Chapter Thirty-One: Corpse Monster

  There are countless bizarre stories among the people, and there are even more terrifying and strange rumors about this corpse. The cat corpse is just one of them, I've also heard of snake corpses, dog corpses, and mouse corpses.

  It's almost like a cat corpse, after the snake corpse has transformed, it will crawl on the ground like a living snake, eating mice and frogs, and when encountering humans, it will show a ferocious face and even pounce to bite.

  The situation with mouse corpses and dog corpses is roughly the same. After transforming, the mouse corpses like to hide in dark places without sunlight. When they see people, they hide, but they always like to hide in the shadows and sneak a peek. If an unsuspecting person suddenly discovers a corpse in a dark place, they will definitely be scared out of their wits.

  Dogs like to eat meat and sometimes eat it raw.

  Whether it's a mouse corpse, a cat corpse or a dog corpse, they all have the same characteristic: brutal and bloodthirsty.

  When Xiaoliang mentioned the corpse, my mind involuntarily wandered off. By the time I came back to myself, the villagers had already dispersed with uneasy faces. I walked towards Xiaoliang and found that his complexion was also poor, with furrowed brows and a hint of panic.

  But he still smiled at me with a very ugly smile: "Xiao Sen, why do the adults frown and you, a little kid, also furrow your brow all day."

  I gave Xiaoliang a glance: "I'm not a kid."

  "You stubborn kid, come on, Uncle Lian will take you to eat." As he spoke, Little Lian picked me up and quickly walked forward. I didn't struggle in his arms, remaining silent all the way.

  I arrived at Xiaoliang's home, and I couldn't help but take a look around. His house wasn't big, and it seemed like it hadn't been cleaned in years, with dust covering everything. Xiaoliang took out a broom and swept the stove, causing the dust to fly up and envelop the entire room.

  In the dusty air, Xiao Liang laughed twice: "Look at this ghostly place, it's really not a place for humans to stay."

  In his smile, I developed a good impression of him in my heart. This guy is an idiot, that's my evaluation of him in my heart. However, it's precisely because of this idiotic personality that one can't help but feel a sense of dependence or trust towards him.

  Watching him chuckle and fiddle with something on the stove, I got up and walked over.

  Xiao Liang swung the broom twice: "Xiao Sen, you helped Uncle Liang, but Uncle Liang is incompetent and has nothing to repay you with. I can only invite you to dinner. You haven't had Uncle Liang's cooking before, it's delicious."

  I walked up to Xiaoliang and looked at him very seriously: "Uncle Liang, you are not incompetent, you are stronger than anyone else."

  Then, I quietly walked to the stove and started cooking. This cooking skill, I had already practiced at home to be very proficient, and during that time with Wu Xianyi, my skills became even more mature. However, today Xiaoliang was the main character, so I yielded the position to him.

  Sitting behind the stove, I stuffed firewood into it while images of the past kept flashing before my eyes. The meal was ready, and it was Xiaoliang who woke me up. Originally, I felt a bit uncomfortable in my heart, but when I saw Xiaoliang's silly smile on his face, all my worries instantly dissipated.

  However, happiness is always short-lived, and the crisis in the village has not been alleviated, and fear continues.

  And then it suddenly erupted.

  After dinner that day, I bid farewell to Xiaoliang and went to Auntie Pang's house. The next time I saw Xiaoliang was on the third night, he had turned into a cold corpse.

  On the third night at midnight, I went to bed early but couldn't sleep.I felt like something was weighing on my heart. At this time, I suddenly remembered what Xiaoliang had said.

  That day after dinner, he saw me out of the door and looked at me from afar: "Xiao Sen, Lian Shu didn't joke with you."

  I looked at Xiaoliang in confusion: "What?"

  Xiao Liang said: "I am really incompetent."

  I scolded him with a sentence of "nerve disease", did he stop me just to scold himself in front of me? I turned my head and walked away, not wanting to bother with him. And behind my back, I faintly heard Xiaoliang's voice: "Sometimes, we need to make choices, everyone needs to, thank you Xiao Sen."

  His words left me bewildered. Lying in bed, I felt a lump in my throat, and when I thought of Xiaoliang's words, I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine, as if I had understood something.

  I suddenly sat up in bed, with a sense of terror in my heart. How did I feel that when Xiaoliang gathered all the villagers together and said something about the old willow tree behind the mountain in front of everyone, it was not meant for the other villagers to hear, but for me to hear?

  As a villager, it is impossible not to know that the old willow tree on the back mountain was cut down, and it is also impossible not to know that the old willow tree was planted by a Taoist. The only thing they don't know is who cut down the old willow tree.

  At this moment, I only feel a sense of unease surging towards my heart.

  "Everyone has their own choices, thank you little Sen." Why do I always feel like he's bidding me farewell whenever I recall him saying this? And it's a permanent goodbye.

  I involuntarily got up and rushed out of the house. My mind was in a mess, my brain was blank. I just wanted to walk quickly, move forward.

  Then in a trance, I walked to the front of Xiaoliang's house. The village was pitch black, but Xiaoliang's house had lights on inside. My heart leapt with joy, and I hastily pushed open the door.

  As soon as the door opened, I saw a coffin placed right in front of it, with four or five villagers standing guard beside it. Then, while I was still standing there stupidly, several villagers started speaking one after another.

  Xiao Liang's body was found by them beside several old willow trees at the back hill. When they found Xiao Liang's body, Xiao Liang was holding a peach wood plaque in his hand, and the peach wood plaque was already broken. This peach wood plaque was also left by the Taoist priest who planted the willows that year and gave it to Xiao Liang.

  And as soon as I saw the peach wood sign, my mind buzzed with a loud noise, and everything became clear.

  The peach wood sign was carved with talismans, clearly a tool for exorcising evil spirits. The choice that the little bright mouth spoke of was to prepare to single-handedly break the great calamity in the village, wasn't it?

  But it doesn't make sense!

  My mind is completely messed up, I'm unable to think. Like a walking corpse, I slowly walked to Xiaoliang's coffin. Lowering my head to take a look, the one lying in the coffin was indeed Xiaoliang, his eyes tightly closed, his face pale. And at this moment, I saw that on Xiaoliang's chest, there was a large burn scar, as if he had been burned by fire.

  I took a closer look, and it was a wound caused by a talisman. I was suddenly shocked, and my whole body woke up in an instant. Xiaoliang wasn't killed by a ghost, he was killed by a human being.

  I took another close look at the peach wood sign, and saw that it was full of strange and bizarre things, but not a single character was used to ward off evil spirits. I suddenly understood that Xiaoliang's so-called "choice" was actually going to deal with a person.

  My body went limp, unease and doubt spreading in my heart. Finally, I cursed Little Liang a stupid idiot, and slowly sat down against his coffin.

  Although I don't know who Xiaoliang went to deal with, I vaguely guessed that it was related to the old willow tree that was cut down. It's possible that the person who killed Xiaoliang was the one who ordered the bachelor to cut down the willow tree in the first place.

  This Xiaoliang probably knew where the person was and had known three years ago. So he wanted to go alone, by himself, to face this person, wanting to kill him. However, in the end, he himself died unjustly.

  However, everything he did had no effect on this village at all. So I want to scold him as a fool.

  The villagers covered the coffin, I leaned against Xiaoliang's coffin and started daydreaming. Time passed unknowingly, I vaguely felt a chill all over my body, cool and refreshing, my body still shaking uncontrollably.

  At this time, I faintly heard someone calling my name, and that voice seemed to be right next to my ear.

  I sat up in a hurry and looked around, only to find that Xiaoliang's coffin had been opened a crack at some point. Through the gap, I caught sight of Xiaoliang's face, deathly pale. Just then, the shouting voices came again, and my scalp went numb.

  This time I heard it very clearly, the voice came from inside the coffin, and that was Xiaoliang's voice.

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  The sound is very ethereal and vague.

  I stared at the seam of the coffin, and my body slightly shrunk. Just then, the coffin suddenly shook violently, and I clearly saw Xiaoliang's two pale white hands constantly pushing the coffin lid.

  At this moment, I woke up. According to Xiaoliang's previous words, this village is a place of great calamity, but the calamity does not refer to living people, but to the dead. Eight out of ten he himself didn't think that when he said these words, the first person to fulfill them would be himself.

  Xiao Liang's body has changed.

  At this moment, I was extremely calm, watching the coffin shaking non-stop, and silently took out the broken soul knife from my body.

  So-called human and ghost take different paths, no matter who he is, I will never show mercy.

  Just then, with a loud bang, the coffin lid flew off and landed on the ground. Inside the coffin, Xiaoliang's corpse sprang up like a spring, and I found myself face to face with him, staring at his incredibly terrifying face.

  But what I didn't expect was that Xiaoliang's corpse actually walked out of the coffin with a light and gentle pace, just like a living person, without any stiffness in his body.

  What made my scalp numb was that Xiaoliang's corpse kept walking forward, and his face was always facing me. After he walked out of the coffin, he didn't attack anyone, but when he reached the door, he turned around and continued to face me. Suddenly, he beckoned to me with his hand, as if saying "Come on".