Chapter 542 Castanets, red sandalwood, bells and drums
Xu Shuo stood in front of the street and made no movement.
And the four white paper figures about ten centimeters in size carrying white paper sedans ten meters away from him did not move.
Only the vague singing voice sounded faintly.
Suddenly, a red figure appeared at the end of the alley. At the same time, the white paper figure that had been standing motionless in the middle of the alley also took a step forward.
Xu Shuo's eyes moved slightly, and he calmly stared at the blurry red figure opposite.
The singing continues.
"July 13, an auspicious day..."
"Put on red clothes and carry your beloved..."
"Red sandalwood castanets, rattles and drums..."
"It's so lively..."
The sad singing echoed in the empty alley. Along with the singing, there were also the four paper figures getting closer and closer, and the red figures that appeared and disappeared.
But Xu Shuo still stood there without moving.
There was no expression on his face, nor could he show any emotion. He just watched the bride walking over quietly.
The white flowers flying in the air are like the white paper at a funeral. They pass through the houses and buildings, like the falling snow, dotting this dark alley.
The darkness reflects the red, and the snowflakes in the sky also reflect the blood-quenched red.
Finally, the white man carrying the sedan stopped about a foot away.
The bride in a skirt and gown also stood behind the sedan.
She wore a red hijab that hung down to her shoulders, her hands rested on her sides, her fingers were covered by her wide sleeves, and her whole body was tightly covered with no trace of skin exposed.
The two looked at each other across from each other.
Although the bride's face was covered by the red hijab, Xu Shuo felt a line of sight coming from all directions.
He seemed to be looked at by something, from top to bottom, front and back.
"Good man..."
Suddenly, the voice that had been intermittent sounded again. It was not the tone of ordinary people speaking, but some kind of weird and melodious singing.
The bride sang softly: "You have to get on the sedan~"
This voice is sad, sweet, lingering and pathos, and the sound has turned eighteen times, making people feel uncomfortable all over!
While singing these words, the bride, who stood like a sculpture, finally moved.
Her right hand, which was covered by the wide sleeves, slowly rose up and stretched out towards Xu Shuo. As the sleeves of the wedding dress slid down, her fingers painted with scarlet nails were revealed.
Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows and took action.
He moved faster than the bride and took out a plate of neatly arranged osmanthus cakes.
"I just made it, do you want to eat it?" Xu Shuo looked at her seriously and said.
"..." The bride paused in raising her hand.
"..."
The atmosphere in the alley became silent.
Only the faint scent of osmanthus circulates in the air, as if coming from the osmanthus tree in the yard next to it. It is refreshing and has a hint of sweetness.
There was a somewhat ferocious and weird atmosphere just now, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The bride, whose arms were frozen in mid-air, made another move.
Those pale fingers with clear joints are made into a flower shape, and the clusters of red nails are even more gorgeous, exuding an inexplicable and graceful temperament.
Then, at the moment when the bride's raised finger fell, her figure three meters away suddenly appeared in front of Xu Shuo!
The two of them were instantly close at hand, and Xu Shuo was also stunned for a moment.
But the bride just put her two fingers on the plate and twisted the top piece of osmanthus cake.
The square beige osmanthus cake was spinning in circles between her fingers. The bride did not eat it. She just rubbed the osmanthus cake with both hands, then put the cake in front of her nose and smelled it.
It’s Nozomi who is still wearing a red headband.
Although I don't know if she can smell it.
But compared to the stiff and weird image just now, the bride looks a bit more lively at this moment, and her actions when sniffing the sweet-scented osmanthus cake are actually a bit playful.
Suddenly, the bride raised her head and looked at Xu Shuo again.
"where do you come from?"
The voice this time was not the kind of melodious singing, nor did it come from the void, but came from the position of the bride in front of her.
It is ethereal and sweet, like the sound of a nightingale.
Xu Shuo thought for a while and replied: "Beishan."
The bride tilted her head, and the tassels on her red hijab danced gently with the movement. She asked again: "What are you doing here?"
Xu Shuo followed her example and tilted his head: "Watching a show?"
After the words fell, the bride put her fingers to her mouth and laughed dignifiedly and elegantly.
"Does it look good?" she asked.
"I haven't seen anything yet." Xu Shuo was telling the truth.
"What do you want to see?" the bride asked again.
"good-looking."
"Then I'll take you to see it?"
The head covered by the red hijab faced Xu Shuo. The bride's voice was clear and sweet, without the slightest hint of ferocity or weirdness. If the situation and the scene weren't too weird, it might just make people think that she was talking to a pretty young woman.
say.
Xu Shuo's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at the bride in front of him with a burning gaze, and a happy smile appeared on his face illuminated by the moonlight.
"good."
Are you going to give me props?
Are you ready to drop items?!
I’ll give you the sweet-scented osmanthus cake and give me the props!
The reason why Xu Shuo was so positive was that he remembered that the sweet-scented osmanthus cake wanted to gain favorability points from the bride, thereby getting rewards from her!
…
But then, the bride did not suddenly drop any props. She was twisting the sweet-scented osmanthus cake with her left hand, but she extended her hand towards Xu Shuo with her right hand.
"Come."
This hand was extremely pale, like a wax figure in an art museum.
Xu Shuo looked at the hand stretched out in front of him, then looked at her with an unclear expression, and finally slowly extended his hand.
The moment he touched the other person's palm, he thought to himself - it really felt like a wax figure.
Although the bride's voice is delicate and beautiful, her hands are completely different from that beautiful voice. They are stiff, cold, and even convey a dead feeling.
And the moment Xu Shuo held her hand, the scene in front of him changed instantly, and a strong feeling of dizziness came over him!
Bang!
Xu Shuo's back hit the plate hard.
He immediately observed his surroundings attentively. Although he didn't feel any danger yet, some attacks from things like weirdness were hard to guard against.
The reason why Xu Shuo dares to take such a risk is mainly because he is confident in the abilities he currently possesses. First of all, Dr. Chen's character card is an absolute life-saving ability!
If you are in doubt, just open the card directly!
But now this situation...
It really made Xu Shuo stunned for a while.
There was a bright red color in front of my eyes, but I couldn't see anything except red.
Until he realized it, there must be something covering his head.
Xu Shuo was about to take off the thing on his head, but then he realized that he couldn't control this body.
The body is struggling, but it is not him who is struggling.
With this free time to struggle without any structure, he had long since untied the rope that bound him.
However, no matter how Xu Shuo's brain gave orders now, the body showed no signs of movement and was still struggling fearlessly.
Xu Shuo could clearly feel that his hands and feet were tied, a ball of linen was stuffed into his mouth, and his body kept hitting the wall while struggling.
He has experienced all of this.
If this touch hadn't been too real, Xu Shuo wouldn't have discovered that he couldn't control his body right away.
Thinking of this, Xu Shuo's brain gave up struggling.
He listened intently to his surroundings.
It's very lively outside.
There are red sandalwood castanets, bells and drums, gongs and cannons, as if they are doing something festive.
And "he" seems to be sitting in a carriage.
Xu Shuo thought about his meeting with the bride just now, thoughtfully, and then tentatively opened his player's handbook.
There are no restrictions on these.
The next moment, his eyes looked directly outside.
Looking through the red hijab covering his head, Xu Shuo saw that the place he was in was indeed a swaying carriage, and outside the carriage, four big men wearing white clothes and white turbans were carrying the carriage.
Although there are noisy gongs and drums outside, it is actually not lively.
It was a dark night with a bright moon and few stars.
The man in a white turban walking in front of the sedan hung a basket and led the way while waving white round paper, just like the white paper thrown at a funeral.
The sedan is also white, with large white flowers decorating the head of the sedan.
The people who beat the gongs and drums were not happy either. They had stiff dead faces and kept beating the gongs and drums expressionlessly.
The sound is lively.
But the atmosphere is cold.
And the people in the sedan may be even more frightened.
This is not a normal marriage.
There were no villagers watching the excitement around the village. Every household had its doors and windows closed, as if they were avoiding something. Following the white wedding procession, there was only a wild cat hanging far away at the end of the alley.
Shortly after.
The team stopped in front of a high-rise courtyard, and then Xu Shuo felt his body being pushed.
Two big men held the body's shoulders and dragged him into the yard. No matter how violently the body struggled, it showed no resistance in front of these people.
The sound of gongs and drums stopped.
The surroundings were extremely silent.
But Xu Shuo heard the heartbeat of this body.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The irregular and violent heartbeat made him read the taste of fear, and he even felt a little strange about it - he actually tasted the emotion of fear in this way.
He felt as if he was personally experiencing all the feelings, as if he was the one who was suffering all this.
Including the emotions emanating from this body.
"Worship heaven and earth!"
Suddenly, a loud voice sang and shouted from all around.
Then the body's legs were kicked hard, and after he knelt down uncontrollably, the back of his head was pressed and bowed.
Xu Shuo: "..." Even more strange.
"Two thanks to Gaotang!"
Sing again.
Xu Shuo was pulled up again, then pushed down to his knees and kowtowed in the other direction.
The person who pressed the back of the head was definitely not gentle. The body hit the ground hard, and severe pain came from the forehead that touched the floor.
Xu Shuo: "..." Silence.
"Couple greetings!"
Xu Shuo was dragged up again, then forced to change directions, bending down towards a certain position and lowering his head.
During this process, the body was still struggling extremely fiercely, and then the two hands on the side were like iron pliers tightly shackling his shoulders, so that he could only be forced to perform these actions.
After the last bow, the voice sang without emotion: "The ceremony is completed——! Enter the bridal chamber!"
Xu Shuo: "???"
The next moment, even without using any skills, his vision suddenly became clear!
Because the red hijab was lifted, and in front of him was a horrifying and weird corpse wearing a groom's red dress, with sunken eye sockets!
Xu Shuo's face was expressionless.
But this body was obviously very frightened.
He struggled wildly, even breaking away from the two big men holding him next to him, then turned around and ran towards the yard outside. As soon as he took a step, he fell to the ground because his feet were tied.
The two big men rushed forward and held him down again.
Whimpering sounds came from his mouth, but because he was stuffed with a ball of cotton, he couldn't make a loud sound.
Xu Shuo glanced around.
There is also a coffin in this room.
After paying homage to the groom, he was lifted up by two big men and put back into the coffin.
But looking at the specifications of the coffin, it is obvious that it is not only used to hold one person. It would be too wasteful to hold only one person in such a big coffin.
Xu Shuo probably already understood the whole story.
But even if he understands everything now, the matter is not over yet. He is still trapped in this body and cannot do anything.
At this moment, he felt severe pain in his palm.
Xu Shuo, who was looking at the coffin, suddenly turned his gaze and saw that the right hand of the body was separated by a dagger, and gurgling blood dripped into the bowl, mixing with a bowl of black and dirty blood.
Immediately afterwards, the cotton cloth in his mouth was finally removed.
It was also at the moment when the cotton cloth disappeared that the body burst out with an extremely sad cry!
"I do not want!"
"I don't want it! Please let me go!"
"I do not want!"
This is a girl.
From the sound of her voice, she seemed to be a teenage girl.
But no one listened to her cries for mercy, and no one paid attention to her screams of resistance. Her mouth was forcibly opened, and then the bowl of blood was poured down.
The smell of blood rushed into the throat, not only choking the girl and causing her to cough violently, but also directly nauseated Xu Shuo.
He was really disgusted...
Akiko is not so disgusted even when she eats medium-rare steak.
It was also at this time that the violin in Xu Shuo's mind came alive. The vibration of the strings was not obvious, but it seemed to be pulled by something, and Xu Shuo's consciousness was ejected in an instant.
The girl's body popped up.
Xu Shuo: "Bah!"
Xu Shuo pouted to the side, trying to spit out the smell of blood that had just lingered in his throat, but this was just his illusion, because he actually did not drink those disgusting things.
He turned to look at the girl.
Her face was bright, but it was covered with tears at the moment. Her eyes were full of fear and despair. Perhaps she had anticipated the despair she would encounter next. She yelled crazily, and she kept crying and begging for mercy.
But none of this moved the few people next to them in the slightest.
They took out needles and thread, cruelly sewed her chattering mouth shut, then pressed her into the coffin while struggling violently, and then took out huge peach wood nails and hammered them into her body one by one.
And the spirit is fixed here forever.
Then she won't be able to escape.
"Does it look good?"
Suddenly, a gentle voice of inquiry came from the side.
Xu Shuo turned around and saw the bride in her wedding dress.
After thinking for a while, he shook his head: "It's quite disgusting."
