After Marrying the Lord of the Underworld

Lu Yingjiu told those people: "You take the talisman paper and stand there waiting for me. It's best not to move a step."

Yang Tianle tightly grasped the talisman paper that Lu Yingjiu gave him, and nodded repeatedly.

Lu Yingjiu was just about to go find Jing Xian, but suddenly stopped in her tracks.

Yang Tianle saw that he was not moving, and asked cautiously: "What, what's the matter? Is something wrong?"

"The Yin Qi has dissipated a lot, but it hasn't disappeared completely." Lu Yingjiu said, "A ghost here has died."

"One?" Yang Tianle's face turned pale, "How many ghosts are there?"

"I don't know. Anyway, I have to find Jing Xian now." Lu Yingjiu said.

In fact, he didn't think that Jing Xian would be in danger.

Even, the ghost that died just now... might have been done by Jing Xian.

But even if there is a one in ten thousand possibility, his inference is wrong, and the consequences are something he is unwilling to face.

Lu Yingjiu took a last look at Yang Tianle, they held their talisman papers and stayed where they were, there was no problem.

He tore off a piece of talisman paper, and just walked tens of meters to the place where the yin energy was fluctuating, when he saw Jing Xian just turning the corner.

Lu Yingjiu stopped in her tracks: "...Where did you go?"

Jing Xian smiled at him: "Accidentally went wrong."

Lu Yingjiu pursed his lips, looking unhappy, obviously he didn't believe it: he was just about to abandon Yang Tianle and the others, and ventured to find Jing Xian, but Jing Xian himself came back after wandering around, just like a spring outing. It was deliberately "lost".

Seeing this, Jing Xian quickly changed the topic: "Have you found the basement yet?"

"I found it." Lu Yingjiu replied, and he added in a low voice, "Next time, don't run around."

Jing Xian promised: "Okay, I will listen to you."

When the two returned to the stairs, Yang Tianle was also taken aback when he saw them: "This, this came back so soon? Either way, let's hide as soon as possible, isn't there other ghosts?"

The stairs were very narrow, Yang Tianle asked those faceless people to walk down slowly with their shoulders on each other.

This way of efficiency is too low, the depth of the basement is about minus 2 floors, with such a small distance, they walked for 5 minutes.

Finally, a cold door appeared in front of them.

The door is five or six meters high and made of bronze.

Lu Ying raised his hand, and the talisman flew up with fire, illuminating the entire gate.

On the facade is a relief of a hundred ghosts, which is different from the night parade of a hundred ghosts in traditional artworks. Every ghost on it is tearing each other's face - the winner holds a bloody piece of skin in his hand, and the loser The corpse of the victim stepped on the soles of his feet, grinning wildly.

And between the gaps in the relief, there are mottled liquid traces, black and red, which are easily reminiscent of blood.

This door is simply tingling.

Yang Tianle didn't dare to approach, and said, "What is this?"

Lu Yingjiu didn't care about the dirty door, so he gently placed his hand in the middle of the door, feeling the fluctuations above.

The yin energy was not heavy, but he felt the power of the ghost exorcism rune.

To his surprise, the door opened silently without much effort.

A strong stale smell hit, Yang Tianle took advantage of the firelight to look over, and saw a strange smiling face staring at him from a high place in the darkness!

His scalp was numb, and he didn't even cry out, he just fell back and sat on the ground!

Lu Yingjiu was very calm, reaching out to the face in the air——

The position of the face was extremely high, he stepped on his feet, and didn't touch it all at once.

Just as he was about to use the talisman paper, a hand stretched out beside him.

Jing Xian was tall enough, easily tore off the face, and handed it to Lu Yingjiu, with "Praise" written all over his face.

He said, "Are you still angry?"

Lu Yingjiu said helplessly: "Why do I feel that you have asked me this question several times. We are not in a relationship, so don't be so careful."

Jing Xian: "..."

He hesitated to speak with a full face.

Lu Yingjiu took the face.

It's not actually a real human face, it's just a painting on paper, but the colors and details are so realistic that at first glance, it's impossible to tell the real from the fake.

The picture shows a middle-aged man wearing a yellow hard hat, with dark skin, deep grooves at the end of his eyes and nasal grooves, he looks like a worker on a construction site.

The talisman paper floated to the depths of the door again, and there were different faces in the air.

All kinds of people are vivid on the screen, like some kind of weird museum.

Lu Yingjiu murmured: "...a human skin mask."

Jingxian asked: "Is this the drawing for a human skin mask?"

"Yes." Lu Yingjiu said, "These papers are the objects they want to 'imitate' the masks. In other words, this basement is where the Chen family used to make masks."

Yang Tianle was completely confused: "What? What are you talking about? What kind of human skin mask?"

Lu Yingjiu looked at him and suddenly smiled: "In theory, this basement is safe, you can stay there until I find the exit. But..."

Yang Tianle swallowed: "But what?"

"If the Chen family really honestly use animal skins as masks, then this place is safe. I'm afraid they really used human skins." Lu Yingjiu said, "It's not my malicious speculation. Sheep ghosts are obsessed with human faces. It is very It might have something to do with the human skin mask."

Yang Tianle's spine felt cold: "Then what should we do?"

"You still have to go in, even if you want to take a look at the situation." Lu Yingjiu took out a few more talisman papers, lit them, and let them float in the air, illuminating a large area.

In the darkness, paintings of human faces floated out one by one.

With the light of the fire, they could see clearly that the face painting was actually hanging on the iron frame.

Lu Yingjiu took the lead and walked in, Jing Xian followed closely beside him.

The space behind the door is very large, like a huge production workshop, with an iron shelf equipped with a large workbench.There are still unfinished human skin paintings on the workbench, a few pieces of damaged leather, engraving knives, stitched needles and threads, and various dye bottles that have long dried up. The rich color is condensed on the inner wall of the bottle, and it is almost completely black. .

Dozens of images of the same person are hung on each iron shelf, some are face paintings, some are real photos.It stands to reason that after decades, they should all be blurred, but I don't know what method the Chen family used, they are all as clear as ever.

Lu Yingjiu raised her head and scanned countless images.

Jing Xian said: "They are quite dedicated."

"Because the top-notch human skin mask is worn, even the closest people can't see it. If you pair it with the Chen family's talisman paper and change your body shape a little, it will be easier to deceive the world." Lu Yingjiu said, "This kind of mask requires a high degree of precision in production. Before making it, the maker must spend weeks or even months to observe and imitate."

He pointed to one of the shelves.

On this shelf are the workers they just saw.There are portraits of him from various angles on it, front face, left side face, right side face... In the photo, he is pushing a small cart on the construction site, he fell asleep exhaustedly on the subway, and he showed his face while eating with his family. Smiling, he was smoking a low-quality cigarette on the balcony in the middle of the night——the last two photos were obviously taken from candid angles, which looked quite scary.

It's as if someone has been spying on your life and you don't know it.

Lu Yingjiu continued: "Even the smallest expression, a wrinkle at the corner of the eye, the degree to which the mouth tilts when smiling, all have to be recorded. Even if it's not to imitate others, but to draw a new face yourself , also need to refer to these real materials. Therefore, these people were often regarded as stalkers or voyeurs in the past."

He walked through the entire mask workshop carefully by the light of the fire, browsing all the iron shelves and workbenches, and found nothing unusual.

Until you come to the southeast corner.

He seemed to see something in the blink of an eye, but it was not very clear.Going over, there is nothing on the ground.Regardless of the dirt on the ground, he directly swept the dust with his hands——

Dust flew in the air, and a faint rune mark appeared on the ground out of thin air.

Someone came before them!

That person had used talisman paper to clean up the traces left here.

His technique is very high, if it is another person, it will not be obvious at all.It's a pity that Lu Yingjiu came.

Lu Yingjiu made a trick, and the rune imprint flickered a few times and shattered.

The moment it shattered, half a cigarette butt and several footprints appeared on the ground.

There is a thick layer of dust all around, and there is also a thin layer of ash on the footprints and cigarette butts, at least a month or two ago.Lu Yingjiu estimated the size of the shoe prints. It was probably a size 45-46 shoe. There was only one type of shoe print, which should have been left by a man.

This slaughterhouse has been abandoned for so many years, how could anyone come back?

Could it be the same anchor as Yang Tianle?

If this is the case, that person did not bump into the goat ghost, it is really a high incense for the ancestors.

Yang Tianle led a group of faceless people and squeezed over to see, "Are we still here?"

"Someone has been here." Lu Yingjiu pointed to the cigarette butt.

Yang Tianle's already pale face became even paler.

"He came here a long time ago, but this place is really weird." Lu Yingjiu said.

At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from behind them!

The footsteps were hurried, echoing in the empty space.That direction was the door of the workshop, Yang Tianle suddenly turned his head and looked at the thick darkness behind him.He was so frightened that he subconsciously wanted to lean on the road to meet the wine, but he didn't know why he didn't.

Jing Xian squeezed between them and forcibly separated them, preventing Yang Tianle from being on the road to greet him.

But Lu Yingjiu waved his hand, and the talisman flew out, and the flames illuminated the face of the person who came.

It was Xiao Li's face dripping with sweat.

At his feet, the black fur ball sticking out its tongue, opened its mouth and smiled at Lu Yingjiu.That's what brought Xiao Li here.

Lu Yingjiu frowned slightly: "Didn't I tell you not to come in?"

"Things, things are not good." Xiao Li panted, "I didn't want to come in, but, but that girl somehow ran in through the window while I was drawing talisman papers outside!"

Chen Yanyan ran in by himself?

Xiao Li said again: "I was so frightened that I was half dead, so I hurried in to look for her. What if something happens to me? I couldn't find it no matter how hard I searched, but you," he looked down. The little black beast at the feet didn't know what to call for a moment, "This little black came to me and brought me here. Brother Lu, what should we do now?"

At this time, he suddenly saw Yang Tianle next to him, and the faceless people standing in a row hand in hand.

He was a little startled for a moment, with "Fuck" written all over his face.

Little Black Beast: "Aww!"

It rubbed against Lu Yingjiu's feet.

Lu Yingjiu picked it up and said, "I'm going out to find her. Jingxian, you and Xiao Li stay here and wait for me to come back."

Jing Xian said: "I'm still with you..."

"It's not safe here," Lu Yingjiu said, "If you weren't here, I wouldn't be able to find someone with peace of mind."

Jing Xian still wanted to talk, but was interrupted by Lu Yingjiu.He looked at Jing Xian seriously, "I will not inquire about your secrets, and I don't know why, but I have trusted you from the very beginning. I will not doubt my intuition, so, protect them, okay? "

He is so genuine.

Jing Xian looked at him silently.Lu Yingjiu could only see the flame falling in the man's deep black eyes, like a tiny light burning in the abyss.

The two only looked at each other for a second or two, but Lu Yingjiu felt like it had been a long time.

Then Jing Xian nodded and agreed: "I won't let them have an accident. You should also be careful."

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "Okay, I'm leaving."

Holding the little black beast in his arms, he walked neatly into the darkness.

At the door of the workshop, he turned his head and looked at Jing Xian again through countless face paintings.

Jing Xian was standing against the wall, with a tall figure, the lines of his long legs were vividly outlined by the firelight, and his eyebrows and eyes were beyond handsome—or, in other words, his gaze was on Lu Yingjiu from the beginning to the end, without moving away. opened.

Seeing Lu Yingjiu turning back, Jing Xian smiled at him.

Out of the workshop, the corridor was pitch black.

Lu Yingjiu still ignited the talisman paper, letting the talisman paper float beside him, emitting a dim light, illuminating the long road ahead.

Most of the time he acts alone.One is due to his personality, and the other is that he is strong enough.For so many years, he has long been used to walking among the rampant ghosts.

At this time, behind him, where the light disappeared, silently walked through the black mist.

The priest with a hideous face followed him, with a flower-like imprint on his body.They obeyed the ghost king's command, turned into black mist, and followed Lu Yingjiu from afar.In the mist, only fangs, red eyes, pale ghost hands, knives, guns, halberds, axes and hooks can be vaguely seen.All kinds of martial arts shone with icy light.

As long as any ghosts dare to approach, they will be shot and killed.

At the fork in the road, Lu Yingjiu put the little black beast on the ground.

The little black beast sniffed the ground, and finally howled, leading him to run in one direction.

……

Xiao Li and Yang Tianle huddled in the corner of the workshop, and the three faceless people were still holding hands, sitting in a row like elementary school students.

Jing Xian pulled up a chair and sat down.

There was no expression on his face, but Xiao Li somehow felt that he was a little unhappy.

Maybe he was worried about Brother Lu?He guessed so.

The atmosphere was tense and awkward.

The three of them don't know each other, so they really have nothing to say, and this is not a good time to chat.

Just as Xiao Li continued to guess who this friend named "Jing Xian" was, Jing Xian suddenly said, "Are you very familiar with Lu Yingjiu?"

"Me?" When asked suddenly, Xiao Li was a little nervous, "I, I, I have always known Brother Lu, the kind of one-sided acquaintance, he didn't recognize me before."

Jing Xian nodded, and asked casually: "Has he ever told you the story of his longevity lock?"

"Longevity lock..." Xiao Li recalled.

Lu Yingjiu told him about this matter. At that time in the beloved country, Lu Yingjiu told him that it was a gift from his dark marriage partner.Later, when Ye Feng was drunk, he seemed to have mentioned a word or two to him, chatting.

Xiao Li said, "Oh, I said that."

Jing Xian asked: "How did he... specifically say?" His tone was filled with subtle expectations.

Xiao Li replied: "He said it was given by his wife."

Jing Xian:?

"... Wife?" He hesitated.

"That's right," Xiao Li recalled what Ye Feng said, "You are his old friend, so you should know about it too. Isn't she married to Brother Lu? Isn't she a beautiful, eclectic female ghost with a hot body and a protruding lordosis? Houqiao, that's a person with outstanding demeanor, maybe he's also very virtuous, and will be a good wife and mother who can take care of Brother Lu... Alas, why do you have such an expression?"

Jing Xian's expression immediately froze.

"Hot body", "protruding forward and backward", "excellent wife and mother" whispered in his ears, and his expression was unpredictable for a while, confusion, confusion, hesitation and a little bit of disbelief appeared on that handsome face. It is vividly reflected.

"Female ghost?!" He sat up straight, "He said the ghost married was a female ghost?!"

"That's right." Xiao Li didn't know why he was so excited all of a sudden, and added cautiously, "It's always been, he can't marry a male ghost, right?"

Jing Xian: "..."

He was hit hard.

He didn't have the slightest thought of "Lu Yingjiu thought he was marrying a female ghost"... Thinking about it carefully, the thinking of normal people is indeed to marry the opposite sex.After so many years, he never showed up, of course Lu Yingjiu would think so!

Suddenly, there was a soft sound in the distance of the workshop.

Yang Tianle was immediately alert: "What's that sound?"

Xiao Li also swallowed.Although he was nervous and cowardly, he was an exorcist after all, so he still had to muster up the courage to protect ordinary people.He squeezed a few talisman papers tightly: "I, I'll go and have a look." He looked at Jingxian, "Then you, you, you, you, stay here to accompany them."

Jing Xian was still immersed in the blow, not thinking much, so he nodded slightly.

He already knew where the noise was coming from.Not human nor ghost, but...

Two minutes later, Xiao Li ran back with a pale face.It was written all over his face that he wanted to scream, but his professionalism abruptly suppressed the scream, making his expression extremely distorted.

Yang Tianle: "Is there a ghost!"

"No, no, no." Xiao Li stammered, "Yes, yes, it's a big cockroach! A cockroach as big as a mouse!"

Affected by the yin energy here, the nest of cockroaches had obviously mutated, each of them was bigger than a mouse, their shells were greasy and shiny, they huddled into a rustling ball, they spread their wings and flew towards him!Xiao Li was most afraid of insects in his life, and he was so frightened that he crawled back.

"It's fine if it's not a ghost, it's fine if it's not a ghost." Yang Tianle patted his chest, "No matter how big a cockroach is, it can't eat people."

Xiao Li sat down again, gasping for breath, still in shock, and quickly brought the talisman paper left by Lu Yingjiu closer: cockroaches should not dare to approach the fire source.

When he turned his head, he saw Jing Xian was still sitting on the chair, with a somewhat melancholy look on his profile in the firelight.

...It seems that he is still struggling with the "female ghost".

Sure enough, after a few minutes, after the atmosphere fell into silence again, Jingxian asked again: "Did he tell you anything else? About the ghost marriage."

Xiao Li replied, "There's nothing else."

Just as Jing Xian breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Xiao Li add: "After all, things like ghost marriages are against the law, so he doesn't feel comfortable mentioning them."

Jing Xian:? ? ?

Jing Xian's voice was raised several times: "Ghost marriage is illegal?!"

How could he not know about this!

He is such a living person... the dead ghost is here!Why is it illegal to marry him? !

Xiao Li was taken aback by his reaction again: "It's not true, that is, if you steal the corpse or marry the ashes, it will be defined as 'insulting the corpse'. I was wrong, I was wrong, Brother Lu It’s definitely not illegal, it’s just not recognized by law.”

Jing Xian sat up straight again: "That is to say, his household registration book says 'unmarried'??"

"Yes, yes, of course, isn't it?"

unmarried.

Unmarried unmarried unmarried.

Unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried.

Jing Xian received two blows in a short period of time, no less than five thunderbolts from the sky, and his hands were shaking.

He and Lu Yingjiu were married, and the ghost world recognized it, that is to say, all the ghosts knew that he had been married for many years.

but,

why,

Lu Yingjiu is still unmarried? ? ?

Is he...

Is he being scumbag! !

This is definitely scum, right? !

When Xiao Li met the people in front of him, his face was ashen, his eyes were lifeless, and he didn't know what happened.

Just as he was about to ask, he heard a "rustling" sound in the air.

He turned his head abruptly, and saw dozens of cockroaches the size of mice crawling towards them!Some of them spread their wings and took off!

His scalp was numb for a while: "Ahhh! Ahhhh! Help me!"

No one responded.

As soon as Xiao Li turned his head, the three faceless men didn't respond at all - of course they wouldn't respond either, Yang Tianle was more scared than him, and Jing Xian...

Jing Xian, like Yang Tianle, sat in a corner and shut himself up, his eyes were empty, as if he had received a fatal blow.

Facing the sky full of cockroaches alone, Xiao Li was extremely desperate.

……

Lu Yingjiu followed the little black beast all the way to the door of the women's locker room.

The door was ajar, he gently pushed it open: "Why are you here?"

In the room, Chen Yanyan turned his head abruptly, with a crying voice: "I don't know either. My vision blurred, and when I realized it, I was already here. Fortunately, you are here!"

Lu Yingjiu said: "It's fine, just follow me, everyone else is together."

Chen Yanyan got up immediately: "Yeah." She went up, took advantage of the situation and tightly held Lu Yingjiu's hand, and followed him back to the corridor as if scared.

She was very beautiful, and now she was in a panic, even more charming.

The two walked all the way, she bit her red lips lightly, and asked softly: "What's the situation now? Is there a ghost here?"

"Yes, there is more than one ghost who can steal people's faces." Lu Yingjiu said, "The way out is also blocked. I will take you all to a safe place and find a way to deal with the ghosts."

"Oh..." Chen Yanyan's voice trembled, "Will the ghost haunting me show up here?"

"Probably."

They talked one after another like this.

Almost at the basement, when turning the corner, Chen Yanyan let out a low cry, let go of Lu Yingjiu's hand, and bent down: "Wait for me, my shoelace is loose!"

Before Lu Yingjiu could turn around, she squatted down.She had just come out of surgery and was frail and airless. She was wearing a thin coat, but her shoes were a pair of fashionable short boots.At this moment, with a movement of her hand, she took out the thing attached to the inside of her forearm, and quickly stuffed it into the right boot.

Then she tore off the already loose shoelaces, and with one hand, she tied the knot again with some difficulty.

"Okay." She said, and went up to hold Lu Yingjiu's hand tightly, showing a smile, "Thank you for waiting for me!"

"En." Lu Yingjiu also smiled.

His smile was a little subtle, half a smile, and there seemed to be a sneer on his brow.

For a moment, Chen Yanyan was terrified, thinking that Lu Yingjiu had seen through her tricks.But Lu Yingjiu didn't say anything more, and continued walking forward.

Chen Yanyan breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Are those ghosts powerful? Will we be in danger?"

"Don't worry about your life being in danger." Lu Yingjiu said, "At least, you won't die before me."

What he said was natural and frank. Chen Yanyan was stunned for a second or two, then looked up at his side face, his ears were slightly warm.

When she started walking to the basement, she heard Lu Yingjiu say again: "And it's not just me, there are two other people. Although Xiao Li looks timid, he is still very brave at critical moments, and he is also a qualified ghost exorcist. As for Jing Xian..." He considered his words, "It's also very powerful."

"That's good, that's good." Chen Yanyan said with a smile, "It's also two great powers!"

They walked past the workbench covered with face paintings, Chen Yanyan couldn't help but look around, and grabbed Lu Yingjiu's hand even harder.

They kept going towards the corner just now.

As a result, as soon as they walked over, they saw a pile of cockroach corpses on the ground, and three people were paralyzed in the corner.

Yang Tianle was terrified, Xiao Li's face was ashen, and Jing Xian's eyes were empty.

All the negative emotions that human beings can have are vividly reflected in them.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

The two major powers he just mentioned collapsed immediately, and I don't know what made them like this.

Especially Jing Xian, he never thought that Jing Xian would show such an expression.

—Obviously he didn't know that it was something completely different that brought down the three of them.

He walked over, squatted in front of Jing Xian, and patted him on the shoulder: "What's wrong with you?"

Jing Xian grabbed his hand, and his eyes were resentful, as if there were thousands of accusations concentrated in this one look.

"Scum," he said.

Lu Yingjiu:? ? ?