Transmigrated into a fat wife, farming, raising children, and picking up husbands

Black Impermanence seemed to have lost patience and didn't want to waste any more time.

With a flick of his wrist, the dark, soul-hooking rope seemed to come alive, shooting towards his shoulder with a "whoosh"!

Jia Heiyu was so terrified that he didn't have time to react. He only felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, as if he were being gripped tightly by iron clamps!

The hooks were icy cold, digging deep into his flesh! Then, an irresistible, immense force came from the chains, violently pulling him forward!

"Ah—!" The excruciating pain made him scream, and his body was dragged forward uncontrollably.

Just as he was being pulled forward and staggered, filled with terror, Ping An, who had been lurking quietly in the nearby shadows, suddenly appeared like a ghost!

He had already prepared a black cloth bag in his hand, and with lightning speed, he put it over Jia Heiyu's head!

Jia Heiyu felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and thought his soul was about to be pulled out of his body.

Terrified, he didn't utter a sound, his body convulsed violently a few times, and he fainted.

Old Hu and Liu Sanzhen stopped what they were doing, looked at each other, and shook their heads.

People really shouldn't do too many bad things, otherwise they'll scare themselves to death at the slightest disturbance.

Ping An neatly bound the unconscious Jia Heiyu with iron chains and dragged him away, preparing to take him to his final trial.

The eerie will-o'-the-wisps still drifted in the night wind, illuminating this dilapidated and desolate garden, like an absurd yet real nightmare about to reach its climax.

The front yard returned to silence, with only the intermittent twitching of Ma Liu on the ground and the occasional terrified screams of Gou Wu, Hou San, and Lai Qi in the distance, who were scared out of their wits.

Monkey Three and Dog Five, who had run away, were in no better shape. The further they ran into the backyard, the more will-o'-the-wisps appeared all around them.

Like startled rabbits, the two ran around aimlessly in the overgrown, disorienting abandoned garden, having long since lost their way.

They got separated from each other.

But the most miserable one at this moment was Lai Qi, who could only crawl on the ground.

He heard Jia Heiyu's heart-wrenching, terrified pleas for mercy behind him, along with the clanking of heavy iron chains...

The terror in that voice was a hundred times more chilling than Liu Er's screams earlier.

He knew that the real terror had probably already come for Boss Jia!

This realization shattered his spirits, leaving him feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cave!

He dared not turn back, nor did he dare hope that Monkey Three and the others would turn back to save him. Hearing the screams drifting back from ahead, he feared that their situation was no better.

He desperately clawed at the ground with his hands, which were now raw and bloody, dragging his numb lower body as he crawled toward the direction of Ghostfire.

He didn't care about the rough gravel, the broken branches, or the cuts and bruises on his palms, elbows, and knees.

Every movement brought excruciating pain, but he dared not stop. Sweat mixed with blood soaked the soil beneath him.

As Lai Qi crawled, he felt increasingly uneasy.

No matter where he crawled, the eerie will-o'-the-wisps, scattered wildly by the night wind, all gathered around him.

They are everywhere, indistinct and shadowy.

The shimmering green lights flickered on and off, casting bizarre and fantastical light on the surrounding weeds, broken walls, and distorted tree shadows.

It was as if countless eyes were watching him from the darkness.

His heart was pounding like a drum, and he dared not look up to look closely. He just stared intently at the small patch of ground in front of him and tried his best to move forward.

Suddenly, he felt something hard and uncomfortable against his arm.

At first, he didn't pay attention, thinking it was just a rock or a rotten branch. Now, escaping was the priority, so he didn't care about such things.

He used his arm force to push the obstruction aside—

"Gurgle..."

With a flick of his arm, the thing rolled away lightly, making a hollow rolling sound on the uneven ground, until it rolled all the way to a clump of weeds by the roadside.

The unusual commotion made Lai Qi subconsciously glance in the direction where the thing had rolled down.

That one glance froze the blood in his body!

By the light of a flickering, eerie green will-o'-the-wisp, he could clearly see—

What he casually swept aside wasn't some stone or rotten branch!

It turned out to be a white, empty skull!

The two dark eye sockets on the skull seemed to be "staring" at him!

The cracked jawbone seemed to be mocking him silently!

"!!!"

Lai Qi's heart felt as if it had been gripped tightly by a cold, iron hand, and suddenly jerked!

He let out a short, almost suffocating gasp, and his pupils shrank to pinpoints!

A skull! How come there's a skull here?!

Is it...is it someone who died here before?! Or...someone who was just killed by that "thing"?!

This thing had a tremendous impact on Lai Qi's mind. Boundless fear and suspicion, like an icy tide, instantly swept his heart into the abyss.

He dared not look any longer, nor dared he think about whose bones they were; only one thought remained in his mind: Escape! Escape quickly! Get out of this hellhole as soon as possible!

He could no longer care about the excruciating pain and exhaustion in his body.

He frantically clawed at the ground with both hands, his fingernails digging deep into the soil, not caring about the blood and gore.

Dragging its heavy body, it burst forward at an unprecedented speed to escape!

It was as if if he slowed down even a step, countless pale hands would reach out from the ground and grab his ankles!

However, the "road" ahead seemed to have become even more bizarre.

More and more things were scattered on the ground in front of him.

His hand, time and again, pressed on things he shouldn't have.

"Crack..." Lai Qi heard a sharp, teeth-grinding sound.

At first, there were only a few scattered pieces, but he didn't bother to look closely and told himself they were just withered tree branches.

But as he crawled, his haphazardly groping hand touched something thin, cold, with clearly defined joints.

By the flickering will-o'-the-wisp, he could see that what he held in his hand was clearly a section of thigh bone!

He was so frightened that he jerked his hand back, his heart pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of his throat!

Quickly change direction, go around that leg bone and continue climbing.

Before I had climbed more than a few steps, I saw scattered ribs, foot bones, and even a pelvis half-buried in the ground with only half of it showing...

Along the way, the number of pale, oddly shaped bones increased.

Scattered among the weeds and pebbles, illuminated by the eerie green fire, they exude an aura of death and decay.

Some bones are still very "fresh," retaining their complete shape, while others still carry the smell of decaying soil.

Lai Qi's breathing became increasingly rapid, and his vision blurred.

He felt as if he were not crawling in an abandoned garden, but on a path of bones in the deepest hell!

Every touch felt like caressing death itself! Every glimpse only amplified his fear.