Chapter 6: The Witch

  The appearance of these two people made me involuntarily let out a sigh of relief, it seems that this layout should be a coincidence, after all, this is just Fengmen Village. After those two villagers left, I said to Xiaorou with some embarrassment: "Sorry, my spirit has been a bit poor for the past two days, and I yelled at you loudly just now, sorry."

  "It's okay!" Xiao Rou smiled slightly and said, "There are more than 20 households in this village. Usually, no one comes here, and there are only a few young girls like me, most of them are elderly people. I went to school for a few days when I was young, but due to some reasons, I dropped out halfway, so I have some basic knowledge about the outside world. But these people are different, they don't even know what electricity is."

  This statement is indeed beyond my expectation. According to Xiaoyu's words, the people here seem to be isolated from the outside world? Fortunately, I saw a highway outside.

  She took me to a house that was slightly better than the thatched cottage, and said this was her home. As I followed her into the house, I didn't see anyone else. She told me: "You can do whatever you want, previously I had an elderly mother-in-law, but she passed away two years ago, now it's just me."

  Xiao Rou took off her small white hat while speaking, and it was only then that I noticed her appearance. Her eyes were large, her eyelashes long, and her hair smooth, as if she had just gotten a perm. This kind of looks complemented her figure perfectly, making me really not dare to imagine what she would look like with makeup on.

  "You must be very tired then?" I exclaimed.

  "It's not that hard, there's no expenses involved here, it's just meaningless, and sometimes I feel lonely. But it's nothing, I'm used to it." Xiaorou said with a faint smile.

  She rummaged around in the house for a while before smiling and saying: "Here it is, I found the map."

  "Hmm!" I took the map and was a bit disappointed, because she gave me a world map. I originally wanted to find some clues here, but now it seems like a waste of time.

  "What's wrong, is this map incorrect?" Little Rong asked.

  It can be seen from her expression that she is not joking with me and really does not understand these things.

  "This map is not what I wanted, but thank you anyway."

  Xiao Rou treated me very gently, and I'm still very grateful to her from the bottom of my heart, although this experience is something that even in my dreams I had never heard of before.

  Just then, someone at the door suddenly shouted Xiaorou's name. She said to me: "You wait here for a moment, I'll go out and see what's going on."

  "Alright, go ahead, you're busy."

  When she walked out the door, I carefully examined the layout of the house. In addition to what a rural home should have, there was something special - the walls were covered with some special symbols.

  After a few minutes, Xiaoyu returned. At this time, her expression looked somewhat solemn, with a heavy heart.

  "What's wrong, Xiaorou?" I asked.

  Xiao Rou came before me and said in a low voice: "Just now, Witch Grandma came to find me and told me something."

  "What's wrong?"

  "The witch said you're no longer human."

  I was taken aback at first, then asked in confusion: "What does 'I'm not human' mean?"

  "I'm not too sure about this either. She'll be coming over tonight, you can ask her then." Little Rong said after she walked out the door.

  I pinched myself hard on the arm, and it still hurts. And there's my shadow on the ground, how can they say I'm not human?

  "Xiao Rou!" I shouted her name and burst out of the door.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Take me to see that witch, just as she said, I may no longer be alone, because the things that have happened in these days are too strange."

  "Is it now?"

  "Uh-huh, it's now, I can't wait a single moment longer." I said with certainty.

  Xiao Rou nodded and led me out of the door to a place slightly larger than her thatched cottage. She lightly knocked on the door and called out, "Wu Po... Wu Po."

  After tens of seconds, an old lady walked out from inside. Her silver hair was a sight to behold. She looked at Xiaorou and then at me, saying: "Come on in and talk."

  After entering the house, the old witch picked up a bowl of water and splashed it on my face. Then she muttered some words that I couldn't understand in her mouth, seemingly Buddhist scriptures or Taoist scriptures.

  "Witch..."

  The old witch stretched out her hand to interrupt me and said, "Don't speak, don't say anything now. I'm helping you get rid of the evil spirit. Whatever you do, don't be afraid if you want to stay alive!"

  Although I didn't know what she meant, I still chose to remain silent. A few minutes later, she nodded and said, "Alright, young man, what did you want to say just now?"

  "I want to ask you, I'm no longer human, what's going on?"

  "You're no longer human, so you can't be considered a person."

  The old witch spoke with a face devoid of expression, very intimidating, and I immediately believed her, especially those eyes that could kill me.

  The witch continued: "Humans have three souls and seven spirits, but you've lost one of your three souls now. Your life soul is gone, and your heavenly soul and earthly soul are also very weak. So I'm sure that you'll die soon. You won't make it past tonight!"

  "Why is it like this?" I muttered.

  "You should ask yourself that. Think back carefully, what kind of thing have you done in this life to cause your soul to automatically leave?"

  As soon as the witch said that, my heart skipped a beat and I immediately thought of what we three did eight years ago. I knelt down on the ground and said: "Witch, eight years ago because I was ignorant, I indeed did some wrong things, which now make me feel extremely painful, now I am very self-reproachful, if my death can make Wang Xiaoya happy, I am willing."

  "What happened to Wang Xiaoya eight years ago?"

  "It was like this, I was twelve years old that year, at that time..."

  I poured out all the wrong things we did that year, and after listening to them, the witch let out a sigh, helped me up and said: "Young man, it's good that you dare to admit your mistakes, but do you know how stupid thing you've done?"

  "I know, I was wrong!" I choked out.

  "No!" The old witch shouted loudly, "You don't know, you don't know how stupid you are. That female teacher you desecrated back then was not even human."

  "Or is it not human?" I was stunned.

  "That's right, she is a fox fairy, a fox fairy who has been practicing for hundreds of years. The year you killed her was the very year she was about to achieve enlightenment, but you killed her instead. This will create an enormous resentment in her heart, which will make her incredibly powerful. Now it's already the eighth year, seventh month, and in just five more months, she'll exact a crazy revenge on you! At that time, you'll die according to the method she has set for you, and no one will be able to save you!"

  The old witch finished speaking and looked at me again, saying: "Your heavenly soul and earthly soul are still on your body. Soon, your mortal soul will return to your body once more. At that time, you can leave this place and go find the location where you wronged her in the past. Go take a look at how you will die in the future."

  "But why wait for five months? If you said she's a very powerful fox spirit, why not take revenge at that time?"

  "She is a nine-tailed fox spirit, and you have to wait for nine years. This time you understand, and do you know why you came to this place? Why did you experience some unbelievable things these past few days?"

  Seeing me silent, she continued: "Now she can't help but bother you guys, but since her soul hasn't returned to her body yet, she can't move you guys. As for this kind of torture, it's just a small disturbance."

  After listening to the witch's words, I seemed to understand. It seems that all the strange things that happened in Rongshu Village were caused by Wang Xiaoya. She can only scare us, but she doesn't have the ability to put us to death.

  I looked at the witch in confusion and asked: "How did you know all this?"