" Pu Sang... Pu Sang!"
Jiang Nuo was the one who ultimately discovered the anomaly.
He was resting between Si Yan and Pu Sang when he suddenly felt the bamboo bed tremble and woke up alertly.
Turning his head, he saw that Pu Sang's body had stiffened, his hands were twisted and raised, and his five fingers were spread apart.
Jiang Nuo immediately pressed her vital points and whispered her name a few times.
Si Yan and Wu Chou gathered around, watching nervously.
"Ah!"
Pu Sang suddenly opened his eyes, breathing heavily, and grabbed Si Yan's arm. It took him a while to recover before he spoke weakly.
"Illusion..."
Si Yan patted the little girl's back to help her catch her breath, asking as he did so, "Were you pulled into an illusion?"
Pu Sang nodded repeatedly, subconsciously touching his chest to make sure there was no bleeding before he felt relieved; the pain of being run over was too real.
"I... I just woke up in the woods near the village, where those barefoot children were singing during the day..."
She suddenly paused, looking up blankly, "It seems to be related to the person who had the accident."
"But I forgot..."
How could I have forgotten?
Pu Sang covered his head with his hands, curling up into a ball. "I don't remember, it seems like... it seems like there were seven people, the song was about the death of seven people?"
Jiang Nuo noticed her twisted fingers and tentatively asked, "Did you sing about a fifth person?"
"The fifth one... Yes! Yes!"
Pu Sang suddenly lowered his hand, staring intently at it as he murmured, "They seem to be singing, I'm the fifth one."
Oh my god! Could this be related to Shuishui's "Four Virtues"?
So scary, so scary...
Wu Chou: "What else did you see?"
"The bridal sedan chair."
This Pu Sang remembers it very clearly. "I saw a bridal sedan chair, it clung to me and crashed into me, and then I woke up!"
"What... riding in a bridal sedan chair, marrying a lonely ghost..."
Pu Sang shook his head in resignation, his mind reeling. "I've forgotten. That's all I remember."
Will I turn into someone like Shuishui?
"Based on today's experience, the talismans don't seem to be very effective, but you should still keep two with you."
Jiang Nuo her a few talismans, telling her to "place them on her chest."
"Good..."
Pu Sang turned his back to put it away, then slowly looked outside. "It's dawn."
A sliver of sunlight pierced through the thick darkness of the night.
Being in the light is always more reassuring than being in the dark. Pu Sang felt much better after dawn, quickly returned to normal, and even tried to remember the contents of the illusion.
After the four people guarding the mortuary returned to the village, they were about to tell the rest of the guest group what had happened the night before when they saw He Jiu rushing out of the village chief's house.
"Oh no! Oh no!"
He Jiu's clothes were disheveled, and her shoes were on backwards, clearly indicating that she had rushed out in a panic. She only calmed down slightly when she saw Jiang Nuo.
"Something terrible has happened! Something's happened to that guy Li Ta!"
[Huh?? What happened?]
I didn't see the split screen! Does anyone know why?
[This is terrifying!! Even more terrifying is that Li Ta fainted, and Shuishui woke up!]
" Jiang Nuo... it really is you!"
Supported by Jiang Qianqian, Shuishui looked extremely weak, but her eyes lit up when she saw Jiang Nuo. "Thank you for saving me."
Jiang Nuo let out a soft "Ah!", glanced inside at Li Ta lying on the bed, and nodded to confirm, "It shouldn't be me who saved you."
Zhou Yize and Lin Yu were both inside the house, both with injuries of varying degrees, especially Zhou Yize.
Zhou Yize seemed to still be in shock, and upon seeing Jiang Nuo, he wanted to rush over for a sense of security, Si Yan stopped him and stood in front of him.
" Nuonuo, look at Li Ta's neck, there are so many blisters."
Si Yan's posture was extremely clever, and Jiang Nuo didn't see Zhou Yize's fearful yet pleading eyes at all.
Jiang Nuo's attention was indeed drawn to the person on the bed, and she leaned over to take a look.
Si Yan turned to look at Zhou Yize and casually poked him on the shoulder, "What happened last night?"
Zhou Yize, who was originally unable to speak, inexplicably lost much of his gloom and fear after being poked.
He stared blankly at Si Yan, then at Lin Yu, "Why don't you say it..."
I really don't want to recall that scene again.
Lin Yu was staring thoughtfully at the dense blisters on Li Ta's neck when he was suddenly bumped on the shoulder. He looked over with a sinister gaze, but relaxed when he caught sight of Zhou Yize.
"What's wrong?" he asked gently, patting Zhou Yize's shoulder. " President Zhou, don't be too scared."
"What happened last night?" Si Yan asked again.
"Last night..."
Lin Yu's gaze shifted to the open space outside the house and to Shuishui, a meaningful smile playing on his lips. "We've encountered ghosts, so many ghosts."
"Here's what happened..."
The night before.
Nothing happened during the first half of the night, but in the second half, strange noises began to come from the open space outside the house.
At first, I thought some animal had run in, but then the noise got louder and louder, like many people stomping their feet at the same time, or like kowtowing.
Perhaps annoyed by the noise, Li Ta pushed open the door and yelled.
"Who's making so much noise in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people dressed in hemp clothing were seen kneeling and kowtowing in the courtyard, their heads pointing towards the mysterious room they were forbidden to enter.
Li Ta's voice made them stop kowtowing. They tilted their heads and looked over, waving their arms at him, "Come here, aren't you coming over?"
"Now you're the fourth one, aren't you coming over?"
"There's no time left, aren't you coming over...?"
Li Ta originally intended to attack, but he was actually persuaded by them. He lowered his head and walked over, kowtowing to the mysterious room one by one.
" Li Ta's room is right across from mine. I just saw him through the window. I wanted to go out and save him, but these people in hemp clothes are all ghosts... I couldn't beat them, and I even got hurt."
After Lin Yu finished speaking, he blew on his arm, which was chafed raw.
[Waaaaah!! Our Lin Yu is super helpful! Too bad she can't beat him, sob sob!]
Don't blame yourself, Brother Yu! You've already done very well!
"Then what about the injuries on your body?" Si Yan's gaze shifted from Lin Yu's arm, feeling that they didn't look like scratches, and then looked at Zhou Yize.
"I... I live next to Li Ta's room, and I heard the noise too, but I didn't dare to come out."
"Later, I couldn't resist any longer, so I quietly opened the door a crack to peek."
"I was terrified by these ghosts dressed in hemp clothing, and I wanted to run outside to find you to save people."
Zhou Yize rubbed his sore knee and pointed to the threshold of the gate outside the yard, "But that thing was too high, and I fell pretty hard. I finally managed to get up, but I couldn't run, so I hid back in the room."
Si Yan looked outside, raised an eyebrow slightly, crossed her arms, leaned against the corner of the wall, and nodded her chin. "Try running over there from here."
"Huh? Why... okay, okay."
Zhou Yize was inexplicably glared at again, thinking to herself that this man was really jealous, and ran out according to his instructions.
Very smoothly, I ran across the threshold without any hindrance.
"Huh??"
Zhou Yize turned around and scratched his head, his handsome face blank and confused.
Why does it feel less high during the day?
Si Yan walked towards him, her tone indifferent.
"The threshold is practically nonexistent; it's understandable if you accidentally trip and fall."
Zhou Yize shook his head, "No, I clearly felt last night that this threshold was too high to cross."