Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 49: Stewed Soup

Aunt Liu's voice rang in my ears.

When Ran Qing heard this voice, he felt as if he had been pardoned.

Without any hesitation, he spat out the bone in his mouth.

In an instant, a huge suction force descended from the sky, and Ran Qing, who was sitting in the forest, flew up instantly.

He fell rapidly towards the dark sky, and the gravity of the earth and the sky seemed to be reversed at this moment.

Ran Qing fell rapidly towards the night sky above his head, and the dark and desolate mountains and forests quickly shrank under his feet.

Li Hongye in the forest looked up coldly and stared at Ran Qing expressionlessly.

Shadowy figures crawled at her feet, roaring and snarling.

This scene was deeply engraved in Ran Qing's mind.

The next second, he was completely swallowed by the darkness, and the ghost in the forest completely disappeared.

Ran Qing could vaguely smell the hot and pungent smoke of fire, and even the stench of rotting vegetation in the pine forest on earth.

A feeling of relief and fear for surviving the disaster emerged in his heart.

Thinking back to the scene just now, Ran Qing's heart was still pounding.

That group of terrifying people who suddenly passed by were evil and terrifying. They were definitely the most terrifying things Ran Qing had ever seen.

If possible, he didn't want to see those horrible things again.

But their appearance unexpectedly saved Ran Qing from danger.

And it bought precious time for Ran Qing.

Soon, the sense of physical reality resurfaced.

Ran Qing opened his eyes and felt sore all over. He could also smell the unique damp and rotten air of the pine forest.

He struggled to get up and found himself lying in Li Hongye's coffin.

But the coffin was empty, with only him, but no trace of Li Hongye's body.

In the dim light of the flashlight, Aunt Liu stood beside the mud pit, holding up the flashlight, looking straight at him.

Seeing that Ran Qing was safe and sound, Aunt Liu breathed a sigh of relief: "It's done!"

"Kid, crawl out by yourself. I'm going to close the coffin."

Aunt Liu urged Ran Qing to get up. Ran Qing, feeling his body stiff and sore, climbed up holding the edge of the coffin.

The school uniform he was wearing was covered in dried egg liquid and gave off a faint eggy smell.

After crawling out of the mud pit, Ran Qing felt a stinging pain all over his body. The pain was like being stung by a clematis in the cornfield when he was a child. It was numb, itchy, and stinging, and it was unbearable.

He quickly took off his school uniform and, with the help of the flashlight, saw that his body was covered with black teeth marks.

The teeth marks were not very deep and there was no bleeding.

But the bitten area was a strange black color, as if it was poisoned.

After shining the flashlight on Ran Qing, Aunt Liu frowned and said, "So many bites? It seems your child is in great danger down there."

Aunt Liu, who was covered in smoke, glared at Ran Qing dissatisfiedly: "Didn't I tell you to come back when you're almost done?"

"You've been bitten into this state, and you've been pounced on by the evil spirit down there, right?"

"If you're any later, you might be eaten alive."

Seeing Ran Qing trembling in pain, Aunt Six scolded him, "Do you feel the pain now? If you had come up later, you wouldn't have to feel the pain!"

"Being eaten by those ghosts, it's all over now, and I won't feel any pain anymore!"

Aunt Liu took out her pipe and put it in her mouth while cursing.

She jumped into the mud pit and pushed the strange vermilion coffin lid back on.

Then he climbed out of the mud pit, picked up the engineer shovel on the ground and started filling the mud pit with soil.

The quick and flexible movements are indeed those of farmers who work all year round.

Ran Qing saw Aunt Six busy at work and subconsciously wanted to come over to help. But after taking just two steps, he felt dizzy and the bite marks on his body felt even more intense.

His entire body was tingling and itching, the pain so intense that he almost wanted to tear his skin off. He collapsed onto the ground, straining to straighten his body and trying to endure the horrible pain.

Next to the mud pit, Aunt Six, who was constantly filling the coffin lid with soil, heard the noise behind her and sneered sarcastically, "You're just like your father, Ran Lao San, you like to show off."

"Being bitten like this will be painful for you for the next few days."

"But don't worry, it won't kill you. It'll just cause a throbbing pain from time to time. You'll get used to it after a while."

After the crisis was resolved, the sharp-tongued Aunt Six became Ran Qing's only pressure.

He sat stiffly on the ground, his whole body tense, his teeth clenched, desperately resisting the numbness, itching and tingling in his body.

It took five or six minutes before the numbness, itching and stinging sensation subsided a lot.

Only then did Ran Qing realize that he was sweating all over.

He sat weakly on the ground, looking at Aunt Liu who was busy filling the mud pit with soil, then looked at the dark and damp pine forest, and was stunned for a while.

Then he asked, "Sixth Aunt, has Li Hongye's body... been burned?"

There was nothing in this forest, no signs of burning bodies.

Moreover, the time on Ran Qing's low-quality electronic watch showed that only more than half an hour had passed since he went to the Wujiang ghost world.

Can a corpse be burned in just over half an hour?

Ran Qing didn't know much about cremation, but he instinctively felt that it would be difficult to burn a corpse in half an hour, right?

Ran Qing looked confused.

Aunt Six held her pipe in her mouth, puffing smoke as she snorted coldly, "What? Want to salvage some of the leftover bones to make soup?"

"But unfortunately, your female classmate died in a very strange way. Her body has only been buried in this coffin for a few days, right? When I carried it out, it had already become dry and withered, like a hollow shell, ridiculously light."

"After I dragged it to the open space outside, the fire started immediately and burned out immediately. Not even ashes were left. The things I prepared in advance were not used at all."

"I don't know how it became like this. Once your father wakes up, ask him carefully. There's definitely something wrong with this burial method. It's very weird!"

Aunt Liu kept filling the mud pit with soil and kept talking about her experience of burning the corpse.

Ran Qing listened to Aunt Liu's story in a daze, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Aunt Six, however, was very curious about his experiences down there.

"By the way, how did you stay down there for so long?" Aunt Liu asked without turning her head as she filled the dirt. "I thought you would come up sooner, what took you so long?"

Aunt Liu was full of confusion and curiosity.

In response to this, Ran Qing took a deep breath and thought of those eerie and sinister tall ghost figures in the white fog.

He was pale and murmured softly, "I encountered something terrifying..."

Ran Qing slowly recounted his experiences in the ghost world of Wujiang, mentioned Li Hongye's strange abilities, told about how he was overwhelmed by evil spirits and nearly dismembered, and... those strange shadows that appeared with white mist.

Ran Qing spoke softly, and the dark pine forest gradually became quiet.

Aunt Liu, who was holding the engineer shovel, turned her head at some point and stared at Ran Qing with a ferocious expression.

Under the dim light, at this moment, there was a fierce and strange light flashing in Aunt Liu's eyes.

"You...saw those things?!"

The dim flashlight light silently fell on Aunt Liu's face. The woman's dark and rough face turned dark and ferocious.

Incredibly creepy in the dark.

At this moment, Sixth Aunt seemed to have turned into something else, exuding a maliciousness that made Ran Qing shudder.

The dim light from the flashlight in Ran Qing's hand fell on Aunt Liu, casting a tall dark shadow behind her.

That shadow was actually a dark, burly, and ferocious ghost!

Not a living person at all!

(End of this chapter)