Slacker Mountain Sparrow

Chapter 114

Because Tang Jingran had drawn most of the firepower, they encountered little resistance on their way to the central building.

Li Wenchuan pushed open the door. Dense yellow paper slips hung from the beams, each covered in red writing. He found a stick, tangled the strings together, and yanked hard, repeating the process until he had pulled them all down.

He Qian and Gu Xiaoyou gathered the slips. The three of them threw everything into the large water vat outside, watching the water submerge them before stirring them until they had all dissolved into mush.

These had all been prepared by the production crew beforehand. They could hardly let the guests start a fire in such an old building—what if it got out of control?

Tang Jingran was nearly unable to keep running when the extras suddenly stopped in their tracks, standing utterly still as though they were playing freeze.

He found Li Wenchuan, and the four of them regrouped before heading back to find Jin Yue. Fortunately, he was unharmed; he was merely tied to a chair and unable to move. Li Wenchuan did not untie him either. He stared at the motionless "ghosts" in the courtyard, seemingly lost in thought.

"What do we do next?"

"Call the police, of course. These outdated and barbaric customs should be exposed to the sunlight and scorched clean. Not a trace of them should remain," Li Wenchuan said.

Judging from the main female ghosts, although few people still came to this island, the vile custom had not truly ended. There would always be people testing the boundaries, repeating this filthy practice again and again.

The moon hung high overhead, and the group finally had time to rest. The latter half had been like Temple Run—they had been running nonstop.

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