Merchant of the Underworld

The heads of these people were all covered with blood, and their eyes were wide open. There were no eyeballs, only the whites of their eyes. He stared at me coldly, full of endless resentment and hatred!

My brain suddenly felt a little lack of oxygen, and I almost screamed in fright.

But I knew in my heart that everything in front of me was definitely an illusion, so I immediately picked up a willow stick and started beating Li Mazi and Yin Xinyue.

The two gradually stopped struggling and slowly raised their heads to look at me.

I pulled their hands and said, "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it when we get back. Let's get out of this willow forest first."

Li Mazi looked at me tremblingly, then glanced at Yin Xinyue. Yin Xinyue looked at me with the same horrified expression, as if she was sizing up a monster.

"What's wrong?" Seeing the expressions of the two people, I knew something was wrong and asked quickly.

Li Mazi was the first to speak: "Brother Zhang, are you a human or a ghost?"

"Of course they are human beings." I said, dumbfounded, "Let's go!"

Li Mazi said: "No, no, I saw a bunch of heads hanging on your waist just now, and you wanted to cut off my head too."

Yin Xinyue also nodded: "Brother Zhang, I just saw you pulling out my hair like crazy..."

I couldn't help but laugh. What kind of hallucination did the two of them have? But thinking about the hallucination I had, it seemed even more boring. I actually mistook the two tree stumps for them.

I had no choice but to ignore that and told the two of them that everything was an illusion, that there was something wrong with this old willow tree, and that we should return to the village quickly.

This time I specifically told the two of them that no matter what they heard, even if your own mother called you to go home for dinner, you should not look back, and then they walked out of the willow forest smoothly.

After walking out, the chilly feeling finally disappeared. I looked back at the dark forest with a horrified look on my face, still feeling a lingering fear.

Damn it, what kind of secret is there in this willow forest?

It was completely dark now. When we arrived at the old man's residence, Li Mazi kicked the door open out of anger, raised his fists and wanted to accuse him.

Unexpectedly, the old man was already waiting for us in the house with a kerosene lamp and a coat.

I don’t know why, but when I saw the old man, I felt very at ease, and the panic I felt before was slowly suppressed.

The old man looked at us carefully and then asked: "Why did you come back so late?"

I coldly threw the bundle of willow branches in front of him and said, "Tell me why you want to harm me."

The old man smiled and said: "Of course I'm training you! With your three-legged cat skills, if you don't develop your sense of crisis, even if you go to the Graveyard, you will still be giving away a few lives in vain."

After saying that, the old man knelt down and carefully inspected the willow branches. Finally, he shook his head and said, "It's not enough. I'll fold some more and bring them back."

Damn it!

Li Mazi was instantly irritated and cursed: "If you want to break it, you can break it yourself. Even if you kill me, you won't go. Is that a place where living people can enter?"

The old man smiled and said: "Look at how excited you are, it's just a joke."

Having said this, he stopped paying attention to us, but took out many tools, hammers, nails, and many colorful woolen ropes from the house, and started to take action.

I saw that he first used a hammer to drive steel nails into the ground, then inserted wicker sticks, and then wrapped woolen ropes of various colors, and soon weaved a human shape with arms and legs.

Li Mazi was attracted by the old man's mysterious behavior, and he was no longer angry. Instead, he squatted down and observed carefully, asking what the old man was stirring up.

The old man smiled and explained to us that these steel nails were seven-inch coffin nails, which were taken from the coffin of a woman who was raped and died.

The wool rope is also made of dead people's hair, woven and dyed.

As for the oldest willow tree in the willow forest, it needs to be watered with fresh human blood every week, so it grows taller and stronger.

These are real Yin materials, full of Yin energy. He wants to fight poison with poison, and use these villains to break the resentment of that golden quilt!

I took a breath and looked at the old man a little doubtfully: "Will this thing... work?"

The old man snorted coldly: "Don't worry! I have been a trader in femininity for decades. I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. This trick has always worked and I have never failed."

Although the old man said this, I still have some doubts.

I finally figured out that this guy was just trying to comfort us. If he really cared about us, he would have at least given us a few words when we went to Willow Forest before.

In front of the old man, we still look too immature.

The old man's movements were very skillful. It didn't take long for those seemingly messy willow branches to be tied into the shape of a little person. The arms, thighs, and body were all in proportion to a normal human being. Finally, they were even highlighted with cinnabar. Eyes and nose.

Looking at this row of little people, I burst into laughter and asked the old man why he had to pierce so many people?

The old man said that the golden quilt would mistake the villain for a living person and persecute him. Once this villain is dealt with, the resentment of Golden Quilt will probably be vented, so we can take action...

It dawned on me.

The old man used scissors to cut out sections of small branches and inserted them between the villain's legs.

Seeing this scene, Li Mazi burst into laughter, and Yin Xinyue blushed even more, muttering "old gangster" under her breath.

I couldn't help laughing, and asked the old man if he wanted to be so lifelike and add a small penis to the villain?

The old man explained: "You don't know something about this. Although this thing is small, it plays a big role. What the golden quilt hates most is men, so it only kills men. Putting this thing in is telling Jinsi Quilt, this one in front of you is a man, if you throw something that you can’t distinguish between male and female, the golden quilt may not accept it.”

I thought about it and couldn't help but admire the old man's thoughtfulness.

The old man sighed and said that it was just that he had gone through too many things, and that all those who were not careful in the business of being a ghost merchant were dead.

After doing this, the old man put a piece of coarse cloth on the little man.

If you look at this from a distance, you really can't tell whether it's a real person or a willow branch...

It was already half past eleven. The old man handed the little man to me and said, "Go quickly! Remember, when you get to the mass grave, throw the little man directly next to the quilt. Try not to show your face, so as not to steal the chicken. Don't lose too much rice."

"If you don't succeed, you must escape in time. No matter what happens on the way, you are not allowed to look back. Do you understand me?"

After what happened in Willow Forest, we kept every word and deed of the old man in mind, because even the slightest carelessness could lead to catastrophe.