Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 60 Going to the dark side
Ran Qing felt shocked and confused.

This scene is so similar to the scene when he saw his mother that night!

Then a surprise emerged in Ran Qing's mind.

——He will see his mother again soon!
But the next second, as the wall paint fell off, what emerged from the walls and ceiling were not those strange plants and vines.

But it was a mass of dark mist.

The mist gradually filled and floated in the air, and finally, a cold and gloomy wind blew by.

Ran Qing was startled to find himself standing blankly on a foggy loess road, holding the spirit tablet of the ancestors of the ghost walkers of all generations.

In the fog around them, blurry figures were wandering sluggishly, walking towards the end of the loess road.

The coffin, the house, the incense and candles, Aunt Six... everything in the main room disappeared around Ran Qing.

He came to a completely unfamiliar place, and the blurry figures wandering in the fog around him gave Ran Qing an extremely familiar feeling of coldness.

Wandering ghosts...

Before becoming a ghost walker, Ran Qing had seen those harmless wandering souls many times.

But the wandering souls I've seen in the past were all wandering alone among graves, in woodlands, and at crossroads...

They are dull and confused. They will not stay in one place for long, but wander around aimlessly and end up not knowing where they are going.

Now, the ghosts wandering on this loess road all headed in the same direction, drifting slowly but steadily. It seemed as if something at the end of the loess road was attracting them.

Ran Qing frowned and slowly looked around.

Since Sixth Aunt didn't show up, he didn't act rashly.

But a certain uneasiness gathered in his heart.

This shouldn't be the human world, but when he came in, he couldn't see Aunt Liu... Could it be that Aunt Liu was lost? Or was he lost?

No matter who is missing, it means an accident has occurred.

Aunt Liu prepared for so long, but something went wrong as soon as she came in... This is not a good sign.

Ran Qing held the heavy and cold wooden sign, standing quietly there, not daring to move.

The ghostly shadows wandering in the surrounding fog were dazed and dull, but with such a large number of them, Ran Qing did not dare to alarm them.

He could only wait for Aunt Liu to come over.

In the fog, a cold chill slowly flows.

The wandering ghost shadows were like streams of cold water, floating along Ran Qing's body.

A familiar dog head suddenly appeared in the fog, as if looking for something.

Ran Qing was stunned for a moment, then remembered Aunt Six's instructions. He quickly squeezed forward and appeared in front of the sickly dog.

Little Mianhua was looking for something in the fog when she saw Ran Qing.

She ran over quickly, bit Ran Qing's trouser leg, and motioned Ran Qing to follow her.

Ran Qing followed Xiaomianhua through the fog and soon walked out of the loess road.

Only then did he realize that on a small slope not far from where he was standing, Aunt Liu was staring into the distance with a gloomy face.

There was thick fog in the distance, and I couldn't see clearly at all.

But Aunt Liu, who was carrying a small wooden box and a ghost-eye sheepskin drum, seemed to be able to see through the fog and into the distance.

She said with a gloomy expression: "...It seems something happened."

"The entrance to the Wujiang Ghost Realm is blocked by something. All the wandering ghosts are blocking the ghost gate. We probably can't get in."

It was only when he heard Aunt Liu's whisper that Ran Qing realized that the small slope behind Aunt Liu seemed familiar.

He took two steps towards Aunt Liu and found a colorful rotating lamppost of a hair salon just behind the slope.

Behind this lamppost is the glass door of the hair salon with red plastic words on it.

【Wash, cut and blow dry 5 yuan】

【3 yuan for washing hair】

[Various perm and dyeing styles...] The words behind the perm and dyeing styles have fallen off, but it is clearly an ordinary hair salon.

Ran Qing took two more steps and found that there was a closed roller shutter door on the left side of the hair salon, and a glass door similar to the one in the hair salon on the right side.

But on the glass door are [Foot Bath], [Massage]...

"This..." Ran Qing's eyes were dull, and he looked at the slope where Aunt Liu was standing in disbelief.

Although this familiar street scene was obscured by thick fog, Ran Qing still recognized it at a glance.

Isn't this the Park Road not far from Aunt Liu's house?!

The shops on both sides of the slope are the street scenes of Park Road, but they are much more dilapidated and desolate than the Park Road that Ran Qing has been to, and are empty with no one.

Ran Qing was a little hesitant - had he really reached the Wujiang ghost world?
But Aunt Six on the slope looked at him sinisterly, a sneer on her face: "Think it's strange? That's right, this is another Yuezhao City."

"The legendary underworld includes the Yinsi, the Ghost City, and the Ten Courts of Hell."

“Although there are no such messy things in the Wujiang ghost world, there is indeed a ghost town that is exactly the same as Yuezhao.”

"All the wandering ghosts in the entire Qianghe region will eventually wander here, enter the Wujiang ghost world from here, and finally disappear in the depths of the ghost world."

"But now the Ghost Gate seems to be blocked. With so many wandering ghosts blocking the way, I'm afraid the gate has been blocked for some time."

Aunt Liu frowned and thought for a long time, then finally looked at Ran Qing: "Come with me, I'll take you along the small path."

Ran Qing was stunned: "There is a small path?"

Aunt Liu's expression in the fog was extremely ferocious, appearing vicious and sinister: "How can you be a ghost if you don't know the path?"

"There are all sorts of people in this world, but we, the Yin-walkers, are the only ones who can frequently enter and exit the underworld in our physical bodies!"

"The few times I sent you in before, you didn't go through the main gate."

Aunt Liu was hurrying through the fog, and Ran Qing was following behind her, gradually becoming out of breath.

Although Aunt Liu looks thin, when she really walks, her physical strength is even better than Ran Qing.

Ran Qing gritted his teeth and followed, sweating profusely.

Soon, they came to the edge of the ghost town.

Although he was drowsy in the fog, Ran Qing still recognized the place.

This is next to Yuezhao Bus Station. Go further and you will be out of the city.

Yet, outside the eerie, empty bus station, a river, seemingly nonexistent, churned and shrouded in mist. A black river enveloped the entire foggy ghost town.

Aunt Liu stood by the river and took out a blowpipe from the small wooden box she was carrying.

She held the blowpipe, a common sight in rural areas, in her hand and blew it forward with force.

As Aunt Liu exerted force on her cheeks, a white strip of paper slowly emerged from the front of the blowpipe. Immediately afterwards, more white paper emerged from the blowpipe.

The white papers expanded rapidly on the surface of the river and finally turned into a light paper horse.

The style of this paper horse is exactly the same as the one Ran Qing placed next to the coffin!
Aunt Liu climbed up directly and handed the blowpipe to Ran Qing: "Blow it yourself."

She rode on this light paper horse and actually floated directly on the dark river surface.

Seeing this scene, Ran Qing's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

——Is this okay?

He held up the blowpipe handed to him by Aunt Liu and hesitated for a moment.

After wiping the saliva off the blowpipe with his sleeve, Ran Qing took a deep breath and blew hard on it, imitating Aunt Liu.

Soon, a paper horse also appeared on the river.

Ran Qing rode on it and found that blowing it was surprisingly easy, and he hardly had to use any force on his cheeks.

But before Ran Qing could study this mysterious blowpipe, Aunt Liu took it away and sneered.

"I was planning to use this thing when I came back, but now the Ghost Gate is blocked, so I can only use it now."

(End of this chapter)