Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 211 Laughing to Death
This time, the woman in black appeared from another direction. Chen Xuan guessed that she would not enter and exit the same place in a short time to avoid being discovered.

She stood in the shadows on the second floor of the dilapidated building, looking at the people who had arrived with an expressionless face, while making strange and vague crying sounds.

However, Chen Xuan noticed that her crying this time was more shrill and sharp than when she scared away the injured man. He didn't know whether it was because her mentality towards these people was different, or she was in a bad mood.

"Who is it? Get out of here, or don't blame me for being rude."

"You're crying in the middle of the night, you know who we are? We're from the Iron Fist Gang, get out of here if you know what's best for you, or your whole family will die!"

When they heard the crying, several people turned pale and their bodies trembled slightly. Thinking of the rumors about this place, coupled with the creepy crying in this gloomy environment, they were all frightened.

They only shouted and raged to give themselves courage.

Before coming in, they all boasted about their achievements, but ended up in such a miserable state. They cursed each other, cooperated with each other, and remained alert to their surroundings. They retreated towards the door in tacit understanding, and probably had forgotten the purpose of their coming here.

The woman in black still showed no expression in the face of their curses, but her cries became more and more shrill and sharp, as if a ghost was about to take her life.

At the same time, she also made some small movements to create a horror atmosphere, such as waving a cold palm wind towards them, which had no killing power, but made them shiver all over. She also used the palm wind to blow the branches to make a rustling sound, lift the tiles, doors and windows, etc. In short, the horror atmosphere was full.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. Someone is definitely playing tricks. Let's withdraw first and deal with it later."

"Yes, we've found traces of that guy. Call a hundred or eighty of his men and turn this place upside down. No matter what kind of monster or demon he is, it won't work!"

They continued to speak loudly to give themselves courage, and retreated towards the door at a faster pace.

But at this time, the woman in black also moved, and used her ghostly and silent lightness skills to flash past the people's retreat. They only saw a black shadow flash by accompanied by a cold wind, and in the dark, they couldn't see clearly what it was.

"Did you see that? Something whizzed past?" Someone said with chattering teeth and a crying voice. They could leave here just a few feet away, but they didn't dare to go over.

Someone asked in horror: "What the hell, what did you see? Go away!"

"I dare not. There really was something there just now. We won't die here today, will we? I heard there are ghosts here."

"You're talking nonsense! There are no ghosts in this world! Don't listen to those fictional stories... Oh my god, there really is something..."

As they were talking, the figure of the woman in black quickly passed by them again, and they were almost scared to death.

Something unknown was targeting them. No matter which direction they went, a gust of cold wind accompanied by a black shadow would flash by. They couldn't move at all. Several people stood back to back and dared not move.

Chen Xuan smiled as he watched in secret. He didn't know what the woman in black was thinking. With her strength, it would be easy for her to deal with those people. Why did she go to such great lengths to create panic? Was she trying to make up more weird rumors to keep people away from here?
As for her lightness skill, perhaps it would be just a fleeting black shadow in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Chen Xuan's eyes, it was so slow that he could clearly see every detail of her movements, the swaying of her dress, where her feet landed, the changes in her body shape, the wrinkles on her face caused by the wind blowing through the air, the rise and fall of her chest, and so on.

Honestly, although she is pretty, when she moves faster, the wrinkles on her skin caused by the air are not really beautiful at all, and she even looks a bit like a demon.

Having said that, Chen Xuan is only eleven years old now, and there is no secretion of physiological hormones. No matter how beautiful a woman is, there is no difference in his eyes. He can also look at the every move of the woman in black objectively and rationally.

However, although there is no fluctuation in his physical and psychological state, being a human being does not mean that he does not know how to appreciate beauty and ugliness. These are two different things.

No matter how young a child is, he or she likes beautiful things and will be repulsed and afraid of ugly things, especially since his or her thinking age is normal.

Those people were not stupid. Although they were frightened, they would not just sit there and wait for death.

They must have spent a long time together and had good coordination. They used body movements to remind others, and then quickly dispersed in different directions, trying to leave the deserted house.

These people all have some basic martial arts skills. Their skills may not be very good, but two or three of them have practiced some basic internal skills. They are running very fast, and they can leave in a few steps within a few feet.

But the woman in black must be willing to let them go.

She was seen moving quickly, with gusts of cold wind wherever she passed. She approached those people whose sensory blind spots were affected, waving her palms or kicking her legs in a non-violent way. After one circle, she easily beat back the people who had fled.

She didn't kill them, it was as if those people had hit an invisible wall and flew back.

"It's over, it's over, we've hit a wall and can't get out of here."

"Yes, yes, I just bumped into something and bounced back."

Several people fell back and rolled together, they were really scared and cried, some were even scared to the point of incontinence, and a bad smell spread.

Chen Xuan was also a little amused, wondering if his neighbor had a bad taste. Couldn't he just do it directly? Why did he have to torture them physically and mentally like this?
No wonder so many people shudder at the mention of this place. If they could leave alive, anyone would spread the word. Chen Xuan's keen senses had already heard some residents within a few hundred meters shivering under their covers. They'd probably experienced many similar nights, and hiding under the covers would be fine.

In fact, for the residents around here, if possible, they would certainly like to escape from this place, but the conditions do not allow it, and how can they live there if they leave their homes?

Those people tried every possible way to escape from here, but all failed. Even if they shouted loudly, the people who heard it would only stay away from here instead of running to see what happened. They didn't have anything like flares, and any fires they tried to light to make noise were quietly extinguished by the woman in black.

After about half an hour, the woman in black seemed to feel that it was enough, so she returned to the shadows and swung a palm wind towards those people again.

But this time the palm wind was different. Chen Xuan clearly saw that she had mixed some fine powder in it.

In order to protect himself from being attacked, he placed an invisible barrier of Qi around his body.

Then those people were blown by another gust of cold wind, and they shuddered in fear.

When Chen Xuan was curious about what the woman in black had mixed in, someone among the group suddenly laughed, laughing very happily, as if his wife had given birth to a big fat boy.

But that smile was a bit weird, his eyes were empty and he was laughing heartily, but he didn't say anything while smiling, and his face was distorted with laughter.

"Third brother, what the hell are you laughing at? We are all in this situation and you can still laugh?"

Someone shouted angrily, and even raised his hand to slap his laughing companion. The current situation was too weird, and he also used this method to vent his emotions.

The person who was slapped didn't react at all, nor did he show any signs of being 'woken up'. He laughed for a breath, and then lost his voice. His face turned purple due to lack of oxygen, and then he fell to the ground without a sound, still smiling.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan's heart moved, and he looked in the direction of the woman in black. What kind of medicine did she mix with the palm wind that could produce such a strange killing effect?

Although the information that Lao Liu had instilled in him was complex, Lao Liu was not omnipotent, and naturally there were things Chen Xuan didn't know. Besides, the world was so big, and God knew when someone would come up with something new.

It seems that the woman in black has changed her rhythm this time. Last time she made people die like mummies, but this time she made people die of laughter.

Diing of laughter is a good way to die, right?

She has so many tricks up her sleeve, no wonder she's been able to cause so many strange events over the years.

Anyway, Chen Xuan was most likely certain that she was a killer from the Shadow Killing Sect. Although there was no solid evidence, her martial arts that made her body as soft as mud was the best evidence. It was one of the unique skills of the Shadow Killing Sect and could not be learned anywhere else. It seemed to be called "Infiltrate Everywhere", a rather embarrassing name.

Of course, the woman in black didn't seem to have mastered the technique, otherwise she wouldn't just use it to drill holes and sneak in at critical moments, but she could also twist her body to look like a real evil ghost.

As for a killer, it's not surprising that she has many methods. After all, some clients will customize the way they want to kill their targets. It's a bit of a waste of her talent to use it to play tricks.

Of the five people who came here, after the first one died of laughter, the second and third followed, and finally all of them started laughing.

Just laugh dryly, without speaking or breathing, and keep laughing until you run out of oxygen and lose your voice.

However, just when one of the boys, who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, was about to die of laughter, the woman in black quickly came behind him, pressed acupoints, and then dripped a drop of some liquid into his mouth, and the boy fell asleep immediately.

After doing all this, the woman in black looked expressionlessly at the people with strange smiles on the ground, then left without any thought of what to do next.

Watching her burrow back into the ground, Chen Xuan looked at the deserted yard thoughtfully.

The other party actually left a person alive. Could it be that they wanted the survivor to spread the news of the strange events that happened here?
"She seems to have a clear purpose in killing people, not just anyone. So what is her criteria for killing? The level of obscenity used during the frightening process? Or is it the goodness or evilness of those people themselves?"

Carefully recalling the previous behavior of the several people lying in the yard, Chen Xuan quickly rejected the idea that the woman in black had killed people under the influence of obscene words.

Then the target of her murder is most likely a person's goodness or evil.

Because Chen Xuan more or less smelled the smell of blood on the people who died of laughing, but the only survivor she left behind, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, did not have the smell of blood on him.

Maybe she has a special way of judging whether a person is good or evil.

Could he be a killer with principles?
As long as these things in the martial arts world do not involve himself, Chen Xuan will not take the initiative to intervene even if he sees them with his own eyes. He will just be a spectator, because these people chose to step into the martial arts world by themselves, and whatever fate they end up in is what they deserve. Who can he blame?

Of course, if someone was so vicious as to slaughter civilians, he wouldn't remain indifferent if he encountered them, but he would also do what he could...

(End of this chapter)