Chapter 122: Haunted

"Huh?" Yin Lishang looked at the text on the phone screen and blinked curiously: "Brother, have you caught the disease too?"

At this moment, a pitch-black shadow swept past the corridor and disappeared.

I saw it! It was that thing, it killed Grandmother!

Yin Lishang was so frightened that her face turned pale. Like a startled raccoon, she hugged Ning Zhe's waist tightly from behind: "Brother, what should we do? Our house is haunted, there are actually ghosts in the world..."

This sentence sounded strange coming from her mouth in this context, but Ning Zhe didn't dwell on this problem too much. He comforted Yin Lishang lightly and silently took out 1 copper coin from his pocket.

As early as when he calculated that the life-buying money he held was not enough to support him to go to the deepest part of the abyss, and realized that he had no hope of solving the secret of Yanglao Village, Ning Zhe had made plans for what to do next.

A thief doesn't leave empty-handed. Even if the puzzle-solving failed, he would never accept going back empty-handed like this.

*Ding*—

It was the sound of a copper coin hitting the ground.

Yin Lishang lifted her head at the sound and saw a copper coin thrown from her brother's hand, drawing a beautiful parabola in the air, finally landing in a pale palm emitting a rotten stench, falling into the open cloth bag held in the palm, colliding with the copper coins already in the bag and making a crisp sound.

The owner of the palm was a thin old man wearing a wide Confucian robe, with a round, bulging belly on his thin, firewood-like body, just like a pregnant woman.

Between the two shoulders of the old man was the half-neck left after being beheaded. He held a cloth money bag in one hand and a flower-white long-haired old head in the other. That was his own head.

Ning Zhe didn't know what method Lan Shiwen used to control Wealth Wu Tong, but he could still do business with Wealth Wu Tong now, which was enough.

The God of Wealth accepted Ning Zhe's 1 copper coin and still stood in place without any movement.

"Not enough money?" Ning Zhe frowned, and then he quickly understood what was going on.

—He was currently using Ji Taimi's identity to buy life from the God of Wealth. If a person buys life from the God of Wealth for the first time, the price of 1 life should be 1 copper coin.

And now 1 copper coin could not buy 1 life from the God of Wealth for Ji Taimi, which meant that Ji Taimi was not seeing the God of Wealth for the first time. He had bought life from the God of Wealth before. As for when? How many times? Where did the money for buying life come from?

Ning Zhe didn't know.

Ning Zhe silently took out 1 copper coin again and threw it into the God of Wealth's palm. At the same time, he changed his face again. If Feng Yushu were standing inside the door instead of outside, she would have recognized that this person was the security guard of Bishuiwan Manor, Tian Chengyun.

Yin Lishang, who was standing behind Ning Zhe, didn't notice the change in the facial features on her brother's face. She only saw that after accepting 2 copper coins, the God of Wealth finally nodded.

Ning Zhe bought 1 life from the God of Wealth Wealth Wu Tong in the identity of Tian Chengyun.

In an instant, the originally dead and silent world had sound. At the same time, the grandmother lying in the corner disappeared.

Ning Zhe heard the rustling of the wind through the bamboo forest, the croaking of toads in the kitchen, and the ubiquitous environmental white noise, as well as his own breathing and heartbeat. The world in front of him was still black and white, but it already had sound.

"Back to 'Gui'." Ning Zhe nodded slightly. Yin Lishang behind him was still hugging his waist tightly, and he could feel the girl's warm body temperature and steady heartbeat.

After returning from "Xi" to "Gui," Ji Taimi's grandmother disappeared, but Yin Lishang didn't disappear. Did this mean that Yin Lishang actually existed on every layer of the world at the same time?

Hmm... The God of Wealth also exists on every layer of the world.

Ning Zhe took out 4 copper coins again and put them into the God of Wealth's hands.

So the originally black and white world had colors again. The red paint on the gate, the white putty on the wall, the black-gray cement floor under his feet, and the red small dress on Yin Lishang also became bright... It was just that there was still an indescribable depression in the closed small room. This was the underworld. Ning Zhe took out 8 copper coins again and put them into the God of Wealth's hands.

The God of Wealth remained unmoved.

"It seems that after 4 is not 8, but 16." Ning Zhe felt a bit tricky, but fortunately, the money in his hand was enough. He took out 8 copper coins again, making up 16, and put them into the God of Wealth's hands.

Wealth Wu Tong accepted the money and sent Ning Zhe back to the Yang world.

Wealth Wu Tong disappeared.

Ning Zhe changed his face back to Ji Taimi's appearance and looked back at Yin Lishang, who was trembling with fear behind him, feeling a bit puzzled in his heart.

The trading rules of the God of Wealth Wealth Wu Tong have 2 characteristics:

1. Raise the price on the spot.

The price of trading with Wealth Wu Tong will be more expensive each time. Ning Zhe had already verified it just now. From the second transaction, the price of each transaction was the square of the previous one.

2. Forced buying and selling.

Anyone who sees Wealth Wu Tong will be forced into a transaction. Either buy or sell, there is no third option.

=9+Shu_Ba

"But judging from the performance just now, Wealth God doesn't seem to regard Yin Lishang as a trading object?" Ning Zhe was puzzled. How could there be more and more mysteries about this little girl? But the situation in front of him also made Ning Zhe clearer about one thing—Ji Taimi's sister was indeed the key to solving the mystery in Yanglao Village and getting the Yin family's inheritance.

"Brother... ghost, did the ghost leave?"

It wasn't until Grandmother and Wealth Wu Tong disappeared that Yin Lishang nervously let go of the hand holding Ning Zhe's waist, tears spinning in her eye sockets in fear.

"Hmm, the ghost has already left." Ning Zhe took out a pack of tissues from his pocket, helped her wipe away the tears sliding down her cheeks to her chin, and said: "I used money to send those ghost things away, you don't have to be afraid now."

"Hmm..." Yin Lishang nodded obediently: "Then Grandmother? And Grandfather, how are they?"

"They were all killed by ghosts." A painful expression appeared on Ning Zhe's face, and he said softly: "The reason I came back this time is because of this. Our family has been cursed by evil ghosts."

"Cursed, is it like the videotape in 'The Ring'?" Mentioning the curse, the first thing Yin Lishang associated with it was the horror movie "The Ring," which was one of the few horror movies she had finished watching.

"Something like that." Ning Zhe nodded and continued: "Dad and Mom have already met with misfortune, and Grandmother and Grandfather didn't escape the pursuit of the evil ghosts either. Now there are only us left in the family. Mom told me before she died that I must protect you well."

"I..." Yin Lishang was at a loss for a moment. For a little girl who had never seen the world, the impact of the successive deaths of 4 relatives was still too great.

"Let's go, I'll take you away from here and go to other places to avoid it." Ning Zhe took Yin Lishang's hand and walked toward the entrance of the village.

"Okay." Yin Lishang nodded obediently and followed Ning Zhe closely, leaving this small village where she was born and raised.

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