Chapter Seventeen: Hidden Town

  Xiao Rou bit her lip and said to me: "I'm really sorry, this time it's not true. I came to the forest on this side to take care of something."

  "But Xiao Rou, I'm currently suffering from immense mental torture. After going to Fengmen Village last time, I thought it was the nine-tailed fox who was behind it all. But that Wang Xiaoya teacher from before has also become a vengeful spirit and wants to absorb my yang energy. Now I live in fear every day, if you don't save me, then I'll have no choice but to die."

  I know Xiao Rou's personality is gentle, I want to make myself sound a bit pitiful, actually it's not that I'm making myself sound pitiful, but my abilities are already this pitiful.

  Xiao Rou listened and then blinked her eyes at me, saying: "I know, I also want to save you. However, my powers are only enough to deal with ordinary ghosts and monsters. I can only beg the witch to come and rescue you. But she's also out now, and it's unknown when she'll be back."

  As expected, Xiaoyu felt helpless when she said those words, and I knew she couldn't bear to let me die like this.

  "Xiao Rou, I know you also want to save me, but is there really no other way besides asking the witch? I know what happened eight years ago was my own foolishness, and now that I think about it, I really regret it."

  "Mistakes made in childhood are completely understandable, at that time you didn't have your own consciousness, so don't blame yourself. But I really do have something else to attend to now, can you wait a week and then go to Fengmen Village to find me? We'll discuss the specific plan at that time."

  Xiao Rou continued to comfort me with very gentle words, and every word she said sounded like a beautiful note, a delight to the ears.

  "Thank you so much, Xiao Rou. I really don't know what else to say now. All I can say is thank you because I dare not make any promises. I have no idea if I'll be able to survive or not."

  I'm really at a loss for words now, apart from saying thank you, I don't know what else to say.

  Xiao Rou didn't seem to care, shaking her head at me and saying don't mention it. She took out a mirror from her body and handed it to me. I asked her what this was, she told me it's a ghost-reflecting mirror. Right now, the yin energy on my body is too heavy, which will attract some lonely ghosts and wild spirits. Holding this can distinguish them. And she also reminded me not to easily trust anyone from now on. The mistake eight years ago wasn't my fault after all, so don't blame myself, live strongly.

  I said I would, she said it's okay, she had something else and had to leave immediately. We'll meet again in seven days.

  After she finished speaking, she left. I carefully put the ghost mirror she gave me in my pocket. The sky was gradually brightening up at this time, and it should have been dawn already. However, thinking of what happened last night still made me shiver.

  The best thing to do now is to leave the village of Congshu as soon as possible and never come back. Everything here has changed. It's no longer my home, but my nightmare.

  When I was about to go down the mountain, I suddenly remembered the diary that was left in Wang Xiaoya's house. I decided to take it with me, who knows when it might come in handy? If I'm lucky enough to meet the witch again, this thing might just become my lifesaver.

  I suppressed my fear and went to get the diary, but this time it was different from before. The interior was very neat, and the diary had already disappeared without a trace.

  It's really strange, I didn't stay for long either, and quickly walked towards the village entrance. Curiosity kills the cat, what Tang Bingxue said is still very reasonable.

  When I left the village, nothing strange happened, which is a relief. But now, where should I go?

  The appointment with Xiao Rou is a week later, and there are still seven days left. What should I do? It's better to go back home now, it can only be like this for the time being. In order to avoid encountering evil things!

  After leaving Rongshu Village, there is a highway, but it's very strange that I didn't see a single car on the highway. Now I can only describe it as strange. Because I dare not use the words "evil" anymore, just thinking about it in my heart makes me unbearable.

  I'm just an ordinary person, the only thing that's not ordinary is that I did some wrong things when I was a kid. Now I'm both a vengeful spirit and a fox spirit, how can I bear it? Two childhood friends are with me, but I don't even know when they died.

  The way back home is still a bit far, and at this time my stomach is already starving. Still the same sentence, after all I am just an ordinary person. Continuous fear made me forget about hunger, but now it feels pretty hungry again.

  It's impossible to return to the city where I am now, so I can only eat something in a nearby town and leave.

  I patted the pocket, fortunately there were still a few hundred yuan left, enough to use. The nearest town from here should be just a few miles away, thinking of this I couldn't help but quicken my pace a bit.

  Just then, a car suddenly drove over from behind me. I felt a little relieved in my heart, it wasn't a desolate place after all, there were cars on this road.

  After seeing the vehicle, it was as if I had seen hope. I stretched out my hand to greet and signal it to stop, wanting him to take me for a ride. Although this is a truck, I think they should also help, right?

  After waving at me, the car indeed slowed down a lot. At this time, I thought to myself, people are still good, those ghosts and monsters are simply too ruthless.

  I thought this car was slowing down and preparing to pick me up, but unexpectedly, it accelerated when it approached within two or three meters of me.

  Before I could react, the car came crashing towards me.

  "Bang!" The car slammed directly into my body, sending my entire body flying.

  When I fell to the ground, the car sped away with a whoosh...

  At that time, I felt a buzzing in my head, and suddenly everything in front of me was blank. About ten seconds later, I gradually became slightly conscious again.

  I touched my head and found a little blood, but it didn't hurt much. I slowly got up and surprisingly found that I could still walk.

  It's really strange, I can still move? I tried to jump up and down, and it worked, oh my god, this is too weird. Could it be that I have too much yin energy and won't die? Wiping away the blood on my forehead, I cursed the car that hit me earlier, it's simply inhuman. What a waste of being human!

  But fortunately, I made the most of the half-hour or so and arrived at a nearby town called Hidden Retreat Town. I didn't have much impression of it, and I seemed to have forgotten that there was such a town here. But seeing so many people again, my heart is overjoyed.

  Usually studying and living in the city, seeing people every day doesn't feel strange, but after not seeing anyone for a few days, seeing someone again feels especially intimate.

  There aren't many people in the town, maybe it's because of the back-and-forth traffic, but this feeling is still great. Some people are setting up street stalls, but they haven't put out anything to sell yet. Anyway, what I've experienced over the past two days is even weirder than this.

  Found a restaurant that was still decent, and only when I sat down at the table did I feel like a human being. The boss's wife was a woman under thirty years old, who looked quite pretty, dressed in high heels, black stockings, and an ultra-short skirt, but this didn't matter to me anymore, even if you put a star in front of me now, I don't have time to appreciate it.

  She asked me if I wanted to eat or stay in the store, I said let's eat first, she recommended some dishes to me. They all had strange names that I had never heard of, but I still told her to bring one of each.

  She told me to wait for a moment, it would take just a few minutes to come up. I said sorry for the trouble and waited here, suddenly remembering that my phone was out of battery, so I asked the landlady if she had a universal charger.

  After I finished asking, she was also stunned and asked me what I wanted that thing for. I said it's nothing, just to charge my phone, she said now even if I charge my phone, it's useless in this town.

  Looking at her, she was dressed up so neatly, but I really didn't expect her to be so stingy. She wouldn't even let me use a charger, it's really "knowing the person but not their heart". Anyway, I didn't bother arguing with her and just said okay, forget about it, let's go eat instead.

  After a few minutes, she started serving dishes. However, when the first dish was placed in front of me, I was shocked. In addition to the food, she had also inserted an incense stick on top...