Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 6 Diary
Xiao Ran was leaning against the window, watching Niu Wazi swinging an axe and smashing the puppet in front of him into pieces, and his mind couldn't help but flash back to Niu Wazi's innocent look just now: "I also want to go to school, meet more good friends, and play with them..." Suddenly, he felt a chill in his heart.

When he thought about the kind and friendly expressions of the other villagers when they surrounded him, everything seemed to have changed at once. Their friendly smiles turned into ferocious ones.

Suddenly, goose bumps appeared on his arms.

"I can go out, but you can't. You are the same as that bitch, both of you are damned bitches. You both want to run away. It's all because of her that we are neither human nor ghost. I will be like this for the rest of my life, and I won't even be able to grow a single hair. Damn it, all of you deserve to die!"

But Niu Wazi was like a madman, swinging the axe in his hand and cutting the puppet in front of him into pieces. What made his scalp tingle was that the severed limbs were still twisting on the ground in pain.

Only after he had chopped the puppet in front of him into pieces of rotten meat did Niu Wazi put down the axe with satisfaction.

He nodded contentedly, stuck out his tongue at the puppet in front of him that had been smashed into pieces, and walked out humming a little tune. He was still thinking that after they escaped from this hellhole, he could make a few more good friends. Thinking of the scent of fresh flesh and blood on Xiao Ran's body just now, Niu Wazi couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

However, just when Niu Wazi was full of beautiful visions about the future, he just stuck his head out of the cellar entrance and heard a "whoosh!" sound of wind breaking, followed by a "bang!" sound on his head. The world was spinning in front of his eyes and he completely lost consciousness.

Xiao Ran looked at Niu Wawazi falling down the stairs and threw away the brick in his hand.

But he soon noticed that there seemed to be something on half of Niu Wazi's face, so he simply walked into the basement, squatted down next to Niu Wazi, stretched out his hand and gently pulled on Niu Wazi's cracked face.

There was only a "swish" sound.

A piece of debris was torn off Niu Wazi's face. After a closer look, Xiao Ran couldn't help but look at Niu Wazi lying on the ground with a strange expression, and asked in surprise: "Is it made of paper?"

It's not quite right to say that it was made of paper. When you tore off the paper on Niu Wazi's face, there was still flesh and blood underneath. It was just that the flesh and blood looked like discarded pig lymph in the vegetable market, ugly and rotten. You could even see white maggots crawling in the flesh and blood.

If it were anyone else, they would have vomited long ago.

Xiao Ran was already accustomed to this. Instead, he took great interest in removing the paper on Niu Wazi's face and studying it carefully.

"Sure enough, what the old lady said is true. They are all alive, but they have been trapped here for too long. In fact, their skin and flesh have already rotted."

"That kid must have been trapped here when he was very young. Although his mind has grown, his body is still that of a child. Over time, his mind has long been distorted."

"But this paper is made very delicately. When you stick it on your face, it looks exactly like human skin. I was wondering why the faces of these villagers look so pale. I thought it was because they never see the sun all year round."

"No wonder I always feel like something is missing when they smile. After all, their faces are made of cardboard, so the details of their smiles are bound to be a little stiff."

Looking back at the puppet beside him, he suddenly realized that the puppet was the same as Niu Wazi, but the difference was that he was covered with a wooden shell. The heavy weight made him helpless at the mercy of Niu Wazi.

"Eh! Nice clothes!"

When Xiao Ran heard the voice, he turned around and found that the woman in white had come in at some point.

She knelt in front of a box, picked out the clothes one by one, and began to compare them on her body.

Xiao Ran walked over and took a look. Most of the clothes were women's, and each piece of clothing was stained with blood. There were even a few pieces of clothing that were obviously worn by children.

Now Xiao Ran's brows were tightly furrowed.

It seems that the people who died in this cellar are not just the puppets behind him.

"what!!"

At this moment, the woman suddenly screamed strangely, crawled on the ground for five or six meters, curled up in the corner, and covered her head with her hands: "There is a ghost, there is a ghost! Don't hurt me, I don't know anything, I don't know anything!"

Seeing the woman's reaction, Xiao Ran looked at the box again, his black and white eyes flickering with brilliance, but after looking for a long time, he still didn't see where the ghost was.

So he walked to the box, looked down, and saw that there was only one set of clothes left inside.

The style of the clothes seemed out of place in this village. It looked like the school uniform worn by the girl in Romance in the Rain, with a top and skirt made of cyan blue fabric. Even though it looked very old, the color had not faded.

Compared with other clothes, this blue and white material is obviously high-end.

How could there be clothes like this in this shabby village?
At this time, Xiao Ran noticed that there seemed to be something in the pocket of his clothes. When Xiao Ran took it out, he found it was a diary.

The diary has turned yellow and the pages are falling off, but you can still see a name written in very delicate handwriting on it.

【Yang Xuan】

"This is her diary, so... this dress is also hers?"

When Xiao Ran saw the name, she remembered the story the old lady told her in the morning, about the heroine who was a slut, poisoned her husband, and turned into a ghost after her death.

The old lady’s words cannot be trusted. Perhaps there are other clues in this diary.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran opened the diary and wanted to see what was written in it with the weak light. However, after flipping through a few pages, Xiao Ran's brows were twisted together...

"Wake up, wake up!"

Niu Wazi felt groggy and had a dream in which someone was hitting his head. He woke up slowly when he heard a shout. When he opened his eyes dazedly, he saw Xiao Ran sitting at the stairs of the cellar and calling him.

Niu Wazi subconsciously wanted to reach out to rub his eyes, but when he raised his hands, he found that his hands were extremely heavy, and as his arms were raised, a "ding-dong-dong" sound was heard.

Niu Wazi was stunned. He looked down and found that his hands were locked with iron chains and his feet were also handcuffed.

"Big brother...you...what are you doing?"

Niu Wazi looked at Xiao Ran with fear and helplessness, with innocent eyes and a childish voice. If Xiao Ran had not witnessed the whole process, he would have felt guilty.

Xiao Ran ignored him, holding the diary in his hand, staring at the contents of the diary, his eyes gradually becoming colder.

"Big brother, please let me go, or I will call for help!!"

Niu Wazi tried to struggle, but the chains and shackles bound him tightly, making him unable to move.

Xiao Ran slowly raised his head, his eyes as cold as ice: "So, you killed her!"

Niu Wazi's eyes suddenly turned horrified and he screamed, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"nonsense?"

Xiao Ran raised the diary in her hand: "It's written clearly here. She was locked up here by you. How you tortured her? Which of the torture instruments here is not stained with her blood?"

Xiao Ran's words echoed in the cellar, and her questioning made Niu Wazi confused. He quickly explained, "No! No, no, I didn't hurt her. It was Niu San and Tao Ge'er who hurt her. It had nothing to do with me. I was still a child at that time."

"So, you are no longer a child now, right?"

Niu Wazi had no idea that Xiao Ran would find out his weakness as soon as he opened his mouth.

Niu Wazi was stunned and raised his head blankly. After a moment, his young and innocent eyes gradually began to become sinister and ferocious.

He stared at Xiao Ran with his eyes fixed on her: "She deserves to die. If it weren't for her, how could I be like this now? When she was locked up here, I often sat beside her and watched her being slept with by the men in the village every day. They pulled out her teeth, blinded her eyes, and broke her legs. Even the dogs in the village could ride on her, but I couldn't!!"

The more Niu Wazi spoke, the crazier he became. His already rotten cheeks and facial features seemed to be twisted together at this moment.

"It's all her fault. It's all her fault."

After a while, Xiao Ran saw that Niu Wazi seemed to have calmed down a little and asked, "So the so-called exorcism is obviously also a trap?"

Upon hearing this, Niu Wazi quickly calmed down and shook his head: "This is true, the old lady is very powerful, and we are alive today because of her protection."

Afraid that Xiao Ran wouldn't believe him, he continued, "In their eyes, I'm just a child, a hairless kid. It's just that time has passed and I've made a mistake. I was confused for a moment. Big brother, I beg you, please don't tell my parents. If you tell them, they'll beat me to death."

Xiao Ran nodded after hearing this: "One last question."

"Have you seen three foreign children?"

"child??"

Niu Wazi looked confused. Xiao Ran saw the confusion in his eyes and already had the answer in his mind. He closed the diary in his hand, put it in his pocket, turned around and walked out.

He didn't believe a word Niu Wazi said. Although this guy looked like a child, he was probably mentally older than himself.

There is no point in continuing to tangle with him here. Besides, I have been out for so long, I am afraid that someone in the village has started looking for me. If they find me here, it will be disadvantageous to me.

After all, at this moment, it is not the time to fall out with the old lady and others.

When Xiao Ran walked out of the cellar, he saw the woman in white squatting beside him. She was mumbling something and Xiao Ran couldn't hear clearly what she was saying.

I wanted to ask if there were any other clues, but when the woman saw Xiao Ran approaching, she immediately pulled her skirt over her head and said, "There's a ghost, there's a ghost, there's a ghost on you!!"

Xiao Ran had no idea what the woman meant by ghost, but seeing that he couldn't get anything out of her, he could only give up and walk back.

"Damn it, damn it, you all deserve to die, all deserve to die! When I get out of here, I will cut off your penis!"

There was a clinking sound of iron chains rubbing against each other in the cellar. A small knife appeared in Niu Wazi's hand. He gritted his teeth and slowly cut down his wrist. Every time he cut, his body couldn't stop shaking.

As his wrist was about to break free from the iron chain, Niu Wazi suddenly felt an itch on his face. He subconsciously reached out to scratch it, but accidentally grabbed a strand of hair.

Niu Wazi was startled and raised his head suddenly, only to see a face covered with knife scars leaning over and staring at him. The eyes were like ghost lights in the abyss, staring straight at him.

"you……"

He screamed, turned around, raised the dagger in his hand and prepared to stab, but he didn't expect the other party to be faster. The blood-stained axe had already been raised above his head and was chopping down at his head...

(End of this chapter)