Chapter 68: The Third Item: Coin Catcher
This is a rainy world.
There are always a few dark clouds floating in the sky and it never stops raining outside.
It was damp everywhere.
Chen Li put on a straw hat, a raincoat and oil shoes and went out. He also broke off a piece of bamboo from the side of the shed and used it as a walking stick.
A layer of tung oil was applied on the oil shoes, so rain water could not seep into the shoes.
But the mountain road was slippery, covered with moss and mud.
In these deep mountains and old forests, there are lush plants everywhere, and there is no concept of roads. If you slip, you may lose your life.
Catman A exchanged for an axe and cleared the way ahead.
Bian Ling walked in the middle of the team to correct the direction.
The man with glasses had to walk at the end of the team with Shen Li.
What happened in the last copy is still vivid in my mind.
The man with glasses was tempted by the evil spirit, and in order to survive, he tried to kill Shen Li.
However, at the last moment, he knew better than anyone how the evil ghost died, why the delivery was successful, and how everyone survived.
He witnessed Shen Li's power firsthand.
So I had to be wary of him.
Shen Li was at the end of the line, with the man with glasses in front of him.
Feeling guilty all the way, he always felt that Chen Li was staring at his back, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge.
Being suspicious of everything was really tormenting. Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore and switched places with Cat-Man A who was clearing the way with a hatchet.
However, not long after this position was changed, Bian Ling also asked for a rest, so Chen Li took her place and corrected the direction of the man with glasses who was leading the way.
The man with glasses was sweating profusely as he chopped the trees in front of him, cursing Bian Ling in his heart for not resting earlier or later, but at this time.
Behind him, Shen Li was conscientiously checking the map and pointing out the direction.
"A little to the left, a little to the right..."
After driving on this road for about half an hour, the man with glasses and severe myopia noticed something was wrong.
They are going in circles.
Some places already had signs of hacking, and it was obvious that they had been here at the beginning.
But he didn't dare say it.
He knew that it was Shen Li who was taking revenge on him, so he just kept silent about it.
An hour later, when it was almost dark, Bian Ling and Catman A briefly checked the map and called a halt in time, pulling Chen Li aside and reprimanding him.
"After going through such a long journey, you are back outside the post station. I can't believe it. You are really capable."
Bian Ling also followed Catman A and scolded Shen Li: "You are a person with poor direction!"
The man with glasses was almost exhausted, but he still had to go against his conscience and say a few good words for Chen Li.
He held Bian Ling and tried to calm things down, "He may not be a person with poor sense of direction."
"Isn't this enough to make you a directionally challenged person?"
Bian Ling couldn't understand, "Going around in circles and back to the starting point doesn't that count as being directionally challenged?"
"He is..."
He did that on purpose to get revenge on me!
The man with glasses almost told the truth, but if he did, it would involve the last delivery.
After all, he was in the wrong first, so he hesitated to speak.
"You are just too honest and easy to talk to!"
Bian Ling subconsciously regarded the man with glasses who was trying to keep things quiet as an honest man.
Next to the shed, the fisherman had disappeared and no one knew where he had gone.
Catman A could only lead the way again and try to reach the pickup location before it got completely dark.
Catman A cut through the weed-covered mountain path, walked up a low slope, and almost fell.
It was not until I pushed aside the weeds that I realized I had stepped on a grave.
He was so scared that he quickly bowed to the grave.
"I'm sorry, I was just passing by..."
"You're praying the wrong way. The grave is facing this way."
The man with glasses pushed aside the weeds on the stone tablet and saw a bunch of symbols on it that he couldn't understand at all.
"Why is the soil so red?"
It was drizzling. The grave mound was located on a relatively high terrain, and the rain water gathered and flowed down again, mixed with some strange things, turning the rain water into dark red.
The tombstone is made of stone and its style is very ordinary.
But the words on it looked like earthworms and hieroglyphs, crooked and twisted, and were not the words they knew at all.
"It seems that this place should have its own writing system?"
Bian Ling looked at the symbols carefully. "Although I don't understand what they are engraved on, the names of the deceased are usually engraved on tombstones."
At this moment, Shen Li, who was left out at the end of the team because he had led the wrong way, suddenly came over and took a look.
"Not the name of the deceased."
He just took one look and said so.
And his tone was very confident, as if he could understand the words above.
"What?" Bian Ling was a little unsure, "Can you understand?"
Because of the aftereffects of the copy, Catman A would occasionally unconsciously behave as if he was possessed by a cat.
Just like now.
He didn't think twice, licked the back of his hand in public, and asked Chen Li: "Then tell me, what is written on it?"
"The above is a warning left by the corpse driver. The general meaning is that due to some unavoidable reasons, he cannot bring the body back to his hometown, so he temporarily buried the body here and will dig it out and take it home when there is a chance in the future."
Chen Li grabbed a few leaves and rubbed them on the stone tablet, mixing them with rain water to wipe off the mud that had sunken into the words on the stone tablet.
There are a few lines of small words on the lower right side of the stone tablet.
"This is a warning to passers-by. Zombies that cannot return home may turn into mountain ghosts. Although cinnabar mixed with soil can temporarily suppress them, it is not a long-term solution as it is rainy and cloudy here."
There are zombies and mountain ghosts, which makes me shudder just by listening to them. Anyway, they should be very dangerous things.
Bian Ling and Catman A had subconsciously moved ten meters away from the grave mound and waved at Chen Li from a distance, signaling him to come over quickly.
"I'm really impressed! Turns out he's a fool!"
Bian Ling complained helplessly to Shen Li, "Why don't you come here quickly! What if the zombies inside run out!"
Bian Ling couldn't stand Shen Li's unhurried manner of escaping, so she hurried forward and pulled him to the side.
Chen Li was pulled back to the team in a daze.
In fact, he had already felt that something in the grave was about to break out of the ground.
The stone tablet described the thing as something very scary, but in Shen Li's opinion, it was not threatening.
But before he had the chance to explain, everyone had already hurriedly moved away.
The pickup location on the navigation is already in sight.
At this moment, the sky had completely darkened, and the teammates who were rushing on the road were already in a state of disarray.
The pickup point is located in the valley, and from the outside it still looks like a dilapidated shack.
The three sheds are next to each other, forming a small courtyard in the center.
The gate of the courtyard was very simple and was blown to one side by the wind.
When you push open the door, the first thing you see is a well in the center of the courtyard.
Bian Ling suddenly shuddered.
“Don’t go in!”
“How can I pick it up if I don’t go in?”
"Don't you think something is wrong?" Bian Ling tried to find someone among her teammates who shared the same opinion as her.
But after she said this, no one agreed with her.
Bian Ling could only continue to explain: "Look at that well."
Catman A was stroking his nonexistent cat's fur again, "What's wrong?"
"That well shouldn't exist."
Bian Ling rubbed the goose bumps on her forearms and subconsciously took a few steps back.
"This is the low-lying part of the valley. All the water is gathered here. There is a stream nearby. There is no shortage of water here, so why should we dig a well?"
The more Bian Ling thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. "I don't know if you believe it or not, but I've had some psychic qualities since I was a kid. My sixth sense is very good. It saved me many times during previous delivery missions. There's something wrong with this yard. Just standing at the door makes me feel uncomfortable."
Cat Man A almost cried when he saw Bian Ling's expression.
What she said couldn't be false.
But they were here to pick up something, how could they get it if they didn’t go in?
And just now I encountered that strange grave mound on the mountain again.
It's not safe outside the yard, and it's not safe inside the yard either. Whatever you choose, it's wrong.
Just when everyone was standing outside the courtyard, hesitating, Chen Li had walked in without knowing when.
"Hey, didn't he go in? Look, nothing happened to him."
In the thatched hut in the middle, the fisherman heard the sound and came out with a string of grilled fish.
"Why did you come just now?"
The man with glasses asked him doubtfully, "How long have you been here? Do you feel anything is wrong?"
The fisherman shrugged and took a bite of the grilled fish. "I just arrived not long ago. This is an inn. There are other people inside besides me. I don't think there is anything wrong."
"Others, what people? The natives of this world?"
As soon as the man with glasses asked the question, another person walked out of the hut.
The man held a skewer of grilled fish and repeated the same words, "Why did you come just now?"
The man looked exactly like the fisherman, the tone of his voice, and all his movements were simply copy and paste.
Catman A was so scared that he meowed on the spot.
Although Bian Ling was also frightened, she heard the cat-man A next to her meowing in fear and quickly moved away from him.
Catman A cleared his throat and explained awkwardly, "It's the aftereffects of the dungeon. Please understand."
He was now feeling cold all over, and if he were a cat now, the hair on his back and tail would have stood up.
Cat Man A's back was tense. Faced with such a strange scene in the courtyard, he wanted to run away.
But Chen Li, the ignorant guy, stood between two identical fishermen without any sign of fear.
Chen Li was stared at by the fishermen on his left and right for a while, but he still had no intention of running away.
Bian Ling suspected that he was frightened and had a stressful reaction.
When some people encounter extremely dangerous situations, even though their minds want to run away immediately, their legs will not obey them and they will stand still.
Bian Ling felt that this was probably the case with Shen Li.
However, more than ten seconds after the second fisherman came out, the third fisherman also came out of the hut with a string of grilled fish.
"Why did you come just now?"
Exactly the same actions, exactly the same words, like a strange cycle.
But this is far from the end.
Because just when Bian Ling's scalp was tingling and he felt like he was going crazy, the fourth, fifth, and sixth fishermen came out of the hut one after another.
"Why did you come just now?"
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