Chapter 29: The Curse Has Been Fulfilled

  I threw off the quilt and sat up, immediately hearing a noise, and saw something that I would never forget in my life.

  On the window of the room, a blurry face outline was clearly pasted on the glass, with a sharp chin and a single horn growing on its head!

  My eyes grew wider and wider, fear made me unable to scream, just as I was about to collapse, another sound came, a huge black palm appeared on the glass of the window.

  "Ah......" I let out a loud cry and scrambled out of bed, running out of the Rock Dragon's house like my life depended on it. At the end of the village, there was a place that still had flickering lights, which should be Old Man Ba's home?

  This house is eerie, I'm going to find Xiao Ge and them, otherwise I'll be scared to death in the house?

  All around was pitch black, I rushed out of the door and ran wildly towards the place with flickering lights in the dark night.

  Huanglong Village was built on the mountain, with dense trees on both sides of the road. The bluestone path was rugged and uneven, and I ran forward for about a mile, stumbling and staggering. Suddenly, I saw a slender black-clad woman appear in the distance ahead.

  Who is that? So late, still wandering alone in the village, won't be a ghost, right? My goosebumps suddenly fell to the ground, considering whether to follow and take a look, unexpectedly, the black-clothed woman heard my footsteps, seemed a bit flustered, her figure flashed, ran into the woods on the left and disappeared.

  I plucked up my courage and ran to the place where the woman in black had flashed past, and under the clear moonlight, I saw that a corner of a black-and-white striped skirt was hanging on a thorny tree, it was obvious that the woman in black had walked hastily and got her skirt caught on the thorns!

  This black and white cheongsam is very familiar to me. I once saw the little maid Autumn Swallow wearing it at Phoenix Inn!

  Is it an autumn wild goose? I was stunned!

  What is this little girl doing appearing in the middle of the night at this eerie Huanglong Village? I don't dare to believe my own eyes!

  He was lost in thought when a sinister laugh suddenly came from behind him, as if from hell.

  I turned around in horror and saw a terrifyingly abnormal scene.

  A woman with long hair and wearing a red dress was standing behind me at a distance of less than three feet. However, she had no face... or rather, it couldn't be said that she had no face, but only a piece of skin, without eyes, nose, or mouth, just a pale white piece of skin!

  "Ahh!" I tensed up all over, staring at the faceless female ghost and was too scared to move!

  The back of my head was suddenly hit by a heavy object, and I felt dizzy and fell heavily to the ground. In the moment I fell, I clearly saw the black-clothed woman who had just disappeared reappear in front of me, holding a wooden stick, but it was not Autumn Swallow's face...

  I fainted.

  When I woke up, it was already noon on the second day, and Xiao Ge stood in front of my bed with a concerned face.

  "Wake up! Have a drink of water first..." The young man handed me a cup of water from beside him as soon as he saw I was awake.

  I felt parched and dry, extremely uncomfortable, struggled to sit up and took the cup to drink it all in one breath, and finally had a bit of energy, came back to life.

  "How did you end up fainting on the small road in the village last night? What's going on?" The young man asked calmly.

  I didn't answer him immediately, and suddenly remembered the ghostly face I saw last night and that black palm, a chill ran down my spine.

  I took a deep breath and recounted the events of last night in great detail. Because I didn't dare to confirm whether it was Autumn Swallow who attacked me with the red-clothed female ghost, I didn't say it out loud, only that I encountered a red-clothed fierce ghost and got scared unconscious!

  "Ghost face, ghost hand? Red-clothed fierce ghost?" Little brother Zou frowned and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go out and take a look."

  Little brother went out for a while and walked into the house, holding two leaves in his hand, with a very serious expression on his face. "Lan Tian, actually what you saw last night was not dirty things, but someone was pretending to be a ghost to scare you!"

  Is this a prank? If it's a prank, there will be wailing ghosts and ghostly faces and hands stuck on the window to scare people. I'm not quite convinced by what you're saying, little brother.

  The little brother saw the idea in my mind, waved the leaves in his hand and said, "This is the ghost face and ghost hands you saw last night!"

  I took a look, and the two leaves in Xiao Ge's hand were one wutong tree leaf and one tung oil leaf, both of which are extremely common things that can be found in almost every village.

  But little brother, how can you say this is the ghost face and ghost hand I saw last night?

  "Watch, I'll recreate the scene you saw last night." The young man said, taking two leaves and exiting the door, soon appearing outside the window of the room.

  I'm skeptical about what Xiao Ge said, let's see how he restores the ghost face and ghost hands I saw last night.

  The little brother stood outside the window, holding a paulownia leaf with the tip facing down and the stem facing up stuck to the window. Seeing this, I suddenly thought of the scene I saw last night, which was very similar. Big head, pointed chin, and even a thin horn on top - what ghost face is this? It's clearly just a paulownia leaf stuck to the window with its tip down and stem up!

  As for that ghost hand, it's actually a leaf of the buttercup plant. The leaves are wide and thick with five forked shapes, which in moonlight at night can be mistaken for a human hand at first glance.

  Seeing this, my tense mood suddenly relaxed. My god! The things that scared me to death last night were actually them?

  The little brother walked into the room and said to me, "That's the truth of the matter!"

  I nodded and asked again, "Little brother, I also heard a strange wailing cry, what's going on with that?"

  "Actually, it wasn't a ghost crying, but rather the sound of the mountain wind blowing through the treetops..."

  I have no more doubts and completely put my mind at ease.

  The little brother fell silent for a moment, pulled out a cigarette and lit it, saying while smoking, "After you left last night, someone sneaked into Uncle Rock Dragon's house. The house was turned upside down. I think someone must have pretended to be a ghost to scare you away, then went in to steal things!"

  "Someone has entered Uncle Rock Dragon's house?" I was more surprised than seeing a ghost, "What does that person want to find?"

  "If I'm not mistaken, it should be because of this sketch on me!" The young man's face was extremely solemn.

  "What kind of person is it?" I asked loudly.

  The little brother shook his head, "I don't know. But that person will definitely not leave empty-handed and will come again. Humph, at that time I'll make him regret coming!"

  The young man's body emanated an intense murderous aura as he spoke!

  My heart skipped a beat, I didn't dare to look at his piercing eyes again, and asked with my head down, "Did you and Uncle Yan Long go to Grandpa Ba's house last night? Is everything discussed clearly?"

  The young man sighed and said, "As for the sketch, Old Man Ba couldn't recognize the patterns on it either. As for the so-called 'Bronze Bell Warning, something big is going to happen', I discussed it with Old Man Ba and Uncle Yan Long last night, and we finally came to a conclusion. Those strangers who entered the village, their intentions must all be related to this sketch on my body!"

  "Is it related to the map on your body? But someone has already entered the village before you came back!" I didn't understand.

  "Little brother said, 'Lan Tian, you only know one but not the other. Although Eighth Grandfather couldn't recognize the patterns and lines on the sketch, he discovered a secret - this sketch should have two and a half pages, but I only hold half of it. That is to say, there must be another half in those people's hands. So, someone entered the village before us, he was scouting ahead!"

  "Is that so? What secrets are hidden in this sketch that it's worth these people going to such great lengths?"

  "I don't know! It's possible that it's some kind of treasure or cultural relic, after all, this Fenghuang Town has excavated large ancient tombs from the Western Xia period before!" The young man flicked his hair out of his forehead and squinted slightly, "No matter what these people are trying to do, I won't let them succeed! And I'll also think of a way to find those people and snatch that half-map from their hands..."

  The little brother said this with a heroic tone, and I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart. "Alright! If there's anywhere you need me, I'll definitely help you!"

  The little brother punched me and said, "Lan Tian, well done! You're worthy of being acquainted with me!"

  "Uh-huh."

  No sooner had I finished speaking than Rocky Dragon rushed into the house in a fluster, and as soon as he saw us, he panted and said, "Something's wrong, something's wrong, what's going on in the village?"

  "What's wrong? The young man grabbed him, 'Uncle Yan Long, what happened?'"

  Yan Long's face turned pale, and he took a deep breath before saying, "The bronze bell tolls to warn of something big... it seems this prophecy has come true. The village's Shi Tou... he... he died in the ancient well at the village entrance!"

  "Is it a stone? Is someone dead at the old well in the village entrance?" The young brother led the Rock Dragon out of the door, and I got up from bed to follow them running towards the village entrance.

  At the ancient well by the village entrance, I saw the most terrifying face in the world. Can it still be called a human face? No! It can't!

  At the moment I saw the stone corpse, I almost dared not confirm that it was a human face!

  I've never seen a person's eyeballs bulge out like that, their nose rise up so high and twist to one side. Below the nose, no, more accurately on one side of the nose, the mouth was like a bottomless black hole, not a single tooth visible. The entire face was like a lump of dough that had been carelessly kneaded, twisted to an extreme degree.

  I took a sharp breath in and quickly looked away, turning my face to one side.

  It's absolutely impossible for someone who fell into the well and drowned to look like this. The stone is still a teenager, so who was it that killed him with such cruelty?

  I was thinking, when I suddenly felt that the atmosphere around me was not right. Turning my head to look back, I found that all the villagers were staring at me coldly, keeping a distance from me.

  What's wrong with them? Are they suspecting me of being involved in Shi Tou's death? Soul forbidden

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