Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 108 Stick Figure
The chilly coldness slowly approached like frost spreading across the water.

Ran Qing, lying stiffly on the bed, could clearly smell the air in the room and feel the hard and solid bed beneath him.

He has woken up from his dream.

But his limbs felt like they were cast in asphalt and could not move, his eyelids were as heavy as a thousand-pound stone door, and even his tongue could not move.

This wasn't the kind of sleep paralysis where one was half asleep and half awake. He knew very clearly that he was awake.

But I just can't move!
Ran Qing could also clearly feel that some kind of sinister dead thing had entered the house.

The approaching cold feeling made Ran Qing's hair stand on end.

My heart was filled with astonishment.

——This is the Yintan of the Yin people.

According to the book "Witchcraft and Demonic Arts", the power of evil masters exists in the altars of the Yin people. If there is an invasion of evil spirits, these evil masters will immediately issue an alarm.

Even once the Yin Altar is opened, no evil spirits will be willing to approach it, as the evil masters in the Yin Altar are very powerful.

Ran Qing could even clearly feel that the Nuo opera mask was right next to him, within reach.

But the group of evil masters were completely silent at this moment.

The dark shadows in the room were already standing beside Ran Qing's bed, but the evil masters were completely unaware.

The common sense recorded in "Witchcraft and Demonic Arts" has been overturned again...

Ran Qing tried hard to move his stiff fingers and put on the mask.

But the cold and strange black shadow slowly stopped beside his bed.

Through the slits of Ran Qing's eyes, he could vaguely see a blurry black shadow squatting beside his bed.

That thing was not a living person at all, nor did it look like an evil ghost.

Its body proportions were exaggerated and outrageous, like a lanky giant squatting beside the bed.

It was clearly the first time he had seen it, but the moment he saw it, Ran Qing felt a certain fear deep in his blood, and his scalp went numb with fear.

It was like seeing a monster that only existed in nightmares.

In the darkness, the thing squatted beside the bed and stretched out the same slender and strange hand.

The next second, Ran Qing felt a chill in his stomach.

Something long and sharp like a scalpel slowly moved across his belly.

Ran Qing's whole body was stiff. He could clearly feel the thing piercing its sharp and slender nails into his abdominal cavity and rummaging through his internal organs and intestines.

The feeling of a cold foreign object entering his body was so painful that Ran Qing wanted to tremble all over.

But his body remained stiff and unable to move at all.

Through the slits of his eyes, he could vaguely see the black nails piercing his stomach. They were as thin and long as a scalpel.

At this moment, Ran Qing seemed to be lying on the operating table in the hospital, anesthetized and unable to move.

I could only watch helplessly as the doctor searched for stitches in my opened belly...

This is not right!

There is definitely something wrong!
Ran Qing was screaming wildly in his heart.

Why would such a horrible thing suddenly come into the house, and he couldn't resist, and the evil master was unaware of it?
Did he follow her here tonight?
But the thing's movements in rummaging through his abdominal cavity were incredibly skillful.

Ran Qing had an inexplicable illusion. He always felt that this thing was not the first time to enter this room, nor the first time to treat him like this...

But no matter what, Ran Qing couldn't move!

He lay stiffly on the bed, watching the thing rummaging around in his abdominal cavity for a long time.

Finally, the thing seemed to take out something.

A creepy chewing sound filled the room.

The tall and thin terrifying black shadow gradually disappeared in the darkness.

Ran Qing was stunned for an unknown amount of time.

Suddenly, he found himself regaining control of his body.

Almost instinctively, Ran Qing sat up straight and grabbed the Nuo opera mask beside him.

But the room was empty, there was nothing in it.

Ran Qing turned on the light, looked down, and saw that his stomach was intact without any wounds.

The terrifying experience I just had seemed like a false dream.

only……

Ran Qing's hand subconsciously brushed across his belly. He felt a chill spreading rapidly across his belly.

"It's not an illusion..."

Ran Qing's face looked a little ugly.

There really was a thin and mysterious ghost that quietly entered his house, dug open his stomach, and took something from his body!

But Ran Qing had no idea what was taken away.

There was nothing unusual about his body, and he felt no pain.

I just vaguely feel that something bad is happening to me.

"That thing isn't here for the first time. It must have been here many times before, so it's so familiar with the place..."

Ran Qing kept recalling the details of what had just happened, and his expression became increasingly ugly.

There was a terrifying evil spirit that was able to hide from the evil lord of the Wujiang ghost world, quietly enter the Yin altar of the ghost walker, and take away the things in his body.

And more than once...

"Why didn't I notice it before? I woke up tonight..."

Ran Qing frowned and thought, then suddenly remembered something and immediately turned over the pillow.

I saw an ancient coin covered with copper rust lying quietly under the pillow.

Looking at the ancient coin in front of him, Ran Qing felt a strong sense of hunger again.

Moreover, he could feel that the hunger he felt this time was much stronger than when he had just received the ancient bronze coin a few hours ago.

“Could it be this ancient coin?”

Ran Qing carefully picked up the copper coin, spread it in the palm of his hand and examined it slowly.

The copper coins covered with green rust do not seem to have changed much compared to before.

But when Ran Qing put the copper coin under the light and looked at it carefully, his face suddenly changed.

"This copper coin..."

The lines on the copper coins were messy and seemed to be some unknown ancient characters.

But now, these lines have obviously changed.

They vaguely outlined a ghost with slender limbs stepping on a person!
——The lines on the copper coin changed from chaotic and disorganized to abstract and weird stick figures.

A chilling chill instantly spread throughout Ran Qing's entire body—it was indeed because of this ancient bronze coin!

Because Ran Qing had placed this ancient bronze coin next to him when he slept, he suddenly woke up from his sleep and noticed the arrival of the slender ghost.

And that slender ghost might have come many times in the nights before.

But Ran Qing hadn't noticed it before.

When that thing arrived tonight, the copper coin awakened Ran Qing...

Ran Qing, realizing that the situation was strange, immediately opened "Witchcraft, Ghosts and Magic" and "Records of Strange Things" written by Miss Shen Er.

He wanted to find out what could enter the Yintan and take away the Yin people, and he also wanted to find relevant records on ancient coins.

But after quickly flipping through the four books left by Aunt Six, namely, The Trial of the Second Aunt and the Killing of Demons, Records of Strange Things, Witchcraft and Demons, and the booklet written by Aunt Six... Ran Qing did not find the clue he was looking for in any of the four books.

Four yellowed old books lay on the desk, like four frail old men.

Ran Qing's face was grim as he recalled the scene just now. That thing entered the room with great skill, squatted beside the bed, and dug out something from his body...

Ran Qing suddenly had a horrible guess.

"...Could it be that Sixth Aunt was killed by this thing?" Ran Qing's face looked extremely ugly.

When he first met Aunt Liu, she was already dead.

But until her death, when she was making arrangements for her funeral, Aunt Liu never mentioned how she died.

Ran Qing had also ignored this matter before.

But now thinking back, a ghost walker as powerful as Aunt Six died so young without any illness or disaster... This itself is not right.

Could it be that Aunt Liu was killed by this tall and thin ghost before?

And now this ghost is staring at Ran Qing...

He took out the ancient bronze coin again and looked at the simplified Chinese drawing made up of strange lines on the coin.

Ran Qing suddenly felt a little creepy.

In this weird simplified Chinese painting, the one being stepped on by the slender monster... should be him, right?
(End of this chapter)