Gu Xiaochui put the cup with the feathers on it aside and took out a piece of jerky to leisurely nibble on.
Although he is now deaf in both ears, he is a complete deaf person.
But this feeling.
It evoked a sense of tranquility amidst chaos.
Gu Xiaochui squinted his eyes contentedly, feeling quite pleased with himself.
However, at that moment, a cool breeze suddenly blew past him from behind.
A chill ran down his spine, and he instinctively hugged his arms and rubbed them up and down.
What's going on?
Has it gotten colder?
Gu Xiaochui frowned, changed his cup to a warm honey tea, and then took a big gulp.
However, after drinking the hot tea, the chill around him did not lessen at all; in fact, it seemed to be getting worse.
Gu Xiaochui looked around curiously.
For some reason, he felt a little uneasy.
It was as if he wasn't the only one here...
Thinking of this, Gu Xiaochui suddenly recalled what Rong Zi had said to him before leaving the day before yesterday: "Now there are only the two of you left in the sect. Your yang energy is weak, and you may see ghosts."
His heart skipped a beat, and he unconsciously tightened his grip on the honey tea.
Gu Xiaochui swallowed hard and looked up at the sky above.
To his surprise, all the stars in the sky had disappeared, and the night above him seemed to be shrouded in an eerie black mist, looking sinister and sinister.
That's a little scary!
Gu Xiaochui's breathing became labored.
Could it be... that there really is a ghost?
The idea was rejected by him as soon as it came to mind.
Gu Xiaochui raised his hand and smacked his head, muttering to himself with amusement, "What am I thinking? How could there be ghosts in the sect?"
Even if there were, what kind of ghost would dare to approach him, a dignified Golden Core cultivator?
Gu Xiaochui looked up at the night sky again.
He thought to himself: It must just be a change in the weather.
It might rain soon...
right!
That must be it!
Gu Xiaochui took a deep breath and drank the honey tea in one gulp.
It's getting late, he should go and cultivate too.
Gu Xiaochui stood up from her seat and turned to leave.
However, as soon as he turned around, he was caught off guard and met a pair of bloodshot eyes...
Its eyeballs were about to fall out of their rotting sockets, writhing stiffly, its gaze fixed intently on Gu Xiaochui.
The owner of the eyeballs was indistinguishable as male or female. Their body was rotting and their hair was sparse and messy, covering a rotten head that was missing a piece of skull. Moreover, half of their face was exposed bone, with pieces of rotting flesh clinging to it.
For a moment, Gu Xiaochui's mind went blank.
The next second.
His pupils contracted sharply, his eyes widened, and he covered his face with both hands.
They perfectly performed the content of the oil painting 'The Scream'.
"Holy crap! It's a ghost!!!"
A piercing scream burst from her throat, as if she wanted to tear the sky apart!
Gu Xiaochui's legs went weak, and she stumbled backward, turning to run away.
But as he turned his head, a headless neck, still spurting blood, rushed into his line of sight.
The man was holding his head upside down with both hands.
Gu Xiaochui saw with his own eyes that the severed head's mouth was speaking. Although he couldn't hear it, he could vaguely sense that the other party seemed to be saying: "You've held it upside down, the head is upside down."
Because the next moment, the headless body holding the head manipulated its arms to turn the head in its arms over.
That's right.
It was flipped over.
From top to bottom and out.
It turned into an upside-down, inward-facing position.
Gu Xiaochui: "..."
Gu Xiaochui didn't know if the severed head was speaking again; all he saw was the headless body constantly fiddling with the head in its hand, as if trying to straighten it.
Gu Xiaochui was so frightened by what he saw that he was trembling all over.
I've lived for over ten years.
This was the first time he had ever seen a ghost!
A living ghost!
This time, Gu Xiaochui not only lost her hearing, but also lost her voice.
His face was pale, he opened his mouth but didn't say a word, and then he took off running.
But when he tried to escape, he discovered that there were far more than just those two ghosts.
Some crawled on the ground, some emerged from the soil, some had no eyes, some were missing arms or legs, and some even had a huge hole in their stomachs, dragging their intestines as they ran around.
Suddenly, the entire courtyard was filled with all sorts of ghosts.
They all looked extremely distressed, staring intently at Gu Xiaochui as if he were their only lifeline.
Gu Xiaochui almost burst into tears on the spot.
What... what's going on?!
Fearing that he would be torn apart by these things, Gu Xiaochui dragged his legs, which were shaking like a leaf, and used all his strength to frantically dodge and escape.
But he had only run a couple of steps when one of his legs was suddenly grabbed by a ghost lying on the ground.
He paused for a moment, then looked down with a chill running down his spine.
The ghost's face looked relatively normal; it resembled a young man, without missing eyes or a nose, but its face was covered in blood and its expression was distorted.
However, Gu Xiaochui looked down along the ghost's head.
When he saw that it only had half a body, he instantly bristled, almost scared out of his wits, and frantically shook his legs.
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