There is a trick

Chapter 8: Corpse
Li Xiamei's pale belly looked like a balloon that was blown up to the extreme, or like a taut drumhead, stretching out every line of skin texture!

At this moment, a human face suddenly emerged from the extremely thin belly.

It let out a fierce and sharp whistle, and suddenly broke through the thin belly!

Seaweed-like long hair densely poured out of Li Xiamei's broken belly. Under the long hair, a melon-seed face with a mouth full of fangs was faintly visible, and its gray eyes stared straight at Zhou Chang!

Li Xiamei!
The weird and absurd feeling accumulated in Zhou Chang's heart reached its peak at this moment, which was beyond words!
The one who broke open Li Xiamei's belly was Li Xiamei herself!

Li Xiamei gave birth to Li Xiamei!
According to the legend, Li Xiamei, who adopted three daughters, hoped to give birth to a boy for her husband "Old Feng" to continue the Feng family's incense, but the fetus in her belly had already died. She was unwilling to accept the reality, so she got a prescription from the "ghost doctor" and began to use the internal organs of living people as medicine, taking it every day, hoping to bring the fetus in her belly back to life.

But now, the fetus in Li Xiamei's belly, which was nurtured by countless living people's internal organs, was actually Li Xiamei herself!

Li Xiamei's head moved and slowly emerged from the crack in her belly.

Its shoulders gradually emerged from it.

Although its movements were extremely slow at this moment, the sense of danger that was surging in Zhou Chang's heart was like a raging tide that overturned him!
Li Xiamei opened her big mouth full of fangs and laughed like an owl!

“Ah—hahahaha!”

Its body is 'reborn' from the belly even faster!

Zhou Chang's mind began to tremble, and all kinds of thoughts were like noisy voices, almost drowning his mind!

The transparent silk thread that was specially guided by him and wrapped around his legs seemed to be stained at this time, becoming colorful and filthy in patches, and then turned into wisps of fragrant ash, which fluttered off his body!

"Why is this happening?"

"The sword in reality cannot kill the demon in the mind, but I clearly used the thread in my mind to cut Li Xiamei's neck!"

"It should be dead!"

"And yet he's alive!"

“This is not the right way!

Is there any other way, is there any other solution?"

All kinds of thoughts swirled in Zhou Chang's mind, and the pain, like being hit by an iron chisel, became more and more severe!

The world in his eyes shook even more violently. Li Xiamei in the dark forest turned into rows and columns of double images, filling his entire field of vision!

At this moment, Zhou Chang, who seemed to be in a noisy square, suddenly became quiet alone.

He picked up those disorganized thoughts, pieced them together, and reorganized them into a complete chain.

Zhou Chang re-examined some of Zhou Sanji's previous words: "Do you know? As long as we can breathe and move, Li Xiamei can smell the scent and hear the sound and chase us..."

"Is that so?" Zhou Chang raised his head and looked at Li Xiamei, who had arms growing out of the belly of her old body.

The whitish transparent silk threads on his body that dissipated like incense ash instantly stopped the trend of being stained further, but the scale of the transparent silk threads was much smaller than before. Zhou Chang gathered each thread back and could only cover his two arms.

He stood there, silent and motionless.

The bride in phoenix coronet and bridal robe stood quietly beside Zhou Chang without him noticing.

There was a piece of yellow paper pasted on her face, but the charming and affectionate face was not visible on the paper.

Behind her stood a thin-skin coffin, and on either side of the coffin stood two "people" whose internal organs were missing and whose skin and clothes looked like they were made of paper.

When the wind blows, the paper figures rustle.

Covered by the yellow paper, Bai Xiu'e's face was covered with tears and her eyelashes trembled slightly.

"lady--"

Zhou Chang suddenly turned his head, looked at the pretty and delicate bride in front of him, and shouted in a hoarse voice.

He didn't know the other person's name and could only call him by the identity they had agreed on in the previous play.

"Ma'am! Help me!"

"Help me!"

He called out in a low voice, and suddenly reached out and pinched the yellow paper covering Bai Xiu'e's face. He didn't use much force, and the yellow paper fell off Bai Xiu'e's face.

Bai Xiu'e, who was sitting under the yellow paper, suddenly opened her eyes and saw Zhou Chang, who was holding a ball of yellow paper in his hand and had a pale face!

The moment the paper face was torn off her forehead, she felt as if the sky suddenly brightened!
Bai Xiu'e pursed her lips tightly, mustered up her courage, and really reached out to support Zhou Chang, who was shaking. This tall man almost put the weight of his entire body on her. The cold breath followed his body and invaded Bai Xiu'e, making her shiver slightly.

She raised her pale face and saw Zhou Chang's profile: "How can I help you?"

"Help me to it."

Zhou Chang raised his right arm and pointed at Li Xiamei, who had her hands sticking out of her belly.

Bai Xiu'e turned around and saw a horrifying figure half sticking out of the belly of the headless corpse. Her pretty face was twisted with fear: "...Okay."

Hearing the voice, Zhou Chang tilted his head and glanced at Bai Xiu'e.

Bai Xiu'e supported him vigorously, and her body became Zhou Chang's crutch.

She noticed Zhou Chang's gaze and trembled even more violently: "You, you, you...I, I, will I-will I die?"

There was a cry in her voice, but she did not stop. Instead, she continued to support Zhou Chang and walked towards Li Xiamei, whose belly was half sticking out.

"Even if we die, at least the three of us die together. At least we can keep each other company." Zhou Chang spoke with a smile. His eyes wandered, watching the breath coming out of Zhou Sanji's eyes, ears, mouth and nose gradually become thinner.

Zhou Chang looked at the slight rise and fall of his back and knew that he was not dead at that moment.

"Well, well... that's fine..." Bai Xiu'e uttered a few words, and she suddenly calmed down a lot, and her body stopped shaking.

She walked closer to Li Xiamei with Zhou Chang——

Li Xiamei, with half of her body sticking out of her ruptured belly, suddenly swung the sharp knife in her hand!

Swish!
Zhou Chang pushed Bai Xiu'e away. Without any external force to support his body, he knelt down in front of Li Xiamei's headless body, facing Li Xiamei's new head! He stretched out his arms, and his ten fingers were wrapped with transparent silk threads, tightly grasping the sharp knife that was coming over!

click!
His fingers were like iron pliers, biting the sharp knife that was pressing down on him!

The terrifying power attached to the sharp knife cannot be guessed by common sense and has no quantifiable meaning. It is enough to cut Zhou Chang in half in an instant!

But Zhou Chang endured the pain of his brain being gouged out and desperately manipulated each transparent silk thread. The seemingly weak silk threads instead entangled the sharp knife - the clusters of thread ends seemed to be led by steel needles, bursting out from the sharp knife, pulling Li Xiamei's arm and bending back in an instant!
The tip of the knife pierced into Li Xiamei's forehead!

Its hair exploded in disarray, and it howled even more crazily, poking its body out of its belly even faster!

It was obvious that the sharp knife had pierced through its forehead!

“No one can stop making any noise, stop breathing temporarily and still have a heartbeat, and no one can completely cover up the smell on their body - these smells, no matter how they are covered, are like torches in the dark sky to a dog’s nose!
People can't be compared to dogs!

Since I can't avoid making any noise or spreading any smell, I'll have to let you down.

As long as you can't smell the scent of living people and hear the voices of living people--"

Zhou Chang stared at the hideous and terrifying oval face in front of him. He held Li Xiamei's face with both hands, as if holding up the smile of his lover.

Dense, whitish, transparent silk threads fell off the sharp knife and pierced deeply into Li Xiamei's eyes, ears, mouth and nose, sewing her eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and sewing her hands to her face!
The silk thread is sewn round and round, and each stitch is extremely dense and powerful!

The restless Li Xiamei suddenly became quiet.

The last piece of silk thread was sewed around Li Xiamei's lips.

Li Xiamei, with her face covered by her hands, a sharp knife stuck in her head and her lower body still connected to the belly of her old body, suddenly evaporated into streams of illusory and colorful air, drifting into the forest and disappearing without a trace.

The dark sky gradually brightened and the cold wind stopped.

Zhou Chang fainted from exhaustion.

Bai Xiu'e stood behind Zhou Chang, the fear still evident on her fair and pretty face.

At this time, ripples appeared on her right cheek like the surface of the water, and another charming and passionate face emerged from the ripples, gradually covering the right half of her face.

The beautiful face looked at Zhou Chang who fell to the ground with a smile, as if she was thinking about something.

Zhou Sanji, who was not far away, suddenly started and woke up.

……

In the dark fog, a fenced yard was vaguely visible.

Under the thatched gatehouse of the courtyard, the black lacquered gate with the word "Fu" on it was open. The three or five rooms in the courtyard had rammed earth walls and thatched roofs, and were very simple.

Li Xiamei walked into the yard and pushed the door into the main room.

Its hands, which had been sewn to its face with transparent silk thread, now hung at its sides, and the sharp knife that had been inserted into its forehead had disappeared without a trace.

The light in the main room was dim.

On the black and yellow wall of the house, there seemed to be a few long clothes hanging.

A brazier was placed in the open space in the middle of the room, with orange flames jumping in it.

The firelight made the room even darker.

Li Xiamei picked up a bamboo pole from behind the door and took down a long dress hanging on the wall on one side of the house. Those so-called long dresses on the wall were actually pieces of tanned black human skin.

Li Xiamei first put her hands into the human skin, then pushed her feet into the skin, and finally put on her face skin.

The long crack on the back of the human skin began to heal silently.

The human skin's bulging abdomen was flattened by Li Xiamei's hands.

After a while, Li Xiamei turned into a slightly plump middle-aged woman. She wore a blue coarse cloth dress and a leather apron. She knelt on the straw mat behind the brazier and spoke in a low voice: "Boss, I didn't save the corpse this time...

The rootless soul moved into the corpse...

He has some unreasonable means..."

Li Xiamei whispered fearfully while grabbing stacks of black paper money from the side and throwing them into the brazier.

The black paper money was devoured by the flames, producing an illusory and colorful mist.

The mist floated and entangled the shrine tablet nailed on the wall opposite the door.

The shrine was only one foot off the ground, and on the tablet inside, words could be vaguely seen: The altar of the god of cold and darkness.

"The third girl... The third girl was originally helping me, but she changed her mind later and temporarily hid herself in the body of the girl with the Lotus Embryo Boy's fate...

She has always been a person with her own ideas. Although she was adopted by me, her roots are with the Treasure King in the Secret Treasure Realm.

Although she didn’t help later, she still left a token…”

Li Xiamei raised her wrist - a strand of black hair was entangled around it.

This was a strand of hair that Zhou Chang entrusted to Bai Xiu'e when they made an alliance. Now it has become a token left for it by the "three women" mentioned by Li Xiamei!
"The third woman said that the soul from outside was able to live in a corpse that had been raised for seven days, which was already extraordinary. Moreover, he had some other secret means hidden in him, so she wanted to find out the secrets hidden by the soul before killing him.

In a few days, I will also go to Qingyi Town to work as a butcher and take care of the corpse.

Once the three women finished their work, they would work with it to kill the living soul and then bring the corpse back.

It won’t delay things…”

After Li Xiamei finished speaking, she stole a glance at the shrine that was one foot above the ground.

The colorful, seemingly real and illusory "thought energy" entangled the tablet in the shrine, and at this moment, it suddenly gathered into a blurry human face!

The face suddenly opened its dark eyes and stared at Li Xiamei!

The human skins hanging on the walls on both sides stared at Li Xiamei. They spoke in turn, and the mixed voices of old and young men and women echoed in the main room: "The three women are restless in the secret storage area!
Keep your eyes on it!
The God of Wealth ordered me to keep the corpse here. If you lose it, you will just be 'disintegrated'!
In a few days, let the eldest and second daughters go to Tsing Yi with you!"

(End of this chapter)