Li Yi, wearing a human skin hood, rushed out of the small courtyard at this moment, and then walked quickly through the alley according to his memory.
There were two reasons why he left so impulsively. First, he did not want his master, Zhao Ge, to waste time buying medicine to treat his illness in order to teach him boxing. Second, he also wanted to find a way to leave the ghost street.
"The route is correct. It seems that nothing has changed here."
Li Yi turned left and right, and soon he walked out of the alley and came to the eerie and strange street again.
Coming and going, there are some terrifying ghosts and cold people wearing shrouds. This is like a special area where yin and yang meet. There are both ghosts lingering in the underworld and living people disguised as dead people, and no one can tell them apart.
Where do the things that appear in Ghost Street come from?
Just like Li Yi, he was obviously living in a modern city, but he met Zhao Ge, a martial arts practitioner living in ancient times.
Is it an illusion?
Or is it a collision between reality and another world?
Li Yi didn't know that he just wanted to buy the master's medicine, repay him for saving his life and teaching him martial arts, and then leave here alive and return to Tianchang City.
Look left and right.
The two ends of the ghost street are so foggy that there is no end in sight. I don’t know where they are connected or where they lead.
"I should look in the direction I came from. Maybe there will be a chance to find a way out." Li Yi thought to himself.
Just when he was about to take action, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps behind him. Zhao Ge's daughter Zhao Qian, dressed like a paper girl, hurriedly chased after him.
"Brother Yi, you don't know the medicine, I'll look for it with you." Zhao Qian said cautiously, lowering her voice.
"It's too dangerous. You should stay with Master. Just let me go. I was also looking for a way home. If you get lost on the ghost street, it will be over." Li Yi wanted to persuade Zhao Qian to go back.
Go on an adventure alone.
Zhao Qian said: "Dad's illness is also caused by me. If I don't do my best to fulfill my filial piety, I will have a bad conscience in the future. Brother Yi has only been a disciple for one day, and he is willing to put himself in danger. Could it be that my father has raised me for more than ten years?
I don’t even want to repay you, so am I no different than an animal?”
"Brother Yi, don't say anything anymore, let's act together."
Seeing this, Li Yi stopped trying to persuade him and just nodded: "Okay, let's act together and be careful in everything."
"Yeah." Zhao Qian responded in a low voice.
Immediately, the two people walked into the ghost street, and then slowly moved forward along the strange crowds on both sides of the road.
"You only have half an hour. Once the time is up, you have to return to the small courtyard just now, whether you got the medicine or not, so you can't go far." Zhao Qian reminded in a low voice.
But as soon as she spoke, the breath of a living person leaked out of her mouth, which immediately attracted the attention of some ghosts around her.
Li Yi remembered the scene when his master Zhao Ge saved him. He immediately covered Zhao Qian's mouth and nose, and then hissed.
Zhao Qian reacted immediately and hurriedly held her breath and concentrated.
She was slightly relieved when she saw the cold eyes peeping at her from around her dispersed.
"It's really dangerous. Get out of here quickly and don't get targeted." Li Yi then put down his palm, then pulled Zhao Qian and quickly left the area.
Zhao Qian's face turned red when she saw Li Yi holding her hand, and a hint of shyness filled her heart.
Li Yi didn't pay much attention to it at the moment. He pulled Zhao Qian through this strange and bizarre street, his eyes under the leather holster turning to pay attention to the surrounding situation.
"The medicine Master Zhao Ge is looking for is called Coffin Mushroom. The name sounds like a special kind of Ganoderma lucidum. Since it is a kind of medicine, it must be sold in pharmacies or roadside vendors, so I have to go in this direction.
Search, not wander the streets.”
Although he doesn't understand many things here, he can still understand some of the meaning.
After walking for a while.
soon.
Li Yi stopped when he passed by a fork in the road. He looked towards the fork in the road, and a special street came into view.
That street was equally lively, with people coming and going, and there were some special vendors selling all kinds of things on both sides. Through observation, he found that although the people on this street looked cold and weird, they were actually
They are all living people who entered here through some means like Zhao Ge and Zhao Qian.
"Go and look inside. This should be a market."
Without thinking, Li Yi plunged into this unknown street.
His arrival immediately attracted the attention of many traders.
Even though Li Yi is wearing a human skin hood, this thing is just for fooling ghosts who are not very intelligent. A living person can recognize that Li Yi is a normal person at a glance.
"Where did Leng Tou Qing come from? This disguise is too crude. Isn't he afraid of being targeted by some evil ghosts and evil soldiers?" Many vendors showed strange looks.
But Li Yi was ignorant and fearless. He whispered: "I don't know Coffin Zhi. Miss Zhao, keep your eyes open and see if there are any in these people's stalls. You have to look for them quickly."
"Okay, Brother Yi." Zhao Qian nodded slightly.
The two men quickly started searching.
Li Yi saw many incredible things here, including neatly arranged human skulls and the limbs of some strange creatures. He even saw some paper figures and paper clothes. The most outrageous thing was that someone took each of them fresh.
Dead bodies are placed on the roadside for sale.
"Everything is sold here." He was surprised, feeling as if he had entered a black market in an unknown illegal zone.
Walked some distance again.
At this time, Zhao Qian suddenly became a little excited and pulled Li Yi's arm, then pointed to a stall next to her, and whispered: "That's Coffin Zhi."
Li Yi looked over.
But I saw an old man with gray hair and a skinny figure who was setting up the stall. He was sitting cross-legged in front of the stall, his whole body was lifeless, and those who didn't know it thought he was a mummy that had been dead for a long time.
But there were several strange things placed in this old man's stall, among which was a black mushroom-shaped thing, which was the coffin mushroom that Zhao Qian mentioned.
Li Yi walked over immediately. He looked around, then squatted down, pointed at the thing on the stall and said, "Boss, how do you sell this coffin mushroom?"
"Sixty." A hoarse voice sounded.
"So expensive?" Zhao Qian's face turned pale and she looked a little dazed.
"Zhao Qian, don't you have enough money? I'll try to make up for it." Li Yi asked in a low voice, and then touched his body.
He only had a smartphone on him, and he didn’t know if the ancients from this other world would accept it. In addition, he also had a half-broken knife coin. This thing is a rare item and should be worth some money. If Zhao Qian paid for it,
Without the money, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and sell this incomplete wonder.
Although the rare objects are very precious, Zhao Ge has the grace to save his life, and Li Yi cannot ignore death because of his greed.
"Brother Yi, you don't accept gold or silver for buying and selling things on the ghost street." Zhao Qian was hesitant to speak, and it seemed difficult to say the words.
Li Yi asked: "If you don't accept gold and silver, what will you accept?"
He had to observe his surroundings every time he said a word, but it seemed relatively safe in this market. There were very few ghosts nearby, and he was not targeted even if he spoke.
"Shou Yang Shou." The skinny old man setting up the stall replied abruptly.
"Ah? Lifespan can also be bought and sold?" Li Yi was suddenly surprised.
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The skinny old man glanced at it and didn't bother to explain to the layman.
Zhao Qian lowered her head and said at a loss: "My level of martial arts is not high, and my life expectancy is not more than sixty. Now I am sixteen, and my remaining life is not more than forty-four, and this coffin is sixty even if it opens.
Even if I spend all my life, I can’t afford it.”
"How do you know that your life expectancy is only sixty?" Li Yi asked: "The average person's life expectancy is at least eighty or ninety."
"Brother Yi doesn't know something. For the people of Xingzhou, the average life span is only about fifty. After I started practicing martial arts, my life span was only sixty. My father is a high-level man and can live eighty years." Zhao Qian explained.
Li Yi suddenly realized that this was the case.
This is indeed very ancient.
Lifespan is not long.
"If you can't afford it, stay away and don't hang around here." The skinny old man said in a hoarse voice.
"Your coffin is too expensive. In the past, it only cost about fifteen dollars." Zhao Qian gritted her teeth and said.
The skinny old man snorted: "That's an ordinary coffin mushroom. My coffin mushroom comes from a thousand-year-old tomb. It has extraordinary effects and is naturally expensive. There is no need to bargain."
"Brother Yi, let's go look elsewhere." Seeing this, Zhao Qian could only pull Li Yi away.
With a life span of sixty years, I can't afford this thing even if I live in it. It is simply forcing others to make things difficult for them.
Li Yi did not leave, but just said: "Boss, if I buy it, how will I pay for it?"
"Sign it with blood, and in seven days a debt collector will come to take care of you." The skinny old man took out a piece of white talisman paper with incomprehensible words written on it. He stretched out his finger and tapped on the white talisman paper.
A blank place.
"Just press your fingerprint and that's it? Is it so convenient? Are you not afraid of defaulting on your account?" Li Yi asked.
The skinny old man snorted coldly: "If the debt collector fails to collect the debt, the evil soldiers will come to the door. If the debt collectors do not receive the debt, the evil generals will come to the door. If the evil generals cannot collect the debt, the evil spirits will seduce the souls. You can't do it."
Gotta drop it?"
"I feel relieved when you say that. I bought this coffin." Li Yi immediately waved his hand and planned to buy it.
What a joke.
You are from Earth, are you afraid that ghosts from another world will come to collect debts?
Let’s get over it first and then talk about it.
"Brother Yi, don't be impulsive. Sixty years of longevity will kill you." Zhao Qian suddenly became anxious and grabbed Li Yi.
Li Yi said: "Don't be afraid. I am born with a strong life, and it is important to save people. If I miss this place now and continue to look for it, I may not be able to find the coffin. We don't have enough time. You don't have to persuade me. Master saved me."
I bought this coffin as a way of repaying my kindness."
"Okay, it's settled, boss, let's make a deposit."
After saying that, he threw Zhao Qian away and bit his finger without hesitation to sign.
"It's okay to make a draw, but first we have to see how much time you have left. I don't want to make a loss-making deal." The skinny old man blocked Li Yi's hand, and then took out something similar to a compass.
He grabbed Li Yi's finger and pressed it on the black compass.
"Don't be nervous, this is a longevity plate to measure your longevity."
The pointer on the compass shook and soon pointed to a number: one hundred and fifty.
"A hundred and fifty years old? What a long life." The skinny old man was shocked.
"Can I live that long?" Li Yi looked at the compass and felt a little incredible. Can this thing really measure a person's lifespan?
However, after the body evolves, practitioners can indeed live for more than a hundred years without any disease or disaster.
But in the eyes of these short-lived ancients from another world, one hundred and fifty is already considered a very long life.
"You have a lot of money, let's make a pledge." The skinny old man suddenly let out a weird laugh. He took out the white talisman paper and handed it to Li Yi.
Li Yi pressed it down without hesitation, leaving a bloody fingerprint: "That's it."
"Yes, this item is yours."
The skinny old man was doing business fairly. He carefully put away the white talisman and handed the coffin out. There was no so-called blackmail.
After Li Yi took it, he stuffed it directly into Zhao Qian's hand, feeling like he had settled a favor in his heart.
"Brother Yi."
Zhao Qian looked at the coffin in her hand and didn't know what to say for a moment, but tears of gratitude rolled in her eyes.
That's sixty years of longevity, so I sold it right away.
Even if his father rescued him and taught him martial arts, such a reward would be too heavy.
Li Yi didn't seem to care, and instead started chatting with the boss: "Boss, can I ask you something?"
"explain."
The skinny old man's attitude was much better now. After all, he had just made a big deal.
"I entered the ghost street accidentally. Is there any way to get out of here?" Li Yi asked.
The skinny old man said in a hoarse voice: "Are you saying that the way back is cut off? It's not difficult. You can go back after buying this thing."
After saying that, he pointed at something on the stall.
It was a pony made of mud.
"What is this?" Li Yi picked it up and looked at it. There was nothing strange about it.
"This is a mud horse." The skinny old man grabbed the thing in Li Yi's hand, fearing that the stupid young man would break it.
"Ni Ma?" Li Yi looked at him strangely.
"Yes, this is the mud horse."
"Ni Ma, how much is it?" Li Yi said.
"The mud horse will sell you ten years of life," said the skinny old man.
"The mud horse is so expensive?" Li Yi said.
The skinny old man's face suddenly darkened: "If you want to buy Ni Ma, just buy it. If you don't want to buy it, don't talk nonsense."
Li Yi said: "If it were cheaper, of course I would buy the mud horse, but your mud horse is too expensive."
"Are you buying something, or are you swearing?" The skinny old man couldn't bear it anymore.
"Boss, didn't you take advantage of me first? It's not a good idea to give me a name, Ni Ma." Li Yi said.
""The skinny old man's face twitched, and he wanted to slap this stupid young man to death.
"I'll sell this thing for ten years without any counter-offer."
He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.
Li Yi said: "How will I use this thing after I buy it?"
"Put a few drops of blood on it, and the horse Ni will turn into a yin horse. As long as you sit on it, it will take you to the people closest to you. If you have no relatives in the yin world, just pretend that I didn't say this." The skinny old man said.
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"You don't have any relatives, come on, draw a pledge." Li Yi stretched out his finger and said.
Seeing this, the skinny old man's face became a little better, and he took out a white talisman and handed it over.
Li Yi was overwhelmed by the debt, so he signed the pledge without hesitation. Then he thought for a moment, pointed to another item and said, "I want this mud horse too."
"You have a long life, you can buy as many as you want," the skinny old man said.
"Be prepared, who knows if one day I will suddenly enter the ghost street again."
Li Yi drew another pledge and took away two clay horses.
Sorry. I have to celebrate Children's Day today. Just one chapter (four thousand words).
Chapter completed!