“Crack!”
Screams rang out one after another, and the White Cloaks had no time to care about the villagers, and the place was in chaos.
The one that caught fire first had its cloak burned off, revealing a clean white skeleton. The skeleton rolled on the ground in pain, covered in mud, but the flames did not let it go. The white jade skeleton was quickly burned to a charred black, and its screams gradually weakened.
None of its companions dared to touch it because it had already touched three of its companions in its dying struggle, and these three companions were also set on fire. However, they still had some rationality and did not harm their own kind. Instead, they quickly ran towards the stream outside the village.
Many white cloaks followed behind the three companions.
They were very fast, their cloaks fluttering in the night, and they jumped into the river with a splash.
What made the three white cloaks despair was that the blue flame could actually burn in the water, and the hot steam rose up, even steaming out fractures in the stream.
Soon, the three cloaks also turned into ashes.
The green flame was extinguished.
The stream slowly resumed its flow.
The remaining White Mantles stood in silence beside the stream.
After a long while, a figure in a white cloak made two gentle "click" sounds.
The remaining cloaks began to get agitated, seemingly discussing how this strange green flame came into being.
Lan Zhi's soul stood quietly by, and instead of killing them all, she planned to follow them to see where their nest was.
What Lan Zhi didn't know was that in addition to the ones she was tracking, there were many "monsters" floating around the village, and on the other side of the village, there were still some white cloaks active. They caught two villagers who broke the rules and surrounded them.
Pale skeleton hands stretched out from under the cloak, and with a strong squeeze, they could pinch a piece of flesh off the body of a living person.
The blood dyed the bones red, and they made strange crackling sounds as they kept pulling flesh and blood from the two poor villagers.
There was also a man in a white cloak whose fingers turned into sharp bone knives, carefully scraping off the blood remaining on the bones, with an attitude as serious as if he was carving a work of art.
“Ahhh!”
The two villagers were in excruciating pain, but their bodies were firmly restrained by an unknown force and they could not struggle. They could only lie straight on the ground and be slaughtered.
After half an hour, the torture finally ended. The two villagers turned from living people into pale skeletons. The two skeletons stood up, and the flesh and blood that had been torn off turned into a cloak, which was draped over them. They also became one of the white cloaks.
In the distance, a single woman lived in a thatched hut. She sat on the edge of the bed with a gloomy expression.
In the woman's memory, she was born in a happy family. Her parents were loving and hardworking, working from sunrise to sunset every day. She also had a younger brother, and the family of four lived a happy and harmonious life. But two years ago, her parents and younger brother went out to buy meat, leaving her alone at home to watch the door. She waited for a long time and fell asleep. When she woke up the next day, she learned that her parents and younger brother were dead, dead at the doorstep, bleeding from all seven orifices. Her father was holding the pork he had just bought in his hands. His expression was terrified, as if he had seen some horrible scene.
She was the only one left at home.
She vowed to avenge her family, but she had no idea who her enemy was. As far as she could remember, going out at night was forbidden in the village...
What's going on at night?
The woman sat by the bed for a long time before she finally made up her mind, changed into her nightgown, and quietly opened the door.
——She didn't realize at all that the happy family in her memory was actually fake. She just woke up today. This was her first day living in Chihu Village, but she felt like she had lived here for twenty years.
She thought she was being careful enough, but the moment she stepped out of the room, she suddenly saw a twisted black shadow appear in front of her.
The shadow has a pair of dark green eyes.
"Ha..." The black shadow laughed greedily, saliva flowing from the corner of his mouth.
It pounced on the woman and bit her neck.
The woman fell backwards with a look of astonishment in her eyes. At the moment before her death, all the false memories in her mind dissipated like bubbles.
At the same time, she remembered her true identity.
She was a disciple of a certain sect and entered the Secret Realm of the Medical Saint in search of an opportunity. However, upon entering, her spiritual power was sealed and the memories of an ordinary person were implanted in her mind...
Even if she remembered it now, it was too late. Her spiritual power was still sealed and she could not resist. In addition, her neck had been bitten off. She could only survive unless she swallowed the elixir immediately. The problem was that no one came to save her.
The black shadow began to bite her body, but the black shadow's teeth seemed to be not very good, and it bit her body randomly, leaving her body bloody and mangled.
The woman's body gradually grew cold, her consciousness blurred, and she fell into a deep sleep forever.
The black shadow smacked its lips, wagged its tail, and walked away contentedly.
After a while, another black shadow with green eyes ran over, smelling the blood, lowered its head and took a few bites, tasted the blood, and left.
They are all ferocious beasts, but their bodies have long been dead, so they cannot eat flesh and blood. They can only reluctantly taste the flavor to satisfy their cravings.
Now they are the guardian beasts of the secret realm, responsible for punishing villagers who break the rules.
There are thousands of "villagers" living in the entire village.
Most villagers know the taboos of Chihu Village, but everyone is curious, and there are always some who seek death by running out at night.
In the village at night, various "monsters" wander around, including those in white cloaks, black shadows with green eyes, and long scarlet worms.
A total of 153 villagers died that night.
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In the thatched cottage of the Zhu family, Lan Zhi chatted with her two brothers through the wall and urged them to go to bed quickly.
Zhu Tong was still in shock and held onto Lan Zhi's arm, refusing to let go. Logically, the brother and sister were not young anymore and should sleep separately. Lan Zhi was ready to sleep on the floor, but Zhu Tong was so scared that she insisted on sleeping in the same bed with her.
Lan Zhi hesitated for a few seconds and then agreed. After all, she was not a real man.
Lan Zhi's physical body only had a small part of consciousness, similar to doing two things at once. Her main attention was still focused on the white-cloaked people beside the stream.
But that night, they basically stopped moving.
Lan Zhi's soul was bored and started "wandering" around the village.
Then, she saw the monsters that were also wandering around the streets.
Many monsters cannot see the soul, but the green-eyed beasts can.
They surrounded us with fierce eyes.
Most beasts can't speak, and can only utter a few simple words like "Ha," "Heh," "Pain," and "Roar." Only one beast with the word "King" written on its head can speak human language. It asked in confusion, "What... are you?"
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