"Knock knock knock..."

Chunhu Siqiong knocked for a long time without any response, and thought no one would come to open the door. But to her surprise, the door opened!

Who is it?

The person who opened the door was a middle-aged man with a short beard. He only opened the door a crack, revealing one eye, and asked in a low voice, "Why aren't you resting so late? Why are you here..."

But he stopped midway through his sentence when he saw that it was Chunhu Siqiong.

"What, has the shopkeeper seen me before?" Chunhu Siqiong asked, puzzled by the expression.

"No, little girl, what are you still doing here?"

The middle-aged man looked shocked and nervous, urging Chunhu Siqiong, "Young lady, midnight is approaching, and it will become very dangerous here. You must leave immediately."

What does this mean?

These words left Chunhu Siqiong even more bewildered. Seeing that the other party was about to close the door, she quickly stopped them, saying, "I don't know where this is, and I can't get out. The main problem is that it's really too cold. If I don't find a place to warm up soon, I'll freeze to death. Shopkeeper, if you're a kind person, please take me in."

"No, absolutely not!"

To everyone's surprise, the shopkeeper was adamant: "Young lady, I'm doing this for your own good. Letting you stay here would only harm you. You need to leave now, time is running out. Run south, how far you can get depends on your luck."

After saying that, he didn't say anything more and simply closed the door.

"this…"

Looking at the tightly closed door in front of her, and recalling what the middle-aged man had said earlier, Chunhu Siqiong felt a little annoyed that he was too heartless for not letting her in, but she also felt a little flustered. Without thinking much, she subconsciously ran south.

Her intuition told her that the shopkeeper hadn't lied to her, or that something bad was really going to happen soon.

"Husband, that young lady is probably..."

Just as the middle-aged man closed the door, a middle-aged woman behind him said with a sad expression, "At this hour, I'm afraid we won't be able to get very far."

"Sigh... I just hope she can escape safely..."

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper simply sighed and said, "In the end, it's perfectly normal to be cursed for treating a deity that way. It's just that it's a real sin to keep dragging innocent people into it."

"Waaah..."

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman couldn't help but hug the shopkeeper and cry, "I can't live, I can't die, when will this end...?"

"I just hope..."

"Click click click..."

However, before the shopkeeper could finish speaking, a series of explosive sounds suddenly erupted from his body.

Then, it was as if the body water had suddenly evaporated, and the person began to wither and die rapidly.

"ah!"

The intense pain caused him to immediately let out a agonizing scream.

"Ahhh!"

Soon, one after another, countless screams began to echo throughout the inn, the street, and even the village.

Chunhu Siqiong, who was running at full speed, was so startled by the sound that she stopped immediately.

"Click..."

Then she saw all the previously closed doors around her suddenly open, and one by one, gaunt figures staggered out of them.

"hiss…"

Upon seeing those things, Chunhu Siqiong couldn't help but gasp, exclaiming in shock, "Dried...dried corpses!"

Indeed, those who were walking out of the houses and staggering into the middle of the road were emaciated, desiccated corpses, their clothes slipping down to their shoulders because they didn't fit properly.