At the moment when the speaker finished speaking, the man's copper needle suddenly plunged into the headless woman's body!
The headless woman showed no sign of evasion at all. She still clung tightly to my back. I didn't know what part of her body was pierced by the copper needle, but I could only feel that she was trembling even more, the coldness of her body was decreasing, and her soul was becoming weaker...
Clearly, she was being trapped by the so-called soul-sealing needle spoken of by that person!
"Let's go..."
I struggled against the suppression of the bells and managed to eke out one word.
"You..."
"...not allowed..."
"Not allowed..."
The sound from her abdomen became increasingly broken and interrupted. The headless woman was so weak, it had reached the extreme.
I turned my head even more painfully, and the headless woman on my back was already starting to become ephemeral, her emaciated shoulders trembling slightly.
A hand raised, gently stroking my cheek.
The next second, the sensation on my cheek vanished.
The headless woman disappeared.
The copper tip of the needle glowed with a faint blood-red light!
"A living person, making a ghost so loyal, hmm." The cold voice, with a hint of an emotion that is difficult to describe.
He lifted his hand and put the copper needle back in his pocket.
The other hand continued to swing the bell continuously.
I stared at him intently.
Round face, short haircut, flat nose and wide-spaced eyes...
His appearance is completely etched in my mind.
"The eight-fold seal is used up, let's use the corpse-bound whip," the person said again, his voice ghostly.
The man reached into his waistband with his left hand and pulled out a long, slender white whip.
The others simultaneously reached for their own whips, which slid out from their waists.
The eight people all bent down simultaneously, preparing to bind my body with the white whip.
I closed my eyes, and the humming sound in my head plunged into emptiness once again.
Reason was shattered.
What good is it to restrain the earth's evil Qi?
The headless woman was captured.
I'm going to be captured as well.
What kind of fate awaits me and the headless woman?
Will she be used by the people of Guibian as a tool?
I fear that my blood and flesh will be drained, and my soul will be used for research.
Cold...
So cold...
It feels like ten years ago during the winter.
My body is completely paralyzed and heavy...
The sky seems to explode with a thunderous rumble!
I distinctly feel that I am enveloped by something.
It's not the constraint from the people's white whips. Although, I can feel myself bound in a bundle, the feeling of being enveloped is definitely something else.
Following that, a terrifying voice rang out.
"What... what's happening?"
"Run! Quickly run!"
The whooshing sound entered my ears, as if those people were fleeing.
The sound of the bell vanished abruptly.
The pressure on me also disappeared completely...
Quiet...
It was replaced by a complete silence.
Of course, this silence is relative and only without the clamor of people.
I tremulously opened my eyes.
The wind howled, too strong and too fast, emitting a screech.
The night sky was darker, the dense black clouds obscured the moon overhead, but the people of Guibian's arrangements kept it tightly confined within a range and did not spread out.
The ground cracked open, with numerous fissures, and a thick cloud of black smoke kept spewing out.
The eight people from before had disappeared without a trace.
Ran away?
Why did they run?
I was captured, wasn't I?
What happened before?
My heart shrank suddenly, and I felt a sense of weightlessness and falling again.
They ran away, but the headless woman was taken!
I forced myself to stand up by supporting my body.
There was another explosive noise in my mind.
The huge black cloud around me suddenly contracted towards me!
Coldness poured in, then silence...
The sky returned to its normal darkness.
The pale eyes on top looked down at me without any mercy or coldness.
My breathing was still heavy, and I wanted to go after them.
But my peripheral vision caught a hint of something amiss!
There were several things added to the ground around me...
Four scattered eight bells.
And a copper needle inserted diagonally into the ground!
My head suddenly exploded with a loud noise!
The items were all here, and the people didn't run away?
A scene flashed before my eyes, showing the man and woman possessed by the bloodletting ghost being killed instantly by the earth's Qi. Even the bloodletting ghost was pulled into the ground.
They...are dead?
But earlier, they could resist the earth's Qi and even suppress me.
My consciousness was shattered, and in the brief time I closed my eyes, what happened?
I quickly picked up the copper needle while squatting.
The first touch was cold and familiar.
The next moment, it became a sharp heat, causing me to choke and the copper needle to slip out of my hand.
There was no wound on my hand; what was burning was the copper needle itself...
Copper is a thing to subdue and dissipate evil spirits, especially since the person before me mentioned that this is called the "Soul-Sealing Needle".
The headless woman being taken in is equivalent to being continuously suppressed.
I quickly picked up the copper needle again, enduring the burning sensation, trying to release the headless woman.
But I have no idea how to use this copper needle...
The smooth, concave body of the needle reflected my face.
My right hand trembled slightly, the burning sensation was eroding my skin.
Yet I stood there stiffly for a moment, still not knowing how to use the copper needle.
"Master..."
"We have to leave."
Another trembling voice echoed.
It was only through my peripheral vision that I saw Lao Gong emerging from the nightpot.
A very intense fear spread across his dry face.
Lao Gong had seen everything before, and his fear was not directed at others but at me.
But it's clear that his concern goes beyond this.
I calmed down slightly, and the danger is indeed not limited to this.
Guibian has mobilized a large number of people to capture me back.
They don't know about the earth energy in my body, but they still sealed the leakage of earth energy.
Although they overconfident and fell into the sewer, but if we wait a little longer, they don't go back or show any other reactions, Guibian will certainly dispatch the rest of the people to investigate the situation.
By then, the danger will come again, and I may not be able to escape.
Taking deep breaths, I tried my best to calm down my emotions and kept the copper needle on me.
Slightly hesitated, I picked up the bell from the ground.
Glancing around again, I saw that except for the two bodies of the man and woman who were caught by me and turned into dried corpses at first, the eight people who surrounded me, and the man and woman who had targeted the headless woman before, there was no trace of them.
I had a hunch that they might have been pulled into the ground by the earth energy.
Now that the earth energy has subsided, there are no cracks in the ground.
Besides Lao Gong, who witnessed the incident, and me, no one else knows what happened.
I hurriedly walked towards the two dried corpses.
I dragged the corpses to the side of the turbulent river.
Without hesitation or doubt, I directly threw the dried corpses into the river.
In no time, the two corpses were carried away by the river's flow.
I walked to the place where the eight people had inserted their flags before, ensuring that all the earth energy had dissipated. I then pulled out the flags.
Without taking time to look around carefully, I rolled the flags together and walked to the side of the taxi that was there before.
Actually, the female taxi driver who opened the taxi was also one of the eight.
The car key was still in the car.
After a moment's thought, I got into the car directly.
I started the car and headed in the direction of returning to the city.
Of course, I didn't really go back to the city. Instead, I turned into a national highway with a fork and chose an old forest with little human activity.
After parking the car inside, I lit a fire.
As the fire roared higher and higher, the tongues of fire engulfed the entire car, I finally left.
I walked for a long time along the national highway, and the night was dark and terrifying.
I walked until the middle of the night, finally flagged down an empty taxi. After negotiating and giving a sum of money, the driver agreed to head in the direction of the village where I and Lao Qin tou lived.
I didn't let the car directly drive into the village, but stopped at the entrance of the rural road instead.
It was around 3-4 am in the morning, and occasionally, clear and piercing roosters' crowing could be heard in the ear.
Walking on the quiet rural road, my heart was still not calm.
The image of the headless woman lying on top of me kept appearing in my eyes repeatedly.
Taking out the copper needle, I clenched it tightly in my hand.
The tingling sensation kept piercing my skin.
...
"You must not harm him!"
"You..."
"...not allowed..."
"Not allowed..."
Not only the image, but it also seemed like I could hear the echoes.
I feel like my heart is congested and very uncomfortable.
The sky was getting light, and the moon vanished.
But I felt as if the sky wouldn't light up anymore.
Ten years have passed, Lao Qin tou, who was kind to me, has died.
The headless woman was also very kind to me, and even offered her "soul" to protect me.
But why?
Why do the people who are kind to me have to suffer so much?
Closing my eyes, I mumbled silently: "I will let you out, I won't use this soul-sealing needle, but there are people who can. If I can't find someone who can use it, I'll go back to Guibian. They will."
"After you come out, I will prepare a lot of clothes for you."
"Also, I will find your head back."
"I swear!"
