C7 Imitation

The dry well was located in the middle of our village, and from the moment I could remember, there had been a large stone slab at the mouth of the well.

According to the villagers, the well suddenly ran out of water.

When Aunt Tao and I followed the five Self-bunning Lady ghosts and arrived beside the dried up well, I saw that the large flagstone at the entrance of the well had already been moved away, revealing the dark hole in the well.

I anxiously asked the five Self-bunning Lady s what the situation was like. The five of them completely ignored me, and didn't even bother to glance at me.

Aunt Tao told me not to be impatient. She told me, since they were only able to track the location of the entrance to the well, it means that they are unable to enter the dry well.

I asked Aunt Tao what I should do next. Aunt Tao said that she would make a trip to the dried-up well, so I immediately requested to follow. Aunt Tao thought about it for a moment, then nodded and agreed.

Having decided to enter the well, I began to wonder where I should go to find enough rope.

It was also at this time that the five Self-bunning Lady ghosts stood together with their backs facing the entrance of the well, and the braids behind their heads intertwined with each other in the blink of an eye.

While I was still in a daze, I warned me to hug the back of her neck tightly from the Aunt Tao's back.

Aunt Tao and I quickly fell down the well, and Aunt Tao continued to pull at her intertwined braids.

I couldn't help reaching out my finger to touch the braid, but my finger didn't touch anything. The braid wasn't real.

The walls of the dry well were covered with moss. From top to bottom, there were iron rings inserted into the walls of the well. The air was moist.

When Aunt Tao and I reached the bottom of the well, we did not step on mud but on a stone slab that had completely blocked off the wall of the well. The sound of water could vaguely be heard from underneath the slab, and there was a narrow passage on the wall of the well.

After landing on the stone floor, Aunt Tao released the braid in her hand, and the braid quickly returned to its place.

I followed behind Aunt Tao as we walked along the tunnel. Not long after, the space in front of us suddenly opened up, forming an open space in the shape of a gossip. There were no other paths after that open space.

Zuo Mu was standing in the open space, frowning and deep in thought. There was a man lying motionless in a pool of blood.

The ground was a mess, littered with candles, ropes and coins, yellow paper and rags.

Seeing Zuo Mu, I was extremely excited. I immediately ran to Zuo Mu's side and pulled him along to size him up, asking him if he was injured.

After Zuo Mu shook his head and said that he was fine, I finally relaxed.

Aunt Tao turned the man on the ground over. His face was covered in blood and there were deep cuts on his neck.

Zuo Mu told the Aunt Tao that when he entered here, only the man on the ground was left. This man was already dead at that time, and the smell of the Soul Gathering Beast still lingered in the air.

He checked all the open spaces and didn't find anything else.

From the looks of it, we didn't manage to stop the Five Tombs Art. The man on the ground should be someone hidden in the shadows.

When he had free time, he would definitely go and find those two ghost servant who were unscrupulous to their own interests.

Aunt Tao carefully examined the man's corpse and came to the conclusion that the man's body and hair was similar to the village chief's. The skin color on his face was very different from the other parts of his body, likely due to the long period of time that he had been wearing a human skin mask.

Just as Aunt Tao finished speaking, the ground began to shake violently.

Zuo Mu pulled me and ran. After running out of the passage, he carried me on his back and climbed up the iron hoops on the wall.

When Zuo Mu carried me out of the well, the five Self-bunning Lady ghosts were still there.

Zuo Mu carried me as he ran out of the well. He did not seem to see the five Self-bunning Lady ghosts, but when they saw Zuo Mu, their eyes were filled with fear.

Because I was worried for the safety of the Aunt Tao, I laid on Zuo Mu's back and kept looking back. I saw that the Aunt Tao, who was pulling the braids of the Self-bunning Lady's ghosts, had also come out of the well, and was chasing after Zuo Mu and me at a fast speed.

Behind Aunt Tao, the ground above the well gradually caved in.

By the time Zuo Mu had reached a safe distance and stopped, a few of the Self-bunning Lady's ghosts had already disappeared. The dry well had become a huge pit with water gushing out from the bottom.

I still had lingering fear in my heart as I looked at the deep pit, and asked Aunt Tao if the man below the well was actually the village head.

Aunt Tao shook her head and said that the real Village Chief should have died a long time ago.

The relationship between the impostor and the person who has been resurrected must be extraordinary. If we want to know who the person who has been resurrected is, we have to know who the imposter is.

The imposter had done so many things for the resurrected person, but he ended up dying a horrible death. It was very likely that the resurrected person felt that the imposter was a burden and had tried to kill him to prevent him from being exposed.

When Aunt Tao finished speaking, she took Zuo Mu and I back to Elder Li's home. The people of Elder Li were already awake, and everything was in chaos because of Elder Li's corpse not being seen.

Seeing us return, the rest of the Elder Li's family gathered around and started to ask Aunt Tao to help them find Elder Li's corpse.

When they stop talking, we'll talk about the search for Elder Li's corpse but we couldn't find it.

They had already followed the old rules of letting the Elder Li's corpse stay at home for seven days. No matter where the last parts of the Elder Li's corpse were buried, they and their juniors would benefit greatly.

When the people of Elder Li heard Aunt Tao's words, they felt relieved. They did not say anymore and quickly evacuated the mourning hall. After they were done with their work, the Aunt Tao comforted them a few more times and started to ask them about matters related to the village head.

They told Aunt Tao that the village chief had already been the village chief for more than twenty years.

In the last two years, the village chief was no longer afraid of his wife beating her up, making her obedient. He even frequently gambled.

The village chief often lost because of his bad hand, but he did not seem to be short of money. He also did not seem to have lost all his savings because of gambling.

When the village chief became a different person, nothing special happened in the village.

After dawn, the village erupted because of the crater at the bottom of the dried well. Aunt Tao brought Zuo Mu and I to the Village Chief's house.

The Village Chief's house only has the Village Chief's wife at home. When she saw us coming, she quickly came over and asked the Aunt Tao where the Village Chief went. She awkwardly said that she didn't know if he went to gamble or not.

Aunt Tao directly told her that the Village Chief should have died a long time ago and that the Gambling Village Chief that she mentioned was an imposter. She also told her that the man's corpse that we saw in the well last night looked like that.

The Village Head's wife collapsed on the ground, stunned for a moment, then shrieked and chased us out, saying that we were all sick.

When Aunt Tao said that we would tell the villagers later that the Village Chief was an impostor, the Village Chief's wife quickly closed the door and covered her mouth as she cried.

First, Aunt Tao promised the Village Chief's wife that if the Village Chief's wife cooperated with us, we would not tell anyone else that the Village Chief was an impostor. Then, she could carefully think about when the Village Chief had become different from before.

The Aunt Tao had just finished speaking when the Village Head's wife anxiously said that the Village Head had changed since Gu Hai's death.

Aunt Tao creased her eyebrows and asked the village chief's wife to tell him about Gu Dahai.

The village chief's wife said that Gu Dahai was a pervert who would run amok in the countryside all day long.

Gu Dahai had an irritable personality. The wife he had married was either beaten to death by him, or he couldn't bear it any longer and ran away. He didn't even have a single descendant.

Gu Dahai liked to gamble, it was said that the capital for his gamble was all sent to him by his sister, who seemed to be a Self-bunning Lady called Gu Xinyao.

Afterwards, for some unknown reason, from more than ten years ago, his sister suddenly stopped sending money to him. From then on, Gu Dahai's arrogance had diminished quite a bit, and he soon ran out of money.

Gu Dahai suddenly died two years ago. When he died, he had no family, and no villagers were willing to guard his spirit. He was buried at home in one night.

On the night that Gu Dahai's corpse was buried at home, the village head guarded the village for him.

After Gu Dahai was buried, the Village Head did not sleep in the same bed as her for many days, and her speech and actions were different from usual.

After that, although the Village Chief slept together with her again, they never allowed any lights to be lit when they slept together. She also felt that her body was not the one in charge. However, her face was still the one in charge.

Later, the village chief often beat her and the child, also infected with gambling often away from home.

She was in charge of the money in the house. Although the village chief gambled, he never asked her for money.

When the Village Chief's wife got to this point, she opened her eyes wide and stammered a question to the Aunt Tao, asking if Gu Dahai was pretending to be the Village Chief, if so, where did the Village Chief go?

The village chief asked and waved his hand to stop Aunt Tao from replying, he covered his mouth and cried non-stop.

Someone knocked on the door at this time. The village chief's wife quickly wiped her tears away and went to open the door.

Aunt Tao will bring Zuo Mu and I out of the Village Chief's house, then towards Gu Dahai's.

Gu Dahai's house is already in ruins, we checked inside and outside Gu Hai's house, and we didn't find anything extra.

Aunt Tao stood in Gu Dahai's courtyard, frowning in silence.

I asked Zuo Mu in a low voice. If the imposter really was Gu Dahai, then who would be the one who revived him?

Zuo Mu glanced at me in disdain, and said that the fake one was definitely Gu Da Hai, he didn't even know who Gu Da Hai was that resurrected.

I rolled my eyes at Zuo Mu and asked him where the four corpses, four souls and the Ghost Infant had gone to. Zuo Mu told me that when the Five Tombs Art is completed, all of the things I said will disappear along with it.

Zuo Mu finished answering my question, and asked Aunt Tao if he knew about Gu Dahai's elder sister, Gu Xinyao.

let out a soft sigh and said that he knew her. He said that she and Gu Xinyao were once very close, but that she and Gu Xinyao had drifted apart in the Southern Ocean more than ten years ago.

From then on, she did not hear from Gu Xinyao again.

If not for the village chief's wife mentioning Gu Xinyao when Gu Dahai was mentioned, she would have almost forgotten that Gu Xinyao still had a younger brother, Gu Dahai.

Zuo Mu said that maybe, the person who resurrected Gu Dahai was Gu Xinyao.

Aunt Tao said that maybe, then again, in her impression of Gu Xinyao was very kind, she would never use the black sorcery of the Five Tombs Technique, and would definitely not kill her brother herself.

The village chief's wife had already told him that Gu Xinyao did not send any money to her brother all of a sudden, and that Gu Xinyao should have died more than 10 years ago.

If we assume that the one who has been resurrected is Gu Xinyao, Gu Dahai wouldn't wait until the last two years to start planning.

The person Gu Hai had resurrected should be someone else.

If that's the case, we want to find those who have been resurrected to be like a needle in a haystack. Those who have been revived should leave the village as soon as they came out of the well.

Zuo Mu picked up on Aunt Tao's words and said that the most dangerous place was the safest place.

Just as Zuo Mu's voice fell, a group of crows flew above us as they cawed and flew in circles above the village.

Aunt Tao and Zuo Mu looked at each other with grave expressions. Seeing Aunt Tao and Zuo Mu's reaction, I couldn't help but shrink my neck.

I've heard that it's bad luck to see a crow.