After lunch, Lin Wu went back to take care of some chores, and at 4:30 in the afternoon, he was ready to go out.

Bo Yuting and Lu Guichi both wanted to go along. Lin Wu originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking carefully, he realized that it wouldn't cause any trouble if they followed along, so he agreed.

Actually, Ghost Street is not located in the central part of Beijing, but in the suburbs of Beijing.

The three of them drove for more than two hours and stopped at the entrance of a deserted road in front of a mountainous area in the suburbs. There were many cars parked around.

The three of them pushed open the car door and got out, heading towards the path on the left.

Lu Guichi sighed and said, "I haven't been here for a long time. I didn't expect the Ghost Street to be in a place like this. If outsiders saw this, they might think they had encountered a ghost."

Lin Wu immediately realized the loophole in his words, turned his head to look at him and asked, "Have you been to Ghost Street? I remember that your brother Lu Guiyan strictly forbade you to go there?"

“Uh…” Lu Guichi laughed dryly, “Well, I did some business occasionally, but they were all small businesses. Don’t tell my brother!”

Lin Wu immediately looked at him with an expression of "I knew it would be like this", then turned around and continued walking.

At first, the surroundings were very quiet. After half an hour, there was light behind the hill not far away, and there was a faint noise.

The three of them quickened their pace and soon went around the road. A wide and open road appeared in front of them. At the end of the road, there was an arched gate in the woods.

There was a tattered sign right above the door. When you got closer, you could see the words "Ghost Street" written on it. There were several people guarding the door.

The three of them walked over with restrained expressions.

Those people noticed them, and since they did not cover their faces, they recognized them at a glance. They were immediately surprised and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them: "Master Jiu, Second Young Master Lu, and..."

Their eyes shifted to Lin Wu and paused.

Bo Yuting and Lu Guichi were well-known in Beijing, and it was hard not to recognize them. But Lin Wu was wearing a big hat, and when he lowered his head slightly, the brim of the hat almost covered most of his face, and he was wearing all black, so they really couldn't see anything.

Lin Wu slowly raised his head and revealed his face.

The pupils of several people shrank slightly. "So you are the apprentice of the second leatherworker, Gu Hong. Please forgive us for our poor eyesight. We didn't recognize you just now."

Lin Wu raised his chin slightly and said, "I have something to ask my teacher. Can't I come in now?"

"You can come in, you can come in! If you come, of course you can come in!" Several people quickly made way.

Lin Wu and the other two walked in. When they were a little further away, Bo Yuting turned his head to look at Lin Wu and said with a half-smile, "Gu Hong? Is he the Gu Hong who became famous in the Ghost Street Casino, and then won several casino dealers one after another, and the bets were sky-high, causing the underground casinos to directly refuse to accept his business?"

Lin Wu raised his voice calmly.

Lu Guichi exclaimed, "I've heard of that too. Could it be you?!"

"Well, until I met the second cobbler and lost to him, I seldom came here after that." Lin Wu said lightly.

At this time, they walked along a forest path, and dark light strips were tied to the trees on both sides of the path for lighting. When they walked to the front and went around, they saw the official entrance of this place, which was also guarded.

They encountered the same situation as at the outside entrance, and the other party took out the mask respectfully.

Wearing masks is a tradition of Ghost Street, which is designed to facilitate the transaction of goods and money. It is in line with the saying "once it leaves your hands, it should not be pursued". Neither the buyer nor the seller knows who the other party is, so even if there are problems or accidents in the future, they will not be able to find the other party.

After all, most of the items that can be traded on Ghost Street are not obtained through normal channels.

Of course, for someone whose reputation is so great that he can be recognized at a glance, this mask is useless. It can only serve to prevent people from breaking up and pretending to be clear-headed.

Not far away I saw an abandoned and dilapidated old building area. At this moment, the lights were on and there was a constant flow of people between the floors of the building.

There are many scattered vendors setting up stalls in the large open space in front of the old building. In front of each stall hangs a green lantern that sways. At a glance, you can see all kinds of things being sold.

They were considered relatively normal among the other guests who were wearing masks.

If you look closely at a person who passed by them recently, you will find that the other person has strange eyes, is wearing Miao ornaments, and has an abnormal stench around him.

People passing by on the other side even had poisonous snakes wrapped around their bodies, hissing at passers-by.

There were quite a few strange people like this, coming and going in a bustling crowd. The inexplicable and bizarre light reflected on the dark sky, presenting an extremely bizarre and mysterious scene.

The three of them walked forward as if nothing had happened, through the crowd towards the distant building area, looking at the scattered stalls as they walked.

Some were selling various kinds of funerary objects, some were selling unnamed talismans and paper money, and there were also unknown strange altars with rustling noises inside, and no one knew what kind of living creatures were there.

Soon, the three of them reached the edge of the building area and stopped in front of a tailor shop with a red light at the door and relatively little traffic.

The door of this shop was half-open. Through the crack, I could see that it was pitch black inside and there was no light at all. It seemed that no one was there.

If you look closely, you will find that people passing by stay away from this place.

"Did the guy outside say something wrong? The second cobbler is not here?" Lu Guichi whispered.

Lin Wu shook his head: "He must be here."

"How can you be sure?" Lu Guichi asked curiously.

"Because every time I come, he seems to have predicted it in advance and is waiting for me early." After Lin Wu said this, he walked forward and pushed open the door of the shop.

Lu Guichi looked at Bo Yuting, and after receiving a nod from him, he followed him.

I pushed the door open and the air was filled with the smell of moldy fabrics piled up without sunlight for years. It was also pitch black and I couldn't see anything.

Lin Wu groped his way to the side of the wall with familiarity and pulled down the hanging electric light cord. A dazzling white light suddenly appeared, causing the three of them to close their eyes unconsciously to relieve the pain.

When he opened his eyes again, Lu Guichi let out a frightened scream, turned around and jumped onto Bo Yuting, hugging him tightly.

Because as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw an enlarged version of a face in front of him. The face had a pale and bluish complexion, sunken eye sockets, and dark circles under the eyes due to not getting enough sleep for a long time. The person looked very thin, as if the yang energy had been sucked away by a monster.

Even Lin Wu's eyelids twitched, "...You, have a terminal illness?"

"WOC? Is this the Second Cobbler?" Lu Guichi was shocked. He remembered that the Second Cobbler did not look like this.

Bo Yuting came back to his senses, took off Lu Guichi's clothes with a sullen face, and then looked at the person in front of him.

The other person actually looked quite young, probably in his early thirties, but Bo Yuting knew that the second cobbler was actually in his fifties or sixties.

A hoarse voice slowly sounded: "People will change. Guhong, you haven't been here for so long, I have changed, what's so strange about that."

(End of this chapter)