The Psychic Resurrection: Riding the Mirage
Chapter 32: Survive and die, then die again
Feeling a sharp pain in his temple, Yue Renchun slowly opened his eyes.
The Peng family mansion was pitch black, all the red lanterns were extinguished, and the villagers and the man who seemed to be Old Master Peng were wandering around aimlessly.
When Zou Chong used the ghost to cover his eyes to interfere with Old Master Peng's supernatural powers, Yue Renchun seized this opportunity to wake up, but he didn't know what was happening in front of him.
At this moment, his face was decayed and full of wrinkles. He didn't need to look in the mirror, just looking at his hands would tell how old he was now.
Yue Renchun looked away in disdain, and then a light pink strange breath began to be released from his head, like the petals scattered by the wind on the peach tree, covering his body surface.
After a while, the state was reset, and he turned back into a handsome young man, but there was still a little fear on his face.
"It's really a life-or-death situation, fortunately I have a way to save my life." He sighed in his heart, looking around, Hu Jiu was gone.
He was eagerly searching for Hu Jiu in the crowd, not because he cared about this temporary teammate, but because he had a special ability - perception of fortune and disaster.
It can also be called crisis warning, similar to a kind of instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. He can vaguely perceive whether his current choice will have a good or bad impact on the future, but he cannot know the specific details. Moreover, this is a passive ability, which will be triggered irregularly only when encountering relevant clues or scenes.
Although this ability is uncontrollable, it greatly assisted Yue Renchun in the early stage, so he was able to survive smoothly after becoming a ghost encounterer, and he also accumulated a lot of supernatural items.
He received an order from the headquarters before, asking him to solve the supernatural incident in Shou Village. When he answered the phone, he had a vague feeling that participating in this operation would be a life or death!
However, when he wanted to refuse, he felt again that if he didn't go, he would be worse than death!
A life or death is worse than death, this is a dilemma.
In fact, this is not the first time he has encountered this situation, but it was not as serious as this time.
It was not until then that Yue Renchun realized that the supernatural is always harmful to humans. The perception of good and bad fortune is not a ghost he controls, but a curse. At first, he thought it was a rare supernatural that was completely beneficial to humans. Later, he found that this false prophecy would slowly lead him to a single-plank bridge. The dilemma of advancing and retreating would appear more and more frequently, and the degree of danger would become higher and higher, until finally, all options were dead ends.
Without struggling for too long, he still chose to come to Shou Village. He had good strength and a firm will, which made him feel that life was worse than death. That situation was probably really worse than death.
There was still a glimmer of hope after a narrow escape from death.
He took the initiative to cooperate with Hu Jiu because he saw a shaky way of life in Hu Jiu, although Hu Jiu himself was another source of danger...
As Yue Renchun gradually regained his ability to move, the weird villagers around him slowly stopped wandering around. They lost their original goal, but found a new one.
The eyes without whites stared at Yue Renchun, and the crisis of Hu Jiu and Zou Cong was transferred to him.
"What should I do now?" Yue Renchun endured the severe pain in his head and ran out while thinking about countermeasures.
The red candle in Old Master Peng's hand disappeared. Yue Renchun's survival pressure was not as great as before. At least he would not age inexplicably.
Aging will lead to physical exhaustion, weakened will, and more easily eroded by the ghost that affects consciousness.
Yue Renchun could feel that he was much more relaxed. Based on his experience in the past few days, he could also infer some useful information.
He dodged here and there and was about to approach the door of the Peng family mansion, but at this moment, his perception ability was triggered again.
This time it was not a disaster but a blessing, an opportunity to survive after being put to death!
A strong premonition made Yue Renchun turn around quickly, push away the villagers who were in the way, and return the same way.
Yue Renchun saw Peng Yan in black clothes.
He must be a special existence, no explanation is needed, his middle-aged face is too conspicuous among the elderly.
Peng Yan should still have some rationality and wisdom. He had a smooth conversation with Hu Jiu before.
Yue Renchun suddenly had an idea and touched the gem necklace on his neck. The gem was a supernatural item made by a ghost codenamed [Ghost Teasing], and its ability was just like its name.
Unfortunately, the current situation does not allow him to use it on Peng Yan.
He must first get rid of the half-human and half-ghost pursuers behind him!
Go around the front yard and go straight to the back house.
There are many rooms in the back house, and the doors, windows and eaves are all marked by the years. I don’t know what is inside, and there may be danger.
Yue Renchun pushed open a door at random and hid in it based on his intuition.
The room was darker and darker than outside, but it seemed that as long as the door was closed, the villagers could not get in and could only wander outside the door.
He lowered his head and took out the satellite phone as a light source, and quickly scanned the circle. Because his consciousness had just been affected by the ghost, he was afraid of bumping into something indescribable again. If he was not careful, he would have to endure the pain again.
In supernatural events, damage to consciousness is worse than physical injury. People often go crazy, faint, become insane, hysterical, and do some very crazy things.
The good news is that this did not happen.
The bad news is that Yue Renchun saw a corpse.
Click --
His heartbeat accelerated involuntarily.
It was a female corpse, which was swollen, with strange twists of limbs, like a twist, and a black and sticky thing in its hands. The head was unrecognizable and looked like it had been corroded by strong acid.
If an ordinary person saw this scene, he might be frightened and speechless, but Yue Renchun was a ghost driver, and he had seen too many corpses with various deaths, and he had long been numb.
Only when he saw that the female corpse was wearing familiar clothes, his emotions fluctuated slightly.
"Is it Cui Xueyan?"
Her eyes were cloudy, and her scalp seemed to have been pulled off. In the dark room, only the dim light of the mobile phone illuminated this hideous corpse.
Yue Renchun guessed that Cui Xueyan should have encountered something strange at the birthday party, and then fled to the room in the backyard to hide. He just didn't know whether she was seriously injured and died outside, or encountered new dangers in the room.
He moved closer, trying to find useful clues from the corpse.
Cui Xueyan's clothes were wet and had many broken cracks. Yue Renchun only then discovered that the fabric of her clothes was very unusual. The surface was ordinary, but the interlayer showed gold threads. It should be specially made.
There were also scratches on the body, but they were not fatal.
"How did she die?" Yue Renchun held up his mobile phone and looked down, staring at the hands of the corpse.
He noticed two things.
Cui Xueyan was a ghost rider. After her death, the evil ghost would gradually revive, but now, the corpse showed no signs of revival, just like an ordinary corpse.
Secondly, what she was holding in her hand seemed to be mud, and it was mud with a high water content. Yue Renchun first thought of the pond, combined with her wet clothes...
"Did she jump into the pond?" Yue Renchun thought while continuing to check.
At this time, he suddenly heard a puff, as if something was leaking.
Yue Renchun immediately looked around, but saw nothing.
He scanned the room again and found nothing unusual. But when his eyes returned to the corpse, he suddenly noticed that the corpse had undergone a slight change. The torso seemed to have moved, but the change was too slight and he could not be sure if he had seen it wrong.
He stared at it intently. The eyes of the corpse reflected some strange light, and the abdomen suddenly swelled up. Before Yue Renchun could react,
bang——
the corpse exploded.
The rotten flesh and internal organs splattered everywhere, and the air suddenly became turbid and smelly. Yue Renchun was covered in dirt, as if he had rolled in a cesspool.
He was stunned on the spot. When his consciousness was eroded, he did not collapse; when his head hurt severely, he did not collapse; when his body aged rapidly, he still did not collapse.
But at this moment, he was a little bit overwhelmed.
I had only heard of whale explosions before. When the corpse decayed, the microorganisms inside multiplied in large numbers, which would continuously release gas to make the corpse swell. Especially for huge creatures, it was easy to explode after death, which was quite dangerous.
Cui Xueyan was a decent person when he was alive, but now he has become so... hard to describe.
Yue Renchun's expression became more and more ugly, and he made up his mind in an instant that he must live well, for a long time, and beautifully!
He couldn't accept the thought that he would become a pile of rotten meat after his death!
The little fairy boy would rather be burned to ashes than rot and stink!
The room was full of human remains that needed to be mosaiced to be viewed. Yue Renchun endured the nausea and found something wrong.
It was a lung lobe filled with silt. Although it was also very smelly, it was not the normal odor of a corpse, but a odor with a hint of metal and earthy smell.
"Is this the cause of her death?" Yue Renchun frowned. Suffocation should not kill a ghost rider, unless the silt blocking the respiratory tract is not ordinary!
After a careful investigation, the ghost driven by Cui Xueyan seemed to have disappeared, and there was nothing new to discover. The villagers outside the door seemed to have dispersed, and the stench in the house made people dizzy.
Yue Renchun immediately opened the door and rushed out. Something was wrong. He was actually confused by the fumes?
He took off his coat and threw it aside. It was not that he had a mysophobia. He just suspected that there was something wrong with the stench!
"It would be great if this mission could be postponed for a month or so." Yue Renchun thought. He had already investigated a piece of the puzzle of the peach blossom evil. If he could control another ghost, he would not be as stretched as he is now. Moreover, with the characteristics of that ghost, he was not afraid of any stench at all!
The dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated at some point, and the faint moonlight sprinkled on the ground. The villagers didn't know where they went. Maybe the birthday banquet was over and everyone went back to their homes?
Yue Renchun returned to the front yard quietly.
The people were gone, but the supernatural phenomenon did not disappear.
An incredible scene was happening in the pond. The dark platform was slowly wriggling, like a giant beast with activity, struggling to get out of trouble.
Yue Renchun took a breath of cold air. The platform seemed to be a ghost too! It was just locked by the chains around it, and now it was constantly trembling, and the chains were shaking and making a clanging sound, which echoed repeatedly in the mansion.
It seemed that some kind of balance was broken, and the platform slowly deformed and cracked, like a huge mouth opened, and there were tentacle-like things spreading outward from the cracks.
Just when Yue Renchun thought that Cthulhu had broken in, he saw clearly that it was not a tentacle, but surging mud.
In an instant, the entire Peng family mansion was filled with a smell of earth, and Yue Renchun also recognized that the mud was the same as the mud in Cui Xueyan's lungs!
"Where is my chance?" Yue Renchun was sweating anxiously. The more he looked at the scene in front of him, the more it looked like a sign of some kind of loss of control. Not only the silt in the pond, but also the floating corpses on the water surface were crawling towards the shore one by one. They didn't crawl out at this moment, as if there was a suction force imprisoning them.
Aren't they all ghosts?
Yue Renchun was shocked by his own thoughts.
It was not his character to sit and wait for death, so he immediately turned around and went to the main hall.
Perhaps the birthday banquet was over and the door was closed. Yue Renchun pushed it open with force. As expected, Peng Yan was still sitting facing the door, but his wife was not there.
Speaking of which, his wife looked more like his mother. It should be the supernatural that kept Peng Yan's appearance unchanged.
Peng Yan was like a sculpture, completely ignoring Yue Renchun.
Yue Renchun directly took out the necklace on his neck.
Even in a low-light environment, the gem still reflected the bright blue fire, and the supernatural atmosphere filled the room.
"You know..."
He just started talking, and Peng Yan stood up!
He stretched out his hand!
Yue Renchun stepped back subconsciously. He had encountered too many changes today, so he would not be too surprised by anything.
Peng Yan moved quickly and almost grabbed the gem in Yue Renchun's hand.
Fortunately, Yue Renchun's reaction was not slow. He stepped back quickly and put the gem back.
Seeing Peng Yan slowly sitting down again, Yue Renchun asked tentatively: "Are you still alive?"
He didn't say anything, but some micro-expressions appeared on his face. If Yue Renchun's vision was not 2.0, he would have almost ignored it.
After waiting for a while, Peng Yan was still the same.
The sound of gurgling came into his ears, and Yue Renchun looked sideways. The silt in the pond had spread out.
It was a small pond, and I didn't know where so much mud came from. The center was always overflowing. The silt seemed to come alive and surged in all directions.
The stones, trees and buildings in the house were all gradually submerged by the silt.
Yue Renchun jumped onto the roof in a hurry and leaned down to look down. Countless faces could be vaguely seen in the mud. They seemed to be the souls of all those who had been swallowed by this quagmire from ancient times to the present. They were wailing in pain, taking advantage of the boiling and spreading of the mud to return to the real world.
When the mud poured into the room and stained Peng Yan, Peng Yan "came alive".
He seemed to have just woken up from a dream, looked around, understood the current situation, and immediately set off towards the high platform in the center of the mud.
"Wait!" Yue Renchun, who was standing on the roof, suddenly called him, "It's dangerous over there, what are you going to do?"
Peng Yan turned around and took a look, but ignored him.
Yue Renchun said again: "Can you tell me what happened here first?"
Still no response.
The next second, Yue Renchun covered his ears.
A strange suona sound resounded through the sky, and Peng Yan made the sound of the suona with his mouth. There was no melody, and any elementary school student who had learned music a little bit could play it better than this.
However, this strange music made the boiling mud dare not approach, forming a circle around Peng Yan.
Yue Renchun looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief. The sound of the suona seemed to carry a powerful force, and it was frightening to hear it for no reason.
Peng Yue stopped only when he stood on the high platform, standing in an uncoordinated posture, like a rusty marionette.
The sound of the suona changed its tune, and Peng Yan raised his hands and danced.
Yue Renchun didn't know whether it could be called "dancing". A serious and old-fashioned middle-aged uncle was changing unheard-of strange movements on the high platform, and there was a hint of strange and ghostly breath in the flowing water.
With Yue Renchun's poor knowledge, he knew that the birth of dance seemed to be related to sacrifice, and many human dances originated from imitating animals or natural landscapes.
What was Peng Yue imitating in this disturbing dance?
Has he seen ghosts dancing?
The mud pouring out of the pond seemed to gather into a huge monster and pounced on Peng Yan.
The sound of the suona became sharper and sharper. The mud monster collapsed and disintegrated before it touched Peng Yan. It gradually calmed down and returned to the pond bit by bit. The cracks on the platform also healed slowly.
The Peng family mansion slowly returned to its original appearance. It seemed that nothing had changed. Only some sticky substances left on the surface witnessed the incredible things that had happened here.
The suona and the dance stopped. Yue Renchun loosened his ears and jumped off the roof. The devil's sound penetrated his ears. He was in a very bad state now, but he found that Peng Yan seemed to have regained some consciousness. He was afraid that this consciousness would suddenly disappear, so he rushed over impatiently.
Peng Yan stood on the platform in the center of the pond. Before Yue Renchun could speak, he asked directly: "Did you take the Borrowed Longevity Ghost Candle?"
Borrowed Longevity Ghost Candle? The red candle in Mr. Peng's hand? Yue Renchun immediately denied it: "No."
Peng Yue looked at him for a few times and fell silent again.
In the end, Yue Renchun had the courage to ask what was going on in this village and how to leave?
He actually didn't care about the secrets behind Shou Village. He wasn't that curious. His main goal was to get the benefits and get away smoothly.
Peng Yan was like a robot, his voice was very stereotyped, but he also told the truth about why Shou Village became what it is now.
But what he said was very different from what the villagers said.
Because this village was haunted, Mr. Peng came here to deal with supernatural events. As a result, he found that the ghost in the form of silt could not be imprisoned at all. If a drop was missed, it would be a failure to contain it.
Peng Yan's words directly ignored countless details, only saying that Mr. Peng was guarding here when he was alive, using silt to imprison evil spirits; when he was dying, he used many ghosts with different mechanisms to match each other to form a closed loop, suppressing the ghosts under the pond of the Peng family mansion, never to see the light of day.
But later, due to various reasons, the balance was broken and the supernatural spread out, but Mr. Peng left a remedy. Although he died, the ghosts he controlled were very special, and his orders are still in effect. Frequent birthdays stimulated the revival of the birthday candles and the existence of Peng Yan, all to prevent the many evil spirits in the pond from escaping.
The villagers were controlled to reproduce and thrive, and they were sacrifices to the birthday candles for generations!
Yue Renchun showed a shocked expression on his face, but he was indifferent in his heart. When people narrate something related to themselves, they will inevitably speak in a direction that is beneficial to themselves, subconsciously ignore information that is not good for themselves, and even whitewash and beautify the bad things they have done in their memories until they are unrecognizable.
They claim to have told the truth, but in fact they have inadvertently mixed a lot of water.
If Hu Jiu were here, he would probably have a little in common with Yue Renchun. They would not trust others easily, just because they were afraid of unconscious exaggeration, deletion, and smearing.
Yue Renchun urged Peng Yan to tell him how to leave the village, but Peng Yan only told him four words: "You can only enter but not leave!"
Not only that, the reason why Peng Yan was willing to say so much was that he planned to keep Yue Renchun and make him a part of the Peng family mansion. "Your abilities and your supernatural items are very suitable for maintaining stability here, just like the little girl before."
Yue Renchun's face darkened instantly, "You have been awake all the time and witnessed my every move in the mansion?"
Peng Yan still had a blank expression on his face: "You shameless little thieves, you have come to steal things again and again, ruining the layout here..."
"No one can escape, whether it's you or the one outside!"
"It wasn't me who stole it, go find whoever took it..." Yue Renchun roared halfway, and suddenly a happy and sad expression appeared on his face. He moved his lips but didn't say anything, as if he was immersed in his own fantasy, separated from the outside world by a sad thick barrier...
At that time, Hu Jiu was on the street, waiting for the arrival of daylight, and by the way, thinking about how to make up his action report after going out.
To be honest, this is a bit difficult. The action report cannot be written like a bad drama script, with bladders and water all over it, and it smells pretty good.
If the content is too outrageous, it will definitely be a problem.
The clouds in the sky dissipated after Shouzhu was taken in by him. He guessed that the ghost domain covering Shou Village should be the superposition of the ghost domains of several ghosts, and Shouzhu was one of them.
He couldn't hand over the Shouzhu, nor could he let others know that the Shouzhu was in his hands. How could he make this candle "disappear" reasonably?
At this moment!
Buzz——
A rather impactful spiritual wave suddenly spread, and the brilliant rose-pink light spread from the direction of the Peng family mansion to all directions, illuminating every corner of Shou Village.
This light came and went quickly, and it lasted for a few seconds before disappearing.
Hu Jiu looked around vigilantly, but was shocked to see that Shou Village actually revealed its true appearance-dilapidated houses, dense weeds, faint barking of dogs, desolate and dilapidated.
"What happened? Why did the ghost domain suddenly disappear?" Hu Jiu was confused and retreated quickly without delaying for a second.
Passing the ancient stone tablet at the entrance of the village, the mist that came when he came was gone. The night sky became brighter and brighter. Under the light of the stars and the moon, Hu Jiu turned around and took a look. The Peng family mansion seemed to be undergoing some kind of transformation.
But...
It doesn't matter.
When a problem is too big to be solved, it is not a problem.
Seeing the blockade and the fully armed police officers from a distance, Hu Jiu's mind was ready to stir up trouble. He wanted to make trouble again~
Things like harming others for personal gain are more poisonous than drugs. Once you taste the sweetness, you can't stop.
Hu Jiu didn't want to stop either. It's funny, isn't it? Society has been raising moral requirements, but the overall moral standards are continuing to decline. As a result, bad people are getting more and more comfortable, and good people are getting more and more tormented.
The phantom of the mirage ghost floated and turned into two familiar faces, walking one after the other on the country road.
The alert police officers immediately noticed the situation. When they looked closely, they found that it was the ghost rider who went on a mission a few days ago!
They didn't say anything, and the police officers didn't dare to approach casually. They immediately notified the headquarters.
After a while, a headquarters commissioner hurried over. It was the commissioner who picked up the four ghost riders that day. Seeing that it was Cui Xueyan and Zou Chong who came back, he felt much more at ease and asked: "The headquarters just called you, but it didn't get through. You..."
Before he finished speaking, something strange happened!
"Zou Chong" snatched the red candle from "Cui Xueyan"'s hand. "Cui Xueyan" didn't let go, and the two of them started fighting!
Seeing this scene, everyone present immediately hid far away and was as quiet as a chicken. They didn't dare to interfere in the conflict between the ghost riders. If they were accidentally injured, they could only blame themselves.
Only the commissioner said weakly: "Don't fight anymore, stop it!"
But he didn't dare to say much, just symbolically blocked it, and then hurriedly reported it to the headquarters.
After Fu Youhua learned about the situation, his face darkened. Just now, he was so happy that a ghost rider finally came out alive from Shou Village. Even if he didn't get what he wanted, at least he brought out the information.
How could they suddenly have an internal conflict!
There are ordinary people around, and there is no way to stop it, but if you just let it go, if someone dies and the evil ghost revives, it will be another troublesome thing.
It takes time to send other ghost masters to adjust. By the time we arrived, it was already extremely cold!
For a while, Fu Youhua also had a headache.
If it were normal, he would not even blink if he lost two ghost masters.
But Zou Cong and Cui Xueyan belong to different factions, especially Cui Xueyan. He is afraid that someone will take the opportunity to cause trouble, and the two of them are still holding the trophies brought from Shoucun!
Can't you finish your business first and then settle your personal grudges?
Are there any conflicts that cannot be resolved privately? Why do we have to duel in public? Are you afraid that others won’t know?
It's impossible to hide such a fuss!
Fu Youhua suddenly had a feeling of déjà vu. Before he could think about it, he asked the commissioner to turn on the phone hands-free, scolded "Zou Cong" and "Cui Xueyan", and ordered them to stop, with an implicit threat in his tone!
But the two of them ignored it at all.
At this time, the headquarters commissioner on the scene realized something was wrong - why didn't they make any sound?
He neither speaks nor expresses anything, and even his movements are silent!
He couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have the chance to figure it out. He saw "Zou Cong" suddenly light the candle in his hand.
The lit candle was not bright, not even comparable to the moonlight at night.
——The real candlelight comes from behind everyone!
"ah!"
Someone let out a short scream. He caught a glimpse of his companion's face covered with wrinkles, and his hair turned white in a few breaths.
When he looked down, he saw that he also had age spots on the back of his hands.
He didn't know what happened. Everyone fell down. "Zou Cong" successfully grabbed the red candle and retreated while fighting. "Cui Xueyan" pursued them, and the two figures became farther and farther away.
The only survivor stared at them, hatred growing crazily in his heart.
"What happened!" Fu Youhua's urgent voice came from the phone, and he heard the sound of someone falling.
After a while, there was a response from the other side. The voice was intermittent, hoarse and weak, like a dying old man. "Two ghost masters fought over a... red candle. We all fought. It was affected, and I was the only one left alive. The candle was finally snatched away by the male ghost master, and another female ghost master chased him..."
Hearing these words, Fu Youhua frowned and remained silent.
From beginning to end, he never considered Zou Cong or Cui Xue's betrayal at the banquet. But now, he had to face this situation that shouldn't have happened!
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