"Alright, let's go open the coffin now."

After explaining the precautions for sending away evil spirits, I began to speak.

Everyone involuntarily trembled, and the sound of swallowing saliva rose and fell.

"Uncle Ge, lead the way."

Seeing how terrified they were, I knew I could only rely on Uncle Ge.

Uncle Ge nodded and led us toward the house where the coffin had been unearthed.

I saw it from a distance; that house seemed out of place in the neighborhood.

After all, his house had been completely demolished in preparation for renovation.

"Brother Yan, are there still people living around here?"

Li Huai leaned closer to me and asked.

If it were him, he certainly wouldn't dare live here. The neighbor's house was haunted by ghosts that killed so many people. Wouldn't living next door be suicide?

Luo Tianhe patted him on the shoulder and said, somewhat speechless:

"Are you stupid? Look around here, are there any lights on? Nobody lives here anymore!"

Li Huai scratched his head awkwardly; he was too nervous and hadn't thought much about it for a moment.

"No! Look over there!"

Suddenly, the old man leading the way, Ge, cried out in alarm, his voice filled with terror.

I looked in the direction he pointed, and suddenly my scalp tingled.

We could see two swaying figures hanging from a tall tree in the distance, facing us directly.

"It's that crazy couple!"

I whispered something to Luo Tianhe and Li Huai.

"But they were perfectly fine before! How did they end up rotting like that now!"

Luo Tianhe's voice trembled, his tone filled with fear and confusion.

I frowned. If it were just the two of them being hanged, I definitely wouldn't have reacted much.

But those two were clearly wailing at my door yesterday, and today they've rotted to an utterly disgusting degree.

Their bodies were covered in livor mortis, and a yellow, sticky liquid slowly seeped out from the mortis.

The couple's condition was even more serious than the child I saw today.

A small puddle of pus had already seeped out beneath them, and as the breeze blew, I noticed with my sharp eyes that the man's eyeballs had simply fallen straight to the ground.

The eyeball had long since rotted away, and the way it fell off didn't resemble an eyeball falling to the ground at all.

It was more like a balloon filled with foul-smelling pus that burst with a bang.

My stomach churned violently.

"Could it be that they were actually dead on the very first day?"

Li Huai's voice wasn't loud, but in the quiet environment, everyone heard it clearly.

Suddenly, everyone felt a chilling wind blowing, as if their bones were being chilled.

One villager, steeling himself, spoke up:

"How, how is that possible? They've been wailing and mourning at everyone's doorsteps for so many days. If they were already dead, how could they possibly be out in broad daylight!"

"How do you explain this situation? They couldn't have decomposed to this extent overnight!"

Another villager retorted.

"Stop arguing, everyone. This is probably the evil spirit's doing. She doesn't want us to open the coffin. She's scared!"

I said in a low voice, both to comfort the villagers and to comfort myself.

“The master is right, otherwise she wouldn’t have bothered hanging those two corpses at the door.”

Immediately afterward, Ge Wang also spoke up.

With the two of us endorsing them, the villagers' tension eased considerably.

"Then, how do we get there?"

"Let's go around from both sides. We can't go through the main entrance anyway. The walls have already been torn down, so it doesn't matter which way we go in."

I acted as if it were nothing, and led the way toward the home of the crazy couple.

Suddenly, a strong gust of cold wind swept by, and the couple's bodies began to shake more violently. Their arms also began to swing, as if trying to grab us.

If it weren't for their large numbers, these villagers would probably have been terrified and lost their composure!

Putting everything else aside, the village chief would definitely wet his pants.

I glanced at the village chief with some disdain. He was so weak that he couldn't even stand properly and needed two people to support him.

How can someone like that be the village chief?

Not only me, but these villagers were also discovering for the first time that their village chief was such a coward.

"Hmph, I think we need to elect a more courageous person for the next village chief election! Being smooth-talking isn't enough to handle interpersonal relationships!"

Ge Wang snorted coldly, clearly extremely dissatisfied with the village chief's performance.

Just as we were about to go inside, I suddenly heard something break.

The next moment, with a "bang," a heavy object fell next to me, and juice splattered everywhere!

If I hadn't reacted quickly and jumped to the side, that pile of minced meat would have hit me.

In an instant, an extremely unpleasant smell filled my nostrils.

Luo Tianhe and Li Huai vomited on the spot, since they were the closest to me.

My stomach was churning violently, and I even started to gag.

The smell was not only extremely unpleasant, but it kept assaulting my nostrils. To put it bluntly, I felt like my sense of smell had been violated!

Fortunately, at that moment, Ge Wang suddenly exhaled a puff of white smoke, and the strong smell of smoke immediately dispelled the unpleasant odor, allowing me to at least breathe again.

The villagers were all frozen in place.

The man who was hanging there had his neck broken!

Moreover, his head was strangely still hanging in the noose, and it was facing me right now!

The rotting, hollow eye sockets and the slightly upturned corners of the mouth combined to form a bizarre and terrifying smile.

His body had been smashed into a pile of mangled flesh.

White maggots rolled around in the rotting flesh; some fell to the ground and were still wriggling.

A thick, yellow liquid was flowing everywhere, emitting an extremely disgusting odor.

After realizing what had happened, the villagers also began to vomit.

For a moment, Ge Wang and I were the only two people in the entire room who didn't vomit.

Ge Wang squinted at the rope hanging on the tree.

"It's such a long distance, there's no way it could have fallen here. It seems that the evil spirit is behind this."

I took out a stack of yellow talismans, flicked my right hand, and the talismans immediately burst into bright flames.

Then I silently chanted an incantation, and the burning yellow talisman instantly transformed into a stream of light, burning all the rotten flesh and maggots.

The most terrifying thing was that a man's roar and shrill screams could be heard coming from within the firelight.

It was as if what was being burned was not a pile of rotten flesh, but a living person.

To prevent the evil spirit from using the same trick again, I took out a stack of yellow talismans and burned the woman's corpse hanging on the tree, ending the matter once and for all.

After waiting for a while, Li Huai and Luo Tianhe finally recovered, wiping their mouths with pale faces.

Li Huai gagged a few more times, and said in a trembling voice:

"This is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. Thank goodness you dodged it, Yan-ge. If it had actually been smeared on you..."