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Chapter 1631: Hidden Ghost (I Can’t Lose Weight Anymore)

According to the old village chief, young girls have been missing in the village at night since the New Year. Sometimes, they are escorted by their families, but as soon as they turn around, the girls disappear. Everyone thinks it is some kind of evil spirit.

Later, a traveling swordsman passed by and learned about this. He told them that it was the work of an evil ghost.

According to the swordsman, this evil ghost was extremely powerful and possessed strange powers, and it lived by eating humans. Then the swordsman volunteered to kill the evil ghost, but a few days later, everyone found the swordsman's body in the village. Now everyone in the village is in danger, and even if they want to leave here, there is nowhere to go.

After all, in the past, transportation was not as developed as it is today. For villages and towns in remote areas like these, the only way to get to other places was on foot, which took several days.

Who can guarantee that they will not be eaten by evil spirits?
In comparison, it is safer for everyone to gather together.

Although it is also limited.

"I see…………"

After listening to the village chief's story, Duanmu Huai nodded, then looked at the Acorus chinensis next to him.

"But Miss Acorus doesn't seem to be afraid of us. Isn't Miss Acorus worried that we are disguised as that man-eating evil ghost?"

"To be honest, I was a little worried at first."

Chao Yunchangpu spoke a little embarrassedly.

"But when the three of you appeared in the sunlight, I felt relieved. Because I heard from the swordsman that evil spirits will turn into ash if they appear in the sunlight. And the fact that the three of you did not show any abnormality in the sunlight means that they are probably not evil spirits."

"ok, I get it."

After hearing Chaoyun Changpu's answer, Duanmu Huai thought for a while and made a decision.

"I understand. I will help you expel the evil spirits."

"Really, thank you so much, Lady Goddess!"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, the village chief was so happy that he knelt down and worshipped, while Duanmu Huai waved his hand.

"Since the other party will show up at night, we should deal with it tonight without further delay. All you have to do is close the doors and windows and wait patiently."

After chatting for a few more words, the village chief left with many thanks, and Duanmu Huai also returned to the guest room with Kurokawa Akane and Sakurajima Mai.

"Why does it feel like I'm listening to a ghost story?"

Back in the guest room, Sakurajima Mai couldn't help but complain.

"When exposed to sunlight, they turn into ash and only come out at night. Isn't this a vampire? But aren't vampires a European legend? Why did they also exist in ancient Japan?"

"But vampires only suck blood, they don't eat human flesh."

Kurokawa Akane calmly pointed out the difference.

"There are also guys who eat meat. Hmm... Anyway, let's see what the situation is."

Duanmu Huai was thinking about something, because the village chief's description reminded him of the ghouls he and Mary had encountered in another world. However, the ghouls in that world could not eat anything other than human flesh, and they could not be exposed to the sun. So even if this thing really existed, it should be a different species from that ghoul.

"Xiao Ai, are you really going?"

Sakurajima Mai looked at Duanmu Huai uneasily, and the latter nodded.

"That's right. Now that it has come to this, maybe if we destroy the evil spirits, we can return to our own world, right? Also, you two have to come with me."

"We...? I don't know how to fight."

Mai Sakurajima said that she was just a weak woman who was powerless and had no fighting ability at all.

"I have practiced some swordsmanship, but I don't know if it is useful in actual combat..."

As a stage actor, Kurokawa Akane had practiced some swordsmanship, but it was more of a show, more for show than for practicality. As for being able to fight, Kurokawa Akane himself didn't believe it was enough.

"I'm not asking you to help me fight, but the three of us should be together so that we can take care of each other. You also know that in horror movies, it is taboo to act separately. I am confident that I can protect you two, so I think it is safer to act together. It is better than me wasting time going to the village and then finding out that you have all been captured when I come back."

“That’s true…”

Kurokawa Akane and Sakurajima Mai looked at each other and nodded.

Indeed, they now feel like they are in a horror movie. If they were to separate and act separately like in the movie, it would just be a plot effect... The problem is that they are not filming a movie, so who are they showing this plot effect to?
It's safer for everyone to be together.

After all, Duanmu Huai's fighting ability is truly guaranteed.

Although it was daytime when they arrived in this world, everyone had already finished filming for a whole day and were exhausted. After lunch, Sakurajima Mai and Kurokawa Akane fell into a deep sleep in the guest room. When they woke up, it was already evening. After saying goodbye to Asagao Iris, the three of them left the shrine and walked towards the village at the foot of the mountain.

"By the way, is Miss Acorus okay?"

Mai Sakurajima turned her head to look at the torii behind her and spoke with some uneasiness.

"I don't know if it was a human or a ghost, but isn't Miss Ayame disabled and living alone in the shrine? Won't she be attacked?"

"Actually, I do wonder if she has any connection to that 'ghost'."

Akane Kurokawa has a different view.

"Like Ms. Mai said, if that 'ghost' really comes out at night to eat people, then why doesn't it catch Ms. Iris who lives alone on the mountain outside the village? Isn't this more convenient?"

"Maybe it's because of the shrine? In places like shrines, evil spirits usually don't approach easily."

"But, are there really ghosts in this world?"

“I didn’t believe it before…”

"So Miss Chiyin believes it now?"

"After all, we have traveled through time, so it's not surprising that there are ghosts, right?"

"Well…………………"

Faced with Kurokawa Akane's answer, Sakurajima Mai was really speechless for a moment.

Indeed, such an incredible thing has happened, and compared with it, the appearance of an evil spirit or something like that doesn't seem strange. So, Sakurajima Mai quickly changed the subject.

"By the way, where did the sword that Xiao Ai carries on her back come from?"

Duanmu Huai was walking in front with a sword on his back. Hearing Sakurajima Mai's question, Duanmu Huai answered casually.

"I found it in the shrine while you were sleeping. Miss Ayame said that this was the weapon of the swordsman who died before. After the swordsman's body was collected, the sword was sent to the shrine for worship. And according to Miss Ayame, this sword seems to glow when held in the hand of the swordsman. It's quite interesting, isn't it?"

"If it really glows, it shouldn't have any radiation..."

"Ms. Mai, you should talk about something romantic once in a while."

"I want to be romantic, but this environment is not romantic at all."

Mai Sakurajima sighed helplessly, raised her phone, and used the flashlight to illuminate the road in front of her. Under the light of the phone, the village was dead silent at the moment. There was not even a little light in the room. All the doors and windows of the houses were closed, and it looked like a cemetery.

"We don't need to turn on the lights for the next shots here. Let's just take a few photos first..."

Before Mai Sakurajima finished her words, Duanmu Huai suddenly reached out and grabbed her collar, and then suddenly pulled her back. Before Mai Sakurajima could even react, she lost her balance and fell backwards.

“Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!”

The incident happened suddenly, and Mai Sakurajima was totally unprepared. She subconsciously pressed the shutter button, and then flashes of light appeared. With the help of the flash, Mai Sakurajima saw a woman with pale skin, white hair, and scarlet eyes stretching out her hands towards her ferociously. She could even see her long and thin nails!

Almost at the same time, a flash of sword light passed by Sakurajima Mai's head and swung forward!
“Puff————!”

The stench of fresh blood rushed towards me, and I saw the woman's head flying into the sky, while her headless body fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.

“What on earth is…?”

Sitting on the ground, Sakurajima Mai looked at the corpse not far away in horror. Fortunately, it was dark and she couldn't see the other person's true appearance.

"Xiao Ai, you, you killed someone?"

“If that guy is a human… get down!”

Duanmu Huai suddenly stretched out his left hand, pressed down on Heichuan Akane's head, and pressed the latter directly to the ground. At the same time, Duanmu Huai swung his right hand forward, accompanied by the shining sword light and a shrill scream. Then, a black shadow flew into the sky like a bird, and then rushed into the depths of the dark forest.

“……………………, what’s going on?”

"Xiao Ai Ni wouldn't really kill anyone, would he?"

Only when everything was settled did the two girls stand up again from the ground, looking around in shock. Although they were covered in mud, it was obviously not the time to pay attention to such trivial matters. "Murder? Where is the person?"

"Hey? It's right over there..."

Sakurajima Mai pointed again to the place where the body was just now, and then she was stunned—there was nothing there at this moment, not even a headless body.

"But I just saw..."

"She ran away."

"Ran?"

"Yes, the headless body used its hands and feet to crawl away like a giant spider."

“…………………………”

Just thinking about that scene gives me chills.

But this is not the end yet. Duanmu Huai flicked away the blood and put the sword back into the sheath.

"Okay, let's catch up."

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"Chase? Do you want to chase?"

"Of course, maybe if we kill these weirdos, we can go back to our own world. Do you plan to live here forever?"

"…………………"

They both shook their heads.

"Let's go then."

"But how can we chase them at this late hour, when the forest is so dark?"

"The smell of that guy's blood is still lingering. We can find him by following the smell."

"Okay, but before we go up the mountain..."

"Ok?"

"Let's put some insect repellent spray on first."

As she spoke, Mai Sakurajima took out a small jar from her bag.

"There are a lot of mosquitoes in the mountains. It would be troublesome if you get bitten by them accidentally."

“………………Are you still carrying this thing?”

"I have some emergency medical bandages and disinfection tools here. If you get hurt, please tell me."

“……………………This is really complete.”

Even Kurokawa Akane was speechless when he saw how well prepared Mai Sakurajima was.

"After all, it's hard to predict what will happen on the set. If I go back this time, I'll have to consider bringing another survival kit."

…………………Bringing a survival suit to film a movie? Are you filming a desert island survival movie?

For Duanmu Huai, it was not difficult to track the target by following the smell of blood. Although the mountains were dark and gloomy at night, Duanmu Huai still followed the smell of blood and soon found a dilapidated house in the mountains.

"Wow... It feels so weird, just like the villa in the woods in European and American horror movies."

Looking at the dilapidated house in front of her, Mai Sakurajima frowned and whispered, although she and Duanmu Huai had stayed in a small mountain hut when filming in the snowy mountains before. But that hut was originally used by hunters to rest in the mountains. However, the house in front of her was more like the long house where ordinary people lived. It was not strange to see such a house in the villages or cities of period dramas, but it was a bit strange to see it in the remote mountains.

"Want to go in and take a look, Xiao Ai?"

Kurokawa Akane stared at the dark entrance of the house and asked in a low voice, while Duanmu Huai shook his head.

"That's not necessary."

After saying that, he took a deep breath and then roared.

"You bunch of bastards, get out here!"

"Come come come come————"

The echo floated in the mountains, startling the birds in the distance, who screamed and flew away. Then, several figures slowly walked out of the house and appeared in front of the three people under the moonlight.

"…………………"

Looking at this, Mai Sakurajima and Akane Kurokawa couldn't help but hold their breath and could hardly believe their eyes.

Standing in the front was a giant who was about two meters tall and looked like a man. The reason why it was said to be a man was that the head of this giant was not human. Although he had hair, he had seven compound eyes on his face that looked like spiders. His mouth was also open like a spider, without skin, and red and white muscles and huge sharp teeth could be seen.

Next to the giant stood a woman with pale skin and hair. Judging from her dress, she seemed to be the giant's wife. Behind them stood five children of different sizes. They looked similar, with white skin and long hair.

"What a stinky smell..."

One of the children covered his mouth and nose, and looked at the three people with an obvious expression of disgust. The leading woman stared at Duanmu Huai and others and asked.

"What brings you here?"

"It's simple. I'm here to destroy you man-eating monsters."

Duanmu Huai drew out his sword and pointed it at the other party. When everyone heard Duanmu Huai's answer, they burst into laughter.

“Huff, huff, huff… You really don’t know your own limitations…”

"How stupid..."

"The sword in your hand belongs to that man before, right? Do you think you can destroy us with this sword?"

Listening to these weird laughs, Sakurajima Mai and Kurokawa Akane felt that the hairs on their bodies were standing up. Although most of them had human appearance and spoke human language, they instinctively realized that the other party was not human at all, but some kind of human-like monster... If Duanmu Huai hadn't been standing in front of them, the two of them would probably have been so scared that they couldn't even stand steadily.

And at this moment, a voice sounded above their heads.

"Hehehe, look how scared they are. How funny..."

Hearing the sound, the two raised their heads and looked upwards, and then they almost screamed out loud—just above their heads, they saw a huge spider man hanging upside down, looking at them with a grin. He had a spider body all over his body, only the head was human, which looked extremely weird.

Even when facing such a monster, Duanmu Huai just glanced at it and looked forward again.

"Did you attack the village at the foot of the mountain and capture the girls from the village?"

"so what?"

Another child sneered and spoke.

"Humans are so fragile that they are no match for us. Naturally, they will die. It is only natural for them to be eaten by us, isn't it?"

"You're right."

However, to the two girls' surprise, Duanmu Huai nodded.

"The weak should be eliminated by the strong. I agree with your point of view, so......"

The wind direction has changed.

"…It's only natural that you were killed…"

Duanmu Huai opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and then exhaled.

The atmosphere around him began to change. The terrifying pressure, like a volcanic eruption, spread out in all directions with Duanmu Huai as the center. Duanmu Huai raised his head, and his scarlet eyes flashed with cold, crazy, and murderous light. He opened his mouth, and the breath of destruction slowly emerged from his mouth.

"call……………"

At the same time, the sword held in Duanmu Huai's hand gradually began to change - the originally black sword body began to shine with red light, bright red, like an exploding flame, like a splash of blood.

Everything around began to tremble, the wind stopped, the chirping of insects disappeared, and the whole world seemed to be on the brink of destruction at this moment.

Only Duanmu Huai's cold declaration remained.

"Then go to hell."

The bright red sword light turned into a raging lightning at this moment, tearing through the air and rushing forward!