Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 292 Not a Single One Missing

Ran Qing, who was in the darkness, was suddenly stunned.

This eerie, slender black shadow looked very much like the human-faced demon that had tried to harm him before.

However, upon closer inspection, there are some differences.

The only thing they had in common was that they exuded a chilling malice.

And this time, there were two...

What Ran Qing felt was a ferocity and malice many times stronger than before.

And the sense of crisis and terror that only exists between life and death.

The human-faced demon had tried to rip open his stomach many times before, but it hadn't caused him any real harm.

But the two dark figures in front of them were squatting by the bed and extending their claws.

Their claws didn't reach for Zongshu's belly, but instead went for Zongshu's heart and eyes.

The moment the cold, slender claws gently touched Zong Shu's body, Ran Qing clearly saw that Zong Shu's clothes were torn open and a trickle of blood seeped from his skin.

In an almost instantaneous eye contact, the two dark figures crouching by the bed suddenly turned their heads and looked at Ran Qing, who had opened her eyes on the bed.

In the darkness, six eyes met, and the shadowy figures paused slightly in their claws.

Ran Qing, who witnessed Zong Shu's injury, had no time to think.

Almost instinctively, Ran Qing grabbed the cane with the human head hanging above her bed.

The staff, now fitted with a brand-new wooden stick and adorned with the human head, was viciously smashed down on the two dark figures in front of it.

The head that looked exactly like Ran Qing opened its eyes and uttered a strange, hoarse whisper.

"...A ghost! A ghost!"

The staff with the human head shrieked, as if it were warning us, or perhaps gloating.

The staff, capable of slaying ghosts, easily pierced through the shadowy figure's body, as if it had passed through the air itself.

This monster, as expected, has no physical form!

Even so, the two dark figures still retreated abruptly, moving away from Zongshu.

They crouched in the darkness, their cold eyes fixed on Ran Qing and the staff with the human head in her hand.

Although the staff made of human heads couldn't hit them, they seemed to be wary of this evil artifact made from a human-faced demon.

Zong Shu lay on the bed, his limbs stiff and his eyelids twitching wildly. He was clearly awake and aware of the approaching danger. However, he only had one Ghost Luo Ancient Coin on him, which was insufficient to allow him to move in the face of this monster.

At this moment, the only person in the room who could move independently was Ran Qing.

Ran Qing squatted stiffly on the bed, her fingers gripping the mandrel, her left hand clutching the Nuo opera mask placed beside her pillow.

Caught in a sudden and dangerous situation, he was unable to touch the two eerie black figures for the time being.

Last time, when dealing with the human-faced demon, we made many preparations in advance to capture the invisible monster.

But the two shadowy figures before them, resembling human-faced demons...

Ran Qing remembered the weakness of the human-faced demon, [gazing].

The human-faced demon, which cannot be seen by the living, will die if it is looked at.

So, does the monster in front of us, which is similar to the human-faced demon, share the same weakness?
But if the human-faced demon's eyes are inside its stomach, are the real eyes of the two monsters in front of us also inside their stomachs?
Ran Qing stared intently at the two dark figures, raising the staff with the severed head, his gaze dark and sinister.

But the eerie head opened its eyes, which gleamed with a strange, ghastly green light that could see through the netherworld and pierce through some of the mist.

Its weakness is the human-faced demon that is "staring," and its eyesight far surpasses that of ordinary evil spirits, possessing a certain sinister power.

And this power is now realized in the staff of human heads.

As the eyes on the skeletal staff glowed green, the two tall, thin black figures suddenly retreated. They turned and walked towards the outside, actually passing right through the solid cement wall and running outside.

Upon seeing this, Ran Qing instinctively jumped down and chased after them.

These two monsters are very strange. We need to find a way to catch them, or chase after them to see where they came from!
The human-faced demon that came to harm Ran Qing came out from a temporarily opened ghost gate, which was located inside a cement building.

But the two monsters in front of them, sensing the danger, actually ran away...

Were they ordered to come here?

Who instigated it?

Ran Qing chased after them, pushed open the door, and saw the two dark figures moving about, drifting down the park road.

He tried to give chase, but saw that the doghouse outside the cement house, the place where Little Cotton used to sleep, now contained the gruesome corpse of a white fox.

The sixth fox, who had stayed overnight at Ran Qing's house, now had its belly ripped open, blood and intestines spilling out, and its heart missing. Its eyes were surrounded by blood, and the sockets were empty—its eyeballs had been gouged out while it was still alive.

The bizarre and bloody manner of the death sent chills down Ran Qing's spine.

The manner of his death was the same as the method those two monsters used to harm Zongshu.

So, before they harmed Zongshu, they had already harmed the sixth fox outside?

But why would he target Old Fox Six? This old fox is cautious and doesn't dare to offend anyone, and he poses no threat whatsoever.

Ran Qing was still thinking when she continued running after the two dark figures down the park road.

But he had only run a few meters when a girl's terrified scream suddenly came from the cement house behind him.

That sound... like Little Cotton?!
Ran Qing felt a chill run down her spine. Forgetting about chasing the two dark figures, she quickly turned and rushed towards Mo Li's room.

"Mo Li!"

Ran Qing rushed anxiously to Mo Li's door and kicked it hard. But she found the door locked and couldn't open it.

Just as he was about to exert more force, the old wooden door was suddenly opened.

Little Cotton, looking terrified, ran out: "Ran Qing!"

Little Cotton stood upright on its feet, opened the door, and pointed its two front paws into the house like a human.

In the soft, single sofa illuminated by the light, a girl wearing a thin nightgown was sleeping peacefully with her head tilted to the side.

The bright lights in the room shone on her, and her eyelids were trembling wildly, as if she wanted to open them.

A strikingly large and slender monster was crouching next to the single sofa where Mo Li was lying.

Even under the bright lights, Ran Qing couldn't make out the monster's full appearance.

The room was brightly lit, with every detail clearly visible.

But this monster was completely black, as if its entire body was shrouded in darkness, and it would not appear in the light.

In this brightly lit environment, the sudden appearance of a pitch-black shadow, as if the area itself were still shrouded in darkness, is a bizarre phenomenon that sends chills down one's spine and evokes a strange sense of unease and dread.

—Another monster!

And they came specifically for Mo Li?

Ran Qing's face turned grim. Seeing that the monster's claws had already touched Mo Li's eyelids, he quickly raised the staff with the human head and rushed over.

Everyone who attended the elevator building ceremony tonight, except for the small cotton plants harvested and broken, was visited by a corresponding monster if they had a chair at the time...

Could it be that Kawasaki Sokichi sent this to harm people?!

Is he holding a Dharma assembly to harm people?

The first thing Ran Qing thought of was that eerie old man.

(End of this chapter)