Chapter 53: Ghost Baby

  "Don't worry, Your Majesty. These days, Xuan Yuan has been busy dealing with the imperial physician and hasn't had time to investigate those matters. However, we have already issued three imperial edicts, so why hasn't the Crown Prince returned yet?"

  "Let General Yang Zhen run an errand for you tomorrow! If he doesn't come, bring him back to me. I still don't believe it, can't handle him?"

  Two people walked and talked, gradually going far away, so that what was said later? I didn't hear clearly at all. For more '精' content, please visit uruo. Are they announcing the return of the Crown Prince to Beijing? What is it about? Is it intended to use the Crown Prince to threaten the position of the Taizi Xuan Yuan Mu? Or is there another purpose?

  I waited in the artificial hill for half a day, but didn't see Xiaolan's ghost appear, so I went alone to Dong Gong's room.

  I was walking in the dark night, and suddenly I saw someone in front of me with two or three small shadows slowly passing by, just like a person with several floating ghosts following him.

  I cursed inwardly and stood still, preparing to choose another path. But my eyes involuntarily looked at that person again.

  All I saw was that person's arm slightly raised, as if leading those ghosts by the hand, and those three small black shadows were clearly the ghostly silhouettes of children.

  When I was a kid, I heard stories about ghost babies. Some people with special eyes can raise the ghosts of dead babies who have just been born or haven't been born yet.

  This method of raising ghosts is extremely damaging to 'yin' virtue, requiring the use of human milk that has been exposed to sunlight and turned into blood. The blood is then used to raise ghost infants, who are brought home and worshiped daily with offerings of blood. Over time, this must be supplemented with offerings of flesh, ideally human flesh.

  So when the ghost infant grows to a certain extent, the person raising them has to take them out to find women with heavy 'yin' energy and let them eat them, in order to enhance the ghost infant's abilities.

  Yin ghosts and zombies are things without human nature, they have no emotions, no cognition of good and evil, only resentment or yin energy. If this resentment cannot be relieved, it will accumulate more resentment, becoming increasingly ferocious. Therefore, only by resolving their resentment can they attain rebirth, enter the ghostly wheel of reincarnation, and no longer entangle themselves in the human world.

  However, there is a kind of ghost that can never be freed, which is the vengeful spirit of an infant who died before or shortly after birth. Their desire to be reborn as humans was cut off, and they harbor great resentment. Moreover, since they were worshipped from a young age and allowed to do as they pleased, their resentment has become a habit, and they fundamentally do not understand what liberation is. Therefore, in legend, vengeful infant spirits can only be sealed away and cannot be reborn.

  The ghosts who were raised, as their abilities grew stronger, they could also help the people who raised them fulfill their wishes. Of course, it's not a certainty, and there are many other reasons that can hinder this, so humans only need to help create conditions for them, and they will have the ability to help the people who raised them complete their mission.

  The person in front won't be a ghost infant breeder, will they? Looking at that appearance, it really looks like one hand leading three floating ghosts, are they looking for a girl with heavy yin energy?

  The more I think about it, the more afraid I become. I am a person with a 'yin' fate, and tonight's darkness is profound. I must be careful.

  I remembered the vengeful spirit of Princess Yulan, all because of my fate, she wouldn't let me go. If a ghost baby likes me, then won't I have no peaceful days again?

  My eyes were fixed tightly on the black shadow in front of me, and I slowly backed away with my feet, hoping not to be discovered by the other party.

  Suddenly, one of the three little devils turned his face around, with a bloody face and a swollen face with a terrifying smile. He was staring at me and smiling, although it was night now, but I clearly saw his appearance, which was actually that of a newborn baby.

  Then the other two children also turned around, some of them still had their intestines outside their belly skin, their whole body was bright red, and they looked at me with eyes as if looking at a long-awaited delicacy.

  I quickly averted my gaze, pretending I hadn't seen them. If I couldn't see them, maybe they wouldn't bother me? But that big guy, I couldn't pretend not to see him!

  "Which palace is this? It's so late, why are you still strolling in the imperial 'flower' garden?" The woman felt the abnormality of the little ghost beside her and also turned around to see me.

  "I'm going to the Eastern Palace to fetch some medicinal herbs from the imperial pharmacy!" I said calmly, trying to hide my inner trembling.

  Those three kids were generally big, with the same doll-like face, their faces and arms were all covered in blood. One of the children had intestines hanging out of his body, while the other two looked relatively normal. However, the way they stared at people was so intense and terrifying, with a cold-blooded killing intent lurking behind the smiles on the corners of their mouths.

  The scene fell silent and I tried my best to avert my eyes from those ghostly babies, trying to make it seem like I hadn't seen them at all.

  But why did that 'woman' stop talking? A sense of danger enveloped me from all sides.

  The gloomy atmosphere made me slowly lift my head and look at the woman, but she was standing under a dark tree, unable to see her face clearly. However, judging from her voice, she wasn't very young, probably a palace maid or a similar person.

  In front of me, under the shade of the tree, it was dark and gloomy, as if this 'woman' in front of me, except for her feet which could prove that she was a living person, was like a corpse.

  The other party didn't speak, and I couldn't help but take a step back: "You... who are you?"

  Three little ghosts suddenly rushed over, very fast, they circled around me in a whirlwind, and a gust of "yin" wind swirled around my body. Suddenly one of the little ghosts bit my body, that icy feeling made me involuntarily touch the place where he had bitten.

  "Wow!" I frantically hit the surrounding areas, pretending not to see those little monsters. They looked so small and terrifying, taking turns attacking me, biting me painfully.

  "Hahaha...…", the 'woman' standing under the tree shade began to emit a hair-raising, eerie laugh, like the sound of a corpse gnashing its teeth.

  The little ghosts' attack became more and more fierce. Logically, ordinary ghosts shouldn't be able to exert an attacking effect on humans, but these three ghost babies were actually able to bite me painfully. Fortunately, they didn't have teeth, or else my "flesh" would've been bitten off by them.

  "Ah......" I heard this laugh, and let out a startled yell, then turned around and ran, with the three ghostly infants hot on my heels.

  "Ling Xue?" Xuanyuan Mu's voice came from afar, and I rushed towards the direction of the sound.

  The ghost infant was still chasing after him, carrying a bloody smell. As the yin wind blew by, that fishy smell became even more pronounced.

  "Xue?" Xuan Yuan Mu jumped several times and arrived in front of me. "What's wrong?"

  I rushed into his arms, tightly hugging his waist, and trembling all over: "There's a ghost, it's an infantile ghost!"