Returning from the abyss

Chapter 182 Incense Candle Shop

tailor.

After Lu Ning walked out of the clinic, she looked up at the slightly gloomy sky.

Those who don't know will never know that this person exists, and it is no secret to those who know.

After finding another clinic, she asked where the tailor was.

Located on the edge of the black market, in a deserted alley in the tenth district, someone opened a incense and candle shop.Two candles with blue flames hung outside the store, never going out day or night.There are paper figurines in gorgeous paper clothes in the window at the entrance of the store. Lifelike faces are drawn on their pale faces. The heavy makeup makes them look even more terrifying.

The owner here, Guo Mengcoon, is what people call a tailor.

Guo Mengcoon can perfectly sew paper, cloth, and even flesh. From this perspective, the tailor also has a certain level of funeral director skills.The most amazing thing is that no matter how many corpses can be eaten here, it seems that there is a landfill like a bottomless pit behind the store, and there are also rumors that the corpses sent over are made into various sacrificial items in the store.

When no one was visiting, Guo Mengcoon would sit in the shop and make sacrificial offerings such as paper figurines and paper sedan chairs.Although no one came to buy, the goods in the store are always being updated.

"good afternoon."

Lu Ning passed through the shop door between two blue candles, and felt a gust of cold wind blowing inexplicably.

"Shh."

The tailor sitting in the shop lightly motioned for silence, then raised his head.

A head of smooth black hair that just reached the shoulders, a slightly pale face, bright eyes, simple but clean shirt and jeans, this is the first impression of Guo Mengcoon on Lu Ning.

With a completely neutral appearance, she couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman. Lu Ning froze for a moment, then nodded to the shopkeeper.

"Are you a guest?" Guo Mengcoon tilted his head, then his eyes lit up, "You are a crow."

The sound is also low-pitched neutral, but nice to listen to.

"You too?"

This is not good news, because in this way, the information carried by the tailor will be completely eaten up, and he will lose one clue.However, if the other party is of the cooperative type, there may be something to talk about.

"How did you figure out who I am?"

Lu Ning asked.

Guo Mengcoon just smiled at this question.

"This shop is where the worlds of yin and yang meet. Living people cannot enter in the flesh. You can look behind you."

Lu Ning was startled, and turned her head to look behind her. At the door surrounded by blue flames, stood a man wrapped in a coat, with a very familiar metal mask on his face.

It was herself.

At the same time, she felt that the field of vision blocked by the mask in front of her immediately became wider, and her clothes returned to her usual attire.

"The state of your soul will change with the change of consciousness. Your current appearance is different from the person standing there. This is because we came to this world to temporarily replace the soul of the person who was originally identifiable. In this world, the state of the soul can only be displayed with the original appearance of that person." Guo Mengcoon explained, "The only one with such a strange change is the crow."

"Plastic surgery……"

"After plastic surgery, people's self-awareness of themselves will also change, and the shape of the soul will change simultaneously. This different state of soul and body is only different for those of us who have a clear understanding of our own identities— — Maybe multiple personalities are different, but I haven't seen it."

Lu Ning was silent for a moment, then nodded, accepting the explanation.

"Now, let's get to know each other. My name is Guo Mengcoon, and I am the owner of the shop. I am very glad that you are the first crow to find this place, because you seem to be easy to talk to." Guo Mengcoon smiled and held out to Lu Ning. hand.

"Lu Ning. It seems that you have something to ask of me." Lu Ning held Guo Mengcoon's hand, it was cold, and it was surprising that the soul could feel the warmth.

"Scenes always assign people some strange identities, and I think you know that. In this scene, there are three 'crows' like me." Guo Mengcoon showed a happy expression, "First explain This is not a confrontational scene, but it is necessary for me to find out the identity of the other party before the other party. This particularity may also cause my mission to be very different from yours."

"You can't leave here?" Lu Ning looked around.

"Although it's not impossible, it's quite difficult. Do you know Painted Skin? I'm in a similar situation to that. I don't have a body in the yang world, so I have to wear someone else's body as clothes before I can leave the shop."

"Is this your tailor's job?"

"One of the tasks." Guo Mengyu said, "The shopkeeper here originally separated the soul from the body for extradition work, but because there seems to be no underworld institution like the underworld in this world, no one cares whether the soul is sent away or detained." , so the shopkeeper took out the resentful soul attached to the corpse and poured it into paper dolls to make ghost puppets, and you can see from the outside that every paper doll in the window has a resentful ghost inside."

Hearing this made my scalp tingle.

"Don't worry, the dead spirits can't leave here, and they can't return to the world, and the owner of this shop has absolute control." Guo Mengyu noticed that Lu Ning's expression was a little bad, and comforted him, "This can talk about me. situation."

As the three special tourists in this scene, Guo Mengyu was assigned five special backgrounds.

First of all, these three tourists all follow a certain "restriction", and they can only be ordinary people outside the restriction range, but there is a strong strength within the restriction range.

Second, the tasks of the three tourists are different from the rest of the tourists, whether they are mandatory or optional.And the three tourists could not take the initiative to find other tourists to communicate with.

Third, these three people have been granted a lot of secrets due to their identities, but there is no need to worry about the existence of hunting in the scene caused by the leakage of the secrets, unless they run out of their own constraints.

Fourth, the three tourists are not in opposing camps, and there is no camp confrontation mission, but the death of the other party will give a multiplier to the final reward of this mission, and the assisting killers and direct killers will also get this bonus.This bonus is not counted within the usual upper limit of [-] reward points.

Fifth, three tourists must stay for 30 full days.

Guo Mengcoon told Lu Ning all this, but he had some reservations about it.After hearing this, Lu Ning didn't worry that it was a lie, because generally speaking, she didn't have much to do with her.

"So you want to kill the other two? Or do you have other ideas?"

"There is no need to kill people if there is no grievance or hatred, but I am worried that someone will come to kill me. After all, this is a world where even the Yin and Yang world exists, so it is not impossible to kill me by bypassing my store, right? My mission instructions never said that I am invincible within this range." Guo Mengcoon frowned worriedly, "Although I am strong, the information about the entire city is completely closed, and I must I have to join forces with a tourist who can move freely."

"So you waited for me?"

"Well, I'll provide you with some information from my place in exchange for your outside action power, isn't that good? As long as you find those two people, I can take precautions, and you can also use my side when necessary Power to hide." Guo Mengcoon laughed, "I got a lot of secrets, I guess the scene let me exchange them."

Lu Ning agreed to the deal after thinking for a while.

"Great, let's talk about the structure of this city first. Some places are actually very dangerous, but it doesn't show on the surface..."

"The structure of the tree of inverse life, and the evil of the source of the ten particles, right? I already know that." Lu Ning sat down beside him, "Leaving nothing else aside, the evil of the source in the black market corresponds to matter. doctrine, do you know who is behind it?"

Guo Mengcoon was really taken aback for a moment.

"I don't know, this should be considered the ultimate secret."

"It's okay, I'm just asking casually." Lu Ning waved her hand, "For another thing, do you know that there are many serial killers here? Do you have any information on them? It's best to get the location of the activity and identity information."

"There are fifteen serial killers operating in the area of ​​the black market. If you are looking for them, there is a dilapidated house at the end of this street that is the stronghold of one of them. But I'm not sure if that killer has superpowers."

"Hmm... White Butterfly, do you know the name?"

Guo Mengcoon shook his head.

"Among the people who sent the corpse over these days, is there anyone from the nearby clinic? Before you came, there were two people who sent the corpse here. One of them was named Liu Xiang, and the other didn't know his name. Do you have any records here?"

"I can look it up." Guo Mengcou couldn't keep up with Lu Ning's thinking speed, so when she heard her asking something she knew, she went to check it out immediately.

After a while, the result will be there.

"At the end of March, there were indeed two people from the 102 clinic who sent over the corpses. The resentful souls on the corpses had already been used to make paper dolls. Those two people... from the record, they haven't been here again. I'm afraid they are also worried. What went wrong—wait a minute, here's a record from a few days ago."

Guo Mengcoon took an account book-like thing and flipped through two pages, and then found something interesting.

"Liu Xiang's body was brought in a few days ago. Most of his internal organs were severely damaged, and the other parts that were not damaged have been removed. Although the resentful soul died for a long time, most of them don't remember much about being alive, but I can help you reproduce the memory of the time of death."

"Then please."

Guo Mengcoon went to the shop window to look for it, and quickly brought back a paper figurine and laid it flat on the ground.

"Relax, everything you see next is an illusion and will not harm you."

After finishing speaking, the scenery in front of Lu Ning suddenly turned aside.

Under the dark sky, two panting figures ran out of an alley.

"Lu Bin! You really killed me this time! What does what the doctor does have anything to do with us? As long as you can learn the skills, it won't be long!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect to be hunted down when I saw that one. Fortunately, you took me out."

"Tsk, there's no other way. Now the only safe place is the fourth district. With our technology, we can still make a living there. It's better to avoid the limelight..."

At this moment, there was a sudden light on the opposite side of the road, and a truck with high beams turned on and turned the corner of the intersection, rushing straight towards the two of them!

"Run!"

One of them pushed the other into the narrow alley, but he couldn't dodge it. He was hit by a truck and flew out. Immediately, his memory was shattered, and his surroundings suddenly became blurred, and he slowly returned to the scene of the candle shop.

"How? Is it helpful?" Guo Mengcoon asked.

Lu Ning pressed her forehead. The moment Liu Xiang was hit by a car just now, she even felt a piercing pain, but now it all disappeared.

"Thanks, there are quite a few key clues. I'm going to check it out now, it can't be too late."

"Okay... I can't communicate with the outside world here, so you take this." Guo Mengcoon handed Lu Ning a paper money folded from gold leaf paper.

"what is this?"

"The alley to the underworld, look inside through the square hole in the middle of the paper money, you will be sent to the underworld, there is another space completely isolated from the yang, and then you can come directly if you find the two blue candles at the door of my shop It can also be regarded as an object for self-defense and convenient transportation. Don’t use too much, a living person will become a living corpse if he walks too much in the underworld.” Guo Mengcoon warned.

"Then make a little agreement. I will come again next Saturday. Of course, there are no accidents. I will help you investigate those two people. During this time, I hope you can help me keep an eye on the movements of several clinics on the black market." , especially 102."

"learn."

Lu Ning nodded, walked back to join her body, and her vision was restored to the state covered by the mask, then she waved to the shop and left the area of ​​the incense candle shop.

It was already around two o'clock in the afternoon.

Lu Ning quickly left the tenth district, took some money from the account and took a taxi to the fourth district, fearing that time would be delayed.

It was already April when Lu Bin was hunted down, that is, not long after her clue started.After so many days it was impossible to know whether people were alive or dead, and it was a little strange that the room in the clinic hadn't been cleaned.

The chaos in the fourth district is no worse than that in the tenth district.

It is true that there are strict regulations on killing people here, but other than that, no one cares about petty theft and the like.Lu Ning's outfit couldn't stop the tramps and orphans here from stealing, but just as a dirty hand stretched out to her pocket, she was frightened back by the sudden ejection of the sword.

This is a dirty little boy.

Although the fourth district has some order, it is still the poorest place in the entire sin city. Such children are not an exception. lane.

If you dare to chase after them, it's not uncommon for people to be abducted and sold. For the poor and crazy people at the bottom of the fourth district, everything can be bought and sold.

Lu Ning turned her body slightly so that her eyes could fall on the little boy.

He didn't even run away, but looked at Lu Ning provocatively, and hooked his fingers at her.

"Small man! What are you doing hiding here with a mask on! Take it off if you have the ability!"

(End of this chapter)