I was taken away by the system

Chapter 168 168. Wraith?

When he heard the words Guangming Festival, Shan Muqing's face suddenly became very gloomy, like the prelude of a storm.

"That's..." Shan Muqing hesitated to speak, and after a long silence, he lowered his voice, obviously there were only three people in the room, but his appearance was clearly that he was afraid of being heard by something.

"Our village has never been peaceful."

His voice was very soft, and it was hard to imagine that a strong man over two meters tall would speak in such a low voice, with a frightened and terrified expression on his face.

What is it that makes him so afraid?

"The Festival of Light is actually a ceremony."

"Our village holds a village festival every July and a half."

"On that day, the gate of the underground palace will be opened, and all ghosts will come out and leave the gate of hell."

"Every Hungry Ghost Festival, the power of the resentful spirits will increase greatly."

"If it wasn't for the Light Festival, I'm afraid..."

Speaking of this, Shan Muqing's expression changed, as if he had thought of something.

"I have to go!" After speaking, he walked away quickly without looking back, as if he was trying to avoid something.

Jiang Bai did not stop, but fell into contemplation.

"In this village there are really..." Fatty Wang's face was also very ugly, and he didn't say that word.

"I'm afraid things are not that simple." Jiang Bai shook his head.

Wraiths, the Light Ceremony, the Madman, and the temple of particular concern, it seems that it is necessary to investigate all of them.

……

Jiang Bai ran up panting, it was strange that he actually felt tired.

At the moment he is on the stone steps of the altar, tens of thousands of bluestone bricks are piled up to form a long road.

Every hundred levels, there are two lifelike stone sculptures on both sides. They are the auspicious beast Pixiu.They are not painted, but retain the original color of the stone.Jiang Bai glanced at Pixiu's eyes, wondering if it was an illusion, these things seemed to be about to recover.

This Qingshi road is divided into nine floors, each floor is as high as the dome of a palace, stretching as far as the eye can see, as if reaching into the sky.

It is hard to imagine how the villagers completed this huge project brick by brick in such a backward mountain village.

Even Jiang Bai can't judge how high this magnificent altar is, because the highest place has been integrated into the clouds and mist, and even birds can't fly there.

Suddenly he realized something.

He didn't remember why he suddenly appeared here.

How come there is not even a villager guarding this altar for the Bright Ritual?

There was silence all around.

It was clearly daytime, but it was scarier than darkness.

Jiang Bai's pupils enlarged slightly and he quickened his pace.

He actually saw a shadow!
The man was standing on the stage of the altar.

It was only when he got close that he realized that this guy was the beggar he met at the entrance of the village!

But something different.

Although he was still disheveled and unkempt, his eyes were rare and clear.

Jiang Bai remembered that he seemed to be chasing the beggar all the way, and followed him to the altar by accident.

The beggar is unbelievably fast, and Jiang Bai can't catch up no matter how he chases it, but every time he is about to lose it, the beggar will slow down.

It is not so much that he was chasing the beggar as that he was lured here.

The beggar didn't run away anymore, but stared at him, his lips moved slightly, as if he was saying something.

Although Jiang Bai is proficient in lip language, but the distance is too far, he can't see the mouth shape clearly.

Jiang Bai accelerated again, but even weirder things happened. No matter how he ran, the stone steps seemed to be lengthening.

He's standing still!

As if knowing what Jiang Bai was thinking, the beggar raised his hand and pointed behind him.

behind?

Jiang Bai froze and turned his head slowly.

An unexpected picture appeared.

He actually saw the temple in the mountains!
It's Qiming Temple!

Jiang Bai looked at the beggar again, but the figure disappeared.

A voice suddenly appeared in his ear.

"It's dead."

Under Jiang Bai's feet, the blue stone steps cracked one after another, and a huge crack suddenly appeared. The whole altar seemed to collapse in an instant, and the world collapsed.

When Jiang Bai opened his eyes, Fatty Wang's slightly flustered face appeared in front of his eyes.

"Who is dead?" Jiang Bai asked.

"He is an old man in his eighties, and he is considered a respected senior in the village. There are seven brothers and sisters in the old man's family. He is the seventh eldest, and the neighbors call him Chen Laoqi." Fatty Wang paused, "Chen Laoqi Seven years have passed, his older brothers and sisters have long since died, and he is a lonely person with no friends, no marriage and no children. When his nephew went to deliver drinks in the afternoon, he was found dead on his bed. "

"Go, take me to see the corpse." Jiang Bai said in a deep voice.

The first deceased finally appeared.

Chen Laoqi died very ordinary, this is Jiang Bai's first impression.

Compared with the grotesque and tragic death of the victims in horror movies, Chen Laoqi walked very peacefully.

"Doctor Jiang understands this too?" The old village head remained calm. In fact, he planned to bury Chen Laoqi directly. The day of the Bright Festival was coming, and he didn't want to cause more trouble at this time.

"I'm a doctor!" Jiang Bai lied without blinking his eyelids, and carefully looked at Chen Laoqi.

In fact, he wanted to dissect Chen Laoqi directly, but the villagers obviously wouldn't let him do so.

"The facial muscles contracted, the pupils dilated, and the cause of death was probably excessive fright." Jiang Bai said.

"Heart attack?" Fatty Wang was taken aback.

Could it be that the old man had seen some horrible scenes before his death?

"The common symptom of heart disease is dyspnea, but Chen Laoqi is different, he was directly scared to death." Jiang Bai said, "Chen Laoqi has no history of heart disease, I have already verified this with his nephew. "

"Do people really get scared to death?" Fatty Wang has never heard of it.

"After experiencing something extremely horrible, the brain will command the adrenal gland to secrete a large amount of catecholamines. Catecholamines are a kind of nerve mediators, including epinephrine and norepinephrine, which are mainly secreted by the adrenal glands."

"When a person is in a state of extreme panic, the adrenal glands will suddenly release a large amount of catecholamines, causing the heartbeat to suddenly increase, the blood pressure to increase, and the oxygen consumption of myocardial metabolism to increase sharply. Excessive blood circulation impacts the heart like a flood, making the myocardial fibers Ripped, heart bleeds, causes cardiac arrest and kills."

"But the question is, what did Chen Laoqi see?"

"There is something wrong with this corpse." When he said this, Jiang Bai was staring at Chen Laoqi with a grim expression.

Why is the mouth of the corpse closed?

Jiang Bai stretched out his hand and opened Chen Laoqi's mouth.

A horrible thing happened!

Chen Laoqi's body...

There is no tongue!

"The Wraith! The Wraith is back!" the timid villagers exclaimed loudly.

"Village chief, these outsiders are the ominous things they brought! Drive them away quickly." The voice of the speaker trembled slightly.

"Yes! Drive them away!"

The villagers seemed to recall something, panic, fear, disgust, confusion, madness... for a while, complex negative emotions surfaced on everyone's face.

(End of this chapter)