He asked the little ghost to pull out the head of the female ghost under the bed, and Chi Shen went out with a headless male corpse, a little boy in shroud, and the head of a female ghost with only one arm.
They first went to the room next to Chi Shen.
The headless ghost introduced to Chi Shen: "There is an old zombie living here. We have hardly ever seen him come out, but we dare not go in. It is very scary to provoke him. We'd better skip it."
Chi Shen nodded and kicked the door open.
The headless ghost and the little boy in shroud holding the female ghost's head quickly retreated three meters away, and the two with heads both showed expressions that said "you are seeking death".
This house was arranged as a mourning hall. White curtains fluttered as the door was opened. Gusts of cold wind blew, but not from outside the door in, but from inside to outside, as if trying to close the open door. In the center of the mourning hall, there was a black coffin. The coffin was so black that it seemed to absorb all the light, making people feel uneasy at a glance.
Chi Shen stretched out a hand, blocked the door that was about to close, and greeted the coffin: "Hello, I am the new tenant next door, living here temporarily, I hope we can live in harmony in the future."
The wind blowing out from inside became stronger, and even the air became a little colder.
"I came here today not only to get to know you, but also to ask if you know Bai Ran." Chi Shen smiled politely, "Has he ever greeted you in any way, like taking special care of me or something like that?"
Seeing that this man could not be persuaded to leave, the old ghost in the coffin seemed to get angry. The coffin lid suddenly flew up, and an old zombie wearing Qing Dynasty official clothes, a hat, and a long braid jumped out of the coffin and rushed directly in front of Chi Shen.
Chi Shen covered his nose, unable to bear the rotten smell of the old zombie. He punched the old zombie to the ground and stepped on it. Chi Shen asked again, "Who feeds the ghosts here? Bai Ran? Or the Bai family?"
The old zombie stared at him with his eyes wide open, waving his stiff hands around, looking very anxious. Chi Shen had no idea what he was anxious about.
At this time, the little boy sneaked a few steps closer and whispered beside the door: "Big brother, have you ever seen a talking zombie?"
Chi Shen thought about the zombie movies he had watched when he was a child. Zombies really couldn't speak. Even their joints were stiff, not to mention their tongues, so they definitely couldn't move. The zombies in the game could talk, but the ghosts in real life were definitely not comparable to those in the game. They were not at the same level at all. He had neglected this point.
"I'm sorry." Chi Shen helped the old zombie up with an apologetic look, brushed off the dust on his body, then kicked the coffin back and closed the coffin lid for him. He also pasted two talismans scattered on the ground on the coffin lid, "Sorry to bother you. I'll come to visit you next time."
There was a loud banging sound coming from the coffin, as if accusing Chi Shen of his behavior. At this time, Chi Shen had already arrived at the door. He closed the door for the old zombie considerately and replaced the talisman paper used as a seal that was about to fall off.
The headless ghost trembled and walked out from behind a pillar: "In the next room, there lives a young girl, a drowned ghost..."
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“Squeak—”
The door of the Bai family's old house opened a little, and two men slipped in through the gap.
The bold one who walked in swaggeringly was called He Chao, and the timid one who came in stealthily was called Lu Xiangyang.
As soon as Lu Xiangyang came in, he felt a chilly atmosphere. He couldn't help but shiver and suggested again: "How about we come tomorrow? If we come now, the guy might be dead. We can just come and collect the body tomorrow."
He Chao said impatiently: "What are you afraid of? I am familiar with the ghosts here. Except for the one in the main house and an old zombie, the others are very weak... At least we are carrying the amulet given by the Bai family, so they are very weak."
Lu Xiangyang looked around tremblingly, then nodded.
"Oh, that's not right," He Chao remembered something and added, "There is also an old ghost who has lived in the side yard for many years. Amulets are useless when encountering him, but he was locked up by the previous head of the family. He can't get out unless the amulet paper is uncovered."
Lu Xiangyang asked, "What if that Chi guy takes the talisman paper off?"
He Chao sneered: "How can a loser who has never seen a ghost live to the day of removing the talisman paper? He was gone when he reached the door."
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Chi Shen’s visit to the Bai family’s old house is already more than halfway done.
No one knows Bai Ran, but a few ghosts who are related to the Bai family also know the Bai family.
He already had a vague guess in his mind that the ghost in this yard might have nothing to do with Bai Ran, but it definitely had something to do with the Bai family.
The ghosts living in this house had experienced a chaotic night. When they saw Chi Shen step into the door of the side courtyard, the ghosts who were watching all breathed a sigh of relief.
"He's going to die, he's going to die, he's going to die!"
“I can’t come back.”
"It's finally quiet tonight."
"He's dead! He's dead!"
When entering the side courtyard, Chi Shen noticed that his three friends were standing outside and did not go in. Although the headless ghost had no head, Chi Shen still read a sense of reluctance to speak from his body language.
"What's in here?" Chi Shen tilted his head to look at him.
"Will you listen to me if I tell you?" The headless ghost's voice actually sounded a little aggrieved.
Chi Shen gave a friendly smile: "Of course, we are friends, and I will definitely listen to the information provided by friends."
"There is a bride living inside." The headless ghost's voice sounded low, as if he was afraid of being heard by the person inside.
"She found out on her wedding night that her husband had committed adultery with her sister, and was then killed by her husband and sister in the bridal chamber."
Chi Shen touched his chin. According to his gaming experience, the more miserable a ghost's experience was, the more powerful the evil ghost he would turn into after death. This person's experience should be ranked as a medium-level ghost in the game.
"She will kill everyone who enters her room." The headless ghost said softly.
"What a pitiful person." Chi Shen walked into the courtyard. "I will help to enlighten her. If she doesn't listen, then I can only provide a little help to make her forget this resentment forever."
The door and windows of the side courtyard were covered with yellow talisman papers. As soon as he walked in, a gust of cold wind blew over. He turned his head and saw a sweeping woman in white clothes standing in another room, staring at him coldly through the half-open window.
He felt a deep malice from the sweeping woman. If it were an ordinary person, being stared at like that would probably make his soul drain away and he would fall to the ground, unable to get up.
But Chi Shen is not an ordinary person.
People should respect the elderly and love the young, so Chi Shen gave the old woman a friendly smile, then stretched out his hand and placed it on the door with the talisman paper on it.
The old man's eyes behind the window suddenly widened.
Chi Shen peeled off the talisman paper covering the crack of the door and pushed the door open.
The moment he opened the door, lights came on in the dark room. Under the dim candlelight, one could see that this was an old wedding room. Big red wedding characters were pasted all over the room, and the decorations were all red, from the tablecloth on the table to the bedspreads and quilt covers, all were red.
However, in the middle of the night, under the dim candlelight, this red color only appears depressing, as if revealing that this is an ominous place.
On the red wedding bed, there was a bride sitting. She was wearing the traditional red wedding dress embroidered with a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix. A bright red veil covered her face. The bloody red blood had stained her chest. There were also bloodstains on the veil, which were slowly dripping.
The bride sat upright on the wedding bed with her hands in front of her legs, holding a tablet. Chi Shen had good eyesight and he saw the words on the tablet: The tablet of the filial daughter Bai Wanzhi.
It looked extremely festive here, but the stench of blood was wafting from the room, so strong and choking.
"Your last name is Bai," Chi Shen's face also became serious. He looked at the bride on the bed, "What is your relationship with the Bai family?"
The bride on the bed suddenly moved. When he mentioned the Bai family, the candles in the room went out. The next second, the bride in a red wedding dress was standing in front of him, and her fingers with golden gloves were about to penetrate into Chi Shen's chest.
"Is that old lady outside the door looking at you?" Chi Shen suddenly said.
The bride's hand paused.
"Do you need my help to bring her in?" Chi Shen's tone was very friendly, as if he was just asking her if she needed a small favor.
The candlelight in the room lit up dimly, and in just a blink of an eye, the bride in her wedding dress disappeared in front of Chi Shen, and she sat back on the bed.
"I am the daughter of the Bai family."
Chi Shen heard a cold female voice, filled with boundless hatred, echoing in the bridal chamber.
"My father and mother thought I was useful, so they locked me up here."
The expression on Chi Shen's face turned serious.
"I became a fierce ghost because of hatred. Not only did they not help me to get revenge, they also made me watch my enemies act recklessly in front of my spirit, and let me see how well they were living—"
The temperature in the room suddenly dropped, and all the wedding characters shed tears of blood.
"My father and mother, whom I thought loved me the most, wanted to raise the strongest evil spirit."
"I am also a descendant of the Bai family, at least in terms of blood relationship." Chi Shen said softly.
The bride's voice suddenly stopped, and a cold murderous intent locked onto him.
"They think I have no talent, so they don't recognize me as their son." Chi Shen raised his eyes and looked at the bride on the bed. "That fake tricked me here."
As if the bride was touched, the temperature in the room warmed up a little and the murderous intent disappeared.
"I want to help you get revenge."
"They are already dead." The voice of the bride in the wedding dress sounded again, this time with resentment and helplessness in her voice.
"He's just dead." Chi Shen smiled, "The ghost may still be there. People like him don't dare to go to hell."
There was a long silence in the bridal chamber.
"I've found it. I'll bring it to you." Chi Shen said.
The bride's veil moved, and she finally nodded.
"Besides that, I'll be staying here for a while," Chi Shen said, "I hope we can get along well."
This time the bride did not speak, the candlelight in the room dimmed, and the appearance of the bridal chamber slowly disappeared, becoming an ordinary room of rotten and decayed furniture.
This was the way to see the guest off. Chi Shen didn't say much and he walked out of the house.
He looked at his hands. It would be easy for him to kill the bride, but he didn't want to do it. He was a reasonable man.
One of his skills is the ability of "empathy", which allows him to empathize with ghosts and know their lives. He knows that what Bai Wan said is true, and that after Bai Wan became a ghost, she never harmed anyone, and she didn't even seek revenge. It's not that she didn't want to, but that she was bound by the so-called "parents". In order to deepen her resentment, she watched her enemies happy.
This touched Chi Shen, because neither his adoptive parents nor his biological parents had ever cared about him.
"You opened the door." An old and hoarse voice suddenly sounded. The woman sweeping the floor stood behind Chi Shen, her eyes wide open, the broom in her hand raised high, and was about to smash it down!
Chi Shen tilted his head to look at her, and the Mo Dao in his hand suddenly appeared. With one slash, the sweeping woman was cut into two halves, and turned into black gas and disappeared.
"Thanks."
He heard a sigh from the door.
Putting away the Mo Dao, Chi Shen slowly walked out of the side yard. When the three ghosts saw Chi Shen coming out, they were obviously stunned and didn't speak for a long time.
"Next."
Chi Shen walked past them.
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