Section 42, `living' and `dead'

The fat brother laughed and said, "Well, isn't it fun here? The last time Ye Yi and I came into this place, it was the feeling of slowly walking from modern to ancient times. This time we are the opposite."

I feel ridiculous and incredible.

The old-fashioned stalls around are gradually replaced by the appearance of fast food trucks and restaurants.

The feeling here is very strange, giving people a sense of time disorder.

The fat brother said, "Do you feel it too?"

I nodded and said, "Yes, it's a strange feeling, but I didn't see any discord, as if everything was natural."

"Yes, this is like a corridor of time, which condenses the development of our world from ancient times to the present into this street. Ye Yi and I have studied it and concluded that there is no fault in time, so when the scene is changed, it makes people feel strange. Ye Yi once said that it can be described here for a hundred years.

I couldn't help nodding involuntarily and agree with this statement.

"Is there such a place in many places?" I asked the fat man.

The fat man shook his head and sighed, "As far as I know, only a few ancient cities have this kind of ghost market. I've been in M City for so long, but I haven't found that it's really not."

I was suddenly curious about the behavior of the fat man after encountering this so-called ghost market.

You should know that tonight's purpose is to find the auxiliary charm in the royal spirit charm. Although the ghost market is very strange, in this case, it seems that more attention should be paid to the existence of the secondary charm, rather than the ghost market, right? But now the fat man's behavior is very... full of interest, um, that's right, that's how it is described.

So, I reminded, "Fat brother, just take a walk. I still have to find the deputy.

The fat man looked at me and said, "You can find clues here."

I was stunned. Can I find clues in this unsirable place? Isn't the fat man have something else to hide from me? Then he asked him, "What's there to look for here?"

The fat man said, "If you can find a clue here, the effect can exceed the value brought by the auxiliary character."

I was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?"

The fat man looked around and said, "Do you remember what your family does?"

I said, "I know, Tunling."

"What about here?" The fat man said.

My heart was stunned, and then I thought of the saying that my family swallowed Ling. There is nothing else here. Except for our two big living people, they are all... Oh, my God!

I suddenly shivered all over, and my heart rose to my throat. In my opinion, it's just like an unusual trip.

For the family, this kind of place is an extremely rich cafeteria!

The fat man saw my concern and said, "It's not what you think, but... Well, damn it, I can't compare it. It's like when we come to this world, we are eternal passers-by who do not eat the fireworks of the world. When we come, we will never change. For people with their families, as long as they dare to violate certain regulations, they will change from passers-by to beggars. Although their status is low, they can eat from it, whether it is good or bad. Damn, in a word, as long as he is lucky here, he will always find food for his evil spirit.

Although I don't know what regulations my family will violate, I believe there must be a reason for this. However, I didn't bother to ask. I just said, "Then let's look for it. If it doesn't work, we have to find another place quickly. The power of this imperial charm will be born day by day.

The fat man said, "Well, pay attention and see if there is a ghost wandering here with deep resentment. If you find it, let me know."

I asked, "How to pay attention"

The fat man said, "The face is red, and the color of the eyes is wrong. It's just that the resentment is very heavy. This kind of thing is here, and it can cause cancerous white blood cell-like bugs. It is also the target of the family.

I nodded. Under the green light and shadow, it was not easy to see the ghosts with red faces.

But in order to find Xiang Wangjiang as soon as possible, we can't let go of any valuable clues, even if we look for a needle in a haystack.

And the fat man also vowed that clues can be found here. We have to devote 120 points of energy to distinguish every passing 'person' around us.

Looking carefully, I found that the 'people' here are particularly strange, as if their expressions will never change.

There is a forever smile hanging on his face with a smile, and there is a crying face. Obviously, his eyes keep crying, but he is still holding a plate. He also grinned and stretched out his tongue. His eyes were red and his face was pale. There was obviously a circle of strangulation marks on his neck. At a glance, he knew that he was a hanged guy, but he had to pretend to be svenient.

I suddenly understood what kind of expression and attitude these people seemed to have at the end of their lives.

But, it's not right!

I'm confused. This is a gap between the world and the ghost world. Although it is under the jurisdiction of the ghost world, in fact, the position is in the world. So, these dead people... should not be reincarnated, or because after experiencing the baptism of the ghost world, they are out of the category of obsession with ghosts and can think like living people, right?

There is a saying that people have a hundred years of life, and ghosts enjoy a thousand years of light.

It means that people can only live for a hundred years at most. If you become a ghost, you can live for thousands of years, which is why you always talk about the reason why the thousand-year-old ghost comes from.

So I have never made a fuss because I saw countless 'people' of different dynasties walking around in this street.

However, now such an observation has made me make such a discovery. I have to wonder, what's going on?

The fat brother looked at me and asked, "What's the matter? Did you find something wrong?"

I shook my head and nodded again.

The fat man asked, "What did you find?"

I replied, "The people here don't seem to have changed their expressions?"

The fat man smiled and said, "This! When Ye Yi and I came here, I also found out. Do you know why you didn't let meddle in other people's business? This is the reason."

I don't understand.

The fat man continued: "The 'people' here come in from the outside."

I nodded, it's true.

"So, in fact, these are all wandering souls outside. It's not a real ghost from the ghost world. You can think so. They come here to work and consume. Do you understand? If we are nosy, then because of idleness, we will go out with these things. Cause and effect will be involved in us, and it will not be so simple to send away or destroy it. Only by helping him fulfill his wish can he settle the cause and effect. This is also a very special relationship in this place, so some causal relationships are particularly fragile and strong here.

I don't quite understand, but I can understand a little. So I frowned and asked, "In this case, isn't it necessary for the swallowing man to devour the lonely ghosts here to be contaminated with such cause and effect?"

The fat man smiled at me kindly and said, "Brother Yang is really smart. It is precisely because of this relationship that he seems to be the particularity of his family. Evil will be rewarded! Do you understand? This idiom can be used not only on people, but also on these ghosts. The people of the family can cleverly avoid the causal relationship here in the way that evil spirits devour evil spirits.

Awesome, awesome! The people of the Xiang family are really very evil. Even Ye Yi and Zhao Lei will find it troublesome. In the means of the Xiang family, they can actually achieve it by taking advantage of such a gap.

Well, no wonder the fat man asked me to look for that kind of resentful 'person', which is quite related.

"I've been taught." I said seriously.

The fat man smiled and said, "This is also what Ye Yi taught me in those years. Look for it again. This ghost city is not big. If you can't find it, we will go back."

I nodded, turned my head and began to look for it.

The two of us slowly wandered around the ghost city, and I also experienced the strange scenery, although the scenery here is not beautiful...

Just after we walked about ten minutes forward, I was surprised to see a light curtain not far in front of us, just like when we came in.

At this moment, the fat man suddenly grabbed me.

"What's wrong, fat brother?" I couldn't help asking. In fact, I was just going to ask the fat man what the light curtain I saw in front of me was, and I wanted to ask him if it was over.

The fat man dragged me and said, "Look there." He pointed to a stall with the other finger.

I looked at it, but I didn't feel anything abnormal. When I was about to respond, my eyes fell on the side of the stall.

A piece of red paper!

No, it should be a paper coin in the shape of a knife coin.

It is different from the copper coin we threw on the ground when we came in. This is a paper coin in the shape of a knife coin. It lies quietly on the ground. In this world with green as the main tone, the red is so dazzling, and I didn't find it at the first time!

"Is this? Is someone coming in? I whispered, in addition, I felt a little nervous.

The fat man nodded and said, "Be careful."

I asked, "Is it a family member?"

The fat man shook his head slightly and whispered, "Not necessarily, but the people who can pay knives and paper money are the way passed down by the ancient family."

I said, "Are we here to guard?"

The fat man said, "It's useless. If he wants to leave, we can't find it at all. We go out three steps back. The person who came came in from here, and we came in on the other side. The other party wanted to escape and suddenly turned around, and three steps back would completely disappear. And... the most important thing is that in the ghost market, we can't tell who is the living and who is the dead.

[The origin of paper money: folk beliefs and legends that the custom of burning paper money comes from the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that You Xiucai, an apprentice of Cai Lun, the inventor of papermaking, came up with a method of promoting "paper": You Xiucai pretended to be seriously ill and died, and his wife told all his neighbors that if the paper was cut into the shape of "copper money" and burned, bribed the gods, and the dead could be resurrected. The neighbors didn't believe it. Later, when You's wife burned, You immediately resurrected. So "paper" immediately became the best-selling product. Other versions of this legend are much the same, but the protagonist You Xiucai, Cai Lun himself, or Cai Lun's brother Cai Mo.]