There is a trick

Chapter 26 Bone Ring, Mastiff Doji

into the night.

Zhou Chang was lying on the clumsy wooden bed.

The thick bedding pressed down on him, and his body was trembling slightly underneath it.

The slightly white and transparent silk thread sewed up the mouth and nose of the corpse, making it unable to make any sound. Between its eyebrows, strands of blood thoughts belonging to Zhou Chang were floating in an orderly manner, either detaching from its body or re-entering its body.

——Zhou Chang is rearranging the blood threads in his body.

He followed the arrangement of blood vessels in this body and wrapped each strand of blood thought around the many main blood vessels in the body.

However, the ordinary thoughts he had accumulated today were not enough to pierce the corpse's flesh, so he temporarily used them to cover the surface of its body, mouth and nose to suppress the corpse's crazy struggle.

After he returned home today, he has been looking for various opportunities to get close to Miss Bai.

Perhaps it was because Miss Bai's emotions fluctuated greatly today, so he obtained a lot of thought threads. The thought threads he obtained today were enough to cover his two arms and even his chest area.

Nian Si is his only support now, so he will naturally manage it with all his heart.

Zhou Chang's initial idea was to use the thought threads to replace the blood vessels of the corpse. As the thought threads absorbed the mycelium of delusions and became stronger, he would try to twist the thought threads into steel cables to replace the corpse's bones, and eventually fill the corpse's flesh and blood completely with thought threads!
As the corpse trembled, Zhou Chang wrapped all his blood thoughts around the blood vessels in his body.

He stretched his arms out from under the quilt and moved the joints.

——At the moment, he has not yet used the ordinary thoughts covering his body. With the help of this "thought blood vessel network" on his body, his control over this body has increased a lot.

When he returned home from the winery, he could only control his body to walk simply, but now he is confident that he is no different from an ordinary person!

"It seems that I have taken the right path..."

Zhou Chang smiled. The feedback from this body made him realize that he had made the right decision to replace the blood vessel network in his body with blood threads.

He moved his body for a while, and his eyes caught sight of the red string on his right wrist.

Zhou Chang seemed to realize something immediately. He retracted his arm and fumbled under his pillow for a while. Finally, he found a cylindrical object that was thicker than his thumb and several knuckles high.

The cylindrical object was made of bone, hollow, and was polished into the shape of a ring.

There are some traces of yellowing on the bone ring caused by the flames, and dark cracks are all over the surface of the ring.

Among the numerous cracks, there are seven man-made holes.

The seven holes were not completely opened. When Zhou Chang looked at those holes, he had a strange feeling in his heart - his gaze seemed to be "absorbed" by these seven holes.

This bone ring has the same origin as the silk thread.

It was a funerary object he found in the coffin in front of Yin Sheng's mother's grave.

Originally, the red rope on his wrist had no interest in the delusional mycelium in the wine cellar, so he naturally could not complete the accumulation of the power of the red rope in the wine cellar.

But when he came out of the wine cellar and passed through the lobby of the winery, he actually saw quite a few jars of wine that were fully sealed.

So, while the person in charge was talking with Master Yang Rui and his apprentice, he let out the red rope, reached into the wine jars, and drank a lot of it, thus filling the red rope with power.

In this way, he dragged the coffin of a deceased person named 'Zhou Chang'.

This bone ring was obtained from the coffin.

The red rope fell silent from then on, and no one knew when it would be touched again.

The seven holes between the intersecting cracks on the ring stopped absorbing Zhou Chang's gaze.

The seven holes were shiny black.

Zhou Chang looked closer, but didn't see any clues. However, he heard a desolate sound of wind in his ears.

"Wow—"

The desolate sound of wind came out from the seven holes one after another, and mixed in the sound of the wind was the childish and anxious call of a boy.

"Ao Duoji!" the boy shouted in the first hole. "Ao Baima!" the boy shouted the name of another mastiff in the second hole.

"Qiu Yangqie!"

"Donzhu, Donzhu!"

"Arden!"

"Mastiff, big bull!"

"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"

Zhou Chang looked surprised as he listened to the sounds coming from the seven holes.

This bone ring seems to be attached with the "thoughts" of a boy named Zhou Chang. His thoughts are retained in the seven holes, constantly calling out to his seven beloved pets, or perhaps seven companions.

But what use is this bone ring to me?
As Zhou Chang was thinking, the sound of wind gradually stopped coming from the hole in the bone ring, and the boy's shouting also stopped. Everything returned to calm.

He waited for a while and didn't notice any unusual movement on the ring, so he put it on the thumb of his left hand, closed his eyes and prepared to go to sleep.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, the whimpering sound of a puppy begging for food came into his ears.

"Hum, hum~"

Zhou Chang suddenly opened his eyes wide and put his ear close to the seven holes on the ring.

The whimpering sound disappeared.

……

"Wow..."

The sound of the wind outside the house sounds very cold, so you will feel more at ease staying in the house.

Bai Xiu'e curled up beside the oil lamp, humming a nursery rhyme she had heard in her youth. Transparent, whitish lotus root silk flowed between her fingers, passing through insects so tiny that they could be ignored, and peeling off their skins intact.

The shells of the insects were stitched together in the palm of her hand, gradually growing from imperceptible to the size of a fingernail, and continuing to piece together and expand.

She did the needlework very seriously, her face was filled with a happy smile, and she didn't feel tired at all.

Next to her, there were several layers of mouse fur, cloth woven from bird feathers, insect shells, and so on.

"You are destined to be treated like a slave!"

At this time, the 'paper face' appeared again from half of her cheek, sneering at her.

That charming and affectionate face was now full of disgust.

Bai Xiu'e sighed upon hearing this. She put down her needlework and stared blankly at the flickering light in front of her. After a long moment, she said hesitantly, "I, I just want to repay them."

"repay?
What have we ever owed them?
If it weren't for us, they would have died in that mass grave long ago!" Paper Face said in mock surprise.

Bai Xiu'e lowered her head and said no more.

Just like what Paper Face said, there was no question of who owed whom between her and the Zhou family's grandfather and grandson, so how could she repay the other party?
Where does this desire to repay the other person come from?
Maybe it’s because here, I can be like a real person.

"Loss of money!"

When Zhilian saw Bai Xiu'e's expression, he looked even more disgusted.

Suddenly, her expression suddenly became serious, and she said to Bai Xiu'e: "Your dead husband is here to see you."

Bang!

As soon as Paper Face finished his words, the two paper-framed windows that were tightly latched were blown open by a gust of evil wind!
The cold and gloomy wind instantly filled Bai Xiu'e's bedroom!

There was no longer any sense of security here for her!
(End of this chapter)