Merchant of the Underworld

The steepness of Wild Dog Ridge was far beyond our imagination. Halfway through the climb, I was already exhausted to death.

However, this mountainside is definitely not a place where we can rest, because there are dense thorns and venomous snakes here, and we may be bitten if we are not careful.

I gritted my teeth and walked to Wild Dog Ridge.

After reaching the top of the mountain, he could no longer hold on and fell to the ground, his face ashen.

Li Mazi was not much better than me. The fog on the mountain was so thick that even the air was much thinner, making it difficult to breathe.

Look at the way Li Mazi sticks out his tongue, he really looks like a dog.

But before we had time to rest, the man in the T-shirt suddenly hissed at us and motioned for us to stop talking.

Our nerves immediately became tense, and we pricked up our ears to listen carefully to what was going on around us.

But after listening for a while, I heard nothing except the howling wind.

I couldn't help but quietly asked what happened to the man in the T-shirt?

The man in the t-shirt said it seemed like someone was talking nearby.

After saying that, he followed the bare rocks on the top of the mountain little by little and moved towards the front.

We followed suit.

Sure enough, not long after we left, we found two villagers talking to each other.

The ears of the man in the T-shirt are really not comparable to those of ordinary people...

Of course, they were just two ordinary villagers, perfectly normal.

But the man in the T-shirt stared at the other person very cautiously and didn't move for a long time.

I asked in confusion: "Is there something wrong?"

The man in the T-shirt said calmly: "Take a closer look, are these two people normal?"

Is it normal? Why is it abnormal? I looked over again in surprise.

When I saw it, I was so shocked that I got goosebumps.

I saw the two villagers talking and laughing, carrying hoes and walking towards the foot of the mountain.

But halfway through, he turned back again. Tathagata kept wandering around the Wild Dog Ridge over and over again.

Judging from how happy they were chatting, they seemed not to notice at all.

"The devil beats the wall." I immediately said nervously.

The man in the T-shirt nodded: "It seems that the person who runs the ghost market has arrived. In order to isolate the outside world, he set up a enchantment array in Wild Dog Ridge."

"Damn it." I looked at it with panic in my heart: "These two villagers won't be wandering around the mountains all their lives, right? If they continue like this, they will be exhausted sooner or later."

The man in the T-shirt hesitated for a moment, and finally stood up: "Let's go, it's best not to cause trouble."

I looked at the man in the T-shirt with a surprised look on his face: "Are you ignoring them?"

"We can't control it." The man in the T-shirt said, "We can't protect ourselves now. We just hope that the ghost market will end soon, and they may still be able to survive."

I feel a little uncomfortable just waiting to die like this.

Finally, Zen Master Baimei couldn't stand it anymore, so he recited Amitabha and said, "Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Everyone, be careful and you won't be discovered."

Zen Master Baimei had already spoken, but the man in the T-shirt couldn't just sit back and watch, so he pointed at Li Mazi and said, "You go forward twenty steps and then pee."

Li Mazi was stunned for a moment: "But I'm no longer a virgin..."

"You don't have to be a virgin." The man in the T-shirt said: "You have been hit by a blow before, and your yin energy is very strong. Fighting poison with poison can break the enchantment formation here."

Li Mazi nodded immediately, ran over to pee, and then quickly withdrew.

The two villagers finally found their way down the mountain this time. They walked down the mountain talking and laughing, but they didn't realize that they had been walking on the mountain all day.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

The man in the T-shirt looked in the direction of the village with a gloomy expression.

I don’t know what the man in the T-shirt is worried about at the moment, and I don’t care.

After the two villagers came down the mountain, the man in the T-shirt also took us, and continued to carve out a path through the thorns, heading down the mountain.

At the foot of Wild Dog Ridge is a village, with only a dozen or so households, and a few acres of thin fields next to it.

At this time, the fields were full of wheat seedlings, with some scattered white snow covering them.

Since we came in secretly, we couldn't be discovered by the villagers. It happened that the man in the T-shirt found a firewood pile in the wheat field, so we quietly sneaked behind the firewood pile, hollowed out the firewood pile, and then got in, so that we could avoid the cold and hide.

It's just that it's a bit uncomfortable for four adults to be trapped in this small firewood pile.

Moreover, the entire village was shrouded in fog, making it blurry. From our position, we could not see very clearly.

The man in the T-shirt had been looking at the direction of the village for a long time before turning his head and saying, "It seems we are not the first people to come here."

Zen Master Baimei silently clasped his hands together and did not express any opinion.

I asked the man in the T-shirt in confusion, is there someone else here already?

The man in the T-shirt nodded and motioned for me to look outside.

Through the fog, I could see many villagers wearing commoners walking around the village and saying hello to each other when they met.

And among these villagers, there were actually many dark shadows mixed in.

These black figures walked very fast, and I couldn't see their faces or their clothes clearly at all. I could only see groups of shadows.

Something is wrong. The distance is the same. Why can I see the villagers clearly but not them clearly?

A creepy thought slowly emerged in my mind, could it be that...these black figures are not people, but ghosts.

Come to participate in the ghost market?

I was startled by my own thoughts and quickly asked the man in the T-shirt if this was the case.

The man in the T-shirt patiently explained to me that currently he couldn’t tell whether these black figures were humans or ghosts. If the shadows were wearing black cloaks, it would also have this visual effect.

But if they were humans, why couldn't the villagers notice them when they were walking around among the villagers?

I asked the man in the T-shirt. The man in the T-shirt was silent for a long time and then whispered: "It seems that the villagers have been controlled..."

What does it mean to be controlled?

"Take a closer look and see if there is anything weird in the village." The man in the T-shirt asked.

I stared at it carefully for a long time. Except for the dark shadows that shuttled among the villagers, there was nothing weird about it.

The man in the T-shirt said: "Why are there no poultry in the village? There are not even dogs barking."

When the man in the T-shirt said this, my heart suddenly skipped a beat. Yes, no matter how remote the village is, there should be the sound of cocks crowing and dogs barking in the village. But it's so quiet here, as if a silent movie is being staged.

The man in the t-shirt looked back at us and said, "There's good news and bad news."

Li Mazi immediately asked: "The good news is that Ye Long is here?"

The man in the T-shirt nodded: "Yes."

"What about the bad news?" I asked.