Chapter Sixteen: The Village of Tombs

  Just as Qin Zhong heard the gunshot behind him, he immediately felt that something was wrong. He didn't dare to make a sound or turn his head back. He knew that the path in this cemetery was called "Don't Look Back". In folklore, especially when sending off the elderly at home, if someone looked back, the deceased would not leave. Walking among these graves of wrongful deaths was no exception; if he looked back, who knows how many vengeful spirits from the graves behind him would come chasing after.

  That's why Lao Mo didn't let Qin Zhong and others turn back, and it's also the reason for speaking.

  At this moment, however, Guo Dafu seemed to have gotten into trouble. Qin Zhong was helpless and raised his hand to wave vigorously towards the front, hoping that Guo Dafu could understand his intention.

  But the old mushroom seemed to have no reaction to all this, it just simply stopped for a moment and drew two simple lines on the ground with its foot.

  Qin Zhong saw that the old mushroom was once again reminding himself not to look back, while Yingzi was now closely attached to Qin Zhong, with one hand already tightly wrapped around his waist.

  After seeing the woman's true appearance, Guo Dafu suddenly felt a surge of energy, his feet moved swiftly, and he cursed in his heart, thinking that he had encountered a ghost. It seemed that in this beautiful village, there were still many things that would come to tempt him. The tall and proud person from earlier had now shrunk into a chrysalis about to emerge as a butterfly, and his muscles had tightened into an iron ball.

  After a long time, Guo Dafu's face was covered in cold sweat, which seemed to have awakened him from his tension and fear. He grabbed the gun, held the dead man's head and rushed towards the troops.

  As Guo Dafu approached Qin Zhong, Qin Zhong had already sensed that there was more than one vengeful spirit following behind Guo Dafu. He immediately became alert and, facing the rows of graves ahead with unknown difficulties, reluctantly held two steel knives in his hands and tied a ghost-repelling bead to the knife handle, quickening his pace as he followed Old Mushroom.

  Guo Dafu walked while feeling the dense and oppressive aura behind him, but it seemed to have no intention of attacking him. Even so, that one glance earlier had caused his beard to remain disheveled.

  Qin Zhong cursed Guo Dafu in his heart, thinking that he must have been tempted.

  He wanted to turn back and take a look at the situation, but his subconscious told him that he couldn't turn back. Looking ahead at the old mushroom, although it seemed to have paused for a moment, as if some concerns had arisen, Qin Zhong's continued advance made the old mushroom take another step forward.

  At this moment, in Qin Zhong's ears, there seemed to be many strange sounds, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, sometimes wailing, and sometimes singing. However, no matter what, Qin Zhong endured it all, pretending not to hear anything.

  However, at this moment, Guo Dafu's legs seemed to be tied with a heavy weight, and the dark aura of the vengeful spirits following him made him feel extremely painful.

  Qin Zhong secretly prayed that Guo Dafu would not fall behind, if he really fell behind, it would bring unimaginable consequences to this group of people. The already empty abdominal cavity, if another fierce battle came, was likely to suffer a loss.

  The old mushroom led the way, and after a while, Qin Zhong saw the exit of the tomb area in the distance. Outside the tomb area was still a dense forest that seemed bottomless. The old mushroom rushed out first, followed closely by Qin Zhong, Yingzi, and Guo Dafu. One, two, three, several people left the cemetery one after another. Just as Guo Dafu was about to step out of the village, his foot suddenly slipped, and his body swayed from side to side, as if he was about to fall.

  Just as he was about to stand firm, the entrance of the village appeared in his retina, a golden copper character plaque unfolded before him.

  On the signboard were written two words "Tomb Village". When Guo Dafu looked closely, on the stone pillar below the signboard was wrapped a circle of mourning paper. The mourning paper seemed to be dancing without rhythm in the village entrance where gusts of cold wind blew.

  And under the signboard, there was a figure. Guo Dafu rubbed his eyes, wanting to see clearly who was standing under the signboard. But when he looked closely, it was surprisingly the female ghost from earlier who seemed to have broken her appearance. At this moment, the female ghost opened her big mouth, and thick black blood flowed out from under her eyelids. The row of sharp teeth suddenly opened wide, and she rushed towards Guo Dafu like a phantom.

  Guo Dafu was startled by the ghostly face that rushed over and suddenly retreated backwards. As he turned around, he didn't dare to look at the woman's appearance again.

  It was just this turn, the whole village turned into a messy grave mound in Guo Dafu's eyes, and the two words "Tomb Village" became an old stone tablet buried in the yellow soil, with the red paint on the exposed text seeming to have faded. When Guo Dafu looked up again, he saw that in front of him was that piece of black tombstone.

  "My goodness!" Guo Dafu muttered under his breath.

  "This sentence, however, provoked Qin Zhong's furious anger: 'Son of a bitch, who told you to turn around and talk back, got it, we've got something to do this time.'"

  The old mushroom let out a long sigh and said, "There are at least over 800 graves of wrongful deaths here. Even if some have been reincarnated, there are still at least 400 or 500 left, which is enough for us to drink a pot."

  Yingzi slowly opened her eyes, and the Shaman flag in her hand fell into her palm: "Qin brother, haven't we failed?"

  "Right, look at where we are now. We should have already passed the graveyard, but now we have to re-route. The whole cemetery seems to have changed, all the tombstones are emitting green smoke. Good grief, I don't know what kind of high-ranking officials these families' descendants will become." Qin Zhong had some knowledge about the layout of the graveyard, so he could see clearly at a glance.

  Guo Dafu was unable to advance or retreat, as a female ghost blocked his way from behind, while being chased by dozens of vengeful spirits.

  "Get ready to take action, beat the ghosts and destroy the tomb. We must demolish the tomb before they crawl out of it, otherwise none of us will be able to escape from here tonight." Qin Zhong shouted angrily.

  This time he didn't dare to slack off, because Guo Dafu provoked a dense and numerous group of ghosts, all kinds of ghosts were present. After all, for the ghosts, they fear humans seven points, this point is correct, it's because they are afraid, so as ghosts, they have an extremely strong rejection psychology towards living people, and also have an ultra-strong confrontational mentality.

  These ghosts chased up afterwards, one by one tense face, step by step closer to Guo Dafu.

  Qin Zhong saw that there were too many of them and indeed didn't have a better way to shake them off, so after hesitating for half the day, he finally made up his mind: "Let's go quickly, follow Old Mushroom."

  The old mushroom didn't hesitate at all, and with a speed as swift as flying, he rushed towards the group of ghosts. Several withered hands grabbed his shoulders, but he cleverly dodged them, while others chased after him frantically.

  Yingzi closely followed Qin Zhong without dodging, while Qin Zhong suddenly rushed towards Guo Dafu, pulled him up with one hand, and quickly caught up with the old mushroom.

  In the distance, on another mound, what seemed to be a greenish glow of ghostly fire appeared, flickering up and down, growing larger and larger until it turned into dark shadows.

  "Damn it, I must have made a mistake. It seems that no one has ever been reborn here, and even the grave of his mother is haunted by vengeful spirits."

  "What's going on, boss?" Guo Dafu was really panicked.

  "How to do, I have no way, follow the old mushroom rush, if there is a entanglement with you, think of a way to shake it off immediately, but can't run away, follow closely, be careful behind."

  Just as Qin Zhong was speaking, a group of dark shadows rushed up from behind Guo Dafu, looking like they were all starving to death. And indeed, Guo Dafu ran very fast, otherwise he might not have been able to preserve his chastity.

  The flag in Yingzi's hand had never been idle, but suddenly the flag in her hand seemed to have infused her own will. These flags had many uses, but using them here was a waste, at least that's what Yingzi thought.

  Qin Zhong crouched down and with one arm exerting great force, he pried up the half-buried, already broken wooden signboard of the Paifang building to one side.

  "This time, Qin Zhong shouted at him: 'Stop, let's go together. If something happens, it will be too late.' As soon as Qin Zhong's voice fell, another black shadow emerged from the dense grave site, like a rocket, rushing towards Qin Zhong and the others."

  Qin Zhong suddenly felt that the black shadow was already unavoidable, and behind him, Guo Dafu rushed over and confronted the black shadow. Suddenly, Guo Dafu's eyes became straight and dull.