Perhaps because she was too frightened, Liang Caixia's body trembled uncontrollably when she was telling the story of her encounter with the ghost in the mirror, and she was choked up for a while. It wasn't until Wu Wei hugged her tightly that she calmed down a little and continued to tell us about the situation that night—
I knelt down and kowtowed to the female ghost in the glass, begging her to spare my life, but she did not let me go, and asked me to raise my head. I looked up at her terrifying face, and immediately felt chills all over my body, and my scalp was numb as if it had been pricked with needles. She looks so scary!
Although her face was covered with rouge, it could not hide her livid complexion; although her eyebrows were drawn long and neatly, they pointed upwards; although her eyes were large and watery, they were blood-red and round; although her lips were painted with bright lipstick, But she still couldn't cover her purple-black lips... What's more terrifying was that as long as she opened her mouth, her jagged fangs would be exposed, as if she would eat me at any moment.
She asked me to raise my head and keep staring at me. When I was about to take it anymore, she suddenly opened her mouth and said, "I'm always a little older, but I'm still better than those five little bastards who don't understand anything. You will follow later. Me, be my maid."
I didn't understand what she meant for a while, but it was definitely not a good thing, so I wanted to ask her to let me go. But her face was so terrifying that I dared not look at her and speak. And because I was so scared in my heart, I was a little bit slurred, and it was hard for me to say it.
But as soon as I said the words, she slapped me so hard that I fell to the ground. I was stared at by her, and my hair was grabbed by her before I regained my senses. She pulled me to the window and said viciously, "Being my maid is a blessing you cultivated in your previous life. If you dare to say nothing, I will make your life worse than death."
She held up one finger, an awl-like nail... No, an awl-like claws slowly protruded from the fingertips. She shook her fingers and said to me, "Do you want to know what is 'life is better than death'?" As she spoke, she stabbed my arm with her claws.
Her claws were like frozen iron awls. After her arm was pierced by her, in addition to the pain, she also felt very cold. However, this was just the feeling at the beginning, and the next moment I understood what she meant by "life is better than death".
The cold feeling gradually subsided, and the severe pain followed, and the pain spread from the place where it was pierced to the entire arm. The pain wasn't just for a moment, but it took a while to subside, so much so that I wanted to chop off my entire arm.
She stabbed my arm three times in a row, and I rolled all over the place in pain, as she said - life is better than death. Then she grabbed my hair again, pulled me to the window, and asked me if I wanted to suffer like this. Of course I said no, and she said, "If you don't want to suffer like this, you have to be my maid and serve me obediently in the future."
Although I didn't want to agree, the pain just now was too terrifying, so I had to obey her. However, I am a human, she is a ghost, how can I serve her? Thinking of this, my heart froze immediately, because I knew that she would definitely kill me and make me her ghost maid.
Sure enough, the truth was just as I imagined, she suddenly strangled me by the neck and asked me how I wanted to die, whether to strangle her alive, or throw her into the water and drown. I said that they all die anyway, and it's the same no matter how they die, but she said, "Of course it's different. Although it's convenient and quick to strangle you to death, it's ugly to keep sticking your tongue out afterwards. Although it looks better when thrown into water, But you have to find a place where you can drown."
I thought I was going to die anyway, so I just wanted to die beautifully, so I told her that I wanted to drown in the water. She didn't seem to be happy, but she didn't regret it. She grabbed my hair and walked behind the elementary school, saying that she would throw me into the fish pond next to the bomb shelter and drown me.
I thought I would die this time, but before I took a few steps, she suddenly said to me: "By the way, I have to name you, your surname is Cai, and you will drown later... It's called Cuiping. Bar!"
I told her, my surname is not Cai, my name is Liang Caixia. She looked at me in astonishment, her blood-red round eyes moved mysteriously, and after a while, she roared at me: "You really aren't surnamed Cai?"
I shook my head, and she suddenly slapped me fiercely, and yelled at me again: "Back then, I believed too much in you lowly foreigners that I was killed by my own maid! Now I will I won't believe you either, so I have to find someone named Cai to be my maid. Since you're not named Cai, get out of here immediately!"
Her moodiness frightened me, she tortured me to the point of being half-dead, she wanted me to be her ghost maid, and she said inexplicably to let me go. I didn't know if she really wanted to let me go or if she wanted to torture me again, so I immediately knelt down and begged her for mercy. But I didn't expect that as soon as I begged her for mercy, she kicked me on the chest, kicked me backwards, and yelled at me: "You don't want to leave, right? Well, I'll fulfill you and send you up. Huangquan Road!" After she finished cursing, she stretched out her hands, awl-like claws stretched out from ten fingers.
I was so frightened by her actions that I was stabbed three times just now and the pain was worse than death. If she stabbed me with ten claws, it would be better to cut my flesh off piece by piece with a knife. So, when I saw that she was about to pounce on me, I didn't even think about anything and ran away.
Her creepy laughter came from behind, as if following me, laughing wildly in my ear. I thought I would be caught by her again soon, but after running for a while, I didn't get pulled by her hair again, but the terrible laughter still echoed in my ears. I felt that she was right behind me, so I didn't dare to stop for a moment, let alone look back, and ran to the house with all my strength.
Until I ran home, I could still vaguely hear her laughter, she seemed to be following me all the time, as if she would appear in a mirror at any time...
After recounting the horrific experience, Liang Caixia, with the help of her husband, showed us the scar on her arm. There are three small wounds on her arm that have healed, which look like they have been poked by sharpened chopsticks, but according to her account, the three wounds are created by the claws of the Mirror Ghost.
Within the scope of my knowledge, ghosts are ethereal spiritual bodies, which should not cause physical harm to people. If the Mirror Ghost is disguised by a human, or if it is a real monster, then it is another matter.
But this is also impossible, because from Liang Caixia's narrative, the ghost of the hidden mirror only appears in the window of the teaching building from beginning to end, which is definitely impossible for people to do. When Hidden Mirror Ghost attacked her, he just waved his hands and feet in the glass, but it was invisible fists and feet that fell on her, and it was impossible for a visible monster to do this.
This makes me worry again, what the hell is the Mirror-Hidden Ghost? Is it a tangible entity, or an ethereal ghost
However, this confusion stems from Liang Caixia's narrative. If her narrative is false, then all doubts can be reasonably explained. Maybe I should think about it in a different way.
According to Liang Caixia, she had a quarrel with Wu Wei before she met the Mirror-Hidden Ghost, so she stayed at her parents' house late and didn't want to go home. Based on this inference, it is possible that she made up this lie because she was angry with her husband and was unable to step down for a while. If that's the case, then it's likely that she got the scar on her arm herself. The easiest way to make these scars is to use sharpened chopsticks or bamboo skewers.
I suddenly remembered that in Wu Wei's frozen meat shop, there were meat skewers strung with bamboo skewers. Liang Caixia could use these bamboo skewers to create wounds. However, this is easy to say, but it is not easy to do in practice. Not everyone can do it by poking his arm three times with a bamboo stick. If the purpose of doing this is just to fight with her husband, it is not very likely according to common sense.
Moreover, in Liang Caixia's narrative, the ghost of the mirror once mentioned "five little ghosts who don't understand anything", and when she encountered the ghost of the mirror, it happened to be the day when the fifth sister and brother of Wangcun disappeared. Judging from these signs , what she said was most likely the truth.
Anyway, the police car was parked outside the playground of the elementary school. Before I left, I planned to investigate outside the elementary school to confirm whether her account was false.
The country roads were difficult to travel, and it was already late at night, so Wu Wei politely said again and again that he would take us to the primary school. But considering Liang Caixia's situation, I had no choice but to politely decline. After saying goodbye to them, Zhen Zhen and I went to Wangcun Primary School.
Before, I just observed it across the playground, but now I come to the teaching building, and I can feel the oppression brought by the large windows in front of me. The terrifying Mirror Ghost seems to be hiding in a certain window, silently watching our every move.
However, apart from the twenty or so large windows, there seems to be no other noteworthy place here. It is as quiet and comfortable as an ordinary rural primary school. If it weren't for the terrifying legend of the ghost in the hidden mirror, this might be a good place to fall in love.
I didn't find anything special in front of the teaching building, so I thought of checking the back of the school. According to the information, there is an air-raid shelter behind the school that has been abandoned for many years, and an unattended fish pond. The bodies of the five brothers and sisters of Wang Village were found in the fish pond.
When I proposed to go to the back of the school to investigate, Zhen Zhen frowned: "It's so late, let's go tomorrow!"
I teased, "Are you afraid?"
"What am I afraid of!" Although she was brave in her mouth, her face was not very good.
"I'm afraid I'll bury you."
"Just because you are a cripple?" She clenched her fists, her knuckles crackled, and slowly approached me, as if preparing to "gest" with me.
I hurriedly begged her for mercy: "Woman, forgive me!"
"Beautiful thoughts!" she said and kicked me upside down.
When I got up to say that she had abused violence, I was hit hard on the head, and I felt dizzy, my eyes flashed with gold stars, and I fell down again. She pulled me up and said that she didn't use much force to die, and told me to stop pretending.
I finally stood up, and my head was still spinning. After a while, I recovered and scolded her: "You are so useless, you almost knocked my head into blossoms."
She stared at me dumbfounded, and took a long time to say, "I didn't hit you in the head!"
When she said that, I froze. Thinking about it too, although she usually behaves rudely and takes action on me at every turn, she is very measured every time she does it, and she will never nearly knock me out like she did just now.
Just when I felt doubts about this matter, a sharp laughter echoed in the night sky: "Hee hee... Miss Ben hit you just now." This voice was ethereal and hollow, as if it came from another dimension, It's hard to tell which direction it came from.
Zhen Zhen and I instinctively looked around, looking for the owner of the voice, but as far as we can see, there is no third party besides the two of us, so who is talking? I suppressed the fear in my heart and looked at the window of the teaching building.
Sure enough, the "person" who spoke was in one of the windows on the first floor.
On the wide glass of the window, there is a woman in a cheongsam, dressed like a lady from the Republic of China period in the TV series. However, her face was not at all virtuous, and her blood-red round eyes were enough to scare people to death. I think she is probably the legendary ghost who hides the mirror.
Although the ghost of the hidden mirror has a fierce look in his eyes, he has a smile on the corner of his mouth, but the strange laughter makes people shudder: "Hee hee... You two are here just in time, although I just hired a few little ghosts to call me not long ago, but I still owe it. housekeeper and cook."
Zhen Zhen's face turned blue when she saw this terrifying evil ghost, but she was born anyway, so she wouldn't be petrified, she immediately picked up a stone and threw it at the window. There was a pop, and the glass shattered.
Although the glass was broken, the Mirror-Hidden Ghost immediately appeared in the other window, and scolded Zhen Zhen fiercely, "How dare you be rude to me, let's see how I deal with you crazy girl." Then, she raised her index finger, and the awl-like claws immediately stretched out from the fingertips.
According to Liang Caixia, being stabbed by the claws of the Mirror-Hidden Ghost will cause severe pain rather than death, so seeing her show her claws, Zhen Zhen and I are both like enemies. However, while I was afraid, I also had a little expectation, hoping to know how the ghost hiding in the glass would attack us. Although I was hit hard on the head by her just now, I didn't see how she made a move, so this time I paid close attention to her every movement.
"Crazy girl, let you taste my power now!"
Hidden Mirror Ghost said and then waved to Zhen Zhen, although she was only waving her hand in the glass, and Zhen Zhen was more than five meters away from the window, but this finger was able to hit out from the air like a Yang finger in a martial arts novel. Following her waving, Zhen Zhen screamed suddenly, her body seemed to be impacted, she took two steps to stabilize her body, and immediately held down her right arm.
I hurried forward to ask her if she was injured? She said it was fine first, but felt that her arm was a little cold and numb, but she screamed again just after speaking, and this time it was a hundred times more painful than before, and she squatted down unconsciously.
I squatted in front of her and let go of her hand. I found that there was a blood hole on her arm that looked like it was poked by chopsticks. The shape was almost the same as the scar on Liang Caixia's arm, and a small amount of blood was gushing out. I immediately took off my top and gave her a simple dressing.
But before I could wrap it up, I was hit hard on the head again, hitting me and jumping forward, pushing Zhen Zhen down as well.
I turned over and found that the ghost of the mirror was shaking her sharp claws, and said viciously: "This is the end of being rude to me. Would you like to try it?" The door of the teaching building slowly opened.
Could it be that the hidden mirror ghost wants to reveal his true body