Chapter 323 A Guest From Afar

Shen Jifeng, clutching her laptop, followed Wei Yuan's gaze and saw the restaurant, her lips trembling.

It was an anti-bow evil.

She recognized the terrain of the restaurant at a glance. It was located at a bend in the river where the current was gentle, gathering too much baleful and yin energy. If it were a normal person, they would surely suffer repeated financial losses. But in this kind of place, those who made a living from the dead, making money from the underworld, would instead be auspicious, prosperous, and thriving.

She was a researcher in the rear. Although she possessed some Daoist cultivation, she had never been to such a strange place. The surroundings were densely packed with standing coffins of those who had died unnatural deaths, and ahead was a place of great misfortune and evil. She couldn't help but feel her scalp tingle and her heart rise to her throat.

"What… what do we do?"

Wei Yuan tapped the lids of a few coffins around him with his sword, making a couple of "dong, dong" sounds. They were obviously empty. He joked, "It seems the ghosts have all gone out."

Shen Jifeng stared blankly at Wei Yuan.

He pointed to the tourists who were lying on the ground, lost in their illusions, and said,

"The ghosts aren't here right now. Let's wake these people up first."

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Ghost walls, ghost blinding, ghost oppression.

Almost all ghosts knew these tricks.

These tourists had fallen victim to ghost blinding.

Shen Jifeng had many peace-of-mind talismans on her. She patted each of them on the foreheads of these people. Because the original ghosts were nowhere to be found, the talismans easily dispelled the remaining yin energy, awakening the tourists.

It was just a pity that these people thought they were chatting and drinking tea in an elegant and unique country courtyard. When they opened their eyes, they were in a gloomy and terrifying graveyard. It was really a test of their hearts.

After waking up, they all screamed in panic.

It was only the driver, Lao Zhou, who was calmer. Even though he had just been trapped in a ghost-blinding illusion, he was still trying his best to break free. Before his eyes, he saw the standing coffins in the graveyard and Wei Yuan and Shen Jifeng. He first tensed up, then breathed a sigh of relief, his back covered in cold sweat.

Relying on the special operations team's credentials and firearms that ordinary people couldn't possess,

Wei Yuan and Shen Jifeng successfully calmed these tourists down.

Especially the slightly chubby man seemed to have heard of the special operations team. Although he was terrified and panicked, he was at least a little calmer. And the tall man who had previously been regarded as a great villain by Yi Mu Wu also behaved honestly and didn't cause any trouble.

The tall man's scalp was covered in cold sweat, and he couldn't stand still.

He had just been staring at a charming and beautiful woman, his mouth dry and his tongue parched.

When he opened his eyes, he was in a graveyard, facing a gloomy black coffin.

Damn it, his legs were weak.

Lao Zhou took a pill to temporarily stimulate his body and restore his energy. After a brief discussion, everyone decided that Lao Zhou and Shen Jifeng would escort these ordinary people out of the graveyard first. In theory, they had just broken through a layer of the ghost domain and should now be in the real word.

They had to leave this place quickly and find a way to contact the action team.

Shen Jifeng subconsciously looked at Wei Yuan. "What about you?"

Wei Yuan pointed to the restaurant in the distance and said with a smile,

"Now that I'm here, I should at least go in and have a seat."

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Wei Yuan's reason for wanting to explore the restaurant was naturally not so simple.

Not to mention that the man who spread the evil arts had frequented this place, the huge and real ghost domain, the standing coffins of those who had died unnatural deaths, and the ghost king who, according to Huang Gu Nu, was bold enough to want to marry the heavenly maiden on the mountain, were enough for Wei Yuan to risk a trip.

The restaurant was outside the ghost domain, and the ghosts in the ghost domain couldn't easily enter and exit. So this place probably didn't have any ghosts who knew Wei Yuan. If he was careful, he should be able to sneak in, and he was also prepared to escape if something went wrong.

Wei Yuan used his ghost-expelling power to extract the aura left by the coffin ghost from the red umbrella.

Wrapped in a ghostly aura, he walked frankly towards the restaurant. It was indeed antique, with wine flags swaying and lanterns hanging on both sides. However, the wine flags were faded, and the lanterns were covered with a layer of white skin, emitting a faint blue light. The blue light could only illuminate a small area, as if guiding people to another world.

Wei Yuan glanced around and saw that the restaurant was full of ghosts dancing wildly. It was a place where living people should not enter.

Without changing his expression, he pushed the door open and entered.

But as he stepped into the restaurant, his steps paused slightly.

The Crouching Tiger Waist Tag trembled slightly, and a painting unfolded before Wei Yuan's spiritual consciousness. On the yellowed paper, a roadside tavern was drawn with a few strokes. A young shopkeeper smiled and invited guests in. A young girl on the second floor opened the wooden window and looked up at the sky, her expression lonely.

A line of ink characters appeared before his eyes.

《Strange Powers and Chaotic Gods, Strangeness Seventeen》

Suddenly, it seemed that the wind was rising. On the painting, the young shopkeeper from before was growing older and older, and finally turned into white bones on the ground, flowers bloomed and withered, pedestrians came and went, the children gradually grew bigger and older, and the prosperous and wealthy people on the roadside gradually became fewer and fewer, and then soldiers and horses ran around, wars raged everywhere, and the earth was full of white bones.

But the girl was still the same as she had been.

She sighed and seemed to look in Wei Yuan's direction.

Finally, the restaurant seemed to emit a strange aura.

The picture slowly dimmed and dissipated. At the same time, Wei Yuan heard an impatient voice.

"Hey, hey, are you talking to me?!"

"Where did you come from? I've never seen your face before."

A pale-faced ghost frowned and sized up Wei Yuan, sniffing closer. He smelled a lot of ghostly aura, but he felt something was wrong. He circled around Wei Yuan. Wei Yuan came back to his senses and said without changing his expression, "I'm new here. I didn't see you when I came before, big brother."

"Is that so?"

The ghost shook his head and raised his head, asking, "Then what kind of ghost are you? Or what kind of monster?"

Ghost, monster?

Wei Yuan couldn't help but laugh inwardly.

Good question. Of course, a living person couldn't be a ghost, but what should a person who had turned into a monster be called?

Before Wei Yuan could answer, the ghost seemed to smell the ghostly aura that Wei Yuan was using and realized,

"So you're a Jiangshi who stirs up rivers, a water ghost." (Jiangshi: Chinese hopping vampire/zombie)

Wei Yuan nodded with a smile. The ghost looked at Wei Yuan's dry clothes and asked suspiciously,

"Why isn't there more water on you?"

Wei Yuan pointed to his stomach and replied calmly with a smile, "It's all in here."

The white-faced ghost realized, "So you were one of those who drank his fill before he died."

He waved his hand and said, "Go on, go on. Consider yourself lucky to have come at the right time. If you had come later, you wouldn't have gotten anything."

Wei Yuan's eyes flickered slightly, and he kept it in mind. A living person mixed in with a pile of ghosts, not afraid, anyway, being afraid was useless, so he slowly walked over. Looking around, he saw those who had drowned, those who had been hacked to death, those who had been poisoned to death, those without heads, some wearing ancient costumes, and some wearing modern clothes. It was truly a hundred ghost picture.

The ghosts were noisy and chaotic. Wei Yuan took advantage of the ghosts boasting to try to find out something, or at least listen. He moved slightly in his heart and went to a hanging ghost next to him.

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"Why isn't the manager here?"

The hanging ghost with a protruding tongue lowered his eyes, glanced at Wei Yuan, and said vaguely,

"Kid, you weren't married before you died, were you?"

He patted Wei Yuan and said with a sigh, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked such a silly question. Tsk, tsk, the wedding is in three days. The manager is naturally preparing for the wedding. What, are you here to accompany us ghosts?"

"The heavenly maiden is much more fragrant."

"I really want to eat the heavenly maiden in one bite."

With meaningful allusions, all the ghosts laughed.

If a man said this, it would be a very tasteless joke, but when these ghosts said it, it might be the literal meaning. Wei Yuan then said, "I see. I prepared some wedding gifts and wanted to give them to the manager, but I heard that a living person actually came in here. Why didn't you eat that person?"

A demon ghost with a blue face and fangs laughed,

"A living person? Are you talking about that ghost Daoist? Hey, didn't he go with the manager too?"

"What, do you want to eat some Daoist meat? Don't even think about it. If he didn't really have the ability, ordinary living people would have been divided up by us long ago. Nothing would be left of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. Even the bones and oil would have been used for firewood."

"Besides, he's a distinguished guest here. The manager was able to fulfill that wish and marry the heavenly maiden thanks to the Daoist's methods. You dare to have ideas? You're really brave."

Wei Yuan was thoughtful. At this moment, there was a sudden commotion.

A ghost shouted loudly, "It's here, today's main course is here!"

The ghosts who had been arguing and laughing just now fell silent and turned their heads to stare at a location, swallowing hard. The atmosphere instantly became gloomy and terrifying. Wei Yuan turned his head and saw two tall and strong ghosts pushing out a flatbed cart. The main course tied to it was actually a person.

ps: Thank you Yue Tianzun Yin Di for the ten thousand reward, thank you~