Chapter 7 Women

The scene in the darkness was not obvious, but because it was too horrifying, everyone focused all their attention on it.

The relief on the pillar began to twist and deform, as if something was trying to break free. This situation lasted only a moment, and then everyone saw a pale hand forcibly squeeze out from the relief. The hand was huge, with bright red nails. It groped around in the void and finally grabbed the wooden fence next to it.

After grabbing the wooden fence, the hand seemed to have found a fulcrum and began to pull the wooden fence hard, pulling his body and head out of the pillar little by little.

The whole scene was so weird and terrifying that everyone's breathing almost stopped.

"What are you looking at! Run!" Ruan Baijie's voice startled everyone who seemed to be in a nightmare. Lin Qiushi also woke up suddenly. When he looked again, he found that the thing had already squeezed out of the pillar for the most part.

"Run!" Ruan Baijie said, "Run!"

At her command, everyone started running. Lin Qiushi didn't dare to waste any more time and ran towards home with all his might.

The noise behind them grew louder and louder, and it seemed as if the thing had successfully broken free from the pillar and started chasing them.

Lin Qiushi heard the sound of something crawling in the snow. He knew he couldn't look back, but he couldn't help but look behind him.

This sight frightened him so much that he staggered. He saw that the ghost had indeed squeezed out from the pillar. It looked like a woman, naked, with long black hair, but her body was several times larger than that of a normal person. Her long limbs were wriggling on the ground in a strange manner like an arthropod. Her face was not clear, but the most eye-catching thing was the long-handled axe in her hand that was stained with red liquid.

"Fuck!!!" Lin Qiushi finally couldn't help but curse. The previous few times he had felt a bit like an illusion, but this time everyone saw this kind of thing so clearly, and he finally had the real feeling that he was in another dimension.

Other people in the team also turned their heads. In short, everyone who saw this thing was shocked.

The desire to survive made everyone speed up their pace, but the road was slippery due to the snow, and it was a small path at the entrance of the village, so no matter how fast they went, they couldn't go any faster. In the blink of an eye, everyone was caught up.

"Help!" Xiao Ke seemed to have run too fast and missed a step, falling to the ground in the snow. She wanted to get up again, but her hands and feet became weak due to fear and she couldn't exert any strength at all. "Brother Xiong - help!"

Everyone thought Xiao Ke was dead. At this critical moment, their own lives were in jeopardy, so how could they care about others? But after Xiao Ke's miserable cry, Xiong Qi actually gritted his teeth, stopped, turned around, and pulled Xiao Ke out of the snow: "Let's go!"

"Brother Xiong." Xiao Ke sobbed and her tears flowed all over the floor. She was about to thank Xiong Qi when she felt a shadow covering her head.

The woman holding an axe came over. She looked down at the two people in front of her who were frightened and stiffer than stones, and grinned. The woman's mouth was very big, and you could see that it was full of densely packed teeth. Her extremely long hands held a rusty axe. She raised her hand and chopped down at the two people in front of her.

"Ahhhh!!!" Xiao Ke let out a shrill scream, stretched out his hands and hugged Xiong Qi tightly, not daring to look at the scene in front of him.

Xiong Qi gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, as if he had given up struggling.

However, at the moment the axe fell, a faint golden light appeared on the two men's bodies. The axe fell on the golden light, making a crisp sound of sharp weapons colliding.

The tall woman let out a strange cry of dissatisfaction when she saw this, and ignored Xiao Ke and Xiong Qi and continued to chase the person in front.

Xiao Ke and Xiong Qi escaped death, and both collapsed in the snow.

"Brother Xiong, what's going on?" Xiao Ke asked in a trembling voice.

Xiong Qi was silent for a moment, then said in a hoarse voice, "Do you still remember the Buddha we worshipped when we first entered the temple?"

Xiao Ke nodded.

"Maybe he protected us." Xiong Qi raised his eyes and looked in the direction the woman was running.

"So those who entered the temple alone..." Xiao Ke obviously understood what Xiong Qi meant. She remembered that when a person entered the temple alone, he did not see the kind-hearted Buddha statue they saw, but saw the woman in front of him holding an axe.

"You're dead." Xiong Qi smiled bitterly.

Lin Qiushi and Ruan Baijie ran furiously, ultimately experiencing much the same amount of time as Xiaoke and Xiongqi. However, this time, it was Ruan Baijie who protected the exhausted Lin Qiushi in her arms. Facing the ferocious monster before her, she didn't seem overly frightened. She even found time to gently kiss the top of Lin Qiushi's head and said, "Don't be afraid."

Lin Qiushi originally wanted to help Ruan Baijie to stop it, but he was hugged tightly by Ruan Baijie and could hardly move. He watched the axe coming towards them, and then was stopped by the golden light in front of them.

"Hehe." Ruan Baijie smiled.

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment, then watched as the woman quickly turned and ran towards the person next to them. That person had also seen what happened to Lin Qiushi and Ruan Baijie, but after just a few seconds of hesitation, he realized the woman had appeared in front of him.

"Are we saved?" the man asked Lin Qiushi. "The light within us..."

"Puchi" - the sound of a sharp weapon breaking through the body.

He had only said half of his words when he was split in half by the sharp axe. Until his death, his face was still full of disbelief, as if he had no idea why the same thing happened to him but had such a different outcome.

Lin Qiushi sat in the snow, watching the blood spilling all over the ground. The woman giggled, picked up her axe and went to look for other people, leaving behind a bloody mess.

He pursed his lips, trying to suppress the urge to vomit.

"It's okay." Ruan Baijie patted his back. "It's over."

Lin Qiushi asked, "Is it because the number of people entering the temple is incorrect?"

Ruan Baijie didn't say anything.

Lin Qiushi: "Two people entered the temple alone. Are they...both dead?"

Ruan Baijie said: "I don't know either."

Yeah, who knows the answer to this question?

Lin Qiushi stood up in the snow and extended his hand to Ruan Baijie: "Let's go home."

Ruan Baijie smiled and held Lin Qiushi's hand.

About an hour later, the crowd dwindled again as everyone gathered at home.

As Lin Qiushi had predicted, none of the people who entered the temple alone survived. The strange woman with the axe had taken their lives.

"She took the whole body back," someone said of what they saw. "The body was chopped in half, and she laughed as she lifted it up and dragged it into the temple."

"So the carpenter deceived us?" Xiao Ke said hoarsely, "If we really entered the temple as he said, wouldn't everyone die?"

"I can't die." Xiong Qi said tiredly, "At least half of us can survive. Generally, people here don't get wiped out, so at least half of us will survive."

"It's useless to leave half of them. Who knows if she will come again." Ruan Baijie recovered quickly. She leaned back in her chair and slowly began to eat melon seeds. She looked very beautiful while eating melon seeds, even elegant. "Even if she kills one a day, it will be difficult."

Everyone fell silent.

"We've already visited the temple, can we make the coffin now?" someone asked.

Xiong Qi nodded and said, "I'll go talk to the carpenter tomorrow, but I always feel that things are not that simple."

Of course, it wasn't that simple, and the well still hadn't been filled. Filling a well might not be a difficult task in the real world, but in this world, it could be fatal.

Who knows what will come out of the well when it is filled?

But that's all tomorrow's business. Today, everyone was chased by that thing all night and witnessed the tragic death of their companions. They couldn't bear it both mentally and physically.

So everyone dispersed early and prepared to have a good night's rest.

At least tonight, there is no need to worry about anyone dying.

Lin Qiushi was lying on the bed and saw Ruan Baijie lying beside him.

"Thank you for today," Lin Qiushi said. "You're amazing! I'm actually not as strong as you."

When escaping today, Lin Qiushi was the first one to stop running. Looking at Ruan Baijie's condition, he even doubted whether she could jump all the way home.

"It won't work if a man doesn't have good physical strength." Ruan Baijie said deeply.

Lin Qiushi: “…”

Ruan Baijie: "Are you right?"

Lin Qiushi: “…” Damn you.

Ruan Baijie turned her head and looked at Lin Qiushi with a smile: "Do you think we can get out alive?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Ruan Baijie asked, "What's the first thing you do when you get out alive?"

Lin Qiushi thought for a moment and said, "If I get out alive, I'll go back to my hometown and get married."

Ruan Baijie: "Do you have a girlfriend?"

Lin Qiushi laughed and said, "How can a designer who works overtime get a girlfriend?"

Ruan Baijie: "You should always have dreams. When we get out, I'll buy you a girlfriend on Taobao."

Lin Qiushi: "...You are such a good person."

Ruan Baijie: "You're welcome, brother."

The two chatted for a while before slowly falling into a deep sleep. That night, Lin Qiushi didn't have a single dream, as if he had grown accustomed to the cruelty and ruthlessness of this world.

The next day was a sunny day.

The author has something to say: Ruan Baijie: I don’t have a girlfriend, so I’ll just have to make do with a boyfriend?

Lin Qiushi: Wait, this is too much.

Ruan Baijie: Life or butt? It’s your choice.

Lin Qiushi: ………