Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 16 The city is full of fog

The familiar voice of a girl sounded behind him, making Ran Qing suddenly stunned.

"Ran Qing, you can't finish this paper."

He turned his head and saw Li Hongye in school uniform sitting in the Chinese teacher's seat, looking at him coldly.

Under the dim light, the lively, playful, cute and interesting girl in the past seemed like a different person.

Her eyes became cold, her expression stern, and in her black and white eyes there flashed a light that made Ran Qing uneasy.

Ran Qing didn't understand what Li Hongye said, and his eyes looked a little confused.

"Why can't you finish it? If you can't finish it, I can just take it back and do it."

After Ran Qing finished speaking, there was a sudden and rude knock on the door.

...Not knocking on the door, but banging on it.

The door of the teacher's office was slammed violently, making a harsh sound.

Hearing the banging sound, Ran Qing frowned, a little unhappy: "Who is banging on the door?"

He was about to get up and take a look.

But Li Hongye suddenly stood up and blocked his way.

The girl stared at Ran Qing with cold eyes and said, "Don't open the door. If you open this door, you will never be an excellent student again."

Li Hongye's words made Ran Qing's heart skip a beat.

The groggy brain seemed to grasp something at this moment.

He looked at the girl in front of him with cold eyes and was about to remember something.

But the banging sound outside the door suddenly disappeared.

What followed was a fierce and violent drumbeat.

The roar of the drums, like the earth shaking, roared through the dark corridor outside the door. The drums were so fierce that they shook the windows and made Ran Qing dizzy.

The things that were banging against the door outside seemed to be frightened and fled in panic. Ran Qing saw many hideous and blurry black shadows running past the window in panic.

Not long after, the shrill and piercing tune of the Lusheng sounded outside the door again. However, this tune was completely different from the Lusheng that Ran Qing had heard as a child.

The tune of this reed pipe is so sharp and piercing that it makes your scalp tingle.

After the sound of the reed pipe drifted through the corridor, the eerie and shrill sound of the suona began to rang out.

And the golden cymbals used only at funerals...

There seemed to be a chaotic and crazy band outside the door, each of them howling death music and wandering through the corridor.

Ran Qing couldn't help but turn his head as he listened to the creepy and weird music.

"plum……"

The name he called out was stuck in his throat the moment he turned his head.

Because when he turned around, he saw Li Hongye behind him.

The girl, who was originally wearing the clean No. 3 Middle School uniform and had a heroic ponytail, now had a pale face, dark eyes, messy hair hanging down on the side of her face, and a sinister look that was creepy.

It's clearly a corpse!
Li Hongye, who looked as terrifying and creepy as a corpse, stunned Ran Qing instantly and brought back all his fears and memories.

He finally remembered that he was not in Teacher Jin's office at all.

He is at his sixth aunt's house.

But the Li Hongye in front of him had already died!

The cold fear that spread out in an instant covered Ran Qing's whole body.

He sat up suddenly in fear and shouted anxiously: "Sixth Aunt!"

But what caught my eye was the dreary cement house where Aunt Six's daughter lived.

Teacher Jin’s office, Li Hongye who looked like a corpse in the office...all these sinister and terrifying things disappeared.

He still stayed in the room of his sixth aunt's daughter. The windowless cement house was gloomy and dark, with only a little dim light coming through the crack of the door facing outwards.

It looks like daybreak.

But the light coming through the crack in the door was a little dim, as if the sun hadn't come out today.

Ran Qing stared at the dark little house in front of him for three seconds, until Aunt Liu appeared at the door and looked at him, and then Ran Qing came back to his senses.

"Six...Aunt Liu, I just dreamed about Li Hongye!"

Ran Qing, who survived the disaster, quickly told his sixth aunt what he had just experienced in his dream.

The extremely real and terrifying nightmare brought about a cold fear that did not seem fake. He seemed to be facing the terrifying Li Hongye again.

But Aunt Six just looked at him coldly and said, "Even the dream scared you so much, you'd better not go looking for her."

"That's it."

Aunt Liu turned away indifferently, with a blank expression on her face. She was completely different from the vicious and crazy woman who excitedly wanted to kill Li Hongye last night.

Seeing Sixth Aunt leave in disappointment, Ran Qing quickly got dressed and got out of bed, chasing into the main room.

"Sixth Aunt! I'm not afraid of her!"

"I just thought she really came to my dream to harm me. If I were to see her again, I would have no problem."

Ran Qing tried hard to show his courage, but Aunt Liu remained silent.

She opened the door to the main room, and a fresh and cool breeze suddenly blew towards her from outside.

The next thing that appeared in Ran Qing's field of vision was a vast expanse of white fog.

The cement courtyard outside Aunt Liu's house was completely covered by the white fog, and things a little further away could not be seen clearly.

The concrete bungalow in the fog now looks like an isolated island, with nothing visible around it.

Ran Qing was stunned when he saw the thick fog outside the door: "What a thick fog..."

The terrain of Yuezhao is very special. The city is built in the rugged and long southwestern mountains. The mountains here are towering and the altitude is extremely high. It is covered with clouds all year round and the sun is rarely seen. It is not uncommon to have foggy days when the fog covers everything.

However, this kind of foggy day is common in the cold winter.

It's clearly summer now. Yesterday it was sunny and the sky was clear, and there was no sudden rain or drop in temperature. How could there be such heavy fog?
Ran Qing felt that there was something wrong with the fog outside the door.

At this moment, the guard dog tied at the door suddenly stood up and roared wildly at the fog ahead.

In the fog, Ran Qing vaguely saw black shadows like children flash by, as if rolling in the fog.

Aunt Six's face turned grim. "This fog came at a really bad time. Every time it's foggy, things from the mountains take the opportunity to come into the city."

"The mountain monkeys should have left after daybreak, but the fog came, so they stayed."

As Aunt Liu spoke, she untied the dog chain at the door and handed it to Ran Qing: "Take the dog with you to school later and release it when you reach the school gate."

"As long as you hold it, those mountain monkeys won't dare to approach you."

"Also, don't let your guard down when you get to school. Don't be alone until the fog clears. Find someone to accompany you wherever you go."

"Mountain monkeys generally only attack lone living people."

Sixth Aunt was giving some precautions, and Ran Qing only then noticed that Sixth Aunt was already dressed and looked like she was going out.

He quickly asked, "Sixth Aunt, are you going to look for Li Hongye's body?"

Aunt Liu walked into the fog without looking back, her voice faintly heard in the fog.

"I have things to do."

"If you dare to save your father, come find me here tonight before dark."

After leaving these words, Aunt Liu disappeared in a hurry.

In the eerie fog, Ran Qing was left alone, with the only one accompanying him being the sick old dog.

(End of this chapter)