Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 41 Cemetery
The overpass that the train had just passed was quickly engulfed in darkness. Only the street lamps in the distance cast some light, but it could not reach here.

Ran Qing stood on the dark overpass, holding the monkey and turning on the flashlight. Aunt Liu reached into her pocket and pulled out Li Hongye's two unwashed socks.

Then she grabbed the monkey's neck with one hand and forced the two socks into its mouth.

Seeing this scene, Ran Qing's face turned pale and his throat felt a little itchy.

The monkey was obviously afraid of Aunt Liu and did not dare to resist. It could only stare and force itself to swallow the two socks.

Ran Qing saw the monkey's eyes wide open from choking and was really worried that the monkey would choke to death.

Soon, the monkey swallowed the two socks and ran away with strange squeaking sounds.

Although it was very small, its running strength was beyond Ran Qing's expectations.

Ran Qing, who was pulling the rope, felt like he was pulling a mad dog that had broken free. The force transmitted back from the rope dragged Ran Qing to run under the street lights in the middle of the night.

Ran Qing looked behind him and saw Sixth Aunt following slowly, carrying her small wooden box and a bamboo basket, as if she was not afraid of getting lost.

Soon, Ran Qing was dragged by the monkey for hundreds of meters, leaving Aunt Liu and Xiao Mianhua behind.

Qingyuan Road was originally on the edge of the city. After Monkey dragged Ran Qing for a distance, they soon saw only low, dilapidated concrete buildings around them, and no street lights were to be seen.

On the dark and bumpy road, Ran Qing held a flashlight and led the monkey.

But I found that the monkey suddenly stopped.

Under the light of the flashlight, the monkey turned and looked at Ran Qing, its lips wide open, revealing its sharp fangs.

The man and the monkey looked at each other, and Ran Qing saw the fierce light flashing in the monkey's eyes.

"...this devil monkey," Ran Qing's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly guessed why the monkey dragged him away.

It turns out he wanted to get rid of Aunt Liu!

Without any hesitation, Ran Qing reached into his pocket and sprinkled out a handful of incense ash.

After experiencing the attack of the witch, Ran Qing had gained experience and did not give the other party a chance to attack first.

After the incense ash was scattered, the monkey immediately covered its eyes and head and screamed, scratching the incense ash on its head and face with its claws frantically, while jumping and struggling wildly on the spot.

But its neck was tied with the rope in Ran Qing's hand, and it couldn't break free no matter how hard it jumped for a long time.

Ran Qing looked at the monkey screaming coldly, without any sympathy.

He took out the bone hammer with a wooden handle and held it in his hand.

The monkey, who was screaming and jumping around, was so frightened when he saw the bone hammer that his fur stood up and he screamed in terror.

Immediately afterwards, this ferocious and ugly monkey suddenly knelt down, scratching the incense ash on its face, and kowtowed to Ran Qing desperately, screaming sharply.

This miserable scene is nothing like the previous brutality.

Ran Qing showed no mercy, but stepped on the monkey's head, stomping it hard to the ground, and said coldly: "Lead the way!"

The monkey was screaming in pain after being stepped on and struggled, waving its two claws desperately, but it did not dare to attack Ran Qing who was so close to it.

After Ran Qing released it, the monkey tucked its tail between its legs, tucked its head in, and ran forward cautiously.

At this time, its running speed was obviously slower, and the pulling force from the rope was almost non-existent.

Looking at the monkey's timid back, Ran Qing frowned.

At this moment, he finally understood why Aunt Six was always so ferocious.

When dealing with these evil and ugly things, if you behave a little bit kindly, they will be eager to step on your head!
The man and the monkey continued walking forward. After an unknown amount of time, Aunt Liu and Little Mianhua caught up with them.

But in the dark night, neither of them spoke.

Only the monkeys sniffed the ground from time to time, then groped their way forward, making a rustling sound as they crawled.

The Zangke region is crisscrossed with mountains, devoid of any plains. The ancients said, "The sky never lasts three days clear, and the ground never remains flat for three feet." Yuezhao, however, is a poor and impoverished area within the mountainous Zangke region, boasting the highest, steepest, and most rugged mountains.

Those towering, crisscrossing, fierce mountains, like natural moats, had blocked Yuezhao's lifeline for thousands of years, blocking the mountain dwellers' escape route. Until two or three hundred years ago, this place was still a smoky, wild, and dangerous place on the brink of time.

Amidst this rugged, mountainous landscape, Yuezhao City lies impoverished and remote, a small industrial town sustenance sustained by coal mining and steel production. Yuezhao City boasts only three parallel main roads, and the city itself is long and narrow, like a long, east-west snake of reinforced concrete, crisscrossing the canyon between the mountains.

The shantytown on Qingyuan Road where Ran Qing lived was on the edge of the snake's eye.

Going further out, you will reach the suburbs where the roads are bumpy, narrow and there are no street lights.

The buildings here are low, and patches of undulating fields are scattered between the mountains on both sides, planted with corn stalks that are half a person's height.

The monkey led the way and walked out of the Yuezhao city. In front of them were barren mountains and wilderness, and no lights could be seen in the night.

Amidst the gloomy mountains, Ran Qing finally couldn't help but turn around and said to Aunt Liu, "Aunt Liu, we're leaving the city..."

He still remembers Meng Laoqi's warning.

The countryside is dangerous recently, don't leave the city...

Aunt Six, however, carried her small wooden box on her back and nodded indifferently, "Yeah."

Apart from this, Aunt Liu did not respond at all.

Seeing this, Ran Qing didn't know what to say and could only silently lead the monkey and walk in front.

We passed through fields of corn and walked along the bumpy dirt road away from the city. A cold wind blew in the mountains and forests late at night.

Although it is the hottest time of the year in midsummer, it is chilly on moonlit nights.

After walking for a while, Ran Qing rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and finally couldn't help asking, "Sixth Aunt, why aren't those two witches afraid of the mirror..."

Ran Qing was just making small talk.

The barren mountains in the middle of the night, the strange monkeys, the cold night wind, the dim flashlight light, the swaying shadows of the trees in the darkness...all of these made Ran Qing uneasy.

Walking in this eerie dark forest, Ran Qing always felt that he would be swallowed by the darkness in the next second, or that some monster would suddenly jump out of the darkness.

He couldn't help but want to say something to break the eerie silence.

Aunt Six followed behind Ran Qing, also holding a flashlight.

She glanced at Ran Qing and said, "Mirrors are useful for ghosts and dead people, but not for living things. The witch is alive."

Aunt Liu’s answer was concise and to the point.

Ran Qing wanted to ask more, but the monkey running in front suddenly stopped.

The skinny and ugly monkey squatted on the side of the sandy road, pointing at the loess trail next to it and making a sharp, shrill squeaking sound.

"quack!"

The monkey pointed at the forest and kept shouting.

Ran Qing's heart trembled, and he quickly shone the flashlight over there.

The flashlight swept through the dark forest, and rows of pale tombstones emerged silently in the darkness, like cold faces.

Aunt Six sneered in surprise at the rows of tombstones, all varying heights. "It's actually a cemetery... Did your female classmate bury herself before she died?"

Aunt Liu came up with a flashlight, snatched the rope from Ran Qing's hand, and dragged the monkey, who was struggling desperately and dared not go inside, into the loess path, walking towards the rows of gloomy tombstones in the dark forest.

"It seems we've found it," Aunt Six said coldly, "You can meet your female classmates now."

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