On a moonlit night, the buyer and his wife were very anxious because they had not waited for the delivery of the corpse at the designated location. They returned to the place where they had put the money and found that the 500,000 yuan in cash they had prepared in advance was just there, and no one came to claim it.
I couldn't get through to the other party on the phone.
Just when they thought they had been swindled, on the way back to the village, the wife sitting in the passenger seat suddenly saw with the dim light the shadow of a truck in the shade of the trees on both sides of the road, hidden behind the path.
After she reminded her husband, he drove to the small road.
The bright lights of the car illuminated the copper pickup truck parked in the middle of the road.
From their perspective, they could only see that the rear compartment of the truck was wide open and the front driver's door was also open, but there was no one inside.
There was a car parked on such a desolate and dark road. It was quiet all around except for the occasional chirping of insects. The atmosphere was eerie and scary no matter how you looked at it.
The couple had originally come out secretly to do something sinful, and now they were even more timid and afraid.
The man in the driver's seat gritted his teeth and said, "Go down and take a look."
The couple got out of the car and walked towards the truck, supporting each other.
At this moment, the man suddenly thought of something, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed the number he had contacted more than ten minutes ago.
Just a few seconds after the call was connected, a shrill cell phone ringtone came from the back of the truck, startling both of them.
They walked to the back carefully, and when they saw the scene at the back of the carriage, they almost fainted.
Two bodies were lying on the wasteland blocked by the truck.
A man and a woman, both in dishevel, looked horrible.
Among them, a thin young woman was lying on her back with a hideous face, her sunken eye sockets wide open and full of red bloodshot.
The other man was lying face down, his head and neck seemed to have been broken by a huge force, and a circle of purple-black marks spread from the back of his neck to his chin.
With just a glance, one can roughly infer what happened before.
The middle-aged woman was so frightened that her legs went limp. “This, this…”
Her husband was also frightened, but at the same time, he was more annoyed and dissatisfied, and cursed in a low voice:
"This bastard! He agreed to marry his mother's virgin daughter, but he raped her first. How can he marry her to our son?!"
The two of them prepared themselves for a long time, and gradually they were not so scared anymore.
Leaning in and touching the body of the dead man on the ground, the woman beat her chest and stamped her feet:
"Oh, his body is still warm, he must have died not long ago. This damn guy has no moral conscience at all!"
The sudden death in the mountain village and the strange looking corpse are obviously not normal deaths.
However, their obsession with arranging a 'ghost marriage' for their son gave the couple more courage to fight against ghosts and gods. They suppressed their fear and dragged the girl's body on the ground into the trunk.
Although they were dissatisfied with their 'daughter-in-law's' distortion before marriage, they thought that marriage after death was mainly about the soul, and the day after tomorrow was a good day calculated by the master and could not be delayed any longer, so they accepted this matter reluctantly.
Afraid that the truck and the dead driver would be discovered soon, the middle-aged man got mad, picked up a large piece of rubble nearby, closed his eyes and smashed the dead man's head dozens of times until it was smashed to pieces.
After comparing fingerprints several times and barely opening the driver's mobile phone, they cleared the call records and online chat records on the spot, took away the mobile phone and various documents, and drove away with the female corpse.
The couple didn't know that all their actions were seen by the evil ghost in the air with a sinister and resentful look.
The Xiao family's daughter, who had turned into a ghost, followed the car into a remote village.
It wants to see what will be done with its body that it sells for a high price.
The next day, it saw the couple holding stacks of red paper and the word "囍" and going door to door to inform the villagers that their son was going to get married.
The couple had only one son. Three years ago, when he was studying away from home, he had a conflict with his classmates and was poisoned to death by them.
The two were extremely sad and often dreamed about their son during this period, so they went to find a psychic master who could read things.
The master told them that their son died young and in an unexpected way, which made them unhappy. He also had no one to be close to him in the underworld, so he could not rest in peace even after death.
After hearing this, the couple began to think about finding a wife for their son and arranging a "ghost marriage".
Also, because the man of the couple is the village chief and his brother works in the county, he can assign work to the village and lead the villagers to contract orchards. Most of the population in the village depends on their family for food and livelihood.
No wonder they could come up with 500,000 yuan to buy a "wife" for their son.
The villagers accepted the wedding candies and invitations with smiles on their faces, but behind closed doors they grumbled, thinking that this family was too high-profile.
Although some of them have performed "ghost marriages", this kind of thing is not a good thing after all, and they are all kept secret. Who would hold a buffet like the village chief's family!
But everyone was trying to make a living, so when the time came, they still went to the banquet with gifts and blessing smiles.
The village head and his wife had a coffin prepared in advance, engraved with inscriptions and talismans to imprison the corpse.
The dead girl from the Xiao family was stripped of her clothes by the village chief's wife, washed her body repeatedly, put on a red wedding dress, and locked in a coffin.
The Xiao girl, whose soul has turned into a ghost, discovers that her body is sealed with a spell, causing its abilities to be greatly reduced.
It could only watch the beating of gongs and drums on the day of the "ghost marriage" and the villagers coming and going to congratulate.
A pitch-black coffin was placed in the center of the village chief's yard, with red words hanging upside down around it.
There were red hydrangeas hanging on the coffin, and at the other end was a crowing rooster with its wings tied up. Behind the rooster was the son of the village chief's brother, who stood in for the groom who was unable to appear, holding the portrait of the 'newlywed', and they had the wedding ceremony in such a ridiculous manner.
Listening to the drums and music all around and looking at the real or fake smiles of the villagers around her, the hatred in the Xiao family girl's heart had reached its peak.
It had never received any kindness in its life. It suffered during its lifetime and was humiliated after its death.
The intense resentment caused its soul to continue to deteriorate, and the hatred in its heart was like a bottomless pit, and it was still spreading.
It wanted revenge and wanted to kill the couple who bought the corpse and the villagers who came to the wedding banquet...
On the night of the "ghost marriage", the coffin was reopened.
The female corpse, who was wearing a wedding dress, had corpse spots on her face and emitted a faint odor. The village head and his wife were preparing to put their son's photo in the coffin and have the female corpse hold it.
Something unexpected happened.
A black cat appeared out of nowhere and jumped down from the beam in the house, directly into the coffin and onto the face of the female corpse.
The horrified village chief and his family tried to drive the black cat away by throwing things at it.
The master in charge of the wedding had told them that no blood should be seen on that day, and no animals should be allowed near the purchased corpses;
Especially cats!
That would cause the corpse in the coffin to become a zombie, and it would most likely become rigid.
The pale-faced people did not dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly nailed the coffin shut that night and prepared for burial.
But it's too late.
The "qi" and breath of the black cat directly aroused the corpse of the Xiao family girl, allowing the originally floating evil ghost soul to return to the corpse and become a very evil creature.
This time the talisman to suppress the corpse was no longer effective. That night, it broke out of the coffin, turned into a ferocious monster and started killing people in the village.
The appearance of the evil creature changed the feng shui and momentum of Tianyun Village, turning this place, which was originally located above the entrance to hell, into an 'inverted underworld' and an unbreakable barrier.
In addition to the animals who resold corpses and the villagers in the village, the people that the Xiao family girl wanted to take revenge on were actually her so-called parents and brothers.
But it was trapped in the barrier it created and couldn't get out.
In order to break through the barrier and seek revenge on those scum relatives in the outside world, it indifferently extended its hand to other more innocent villagers in the village.
Every time it kills a person, its ferocity and murderous spirit become stronger.
After killing everyone in the village, it has become a half-step "Ghost King".
But it’s still not enough.
So when the people from Xuanmen brought Yan Cheng into Tianyun Village, in its eyes it was like sweet spring water sent to a thirsty person.
As long as it devours the essence and blood of those Xuanmen people and devours Yan Cheng's soul power, it will be able to further break through the barrier and seek revenge on the Xiao family.
In the eyes of the resentful girl from the Xiao family, nothing is more important than revenge, and she doesn't think she has done anything wrong.
The female ghost who told the whole story stared at Gu Zhisang with a sinister smile:
"My Lord Envoy, I just want to avenge myself, what's wrong with that? If God doesn't seek justice for me, then I will seek it myself!"
Gu Zhisang said, "There is nothing wrong with revenge, but what about the innocent villagers who died in your hands? Whether they were forced to participate in the 'ghost marriage' to make a living, or the children who didn't go at all, have you ever let any of them go?"
"You sacrificed the lives of hundreds of people in the entire village for your own selfish desires. When you made this decision, you actually violated the principle that 'every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor'."
There is nothing wrong with revenge.
To be fair, if she encountered such a thing, she would also hate and seek revenge, and would be even more cruel than the girl from the Xiao family.
She would not let Xiao's parents and the driver die so easily and have their souls scattered, but would make them suffer through the eighteen levels of hell, unable to live or die.
But Gu Zhisang was not ashamed to implicate innocent people.
Her great principles and her heart's desire will never lead her to wield her sword against the weak.
But the Xiao family girl just sneered, shook her head and screamed:
"You are not me, so what do you know? I don't want to wait that long. Why should I be tortured by pain and hatred while those bitches, those bitches are living happily out there? I can't wait! I want them to die immediately!"
"They will all be punished!!"
Looking at the manic female ghost, Gu Zhisang lowered his eyes slightly, knowing that he could not judge whether the ghost's behavior was right or wrong, or how much sympathy he should have.
From its perspective, all its actions and grievances are the distorted consequences of extreme pain;
What it said was true. It was just an ordinary person when it was alive. After encountering all this, it seemed that there was no other way except to distort itself.
But for those innocent villagers, this was tantamount to a catastrophe.
More and more ghosts gathered around to watch the show, whispering and expressing their opinions.
Gu Zhisang sighed softly, and said with a determined look:
"Let's put aside the cause and effect. Don't you realize that there is something wrong with your experience and Tianyun Village?"
The female ghost just sneered and said nothing.
Gu Zhisang: "If you believe me, let me touch your soul and I will prove it to you."
"Oh, who knows if Envoy Gu, who is in league with those mysterious masters, will take this opportunity to do something to me."
The female ghost sneered, but still remained cautious and agreed to Gu Zhisang's request to extract a bit of its soul power.
Feeling the distortion, pain, and deep evil power of the soul power in his palm, a hint of anger appeared on Gu Zhisang's eyebrows.
She opened her eyes and said, "Do you know that you have committed a great sin of killing?"
"As long as you leave the barrier, you will be chased by heavenly punishment and struck by lightning, and will not be tolerated by the six paths of reincarnation."
Female ghost: "So what? God will punish me if he wants to. I know I am not a good person because I massacred the whole village, but so what? I have been a good person all my life. Now as long as I can get revenge, I don't care about anything else."
Gu Zhisang laughed coldly: "You can indeed not care, but what I want to tell you is that what happened to you and the subsequent massacre of the village were all taken advantage of by others."
"You are just a sharp, useful, but really dull knife!"
The ghost girl paused for a moment: "What do you mean?"
Gu Zhisang: "Didn't you notice that the villagers who died in this village have no souls? Their souls have all disappeared!"
When the female ghost heard this for the first time, she didn't believe it.
After it killed the villagers, indeed not many ghosts of the villagers came to seek revenge on it. At that time, it was fully focused on how to break the formation and how to take revenge, and did not care about this at all. It just thought that those villagers were sensible and knew that they were no match for it, so they fled to the underworld along the passage between the Yin and Yang worlds.
Now that I think about it carefully, I killed everyone in the village for revenge. How could there not be someone who hated it and wanted to fight it to the death?
After realizing that the situation was strange, the female ghost asked gloomily:
"Where are their souls? What is going on?"
Gu Zhisang spread out her palms. A wisp of condensed, solid black gas was floating and struggling in her palms, just like a pitch-black leech, which was very strange.
Just this slight trace of negative energy and unpleasant stench can make people feel uncomfortable all over.
"What is this?" asked the ghost girl.
Gu Zhisang said: "Something extracted from the depths of your soul."
There's black fog again.
She should have thought that this thing was the culprit of the Tianyun Village tragedy.
Earlier, black fog appeared over Wind City.
Just like what happened in the sky above Southern Province before, as long as you enter its influence range, you will be bewitched and your mind will be confused.
The tomb robber who bought and sold corpses had been doing sinister things for more than ten years, and it was not normal for him to suddenly rape the person chosen by the buyer.
When the body of the Xiao family girl, who was already full of resentment, was kept, the house was decorated in advance. So where did the black cat come from that suddenly jumped onto her body, giving her the opportunity to turn into a ferocious monster and massacre the village?
Why is it so out of control when it is dominated by resentment, so hateful that it loses its mind and even kills innocent children...
Behind every tragedy, there is an invisible hand pushing things forward.
After Gu Zhisang extracted a wisp of black mist from the ghost girl's body, she was certain that this girl was just a pathetic "knife".
Its tragedy, its resentment, and even its loss of control and revenge are all saws that have long been engraved in the gears.
From Gu Zhisang's words, the female voice of the Xiao family vaguely realized something.
But it was unwilling, or rather, afraid, to believe that the truth was even more cruel than it had imagined.
Gu Zhisang said in a deep voice: "You must have been used. You allowed the resentment to wreak havoc and slaughtered the villagers for revenge. After doing all this, all you got was some increased resentment, as well as the deep sin of killing and heavenly punishment that you cannot get rid of."
Not only that, even its experiences on the way into the village and before its sudden death were strange.
"And the souls of those villagers who disappeared after their death took the opportunity to be devoured by the real manipulator behind the scenes."