Chapter 15 Lantern Claim
Late at night, Yun Mo was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, when he suddenly heard someone calling him.
"Come on, come on." Hearing the voice, Yun Mo couldn't help but want to get up, but his body didn't move at all. He didn't know if it was because of the voice, but Yun Mo felt as if he had forgotten something.
Yun Mo's soul sat up from the bed and followed the direction of the sound.
In a wasteland outside the school, a man wearing a colorful coat and a devil's mask on his face was holding a white paper lantern and shouting something.
"Come on, come on" the man shouted, while paying attention to the candlelight inside the lantern. After a while, the candlelight began to become brighter, which meant that someone's soul was called.
The man was a little happy, because as long as nothing unexpected happened and he finished the matter tonight, he would get a large reward.
Sure enough, after a while, a vague figure came towards him in the distance.
But before he could wait for the man to be happy, he found that the person's soul was not right.
Usually the souls of ordinary people are dressed in white, but this soul is wearing a uniform, a hat, and a knife at the waist. This is clearly a ghost.
"Why did you call the ghost?" The man hesitated because he didn't want to provoke the ghost, but he could only use his magic once a night.
Who knows if that noble man can survive until tomorrow? That's just money in vain.
If I can't save the person tonight, maybe they will be angry with me.
After careful consideration, the man decided to take a gamble.
Yun Mo's soul soon came to the man. He looked confused because he didn't know why he came here. He wanted to think, but a force stopped him, so he gave up thinking.
The man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Yun Mo really had no ability to resist. Even his own spells were incapable of resisting, which meant that this was just a kid, and the backstage should not be so tough.
So he handed out the white paper lantern in his hand.
As long as Yun Mo accepts the white paper lantern, he will exchange lives with that noble man. In other words, Yun Mo will die for others.
Yun Mo took the paper lantern blankly, and then walked back the way he came. Looking at Yun Mo's retreating back, the man breathed a sigh of relief.
He packed up his things, turned around and left.
When Yun Mo woke up the next morning, he felt very uncomfortable all over, as if he had a serious illness.
But since I became a ghost, I have become immune to common diseases.
Just when Yun Mo was confused, he saw a white paper lantern hanging beside his bed.
"Did you tease me last night?" Yun Mo said to his three roommates with a smile.
White paper lanterns are very unlucky, but to Guizhao, they are nothing, so he is not particularly angry.
"No, we saw it hanging on your bed when we woke up today. We thought you got it back last night." The roommate's words made Yun Mo instinctively feel uneasy.
Why did he hang up a white paper lantern when he had nothing to do? Thinking of this, and then thinking of his own physical weakness, Yun Mo felt a sense of crisis.
"Ask for a day off for me, just say I'm not feeling well." Yun Mo immediately got out of bed, got dressed and ran out.
As he walked, he called Bai Yi.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Bai Yi's calm tone made Yun Mo feel relieved.
"Something happened to me. I woke up this morning and found that I was very weak, and there was a white paper lantern hanging by my bedside." After Yun Mo finished speaking, there was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.
"You come to the other side of Wangchuan River first. I'll see what's going on. Remember to bring the lantern." After Bai Yi finished speaking, he hung up. Yun Mo also felt a sense of crisis.
With a white paper lantern and the driver's puzzled expression, Yun Mo arrived at the other side of the Forgotten River. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Bai Yi sitting at the table and reading a book.
"Brother Yi" Yunmo greeted Bai Yi.
Boy Yi looked up and saw that Yun Mo's face was pale and his breath was disordered, and he couldn't help but frown.
"How could it be like this?" Bai Yi stretched out his hand to feel Yun Mo's pulse, and his face changed slightly.
"Your vitality is draining away quickly. If the cause is not found out immediately, you will probably die tonight. Did you bring the lantern? Show it to me."
Bai Yi took the paper lantern from Yun Mo's hand, then took out his jade token, and detached a part of the paper lantern. A faint fire lit up, and this part of the paper lantern was slowly burned. The strange thing was the smoke.
But it flew into the jade sign.
Bai Yi gave orders to the jade tablet
"Find out the origin of this lantern for me as soon as possible." Bai Yi's tone was very urgent. This was the first time Yun Mo saw him like this.
However, Yun Mo was also very nervous because after all, his life was at stake.
Bai Yi's appeal was quite strong, and within a short time, someone sent a fax.
Boyi picked it up and checked it. It was sent by the ghost messenger from Guidi.
It turns out that there is an evil method in Guidi that can help others extend their lifespan, that is to find a scapegoat, but generally this method requires first checking whether the person deserves to die.
As the saying goes, if the road is fifty, the number is forty-nine, these people just rely on the remaining variables to avoid the number, and the underworld can't do anything about it.
The following is an introduction to this technique. The caster needs to put the birth date of the deceased into the lantern, and then go to the wild to call the soul. If someone answers while sleeping, his soul will be hooked. Next
The lantern represents exchanging lives with the dying person.
Now the only people who can use this evil method are the Chen and Lai families in Guidi. According to the records of ghosts, this kind of people are called ghost masters. Twenty years ago, a Chen ghost master went to Boyi and his family.
I have been to the city where I live, and I saved someone there once.
After getting this information, Bai Yi immediately looked inside the lantern, and sure enough, there was a person's birth date written inside.
Bai Yi immediately used this birth date to find out where this person was.
Just when Bai Yi was about to go out in person to help Yun Mo solve the problem, Yun Mo stopped him.
"I'd better go by myself. Don't worry, I won't have to go to the trouble of killing someone." Yun Mo said and walked towards the door.
It's not that Yunmo is being hypocritical, but this spell must be killed before the caster can be released.
Underworld law stipulates that ghosts are not allowed to kill living people privately. Even if the other party is guilty, they must wait for the legal judgment of the underworld to deprive him of his identity as a living person before ghosts can take action. Otherwise, they will be severely punished.
But this time, he had to kill with blood. Yunmo didn't want Bai Yi to be punished for his own sake. Last time, Bai Yi killed a living person on impulse, and directly changed from the number one person under Judge Cui to the current little head catcher.
If Bai Yi makes another mistake, he may be imprisoned in the eighteenth level of hell, so Yun Mo chooses to take action himself. The worst he can do is to be deprived of his identity as a ghost. He is a living person, and the underworld will not punish him excessively.
Yun Mo followed the address given by Bai Yi and arrived outside a villa.
Yun Mo was not polite and knocked on the door of the villa. The housekeeper came to open the door. He did not know Yun Mo.
"Excuse me, what can I do for you?"
"I want to ask if your young master is sick? I'm here to visit him." Yun Mo made an excuse.
The person's age and gender are already expressed in the birth date, so Yunmo doesn't worry about making mistakes.
"Please come in." When the housekeeper heard Yun Mo say this, he thought he was a friend of his young master, so he quickly invited him in.
After Yun Mo came in, he saw a young man in his twenties wearing a black robe talking to a middle-aged man.
It seems that the young man must be the ghost master.
"Master, the young master's friend came to visit him." The housekeeper spoke in the middle-aged man's ear, but the next second, the ghost master stood up from his chair.
"He is the man who died for your son, stop him quickly," the ghost master said and immediately ran towards the back door of the living room.
Yun Mo saw that the ghost master actually recognized him, so he immediately took out his sword from his waist and prepared to kill him.
"Stop, if you don't get out, I will call the police." The middle-aged man stopped in front of Yun Mo. He knew that the ghost master could not die. The young man in front of him was the key to his son's recovery. Even if he lived or died, he had nothing to do with him.
"Go away!" Yun Mo roared angrily. In the face of death, he really didn't want to be bound by those things. He just wanted to live.
The middle-aged man still did not regress, but the housekeeper over there had already started to call the police.
Yun Mo waved his hand, and the chains flew over and smashed the phone. The chains surrounded him. The middle-aged man was trembling with fear, but he still stopped in front of Yun Mo.
Yun Mo would not lament the other's fatherly love now, because it would cost him his life.
"Roar" The zombie came out directly. Yun Mo's face was sunken, and the fangs sprouted from his mouth. He grabbed the middle-aged man's neck and lifted him up.
The next moment the zombie was about to insert his fangs into the middle-aged man's neck, Yun Mo stopped him.
"Kill the ghost master first, otherwise I will lose my life if he escapes." When the zombie heard Yun Mo say this, he threw the middle-aged man aside and chased him out the back door.
When he came out and took a look, he saw the ghost master's figure in the distance, so Yunmo immediately chased after him.
But no matter how much Yun Mo increased his speed, he could never catch up with the ghost master. The next second, the zombie stopped.
"That's a lie. He should really still be in the villa." Yun Mo turned around and saw, sure enough, the ghost master saw Yun Mo running away and ran out of the villa again.
Yunmo immediately went back to chase him.
The distance continued to shorten, and the ghost master was very panicked. He quickly activated his magic skills and prepared to escape, but the next second, a fist suddenly appeared in front of him.
With a bang, the ghost master's body flew back, rolled twice on the ground and then got up.
When he stood up and took a look, there was a man standing in front of him who looked extremely elegant.
"Who are you? Get out of the way!" the ghost master shouted. From behind, Yun Mo saw the ghost master stop and quickly chased after him.
Chapter completed!