I Wasn't Born Lucky

The dispute between Xiao Li and Xiao Huang Ben finally ended in Xiao Li's victory.

Little Huangben was quite persistent at first, but after probing Xiao Li's attitude a few times, it felt Xiao Li's determination, so it gave up the idea of ​​letting him (with itself) sleep alone.

As a result, Xiao Li wrapped himself in a quilt and slept all night in the corner of Datong's bunk. The bed here was very hard, which made him not sleep comfortably.After the other reincarnations got up early, he also had to get up with him.

There is not even such a thing as running water here, they had to fetch water one by one to wash up, it was extremely difficult, Zhu Yiting put a cold water towel on his face, and complained: "Being hit by a ghost is bad enough, and you have to fetch water yourself, I thought I was in Metamorphosis."

Yongchun pushed him away, he was holding a dozen steamed buns in his hand, and was distributing them to everyone for breakfast, when he heard this, he immediately replied: "You are lucky that you can still stand here and talk, I have experienced a world before , In the deep mountains and old forests, let alone washing your face, you have to solve it by yourself in the depths of the woods, but it is dangerous to go to the toilet alone, so in the end we all pulled together in groups. I didn’t know that I thought elementary school students held hands. Where's the toilet?"

Zhu Yiting had never heard him mention this matter. Thinking about his painful experience of holding back his urine last night, he couldn't help sighing for a moment: "...It's absolutely miserable!"

Shi Ye couldn't stand listening to this, he coughed and interrupted Zhu Yiting's conversation: "Before the ghost finds us, let's go to the village chief to find out what's going on - some people distract the village chief, How about some people sneaking into the village chief's house to find out? Those who are eloquent are responsible for leading the village chief away, and those who are brave enough to go in, can anyone recommend themselves?"

Shi Ye's plan divides the reincarnated people into two parts, but the part that slipped into the village chief's house is obviously more dangerous than the former—who knows what's in the village chief's house?If there really are ghosts, wouldn't that be equivalent to a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?

Therefore, after Shi Ye's plan was spoken, the scene fell into a cold spot for a while.

Xiao Li said calmly at this moment: "I'll go, I'm very interested in what's in his room."

Zhu Yiting quickly turned his head to look at him, and struggled in his heart - according to the post, Sherlock is very good, if he can keep up with him, his chances of survival will increase, but he usually acts alone, No one knows what the consequences of acting with him will be.I heard that someone at the top of the list of reincarnations also likes solo solo, and never with other reincarnations...

He thought about it for a moment, and decided to move from his heart and persuade him first.

Except for Xiao Li, no one else volunteered to recommend himself. Shi Ye looked around in disappointment, and then said: "Then Sherlock, please trouble you. The others will go to the village chief with me, and a few others will go to the village chief." The villagers ask about the customs and strange things here."

Tao Fei recommended himself to ask the villagers, and Shi Ye led the rest to the village chief's house.

This morning, Juhun Village was not as quiet as usual. When the first rooster crowed, someone rushed to find the village chief—when that person came, the village chief was preparing to For breakfast, someone rushed in without knocking on the door. The village head Wu Shan almost choked to death on the salted duck eggs he just put in his mouth. He looked at the visitor with dissatisfaction: "Huniu, what's going on?"

The woman known as Hu Niu still had a look of fear on her face. She put her hands on the table and panted, "It's not good, village chief, something serious happened! Zhang Chang and Mrs. Li, they are both dead, so let's go!" Die in front of Zhang Tao's mourning hall!"

Wu Shan's complexion changed drastically, and the chopsticks he was holding in his hand fell to the ground. It took him a long time to recover his voice: "What's going on, please speak carefully."

"I went to feed Mrs. Li this morning to feed the chickens, but I found that she was not there. I searched around but couldn't find it. I asked a few people and they said they didn't see it. I searched door to door, and finally found it at Zhang Chang's house. The corpses of Mrs. Li and Zhang Chang, and Zhang Tao’s coffin next to it! Village chief, what’s going on, why don’t we know Zhang Tao is dead?!” Huniu recalled the scene at that time, waiting to be beaten a shudder.

After hearing this, Wu Shan remained silent for a long time. He bent his back as if he had been hit by something.

"The village chief... could it be that... her soul... came back?!" In the silence of the village chief, Huniu speculated, "Since that incident, our village has never been peaceful again. After finally calming down a bit, this kind of thing happened again..."

"Shut up!" Wu Shan raised his face tremblingly, the wrinkles were bending back and forth on his skin like earthworms, he gritted his teeth, "Didn't I say that you are not allowed to mention that?"

"Village chief..." Huniu was startled by his expression, and whispered.

"Okay, Huniu, I'll go with you to bury them." Wu Shan also realized this, and he managed to force a smile, "It's not about that. You see, now I have invited reporters, Reporting on our village, even if we don't do our old job, we can successfully transform and support ourselves, as long as this incident passes..."

He repeated it as if he wanted to convince himself: "As long as this matter passes."

Hu Niu looked at him hesitantly, but Wu Shan waved at her and walked out of the house with her.

As a result, when Shi Ye and others led the reincarnations here, only the wife of the village chief was in the house.Shi Ye immediately realized that something might have happened in the village that caused the village chief to leave.He immediately assigned another group of people to search for the position of the village head, using three prongs.

Zhu Yiting watched Shi Ye and others walk away. The young man straightened his clothes, showed a perfect smile, and walked towards the village chief's wife with the two bad friends behind him.

She was lowering her head to dig well water, and she caught a glimpse of Zhu Yiting's clothes out of the corner of her eye, and immediately raised her head: "Mr. Reporter? What's the matter?"

Zhu Yiting used his usual skills in dealing with relatives and friends: "I'm here to investigate, you look very good today."

The village chief's wife touched her face: "Where is it, Mr. Reporter, please stop joking."

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiao Li climbed in from the outside of the village chief's wall and walked into the village chief's house.

This house is a bit bigger than the others, but it is also quite simple. There are not many things in the house. It is divided into two parts: the kitchen, the living room, and the bedroom, which are connected to each other.

The sky outside is very dark, and the dark cloud hangs heavily on the horizon. It doesn't look like morning at all, but like evening.

Xiao Li went to the bedroom first, rummaged through the bedside table of the other party, and found a pile of books about the agricultural construction of the village. Besides, there were some daily necessities, which were not of great value.

He walked a little further, squinted his eyes and looked around for another week, then bent down, and dragged out a box from under the bed, with an ancient copper lock hanging on it.

Xiao Li flipped the brass lock with his fingers, looked around, trying to find a wire to use as a tool - just as he was about to search elsewhere, a strand of hair slowly slipped from the boy's pocket. It stretched out, became longer and longer, and pierced into the keyhole of the copper lock.

With a "click", the copper lock opened, and Tan Li retracted her hair.

Xiao Li touched the little head of the puppet in his pocket, took off the brass lock, and opened the box, only to find a small box inside. There were several handmade scarecrows in the box, each with a little blood red on the heart. Extremely scary.

In addition, there is a bracelet and a booklet.

He was just about to reach out to take the booklet, when suddenly one of the scarecrows slowly turned its neck, and a real grimace appeared on that face full of straw and no facial features!

Xiao Li's outstretched hand paused in mid-air.

The grimace slowly opened its mouth towards him——

Xiao Li turned the whole box over and put it on the bed, the scarecrow was submerged in the box, his eyes went dark, and he closed his mouth in bewilderment.

A faint meow came from a distance, Xiao Li quickly glanced into the distance, and then looked away.

The boy removed the box, picked up the booklet, and put the scarecrow back in.He opened the booklet, only to see a formula recorded on it, followed by a detailed explanation, this is some kind of ritual to condense the soul.

Xiao Li flipped through the booklet, stuffed the contents of the box back, put it back into the box, locked it, pushed it back, and so on all in one go.

Next, he searched the village chief's house roughly, and found no bigger clues, so he jumped out of the window.

While the reincarnation was acting, the entire Soul Gathering Village was also undergoing great changes.

A shirtless man who just came back from the field sat by the side of the room, eating white flour steamed buns, with a relaxed look on his face.

There was a figure walking towards him in the distance, it was a middle-aged woman, she was wearing coarse linen clothes, holding a black box in her hand.

The man looked up, and greeted the other party with a smile: "Isn't this Mrs. Li? What's the matter, what's your business here?"

Aunt Li turned her back to the light, and her complexion looked very bad. She looked down at the man, her face was slightly deformed, and she said each word: "Ah Gang, I have something for you that you forgot."

Ah Gang took the black box curiously: "Hey, what is this? Have I forgotten?"

"Just take it apart and have a look." Aunt Li said coldly, she turned and left.

The man looked up at her back, he always felt that Mrs. Li was a little weird today, it was an indescribable feeling, he looked at the sky, fearing that it would rain in the afternoon, he decided to do the things at hand before opening the box.

Ah Gang returned to the field, bent down and pulled up the weeds in the field.

Time passed by, and he was halfway through the pull, when he saw the famous Baodiao in the village passing the path in front of his house in a hurry, looking extremely frightened.

Ah Gang became curious for a moment, and stopped the other party: "Bao inquiring, what's wrong with you? Someone stole your wife?"

Bao Inquired stopped and waved at him: "Don't mention it, Mrs. Li and Zhang Chang are dead, you know? It's a terrible death, and the village chief wants to hide it!"

The freshly plucked weeds in Ah Gang's hand fell to the ground, and he stammered and asked, "How could it be? She...she came to see me just now!"

When Bao Da heard the words, his complexion changed suddenly: "What?! Aunt Li's body was still at Zhang Chang's house before, and I just came back from there! Did you fucking run into ghosts during the day?"

"But... look here, this is what she left behind!" Ah Gang subconsciously turned around to look for the black box as evidence that Mrs. Li had been here. He ran back to the eaves shaking his legs and picked up the black box, "She Said it was something I lost..."

"Don't! Don't! You should throw it away!" Bao asked, not daring to look, "I'm afraid this village is not peaceful!"

Ah Gang looked down at the black box in his hand, ran away suddenly, and threw it far away in the trash can. He was relieved, thinking that the matter was over.

This happened just now, Ah Gang was no longer in the mood to continue farming, he directly closed the house and went out to chat with other people in the village.

He didn't come back until nightfall, but as soon as he came back, he was stunned.

The black box returned to the front of his house at some point, and it was placed squarely at the door.

Ah Gang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his thoughts seemed to be bewitched by some object, he felt a part of himself was in that box, and he wanted to open it—under the moonlight, the man approached the box and looked towards It reaches out.

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At the same time, Chase shop.

A candle lit up the house, and Shi Ye stood by the bed, exchanging today's information with the reincarnations: "We went to track down the village chief, and found that he went to the house of a man named 'Zhang Chang'. Three people died, the killing from the ghosts has already begun, and I don’t know how long it will be our turn.”

Tao Fei picked it up: "According to the information from the villagers, the three people who died were Zhang Tao, Zhang Chang, and Mrs. Li. The village chief has been asking to conceal it. I don't know why. Maybe the clue is a black box. "

Zhu Yiting was holding a corn cob in his hand, which was given to him by the village chief's wife after being overwhelmed by him. He gnawed half of it, calmed down and speculated: "According to the opening CG, the black box It must be the key. I don’t know if it has something to do with the customs here. Anyone who opens it will die... Is it a box of death? I think of a possibility, do you know Pandora’s Box? Maybe this black box is like Pandora’s Box , once it is opened, it will emit the curse of the ghost."

Yongchun didn't laugh at Zhu Yiting as usual, because he felt that the other party's fart was justified—so Yongchun turned his target to Shi Ye and the others: "You guys have been out for so long, and you just inquired about this? Do you have any other news?"

He blinked his eyes, and pointedly cast his gaze at the black-haired boy beside the oil lamp.

Xiao Li was very close to the oil lamp. He watched the flames flickering, and the flames were reflected in those black eyes—he turned his head slightly and recalled what he had gained today: "This village used to live by condensing souls. Calling souls for the dead, but I don’t know why this behavior has stopped now. They perform the soul-gathering ceremony by making scarecrows. The summoned souls will first cover the scarecrows, and then transfer to the original body—this is also the case The reason why there is no threshold in the village is to facilitate the entry and exit of souls."

Yongchun: "........."

Zhu Yiting: "..."

——Wait, this amount of information is too much and too detailed, hello!Sherlock, how do you know so much!

"These are recorded by the village chief." Xiao Li went on to express his conjecture, "—and, it is not necessarily that the person who gets the box and opens it will die. Is it possible that... Only the dead will get this box? These two possibilities will exist, and neither possibility can be ruled out at present."

Under the flickering oil lamp, his words made Zhu Yiting's scalp tingle, because he faintly felt that Sherlock's state was not right at this time, it seemed that the other party was... very excited, just like the usual lazy and indifferent look It's different, he actually said so many words in one breath!

"But what kind of person is a person who must die?" Xiao Li raised his index finger, approached the flame, and lowered his tone as if talking to himself.

And that meow... also made him very concerned.

Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door of the reincarnated person, "Boom, boom, boom".

The expressions of everyone in the room changed, and the people closest to the door looked at each other, but they didn't dare to speak out for a while.

In the silence, Xiao Li stood up. When he came to the door, he heard the third knock on the door. He stepped in between the knocks and said, "We don't have express delivery."

Shi Ye who was ready at any time with the ghost exorcist in hand: "..."

——Is this person poisonous?

Xiao Li thought for a while, and added: "We didn't order takeaway either."

Shi Ye:? ? ?

——This man is poisonous!

As soon as Xiao Li finished speaking, the knock on the door stopped strangely, and then a cold voice sounded: "I'm not a delivery guy, I'm Ah Gang, I'm looking for Shi Ye, he left something here for me I'll give it back to him."

Shi Ye, who was named by 'him', turned pale. He couldn't wait to swallow the Ghost Pill, holding the ghost charm in his hand, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead: "I didn't lose anything. You have identified the wrong person. Go back."

"It's yours." Ah Gang said firmly, "Open the door, I'll give it back to you."

Shi Ye pressed the door latch tightly: "I told you it's not mine!"

Ah Gang insisted: "Why don't you take it apart and have a look? If it's yours, you take it away, if it's not yours, I'll take it back."

Shi Ye stretched out his hand and pasted the ghost talisman on the door bolt. He was terrified by Xiao Li's previous speculation about the "mortal man"—why did this ghost follow him!Why!His back was wet with cold sweat, and his voice completely lost his usual calmness: "I don't want to watch it, get out!"

Xiao Li was pushed aside by him, before he had time to do anything, Ah Gang's voice outside the door drifted strangely: "But it must be delivered to you...Look at the window, Shi Ye."

As soon as Ah Gang finished speaking, there was a movement from the half-open window. A black box squeezed in through the window with difficulty. It rolled across the wall in a swift motion, and finally stopped in the middle of the room.