Chapter 28 Ghost Street
"Why activate the medium at this critical moment when there is no other time? Aren't you kidding me? I am in a haunted neighborhood now. Once I activate the medium, it means that I may be targeted by the ghosts here, and then it will be even more dangerous."

Li Yi gritted his teeth at this moment, wishing he could forcibly interrupt his body's evolution.

But this is impossible.

The life and death test just now allowed Li Yi to take that crucial step on the path of cultivation. The reason for this was that his body usually absorbed too much cosmic energy.

It’s just that these energies are usually accumulated in the body and not stimulated.

Therefore, it was not a coincidence that Li Yi became a medium at this moment, but a natural outcome.

"Perhaps I still have a chance to leave here before my psychic power is fully activated." With this thought in mind, Li Yi fled madly from the quiet street.

But the further he walked, the more "people" there were around him, and these people became more and more complete and clear in his sight. There were even several unfamiliar figures who had seen him, and their eyes moved slightly as Li Yi ran, but those figures did not do anything.

But even so, Li Yi felt more and more creepy.

He even smelled a strange stench of corpses, and his skin could sense the chilling sensations emanating from the figures passing by him.

The streets were becoming increasingly crowded.

At first, he could ignore these strange figures and cross over directly. Those illusory figures did not react at all. But later, Li Yi did not dare to do it anymore and could only avoid them carefully, because he had a feeling that if he crossed over again, he would definitely collide with the other party.

"I can't get out anymore. I'm trapped here."

Soon, Li Yi stopped abruptly. He stood on this strange street, completely lost.

Strange figures were coming and going all around him, and the nearby buildings were also different from before. Scarlet lanterns were hung high above their heads, emitting red light. In addition, all kinds of strange noises came to his ears, which he could not understand.

It felt like someone was whispering in my ear, or like a special dialect.

At this moment, Li Yi felt like he was in a strange world, no longer the dangerous zone he was familiar with.

However, at this moment,
suddenly.

A figure passing by suddenly stopped beside him, and then stared at Li Yi with his dull, lifeless gray eyes.

Li Yi felt creepy when he was stared at. He felt that the man was not a living person but a cold corpse.

And it's not just that.

The second one, the third one. Strange 'people' around him stopped one after another, and then all looked at him.

It seemed that Li Yi, a living person, was particularly out of place here, and his aura attracted the attention of many strange people.

Li Yi also realized that he seemed too conspicuous to have sneaked in here.

He wanted to escape, but he had no way to go and was trapped here.

"I'm afraid I'm going to die here too. No wonder Brother Tao avoided this area before."

Li Yi's heart was pounding and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He saw a strange, lifeless man walking towards him.

Then, the second, third, fourth, and more and more ghosts gathered, all targeting him.

There is no way to go, nowhere to escape.

At this moment, Li Yi was in a desperate situation.

However, at this moment, suddenly, a cold figure wearing a paper shroud quickly approached, and stretched out a rough, wrinkled hand to grab Li Yi's arm.

"Ok?"

Li Yi, who was tense all over, resisted subconsciously, and burst out with all his strength, trying to shake off the hand.

But the strange thing was that the hand was still holding him tightly and he couldn't get rid of it at all.

"What a great strength! Are you crazy, young man? Why are you standing on the ghost street like this? Aren't you afraid of death? Come on, follow me." A deep middle-aged man's voice sounded. His accent was strange, like an unknown dialect, but Li Yi could understand it.

Li Yi's eyes narrowed, and only then did he notice that the figure in paper clothes was not a ghost, but a living person, who was just disguised.

"it is good."

He agreed immediately without any hesitation.

Then the man in paper clothes threw something over: "Put on this hood to cover up your living breath, otherwise the ghosts here will keep staring at you. If you encounter the ghost soldiers again, you will be dead. Okay, stop talking, or I will be stared at by the ghosts."

Li Yi subconsciously took the hood. It felt soft, but extremely cold, and it also exuded a stench of rotting corpses.

This is not an ordinary leather case, it seems to be made of human skin peeled off from a dead person's head.

But Li Yi couldn't care less now. He didn't want to die here in confusion, so he put on the hood immediately.

Strange to say.

As soon as he put on the leather mask, the strange gazes around him disappeared, and the ghosts no longer approached him, but gradually dispersed after a brief observation.

The man in the paper clothes was pulling Li Yi and walking quickly on the street.

Li Yi did not resist.

This man took Li Yi and turned left and right and then entered an alley. The strange thing was that this alley clearly did not exist in the danger zone, and the style of this alley did not look like modern buildings. It was surrounded by blue bricks and gray tiles, as if they had suddenly entered ancient times.

Li Yi did not say anything. He observed and secretly wrote down the route to avoid getting lost and unable to return.

Soon, the man brought Li Yi to a big gate in the alley and stopped.

The door was an old double-opening wooden door with two badly faded door gods pasted on it. The door gods looked a bit strange. They were not the Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong that Li Yi was familiar with, but the more ancient Shentu and Yulei. Moreover, the words on the door were not modern words. As for what font it was, Li Yi didn't recognize it. After all, his cultural level was not very high and he had not studied this aspect.

"Knock, knock, knock!" The man in paper clothes knocked on the wooden door.

after awhile.

The wooden door opened, and behind it stood a woman about seventeen or eighteen years old. She had her hair in a bun and was wearing a silk skirt.

She didn't say anything, but immediately made way.

Then the man immediately dragged Li Yi into the yard.

Only then did the girl hurriedly close the door and put down the bolt.

"Dad, are you okay?" After closing the door, the girl dared to speak.

"It's okay. I came back after a walk. I didn't find anyone selling medicine, but I found a young man with a mental disorder." The middle-aged man said as he carefully took off the paper clothes on his body, fearing that he would accidentally tear it into pieces with too much force.

After all the paper clothes were taken off, Li Yi could see the person clearly through the holes in the hood.

This is a thin, slightly hunchbacked middle-aged man with ordinary looks and wrinkles all over his face. He has long hair and a beard, and looks like an ancient person.

"It's all right here. The door god at the door hasn't completely faded. It can still protect the peace here. Ghosts from outside can't get in. You can take off your hood now." said the middle-aged man.

Hearing this, Li Yi immediately took off his hood and took a deep breath. He was irritated by the smell of the hood.

"Tsk tsk, it's really amazing. First, his soul is not wandering, and second, he is not wearing shrouds to pretend to be dead. Such a big living person just broke into the ghost street and is still alive. How did you do it?" The middle-aged man walked around Li Yi several times, amazed, and kept looking at him.

"This is a long story. I was being chased by a ferocious beast and accidentally ran here. When I came here, this was not a ghost street, but as I was walking, I got trapped in it and couldn't get out." Li Yi explained briefly.

"Accident?" The middle-aged man nodded. "That's fair to say. Young man, what's your name?"

"Li Yi."

"Are there any words?" the middle-aged man asked again.

"Words?" Li Yi was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

The ancients not only had names, they also had characters.

The presence of words on the name means that the person has a certain family background and knowledge, and is not a commoner.

Li Yi quickly made up a name: "Name: Meng De."

"Meng De? It means brave and virtuous. What a good name. It seems that the person who chose this name for you is not bad."

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up slightly, and then he nodded: "Old man, Zhao Ge, this is my daughter Zhao Qian, an ordinary citizen, uneducated, sorry to make fun of me."

Then he bowed and looked ashamed.

"I dare not, I dare not." Li Yi immediately followed suit and bowed in return. At the same time, he was thinking in his heart, has he really come to another world?
Or, is everything here fake, an illusion created before I die?

(End of this chapter)