C22

Although I only saw a part of it, I was sure that the painting was of the little girl in the back room.

At first, I was thinking how the owner could make the paper man look so vivid, but I didn't expect that he actually drew it based on the Yin Yang talisman.

I calmed down. The boss didn't seem to notice my abnormality. He put the book away and walked over.

"Friend, if there's such a rare ghost in the future, you can come find me. I can get all the materials you want. As long as the merits you give me are good enough, I can give you even the following items."

I nodded my head but didn't agree. The boss gave me a weird feeling. In the future, it would be better if I didn't come to this place.

"For the time being, I don't have any other requirements. Since the accounts have been cleared, I won't disturb you any further."

I took the ingredients and left without looking back. I didn't mention the herbs that I was going to buy to the boss.

Even when I went out and looked back at the dark shop, I could still feel countless pairs of eyes looking out from it, causing my hands and feet to feel a chill.

If an ordinary person were to stay in there, they would probably be possessed within half a day. This boss actually acted like nothing happened, but I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Shaking my head, I made sure that the boss wasn't following me out before heading back into the alleyway.

Even though the boss told me not to go in, I was still worried. The zombie had died, but the mastermind behind the corpse's return to Mingxiu had yet to be found.

If I'm not mistaken, the shadow that disturbed my dreams that day was most likely the old woman's son or the old man.

If the old woman wanted to refine a half-dead body, she could only make a move on the people around her. Perhaps that black shadow was created by the old woman after she extracted the soul of her husband or son.

It was already very late and the alleyway was completely dark. It was a good thing that I brought a lotus flower lamp and used a talisman to ignite the wick. The Yin Qi in my surroundings was immediately dispersed.

The lights clearly illuminated the stains on the wall. The dilapidated old wall was mottled with complex patterns. Some stripes that looked like blood emitted a fishy stench. As we went deeper in, some unknown meat paste gradually appeared between the cracks of the spiderweb-like wall. An increasingly unpleasant smell wafted out, making me unable to help but frown.

When I got to where the body had been, it was gone.

Other than the traces of fire, there was not even a speck of ashes left in the surrounding area.

I knew that the white ball thrown down by the coffin shop owner was definitely a way to deal with the zombies, but there shouldn't be any ashes left, right?

Suppressing the doubts in my heart, I squatted down and touched a layer of sticky liquid on the ground. If I wasn't unwilling to leave, I might not have been able to discover it.

The traces of viscous liquid continued to extend deeper into the alleyway. It was likely that something had collected the ashes.

A walking corpse was unlike a demoness. A walking corpse didn't have a soul. After a person died, their corpse would be invaded by Yin Qi. If a trace of consciousness extended out, they would become a walking corpse.

Although his strength was greater than an ordinary person's, he was actually much easier to deal with because he didn't have any intelligence. Of course, the zombie from before was clearly different.

However, even if it was just a normal zombie, it had some value. The corpse poison spread all over its body, and even if it was burnt to ashes, there would at least be a trace of this corpse poison in it.

If he was collected by someone maliciously, it was possible for him to cause a tragedy.

He must find the person who took the ashes with him.

I couldn't help but regret my decision to leave with the boss. I thought that there weren't many people in the book shop, so I just bought some things and packed them up. It seemed that I was too careless.

"I can only go deeper!"

I sighed in my heart. Looking at the endless darkness at the end of the alleyway, I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. Shaking his head, he suppressed the negative emotions in his heart and continued to walk forward while holding the lotus flower lamp.

The yellow candle flickered, but the wind never extinguished it. The fire of fire is bright and invulnerable to all evils. "

I chanted the Bright Fire Curse and kept the lotus lights burning as I walked deeper into the alleyway.

It was getting dark, and with one hand on the lamp and the other on my rucksack, I walked out of the alley and onto a street.

"This is …"

Looking at the sight before me, I subconsciously widened my eyes.

If I hadn't been looking around, I even wondered if I was being disturbed by the ghost aura again.

The lotus flower lamp in my hand stopped swaying. The surrounding Yin energy wasn't as heavy as the alleyway, but an ancient street appeared in front of me.

It was impossible to tell when the building was built, but one could imagine the bustling scene in front of the demolition site from the surrounding ancient buildings and tall doors, as well as the clean and flat brick street beneath his feet.

However, in the darkness of the night, only the lanterns hanging in front of the doors of the various houses still had a faint light. The cold wind blew past and lifted up the white cloth from the stalls, making them look like wandering ghosts floating in the darkness.

I don't know why, but a cold air rose from the bottom of my feet and I subconsciously swallowed my saliva. My heart couldn't help but beat faster as I started to retreat.

Just one street already gave me a feeling of extreme unease.

No wonder the boss told me not to go into the depths of the book shop.

Although I don't know the layout of the book shop, I'm sure that even this street is only the outskirts of the book shop.

Taking a deep breath, I continued to follow the trail.

Just as he took a step forward, the lotus flower lamp in his hand suddenly swayed.

I suddenly became absent-minded. When I regained my senses, I was already standing in the middle of the street. I didn't know where the alleyway entrance had disappeared to. The lotus flower lamp in my hand was still calmly burning.

Ring, ring, ring...

Following the sound of the bell, it shook up and down, and pieces of paper money were thrown into the air. Eight similarly pale people were thrown into the air with their backs bent, carrying a red coffin without a lid.

With each ring of the bell, the bearer of the coffin straightened up and took a step forward. His appearance was as humble as it could possibly be.

Because all these people, I'm in the shop of the wood coffin owner... I've seen it before!

These people were very similar to some of the paper men I had seen in Wooden Coffin Shop. Even the little vest I was wearing, the strange red spots on my lips, and the pigtails on the back of my head were almost identical.

Ring, ring, ring...

The person walking in the front held a bell in one hand and paper money in the other. Every time he shook the bell, he spilled a handful of paper money.

What's even weirder is that despite being just a few steps away, I realized that they had suddenly gotten much closer to me.

Ring, ring, ring...

Another bell rang.

My heart stopped, and I held my breath.

I don't know when this coffin appeared beside me, but inside it lies a paper man who looks exactly like me!