I glanced at the kitchen door.
The scene of binding the soul and subduing the female corpse is still vivid in memory.
When Lao Gong spoke to the female ghost about the starved ghosts, he said they wanted to eat you, but you could still eat them.
About nine out of ten, this is the reason why the female ghost willingly obeys Lao Gong.
His gaze subtly lowered, fixing on the night pot at his waist.
At the bottom of the night pot, Lao Gong's face was still very painful, and even bleeding from seven orifices.
I frowned, previously I had asked him a question and now the consequences are so severe?
"Master Luo Xian... What are you thinking? This isn't the time to be daydreaming..." Chu Ying bit her lip and prompted me.
I gathered my scattered thoughts and asked Chu Ying, "From which direction did they enter the village? We shouldn't go back the way we came. The old lady was aroused by her dying thoughts, and I dispelled her just in time for us to escape. If we go back now, she will definitely be crying, and it will affect us."
Chu Ying immediately pulled out two tiny bamboo mouse weavings, dabbing the tip of her finger with blood and dotting it on the nose.
The two bamboo mice immediately turned dark, slipped to the ground, and spun around Chu Ying two times.
Some white fluff appeared on Chu Ying's delicate skin.
Previously, her transformation had given people a chilling feeling. Now, she seemed even softer.
I momentarily stopped, staring at Chu Ying for a second. I realized she had a hint of evasion in her eyes and reacted by looking away.
"Don't take the original path, walk along the field ditches," Chu Ying whispered before pushing open the door in front of her and quickly stepping out.
I picked up the photo frame I had put down earlier, securing it to my body as I went, and followed after Chu Ying.
Outside the yard, the road bank below was overgrown with wild grass.
Two dark rat shadows darted into the field, and I jumped off the road embankment with Chu Ying, walking through the weeds.
The sharp, splitting sensation did not stop from the ankles.
The weeds were gloomy and made it hard to predict what would be stepped on next.
However, Chu Ying was constantly changing directions, which somewhat reassured me.
The fields were not wide, and it only took about ten minutes for me to reach the deep village from the safe area at the village entrance.
Before we knew it, we had already walked half the distance.
Just then, Chu Ying suddenly stopped, looking cautiously to the southwest.
My body tensed, and I followed the direction of her gaze.
About twenty to thirty meters away, there was actually a tomb visible.
In some rural areas, it is indeed common to have graves in one's own fields or behind the houses.
However, what attracted Chu Ying's attention was not this simple grave.
It was the creature lying beside the grave.
It had a round body, extremely rough fur, and a short, thin tail.
It looked like a wild boar, with its head stuck inside the grave, digging furiously!
My eyelids jumped wildly, and I felt a chill run down my spine.
I have seen wild dogs dig up graves, old cats bite on corpses, and to a greater extent, snakes, insects, and rats crawling into coffins. But seeing a wild boar digging up a grave is the first time I've seen it.
But in the next second, Chu Ying made a gesture to silence me, and slowly sat down.
My heart skipped a beat, and I also squatted down slowly.
Could she be afraid of a wild boar?
To be honest, ordinary people encountering this thing would indeed either be killed or injured.
But to me, it's just a matter of one cut.
Chu Ying shifted her body slightly, moving closer to me. She had fine, thin sweat on her forehead, but her eyes were filled with fear.
I was even more confused.
At that moment, the wild boar suddenly stopped moving, as if sensing something. Its head emerged from the grave mound, turned its head and looked around.
In that moment, I gripped my fists tightly, and sweat beads formed on my forehead.
It was not a pig's head, but a sheep's face.
Sheep eyes are round, but their tails are extremely thin and long. The black pupils are like those of humans, capable of thought.
In the moonlight, the fur on its face was twisted into threads, stained with dirty, wet mud.
Then, its mouth twitched suddenly, like an old lady with sharp teeth and sharp mouth, continuing to dig the grave.
In a few minutes, the grave had been dug out to form a circular hole.
Its obese body kept moving, completely entering the grave mound.
"Let's go!"
Chu Ying grabbed my wrist and ran quickly towards the diagonal front.
Her cautiousness and panic only made me not underestimate that thing earlier, and I stepped up my pace without slowing down.
Soon, we reached the edge of the field and spotted Chu Ying's white car in one glance!
The two of us quickly reached the car, opened the door, and climbed into the back seat.
A loud bang, the car door closed, and both of them could hear each other's heartbeats thumping.
After half an hour, Chu Ying finally lightly slapped her chest and slowly calmed down.
"Thank goodness, we didn't run into the starved ghosts..." She expressed her relief with a hint of survival, explaining to me, "The starved ghosts here are completely different from the ones you encountered in Fenghuan Hall."
I breathed a slight sigh of relief, but the stone in my heart hadn't fallen.
I glanced out the other side of the car window and could see houses made of firebricks and tiles.
The retribution ghosts in the safe area are not easy to deal with. If we want to leave, it's not going to be that easy...
"What was that thing just now?" I tried to calm myself down and asked Chu Ying.
Chu Ying's face paled with shock again, and she whispered, "The matriarch..."
I was particularly confused.
Chu Ying thought for a moment before explaining to me, "The matriarch is a dark and ominous thing that arises from places of intense resentment. Often during years of great disasters and plagues when the sky is full of cries of distress and countless humans and animals die, the matriarch will crawl out from the decayed bodies of pigs and sheep. It specializes in digging up graves and eating dead people's brains."
If we were to compare our strength, it seems that the regulators would not be its opponent.
However, under normal circumstances, they do not eat live people. When they see people, they usually run away.
I was taken aback and then said, "So why do we have to run?"
Chu Ying's lips were pressed even tighter, and she looked at my face and smiled weakly.
"Look at you, there's no sign of life in any part of your body."
Me: "..."
I raised my hand, wiped away some makeup on my face with my sleeve, and only then did I clean off some of the makeup.
Chu Ying's phoenix eyes suddenly narrowed, and her forehead broke out in beads of sweat again. She stared at me tightly...
No... She was staring at the car window next to me!
My heart felt cold, and I tensed up all over. Suddenly, I turned my head.
A face was even spackling on the car window, a very elongated face with round eyes, and a thin eye tail. The neck was very thick, and the bristles were very deep.
It made no sound at all, but its eyes seemed to be thinking like a human's.
Suddenly, beads of sweat appeared on my forehead!
I quickly rubbed my hand sleeve on my face several times, completely removing the dead makeup.
The sheep face's eyes lost their thoughtfulness, snorted loudly, and then fell away.
In the next moment, I saw it wriggling its obese body and crawling into the weeds in the field ditches.
I waited until the weeds stopped shaking and the thing had moved far away. My tense body relaxed slightly...
"Next time, don't wear that dead person makeup casually..." Chu Ying seemed to be still scared.
She spoke and then moved from the back seat to the driver's seat.
The astonishing curves of her waist and buttocks flashed by.
Chu Ying started the engine while looking towards the direction of the deep village on the other side of the wilderness.
She hesitated for a moment before pursing her lips and saying, "After we leave the village entrance, give me that dead person makeup."
Me: "?"
