Chapter 897 Flaw

Looking at this wooden box, everyone felt an indescribable awkwardness. Google search reading

In the end, it was Gongsun Zhiruo who stepped forward and carefully opened the cover of the box.

After seeing what was inside, everyone let out a long sigh at the same time.

It was a prayer wheel, far less gorgeous than the one Jiang Cheng saw on the bus, and the workmanship and material were very ordinary.

"Why put a prayer wheel here?" Huai Yi asked puzzled.

"I once heard a saying that places like intersections and lakes are prone to attract some bad things." Jiang Cheng stared at the prayer wheel in the wooden box and said thoughtfully.

Han Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, and asked in an uncertain tone: "What will it attract?"

Jiang Cheng glanced at him and answered concisely: "Ghost."

"Ghost?"

"Yes, it is said that ghosts will disguise themselves as humans, or simply kill a person and manipulate the corpse to participate in this kind of sacrificial activities. If they are not discovered during the entire activity, then it will be assumed that it has this opportunity and can continue to live as this person in the future." Jiang Cheng explained in more detail.

Zhou Yuxuan thought about it after hearing it, and then said: "Similar statements are somewhat similar to the yellow-skinned people asking for titles that are circulated in our area."

"But Mr. Jiang, what do these things you said have to do with the prayer wheel?" Bai Xi asked. He rarely spoke, but every word he said was to the point.

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Cheng looked around and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this prayer wheel is placed here to prevent ghosts from sneaking in."

"Before each event starts, all participants must walk to this wooden box one by one and turn the prayer wheel under everyone's gaze."

"If it's a human, there's no problem, but if it's not, it will reveal a flaw."

It is undeniable that in addition to being knowledgeable, Jiang Cheng also has a talent for storytelling. He successfully aroused the curiosity of everyone present, and even Huai Yi looked at him expectantly.

"What flaws will be revealed?" Han Juanjuan swallowed his saliva and couldn't help urging.

Jiang Cheng looked at him and said calmly: "The prayer wheel must be turned clockwise, but those things can't do it. If they pick up the prayer wheel, the prayer wheel will turn counterclockwise."

Staring at the prayer wheel in the wooden box, the picture described by Jiang Cheng appeared in their minds, and everyone couldn't help but feel horrible and weird.

"Of course, these are all what I heard from others. As for whether it is true or not, I cannot be sure." Jiang Cheng said at last.

But even if he said so, the scene in front of them still made everyone believe that it should be what the man said.

After a moment of silence, Gongsun Zhiruo finally spoke up and said that this place was too weird and it was better to stay away from it. His suggestion was unanimously agreed by everyone.

They did not walk too far. After a small circle, they came back. When they passed a low shack, everyone stopped. In front of the shack, a curtain similar to a door was built with rags. From the gap on the side, it was pitch black inside.

"It's so strange." Zhou Yuxuan said, "We didn't see many people along the way. This is a village after all. There can't be only so many people here. Where did the rest go?"

Hearing this, Han Juanjuan's face turned pale and he muttered softly, "No... They couldn't have been dragged away by that starving ghost."

"Don't talk nonsense." Gongsun Zhiruo interrupted immediately. He was the leader of their group. Now the mission has not officially started. He didn't want to mess up the morale of the army because of some groundless speculations.

"If it's nonsense, you will know if you go and see it." Jiang Cheng looked indifferent. After all, some things will be known sooner or later. If you know it earlier, you can prepare earlier.

Seeing that Jiang Cheng was going to go over, Gongsun Zhiruo signaled the rest of the people to stay where they were, and he and Jiang Cheng went to check.

The two walked towards the shack on the left and right. The closer they were, the more they could feel the dilapidated and backwardness of this village.

The shack was built with not only rags, but also a few pieces of animal skins. Because of the age, there were still some mottled hairs on them, which was very strange.

Standing in front of the "door" of the shack, there was no sound inside. Gongsun Zhiruo breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that no one was there. Maybe the shack had been abandoned long ago.

Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand and slowly lifted the curtain, but the scene that appeared immediately made his hand stop in mid-air. Gongsun Zhiruo, who had just taken a breath, turned pale.

There was a person sitting in the shack, facing the direction of the door.

It was an old man, at least he looked like that, wrapped in tattered clothes, the exposed skin was a strange grayish white, and he was very thin, with only a layer of skin wrapped around his bones.

The old man closed his eyes tightly, his face was haggard, his eye sockets were deep, and he sat cross-legged on the ground, motionless.

Gongsun Zhiruo immediately realized that the old man was dead.

This is a corpse!

A terrifying idea instantly formed in his mind. There were at least dozens of shacks nearby. Could it be that there was a corpse in each shack?

What happened here?

Jiang Cheng hesitated for a moment, but finally chose not to touch the corpse that looked strange. Just as he lowered the curtain and was about to leave, he accidentally stepped on a stone.

When Jiang Cheng looked down, Gongsun Zhiruo on the side suddenly called out. When Jiang Cheng reacted, the corpse of the old man who had been sitting upright just now actually opened his eyes, half crawled up, and stretched out his withered arms to grab him.

Jiang Cheng immediately stepped back, pulled Gongsun Zhiruo up and ran away.

The rest of the people heard the shout and ran over. Jiang Cheng stopped only after realizing that the old man didn't chase them.

Looking back, they found that the old man was standing in front of the shack, staring at them with a pair of turbid eyes, and at the same time shouting something angrily in a language they couldn't understand. They didn't need to guess that he was scolding them.

Not long after, more and more locals came over, and Jiang Cheng and his friends slipped away first.

The good news is that the old man is not dead, he is alive.

After walking a long way, Jiang Cheng secretly looked back and found that the old man was alone, standing in front of the shack, with his head down, staring at the ground. Jiang Cheng suddenly had a strange feeling. He smelled fear from the old man, and it was an indescribable fear.

Worried about causing any more trouble, the group slipped back to the big tent where they started.

After walking for a while, they confirmed that this tent was definitely at the level of a super luxurious presidential suite in the village, and they didn't know how Shang Mo got it.

The fat man got along very well with the three women. When Jiang Cheng and the others opened the curtain and came in, the fat man was standing with his back to them, gesticulating and telling something to the three women, which made the three women cover their mouths and giggle. If you didn't know, you would think they were a group tourist.