The ultimate master in the city

Zhang Shisan nodded. "Yes, but it's very rare!"

Zhou Fengchen frowned and asked, "What exactly is this 'Flying-Headed Woman'?"

Zhang Shisan said, "The Flying Head Woman, also known as the Head-Falling Woman, is a monster recorded in ancient books. Most of them are female. During the day, they are like normal people, but at night their heads will detach from their bodies, their ears will grow longer, and they will flap like wings, carrying their heads out of the window to find something to eat. It's very eerie."

Monk Yuanzhi exclaimed, "Whoa! This thing is terrifying! What are they going out to eat? Cannibals?"

Zhang Shisan scratched his head. "It seems like they eat insects, sparrows, and maybe poultry. I don't know if they eat people."

Zhou Fengchen asked, "How did Han Fei and the others know, given how far away they are?"

"They have cell phones. They leave their numbers for people who perform rituals. If something happens, they just call out, and as long as the money is there, they'll go and make the money right away. But..." Zhang Shisan frowned, "Why do I feel like there are a lot more ghostly things this year? There weren't this many things before."

Zhou Fengchen paused for a moment, then inexplicably thought of the hanging coffins and the myriad demons at the foot of Xiaomi Mountain. He sighed inwardly and remained silent.

Then Zhang Shisan said mysteriously, "The day before yesterday morning, I ran into Han Fei and his gang while having breakfast. I was also there when they were taking on a business deal. The person asking for help said quite a bit. I thought this flying-head woman was pretty funny. Actually, there wasn't anything wrong at first, but a few thugs caused a commotion. Are you interested in hearing about it?"

Monk Yuanzhi quickly replied, "Are you interested? Go ahead and tell me, we're just killing time anyway."

Zhang Shisan ate a piece of mutton, "It's like this..."

On the banks of the Tuojiang River outside Phoenix City lived a father and daughter who depended on each other for survival. The father sold five-yuan goods at a stall in the county town, and the daughter, who failed to get into university after graduating from high school, helped her father set up a stall in the city. The father and daughter took turns working for a few days each.

This girl has pretty features, a petite figure, a cheerful personality, and a sweet tongue. She's quite likable. When she's setting up her stall, uncles, aunts, brothers, and sisters will call out to her, and even those who don't want to buy will take out their money and buy something. She's in a good mood, and it's not expensive anyway.

This summer, a Mr. Xu, who owns an antique shop and a hotel in the city, happened to pass by and saw this little girl. He was immediately smitten and couldn't bear to leave her side.

This Mr. Xu wasn't actually that old, only twenty-five or twenty-six. He went up to the young girl and started chatting her up, saying, "I'll buy everything from your stall. Can you give me your WeChat or QQ number?" But the young girl seemed to know what he was thinking, rolled her eyes, and ignored him.

This eye roll made Boss Xu even happier. From that day on, he went to the stall every day to pester her. He pestered her for three days in a row, and then the little girl stopped coming. Instead, her father, a big, hairy-faced man, came to watch the stall.

Boss Xu asked the young girl where she had gone and why she hadn't come today.

The girl's father said angrily, "I was so scared by that jerk that I didn't dare to come!"

Mr. Xu was extremely embarrassed. After returning home, he lost his appetite and couldn't eat or drink. His mother noticed something was wrong and asked him what was going on.

Mr. Xu told his mother how much he liked the girl, and she found it funny. She said, "Son, you're not married yet. That girl is eighteen or nineteen years old, right? Why don't we hire a matchmaker to marry her off?"

Upon hearing this, Boss Xu thought it was a great idea and immediately asked his mother to ask a matchmaker to arrange a marriage.

Mr. Xu's mother made the agreement with the matchmaker that evening. However, when she went to sleep that night, she had a dream in which her deceased husband came to her and said that she could not accept this daughter-in-law.

Mr. Xu's mother found it strange and said, "Why can't we keep this perfectly good young girl?"

Her husband said that the girl was a flying demon, and you could see the evil aura emanating from her from a great distance. Remember, don't go with her!

He disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The next day, when Mr. Xu's mother woke up, she felt increasingly strange. Her dead husband had been dead for many years and she rarely dreamed of him. Why did he appear in her dream just as she was about to find a daughter-in-law? Could there really be something fishy going on?

After all, dreams are unreal, so she didn't tell her son. Instead, she went straight to the matchmaker to ask if the marriage proposal from the previous night had been finalized.

When they arrived at the matchmaker's house, they found the matchmaker shivering under a blanket in the middle of summer. When asked what happened, the matchmaker said, "Last night I went to your house to propose marriage. When I was almost at the girl's house, I saw a strange bird perched on a tree. It could speak human language and sang to me: 'Grandma Zhang, Grandma Zhang, don't harm people. I want to marry her, but my soul has been severed. My body is flying away and I am being haunted. A great disaster is about to befall me.'"

The matchmaker was so frightened that she turned around and ran back.

When Mr. Xu's mother heard this, she became suspicious. She comforted the matchmaker for a few words and then went home. After arriving home, she told her son about it and said, "Let's not get married. Something's strange."

Mr. Xu, being so young, didn't believe in such things. He muttered a few words of disappointment, but didn't argue with his mother. That very night, he took the gifts and went to the girl's house.

When his mother found out, she was so anxious that she stomped her feet. She took several shop assistants and chased after the girl. When they arrived at the girl's house, they found that the girl was not there, nor was her son.

The girl's father said, "Your son did come by, but he just went back. My daughter is sleeping in the house, and I didn't see him."

Mr. Xu's mother hurriedly led people home, only to find that Mr. Xu had already returned, covered in mud, lying on the bed talking nonsense, sounding like a bird.

He ignored everything his mother said to him, and the next day he developed a high fever. He had a fever for three or four days in a row, and neither medicine nor IV drips helped. He died on the fifth day.

His mother was heartbroken and fainted several times from crying.

On the day of Mr. Xu's cremation, relatives and friends came to watch. In the end, they surrounded his mother, who was carrying his ashes, and took her home, comforting her as they went.

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When they arrived home, they found a strange black bird perched on an old tree in front of the door, singing to everyone: "Mother, mother, don't be sad. It's because your son was stupid and confused that he attracted the evil spirit of the flying head. His body has turned into a bird and the bird into a human. Wait for me to sing for fifteen days, and then I will go to the underworld to become a dead soul."

With that, it flapped its wings and flew away.

Everyone present was completely stunned.

Boss Xu's mother later took people to look for the father and daughter several times, but the little girl seemed perfectly normal and had no problems.

Several months have passed since then. A while ago, three young men from out of town came to visit and happened to stay at Mr. Xu's hotel. While chatting with the staff, they heard about the incident.

The three young men didn't know what fear was at the time; they were actually quite excited. This was just too much fun, and they had to see it for themselves.

The three of them found out the location and strolled over to the "Five Yuan Stall." Coincidentally, the little girl was there.

These three young men weren't good people either. When they saw that the girl was pretty, sweet, and likable, they had wicked ideas. They thought, "Let's stop her on the way tonight, have sex with her, and if she dares to call the police, we'll say she's a monster. Anyway, that's what a lot of people say."

That evening, the girl packed up her stall and went home, and the three of them secretly followed her.

The little girl walked unsteadily, neither too fast nor too slow, while the three young men also walked slowly.

Not long after, they arrived at a grove of trees. It was pitch black and completely silent. Suddenly, the little girl threw off her large canvas bag, took off her clothes, and ran into the woods.

The three young men, excited and curious, quickly followed him in. After searching around, they found a river in the woods, and heard splashing water. They tiptoed behind a large tree by the river to peek, but what they saw terrified them—

The little girl's headless body sat in the water, her hands holding her head as she washed her hair, her movements half-hearted, while a pair of large eyes on her head stared at them eerily.

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