Mysterious resurgence

At the same time, within Ping'an Ancient Town.

This is the new urban area of ​​the ancient town, which is a tourist area later invested and built by Zhongzhou City.

Feng Quan was left alone in this new city. Yang Jian asked him not to set foot in the old city because he was worried that there were some weird things in the old city to avoid encountering unpredictable dangers.

He also noticed something was wrong in the old city.

So he did not object to Yang Jian's suggestion.

"Everyone's signal has disappeared." Feng Quan found a special hotel to stay in. He paid attention to the changes in several people's signals through his satellite positioning mobile phone.

Just before.

Everyone's signal disappeared, including Yang Jian's personal cell phone.

He stood by the window and looked.

The old part of Taiping Ancient Town is dark and gloomy.

Although street lights are also installed, the street lights there seem to be particularly dim. It seems that the lamp tubes are aging and the power supply is insufficient. They cannot illuminate the entire street like they do here. This situation is particularly obvious after nightfall.

But ordinary people will certainly not notice this change.

"There is indeed danger over there." Feng Quan thought to himself.

But right now.

Suddenly.

He heard some movement from the corridor outside the door. It was the sound of someone dragging something heavy across the corridor and heading downstairs.

Feng Quan didn't care at first.

But when the movement came to the stairs, he suddenly turned and looked in the direction of the sound.

Years of experience told him that the sound was not caused by dragging an object, but by someone dragging a corpse and the corpse's feet landing on the steps.

Immediately.

He opened the door and walked over with a solemn expression, holding a shovel covered with mud in his hand.

A light mist floated inexplicably in the corridor.

soon.

Feng Quan came to the stairs. He saw two corpses wrapped in sheets. The corpses had just died and were still very fresh. The arms of the corpses exposed outside the sheets had the same skin color as normal people. There was no difference. Even the skin on the corpses There is still residual body temperature, which has not completely cooled down.

The person dragging the body was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was wearing hotel work clothes and looked like a cleaner.

"Sorry, there's a bit of trash that needs to be dragged down to deal with. I hope I didn't disturb you."

The middle-aged man raised his head, looked at Feng Quan on the stairs, and showed a simple and apologetic smile.

The smile was slightly stiff.

It's very unnatural, but I can't tell what is wrong.

"Shouldn't the person report the death as soon as possible?" Feng Quan's face was gloomy as he stared at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man did not speak, but continued to drag the two corpses wrapped in sheets downstairs.

"When there is no person in charge in Zhongzhou City, I am the person in charge here. You can report the case to me. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, I have the right to take you down."

Feng Quan identified himself and took out his ID.

But the middle-aged man seemed not to hear and kept walking.

"In that case, then"

Before he finished speaking, thick fog instantly enveloped the corridor. Then, next to the middle-aged man, a shovel covered in mud suddenly slammed down and hit the man's head directly.

A normal person would be killed by such a slap, or would at least be in a coma.

The middle-aged man dragging the body stumbled and fell to the ground, and there was no movement immediately.

Feng Quan walked out of the thick fog. He picked up the middle-aged man and planned to bury the guy first. After all, this was an unstable factor and he couldn't be careless.

"So light?"

However, when he picked it up, this middle-aged man wearing hotel work clothes did not have the weight of a normal adult, but was light and airy.

Turn around and take a look.

Feng Quan's expression suddenly changed slightly.

This is not a living person at all, but a paper figure burned to the dead as a sacrifice.

"What did Liu San do?" Feng Quan immediately thought of the paper man Liu San.

However, he didn't wait to think about it.

The surrounding ghost fog was quickly dissipating, and at the same time, a slightly old voice sounded: "The servant I bought for three yuan during the discount was beaten to death by you with a shovel. It's not very good for a customer to do this." OK, you have to pay."

"who?"

Feng Quan gave a low drink, and then immediately followed the direction of the sound.

He ignored the two corpses on the ground, quickly went downstairs, and then came to the lobby of the small hotel. Just as he was about to go out, he suddenly stopped.

Then he turned and looked at the counter next to him.

There was an old kerosene lamp on the counter, with a yellowish light on. A man in his sixties, wearing an old cloth cap and with wrinkles on his face, was lying there. He raised his head slightly at this moment. He looked at Feng Quan.

The two looked at each other.

One was solemn and cautious, and the other had a bit of a smile, as if he was saying hello.

"An old resident of Taiping Ancient Town?" Feng Quan immediately deduced some information when he saw this person's dress.

"That shovel of yours is very unusual. It actually killed my servant with one blow. It's not easy."

The man said, "How are you going to compensate me? This is an old thing that I have used for decades. Every piece of it is broken. I don't have any extra money to buy more."

"Who are you?" Feng Quan held the shovel, and the lights in the lobby flickered.

Thick fog gradually appeared, and soon, the door next to it was completely shrouded in thick fog, and then disappeared from sight.

Everything around was blocked by thick fog, but the light was still flickering near the kerosene lamp at the front desk of the hotel. The thick fog could not get closer, as if it was blocked by an invisible supernatural force.

"I am the owner of this hotel. You can call me Boss Liu."

After saying that, the man grinned and became a little proud.

It seems that being a boss makes him very happy and proud.

"Boss Liu?"

Feng Quan knew it was an unimportant fake name as soon as he heard it. He said, "Are you also a ghost controller?"

"Ghost controller? I'm not. Don't talk nonsense. I'm a serious businessman." Boss Liu quickly shook his head in denial.

"How can there be supernatural things if you are not a ghost controller?" Feng Quan said.

"Bought with money, handed down from ancestors." Boss Liu said: "On the other hand, you are young and look like you are neither a human nor a ghost. You are not afraid of scaring others when you go out."

"Did you kill those two people upstairs?" Feng Quan did not answer his question.

Boss Liu strongly denied it: "Nonsense, I'm doing a serious business, how could I kill people and kill customers? I don't know whether those two people were lucky or unlucky, but they accidentally entered the ghost street and took away the things from the ghost street." , Of course, you have to pay a heavy price. During the day, I originally wanted to refuse the two of them to stay, but the business in the store has not been very good recently, so I made an exception and agreed. "

"I didn't expect them to die so quickly. I thought they would die after a few days. It seems like they took something terrible."

Feng Quan's eyes moved: "Ghost Street? Where is that place?"

"Taiping Town Ghost Street is a very famous place, but you don't know about it? Oh, by the way, you're not a local, so it's normal that you don't know. Speaking of Ghost Street, it's an incredible place, and there are all kinds of weird things there. Sell."

Speaking of this, Boss Liu sighed: "It's a pity that time has changed, and the bustling ghost streets that used to be bustling and lively have also become dilapidated and declined. Sure enough, this era no longer belongs to them. Fortunately, I changed my career quickly and opened a hotel. I can make a profit in a year." I have over a million, and I can retire in a few years. I hope I can collect enough money to buy a coffin before I die. I heard that cremation is popular recently, and I don’t know if the coffin shop will close down due to poor business. .”

Feng Quan paid attention to several pieces of information.

Ghost street, coffin shop, save money to buy a coffin

"You are indeed not simple. You know many things. Do you know about Ghost Lake?" Feng Quan said.

When the ghost lake was mentioned, Boss Liu's expression immediately changed.

It was no longer so relaxed, but rather gloomy.

But soon, Boss Liu squinted his eyes and smiled: "You pay first, and as long as you have money, you can ask anything, as long as I know."

"How much."

Feng Quan said: "Give me the number. I can transfer any amount to you."

He also has the power to mobilize Dachang City's operational funds, which can easily reach several hundred million.

"I want that thing."

Boss Liu pointed to the shovel in Feng Quan's hand: "You can tell at a glance that it is an old item. It is very valuable. Maybe it can be sold for dozens of yuan."

"Do you think I will give it to you?"

Feng Quan said: "And by taking this thing, you provoked a captain. Do you still want to live in peace and security?"

"It's so serious."

Boss Liu waved his hand and said: "Forget it, forget it, the captain sounds like a big shot. I, a small boss, can't afford to offend him. Just give me three or four yuan for a favor. I won't be too little."

He rubbed his fingers, his meaning obvious.

"I don't have the three or four dollars you mentioned." Feng Quan was not stupid. He certainly knew that the boss was not referring to ordinary money.

After thinking for a while, he took out a red ghost candle: "I can use this candle as a trade-off for you, if you are willing to tell me the secret here."

"Inspect the goods first."

Boss Liu looked at the red candle and became curious. His eyes lit up slightly, as if he had seen something new.

"Okay." Feng Quan threw the red ghost candle to him.

Boss Liu took it, put it directly in front of his nose and smelled it several times from beginning to end.

"There are ashes, corpse oil, blood, and..."

Suddenly.

He put down the red ghost candle and smiled: "Yes, it's a good item. It's a pity that it can't be burned, but it's worth some money. It's just that one is not enough. How about another one? This thing is not a rare thing. I have the raw materials." It can also be made.”

"Just one, it's gone." Feng Quan said.

"Your shovel is an antique. It's very rare. Give it to me. I won't take into account the cost of beating my servant to death, and I'll give you another seven yuan. How about it?" Boss Liu searched and searched without knowing where he came from. He took out a piece of paper money.

Colorful and colorful.

It was actually a seven-yuan denomination.

It is exactly the same as the piece of paper money Yang Jian had before.

"This is a seven-dollar bill. You rarely see it once in your life. Smell it. It smells like real money. It smells so good. I could have given you all the coffins I had saved for half my life." He said as he said while staring at Feng Quan's shovel.

Obviously, in his eyes, nothing is as important as that broken shovel.

"I said this thing is not for sale. If you want it, you can come and grab it. If you kill me, this thing will be yours. It depends on whether the boss has such ability." Feng Quandao.

How could he sell this supernatural item? It was a life-saving thing.

However, Boss Liu had no intention of grabbing it. He sighed, silently put away the seven yuan, and then put away the red ghost candle: "That's it, that's all, I suffered a bit of a loss today. What I did just now Forget about the servants, if the old ones don't go and the new ones don't come, sooner or later they will be of use, and it would be unkind for me to compete with you, a junior."

"You don't care, but my question is not over. You are from Taiping Ancient Town and are involved in the supernatural circle. How much do you know about the ghost lake?" Feng Quan asked seriously.

"The headquarters has sent several captains to investigate. If you don't tell me, the secrets here will be revealed sooner or later. If you cooperate a little, the impact may be reduced and fewer people will die."

Boss Liu rolled his eyes: "I'm talking nonsense, but I don't dare to talk nonsense about some things. Saying it will be harmful to you young people. You can't handle that thing in Ghost Lake. It's best to withdraw quickly. That's not If you had come here earlier, I would have stopped you and told you not to die."

"How do you say it?" Feng Quan asked next.

Boss Liu looked outside the store.

But I couldn't see clearly, the place was shrouded in thick fog, and even the gate disappeared in the thick fog.

Boss Liu slowly took out a tea cup from under the counter and filled it with water: "This is the ghost lake you are talking about."

Then he grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the small dish next to him and said, "This is a ghost."

Then he put the melon seeds into the water glass one by one: "When ghosts enter the ghost lake, they will sink."

A melon seed fell into the water glass and quickly sank to the bottom of the glass.

"One or two is fine, it won't affect anything." Boss Liu kept throwing in the melon seeds one by one.

"But if there are too many, the water in the water glass will overflow."

After throwing seven or eight melon seeds in, the water in the water glass overflowed along the edge and flowed onto the counter.

"The overflowing water is the supernatural event you are talking about, but if this situation continues, the water will keep overflowing." Boss Liu said and threw the melon seeds into the water glass one after another.

When Feng Quan saw this situation, he was shocked: "Is this the truth about why the ghost lake is out of control?"

It turns out that the ghost lake carried too many ghosts, so the ghost lake got out of control.

No wonder the Ghost Lake Incident was inconspicuous at first, but then it gradually escalated until it became an S-class supernatural incident.

Boss Liu grinned: "It's hard to drink water, but it's also hard to eat melon seeds. Everything has its limits. What's supposed to happen will definitely happen. It's unavoidable. Do you understand? I'm also unlucky. I'm not at this age. No matter how young I am, I can live for more than ten years even if I am old. I don’t know what the world will be like in ten years.”

"There's no way to solve it?" Feng Quan asked.

"There is no cure for the root cause, but you can treat the symptoms." Boss Liu reached out and took out all the melon seeds from the water glass, and then took another sip of water.

The water in the water glass dropped and did not overflow again.

"That's absolutely impossible." Feng Quan understood Boss Liu's method.

Salvage the ghosts in the ghost lake, and then reduce the ghosts in the ghost lake.

In this case, the outbreak of this supernatural incident can be delayed.

But even so, it is very, very difficult.

"So, I'd better open a shop in peace and make money, continue to save the coffin book, and stop messing around." Boss Liu shook his head and said.

Feng Quandao: "Is there any other way besides this? You said before that everything is sold on the ghost street. Is there any way to solve the ghost lake?"

However, before he could finish speaking, Boss Liu suddenly hissed: "Quiet, there's someone in town."

"Um?"

Feng Quan's expression moved slightly, and he immediately looked in the direction outside the door.

The fog is lifting.

Like a gaping hole.

A path appeared for one person to pass through. At this time, a lamp lit up on the street outside. A slightly hunchbacked one-eyed old man holding an oil lamp opened the door and came in.

As soon as he came in, there was a smell of paper dust around him.

It's like I just came back from burning paper.

"Boss Liu, why haven't the dead people been carried out yet?" the one-eyed old man said sternly.

"My servant died, so there was a delay. I will transport it out later." Boss Liu said hurriedly, smiling politely.

The one-eyed old man's pale one eye turned strangely, looking at Feng Quan, and then at the shovel in his hand: "A person who is mostly buried in the soil is quite rare."

"Are you an old resident of Taiping Town?" Feng Quan said with a cold face: "Are you also a member of the supernatural circle?"

"He lives in a hotel, and he has never been to town." Boss Liu said something at this moment.

The one-eyed old man stopped talking, just turned around and left with the lamp in hand: "The body cannot be left here, it must be transported out quickly."

"That's good luck, that's good luck." Boss Liu nodded repeatedly.

The door is closed.

The thick fog closed, and the one-eyed old man left.

A dim oil lamp swayed on the street outside, not even the ghosts and fog could corrode it.

"Don't worry, guest. Although he has a bad temper, he can only control the town. This is not part of Taiping Ancient Town. He can't control it. He just wandered over to me to ask about the situation. It has nothing to do with you." Boss Liu also mentioned He stood up by the kerosene lamp.

"I'm going to transport those two corpses. Can you help me?"

Feng Quan's eyes moved slightly and he hesitated for a moment: "Okay."

The ghostly fog around him quickly dissipated, and he followed Boss Liu and walked upstairs to the hotel, preparing to move out the two unfinished corpses.

But he didn't want to move the body, but wanted to take this opportunity to better understand the secrets here.

However, Feng Quan was filled with worries.

The captains' actions are definitely dangerous and unsatisfactory at this moment.

He was right to be concerned.

now.

Above the ghost lake.

Yang Jian, Shen Lin, Li Jun, Liu San, and A Hong stood on a small black wooden boat. The lake around them was densely filled with floating corpses.

None of the bodies were decomposed.

And as time passed, some corpses began to make some unusual movements.

A female corpse suddenly opened her eyes, gray and pale.

A female corpse opened her mouth and let out a weird laugh, as if she was talking in her sleep.

Some female corpses turned over in the water, causing a splash.

On the stern.

The white ghost candle has burned more than half, but it has not been extinguished.