--haven't seen you for a long time--

"You... why did you bring someone with you?" the little princess stammered, "I'm so confused."

Ren Ange didn't know how to explain it, but when she was sleeping tonight, she suddenly heard a "tick" sound.

Shocked, he immediately jumped off the bed, and pulled the irritable Qiu Chenliang to get dressed.

"I...don't know either." Ren Ange glanced at the expressionless person behind him, with a few tufts of hair curled up.

"Just leave it alone!"

The little princess suddenly exclaimed, "This is not your man..."

"Ahem!" Ren Ange interrupted him, winking desperately into the darkness. "Cough cough cough! Oops! I have a bad throat recently!"

Little Princess: "Okay."

"You must have no points last time, please obey."

"In this case..." the little princess paused, "Then why don't you go first."

"Don't, don't, don't!" Ren Ange hurriedly said, "Ahem! Wait a little longer!"

"Okay." The little princess said.

Ren Ange didn't dare to look at the expressions of the people behind him, why didn't he tell him this earlier.

He thought Qiu Chenliang knew about it, but he didn't expect that he didn't even remember this.

Hey……

Also blame him for being too careless.

"Ren Ange, can you explain?" Someone's cold voice came from behind.

Ren Ange turned around frantically, with a smile as bright as the sun on his face.

"It's like this..." Ren Ange explained the rules of the game.

Qiu Chenliang frowned slightly, and said, "So you brought me here?"

"Of course not!" Ren Ange explained, "You were just chosen by... Cough! This game!"

"Then why does my watch have the same nine o'clock as yours? Didn't you just say..."

"Me, me, me! I don't know!" Ren Ange hurriedly interrupted his speech, "Actually, this is not bad, at least you can save a few worlds! You only need to pass three more worlds and you win, right? "

He didn't dare to get close now, for fear of being beaten.

Just stood there and smiled desperately.

Qiu Chen looked at him for a long time, and then said "Oh".

Ren Ange rubbed his nose, knowing that it was useless to say anything now.

"That... little princess, send us away!"

Little Princess: "Oh..."

Exhale long...

Ren Ange: "..."

After thinking for a while, he still grabbed Qiu Chenliang's arm and was not thrown away.

yeah!Another step forward!

Surrounded by green mountains and green waters, it is a small rich village.But the air is filled with the smell of incense burnt in temples.

The wind blew, and even a few pieces of paper money floated in the air.

"Ren Ange—" Hou Jialai called out.

Ren Ange turned around and saw He Qiufeng and He Huashan.

With a bright smile on his face, He Huashan trotted over and hugged him on the shoulder, "Long time no see!"

Ren Ange raised his head slightly, the corners of his mouth raised. "haven't seen you for a long time!"

"Chen Liang, An Ge, long time no see, I didn't expect to see you again today." He Qiufeng raised his hand and brushed his hair.

"I didn't expect that either!" Ren Ange smiled, and met her suspicious eyes.

He thought to himself, as expected of He Qiufeng.

He looked back at Chenliang, and found that he was actually smiling, beckoning like that. "haven't seen you for a long time."

He was stunned for a moment, making sure he didn't think of anything, and couldn't help feeling that a smart person is a smart person.But a piece of blank paper is no match for the old fox.

He Huashan didn't seem to notice at all, looking around.

He twitched the corner of his mouth and said to He Qiufeng, "Let's talk later."

He Qiufeng raised the corners of his mouth, nodded and said, "Okay."

Ren Ange pulled the corner of Chen Liang's clothes, and whispered: "Follow me, don't get lost."

Qiu Chenliang looked at him and nodded slightly.

Ren Ange said again: "Why don't you stand next to me? I can see it, so I feel relieved."

Qiu Chenliang heard the words and stood beside him.

Ren Ange was happy, his mouth was faster than his brain.

"Just in case, I'll hold you by the hand!"

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he started to follow He Qiufeng and the others.

"Hey - can't you just hold the sleeves?" Ren Ange raised the corners of his mouth and followed quickly.

"Is this someone going to a funeral? Why are paper money floating around?"

He Huashan grabbed a piece of yellow paper money like a copper coin that was spinning around in the air, held it in his hand for a while, and then put it under his nose again;

smell...

He Qiufeng glanced at him lightly, and said, "You smell it so carefully, what's the smell?"

He Huashan smiled innocently and threw away the paper money in his hand. "Just a smell of cigarettes."

Not only them, but also other players on the road.They walked along the scent, and they came to an ancestral hall in a short while.

Several people were already standing inside, and there was actually a mahogany coffin placed in the ancestral hall next to the spirit tablet.The coffin is open, and the scene inside cannot be seen from a distance.

Kneeling in front of the coffin was an old man dressed in sackcloth and mourning, his back was facing them.

"Someone really died... He Huafan's voice was barely audible, he stared at the coffin and moved closer to He Qiufeng.

"Everyone is here." The old man said in a hoarse voice.

She stood up slowly and turned around, revealing a wrinkled face that made it hard to tell the difference between male and female.

After looking carefully, one could notice faint, unknown lines spreading across the brown rag-like face.

The white hat covered half of his face, and only a little bit of gray hair was exposed on both sides.

"What is this for? Isn't it for us to bury it?" He Huashan muttered softly beside him.

He Qiufeng pinched a small piece of flesh on his arm, frowned and said, "Shut up."

He Huafan gasped in pain, "It hurts, hurts!"——He Qiufeng withdrew his hand——

"Since everyone is here, let's divide the work and do things." The old man's voice was in this empty ancestral hall;

There is an echo.A pair of eagle-like sharp eyes swept back and forth across the faces of the twelve players, making everyone's scalp numb.

"In three batches."

"One batch for wedding dresses." Two batches of paper-making figurines. "

"Three batches of sedan chairs."

The old man took down a white cloth bag from his waist, which looked heavy.

"Come here, each take a bunch."

Everyone got a string of necklaces, roughly the same style, strung with many unknown beads, but the colors were different.

"The first batch of red beads, the second batch of white beads, and the third batch of black beads. Bring the things here before dark. Stay vigil tonight for the latest arrival."

Ren Ange got red beads, he glanced at Qiu Chenliang's, it was white, He Qiufeng's was red, and He Huafan's was white.

The two people collided in the air, and both showed a knowing smile.

"Change, change!" He Huashan leaned over and whispered.After the old man finished speaking, he continued to kneel and sit in front of the coffin.

"Then where are we going to get things?" One;

The male player said that his voice was too loud, and his booming echo echoed throughout the lobby.

The old man didn't say a word, just turned his back to them and remained motionless.

"Let's go! Hurry up!" Several players left one after another.

"Be careful." He Qiufeng said to them. "Well, you too." Brother Ren An nodded;

head……

—they were partnered with a man and—

a woman.

The man's name is Qian Shushang, and the woman's name is Cheng Hexia;

It seems that they don't know each other.

"Let's go too." Qian Shushang looked around, and found that everyone had left, only they were left.

"Are you okay?" Ren Ange tugged on Qiu Chenliang's sleeve and didn't let go.

Qiu Chenliang glanced at him and nodded. "good."

"Where are we... going?" Cheng Hexia was petite and had a gentle voice.

"There should be someone around here who specializes in this. There must be someone out there for sale. Let's look for it first, and then ask when we meet someone." Ren Ange comforted;

"What's in that coffin?" Qian Shushang took big strides and walked in a hurry, walking a distance in front of them in a short while.Then he stopped and looked around and waited for them.

Several people did not speak, and they did not know;

But most likely it's a corpse.

Ren Zige took Qiu Chenliang's sleeve, looked around for the figure of Zhizha, and at the same time kept observing Chen Liang.

This person is too aloof now, he has been sticking to it for so many days, why is he still indifferent.

For so many days, he kept guessing in his mind what happened in the real world, is he dead?Is Qiu Zhiliang dead?Or there was never such a thing as the real world;

When he first came up with this idea, he was taken aback.

Everything seemed unreal.

These days also made him more and more frightened, even when he sat opposite Qiu Chenliang to eat, he couldn't help shaking.

Or maybe it was just trembling in his imagination, because the people next to him seemed to be;

Not paying attention.

One day when he was talking on the phone with his mother in a foreign country, he realized that he and Ben couldn't remember his mother.

He didn't even know if he had ever met this person who was always on the phone in this world.

Maybe his relatives and friends don't exist;

In the past, they were all like some kind of unplanned program that was forcibly implanted in their own brains.

In fact, there is no real world at all, he thought in a daze;

Nothing exists.

He grasped the cloth in his hands, and took a deep breath;

Tone...

It must be the ghost of that bastard, he can't be shaken so easily.

He is real, Chen Liang is real.

They must escape.

Qian Shushang really had a lot of work to do, even if no one answered him, he could still talk non-stop.

At first Ren An Ge could reply him a few words, but later he was too lazy to speak.

"Is it here?" Cheng Hexia pointed not far away;

There is a house with a paper house at the door.

"It should be here!" Qian Shushang's eyes lit up, and he strode over.

The door is open, and you can see all kinds of paper houses inside if you stand outside the door.

Those paper pierced figures were about the size of dolls, with red eyes and lips, and two spots of red on their faces.

It also looks like a doll, with two braids, neat bangs, and a little vermilion between the eyebrows.

Qian Shushang had already run in, while Ren Ange and the others were still standing outside the door.

"It's so strange here..." Ren Ange whispered in Qiu Chenliang's ear.

"Let's wait for the boss to come out."

Qiu Chenliang gave a faint "hmm".

Standing beside them, Cheng Hexia frowned, twisted her fingers, and looked into the room timidly.

"You... you should come out first." Cheng Hexia said to Qian Shushang, but his eyes couldn't help but flicker, as if the paper-stitched people inside could come back to life.

"It's okay!" Qian Shushang's voice came from inside. "Is there no one here?"

As soon as the words fell, a deep voice came from behind Ren Ange.

"buy what?"

A figure passed by, it was a young man in a robe, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a pair of red phoenix eyes full of smiles.

——Ren Ange immediately thought of the first one——

Mr. Wen in the world is also smiling like this, but what he did makes people shudder.

But to his surprise, this person didn't look like a paper maker at all.

He is not very old, although he is wearing a slightly old-fashioned robe, but his face is still immature, like a college student who has not yet graduated.

Uh...he hasn't graduated yet.

"Buy, buy paper figurines." Ren An was a little nervous.

The young boss smiled and said, "What kind of paper dolls should I buy?"

"Eh..." Ren Ange looked to the side;

Qiu Chenliang.

"Male, female, old, young or what?" The boss beckoned them to go in.

"I didn't say what kind..."

"There is a mahogany coffin in the ancestral hall, and next to it is an old man with a pattern on his face. She asked us to come and get the paper figurine." Qiu Chenliang said.

Seeing him, Ren Ange breathed a sigh of relief, but was also a little surprised.

"Oh—" the young boss narrowed his beautiful Danfeng eyes, "I see, you are here to get it for the ghost lady."

"Ghost Empress?" Ren Ange asked.

Along with his voice, Qian Shushang's thick voice rang out.

"You mean the one in the coffin or the old man?" Qian Shushang scratched his head.

"Of course it's the one in the coffin." The young boss walked slowly into the room.

"Can you explain to us?" Ren Ange changed from holding Qiu Chenliang's sleeve to holding his arm.

"There has always been a tradition in our village. Whenever a woman dies, we will regard her as the new ghost empress."

"The next ghost lady will be selected by the previous one. After arriving in the underworld, the ghost lady will bless our village with good weather and no disasters. Most people in the village are in good health and have never suffered from any serious illness."

"Isn't that ghost lady supposed to be an old lady?" Ren Ange asked.

"No." The boss turned around, adjusted his glasses, and there was a sharp light in his eyes. "A ghost empress is selected every seven years, and each ghost empress is less than 25 when she dies."

Ren Ange was startled in his heart, and couldn't help but said, "Why does it happen that a woman under 25 dies every seven years?"

The answer is already obvious.

Cheng Hexia beside him also looked panic-stricken. "Yes, yes, how could it be just right?"

The young boss' eyes became sharper, like a poisonous snake.

"Yeah, how could it be such a coincidence?" He stared at Cheng Hexia, "Every seven years, young women under the age of 25 die unexpectedly."

The word "accidental death" was bitten hard by him.

Cheng Hexia jumped up all of a sudden, waving her hands in a panic. "I, I'm already 27 this year!"

The young boss grinned as if he had succeeded in a practical joke, and opened a door.

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