I Wasn’t Born Lucky

The argument between Xiao Li and Xiao Huangben finally ended in Xiao Li's victory.

Xiao Huangben was still persevering at first, but after tentatively testing Xiao Li's attitude a few times, he felt Xiao Li's determination, and he gave up the idea of ​​letting him sleep alone.

As a result, Xiao Li slept all night in the corner of the Datong shop wrapped in a quilt. The bed here was so hard that he could not sleep comfortably.After the other Samsaras got up early, he also had to get up with them.

There is no such thing as tap water here. They had to fetch water one by one to wash. It was extremely difficult. Zhu Yiting put a cold water towel on his face and vomited: “It’s bad enough to hit a ghost, and they have to fetch water by themselves. I thought I participated in Metamorphosis."

Yongchun pushed him away. He took a dozen steamed buns in his hand, and they were sharing them for breakfast. He immediately replied: "You can stand here and talk now, you are lucky. I have experienced a world before. In the deep mountains and old forests, let alone washing your face, you have to solve it in the depths of the woods to go to the toilet, but it is dangerous to go to the toilet alone, so in the end we all pull together in groups, and we don’t know that the pupils are holding hands The toilet."

Zhu Yiting had never heard him mention this. He thought about his painful experience of holding back urine last night, and suddenly he could not help but exclaim: "...It is simply terrible!"

Shi Ye couldn't listen anymore when he heard this. He coughed and interrupted Zhu Yiting's conversation: "While the ghost hasn't found us, let's go to the village chief to inquire about the situation-some people lead the village chief. Some people sneak into the village chief’s house to find out, how about it? The eloquent is responsible for leading away the village chief and the courageous enter the house. Does anyone recommend themselves?"

Shi Ye's plan divides the reincarnations into two parts, but the part who sneaked into the village chief's house is obviously more dangerous than the former-who knows what is in the village chief's house?If there are really ghosts, wouldn't it mean that the sheep are in the mouth?

Therefore, after Shi Ye's plan was said, the scene fell into a cold field for a while.

Xiao Li said lightly at this moment: "I'll go, I'm very interested in what's in his house."

Zhu Yiting quickly turned to look at him, and suddenly struggled in his heart——According to the post, Sherlock was very good, and if he could keep up with him, his chances of survival would increase, but he usually acts alone. No one knows the consequences of acting with him.I heard that someone at the top of the reincarnation rankings also likes solo solo, never with other reincarnations...

He thought for a moment, and decided to move from his heart.

Except for Xiao Li, no one else volunteered anymore. Shi Ye looked around in disappointment, and then said: "Then Sherlock, please trouble you. Others will go to the village chief with me, and a few others will go to The villagers inquire about the customs and strange things here."

Tao Fei recommended himself to ask the villagers, and the remaining Shi Ye led the others to the village chief's house.

This morning, the soul gathering village was not as quiet as usual. When the first rooster crowed, some people hurriedly went to the village head—when the man came, the village head was preparing in the house. At breakfast, the village chief Wu Shan almost choked to death by the salted duck egg that was just put in his mouth. He looked at the incoming person dissatisfiedly: "Huniu, what's the matter?"

The face of the woman called Hu Niu still has a look of fear. She put her hands on the table and panted: "It's not good, the village head, something has happened! Zhang Chang and Li's wife, they are all dead, just Died in front of Zhang Tao's mourning hall!"

Wu Shan's complexion changed drastically, and the chopsticks he was holding in his hand also fell to the floor. It was a long time before he found his voice: "What's the matter, you say it carefully."

"I went to Sister Li this morning to feed the chickens, and found out that she was not there. I looked around and didn't find it. After asking a few people, I didn't see it. I looked for it from house to house, and finally found her in Zhang Chang's house. The corpses of Sister Li and Zhang Chang, and Zhang Tao’s coffin next to him! Village Chief, what the hell is going on, why Zhang Tao died, we don’t even know?!” Hu Niu recalled the scene at the time and was still waiting to fight. Shivering.

After Wu Shan listened for a long time without saying a word, he bent his back like a blow.

"The village chief...could it be that...her soul...returned?!" In the silence of the village chief, Huniu speculated, "Since that incident, our village has never been peaceful. Recently After finally calming down a bit, something happened again..."

"Shut up!" Wu Shanyin lifted up his face, his wrinkles curled up and down on his skin like earthworms. He gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't I say that you are not allowed to mention that?"

"The village chief..." Hu Niu whispered, startled by his face.

"Okay, Huniu, I will bury them with you," Wu Shan realized this too, and he managed to squeeze a smile, "It won't be that. Look, now I have a reporter. Reporting on our village, even if we don’t become our old business, we can successfully transform and support ourselves, as long as this incident passes..."

He repeated it as if trying to convince himself: "As long as this matter is over, it will be fine."

Hu Niu looked at him hesitantly, and Wu Shan waved at her and walked out of the house with her.

This also led to the fact that when Shi Ye and others led the reincarnations here, only the village chief’s wife was in the house.Shi Ye immediately realized that something might have happened in the village that caused the village chief to leave.He promptly divided another wave of people to search for the seat of the village chief, doing three-pronged approach.

Zhu Yiting watched Shi Ye and the others walk away. The young man adjusted his clothes and showed a perfect smile, and walked towards the village chief's wife with the two friends behind him.

She was lowering her head to dig a well. She caught a glimpse of Zhu Yiting's clothing corner from the corner of her eye and immediately raised her head: "Mr. Reporter? Is there anything wrong?"

Zhu Yiting used his ability to deal with relatives and friends on weekdays: "I'll come here to investigate, you look good today."

The village chief’s wife touched her face: "Where is it, Mr. reporter, don't laugh."

Xiao Li took advantage of this effort to turn in from the outside of the village chief's enclosure and walked into the village chief's house.

This house is a bit bigger than the others, but it is also quite simple. There are not many things in the house. It is divided into two parts: kitchen, living room and bedroom, which are connected to each other.

The sky outside was very dark, and the dark cloud was hanging on the horizon. It didn't look like morning at all, but like evening.

Xiao Li first walked to the bedroom, flipped through the other party's bedside table, and found a pile of books about the village's agricultural construction. Besides, there were some daily necessities, which were of no great value.

He walked a little further, squinted his eyes and looked around for another week, then bent down and dragged out a box from under the bed with an old brass lock hung on it.

Xiao Li dialed the brass lock with his finger, and looked around, trying to find a wire as a tool—he just wanted to search elsewhere, and a strand of hair slowly came from the boy’s pocket Stretched out, getting longer and longer, and pierced into the keyhole of the brass lock.

With a "click", the brass lock opened in response, and Tan Li retracted her hair.

Xiao Li touched the small exposed head of the doll in his pocket, took off the brass lock, and opened the box. There was a small box inside. There were several hand-made scarecrows in the box, each with a little blood red on the mouth. Extremely scary.

In addition, there is a bracelet and a booklet.

He just wanted to reach out and take the booklet, suddenly one of the scarecrows slowly turned his neck, and a real grimace appeared on the face that was full of straws and without facial features!

Xiao Li's outstretched hand paused in midair.

The grimace opened his mouth slowly at him--

Xiao Li turned the entire box over and buttoned it on the bed. The scarecrow was overwhelmed by the box, his eyes were dark, and he closed his mouth in confusion.

There was a roaring meow from a distance, Xiao Li quickly glanced at the distance, and then withdrew his gaze.

The boy moved the box away, picked up the booklet, and reinstalled the scarecrow.He opened the pamphlet and saw a mantra recorded on it. After the mantra, there was a detailed explanation. It was a ritual to condense the soul.

Xiao Li rummaged through the pamphlet, stuffed the contents of the box, put it back in the box, locked it, pushed it back, and waited for the action to be completed in one go.

Next, he searched the village chief's house roughly, and found no bigger clues, so he jumped out of the window.

While the Samsaras acted, the entire Soul Gathering Village was undergoing tremendous changes.

A man who had just returned from the field was shirtless, with a relaxed look, sitting at the edge of the house eating buns with white flour.

In the distance, a figure came towards him. It was a middle-aged woman. She was dressed in coarse linen and was holding a black box in her hands.

The man looked up, smiled and greeted the other party: "Isn't this Sister Li? What's the matter, what's the point of coming to me?"

Aunt Li turned her back to the light, her face looked very bad, she looked at the man condescendingly, her face was a little deformed, and she said every word: "A Gang, I have something you forgot to give you here."

Gang took the black box curiously: "Oh, what is this? Did I forget it?"

"Just take it apart and take a look." Aunt Li said coldly, and she turned and left.

The man looked up at her back. He always felt that Mrs. Li was a little weird today. It was an unspeakable feeling. He looked at the sky, fearing it might rain in the afternoon, and decided to do the work at hand before opening the box.

A Gang returned to the field, bending over and pulling up the weeds in the field.

As time passed, he was halfway through, and saw the famous bag in the village hurriedly passing by the path in front of his house, looking extremely scared.

A Gang became curious for a while, and stopped the other party: "Inquire, what's the matter with you? The daughter-in-law at home was stolen by someone?"

Bao asked, stopped and waved at him: "Don't mention it, Sister Li and Zhang Chang are dead, you know? The death is terrible, and the village chief wants to hide it!"

The freshly pulled weed in A Gang's hand fell to the ground. He stammered and asked, "Why? She...she just came to see me!"

Baodi heard that his face suddenly changed: "What?! Li's body was still at Zhang Chang's house before. I just came back from there! You fucking hit a ghost in the daytime?"

"But... look at this, this is what she left!" Gang subconsciously turned his head to find the black box as evidence that Sister Li had come. He ran back under the eaves with two legs shaking and picked up the black box. "She Say this is what I lost..."

"Don't! Don't! Hurry up! Lost it!" Bao asked, staggering his eyes, and didn't dare to look. "This village, I'm afraid it is not peaceful!"

Ah Gang looked down at the black box in his hand, and suddenly pulled his feet and ran wildly, throwing it away in the trash can, and he was relieved, thinking that the matter was over.

This happened just now, and Gang was no longer in the mood to continue farming. He closed the house directly and went out to chat with other people in the village.

He didn't come back until nightfall, but as soon as he came back, he was stunned.

The black box, I don't know when it came back to his room, and was placed upright at the door.

Ah Gang swallowed, and his thoughts were as if he was bewitched by some object. He felt that part of himself was in the box. He wanted to open it—under the moonlight, the man approached the box and turned towards It stretched out its hand.

——

At the same time, Chase shop.

A candlelight lit up the room, Shi Ye stood by the bed and exchanged information with the reincarnations: "We followed the village head and found that he went to the house of a person called Zhang Chang. Three people died, the killing from ghosts has already begun, I don't know how long it will be our turn."

Tao Fei took it up: "According to the news from the villagers, the three people who died were Zhang Tao, Zhang Chang and Li's wife. The village chief has been asking to conceal it. I don't know why. The clue may be a black box. "

Zhu Yiting was holding a corn cob in his hand, which was given to him by the hard fortress after the village chief’s wife was so embarrassed by him. He gnawed halfway and calmed down to speculate: “From the CG of the movie, the black box It must be the key. I don’t know if it’s related to the customs here. Anyone who opens it will die...Does the box of death? I think of a possibility, Pandora’s Box, do you know? Maybe this black box is like Pandora’s Box Once opened, it will exude the curse of a ghost."

Yongchun didn't laugh at Zhu Yiting as usual, because he felt that the other party's fart was reasonable-so Yongchun turned his target to Shi Ye and others: "You have been out for so long, just inquire about this? Any other news?"

He blinked and cast his gaze pointedly at the dark-haired boy by the oil lamp.

Xiao Li was very close to the oil lamp. He watched the flames puff out, and the flames were reflected in those black eyes-he turned his head slightly and recalled the harvest today: "This village used to live by condensing the soul. Bringing souls for the dead, but I don’t know why this behavior is now stopped. They conduct a soul gathering ritual by making scarecrows. The summoned souls will first cover the scarecrow, and then can be transferred to the original body-this is also the case The reason why there is no threshold in the village to facilitate the entrance and exit of the soul."

Yongchun: "………………"

Zhu Yiting: "............"

——Wait, this information is too large and detailed.Sherlock, how do you know so much!

"These are the records of the village chief." Xiao Li went on to say his own speculation, "----Also, it doesn't necessarily mean that the person who takes the box and opens it will die. Is it possible that... Will the dead get this box? Both of these possibilities exist, and neither of them can be ruled out at present."

Under the extinguished oil lamp, his words made Zhu Yiting's scalp numb, because he faintly realized that Sherlock was in a wrong state at this time. It seemed that the other party was...very excited, like the usual lazy and indifferent look. Not the same, I said so many things in one breath!

"But what kind of talent will be a mortal?" Xiao Li raised his index finger, moved closer to the flame, and lightened his tone as if he was talking to himself.

And that meow... also made him very concerned.

Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door of Samsara.

The expressions of everyone in the room changed, and the few people closest to the door looked at each other, but for a moment they dared not speak.

In the silence, Xiao Li stood up. He came to the door and heard the third knock on the door. He inserted in the gap between the knock on the door and said, "We don't have express delivery."

Shi Ye, who was ready to hold the Ghost Expelling Talisman at any time: "..."

-Is this person poisonous?

Xiao Li thought for a while, and added: "We haven't ordered takeaways either."

Shi Ye:???

——This man is poisonous!

As soon as Xiao Li's voice fell, the knocking outside the door stopped strangely, and then a cold voice sounded: "I am not a takeaway, I am Gang, I am looking for Shi Ye, he has something left in my place. I'll return it to him."

Shi Ye, who was named by "him", turned pale. He couldn't wait to swallow the ghost pill, holding the ghost charm in his hand, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead: "I didn't lose anything. You admit the wrong person. Go back."

"It's yours," A Gang said categorically, "Open the door, I'll return it to you."

Shi Ye pressed the door bolt tightly: "I told you it wasn't mine!"

Ah Gang said, "Why don't you take it apart and take a look? If it's yours, you will take it, and if it is not yours, I will take it back."

Shi Ye stretched out his hand and stuck the ghost-expelling talisman on the door bolt. He was frightened by Xiao Li's previous speculation about the "mortal man"-why this ghost would look at him!Why!His cold sweat wet his entire back, and his voice completely lost his former calmness: "I don't look at it, get out of here!"

Xiao Li was squeezed aside by him. Before he had time to do anything, A Gang's voice outside the door flickered strangely: "But it must be delivered to you...Look at the window, Shi Ye."

As soon as Ah Gang's voice fell, there was a movement from the half-open window. A black box squeezed in through the crack of the window. It rolled over the wall in a hurry, and finally stopped in the middle of the room.