The place the old bookkeeper mentioned was an incense and candle shop, just at the end of the alley. At this moment, two white lanterns were hung at the door, and the faint yellow light inside penetrated from the pale white, making the alley not yet completely dark.
It seems mysterious and deep.
Under the lantern, a pair of paper figures of a boy and a girl were sitting. It had just rained, and the color of the paper figures was like new. The painting on the face was exactly the same as that of the paper bride Song Yu had seen. The cherry mouth looked strange and the color was blood red.
Smile at passers-by.
The door panel of the shop was placed behind the boys and girls, but the shop door was dark, and a curtain hung tightly to cover the inside.
Song Yuben had already walked to the front. He glanced at the paper man, made a mistake in his steps, and hid behind Nan Shi as if nothing had happened.
Xie Nanshi frowned slightly. When he first came to Qinghe Town, he didn't think there was anything strange about this place. So five years ago, he only stayed for one night and set off to the next town the next day. But now, Qinghe Town
It was still pure and white, except that the incense and candle shop was filled with the gloomy aura that came from the other world, which was hidden. There was probably a strange ghost inside that had already put on human skin.
Seeing that the two of them were facing formidable enemies, Du Anchen let out a light tsk, and took the lead to step forward and push open the door of the shop. With a creaking sound, fine dust floated out from the incense shop, bringing with it a smell.
The smell of rotten wood.
Du Anchen immediately took half a step away, and Xie Nanshi immediately covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves. On the contrary, Song Yu, who was hiding behind Xie Nanshi and looking around, was caught by the dust and couldn't help coughing.
, muttered: "It's been a long time since it was cleaned..."
The incense and candle shop looked a bit dilapidated, with all kinds of paper money and paper figurines piled messily on the floor. Various incense candles, shrouds, and various tribute boxes were placed on the surrounding cabinets. Things were all placed randomly, and it looked like
There is no order, and the whole incense and candle shop gives people the feeling of having nowhere to go.
Song Yu stood at the door, holding on to the doorframe with his hands and not wanting to move. He had never been to this store back then. In fact, after he completed the basic tasks step by step, the entire town was almost completely occupied by the White Walkers.
The last task given by the system is to escape from the town.
At that time, Song Yu had the skills provided by the game and the ability to avoid pain. Although the crisis was a hundred times higher than now, there was no sense of fear, not even a sense of reality. But now... he found that he was not only afraid of pain, but also afraid of pain.
I'm quite afraid of ghosts. Don't ask, your heart will almost stop if you ask.
Especially when you see the old man's face emerging from behind the counter.
The face clearly belonged to an old man who was over fifty years old, but there were no wrinkles on it, as if it had been forcibly flattened. It was so thin that it seemed like there was only a piece of skin left, and his eyes were only pure white.
Coupled with this room full of paper figures, it suddenly feels like it doesn't look like a real person.
"What does the customer want to buy?" The boss's voice was thick and precise, with a frosted texture.
Song Yu hid behind Jie Nanshi and looked at his boss: "White Walker?"
Xie Nanshi did not answer, and he was not sure about the answer. The strange ghosts are not people from this world, and the aura they carry is different from ordinary people. Taoism mainly focuses on observing the aura to distinguish the strange ghosts. But the strange ghosts are not without the ability to cover their own aura, and
The darkness was entangled here, and Xie Nanshi didn't dare to judge whether the other party was or not for a while.
He clasped his hands behind his back and took out a talisman with two fingers hidden in his sleeves: "Practice Qi and transform it into Qing."
On the talisman, golden dark lines flowed, and then the entire talisman paper lost its original bright luster. At the same time, a breeze swept through the incense candle shop, and the original breath disappeared in an instant, as if before the eyes
It's just an ordinary incense and candle shop that's a little messy and neglected.
Song Yu also said "Huh". He had never seen Xie Nanshi's environmental dispersion skills before. More importantly, he was originally from the perspective of a cultivator, but now he has suddenly changed into an ordinary person, and his experience of dispersion is much fresher.
A faint scent of incense came out of Jie Nanshi's sleeve, and then the incense candle shop suddenly became brighter and more refreshing. Even the shop owner's face was no longer weird. He looked like he was just an ordinary old man with a shadow in his eyes.
It makes people feel pity. The biting coldness that I felt when I first stepped into the shop suddenly lightened up.
The old shopkeeper didn't seem to notice the change in the atmosphere in the store. He just used his blurred cataract eyes to try hard to find the blurry figure of the customer at the door: "What do you need to buy, sir?"
After Du Anchen kicked open the door of the store, he did not enter the store, but just leaned against the door with his arms crossed. Her eyes were flowing, but there was nothing matching the color of her bright face. She only briefly stopped at Jie Nanshi in a slightly vague way. At this time, Song
Yu and Xie Nanshi focused their attention entirely on the old man and did not notice it.
Not to mention how satisfied he was with the thigh he was hugging, Song Yu stopped hiding now and walked towards the old shopkeeper: "Boss, please rest for now, I'll just take a look."
Can the incense and candle shop be visited casually like other stores? The old shopkeeper's tense face immediately collapsed. He returned to the counter with his hands behind his back, his rickety figure blocked by the old counter. Song Yu was not embarrassed at all.
Every time he saw a paper figure, he took a closer look. After looking at it for a while, he turned back to look at Jie Nanshi for help.
Xie Nanshi is a cultivator. Although his cultivation at this time is not as good as it was five years ago, his eyesight has not dropped much. He was immediately caught by Song Yu's self-proclaimed puppyeyes. He didn't want to pay attention to it, but the weirdness and strangeness here
The connection between ghosts still made him say: "It was painted by the same person."
After the expert spoke, Song Yu folded and pressed most of his body onto the counter. He poked his head inside and asked, "Shopkeeper, did you draw all these paper figures yourself?"
The old shopkeeper probably thought that these people were here to cause trouble. After being tortured by Song Yu for a long time, he breathed weakly: "Yes."
"Who have they been sold to?"
"Whoever has something to do with his family will sell it to him. How many of you have something to do with your family?"
Du Anchen heard these words harshly. He didn't want to be like Song Yu and Xie Nanshi, whose family members were being treated eccentrically by such villains but still looked kind and cheerful. He immediately said: "The Safety Department is handling the case. If you have anything to say, please answer."
It is estimated that this small Qinghe Town has always been peaceful, and the Safety Department is not taken seriously in the local area. The shopkeeper was not stopped by these words, but just twisted his face without a trace of wrinkles.
The river pattern between the eyebrows: "Oh, women are not allowed to enter the shop, it is unlucky."
Of course Song Yu did not advocate feudal superstition, but he also did not advocate Du Anchen directly smashing the shop in order to fight against feudal superstition. Seeing that her giant sword was about to move, he quickly took two steps to stand between the two of them: "How long has your shop been open? Yes.
It’s been over ten years, I guess. The people who come to your place to do comprador things should all be people from nearby, why, you don’t remember any of them?”
His voice suddenly became more serious. Although the Department of Safety could not suppress the old shopkeeper, the power gained from dealing with various big shots in "Meeting Gods" for five years still made him start to cooperate: "I remember. But the people in the town don't
Much, there hasn’t been much business lately.”
"What about the last time? Who bought the paper man last time? How much did you buy?" Song Yu felt like a mirror. They first found this shop because they suspected that the White Walkers were hiding here. But judging from Jie Nanshi's reaction
It seems that there is only the atmosphere of the White Walkers here. Therefore, it is very likely that the White Walkers who have taken over human skin bought paper figures here and made the paper bride outside Qinghe Town.
In order for the White Walkers to seize a human body, they need to first make a human into a container. Only if their luck matches and their spiritual will is far superior to that of the person being taken away can they succeed in taking the body. This is also the reason why many White Walkers dissipate directly before they can seize human skin.
.Paper Man is a good storage space, but the paper is too thin and brittle, so it is not easy to successfully enter, and there is no way to store it permanently. This precise control is enough to take away human beings, so why bother to make do with it?
Among the pieces of paper.
It seems that the people behind the scenes are quite thoughtful, and their skills are as meticulous as a tiger sniffing roses.
The old shopkeeper lingered, still recalling. Xie Nanshi had already found a paper figurine that was almost the same as the paper bride he met outside the town: "Who has the boss sold to this kind of paper bride recently?"
The old shopkeeper glanced twice with his white-clouded eyes, more or less coming back to his senses and realizing that the Safety Department was really here to handle the case, and he stopped talking for fear of getting into trouble.
Song Yu took in the stupid philistine look on the old shopkeeper's face. He didn't want to miss the clue, so he simply cleared the way with money. Using the cover of his pocket, he took out a tael of silver and put it on the counter, and pointed at Xie Nanshi's hand.
Paper Bride: "I want this paper figurine. But our underground brother needs to know if his wife has been sold several times by you businessmen. Who else have you sold the same paper figurine to besides us?"
Xie Nanshi couldn't help but frowned at Song Yu's nonsense again, and Du Anchen even turned around and left the shop. Only the old shopkeeper couldn't see people clearly, but he could see the money very clearly.
He hadn't opened a business for a long time, and this one tael of silver was not only a help in times of need, it could actually light up a raging fire for him, but he managed to put on a smile: "Anyone who has died in the family will buy some paper figurine brides. Let's see.
...Oh, that's it. Don't worry, sir, because I changed the paper and the drawings are not smooth and they don't look pretty, I only made ten of these paper brides in total, and each one is different..."
Song Yu interrupted him: "What about the other nine? Who were they sold to?"
The old shopkeeper was choked, but for the sake of money, he was not annoyed at all: "There is no difference, it was bought by someone about two or three months ago."
"who?"
"I don't recognize him. I'm afraid he's a stranger. He's wearing a big black cloak. He speaks in a strange tone that I've never heard before. He bought some paper brides and boys and girls. There's nothing unusual about that."
Song Yu and Jie Nanshi looked at each other, and felt that the possibility that the man was a strange ghost increased sharply. The human skin worn by the strange ghost was not his own, and his appearance would not change much. So Song Yu asked again:
"Is the person male or female, fat or thin, tall or short, and does he have any facial features?"
The old shopkeeper didn't answer. He only looked at Song Yu with his cataract eyes and gave a silent answer.
Song Yu tentatively asked some more questions, and when he saw that the old shopkeeper really had no more information, he took the lead to leave the incense and candle shop. Xie Nanshi was about to leave, but he remembered something, so he went back and brought up the paper bride, which was worth one tael of silver.