Inside the dark courtyard, a red lantern floated over, emitting scarlet light. The strange thing was that its light seemed to be sealed in a cage, unable to illuminate the surroundings at all.
The lantern floated to the door and stopped in front of Zhang Yuanqing. There was only a threshold between him and the red lantern.
Zhang Yuanqing could clearly sense that there was a ghost in the threshold, a terrifying and eerie ghost, but no matter how hard he stared, he could not see the appearance of the ghost in the darkness.
He silently mobilized the power of Taiyin, ready to devour souls at any time.
The Night Wanderer naturally suppresses spirits, provided that the level of the spirits is not higher than his own.
A hand stretched out from the darkness. Zhang Yuanqing looked at it in the faint red light. It was a dark-skinned hand with black nails.
The ghost hand held a stack of business cards with red covers, as if asking Zhang Yuanqing to accept them.
Zhang Yuanqing refused to take it, so the ghost hand kept passing it to him. The two sides were in a stalemate, as if they were in a fight.
After a long while, Xi Shi reminded in a trembling voice, "Wang Tai?"
Seeing Wang Tai standing still, she was afraid that this man had unknowingly triggered a crisis and passed away.
Alas, whether you stick your head out or hide your head, you will be killed in the same way... Zhang Yuanqing took the name card helplessly, and the dark-skinned ghost hand immediately retracted. Then, the red lantern fluttered away and returned to the depths of the house.
Zhang Yuanqing stepped down the stairs, returned to his teammates, and raised the business card in his hand:
"There are five in total. They seem to be for us."
He distributed the name cards to his teammates one by one. Everyone unfolded the name cards and saw black characters on a red background with the bride's name and birth date written on it, while the groom's side was blank.
The bride's name is "Bai Lan".
Everyone heard the copy prompts:
[Ding! You have received the ghost bride's wedding invitation. Please fill in your name. The ghost bride will choose a husband in one hour.]
Fill in the name and choose a son-in-law in an hour?
What would happen if they were chosen by the ghost bride? Everyone held the wedding invitation, their thoughts flying.
Because Zhang Yuanqing was not honest when introducing himself and used Wang Tai's name, he was a little confused at the moment. Should he write Yuanshi Tianzun or Wang Tai?
He couldn't tell whether he would be punished for writing a pseudonym.
As he was thinking about how to fill in his name, Zhang Yuanqing suddenly felt something and looked at his companions:
"Do you remember the introduction of the amusement park? An indescribable existence came here and asked the spirits in the amusement park to help find a young man. The young man's name was four characters."
Xi Shi and others certainly remembered it, but they didn't understand why he mentioned it.
Xie Lingxi's mind worked the fastest. He glanced at the wedding invitation in his hand and said, "You mean, there might be a connection between the two..."
The little girl followed this line of thought and her expression changed slightly. "The Unspeakable Person asked the ghost bride to find a young man, but she asked us to fill in the name? Does this mean that the young man that the bride in the haunted house is looking for is a spiritual traveler?"
"How is it possible..." Xi Shi was stunned.
They are also travelers who have experienced many dungeons. Generally speaking, the introduction to the spiritual realm serves as a background board, telling you what kind of place it is and what happened there.
Just let the Spirit Realm Walker quickly understand the dungeon, that's all.
Before this, they believed that the young man that the indescribable being was looking for was a character in the spiritual world, or even a monster.
It has nothing to do with "players".
How can a mere spiritual realm traveler have the ability to change the essence of a spiritual realm?
"This is just a coincidence. Since it's a ghost marriage, the names must be written down." The Monkey King frowned.
No, it's not a coincidence, because there is no such thing as a wedding invitation in the old version of the guide. This appeared after the spiritual realm was changed. Combined with the introduction of the spiritual realm, I don’t believe that the two are unrelated... Zhang Yuanqing was secretly alert.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the information in the introduction to the spiritual realm had a strong sense of déjà vu.
"Zizizi...That day, she came to Jinshui Amusement Park..."
Suddenly, the Elvis speaker in Zhang Yuanqing's pocket made a sound.
Everyone looked at his pockets at once, but the Elvis speaker stopped talking.
Why isn't it talking? This speaker is weird... Zhang Yuanqing waited for a few more seconds, and seeing that the speaker remained silent, he stopped paying attention and said:
"Please fill in your name first."
He unfolded the wedding invitation and tried to use his finger as a pen to write "Wang Tai" in the name column.
He thought so. Since the spirit in the haunted house asked to write a name, it meant that "she" could not see the real ID of the spirit traveler, otherwise the wedding invitation would be unnecessary.
So, there is reason to speculate that the copy allows the Spirit Realm Walker to disguise his ID, but it is not stated explicitly, so one needs to infer and understand it by oneself.
Actually, it's okay to write "Yuan Shi Tian Zun", but there may be a crisis of trust among teammates... Zhang Yuanqing thought, and then he saw the "strokes" written by his fingers, which solidified into black fonts:
Wang Tai.
Then, he made up his birth date and gender, but he didn't make up the gender.
The four teammates followed suit and used their fingers instead of pens.
Xie Lingxi stood on tiptoe and timidly glanced at Zhang Yuanqing's wedding invitation, then wrote down her name. In the gender column, she hesitated for a moment and filled in "male".
After writing the wedding invitation, Zhang Yuanqing put it in his pocket, stepped over the threshold first, and said:
"Go in, and you'd better follow me."
Seeing that his teammates were tense, he joked to lighten the mood: "I've always been tough since I was a child. Even female ghosts would consider taking maternity leave when they see me."
Everyone: "......." Are you really brave or not afraid of death to make such a joke at this time? There is really a female ghost waiting to be married.
Isn't this joke humorous enough? Zhang Yuanqing glanced at their faces, stopped talking, and walked into the house silently.
Behind the threshold is the outer courtyard, which is quite large, with a stone-paved road in the middle and corridors on both sides adjacent to the outer walls.
When everyone stepped over the threshold, the red lanterns under the eaves of the corridor lit up eerily, adding a touch of crimson to the dark night. The red lanterns were like scarlet eyeballs, staring quietly at the strangers entering the compound.
At the end of the cobblestone road is a lobby with upturned eaves. The lattice door is closed and dim light shines through the door.
"Eh..." Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up as he stepped over the threshold: "Check to see if your skills and inventory have been sealed."
Fire Demon and the others were stunned, and either sensed their skills or checked their inventory, and were surprised to find that this mission did not seal their abilities and props.
I was both happy and worried at the same time. I was happy because I finally had the confidence to face danger. I was worried because the opening of props and skills meant that the danger level of the haunted house was extremely high.
Led by Zhang Yuanqing, the group walked slowly forward. In the silent night, the only sound was their footsteps.
“Ah~”
Everyone who was concentrating on the scene was suddenly startled by a scream.
The Fire Demon turned back angrily, glared at Xi Shi, and said angrily: "What are you yelling about?"
Xishi's face turned pale, she pointed to the corridor more than ten meters away, and said in a trembling voice:
"There, under the lantern, there is a woman..."
Everyone turned their heads suddenly and saw lanterns hanging high. There was silence and silence. Where did the ghost come from?
With this episode, the four people, who were already worried, felt even more solemn.
Zhang Yuanqing was fine. He had experienced a supernatural instance and was a night wanderer himself, so he no longer had that kind of genuine fear of ghosts.
In his opinion, there is no difference between Ghosts and Autobots.
It's spooky here, with negative energy everywhere, which will paralyze my senses. I can't sense spirits that are too weak or too far away. However, I can use the Demon-Subduing Pestle, so I'm not afraid even if the ghost bride comes... Zhang Yuanqing led the team forward while comforting everyone.
"Did you notice that the copy only gave the ghost bride a hint about choosing a husband after one hour?"
Blind fear is meaningless, he used information to distract his teammates and ease their emotions: "My idea is that our behavior in the next hour will become the standard for the ghost bride to choose a son-in-law.
"I just don't know whether becoming the bridegroom means survival or death... In addition, the yin energy here is very strong and contains many dangers. Maybe within an hour, we will be wiped out."
I don't know if the ghost bride is still a face party. If so, as the most handsome person in the team, I'm under a lot of pressure...
Soon, they arrived at the lobby, and Zhang Yuanqing came out and pushed open the tightly closed lattice door.
"Crack~"
The sour voice echoed in the night.
In the lobby, candles were lit high, a red carpet was spread on the floor, and red cloths were hung on the pillars. At the end of the red carpet were two armchairs, an altar with candles and fruits, and a bright red character for "囍" on the wall.
On both sides of the red carpet stood seven or eight paper figures, dressed in ancient servants' costumes, with lifelike eyebrows and eyes and scarlet and slightly upturned lips.
The most creepy thing is that the heads of these paper figures are twisted into strange angles, and their empty eyes are staring at the door, looking at the people who pushed the door open and entered.
Thump, thump, thump...Xie Lingxi stepped back in horror, covering her mouth with her little hands to prevent herself from screaming.
At this moment, Zhang Yuanqing felt a little numb.
It's not because of fear, but because these paper figures are all ghosts...
After carefully sensing it, he breathed a sigh of relief. These were all little ghosts.
I may not be able to do anything to the ghost bride, but you little ghosts dare to be arrogant in front of me, this is too much! Zhang Yuanqing mobilized the power of Taiyin, letting the darkness gather in his eyes. Qi sank into Dantian:
"roll!"
Paper figures were scattered all over the hall. A cold wind was blowing and the sound of ghosts crying could be heard faintly. Everyone was fleeing in all directions.
Xi Shi, Xie Lingxi, the Fire Demon and the Monkey King who were behind were stunned when they saw this.