I become a god in another world

Chapter 525: Encountering Paper Figures on the Road
Chapter 525

"Ghost eyeballs--" Liu Yizhen sighed.

At that time, Wu Laocai from Huanggang Village picked up this evil object from somewhere and gave it to Zang Xiongshan.

Moreover, Zang Xiongshan used this ghost eye bead to seal the ghost mother before his "death", thus preserving the superficial "peace" in Shangyang County for more than 40 years. This shows how powerful this ghost eye bead is.

The ghost mother has not yet fully recovered, but her eyes seem to be showing signs of recovery.

Several envoys from Shangyang County died because of the ghost eyeball.

"Do you think there's something wrong with the ghost's eyeball?" Liu Yizhen asked.

Zhao Fusheng said:

"Let's talk about the ghost disaster in Shangyang County first."

The funeral procession had already started moving again, but she was the only one talking. Everyone was unsure about the journey and were both afraid and curious about this ghost disaster. They wanted to hear more useful information from her so as to increase their confidence of survival in the rest of the journey. Therefore, those holding the suona and cymbals did not make a sound.

Zhao Fusheng was well aware of the fear in everyone's hearts and did not urge them.

Zhang Chuanshi's ghost incense is burning, which means that the ghost burial is still going on.

As soon as her eighth level of hell was opened and the ghost realm was broken, Zhu Guangling's ghost realm temporarily prevailed - this proved that the funeral procession was temporarily safe.

"Now we know that the biggest source of ghost disaster in Shangyang County comes from the human-skinned ghost mother."

The origin of the Ghost Mother can be traced back to forty-four years ago, to Zang Xiongshan, who controlled the human-skin Ghost Mother.

"Zang Xiongshan's own evil spirit revived, and before he died, I don't know how he swallowed the ghost eyeball given by Wu Laocai." Zhao Fusheng said patiently:
"That is to say, apart from the ghost clones of the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother, the ghost disaster in Shangyang County actually belongs to the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother herself: the resurrected evil spirits of Lao Zhang's mother and sister, Zang Xiongshan himself, and the ghost eyeballs -" She paused, then added:
"And the first ghost that Zang Xiongshan suspected to have controlled when he was wronged in Guanjiang County."

She pondered for a moment and said:
"Based on the case mentioned by Lao Zhang, I preliminarily estimated that this ghost's killing method includes the ability to change."

This funeral route is full of dangers, but Zhao Fusheng's calm analysis after showing his strength gradually made people feel at ease.

It seems that evil spirits are not scary, what is scary is the unknown.

Wu Shaochun, who was carrying the coffin, paused and then asked:

"Sir, do you mean that in the Guanjiang County case more than 50 years ago, all the people involved mentioned seeing 'Zang Xiongshan' appear at the scene of the crime?"

He was quick-witted, humble and willing to learn. With just a few pointers and reminders from Zhao Fusheng, he was able to discover some key points.

This is also a model for learning to analyze ghost disasters.

Zhao Fusheng nodded:
"It doesn't matter how Guo Zhengbao's family, who were the first to suffer the ghost disaster, died or who committed the crime."

What’s important is that afterwards, all the people related to the case died tragically one by one, and there were eyewitnesses who testified that Zang Xiongshan was the culprit.

At that time, Zang Xiongshan was imprisoned in prison and had no time to spare.

Later, Zhang Chuanshi mentioned that the evil ghost of Zang Xiongshan lost control and killed his mother and sister. This showed that Zang Xiongshan unknowingly controlled a ghost. This ghost had the ability to "transform" and could change his face, thus causing the subsequent ghost disaster in Guanjiang County.

"From this we can roughly infer the prototype of the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother: it was originally the 'shapeshifting ghost' controlled by Zang Xiongshan, and its principle was the art of illusion." Leaving aside the method of killing, the first prototype of the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother has been inferred.

After that, the evil ghost revived, and after killing Zhang Chuanshi's mother Liu Wenqing, Liu Wenqing's evil ghost revived and transformed into a ghost mother with human skin, and sealed the evil ghost who was good at "illusionment" - this is also the second form of the ghost mother with human skin.

"If that's all, I guess when the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother actually killed someone, she might have merged the power of the first form of evil spirit that she had sealed away."

Zhao Fusheng calmly analyzed:
“But it doesn’t stop there.”

After controlling the ghost, Zang Xiongshan probably also thought about solving the problem.

It’s just that ordinary people cannot escape from the power of evil spirits and can only make one wrong step after another until they fall into the abyss.

He killed countless people and harmed countless people for this.

Shen Yishu died because of him, and the Sun family was destroyed because of him. From the beginning, he was a victim of Guo Zhengbao's family murder case in Guanjiang County, but he suddenly became a terrifying perpetrator who threatened the safety of Shangyang County and killed countless lives!
Later, Wu Laocai's family gave him a ghost eyeball, which hit the spot right in his heart.

He didn't know what method he used to control the ghost eye.

He borrowed the power of the ghost eyeball to fight against the power of the human-skin ghost mother. In the end, he and the ghost eyeball were resurrected as evil ghosts, and then were swallowed by the human-skin ghost mother.

"From this, we can see that this is the ultimate form of the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother."

As soon as Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, everyone was digesting the information she mentioned in their minds.

Everyone was thinking about it. Mr. Xie seemed calm on the surface, but his heart seemed to be in turmoil.

What Zhao Fusheng said was not surprising to him.

But she was born in Wan'an County. To Mr. Xie, it was just a border county town. A child born in the countryside had limited knowledge. However, with incomplete information and clues, she was able to quickly summarize and conclude a characteristic of a ghost disaster that was far at the calamity level based on the words of a few people - and the summary of this characteristic was not bad, and was almost consistent with the summary of the Demon Bureau of Dijing Town.

Zhao Fusheng didn't know what Mr. Xie was thinking, she said to herself:

"So I think the Human-Skinned Ghost Mother at this time is not just a single ghost disaster. Its killing rules will also be very special. The methods of killing may include but are not limited to: the third ghost eye, skinning, and transforming into different human forms."

She took a deep breath:

"With such a complicated ghost disaster and complicated rules, I can't say whether this trip will go smoothly or not, nor can I say whether it can be completely resolved. I can only say that I will do my best."

Her words made everyone feel heavy.

After a while, Wu Shaochun suddenly laughed:
"Who cares? I was lucky enough to have this life. I can just fight for it."

Meng Po and Kuai Manzhou both nodded.

Zhao Fusheng said:

"But there is always a way out." Zhao Fusheng calmed down:

"It's not like they will die for sure at this point."

Although the case of the human-skin ghost mother was critical at this time, it was much better than the situation when she went to the beggar's alley alone.

She now has merit points in her hands, and has the support of the Yinchai Mamian, the door gods, the opera troupe and the ghost car. Besides, as for the case of the human-skinned ghost mother, even if she cannot solve it, she still has Wang Jiangfeng to finish it off.

“I have three plans at the moment.”

She planned before taking action, and after she said that, everyone felt a little more certain.

"Which three?"

Mr. Xie asked.

Zhao Fusheng said:

"Someone from Shangyang County just mentioned that there is an uninhabited area on the road leading out of the city?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a messenger carrying a load from Shangyang County said:

"Dai Ling mentioned it. There is indeed an uninhabited vacant land over there."

Zhao Fusheng's thoughts changed:
"where is it?"

The envoy said:

"It happens to be in a village outside the city wall of Shangsanfang." As soon as he finished speaking, another envoy also said:
"It is said that it was one of the three upper districts several decades ago, but something happened there and it gradually became deserted. For some reason, few people live there."

As soon as he finished speaking, the emissary holding the cymbals in both hands said:
"They say it's haunted."

When Zhao Fusheng heard these clues, he immediately understood:
"We will lead the human-skin ghost mother there."

"Sir, you mean that there really is a ghost there, and you plan to use the ghost there to suppress the human-skin ghost mother?"

Wu Shaochun asked.

Zhao Fusheng turned his head to look at Meng Po, and at that moment Meng Po was also turning her head to look at her.

At this moment, an invisible tacit understanding arose in the hearts of the old man and the young man, as if they had understood each other's thoughts with just one glance.

"That place used to be the territory of Shangsanfang. It was abandoned due to an accident several decades ago, and it has been rumored to be haunted since then—" She looked at Wu Shaochun: "Shaochun, considering these characteristics, I suspect that it was once the old house of the Sun family, and it was also the place where Sun Shaoyin had an accident."

Meng Po suppressed her excitement and said:
"Maybe Yishu is also wandering there."

"Yeah."

During the conversation between the few people, an order came:

"There are indeed rumors there that the owner of the house is surnamed Sun—" This way it would be safe.

Zhao Fusheng said:
"Use ghosts to fight ghosts, then go there! If it doesn't work, I will try to make you a god again. If it really doesn't work, I will use the ghost car to take you to Longyang County and lead the ghosts there."

She doesn't necessarily want to seek death by being ignorant of the world.

These are the three methods she thought of: radical, conservative, and safe. She has thought through them all.

Mr. Xie showed satisfaction in his eyes:

"These three methods are indeed good and closely linked."

Although everyone had made the worst plan, it is human nature to fear death. When they heard that there was a way out, they all felt more confident.

"it is good."

Everyone nodded in response.

"In that case, let's set off again quickly. How long does it take to get to the old house?"

When the envoys heard that there was a chance of survival, they swept away their previous discouragement:

"If we walk faster, we can get there in about two quarters of an hour."

"Then hurry up and don't delay."

Zhao Fusheng shouted.

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison.

The suona and gongs sounded again, and this time when the ghost band set out again, it was surprisingly more determined.

After the words were said clearly and thoroughly, although the ghost disaster was still scary, it inexplicably gave people more confidence.

The messengers beat the gongs and shouted:
"The Demon Suppression Division is holding a funeral, strangers please stay away!"

'clang--'

"The Demon Suppression Division is holding a funeral, strangers please stay away!"

'clang--'

In the drizzle, everyone quickened their pace at the same time.

The sky was getting darker and darker. The funeral procession moved quickly through the streets and alleys. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Zhao Fusheng suddenly smelled a faint stench.

As soon as the stench entered Zhao Fusheng's nose, his muscles tensed up.

The situation tonight is special. There are no lights along the road. This street out of the city is pitch black, and from a distance it looks like a road to a bottomless abyss.

But when the stench came, there were two flashes in the darkness, as if the thick fog in the night sky was pushed away, revealing a dazzling star.

The starlight flashed twice, then flew up into the sky, tremblingly moving towards this side.

"not good!"

Zhang Chuanshi felt a tightness in his heart.

At some point, the drizzle in the sky stopped again and a haze covered the earth.

In the dark fog, the light staggered and gradually approached.

This scene was so horrifying that it shattered the courage that the Shangyang County envoys had worked so hard to muster in an instant.

No one dared to blink, but even so, the light spot moved very fast and was within reach in a moment.

"Sir, it seems to be a 'person'." The suona player stopped playing and said in a trembling voice.

At such a time and place, no normal person would appear on this road.

The stench Zhao Fusheng smelled in her nose became stronger, and she sighed:
"What is meant to come will always come."

As soon as he finished speaking, the light became a little brighter, as if the person who came had walked forward a distance and was closer to the crowd.

When they got closer, everyone could see that it looked like a "lantern", but the location of the light seemed to be in mid-air, and it was not clear through the thick ghost fog, as if it was held high above the head by a "person".

Zhang Chuanshi had a complicated expression, his eyes were filled with resentment, anger, and a bit of cowardice, and he shouted in a somewhat collapsed manner:
"This is my mother's funeral—"

No one responded to his words.

The 'lantern' was getting closer and closer. After it walked out of the range of the ghost fog, everyone could see clearly who was coming - it was actually a 'paper man' with a strange shape!
It’s not entirely correct to say that it’s a paper figure.

Judging from its shape, this paper man is about the height of an adult man, but its entire body is translucent, as if it were made of a piece of human skin.

Inside its head, an oil lamp was lit.

The light illuminated its head, turning the paper man itself into a walking human-shaped 'lantern'.

The pale light dispelled the dark air.

When it approached the front of the funeral procession, the face of the paper man was distorted, and the fire inside ignited with a "boom". The flames licked the paper, and the lips and nose of the paper man quickly turned black.

The flames burned from the inside, and in a blink of an eye they "grabbed" the paper man's face, forcing the corners of his mouth to turn up, revealing a strange smile, and then a huge fire exploded from the top of his head, with flames splashing everywhere.

As the flames burst, a foul odor spread out.

At the same time, Liu Yizhen felt the coffin on his shoulders sink.

"..."

This scene was both horrifying and bizarre. Although the paper man spontaneously combusted, an ordinary envoy in Shangyang County who had not yet controlled a ghost could not figure out the reason.

But people's innate sense of crisis made everyone realize that something was wrong, and they instinctively stopped.

Zhao Fusheng was nervous and shouted:

"Move forward quickly, and try not to be stopped by these evil spells."

As soon as she shouted, the frightened crowd immediately came to their senses and moved forward again.

The sounds of gongs and drums rang out again, but along with the sounds of gongs and drums, there were also countless points of shining stars.

The dark night seemed to turn into a galaxy in an instant.

Countless flames swayed towards the crowd.

Everyone walked forward in fear and collided head-on with the group of paper figures.

Upon seeing the strange paper figures with a lit lamp on each head, the magistrate of Shangyang County was frightened out of his wits.

Mr. Xie frowned, raised his wrist, snatched the cymbal from the hand of an emissary, and struck it hard:
'clang--'

The sound came from far away, breaking the silence.

The sound of Mr. Xie's move was naturally incomparable to that of an ordinary messenger.

All the paper figures moving forward paused, the firelight dimmed a little, and Mr. Xie looked stern and shouted loudly:

"When the evil ghost is buried, all ghosts and humans will flee!"

As soon as he finished shouting, there was a cymbal strike.

'clang--'

The sound echoed, and the sound waves hit the group of paper figures. The impact was extraordinary with the power of evil spirits. Wherever the sound waves reached, the flames on the paper figures' heads were extinguished.

All the standing paper figures turned pale and finally turned into limp human skin falling to the ground.

When everyone saw this scene, they showed joy on their faces.

But before the joy could last for a few moments, a foul smell came.

'Tatttatt.'

This time, the sound was of heavy footsteps.