Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 34: Transformation
Weak, tired, dirty, bloody...

In the messy living room, Ran Qing leaned extremely weakly against the shoe cabinet next to the entrance, his body covered in sticky and smelly blood, as well as red and white flesh.

He has been lying here for quite some time.

The extreme fatigue and weakness made his mind go blank.

After forcing himself to kill two monsters with a bone hammer, Ran Qing could no longer hold on and collapsed directly at the entrance. If it weren't for the shoe cabinet next to him, he would have collapsed directly on the monster's corpse.

At Ran Qing's feet, the monster's corpse was lying straight, its head smashed open by a hammer, and red and white objects scattered all over the ground.

Ran Qing couldn't stand the stench, but had to stay in the same entrance with it.

After sitting like this exhausted for an unknown amount of time, Ran Qing finally stood up shakily, holding on to the shoe cabinet at the entrance, muttering.

"...The evil spirit that came this time is quite fierce."

The evil ghost that came this time was definitely not the same one from last night.

The evil ghost summoned by the Nuo opera mask is not the same one every time?!

At this moment, Ran Qing remembered the sharp and noisy weird screams in his ears every time he put on the Nuo opera mask... Are there really so many evil spirits behind the mask?

Although the evil ghost that came last night was fierce, that kind of ferocity and hunger was more like the nature of evil ghosts. After putting on the mask, Ran Qing always acted independently. It was just that after being infected by the evil ghost's ferocity, his actions became rough.

But today was different. The evil ghost that came today was like a mad dog that had broken free from its leash and instantly took away control of Ran Qing's body.

Although Ran Qing fought hard and finally drove away the evil ghost and tore off the mask, he felt a little creepy when he recalled the feeling of having his body taken away.

He always felt that if he took off the mask a little later and let the evil spirit do whatever it wanted, he might not be able to get his body back...

Ran Qing's face looked extremely ugly.

"Every time I put on a mask, it feels like I'm fighting them..."

Although we won, it was only this time.

What about next time?

They can lose countless times, but as long as they win once...

Looking at the wooden mask on the ground, Ran Qing slowly walked over and picked up the mask.

The brightly painted Nuo opera mask lay quietly in Ran Qing's hand, feeling cold to the touch.

"We have to find a way to deal with the insatiable greed of these evil spirits! Otherwise, we'll really have to use the mask less..."

If an evil ghost comes and wants to steal his body, who would dare to use this mask?
No wonder Sixth Aunt had such a complicated expression when she saw the Nuo Opera mask! Although this mask is powerful, it is far less reliable than Sixth Aunt's sheepskin drum. The Ghost-Eyed Sheep God will not take over Sixth Aunt's body.

Ran Qing took a deep breath and dragged his tired body to look at the living room in front of him.

The ground was in a mess. The corpses of two monsters lay in a pool of smelly blood, and red and white objects were scattered all over the ground from their exploded shriveled heads.

Next, what to do with these two bodies...

Ran Qing's head was buzzing and he felt extremely confused.

Just now, in the life-and-death crisis, I was just trying to survive.

Now that he had killed two monsters, looking at the mess in the living room, Ran Qing felt a little overwhelmed and didn't know what to do.

He originally just wanted to visit Li Hongye's parents and find a way to steal some things from her house and leave, but he didn't expect that the two people in this family had turned into monsters.

How would he explain if these two bodies were discovered by others?

Do you want to destroy the body?

But how to destroy two bodies this big?

This was different from the old ghost from last night, which could be roughly stuffed into the jar.

But these two monsters...

As Ran Qing was thinking anxiously and confusedly, the stench on his body became more pungent, and the strong fishy smell made Ran Qing want to vomit.

He didn't care about the corpse in the living room. He hurried into the bathroom, holding on to the wall, quickly turned on the faucet, and kept splashing water on his face.

The icy cold water washed away the blood and red and white flesh from Ran Qing's face. As these foul smells were washed away by the current, the stench on his body became much less. Ran Qing's brain gradually became clearer under the stimulation of the icy water. At this moment, his brain, which had been confused and sluggish due to fatigue, finally felt a little clearer.

"...Not only are there monsters in the city, but the monsters can also disguise themselves as living people."

"Is she called a "Bian Po"?

When putting on the Nuo opera mask, the noisy screams in his ears gave Ran Qing a headache even if it was just a memory.

But when the evil spirits howled, they called the two monsters this.

Changeling...

Ran Qing raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he forced out a stiff, miserable smile that was uglier than crying.

"It turns out there really are witches in this world..."

The old witch, this is definitely the most widely circulated horror story in the southwestern Qiangke area.

Countless children had nightmares when they were young because of stories told by adults.

When Ran Qing was a child in the village, his grandmother told him this ghost story.

This is a ghost story with an allegorical nature, but it has some elements of horror and fright. Ran Qing always thought it was made up by the elderly to scare children.

The story is about a pair of young siblings who are looking after the house while the adults go out to work in the fields. Before leaving, they tell the two children not to open the door to anyone, otherwise the old woman will transform into an old man and come into the village to eat people.

Not long after the adults left, the old woman really came and transformed herself into a kind old lady and knocked on the door, trying to trick the siblings into opening it.

The elder sister was very cautious and refused to open the door. But the younger brother was deceived and opened the door. The old woman came into the house, smiled kindly and asked for water.

The elder sister had no choice but to scoop some water for the old woman to drink, but after drinking the water, the old woman said she was tired and wanted to sit down and rest for a while.

The elder sister did not dare to anger the witch-bender. She just grabbed her brother and stopped him from going over. She asked the witch-bender to sit and rest, and wanted to wait for the adults in the family to come back and drive the witch away.

But the old witch was very kind and soon made the younger brother laugh happily. The younger brother shook off his sister's hand and played with the witch, having a great time.

It was getting dark, but the adults at home had not returned yet. The elder sister wanted the old witch to leave, but she said it was too dark for her to see the road and she wanted to sleep at home.

When fetching water to wash feet, the witch carefully helped her brother wash his feet clean, and kept drooling at his tender and white feet.

The elder sister was very frightened when she saw this scene. She knew that the witch liked to eat clean children, so she took a handful of ashes and sprinkled them on her brother's feet when the witch was not paying attention. But the brother did not understand his sister's good intentions and cried and complained to the witch.

The old witch fetched water again and washed her brother's feet clean.

Seeing that she couldn't stop him, the elder sister could only say that she would sleep with her younger brother and wanted to hide with him, but her younger brother insisted on sleeping with his kind grandmother.

So the kind-hearted woman took her younger brother to the inner room and slept on the bed where the adults slept.

In the middle of the night, the witch came to call my sister to sleep with her, but my sister hid and did not go to bed.

The witch searched the house for a long time but couldn't find her sister, so she went back to the inner room to look for her brother. Unexpectedly, her sister was hiding under her bed.

The sister lying under the bed curled up, not daring to move, and heard her brother talking to the old witch above her head.

"Grandma, why are your nails so long?"

The old woman said, "Grandma is old and her nails are very long."

After a while, my brother said again: "Grandma, your teeth are so sharp."

The old woman laughed and said, "Grandma, you chewed walnuts too much, that's why your teeth are so sharp."

After a while, my brother said again: "Grandma, why are you sucking my fingers?"

The old woman's voice became very hoarse: "Because grandma likes your fingers!"

In the darkness, there was a crunching sound like finger chewing on the bed above my head.

But the little boy was just curious and didn't feel any pain at all: "Grandma, grandma, why are you taking off my clothes?"

"Because grandma likes you, my little darling!"

Drops of sticky blood dripped from the cracks in the bed above her head, continuously dripping onto her sister's terrified face...

(End of this chapter)