Chapter 322 has ended.
The spirit, whose hands were pinned down, had originally tried to attack Zou Yuanhe and his companion with her long hair.
But upon hearing the word "sister," she suddenly stopped what she was doing.
Zou Yuanhe and his companion were taken aback. Wu Muhong, who was standing on the shore, was even more stunned and exclaimed excitedly, "Sister, you still remember me, right? I'm Xiaohong, I'm Xiaohong!"
The woman atop the skeleton tilted her head at her words, causing Zou Yuanhe and the others to tense up.
Could it be that this woman still retains a sense of self?
However, they soon realized they had been too naive.
The softened hair suddenly became sharp again, stabbing towards Zou Yuanhe and the other person, with one strand even attacking Wu Muhong on the shore.
Wu Muhong was startled and stumbled to the ground, narrowly avoiding the strand of hair.
Seeing this, Zou Yuanhe breathed a sigh of relief and shouted sternly, "Step back and don't come any closer!"
They had already concluded that the woman's strange behavior earlier was merely a deliberate act to lower their guard.
Wu Muhong collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down her face as she thought about the tuft of hair that had almost pierced her hair.
She covered her face and cried for a while, but then stood up again and, ignoring Zou Yuanhe's advice, jumped directly into the pile of bones and stumbled closer to them.
"You really are..."
Zou Yuanhe was so angry that his beard stood on end, but he was too busy to do anything else and could only watch helplessly as Wu Muhong raised the sword and approached them.
As if sensing danger, the hair that had been entangled with Zou Yuanhe and the other man suddenly gathered together and rushed towards Wu Muhong.
It's easy to imagine that within seconds, Wu Muhong, an ordinary person with absolutely no defensive capabilities, would be riddled with holes.
"Watch out!" Zou Yuanhe cried out in alarm, but there was nothing he could do.
On the other side, Master Liaoran also lowered his head and chanted a Buddhist prayer, unable to bear watching any longer.
"elder sister……"
The same low call came again, and the flailing hair stopped abruptly less than five centimeters in front of Wu Muhong.
Looking through the strands of hair at the face that was exactly the same as in her memory, Wu Muhong's eyes stung slightly.
Before, from a distance, I could only vaguely make out the outline of her face and her features. Now that I'm closer, I realize that my sister's appearance is frozen at the moment she died.
Those scars and bruises were only slightly concealed by the blue phosphorescent light; they still remained, testifying to the sins of the past.
Wu Muhong wanted to reach out and touch her, but was afraid of hurting her: "It hurts, doesn't it?"
Whether it was being abused by that man back then, or being thrown into this river after death, forced to devour and merge with those vengeful spirits, enduring the agonizing torment and tearing that seeps into their very bones every day.
Wu Muhong couldn't imagine how painful it would be, but she knew that if she had a choice, the older sister who had given her some warmth when she was in her most desperate time would definitely not want to live like this now, living like a walking corpse, living a humble and desperate life.
The woman's empty pupils could not reflect Wu Muhong's face, and naturally, they could not see the tear stains on her face.
Wu Muhong's hands trembled violently, but her rationality was clearer and more resolute than ever before.
The sharp sword slowly penetrated the woman's chest, piercing her beating heart.
Zou Yuanhe and the others never expected that after working so hard for most of the day, the one who would finally plunge the sword into the woman's chest would be such an ordinary woman who couldn't even kill a chicken.
The moment her heart was pierced, the woman suddenly threw her head back and let out a sharp, long howl like a wild beast.
Zou Yuanhe and his companion were thrown back by the force of the impact, falling to the shore and spitting out blood.
At that moment, the pierced heart suddenly emitted a blinding light, and the wronged souls that the woman had devoured flew out of her body, only to be instantly burned by the magic array beneath the pile of bones, letting out a shrill scream before their souls were scattered.
As these fragments of vengeful spirits departed, the woman's body gradually became broken and fragmented, but her dark, empty eyes slowly regained their clarity.
She stared at Wu Muhong for a long while, then slowly smiled and reached out to touch her face.
Wu Muhong's eyes narrowed slightly, and almost instinctively she reached out to grab the hand that was reaching towards her.
But before she could even touch that hand, the woman's body scattered into points of light along with the phosphorescent glow emanating from her.
At the same time, the giant vine that had been hanging over Linjia Village seemed to have suffered a severe blow, and began to twist and entangle in pain. Before long, just like the woman who had disappeared, it was gradually dispersed into particles and vanished into thin air.
The moment the vines disappeared, the magic array beneath the bones also vanished. Ye Wanxi plopped down on the ground, watching the sun slowly rise on the horizon, her eyes flashing slightly.
"it's over."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a figure standing against the light, reaching out his hand to her.
"Um."
The incident in Linjia Village had a huge and terrible impact. The day after it happened, a large group of people came to the village.
When Zou Yiluan arrived with his men, Ye Wanxi had just finished resting and was being fed some porridge by Feng Tianyu while she was still half asleep.
After finishing his meal, he leaned on Feng Tianyu's shoulder, yawning as he sent messages to Gao Min and the others to let them know he was safe.
This was the scene that Zou Yiluan and his group saw when they came in. After a brief moment of stunned silence, they took the initiative to greet Ye Wanxi.
"Ms. Ye."
"You're here, please have a seat."
Zou Yiluan then led the group to their seats.
“I thought Mr. Xiao would at most send someone in charge, but I didn’t expect him to make you come all the way here in person.”
Zou Yiluan was somewhat flattered: "This matter is of great importance. Minister Xiao originally planned to come in person, but he happened to have something to do and couldn't get away, so he asked me to come instead."
As Zou Yiluan spoke, he hurriedly introduced the two people who had come with him to Ye Wanxi.
"This is Mr. Duan Jiliang, the Minister of the Special Department."
Duan Jiliang was about the same age as Xiao Baihui, but unlike Xiao Baihui's imposing and stern demeanor, Duan Jiliang had a very kind face. He was a bit chubby, but not in a way that obscured his features. He often had a smile on his face and looked harmless, making it easy to lower one's guard against him.
How could someone who is qualified to be the head of a special department be completely incompetent? His harmless and easy-going nature only applies to certain individuals.
"The man next to Minister Duan is Mr. Lou Jiancheng from the Security Bureau. The people who came with Mr. Zou last night were transferred from local areas by him."
Ye Wanxi listened to Zou Yiluan's introduction without showing much surprise, and simply said politely, "Hello."
The two exchanged a glance, and Duan Jiliang got straight to the point: "I've heard the details of what happened last night from Master Ran and Daoist Zou. Thank you both for your help. If you hadn't discovered the anomaly in this place, the consequences would have been unimaginable."
(End of this chapter)
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