As soon as I stepped into the mourning hall, a strong smell of incense and candles, along with a putrid stench, hit me.

In the center of the mourning hall stood a large red coffin, inside which Ji Yunfei lay quietly.

I glanced back outside and saw that everyone's eyes were on Baldy San. I quickly ran towards the coffin, lay down beside it, and looked inside.

Ji Yunfei, dressed in a bright red wedding gown, lay quietly inside, her hands crossed over her chest.

However, her clothes were a size too big, hanging loosely on her body, with the neckline slightly open, revealing her pale, paper-white neck.

I think this dress was made based on Ji Yunfei's figure when she was pregnant.

Now that the evil fetus in her womb has disappeared, her once-fitting wedding dress now looks empty, like a child wearing an adult's clothes, giving off an indescribable strangeness.

I wanted to get a closer look at the wound on her stomach, but as soon as I bent down, I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye that the police had noticed the commotion and were turning around.

My head went blank for a moment, and without thinking, I crouched down and quickly crawled under the coffin.

Below the coffin were two sturdy wooden benches.

The space between the benches is quite spacious. Not to mention hiding one person, even a small man could easily hide three or four people by curling up.

A deep red cloth hung down from the coffin, covered with Taoist mantras for rebirth written in vigorous characters, completely obscuring the space beneath the coffin.

Unless someone deliberately lifts the lid, there's no way they'll find me hiding here.

Once I hid inside, I noticed that under each of the eight corners of the two long benches was a bowl of water.

These bowls are not ordinary bowls; they are dog bowls.

According to my grandfather, the dog bowl has the power to ward off evil spirits and possesses a special spirituality.

The bowl contained rainwater, which is considered yin and can reduce the contact between the corpse and the earth's energy, making it a common method to prevent corpses from turning into zombies.

No one expected that Ji Yunfei's resentment was so deep that the unborn ghost fetus broke through all constraints and crawled out to kill people.

Even the experienced Taoist priest Zhou suffered a cruel fate and lost his life here.

Fortunately, after those people came in, no one lifted the red cloth covering me.

The mourning hall was bustling with people coming and going, their footsteps and conversations mingling together. I huddled in this small space, barely daring to breathe.

Going out at this time will definitely get you caught red-handed.

When that happens, it'll be like mud falling into your pants—even if it's not poop, it'll still look like poop.

They hid from daytime until nighttime.

The family arranged for two people to keep watch at night. I heard them say that the burial would take three more days, but I couldn't hear why it had to be three days later, because there were too many people.

One person said something, another person said something, and we could only vaguely hear some of it.

"Brother, this job is really tough. Just thinking about how Master Zhou is gone makes my skin crawl."

A watchman's voice, trembling noticeably, echoed in the silent mourning hall.

“Who says otherwise? This corpse has an eerie aura about it. I wonder if we’ll get through these three days safely.” Another voice echoed, its tone equally filled with fear.

“How about… we go outside? I’m sweating bullets here, it’s so cold, and I’m really scared,” the first person suggested.

"What about the incense? We can't let the incense burn out."

"It's alright, I have a plan!"

As I spoke, I saw a pair of sneakers slowly approaching through the gap under the red cloth.

Then, with a "snap," like the sound of a lighter being lit.

"It's alright. I just lit an incense stick, it's as thick as an arm, it'll burn for several hours. We'll come back and change the incense when it's almost dawn, and no one will know."

The other person was still somewhat hesitant and asked, "Will this work? What if we get discovered...?"

The person lighting incense muttered under their breath, "How can you be so cowardly! Master Zhou is dead. The way he died, with several bloody holes in his neck, was exactly the same as the way zombies bite people to death in movies."

"This corpse is so eerie, aren't you afraid she might suddenly come back to life? Besides, even if the corpse is fine, what if the evil fetus in her belly comes back? Can the two of us handle it? Is it worth risking our lives for just a few hundred dollars?"

"Stop talking, stop talking. The more you talk, the more creeped out I get. Come on, let's go out for a couple of drinks to warm up."

The other person was so frightened that their voice changed, and they hurriedly urged them on.

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard their footsteps gradually fade away until they disappeared outside the mourning hall.

I waited for another ten minutes or so.

I listened intently, and only after confirming that there was no movement inside the mourning hall did I cautiously reach out and slowly lift a corner of the red cloth to peek outside.

The mourning hall was empty, with only flickering candlelight in the dim light. The two people keeping watch had disappeared.

I quickly crawled out from under the coffin.

I've been squatting all day, and my legs are terribly numb, like tens of thousands of ants are crawling on them.

I gently rubbed my numb legs with my hands until they were completely accustomed to it. Then I lay down on the coffin, wanting to see Ji Yunfei's stomach to see if the ghost fetus had crawled out on its own.

As soon as I looked down, I was dumbfounded.

Where is the body?

Where did the body go?

The coffin was empty; Ji Yunfei's body was gone.

That's not right!

I hid under the coffin all day. If the Ji family had carried the body away, or if the police had taken Ji Yunfei's body away, I would have known.

But now, Ji Yunfei's body has disappeared!

Could it have run away on its own?

The thought made my heart skip a beat. I couldn't stay here any longer; I had to leave immediately.

However, just as I was about to turn around, I suddenly caught a glimpse of another shadow on the coffin, next to mine.

Someone is standing behind me!

Who is it?

Remember Yunfei, or those two guardians who returned after leaving?