Listening to the conversation between the two, my heart suddenly lifted.
I can easily distinguish their two voices.
I can hear Uncle Ghost's hesitation.
You can also hear the eagerness of the old drunkard.
I also began to say silently in my heart: Uncle Ghost, don’t hesitate, open the coffin with the old drunkard.
quick!
Just like that, I waited for a while with my heart in mind.
Fortunately, Uncle Ghost was finally convinced by the old drunkard.
Soon I felt the coffin vibrating, and soon there was a "creaking" sound, and the coffin lid was pushed open bit by bit.
And as the coffin lid was pushed open, I began to feel that the feeling that suppressed me and made me unable to move was gradually disappearing.
When the coffin lid was completely pushed open, I suddenly sat up from the coffin.
Uncle Ghost and the old drunkard were obviously stunned for a moment.
Obviously they didn't expect me to be in the coffin.
"Why are you in there?" Uncle Gui asked first.
The old drunkard also frowned.
"Boy."
"Where's the stuff inside?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "Don't mention it."
Next, I told the two of them what happened before. After listening to what I said, Uncle Gui and the old drunkard's expressions darkened.
The old drunkard confirmed: "You mean there is a man pretending to be a ghost boy."
"Did he cause you to be locked up in there?"
I nodded.
The old drunkard's face suddenly turned ugly.
Uncle Ghost was quite calm, he just frowned and said: "If the person pretending to be me is also a human, it means someone should have come here before us."
"And that person knows our details and what we are here to do."
"Who could that be?" I asked.
Uncle Ghost shook his head, and then said: "There is another possibility."
"That is……"
Uncle Ghost glanced at me, and then at the old drunkard.
"Maybe not human."
I was stunned for a moment and suddenly felt a chill on my back.
"Gui boy, what else do you know?" The old drunkard looked at Uncle Gui.
Uncle Ghost glanced at the statue of the City God, which had been restored to its original shape at some point, then returned his gaze to me and said, "According to what you just said."
"There must be quite a problem with this City God statue."
"And the one who pretended to be me and restored the statue of the City God should have some purpose."
"Maybe it's also for the Earth Immortal Sword."
"You mean, this statue of the City God is the key to finding the Earth Immortal Sword." I frowned and said, "Doesn't that mean that he should have been one step ahead of us?"
The old drunkard slapped his thigh.
"What are you waiting for?"
"Look for it quickly."
"No matter what it is, we'll find the Earth Immortal Sword first."
The old drunkard was about to leave as he spoke.
But at this moment, Uncle Ghost suddenly pulled out the soul-suppressing rope from his waist, and then threw it at the old drunkard fiercely!
"ah!"
The old drunkard immediately let out a scream.
The next moment I saw black mist begin to pour out of his back, and his body began to become distorted.
He turned his head and looked at Uncle Ghost with disbelief in his eyes.
"you……"
"How did you find out?"
Uncle Ghost looked calm.
"You acted so realistically."
At the same time, the soul-suppressing rope in Uncle Ghost's hand was swung out again, and it was thrown heavily on the old drunkard. At this moment, the old drunkard's body also completely changed.
His flesh and blood began to blur, and then gradually turned into black mist, revealing the bones inside.
But he suddenly laughed.
"Boy."
"It's too late."
"Soon you will all be dead."
"Everyone will die..."
I'm a little confused.
The soul-suppressing rope only works on souls.
Doesn't that mean the old drunkard in front of me is fake?
I looked at the old drunkard who had completely turned into a ball of bones. It took me a while to come back to my senses and look at Uncle Ghost.
"How is this going?"
Uncle Ghost said with a complex expression: "The old drunkard will not follow us up the mountain."
"Although he pretends to be very similar, in the end he can only pretend to be an old drunkard."
"Moreover, he has an obvious flaw."
"What's the flaw?" I was a little curious.
Uncle Ghost looked at the bones on the ground and said, "Although the old drunkard has been in Fenling Village for many years and has become accustomed to many things, he has always been steady and calm no matter what happens."
"It is also for this reason that those who stayed in Fenling Village respect him very much."
"But I'm sure he's not an old drunkard, he's still here."
Uncle Ghost looked at the black coffin.
"This coffin has the seal of a Taoist talisman."
"As for the old drunkard, he is a lay disciple of the Maoshan lineage."
"It's impossible for him not to know that a place with a talisman seal must be dangerous, but he asked me to open the coffin from the beginning, which in itself is problematic."
"Then why did you open the coffin?" I didn't understand.
Because according to what Uncle Ghost said, since he had already seen that the old drunkard was a fake, why did he still open the coffin together? Aren't he afraid that something would happen?
Uncle Ghost didn't answer me, but walked to the coffin and tore off the talisman.
"This talisman has been touched once."
"So I guess someone opened the coffin before us."
I understood it right away, and at the same time I had some admiration for Uncle Ghost.
If it were me, I definitely wouldn't observe it so carefully.
At least not now.
After calming down, I asked again: "Then what should we do now?"
"There are still no clues about the Earth Immortal Sword."
Uncle Ghost once again focused his attention on the black coffin.
"There must be something wrong with this coffin."
"According to what you said, there should be something inside this black coffin. After you opened the coffin for the first time, the contents should have escaped, and the City God's head should be some kind of seal."
"After the City God's head was put back into the City God's statue, something should have been triggered, so you were locked inside."
"If I guess correctly..."
Uncle Ghost frowned.
"This is most likely a way to steal the sky and change the sun."
"You opened the coffin, so you took the place of the one who ran out and was sealed inside."
"The purpose of the person pretending to be me should be to release what's inside."
"What about the one disguised as an old drunkard?" I asked.
Uncle Ghost fell silent, seeming to be thinking.
"Creak..."
Suddenly there was a noise.
My eyelids jumped subconsciously.
The next moment I saw the statue of the City God, which had been restored to its original position, stood up again.
Only this time, his white eyes did not focus on me, but on Uncle Ghost.
Uncle Ghost's expression changed drastically.
"run!"
Uncle Ghost shouted and at the same time pushed me hard out of the hall.
At the same time, a "squeak" sound came, and the door of the hall was slammed shut again.