Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 19 Taiping Inn
Dark, desolate, and without any grass, this was the environment that Cao Yang saw.

"The ghost hand brought me to this place. It looked like a haunted place, but there were no buildings, no living people, and not even a ghost."

At Cao Yang's feet was the prisoner who had just been killed. He was dead, but Cao Yang survived. Behind him was nothing, but there was a window-sized frame that hung strangely in the air. Cao Yang and the dead man fell from the frame.

However, this frame is one-way and can only be used to exit but not enter. Cao Yang has already tried it with the ghost den.

"The satellite phone signal is also being interfered with by some mysterious entity, so it is useless except for checking the time."

Cao Yang didn't hesitate and just sat on the corpse.

"The ghost's rules can be triggered in two ways. If the ghost directly touches or sees the window, the ghost will kill the person and throw the body through the window into the unfinished building. If the ghost touches the window indirectly through a mirror or other means, the ghost will throw the person into this mysterious place, but the person will not necessarily die. However, the person was killed by the death card, not the ghost hand."

"From this point of view, the traces of human control on this ghost are very obvious. Of course, we cannot rule out that this is the law of ghosts themselves."

This strange yet familiar feeling reminded Cao Yang of a fan fiction book about Captain Shen Lin that he had read in his previous life. In that book, there was a night watch ghost who also killed only thirty-six people every night. This level of personnel loss was still within the tolerable range for a city, but the night watch ghost was obviously an arrangement made by a veteran of the Republic of China during his lifetime, and it has minimized casualties.

While thinking, a white light suddenly appeared in Cao Yang's sight. Although it was blurry and dim, it did exist.

The lampshade and the light were both pale white, but the difference was that there were bloody handprints, dried blood, and unknown black matter on the lampshade. Among these bloodstains, four words could be vaguely seen: Taiping Inn.

In addition to the ghost den and the Wang family's ancient house, there is only one person in the original novel who has shown this ability to change distance and perception invisibly: Boss Liu from Taiping Ancient Town. However, this distance is not infinite. After walking for ten minutes, Cao Yang was very close to the light source, and he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a building behind the white light.

There were also two lanterns hanging under the eaves of the inn's main door, emitting dim light that could barely illuminate the stone-paved path in front of the door.

Cao Yang silently memorized this information in his mind. There was no doubt that the spiritual place was extremely dangerous. Any offensive behavior could result in death, so he had to be absolutely cautious.

"Let's go and take a look. Even if we want to leave, we can only move forward and not backward."

"At nine o'clock in the evening, the mysterious place changed, and a road appeared out of nowhere."

"Taiping Inn?"

Cao Yang stood up, but found that a small path had appeared around him at some point, and the end of the path was the source of the vague white light.

The path was very narrow, and the source of the white light did not seem far away from Cao Yang's position. However, after walking for more than ten minutes, Cao Yang was still some distance away from the white light.

It takes Cao Yang nearly 40 minutes to reach the seemingly short distance. The source of the white light was a lantern, a solitary lantern hanging on a bamboo pole.

Cao Yang's sight fell on a building not far behind the bamboo pole. This building was mainly made of brick and wood, with two floors. The eaves, porches and window frames all had traces of fine carvings, and the overall style was very similar to that of the Republic of China. However, the entire inn looked dilapidated and seemed to have been abandoned for many years. Even the wooden door was half open, making a strange "creaking" sound in the cold wind.

"demon?"

"Are you asking me to enter the inn?"

Cao Yang was a little confused for a moment.

"What the hell is this place? It's so dark and scary." The sudden female voice aroused Cao Yang's vigilance. There was also rustling footsteps, and it sounded like there was more than one person.

"I don't even know you. I don't know even if you ask me."

Then another impatient male voice sounded.

"There are still people alive in this place?"

Cao Yang instinctively felt something was wrong and tried to hide in his own ghost cave, but the ghost cave was suppressed and could not be unfolded at all. However, he could do it by just affecting gravity.

"Hey, boy over there, do you know where this is?"

A group of four people appeared in Cao Yang's sight, and the woman in the lead took the initiative to greet Cao Yang. Seeing that Cao Yang did not respond, the woman thought that Cao Yang did not hear her, and then moved closer.

"Brother, did you suddenly appear here too?"

Finally, when the two groups were five meters apart, they stopped and the young woman asked Cao Yang again. Cao Yang finally saw the woman's face clearly. This young woman was Ren Guixiu's daughter! Cao Yang had seen her photo many times when he was researching intelligence and visiting her home.

"Are you Ren Guixiu's daughter, Luo Qin?"

Cao Yang's tone was cold. He couldn't tell whether the four people in front of him were human or ghost slaves, or whether they had become part of the ghosts just like the villagers in Huanggang Village.

"Brother, do you know me?"

The young woman was obviously stunned. She didn't expect that the young man opposite her knew her name, but she didn't seem to be a celebrity, right?

"They look confused and full of emotion. I can clearly feel the presence of living people. They are indeed living people. If they are the same as the villagers in Huanggang Village, then I have no choice but to try not to disrupt this balance."

Cao Yang made a preliminary judgment in his mind that this Luo Qin should be a living person, but as for the other three people, that remained to be investigated.

"You are missing. I am the specialist in charge of investigating your disappearance. If I remember correctly, the three of you should be: Chen Zongtao, Chang Yiming, and Ji Yuan."

The remaining three people nodded after hearing their names, proving that what Cao Yang said was true.

"Since you are the investigator, can you take us out? We have been walking here for several hours. Except for the inn that looks weird, we have walked everywhere. I am a girl, and I am quite scared to be with three boys."

Luo Qin spoke to Cao Yang in a coquettish tone, while the three men next to her rolled their eyes in disgust, indicating that they had no intention of considering such matters.

"I don't know where this place is, but you'd better follow my instructions. If anyone has any objections or takes any extraordinary actions without authorization, don't blame me for having no eyes for my gun."

As he said this, Cao Yang took out the pistol from his pocket, pointed the gun at the men, and threatened them directly. If they were really alive, it would be best if they could obey him.

But if not, any unintentional action by any of them may break the current seemingly stable balance. Cao Yang will not allow any idiots to bring unnecessary danger to everyone at this time.

(End of this chapter)