no soul

Gui'er put his little pillow next to Lin Hong's.

Wan Guchuan and Duan Yu looked at Lin Hong.

"...Don't look at me..." Lin Hong began to feel guilty.

Duan Yu silently weighed it in his heart—whether it is Wan Guchuan or Lin Hong who is bold.

Wan Guchuan sighed.It can't be changed at all, why don't you believe in evil, "Go to sleep."

Lin Hong fell into a drowsy sleep, and woke up in the middle of the night, feeling something vaguely touching his forehead.

A little itchy, he frowned, and slowly opened his eyes, only to see a patch of red in front of him...

look up...

A woman in red is hanging from the beam! !

The woman was staring down at him with wide eyes.

The hair is disheveled, the face is pale and bleeding, the head is tilted, the eyes are bloodshot, full of evil spirit, the neck is covered with red silk, and the feet are dangling.

Lin Hong was startled, and wanted to cry out, but found that he couldn't make a sound. He couldn't move from the neck down, his heartbeat rose sharply, and his breathing became short of breath.

It was dark and quiet all around.

The woman was hanging on the beam, staring at him motionlessly.

What is she going to do... kill herself?Lin Hong broke out in a cold sweat...

Suddenly, she raised her arm and pointed in one direction.

what?

Lin Hong tilted his head and looked in the direction of her finger, and saw a forest.

What is she going to do by herself?

Looking away again, the woman was a little closer to him! !

A gray dead face was close at hand, looking at him without blinking.

what! ! !

Lin Hong screamed wildly in his heart.

He saw the woman grinning strangely...

Lin Hong felt that he was going to die, like Guo Zigui...

A hand suddenly covered his eyes, and a low voice rang in his ear: "Don't look at her."

The slender eyelashes swept across the palm of the hand, and the hand seemed to feel itchy, and moved a bit, but did not move away.

Lin Hong panted, his heartbeat gradually calmed down...

The surroundings were quiet, and he didn't know what was going on.Is that woman gone?

After that hand was removed, the figure of the woman in red was no longer in front of her.

Why not kill him?

Lin Hong was still in shock and looked sideways at Wan Guchuan, "She... she pointed in the direction of the forest over there."

Wan Guchuan looked over, "Go and have a look."

"Stop..." Lin Hong pulled him back, "Have you forgotten how Guo Zigui died? Is it really safe to follow her into the forest?"

Before Wan Guchuan could reply, the flames were brightly lit outside!Miserable cries tore through the long night.

Bandits are here again.

"Ah!!!!" The ghost beside Lin Hong screamed in pain.

Lin Hong sat up immediately.

The ghost is burning with raging flames!The fire lights up the whole house!

"It hurts so much!! Help me! It hurts so much!!!" Gui'er's voice became extremely sharp because of the severe pain and fear.

The figure ran around in flames, he rolled on the ground like crazy, and all the sheets he touched were set ablaze!The flames are brighter!

Lin Hong quickly grabbed the pillow and patted him, trying to put out the fire for him.

A burst of chaos.

Duan Yu poured the water from the teapot on him.

Wan Gu Chuan Duan came and poured a basin of water on him.

To no avail.

The flames were still fierce, tightly wrapping the small figure.

"It hurts! It hurts!!" Gui'er's skin was blackened and festered, and his bones were exposed. He stretched out his hand to Lin Hong in pain, "Brother! Help me!!"

"Help me! Ahhhhhhhh!!!"

As soon as the words fell, he fell to the ground, motionless, letting the flames burn him into a skeleton and ashes...

Sitting in front of him, Lin Hong was stunned, his limbs felt numb, his head was buzzing, and he felt that even the screaming outside became far away...

"It's useless," Wan Guchuan threw the basin on the ground, "Boom!"The copper basin hit the ground, making a series of noises, "It can't be changed, it can't be saved."

Lin Hong was still there in a daze.

Wan Guchuan looked at him for a while, and comforted him, "He's already dead..."

"I know..." Lin Hong's head was still buzzing, he pinched the bridge of his nose, and his hands were shaking violently.

Jiang Jiao sat on the bed without emotional fluctuations, and watched with cold eyes.

"Go and have a look in the forest." Wan Guchuan said, "So what can we do if we stay here? Day after day."

Lin Hong sighed, "Let's go."

Break through here, let Guier's soul go, and don't let him suffer this torture again and again-this seems to be the only thing I can do.

The bandits have collected all their treasures and have fled.

The village was in a mess.

The three of them stepped on the scorched earth and the tragedy of 300 years ago, and none of them spoke...

The forest is shrouded in a boundless night, thick and light, completely silent, not even the sound of the wind...

The river of blood washed down, and the strong smell of blood lingered for a long time...

The three walked vigilantly in the deep forest.

The "rustling" sound of feet stepping on fallen leaves was abnormally loud... Duan Yu was already very scared as it echoed in the dense forest, and the sound made goose bumps all over his body.

Suddenly, in the darkness ahead, among the shadows of trees, a red figure floated leisurely...

The three of them were startled and stopped.

"Ye Lang...Ye Lang...where are you..." The desolate voice lingered in the forest, ethereal and distant, like echoes in an empty valley.

"Ye Lang...Ye Lang..."

"Ye Lang..."

The red figure seemed to have no weight, floating lightly in the darkness ahead, very ethereal...

Lin Hong rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and whispered, "She's looking for Ye Cheng."

"Ye Lang, where are you? Ye Lang, you said that I will not marry you in this life..." The voice became a little anxious, and the red figure appeared and disappeared among the dense tree trunks.

The three of them stood still, for fear of being discovered by her.

The night was thick and suffocated, her voice lingered in the forest...

"Ye Lang! Ye Lang!" The voice suddenly pierced the dense night with pain and despair.

It's a pity that no one was able to respond to her, and the silence in the dense forest seemed to freeze.

"Ye Cheng is dead..." Duan Yu whispered while grabbing Lin Hong's sleeve.

Suddenly, the woman in red looked at them!

Those eyes were white with death, filled with hatred and resentment.

"Ah!!!!" With a sharp cry, the woman in red stretched out her sharp nails and rushed towards them staggeringly! !

"Damn!! Run!" Lin Hong grabbed Duan Yu and started running.He recalled the fear of being chased by her the first day, and when he thought of Guo Zigui's death, his heart seemed to be clenched tightly by something...

Wan Guchuan hesitated for a moment while pressing the hilt of his sword, and followed them.

The sound of footsteps in the forest is thrilling!The crazed woman's cry exploded behind them!

The distance is getting closer!

Lin Hong's eyes shook violently, and the shadows of the trees whirled. He struggled to avoid the trees, stepping on every step in the darkness.

The palms of his hands that held Duan Yu were covered in cold sweat.Duan Yu ran slowly, his hands clenched tightly for fear of letting go.

He could clearly hear his own heartbeat.

Wan Guchuan has already followed.

The sound of footsteps and angry screams from behind chased after him, and they got extremely close!

Lin Hong tugged at Duan Yu, staggered, and felt a chill in his heart, but fortunately, Wan Guchuan grabbed his wrist in time and pulled him to speed up.

The woman in red was so fast that she screamed, three big men couldn't run away from her, and her sharp nails were about to grab Duan Yu's back!

In the nick of time, Wan Guchuan slammed her hand away with his scabbard!

The woman suddenly burst into a shrill laugh!Her other claw is about to grab it again!

At this moment, a figure rushed forward!

"Boom!"

With a loud noise, someone threw the woman down and rolled out with her!

The three of them stopped in their tracks when they were startled by that sound, and looked back——

Jiang Jiao was sitting on the woman, pinching her neck desperately, her nails were embedded in her skin, dripping with blood.

Jiang Jiao's eyes were red, her expression was ferocious, and she strangled her neck tightly, as if she had exhausted all her strength, "Death to me, death to me...I want revenge...Death to me..." The sound was like a curse.

The woman was strangled and bloody from being scratched by her nails, but she was still smiling ferociously.

Lin Hong's heart was beating so fast that it was dangerous.He rushed forward to pull Jiang Jiao away, but he was a step too late.

Jiang Jiao's head flew out together with the blood.

Lin Hong stopped in his tracks and widened his eyes.

"Go." Wan Guchuan pulled him away, and Lin Hong was still staring at the back in disbelief.

The three continued to evacuate towards the distance.

Until a long distance is drawn.They looked back and found that the woman hadn't chased after her, she was standing there, her gray eyes were looking straight at them, and Jiang Jiao's body was still lying at her feet...

The three of them did not relax their vigilance, Wan Guchuan drew out his sword.

Not long after, the woman turned and left.

Lin Hong looked at the corpse left in place, he was still in a daze...

Duan Yu's face was pale, his feet were weak, and he fell directly to the ground.

Why didn't this woman catch up and kill them?

Lin Hong felt her hands and feet were cold, and she didn't do anything in the room today.

Such a crazy ghost...

"Because we buried her body?" Lin Hong guessed.

"It's possible." Wan Guchuan inserted the sword into the leather buckle on his back waist.

"Ye Lang...Ye Lang..." The woman in red is still like a phantom, drifting farther and farther in the dark forest...

"Ye Lang...Ye Lang..."

Her voice suddenly became crying, "Ye Lang, I can't marry you anymore, I'm not clean anymore."

The woman raised her hand and threw a piece of red silk up, and hung it on the tree. It was clear that there was nothing that could support her body, but she floated a little higher, and began to tie a knot with the red silk...

"She's going to hang herself? Shall I... shall we stop her?" Duan Yu was still in shock and didn't know what to do.

Lin Hong sneered, "She has already taken two lives, what are you doing to save her?"

Have you killed many people before?Although she may have lost her mind because of turning into a ghost, Lin Hong still couldn't help herself.

"I can't stop it." It's the same as being unable to save those villagers and ghosts.

Wan Guchuan frowned, and continued: "Ghost said that to resolve her grievances, she must fulfill her last wish. From what she said, I guess her last wish should be to meet Ye Cheng."

"But Ye Cheng already..." Lin Hong didn't dare to say anything, for fear that the woman would go crazy again.

Wan Guchuan said: "Try to rescue Ye Cheng tomorrow."

"Ye Lang...my Ye Lang..."

The woman puts her own neck in a knot...

"Don't look, let's go..." Lin Hong lowered his eyes

The red figures swayed gently in the darkness behind them...

The three of them stayed up all night again, so they sorted out their emotions and continued to work hard to get out alive.

"Are you sure it's here? Why do I feel like everything grows the same in this forest?"

In the early morning of the next day, they went directly into the forest to rescue Ye Cheng and take him to meet the female ghost.

"It's here. I remember that tree." Wan Guchuan pointed to a towering ancient tree not far away.

Lin Hong glanced at it and was really convinced. He didn't see any difference between this tree and others.

Wan Guchuan said: "When the corpse crawls over, follow his bloodstains to find it."

"Look at that corpse!" Duan Yu was about to cry.

Wan Guchuan found a rock and sat down, "Otherwise we don't know where he was killed, how can we save him?"

"What if... because we buried him, what if he doesn't come?" Lin Hong was worried, and found a place to sit down.

Wan Guchuan was silent for a while, "Not sure... When we went to bury Wang Ningxue, the monument for him was still there, and it has not been restored to its original state. ——I think we should only be able to change the part of the last wish. Only You can try your luck."

Lin Hong couldn't figure it out a little bit, "Tell me, if it's the world transformed by her resentment, why doesn't she just manipulate it at will? It's not up to her to decide what she wants."

"I've thought about this. Maybe she's also trapped?" Wan Guchuan speculated, "That's why we were hired to help her."

Lin Hong thought for a while, and felt that what he said was reasonable, "Have you ever thought about why she came to us?"

Duan Yu shook his head, "I don't know... I obviously can't do anything." He felt that Wan Guchuan and Lin Hong were basically solving the problem.

Lin Hong comforted him, "It's okay, you are quite funny."

Duan Yu: "..."

"Has anyone ever said that you are very bad at comforting people?" Duan Yu looked at him.

"No. Only people have ever said I'm annoying."

Duan Yu: "..."

Wan Guchuan said: "She shouldn't be looking for help or something, maybe she recruited casually, or maybe... she can only find us."

"I don't think it's just a random person," Lin Hong said. "There are three of us, two are in the capital, and one is in the ancient flag city. I'm afraid this was done on purpose..."

Wan Guchuan agreed with him.

"You can only find us..." Lin Hong murmured and repeated.

What do the three of them have in common?

Lin Hong really wanted to ask what Wan Guchuan did, but after thinking about it, he thought of many scary things.Curiosity killed the cat, it's better not to know.

He had no choice but to turn his head and ask Duan Yu, "What do you do?"

Duan Yu was a little embarrassed, "Ghost catcher."

Lin Hong: "..."

"Then you are still afraid of ghosts?! Don't you show your housekeeping skills?" Lin Hong's eyes widened.

Duan Yu was even more embarrassed, and whispered to him: "It's fake, it's a lie."

Lin Hong slapped him on the back of the head.A cheating stick?

Duan Yu covered his head, "No, my family mainly depends on Feng Shui!"

That's okay.

Dazheng Dynasty pays attention to Fengshui.There are quite a few Fengshui masters in Pingyang City, and Master Lin invited a few of them when he built his house.

"Then look at the feng shui of this village." Lin Hong pointed to the village surrounded by forests.

Duan Yu looked over and gestured with his hands, "Look, this village is surrounded by mountains and forests, where energy and wind gather."

"kindness."

"Holding the yang and embracing the yin, leaning on the river."

"kindness……"

"The houses are scattered and the land is fertile."

"kindness…………"

"I'm good at writing, right?"

Lin Hong: "..."

"What's the use of you..."

"I haven't learned yet..."

"Save her... save her... save her..."

The two were talking when the familiar voice sounded again.

That gray face jumped out from the grass, and half of it was crawling on the ground, dragging its intestines... "Save her... save her..."

No matter how many times I watch it, it's scary...

Bodies emerged after they had been buried.

"Go." Wan Guchuan stood up.

"Let's go..." Lin Hong felt guilty.

The three of them followed the trail of blood on the ground to find it.

The bloodstains were long and long, mixed with minced meat and broken internal organs, shocking on the grass.

"Why on earth can he still climb so far..." Lin Hong's scalp was numb.

It wasn't until halfway around the hill that the bloodstains came to an end.

In front of him there was a mountain road leaning against the cliff.

The lower half of the male corpse was lying on the road, with intestines and blood spilled all over the floor, the blood had already dried up, and a few flies lying on the corpse were scared away by them.

"The crime scene." Lin Hong pointed.

Duan Yu's face was pale, and he swallowed.

Wan Guchuan looked at the end of the mountain road, "It seems that the bandits came from here. I guess they passed by here and met Ye Cheng. Knowing the existence of the village, they killed him. They found the mountain village at night and looted it all."

"Nine times out of ten..." Lin Hong sat on the grass, "Let's wait here and save Ye Cheng tomorrow."

At night, the distant village was shrouded in flames. Looking from a distance, they seemed to have glimpsed a corner of purgatory in the vast mountains and forests...

Screams and cries are far away, drifting in the wind...

Lin Hong thought of Gui'er and those villagers again.

Memories of yesterday, expectations of tomorrow, wisps of smoke from the kitchen, and the tranquility of the ancestral stream, are all due to being born at the edge of troubled times and encountering greedy evil spirits in the world, as light as a duckweed...

There are no ghosts in the world, but there are ghosts in people's hearts.

Greed is like this, and human life is like dust.