Chapter 109 Yin Taimian

The rough gravel scratched his cheek. Ji Taixuan stumbled on the ground and crawled across the path between the fields, leaving the cypress trees behind him. In the cold night sky, there was only the rustling of green crops in the wind and the boy's rapid heartbeat.

Ji Taiyu ran all the way desperately. A particularly sturdy tree gradually came closer in his sight. A gray stone was sunken under the tree, with three large red regular script characters carved on it:
【Yanglao Village】

"We're here, we're here, we're here!" Ji Taiyu hurried into the village entrance, gasping for breath while leaning against a stone pillar under a tree with both hands. His alveoli felt burning and he felt that the intensity of the desperate run he had just made was too intense.

While gasping for breath, Ji Taixuan looked back cautiously.

The letter said that one must never look back while walking on the path. Now that he has left the road leading into the village and officially entered Yanglao Village, he should... should be able to look back, right?
Ji Taiyu tilted his head slightly, and tried little by little to confirm that everything was fine, before he mustered up the courage to turn back completely.

Under the moonlight, a winding path stretched through the fields, and the land temple was no longer visible in the distance.

Ji Taiyu breathed a sigh of relief and looked around. This was his mother's hometown. His father was always busy. When he was a child, he would follow his mother back to visit relatives every now and then. He knew the terrain of Yanglao Village very well, but he was more or less familiar with it.

Relying on his childhood memories, Ji Taiyu walked towards the village.

He still remembers that his grandparents lived in a large courtyard near a well on the west side of the village. His sister had been in poor health since she was a child and had lived in her grandmother's house for years to recuperate...

By the way, what does your sister look like?

Ji Taixuan walked on the road, trying his best to recall the experience of following his mother to visit relatives. In his memory, his grandmother was always very kind, while his sister seemed very shy and rarely came out to see people. Even his brother rarely met her. Not to mention her appearance, Ji Taixuan couldn't even remember her name...

name……

"Name?" Ji Taiyu paused, and stood there in a daze: "I don't even know my sister's name?"

……How can this be.

The source of this abnormality was not quite clear, but a strange feeling suddenly appeared. Ji Taixuan's whole body was immediately covered with goosebumps, and cold sweat was pouring down.

【Yin Taimian. 】

A voice suddenly came from the front. Ji Taixuan subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound. He saw ordinary houses made of red bricks on one side of the street in front of him, and lush green bamboo forest on the other side. The voice just now came from the bamboo forest.

Ji Taixu swallowed and shone the flashlight over there.

【Yin Taimian. 】

Suddenly there was another sudden shout, and the flashlight shone through the gaps in the bamboo forest, revealing a shiny black lacquered surface. It was... a coffin.

A coffin was placed in a bamboo forest, with a simple shed made of bamboo poles and thatch to provide shade and shelter from the rain. Apart from that, there was nothing else. It was so simple that it was appalling.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the crisp sound of "dong dong" mixed in with the subtle sounds of bamboo leaves being blown by the wind.

thump -- thump -- thump --

dong dong——

"Yin Taimian."

When the knocking sound stopped, another shout was heard. Ji Taiyu's body trembled, and he almost dropped the flashlight onto the ground.

This time the voice came from behind. Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a cement tile leaning against the wall on a small piece of open space between two houses. A black lacquered coffin was placed underneath. Above the cement tile was a window of the house, which was wide open. A pale head slowly poked out from the corner of the eaves. "Yin Taimian?"

A doubtful voice came out of that person's mouth. Ji Taiyu frowned and wondered in his heart: "Are you calling me?"

There was another knocking sound in the bamboo forest. Ji Taiyu looked up at the head sticking out of the window in confusion and asked cautiously, "Why aren't you sleeping so late, fellow villager?"

The other person's expression was stiff, as if he didn't hear what he said.

"Yin Taimian?" As he spoke, the head poked out of the window again, with a snow-white spine attached to the back of the neck.

The open ribs were like the claws of a spider inserted into the cracks in the brick wall, and a long skeleton snake with a human head crawled out from the window. Ji Taiyu's face suddenly became paler than the bones of the strange snake.

"ghost……"

Ji Taixuan became furious and ran away.

The human bone snake that was climbing on the wall behind him clucked and climbed up to the eaves. Its long and twisted body climbed between the wall and the tiles, following behind the fleeing Ji Taiyu, and kept making hoarse sounds:

"Yin Taimian?"

"Yin-Taimian-"

Ji Taixuan desperately ran through the path in Yanglao Village trying to get rid of the monster. However, no matter how hard he tried to escape, the sound of the soul-binding collarbone did not go away. Instead, it started to get closer and closer as time passed.

Until, it's so close.

An irresistible force suddenly came from behind, causing Ji Taiyu to stagger to the ground. The disgusting smell of rotten blood rushed into his nostrils. He opened his eyes in the dust and saw a pale face right in front of him, so close that he almost kissed it as soon as he raised his head.

It was an old face covered with wrinkles, the skin was pale without a trace of blood, fishy-smelling liquid dripped from the broken neck, and the rotten teeth were black in color. The horrifying scene frightened Ji Taixuan so much that he almost collapsed.

He recognized this face; it was Grandma Wang who had chased him with a broom when he was a child.

He struggled desperately and tried to get up and run away, but the ribs under his head stretched out like iron clamps and grasped Ji Taiyu's arms tightly, holding him in his arms. The slender tail vertebrae wrapped around Ji Taiyu's waist, and the tip of the tail poked his belly button.

"Yin Taimian?" The human bone snake's voice was still hoarse, but Ji Taiyu, who had nowhere to escape, finally regained a moment of calm. He noticed that the monster was asking a question.

The monster looked like the land god in the land temple, with a human head with a long complete spine and ribs spread out like a spider.

But unlike the land god, this monster's eyes were not blinded by nails, nor was its mouth sewn shut with needle and thread. Its nose, earlobes, and seven orifices were all intact. It could even be said that it died very peacefully.

It was unknown whether it was safe or not, but Ji Taixuan knew that if it continued like this, he would probably not be at peace.

Thinking of the words on the letter, Ji Taiyu no longer hesitated and said in a low voice: "I am Ji Wuxie, who is Yin Taimian?"

The expression on the human bone snake's face froze for a few seconds, and then he said, "There is no Ji Wuxie."

what?
(End of this chapter)

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