C146 — [6.12 — The Strange Tales of Fengjia Town]

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As soon as the ghost’s words left its mouth, Gu Yin, who had been suppressed in its shell, went into a frenzy before Jiu Shu could react.

 

The fog in the town, which was already damp and cold, also became restless.

 

Many more ghostly shadows appeared in the fog, vaguely wailing.

 

Looking down from the entire town, one could see that every twisted shadow in the fog was gradually flickering in the direction of the ghost, as if trying to stop the ghost from doing something irreversible.

 

It mustn’t unlock the love compulsion!
This was the only obsession left in Gu Yin’s collapsing consciousness.

 

Looking at Gu Yin’s fragile soul, which was ready to dissipate like a candle in the wind, the ghost seemed somewhat satisfied, and its scarlet pupils narrowed in pleasure.

 

But after glancing at the dense ghostly shadows in the nearby fog that weren’t under its control, it impatiently frowned.

 

He was only a waste that was about to be devoured by it, but he still wanted to compete with it for the control of the ghost domain.

 

This really surprised the ghost.

 

Probably due to the fact that both of them had the same soul, even if Gu Yin didn’t die a horrible death like the ghost, he was still able to influence the ghost domain that was gradually forming.

 

As a ghost, it very much disliked the feeling of losing control of its domain.
With a cold snort of disdain, the ghost’s mind moved, and the rolling fog cut off the ghostly shadows in the fog, shattering the last bit of Gu Yin’s struggle.

 

It decided to unlock the love compulsion now and give the last blow to this defiant trash.

 

The ancient book that Gu Yin had gotten before contained the method of formulating the compulsion, naturally including the method of unlocking the compulsion; it was just that it was more complicated, even more complicated than formulating the compulsion.

 

It was good that a severe ghost was different from humans.

 

It and Gu Yin were originally monsters composed of gu, so they didn’t need to prepare all sorts of rare materials like ordinary humans did; it only needed to simply cut open Jiu Shu’s skin and it would be able to take out the compulsion, completely unlocking the love compulsion.

 

“…… ”

 

However, looking at the priest in front of him who was picked up by it, the movements of the ghost appeared to be a little hesitant.

 

The priest in front of it had delicate skin, to the point where even being held up caused him to have red marks on his collar. If it cut open his skin, he would definitely cry in pain.

 

The ghost subconsciously stopped moving, but it only took a moment for it to return to normal, its expression becoming more and more ugly.

 

Because it knew that these hesitant emotions definitely didn’t belong to itself, it belonged to that cowardly punk.

 

That’s right, they never belonged to it.

 

It was Gu Yin that was influencing it, and it wouldn’t continue to be at its mercy.

The ghost continued to reach out toward the priest.

 

The ghosts and shadows in the fog struggled desperately with the ghost’s movements, trying to stop it but still unable to do so.

 

As if foreseeing the end, the wailing of the ghosts and shadows gradually became like a prayer, begging the ghost not to shatter their last hope.

 

And the ghost turned a deaf ear.

 

The face covered with stitch marks looked particularly horrifying in the fog, as if it had finally regained the violence it had at the beginning and no longer had the hesitation it had before.

 

The corners of its mouth were also raised high, and its cruelty was as full of bloo-dthirst as it had been in its previous life when it took revenge.

 

It had never been anything more than a resentful, irrational ghost, and it was enough for it to simply maintain this cruelty all the time.

 

The weak emotions of humans could not, and simply would not, stay on it for too long.

However, in the next second, its smile froze.

 

For its outstretched hand was actively held by a human.

 

The warm temperature of the human palm made the pupils of the ghost tremble.

 

It looked at the priest who had been picked up by it with some dismay.

Looking at this priest, who should have shown the same look of fear and disgust as the other humans, it was unable to react for a moment.

It could only hear the priest’s voice which had a slight hoarseness, yet it was gentle to the extreme.

“Your hands are so cold.”

 

There were many emotions in the priest’s eyes that the ghost couldn’t understand.

 

He looked intently into the eyes of the ghost, as if he could see the souls of the ghost and Gu Yin fighting with each other through those cold snake-like vertical pupils.

 

For a moment, even the wailing of the ghosts and shadows stopped.

 

Jiu Shu could see that the fight between the two objects of discipline was intensifying, and Gu Yin was about to lose.

Perhaps the next step was for him to be devoured.

 

After devouring Gu Yin’s, the ghost’s already shaky sanity would likely collapse with it; that was Jiu Shu’s initial thought.

 

However, judging from the ghost’s previous demeanor in the church, there was another possibility that the ghost would get all of Gu Yin’s feelings and memories and then regain his sanity.

 

Compared to the previous few worlds, the objects of discipline in this world still had deep feelings for him, but they appeared to be too paranoid and far less honest about their feelings.

 

Allowing the two to devour and merge, fusing those unspoken sentiments together, would make it easier for the object of discipline to understand his emotions clearly.

 

Instead of being as entangled and agonized as they were now.

 

Such a solution wasn’t a bad one.

 

For Jiu Shu, who had experienced countless missions, this solution was the most reasonable and convenient.

 

If it were a few worlds ago, when Jiu Shu had just escaped the control of the system, he would have chosen this way; after all, both souls were objects of punishment, and devouring and fusing them would just make them more complete with each other.

 

But now-

 

“Don’t cry; I’m right beside you.”

 

Jiu Shu held the object of discipline’s hand, his eyes so soft that the ghost was at a loss for words.

 

He reached out his other hand and stroked the ghost’s bleak face; a blo-od-red tear trail that had appeared at some point was trailing down the eye socket.

 

The vertical pupils looked more and more hollow and desperate against the backdrop of the bloo-d tears, and the blo-od-red tears stained the ghastly white skin as well as the crooked stitches, making it look ugly and hideous.

 

In the face of such a horrible face, Jiu Shu’s face didn’t show fear but rather a gentle expression that could be called tenderness.

 

Although he was the one who was lifted up, he seemed to have the initiative, gently reaching out and holding the head of the ghost in his arms.

 

The ghost didn’t know what was wrong with it, but it just obediently allowed the priest to hold its head in his arms, gently wiping away the tear tracks on its face.

 

Those weren’t its tears; they were from that punk Gu Yin.

 

But now that it was like that, it was almost as if it was crying cowardly tears.

 

The taller-sized ghost’s eyes widened as it felt the warmth of the priest’s body.

 

The hand that was originally holding the priest’s collar loosened, and its muscular arm tensed, as if it wanted to let go and push this uncaring human away in the process.

 

But for some reason, in the end, there wasn’t the slightest movement, just a quiet lean forward into Jiu Shu’s arms.

 

It was just that the tears of bloo-d in its eyes flowed more and more, almost staining its face.

 

That was Gu Yin crying in a suppressed manner.

 

Compared to imagining the priest’s disgusted expression, such a gentle priest seemed to make him even more sad.

 

Then, the monster with a human body and a snake’s tail gently wrapped its arms around the long-bodied human in front of him.

 

Perhaps it was the fact that those emotions, which the ghost called weakness, exploded in this moment with a power that even the ghost could hardly resist, or perhaps it was the fact that the ghost let down its guard, allowing Gu Yin to finally be able to escape from his prison, manipulate this body, and briefly embrace his priest.

 

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Gu Yin choked and apologized to the priest, who knew nothing about the situation.

 

At this moment when he was about to be devoured, Gu Yin seemed to have finally seen through his own heart and admitted his dark feelings that he didn’t dare to speak.

 

It was he who had been foolish.

 

He should have realized that he had liked the priest from the first moment he saw him.

 

But he had been deceiving himself for that so-called friendship, struggling between Feng Qi and the priest.

 

It was both stupid and cowardly.

 

What was happening now was the result of his insatiable greed, and being devoured by his other self was also a deserved retribution.

 

But this retribution shouldn’t be on the priest.

 

If the ghost got hold of this body, it would surely ki-ll the priest.

 

Gu Yin sobbed and hugged the priest in his arms; he obviously had a tall and strong body, but at this time, he cried like a helpless child; his expression was no longer cold and murderous as before.

 

Everything was his fault.

 

He was just too afraid—too afraid of being rejected.

 

So much so that he made mistake after mistake, and in the end, he was even so despicable as to use the love compulsion to manipulate the priest and was utilized by the ghost, leading to the bitter consequences of today.

 

He wanted to get the priest’s forgiveness, but in the end, it was just his extravagant hope.

 

Gu Yin’s expression was bitter, not knowing how he could pay for the sins he had committed.

 

The veins in his arms around the priest’s waist bulged, struggling as he fought against the power of the ghost; even just maintaining this embrace had taken all of his strength.

 

The dense fog over the town rolled violently, like boiling water, vaporizing the entire town to the point where one couldn’t see anything.

 

One could only see twisted ghosts and shadows letting out mournful screams, being torn apart piece by piece by the fog manipulated by the malicious ghost.

 

There was no way the ghost would allow this body to be snatched back by Gu Yin, so it was fiercely counterattacking.

 

The furious ghost made the entire town tremble.

 

Two identical souls were fighting for ownership in the same body, causing the gu in Gu Yin’s body to become restless.

 

The upper half of his exposed body was well-muscled, and his long black hair was scattered in a messy manner, but it couldn’t hide the dense gu that swam under his skin.

 

From his neck to his chest and abdomen, fine sutures twisted askew with the movements of those slender gu, as if they would collapse at any time as a result.

 

The fight within the body had gradually turned white-hot.

 

His soul was being torn apart by the ghost, and the pain prevented him from uttering a single sound.

 

But even so, Gu Yin was still very careful to control the force so that the priest in his arms wouldn’t suffer a single ripple.

Jiu Shu seemed to sense something and tried to raise his eyes to look at the object of discipline in his arms, but Gu Yin’s trembling fingers blocked his view.

 

He didn’t want his beloved priest to see him become uglier than before.

 

Jiu Shu paused for a moment, looking at Gu Yin’s pale and broad palm, his rough fingers that were trembling slightly, and blo-od seeping out from under the sutures.

 

Jiu Shu already understood what had happened, so he didn’t continue to move; instead, he quietly held Gu Yin with his eyes downcast.

 

His voice softly replied to Gu Yin’s apology, “It’s okay; I forgive you, no matter what.”

 

The long, thin eyelashes swept against Gu Yin’s palm, causing him to shrink slightly.

 

The too-light-to-touch sensation seemed to be more unbearable to him than the pain he felt when the ghost ripped out his soul.

 

Gu Yin got the forgiveness he wanted.

 

But he knew that it was only a false forgiveness brought about by the love compulsion.

 

Without the love compulsion, it was impossible for the priest to forgive him at all.

 

[Waste! You punk! Get out of here! Damn waste!]

 

The ghost in his ear was still screaming.

The ghost couldn’t understand how a punk could be an equal match for it in a short period of time.

 

Was it because of the priest’s hug?

 

His resistance was for a mere human? It was simply ridiculous!

The severe ghost didn’t believe that it would be unable to defeat this waste; sooner or later, it was going to break Gu Yin into pieces.

 

It thought so, but its gaze couldn’t help but fall on the priest, resentfully watching the two embracing together; it wanted to tear Gu Yin’s hand holding the priest to shreds.

The ghost vaguely sensed that the priest had two completely different attitudes towards it and Gu Yin.

 

Though it didn’t know why there was such a difference and suspected that it was mostly overthinking, the ghost couldn’t help but wonder why.

Was it because Gu Yin was a loser?

The ghost’s scarlet eyes held a jealousy it didn’t want to admit to itself.

 

Resentment corroded it, and even the ghost’s true form was on the verge of revealing itself uncontrollably.

 

Soon, the muscle lines at the pale, blo-odless back rippled with the movement, and countless pairs of arms appeared out of nowhere, tearing at Gu Yin’s soul, finally snatching back control of half of the body.

 

But Gu Yin was also struggling.

 

The scramble between the two made the tall body look like it had been split in two, filled with a bizarre sense of incongruity.

 

Each side tore at the other half of the body that wasn’t under their control in an attempt to inflict pain on the other.

 

The flesh and skin at the neck were torn open, revealing the flesh and blo-od inside.

Seeing that the blo-od from the tearing almost landed on Jiu Shu, both of them actually removed their hands at the same time in unison, releasing Jiu Shu.

 

Then, as if to escape from Jiu Shu’s gaze, they didn’t even make a sound; they endured the physical pain, stumbled and flung their thick snaketail, and crawled into the thick fog to the side.

 

Leaving only the priest, who was suddenly thrown down to stagger a few steps before standing still, he couldn’t even make a sound before he lost sight of them.

 

Jiu Shu frowned slightly, looking at the direction in which the objects of discipline.had disappeared, as well as the blo-odstains and the many gu scattered on the ground, and only after a long time did he retract his gaze.

 

The objects of discipline had really left.

 

Jiu Shu’s eyebrows furrowed, and he looked at the body that was getting farther and farther away from him on the system panel.

 

The fight between the two was now a fight to death, and Jiu Shu didn’t want to see such a scene.

Luckily, the pacification just now was effective; at least Gu Yin had gotten his act together and wasn’t easily devoured by the other object of discipline.

 

But to completely solve this problem, Jiu Shu knew that what he had done so far wasn’t enough.

 

He needed to pacify both Gu Yin and the ghost.

 

However, right now, only Gu Yin was still slightly listening to some persuasion; the ghost’s side wouldn’t listen to words at all.

 

It was a bit of a headache.

 

“Father? Is that you?”

Suddenly, the voice of the female lead Feng Qi came from behind him.

 

Jiu Shu retrieved his thoughts and looked behind him.

 

Sure enough, he saw a girl with a pretty face coming out of the mist, her eyes filled with surprise and a bit of worry.

 

Just now, many, many ghostly shadows had appeared on the streets of the town, wandering around like living beings, scaring her to death.

 

It was hard to wait until the ghosts had all disappeared into thin air before she bravely continued on; she didn’t expect to see the priest.

 

“Are you alright, Father?”

 

After getting the memories of her previous life, Feng Qi had already realized that the priest in this world was very different from the priest in her previous life.

 

His temperament was much calmer.

 

Obviously, his face was similar, but he looked more handsome and gave people a great sense of affinity, so that they couldn’t help but trust every word he said.

 

This was probably the reason why there were many more churchgoers in this life than in the previous one.

 

Feng Qi wasn’t wary of the priest because of this change; she guessed that this should just be a subtle change caused by the butterfly effect.

 

No matter what, she would definitely help him not to die so early.

 

Not only the priest, she would try to save the entire town.

 

There wouldn’t be a repeat of the tragedy of her previous life.

 

Jiu Shu looked at the hint of sadness and fortitude on the heroine’s face and paused for a moment before smiling and saying, “Thanks for the concern; I’m fine.”

 

There was something wrong with the heroine’s demeanor.

 

Intuition told Jiu Shu that something must have happened to her.

 

Jiu Shu decided to observe for a moment.

 

“It’s good that you’re fine, Father; it’s dangerous in this town right now; let me take you to a safe place to hide first!”

 

Feng Qi looked at the priest’s, but after noticing his gentle expression yet the slightly disheveled collar of his robe, she showed a worried expression.

 

She decided to take the priest to find a safe hiding place first.

 

Only after ensuring the priest’s safety could she feel at ease to find Gu Yin.

 

After all, at this moment, Gu Yin had a good impression of her and wouldn’t listen to anyone except her.

 

He would only show hostility when he encountered outsiders.

 

It wouldn’t be good if he bumped into the priest and hurt him.

 

Gu Yin wasn’t very humane after all.

 

Especially now that there was no telling what had happened in this town, it had become strange.

 

If it weren’t for the fact that with the memory fragments from her previous life, she knew that Gu Yin had died a tragic death before turning into a severe ghost, she would have suspected that those ghostly shadows just now had something to do with Gu Yin.

 

It shouldn’t be; if they were really related, the ghost should have gone on a k-illing spree a long time ago.

 

“Maybe it has something to do with the recent Zhongyuan Festival. I used to hear the older generation talk about the Zhongyuan Festival.”

 

“However, few young people know about Zhongyuan Festival now. Ha ha, I also remembered it recently when I accompanied my best friend to research some things. My friend also disappeared a few days ago.”

 

Feng Qi walked beside the priest, feeling like she was talking endlessly. Even when she was with her boyfriend, Feng Yun, she didn’t speak so much.

 

She couldn’t help but peek at the priest beside her as she spoke.

 

The priest was much taller than her, and Feng Qi didn’t dare to raise her head too obviously, so she could only look at the side of the priest’s face.

 

His dark black hair hung down, accentuating his snow-white face, and his lips, which were always slightly raised, were as red as bloo-d.

 

She couldn’t move her eyes.

 

Compared to the priest in her memory, there was really too much difference.

 

The priest looked over with a sideways glance, seemingly confused by Feng Qi’s unexplained silence.

 

Seeing this, Feng Qi blushed and hastily withdrew her gaze.

 

She slapped her face to clear her head.

 

In her past life plus this life, she was already a married woman; she couldn’t think too much.

 

Fortunately, the priest just smiled gently, not caring about Feng Qi’s rudeness.

 

Instead, he inquired about the situation along the way just now, seemingly wanting to know if the town’s current situation was serious.

 

Feng Qi shook her head, signaling that the situation in the town wasn’t serious.

 

Although the fog and ghosts wailing all over the place just now was scary, it was too foggy to see clearly, and with no casualties seen, it didn’t seem so scary.

 

Feng Qi thought that this was probably just a case of the ghost gate opening and the Yin soldiers borrowing the road or something like that.

 

Although Feng Qi was an atheist, after experiencing the previous séance ceremony and the memories of her past life that she had acquired, she had begun to gradually believe in paranormal knowledge.

 

She felt that her guess was probably about eighty or ninety percent right.

 

After all, Fengjia Town had always been extremely heavy with Yin energy; it was why so many rituals were held when she was a child.

 

At that time, it even scared her to the point of tears.

 

When she thought of this, Feng Qi couldn’t help but think of the images of her tragic death in her previous life.

 

Although it was only images and she hadn’t personally experienced the pain of a tragic death, the miserable scene of the ghost demanding her life still sent shivers down her spine.

 

This time, she wouldn’t let Gu Yin die; she would save him.

 

Even if he was a monster, it didn’t matter; as long as she could save this town, save the priest, and save her boyfriend, even if she had to accompany the monster for the rest of her life, it would be fine.

 

Thinking like this, she looked at the young priest in front of her, then she stabilized her mind and revealed a fake cheerful smile.

 

In response, Jiu Shu just curled his lips in response.

 

Feng Qi immersed himself in the priest’s gentle eyes and continued to ramble on, so much so that she was on the verge of forgetting what she was supposed to be doing.

 

At this moment, at the other end of Feng Jia Town, a rumbling vibration was coming from it, like the sound of something heavy hitting the ground.

 

Not far away, in a private house, townsman A was looking at his cell phone impatiently.

 

He was a person from the shrine.

 

This fog had caused many of the clan elders on the shrine’s side to fall unconscious, and many of the plans that had been set in motion had been put on hold.

 

For example, his task was to locate the snake-tailed monster outside the town.

 

But now, in this foggy weather, he couldn’t even leave the room.

 

Previously, there were many ghostly figures knocking on the door and wailing. If he hadn’t been cautious and refused to open the door, his life would probably have been in danger.

 

In this town, those who could follow the shrine were more or less superstitious, so he didn’t dare to go out in such a situation.

 

However, the task given by young master Feng Yun before was to find the monster’s hiding place today.

 

Therefore, he needed to take a leave of absence from the young master first.

 

But who knew that his phone suddenly couldn’t connect to the internet? Not only that, he couldn’t even make phone calls.

 

The computer screen also flickered, as if something affecting the magnetic field had suddenly appeared in the surroundings, making him pace anxiously.

 

If he offended the young master Feng Yun, his future would be gone, and he wouldn’t be able to get into the ancestral hall management, and he wouldn’t be able to get a wife.

 

As he was thinking about this, Townsman A suddenly heard a vibrating sound coming from not far away.

 

After a moment of trepidation, he still couldn’t hold back his curiosity and ran to the window, tugged open a corner of the curtain, and cautiously looked in the direction from which the sound came.

 

It was fine if he didn’t look, but that look scared him to death.

 

At the end of the alley, a monster with a huge figure was struggling and rolling on the ground, crushing the tiles on both sides of the road, its pale body and scaly snaketail forming an extremely incongruous picture.

 

The most terrifying thing was that the shadows of many pairs of arms appeared from time to time around his body.

 

Those arms had various shapes and twisted and deformed joints, and they were pale, giving people a chilling feeling, and each one was tearing at its own flesh and blo-od.

 

Even though every crevice of the fingers was covered in crimson flesh until the end, it never stopped.

 

Although the body’s recovery speed was fast, it still couldn’t catch up with the speed of the arm tearing the skin apart.

 

And after tearing the skin, there were also densely packed slender gu that came out from under the skin, leaving small holes around the skin.

 

Seeing that, townsman A’s scalp was numb and his whole body felt weak.

 

This monstrous and grotesque appearance was a bit like the eight-handed goddess of Mercy enshrined in the house of the old lady next door.

 

But townsman A looked at the monster’s ferocious appearance when it was self-mutilating and felt that it was simply an evil ghost that had escaped from the gates of hell.

 

“Die… die…” The monster’s blo-od-covered mouth emitted a strange sound, as if it were spitefully cursing others, but it kept hurting itself.

 

The sharp fingers, which were torn to the bones, scratched its face until it was bleeding profusely. In the end, it almost broke its skull, making a terrifying “Jie Jie” sound as it scratched, as if laughing.

 

[You will only get ugly and ugly!]

 

[So ugly that no one will be able to look at you, and the priest won’t show any favoritism to you!]

 

The sound of the hard skin being torn open scared Townsman A so much that he couldn’t control his nausea any longer; he bent down and vomited all over the floor.

 

When he calmed down and then raised his head to look out the window, he found that the monster had already quieted down, lying face down on the ground, no longer speaking.

 

Even the bugs that were originally crawling all over the floor had stopped moving.

 

Dead?

 

He trembled like a sieve, his hand that was holding onto the curtain also shook uncontrollably. Just as he was about to withdraw his gaze, he suddenly regained his composure.

 

Wait a minute, a human body with a snake’s tail—wasn’t this the object of the mission that Young Master Feng Yun asked to find?

 

Townsman A remembered the task given by Young Master Feng Yun, hesitated for a long time, but still decided to take out his cell phone to record a video, and then it could be regarded as an explanation to Young Master Feng Yun.

 

Opening the lens of his cell phone, he trembled and aimed at the window.

 

ZiZi–

 

The picture was flickering, seemingly foreshadowing the unstable magnetic field at this time to Townsman A.

 

“This… this… ” In the camera, the bloo-dy corpse of the monster was lying not far away, motionless, and even its head was soundlessly askew.

 

The bloo-dy holes that showed its missing eyeballs was precisely aimed in the direction where the camera was; this scene was particularly frightening.

 

It was unknown what had happened in those moments of time just now; compared to a moment ago, it was like the monster had been gutted, and had lost many of its organs.

 

It also didn’t have that terrifying recovery ability from the beginning.

 

But what scared the townperson the most wasn’t this, but the several pairs of arms on the corpse that slowly started to move.

 

Click–

 

Click–

 

The sound of arm joints twisting was like rusty machinery; they seemed to twitch a few times in pain, trying to move the upper half of the body that was tattered and had lost many of its internal organs, but it was to no avail.

 

It was only after a long time that it finally gave up and switched to using their arms to support their body like some kind of arachnid reptile.

 

It was actually trying to crawl with its arms.

 

This scene was indescribably absurd and bizarre.

 

The upper half of its head swayed with the crawling motion, and the empty eye sockets were covered by the long, blo-od-stained hair, which gradually gained some movement.

 

Townsman A saw the skin of the monster’s face gradually grow back, but it still couldn’t grow any flesh and blood under the head.

 

Seeing this, the monster, whose upper body was still unable to move, tilted the only part that could move and somewhat dazedly felt for its face with its fingers.

 

It soon touched its own bloo-died eyes and lips.

 

The missing eyes and tongue seemed to make the monster both incredulous and angry to the point of trembling.

 

Its bloo-dy lips opened and closed, and it let out a shrill, horrible, ghostly wail.

 

Aaaaah–

 

Town person A heard this wail at close range and instantly fainted; his eardrums were filled with bloo-d, and his cell phone fell to the ground.

 

The last recorded image was of the eerie crawling monster groping the ground around it, resentfully searching for its missing organs.

 

And along with the screams came the sound of something shaking so violently that it spread throughout the town.

 

Rumble –

 

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“……Rather, the townspeople are not in a good state of mind. I just passed by a family’s house, and I heard someone yelling something about liking or disliking something.” On the other side, Feng Qi was still excitedly introducing the situation to the priest when she suddenly paled.

 

She seemed to have heard the sound of flesh and blo-od being torn apart, followed by a piercing and horrible wail of resentment that resounded through the entire town.

 

Jiu Shu looked around; he heard nothing.

 

“It hurts; my ears, my head hurt!”

 

Feng Qi’s brain was so raw from the sound that she cried out from the pain.

 

She felt that the sky was spinning, the fog in front of her eyes was getting thicker and thicker, and the ground underneath her feet was trembling, as if a big earthquake had occurred.

 

Rumble-!!!

 

Jiu Shu almost couldn’t stand still.

 

Although he didn’t hear the sound, he could detect the trembling of the space around him.

 

It was definitely not just the ground trembling.

 

It was the space that had changed.

 

Jiu Shu lowered his eyes and looked at the constantly changing data on the system panel. The year numbers kept flashing, and in the end, half of them stayed as they were, and half of them stayed at ten years after the end of the original storyline.

 

That was, ten years after the death of Gu Yin in the original story, the time when the spin-off horror movie began.

 

Jiu Shu looked in the direction outside the town, where the fog had dissipated a bit, and could vaguely see what appeared to be some hikers coming from far away on the mountain paths outside the town.

 

Much like those protagonists in horror movies.

 

“So tired; haven’t we reached the place yet?”

 

Exhausted and panting, the college student backpacker leaned on a randomly picked-up branch and asked his distracted companion.

 

“Hm?Oh, we’re almost there; the front is…” A came back to his senses and replied, but his expression was still a bit dazed.

 

He looked at the town shrouded in fog in the distance, and some images of déjà vu seemed to flash before his eyes.

 

It felt as if he had been here before and had stayed here for a long, long time without escaping.

 

The other companions beside him were also a bit tired, so they decided to sit down and rest for a while before exploring the town.

 

A also sat down and, in a rare move, began to take out his cell phone to check the relevant information about his destination.

 

He had never liked to do research; when he went on an adventure, he relied entirely on his companions to search for information and make a plan. Today, out of curiosity, he thoroughly researched the history of that small town from beginning to end.

 

Especially about monsters, ghosts, and other words, he searched many times but didn’t get too much information.

 

This Fengjia town was too closed; the information that remained was too little; only rumors of hauntings were known.

 

A searched over and over again before he finally found some information from a certain extremely niche sect. Only then did he finally find some information describing Fengjia Town from some extremely niche-sect electronic newspaper.

 

On the top was a picture of a young girl crying in her boyfriend’s arms. It was said that this young girl, Feng Qi, had been unintentionally attacked by a snake-tailed monster and was only able to escape unharmed thanks to the protection of the church’s worshippers.

 

The article mostly praised the religion with a fanatical tone but also revealed an ambiguous meaning between the lines, implying a certain relationship between the monster and the girl.

 

This was a common tactic for such niche newspapers to attract readers, using ero-tic information to grab attention; in fact, most of them were just exaggerated.

 

But somehow, A looked at the picture of the young girl for a long time.

 

He seemed to want to believe in it but felt that it was simply impossible.

 

It would be great if it really existed; in that case, if they could just find this young girl, they might be able to unlock the resentment of this horrible monster.

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