You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

Chapter 74 Skin, Rat.

"That's called a hanged ghost!"

Chen Yang patiently explained, "Yang Shuai hanged himself on this tree. His family didn't hold a funeral for him, so his soul stayed on this tree and became a wandering ghost."

"........."

Zhou Qiang felt a chill run down his spine. He looked at the tree a few more times, but couldn't see anything.

"Yang Shuai... has become a hanged ghost?"

The image of Yang Shuai hanging from a tree on his phone flashed through Zhou Qiang's mind again, and he couldn't help but shudder. He felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and the hairs on his body seemed to stand on end.

A thought flashed through her mind, and she felt relieved: "Thank goodness I can't see..."

"I almost forgot that Zhou Qiang is blind."

Chen Yang, being kind, wiped Zhou Qiang's eyes with his finger and said, "Alright, I've temporarily opened your magic eye. Now open your eyes and take another look."

Zhou Qiang: "..."

What the hell!

Isn't it a good thing that we can't see?
I fucking don't want to watch this!

Humans are strange creatures; their curiosity only grows stronger in situations like these. So, he cautiously opened his eyes and looked over once more—

But then they saw a rope tied to a branch of the big elm tree, from which hung a young man covered in blood. When the wind blew, the young man swayed back and forth.

His tongue was sticking out more than a foot long, and it was incredibly scarlet. His eyes were swollen white from being strangled, which was quite eerie.

Zhou Qiang grabbed Gu Jinghui's arm and whispered, "Yang Shuai is hanging here... then who was it that just went in to pick up the bride?"

At this moment, Zhou Qiang's mind was full of questions!
Yang Shuai's "ghost" is hanging on the tree, so who went in to pick up the bride?

The woman's entire family of four, along with the matchmaker, are all dead...

Then who was he going to pick up?

Gu Jinghui said speechlessly, "How would I know..."

"Why don't you go in and take a look?"

Chen Yang said, "We're here to pick up the bride, how can we all stay outside? You all go in first, Yang Shuai and I will have a chat... Remember, no matter what we find later, don't make a fuss."

Gu Jinghui and Zhou Qiang were a little apprehensive, but considering that Chen Yang was right outside, they immediately felt more confident. They exchanged a glance and stepped into the courtyard.

Outside.

Under the big elm tree.

Chen Yang approached Yang Shuai, who was swaying in the wind, and his mind was filled with memories of their time at school... He couldn't help but sigh, "I never thought that after seven years apart, we would meet again in this way."

Yang Shuai had only been dead for a few days. His spirit was weak and confused. He couldn't even come down from the tree. He just stuck out his tongue and rolled his eyes.

Chen Yang activated his cultivation, and a wisp of Yin energy shot out from his fingertip, striking Yang Shuai...

hum!
As the yin energy entered his body, Yang Shuai's spirit visibly solidified.

His eyes, which had rolled back in their sockets, gradually returned to normal. His face was still dazed as he murmured, "Who...who am I? Where...where am I?"

"Yes……"

"I am Yang Shuai, and I am dead!"

He saw Chen Yang under the tree and exclaimed in surprise, "Chen Yang, is that you? You... what are you doing here?"

"I'm here for your wedding."

"what?"

Yang Shuai said, "I'm already dead, so what kind of wedding is there?"

Chen Yang pointed to the courtyard and said, "Look... you'll be out soon."

Meanwhile, Gu Jinghui and Zhou Qiang...

As they stepped into the courtyard, the two felt the temperature in the air drop considerably, and they saw dried bloodstains splattered on the ground and walls.

This courtyard is the crime scene.

It's perfectly reasonable that a family of four, plus the matchmaker, were stabbed to death by Yang Shuai, and that some blood was spilled.

It's clear that the woman's family isn't very well-off.

There were three houses in total, and they must have been built quite some time ago. The door to the middle house was open, and the light inside was dim, from which came bursts of laughter and chatter…

Zhou Qiang saw the bride.

Her parents are covering her head with a red veil.

Zhang Xiaolong and others were filming with their phones.

The two went into the house and peeked out. They saw that the bride's family of four were there. In addition to her parents who were covering her head with a veil, she also had a younger brother who was about eighteen or nineteen years old and was standing to the side.

In Zhang Xiaolong's and others' eyes, this family was perfectly normal.

But in Gu Jinghui's view...

Everything seemed very strange and eerie!
The bride's brother stood in a very strange posture, with an eerie light flashing in his eyes from time to time, and his skin was deathly pale, without a trace of blood.

His parents were the same, their movements mechanical and clumsy, taking several attempts to put a veil on before it was finally done.

Zhou Qiang was temporarily granted "divine eyes" by Chen Yang and could see all of this. He noticed something wriggling on the neck of the bride's brother, and even... he saw that the skin on the bride's mother's face was loose and sagging, and then something wriggling inside, making the skin seem to be stretched up!
just like……

It's as if something is hidden beneath their skin!
Hey!
Zhou Qiang felt a chill run down his spine, and his eyes welled up with tears!

Zhang Xiaolong, with his sharp eyes, asked with concern, "President Zhou, what happened to your eyes?"

"me……"

Zhou Qiang rubbed his eyes: "It's nothing, I'm just a little touched, I feel like crying..."

The crowd booed.

Yang Shuai then carried the bride outside.

Zhou Qiang glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and noticed that the bride's legs swayed as Yang Shuai walked... hollow, as if there was no flesh or bone under her skin.

"Zhou Qiang, look!"

At this moment, Gu Jinghui tugged at Zhou Qiang's clothes and pointed to the corner of the room.

On the floor of the room were large rats.

Those large rats were over a foot long, standing upright like humans, their eyes gleaming strangely in the dim light... that gleam was very similar to the light in the eyes of the bride and the others.

"Holy crap, this rat must be a spirit!"

Zhou Qiang was startled.

The rats in the north are different from those in the south; they are much smaller. The most common type is a gray rat that is called "rice tip" in the countryside, and it is only two or three inches long.

The larger ones are only about the size of a palm, a little over a foot long... they could probably eat a cat!
Gu Jinghui also felt a chill run down his spine. He whispered, "Chen Yang said, if you encounter anything, just pretend you didn't see anything. Don't panic!"

The two walked out.

But found...

puff!
Suddenly, the bride's brother's neck was torn open like cloth, and a rat's head poked out, but quickly scurried back in!

No one else noticed anything unusual...

Or perhaps they have been deceived by "Yang Shuai" and are completely blind to the abnormality!
They laughed and cheered as they escorted "Yang Shuai" out of the courtyard...

"Yang Shuai" paused, slowly turning his head to look at Chen Yang under the large elm tree on one side of the courtyard entrance, his gaze turning cold...

He saw...

The hanged ghost that was hanging on the tree has already climbed down from the branch.

He was standing next to Chen Yang, staring at himself and the bride in his arms with disbelief.

"Chen Yang!"

A strange glint flashed in Yang Shuai's eyes as he said in a harsh voice, "You're just like me... I'm giving you face and not wanting to break ties with you, so why are you ruining my mood?"

"same as me?"

Chen Yang chuckled and said, "You, a mere demon... dare to compare yourself to this god?"

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PS: The revisions are complete. It's not as serious as you might think. I just got carried away with writing and didn't make any fictional names for the various units or places. I also changed some minor plot points, but it won't affect your ability to read the book directly.

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