Styx Doll (XI)

"Host, what are you going to do?" The system stopped teasing her and changed its tone to a serious one. "I don't recommend you pretend to be a ghost messenger to investigate this reason. If you use this identity too often, the male protagonist and his friends will become suspicious."

He Guang nodded. "Well, I'm thinking about pretending to be hallucinating, unconscious, and running away, and then telling half the truth."

"Half truth?" the system repeated.

"Just tell them about my cooperation with Shanzha tonight. I ran out in a delirious state and was saved by Shanzha who had been secretly helping us. I bought the things needed to set up the formation, and I certainly couldn't hide it from classmate Shen and the others, so I just told them directly.

But I can’t tell you that Shanzha and I are going to the river to set up the formation before the 15th day of July.”

The system immediately understood and praised, "You are becoming more and more thorough. This is growth and progress. Oh, man, I am so happy for you."

He Guang really liked what he heard. "System-kun, you have always taken such good care of me and worried about me a lot. I can't always be careless."

The system expressed great relief.

The audience in front of the screen just couldn't stand these two guys' corny and awkward praise.

[The system and the anchor are definitely the most disgusting combination I have ever seen]

[Enough, host, you are still laughing. Why don’t you quickly build up your emotions? You are now playing a weak girl who was rescued by a master. You should be in shock, not beaming with joy.]

[That's right, you are so disgusting, have you ever considered our feelings? ]

[My teeth are sore! ]

[Yes, why don’t you quickly connect with the experts around you (supply)]

He Guang felt wronged, "You guys have been getting more and more aggressive towards me recently, do you have another anchor out there?"

【We are worried about you】

[No, it’s exhausting enough to support you with just pocket money]

[Ahem, don't worry, we still love you the most]

Having said that, He Guang still obediently followed the audience's suggestions and coordinated his testimony with Shanzha (crossed out) to give a unified story.

Shanzha didn't have any objection. "Whether they believe it or not won't affect our plan. Just don't complain to my mom."

He showed a calmness and indifference beyond his age in everything. "But since you've said it, why don't you tell them everything?"

He Guang said, "Because they are still very weak now, weaker than me. I want to protect them before they are able to protect themselves."

Shanzha seemed to have thought of something and seemed touched. He stared at her blankly for a while and said nothing more.

After entering the hotel and just stepping onto the corner of the stairs, I saw a flashlight passing by and soon I heard footsteps.

Shen Mengze appeared around the corner, and he seemed relieved to see He Guang.

He Guang looked at him as if he was a little hesitant, "Student Shen...is he real?"

Hawthorn nodded expressionlessly, "Really."

Chen Mengze was confused, but he still asked with concern, "He Guang, are you okay? Where did you go? You Yi and I looked for you around the hotel."

He Guang secretly said in his heart, sorry for classmate Shen, and tried to look a little scared, "This is a long story, let's go inside and talk slowly."

You Yi was standing in the corridor, and he relaxed a little when he saw He Guang coming back. "Oh, you're back. Our handsome Shen was so anxious and worried." His tone was relaxed, as if He Guang had just gone out for a walk.

"Then aren't you worried about me?" He Guang said slowly.

Cruising, "..."

There is one disadvantage of being friends with people with a straightforward personality. You often cannot flirt with them happily and end up getting choked back.

[The two boys are really nice. They came out to look for the anchor even in such a dangerous situation.]

[Meow meow meow, yes, they really are powerless to even bind ghosts.]

[Brother Youyi is choked every day. There is always someone better than you.]

[Since ancient times, natural resistance to tsundere]

[Brother Youyi is saying one thing and thinking another]

Several people entered the house, and He Guang took the initiative to introduce, "This kid's name is Shanzha. I'm grateful to him today, otherwise I might not be able to come back."

Shanzha said indifferently: Go ahead and make up stories, I won’t expose you anyway.

"In the middle of the night, you suddenly ran out. I couldn't stop you, so I chased you." He Guang said the excuse he had thought of when he came back. "I chased you all the way to the river, and found that you suddenly disappeared. I felt something was wrong. Just as I was about to run back, I found that my body was out of control and kept diving into the river."

She tried to make her tone sound terrified and frightened, "Thanks to Hawthorn for showing up in time and using the rattle to drive those things away."

As she spoke, she patted Hawthorn's shoulder hard.

"It's the requiem drum." Shanzha listened to her nonsense for a long time with his eyes open, and finally couldn't help correcting her.

The two boys thought about Shanzha's previous strange behavior and the fact that he had been warning them to leave the village, so it was natural for them to accept his identity as a master.

After listening to this, Chen Mengze smiled at Shanzha, and said gratefully, "Thank you, that day by the river..."

"I was indeed at the river that day, but it was not me who pulled you back from the river."

Hawthorn interrupted him and said this.

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“Then…” Shen Mengze was confused.

“It’s a wandering soul.”

Shanzha's tone was also a little doubtful, "But I can't see it, I just feel it. The wandering souls don't have much resentment, and they rarely have the power to help others."

You Yi said, "You can't see it either?"

"I don't have the Yin-Yang ability." Shanzha said, "My grandfather said that everyone in my family is born with a lot of evil spirits, and is immune to ghosts and gods. They are suitable for this line of work, but they are different from people who have a lot of Yin spirits and the Yin-Yang ability."

You Yi raised his hand, "What do you mean by invulnerable to gods and ghosts?"

"You have a tough life. Ghosts will avoid you when they see you." Shanzha thought for a moment and gave a simple and understandable answer.

You Yi: Please give me a dozen of this kind of fate!

“Why didn’t you just tell us right from the start?” You Yi spread his hands, “That way everyone would save a lot of trouble.”

"Would you believe it?" Shanzha said, "What if my mom tells me I'm crazy? She already thinks I'm crazy."

The three people were speechless. If it weren't for their own past experiences, they would also think that this child was very abnormal.

You Yi said tactfully, "Although people's prejudice is a huge mountain that is difficult to cross. But sometimes, we... ahem... have to look for the reasons within ourselves."

You said that you, an old man, are gloomy all day long, like a ghost doll. People who don’t believe in ghosts would be scared to death if they saw you in the middle of the night.

So I succeeded and got a small roll of the eyes.

Chen Mengze felt that this child was not worldly-wise at all.

I chatted with the boss's wife these two days, and she always said that the child was not like this before. He was good in both character and study, and had a well-behaved personality.

But now his heart seemed to be weighed down by something even heavier, occupying his energy and closing his heart, leaving him with no energy or desire to care about other people's opinions.

Thinking of this, Shen Mengze smiled gently at Shanzha, "We trust you, so can you tell us everything you know?"

Shanzha glanced at him and repeated what he had said to Heguang by the river, "My grandfather said there were wronged ghosts in the water. He told me to watch the river and not let anyone play in it. But no, they didn't listen, and many people drowned afterwards, every year."

He kept shaking his head as he spoke, "Especially during the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, when the gates of hell open."

Chen Mengze stared at him, "Then where is your grandfather now?"

"Dead." said Hawthorn.

The answer was expected. If the old man had any other idea, he would not let such a young child look at the river. Who would take his words seriously?

Shen Mengze thought for a moment, "Will everyone who gets close to the river die? Or will it just be outsiders like us?"

If this river was really so cruel, it would have deserved its bad reputation long ago.

Shanzha shook his head, "No. My grandfather said that people with weak bodies and light horoscopes should not get close to them, and people like you."

Shen Mengze didn’t expect that he would become a separate category, “What’s wrong with me?”

"There's a lot of black energy around you," Shanzha said.

Chen Mengze looked down at himself and didn't see any black air. He became thoughtful.

Youyi and Guang also looked confused, probably only the child could see it.

The system sighed and reminded He Guang in his ear, "The world's malicious curse, the pervasive doom."

Shanzha said, "We are not targeting outsiders like you. There are seals set up by my grandfather in the village and by the river. As long as the living people don't go to the river for no reason, they will generally not be targeted."

"The seal has slowly lost its effectiveness over the years, and they have become stronger. You outsiders like to hang out there, so you are more likely to be targeted than the people in the village."

"Are all the people in the river water ghosts?" You Yi also started asking.

"It's a wronged ghost." said Shanzha.

"Why are they not water ghosts but wronged ghosts? What grievances have they suffered? Do we want to burn a judge in heaven for them?" You Yi asked in surprise.

Shanzha was silent for a moment and then said, "The people in the river are wronged ghosts, and it is also the sin of the villagers.

Before he died, my grandfather told me that in the early years, the village was poor and could not afford to feed children, so many were thrown into the river and drowned at birth.

His gentle words made the hearts of those present feel extremely cold.

"He said he had to make a living and had no other choice. But later people went too far. Many people didn't want daughters, so they threw the baby girls into the river and drowned them."

Shanzha slowly repeated the words that he had remembered all along, "So Xiaoqing River used to have another name, called the Abandoned Baby River. It happened decades ago, but they were all very unwilling and resentful, so there are many wronged ghosts floating in the river. They can't get rid of it, so they can only drag more people down to keep them company."

You Yi couldn't help rubbing his arms. He felt that Shanzha's expressionless words were more frightening than the content of the words themselves.

Chen Mengze's face was solemn. "Is there no way to solve it? After so many years, those who drowned the babies should have died long ago. They are all gone, but the resentment cannot be eliminated?"

"It's easy to die, but it's hard to get rid of resentment." Hawthorn said expressionlessly, "It's a cycle that will never end."

"Then what's the point of your grandfather asking you to guard the river? Those who are destined to die will die anyway, and no one can escape." You Yi couldn't help but say.

Shanzha raised his eyes and stared at him. His face, which had been calm all along, suddenly showed solemnity. "Redemption is needed by the living and the dead."