"Uncle, help me! Help me!"
"Master, help! There's a ghost!"
Li Jinrong and Xiao Fei huddled together, their screams piercing the rain.
The woman's rotting fingertips brushed against Li Jinrong's nose, startling him so much that he scrambled backward.
Xiao Fei lay sprawled in the mud, trembling as he pulled out his phone and started snapping photos: "There's a ghost! This is a fucking enhanced version of Sadako!"
I'm speechless.
I don't know if he was really scared or just pretending.
Who would take out their phone to record a video when they're scared?
Is it a photo taken before death or a video of death?
I quickly drew my lightning sword.
The peach wood sword slashed through the air, and the cinnabar talisman, aided by the rain, condensed into chains that bound the fleeting figure of the female corpse.
"May the wronged souls not commit further sins!"
The female corpse let out a shrill scream, and her rotting skirt suddenly swelled up, turning into countless pale arms that reached out to grab me.
I'm not worried at all about a female ghost of this caliber.
I bit my tongue and spat out a mist of blood. The talisman exploded upon contact with the blood, forming a Bagua barrier.
The female corpse was thrown back three zhang (approximately 10 meters), hanging in mid-air, twisting and screaming.
"By the Supreme Decree, your lonely soul transcends, all ghosts and demons, and all living beings receive grace—"
As the incantation was chanted, the resentment on the female corpse receded like a tide.
Her decaying face gradually regained its delicate features. She nodded slightly to me and then turned into specks of light, disappearing into the rain.
Li Jinrong knelt on the ground, retching incessantly, pointing to the desolate grave in the distance.
"Ah, Uncle... last night... last night I slept with her... was she really a vixen?"
I bent down and picked up his dropped gold chain.
The chain was still stained with the black blood left by the female ghost: "Otherwise, do you think those 'girls' that haunt your dreams were just painted skins?"
The rain was pouring down, and large raindrops pelted the three of us.
The mountain path turned into a rushing stream, making it impossible to descend the mountain.
Li Jinrong and Xiao Fei huddled in the tent, staring at the still-wet Soul-Suppressing Talismans on their backs, shivering from time to time.
As the rain subsided late into the night, the two solemnly promised to leave at daybreak.
However, when I woke up, the bedding beside me was already cold, but Li Jinrong and Xiao Fei's luggage remained untouched.
They rushed out of the tent, only to find their vehicle parked alone in the mud.
The car door was wide open, and there was a half-eaten apple on the driver's seat.
From the direction of the distant village, the familiar sound of bells could be faintly heard through the morning mist—three long and two short, like a call to lost lambs.
Holy crap, did they go into the village again?
It's not impossible.
Think of Dazhu; the reason I came here is because he was afraid.
But after arriving here, he completely changed, and changed several times in fact.
It's estimated that the magnetic field here attracted them and disrupted their brainwaves.
...
Push open the wooden door leading to Xiaolian's house.
The wooden door hinges made a strange "creaking" sound, much like a woman's sobbing.
The candlelight flickered inside the room, and Xiaolian was combing her hair with her back to me.
Only half of the jade hairpin remained in her hair, gleaming faintly in the candlelight.
Hearing the noise, she turned around abruptly, the fox-shaped birthmark on her wrist gleaming brightly: "What are you doing here again?!"
The candlelight suddenly flared up, revealing the bloodshot veins in her eyes.
"Didn't I say yesterday that I would come tonight?"
I closed the door, and the moment the latch clicked down, I heard a soft tinkling of bells from outside.
Xiaolian rushed over and pushed me, her fingertips icy cold: "This time is different! Let's go!"
Her strength wasn't great, but it carried a desperate, all-or-nothing determination.
"Have Li Jinrong and Xiao Fei arrived?"
Xiaolian suddenly looked up, the mist on her eyelashes falling onto her clothes.
"I... I don't know who you're talking about." She took a half step back, her lower back hitting the bronze mirror.
"Two men!"
I pressed down on her trembling shoulders, feeling the slight vibration of her bones in my palm: "A fat man wearing a gold chain, and a thin man in a suit!"
"I...I..."
Xiaolian was a little afraid to look up at me.
"Say it!"
Xiaolian nodded, "Yes... I've been here..."
Before he finished speaking, the sound of porcelain shattering came from outside, mixed with Li Jinrong's signature lewd laughter, but with a touch more lewdness than the night before.
Looks like they really came.
"And who's the last one? Where did Dazhu go?"
I stared at her evasive eyes.
Xiao Lian suddenly covered her mouth, tears falling onto her clothes: "He...he went into the 'Thousand Soul Cave'..."
What is the Thousand Soul Cave?
I grabbed her wrist.
Xiaolian suddenly shook me off and pointed to the hidden compartment: "It's the Soul Refining Kiln built with the finger bones of living people! That coal boss from last month, and... and that big pillar you brought."
Her voice was drowned out by the sound of bells outside: "They are now the soul fire of the kiln!"
Suddenly, a scraping sound came from the roof, a rhythm of three long and two short scratches.
Xiao Lian shoved me into the tunnel, and the smell of decaying leaves mixed with the stench of blood hit me: "Hurry! The kids are about to open the kiln!"
I grabbed her hand and asked, "When will the kiln be opened?"
Her pupils reflected the eerie blue flames flickering deep within the tunnel. Suddenly, she grabbed my collar and pushed me into the tunnel: "It's three-quarters past midnight! Time to ignite the fire with the blood of living souls—"
Half a fox tail suddenly peeked out from the shadows at the tunnel entrance, and the bronze bell flashed coldly in the mist.
I pulled out my Thunderstrike Sword and pressed it against Xiaolian's back: "Take me to the Thousand Soul Cave."
She trembled all over.
"you……"
"Stop talking nonsense and take me there!"
I couldn't bear to look into her eyes.
Because I know she meant well, but I won't just walk away like that.
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