Chapter 9: The Small Hut in the Forest, Boiling Corpses!

  Although I was unconscious, the pain that pierced my bones was still clear. At this time, I only felt like I had been stripped of a layer of skin and then had my limbs cut off. The pain was different from ordinary pain, it pierced straight to my heart. Although I'm not a genius, I think my perseverance is quite good, but even so, the unconscious me couldn't help but let out a painful moan. In a daze, I felt that my body was also shaking violently.

  The process of enduring pain is always long, and I don't know how much time has passed. Suddenly, a sigh echoed in my mind, followed by the voice of my sister: "Alas, I don't know why, but seeing you suffer makes me feel so heartbroken!"

  As the corpse sister's voice came out, I only felt a cool and icy breath coming from my back, which was cold but seemed to be able to relieve pain. As it slowly spread throughout my body, the pain on me actually gradually subsided. At this time, my right hand also started to heat up, and with the heat in my right hand, I suddenly had an illusion that all the hot blood in my body was flowing towards my right hand.

  Ice-cold and scorching hot, two utterly different auras are slowly wandering inside me. They mutually repel yet attract each other, finally reaching equilibrium, dividing into two lines that slowly wander within me.

  As the two breaths wandered throughout my body, I felt a lightness in my body because the pain and tension had begun to relax. The next moment, my stomach suddenly churned, and I sat up with a start, letting out a loud "wow" as I spewed out a large mouthful of yellowish-brown vomit.

  "Cough, cough!......" I coughed twice and immediately followed by severe panting. Lifting my head to look around, I found that I was still trapped in the cellar, but Old Fourth was already gone.

  "Are you okay?" A voice suddenly came from behind me, and I reflexively turned around to find Luo Ziyi standing there.

  "Ah!" Luo Ziyi was startled by me and took two steps back, with a shocked face, saying: "What are you doing?"

  I took two deep breaths and shook my head, saying: "Where are they?"

  "It's gone!" Luo Ziyi said, walking to my front, then picked up a bowl from the side and said: "This is the water they brought, I didn't drink it, you drink it!"

  I was taken aback by his words, as Luo Zi had previously been so arrogant and overbearing, how did he suddenly change his ways?

  "What are you looking at? I didn't even dare to drink this water, if you don't want it, then I'll drink it!" Luo Ziyi said and was about to drink the water. I hastily stopped her, awkwardly saying: "I'll drink it, I'll drink it!"

  My throat was parched and I hastily took the water, 'gulp gulp gulp' and drank it all down. But after drinking, I saw Luo Ziyi staring at me with wide eyes, I didn't understand what was going on, so I asked: "What's wrong?"

  "Did you drink it all?" Luo Ziyi looked at the bottom of the bowl and said angrily, "I haven't had a drop of water all day, and you drank it all?"

  I was taken aback, and immediately felt embarrassed. Luo Ziyi saw the situation and coldly snorted, saying: "You're just like that, never considering others! Now you'll have to suffer, they only give water once a day, I'll be thirsty until tomorrow!"

  I smiled and said: "You're so young and already call yourself 'old mother', what will you call yourself when you get older, 'older old mother'?"

  "You!......" Luo Ziyi glared at me, then coldly snorted and said with her arms crossed: "Then be a little girl!"

  "Little girl..."

  I was speechless and didn't argue with her anymore, but instead asked her: "How long have I been unconscious?"

  "Three days!" Luo Ziyi said.

  I was shocked and amazed by what I heard, and I had actually been unconscious for three days?

  I hastily turned around and asked: "Then have there been any movements outside these few days?"

  Luo Ziyi's face darkened upon hearing this, and she lowered her head, saying: "No, my dad didn't send anyone to rescue me!"

  I fell silent upon hearing this, and three days passed, yet Sun the Bumpkin hadn't come to rescue me. Could it be that he didn't plan on summoning Mo Jing after all?

  Just as I was indulging in wild thoughts, footsteps sounded from above and the cellar cover opened with a creak. I thought it was Old Fourth again and instinctively shrank my body back, but when that person came down, I saw clearly that it was a man in black clothes, holding a roasted chicken and a bowl of water.

  Just as I let out a breath of relief, the man threw the roasted chicken on the ground and said in a menacing tone: "Awake? Then eat something quickly, big brother wants to see you soon!"

  Scarface wants to see me?

  I was somewhat astonished, Scarface saw me doing what, could it be related to the great tomb of Queen Xiwangmu?

  Before I fainted, Pockmark said that he wanted me to go to the Great Tomb of Queen Xiwangmu to trigger a thunderbolt for them.

  In ancient times, every large tomb was fraught with danger. Those who triggered the traps were like a suicide squad, using their own bodies to set off the mechanisms and ensure the safety of those behind them. It can be said that those who triggered the traps almost certainly died.

  Thinking of this, I couldn't help but swallow my saliva, but at this moment I fell into the hands of the scar-faced man, and I didn't have the right to negotiate terms. After thinking for a moment, I grabbed the roasted chicken, broke off two drumsticks and handed them to Luo Ziyi who was stunned, then took a bite and said vaguely to the man: "Let's go!"

  The man took me out of the cellar, bypassed several thatched cottages, and then pointed at the thatched cottage in front and said: "The thatched cottage in front has always been a forbidden place for my brother. We brothers are not allowed to get close. You go by yourself, but don't play any tricks, otherwise, bullets won't have eyes!" After finishing speaking, he actually took out a pistol from his pocket. I saw the situation and hastily nodded, then rushed towards the thatched cottage in front.

  The thatched hut looked like it had been newly built, standing alone in the center of several large trees. As I got closer to the hut, I suddenly caught a whiff of a greasy, fragrant smell. The scent was strange, both fragrant and greasy, somewhat similar to the smell of congealed lard that old villagers loved to eat.

  I couldn't help but wonder how this smell got here?

  I came to the thatched cottage with a heart full of doubts. At this time, I heard Pockmark say from inside the house: "Come in!"

  I took a deep breath, thinking that good fortune or bad luck would be unavoidable. With this thought in mind, I gritted my teeth and pushed open the wooden door, stepping inside the house.

  But as I entered the house, I was stunned.

  All I saw was that in the center of the house, a huge pot was placed. This pot was incredibly large, taller than me. It seemed to be boiling something inside with a 'gurgling' sound, and the greasy smell was coming from the pot.

  Not far from the big pot, a large coffin was placed. The coffin was extremely old and worn out, with all the varnish gone, but it was pasted full of talismans.

  I couldn't help but secretly curse, what is this scar-faced guy doing here, is he cooking?

  Isn't this pot a bit too big?!

  And what's inside this coffin that requires so many talismans to suppress it?

  At this time, Scarface walked out from the other side of the big pot with his hands behind his back, looked me up and down, and then asked: "What's your name?"

  "I..." The three words "Zhang Yifan" almost slipped out of my mouth. I quickly closed my mouth, then said: "My name is Mo Fan!"

  Scarface nodded and pointed at the big pot, saying: "Do you know why I called you here?"

  I shook my head and said I didn't know.

  Scarface sneered and then climbed up the ladder beside him to the big pot, pointing at the big pot and saying: "You come up and take a look!"

  I frowned secretly, what is this scar-faced man going to do, won't he throw me into the pot and cook me for dinner?

  "Quickly!" Scarface shouted, and then he picked me up and put me on the ladder. He pointed to the big pot and asked me, "Do you know what's being cooked in here?"

  The stuff in the big pot has been boiled, and at this moment it is bubbling 'gurgling' with bubbles. Moreover, a layer of white foamy oil has condensed on the surface of the soup, and a greasy smell is wafting out.

  This smell is too weird, after smelling it, I only feel that my nostrils are all itchy and can't help but sneeze.

  Scarface sneered at the sight and immediately picked up a large spoon from the side to stir the big pot.

  As he slowly stirred the big pot, the layer of oil also gradually dispersed. However, when the layer of oil dispersed and I saw what was being cooked in the pot, my eyes widened instantly, and I couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, almost scaring me into falling headfirst into the big pot.

  In that instant, I clearly saw a human head in the pot, bobbing up and down. The head had already been cooked to half-done, with the skin and flesh puffed up high, like a pig's head. But I still made out that the head seemed to be that of Old Three, who had died earlier.

  But in the pot, there was not only Lao San's head, but also the corpses of several men who had been beheaded by Sun Lao Gui earlier. They had all been dismembered and their flesh and internal organs were floating up and down in the boiling pot, looking particularly terrifying.