Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 143 Master Shou

"mom!"

At the edge of the dark old woods, Ran Qing couldn't help but shout out as he watched his mother's figure getting farther and farther away.

He didn't dare to approach the eerie and terrifying Wuzhai Pass, so he could only try to call his mother back.

At least... I want to say a few words to my mother.

But the sparks scattered by the evil god flickered between Ran Qing's eyebrows. This power to drive away evil spirits and ghosts was not strong, but it was extremely lasting.

The familiar and gentle figure in Ran Qing's vision walked away uncontrollably in the darkness without looking back.

It was as if something was pulling her from the depths of the dark Wujiang ghost world...

Ran Qing clenched his fists and watched this scene, suddenly regretting coming to the Torch Festival.

Although the strange and terrifying evil spirit was driven away, my mother was also driven away!

After being driven away this time, my mother wouldn't come back...

Ran Qing was anxious and he subconsciously ran forward two more steps.

But gusts of cold wind came, and the gloomy darkness behind Wuzhai Pass was ready to devour anyone.

In the end, Ran Qing's reason prevailed.

He forced himself to stop and forced himself not to chase after his mother.

Instead, he forced himself to stand still and watch his mother leave with his eyes.

The intense gaze lasted for more than ten seconds.

Ran Qing watched helplessly as his mother's figure disappeared into the depths of the Wujiang ghost world.

At the last moment before his mother disappeared, Ran Qing clearly saw her trying hard to look back in the darkness and giving him a relieved smile.

Ran Qing clenched his fists again.

"Mom is really still alive!"

In other words, the mother's personality, reason, and emotions when she was alive have not disappeared.

That wasn't some other evil spirit, it was really his mother!
At this moment, Ran Qing was overwhelmed by complex emotions.

Joy, sadness, despair, resentment... countless complex emotions surged in his chest. He wanted to laugh, but also wanted to cry.

But in the end, Ran Qing just gritted his teeth and turned around, forcing himself to let go of all the emotions in his heart.

We must get away from here as soon as possible.

The ghost world of Wujiang is eerie and terrifying. Although it is only at the Wuzhai Pass, some evil and terrifying things may emerge from there at any time.

Ran Qing still gets a tingling sensation on his scalp when he thinks of the group of pale ghosts that chased Aunt Liu into fleeing in a panic.

Not to mention that there are other terrifying evil spirits deep in the ghost world of Wujiang.

Any one of the things in there is so big that Ran Qing can't afford to offend them.

He immediately retreated back into the old woods and retraced his steps through the mist.

The old forest behind me was still shrouded in fog.

This foggy underworld road leads to the human world. It is the passage opened when the evil god left the Wujiang ghost world and descended.

Now that the evil god has not returned, Ran Qing can return along the same route.

The fog quickly retreated from sight, and the barren land gradually became covered with vegetation.

Ran Qing could already smell the breath of the human world. In the fog ahead, he was not far from the world of the living.

But at this moment, Ran Qing's footsteps suddenly stopped.

In the fog ahead, a familiar figure stood silently.

She seemed to have been waiting there for a long time.

The spotless little white dress almost blended into the fog.

The pale skin looked like an elf in the mist, without a trace of blood.

Ran Qing used his Yin-Zou perception to clearly feel a kind of eerie and cold chill at this moment.

"Ouyang Xue..." Ran Qing stared at the woman blocking the road ahead and murmured, "You finally stopped pretending."

The chill that Ouyang Xue felt when she accidentally touched Ran Qing's shoulder on that morning more than half a month ago now reappeared.

And this time, the two were more than ten meters apart and their bodies did not have any contact.

But as a living person, Ouyang Xue exuded a strong and sinister aura like that of an evil spirit.

Ran Qing asked expressionlessly, "What on earth are you?"

In the fog, the girl in the little white dress had a pale face and a cold expression, and her eyes were dead and wooden.

The girl who loved to laugh and had a good relationship with her classmates at school has completely become another person.

She was like a pale corpse without any emotion, staring at Ran Qing coldly.

Ouyang Xue stretched out her hand and said, "Are you a ghost walker?"

Ouyang Xue's voice was hoarse and low, but now it had an echo, as if many people were saying the same words in unison.

Men's voices, women's voices, old people's voices, children's voices... These chaotic and noisy voices, all saying the same words in unison, made Ran Qing feel instinctively uncomfortable and inexplicably nauseous.

He stared at the girl in front of him and muttered.

"Master Shou..."

This strange tone is exactly what is emphasized in "Records of Strange Things" and "Witchcraft and Demonic Arts", and it is the natural enemy that people who practice ghost walking must be careful and vigilant against.

——Master Shou!

They are clearly living people, but they can use strange and evil magic to snatch the lifespan of others, and ultimately live far longer than ordinary people.

It is common for Shou Taiye to live for one or two hundred years, and they are all sinister and terrifying old monsters.

Moreover, if this evil magic that harms nature is used too much, one will become schizophrenic, and eventually more than a dozen or even dozens of consciousnesses will grow in the body.

It's like dozens of manic patients squeezed into the same body...

Ran Qing put on the Nuo opera mask without any hesitation.

But the moment the brightly painted devil mask touched her skin, the girl in the fog disappeared.

Standing there was just a phantom.

The blood-red eyes on the evil ghost's mask shrank suddenly, and he immediately searched in the fog, but he could no longer see the girl's pale figure.

In the fog, the girl's strange, noisy and chaotic voice was heard.

"...If you're a ghost, you should carry the Yin Shou Shu with you, right?"

"Give me two pages and I'll let you go."

The harsh and noisy voices, indistinguishable between male and female, sounded like dozens of people talking at the same time.

Ran Qing stood in the fog with an expressionless face, not saying a word.

But he clearly felt that the fog had become thicker.

As a person who has walked through the underworld, he was unable to sense the path back to the world of the living.

A gloomy white fog enveloped him, making him disoriented.

"Want to trap me to death?" Ran Qing was a little confused.

Are Mr. Shou's methods so gentle?
In "Witchcraft, Ghosts and Magic" and "Records of Strange Things", Shou Taiye is described as scary and sneaky, and many Shou Taiye are even scarier than evil ghosts.

But this one I encountered today...

Ran Qing was still in shock when suddenly a shrill and familiar suona sound came from behind him.

The sound of suona, mixed with joy and gloom, came from the fog.

Then came the eerie sound of the reed pipe and the piercing sound of the gong...

Ran Qing's expression suddenly changed.

In the thick fog, the strange and noisy laughter of Mr. Shou could be heard faintly.

The pale ghost that kept approaching seemed to be attracted by this weird Mr. Shou!
(End of this chapter)