This country lives by the sea. Everywhere you look, there are low houses with black roofs and white walls. The stone slabs on the road are covered with rough sand and stones and filled with broken shells. You can often see children lying on the ground, taking out black meat from shriveled shells and stuffing them into their mouths, grinning with a mouthful of rotten teeth.

According to An, this sea area is called the Storm Sea.

There was no salty scent of the sea breeze in the air, but a constant fishy stench, like a large animal rotting and stranded.

The sea water is not a clear blue color, but like endless thick ink.

Strong winds raged on the sea, lightning flashed, and occasionally shipwrecks and frightened pale human faces could be seen in the high black waves, but when one looked closely, there was nothing.

When the dark sea water rushed towards the beach, the sea seemed to come alive, and it felt like people were about to be swept under.

An looked very scared of this sea area, and had been hiding far away and not daring to get close. Seeing Jiang Ji walking towards the beach, she was so scared that she reached out and pulled Jiang Ji's skirt, "Sister, let's go... Let's not stay at the beach."

"Is there anything on the sea?" Jiang Ji asked.

"Traces of mermaids are often found in the distant sea of ​​this stormy sea," An said with a trace of fear on his face. "Many ships that went out to sea never came back. Many sailors who returned from the stormy sea heard beautiful songs coming from the deep sea and saw graceful figures with human bodies and fish tails appearing among the reefs. They constantly attack fishing boats that are lost at sea, bite and swallow the limbs of humans who are shipwrecked, and their barbed fish tails beat the waves, creating waves as high as castles..."

"Jerome's brother and father brought back two mermaid corpses and sold them to the nobles in the city at a high price. Now the prince of a neighboring country is also preparing a fleet to look for mermaids, saying that he wants to take them back and make them into specimens."

"And since then, the residents of this town have been acting strangely. I heard that someone has seen traces of mermaids in the sea recently, and those ferocious mermaids are approaching the town..."

"If we wait until they can come ashore to find food..."

Although the pollution level is relatively light, the facial distortion will be more obvious when the emotions fluctuate greatly.

We cannot allow An’s pollution to get worse.

Jiang Ji was just about to turn around when she noticed out of the corner of her eye that a human leg that was carried high up by the waves was bitten by something that suddenly jumped out of the sea. The thing turned its head and looked at them on the beach, its open mouth full of jagged fangs.

"hiss--!"

She used force to turn An's face away as he was about to turn around.

A good sister should not cause psychological trauma to her younger sister.

The beach was littered with dead fish and rotten shrimps. Walk along the path into the town.

People in the town make a living by fishing, so there are not many people here during the day.

The faces of the residents and pedestrians along the road showed varying degrees of distortion, and their bodies made rusty crackling sounds as they walked.

Those people all looked towards them at the same time, and the waning moon reflected the subtle smiles on their faces.

"The Duchess..."

"The duke...the lady..."

The sound, as thin as a mosquito's buzz, became clearer and clearer.

[Rule 20: You are the most distinguished Duchess, and common people do not deserve your response.]

Jiang Ji captured voices that did not belong to the town's residents.

The sharp, the malicious, were mixed in there.

If you are an ordinary person, it is easy to get caught here.

Fortunately, these residents were just shouting vaguely from a distance, Jiang Ji ignored them and just pulled An past without looking around.

What comes into view is a stepped square with a broken angel sculpture standing in the center and surrounded by dry fountains.

The angel was snow-white, had no eyeballs, held a harp in his hands, and his huge wings were covered with human eyeballs.

Jiang Ji always felt that she was being watched by this statue. Even when she walked behind the angel statue, the feeling of being watched followed her.

There was no water in the fountain pool, but it was filled with layers of bones that seemed to come from various animals. It was just unknown whether there were other bones mixed in. Jiang Ji got closer to take a look and saw that there were fine tooth marks on these bones, indicating that they had been gnawed very cleanly.

Many civilians were dancing silently in the square.

Their faces were slightly distorted, their feet were bleeding, and countless tentacles were dancing in the shadows on the ground.

Next to it is a dilapidated church.

[Rule 19: No music can be heard in the music square, and there is no water in the fountain pool.]

She certainly didn't hear the music.

Jiang Ji asked, "An, when will the family come back?"

After Anna married Duke Bluebeard, her family was also canonized and rewarded by the great nobleman, and Anna's father became a baron. The family's dependence on the duchy can also explain why Anne became the next duchess after Anna's death.

"At the end of the month. My father wrote to me saying that he had met a well-educated widow. We may have a stepmother soon."

Jiang Jiyuan was alert: "Does the widow have two daughters?"

An shook his head: "There are only two sons, and they seem to be older than us."

Is this the brother who helps Ann kill Bluebeard at the end of the story?

But there is still half a month left until the end of the month.

The requirement to pass the world of ghost stories is to survive for ten days.

An stopped and said, "We're here."

Jiang Ji looked at the houses on both sides of the street.

Nearly half of the shops here hang red cloth, and half hang white cloth. The tailor shop where she had her dress custom-made hangs white cloth.

[Rule 17: Living people are not welcome to enter shops with red cloth.]

It seemed that she was welcome to enter the tailor shop.

The tailor shop was closed and the situation inside could not be seen clearly. Outside there were many plaster dolls wearing beautiful dresses piled up.

These plasters are restored one to one.

The workmanship is lifelike and the expressions are vivid.

Jiang Ji stopped at the door.

An was a little surprised: "Sister, why don't you go in?"

Jiang Ji's eyes saw the scene within three minutes.

The tailor shop was empty. After stepping into the shop, I felt as if possessed by a ghost. I picked up the scissors in the basket and cut open my stomach expressionlessly. I frantically filled my body with plaster powder and water, and soon I turned into a plaster doll that looked exactly like the plaster standing outside.

Jiang Ji: ...

It seems that this rule is also a trap.

The red cloth shop simply does not welcome living people, while the "welcome" in the white cloth shop means "welcome" in another sense.

Jiang Ji found a dirty kid squatting on the side of the road picking out shell meat.

She took out the