Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 026 Test
Only after making sure Xiaoling had left did Zhang Fengyu finally breathe a sigh of relief. He then threw himself down on the somewhat hard wooden bed, closed his eyes, held his breath, and tried to adjust himself.
Zhang Feng closed his eyes and could not hear any sound. The room was filled with dead silence. In such an environment, it was difficult for him to muster up the courage to recall what happened today, because such memories would frighten him to the point of going crazy. He had no idea how many of the 25 women he had chosen were human and how many were ghosts. It was like he was living alone in a ghost village.
Although Zhang Fengyu was terrified, he had been in a ghost village before, so his fear was limited and he was not scared out of his wits. Besides, now that he was in this residence, he didn't have to face those women like he did in the square.
Zhang Feng, whose nerves were tense all day, wanted to take a nap during this leisure time, but it was hard to fall asleep with something on his mind. After turning over several times, Zhang Fengyu suddenly sat up from the bed, grabbing his hair and angrily said: "How can I distinguish the ghosts? I want to ask Wang Lin and Chen Ping if they have any good ideas, but this damn woman village doesn't even let me leave my own area! Can I do it by myself? Damn it!"
Zhang Feng punched the wooden bed hard and fell heavily on it, unable to make any judgments about the future.
Before he was cursed, Zhang Feng was just an idle hoodlum. He could not be said to be just eating and waiting to die, as he also had ways to make money. For example, if someone needed help in a fight, or he was collecting debts from stubborn income. If he did a good job, he would get a fairly substantial reward.
Although being a gangster doesn't have to worry about anything as long as he's a little excited, he actually hates this identity from the bottom of his heart, but he has no choice but to do this job. His family is very poor, using the current popular words to describe it as a "three-no" family with no house, no car, and no savings. He is not born to be a student. He has a bad temper and has tried to find some jobs, but he either gets into fights with customers or can't stand his wife's show-off. So after a while, Zhang Feng recognized a big brother and started to mix in society. But what he didn't expect was that he was dragged into the curse just when he was getting a little better.
Although Zhang Feng had a bad temper after entering the curse, he was quite sensible. So after learning that all this was not an illusion, he attached himself to Wang Lin and the others. Of course, a large part of the reason for attaching himself to Wang Lin was because Wang Lin took care , which was also out of gratitude. As for attaching himself to Chen Ping, it was because his analytical ability was indeed outstanding. In terms of analytical thinking alone, among these people, I am afraid that only Li Xuan could compare with Chen Ping, and even Wang Lin could not match him.
In the process of carrying out the mission, it is not difficult for people who are good at calculating to kill people with the help of ghosts. It is precisely because of this worry that Zhang Feng is very afraid of Li Xuan, fearing that Li Xuan will plot against him during the mission.
Zhang Feng, who didn't have a developed brain, could only flatter others and act according to their moods, fearing that he would offend someone and be plotted against. He felt that his life was too tiring, as if his life was in the hands of others, so he could only follow the ideas of others.
There is no way, who told him that his brain is not working well, in order to survive he can only put his warm face on other people's cold buttocks. In the face of survival, everything is cheap.
Let’s not talk about Zhang Feng for now. After Xiaoling arranged everything for Zhang Feng, she hurried back to the square, and then settled Zhang Fengyu and others one by one. Only then did Xiaoling get some time to breathe.
Zhang Fengyu would live in Beizhuang for the next two months, and was the last one among the four to be settled by Xiaoling. After watching Xiaoling leave, Zhang Fengyu immediately closed all the doors and windows in the house, and then hid in the corner where the wooden bed was placed in fear.
The fear that he had suppressed before finally broke out from the bottom of his heart after Xiaoling left. Before entering this mission, he could still treat the upcoming mission calmly. He encouraged himself in his heart that there was nothing to be afraid of in this mission. Since ghosts would not kill the executors for no reason during the execution period, he could regard them as air and face them calmly and calmly.
This idea was still so unshakable even when he entered the square. He still retained that naive idea, but ever since he saw these women with the faces of evil spirits, he realized that all this was far from being as easy as he had imagined.
Thinking of the devilish sound he had heard before, and the shock of Xiaoling's head falling to the ground, Zhang Fengyu's heart suddenly tightened, and even breathing became extremely difficult at this moment. The reason why horror movies scare people is essentially that the image of the evil ghosts in the movie is too hideous and terrifying, and secondly, the thrilling and weird atmosphere of the whole plot. And the situation he is facing now is like entering a horror movie. He needs to distinguish the real human from the 25 women who are difficult to distinguish between human and ghost, and pursue them passionately. Just thinking about their eerie ghost faces, his back is cold.
Of course, if his luck was extremely bad and the twenty-five women he selected were all ghosts, then chasing ghosts, marrying and living with ghosts... Zhang Fengyu grabbed his head tightly and dared not think any further.
"This is hell, real hell!"
“Hoo! Hoo…!”
Zhang Fengyu's breathing became heavier and heavier. He knew that he should not scare himself like this anymore. He needed to survive. He wanted to go home. Even if he was trapped in hell, he would fight to stay alive.
Zhang Fengyu did not specifically ask Xiaoling about the residence of the twenty-five women he had chosen, because he would never take the initiative to contact them alone. The ghosts were likely hiding among them. Even if the ghosts would not kill him in the process, he would never dare to be in the same room with real ghosts. When Xiaoling left, she had told him that she would come to his place twice a day, and then she would take him to contact those women one by one.
He had already figured it out. Xiaoling's identity must be human. Although Xiaoling's face was extremely terrifying, her essence was still human. So he would only go and contact those women when Xiaoling was with him.
It was not Zhang Fengyu's fault that he had such thoughts. He was definitely not timid among normal people, but he just couldn't adapt to such an environment full of ghosts. In fact, he had done well enough and was strong enough since he entered the curse.
He is not as old as Wang Lin and others, and his experience in mission execution is far less than that of others, so it is normal for him to find it difficult to adapt. As long as he is given more time, he will be able to overcome this fear.
Zhang Fengyu's eyes were filled with fear, and he kept a close eye on every move around him. He kept encouraging himself in his heart, "Be calm, I must be calm, I can't be afraid, I must live, I will live desperately..."
Wang Lin's face was still filled with sorrow. He rested his hands on his arms and stared blankly at the wind chimes hanging in the air. The wind chimes floated in the breeze, swaying from side to side, making pleasant sounds, accompanied by Wang Lin's occasional moans.
"If the twenty-five people I choose are all ghosts, then this will be my last mission. Perhaps we will never meet again. Will this be my end?"
Staring at the swinging wind chimes, Wang Lin's eyes were filled with tears, and he was muttering to himself in a daze. This mission had already touched his bottom line. He, Wang Lin, had a lover and a five-year-old lovely daughter. Most importantly, he loved them very much, really loved them very much.
Wang Lin was originally a company commander in the army. He was usually in the army and rarely had time to reunite with his family. In order to lead his new recruits well, Wang Lin almost put all his energy and mind into it, but he didn't expect to end up in such a situation.
This is the Hell Cliff, and he is a piece of rubble rolling down from the edge of the cliff. Although he has not reached the bottom, if he wants to go back, he can only hope for a miracle to happen.
Scenes from the past kept flashing through his mind, and the tears gradually turned into bitter tears, slowly sliding down from his eye sockets.
"I want to live. I haven't fulfilled my responsibilities yet. I want to see you again..."
Unlike Zhang Fengyu and the other two, Chen Ping focused all his attention on how to identify the woman's identity, and was not captured by the emotions of love and family affection.
After thinking about it for a while, he roughly summarized four difficulties for this mission. The first difficulty is to deal with some mysterious customs in the village and solve the supplementary tasks. The second difficulty is the selection of the matchmaker, who must be a human. The third difficulty is to distinguish the true identity of the selected woman to avoid choosing a ghost. As for the last difficulty, it is to pursue marriage and live here with her for a month.
As for the part where they picked up the badges and each selected 25 women, Chen Ping ruled it out because it was just a matter of luck and was not a difficult point in the analysis.
Of these four difficulties, the most difficult one was naturally the distinction between human and ghost. He thought that since the task was to perfectly hide the identity of each woman when selecting the matchmaker, it meant that after the matchmaker selected her, it was impossible to determine the woman's true identity through just one question, so he needed to think of another way to distinguish them.
Recalling what Xiaoling had said to him before leaving, Chen Ping couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "Xiaoling kept reminding me that it's best not to leave my area. Is this a hint from the mission? Or is it some kind of custom in this village?"
After thinking for a while, Chen Ping shook his head vigorously, a trace of self-mockery appeared on his face, and he said to himself: "There is no need for me to waste energy on this. Anyway, I will not discuss anything with those people. Helping them before was just a matter of convenience. This time, we are separated by a mission and it is just right for me to have some peace and quiet. But this mission is obviously different from the past. However, this also makes my guesses about this curse more appropriate. It's just that it is difficult to leave evidence in this curse. It is too difficult to truly uncover the mystery of this curse, too difficult!"
Putting aside the thought of understanding the curse, Chen Ping turned his attention to distinguishing those women. According to his thinking, Xiaoling would only come here twice a day. If he went to meet those women at this frequency, it would be too slow for him, and he would inevitably overlook something because of his busyness. So after a little consideration, Chen Ping decided to try to contact these women on his own to make plans for the future.
Thinking of this, Chen Ping stood up from the bed, carefully tidied his clothes, and then quickly left the room.
Chen Ping was not afraid of the horrified faces of these women. After all, as long as he did not violate the rules in the prompts, the ghost would not be able to kill him, and the ghost would not be a ghost.
However, no one in the crowd realized that there were originally 100 people in the village, and after they used the second method of asking and selected Xiaoling as their matchmaker, the number of ghosts would account for half of the total number. But there was a problem here, that is, there were originally 100 people in the village, but after Xiaoling became the matchmaker, there were still 100 people, so who was the extra person?
If everyone noticed this, they would definitely know how many ghosts there were before they selected Yue Lao using the second method, but they were obviously not aware of this.
Leaving his thatched house, Chen Ping followed the path and began to look for the residences of the twenty-five women one by one. Soon, he found the residence of one of them, knocked on the door, and after receiving the reply of "come in", Chen Ping walked in.
As soon as he came in, a unique fragrance of a woman hit him in the face. Although this smell was very much like a woman's, Chen Ping was cautious by nature and was still very alert.
"Hello, my name is Chen Ping. It's a bit presumptuous of me to come to your house without the company of Yue Lao Xiao Ling."
Chen Ping was dressed as a young man, and the gentleness in his conversation combined with his handsome face was like a ray of warm sunshine shining on his body.
As he spoke, Chen Ping did not shy away from the woman's hideous appearance. He looked at her face that was half skull and half flesh with a smile on his face.
Although the woman's face was hideous, her lower body was very slender. The guest twisted her body slightly and replied to Chen Ping in a gentle voice, "No, it's just that I was covered in dust in the square just now. I didn't even wash myself before I welcomed you in. I'm afraid you will laugh at me."
Hearing the woman's voice, Chen Ping's heart moved, and his focus was on the woman's clothes. Of course, in order to show respect, Chen Ping quickly retracted his gaze and shook his head and said, "How can I be impolite? Isn't this dress very clean? To be honest, when I came in just now, I was almost fainted by the fragrance in your room, but when I glanced at it just now, I didn't find any flowers or herbs."
The woman giggled, obviously a little embarrassed by Chen Ping's praise. The room smelled so good even without any flowers, which was obviously a reference to the woman's body odor.
After several polite greetings, Chen Ping gradually let go of his airs and began to test the woman's key points. During the conversation, Chen Ping also learned the woman's name, Li Mei.
The conversation between the two lasted about ten minutes. Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Ping proposed to leave, and Li Mei even went out to see him off in a friendly manner. Judging from this alone, if Li Mei was not a ghost, she might have developed some feelings for Chen Ping.
After leaving Li Mei, it was already dark, and Chen Ping temporarily gave up the idea of continuing to search. His conversation with Li Mei had already given him some important information. First of all, except for her appearance that was still like a demon, her voice, figure, and clothing had all returned to the range of a normal person, which was exactly what he had guessed before.
