Weird collapse, chasing husband crematorium

After a long time, Li Mo's vertical pupils slowly recovered and then became blurred again.

Everything that just happened seemed like a dream, so unreal.

"Hmm..." Li Mo lowered his body and rubbed his blurred eyeballs with his hand.

"How strange... these words do sound like something Mei would say, but why would I..."

How do you know?

Li Mo didn't understand. He just subconsciously put himself into Mei's perspective and tried to simulate what Mei would say to him before she died.

But substitution is just substitution after all. It is impossible to really think from the other person's perspective and standpoint.

Without experiencing firsthand what the other person has experienced, there is no way to truly feel what they have experienced.

So it was impossible for him to fully understand what Mei was thinking.

But those words seemed as if they had never been said.

For some reason, Li Mo felt increasingly uneasy since he saw the phantom ghost.

I can't explain why, it's just my intuition...

My thoughts returned, and the conclusion remained unchanged, that is, if the other person is really someone you care about, then when you are about to die and cannot accompany the other person, you will think about how to let the other person let go. Only if you have a strong desire during your lifetime and recall certain specific events when you are about to die, will you induce the other person to do something.

Yae Rin, who is simple-minded and inexperienced, should not say such words to Yae Sakura, who is deeply trapped in guilt and pain.

Instead, you should say something simple and clear: "Sister, live well."

"In the final analysis, what this world recognizes is not empty words, but real struggle..." Li Mo repeated.

Words are indeed pale and powerless, and promises made are just promises. If they are not fulfilled, they are just a meaningless verbal check and a lie that plays with people's hearts.

It is a very sad thing to lose your original intention for some unrealistic promises.

Just like in the original work, Yae Sakura ruined her own life for a word that Yae Rin said before her death, becoming a sharp weapon for the villagers, numbly slaughtering the living people in the sacrifice.

There are friends she has played with since childhood, pitiful people who have found their ideal partner and are about to enter a happy life but are chosen to be sacrificed to the gods, and innocent outsiders who are inexplicably sent to the altar...

The loved ones and the innocent are the first pitiful things to be sacrificed in sacrifices.

Instead, it is the cunning, dark and miserable ones who survive to the end.

"...Compared to supernatural events, this kind of pattern seems to be the true reality."

"Whether it's the animal world or human society."

"Without exception."

In the second death state, the speed and breadth of thinking are significantly improved.

So Li Mo quickly thought of the real world. After all, most of the weirdness comes from various human emotions, and the phenomena that arise from them do not seem to be inconsistent with social laws.

"Ahhhhhh!!" Li Mo's thoughts were scattered, and suddenly, Xiao Qianyo's heart-wrenching wail came from the second floor.

Li Mo turned around, picked up the strange pistol and looked towards Xiao Qiandai's room on the second floor, but did not set off immediately.

"what happened?"

Li Mo was confused. He had just checked the bedrooms of Chiyoko and Chiyo's grandmother not long ago and found no signs of anything strange.

The ghosts in Yae Village act according to the thinking of living people. Even if they want to invade, they have to go through obstacles such as thresholds and peach groves.

Even if the ghost managed to break through these and reach the first floor of the house, there would still be a peach wood rooster guarding him.

Li Mo looked at the door. It was closed tightly and nothing strange happened.

This also means that no ghosts enter through the doorway.

The window is on the east side, where there are the most peach trees. In addition, given the regularity, it is highly likely that ghosts will not enter through the window.

So what caused Xiao Chiyo to scream?

While thinking, Li Mo walked at a steady pace to the outside of Xiao Qiandai's room on the second floor.

The door was open, and Grandma Chiyo went in immediately after hearing little Chiyo's screams.

Li Mo stood at the door but did not go in. He looked carefully at the situation in the bedroom.

"Squeak-"

"Squeak-"

"Squeak-"

Rats scurried across the beams. Dozens of tiny "emeralds" flickered in the darkness, eyes identical to those of the ghostly sheep in the pen and the ghostly bear in the suburbs.

There was a faint green light, and the beams of the house made a creaking sound when they were stepped on.

“It hurts…it hurts so much…”

Chiyo curled up into a ball, tossing and turning on the bed, unable to hold any position for more than three seconds.

Grandma Chiyo stretched out her hand but didn't know where to put it. She could only watch Chiyo's face twitching and groaning in pain.

"..." Li Mo walked to the bedside calmly, holding a strange pistol in his hand, trying to figure out what was going on.

"What should I do? Chiyo is now..."

"Don't talk." Li Mo stopped Grandma Chiyo's anxious words.

Because he noticed.

When a person's voice appears, the mice on the beams will stop hiding and actively walk to the edge of the beams to peek at the person who is speaking.

Li Mo remembered that he didn't see this group of rats when he came in before.

Weird pattern?

Rats have high IQs and never want to meet people. They usually hide during the day and come out at night, appearing and disappearing without a trace. If they happen to meet people, they will escape like lightning.

Normally, mice don't have the courage to listen to people talking at close range, but they are one of the animals in nature that can best sense the threat of death from humans.

Rats actively eavesdrop on human communication: Can they really understand?

Li Mo remembered this, maybe... they could really understand, so it was best not to talk nonsense.

"Um..." Chiyo opened her eyes with difficulty. After seeing Li Mo's face clearly, her expression calmed down a little, but she still moaned in pain.

Chiyo called out weakly: "Big Brother..."

Li Mo did not respond. After lifting the quilt, a rotten smell hit him in the face.

The petite body trembled uncontrollably, and something seemed to be wriggling inside at a very fast speed.

After just a few seconds, it began to spread from the right calf to the lower abdomen, and the skin in the lower abdomen was pushed up.

"Squeak-"

Chewing and strange sounds inexplicably came out from the flesh and blood, muffled.

What followed was Xiao Chiyo's scream at the top of her lungs.

A mouse is inside the body.

But how did it get in?

Li Mo tentatively took out the strange coin. Even though the pattern on it was only one in ten, it could only attract ghosts for a short time.

But this amount of time is enough for the thing inside to get out of Chiyo's body, provided that the thing inside the body has the characteristics of a ghost.

"Ding-dong." The sound of coins falling to the ground was heard.

The rats on the beams began to get restless.

At the same time, Chiyo opened her mouth and felt a wave of nausea, as if something was about to come out.

The next second, a fat rat with a mouth full of blood crawled out of the mouth and ran towards the coin on the ground.

"Old, rat?" Grandma Chiyo looked confused and scared.

How could there be a rat crawling inside Chiyo's body?

No wonder Chiyo couldn't help but scream just now. It turned out that a rat had drilled into her body and was eating her flesh and blood.

Surprised, Grandma Chiyo looked at Li Mo's face.

The gloomy pale skin and turbid, enlarged pupils looked particularly strange against the dark backdrop.

That coin...

Grandma Chiyo looked at the ground again, and saw a swarm of rats swarming over, fighting over the strange coins on the ground.

Is this the method of the exorcist?

Chapter 18: Strange Things: White Amulet (6k)

Grandma Chiyo suddenly gained a lot of confidence in her heart. If Li Mo had more means, maybe he could really get little Chiyo out of this village full of weirdness.

After seeing that Xiao Qiandai was fine, Li Mo fired a shot, and the underworld fire spread among the rats.

Soon, there was only a group of charred rat corpses on the ground.

Li Mo walked forward and wanted to pick up the strange coin. The remaining aura on it was very weak. He was afraid that using it later would only attract the attention of the moment.

"Ok?"

The dying netherworld fire began to seep into the floor of the second-floor bedroom just a second before it was extinguished.

"..."

Li Mo lowered his head and reached out to touch the floor. There was nothing unusual, and the temperature displayed by the thermometer on it was also normal.

"This fire can track rats. Is it on the first floor as well? Then I'm going out and kill all these rats now!"

Grandma Chiyo was very angry. She grabbed the broom in the corner and walked out the door aggressively.

Li Mo didn't respond immediately. After a pause, he nodded and said, "Go ahead and kill them all to avenge your granddaughter."

Grandma Chiyo became more confident after getting Li Mo's recognition, but just when she happened to pass by Li Mo.

Li Mo changed his tone again and whispered in a small voice, "Don't go to the first floor. Just stand on the stairs and do nothing."

Grandma Chiyo was stunned and didn't understand what it meant.

After walking out of Chiyo's bedroom, she saw a large group of rats circling together on the first floor. Even after seeing her, they did not run away. Instead, they turned their heads towards her with a strange green light in their eyes.

"Aren't these beasts afraid of people?" Chiyo was very confused. Logically, mice should run away when they see people.

The first floor was very quiet and everything was normal.

The only thing was that the mahogany rooster on the table had fallen sideways on the floor for some reason.

Grandma Chiyo tightly grasped the broom, ready to go to the first floor to crush the group of rats, but suddenly she remembered Li Mo's reminder.

Tell her not to go to the first floor, just stand on the stairs.

Although she didn't understand why, Grandma Chiyo did it anyway.

In Chiyo's bedroom, Li Mo stood up, walked to the window, and turned his head to look out the window with purpose.

Outside the window, there was a giant rat shadow standing on a small hill, staring blankly at the coin in his hand.

After the strange coin was hidden by Li Mo, the giant rat shadow lowered its head slightly and looked towards the middle part between the first and second floors, where the stairs were.

Li Mo clearly remembered that the area nearby was a plain with no hills.

"Won't the west wall block the ghost's sight?"

"Also, these rats can understand human speech. If I'm not mistaken, the threshold outside is rotten, and the peach grove is swarming with rats. The only reason they're so quiet is because they possess a certain level of intelligence. After noticing their companion's death, they realized I possessed the weapon to kill them, so they wanted to lure a living person into their trap."

Li Mo quickly analyzed the situation and, thinking about his previous experience, vaguely guessed the behavior patterns of the strange animals in Yae Village.

First, possess a certain amount of living wisdom.

From the various traps set up, it can be concluded that this is by no means a blind and foolish ordinary ghost that will only wander around without finding a target that satisfies the rules.

Second, they fear death.

They cannot be killed by conventional means, but strange powers can cause real damage to them, or even kill them.

This obviously violates the original laws of ghosts.

This group of rats should be just a derivative of ghosts, and the source is most likely the giant rat shadow standing on the hill outside.

The strange pistol can only suppress, not kill.