It was still raining outside the window, and in the corridor, several sunny dolls were swaying gently in the wind. Lin Huai sat cross-legged beside the girl in the white skirt.
Chu Tianshu took a can of fat house water from the refrigerator and handed it to him.
Lin Huai put the cold Coke can in his hand, but did not open it. He stared at the white skirt girl's palm exposed outside the quilt, and said: "The last touch will soon dissipate."
"Maybe tonight. When the sun rises, she will die." Chu Tianshu shrugged.
Lin Huai looked out of the courtyard. Even though he could feel the ghostly aura and weak vitality in the girl, he couldn't understand the attack style of the ghosts marking the girl. Even, the closer she was to death, the more ruddy the complexion of the girl in the white skirt was, and there was even a sweet smile on her face as if entering a dream.
Outside the courtyard, the night wind was howling, and there were many ghostly shadows.
"I want to know when the ghost will come." Lin Huai said suddenly, "I want to see how she will be killed."
Even Lin Huai couldn't see through all the killing methods of ghosts, especially evil ghosts. Moreover, since the curse in this high-level dungeon can leave traces of the curse on his body, its ability must be higher than his.
It is an existence higher than Sha.
Or, this curse is made up of the grievances of this whole town. There are countless ghosts in the yard, and they have been nourished for thousands of years. Perhaps this group of resentment is no longer just "sha", but "demon".
And Lin Huai thought, maybe after knowing how the girl died, he would be able to understand the law of ghosts killing people.
He sat there cross-legged, but the paper door behind him was pulled open.
"Mr. Xiao Lin, and Mr. Chu," the good old man whispered, "Do you all have to stay here? She..."
He looked at the girl in the white skirt lying on the bed, and although there was still fear in her expression, he couldn't help showing some concern. Lin Huai didn't look back, Chu Tianshu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go back."
"But when the time comes... ghosts will come! Don't be afraid..."
The good old man muttered a few words, and finally returned to the room where everyone was huddled together. Lin Huai was still sitting beside the girl in the white skirt, waiting for the ghost to arrive.
tick.
tick.
It was still raining outside, and the doll was swaying on a sunny day.
Lin Huai opened his eyes again, it was already four o'clock in the morning.
At four o'clock in the morning, the sky outside was still dark, but in an hour or so at most, there would be a faint light in the sky.
But he waited here all night, even Chu Tianshu dozed off with his hands folded beside him, but no ghosts came.
When are they going to do it
Lin Huai looked at the girl in the white skirt. The girl in the white skirt was still lying on the bed, with only one hand and her head protruding from the bed. The last stroke on that hand has faded to the point of almost disappearing.
Only an hour left at most.
If the time when the strokes disappeared was the time when the girl died, then Lin Huai had the confidence to wait until that moment and catch the ghost that was trying to attack the girl.
However…
An increasingly ominous premonition flooded Lin Huai's heart. He reached out to push Chu Tianshu awake: "Hello..."
"Huh? Huh?" Chu Tianshu woke up from the dream.
"Do you feel where..."
Lin Huai opened his mouth, but couldn't think of what to say next. He thought for a long time with a sullen face, and finally knocked Chu Tianshu's head hard with his hand.
Chu Tianshu: "???"
Lin Huai held back a "hmph" and sat back down again.
He kept staring at the girl in the quilt, and at the same time, staring at his watch. The minute hand passed by minute by minute, and the strokes in the girl's hand became lighter and lighter...
At that moment, Lin Huai suddenly sat up as if he understood something!
He rushed to the girl in the white skirt, and stretched out his hand to lift off the quilt on her body. The girl's body in a nightgown appeared in his sight!
With her eyes closed, her expression was peaceful and serene, her skin was smooth, as if she hadn't suffered any harm... Then, Lin Huai grabbed her shoulders and turned her body over abruptly—
While turning the girl's body, Lin Huai heard a tingling sound.
That sound... It was as if a plant with a complex root system and deep roots in the soil had been pulled out of the ground.
A tingling scene then appeared before his eyes.
The girl's front looks normal, but her back... has already grown dense tree roots!
Those things grew from the floor beneath her, pierced through the quilt, and stuck into her body. Each one was only as thick as Houttuynia cordata, so it looked more dense and terrifying. They swelled, as if absorbing nutrients from inside the girl's body.
And Lin Huai also felt something wrong with the weight in his hand at this moment.
He looked down.
The girl in the white dress opened her eyes in his arms! !
Those eyes were empty, there were no eyeballs, only dark sockets. The girl grinned, showing a vicious smile, while the other hand struck towards his neck—
The hand stopped in mid-air. Then, the girl deflated as if deflated.
It was indeed like being discouraged.
Lin Huai let go, and the girl's body fell back into the bedding. Her body shrank from its original plumpness, as if countless gas had finally leaked out from her mouth.
All that was left in the bedding was an empty human skin.
The knife in Chu Tianshu's hand fell to the ground with a bang. He looked at Lin Huai and said, "Are you okay?"
Lin Huai shook his head.
He smelled a sweet and fishy aroma coming from the courtyard. The smell is like overripe flowers, and it's like rotting flesh and blood.
The sky became brighter, and at the same time, Lin Huai finally saw the scene in the courtyard.
The originally dead cherry blossom tree, under the hazy morning light...
in full bloom.
The cherry blossoms are young and scorching, and the huge flowering canopy is shaking slightly in the wind, as if silently mocking Lin Huai. Lin Huai also heard the sound of the game at that moment.
"The first female npc died."
"If the hero fails to save the beauty, the value of the person is reset."
"Losing body control once."
He watched his body walking towards the cherry blossom tree step by step, like a puppet being manipulated. Chu Tianshu followed behind him, trying to hold him back, but he broke free vigorously.
"Oh shit!"
Lin Huai heard Chu Tianshu swear, and then saw Chu Tianshu attacking him again, trying to hold him back, just like the male protagonist in the young comics who was swallowed by the darkness, and kept rushing towards him trying to stop him Wake up his male second (friend/true heroine).
In the end, he was really hugged by Chu Tianshu.
However, things are not that simple, because...
Then, Lin Huai just stared at her body...
He kicked Chu Tianshu's lower body with all his strength.
Lin Huai: ...
If the soul can cover its eyes, Lin Huai has already covered them. He heard the sound of Chu Tianshu being kicked to the ground by him, but he was not sure if he heard the right scream.
The next thing is the scene where Lin Huai watched her body continue to walk towards the weird cherry blossom tree. It stands to reason that in such a terrifying scene, what he would see should be his body walking slowly towards the tree uncontrollably.
It must be slow, because only in this way can the atmosphere of terror be aggravated.
But what Lin Huai didn't expect was that what he saw was...
The game controlled his body to rush towards the cherry blossom tree at a speed of 100 meters.
It was as if in the mood of "finally kicking Chu Tianshu away", he frantically took his life and fled before he could get up and catch up.
Lin Huai: ...
He saw the soil under the tree, soft, with a faint dark red color. At that moment, countless pictures like shadow puppets appeared in his mind.
In famine years, there is nothing to eat. Before people's bodies had time to rot in the ground, countless people had rushed to all the ground, looking for anything that could be eaten.
They ate war horses, they ate sparrows, they ate mice, and finally, they found another thing to eat.
That is the bark of the trees.
Countless bark, stripped from countless trees. The wounds of the tree are exposed in the air, like a series of exposed scars...
Lin Huai's hand unconsciously moved towards the tree.
There is a slippery feeling in the palm.
Where is the tree trunk that he is stroking
Instead, the skin has been peeled off... the tendons, fat, and even the veins and blood vessels are exposed, and they are throbbing...
The flesh and blood of a woman! !
A strong pain came from between his fingers, and at the same time, Lin Huai finally recovered his sanity.
He saw his skin split from his fingertips, as if something was about to peel the skin off his hand alive.
The blood-red curse on the back of the waist jumped out of time and space caused by the death of the girl in the white dress, almost causing him to lose his hand.
Lin Huai stared at her fingertips, after a long time...
Lin Huai raised his severed right hand with his left hand.
"Hey, the reason why the cherry tree blooms so beautifully is because there is a dead body buried under the tree." He said with a blank expression.
The swaying sakura tree:…
Chu Tianshu who just got up from the ground, ran towards here, and was about to take measures:...
After Lin Huai chopped off his right hand, the curse of peeling the skin from his right hand stopped. Perhaps it was because the character "正" on his body could no longer be connected with the right hand that touched the cherry blossom tree.
Lin Huai took his right hand back with a blank expression.
In just a short period of time, the skin of his right hand has cracked several seams that can be peeled off from the tip of that finger—just like the bark of a tree being peeled off. However, due to his quick disconnection of his right hand, even if he connected it back now, the peeling of the skin did not continue.
As expected, it was a high-level field, and it was indeed in danger... Before Lin Huai had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Chu Tianshu's approaching footsteps from behind.
Lin Huai: ...
As if he remembered something, he turned his head stiffly, and said with the corner of his mouth twitching, "Just now I..."
He didn't get a reply, but was grabbed by Chu Tianshu's wrist.
His wrist was cold, but Chu Tianshu's palm was warm. Lin Huai heard Chu Tianshu's voice: "...can it be repaired?"
Lin Huai said, "Yes, but it's a bit slow."
"Does it hurt?"
"It's okay." Lin Huai said honestly.
Chu Tianshu didn't say anything, he took out a bottle of medicine from the package, and applied it on Lin Huai's wound.
There was only a small jar of the medicine, it was cool, like some kind of holy product. In short, when it was first applied, Lin Huai felt the tingling sensation of wound healing.
"It will be fine in a while." Chu Tianshu said.
Lin Huai looked at Chu Tian's long eyelashes and said nothing. He could see Chu Tianshu's silence and depression, and seemed to know the reason—
He was regretting why he couldn't stop Lin Huai.
"I said..." Lin Huai said.
"what?"
Lin Huai: "Would you like to paint your bottom too?"
Chu Tianshu: ...
Lin Huai: "Does it hurt?"
Chu Tianshu: ...
Chu Tianshu stretched out his hand and grabbed Lin Huai's head, messing up his hair. He twitched the corner of his mouth and said speechlessly, "Will you paint it for me?"
Lin Huai blinked at him.
"It's not impossible," he said.
…
In the end, of course, it was not painted.
Before dawn, Chu Tianshu took out a shovel and started digging under the cherry tree.
Lin Huai squatted beside him to dry his hands.
Soon, the soil was turned over, exposing the huge root system of the cherry tree.
- That is the root system that seems to have no end.
Chu Tianshu cut open some of the thicker ones with a shovel, and the things buried in them were revealed to the sky again—it was a lot of viscous blood, which may add up to the mass of a whole person.
Obviously, the girl in the white skirt was "eaten" by the roots of this tree.
That is the "hunger" of a tree whose bark has been stripped by people in famine.
He also found another thing surrounded by the root system—it was a female corpse that had rotted into bones, entangled in the root system, and wearing a tattered pink kimono. It seems that the pen fairy summoned by those npcs yesterday is this corpse.
"Do you want to burn it?" Chu Tianshu asked Lin Huai.
Lin Huai squatted down for a long time, looked at the skeleton, shook his head and said, "It's useless to burn it, and the real pen fairy is not this skeleton."
It is the cherry spirits of thousands of cherry blossom trees that have been stripped of their bark in this small town.
In addition, Bixian is just a messenger who wrote down the curse, and it is this whole "hungry" town that really curses these tourists.
That being the case, he didn't bother to do this strenuous thing again.
but…
Lin Huai took out a small knife from his bag.
When he raised his head again, there were already a pair of blood eyes, and the hostility that was infinitely close to evil spread from his body. Lin Huai stared at the cherry blossom tree, and said with a cold smile: "The revenge of being almost skinned is still to be avenged."
After speaking, he engraved from bottom to top. Every stroke is engraved extremely deep, and every word is engraved extremely large.
Bitter sap comes out of the cherry tree.
"tour"
"one"
"this"
"arrive"
"turtle"
After engraving these huge characters, Lin Huai said to Chu Tianshu: "Recite me."
Chu Tianshu didn't dare to neglect and nodded.
He carried Lin Huai on his back, and watched as Lin Huai carved a line of words with such force as to pierce through the back of a tree.
"Melancholy Taiwanese tortoises come here for a visit"
The entire huge cherry blossom tree was polluted by these words, with bloody branches trembling.
Lin Huai got off Chu Tianshu's shoulder. He whistled, pleased with his behaviour.
Then, he heard Chu Tianshu's voice: "Yo, I found it, I still have this good thing in my package..."
Lin Huai:
When he turned around, he saw Chu Tianshu was holding a whole box of paraquat, smiling brightly at him.
The two finished pouring out the whole box of paraquat under the cherry tree, and then they heard screams from the room.
The screams came from the girl in the red skirt and the good old man. Obviously, when they woke up in the morning, they had already found the girl in the white skirt's body.
The tragic death of the girl in the white skirt obviously frightened everyone, and the one who reacted most violently was the fitness man who had only one day left to live. When Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu came back, what they saw was that they packed their things in a hurry.
When asked by the policeman about the cause of the girl's death in the white skirt, Lin Huai briefly introduced it, and casually talked about how she was bewitched by the cherry blossom tree. Hearing this, everyone's already pale faces were even worse now.
"It's okay, it's okay." The girl in the red skirt tried to reassure everyone, "Let's get in the car and get out of here now!"
It was still raining heavily, but everyone couldn't care less. After everyone hurriedly loaded their luggage into the van, the fitness man was the first to get in the van.
The death of the girl in the white skirt had obviously frightened him out of courage, and he kept urging the good old man to get out of the car. The good old man was scared to death by him, but when he started the car, he found...
There was not enough gasoline in the car for their return trip.