Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 19: The Corpse House

9:15pm.

The moon rises above the branches, and night covers the earth.

In Fu Sheng Xiao Ji, Lin Beixuan saw off the last guest and closed the door early. After washing up, he lay on the bed with his hands folded on his abdomen, as quiet as a vampire lying in a coffin in medieval Europe.

Now he doesn't have to worry about insomnia at all. The secular world has cured him of staying up late. As long as he touches the pillow, he can fall asleep anytime and anywhere.

Close your eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, the scene changed instantly.

In the dilapidated house, a pile of firewood occupied most of the corner of the room. The familiar smell of decay wafted in the air. A shrine stood in the corner, and a green candle flame burned quietly.

Lin Beixuan got up from the bed, stretched his shoulders, and felt full of energy.

It seems that as long as you don't die, there will be no negative effects on your body when you wake up.

When he returned to the secular world again, his mentality was much calmer than the previous two times. He first checked the urn containing the wall-climbing ghost and the yellow-skinned fox's tail in the room and found that the two things were still intact inside.

Looking at the place where the soul-chasing incense was lit, the soul-chasing incense had burned out, leaving black ash on the ground.

"Wait, someone has been here."

Lin Beixuan walked quickly to the door, only to see that the bolt had been knocked off at some point, leaving a gap in the door.

Frowning, Lin Beixuan looked at the sky outside. It should be afternoon now. Although the sun was setting, it had not completely gone down.

"Time in the secular world seems to flow slower than in the real world. I spent the entire day in the real world, but it was only afternoon in the secular world."

Lin Beixuan made a rough estimate and found that the ratio of time spent in the secular world and the present world was about 1:1.5.

In other words, two days in the secular world are equal to three days in this world.

Pushing open the door of the woodshed and walking out, the inner courtyard seemed a bit deserted. Except for a cook busy cooking in the kitchen, there was no one else to be seen.

There seem to be fewer people in the house now!

Lin Beixuan sensed something strange. When he passed by the servants, he found that they had a strange numbness on their faces and lifeless eyes. Even if he accidentally bumped into them, they did not react at all.

Just as he was wondering, Xiao Shitou suddenly came over from the opposite side, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, which he was wiping with his sleeves.

"What happened?" Lin Beixuan walked forward and asked.

"Brother Dazhuang and Sister Xiaohuan died last night. They are now in the front hall, and the housekeeper is collecting their bodies."

Xiao Shitou wiped away his tears. Besides sadness, his eyes also revealed a numbness that Lin Beixuan felt familiar with.

"Madam Li has come looking for us again. None of us can escape."

Looking at Xiao Shitou's sad face, Lin Beixuan frowned. This was the second time he heard the name "Madam Li".

The first time was when he learned about it from the Wall Climbing Mei. When Shi Qi said this name, he quickly fell into madness. It seemed that as long as someone said this name, their hearts would become extremely unstable.

Who is this Madam Li?
When I arrived at the front hall, I saw two corpses covered with white cloth lying on the ground. When I walked closer, I could clearly smell the stench coming from the corpses.

At this time, Butler Xu was wrapping up the body with two red lines and tying a strange knot in the middle. Hearing someone coming in, Butler Xu raised his head and glanced at them, then said indifferently: "You came at the right time, give me a hand."

Lin Beixuan was stunned when he heard this, and saw Butler Xu standing up one of the wrapped corpses and leaning it against the side, so he took it over.

When Butler Xu wrapped up the other body and carried it out, Lin Beixuan immediately followed.

The two soon arrived at a deserted courtyard in the backyard, which was surrounded by weeds and crows circling above the dry trees.

As soon as he entered the yard, a cold wind blew towards him. The sun shone on his body but he did not feel any warmth. Lin Beixuan shivered subconsciously because of the cold, and a light white mist came out of his mouth. However, Butler Xu, who was walking in front, seemed not to feel the coldness and walked straight towards a house in the yard.

When they got outside, Butler Xu took out a key and opened the door.

The room was completely dark, as if it had swallowed up all the light, leaving only a chilly atmosphere everywhere.

"Bring in the body."

Manager Xu lit an oil lamp, and Lin Beixuan gradually saw the scene inside, but this sight frightened him greatly.

In the dim room, there were corpses wrapped in white cloth standing everywhere, some leaning against the windows, some behind the doors. After a rough count, there were actually twenty or thirty of them.

These corpses were tied tightly with white cloth. Through the appearance, it was easy to distinguish the outlines of the corpses' facial features. Above the protruding nose bridge, pairs of eyes seemed to be staring at the people entering the room at all times.

"Just find a place to put it down."

The butler's voice echoed in the room. In the dim room, Lin Beixuan couldn't see where he was.

A feeling of uneasiness began to grow in his heart. Lin Beixuan felt his heart beating faster. He just wanted to put the body down quickly and go out. Staying in this room made him feel even more creepy than guarding the door at night.

A room full of dead bodies, it seems that these people did not die of natural causes.

The living live in yang houses, and the dead live in yin houses. Why are there so many dead people in the Ruan family’s house where only one living person lives?

As soon as Lin Beixuan took a breath, he was choked by the stench of corpses in the room. After coughing several times, he finally found an open space in a corner of the room.

After carrying the body over and laying it out, the red string on the body loosened for some reason and slid off the white cloth. Without the red string to restrain it, the white cloth covering the body also slid off. Lin Beixuan happened to look up at this moment and saw the appearance of the body.

He was a middle-aged man who looked honest and simple, but his eyes were wide open. Even though he had been dead for a long time, Lin Beixuan could still see the fear in his eyes.

“This corpse…”

Lin Beixuan suddenly became a little dazed, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

He discovered that this was a body he had not only seen but had even touched before; it was the same body that had blocked his path as he crossed the porch the previous evening.

When I reached out and touched the other person's body, I felt it was wet, and thought that the body was drowned, so I didn't think about the two people who died today. Unexpectedly, the two bodies were actually the same person.

For a moment, a deep chill rose in Lin Beixuan's heart.

In the dim room, the oil lamp flickered. A gust of cold wind blew in from outside the door, extinguishing the only faint light. The thick darkness instantly submerged Lin Beixuan.

But Butler Xu seemed to have disappeared. The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Lin Beixuan stood still, and suddenly, a pale hand reached out from the darkness and placed it on Lin Beixuan's shoulder.

(End of this chapter)