Merchant of the Underworld

I asked the villagers to set up a ladder on the high wall of the ancestral hall, so that Li Mazi and I could get a general view of the situation outside while standing on the ladder.

I saw several black shadows appearing on the mountain. They were walking stiffly, distractedly, and seemed to be walking unsteadily down the mountain.

I recognized it at a glance. Isn't this the same villager who chased us up the mountain and disappeared? Judging from their current state, they are obviously controlled by wild dog spirits, but they don't know whether they are dead or alive.

Before they even came down the hill, I heard a thumping sound.

I was stunned immediately, what happened? Before they came down the mountain, someone knocked on the door again.

This sudden knock on the door also startled the villagers. They all looked at the door tremblingly, and at the same time asked me with fearful eyes what should I do?

I told the villagers to calm down. I leaned forward hard to see what was knocking on the door.

But the door is on the other wall and I can't see it at all.

In desperation, I had no choice but to walk down and ask the villagers to move the ladder to another wall, then climb up again and look in the direction of the wooden door.

The direction of the wooden door was empty, and there was no one there.

I gasped, what's going on?

I immediately looked towards the mountain. I guessed that the bewitched villagers should have gone down the mountain by now, right?

But when I looked over, my head buzzed loudly. The mountain was empty with no one, and the outside of the ancestral hall wall was also empty with no one. Everything seemed to have evaporated out of thin air.

I was unwilling to give in and thought they were hiding in a corner, so I looked around carefully.

But the other corners were also empty, with no one around.

Damn it, where are the people? Where have you been?

I took a look at the villagers and suddenly found that there seemed to be a lot more villagers. I was scared, wondering if those people had sneaked in. I didn’t know exactly how.

If those people are really allowed to rush in, then this ancestral hall will not be a hiding place, but a dangerous place! We couldn't go out, and I seemed to feel that the wild dog spirit was hiding in a corner, watching us eagerly.

I was scared. Unexpectedly, before the match started, the situation exceeded my expectations.

I took a deep breath and forced myself to calm down. At the same time, I winked at Li Mazi and asked him to climb up.

Li Mazi was suspicious for a moment, then climbed up the ladder. I whispered to Li Mazi: "Li Mazi, check. Are some of the villagers who disappeared before sneaking in..."

Li Mazi couldn't help but tremble when he heard what I said: "What do you mean? How could those guys sneak in? The front door and the back door are closed, and the other exits are blocked."

I said, "I don't know how they got in, but I think there are a lot more villagers. Check carefully and see if you can identify any of the villagers who were missing before."

Li Mazi took a breath of cold air and quickly told me not to panic, and must not let the villagers know about this, otherwise the villagers would flee like birds and beasts, and the consequences would be even worse.

I nodded, I know this better than Li Mazi!

Li Mazi observed it for a moment, and suddenly whispered to me: "Brother Zhang, something seems wrong."

"What's wrong?" I asked immediately.

"Tieniu is dead, right?" Li Mazi said.

tractor?

Yes, didn't Tieniu hang himself to death? Could it be that Li Mazi found Tieniu among the villagers.

This thought scared me to the point of sweating down my back.

Li Mazi said softly: "Look at the northeast corner. Who is the person chatting the most lively?"

I immediately looked over and was shocked when I saw it. The dead Tieniu, like a living person, was chatting animatedly with several villagers. But those villagers didn't realize that Tieniu was a dead person at all, as if they had forgotten about Tieniu's death, and they had a great time chatting with him.

"Damn, what happened to the grandson?" I asked. That Tieniu didn't look like he was possessed by a ghost. He was exactly the same as a normal person. There was no flaw in his expression or appearance.

"Look at the southwest corner again," Li Mazi said.

I immediately looked toward the southwest corner.

And looking at it like this, I almost fell off the wall.

In the southwest corner, there are also several people chatting. And the center of those people was clearly Tieniu.

Damn it, there are two iron bulls in this yard!

If it were an Iron Bull, it would be easier to explain. It could only mean that the wild dog had a vast spirit and could control Iron Bull with his mind, making Iron Bull 'come back to life'.

But now that two iron bulls appear in the yard, what will happen?

I observed the villagers carefully and found that they all had smiles on their eyes. The sense of crisis they had just now seemed to have disappeared, and they were chatting happily.

I took a breath. It seemed that the villagers were once again controlled by wild dog spirits.

I immediately roared: "Put the soybeans in your mouth and chew them!"

But the villagers didn't seem to hear it and continued chatting about something.

I immediately stuffed a handful of soybeans into my mouth, hurriedly walked down the wall, and stuffed soybeans into the villagers' mouths.

Fortunately, after stuffing the soybeans, the villagers woke up a lot and stared at the door fearfully again.

After the villagers all woke up, the first thing I did was to look at the northeast and southwest corners to see if Tieniu was still there.

Fortunately, Tieniu disappeared. The villagers were still chatting, but they were talking about how to resist the wild dog spirit.

I counted the villagers again and found that the number of villagers still did not decrease, but actually increased.

Damn, what went wrong?

While I was staring at the crowd in a daze, I suddenly felt a hand pat my shoulder. I thought it was Li Mazi, so I turned my head to look.

But when I saw the person standing behind me, I couldn't help but scream. It turned out to be Tieniu.

Tieniu was standing closely behind me. His smiling face looked so horrifying to me. There was even a trace of blood on the corner of his mouth, which was shocking.

He was grinning at me and said, "Are you looking for me?"

I screamed and kicked Tienniu away: "Get out of here, get away from me."

At this moment, I suddenly felt someone slap me in the face, then forcefully opened my mouth and stuffed something into my mouth. Then I heard Li Mazi shouting: "Bite quickly."

I chewed it subconsciously. As he chewed, his vision gradually blurred, and Tieniu disappeared, turning into a young village girl, looking at me with fear.

I immediately looked around, everything was normal.

Li Mazi pulled me aside: "What's wrong with you? Are you hallucinating?"

I took a deep breath: "What's going on? Why are you all fine? I'm the only one hallucinating."

Li Mazi said: "Haha, you only let us eat soybeans, why don't you eat them? You must have been tricked."

It suddenly dawned on me, yes, I was only looking out for the villagers just now, not myself at all. I laughed dumbly and said that I was sacrificing myself for others. By the way, who slapped me just now?

My face is still burning and hurting at this moment.

Li Mazi chuckled and said it was him who hit him.

After getting to know me, I realized that Li Mazi had noticed something was wrong with me since I got on the ladder. I even asked the villagers to move the ladder to the door. Li Mazi saw that I was weird, so he didn't let me go up anymore and kept observing me carefully.

I just curled up here and kept talking to myself, not knowing what I was talking about. A village girl brought me water, but I kicked her away.

I apologized to the village girl with an apologetic expression. The village girl was probably frightened out of her wits. When she saw me approaching her, she ducked into the crowd. She had no choice but to stay away from me.

However, the knocking on the door outside the ancestral hall continued.

So I asked the villagers to put the ladder on the wall again. With soybeans in my mouth, I climbed up little by little.

But who would have thought that as soon as I climbed up, a bloody hand suddenly came in from outside the wall and grabbed my arm.

I was so frightened that I had goosebumps all over my body, and I quickly tried to get rid of that hand!