C136 – Strange Tales of Fengjia Town

The night was getting darker.

 

Inside the church, Jiu Shu was watching the “Human Gu” movie in the system panel.

 

 

As a spin-off movie of the original “Strange Tales of Fengjia Town,”  this movie introduced the refining method and consumption method of human gu from the beginning.

 

The refining method of human gu was mentioned in the original movie, but the consumption method was not.

 

In order to consume human gu, it was necessary to pick off the flesh and bloo-d of the gus in the body before the human Gu died and then use a special powder to preserve it.

 

Only flesh and bloo-d that had been removed from raw materials were delicious; they wouldn’t easily rot and could be carried for a long time.

 

 

Human Gu weren’t easy to make, but as long as the body didn’t die, the flesh of human Gu could be regenerated.

 

 

However, the human Gu could inhibit its own growth process, so when the human Gu reached its peak, they needed to pluck the eyes, ears, and nose of the human Gu and fill it with mercury so that they lost their self-awareness.

 

Watching these introductions at the beginning of the movie, Jiu Shu’s brows furrowed.

 

After the simple introduction, the next scene of the movie was a shaky one with an unknown meaning.

 

In the dimly lit scene, there was the sound of a woman’s screaming.

 

 

There was also the creepy sound of snakes crawling around.

 

Then there were the cries of a baby.

 

 

Men whose faces couldn’t be seen gathered excitedly in front of the camera, gazing at the crying baby.

 

 

Each one looked so greedy that it seemed like they wanted to swallow the baby whole.

 

 

The scene shifted, and the crazy woman held the crying baby in her arms.

 

 

The baby’s face was red from crying, and it stretched out its tiny palms to touch the mother in front of it.

 

The mother, however, just looked indifferently at the Gus wriggling under the baby’s skin.

 

 

As if recalling a bad memory, she quickly raised the knife in her hand with a grim expression.

 

 

“Die! Why don’t you die?”

 

 

“If you don’t die now, you will die later! You monster, it’s good to die earlier!”

 

 

The moment the knife fell, bloo-d colored the screen, and the baby’s cries turned into shrill screams, piercing to the extreme.

 

 

Splat.

 

 

Tiny arms and legs scattered, then spreading bloo-d, eyes, ears, nose, and finally the soft head.

 

 

The woman’s hands, weak to the point of trembling, were still an irresistible force to the baby.

 

 

In extreme agony, the baby soon lost its voice.

 

 

The woman was still numbly wielding the sharp knife until she was stopped by the townspeople who arrived in anger.

 

 

“You stinking bi-tch! How dare you! How dare you!!!”

 

 

The last image in the woman’s eyes was the hoes and spiked rakes raised high by the men she had once made love to.

 

 

Plop.

 

 

Bloo-d stained her vision.

 

 

But she laughed until she died.

 

 

Mad as hell.

 

 

“Ho ho ho! Good, it’s good to die! Hahaha! You’re all going to die! All of you are going to die!”

 

 

The movie screen went to the next picture.

 

 

Several old men and timid-looking women sit around a depressingly small room.

 

 

Carefully stitching together a puddle of broken flesh with special silk thread, they eventually put it together in the shape of a baby.

 

 

But the baby never woke up, even with further stimulation from the parasites.

 

 

The sound of several men arguing angrily came from outside the frame.

 

 

“What now! The human Gu is dead, and it died so tragically, it’s over! It’s all over!”

 

 

“Perhaps there is still a way.”

 

 

In the next scene, the pale, stitch-covered baby was abandoned in the middle of a mountain forest, in a cave said to be full of venomous animals.

 

 

Countless entwined venomous snakes caught the scent of rotting flesh and swarm over the baby’s body, quickly drowning it.

 

 

In the end, they were all swallowed again by a huge Python.

 

 

The python slowly swam away after swallowing the food, and there were no more traces of the baby within the cave.

 

 

The usual calm was soon restored.

 

 

This was the source of the object of discipline’s snaketail.

 

 

Jiu Shu lowered his eyes, his heart a little depressed, because he knew that the objects of discipline had already suffered all of these pains once.

 

 

And if nothing was done to stop it, he would be even more miserable in the future plot line.

 

 

The movie continued.

 

 

The yellowed movie images of the past dispersed and were replaced by the figures of college students who came to visit in groups.

 

 

The gloomy town was filled with dilapidated houses and the remnants of people’s lives that they left in a hurry.

 

 

It was obvious that the people of this town were panicked when they left.

 

 

A few of the boys looked at the town and felt a chill in the pit of their stomachs, inexplicably terrified.

 

 

They didn’t know what had happened to cause the people of this town to flee in a panic without even being able to move their furniture.

 

 

A few of the girls were also terrified.

 

 

They got together and searched around for clues.

 

 

Later on, they did find a book documenting Gus in a secluded mansion.

 

 

The book recorded a peculiar kind of compulsion called the Human Gu.

 

 

When a human Gu wasn’t yet fully developed and it died tragically, they could use the Gus to eliminate resentment.

 

 

However, if the human Gu was fully developed, their resentment would be difficult to dispel and would turn into a fierce ghost lingering in place, cursing all those who harmed them.

 

 

No matter where one went, they wouldn’t be able to get rid of the curse.

 

 

The only way to get rid of the curse was to divide the flesh and bloo-d of the human Gu into seven parts and hide them in twelve Gu jars, some of which were fake and some real.

 

 

Confusing the Gu, making it unable to distinguish the location of its own remains and thus unable to continue cursing.

 

 

Sealed in such a way in a place where incense was at its peak and worshiped for five years, it would suppress the human Gu.

 

 

But during these five years, one must not open the jar of the human Gu; otherwise, the grievances of the human Gu would no longer be suppressed.

 

 

Student A looked at the book and curiously pointed to the coffin in the nearby ancestral hall, saying, “It can’t be those jars, right?”

 

 

The crowd looked in the direction of the ancestral hall, where a dozen or so jars labeled with yellow talismans were sitting.

 

 

And they had just torn off a few of those pasted yellow talismans for the sake of exploration.

 

 

“Don’t bluff, it’s all just feudal superstition, haha.” Student B laughed forcefully and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

 

 

In the next second, he saw the students in front of him all looking in the direction behind him with pale faces.

 

 

The look of fear was enough to scare him to the bone.

 

 

Student B trembled as he slowly turned his head and looked behind himself.

 

 

Behind him was the hall door of the mansion, which should have been pitch black in this gloomy evening, but now there was a ghostly light.

 

 

It was only after Student B put on his glasses that he could see that it wasn’t an ethereal light but a huge eyeball.

 

 

It was like there was a giant snake a hundred meters in size peering at them through the hall door.

 

 

The cold and horrifying vertical pupil was filled with a grievous venom that made the brain go blank.

 

 

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but student B actually felt that he heard a man laughing perversely.

 

 

Found it.

 

 

The man was saying that he had found it.

 

 

His voice was filled with twisted madness.

 

 

Like he had been searching for this for years.

 

 

Jiu Shu paused the movie.

 

 

He looked up at the sky outside the window.

 

 

It was already time for a break.

 

 

But that wasn’t why Jiu Shu stopped the movie; he heard movement outside the door.

 

 

Like something strange was making its way to the door.

 

 

Getting up, Jiu Shu walked towards the door.

 

 

And at that moment, the uninvited guest outside the church had also approached the .

 

 

The pitch-black scale-covered snake tail swept across the lapis lazuli paved floor, moving at an extremely fast speed, and the snake’s tail alone was four to five meters long, making people feel like they were seeing a huge python from a distance.

 

 

However, under the moonlight, the shadow of a human body with a snake’s tail could be vaguely seen.

 

 

The icy inorganic vertical pupils of that strange thing became more and more eerie and lurid under the moonlight.

 

 

Gu Yin stopped in front of the church door.

 

 

He didn’t know what the priest looked like, so he stretched out his hand and released many gu into the church.

 

He intended to explore the way first.

 

But for some reason, the Gu went in and didn’t move.

 

For the first time, the Gu that used to share his mind didn’t responding to his commands but instead passed on some strange soft and hot emotions to him.

 

 

Gu Yin didn’t understand what was happening.

 

 

He finally got slightly more serious and slashed the skin at his wrist, releasing more poisonous snakes.

 

 

These were more advanced venomous snakes that he was concentrating on controlling to send him messages faster.

 

 

With a murderous intent to ki-ll the bad guy, a letter-spitting viper joined the other venomous gu in burrowing through the closed doors of the church.

 

 

Hiss.

 

 

Among them, the viper had a sharper sense of smell than the other venomous snakes, and it caught the smell of a human.

 

 

He smelled sweeter than the nectar of the mountain bees.

 

 

It fascinated the snake.

 

 

The viper then pushed aside the other venomous snakes and swam in the direction the smell came from, as ordered by Gu Yin.

 

 

Gu Yin, on the other hand, searched for hidden entrances outside the church, and while swimming, he recalled Feng Qi’s description during the day when she talked about the priest.

 

 

Black semi-long hair, tied behind his head, black eyes, white skin, red lips, likes to wear a long robe.

 

 

He’d take a bite when he saw it, as a small punishment for the bad guy priest.

 

 

Found it?

 

 

Gu Yin sensed that the viper had stopped.

 

 

I found it.

 

The viper hissed, raised its head to look at the figure not far away, and opened its fangs.

 

 

As Gu Yin’s gu, Viper was somehow considered part of Gu Yin and would naturally carry out Gu Yin’s will unconditionally.

 

 

Gu Yin wanted to ki-ll the priest, and the viper naturally complied.

 

 

It swam rapidly in the direction of the youth, and its poisonous fangs viciously stabbed at the human in front of it who fit the bill perfectly.

 

 

It was going to ki-ll him.

 

 

The beautiful youth with black hair and eyes was currently teasing something on his desk and didn’t notice the danger coming.

 

 

He even laughed with a clear and soft voice, “Whoever snatches this glass bead will get a reward.”

 

 

It was like he was coaxing a small child.

 

 

The viper’s icy vertical pupils gazed at the youth’s snow-white ankles that were exposed outside of his robes, seemingly unconcerned about the youth’s voice, and was about to inject venom into them in the next moment.

 

 

What reward? This human was already dead to the world!

 

 

Splat.

 

 

It was the sound of glass beads falling to the ground.

 

 

“Ah, it fell.” The youth accidentally slipped the glass bead.

 

 

When he lowered his eyes to look, the youth saw a small, skinny snake at his feet biting the glass bead with difficulty, dragging the bead to his feet.

 

 

It then somewhat twisted itself into a twist, seemingly not quite understanding what it had just done.

 

 

Jiu Shu arched an eyebrow. “Another one?”

 

 

“Very good.”

 

 

Saying that, Jiu Shu reached out his hand to gently caress the viper’s head, his movements gentle.

 

 

The viper’s body instantly softened, almost turning into a puddle of water.

 

 

The viper’s body wrapped around Jiu Shu’s thin wrist, the pitch-black scales forming a tonal contrast with his snow-white skin.

 

 

The well-behaved appearance was the opposite of the ferocious coldness just now, like a different snake.

 

 

It even spat out its forked tongue without a trace and licked the youth’s soft skin, just like what it had smelled; the flavor was sweet to the extreme.

 

 

— Ki-lled the priest?

 

 

Outside the church, Gu Yin wiggled his snaketail in some confusion, wondering what was up with the soft, sweet emotions coming from the viper.

 

 

It was nothing like the emotions that normally came from hunting.

 

 

— Not found.

 

The viper replied coldly.

 

 

Gu Yin was even more confused.

 

 

If he remembered correctly, the reply just now was that it was found.

 

 

His gu were actually considered part of his will and wouldn’t deceive him at all.

 

 

Then what was the reason for such an inconsistent answer?

 

 

Gu Yin, who had asked the other poisonous snakes and also failed to get a reply, was baffled.

 

 

Inside the church, Jiu Shu looked at the pile of densely packed poisonous snakes on the table and arched his eyebrow slightly.

 

 

Although he was a bit wary at first, he gradually got used to watching their good behavior.

 

 

So he simply rested his cheek on the edge of the table and teased them with his fingers.

 

 

These poisonous snakes all came in through the door just now.

 

 

Jiu Shu could guess what it was because of.

 

 

The heroine’s distaste for the priest had been impossible to erase, and the object of punishment should have begun to deal with it for the heroine as well.

 

 

He had thought that he would be more or less injured, but now it seemed that he wouldn’t be.

 

 

After all, none of these snakes looked too smart.

 

 

Jiu Shu looked at the snakes that had turned up their bellies like dogs begging to be petted and helplessly petted them.

 

 

Then, the other venomous snakes scrambled to follow suit, not caring in the slightest if they could roll over on their own.

 

 

Jiu Shu was silent for a moment, glancing at the poisonous snakes that were gradually multiplying in the room.

 

 

Should he be glad that the object of punishment didn’t release all the poisonous snakes?

 

 

They were already crawling on his body.

 

 

Suddenly, Jiu Shu stifled a grunt, the ends of his eyes reddening.

 

 

Rather disturbed, he brought out a viper that had slipped into the collar of his chest and saw that it was red all over, and it was a reddening that the pitch-black scales couldn’t even hide.

 

 

He couldn’t help but become even more helpless.

 

 

Hiss.

 

 

Outside the church, Gu Yin was coiling up his snake tail, casually touching his suddenly hot cheeks. With a serious expression, he continued to think about the reason why his compulsion had lost its connection.

 

 

First of all, rule out the possibility of the Gu betraying him.

 

 

After all, Gu Yin himself was a Gu, and those Gu were actually himself.

 

 

It was impossible for himself to betray himself.

 

 

And just as Gu Yin was thinking.

 

Jiu Shu was still teasing the gu on the table.

 

Splat.

 

The glass beads fell to the ground once again, and Jiu Shu bent down to pick them up and then lifted his head again with a lurch in his movements.

 

 

His expression was also a bit subtle.

 

 

“Are you guys missing a few?”

 

 

The poisonous snakes coiled themselves nicely on the table, spitting out their forked tongues innocently.

 

 

Jiu Shu looked at the tails that the poisonous snakes hadn’t fully swallowed in their mouths and was silent for a moment. “Spit it out.”

 

 

The poisonous insects seemed to have no idea what Jiu Shu was talking about, still waiting for him to continue the previous game.

 

 

It wasn’t until Jiu Shu yanked a few of the snakes out of their mouths on the table that they cowardly and peacefully laid down on the tabletop and didn’t move.

 

 

And Jiu Shu helplessly smiled as he looked at these few small snakes in his hand that were almost swallowed.

 

If he remembered correctly, these were the ones that had just grabbed the glass ball and received a reward.

 

 

The reward was also nothing more than rubbing their heads.

 

 

For the first time, he saw snakes competing with each other.

 

Should he say that it was worthy of being the object of punishment?

 

Jiu Shu couldn’t help but laugh out softly, his black hair falling down his neck, slightly shaken by the vibrations in his chest, revealing his increasingly distinct collarbone.

 

The vipers seemed to be mesmerized as they watched, sticking tighter to Jiu Shu.

 

Outside the church.

 

Gu Yin was still pondering the reason.

 

 

He wasn’t a reckless man, and he still needed to be serious and cautious about the loss of his Gu.

 

 

After eliminating many impossible answers, the only answer he could think of was that the priest had placed a trap in the church and caught all of them.

 

 

However, it was the first time that Gu Yin had encountered a situation where the Gu refused to reply to him after being caught.

 

 

The priest had probably used a special anesthetic to stun the poisonous snakes.

 

 

Touching his cheeks again, which had been inexplicably red and getting hotter since just now, Gu Yin knew it must have something to do with that bad priest and couldn’t help but frown.

 

A somber frown.

 

He was angry.

 

This was the first time a human had bullied his Gu so much, he would definitely deal with that human a hundred times over.

 

 

Thinking this way, Gu Yin simply stopped being careful.

 

He quickly followed the door of the church, which was always open and welcomed believers, and entered the church.

 

This church was indeed as beautiful as Feng Qi had said.

 

 

Even a wild villager like Gu Yin, who hadn’t read many books or seen many works of art, could feel the magnificence of this church, the spacious and magnificent hall, and the winding and long corridor.

 

Everywhere revealed a noble and elegant atmosphere.

 

There was also a sweet smell that permeated the hall.

 

 

Hiss.

 

 

Gu Yin sniffed the sweet scent coming from the air and tilted his head, actually having a giddy feeling like he had drunk wine.

 

His tail coiled next to the believer’s seat in the hall, almost not wanting to move.

 

But he remembered his mission.

 

So quickly he crawled to the living quarters at the back of the church, ready to ki-ll the human who had dared to tease his Gu.

 

Snap.

 

The glass ball on the table was pushed to the ground.

 

 

The poisonous snakes on the table all became restless.

 

It was as if there was an unknown danger coming.

 

 

But at this time, Jiu Shu had already fallen asleep with his cheeks resting on his head because he was too tired.

 

After all, having just changed worlds, this body itself wasn’t considered healthy due to infrequent exercise, and coupled with the inevitable teething period when the soul was changed, Jiu Shu had unconsciously fallen into a deep sleep.

 

 

The Gus tried to wake up Jiu Shu, who was sleeping with his cheeks resting on his hand, but to no avail.

 

 

They were in a hurry.

 

 

His location was getting closer and closer.

 

 

And at this moment, not far from the door, Gu Yin sniffed the increasingly strong scent and became somewhat curious.

 

 

Gu Yin had never smelled such a sweet scent, it was sweeter than the honey he had once drunk.

 

 

Was it the smell of that priest?

 

 

If it was, then perhaps it would be a good idea to taste his bloo-d before k-illing him; he would probably be as sweet as honey to the bone.

 

 

But it was time to ki-ll him.

 

 

K-illing the priest, the bad guy, was what every sane person should do.

 

 

Creak.

 

 

Suddenly, the door to the room was pushed open.

 

 

Jiu Shu turned on the electric light, only to see an empty hallway.

 

He raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at the winding and crawling marks on the carpet in the hallway.

 

 

Then, as if he hadn’t noticed anything, he returned to the room.

 

 

In the shadows, a pair of icy vertical pupils hid in the corner, seeing only the side of Jiu Shu’s beautifully defined face.

 

 

The bad priest had a beautiful face that seemed even more beautiful than Feng Qi.

 

 

Yet he couldn’t muster an ounce of desire to tear it off and use it.

 

 

Gu Yin watched with some bewilderment as the priest’s figure in white robes returned to the room and disappeared behind the door.

 

For a long time, he couldn’t return to his senses.

 

Involuntarily, he went closer to that room, as if he wanted to see the priest again.

 

 

But the door of the room blocked him.

 

 

Snapping back to his senses, Gu Yin shook his head, wondering what the hell had just happened to him; his heart was beating so fast, as if it would jump out of his chest at any moment.

 

 

This heartbeat must be a conspiracy tactic of the priest!

 

 

This priest was really not a good person!

 

 

Gu Yin thought so; hearing the movement in the room become less, he knew that the priest was back in bed to sleep.

 

 

Now was the best time to ki-ll him.

 

 

At the same time, Gu Yin also sensed that there were many of his Gu in the room.

 

Sure enough, it was the priest who had imprisoned his Gu.

 

 

Gu Yin lowered his face, his palm with pitch-black nails gripped the door handle, and opened the door to the room.

 

 

He had already prepared himself for a trap, but he didn’t expect that the first thing to come crashing down on him would be his own Gu.

 

 

Pfft.

 

 

Gu Yin looked a bit bewildered at the dozen or so poisonous snakes hanging from his arm, not knowing what they were doing.

 

 

He could only guess that they had probably been poisoned silly by the priest; they knew that he was invulnerable to all poisons yet still bit him.

 

 

He took the poisonous snakes back inside his skin; only then did he see that the room was filled with the poisonous snakes he had previously sent.

 

 

They just stayed right in the room.

 

 

And they could escape at any time; it didn’t look like they had been imprisoned.

 

 

As soon as they saw him come in, they all surged towards him.

 

 

Gu Yin even felt a strong malice that shouldn’t be there from them.

 

 

They seemed to hate him for entering this room.

 

 

Apparently, Gu Yin’s own Gus were revolting against him.

 

 

Gu Yin withdrew the Gu uncertainly and watched the numerous wounds on his body rapidly heal before he set his eyes on the sleeping Jiu Shu.

 

 

The face of this bad priest that Feng Qi talked about, was undeniably handsome and even had a sense of purity that was almost divine; he simply couldn’t take his eyes off him.

 

 

However, he was the object of his friend’s hatred, and as Feng Qi’s best friend, he should gift Feng Qi with his death.

 

 

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be a normal human.

 

 

Gu Yin finally made up his mind and extended his hand towards Jiu Shu.

 

 

At that exact moment, a cool breeze came in.

 

 

The night was as cool as water, and after entering summer, the late-night wind still carried a cool feeling. The priest, who was only covered with a thin blanket, frowned slightly.

 

 

But that was none of Gu Yin’s business; he was only responsible for k-illing the priest.

 

 

Or he’d just teach the priest a lesson, not ki-ll him.

 

 

After all, k-illing was wrong, not something normal humans did.

 

 

Carefully closing the window, Gu Yin came to a conclusion.

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TN:

Gu Yin: I’ll ki-ll him later, he just needs an extra blanket 😌