But what reassured us was that the ghosts, including the ghost master, only surrounded the four sides of the tower, but did not seem to dare to come in. It seemed that there was something blocking them near the tower, so that we could rest safely in the tower for a while.
Looking out the window at the gradually quieting atmosphere, I breathed a sigh of relief. I walked up to the boatman and asked, "You just mentioned some natural barrier outside this watchtower. Do you know much about this place?"
The boatman, nearly fifty years old, clutched the oars, his face already wrinkled. He narrowed his eyes and said, "My hometown is right here. Most of the younger villagers and I moved out, but a few of the elderly, including my mother, refused to leave. Now I miss her so much that I came here to see her. I didn't expect this place to be deserted, and my mother had long since become a ghost. Feeling deeply guilty, I stayed in the village to accompany my deceased mother."
I was stunned. It turned out the boatman was once from this village. No wonder he knew it so well. To prevent him from getting too sentimental, I stopped and walked over to Qiao Xiaomu. Qiao Xiaomu was squatting in the corner, motionless, lost in thought.
But that wasn't what I cared about. Wasn't there a Qiao Xiaomu in Jiangzhou? He was possessed by a corpse toad, causing his behavior to become abnormal. Yu Jie even asked me to come here to find an "antidote" for that Qiao Xiaomu... But why did another Qiao Xiaomu appear here?
I asked her, "Didn't you go back to Jiangzhou with Yu Jie? Why are you still here?"
Qiao Xiaomu looked up at me and said, "I was just about to ask you about this. Yu Jie left me and ran away. How could he do this?"
I was stunned for a moment: "What? He left you and ran away?"
Qiao Xiaomu's face was filled with anger as he nodded and said, "Yes, our tour group ran into those unclean creatures and they were all taken away... Yu Jie had a talisman that saved his life, but he only saved himself and ran away. He didn't come to save me at all! I hate him so much!"
What... is going on? If this Qiao Xiaomu in front of me is real, then who is the Qiao Xiaomu that Yu Jie took away?
In Jiangzhou, Qiao Xiaomu was possessed by a toad, causing her to behave strangely, but this Qiao Xiaomu in front of me was completely fine. What on earth was going on? I pondered for a long time, frowned, and said, "Before your tour group ran into those things, had you ever come into contact with small animals similar to "toads"?"
Qiao Xiaomu thought for a moment and said, "It seems so... At that time, those guys were planning to catch them and eat them, because we saw so many of them, and they wanted to try some wild game, so..."
"Have you eaten yet?"
"No, few girls would be willing to eat something so disgusting..."
I nodded. She made a lot of sense. Then the boatman said, "Corpse toads feed on corpses from their youth. They live in groups near cadaver dig sites, so eating their flesh is bound to cause strange phenomena... I remember several villagers in this village accidentally ate corpse toads and went crazy, some died, and one person's behavior and lifestyle even took on the appearance of a corpse toad! We thought he had food poisoning, and when we tried to save him, someone who looked exactly like him suddenly returned from the back of the village. After verification, we realized it was a spirited corpse toad that had transformed into a certain person."
I was shocked when I heard this. If what the boatman said was true, then wouldn’t Yu Jie be in danger?
After confirmation, the Qiao Xiaomu before him was likely the real one. So, there was something fishy about the Qiao Xiaomu who followed Yu Jie back to Jiangzhou. It wasn't that Yu Jie didn't save Qiao Xiaomu, but rather that he was confused by another Qiao Xiaomu. And that Qiao Xiaomu was most likely the toad spirit the boatman had claimed to have transformed! Therefore, his behavior would be similar to that of a toad!
In such deep mountains and old forests, where there are corpse-digging sites and a large number of ghosts gather, it is not uncommon to see a few spirit-like mandrills.
It’s over. The bastard Yu actually abandoned her real girlfriend and went back to Jiangzhou with a corpse toad. No wonder Qiao Xiaomu was so angry!
I consoled her and told her the truth, hoping she would forgive Yu Jie's mistake. After all, in that situation, with the same person, it was inevitable that he would admit his mistake. When Qiao Xiaomu learned the truth, he was also shocked. The anger that had previously made him want to find Yu Jie and beat him up disappeared, replaced by a look of worry.
Speaking of which, Yu Jie's fake girlfriend was clearly a toad in disguise. I couldn't tell at the time, and even Su Xiaonu couldn't see clearly. This faker is really good at disguising herself. When I get back, I'll give her a good beating!
"No, something's wrong!" Suddenly, the taxi driver staggered over, shouting "Something's wrong".
We were resting here earlier, and he was watching the movements of the ghosts near the watchtower. These ghosts were all walking around in the living world, visible to anyone with eyes. I also wanted to punish the taxi driver, so I asked him to keep an eye on us.
Now he suddenly ran over and said something was wrong. We immediately became very alert and asked him what happened.
The taxi driver said in horror, "There are a few ghosts... they broke into the watchtower!"
"What? That's impossible!" The boatman looked at us in surprise and quickly headed downstairs. A moment later, he came back up, eyes wide open, and said, "The natural barrier here has been losing its strength since the villagers moved away. No wonder they broke in... Let's go to the rooftop!"
With that, everyone followed the boatman straight to the sixth floor. The tower was only six stories high, so we crouched there. But I could tell that Feng Ling, Qiao Xiaomu, the taxi driver, and I, the boatman, were all tense.
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