Chapter 56: The Mysterious Black Hand

  Someone spat a mouthful of saliva on my face, and I couldn't wash it for three days. The feeling is probably something that not many people have experienced. Although my mom also told me not to wash my face. But after all, these legs and hands are attached to my body, and my mom can't follow me 24 hours a day. So if I really wanted to wash my face, I could still secretly clean it off.

  I didn't wash my face because on the first night, my mom insisted on watching me and not letting me wash my face. After all, she spent money on this ritual. Whether it's effective or not, the money has already been spent, so I should at least give it a try. Besides, it's just not washing my face, it's not a big deal and won't harm me.

  I know that deep down, my mom hopes that Master Mao's method will work. Therefore, the words Master Mao said before he left, my mom took them to heart.

  So, miserable me, under my mom's coercion, that night, not only did I not get to wash my face before dinner, but also didn't get to wash it when sleeping.

  Not washing my face, it's smelly and dirty, with the stench of that Taoist priest's bad breath all over my face. When eating, I naturally didn't have much appetite and only ate a little bit. When sleeping, it was even more miserable. Originally, I was used to sleeping on my side, but if I slept on my side, the ash from the paper money on my face would definitely be wiped onto the pillow, and the Taoist priest's saliva left on my face would also be wiped onto the pillow. In that case, not only would the pillow be made smelly, but this ritual might also lose its efficacy because of it.

  Under my mom's supervision, I had to succumb to her wishes and sleep on my back instead of sideways. Fortunately, after a day of running around, I was exhausted and fell asleep quickly after going to bed.

  This night, I slept very well and was very satisfied. The whole night, I didn't encounter any sleep paralysis.

  The next day, not only my mom but also I had to admit that although the Taoist priest looked very unprofessional, he indeed had some skills. At least after he performed his ritual, I didn't encounter any more sleep paralysis.

  The first day was already effective, and on the second and third days, my mother certainly wouldn't let me wash my face again. In fact, after going through the first day, even if my mother didn't interfere with me anymore, I still wouldn't go to wash my face. Because, the stinky mouth that Mao Daoshi brought to me was just some inconvenience, but that ghost pressing on my bed brought me a heart-pounding fear. If I let that ghost continue, I would be scared to death sooner or later.

  That's why for those three days, I really listened to what that Taoist priest said and didn't let a single drop of water touch my face.

  I'm a cleanliness-loving kid, and this habit has been maintained until now. Therefore, I've only experienced not washing my face for three consecutive days once in my life, which was when Master Mao gave me a Taoist ritual.

  Three days passed, and by the fourth day, I could finally wash my face. Actually, by that time, the ash from the paper money on my face had already fallen off, and the saliva left on my face by the Taoist priest had also dried up. However, at the time, I still felt that my face was very dirty.

  So, that time I washed my face, I thoroughly washed it ten or more times, and changed the water several basins. After washing my face, I looked at myself in the clear water in the basin, and found that my cheeks had all been scrubbed bright red by my small hands.

  After that, I spent more than ten peaceful days. After Zhan Xiao Lan died and after I met my master Zhu Shan Lao Dao, I found out that if I wanted to live those peaceful days again, it seemed like a luxury already.

  In fact, it's not just me, but the entire villagers of Shimawan Village, after what happened to Xiao Lan, no one can live a peaceful and quiet life anymore.

  As for the series of strange things that happened in Shimawan Village after Zhang Xiaolan's death, everyone was clear that it must have been done by the exterminating witch. However, what made everyone puzzled was that except for bringing Li Tianzhen to the Shimawan Temple, the people of Shimawan Village had not provoked the exterminating witch at all?

  Even if the subsequent actions of the exterminated woman were all caused by that matter, the people who had offended the exterminated woman at the time, Liu Quezi and Chen Guafu, had already suffered from the poisonous hands of the exterminated woman.

  To avenge Li Tianzhen, the exterminated mother has already harmed so many people, and the grudge has been repaid with interest. But she, why is she still unwilling to let go of Shimavillage?

  As for what Mie Men Po was thinking and what her goal was, I wasn't clear about it at the time. So, there's no need to continue making wild guesses, let's get back to me instead!

  After more than ten days of peaceful days, that night, after I fell asleep, actually I don't know if I was really asleep or not. Because of that thing, I felt it happened when I was awake.

  At that time, I was lying on my side in bed. At first, I felt a chill at my chest. That chilly thing was the Tai Chi jade pendant around my neck. Some people might say that jade is originally cool.

  But what I want to say is that the Qian Kun Jade is different from ordinary jade. Under normal circumstances, its temperature is about the same as my body temperature. Therefore, since my master Zhu Shan Lao Dao gave me the Qian Kun Jade, I have never felt it so cool before.

  Even if the qiankun jade is just an ordinary jade, it can only be generally cool at most, and it's impossible to suddenly become as cold as ice.

  In short, after the Qian Kun Jade suddenly became icy cold, my first feeling was that something was wrong and some bad things were going to happen. I made this judgment because when I encountered a ghost pressing on my bed last time, the Qian Kun Jade also turned cool once. However, at that time, although the Qian Kun Jade had cooled down, it was far from being as cold as this time.

  That time was just ordinary cool, this time it's really icy cool, cool to the bone. My intuition tells me that what I'm going to encounter this time is absolutely more dangerous than last time.

  As expected, after the Qian Kun Yu Bian Liang, my body was instantly frozen. This time I didn't feel any hands pressing on me, I felt like I was frozen in ice, my whole body was frozen, even the blood in my body was frozen, just like a piece of meat that had been frozen hard in an icebox.

  However, the meat that has been frozen stiff in the quick-freeze room is still a dead piece of flesh, whereas I am alive. Although I am unable to move, my mind is still working and I can still think. More importantly, my eyes can still see.

  But I searched every place I could see with my eyes, and found nothing.

  Just then, I felt someone coming, and a hand was stretched out towards me, no, two. But strangely, I couldn't see the hands.

  I couldn't see those two hands, and there are only two possible reasons. The first possibility is that the two hands were originally invisible to the naked eye, so I couldn't see them; the second possibility is that because my whole body was paralyzed, including my eyeballs, although I could still see, but they were also immobile, so I could only stare at one place and couldn't see anything else.

  It seems to me that the second possibility is a bit more likely than the first. Because those hands, seemed to be deliberately avoiding my eyes, reaching up from under my neck.

  After coming up, those two hands, one pinched my chin and the other pinched my upper jaw, then very forcefully pried open my mouth.

  When my mouth was pried open, I didn't feel a bit of pain, but I clearly heard the "crack crack crack" sound. The sound was just like the sound of thin ice breaking.

  Although I couldn't feel the pain, this sound still made me feel a bit anxious. The main thing is that I once heard my master, Zhangshan Lao Dao, say that if a person is frozen in place, even if you cut off his hand with a knife, he won't be able to feel any pain.

  The more I think about it, the more scared I become.

  Are those two hands going to tear my mouth apart?

  Hasn't my mouth already been split into two pieces?

  After the ice on me melts, will I immediately bleed profusely and die?

  ……

  Because I don't know what will happen next, I wonder how those hands will treat me. My mind is filled with all sorts of messy thoughts.