Chapter 121: Ghosts Shopping
“Hahaha, with this ghost’s protection, you can’t kill me. In a moment, you’ll be killed by that group of ghosts. It’s just a pity that I can’t exchange your corpse for ghost money anymore.”
“You little bastard, it hurts me to death, hehe, but no matter, just thinking of your death makes me happy. So many ghosts, they’ll eat even your bones clean.”
On the withered wood covered with ghost characters, that human face showed an expression of pain, then its countenance became ferocious as it laughed maniacally.
As soon as the man finished speaking,
Jiang Shan quickly ran in front of the withered wood human face and unhesitatingly thrust the cleaver into the man’s mouth.
“Hahahahaha, you got. Ah”
The sound abruptly stopped.
At the same time,
The tattered curtains around the ghost stall began to float up out of thin air, and the bamboo poles supporting the overall structure also began to creak.
At the same time, a vague murmur of whispers arose from some corner of the stall.
Jiang Shan’s brows furrowed tightly as his gaze swept over the ghost stall, trying to find the source of this abnormality.
But after looking several times, he still couldn’t find the source of the problem.
He glanced with the corner of his eye at the man writhing in agony on the ground.
“The ghost characters’ killing pattern has indeed been triggered. Although that man didn’t die immediately for some reason, he is enduring the assaults of the ghost characters one after another. At this rate, he will eventually die in agony. But this stall seems to have undergone some unknown change.” Jiang Shan thought to himself.
But as time passed, the shaking of the entire ghost stall became more severe, as if an invisible hand wanted to destroy the ghost stall.
The creaking sounds of the bamboo poles were like a woman’s wail, as if the next second the stall would collapse instantly and lose its protective function.
“Where is the problem?”
Jiang Shan thought calmly. He continued to observe his surroundings carefully and began to move around, finally discovering in a dark corner of the stall with no light at all a corpse that had no human skin and was drenched in blood all over.
Hurrying closer to take a look,
That corpse was missing exactly one human face!
“This is that withered wood man’s original body. I probably won’t get any words out of his mouth anymore. He clearly knows the reason for this weird change in the ghost stall, but now he only wants to substitute death with me? Could it be that only one person can live here?”
If this ghost stall allowed two people to exist, that human face man had no need to say those words.
He was the one being suppressed. If Jiang Shan hadn’t killed him, under the possible “protection” of the ghost stall, neither of them should have died.
But what was the reason the man was so certain in his words that he would die?
“If the ghost stall can only allow one person to exist, then my entry broke some kind of balance, causing the ghost stall’s ability to fail, and both he and I will be killed by the hundred ghosts outside the stall.”
Having quickly reasoned out the rough situation, Jiang Shan hurried in front of the withered wood man. Without a word, he directly hugged the withered wood emitting a scorched stench with both hands.
The moment he touched that “burnt withered wood,” the strange texture made Jiang Shan’s expression change.
This texture was not at all like wood burned into charcoal, that feeling of stroking fine sand with slight roughness.
Instead, it was like a shrunken human body soaked in formalin, waiting until all the fibers and protein tissues in the flesh and blood had completely necrotized, then scorched with a big fire, resulting in the extreme charring of the flesh and blood tissues—a strange sensation.
Looking at the layers of “natural” wood growth like tree rings,
This was not withered wood at all,
But chunks of human flesh stacked together due to supernatural forces!
“Woo woo~!”
Seeing himself being lifted, the human face on the withered wood showed a terrified expression.
He hadn’t expected this ghost meat stake weighing several hundred kilograms to be lifted by one person.
When he had controlled this ghost back then,
It had appeared inside a concrete pillar at a construction site. Back then, six workers at the construction site couldn’t lift this ghostly thing.
This ghost was also his confidence to attack and kill anyone in the ghost stall.
Because this ghost stall could only have one living person. If this number was exceeded, the stall would automatically disappear.
At that time, without protection, everyone in the stall would face head-on the hundreds of fierce ghosts released from the ghost school.
Until one person died or left, the ghost stall would return to normal.
Relying on the unsolvable ghost scream plus this several-hundred-kilogram ghost meat stake, he had persisted in the ghost stall for a full half month.
The number of people and ghost wielders he had killed or tricked to death was countless.
Because the ghost stall could also suppress the resurrection of fierce ghosts, this made the man even more unscrupulous.
It was precisely because of this,
That Jiang Shan’s actions made the man completely panic, but under the suppression of the ghost characters, he couldn’t even speak, let alone resist.
With a loud crash of a heavy object hitting the ground,
The human face man grown on the flesh and blood was thus thrown out of the ghost stall by Jiang Shan.
Immediately, Jiang Shan ran to that bloody body and searched all the pockets on its clothes.
Finally, he found in the man’s shorts pocket dozens of ghost money bills of different denominations, made of a material like burning paper, grayish-white in color.
“Is this the ghost money that man mentioned? It seems it’s not that ghost money, what a wasted expectation.”
Upholding the principle of seeing a task through to the end,
Jiang Shan glanced at those “ghost money” and then put them into his pocket. The next moment, he took out his custom pistol and quickly emptied the magazine into that faceless body.
He then decisively threw it out of the ghost stall together.
“The whimpering stopped.”
Less than a minute after that human face man was thrown out, his terrified whimpering and struggling sounds disappeared.
Due to the covering of the ghost stall curtains, Jiang Shan could only see a small area of the ghost street in front of him.
He had no idea what had happened to that human face man.
But now, whether the man was dead or alive was no longer important.
Because the hundred ghosts had come.
Looking at the weird objects sold on the wooden table of the ghost stall, Jiang Shan did not move them blindly.
After all, the situation on the ghost street now did not allow him to take such risks.
About three minutes passed,
With his left hand tightly gripping the substitute doll and his right hand clutching the crying face ghost, Jiang Shan suddenly felt the surrounding temperature become as cold as the twelfth lunar month in the north.
The bone-piercing chilling cold seeped through the curtains, making one shudder. A few drops of cold sweat involuntarily slid down from his forehead.
The dense footsteps outside the stall grew closer and closer,
Watching the ghost shadows surging outside like a black tide, Jiang Shan’s hands were already soaked with sweat, his gaze fixed deadly on the ghost tide outside the stall.
Now he was highly tense, ready at any moment to flee or fight for his life.
One minute
Two minutes.
Time at this moment felt endlessly long.
That chilling cold like midwinter never dissipated. Jiang Shan knew that on this endless street, countless fierce ghosts were wandering.
This terrifying scene made his heart pound wildly, but what surprised him most was:
For an unknown reason,
Without any reason,
This group of ghosts wandered peacefully on this ghost street just like students after school, then suddenly disappeared in some inadvertent moment.
“This ghost stall can indeed interfere with the ghosts’ perception to a certain extent. Otherwise, even if I did nothing, I would have long triggered some ghost’s killing pattern.”
Watching the black shadows on the ghost street become fewer and fewer, the tension in Jiang Shan’s heart eased slightly.
But he still did not dare to relax his vigilance.
Because if that man’s words were all true, then there was still one situation that hadn’t occurred.
Ghost buying goods!
“It’s here!”
At the fourth minute,
A short old man without facial features, only two hollow eye sockets, like a corpse, suddenly stood in front of the ghost stall.
