32 Cave 16 || Ghost Marriage
"I wonder if I will still go to the show tonight?" Xu Yaoyu was slumped in the chair at this moment. After eating, he began to worry about what would happen next.
"What you said is really disgusting!" Lei Daoquan put down his chopsticks and used his fingers to pick at the food stuck in his teeth with an impatient look on his face.
"What do you mean?" Ye Qi said, "Who are you calling disgusting?"
Lei Daoquan knew that he had said the wrong thing accidentally, but for the sake of his face, he stood up and muttered, "I won't bother with you women," then left the room.
The restaurant was eerily quiet for a moment. Ye Qi was in no mood to eat anymore and left in silence.
"Did I say something wrong?" Xu Yaoyu was only a student after all, and had never experienced such situations before, so he spoke timidly at this time.
"It's none of your business." Tian Yiyi said.
Yan Shuang remained silent, watching the commotion from a distance.
"Everyone has finished eating, let's talk?" Lin Haichen broke the silence.
silence……
It's not that I don't want to talk about it, it's just that I have nothing to say. No one knows the cause of Liu Hu's death, nor what the game's selection criteria are. Everything is like a fog, obscuring the truth.
"Let me go first. There's no doubt that this game is definitely related to getting married." Lin Haichen clenched his fists and placed his hands on the table. "Liu Hu's body's skin was completely peeled off, and his internal organs..."
"Wait a minute, Doctor Lin, can you use a certain word to replace it?" Xu Yaoyu retched a few times when thinking of the tragic scene, and forced himself to swallow the meal he had just eaten.
"Well, okay." Doctor Lin was used to it and didn't mind it. He was a little tactful for the sake of the young and old present. "The internal organization is all gone. And then there are the five little girls. Lei Daoquan interrupted them, but Lei Daoquan is fine, which means he hasn't reached the death condition. Two questions, why is Liu Hu hanging in the sedan? And where is his... internal organization?"
"It's really strange." Yan Shuang nodded. "If Liu Hu is the bride, why is only the skin left?"
"Have you forgotten something?" Jing Ning crossed his arms over his chest and glanced at Chen Rujing casually and said, "Time."
Lin Haichen frowned, "What does this have to do with time? Judging from the way those five little girls dressed up, it was the 1970s or 1980s."
"What was the most important thing about getting married in ancient times?" Jing Ning asked.
"To carry on the family line." Tian Yiyi replied.
Jing Ning nodded and added, "That's one reason. 'Hanging' can also symbolize the sense of restraint in marriage and the passive position of women in marriage. Another point is, I don't know if you have heard of the ghost marriage ceremony."
"I'd like to hear the details." Lin Haichen said.
Jing Ning didn't beat around the bush and explained, "In some ghost marriage ceremonies, a paper bride is hung inside the sedan chair."
Ghost marriage!
Lin Haichen looked tired, but he was secretly excited: "Did you discover something?"
Everyone looked at him expectantly.
"No."
The hearts of several people fell from anticipation to the bottom, and there was inevitably some disappointment on their faces.
"I hope tonight is Christmas Eve." Xu Yaoyu's mentality is much better than the last game. She no longer cries like crazy when encountering something.
"Maybe." Jing Ning stood up and checked the time. He said it was time to go back to his room to rest. When he was about to leave, he seemed to remember something and turned around and said, "If you have nothing to do tonight, go to bed early."
There was no need for Yan Shuang to stay any longer. He still had to ask Jing Ning if he had found anything in Ye Qi's room, so he left as soon as he left.
Inside the room, Jing Ning said, "I know where Liu Hu's body is."
"Ye Qi's room?" Yan Shuang answered him.
Jing Ning relaxed his tense expression and said, "My Shuangshuang is getting smarter and smarter. She is worthy of being brought up by me."
Yan Shuang rolled her eyes and said, "You only have a few minutes. Where else can you be if not in the room? Can you flash or teleport?" It would not be an exaggeration to say that this person has schizophrenia if he were to be seen outside.
"You're the one with a mental illness." Jing Ning seemed to have calmed down, with a barely perceptible smile on his lips, as if he could see through Yan Shuang's heart. "Indeed, he's in the room."
Yan Shuang was stunned when she suddenly saw Jing Ning flash to the end of the bed. Before she could react, he reached out and knocked on the stone statue.
“Dongdong——”
A hollow echo came from inside the stone statue, and Yan Shuang's pupils shrank - this statue was not solid, and based on its size, it was just right for an adult to fit inside.
No wonder Jing Ning had been staring at the statue before. Had he started to doubt it so early? Yan Shuang couldn't help but admire it. This was the instinctive reaction of a veteran player, it had become a conditioned reflex.
Jing Ning put away his smile and asked, "Do you think Ye Qi knows?"
Yan Shuang recalled Ye Qi's transformation and was horrified. Her hair stood on end. She knew! She knew where Liu Hu was! She even wanted to hide him!
"At least she really loves her boyfriend." Jing Ning returned to the bed after making the judgment.
Yan Shuang was still digesting the answer.
Liu Hu was the chosen bride, just as Jing Ning said, and it was almost certain that it was a ghost marriage. Why did the skinned corpse go into the statue again?
The night was getting deeper and deeper. At first, Yan Shuang was sitting there playing with her phone waiting for tonight's tickets. Gradually, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she fell asleep unknowingly.
When Yan Shuang woke up again, she was awakened by a scream.
"Help—help—" A heart-wrenching scream rang out in the corridor, sounding particularly abrupt in the corridor at night.
"Open the door, please open the door, there is a ghost in my room!!!" There were knocks on the door in the corridor, and Lei Daoquan's voice changed from excitement to horror.
No matter how hard he knocked, the door remained motionless, as if it couldn't hear the screaming.
"Help! There's a ghost in my room! Help! Please open the door! I beg you! I don't want to die!"
Jing Ning was also woken up. He rubbed his eyes with his left hand and asked incoherently, "What's wrong?"
"It seems that something happened in Lei Daoquan's room." Yan Shuang was no longer sleepy and explained to Jing Ning.
"Do you want to save him?" Jing Ning woke up now and looked at him with his head tilted.
"I..." To be honest, he didn't know either. Although Lei Daoquan was annoying, his crime was not punishable by death. But what if opening the door and letting him in was a wrong decision? What's more, he didn't want to put Jing Ning in danger that he shouldn't have faced because of his momentary weakness. He couldn't do it.
The person outside the door was still knocking. Jing Ning seemed to be able to see through his heart and said, "Open it if you want."
There was a knock on the door, and Lei Daoquan was still shouting desperately outside, "Help! Help!"
Yan Shuang hesitated again and again. It should still be Lei Daoquan outside, and Yi Jingning had no intention of stopping him, so he quickly stood up and opened the door.
Lei Daoquan in front of the door was covered in sweat, and the fat on his face trembled uncontrollably with excitement and heavy breathing.
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