Business system: the gods save the world by opening a store

Chapter 88 The Puppet in the Ancestral Hall

"what--"

A heart-piercing and terrified voice pierced the silence of the night.

Ke Mi, who had just changed shifts with Jing Bai, sat up instantly, and said to Xuntang and Jing Bai:

"I'll go check it out, Jingbai, you protect Xuntang."

Xuntang and Jingbai both nodded.

Ke Mi quickly disappeared before her eyes. Even if she loses her extraordinary strength, her physical fitness is strong enough.

Xuntang was lying on the bed, a little smaller, she raised her head curiously:
"How long has Komi been on mission?"

Jing Bai turned his head, his warm face became more gentle under the light of the warm yellow candlelight, and at the same time, his love for Ke Mi was clearly seen in his eyes.

"Ke Mi started to perform missions at the age of 12, and it has been 17 years now. She is called Si Lan's successor. She has the nickname Nether Envoy because her weapon is called Huangquan Biluo."

The people chatting here are moving through the shadows.

Soon, she was at the point where the scream came from.

This is the most remote place in the town, and there are not many people now, only a few nearby families.

The bloodstains spread all day on the ground. A middle-aged man was lying in a pool of blood. He was obviously dead. Not far away, there was a woman sitting by the wall and lowering her head. A little boy was blocking her back. She was also dead. There was a young man lying face down on the ground without making a sound.

It was the daughter of this family who screamed. She was hugged by the neighbor's woman, trembling and crying uncontrollably.

When someone asked her if she had found anything, the daughter tremblingly took out a puppet, the puppet's face was stained with blood.

Ke Mi felt quiet for a moment. Obviously, all the townspeople knew this puppet, and they also had great fear of this puppet.

She stayed for a while, and heard someone whispering in a very small voice:

"That puppet appeared again."

"Our town relies on puppets to live. Why don't we go back to the old days?"

The sound stopped for a while.

"That's right, as long as you kill enough people, you will disappear, as long as there is no accident in your own family."

"If you want to blame, you can only blame your bad life."

After that there is nothing effective.

Ke Mi lurks in the darkness, heading home.

Suddenly there was a pause, his strength loosened a little, and he instantly drew out the long knife Bi Luo from the void and slashed back.

A snow-white ghost without a face was cut into two halves, and then shattered.

In this age, strong grudges attract monsters.

These are monsters devouring pain and flesh, nameless, but numerous and weak.

Laughing faces appeared on the wall, and Ke Mi had already memorized the distribution in the alley, so he quickly moved forward while blindfolded.

This is on the wall. It is good at creating environments. When a person falls into the environment, they will climb onto the person's body face by face and devour the person's flesh and soul. It is an extremely difficult monster.

But as long as you don't look into the eyes of this monster, you won't be hit. These monsters have some weaknesses that are actually very easy to solve.

When the Bureau of Dissonance was first united, it released materials that recorded many monsters to reduce unnecessary casualties as much as possible.

Although he encountered many monsters on the road, Ke Mi returned home quickly.

As soon as she entered the door, she heard Jing Bai's voice.

"Ke Mi has always been strong and reliable, so the members of our team are extremely convinced of her."

Ke Mi's handsome face did not change at all, but the tips of the snow-white ears were slightly stained with red.

"Have you found anything?"

Xuntang asked.

Ke Mi nodded: "There are five people in that family, except for the second daughter, the husband and wife, the eldest son and the younger son, all died, and a puppet was left on the scene."

Jing Bai wondered: "Could it be the resentment of the children, but their souls are pure and clean, it is absolutely impossible to be them, there are other monsters in this town?"

Ke Mi nodded: "On the way back, my power was unsealed a little bit. I just pulled out Huangquan and killed many monsters attracted by resentment, but this is not—"

"The people in the town seem to know what this monster is, but it seems to be related to the town's outstanding puppet-making skills. It is an open secret."

Xuntang asked: "How about the guards at the ancestral hall?"

"We can go to explore, and now we are all attracted by the dead family, and there are much fewer people patrolling than during the day."

Ke Mi replied that she made a detour on the way to see the ancestral hall.

There are only more than 100 families in this small town, but the ancestral hall is huge and heavily guarded. When they go to invite mountain ghosts during the day, they can't check anything at all.

The three agreed that although Xuntang is like an ordinary child now, Xuntang also went together.

There are some things that Ke Mi and Jing Bai, whose power has not yet been fully released, cannot see, which requires the help of Xuntang.

On the way to the ancestral hall, there were still many weak monsters, but Ke Mi took care of them one by one.

Soon they arrived at the ancestral hall building, and walked through several scarlet gates to the ancestral hall with a huge picture of mountain ghosts.

The three of them searched, and Xuntang looked up along the picture of the mountain ghost, but found a small hand on the beam, which was a puppet.

Xuntang immediately shouted: "Ke Mi, there is something on it."

Ke Mi flew up, and on the beams and pillars of the long room was an exquisite puppet in the image of a girl. Although it was full of dust, the extreme carving made the puppet look like it was about to move in a second.

This puppet seems to have been placed here for a long time, and no one has ever touched it.

The puppet was sitting along the beams of the house. Ke Mi wrapped his hands with the cloth strip that had been wrapped around the handle of Huangquan's knife before reaching out to grab this weird and beautiful puppet.

After picking up the puppet, Ke Mi found that the dust behind the puppet was much thinner. It seemed that there should have been a similar puppet sitting with its back to the puppet in her hand.

Jumping off, Xuntang reached out to Ke Mi to pick up the doll to have a look.

But he was blocked by Komi.

Xuntang smiled helplessly: "The soul in this puppet is sleeping, and her soul is very beautiful, such a beautiful and pure soul will never hurt me."

The moment Xuntang touched the puppet, he heard countless voices.

"Brother, aren't parents coming back?"

"I will be strong, with my brother!"

"Uncle Village Chief, my brother is gone, have you seen my brother?"

"Help! Who are you? Brother, help me!"

"Ahhhh, brother, give me back brother!!!"

"Brother, don't promise me here, don't promise! I'm right here!"

Countless voices are layered on top of each other, all from the same voice.

Xuntang: "Please hold my body, this child's soul is asking for help."

As soon as the words fell, Xuntang leaned back and fell limply.

Two exclamations overlapped——

"Xuntang!"

(End of this chapter)