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There was a dead silence in the burial cave.

From near to far, the neatly packed coffins formed a circle of black shadows, sleeping in a dark lair, emitting the smell of mold and spores.

Yu Ran rubbed the dust on his fingertips, "If my guess is correct, we are all bridegroom candidates in the eyes of the villagers."

The most frightening task for a bone relative is not to let them guard the ancestral hall, but to choose a suitable husband for the female ghost who died unjustly with her eyes in the dark.

Once you figure this out, most of the doubts will be solved.

Why did the shadow media look so ugly after Chen Tong died on the first night of the vigil, because the person who died was not what they expected.

In fact, what these villagers wanted at the beginning was a male corpse, so that they could marry the dead Feng Yue and resolve the "curse" in the village.

So at the beginning their goal should be Shen Tongyu.

On the first night of the vigil, the evil medium sent the crazy boy Nian San to kill people, but Shen Tongyu did not know what method he used to transfer the crisis to Chen Tong, who was watching the night with him at the ancestral hall.

Of course, this is not Yu Ran's guesswork.

After he woke up that night, he immediately went to the ancestral hall with Yan Shiche, and saw Chen Tong who had died hanging from the beam, and Shen Tongyu who was sleeping beside him.

It took only 2 minutes from Chen Tong struggling and howling to his companions coming, and the incense burner in the furnace was almost full, indicating that someone had just finished filling it.

And Shen Tongyu kept claiming that he was asleep, and Yu Ran didn't believe that Chen Tong's timid character would allow his companion to fall asleep and go to light incense by himself.

It was the third night that made Yu Ran confirm his guess. Since the dark agent failed to achieve the killing goal the day before, he repeated the same trick.

Twenty-three made another shot, and the target became Yu Ran, but was stopped by Yan Shiche.

According to Shen Tongyu's statement "I don't know why I fell asleep", Yan Shiche should have fallen asleep like him, but the reality is the opposite, which shows that Shen Tongyu has been lying.

This can also explain why Shen Tongyu was so flustered when he saw the strangle marks on Yu Ran's neck in the morning.

He didn't fall asleep at all that night. Instead, he used props after encountering danger and passed on the result of his death. Then he watched Chen Tong cry in fear after being mistakenly captured by Er San, and he hung himself in despair after calling for help to his companions in vain. On the beam.

Yu Ran quickly opened the mall in his mind, he remembered vaguely seeing props that could transfer danger before.

Ah, here--

[Surrogate Jack: (worth 648 fear points) Jack is a well-known scapegoat boy, he stood on the guillotine for his cowardly king, and who do you decide to choose to be your loyal Jack? 】

The icon of the product is the J of hearts and the K of spades spliced ​​together. In the playing cards, Jack represents the servant and knight, and King represents the king.

As long as you stick the jack of hearts props on the body of the scapegoat you want to lock, and keep the K of spades for yourself, then the opponent will resist a fatal danger for you.

Shen Tongyu probably killed Chen Tong by relying on this method.

Yu Ran paused, and said to Yan Shiche: "Do you see what is behind me?"

"No, what's the matter?" Yan Shiche glanced behind the young man, but found nothing.

Yu Ran groaned, and continued to search for other places on his body.

Not in the pocket, not on the trousers, and no one else can touch the close-fitting place, which avoids the embarrassment of undressing.

When arguing with Shen Tongyu this morning, Yu Ran didn't fail to see the hatred in his eyes.

According to the character of the other party who is greedy for life and afraid of death like a dog, it is definitely not kind to offer to help them keep watch at night.

If it were Yu Ran himself, when the enemy was out to die, if he could do something to the other party and attract ghosts to kill him with a knife, that would be great...

He sat down on a rock, took off his shoes, raised his hand to touch it, and after a while, tore off a piece of paper as thin as a cicada's wing.

The paper was firmly stuck to the soles of Yu Ran's shoes, and because it was so thin, it didn't feel like walking at all.

"Jack of Hearts?" Yu Ran couldn't see it, so he could only hand it to Yan Shiche.

"Ah."

Yan Shiche's eyes were fixed on the card, it was indeed a jack of hearts, and the eyes of the villain on the card were staring at Yu Ran stiffly, no matter where the paper moved, its eyeballs would follow, locking on the target firmly, looking Very weird.

"Tear it off." Yu Ran said lightly, "Look inside the hole again."

"it is good."

Yan Shiche grabbed the card in his hand and tore it up casually. The villain with funny features suddenly showed a frightened expression, and the face drawn with stick figures suddenly magnified on the paper. He grinned and screamed, and the ax in his hand kept hitting The face of the card seems to want to escape from it.

The torn cracks ran through the cards, and Jack's body was also torn apart, struggling desperately on the paper. In an instant, the dark red ink overflowed the cards, and he could no longer see any pictures clearly.

The man's fingertips paused for a moment, but in just an instant, the shattered cards fell from his hands and stepped into the dirt.

He leads the way, Yu Ran follows behind.

The burial cave is trumpet-shaped, with a large opening and a small inside. The further you go in, the narrower the two walls of the cave become, until in the end only one person can pass through with his head bowed.

"Did you find anything?"

Yu Ran frowned and asked, the air inside was becoming more and more cloudy, with the stench of rotting animals and plants faintly wafting.

"It stinks." Yan Shiche wrinkled his nose, "It smells rotten."

After walking for another 2 minutes, the rock wall expanded slightly, allowing the two to pass side by side.

The stench that Yan Shiche smelled became stronger and stronger, and in the end Yu Ran couldn't help covering his nose.

Further back, there was a faint light, trembling in a trance, turning a corner, Yu Ran narrowed his eyes.

After seeing the dark eyes for a long time to accept the light, Yu Ran could see clearly that there was a tall statue of a god in front of him, and three candles were placed in front of the statue, burning slowly, with red wax tears piled underneath.

The statue is almost exactly the same as the one in the ancestral hall, painted all over, holding a gossip plate in the left hand, and a nine-story pagoda in the right hand, but the one in front of me is colorful, like a newly built one.

And because of this, the red lips of the statue stretched from the ears to the chin, which was originally a mighty and serious painting, now looks weird and frightening.

"The stench comes from inside."

Yan Shiche frowned fiercely, and the scar on his Adam's apple trembled when he spoke, as if he was afflicted by the rancid smell.

"This should be what the shady medium said, the new god statue made of gloomy wood." Yu Ran said.

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and stroked the lips of the idol, and sure enough, there was a touch of red on his fingertips, and the fresh paint was still wet.

Looking at Yu Ran's actions, Yan Shiche twitched his brows. He found that his employer seemed to like to touch strange things with his hands.

There is simply no vigilance at all.

"Is there something inside?" Yu Ran tilted his head and asked Yan Shiche.

"Yes, do you want to open it and have a look?" the man asked.

Yu Ran knocked on the statue, and he made a hollow and dull voice, "Open it."

The two moved away the candle that was in the way, Yan Shiche went up to check, and found a thin crack on the side of the statue.

He took out a pitch-black dagger from his waist, and scratched it along the slit. He didn't know what material the dagger was made of, but it easily cut through the wood, and then a strong smell of rotting corpses gushed out.

"..."

Yu Ran pursed his lips tightly, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

The scene in front of me was disgusting.

Inside the statue is a female corpse, with both hands lifted up in twisted movements, with a strange posture. The head, neck, body, and limbs are all nailed into the body of the statue with black coffin nails that are long in the palm of the hand, and they fit together completely.

"Chen Tong." Yu Ran whispered.

The one in the statue was Chen Tong's corpse. She had been dead for only two days, but her whole body was rotted beyond recognition. Her identity could only be identified through familiar clothes.

The faces of the two people present were very ugly. They didn't expect to see their dead companions here.

"Close it?" Yan Shiche asked.

"Wait." Yu Ran endured his nausea and wanted to go up to see it.

After walking two steps, he suddenly stepped back and said to the man, "Go and see if there is anything else in the statue."

Yan Shiche leaned forward resignedly, who made him a bodyguard who could do everything with a market price of [-]?

Holding his beloved dagger in pain, he pried Chen Tong's body apart.

Snapped.

Something fell to the ground.

It is a bamboo slip.

Yu Ran raised his chin in a gesture, Yan Shiche picked up the bamboo slip and lit it with a candle.

In the center of the bamboo slips is engraved a picture of yin and yang, fish and Tai Chi, surrounded by small seal characters, densely written with handwriting.

Header——

[Everything bears yin and embraces yang, full of qi for harmony][1]

The ancient characters behind are complicated and jerky, and Yu Ran can only vaguely recognize a few sentences——

【...Tai Chi moves to generate yang, moves to extremes and stillness, stillness to generate yin, and stillness to moves again... Five qi flow smoothly, four seasons move...】

【…… Establishing the way of the sky, called yin and yang.The way to stand on the ground is softness and rigidity...]

【...The original is the end, so we know the theory of death and life...】[2]

Cave burials and villages, men's coffins and women's coffins...the patterns of these yin and yang fish correspond to the content of the text one by one.

The original is the end, so we know the theory of death and life.

Yu Ran laughed, the dim light of the candle trembled, and a layer of gold powder was placed on the edge of his thick eyelashes, he raised his eyes slightly, his eyes were shining brightly.

"I see - there is one more, indeed there is one more... There is still one more verification..."

In the empty cave, only Yu Ran's soliloquy can be heard.

He murmured in a low voice, suddenly his face burst into a different brilliance, his voice trembled with excitement, "Let's go, let's go back."

Yan Shiche's eyes fell on the back of Yu Ran's leaving. In the quiet cave, no matter whether it was the short and suppressed breathing or the sudden acceleration of the heartbeat, nothing could escape his ears.

The young man's smooth curly hair danced happily with his steps. The man looked at it for a long time, and suddenly sighed softly.

It's over, he seems to have set up a trouble-making machine.

It was just dawn when the two returned. When they arrived at the small courtyard, Qu Rui and Cheng Xiyou had been awake for some time, pacing back and forth in the courtyard, looking very anxious.

Cheng Xiyou's face was pale, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them coming back. With a mournful face, he shouted:

"Brother Yu Yan, something happened to Shen Tongyu!"

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[1] Quoted from "Laozi"

[2] Quoted from "Tai Chi Tu Shuo"