Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 208 How scary
The crying was not shrill, nor was it the kind of ghost-like howling. It was just an ordinary crying sound, as if filled with infinite grievances and resentment.

However, in the middle of the night... at the second watch, in the deserted house, under the moonlight, the big locust tree swayed slightly, creating a gloomy environment, such crying sounds were heard, from small to large, which was really creepy.

Hearing the voice, Chen Xuan felt happy. He thought someone was playing tricks, otherwise why wouldn't they show up earlier or later, but just when the injured person arrived at the deserted house, it was obvious that they were targeting outsiders.

He wasn't afraid, he rubbed the back of his hands and began to search for the source of the sound...

Chen Xuan was actually a little puzzled. He had been squatting here for a few days, occasionally visiting the deserted house, so why hadn't the sound come out to scare him? Was it because the person who was causing trouble didn't notice him, or did he just miss it when he went there?
Chen Xuan guessed that the other party did not notice him. After all, his movements were silent and he did not leave any traces wherever he passed. Any movement within a hundred feet could not escape his senses. Unless the other party's cultivation level was higher than his, he would have been discovered by him in advance.

If the other party's cultivation level is higher than Chen Xuan's, or he is at the innate realm, there is probably no need for such tricks. However, it is not ruled out that there are people with such bad tastes, such as a certain innate master named Chen, who has been squatting for many days in a row to satisfy his curiosity and is simply bored to death.

"From the sound of her voice, it's a woman, and she's quite nice. If she can cry, she should cry more."

Chen Xuan thought with a sense of evil, well, if a man made such a wronged and resentful cry, that would be scary. A pervert is scarier than a ghost!
The sound echoed in the deserted house, floating and uncertain, and seemed to appear in every corner at the same time, like a surround sound.

Chen Xuan thought to himself that there was something there, a good technique for using voice, which he also knew. He didn't need to deliberately change his position, he only needed the corresponding technique, and he could achieve this erratic effect by using his internal force to vibrate his vocal cords and make sounds.

If he were to do this kind of singing himself, he could even whisper in someone's ear, as if he were crying in someone's ear, but in fact there was nothing around. That would be scary.

As for the person who made the crying sound, it’s not that Chen Xuan looked down on him, but his methods were really crude. His erratic movements could certainly create a terrifying atmosphere, but they were not creepy enough.

"Who are you? Get out here! You're playing tricks on me! If you dare show up in front of me, I'll chop you down!"

The injured man was already pale from excessive blood loss and was still trying hard to suppress the pain. When he heard the erratic voice, he immediately stood up, holding a knife and growling.

In fact, he was afraid and used this method to give himself courage. His hair stood up and his body was covered with goose bumps, and his hand holding the knife was shaking slightly.

In the entire Mo City, not many people don’t know about this strange place. Almost everyone has heard of the strange events that have happened here, which have never stopped in the past two or three years.

At the beginning, there were at least four or five cases of people dying mysteriously here every month. Later, as the news spread, people were afraid to approach this place, and the strange incidents gradually became less frequent. But even after two or three years, people still occasionally die mysteriously here.

Some came here for various reasons and died inexplicably, while others came here and died inexplicably. Anyway, it was very strange.

Of course the government could not turn a blind eye to such a thing. They investigated it more than ten times but could not find the cause. They even sent experts to investigate. The experts were at least at the innate realm, but they still could not find the cause. Later, the matter was left unresolved. They just warned people around not to come near here at night.

Anyway, Taoist priests have come here, monks have come here, government officials have come here, and people from the martial arts world who like to explore the unknown have also come here, but they didn't figure out what was going on, and instead, many people lost their lives here for unknown reasons.

Later, unless they were forced to do so or were unaware of the situation, almost no one dared to set foot here. It became a strange place that people were afraid to talk about.

There are countless versions circulating among the people, all with their own details. Some say that the former constable refused to leave after his death and would kill anyone who dared to approach his house. Others say that the former constable killed someone and his wronged spirit returned to occupy the house and do evil. Some say that it is a wandering ghost that occupies this place. Some even say that the locust tree has become a spirit...

Other information cannot be verified. Regarding the big locust tree becoming a spirit, there have been several attempts to destroy it. Both government-organized and privately organized actions have failed, but none of them were carried out. They all ended in inexplicable failure, and the people involved suffered minor illnesses or disasters, or even died inexplicably.

Anyway, people are afraid and dare not provoke this place easily.

"Ohh Ohh ohh……"

No one answered, and the sobbing sound continued, erratic and difficult to understand.

"Hmph, light... the moon is bright and clear. I don't believe there's any filth in it. Get out of here if you dare. If you keep playing tricks, I won't let you go. No matter how well you hide, I'll burn this place down and reduce everything you own to ash!"

The man held the knife and growled, alert to any suspicious corners around him, but the more fiercely he shouted, the more violently his body shook.

"Woooooooo..."

The crying sound continued, as if it was right behind him. The man became so frightened that he turned around and swung his sword. The already dilapidated wall was shattered by his powerful blow, but there was nothing left.

He swallowed hard and gritted his teeth, "Hmph, do you think I was brought up by being scared?"

I was alert to my surroundings, but there was nothing but crying.

He was so pale and in so much pain that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Wow...

Suddenly there was a sound of tiles sliding down, which was particularly creepy in the already gloomy environment. The man immediately gathered his internal strength and boldly headed towards the source of the sound, but there was nothing, as if the tiles had naturally slipped and broken.

"Okay, okay, you don't want to come out, right? Then I'll burn this place down."

The man was also a hot-tempered man. He took out a fire starter and blew on it, intending to set a fire. However, every time he blew on the flame, it would be blown out by a strange and cold wind. Not to mention setting a fire, he couldn't even light the flame.

Bang~!

In this extremely tense moment, accompanied by the ubiquitous crying and the sound of crumbling doors and windows, the man trembled all over and almost collapsed. Enemies or ghosts, these were not the most terrifying things. The unknown was the most terrifying thing.

Chen Xuan was silently observing this side in the bamboo forest about a hundred meters away from the deserted house, hiding his body as if he didn't exist.

It took less than half a breath after hearing the crying to find the source. It was certain that it was really someone playing tricks.

Although the sound was erratic, its initial source was from the backyard of the deserted house, and underground.

In the abandoned corner of the backyard of the deserted house, there is a broken rectangular stone water tank among the weeds, with half of the water in it stagnant. In the summer, the half-stagnant water is simply a culture dish for mosquito and fly larvae, and the sound also comes from under the water tank.

Chen Xuan has looked at the broken water tank countless times in the past few days, but he couldn't find any clues. He never thought that the source of the problem appeared there.

There was no sign of that thing having been moved at all, and when he passed by it, he didn't notice anything unusual underground. He didn't know where the problem was in advance, so it would be strange if he could find it. It was not like he was doing the test with the answer in hand.

Anyway, when he traced the crying sound back to the source of the water tank, the water tank was moved to the side almost silently, and then a figure crawled out from the ground, hiding in the dark and making a plaintive crying sound to create a terrifying effect.

With Chen Xuan's eyesight, he could clearly see that it was a woman wearing a long black dress, with long black hair like a waterfall. She was about twenty years old, but he was not sure. Anyway, a woman's age is always a mystery.

She has a good figure, with a curvy figure, a big waist, a perky butt and long legs. She is also quite pretty, with a melon-shaped face and seductive eyes, but her expression is very cold. It is not the cold and indifferent kind of Gao family guards, but the kind of coldness that shows no fluctuation in her expression and eyes, as if she looks at everything as a dead object.

Her skin was very white, and looked a little pale under the moonlight, as if she had been dead for three days and had obviously not seen the sun all day.

After feeling it for a while, Chen Xuan found that this person's cultivation was not bad. His internal strength was feminine but strong and solid. It was obvious that he had practiced a very superior technique. Just in terms of the strength of his internal strength, among the people Chen Xuan knew, except for Liuyu Academy, no one below the innate realm could compare with her. Not even Mr. Yushan could compare with her, and not even the black-robed man he killed that day could compare with her.

With such cultivation, extremely superior skills, some special means, and familiarity with the terrain, it seems not impossible to do some strange things.

So why was she able to evade so many searches?

After thinking about it, Chen Xuan was soon relieved. It was rumored that those who died here or were unlucky here were not as strong as those who were born with it. Well, to put it bluntly, they were bullies who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. They would hide when a powerful person came, and then come out again to play tricks.

After figuring out the other party's situation, Chen Xuan was speechless. He thought she was a powerful character, but it turned out to be a weak woman who hid her head and showed her tail. He had been waiting for her for so many days, which made him a little disappointed.

After she came out from underground, she continued to cry while hiding in the dark with her lightness skills which Chen Xuan thought were quite remarkable, and also made some strange noises.

As for the fire starter that the man couldn't light with his blow, it was of course her work. Her feminine internal energy created a palm wind that lowered the air temperature, achieving the same effect as a cold wind.

Since she was a weak woman, Chen Xuan had no scruples. He paid attention to her movements and appeared silently in the backyard with his lightness skills which were many levels higher than hers. He came to the place where she came out and looked at her.

What surprised Chen Xuan was that there was no secret passage under the moved water tank. There were just a few stone floors that had never seen sunlight for years. They had been pressed by the water tank for many years. There were roots of weeds in the cracks, but the gaps were tightly closed and there was no sign of movement.

It couldn't have come out from that bowl-sized rat hole in the corner behind the water tank, right?

Not to mention it's really possible. Chen Xuan is not sure whether the other party came out from there, but he can make him get in now, even if it's a small place!

Looking back at the woman who was pretending to be mysterious, Chen Xuan squatted down and touched the ground to explore with his innate true qi, and soon got the answer.

There is indeed a space below, about one meter deep underground. It is difficult for him to know the details because he does not have the ability to see through things.

It was confirmed that she really came out of the bowl-sized mouse hole.

Tsk tsk, women are made of water, that's normal.

It is not difficult to practice some advanced martial arts to make yourself as soft as mud.

"Interesting! If she didn't have such means, she wouldn't have caused so many strange incidents over the years and still not been caught. Oh, and according to the information Old Liu gave me, among the eight major forces in Jing State, three of them are classified as evil by the five famous and upright sects. Among them, the assassin organization Yingshamen seems to have a martial art that can train people to be as soft as mud. Mastering this martial art has a huge bonus for assassinations. Could this girl be a killer? No wonder she is so cold and emotionless."

Thinking in his heart, Chen Xuan wanted to see what tricks she could play, and then he came silently behind the other person, about a foot away from her. The other person didn't even realize that there was someone standing behind her.

This is truly terrifying...

The gap in cultivation was too huge, and every skill that Chen Xuan practiced was extremely advanced. It would be strange if the other party could discover him. Even under the bright moon, Chen Xuan standing behind her had found a good angle, and it was absolutely impossible for the other party to see his shadow.

To be honest, Chen Xuan wanted to reach out and pat her shoulder to see how she would react after playing tricks on him for several years.

Forget it, she is just a weak woman, there is no need to scare her.

Standing behind the woman, Chen Xuan was like a ghost, thinking that this woman smelled so good.

Can this be a killer?
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(End of this chapter)