Candy House in the Forest 4
Ji Yunding walked to her mother-in-law's room, knocked on the door, and then pushed it open and went in.
"Mother-in-law, I've made up my mind, but I want to talk about the compensation first."
"Of course, no problem. But if I ask for an exorbitant price, my mother-in-law will be sad."
Ji Yunding didn't care about the threatening words of the old man in front of him, and just continued speaking according to his own thoughts.
"I want to hear your story. You tell it first, and then I'll tell you mine."
This request was totally unexpected by the mother-in-law. Ji Yunding moved a chair for himself and sat down to look at her obediently.
Communication is a direct channel for understanding. Since there are no clues, just ask directly. As for the so-called "benefits", Ji Yunding felt that there was no more tangible benefit than information at the moment.
"Are you sure you want this?"
"yes."
The teacher of the basic course said that it was generally believed that weirdness was formed by the soul after death, but this is not true. Now it is generally believed that weirdness is born out of the strong emotions generated by the soul, which is the so-called "reverberation".
They have the memories of the deceased, but are driven by strong emotions and desires, and can do extreme things as a matter of course. Mainstream views generally do not recognize their unity with the deceased.
However, there are also a small number of people who insist that weirdos are just souls tortured by emotions and desires, but so far they have not been able to come up with convincing evidence.
The only consensus is that understanding the weird background information will definitely help to figure out its rules.
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Poor mountain villages are bound to have all kinds of bad habits, especially during years of famine.
An old woman was sitting in a backpack, following the footsteps of the person carrying her, watching the village she was familiar with gradually disappear from her sight.
In fact, before being abandoned, the old woman had not had a full meal for a long time. She half-opened her eyelids, and her hands drooped naturally and weakly.
The man carrying her on his back was her son, whom she had worked tirelessly to raise. The marks on the wall at home that recorded the child's height had lost their meaning and function over time, just like her.
The mountains were so deep that they stretched as far as the eye could see. Even when she was young, she had never seen through the wild forests and mountains. She was not tall, but very short, and she could not see the outside world even when she stood on the top of the mountain.
The man tripped over the rocks on the ground, and she fell out of the frame, rolled over on the ground for a few times, and was covered in dirt. There was a small puddle next to it - it used to be a pond, but now there is a drought and only this little bit is left.
She looked at her old face and tangled dry hair in the puddle, and vaguely remembered how she used to comb her hair by the pond.
She never thought then that she would be so old.
The strength was slowly leaving her body. For someone her age, a stumble could be fatal, let alone a fall as hard as she had just done.
So hungry, so hungry, so hungry...
Suddenly, she felt as if water drops were falling on her face.
It's raining.
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"After that, I ate them. My son, my grandson, and then the people in the village." The grandmother grinned. Looking closely, there seemed to be some blood between her teeth. "My sweetheart, I like you very much. What does your heart taste like?"
"I don't know, it should taste terrible." Ji Yunding thought about it carefully and replied seriously, "But thank you for liking me."
It seemed strange, as she had probably never heard such an answer before. At least the mother-in-law was stunned for a few seconds before she remembered and continued to urge Ji Yunding to tell her story.
"I thought about similar things when I was hungry." Ji Yunding continued, "But since you asked me what I did, I'm sorry, I didn't do anything."
Before the weird rage in front of him, Ji Yunding continued, "I was still young at the time and had no ability to resist. If you want to see something pathetic, you can observe my words and deeds, maybe you can find some fun."
It is certainly a kind of fun to watch people who were once in a similar situation as you but could not resist become abnormal.
Story? No, from the beginning, Ji Yunding's goal was just to appease this weirdo. If he finished telling the story, what would Ji Yunding use to delay his mother-in-law's actions?
After facing the mirror unexpectedly, Ji Yunding has actually been in a very passive situation. Strictly speaking, she has violated some rules, so her mother-in-law has the ability to use the person in the mirror to hurt her.
She wanted to get back at the score.
The mother-in-law stared at Ji Yunding for a while, then burst into laughter and waved her hand to let her leave.
When Ji Yunding turned around to close the door, she met her mother-in-law's eyes again. She stared at Ji Yunding closely, smiling as if her face was about to burst.
Obviously, the core desire of this weirdness is "hunger", and the method to break the deadlock must be related to it.
Ji Yunding suddenly had a question - why did she just stand outside the door when her mother-in-law attacked her with hunger instead of coming in to watch her pain?
If I guessed correctly...
Ji Yunding walked slowly to the mirror and stood there, muttering to himself, "She probably... doesn't like the rain."
If the last rain in her life had come earlier, would everything have been different?
But it was just a casual remark, and the next second Ji Yunding stepped into the bloody slaughterhouse opposite without hesitation.
The sweet smell that lingered in his nose suddenly turned into the stench of rotten flesh and blood. Ji Yunding looked down at his bloodstained shoes, feeling a little distressed.
This must be difficult to clean.
But now is not the time to worry about such details. Ji Yunding ran as fast as he could, rushed to the "cutting board" used for cutting, and picked up a knife next to it.
Well, now we can fight them... Of course it's impossible. But anyway, it's better to have weapons than nothing.
Ji Yunding looked around for the rules here and found that the person hanging upside down with half of his body missing seemed to have something stuffed in his mouth.
It was a piece of hard paper rolled into a cylindrical shape. After Ji Yunding pulled it out, he judged that it had probably cut the human esophagus, and the end was stained with blood - it must be said that this was a completely unnecessary judgment.
[1. The curved mirror reflects the distorted reality.
2. Stay hungry and stay awake.
3. When you can no longer bear hunger, the meat food here can help you. 】
The "meat food" that has been absent from the beginning appears here in this way, which is somewhat disgusting.
Ji Yunding recalled that in the corridor where many mirrors were placed, she had seen a person in the mirror biting something.
"'Help'... That means the people in the mirrors may have eaten meat to become like this." Ji Yunding looked around, looking at the mountains of meat and the sea of blood, and sighed, "Giving up is always such an easy option."
Ji Yunding searched around in this not-so-large space for something useful, but found nothing. Suddenly, she noticed the mirror flashing, as if something was coming.
Apparently, Ji Yunding’s disappearance had been noticed by her mother-in-law.
"roar……"
A terrifying old man with a ferocious face staggered in with a meat-cleaver in his hand, shaking his head left and right, as if looking for Ji Yunding.
Soon, it locked onto the messy pile of corpses - that was the only place to hide in the empty room, and it could see that it had been disturbed.
The sutures on its face twitched at the corners of its mouth, oozing rancid blood. It walked over to the pile of corpses and raised its knife.
The long-rotten corpse burst and spurted out pus under the blade. Even the rats in the sewer would probably want to crawl away.
But as its smile gradually widened, it found a shadow in front of it that did not belong to it.
"Sorry, I hit you accidentally." Ji Yunding said, and turned the knife that was inserted into the monster's body with force.
It’s not that she wanted to say this sarcastically, it’s just that she didn’t know what to say in this situation, so she just used a random formula.
Ji Yunding stood behind the floor-length mirror, carefully following the monster's steps, using the sound of its footsteps to cover her tracks. Her enhanced hearing could help her adjust her movements better.
“Gah…ah…”
"If you have any useful information, please let me know."
As he spoke, Ji Yunding stabbed the opponent's vital points more than ten times until it stopped moving. Then he pulled out the knife and sighed.
There's nothing useful.
Ji Yunding picked up the larger meat-cleaver in the monster's hand and waved it around, but felt it was a little uncomfortable, so he switched back to the one he had held before.
"I'm a little hungry..."
It was obviously inappropriate to say such things in this situation, but Ji Yunding was really a little hungry. She had only eaten breakfast, and it had been about eight or nine hours. Those leaves and mushrooms seemed to only relieve the hunger brought by the weirdness, and were too little for the energy needed by the human body.
Ji Yunding sniffed and frowned because of the rancid smell around her. Theoretically, she shouldn't have any appetite in this environment.
Then she realized with a start that she should leave - if she stayed any longer, the growing desire might drive her to eat meat.
When there was only one road left, things became simple. When Ji Yunding walked through the heavy rain and stood in front of her mother-in-law's door again, as soon as she opened the door, she found five or six mirrors in front of her. The people in the mirrors turned their heads towards her and showed a weird smile.
It doesn't matter.
Ji Yunding pushed aside the mirrors and rushed to her mother-in-law's room, which she had never had the chance to explore, with a knife in hand.
If all went well, she had about two minutes.
"Sweetheart, you..." Seeing Ji Yunding rushing in, the mother-in-law was about to say something to delay him, but she saw Ji Yunding slashing at her with a knife.
"I'm hungry."
——When hunger burns your stomach, you have the right to do anything.
——A lie written down becomes truth.
——Stay hungry.
Ji Yunding didn't know what would happen if he used violence against his mother-in-law when he was not hungry, but it was obvious that it would not be a good thing.
As blood splattered, Ji Yunding saw that the body of the grandmother gradually grew bigger. Her teeth became sharp, her mouth became so big that it seemed that it could swallow an adult, and her belly became round and bulging, as if it would explode at any time.
But thankfully, she was no longer able to move.
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