Chapter 0325 – Shouting for Souls
Hands stopped above the bamboo basket, Chen Ge slowly turned around, as early as a few days ago he realized that there were some changes in his body.
He slept for three or four hours every night, yet he was still energetic the next day; his five senses were extremely sharp in the darkness, and his mind had become very active; the only bad thing was that his body would inexplicably feel cold, even if he wore very thick clothes, it was useless.
”Looks like you’ve already felt it.” The old man raised his arm, revealing a red rope bound around his wrist, each thin rope wearing a jade bead: “How can the living be able to withstand the favor of a stern ghost? After three years of being blood-washed in the village, probably because I often talked to the Lich Ghosts, my body began to experience all sorts of abnormalities, the most obvious being the lowering of my body temperature, and no matter spring, summer, fall, or winter, I could rarely feel warmth.”
The situation the old man was talking about Chen Ge had also encountered, but there were some differences between the two.
Chen Ge carried the bamboo basket where Ah Qing’s child was and walked over to the side of the cubicle, “Granny, did you feel your body temperature start to drop only after three years of contact with the stern ghosts?”
”Ten years to be exact, before that I was like you and didn’t take this matter to heart.” The old man’s voice was very kind, “Your situation is not serious now, you should have started to come into contact with them in recent years, right?”
”Recent years?” Chen Ge’s eyelids fluttered, and after a moment of hesitation, he spoke the truth: “I only saw a severe ghost for the first time a few weeks ago.”
The room suddenly went quiet, and the old man, perhaps because of his age, stuttered a little, “A few, a few weeks ago?”
”Less than a month anyway.” Chen Ge touched the back of his hand, the temperature was a bit lower than an ordinary person.
”I lived in a village full of evil spirits, and I often went to talk to the Knight Ghosts, so I only realized it after three years. It’s only been a matter of weeks since you saw the severe ghosts, how could your body temperature change so quickly?” The old man’s voice was full of doubts, “Did you invoke many severe ghosts at the same time?”
”No.” Chen Ge silently counted them in his heart, “There are only a dozen or so that I can get involved with.”
The old man was digesting this information and did not speak for a while.
”It’s probably related to where I live, I live in a haunted house and sort of eat and live with them.” Chen Ge looked back at her shadow again, “By the way, there’s also a red-clothed stern ghost hiding in my shadow, she’s inseparable from me.”
The old man hadn’t said anything, she used her only arm to support her body and moved back a bit, as if she wanted to move away from Chen Ge.
Noticing the subtle change in the old man’s demeanor, Chen Ge felt a little uneasy in his heart, “Grandma, how did you solve the problem of body temperature dropping in the first place? If you can’t solve it, what will happen in the future?”
”Our situations are not quite the same, I don’t feel like I can help you.” The old man took a red rope from his wrist, “If you stay with the severe ghosts for a long time, the yin qi in your body will get heavier and heavier, the beads on this rope are made of warm jade ground little by little, people nourish jade, jade nourishes people, after wearing it for a long time, the warm jade will harmonize the yin and yang in your body. In addition you need to go to more popular places and get more sunlight.”
”I’ll remember.” Chen Ge nodded, New Century Paradise was very popular during the day, and the number of tourists would increase in the future.
”Pay more attention, these legs of mine, it’s because I let them go and ended up scrapping them.” The old man re-tied the red rope: “Actually, I originally wanted to give you a few jade beads, but in your case, even if I give you all the warm jade, it won’t be of much use, the key still lies in yourself.”
She looked at the rows of babies on the wooden bed, “There’s a difference between humans and ghosts, it’s better to try not to come into contact with them.”
”En.” Chen Ge fretted in his heart, but there was no good solution, he didn’t tell the old man that the title of Knightly Ghost Favored One was just an introduction for him, and after drawing five Knightly Ghosts, he could still advance in this title!
”If there’s nothing else, you can take that child and leave. The person presiding over the ritual outside is called Zhu Shumei, she is my chosen successor, she is kind-hearted, as long as you don’t intentionally appear in front of her, she won’t make things difficult for you.” The old man raised his hand, “Once this village comes to night, the demons and ghosts all run out, pay more attention when you walk, don’t go in when you see an open door, don’t answer when you hear someone shouting, hurry to hide when you meet a bright light, and don’t touch the coffin until you leave the village.”
After thanking the old man, Chen Ge carried the bamboo basket back the same way.
He could feel a pure kindness from the old man, so he didn’t have any doubts about what the old man said.
”Just as I thought, those like us who are favored by the Lich Demons possess a kind and pure heart.”
Drilling out of the tunnel, Chen Ge felt a slight chill, obviously only separated by a wall, the inside and outside of the house were very different.
”Has the child been found? Let me hold it.” Master Bai took the child, he saw a leaf-like object near the baby’s mouth and wanted to take it off, only to be stopped by Chen Ge.
”That leaf seems to prevent the child from crying, don’t touch it.”
After delaying some time in the old man’s house, Chen Ge greeted Grandpa Bai and Lao Wei at the entrance of the ancestral hall and took out Ah Qing’s map, “The sacrificial procession will pass by several wells outside of the village in order, I just need to be careful not to meet up with them.”
The three of them quickly determined the route and left the ancestral hall to burrow into the middle of the street.
The rituals were still going on, the village had already undergone great changes, the ghosts of the wrongdoers awakened, the intent of death filled the air, one old mansion became eerie, the owner of the house who had died for many years seemed to have returned this night.
The coffins made noises, shoe prints appeared from time to time on the deserted streets, and the blood on the walls became more and more vivid, as if they had returned to that night many years ago.
Chen Ge and the three of them ran past a corner, and the white grandpa holding the child suddenly stopped.
”Did you guys hear a voice? It seems like someone is shouting my name?”
The cold wind blew against his cheeks, and a woman’s voice could be faintly heard in his ears as she shouted something.
Chen Ge remembered the old man’s advice and rushed to Master Bai, “Just pretend you didn’t hear it, and no matter what she shouts, don’t answer.”
The three of them continued to move forward, paper money floated on the clean pavement of the village, the white inverted blessing on the door of the old mansion house came off, and the door panel shook, revealing the soul streamer behind it.
The woman’s voice in her ears slowly grew louder, coming from all directions, it was impossible to determine the location of the other party, only that she was closing in.
”This village hides a red dress and countless tortured souls, now that the red dress has not yet awakened, I’m afraid that these souls will struggle to strike out at us so that they can get on top of us and use this to escape out.”
The unjust souls had awakened, and Chen Ge knew that this scene with a screaming index of three stars would begin to reveal its true horror.