"Hello, new neighbor."

"My name is Qin Ye."

The person in front of him had thick gauze wrapped around his eyes, short hair parted in the middle, and a pointed chin. He was wearing a blue-gray long gown with slanted buttons, and looked very kind.

"White Pond."

"Can you see me?"

Bai Ze looked at the gauze wrapped around Qin Ye's eyes in surprise, and asked in doubt.

Qin Ye raised the corner of his mouth, and stretched out his hand to tear off the gauze.

"do not look!"

"Qin Ye! Quickly cover your eyes."

Qing Yu quickly covered Bai Ze's eyes, and closed his eyes tightly himself, with an unexpectedly serious voice.

"It's okay to take a look, so why be so nervous."

"Okay, open your eyes."

Qin Ye let out a foolish laugh, and said disapprovingly.

After the alarm was lifted and Qing Yu put his hand away, Bai Ze's whole body stiffened.

Those are not human eyes, but a pair of blue cat eyes without whites!

The skin around the eyes was covered with tear-shaped scars and thick scabs.

Bai Ze frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

"After I failed to enter the Illusory Spirit Valley last month." Qin Ye shrugged, "The lich gouged out my eyes and planted a pair of cat's eyes."

"It is said that if you stare at me for too long during the day, you will see yourself after death."

"Where is Phantom Valley?"

Bai Ze keenly caught the point.

"Phantom Spirit Valley is a secret place in Qinghua Town. It is open from the 15th to the 20th of every month. Each person has a chance to enter the valley once a month. If they succeed, they can leave Qinghua Town. If they fail, they will be punished."

"Because there are no successful cases, there are fewer and fewer people who venture into the valley."

Qing Yu explained.

"You came just in time."

"Tomorrow is the opening day. If you survive tonight and are not afraid of death, you can go to the Illusory Spirit Valley tomorrow."

Qin Ye pointed to the house where Bai Ze was about to live, and said grimly:

"The previous owner here was eaten up by the ghosts in the Illusory Spirit Valley."

"When will you get rid of your bad habit of scaring newcomers?"

"Bai Ze will be in charge of you in the future, I still have things to deal with, so I'm leaving."

Qing Yu raised his eyebrows, and his eyes fell on Qin Ye.

"Goodbye, mayor."

"Remember to save a big fish for me."

After bidding farewell to the mayor, Qin Ye patted Bai Ze on the shoulder and praised:

"You are really calm. Some people used to be frightened by our appearance when they first came here."

Bai Ze removed Qin Ye's mangled hand from his shoulder expressionlessly, and said in a flat tone, "Maybe it's because I've seen ghosts with scarier looks before."

"Really?" Qin Ye approached Bai Ze, "Tonight at [-]:[-] pm, come to my house to find me with the black oil-paper umbrella hanging on the wall of your house, and I will take you to see the big scene."

"Go straight up to the second floor from the side stairs. There are daily necessities for you in the room. I advise you to go to bed early, because you won't be able to sleep at night."

"Remember, no matter what noise you hear, don't look at the first floor of this house."

It's a quarter of a hour.

The floor suddenly made a "creaking" sound.

A transparent soul drilled out from the gap in the floor, and turned into a teapot with two small feet, and one eye on the body, staring straight at Bai Ze, and then ran out, did he run away? After a few steps, he stopped and looked back at Bai Ze, as if waiting for him to follow.

Bai Ze put down the teacup and followed behind it with great interest, wanting to see what happened.

I saw the teapot ran to a door and got into the crack of the door.

From time to time, the teapot poked a small foot out of the crack of the door, trying to draw Bai Ze into it.

Bai Ze didn't take the bait, and looked up quietly, only to see many complicated spells suddenly appeared around the door, and he only understood two words - "big evil".

He retreated to the living room, saw the time was up, took the oiled paper umbrella and went to Qin Ye.

It's just that he knocked on the door for a long time, but Qin Ye didn't come out to open the door.

At this time, he saw a tricycle selling fruit in front of Qin Ye's house, and the vendor was sitting on the chair with his back to him.

There are two red lanterns hanging on the tricycle, and the fruits look a little weird under the lights.

"Boss, have you seen the owner of this house go out?"

Bai Ze hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask the previous question.

The peddler turned around abruptly, but he didn't have eyes or nose!

There was only one mouth that took up half of that black wrinkled face, with big yellow fangs and a fat tongue full of barbs sticking out a lot of saliva. Covered with long brown hairs.

"excuse me."

Startled, Bai Ze stepped back a few steps and wanted to leave.

The strange-looking thing didn't intend to let him go, it jumped up, opened its mouth to an unreasonable extent, as if it was going to swallow Bai Ze whole.

At this critical moment, Bai Ze grabbed the oil-paper umbrella in his hand and lashed at the monster's head.

Taking advantage of the monster being beaten into a daze, Bai Ze quickly ran away. After the monster recovered, it put its arms on the ground and chased after Bai Ze with a jumping movement similar to a monkey.

Bai Ze didn't look back, but kept running forward. After running for an unknown amount of time, he found that the monster chasing him had disappeared.

Only then did he notice that he had run to the river in the small town, and the big lanterns behind him and on the opposite bank gradually lit up.

He saw a woman in a deep white dress sitting on the bridge.

This woman looks very delicate, and there are some beautiful lotus lanterns in front of her, she waved to Bai Ze with a smile, and said with a smile: "Today is Qiqiao Festival, do you want to buy a lotus lantern for marriage?"

During the day, I heard Qin Ye and the others say that today is the fifteenth day, how could it be Qiqiao Festival?

Bai Ze took a breath and looked at the woman warily.

He saw a strange thing just now, and he wasn't so stupid as to be fooled by its appearance.

"If the guest officer likes it, I can give you one." After the woman said, she picked up a lotus lantern, "How about this one?"

Bai Ze was about to refuse, when suddenly someone pinned his shoulder, Bai Ze's heart shuddered, and he quickly grabbed the hand that was patted on the shoulder.

It feels hard to the touch, without flesh, not like a living person's hand, but like a skeleton.

"You react very quickly."

There was a chuckle from behind.

Bai Ze glanced sideways, and there was a yellow long talisman tied to the visitor's eyes, which turned out to be Qing Yu.

"Tie this talisman to the eye."

Qing Yu held up a black oil-paper umbrella, pulled Bai Ze under the umbrella, took out a long amulet with red letters on a white background from his pocket, and handed it to him.

After Bai Ze tied the talisman, he heard Qing Yu say again: "Go and see that woman by the bridge."

Bai Ze looked over suspiciously, and saw that the delicate-looking woman just now had blood on her face, and her body was empty, with no feet!

The lotus lanterns in front of her also turned into skulls burning with phosphorous fire.

Bai Ze took a deep breath and was speechless for a long time.

For a while, he couldn't adapt to this world full of ghosts.

"This is a water ghost. It was the resentment of a woman who drowned in the river at Qiqiao Festival. If you catch her 'Lotus Lantern', it will become the next 'Lotus Lantern'."

"The one in your hand is a blinding bone umbrella, but it was brought out by Jing Qiu from the Illusory Spirit Valley. It can cover the breath of the living and prevent ghosts from seeing you."

Qing Yu looked at the broken umbrella in Bai Ze's hand, with a helpless tone.

"That guy Qin Ye must have forgotten about you. Fortunately, the time has not come, otherwise you would have died eight hundred times by now."

From nowhere, there was a quiet bell, like the low chirping of some kind of animal, distant and solemn, and it struck a total of twelve times.

"On the eve before the opening of the valley, at midnight, all ghosts walk in the night."

Qing Yu tightened the umbrella in her hand and said in a low voice.

Bai Ze thumped in his heart, subconsciously holding his breath.

A woman in Hanfu with a bun appeared out of nowhere, dragging a long snake tail along the street.

When passing by Bai Ze, she stopped suddenly, leaned close to his neck and sniffed, those orange vertical pupils blinked suspiciously, and whispered: "Live? Dead?"

Bai Ze had been holding his breath, and when he could no longer hold on, the snake woman said "dead man" and swam away.

As soon as Bai Ze breathed a sigh of relief, he saw more strange-looking men and women approaching in the distance.

Some of them are old and young, some have bird wings, some are wrapped in gauze like zombies, some have strangely long necks, some are like dolls, and some have a rabbit's head, they can't see Bai Ze and Qing Yu kept gathering together and walked forward.

These monsters look different, but they all carry a paper lantern.

Many bright red petals suddenly floated down from the sky, Bai Ze looked up, and saw that the originally beautiful blue and white tree had changed at some point.

Those blue flowers turned into scarlet, at first glance they looked like manjusawa blooming on the tree, but the extremely smooth trunk turned out to be huge bones, and monsters crawled out from under the tree to join the parade.

Even the water ghost followed with a green skull lantern.

The spectacle of the scene is breathtaking.

"What are these?"

"Is it the townspeople during the day?"

Bai Ze suppressed the doubt in his heart, and pinched his fingers to keep his brain awake.

"Among these, some are townspeople, some are ghosts and monsters, and most are witch puppets who have been swallowed up, or 'walking corpses'."

"With full souls, they are perfect humans. Before their lifespan is over, their souls are swallowed up, so they become walking corpses. The animal limbs on their bodies are all planted by liches after they failed to enter the Illusory Spirit Valley."

"Look, the ones with the red lanterns are the townspeople with their souls left, the ones with the white lanterns are witch puppets, and the ones with the green lanterns are ghosts."

Qingyu seemed to be used to this scene, pointing to different lanterns and Bai Ze to explain one by one.

"Then why are we okay?"

Bai Ze asked out his doubts.

"Because we haven't been swallowed by the primordial spirit." Qing Yu signaled him to follow in the footsteps of the witch puppets, "I'm just guessing, maybe because we are good people, the lich can't swallow our primordial spirit, so we won't sleepwalk at night The same is true for Qin Ye and Jingqiu you saw during the day, and there are others, you will know in the future."

They mingled with the puppet team and followed the monsters along the river.

The team marched for two hours.

Walking in front of a forest, the parade finally stopped. After the souls of the townspeople were sucked into the red lanterns, they threw the lanterns into the river one after another. The lanterns did not go out after entering the river, like water lanterns. Flowed down and disappeared after a while.

"This river is called 'Qingming River', and it is the only water system that can enter the Magic Spirit Valley."

"After the third watch, ghosts will return to the ground, and strangers will sleepwalk and return home."

"I'm going to break into the valley tomorrow, will you go?"

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