Chapter 16
In the early morning light, the corpse, whose face had been smashed to pieces by Yu Tu and no longer recognizable as a human, finally slowly disappeared.
The moment it disappeared, Yu Tuhun sat paralyzed on the ground, and the stool, which had also lost its function, fell to the ground with a clang.
The corpse moved slowly and reacted slowly. As long as he could get through the initial shock, even if he couldn't drive it away, he wouldn't die at its hands. But Yu Tu had a vague worry in his heart: would the corpse always be so weak?
In ghost missions, it is said that the ghost with the strongest power is the seventh. According to normal logic, it will become stronger and stronger, but Yu Tu’s strength will not make a qualitative leap in just a few days. After all, he is just an ordinary person.
Yu Tu did not forget that both the D-level mission, Blood Wedding Dress, and the E-level mission, Old Building, were launched. The bad thing was that after collecting some information about the old building, it seemed that this was also a mission related to ghosts.
Yu Tu leaned against the corner of the bed, frowning and thinking carefully. If they were both ghost-related missions, would there be any connection between the two missions? Was the core of the two missions to divide up each other's territory, or would they work together?
The changes happened too quickly, making the clues unclear.
The corpse dressed in groom's attire yesterday should be Feng Wei's grandson Feng Cong. Since we can accurately find his location by going around several streets, will there be any new changes in the Feng family's mourning hall?
Thinking of this, Yu Tu tried to get up by supporting himself on the ground with his hands, but his hands were shaking from smashing the "moles" all night—his hands were weak.
Yu Tu put his hand on his chest and touched the bead through a thin layer of cloth. When he opened his eyes again, he was looking down at himself.
He cut the vest.
He didn't know what specific power this vest possessed, but after switching on, his five senses were greatly enhanced and his movements naturally became more agile.
Yu Tu reached out to adjust the position of his monocle, then rolled up his sleeves, tidied up the windowsill, and after placing his own body, he went to the Feng family.
Perhaps the bead had responded when Sanqing was testing his spiritual attributes. When Yu Tu walked in an area with many trees with the vest on, as long as he did not deliberately attract other people's attention, they would naturally ignore him, just like ignoring a flower or a tree.
Yu Tu walked to the Feng family's location. The white wreath was still placed at the door, but there were three men and two women made of paper. The door was open, revealing a luxurious single coffin inside.
Normally, before the seventh day, there must be someone guarding the mourning hall day and night, but now the entire hall is empty, with only candles flickering slowly. He doesn't know if it is Yu Tu's illusion, but he feels that the flames of those white candles are not orange-red, but glowing with a faint green light.
After Yu Tu made sure that there was no one else there except him, he quickly entered the mourning hall. He reached out and pushed the coffin lid. With just a slight force, the coffin lid slid to one side. In the coffin lay a corpse with a tattered face and dressed as a groom. His hands were folded on his abdomen, tightly grasping one end of the red silk. But beside him, the bride in a red wedding dress had disappeared.
Yu Tu's scalp suddenly felt numb.
The D-rank mission is Blood Wedding Dress. As soon as you hear it, you know that the core of the mission is the bride. It is difficult enough for a groom to handle it, not to mention a bride who can move freely in broad daylight.
Yu Tu was looking at the half-open coffin, hesitating whether to take a look inside. At that moment, the vest that enhanced his five senses detected a few extremely faint sounds coming from far away, like human feet dragging on the ground, which was very strange.
He immediately restored the coffin lid and hid behind the densely packed wreaths in the lobby. Through the gaps in the wreaths, he first saw a pair of feet wearing red wedding shoes, the feet twisting strangely, and then a bright red wedding dress. Above the wedding dress, the bride's long black hair hung down from the front, covering her entire face.
She seemed to be very sensitive to line of sight. As soon as Yu Tu's gaze fell on her face, she turned her head as if she had noticed something. The hairpins on her head made a rapid clinking sound, like a foreshadowing of some uneasiness.
She stood there for a while, then slowly turned around and walked slowly towards the wreath placed in the mourning hall. Her red wedding shoes rubbed against the ground, making a similar sound as before.
One step away from the wreath where Li Yutu was hiding, she stopped, her neck tilted forward, her black hair falling on the white wreath like a crouching snake.
Yu Tu was only separated from her by a cheap wreath. He held his breath and tried his best to control his heartbeat and slowly calm it down.
The bride stood here for a long time. When Yu Tu held his breath until his chest ached, she finally retracted her neck, slowly turned around, and dragged her feet back. Yu Tu no longer stared at her, for fear of attracting her attention, until a dull sound of the coffin closing was heard, and then he slowly exhaled—the bride had returned to the coffin.
Yu Tu walked out from behind the wreath. After the shock just now, he didn't dare to stay in the mourning hall any longer and decided to leave temporarily. When he walked out of the Feng family mourning hall, he found that the several paper figures hidden in the wreath seemed to be a little strange.
Yu Tu took another look and felt a chill rising from his feet to his head.
———There are five paper people in the wreath, a man and a woman, and each of them has a pair of small red dots where their eyes should be.
Add finishing touches to the paper figure.
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After leaving the Feng family's mourning hall, when the sunlight fell on him, Yu Tu still felt a lingering chill behind him.
Gu Hongying once said that people like them who have just awakened their spiritual powers and have no way to protect themselves are like Tang Monk's flesh in the eyes of ghosts. This may be the reason why the groom went around several streets to find him yesterday, but what about the bride?
Where did the bride go last night?
When he entered the Feng family's mourning hall, although he did not see any members of the Feng family, he did not sense any sense of death in their home.
The resentment of the bride after her death reached the standard of a D-level mission. It was impossible for her not to take revenge on the culprit, unless... she had more important things to do.
But for the bride, what could be more important than revenge?
Yu Tu walked and thought, and unknowingly came to the street with the old building. The old building stood at the end of the street. From the outside, the pillars of the old building were carved with various exquisite patterns, such as pictures of hundreds of children and grandchildren, pictures of unicorns delivering children, pictures of pomegranates bearing hundreds of seeds, pictures of giving birth to noble sons... But no matter what exquisite patterns were carved, there were only boys on them, not girls.
Yu Tu looked carefully and found that there was indeed no girl.
He stood at the door of the old building. The threshold was made of a piece of locust wood. Perhaps because it had been trampled on for many years, the threshold was not only smooth on the surface, but also deeply concave.
Yu Tu stared at it for a while, then squatted down and twisted a thread under the threshold with his fingers, thoughtfully.
At this time, the sun was rising higher and the old building was no longer so gloomy and attractive under the sunlight. Yu Tu hesitated for a moment, but still stepped into the door of the old building.
As I stepped in, dust filled my face and everything in front of me suddenly went dark.
The sunlight seemed unable to penetrate the building at all, and the building was filled with unclear shadows everywhere.
In the shadows, something seemed to be crawling and wriggling, one, two, three...more and more.
They are like black waves, slow and surging.
Yu Tu wanted to leave when he saw that the situation was not right, but something cold wrapped around his ankles - like countless tiny hands.
Then he was hugged.
Yu Tu lowered his head and saw the red arm of the man stabbed with paper.