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Chapter 192 Pedestrians

The man in white robe stared straight at Lin Zhe and the three of them.

Behind him, the four men in black robes carrying the coffin did not say a word, their faces were frozen, and there was a strange aura all over their bodies.

Xiao Wu said tremblingly, "You...you...you...who are you?"

"Me?" There was a strange smile on the face of the white-robed man, and he said hoarsely, "The passer-by."

"Passers?" Lin Zhe's expression darkened, and he said, "Where do you come from? Where are you going?"

The man in the white robe said: "Come from the north of the mountain, go to the south..."

Lin Zhe was startled, and said, "What are you going to the south for?"

The white-robed man said: "Naturally, the coffin behind me will be sent back to its homeland for placement..."

Lin Zhe said, "Who is lying in the coffin?"

The man in the white robe grinned and said, "The miserable person who died in a foreign country..."

Lin Zhe glanced away, looked at the lantern in the white-robed man's hand, and said, "What are you doing with the lantern?"

The candlelight inside the lantern flickered slightly, and the outside was wrapped with a thin layer of white paper. Otherwise, the dew in the deep mountains and old forests would naturally extinguish the candlelight.

The man in white robe narrowed his eyebrows slightly, as if he had noticed something, stared at Lin Zhe, and said, "When a person dies, it is natural to light an ever-burning lamp. The lantern in my hand is this ever-burning lamp, and the copper bell in my hand is naturally It is to guide the souls of the dead to return home together... Your Excellency seems to be an insider?"

Lin Zhe smiled and said, "I'm from the mountains!"

"Oh..." On the face of the man in white robe, there was a look of sudden understanding, as if he understood something.

Afterwards, he smiled faintly and said, "In this case, I won't disturb the three of you. There is still some distance to go to the Miaozi Tomb from here... I have to hurry on my way... Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be before dawn. Can't get to..."

After finishing speaking, the man in white robe glanced behind him and shouted "Go"!
After the voice fell, he took a step and left.

Strange to say, the four men in black robes carrying the coffin behind him seemed to be like machines, following the footsteps of the man in white robes, the four behind him also started to take steps.

These four men in black robes were extremely weird, with no expression on their faces at all, they looked icy, but their eyeballs were wide open, as if they were afraid that they would not be able to see anything.

The four of them moved in unison, and they all stepped forward with their left feet at the same time.

Xiao Wu and A Hao broke out in cold sweat, and their nerves were tense all the time.

It wasn't until the white-robed man and his party disappeared into the vast night that they came back to their senses.

"This... brother Azhe, this... who is this person?" Xiao Wu asked in fear.

Lin Zhe took a deep breath, looked deep into the forest, and said, "It should be the person who delivered the corpse."

"The person who delivered the corpse?" Ah Hao's complexion changed, and he said, "Then what about the four people behind him? It looks like... walking dead, it's too scary..."

Lin Zhe sneered, and said, "It's just a coffin bearer... But, it's really weird."

For a while, Lin Zhe couldn't tell the truth, the white-robed man and his group looked really strange, not like normal people.

However, it is also understandable.

How could a normal person deliver a corpse in the middle of the night?

According to legend, in the Xiangxi generation, there is a legend of driving corpses.However, there is a difference between driving the corpse and delivering the corpse.

The mortician who drives the corpse uses spells to make the dead corpses stand upright, and driven by the spells, they walk to their hometown.

But sending corpses can't make dead corpses walk and jump like driving corpses.

It is said that the corpse sender must send the corpse at night, and at the same time cooperate with the lamp, copper bell, and use the power of spells to make the dead souls return home together.

To put it simply, the group of men in white robes just now were the corpse deliverers.

For Lin Zhe, he didn't think there was any fuss. However, Xiao Wu and Ahao rarely saw each other, so he was naturally timid, which is understandable.

The white-robed man just now, seeing Lin Zhe's calm expression and no fear in his speech, suspected that Lin Zhe was an insider.

Lin Zhe said that he was a "mountain native". In fact, this was a Taoist's self-effacing words. When the white-robed man heard it, he naturally didn't dare to disturb him.

You must know that ordinary folk magicians, although they have some skills, they will not easily conflict with people in the Taoist sect.

However, those four men in black robes really didn't look like living people, they looked more like dead people.

Of course, Lin Zhe deduced that the four men in black robes might be puppets.

If it was really a puppet, then it would be understandable why the four men in black robes acted in unison and looked extremely strange.

It's just that it's not clear how the white-robed man was able to control the four puppets and deliver the corpse for himself.

In this world, there are many magical powers, which are mysterious to say the least. Even though Lin Zhe is a Taoist, he has never heard of or seen many strange magical powers.

The business of sending corpses is complicated, and its early days can be traced back to the Western Jin Dynasty.

There are even more rumors that the corpse-bearers are generally taught by Yin masters. Many people in remote mountain villages respect and stay away from the corpse-bearers, thinking that they have "evil energy" in them.

Of course, the person responsible for carrying the coffin inside the corpse is called a "coffin bearer".

The coffin bearer may not know some skills like the corpse bearer, but he knows some rules. As long as he acts according to the rules, then... even if he carries the coffin, he will not cause any dirty things.

Folk coffin bearers usually say that the horoscope should be hard, but in fact, this is not the case.

A well-behaved coffin-bearer is sometimes more reliable than a horoscope.

You know, no matter how tough your horoscope is, if you try your best to die, you may not end well.

Lin Zhe only briefly explained to Xiao Wu and A Hao, and did not say that the four men in black robes were puppets, otherwise, Xiao Wu and A Hao would be scared to death.

"Xiao Wu, let's see if the car can start..." Lin Zhe shouted.

Xiao Wu came back to his senses, nodded quickly, and got into the car.

The delay just now has passed another hour, and now it is almost nine o'clock.

Da da da……

As soon as the car started, it lit up.

"It's okay...it's okay..." Xiao Wu was ecstatic and shouted quickly.

"Great, I can finally go!"

At this moment, Ah Hao also heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly climbed onto the car, muttering in his mouth as he climbed: "This damn place, I won't come again next time..."

Xiao Wu and A Hao were ecstatic in their hearts, and for a moment, they seemed to have forgotten what happened just now.

After the three sat down, the truck slowly headed towards Shimen Village.

Gradually, it disappeared into the hazy mist...

(End of this chapter)