C34

I swallowed, mustered my courage, and jerked my head back.

In an instant, I was so scared that my whole body shuddered and I almost collapsed to the ground.

However, her face was ashen, her eyes were rolled up, and her mouth was wide open. Due to the excessive force, she looked as though she was screaming.

Her body was already ice-cold. It was obvious that she had been dead for a long time. Furthermore, looking at her exaggerated expression of fear, it was obvious that she had seen something extremely terrifying before she died.

But the question was, if she had died long ago? Then who was the person I was carrying from the beginning? Could a corpse walk and scream in pain? If she had been killed in the process of descending the mountain, then what was the thing that had been killed?

I looked at the man in the suit, hoping for an answer.

The man in the suit explained with a smile, "You don't have to be too surprised. Actually, she was already dead from the start. From the moment I came out of Ancient Temple, I knew that she had been controlled by something. In order to avoid alerting her, I did not expose her. "

I narrowed my eyes. "If I'm not wrong, her first target should be you."

"You've already discovered this."

The man in the suit chuckled, "That's right, I was her target in the beginning. That thing probably thought I was a nuisance, so it set me up to kill me." It should be that thing that got the Ghost Treasure Pagoda. Fortunately, you managed to take the Ghost Treasure Pagoda and thus managed to save my life. "

"After all this time, you actually want to use me as a shield!" I'm a little upset.

"You can't put it like that. Look at this old bones of mine, he's definitely going to die against the Ghost Tower, and you have a high chance of resisting it. Even though it was just a heavy back, there's no big problem. That's only because you're special. If it was a normal person, ten people would have been crushed to death! "

"The most important thing is, after the Ghost Treasure Pagoda appears, no matter what happens, you must not look back."

"What happens when I turn back?" I asked.

"There is a rumor that when the Ghost Treasure Pagoda is superimposed, once one looks back, they will experience something even more terrifying than death, and they will even be eternally submerged in it. I don't know if it's true or not. After all, I've never experienced it. "

The suited man wiped his fingers on my body and said, "There are only a handful of people in this world that could resist the Ghost Treasure Pagoda. As far as I know, there are only two who have truly experienced and been able to resist it."

"Which two?" I asked again.

The suited man curled his lips. "Even if I told you, you wouldn't recognize me. If you can leave this place alive, I believe you'll meet me again in the future."

I was a bit speechless, but I still asked curiously, "Why did this Ghost Treasure Pagoda disappear when I first entered the village?"

"There are two reasons. First, this deserted village is the eye of the array and also the place where the Gate of Life resides. Do you know what the Gate of Life is? And that is here, where everything is just a sliver of hope. "

The man in the suit explained, "As for the second reason, because of the special characteristics of the pagoda, the things inside the pagoda are all ghosts that have died in vain and cannot be reincarnated. They will forever be lost in this place. If I am not mistaken, the ghosts that cannot be reborn are the people who died in this desolate village. When we get home, those ghosts will naturally disperse, so the Ghost Treasure Pagoda will disappear. "

After saying that, the man in the suit, regardless of what I thought, walked up to a wooden house with his nostrils dug out.

"Kid, do you remember what I told you before?" The man in a suit turned his head and asked.

I was a little confused and asked him something.

The suited man chuckled, "Go inside and call for someone, enter the temple to pay respects!"

After saying that, without waiting for me to react, he suddenly kicked on the wooden door. The already broken door was shattered into pieces by the man's kick. I couldn't quite accept his entrance.

As soon as the door opened, I felt something was wrong.

There was quite a bit of furniture in this wooden house, except for one more thing.

A coffin!

A huge black coffin!

The coffin looked to be quite old, and it lay quietly on the ground. The moment the door was opened, it could be clearly seen that the head of the coffin was facing the door. On our side, coffins can't be grounded, because it's very unlucky, except on the day of burial.

At the moment, the coffin was lying on the ground, and there was nothing to hide it from.

Following the man in the suit around the wooden house, he didn't find anything out of the ordinary except for the black coffin. Although I was curious about what was in the coffin, the man in the suit didn't say anything, so I didn't ask.

At this moment, the man in the suit took out three incense sticks from his big cloth bag and led me out the door. He lit the incense sticks and stuck them in the door. Regardless of how hot the incense was, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go to the next one."

As he spoke, he headed straight for another wooden house.

After reaching the door, he fiercely kicked it open. When I went in, I could not help but frown. I discovered that there was a large black coffin in this house. However, this time it was not one but two large black coffins.

The two coffins stood side by side, they were all placed on the ground, the coffin lid was also tightly shut, no one knew what was inside.

It was the same environment and the same situation. However, one coffin had turned into two coffins. Seeing this, I felt that something was wrong, but I didn't ask.

The man in the suit circled the coffin twice and walked out without a word. After exiting the room, he took out three incense sticks and lit them up as well, and then placed them at the entrance.

After that, he took me to the next house.

The same overbearing way of opening the gate and the same scene appeared again, but this time the two coffins turned into three coffins. Three coffins stood side by side, two big and one small, quietly placed in the wooden house.

If the first time was an accident and the second time was a coincidence, then the third time seeing the coffin was obviously not an accident and could not be explained by coincidence.

There must be a reason for this!

Looking at the man in the suit circling the coffin, I couldn't help but ask him what was going on. Why were there coffins in every room?

"For the time being, I'm not sure. I'll have to go to other places to take a look."

The man in the suit shook his head, then handed me some incense and said, "This village is a little different from what I imagined. The man in the suit shook his head, then handed me some incense and said," This village is a little different than what I imagined.

Seeing that the man in the suit was serious, I didn't dare to be careless and started to look around. I followed his example and kicked at the door.

The doors of every house were tightly shut. The entire village was eerily quiet. Other than me and the man in the suit kicking on the door, there was basically no other sound at all. But every time I kicked on the door, my heart grew heavier.

Because I found out that the same thing happened to every house I'd ever been to, whether it was a brick and mortar house or a wooden house, with a big black coffin in it. Moreover, the number of coffins varied. Some only had one coffin, some had two, some had three, and some had four or five.

Seeing these coffins, I suddenly had a bold and terrible thought.

Was it possible that these coffins represented the number of people? There were many family members, and there were also many coffins on display. As a result, the number of coffins would also be smaller if there were fewer people around. This was because only these could be explained.

As for who placed the coffin and why, I don't know.

Just as I was about to go out and light the incense, the man in the suit's voice suddenly rang out.

"Brat, come take a look!"

When the man in the suit called out, I immediately turned around and found him standing in front of a brick building. He didn't go in.

I curiously looked over and was immediately stunned.

Inside the brick house, there were still two coffins. However, the difference from before was that these two coffins were blood-red, and looked extremely eye-catching, as if they were painted with a layer of red paint.

Having gotten used to seeing black coffins, the sudden appearance of these two red coffins was truly frightening.

I asked the man in the suit what was going on. His face was a little unsettled. He took out the compass and started to look at it carefully. He didn't come in, just walked around the door.

After a while, the suited man smiled, "Finally found it. This is the eye of the formation. This is where the Gate of Life is." "Brat, you'll be sleeping here tonight!"

As he spoke, the man in the suit pointed to one of the blood-red coffins.

Hearing this, I was scared silly, what a joke to sleep in a coffin!