Zhang Yuanqing put away the knife with satisfaction and asked:
"The first question is, how did Wang Xiaoer become like this?"
Generally speaking, there are two ways to form the Inferi. One is artificial refining, just like he refined the Dead One.
The second is that the corpse is buried in a place with extremely heavy Yin energy, and absorbs Yin energy over time, giving birth to weak intelligence and becoming a zombie (infernal corpse).
Wang Xiaoer doesn't fit into the second category. If he fits into the first category, he can transform an ordinary villager into such a powerful Infernal Corpse, even surpassing the One of the Dead.
This method is a bit scary.
The old man said sadly:
"It's not because he went to the tomb and brought back unclean things. A while ago, Wang Xiaoer, who had been missing for several days, suddenly returned to the village with a large bag of gold, silver and jade, saying that he had become rich and wanted to build a building.
The best house in the village, marry a girl from the provincial capital.
"He asked Mr. Xu, who teaches in the village, to help him look at some antiques and estimate their value."
Antique Zhang Yuan did not bother with the issue of Wang Xiaoer turning into an infernal corpse, and said:
"What antiques did he bring back?"
The old man recalled:
"At that time, I was just joining in the fun. He showed Mr. Xu three antiques. One was a sculpture of a female doll without a tongue. It had a pair of wind-catching ears. It was black and shiny and felt cool to the touch. Mr. Xu said this
It's Yin jade, it had to be kept in the tomb for several years to become so shiny and smooth."
"One is a rouge box. The box is made of silver and engraved with flowers. It's so beautiful. The rouge inside, oh, it's as bright as blood. You said this thing has been in the tomb for so long, why not
What are you doing?"
"Where's the third item?" Zhang Yuanqing asked without answering.
"A dusty bronze mirror with a few beautiful stones embedded in it. Mr. Xu said they were precious stones. It's a pity that the mirror can't reflect people, otherwise it could be sold to the wife of a wealthy family in the provincial capital."
Well, none of these three things are used by living people. Wang Xiaoer is really good at picking on Zhang Yuanqing and can't help but complain.
"Those three things were sold by Wang Xiaoer?" He remembered that he had searched the house for a long time and found nothing.
The old man nodded and shook his head:
"The box of rouge was bought by Mr. Xu. I don't know about the girl doll and the mirror. Anyway, since Wang Xiaoer brought those things back, several strange things happened in the village the next day."
"What weird things happened?" Zhang Yuanqing asked following the topic.
"I heard from Widow Li at the head of the village that the night when Wang Xiaoer came back, when she got up in the middle of the night, she saw a woman in red clothes entering the village through the window. The woman looked so handsome. She had never seen such a woman before.
She is a handsome girl, but her face is a bit pale. The next day, Wang Xiaoer turned into a ghost." said the old man.
According to the introduction of the spiritual realm, the woman in red should be the princess. From this point of view, Wang Xiaoer was retaliated by the princess and turned into an infernal corpse. This princess is a bit fierce.
Alas, female ghosts have been very handsome since ancient times, but it’s a pity that they are ghosts. Uh, no, the princess is most likely an inferi, not a wraith. It would be great if I could subdue her. I will definitely use her every day. Well, Zhang Yuanqing won’t be able to fight with her.
Thinking marginally, he said:
"Is there any more?"
"Yes, the child of Zhao Erdan's family had his tongue cut off. I heard Zhao Erdan's mother-in-law said that she was cooking dinner that day. Xiaodan, Erdan's child, was playing in the yard. She saw Xiaodan following him.
A girl went out. She didn't care at that time, just thinking that someone's child came to play with Xiaodan. However, the girl's face seemed to be black, like a shadow, which she found strange.
"After Erdan's wife finished cooking, she went out to look for Xiaodan and found him passed out at the door of the house with no tongue." The old man said, with fear flashing in his eyes:
"After that, whenever it gets dark, there will be a dark girl in the village who likes to lie in the windows of other people's houses and ask if she wants to come and play games.
"As long as she lies down in the window of a house, the tongue of that house will be cut out the next day. The girl will wander around the village until midnight before leaving."
It turns out that this is how the villagers' tongues were cut off and they left at the first watch. In other words, the game has to be played until the first watch? Zhang Yuanqing said:
"What game to play?"
The old man shook his head: "How do you know? She kept talking about playing games, and she didn't say what kind of game it was."
Zhang Yuanqing frowned when he heard this.
There was a problem with the information here. The message given by the Elvis Presley speaker was to play "You Shoot One", but the old man said there was no game.
"How did your tongue get cut out?" Zhang Yuanqing asked for details.
The old man remembered the frightening past and his face was horrified:
"I was so scared at the time that I hid under the bed and didn't dare to come out. She kept lying on the window and kept talking about playing games. Then she disappeared. I remember I fell asleep and woke up and my tongue was gone."
Zhang Yuanqing quickly analyzed based on his own experience.
Playing games is actually the right way to avoid crises, but the villagers are too scared and no one dares to play with the little girl.
As a demon king, he followed the rules and played the game boldly, so he successfully passed the level. What he played was.
Zhang Yuanqing understood that the devil played "You Shoot One". No wonder, after listening to the audio from Elvis Presley's speaker, he felt strange.
"䱼豱一一" is a children's song and should not appear in a copy with a Ming Dynasty background.
The children's song does not come from the weirdness in the copy, but from the devil. The Elvis Presley speaker only recorded the devil's original method of breaking the game and played this method to him.
This is the first of the three antiques that Wang Xiaoer brought out. There should be more strange things happening in the future. Zhang Yuanqing said while thinking:
"Are there any other weird things?"
When the old man heard this, he looked horrified and lowered his voice unconsciously:
"Mr. Xu is dead!"
As expected, Zhang Yuanqing did not interrupt and listened to the old man continue:
"The next morning, the children in the village went to private school to study, but Mr. Xu, who always came early, did not show up. The children told the adults what had happened. When everyone went to his house, they found that Mr. Xu was dead. He died miserably.
, they are all adults.
"He was lying upright on the bed, and there was a paper man next to him. The paper man was beautifully tattooed, his face was painted very rosy, and his eyes were dotted with red paint. Oh, it wasn't red paint, it was the box of rouge.
"At that time, there was a box of rouge on the bedside, which was still open. The village chief discovered that Mr. Xu's fingers were stained with red rouge. He must have painted the paper man's face and dotted his eyes."
Speaking of this, the old man said furtively:
"Li Tieniu next door said that in the middle of the night or around the second watch, he heard Mr. Xu playing with a woman. However, Mr. Xu has been widowed for many years, where did the woman come from in his family?
"It was the paper man who came to life at night and harmed Mr. Xu."
In the middle of the night, the paper man, with painted eyes and blush, lay next to him, and then came to life. After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Yuanqing felt a little scary.
So I never buy figures, not even silicone figures, or inflatable figures. I use billions of fresh life to water them every day. If one day they come to life, it will be great fun.
Zhang Yuanqing asked: "Where is that box of rouge?"
"It's still at Mr. Xu's house. Who dares to ask for it?" The old man sighed: "On the night after Mr. Xu died, around the second watch, someone saw the paper man walking around the village. It was scary."
Hearing this, Zhang Yuanqing narrowed his eyes.
Paper figures will walk around the village at the second watch, which means that at the second watch, the second wave of crisis will come.
I don’t know how the Demon King dealt with the paper man. I’ll ask Elvis Presley Speaker later.
"Old man, there should be a third strange thing. For example, at midnight." Zhang Yuanqing said.
Based on what the old man told him, he figured out the pattern. The ghost doll without a tongue is responsible for the first watch, and the paper man is responsible for the second watch.
Something will definitely happen in the middle of the night.
Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head: "Third watch? There is nothing strange. However, something strange seems to have happened during the fourth watch."
Zhang Yuanqing quickly asked: "What's weird?"
The old man frowned, and a look of confusion flashed across his dark, wrinkled face: "I, I forgot."
Forgot? Then you can only ask other villagers. From what I heard so far, this dungeon is not too difficult. You can get a lot of information by finding the tongue, and you can basically understand the weirdness in the dungeon.
Play the game before dark. Play until the first watch and you can get rid of the ghost doll. Deal with the paper man on the second watch. There are no weird things on the third watch. There should be some on the fourth watch, but the old man forgot. You can find other villagers.
Inquire.
After solving the three "antiques", do you have to fight the boss? If you survive successfully, you can pass the level.
Although I know that the princess must be very powerful, it is enough to figure out all the weird things in the dungeon. This kind of obvious danger is far more reassuring than crossing the river by feeling for stones.
In fact, Zhang Yuanqing also has a trump card - the magic pestle.
This thing is a powerful tool to restrain evil spirits, but he doesn't dare to use it. After what happened at Jinshui Amusement Park, he doubts that if he uses the magic pestle in the exclusive spiritual realm of Night Travel God, Lao Bangzi will definitely sense it.
If Lao Bangzi comes, it won't work even if he kneels down and sings about conquest.
What would be the result of recruiting a big boss? Zhang Yuanqing didn't know, he only knew that Lao Bangzi pinching himself to death was like pinching an ant to death.
He didn't dare to risk his own life on the other party's attitude.
At this time, Zhang Yuanqing raised his head and took a look at the sky. It was already dark. The thin clouds were frozen and the skylight seemed very weak. It would be dark in a while.
Zhang Yuanqing no longer delayed and said:
"Old man, it's getting dark soon, and that ghost doll is coming. You don't want to have your tongue cut out, right? Let's play a game."
The old man never disappoints when it comes to Congxin, so he nodded immediately, "What game?"
Zhang Yuanqing told the old man the rules and methods of the game.
"Is this possible?" The old man looked unbelieving.
"You don't have a choice." Zhang Yuanqing replied, and then summoned the Dead One, communicated with the mark in the sea of consciousness, and divided the spirit body into two halves, with half remaining in the body and half entering the Yin Corpse.
The two of them stood in a triangle shape. Zhang Yuanqing clapped his hands and said:
"You take one shot, I take one shot, and we'll play games before dark."
The old man clapped his hands:
"You take two shots, I'll take two shots, touch your tongue and your ears."
The two opened their mouths, touched their tongues, and then their ears.
Dead One clapped his hands and said in a hoarse voice:
"You shoot three, I shoot three, plus the shadow, there are three."
The applause kept ringing, and the two of them started playing like this. Time passed by, and it soon became dark.
The whole world was covered with a dark curtain, and then, the deep darkness swallowed up this mountain village.
There is no moon or stars in the night sky, just darkness.
The mountain village fell into deathly silence, with no insects chirping or dogs barking. It was so quiet that it was scary and unsettling.
The applause and voices of two people and one corpse were the only sources of sound in this dead silent world.
After dark, the gloomy atmosphere in the village became heavier. Zhang Yuanqing kept the rhythm of the game. As a night wanderer, he was keenly aware of the changes in his surroundings.
During the day, there is no gloomy atmosphere in the village, but as soon as it gets dark, a gloomy and cold atmosphere begins to permeate the village, and the whole village seems to turn into a ghost.
Moreover, the Yin Qi gets worse little by little as time goes by.
At this time, Zhang Yuanqing heard laughter coming from the darkness behind him:
"Hey, someone is playing a game~"
This voice was childish and clear, and it belonged to a young girl.
It's coming. Zhang Yuanqing's lips began to tremble when he saw the old man's expression change.
Zhang Yuanqing felt that a very dark and cold Yin Qi was approaching. This Yin Qi was so strong that it reminded him of the Ghost Bride. To be precise, it was the oppressive feeling that the Ghost Bride gave him.
Is this ghost doll so scary?
It doesn't seem wise to be tough. Zhang Yuanqing is also sincere like the old man.
The yin energy stopped behind Zhang Yuanqing, and then he felt a coolness on his back, climbing up little by little.
She wants to possess me?
The hairs on Zhang Yuanqing's back stood up, his scalp was numb, and he could hardly maintain the rhythm of the game.
Fortunately, the cold breath only stayed for a few seconds, then left Zhang Yuanqing's back, moved behind Dead Man No. 1, and tried to possess him.
Zhang Yuanqing glanced out of the corner of his eye and finally saw the thing clearly.
It was a shadow, the shadow of a child. It fell on the ground behind Dead Man One, as if it was the shadow of Dead Man One.
This shadow seemed to want to possess Dead Man No. 1, but after several attempts, it all ended in failure.
"Why are there three people again? I want to play games, I want to play games."
The short shadow made a baby girl's voice and complained unhappily.
As long as there are three playing, she can't join?
How did the Demon Lord try out this rule? Well, it seems not difficult. If there were no reminders from Elvis Presley speakers, I would definitely call some villagers over to play the game.
"You take two shots, I'll take two shots, touch your tongue and your ears."
The old man's voice had begun to tremble, and it was obvious that he was scared.
But his heart gave him the strength to keep playing the game.
In the following time, shadows kept alternating behind the three people, trying to possess them and participate in the game, but they all failed.
Very good, it can't come in, just keep it like this until the first watch. In addition, the yin energy in the village has become heavier. Zhang Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief.
Everything is going according to his plan.
He was playing games and keeping track of time. After a long, long time, he felt that the next day was coming soon.
At this time, Zhang Yuanqing, whose brain was highly active in a tense state, suddenly thought of something puzzling.
That's the "three people" prompt given by Elvis Presley's speaker, and the "three people again" said by the ghost doll not long ago.
The rule of number of people must have been summed up by the Demon Lord, but there is a problem here. If the rules are not clear, the more people, the better. If I were the Demon Lord, I would definitely find a group of villagers to play the game.
Rather than being precise to three people.
But just now the ghost doll said "three people again", if she was referring to the time when the devil was there, then the question is, how did the devil guess that when the number of people reached three, the ghost doll would be excluded?
The only answer is the rules that the Demon King came up with after trial and error.
The original Demon Lord found a group of villagers, but found that there was no point in having too many people. The villagers were cut off their tongues or killed by the ghost dolls one by one. The ghost dolls did not stop until there were only three people left?
It doesn't seem right. How can the villagers have such discipline? If one person dies, they will probably scatter in all directions. And after the demon king finds that people still die while playing the game, will he continue to call on the villagers to play the game?
He must have had a hard time with the ghost doll, because he couldn't guarantee whether he would be possessed by the ghost doll next.
So, how did the Demon King conclude this rule?
It's almost the first watch. Let's send the ghost doll away first and then think about this.
Just as he was thinking this, he saw the old man next to him suddenly showing a look of pain and muttering:
"I remembered, I remembered, at the fourth watch."
At this time, Zhang Yuanqing discovered that the old man's body was filled with strong Yin energy, and his skin changed from normal color to blue-black.
The yin energy around him was too strong, covering up the aura of inferi exuded by the old man.
He is an Infernal Corpse? How is this possible? Zhang Yuanqing's pupils shrank. As a night wandering god, he could clearly see that the old man's body was nourished by Yin Qi and was transforming into an Infernal Corpse little by little.
The old man's fingers were stabbed with sharp claws, his eyeballs were bloodshot, and he murmured:
"At the fourth watch, everyone in the village was dead."
Everyone in the village was dead. Upon hearing these words, Zhang Yuanqing felt a chill in his heart and his scalp felt slightly numb.
There are no normal people in this instance. The villagers have long since died. They retain their human form during the day, but at night, when nourished by Yin energy, they turn into Yin corpses?
Fuck, I just find it strange that there are so many living people in this dungeon. The vagina in the A-level dungeon is so gentle. It turns out there is not a single living person.
Suddenly, he understood why the Demon Lord had made such a mistake.
The Demon Lord summoned a group of villagers to play a game, but they all turned into Inferi at night. The game failed, but the Demon Lord did not die immediately. Maybe he happened to have two Inferi, or had other means.
In short, he summed up the rules and found that as long as three people play the game, the ghost doll's killing rules can be avoided.
At this time, the old man's sense of reason completely disappeared from his eyes, turning into a blood-thirsty demon, and threw himself at Zhang Yuanqing beside him.
boom!
The Dead Man No. 1 intercepted from the side and collided with great force, knocking the old man off his head.
The game was forced to end.
"Hehe, I want to play games too~"
A young and crisp voice sounded behind Zhang Yuanqing.
A chilly breath pressed against his back, and the next second, there was a "click" on Zhang Yuanqing's neck, and his head was twisted behind him.
"Crack, click, click."
His legs and hands were twisted behind his back simultaneously, and the joints were twisted, like a haphazardly pieced together puppet.