Chapter 76: Seeing Ghost Covers the Eyes Again

After sweeping his gaze over the peach grove once, Li Si sighed and gave up on the idea of finding the heads of Chen Zhongyang’s parents today.

“We really are unlucky, to actually run into something like this.” He Zhong looked at the peach grove around them and could not help sighing aloud.

Hearing him say this, Li Si could not help finding it somewhat strange and asked, “Is this kind of thing very rare to encounter?”

In this world, he had discovered that there were truly far too many strange things. Why did He Zhong seem as though this was his first time seeing one?

Seeing Li Si ask him this, He Zhong nodded slightly and sighed. “In my life, I have only encountered this twice. This is the second time.”

Hearing He Zhong say this, the sincerity in his tone made Li Si feel somewhat stifled in his chest. He had come to this world for less than a month and had already encountered such things so many times, yet He Zhong had only encountered them twice.

Could I be like Conan, where wherever I go, these ghostly things appear? Li Si could not help becoming suspicious of himself.

However, he quickly rejected this thought. He carefully thought it over and discovered that the ghostly things he had encountered actually all had cause and effect behind them.

For example, that Hanged Ghost had been attracted by the original owner, while the fox demon and the Dismemberment Ghost had sneaked into the city while the City God was absent. The original owner had also been the same. After his death, he would inevitably have transformed into a ghost.

Thinking this way, Li Si also straightened it out. It was not that he encountered many strange things, but that this world had many strange things.

At the same time, he also found it somewhat strange. Why had he encountered so many strange things, while He Zhong had only encountered them twice, one of which was this time?

Since he could not figure it out, Li Si directly asked He Zhong, “I feel there are many strange things in this world. Why have you only encountered them once or twice?”

Hearing Li Si say this, He Zhong could not help looking at Li Si with a strange gaze and said, “There are many strange things in this world, but as long as we do not go into their territory, we will not encounter them.”

“But people will travel sooner or later. How could they not encounter them?” Li Si found it even stranger. People in this world could not possibly avoid travelling, right? Otherwise, as long as they travelled, they would definitely encounter strange things.

“We will not encounter them.” He Zhong said this with certainty.

“Why?” Li Si frowned slightly. Even if the City Gods held charge over each city, they could not deter the ghosts and monsters in the wild.

“Scholar Li, you do not know about this, do you?” A proud expression appeared on He Zhong’s face, and he smiled as he said, “I also heard this from the older generation. Mountains have Mountain Gods, rivers have River Gods, villages have Earth Gods, and cities have City Gods.”

“They all protect the common people. As long as we walk on official roads, we will not encounter these strange things.”

Hearing this, Li Si’s expression became somewhat strange, and he frowned. “Then were we not walking on an official road before?”

The moment Li Si said this, He Zhong’s smiling face immediately stiffened.

Seeing He Zhong like this, Li Si felt that something was wrong. His expression became somewhat ugly as he asked, “What exactly happened?”

Seeing Li Si’s expression, He Zhong immediately showed an awkward look and muttered, “We went... the wrong way.”

Hearing this little old man say this, Li Si suddenly felt a chill on his spine. Earlier, while riding in the carriage and chatting with He Zhong, he had learned that He Zhong had travelled far and wide for decades and had already worked as a carriage driver for seven or eight years.

How could such a person go the wrong way? Moreover, they had gone the wrong way not long after leaving Fengmen County.

At the same time, Li Si also suddenly remembered the matter of that nag stopping halfway.

Thinking of this, his expression could not help becoming ugly.

“Scholar Li, what is wrong?” He Zhong looked cautiously toward Li Si. At this moment, he blamed himself somewhat. If he had not become old and muddled, he would not have brought Scholar Li into this dangerous situation.

Li Si stared carefully at He Zhong. When He Zhong began to feel his scalp go numb from being watched, Li Si sighed and said, “We may have been targeted by a ghost creature the moment we left the city.”

As he spoke, he took out the Eight Trigrams Mirror from his robe and shone it toward He Zhong. The facts were indeed just as he had thought. He saw two deathly blue palms covering He Zhong’s eyes, looking extremely strange.

“Scholar Li, why did you take out a mirror?” He Zhong drew close to the Eight Trigrams Mirror with two palms covering his eyes, yet he was somewhat puzzled.

He saw himself in the mirror, and there was nothing unusual.

Seeing him like this, Li Si could not help feeling somewhat helpless. Knowing that He Zhong had been affected by Ghost Covers the Eyes, he gave Xiaoduan an order in his heart.

Xiaoduan flicked his tongue, scraping it in front of He Zhong. Two deathly blue palms fell to the ground.

He Zhong had only felt his eyes grow cool and his head grow light. At once, his vision brightened, and seeing things in the dark was now like seeing in daylight.

“Scholar Li, this is?” He Zhong discovered that he could actually see things in the dark and could not help feeling joy from the bottom of his heart. He thought Li Si had cast a spell on him, allowing him to see in the darkness.

Moreover, he discovered that his eyesight was much better than before, allowing him to clearly see things very far away.

Li Si looked at He Zhong gazing at him with an expression of tearful gratitude and somewhat helplessly pointed at the ground for him to look.

Seeing Li Si point at the ground, He Zhong looked down along his finger in puzzlement, and could not help being badly startled. He directly ran to Li Si’s side.

“You were deceived by a ghost before, so you took the wrong road.” Li Si pointed at the Ghost Hands on the ground and said to He Zhong.

After saying this, Li Si pondered slightly, thinking in his heart about which ghost had done this.

Right now, there were three ghosts hostile to him. One was the ghost creature sent by the Nie family, one was the Hanged Ghost, and one was the ghost creature that had killed Liu Qin and his wife.

The Nie family’s ghost creature had already achieved its goal, so it had most likely gone back. Moreover, he was heading toward Zetian Prefecture in order to take the provincial examination, so that ghost creature could not possibly come to obstruct him.

As for the Hanged Ghost, he had previously only seen her method of controlling ghost creatures on the original owner’s body, the White Bone Form. After that, he had never seen it again. She had always been hiding in the shadows.

And from the way she had killed the original owner, it could be seen that this ghost creature preferred to personally toy with people, rather than play this kind of trick of killing with a borrowed knife.

Then it was more likely to be the ghost creature that had killed Liu Qin and his wife. Only, Li Si also felt extremely troubled in his heart. He knew very little about this ghost creature, so he also did not know how to deal with it.

At this moment, He Zhong beside him was so frightened that his legs went somewhat weak. Before, there had actually been a ghostly thing using these dead person’s hands to cover his eyes, yet he had not felt anything at all.

Thinking of this matter, he was extremely terrified and could not help shivering.

And just as Li Si and He Zhong were both thinking about this matter, the three people who had been behind them slowly sat up one after another.

“Where is this?” A man’s voice startled the two, who had been thinking.