C140 – [6.6 — Strange Tales of Fengjia Town]

Bonus Chapter

Thanks for the ko-fi ✨ ✨ ✨ STJessie ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨

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By the time Jiu Shu returned to the room, the kitten was long gone.

 

Jiu Shu looked at the empty window and glanced at Gu Yin, whose expression was a little twisted; he didn’t say anything more but just put the food to the side.

 

He sat down on the chair and saw that although Gu Yin didn’t follow him over, his eyes were staring at him if nothing else, revealing a cautious meaning.

 

“Want some?”

 

Jiu Shu arched his eyebrow and picked up a piece of chicken, looking towards Gu Yin.

 

Since it was already late at night, Jiu Shu simply put some instant food into the microwave and warmed it up.

 

The hot food was glistening with oil, looking very appetizing.

 

Unlike Feng Qi’s expression of disdain when she delivered the food, Jiu Shu’s expression was soft.

 

It was a gentleness that Gu Yin had never experienced in the past eighteen years.

 

After all, no one would show genuine tenderness to a monster.

 

It was only under the effect of the compulsion that he could receive such pure kindness.

 

“Hmm.” Gu Yin nodded furtively.

 

During this past period of time, Gu Yin would often overhear those believers’ words of infatuation with Jiu Shu, saying that the priest had mesmerizing eyes.

 

Just by looking into his slightly curved eyes, no one could refuse any of his requests.

 

At this moment, Gu Yin really couldn’t think of refusing Jiu Shu.

 

He approached Jiu Shu and took the food.

 

Gu Yin’s face was pale, and in the dim light of the bedroom, the vertical pupils of a cold-blooded animal always gave the illusion of coldness and ruthlessness.

 

Coupled with the snake tail that was moving around Jiu Shu’s feet, anyone who looked at it would feel creeped out.

 

However, Jiu Shu acted as if nothing had happened, feeding the food to Gu Yin.

 

“How is it? Does it taste good?”

 

Like a snake, Gu Yin swallowed the food whole after rolling his throat a bit.

 

 

“…… Mmm.”

 

 

Gu Yin’s cheeks still carried the residual heat from the gu earlier.

 

After Jiu Shu fed Gu Yin a mouthful, he saw that Gu Yin didn’t refuse, so he shared a portion of the food with him, signaling that he could enjoy it as much as he wanted.

 

Then he withdrew his chopsticks and began to eat without shying away.

 

From time to time, he would also intimately feed Gu Yin a bite.

 

Although he didn’t eat the food that Jiu Shu placed in front of him due to the insistence on friendship in his heart, he never refused the food that Jiu Shu gave him.

 

 

Gu Yin’s gaze was evasive, not daring to look at the pair of chopsticks that the two of them shared.

 

Although he only lightly touched the other’s lips, it made the atmosphere in the room extremely ambiguous.

 

Even a beast that drank bloo-d and fur knew how intimate such an act was.

 

So intimate that it overwhelmed him.

 

 

Swallowing the food in his mouth, Gu Yin’s fingers tucked away at his side curled up tightly, as if he was in a violent mental struggle, not knowing how to deal with the mess in his mind.

 

Tonight he always seemed to make all sorts of strange compromises with the priest.

 

“There’s no more; please wait a moment while I make some more.”

 

The food was quickly bottoming out.

 

At the table, Jiu Shu didn’t seem to notice the tangle in the mind of the monster in front of him and somewhat regretfully stopped the chopsticks that kept feeding.

 

He was about to get up to prepare new food but was stopped in his tracks by a snaketail.

 

The hard scales covering the intimidatingly moving snake’s tail seemed to be ready to cut Jiu Shu’s slender ankles that were exposed outside of his robes.

 

Seeing this, Jiu Shu paused and raised his eyes to meet Gu Yin’s icy, cold vertical pupils.

 

 

From Jiu Shu’s perspective, only the upper half of Gu Yin’s body immersed in darkness could be seen, and his pale skin and the dense traces of stitches made Gu Yin look particularly eerie and ghastly.
The lines of muscles rippling at his arms were taut from his mood.

 

He wanted to say something threatening to hide the nagging feeling inside, to prove that he wasn’t betraying his friendship with Feng Qi.

 

After all, that was the real reason he was here tonight.

 

— You can’t bully Feng Qi in the future, and don’t continue to be evil.

 

Gu Yin wanted to say it so bluntly to end his longstanding entanglement.

 

But he choked in the middle of his words.

 

It seemed as if he felt that such words would lead to some irreversible consequences if he said them; how could he say them?

 

He avoided Jiu Shu’s penetrating eyes and remained silent for a moment.

 

 

Facing Jiu Shu’s slightly puzzled gaze, he said, “No need to do it again; I’m full.”

 

“In that case, fine then.”

 

Jiu Shu smiled down at him and sat back down.

 

 

As if he hadn’t noticed Gu Yin’s agitation, he began to stare earnestly at Gu Yin with his cheeks resting on his head.

 

Gu Yin blushed a little at the look; he didn’t know why the priest was staring at him with such a focused look.

 

“Because I think Gu Yin is cute.”

 

Jiu Shu’s voice was soft and gentle, as light as a fragile dream.

 

“I can’t get enough of it.”

 

 

“……”

 

Gu Yin blushed a little and hung his head, his gaze only daring to fall on Jiu Shu’s fine white wrist.

 

He never knew that intimate words between humans could be so moving, so moving that he just wanted to stop time in this moment.

 

But this was ultimately nothing more than an illusion brought about by the gu.

 

Without the love gu, the priest in front of him would be like any other human in the town, glaring at him with abhorrence.

 

Gu Yin remembered what had happened when he had once entered the town for the first time.

 

At that time, he was ignorant and scared a few of the townspeople in the darkness of the night.

 

He tried to show the townspeople kindness, and all he got were screaming townspeople throwing rocks and stabbing steel forks at him.

 

It was clear to him from then on that he was a monster in the eyes of mankind and that no one would ever like a monster.

 

Feng Qi was the only exception; that was his only friend.

 

For the first time, a human was willing to come near him instead of screaming and repelling.

 

So he cherished her as his only friend.

 

But now, what was he doing?

 

Sitting with the priest that Feng Qi hated.

 

Not only did he not avenge Feng Qi and teach the priest a lesson, but he was even obsessed with the priest’s sweet talk.

 

And there was no telling when this sweet talk would be taken back by the priest.

 

Although that book described the love gu as a poison that could manipulate human beings forever, the love gu wasn’t omnipotent and would gradually lose its effectiveness after the truth was revealed.

 

Gu Yin therefore always felt that the priest would soon get rid of the love gu and return to his original indifference to him.

 

At that time, his ugliness would no longer be able to be hidden.

 

The redness at the tips of Gu Yin’s ears gradually faded and turned back to its original pallor.

 

“It’s almost dawn; I’m going to start working in a while; will you wait for me here?”

 

The priest’s voice interrupted Gu Yin’s confused thoughts.

 

He looked up and saw the priest standing in front of the window, pulling back the curtains.

 

Points of light spilled onto the priest’s black hair, reflecting the snowy whiteness of his skin.

 

The sky outside the window had already turned fish-belly white, and although it was still early for the usual mass time, there were already believers outside the church at this time.

 

Ever since the priest became more and more popular, the believers came to mass earlier and earlier.

 

Even if the priest had not yet appeared, they would spontaneously come to the church to say their prayers.

 

After all, the doors of the church were open all year round, so anyone who wanted to come in could do so.

 

Gu Yin could even hear the thin sounds of prayers coming out of the mouths of the devotees.

 

Others were discussing the early departure of the priest yesterday, worrying that it was because the priest was sick and wanting to serve at the priest’s side.

 

Every believer treated the priest like a god and did not want anything to go wrong with him.

 

“I hope the priest is fine; alas, the priest must have been angry with the people over at the shrine.”

 

“It would be good if we could take care of the priest closely lest the priest be backstabbed by those people from the shrine; those guys are not good people…”

 

Among the group of believers, the woman who was saved a few days ago also revealed a devout gaze; her words were filled with concern and fervor for the priest: “The priest is our savior; that group of people from the Feng family’s ancestral hall will surely secretly play tricks on us, so it’s necessary to protect the priest before we can do so.”

 

This kind of fervent speech was exceptionally harsh to Gu Yin’s ears.

 

Because these believers had unattainable glossy skin and usual looks, they could always accompany Jiu Shu.

 

There was no need for them to worry about the love gu failing like he did.

 

Besides, these people were too close to the priest.

 

They would probably find out about the love gu, in which case the priest would leave him for good.

 

What should be done to make them leave?

 

Ki-ll them all?

 

But a normal person wouldn’t do that.

 

He was a normal person, not a beastly monster.

 

“……”

 

“Gu Yin?”

 

Jiu Shu reached out and touched Gu Yin’s cold cheek.

 

Gu Yin withdrew his gaze and felt the priest’s warm fingers; he hesitated for a moment but still took the priest’s hand.

 

So warm.

 

He wished this warmth could always be there, always belong to him.

 

 

Jiu Shu was by his hand and just sat quietly in the room without the slightest rejection.

 

 

After a long time, until the sky was bright and it was almost time for mass, only then did Gu Yin violently let go of Jiu Shu’s hand.

 

Apparently he was finally remembering his friendship with Feng Qi.

 

Jiu Shu laughed. Looking at Gu Yin, whose eyes were struggling, he said in the most soothing and gentle tone, “I hope we can meet again next time.”

 

“So will you come back today?”

 

“……”

 

Gu Yin looked at Jiu Shu’s smile and seemed to be fascinated, not making a sound for a long time.

 

Jiu Shu was a bit lost in thought. “Am I being too mumbly? I’m sorry, because I like you too much; I probably fell in love with you at first sight.”

 

“I really like you, how about you? Why haven’t you said anything?”

 

“Do you hate me?” The priest’s voice gradually dimmed.

 

Looking at the priest’s darkened expression, Gu Yin’s pupils dilated, as if he wanted to eagerly explain something.

 

No one could bear to see the priest show this forlorn expression.

 

However, Gu Yin didn’t know what to say.

 

In the end, he only said sullenly, “You’re not annoying.”

 

He finally admitted that he didn’t hate the priest.

 

After all, he was originally hostile to the priest out of loyalty to his friendship, and he didn’t hate the priest, so this shouldn’t be considered a betrayal to Feng Qi.

 

Gu Yin thought so, but he couldn’t get the extra words of sincerity out of his mouth.

 

 

Seeing this, Jiu Shu arched his eyebrow, seemingly wanting to continue to say something to break the window paper between the two.

 

However, Gu Yin could no longer control his chaotic brain; he was struggling with his own thoughts.

 

He avoided Jiu Shu’s gaze, fearing that continuing to stay would confuse his brain even more, and fled as if he were avoiding a flooding beast.

 

The long snake’s tail moved and disappeared into the darkness beyond the door in mere moments.

 

Jiu Shu calmly watched him leave and resumed his seat, sighing softly.

 

 

Picking up the Bible on the table, Jiu Shu looked down at the pages in his hands, but his eyes fell on the system panel on the side.

 

In the original story, the naive and almost foolish object of punishment always found it difficult to see through the fog that shrouded his eyes and was easily deceived and fooled by others.

 

He couldn’t even see his own heart clearly.

 

Even at the end of the film, he was completely lost in his hatred and his sanity.

 

Clicking on the spin-off film, Jiu Shu watched the ending of the film and restrained the emotions in his eyes.

 

Putting away the Bible, Jiu Shu walked out of the room.

 

It was now time for mass, and he had to start working.

 

At this time, the church hall was already filled with believers.

 

Despite the crowd, the hall wasn’t noisy, with only the low and neat sound of prayers echoing.

 

When the priest walked out, everyone gazed reverently in the direction where the idol on the stage was located with a fervent expression.

 

For the believers, seeing the figure of the priest every morning was the happiest thing for them.

 

If it weren’t for the fact that Jiu Shu asked the believers to go preach every day, they would even want to stay in the church for the whole day.

 

As long as they could see Jiu Shu’s figure, they would be satisfied.

 

As usual, the morning mass was short.

 

The believers only felt that in the blink of an eye it was already coming to an end.

 

It was clear that an hour or two had passed, but it seemed as if only a few moments had passed.

 

The believers below the stage looked at Jiu Shu’s gentle face as he said goodbye, revealing a look of reluctance.

 

But this reluctance did not allow the priest to stay a little longer after all.

 

Today’s priest was still somewhat busy, packing up his things after Mass and leaving the podium under the statue.

 

Surprisingly, though, the priest didn’t go back to his room as usual.

 

Instead, he sat down on a side prayer mat and looked at the Bible with downcast eyes.

 

“It’s so good to see that the priest is fine; the priest must have known that we were worried about him, so he purposely stayed here with us!”

 

Xiao Lu, one of the few young men among the believers, was so excited to see this that he gripped the crucifix in his hand and spoke with longing in his eyes.

 

The priest was truly the most down-to-earth clergyman he had ever seen.

 

It wasn’t that he hadn’t been to the big city before, but the city people looked down on the country people.

 

Unable to bear the arrogance of the city people, Xiao Lu returned to the town after working for a while and was lucky to meet a city dweller like the priest, who treated everyone with gentleness.

 

Especially lately, the priest had become more and more handsome, and his aura revealed a dazzling divinity; god must have favored the priest as well.

 

This was the incarnation of god in the teachings, making Xiao Lu willing to offer all of his money just so that he could get a little smile from the priest.

 

 

Such a conclusion from Xiao Lu was unanimously recognized by the believers around him.

 

They couldn’t help but discuss the greatness of the priest, marveling at the fact that the priest’s appearance was a never-before-seen handsomeness that made people feel close to him upon meeting him.

 

“Looks come from the heart; the priest must be so handsome because of the purity and nobility of his heart! Which is different from the group of people in the ancestral hall, especially that big young master called Feng Yun? Humph, I’ve been looking at him from the moment he came back.”

 

 

The middle-aged woman next to Xiao Lu echoed with eyes full of disdain.

 

Feng Yun, the son of the mayor of Fengjia Town and the direct heir of the ancestral hall, had been studying outside and had just returned this year with a haughty look on his face.

 

Anyone could see his contempt and disdain for the townspeople who were easily brainwashed by the church.

 

Naturally, they, the townspeople, wouldn’t have much goodwill towards him either.

 

 

“Snarky-looking, one can tell that he’s not a good person; when he saw the priest the day before yesterday, those eyes were all over the priest; he can’t even see how he looks; what a bastard!”

 

At these words, the believers around them laughed and discussed them approvingly.

 

In their eyes, the priest was the most perfect person in the entire town; no one could compare.

 

The group of guys at the shrine who bullied the priest based on their seniority deserved to die even more, and it was a sin to even look at the priest one more time.

 

Not to mention that although their group was easily fooled, they were actually very sensitive to the human condition.

 

All could detect Feng Yun’s malice towards the priest.

 

All knew that the shrine would not let up and would definitely find a chance to retaliate against the church, and they would definitely protect the priest.

 

They wouldn’t let that group of old things from the shrine have their way.

 

The congregation murmured in whispers, even forgetting about the prayers.

 

And at that moment, in the shadows beside the hall, the scaly serpent’s tail curled up, and it seemed that someone just stayed quiet in the shadows and watched the whole mass.

 

He listened to the murmuring voices of the believers, habitually hissed, and looked out at the priest on the stage, in a trance-like state.

 

Only after a long time did he lower his head, looking wooden.

 

The phase was born from the heart.

 

Because even his heart was ugly, that was why his face was so ugly.

 

Uglier than anyone else.

 

Completely incompatible with the priest.

 

Jab-

 

Gu Yin numbly tore at the fleshy skin around his neck out of habit.

 

The thin layer of skin was pulled to the point of near collapse, and thick bloo-d flowed down the pale skin, which was instantly refilled by the gu.

 

 

The pain brought Gu Yin back to his senses, his vertical pupils darkening.

 

The young man’s tender face sank into the shadows, and there seemed to be tears flickering in the corners of his eyes.

 

He didn’t know if it was because of the pain or for some other reason.

 

Gu Yin wanted to be a kind and normal ordinary human; he had tried very hard not to betray his friendship.

 

But it was useless.

 

Every time this happened, Gu Yin would think that it would be nice if he really was a snake.

 

Then he could moult his skin and replace this ugly skin.

 

But he wasn’t after all.

 

Underneath the skin was still human flesh and bloo-d, and the pain from tearing the skin would spread densely to the depths of his cerebral nerves, making him want to cry out in pain.

 

But he was already a grown man; he couldn’t cry.

 

He couldn’t cry because of the pain or for any other reason.

 

Rustle-

 

The sound of crawling snakes faded away, and Gu Yin didn’t dare to look at the polished priest inside the church anymore, hastily withdrawing his gaze and leaving the church.

 

And after he left, Jiu Shu stopped his fingers from flipping through the pages of his book.

 

Raising his head, he looked at the bright daylight outside the church door, and only after a long time did he lower his eyes to continue flipping through the Bible.

 

He still had a long time to go with the object of discipline, and Jiu Shu was patient enough to slowly let Gu Yin unravel his mind.

 

 

After all, compared to the Gu Yin in the film, who had completely lost his mind, the current Gu Yin was still very easy to get along with.

 

Looking at the system panel in front of him, Jiu Shu clicked on the film and continued to watch the details of it.

 

In the second half of the film, Gu Yin finally found his enemy and began his revenge.

 

At this time, Gu Yin had trapped the entire town in a thick fog, repeating his death cycle over and over again.

 

And his real enemy also saw the news of several college students missing for days in a big city thousands of miles away.

 

[Drip-drip—the mobile phone vibrated.

 

Feng Yun, who was working, picked up his mobile phone and saw a WeChat message from his wife.

 

 

His wife sent a picture of her cooking, her rosy cheeks still retaining the delicate and lovely look of her youth, but without the pallor caused by heart disease when she was young.

 

[Cooking, come back early to eat, ah~]

 

Feng Yun’s expression was gentle as he replied that he would definitely do so.

 

The relationship between the two had been good since they got married.

 

They were a loving couple in the eyes of others, and they were well maintained, at least ten years younger compared to their peers.

 

[That’s good, Liu Ma took a leave of absence today; I’m the only one staying at home, slightly scared; make sure to come back early, ah].

 

[Okay, don’t be afraid; I’ll be back soon after I finish my errands.]

 

After replying, Feng Yun started to continue dealing with official business, but news suddenly popped up on the computer.

 

It was the news that a few college students had disappeared near Fengjia Town.

 

Feng Yun’s face changed, and he lost his composure for a moment.

 

It should just be a random incident.

 

Even if someone went missing there, it didn’t mean that the monster was released.

 

In fact, even if it came out, it would be fine; counting the time, it has been more than ten years now; the Gu Yin should have long since been turned into ashes, and all would be lost.

 

Thinking like this, Feng Yun finally calmed down, but his eyes still carried a sense of shock.

 

Tick-tock…

 

Just then, the mobile phone rang again.

 

It was his wife.

 

She said that her best friend had come to find her and she was no longer that scared, so Feng Yun didn’t need to come back in too much of a hurry, lest she delay his official duties.

 

Feng Qi was always very understanding, and many times, even if she was scared, she would find a reason to cover it up, worrying that her husband would make a mistake because of her.

 

But this time, there should really be a friend because Feng Qi took another photo.

 

In the photo was Feng Qi, who was smiling and sitting on the sofa, and next to her was a woman with bright red nail polish on her arm out of the picture.

 

It was obviously Feng Qi’s BFF.

 

Other than Feng Qi’s face and her best friend’s arm skin, which was a bit overbeautified and pale and bloodless, everything else was normal.

 

Fearing that Feng Yun didn’t believe it, Feng Qi also purposely sent another single photo of her best friend to reassure Feng Yun.

 

Feng Yun had met many of Feng Qi’s girlfriends and knew that Feng Qi had a lot of girlfriends and even ignored the fact that Feng Qi hid her friendship with a few of them, so he relaxed, knowing that his wife is safe and sound at home.

 

Feng Yun looked at the mobile phone message, his eyes gentle.

 

The doubts in his heart also dispersed under the warmth of the family, and he continued to concentrate on his official duties.

 

However, in the next moment, he moved again, and there was a strange feeling in his heart.

 

As if he suddenly remembered something, his face paled, and he picked up his mobile phone again.

 

He flipped through the messages sent by his wife just now, and the first photo showed his wife with a smile on her face, with only her best friend’s arm appearing, her nails bright red.

 

The second photo showed the wife’s BFF giving a scissors hand towards the camera.

 

This photo showed the BFF showing her face, her slender pink nails on her fingers glistening in the light.

 

Tick-tock-.

 

[Did you invite two BFFs]

 

[No, only one. Okay, did you find out? Hee hee, in fact, there isn’t a single one; this is a previous photo. In order to let you work at ease!]

 

[When are you coming back? Ah, I’m so bored.]

 

[Qiqi, leave the house; I’ll be back soon; wait for me outside the door; remember! Don’t stay at home; just find a hotel to stay in!]

 

[What? What’s wrong with you? Why?]

 

[Hurry up! There’s a ghost! There’s a ghost in the house!]

 

Feng Yun’s hands were shaking as he typed.

 

But Feng Qi never replied again.

 

Feng Yun couldn’t care much more; he hurriedly left the company and drove in the direction of home.

 

When the car was parked, Feng Yun quickly stepped onto the lift and soon arrived in front of his home.

 

He frantically pressed the doorbell, but no one responded; he had no choice but to hit the door hard. It took a while before the door opened.

 

The light inside the door was on, and his wife was standing in the kitchen, boiling broth.

 

Upon seeing Feng Yun, the wife looked surprised, wondering why her husband was in such a hurry.

 

“I thought you would be back late, so the soup hasn’t been simmered yet.” Before she could finish her words, Feng Qi was hugged in Feng Yun’s arms.

 

“It’s good that you’re fine!” Feng Yun said, holding his wife’s hand as he was about to leave the room.

 

Regardless of what happened with the photo on the mobile phone just now, this place couldn’t be stayed in any longer now.

 

“Why?”

 

“There’s no time to explain; in short, it’s dangerous here; we need to leave quickly!”

 

 

“What’s the hurry? First try the soup I made; is it good?”

 

Feng Yun tastelessly swallowed the broth that his wife force-fed him and was about to continue to leave, but he found that the broth tasted extremely delicious in the mouth, making him not want to stop.

 

Feng Yun had the urge to drink the whole pot of soup.

 

However, his life was still important; Feng Yun suppressed his desire and led his wife to escape.

 

“Don’t you want to drink some more? You can only drink it once; it’s very rare!”

 

But his wife didn’t move; her voice gently rang in his ears, but her tail tone revealed a weird pleasure.

 

His movement stalled, suddenly looking down at his wife’s shadow on the ground.

 

 

Obviously, there was only his wife in front of him, but the shadow refracted another figure standing behind her.

 

Just like a ghost possession, his wife’s toes pointed to the ground, but her heels didn’t hit the ground as if they were cushioned by something.

 

It was only then that Feng Yun realized that his wife’s hands were unusually cold, with hidden corpse spots showing.

 

The other hand, painted with vermilion nails, was still holding the soup spoon on the side of the pot.

 

“Xiao Qi, when did you paint your nails red?” Before the words were finished, the hand with the red painted nails let go of the soup spoon and she somewhat troubledly held her head, which was always tilted to one side.

 

“Ah this, ah, after all, there are too many ashes in the altar; it’s normal to have an extra hand when putting it together, right?”

 

His wife’s voice, which was still gentle, was like a broken stereo in disrepair, gradually taking on a distorted and mixed murmur.

 

Feng Yun’s pupils dilated, and he quickly picked up the kitchen knife next to him and slashed at the evil spirit in front of him.

 

The chopping action was unusually easy; as if it had been broken long ago, the woman’s neck skewed to the side.

 

Puffing—sticky liquid splattered—his wife’s head fell into the hot pot on the side in response, tumbling with the murky broth.

 

In the next second, something even more bizarre happened; the head that fell into the pot was even talking.

 

“It’s a shame it can’t change color; do women like to wear such bright colors?”

 

His wife raised her hand, crookedly and childlike, observing her hand with her headless neck.

 

“Getting off topic then, keep drinking; it’s delicious.”

 

As his wife continued to persuade him, Feng Yun’s face went white, and trembling, he moved his gaze back to the pot and saw that under the tumbling hot soup, his wife’s head had disappeared, replaced by another familiar head.

 

It was—his head.

 

“Ahhhhhh-!!!” Covering his head that was suddenly in intense pain, Feng Yun, who had cut off his own head with his own hands, wanted to faint several times, but he couldn’t faint and could only ever be awake to endure this pain that far exceeded the limit of human endurance.

 

More painful than the death of a thousand cuts.

 

Like someone plucked out all the flesh and bloo-d of his body, chewed and swallowed it in one mouthful, alive, without any anesthesia.

 

 

In the blur of consciousness, Feng Yun saw his wife’s figure in front of him completely dissipate, and in its place was a tall and ghastly figure.

 

The figure stood in the narrow room and looked at him with a weird smile.

 

A male with a snake tail. The figure had an extremely grotesque form, with four arms sewn onto its back, of different colors, male and female.

 

Paired with the man’s pale and bizarre smile, it looked like a body riddled with wounds, barely patched up and sealed.

 

He had plucked out most of the man’s flesh and bloo-d, and there wasn’t much left of the remaining bone scum, even if it was burned into ashes.

 

Now the resurrected man was indeed nothing more than a barely stitched-together corpse, and he couldn’t even go back to the complete state he was in when he was alive.

 

“Ho ho ho—-”

 

The man’s laughter continued until Feng Yun collapsed to the ground before stopping. He cocked his head, his snake-like vertical pupils hollow and eerie.

 

Watching his enemy die, he seemed to just be wooden, without much other emotion.

 

In the middle of the day, he re-draped himself in the skin on the ground and began to continue simmering the broth in the kitchen; only this time, the aroma in the pot changed a little.

 

Click-

 

The door of the room was reopened, and the sound of a woman’s high heels came from Feng Qi, who had returned from shopping.

 

She was calling out her husband’s name intimately.

 

“Honey, I’m back.”

 

“Come and have some soup when you’re back; I cooked it especially for you.”

 

Inside the kitchen, the handsome man with his back to Feng Qi smiled in response, but the corners of his mouth were strangely grinning almost to his ears.

 

Trapping the enemy in an endless hallucination, unable to distinguish between the real and the fake, this was Gu Yin’s revenge.

 

But after the vengeance, Gu Yin still hadn’t regained his sanity, or rather, had lost his sanity forever.]

 

Jiu Shu closed the system panel after looking at it for a while and got up to leave the church hall.

 

It was time to continue dealing with the shrine.

*

 

In the afternoon, after hesitating for a long time, Gu Yin, who was hiding in the cave, still couldn’t hold back and came to the town once again.

 

But instead of going straight to the church like before, he wandered through the streets in a trance.

 

At this time was the hottest time of summer; there weren’t many people in the town streets. Gu Yin was also well hidden; he hid in the corner of the alley, looking up at the other end of the town towering church spire.

 

He knew the priest must be resting in the church at this very moment, probably with many of his followers around.

 

The priest had always been so popular.

 

“……”

 

Gu Yin hid in the alleyway for a long time, but he still couldn’t resist going near the church.

 

He had thought he would see a picture of the priest and the believers having a good time, but he didn’t expect to see only an empty church.

 

The believers who were usually present during the day were rarely seen.

Hiss-

 

Gu Yin was a little uneasy, fearing that something had happened to Jiu Shu, but there was no smell of bloo-d in the air, which made him settle down a little.

 

Still, he couldn’t help but let his gu go into the church to check on the priest.

 

He wouldn’t go in himself because he was afraid he would falter.

 

Every time he saw the priest, he became strange.

 

 

This weirdness shouldn’t exist.

 

He was a normal person and shouldn’t become strange.

 

Gu Yin curled his snaketail and looked at the half-converged doors of the church.

 

Like last time, the gu had gone in many times, and none of them had come back.

 

Occasionally there were sentiments that made the tips of Gu Yin’s ears redden.

 

He touched his ears and wondered if he should leave; nothing seemed to have happened to the priest.

 

But just as Gu Yin was about to leave, he suddenly ducked again.

 

Because he saw Feng Qi’s figure.

 

 

Why did Feng Qi come here?

 

 

Was it because she had found out that he had betrayed their friendship?

 

Gu Yin’s vertical pupils tightened, and he became a little nervous.

 

What should be done? He did not betray.

 

He really didn’t.

 

But what if Feng Qi is still suspected? If he ki-lled Feng Qi so that she couldn’t suspect, would it count as no betrayal?

 

Gu Yin bit his dark fingernails, his mind wandering as he thought.

 

At this time, Feng Qi, standing outside the church, didn’t discover Gu Yin.

 

She stood outside the church, stumbling a bit, not knowing whether to go in or not.

 

She just really wanted to see the priest again, but her relationship with the shrine side was well known, so if she went in and bumped into those believers, there was no way to explain.

 

 

Good thing she wasn’t alone today.

 

She was accompanied by her best friend, Ai Lan, and could use her best friend as an excuse to cope.

 

Her best friend had just come yesterday.

 

Originally, Feng Qi had never allowed her best friend to come to this remote and weird town, fearing that she would get into trouble.

 

However, ever since she met the priest, Feng Qi started to think, so she agreed to her girlfriend’s suggestion to come here for a holiday.

 

Growing up in the big city, her best friend had always been curious about Fengjia Town, especially after hearing all the legends of Fengjia Town that Feng Qi had told.

 

“Is it true that you said your town used to engage in gu? How come I haven’t seen many gu?”

 

The girlfriend took Feng Qi’s arm and surveyed the town with a curious face.

 

In her eyes, the dilapidated buildings all around the town were new, but it was the church not far away that had a rotten architectural style that could be seen everywhere in the city.

 

“Well, it was there once.” Feng Qi looked at the door of the church and replied somewhat absentmindedly.

 

Feng Jia Town was indeed famous for its gu in the past, and legend had it that in times of w-ar, it also relied on gu to stop the enemy invasion, but at the same time, it also murdered quite a few travelers passing by, and at one time, it was regarded by the outside world as a murderous and parasitic town.

 

Until after the founding of the country, it finally improved.

 

But it was still a town that habitually bought and sold women.

 

Speaking of Gu insects, although they were very useful in the era of cold weapons, they gradually fell behind in the era of hot weapons and had long been abandoned by people.

 

 

To this day, those so-called gu had been forgotten by the townspeople, and only the Ancestral Hall side of the town still circulated the method of making gu.

 

Feng Qi had only heard about it.

 

But in fact, the gu were only an insignificant part of the town’s strangeness, and the fact that this feudal and ignorant town was infested with cults was the biggest problem. The biggest problem was the rampant cults in this feudal and ignorant town.

 

Feng Qi still remembered the shock when she had just arrived and bumped into a whole family of townspeople who had sealed their mouths and noses and were voluntarily **sacrificed** to the so-called Land Maiden.

 

“So then you must have quite a few spirit-spotting locations here!” Her best friend perked up.

 

She was a ghost-detecting anchor, and she liked to go to some mur-der locations to broadcast live, which attracted a lot of rewards.

 

Recently, it happened that the audience’s popularity had slipped, and Fengjia Town, which was full of weird places, was just right for live broadcasting.

 

“Feng Qi Feng Qi, you’re the best; quickly recommend me a good place; I’ll go live tonight; it just so happens that there’s a very popular ghost invocation ceremony recently; we’ll definitely be a hit!”

 

The best friend was shaking Feng Qi’s arm, her cheeks flushed with excitement.

 

 

“It is said that this ghost-inviting ceremony is passed down from that long-lost Taoism; as long as there are traces of a ghost in this place, no matter how many ages apart, the ghost can be invoked and wishes can be made to it!”

 

“This town has such a long history, it will definitely be able to invoke ghosts!”

 

“Make a wish?” Feng Qi froze and looked at her best friend.

 

“Yeah, I’m going to wish for a big fortune, hehehe, but there are also people who wish for their lovers to fall in love with them forever or something like that, and it’s said that the probability of it coming true is super high!”

 

If I wish for the priest to love me, will that come true too?

 

Feng Qi couldn’t help but think so.

 

Gu Yin, who was secretly monitoring Feng Qi outside the church, suddenly felt his heart tighten, as if something ominous was about to happen.

 

He listened carefully to Feng Qi’s conversation with her best friend but did not know where this ominous feeling came from.

 

It couldn’t be a ghost or some other talk like that.

 

After all, there were no ghosts in this world at all.

 

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