Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 98 Do you know that a ghost has entered your house?

At this time, Ran Qing was grabbed by two hands, one on the left and one on the right.

The chill from the left arm was like an icicle piercing into the bone marrow. The cold dead arm was pale with a strange bluish-gray hue.

The hand gripping his right arm was as thin as a withered vine, its cracked black nails almost digging into his flesh. Yet, this hand had the warmth and solidity of a living being.

The old woman in front of me with messy hair and a terrified face is not an evil ghost.

But her son turned into a ghost.

This is really... strange.

Ran Qing's brain was working rapidly.

A ghost is a special creature mentioned in "Records of Strange Things".

Although it is called a ghost, it is different from a real ghost.

Ghosts are evil spirits born from human corpses after death. They possess the memories of the corpse, but their human side has disappeared, replaced by a newly born, evil and ominous dead creature.

But the minions are different. They retain their personality and memory from their previous life, but are enslaved by powerful evil creatures. They have no freedom and suffer mental destruction and torture day and night.

Eventually, these ghosts will become insane and even more cruel and vicious than ordinary evil ghosts.

Once the evil spirit that enslaves them dies, these minions will also disappear.

When Ran Qing was a child, he heard from the elders in the village that the mandrills in the mountains would eat people, and some old mandrills that had lived for a long time could even turn people into ghosts.

Once, an old man in a village was dragged away by a mandrill while digging herbs in the mountains. He disappeared for a while. One night, the old man appeared in a dream to his youngest son, who was the most filial to him in the family. He lied to his youngest son and told him to go to a cave in the mountains late at night, saying that there was gold hidden in the cave.

The youngest son believed his mother's words and went to the mountains to look for gold. Fortunately, his uncle saw his nephew going up the mountain and guessed that something was wrong. He quickly took the young men in the village with him to follow him.

Finally, everyone found an old mandrill with white fur in the cave, as well as the half-eaten and stinking corpse of an old man...

Recalling the story of the ghost, and looking at the ghost in front of him who was holding his wrist tightly, Ran Qing was silent for a moment.

This ghost probably just thought he was an ordinary wild ghost in the ghost market.

No wonder there are no wandering ghosts around here. It turns out that if you get close you will be captured.

While thinking, Ran Qing let the man drag him away without saying a word, without any resistance - he was worried about not being able to find the way, and this ghost happened to help him lead the way.

Instead, the old woman who was supported by her son was trembling with fear.

She collapsed to the ground, wailing in despair.

"I won't go back... I don't want to go back..."

Another gust of cold wind blew in the shadows of the streets.

A middle-aged woman in festive red clothes came over with a sinister look and helped the old woman up.

"Aunt, it's time to eat. Why are you still running around? Come back quickly so we can feed you."

Ran Qing glanced at Xiao Mianhua in the shadows and gave her a wink.

Little Cotton hid immediately.

In this way, Ran Qing and the old woman were dragged into the shadows by the two ghosts. They crossed a dark loess road and soon came to an abandoned yard with a collapsed wall.

A pale lantern hung at the gate of the courtyard.

The moment he saw the lantern, Ran Qing silently sprinkled some incense ash on his forehead to increase the yin energy in his body.

The four paper figures followed him stiffly. When they arrived near the yard, Ran Qing gently shook the bell with his free right hand.

Jingle Bell--

The crisp sound of bells floated in the darkness, and the four paper figures dispersed silently and disappeared into the shadows around the yard.

The white lantern hanging on the gate seemed to have noticed something.

But just as it shook a few times, the two ghosts dragged the old woman and Ran Qing across the gate.

The white lanterns quickly quieted down. ——If Ran Qing had approached alone, it would definitely not have been so easy to enter.

After stepping into the yard, Ran Qing's eyes immediately fell on the dark deep well in the yard.

The eerie wellhead seemed to have a strange power that could devour people.

Ran Qing just looked at it for a few more seconds and felt a little dizzy, so he quickly looked away.

After the two ghosts dragged him and the old woman into the yard, Ran Qing was pulled to the corner at the edge of the yard against the wall and stood there.

The man with cold eyes and pale face stared at him and said, "Stand here and don't move!"

After saying this, the seemingly honest and simple man turned and left.

I'm not worried at all about Ran Qing, this wandering ghost, running around.

The old woman was pulled to sit at the door of a wooden house that looked like it was about to collapse.

At the door of the dilapidated old wooden tile house, there was an old table that was black and yellow and a small stool with peeling paint.

The two minions forced the old woman onto a small stool and did not allow her to leave.

The old woman was trembling with fear, and after sitting on the stool she did not dare to get up.

Her body was shaking like a sieve, and she kept mumbling for help.

"I don't want to eat... I want to leave..."

"I didn't kill her..."

"She's crazy! She's crazy!"

The old man begged for mercy in fear, but the two ghosts beside him did not respond at all.

The old wooden table in front of her was covered with knife marks, and there were many disgusting oil and blood stains on the surface.

At this time, another cold wind blew by, and two ghosts floated in from outside the yard.

Cheerful laughter rang out in the yard.

“The meat is coming!”

"Aunt San, you love meat the most, so we got it for you!"

The two middle-aged women opened their mouths wide, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth.

One of them was holding a broken porcelain bowl, and the other was holding a dead snake and two dead mice.

The dead snake and dead mouse, still dripping with blood, were thrown on the table. The honest-looking man took out a kitchen knife and started chopping them wildly on the wooden table. Soon, he chopped the dead snake and dead mouse into pieces of rotten meat and put them into a porcelain bowl.

The parasites wriggling under the snake's skin were densely packed with the snake meat, while the meat of the dead mouse became hairy, with the fur and meat mixed into a ball.

When Ran Qing saw this scene, his face turned pale and his throat felt a little itchy.

His hands slowly dropped behind him and he took out the pig eyes one by one from the canvas bag.

In the dark corner, soaked pig eyes fell from Ran Qing's hands one after another. After landing, these pig eyes seemed to have life, quietly rolling along the shadow of the courtyard wall.

The old woman, who was pressed against the wooden table, struggled in fear: "I won't eat! I won't eat!"

But her son, with a gloomy face, grabbed the rotten meat in the porcelain bowl and forced it into the old man's mouth, handful by handful.

"Mom! I'll feed you!" The son's face was gloomy and fierce, but his words were extremely gentle: "When you were little, you chewed your food for me one bite at a time and raised me. Now it's your turn to be filial to you."

A foul smell drifted in the yard. The old man struggled in fear, but was held down by other ghosts.

The seemingly honest and obedient son kept stuffing the smelly rotten meat into his mother's mouth bit by bit.

Ran Qing didn't even dare to look at the horrifying scene anymore and quickly lowered his head, fearing that he would vomit if he looked at it any longer.

He vaguely guessed why the old woman was still alive.

(End of this chapter)