Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 155 Seven Souls and Seven Papers

Looking at the black paper on the mourning stick, Chen Xin subconsciously asked Huang Ying to wave the mourning stick.

Although he was in the water, Chen Xin seemed to hear a cry.

Immediately afterwards, the blood-colored river water surrounding the ferocious water ghost that rushed towards Huang Ying was mostly dispersed by an invisible undercurrent.

That water ghost was even more bizarre. It was clearly a water ghost, but it showed a drowning posture, constantly sliding its limbs and struggling in the water.

This scene made Chen Xin forget to continue attacking.

It was not until three seconds later that the ferocious water ghost returned to normal and the blood reappeared that Chen Xin came to his senses.

Just when Chen Xin was about to launch an attack, he saw that the ferocious water ghost... escaped!

It fled away from Huang Ying's location even faster than when it came, as if there was an extremely terrifying existence where Huang Ying was.

Chen Xin was confused. Looking at the evil water ghosts that were rushing towards him one after another after the ferocious water ghost left, Chen Xin understood.

The problem wasn't with him, the problem was with that evil water ghost.

Immediately, Huang Ying waved the mourning stick again.

The seven water ghosts around showed symptoms of drowning, just like the ferocious water ghost before.

Looking at this scene, Chen Xin smiled.

The staff was waved again, and the seven water ghosts were swept up by the undercurrent and shot out of the river.

Huang Ying arrived later but was the first to arrive, and went ashore with the seven water ghosts.

Looking at the water ghosts who fell on the shore and were still struggling and suffocating, Chen Xin threw the basin over.

Huang Ying stuck the mourning stick into the ground, held the basin in one hand, and grabbed the ashes in the basin with the other hand. Like a farm child helping adults apply fertilizer in the fields, he sprinkled the ashes evenly on the bodies of the seven water ghosts.

After all the smoke had been scattered, when Huang Ying looked back, all he saw was a cloud of green smoke.

Chen Xin nodded with satisfaction and estimated the remaining ashes in the basin.

"That's enough ashes. It's time to upgrade the Wangpan after two more."

Chen Xin controlled Huang Ying to put down the basin, picked up the mourning stick again and was about to rush into the water.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw the densely packed heads floating on the water, and the river water that had lost all its original color, leaving only blood.

"..."

Without saying anything, the yellow infant, the mourning staff, and the basin on the ground all disappeared from the spot.

A moment later, a pool of blood oozed out from the ground where Huang Ying had just stood.

……

"Why are there so many vicious water ghosts? Did the vicious water ghost from before go back to get reinforcements?"

I thought I would be able to upgrade both the Staff of Sorrow and the Basin at once today, but I didn't expect that situation to occur later.

If there were only three or four evil water ghosts, Chen Xin felt that not only could he upgrade the Wangpen today, but he might also have enough good karma to do the paper-cutting for the substitute!

Shaking his head, Chen Xin put the things in the quilt and placed them on the bedside table.

He himself lay in bed, digesting the changes brought about by the promotion of the Sorrowful Staff.

The direction of improvement that Ai Zhang obtained after his promotion was a direction that Chen Xin had not expected.

Whether in the hands of Chen Xin or Wang Xingping, the staff is a weapon used for attack.

Originally, Chen Xin thought that after the staff of mourning was upgraded, there would definitely be a big change at the chicken head, and the attack would definitely be improved a lot.

But from the information obtained, Chen Xin discovered that the direction of the mourning staff's promotion was actually a point he didn't pay much attention to, that is, the pieces of paper hanging on the mourning staff!
The whistling sound made by waving the mourning stick can scare ghosts and even attract souls, which is all related to these pieces of paper.

But Chen Xin always thought that these were incidental abilities. As a result, after this promotion, Chen Xin realized that the chicken head was incidental and these paper scraps were the big brothers.

"Mourning stick, also known as mourning stick, soul-guiding stick..."

Thinking of the introduction of the mourning stick, Chen Xin couldn't help but shake his head.

The answer had already been written in the "Compendium of Town Objects", but Chen Xin just didn't notice it.

The body of the Yin Shuai-level mourning staff has not changed much, except that the messy paper scraps on the original mourning staff have disappeared, leaving only seven longer pieces of paper scraps.

Seven pieces of paper can attract seven souls, and different souls will add different negative effects to the "crying sound", and can even gain the special abilities of the ghosts they belong to.

If seven ghosts are introduced into the seven pieces of paper, the staff of mourning will have seven more effects!

Moreover, this effect does not depend on the strength of the introduced soul itself, but on the strength of the Staff of Sorrow.

In other words, even if Chen Xin introduced a wandering soul, the power attached to the staff of mourning would be of a ferocious level.

In addition, after the promotion, the Staff of Sorrow gained another ability, which is also related to soul-guiding, called Soul Calling.

The staff of mourning can summon back a soul that has just dissipated, or it can use corpses or other objects that are closely connected to the soul to re-condense the soul.

Chen Xin has not tried the second type, but the first type, the ferocious water ghost that was led into the paper in the water with the mourning stick was like this.

Chen Xin even felt that if he could find the true body of the water ghost in the mourning staff, he might obtain an innate Yin object!
When the ghost is gone, the entity is no longer the entity.

On the contrary, if Chen Xin obtains an innate Yin object, then by using the power of the staff of sorrow on the innate Yin object, can he make the innate Yin object turn back into its original form?
One positive and one negative, two ways of use.

But whether it is really as Chen Xin thought, we will know only after trying it.

In addition to these two abilities, the attack power of the chicken head has also been enhanced, but not as much as the paper fluff.

But no matter how few there are, they are still Yin Shuai-level talismans. It is impossible for them to deal with ferocious ghosts and inflict damage the size of a fingernail like last time.

All in all, I gained a lot from this trip to the underworld!
However, are there any disadvantages after promotion? Yes, there are.

That is, unless it is a life-and-death situation, Chen Xin is not going to use a stick to mourn his uncle. After all, the change is still quite big.

After digesting the situation after Ai Zhang's promotion, Chen Xin took out the booklet and glanced at the Yin De points that appeared on the cover of the "Compendium of Town Objects" on it.

This time, he killed a total of 17 evil ghosts and obtained 114 Yinde points. After that, he killed a ferocious water ghost. Although he did not kill the ghost itself, he also obtained 68 Yinde points.

All in all, this trip to the underworld earned a total of 182 Yin De points.

As for consumption, since the yellow baby entered through the fish hook, it was not considered as being released, so no Yin De points were consumed.

The total cost of placing the mourning stick and the prosperous basin is 2 points, which can be ignored. Now, Chen Xin's Yin De points have reached 642 points, and there are still 358 points away from points.

In addition, the progress of the Wangpen increased directly from 0% to 35%. This trip to the underworld can be said to be a great harvest, not much different from the Church of the Holy Infant.

After staying in the hotel for a while, Chen Xin left.

That river has already gathered too many evil spirits, there is no need to enter the fishhook to try again, there is still a chance, no rush.

After leaving the hotel, Chen Xin found a shopping mall to sit in and look up the matter about the banyan tree.

The search lasted for several hours. It was already 8 o'clock in the evening and the mall was about to close in a few hours, but Chen Xin still found nothing.

Chen Xin even found the place where the reed was activated through the Internet, and it was a photo shared by someone who had fished there before.

But when Chen Xin looked for the village next to the river, there was no banyan tree, let alone a single mountain.

The river in the underworld and the river in reality are not the same river at all!

"Why not? Am I wrong? Is the Cathedral of the Holy Infant just a coincidence?"

After thinking to no avail, Chen Xin rubbed his brows, put away his computer and returned to the dormitory.

Time cannot be wasted on this matter.

At 9: at night.

Chen Xin received a WeChat message from Zhou Lei.

"Jin Zi, let's go to the escape room tomorrow. I heard the manager created a new scene, it looks pretty good~"

"Don't go."

"what?"

"There will be special training tomorrow."

Chen Xin thought of a reason and replied.

"Isn't your special training in the morning? Let's go out and play in the afternoon! We can also check if the Cathedral of the Holy Infant is open."

Looking at Zhou Lei's words, Chen Xin laughed.

I'm afraid the Cathedral of the Holy Infant will never reopen.

Just when Chen Xin was about to continue to reject Zhou Lei, Zhou Lei sent a long message over.

“I heard that this escape room is very interesting and novel. It is said to be adapted from a true story. Let me give you a brief introduction!

The plot of the locked room is that in a village, there is a newlywed couple. Not long after they got married, the wife had an affair with someone and was then thrown into a pig cage by the villagers!
Her husband was conservative and did not stop it.

But not long after, her husband smeared his blood all over the big banyan tree in the center of the village and died there, cursing the people in the village!
How about it, doesn’t it sound interesting? Our script starts with the man being covered in blood!”

"By the way, Chai Ruobing is going too~"

After seeing such a long paragraph, Chen Xin casually typed out the words "I have something else to do and can't go."

He only finished reading the text after sending it out.

When Chen Xin saw the last three words "big banyan tree", he was stunned.

Big banyan tree?
He was very familiar with this word, so familiar that when he looked at these three words, he almost didn't recognize them.

The keyboard crackled.

"I thought about it, things can be postponed, but our friendship cannot be postponed!"

"…You mean you want to go?"

"go with!"

Zhou Lei was lying on his bed in the dormitory, reading the words sent by Chen Xin with a look of disdain on his face.

"Why didn't I realize that Jin Zi was like this before? Could it be that the literature department makes people become hypocritical?"

After Chen Xin finished talking with Zhou Lei, he immediately searched for the escape room shop, and actually saw the latest escape room theme [Revenge].

But this was not what Chen Xin was focusing on. Chen Xin's eyes were already firmly fixed on those promotional posters.

The poster shows part of the background of this episode’s secret room and some old photo scenes, but with just a part of it, Chen Xin has already determined that this is the village where the big banyan tree he is looking for is located!

"It's like searching for him among the crowd for hundreds of times, and when I look back, he is standing in the dimly lit place..."

Chen Xin didn't expect that the big banyan tree that he had been looking for many times would appear before him in this way.

"Looks like I need to have a chat with the owner of this store..."

After solving a problem that had troubled him for a long time, Chen Xin felt much more relaxed and his typing speed became much faster.

The next day, Sunday.

After the special training of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau ended in the morning, Chen Xin went straight to Zhou Lei’s dormitory without even eating.

After reuniting, everyone went to the escape room shop together.

On the subway, Chen Xin felt very strange.

There are six people. Chen Xin can understand why Zhou Lei and Bai Xiaomi are sitting together, but why Fan Chengdong and Du Meng are sitting together. Is there something going on between them?
Doesn’t Fan Chengdong like Wu Mengmeng?
It’s just a few steps away, and Fan Chengdong is too lazy to go?

Confused, Chen Xin turned his head to look at Chai Ruobing beside him and slowly moved his head closer.

"Haven't you noticed any paranormal events in your circle recently?"

Upon hearing this, Chai Ruobing also leaned forward.

"It's not that easy for supernatural events to happen! Even if they do happen, people in the circle will keep it to themselves, unless they can't handle it... Why, do you want to earn points with me?"

now.

Zhou Lei and the other three who were originally chatting turned their eyes to Chen Xin and Chai Ruobing.

Looking at the two of them whispering with their heads leaning against each other, they both smiled like aunties.

……

(End of this chapter)