Merchant of the Underworld

"Send rice." The man said in a cold manner.

Hearing him speak, I was completely relieved. Zombies can't talk, so I can basically conclude that the other person is a living person.

When I reached the foot of the mountain, I was not in a hurry to leave, but found a hidden place to hide.

Because I suspect that this person is a grave digger. How can he go up the mountain in the middle of the night and give rice to the dead?

We followed each other until we arrived at Qingshan Village. He opened the door of a house and walked straight in.

I breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that I was overthinking it. The other party was indeed sending rice. Maybe there are some strange customs in this village that we outsiders don't know about?

Li Mazi and I went back in the dark.

It was already early in the morning when we got back, and we were both so tired that we fell asleep in a short time while lying on the bed.

When she woke up in the morning, Yin Xinyue had already bought breakfast, Sichuan specialty rice flour glutinous rice cake. We had a simple breakfast and were about to go to the village again when Chu Chu suddenly spoke: "Where did you two go last night?"

"Oh, I went to the village." Li Mazi said.

"Did you provoke someone?" Chu Chu said with a serious expression.

"No." I asked, "What's wrong?"

"Yesterday... I seemed to have discovered that someone was following you." Chu Chu said, "Moreover, you had something stuck on your back. I was afraid that you wouldn't get enough rest, so I didn't tell you last night."

I frowned: "Someone is following us? And posted something? What something?"

"She should have fallen off the bed. You guys should go to the bed and see for yourself."

I immediately ran to the bed - I was tumbling.

Sure enough, I found two pale coins on the bed!

The four big blood-red characters "Bank of the Underworld" on the underworld coin instantly stimulated my visual nerves. I almost lost my balance, but luckily I held on to the wall in time.

Damn it, we were actually followed last night, and we were even tagged with a ghost coin, and we didn't even notice it... I felt a sense of fear, and my heart was trembling violently.

Who was the person who followed us yesterday?

I accidentally thought of the rice delivery guy. Could it be that that guy suspected our identity, so he followed us secretly?

But even if it's just tracking, why do we need to stick a ghost coin on our back? This has several meanings.

Bang bang bang!

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and my nerves immediately became tense, and now I was a little nervous.

I walked to the door, looked out through the peephole, and found that the person standing at the door was actually a hotel waiter, but the waiter looked a little sneaky.

I immediately opened the door and asked the waiter what happened.

The waiter waved his hand repeatedly and said that someone just wanted to check out, so he came to see if it was us.

After saying that, he looked flustered and wanted to leave.

I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw the waiter's face, so I grabbed him and dragged him into the room: "Young man, I'll give you one minute to tell me the truth."

Li Mazi also saw the clues and immediately cooperated with me: "Brother, what if he doesn't tell the truth?"

"Old rule, take off your legs." I said.

The waiter was instantly suffocated by the aura of our underworld, and he quickly begged: "Brother, it's really nothing. I just accidentally saw blood on the peephole on your door, so I'm a little curious. Which guest it might be. Did you accidentally smear ketchup on the cat’s eyes?”

Um?

I frowned and immediately ran to the door to look.

Sure enough, there was a thick pool of blood on the cat's eye, and some unknown yellow-brown liquid, mixed with the blood, had dried.

My heart was beating fast, and I knew that the blood stain must have been left by the person who followed us last night.

Thinking of that weird guy who once stood at the door and watched us, I felt a tingle in my heart!

I gently twisted a little blood with my fingers and sniffed it with my nose, and found that the blood was smelly, and it also smelled like corpses. The light yellow liquid is a bit like the corpse water that flows out after a corpse has decomposed.

I cautiously called Li Mazi to come and take a look. After reading it, Li Mazi also looked at me with a pale face: "Damn it, this is corpse water."

My first reaction was that I regretted bringing Yin Xinyue and Chu Chu here. Now that our position has been exposed, Yin Xinyue and Chu Chu definitely can't stay any longer...

And I suddenly realized that the rice delivery person last night might not be a 'person', but a dead body.

Otherwise, why would that person speak so strangely?

Why is the smell of corpses mixed with the wind that blows?

I felt cold from head to toe, and I was a little at a loss for a moment. I didn't know why that thing was following us inexplicably.

I tentatively asked Yin Xinyue and Chu Chu if they wanted to leave here first. This place is really full of dangers, and staying here will only cause more trouble for us.

Yin Xinyue and Chu Chu refused to leave. I knew they were worried.

There was really no choice but to rearrange their accommodation for them, and Li Mazi and I were ready to re-enter the village to see what was weird about that cemetery!

With yesterday’s experience, we did not walk into the village today. Instead, we found two motorcycles to take us into the village, which cost less than 50 yuan for a round trip.

I gave the other party fifty yuan more and wanted to ask about Liu Fuguo.

But as soon as I heard the words "Liu Fuguo", Namo's master immediately looked at me with questioning eyes: "What are you doing here?"

I quickly said that Liu Fuguo was a distant relative of ours. I hadn’t contacted him for a long time, so I came to see him.

Namo's master believed it, but he still warned us: "It's best not to have any contact with that broom star, otherwise you will all be unlucky..."

After saying that, Mo's master left.

I was even more surprised. What big trouble did Liu Fuguo cause? Why did everyone stay away from him?

Kanmo's master had already left, so I wasn't going to catch up and ask. Instead, I took Li Mazi directly into the village.

As soon as I entered the village, I saw that the door of one of the houses was full of people, with people from three floors inside and three floors outside, muttering something in a low voice.

I checked carefully. Isn't this the same family that delivered rice last night? Could it be that something happened to his family?

Li Mazi and I immediately ran over, grabbed a villager and asked what happened inside.

The villager looked at us cautiously: "Who are you? What are you doing in Qingshan Village?"

Because of my previous experience, I didn’t dare to mention Liu Fuguo’s name anymore. I quickly said that I was traveling and accidentally got lost nearby.

The villager frowned: "I remember, it seems that two sneaky strangers came to the village yesterday, are they you two?"

Li Mazi waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, you got the wrong person."

The villager then pointed out a road to us: "Oh, just follow this road to the east, follow the mountain road, and you can reach the town."

This is an eviction order. Damn it, are you leaving or not? Why should I stay if I don't leave? Will it arouse the suspicion of the villagers?

But at this moment, the villager suddenly ignored us, looked behind us and shouted: "No, the broomstick is back, everyone should disperse!"

Broom star, what do you mean?

I followed his gaze curiously and saw a short boy walking over carrying a pole. His clothes were in tatters and his eyes were listless.

Seeing this young man, the villagers immediately dispersed, as if they were afraid of getting into any bad luck.

Only then did I realize that these villagers were watching a corpse at the door of the house just now!

This corpse was lying on the ground, wearing a shroud, its limbs were stiff, and its whole body exuded waves of disgusting corpse odor.

I always feel like I have seen this body before.

Suddenly, I realized with horror that the person who followed us last night could be this body, right?

Just as I was thinking about it, the young man carrying the pole was already kneeling in front of the corpse and started to cry loudly.