out, but his legs still couldn't move.
Two people and one ghost followed Hui Jin all the way to the yard opposite the ghost house.
It's that gateless courtyard.
There was a strong man lying on the sundial in the yard. He looked familiar to Yan Yan, but he couldn't remember if he was a carpenter.
There are several ghosts floating on the carpenter's body, which are the living souls that have been turned into dolls.
After the ashes disappeared, one of the ghosts took on a human form, and Yan Yan put it directly into the soul-locking bag.
"Boss, it's... very strange here." Huoxin raised his hands.
The white silk on its body is gradually disappearing, revealing its original appearance.
Yan Yan was startled and put his evil intention into the soul-locking bag, "When you leave here, I will lock your soul again."
Wu Xin nodded.
Qingyu took a casual glance and saw only a little bit of white silk... nothing.
Yan Yan put his evil intentions into his soul-locking bag, and when he looked up, he saw a golden halo emerging from Qingyu's body.
"What about you?" Yan Yan frowned.
Qingyu also looked at her hands, "There is a lot of evil here."
"You go out first." Yan Yan said in a deep voice, "Don't even think about this thing existing."
There were two humans and ghosts who dared to hurt her!
She could see that only by being on the sundial would she not be affected, but she didn't know if she would turn into a doll if she was on the sundial.
Or it could turn into something else.
In the face of absolute strength, Yan Yan could not think of any other way but to use ghost power to destroy the sundial, and to use ghost power to protect a living person and more than twenty ghosts.
But what she didn't expect was that ghosts and living people could be easily separated from the sundial disk, but she was unable to move.
It's not that I'm controlled by the threads and can't feel my body, but I'm frozen in place and I can feel the ghost power working on my body.
She did not exert much ghost power. After she was immobilized, a powerful ghost power appeared from the sundial disk and poured into her body, integrating with her ghost power.
Yan Yan's own ghost power was already strong, but now that it was stronger, it was no longer something she could control.
In an instant, the entire Wumen Courtyard was filled with an explosion of ghost power, but there was a barrier that trapped all the ghost power in the Wumen Courtyard until Yan Yan turned it into his own ghost power.
Yangjian's physical body had long been unable to withstand the explosion, and Yan Yan now revealed his original appearance.
Without the robe of impermanence, she looks like the Ghost King of the Ten Directions.
When she could move, the ghost power in her body made it impossible for her to stand firm.
Yan Yan reluctantly lay down on the sundial plate, calming down the ghost power raging in his body.
With her eyes half closed, everything she saw seemed to be soaked in blood, covered with a layer of blood.
Who is coming...
...someone help her.
For thousands of years, every time her ghost power increased, she had to endure unbearable torture.
It's more unbearable than pain, and more unbearable than death.
But no one could help her relieve it.
As long as you get close to her, you will be swallowed up by the ghostly power surrounding her.
…
In a daze, Yan Yan felt someone holding her in his arms.