Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 50 I'm Not Your Mother
In the pine forest, the moment Ran Qing saw the dark shadow behind Aunt Liu, his face suddenly froze.

He saw Little Cotton fleeing in fear into the depths of the pine forest, hiding behind a pine tree and shivering.

The Sixth Aunt before him became terrifying, like a ghost that had come to life...

Ran Qing swallowed, slowly sat up straight, and said, "Sixth Aunt, what... are those things?"

Ran Qing stared at Aunt Liu nervously, his left hand silently reaching into his school uniform pocket. Behind him, his right hand quietly grasped the bone hammer.

The silent gaze lasted for a long time.

In the darkness, Aunt Liu stared at Ran Qing's eyes intently. Her cloudy eyes, like those of a dead fish, were filled with a strange and murderous light.

It seemed to want to pounce on Ran Qing and devour his flesh and blood like a devil.

But in the end, the strange light in Aunt Liu's eyes gradually disappeared.

Her complexion returned to normal, and the shadows behind her gradually separated, turning into one on the left and one on the right. On the left was a hunchbacked woman, and on the right was a burly black monster shadow.

Aunt Liu, who had returned to normal, stood up straight, turned around expressionlessly, and answered Ran Qing's question.

"Those are some pretty weird things."

She turned around, picked up the engineer shovel on the ground and started filling the soil, no longer looking at Ran Qing.

In the dark pine forest, there was the rustling sound of filling soil and the woman's cold voice.

"The white fog in the city recently might have been caused by those things."

"I don't know what they are, but I saw them once from a distance. They were very strange."

"The white linen they were wearing, with its patterns, looked like something worn by the ancient Luo people long ago."

"But I don't know anything about tomb raiding or appraising treasures from the underworld, so I'm not entirely sure. It's just a guess."

Aunt Liu lowered her head and silently filled the soil. Her tone was calm and unlike her: "If you see it again in the future, you must stay away from it."

"Those things seem to be looking for something in Yuezhao City. We might bump into them again in the future."

"If we collide head-on, if we don't dodge quickly, I'm afraid we'll be killed without a trace left, and there won't even be any trace left to collect our bodies."

At the end of the conversation, Aunt Liu finally returned to her lifeless and sarcastic tone.

Ran Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this familiar harsh tone.

Aunt Liu has finally returned to normal...

He took note of Aunt Liu's advice and decided to stay away from those things in the future.

But even if Sixth Aunt hadn't said it, he wouldn't be stupid enough to provoke those terrifying ghosts.

Those things are definitely extremely terrifying evil creatures in the Wujiang ghost world.

Ran Qing walked all the way through the Wujiang ghost world, and nothing he saw was as terrifying as those pale ghosts. If he saw them, he would have been too busy hiding, so how could he dare to provoke them?

Looking at Aunt Liu constantly filling the mud pit with soil, Ran Qing was silent for a while, and couldn't help but ask again.

"...Oh right, Aunt Six, now that we've burned the bodies, when are we going to rescue Dad? It's still early..."

Ran Qing really wanted to know what happened to Aunt Liu.

Ran Qing had already encountered Aunt Six's strange transformation into a demon several times. He had a vague feeling that this sarcastic ghost walker was in some kind of trouble.

He wanted to help Aunt Liu.

But his intuition also told him that he couldn't ask about this matter. Asking Aunt Liu directly might just provoke her to become even more terrifying...

Ran Qing could only keep his worries in his heart and try to wake the man up as soon as possible.

If we can rescue that man, many problems can be solved.

He could ask about his mother's corpse, the troubles his Sixth Aunt encountered, and maybe even find out the cause of Li Hongye's death... The young man was faced with a situation as strange and complicated as a fog.

The only key to unlocking this mystery lies in the man sleeping in the hospital bed...

In the pine forest, Aunt Liu, who was filling the soil, sneered when she heard the boy's question.

She threw a handful of dirt heavily into the mud pit and said, "What? You just ran two steps and you want to fly again?"

"Now that the body is burned, you can go in directly. Your female classmate has become much weaker anyway."

"But you've used the Nuo Opera mask three times in a row since last night... You really think the Evil Master is a good person who's here to help you for free, right?"

"Not only are you feeling tingling all over your body from the poisoning, but you're also feeling sore and weak in your hands and feet, right?"

Aunt Liu forcefully filled the last shovel of soil in front of her, walked up and began to compact it with her feet, then dug up the dry pine needles from the pine forest and covered the loose new soil.

He said, "Go back and have a good rest for a few days. With your current evil character, you still dare to use the Nuo opera mask. Aren't you afraid that the evil master will suck you dry?"

"I need to prepare as well. Although your female classmate's power will be much weaker after her body is burned."

"But it's not easy to get in and out alive. I have to prepare well in the next few days."

"I'll treat your child's wound as well. Starting tomorrow, come to my place every afternoon after school and I'll apply medicine on you."

Aunt Liu cleaned up the mess in the pine forest, buried the strange coffin back in the ground, filled it with soil, and covered it with nearby pine needles. It looked almost the same as before.

She walked aside, opened the small wooden box she carried on her back, and began to pack her things.

"In the next few days, just study hard and be a good student."

"By the way, let's wait and see what happens to that old ghost and see if he's coming for you."

Aunt Liu folded up the brand new engineer shovel and stuffed it back into the bag. She also put her sheepskin drum, bones tied with red ropes, and other miscellaneous items into the small wooden box.

After packing up everything, Aunt Liu prepared to leave.

Ran Qing weakly stood up, holding onto the pine tree. Looking at Aunt Liu who was packing up, he said, "Aunt Liu, then... do I need to stay with my dad for the next few days?"

Ran Qing had always been secretly worried about the man, wondering if he would be harmed by some dirty thing while he was sleeping.

The flesh and blood of the Yin-walker was attractive to those things, and his father was now lying in a hospital bed...

Aunt Liu never mentioned this, and Ran Qing guessed that Aunt Liu might have arranged it long ago.

After all, before Ran Qing arrived at the hospital, Aunt Liu had already visited the ward, so it was impossible that she had not made any arrangements.

But Ran Qing still couldn't help but want to confirm.

Sure enough, after hearing Ran Qing's question, Aunt Liu sneered.

She packed her things and said sarcastically without even looking up, "If you want to be a filial son, go ahead. What does it have to do with me? It's your family's own business. Don't drag me into this. I have nothing to do with your Ran family."

After saying this in a harsh tone, before Ran Qing could add anything, Sixth Aunt started to curse at him like a machine gun.

"As for whether Ran Lao San would be eaten by something... Don't worry about that."

"The flesh and blood of a ghost walker is a delicacy for those creatures, but Ran Lao San is not a ghost walker. He is not the same as us."

"Your Ran family has done so much of this kind of corpse-refining and grave-digging business that the disgusting corpse stench has almost become marinated in his flesh."

"Those creatures wouldn't even want to eat him. I'm afraid they'd run away just by smelling his stench from a distance, let alone getting close."

Aunt Six sneered and said sarcastically, "Just come to me on time every day to apply the medicine, I don't care about anything else."

"I'm not your mother, what do you want to do is none of my business?"

"You went to sleep with the chickens on Park Road without even notifying me!"

(End of this chapter)