Chapter 4: The Touching Gold Symbol

  Majiavillage is a village with a relatively large population and scale. In fact, it's because of its geographical location at an important transportation hub that although it's still called a "village", its scale is no less than that of an ordinary "town". Moreover, due to the frequent passage of merchant caravans here, there are also many outsiders who have died in this place, which led to the establishment of Majiavillage Charity Hall.

  Some merchant groups would temporarily store the bodies of those who died within their group in a charitable hall, and then take them away when they returned. In addition, some unclaimed corpses would also be temporarily placed in a charitable hall, so the "inventory" inside Majiacun Charitable Hall was still quite rich.

  When Xiao Xuan pushed open the deep red door of the funeral home and walked in, a faint musty smell wafted up to greet him. This musty smell was not due to the funeral home being untidy, as Fu Bo had always kept it spotless. Rather, it was because of the special nature of the funeral home - when designing and building it, it was impossible to allow it to be as bright and airy as a regular house, or else it would have been equivalent to "exposing" the corpses inside, which would have been a great disrespect to the deceased. As a result, even though the funeral home was cleaned meticulously every day, it still couldn't help but give off a faint musty smell due to its lack of sunlight.

  "Ugh, it smells terrible here. Are we going to have to spend the night here? This is too frightening." The one who complained was the only female among the three newcomers, named Zhu Bingyu, who covered her nose while complaining.

  These newcomers, under the guidance of Su Mo Ran and the messages left by the main god in their minds, all believed in their situation and clearly knew that they had entered a task world within the main god's space. No matter how bizarre this matter was, they would have to choose to face it head-on, unless they were willing to wait for death there.

  "Spend the night? How can I sleep here, there are coffins everywhere. Even in broad daylight, it gives me goosebumps, let alone at night. The atmosphere will definitely be even more terrifying when it gets dark, I don't dare to sleep."

  The darker-skinned young man spoke up, saying his name was Su Zihao. He was quite tall, but it was clear that he lacked courage. After confirming that he had entered the main god's space, he actually cried in front of Su Mochen, shouting out his family members' names while doing so.

  "Cut it out, who's as timid as you? I'm a tough cookie, not afraid of anything. You can go out if you're scared, no one asked you to come along." Zhu Yuanyu made a face at Su Zihao, showing her disdain for his cowardice.

  "You..." Su Zihao's face suddenly turned red, but the other party was a woman, and she was eloquent. No matter how sarcastic she was to him, he couldn't fight back, could he? Moreover, there were two seemingly mysterious seniors here, and he knew that this was not the time for him to be reckless.

  Listening to the two newcomers behind him talking about how to get through this night, Xiao Xuan couldn't help but smile wryly with his back turned to them. If the side quest issued by the main god could be completed so easily just by sleeping, it would definitely be in their dreams.

  This night, without a doubt, will be extraordinary. As for how extraordinary it can be and how high the danger coefficient can reach, even Xiao Xuan himself has no bottom line. Anyway, to sum it up, before possible dangers and events occur, doing what one should do in advance is always right.

  "Sweep the floor, burn incense, and move a bit faster." Xiao Xuan ordered the three new recruits beside him. At this time, the new recruits could only serve such a purpose.

  The three newcomers should have been well-educated by Su Mo Ran before, knowing that if they don't want to go reincarnate early, they must listen carefully and follow the instructions of their seniors. So after hearing Xiao Xuan's command, all three of them started doing things.

  Zhu Yu and Su Zihao each took a broom and started sweeping the floor, they didn't think of going to burn incense in front of the coffin, of course, someone had to do it, so the third newcomer naturally took on this task. The newcomer's name was Di Jie, a taciturn person, but his mental quality was also very good. Previously, Xiao Xuan had noticed that when other newcomers woke up and started panicking, he could quickly recall the messages left by the main god in his mind.

  Su Mueren is not here right now, she went to prepare dinner for everyone. The biscuits and drinks that were originally stored in the space ring were forcibly erased by the main god because these things are obviously beyond the technological level of the Republic of China and are not allowed to appear in this task world. The Chinese team can only go to the town to buy food themselves. Su Mueren will definitely not buy those vegetables and raw meat back and cook them herself, they all agreed to just buy cooked food back. Because everyone must ensure that they enter the Yi Zhuang before nightfall and stay there until the next day, otherwise this branch task is considered incomplete.

  Of course, it's not necessary for everyone to stay in the temple for a whole night. This is an optional side quest. If you want to complete it, then just stay quietly for a whole night. If you don't want to complete this side quest, then you can go wherever you like and do whatever you want.

  However, as senior members, Xiao Xuan and Su Muran will definitely come to complete this branch task, which makes the choice of the three newcomers much smaller. As a newcomer, if you don't follow the seniors together, can you really go out and wander around by yourself?

  To know that this is the task world of "Mr. Zombie", it's an era where ghosts and zombies are "everywhere". If you go out for a stroll, running into some fox spirits or lonely wild ghosts might be okay, but if you run into fierce ghosts or zombies, then you can only wait for death. Even if you don't encounter ghosts, encountering bandits or warlords is also not good.

  So, these three newcomers had no choice but to follow Xiao Xuan into the Yi Zhuang together, even if they were unwilling in their hearts.

  The two people sweeping the floor were somewhat perfunctory, and it was clear that they hadn't really put their minds to it either. Their hearts were probably still in a daze, after all, they had just found out that they had suddenly entered an extremely dangerous main god space, which wasn't something easy to take lightly.

  However, Zhai Jie, who was offering incense, once again caught Xiao Xuan's attention. As Xiao Xuan lit the incense for each coffin, his movements and actions seemed very meticulous and professional, to the point where it could be said that he was professionally scary.

  Every time he lit incense, Zhai Jie would first light the incense, then use his middle and index fingers to hold the incense stick, with his thumb pressing against the end of the incense. He would then place three sticks of incense in front of his chest, with the incense heads facing the head of the coffin. After that, he would raise the incense to eyebrow level and then put it down again, showing great respect and sincerity. Next, Zhai Jie began to insert the incense with his left hand. The first stick was inserted in the center, and as he did so, he silently recited: "Offering to the Triple Gem of the Three Realms."

  The second incense stick is inserted on the right side, and when inserting, silently recite "Offering to ancestors, parents, and teachers."

  The third incense stick is inserted on the left side, and when inserting, silently recite: "I offer to all sentient beings in the ten directions of the Dharma realm and to my own enemies and obstructors."

  Finally, when the ceremony was over, Di Jie made a strange handprint with one hand and bowed his head to silently recite "Wú Liàng Tiān Zūn" three times.

  What was originally a simple act of burning incense to greet the "residents" of these ancestral halls, had been turned by Zhai Jie into something grand and solemn. In Xiao Xuan's opinion, if this guy hadn't grown up in a family of Taoist priests, then he must have had some real connection with mysticism in the real world. Xiao Xuan had encountered people like him before - their obsession with certain things was truly astonishing. Of course, they also had their own unique qualities. Xiao Xuan had once written a book about mysticism that sold quite well.

  Dai Jie continued to offer incense on the coffin below, and Xiao Xuan also stopped deliberately paying attention to him, he still had his own things to do.

  Using the soul ring, Xiao Xuan began to spiritually scan the entire ancestral hall. To new people's eyes, Xiao Xuan just walked around inside and didn't see him flip through anything or squat down to take a closer look. However, in reality, everything around was carefully filtered by Xiao Xuan, including under the floor tiles, inside the walls, on the offering table, and even inside the coffins.

  More than a dozen coffins were all normal, one corpse had completely rotted, and two male corpses had slight signs of rotting. The rest of the bodies were well preserved. It seems that Mr. Fu's work has been done quite well, he has made his best efforts to preserve these stored bodies.

  However, this search was not entirely in vain. Behind the wall of the offering table, Xiao Xuan discovered a hidden compartment. He walked to the front of the wall, stretched out his hand and pulled out several bricks. Indeed, inside was an oilcloth package. After taking it out and placing it on the offering table, he opened it and saw a leather amulet. The workmanship of this amulet was quite exquisite, and the material did not seem to be ordinary cowhide or sheepskin, but rather the skin of another animal.

  Just then, a voice came from in front of Xiao Xuan: "Mo Jin Fu?"