Chapter 32: Haunted House in the Hill (32)
The villa's wine cellar was filled with fine wine. The triumphant bandits held the looted property from the villa and celebrated by drinking day and night until they were drunk, completely unaware of the approaching danger.
Outside the exquisite and spacious stained glass window, there were slight sounds of footsteps and the sound of some reptile crawling on the ground.
Zhou Shi, the bandit leader, felt a chill on the back of his neck as he held the fine wine poured from the oak barrel. It was as if something was staring at him. He turned around quickly and looked angrily, but behind him was only the living room window, which faced the roses in the garden stained red by blood, and no one was there.
Zhou Shi muttered doubtfully and turned his head away again.
But he didn't see that at the moment he turned around, a fierce ghost in a red dress suddenly appeared outside the window, staring at his back with a pair of red eyes.
A bandit sitting opposite Zhou Shi accidentally swept his drunken eyes across the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room. He was immediately frightened by the strong hatred contained in those eyes and sobered up.
However, when he looked again, there was nothing outside the window.
There was only a blood-red afterimage that flashed by in the blink of an eye, like an illusion.
The bandit just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the bandit leader Zhou Shi on the opposite side suddenly widen his eyes and look at him in shock.
"The boss?" the bandit asked puzzledly.
But he reacted immediately.
The boss wasn't looking at him.
Instead, he looked behind him.
——Something was standing behind him.
The bandit swallowed his saliva, and moved his neck, which was stiff with fear, tremblingly, trying to look back.
A strand of long black hair with a bloody smell suddenly fell from above the bandit and landed on his face.
Then, the bandit was confronted with a hideous and rotten face of a woman.
“Ahhhhh…”
The sharp nails pierced into the bandit's eyes and pierced his head, and white liquid mixed with blood splattered all over the ground.
His scream of fear stopped abruptly, his body twitched twice and then stopped moving.
The sound here attracted the attention of the bandits who were still drinking and laughing, and they all looked over. Zhou Shi, who was frightened by the sudden appearance of the female ghost and the cruel killing, also reacted.
He was sobered up by the shock, but soon calmed down, not frightened by the scene of brains and blood all over the floor. He squinted his eyes and recognized the ghost's face half covered by black hair.
"Aren't you the woman I killed two days ago?" Zhou Shi stood up with a sinister smile: "Why, you turned into a female ghost and want to seek revenge on me?"
"Then come on, I've killed so many people that I can't even remember them all, but no one has ever turned into a ghost and killed me." Zhou Shi looked at the female ghost standing in a pool of blood on the ground with contempt: "If I were afraid of ghosts, I wouldn't do this job!"
Tick, tick…
Blood dripped from the hem of the blood-red cheongsam and fell into a pool of blood.
Xi Shuang lowered her head, her red eyes staring at the bandit who was lying in a pool of blood and died with his eyes open in horror. Her long black hair obscured all her expressions, making it impossible to tell whether the blood was splashed on her by the bandit or was tears of blood flowing from her eyes.
Unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable...
These people have clearly killed so many innocent people, why can they still sit here with a clear conscience, living under the guise of human beings!
She hated them so much, so much... She must, must kill them!!!
The nails on Xishuang's fingers hanging in her long black hair suddenly grew longer and sharper.
She suddenly raised her rotten face covered with blood and tears, and rushed towards the bandits in the living room with a scream of resentment.
The sharp nails are like blood-red daggers, which can easily cut through any obstacles placed in front of the bandits.
The nails cut directly into the bandit's neck like a knife cutting tofu, leaving a bloody wound in an instant. The cut aorta spurted out a large amount of blood like a fountain, and the surrounding bandits were covered in blood before they could react.
No matter how hard the bandit whose aorta was cut tried to raise his hands to cover his neck, he could only feel the cold life slowly draining away from his body in despair.
He opened his mouth and tried desperately to say something, but he could only fall on the ground covered in blood, looking up at the bloody female ghost, and gradually felt the despair of those who had died in his hands.
The bandits, who had originally calmed down their fear because of the words of the bandit leader Zhou Shi, saw the scene of being killed by the female ghost at the first sight, and silent fear spread among them.
They were holding the homemade rifles and sabers that they usually used to kill people, but their hands were shaking so much that they could hardly hold them, and they even subconsciously retreated.
No one wants to be the one rushing to the front and dying.
But Xishuang, who is willing to become a ghost out of hatred, will not let any bandit go.
The bandits only felt a red afterimage flash before their eyes, and when they looked again, the bloody female ghost was no longer standing there. And the screams of their companions could be heard nearby.
Accompanied by screams and the sounds of gushing blood, the bandits fell down wailing in despair, twitching in a pool of blood, and crawling towards the bandit leader Zhou Shi, wanting their boss to save them. They had just robbed so much gold, silver, and jewelry, and good days were just around the corner. They didn't want to die, they didn't want to die!
However, no matter whether it was Zhou Shi or the weapons in other people's hands, they were like tofu when facing the female ghost, and were easily scratched into a piece of scrap metal by the sharp nails.
The entire living room was splattered with blood and white liquid. Even the crystal chandelier hanging high up in the sky was covered with blood that was dripping down along the hanging crystals.
The originally exquisite and gorgeous ornaments and furniture were now covered with thick blood and flesh, making it impossible to recognize their original appearance.
The bandits fell in a pool of their own blood, crawling on the ground and struggling to escape. They stretched out their bloody arms and reached towards the gate not far away, but the distance was so close, but they couldn't reach it no matter how hard they climbed.
Some people were pulling Zhou Shi's trouser legs, looking up at him with desperate eyes. Their vocal cords, which were no longer able to speak, were still desperately making "ah ah" sounds, hoping that Zhou Shi would think of a way to save them.
But he was kicked down by Zhou Shi into a pool of blood.
The bandit leader who had just shouted ferociously that he was not afraid of ghosts did not expect that Xi Shuang, who was just a weak woman when she was alive, would become so evil after death. Dozens of murderous bandits could not withstand her attack, and neither knives nor guns could hurt Xi Shuang. They could not even aim at this female ghost.
The last time she looked, she was still there, but when the knife chopped over, she had disappeared from the spot and appeared behind them, cutting their skulls and arteries with her sharp nails.
Zhou Shi was scared.
For the first time in his life, he experienced what fear was.
That is the evil spirit's anger and deep hatred towards the perpetrator, and it is not something that can be decided by a living person's fists.
Zhou Shi, covered in blood splattered by other people, looked around in fear. He then discovered that all the brothers who had joined him in killing and looting were either dead or injured. Those who were still alive had been frightened by the female ghost and had dropped their rifles and sabers and fled in panic, trying to avoid the ghost's pursuit.
The positions of the murderer and the murdered were reversed.
Xi Shuang, who could only watch the death of familiar people in pain and was unable to resist when she was alive, finally gained the power she wanted after her death.
Even if the price of this power is being trapped here, unable to enter the world of the living again.
The long black hair spread in the pool of blood, entangled every bandit who was desperately trying to crawl out, trapping them and preventing them from leaving.
Xi Shuang chased after the fleeing bandits, and finally felt a sense of pleasure from the fear and panic on their faces.
Yes, that's how it should be.
You have killed so many people, how can you enjoy the looted things with a clear conscience and be complacent about your sins?
You must repent, you must experience the pain and despair that I have experienced. I want your souls to suffer forever and never be able to reincarnate!
The villa was littered with body parts and blood, and the walls and ceiling were also covered with a thick layer of blood that kept dripping down.
White fragments scattered from the shattered head into the blood, mixed with the remaining limbs, and were then kicked to pieces by the other bandits who were still alive as they struggled.
This is the eighteen levels of hell.
It is the judgment ground prepared by the evil spirit to avenge his hatred.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
In the villa where the screams gradually faded away, Zhou Shi could clearly hear his own heartbeat.
He knew it was his turn.
The woman who was hacked to death by him turned into a ghost and came back to find him!
Zhou Shi finally stopped hesitating. He threw down the knife and turned to run towards the gate of the villa. What about brothers and treasures? Meeting such a crazy woman in a place like this, the most important thing is to stay alive!
However, Xi Shuang never forgot Zhou Shi.
He threw the wet nurse to death in front of her eyes, then killed her, chopped her into pieces and threw her into the woodshed.
This person destroyed all her expectations and happiness!
"Where are you going?"
A cold voice came faintly from behind Zhou Shi.
"Killing someone means paying with your life. It's only right. You killed me and others, it's time to pay back."
“——Pay back your life!!!”
The evil ghost howled furiously, its long black hair spread all over the villa. The strong wind shook the trees violently, and everything in the villa was shaking. Glass shattered, wind rushed in, and cloth flew, blocking all of Zhou Shi's escape routes.
Xishuang's sharp long nails kept leaving hideous wounds on Zhou Shi's body. Zhou Shi screamed in pain, but there was no place to escape. He could only watch the nails getting closer and closer to him...
“Puff!”
The nails pierced straight into Zhou Shi's eyes and head.
Zhou Shi screamed out in unbearable pain, but Xishuang chopped off his arms, feet, thighs... and finally his head.
Just as Zhou Shi brutally dismembered Xi Shuang to vent his anger seven days ago, tonight, under the pale light of the full moon, Xi Shuang returned the pain in full.
Kindness? Forgiveness?
No, she just wanted the murderer to feel the pain and despair of being stabbed one by one!
"You are not worthy of wearing human skin and pretending to be human." Xi Shuang said this, and used her sharp nails to peel off the entire skin of the bandits.
The seriously injured bandits screamed for mercy miserably, but could not shake the cold and cruel evil spirit.
They eventually turned into blood-red monsters with human forms, bled to death, and died in the villa.
Xi Shuang carried the human skins and buried them under the rose bushes in the garden.
The originally white roses had long been stained red by the blood of the butlers and servants in the villa when they died, carrying their deep resentment and hatred.
As the human skins were buried, the rose bushes trembled violently, as if they were angry or crying.
——Finally, the enemies who killed them got the death they deserved.
The roots and tendrils of the rose bush spread and grew in the soil, binding the buried human skins tightly with all their strength, not allowing them to escape.
They died here, unable to leave because of resentment.
Then, let the enemies be trapped here forever.
——Until their resentment dissipates, until they are willing to enter the next reincarnation and leave.
Or perhaps, they will never forget the hatred they felt when they died.
The blood on the rose bushes faded little by little, from the creepy mottled red and black to pure white again, swaying in the wind under the moonlight.
But if you look closely, you can see that the layers of delicate, pure white rose petals vaguely form the outline of a human face.
They seemed to be wailing in pain and cursing in despair, but they could not escape from the rose even a step.
As for the bloody remains of the body and flesh, Xishuang stuffed them all into the wine barrels in the wine cellar.
Revel, and continue your revelry filled with sin and blood in your favorite wine! You treat life as worthless and worthless, and your hands are filled with blood debts that cannot be repaid. The people you killed are crying and wailing all the time, and you should not be forgiven!
Your bodies and souls will remain here forever, recalling your pain and despair every moment! !
…
The blood that was spilled all over the villa was blown up by the wind, blending with the mountain mist and obscuring the moon.
The blood moon is weeping.
Yan Shixun looked at the memories displayed before him from Xishuang's perspective, and finally understood why those blood-red humanoid monsters and the bandit leader Zhou Shi were so afraid of Xishuang.
Because Xi Shuang turned into a fierce ghost after his death and killed all the bandits who participated in the brutal massacre.
As for those blood-red humanoid monsters, they were actually the bandits who were skinned alive by Xishuang. The human-faced roses were the carriers of the bandits' souls, so they were afraid of the woodshed where the remains of Xishuang and the servants of the villa from a hundred years ago were kept, and they didn't even dare to look at it. The bandit leader Zhou Shi, who had transformed himself into an old housekeeper, also didn't dare to step into the garden.
Because there are the souls and corpses of the people he killed.
In the Ghost Hill Villa, the rules have not changed: the one being killed always fears the killer.
That's why a strange range was formed in the villa and the garden, and the several forces dared not step into each other's range.
Xi Shuang had hatred and murderous intentions towards the crimson room on the right side of the villa because the bandits had taken possession of the villa when they were alive, and even after they died, they still occupied the right side where the wine cellar was. Xi Shuang considered all the people living in the rooms on the right side to be bandits, which is why she said those words to Ding Qian and why she attacked.
As for the left side, it was because it was the side close to the garden and also the side where Xishuang's master bedroom was located. The bandits were afraid of the ghosts in the garden and Xishuang on the left, so they would not enter the room on the left. Even if they wanted to kill someone in the room on the left, they could only trick the person out of the room before they dared to do it.
On the contrary, Xishuang had a relatively friendly attitude towards the people in the room on the left.
Yan Shixun suddenly remembered Xi Shuang's repeated attempts to kill him, and he tilted his head in confusion.
——He also lives in the room on the left, why doesn’t Xishuang treat him the same way as he treats Baishuang?
Is it because he lives in the wet nurse's room?
But this is not important, so Yan Shixun put it aside temporarily.
The story of a hundred years ago was finally presented to him in its entirety through two different perspectives, and the missing pieces of the mental puzzle began to be pieced together.
But one thing is missing...
After everyone in the villa had died and the bandits' bodies had been stuffed into the wine cellar, why did the villagers who went up the mountain see the bandits' bodies all over the mountain?
What happened to the rumors of death that followed? How did the deaths of the villagers and passers-by that gave rise to the name Guishan come about?
Based on Yan Shixun's observation of Xi Shuang, although she had turned into a fierce ghost, she would not do anything like killing innocent people.
So... could it be that those bandits did this after they died?
But didn’t Xi Shuang tell the ghostly figure when she turned into a ghost that she would not let the bandits leave and continue to harm people?
Just as Yan Shixun's brain was working rapidly and he was deep in thought, his memory world began to collapse.
Spider-web-like cracks spread from the corners to every inch of the villa, making teeth-grinding cracking sounds.
The strange sound immediately brought Yan Shixun out of his thoughts, and he looked towards the source of the sound keenly.
Not only the villa, the whole mountain was shaking as if there was an earthquake.
Yan Shixun was stunned for a moment.
In the previous memory world that she entered with Zhou Shi's identity, it was because the departure of the nanny shook Xi Shuang that the memory world collapsed. So what about now? Why?
What he is relying on now is Xishuang's own identity.
Unless... Xishuang herself was wavering, or was attacked in some space outside the memory world.
Yan Shixun's heart sank, and he immediately recited a spell to drive away. He was no longer concerned about the fragile world of memory as he had been when he separated from Zhou Shi's overlapping identity. Instead, he acted swiftly and decisively, separating himself from Xi Shuang immediately.
Just as Yan Shixun's slender figure reappeared not far from Xi Shuang, the entire memory world collapsed and fell into darkness.
Before the pitch-black vision could be restored, Yan Shixun heard a sharp, long howl coming from Xishuang.
"Zhou Shi--!! How dare you come to see me! I will kill you, kill you!!"
The howl was filled with anger and hatred, and every word carried a blood feud.
But what made Yan Shixun even more alert was what Xi Shuang said.
A hundred years ago, Xi Shuang had used the wine that the bandits drank to celebrate their lives and the souls of the servants in the villa to suppress the bandits' bodies and souls respectively. Those things were indeed always afraid of Xi Shuang and did not dare to step into the area controlled by Xi Shuang, let alone appear in front of Xi Shuang.
But at this moment, Xi Shuang seemed to be irritated and shouted to Zhou Shi to come and see her.
Yan Shixun’s first reaction was that Zhou Shi walked into the fourth floor to find Xi Shuang.
But Zhou Shi had indeed shown his fear of Xi Shuang before. He didn't even dare to step into the garden. How could he set foot on the fourth floor where even the nanny couldn't enter?
wrong!
Yan Shixun suddenly had an idea and realized something.
——Several different forces in the villa have maintained a balance according to their own rules for hundreds of years.
But now, there is another force in the villa.
A living person from the program crew.
Zhou Shi has been obsessed with feeding his flesh and blood to the people in the production team. The male actor was frightened and went crazy, and Liu Yiyi drank the blood and was chopped...
The balance was destroyed.
With the help of the program crew, Zhou Shi may have gained the power to defeat Pit Xishuang.
Not to mention that he smashed the barrier in front of the fourth floor in order to enter. And he used the nanny as a breakthrough point, not only getting information about the villa from Xi Shuang, but also seriously shaking Xi Shuang.
The old butler Zhou Shi, who had disappeared since breakfast, was probably watching from a distance in a corner, waiting for the strength he needed to be gathered, and then taking the opportunity to enter and step onto the fourth floor after the barrier on the fourth floor was broken.
In a flash, Yan Shixun figured everything out.
Then, light gradually appeared at the end of Yan Shixun's perception.
He slowly opened his eyes.
He was facing the wrinkled and corpse-spotted face of the old butler a few meters away.
The old butler laughed stiffly: "So, the guest actually ran here."
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