I become a god in another world

Chapter 225 Ghost’s Funeral
Chapter 225

"W-what law? What law? I don't understand-"

When Old Man Zhang heard Zhao Fusheng's words, his withered old face showed a blank look.

"Violent ghosts have their own rules for killing people."

Zhao Fusheng explained patiently:
"After a person dies, evil ghosts randomly resurrect. Once a ghost disaster occurs, a ghost realm will appear, which is what the saying goes: ghosts attack the wall." She explained the principle of ghosts attacking the wall.

Lin Laoba, Cao Dazong and others witnessed the ghost killing people tonight, and they knew the horror of ghosts. When they heard her explanation, they all listened carefully.

"After being in the ghost realm, everyone theoretically has a probability of being killed by a ghost. However, although ghosts are scary, after death and becoming a ghost, a person has lost his mind and reason and can only walk like a zombie."

Zhao Fusheng's eyes swept over the villagers:
"Ghosts have no thinking and kill only by instinct. In fact, ghosts have their own set of logical rules for killing. Take Guo Wei's Lao Tzu as an example -"

Guo Wei was startled when he heard his name. He raised his head to look at her. Zhao Fusheng said:

"After it became a ghost, it took over the Guo family stove. As long as someone sat in front of the stove or put a bowl on the stove, these were taboos and would be associated with the ghost and then marked by the ghost."

When Wu Shaochun heard this, he had a thoughtful look on his face.

He used to live in Kotou Village under the jurisdiction of Wan'an County. Although he once carried goods for people in Huanggang Village, he was relatively knowledgeable compared to ordinary villagers.

But after entering the Demon Suppressing Division, the door to another world truly opened.

The evil ghost may resurrect at any time. Once the ghost appears, the villagers will be at a loss and the chance of making mistakes will be greatly increased, which in turn will increase the mortality rate.

Take Kuai Liang Village, which Wu Shaochun once personally participated in, as an example.

After Zhuang Si's wife Li Gui regained consciousness, she massacred Kuai Liang Village, and the villagers indirectly killed all Zhuang Village.

Hundreds of people died in this ghost disaster, and their blood flowed like rivers.

At this time, Zhao Fusheng patiently explained the law of ghosts to the people in Fengmen Village, probably in the hope that when a ghost case occurs again, these villagers can reduce their panic, increase their chances of self-rescue, and avoid more deaths.

From this thought, Wu Shaochun keenly realized that the situation in Wan'an County was probably far more severe than he imagined.

"In this case, we should try our best to avoid touching these key things. As long as we don't violate the rules of ghosts, we won't die even if we are in the same room with ghosts." After Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, he looked at Guo Wei:
"Guo Wei is a good example. Since his wife and child's accident, he probably hasn't entered the kitchen or touched the stove - right?"

"Yes." When Guo Wei heard Zhao Fusheng talking to him, he braced himself and endured his grief:
"I've been in a state of confusion these days, and I don't feel hungry. I don't have any rice at home—"

After Li Dachengzi came to rob three hundred coins, he became frightened when his wife disappeared and hid in his room.

I don't know if it was because his family was poor and he was already used to being hungry, or he was overly sad. He didn't have much activity. The accident lasted for so long, but he still managed to survive.

"I understand." When Lin Laoba and others heard this, they were overjoyed:

"In other words, we don't have to be afraid even if there are ghosts. If we master the method of dealing with ghosts, we can also kill them."

"idiot."

Zhao Fusheng couldn't bear it anymore and shouted loudly:
"I said the law of ghosts is to let you try to save your lives under the cover of the ghost realm. If something happens, report it to the Demon Suppressor first, instead of asking you to fight ghosts."

She was almost amused by the villagers' ignorance:

"Don't make me slap you."

"..."

Lin Laoba, who spoke, looked resentful, and the others did not dare to speak out.

Zhao Fusheng looked at Old Man Zhang and motioned for him to continue speaking.

Old man Zhang originally experienced a ghost disaster tonight and recalled the ghost encounter in the past. He was extremely frightened and his mentality was on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, Zhao Fusheng made an extra interruption to give him some relief.

He heard some things about the "Laws" of Li Gui. Although the thinking of older people is not as good as that of young people, he vaguely understood one thing: that is, he did not violate the taboo of Li Gui back then, so he was lucky enough to save his life.

At his age, Old Man Zhang doesn't dare to be as bold as Mr. Lin and has the desire to fight against evil spirits. As long as he is alive, he is lucky.

So after he calmed down and saw Zhao Fusheng indicating for him to continue speaking, he said again:
"I don't know any rules, but at that time I felt the coffin on my shoulders sink, and there was smoke coming out of the coffin. The wooden beams of the coffin were as cold as ice, and they were firmly stuck to my shoulders, and I couldn't shake them off."

He took a deep breath:

“I was extremely scared at the time, but I kept peeking at Mr.

That's five copper coins, which can buy a lot of rice.

"I set my heart firmly, held the wooden pole of the coffin tightly, gritted my teeth and moved forward."

But Old Man Zhang made the right move.

The timid and cowardly yet stingy side of his character saved his life.

Once 'Ghost Sang' begins, no one can quit.

Old man Zhang continued to carry the coffin so that the 'ghost funeral' ceremony was not disrupted.

But others in the group were not so lucky.

The first person to suffer was the person who took the lead in playing the suona.

It was an old man who played the suona from the village next door. He was standing in front of the coffin. When the 'ghost funeral' was about to take place, he didn't know about it.

He didn't know that there was a ghost case in Fengmen Village. He only knew that many people died and that officials from the county came to review the matter.

Later, the village chief of Fengmen Village said he wanted to hold a funeral and approached him for twenty coins.

This was no small amount of money, and he was immediately moved.

At the time of the incident, Li Neng was right in front of him on his left hand side. After he played the suona, he saw with his own eyes that the incense in the hands of this man from the county spontaneously ignited without fire, and then he put on the strange red shoes on his feet. Then the whole person disappeared from everyone's eyes.

In his panic, he forgot to play the suona.

At this moment, Xie Jingsheng shouted:
"Keep blowing, don't stop."

But at this time, the old man playing the suona could not listen to his words.

The strange appearance of red shoes and the sudden disappearance of the envoy made him feel depressed.

In fear, he hurriedly threw away the suona in his hand and tried to escape from the funeral procession.

But the moment he took a step forward, Li Neng, the commander who had disappeared, ran out of the coffin again and killed him.

43 years ago, Old Man Zhang still remembers the heartbreaking scene at that time - the old man who played the suona was brutally killed by a ghost, and blood splattered all over the ground, dyeing the road to death red. .

Once someone dies, the team immediately panics.

One of the people carrying the coffin was so frightened that his head was cracked open by Li Neng in a cruel way at the moment of escaping.

After his death, his headless body still held the coffin firmly.

"Don't run away, don't hide!"

Seeing that the team was about to be in chaos, Xie Jingsheng's cold voice sounded in the bloody venue:
"If the funeral is properly held, as long as the funeral is not chaotic, the ghosts will not kill people randomly. Anyone who dares to escape without authorization deserves to be used to feed the ghosts!"

While he was shouting, he picked up the suona that the old man who played the suona had thrown on the ground. He didn't care that the suona was covered in blood, put it to his mouth and started to play.

Xie Jingsheng is a ghost master, but unexpectedly, he plays the suona very well.

When the mournful music sounded again, the evil ghost Li Neng, who was slaughtering the crowd crazily, suddenly stopped. The crazy killing stopped temporarily.

Xie Jingsheng had already said what needed to be said. He blew the suona and strode forward on the blood that formed a river on the ground.

The people who were killed by the ghosts were temporarily out of danger.

……

When Old Man Zhang said this, he shuddered:

"Sir, it's so scary. I was carrying the coffin and didn't dare to run away. The two who tried to run were killed by the ghost."

These 'people' who had lost their heads did not fall down. They still maintained their mission in life and continued to move forward carrying the coffin with their headless bodies.

Xie Jingsheng played the suona in front to clear the way, and accompanied the envoys to wave banknotes, causing no one to escape wherever he went.

This special group of "ghost mourners" went straight to the mountains behind Fengmen Village.

"There is an old tomb in the mountain. After arriving, Mr. Xie started calling people to lower the coffin."

It's very strange to say.

When Old Man Zhang began to notice that something was wrong with the coffin, the coffin containing the ghost could not be placed in it no matter what, but now as Xie Jingsheng said "drop the coffin", the huge suction force on the coffin disappeared instantly.

The coffin, which originally weighed more than a thousand kilograms, became light and airy in an instant and automatically floated to the ground.

When the atmosphere was getting weird, Xie Jingsheng shouted:

"Gods return to temples, ghosts return to graves, and monsters return to mountains and forests."

As soon as he finished speaking, the coffin lid was suddenly pushed open by someone from inside, and a pale man sat up.

Old man Zhang, who was standing by the coffin, could see very clearly that this was no longer the previous envoy Li Neng.

The person holding the incense was another face - one of the big shots from the Demon Suppression Division.

At this time, 'his' complexion took on a waxy color that was impossible for a living person to have, and his skin seemed to have lost all the blood, like a fish skin that had been dried for a long time.

A pair of eyes lost their luster, and the whole figure looked like a mummy.

It held three sticks of half-burned ghost incense in its hand, and wore a pair of embroidered shoes as red as blood on its withered feet.

It was already dark by then.

The dead man sat up in the coffin, the envoy with a temporarily changed face, and the strange pair of red shoes, as well as the headless corpses and living people standing in the corners of the coffin, and many funeral processions covered with dried blood. ——Everything reveals the horror of this 'ghost funeral'.

After receiving Xie Jingsheng's order, the ghost holding the incense twisted his body and walked towards the tomb stiffly and awkwardly.

Every time it takes a step, it leaves a footprint as red as blood on the ground.

But white smoke slowly rose from the incense in its hand, and wherever the smoke went, it smoothed out the footprints.

"I watched with my own eyes as it picked an old grave and got into it. After it entered the grave, Mr. Xie shouted: 'Seal the grave.'"

After shouting, two trembling villagers who had been frightened took the shovels they had prepared and shoveled two handfuls of soil to seal the tomb.

As soon as the ceremony was completed, the two headless corpses standing at the corners of the coffin fell to the ground with a thud.

The stench of corpses that had been rotting for many days spread from these corpses, and the coffin placed next to Old Man Zhang also rotted quickly, turning into a shelf in an instant.

Among the crowd, many people fell to the ground one after another and turned into mummies.

Old man Zhang saved a life by accident.

He originally thought that the accident was just two coffin bearers. When he wanted to meet the other coffin bearer, he turned around and found that the other coffin bearer had a hole as big as a bowl in his chest and his internal organs were already inside. After being ripped away completely by the evil ghost, only a human skeleton was left, slumped beside the coffin.

A total of forty to fifty people participated in this 'ghost funeral', but in the end only seventy-eight people survived, and Old Man Zhang was one of them.

Xie Jingsheng paid a heavy price for sending this ghost away. He ordered all eight people to die. Dozens of ordinary villagers died tragically due to the "ghost funeral" alone.

Fortunately, although many people died, this ghost case was solved relatively successfully. Since then, there has never been a similar red shoe ghost case in Wan'an County, which shows Xie Jingsheng's ability.

……

After Old Man Zhang finished telling the whole story about the Red Shoe Ghost Case, no one spoke in the hall of the Zhang family for a long time.

This strange "ghost funeral" was told by a survivor who was one of the participants many years later, which made it even more frightening.

Everyone's backs were numb, and based on Old Man Zhang's words, they could almost imagine the scene back then.

Zhao Fusheng was still thinking carefully about Old Man Zhang's words, sorting out the clues and details of this ghost case.

Her eyes fell on Old Man Zhang, who was trembling and fidgeting when she saw him.

"Zhang Laosan, are you sure you were wearing a pair of red shoes when you saw Li Neng die?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Old Man Zhang swore:

"My lord, it's absolutely true. If I lie, I will definitely die badly!"

Cao Dazong just interrupted: "At your age, you won't lose anything even if you die. If you lie, it would be better for your family to lose money."

Old Man Zhang's face turned from white to red, from red to black, and he said almost angrily:
"Just drop it! If I lie, then drop the money, drop, drop, drop three cents——"

'Pfft. '

Lin Laoba couldn't help but sneered.

Old man Zhang was a little angry and turned to argue with him.

At this moment - Wu Shaochun came over and asked Zhao Fusheng in a low voice.

"My lord, could he have a memory error or be talking nonsense?"

Zhao Fusheng smiled, turned around and asked the little girl leaning next to her:
"What do you think Manzhou?"

The little girl replied crisply:

"will not."

"Yes." Zhao Fusheng nodded and glanced at the little girl. This child was quite perceptive.

Wu Shaochun was startled.

Kuai Manzhou didn't seem to listen carefully to what Old Man Zhang said from beginning to end. She had been playing with the hem of her sleeve. Why was she so sure now?

"Zhang Laosan has a good memory."

Zhao Fusheng seemed to see the confusion on Wu Shaochun's face and explained:

"The person who handled the Red Shoe Ghost Case was a very powerful ghost controller named Xie Jingsheng who was temporarily transferred from the County Demon Division 43 years ago."

When she said this, Wu Shaochun was also a smart man and immediately understood what she meant.

The past happened 43 years ago. When Zhang Laoer mentioned the past, he could still clearly call out the three words "Mr. profound.

Since he remembers it very clearly, the chance of remembering it wrong is very small.

In addition, Zhao Fusheng deliberately mentioned "tax-free". Wu Shaochun, who was born in a village family, understood the allure of these two words best.