Chapter 26: I've seen corpses, ghosts, and monsters, let alone ghosts. ...
Midnight.
Mu Xingchen shuttled through the western suburbs forest. Tonight, the sky was covered with dark clouds, there was no light in the sky, and there was almost no light visible in the entire forest.
She had been to this place two days ago when she came to look for Tushan Xu. Although she knew that this place was a burial ground, she really didn't expect that the lives left here, or the lives of the Yuegan tribe, were much more than she thought. The further she went inside, the stronger the smell of blood became.
Suddenly, a "crack" sounded beneath Mu Xingchen's feet. She stopped and looked down. What she had stepped on was a skull. There was blood on the surface of the skull, and to the naked eye, the blood looked fresh. This person had died not long ago.
"Who!" Suddenly she turned around and took two steps back.
"Crack, crackle" were the sounds of bones turning, and suddenly there was a "crash", the tree shook violently and countless leaves fell down. Behind the leaves, there was an extremely strange thing hanging upside down.
It was a human body that looked like a mummy, with only a thin layer of skin clinging tightly to the bones. The eye sockets on the face were sunken, and the two large eyeballs inside kept moving up and down, looking extremely weird.
The only difference between him and the skeleton at his feet was that he was still breathing.
"Hehehehe——" The man looked at Mu Xingchen and suddenly opened his bloody mouth. At that moment, a strong smell of decay spread from his mouth, and the stench was overwhelming.
Mu Xingchen was really disgusted. She took two steps back and raised her hand to cover her nose with her sleeve.
The corpse's huge black pupils fixed their gaze towards Mu Xingchen, and then it said in a cracked voice, "You can see me."
He began to look at her curiously, his eyes gleaming with surprise, as if he had found some new toy. No, to be more precise, it was as if he had seen some delicious food.
The next second, he showed a few teeth, turned his head, made a crunching sound, and saliva flowed down his lips.
"Hehehe~ You just~ stepped on my food~" His voice was as hoarse as a crow, harsh and unpleasant. The pair of eyes on his head slowly bulged out at this moment, and the red bloodshot fell straight down. An extremely strange and terrifying feeling seeped out from the soles of his feet through the ground and penetrated straight into his pores.
He hooked the branches with both hands, leaned forward and gradually approached Mu Xingchen.
Mu Xingchen looked at him coldly, kicked the skull away with his feet, and uttered two words softly from the corner of his mouth: "Get out."
The mummy's eyes rolled around, as if a little surprised.
"Hehehe~" The corners of his mouth gradually stretched open, and his pupils widened again as he moved closer.
"You're not afraid of me. A woman with no cultivation breaks in here alone, but you're not afraid of me, hahaha." As he said that, his body suddenly leaned forward, his face close to her, and he whispered in her ear, "I used to like to eat dead things, but now, I want to eat alive things." As he said that, he excitedly grabbed towards Mu Xingchen with both hands.
Mu Xingchen took two steps back, feeling irritated, and his eyes were colder than ever before.
She turned around and walked away, no longer paying attention to the mummy. The mummy stared at her walking back with his pupils widened. He said in surprise, "Huh!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he fell suddenly from the tree with a "bang". The moment he fell, his head and body were cut off by a knife. "Crack, crack, crack", his head rolled several times on the ground due to inertia and rolled directly next to the skull. His eyes were staring at the skull.
Is he dead?
His pupils began to spin around, and finally locked onto the direction where Mu Xingchen left. It was not until a long while later that the disgusting pupils gradually dimmed, and there was no life left.
Xiao Qi was surprised and said, "You are angry, Xingchen."
She hadn't seen stars like this for a long time. At that moment, she seemed to be back to the time when she first met her ten years ago: cold, depressed, cruel, and mechanized.
Mu Xingchen didn't say anything. She was very annoyed now. The internal injuries in her chest made her even more annoyed. She had never been so annoyed or so powerless before.
She had to think for two seconds whether to deal with a small evil cultivator.
She secretly suppressed her breath, thinking that a tiger in plain land was bullied by a dog.
One step, two steps...
Mu Xingchen stopped and looked up suddenly.
"Crash--" The next second, countless mummies around hung upside down from the trees. They shook their torsos and mechanically turned their heads towards Mu Xingchen. At this moment, their huge, dark eyes were locked straight on one person.
"Hualalalalalala——" As the noises on the trees grew louder, more and more mummies were hanging upside down. There was almost a mummy hanging upside down on every tree around. A strong, foul smell of decay gradually rose, as disgusting as the smell of a sewer that had been stored there for hundreds of years.
Xiao Qi in the bracelet smelled something and exclaimed in surprise: "It's a corpse ghost! Run! Xingchen!"
Before Xiao Qi could finish speaking, Mu Xingchen ran towards the Seven Star Tower.
"What is a ghoul?" she asked breathlessly as she ran.
"These evil cultivators feed on corpses and absorb spiritual resentment to cultivate. These creatures aren't anything special, and their cultivation isn't high, but they're incredibly united. Once they're targeted, they'll fight to the death." She said in frustration, "They're rare, and I didn't react for a moment. Otherwise, I would have warned you."
Mu Xingchen ran breathlessly, "Why are there so many new and strange things in this world! I have never seen these before."
Damn, she thought it was just an ordinary evil cultivator.
"Our world doesn't have such abundant spiritual energy, nor do we have a large number of corpses for people to eat. Everything is cremated."
Mu Xingchen gritted his teeth and said, you’re right, I’ve seen monsters, let alone ghosts.
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