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A snake landed precisely on Wu Chou's face, startling Pu Sang, who was standing nearby, into letting out a sudden scream.
Wu Chou a word and threw it aside, then dealt with it directly with the peach wood sword. He looked up again to make sure there was no danger before closing his eyes to rest again.
Lin Yu jumped to another tree, but breathed a sigh of relief as the snake coiled around his body.
"Hiss..."
A bamboo viper wrapped around his arm, its nimble tail slapping his cheek, its fangs sharp as it opened its mouth.
Lin Yu, expressionless, grabbed him and crushed him, glanced down a few times, and continued eavesdropping.
Then I heard Jiang Nuo's irritating voice.
"Oh dear, what a thief here."
After checking Si Yan's wound, Jiang Nuo poked her head out from under her clothes and looked meaningfully at the tree where Lin Yu was sitting.
"You've come here to be a monkey?"
Lin Yu: "..."
He jumped down amidst the astonished gazes of Pu Sang and the others.
He smiled casually, his eyes narrowed, "Sorry, I'm afraid of ghosts, so I have to hide."
Pu Sang sincerely admired him, "You're quite good at dodging."
[Ahhh, Brother Yu! I've been worried for so long, so you were here!]
The bionic sealed imaging device is still wandering around the ancestral hall, so how did Lin Yu end up here...?
"Damn, this kid ran away as soon as he was safe! Shameless!"
Si Yan straightened her clothes, glanced over, and raised an eyebrow slightly. She felt that Lin Yu, who had inexplicably come back to life after death, was strange.
Jiang Nuo sat cross-legged and observed for a while, then suddenly asked, " Lin Yu, do you have an older brother?"
Lin Yu also sat down, as if he wasn't the one who had just said he wanted to kill Jiang Nuo. He looked at Jiang Nuo with a smile, his eyes seemingly flashing with a sharp edge.
"No, I'm the only one."
"Are you asking this because you have a friend who is similar to me?"
Jiang Nuo lowered her eyes in thought, then chuckled softly, "Yeah, there's some bastard with a name similar to yours."
You son of a bitch, you're the dog!
Lin Yu smiled broadly, but cursed inwardly.
As the two locked eyes, Si Yan glanced warily at Lin Yu, feeling irritated.
Why are they all so strange?
Nobody can take Nuonuo away from him!
" Nuonuo... the wound is still uncomfortable, what's wrong?"
Si Yan leaned weakly on Jiang Nuo's shoulder, her voice feeble, which somehow managed to draw Jiang Nuo's attention back to her.
Upon hearing this, Pu Sang moved over and formed a hand seal above his stomach, immediately sensing the lingering, dense ghostly energy.
She exclaimed, "The ghostly energy is so strong... My abilities are too weak to purify it."
Not to mention her, even Jiang Nuo couldn't erase the lingering ghostly aura on it.
Jiang Nuo put one arm around Si Yan, casually surveying her surroundings, and swayed as she said, "It's the aura of Ghost King, a particularly powerful Ghost King."
At least among the ghosts he has seen in reality so far, there are almost none that can rival him.
Zhou Yize's legs were still weak, and he suddenly asked, "So all the strange things in this village were done by the Ghost King?"
"Perhaps."
Jiang Nuo rested her chin on her hand, tapping her face with her fingers. "It grew on Dragon Vein, so it probably absorbed the essence of spiritual energy."
He tried to piece together the clues he had now.
Taking the inkstone from Si Yan, he counted on his fingers, "We know there's a very powerful Ghost King here, and a pregnant woman is getting married... Wait, a pregnant woman!"
Jiang Nuo patted Si Yan's hand, somewhat surprised, "I've seen her before, in that room at the village chief's house."
Lin Yu was puzzled, "You've seen her, why didn't you kill her?"
Is this still Jiang Nuo's style?!
Jiang Nuo immediately replied, "It smells too bad, I can't bring myself to do it."
Pu Sang suddenly realized, "So that's why Li Ta saw the Mourning-clad Sha' – it's because they were the carriage drivers, going to pick up the pregnant woman!"
Si Yan pulled her clothes tighter, leaned listlessly against Jiang Nuo's chest, and as she pieced together the ballad, a guess formed in her mind.
"The songs those children were singing were about the customs of ghost marriages."
"There are records of certain ancient villages where, in order to get rid of unmarried pregnant women who did not know who the father of their child was, they would marry them off to wandering ghosts and send them to the graveyard to die on their own."
" The Guiding Souls... was originally a guide, responsible for directing the bride to the groom's grave and digging the bridal chamber, in case she couldn't find it."
Pu Sang exclaimed, "That's outrageous!"
[What a disgusting custom...]
A pregnant woman was trapped in a cemetery; it's unimaginable!!
[I don't think they're even trapped in the mountains. Si Yan said they were digging a new house... but it's actually just a new grave, isn't it? This is burying someone alive.]
So everything's reversed! The pregnant woman has returned as a ghost to seek revenge??
"Even if you're seeking revenge, you should only target the villagers. What does it have to do with the guest list?"
"... People have become ghosts, how can you expect them to have humanity?"
After listening to what Si Yan said, Jiang Nuo suddenly exclaimed "Eh!" with a rising tone, even finding it quite interesting.
"Is that possible? The Lone Ghost is the Ghost King, Ghost King needs sacrifices to get married. These villagers are the best sacrifices."
"My God! The Ghost King is getting married, and the whole village is being sacrificed?!"
Pu Sang's mouth Zhang Da open. "So what have you been doing these past few nights? Rehearsing?"
Wu Chou in thought, "We're still picking people up; two of the Guiding Souls haven't come out yet."
Zhou Yize was completely confused, his mind filled with all sorts of superstitious nonsense. "So what should we do?"
Jiang Nuo extended his index finger and suggested, "We should help the Ghost King get married!"
Everyone: "Huh?!"
Lin Yu thought to himself, "No wonder he's a madman; his thought process is completely abnormal." "Do you want the Ghost King to thank you?"
Si Yan glanced at him, defending Jiang Nuo, "Only when all the Guiding Souls are found can the Ghost King appear to attend the wedding."
"Hey... there's someone else who didn't show up last night either." Zhou Yize scratched his head. "That... He Jiu!"
Pu Sang: "He's not from the village, so he can't be controlled. He's probably sleeping. Shuishui and Qianqian haven't come out either."
Jiang Nuo patted her bottom and stood up. "Let's go back and check on Egg Tart. Why hasn't he come out yet?"
[Hahahaha Jiang - Never remembers other people's names - Nuo.]
It's been all night... Aren't you guys going to sleep? I want to sleep!! I don't want to turn off the live stream at all!
I got hungry so early this morning.
Daylight broke.
When the group of guests returned to the village, everything had returned to normal.
The grandmothers who were the first to meet them greeted them with smiles, walking with shaky legs.
Pu Sang was surprised and said softly, "Less than an hour has passed, how come all their wounds are gone!"
Wu Chou: "The child hasn't returned either."
He looked around and at the street corner, but the children who should have been playing there during the day were nowhere to be seen.
"So last night was precisely the time to take away the Guiding Souls."
While chatting, the group arrived at the village chief's house.
Jiang Nuo, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped, touched her left eye, and looked up again.
"What's wrong, Nuonuo?" Si Yan asked.
"Fine..."
Jiang Nuo's tone was slightly doubtful, but it was just a momentary misperception, so he didn't take it to heart. He pushed open the door and entered, with the others following closely behind.
Lin Yu also looked up in the same direction as him before finally following him inside.