Chapter 110 The Truth of Death

"What does it mean that there is no Ji Wuxie?"

Ji Taiyu opened his mouth to speak, but saw that the old face belonging to Grandma Wang on the human bone snake head suddenly opened its eyes wide, eyebrows raised, mouth opened wide, and a ferocious look was revealed in an instant. A piercing pain came from both armpits, and the sticky sound of flesh tearing was transmitted into the cochlea along the bones.

With a creaking sound, Grandma Wang's open ribs pierced into his chest, leaving blood holes as thick as fingers on both sides of Ji Taixun's body. The fishy and sweet blood gushed out from them. The huge pain surged along the spine to the brain, causing Ji Taixun to let out a heart-wrenching scream.

"Ah! Ah...ah...ah...ah!" He instinctively twisted his body and struggled. His body, bound by his ribs, kept bending and twisting like a fish thrown onto the shore.

However, the bones of the strange snake wrapped around his body were as strong as copper and iron. The excruciating pain did not ease in the slightest despite Ji Taiyu's struggle. Instead, the sharp ribs pierced deeper and deeper, making a "crunch, crunch" sound.

Grandma Wang lowered her head and bit Ji Taiyu's neck. Her black and rotten teeth embedded in his throat. With a "puff", she tore off his Adam's apple along with the skin and flesh. Warm arterial blood spurted out from the torn carotid artery.

Ji Taiyu opened his eyes wide and watched Grandma Wang swallow the Adam's apple that she had bitten off from his neck. An extremely unreal feeling surged in his heart. Even the pain of his flesh being torn apart seemed unreal, as if he was watching a movie.

There is a threshold for the amount of pain that humans can endure in a short period of time. When this threshold is triggered, the brain, sensing a life-or-death crisis, will automatically secrete a large amount of painkillers to maintain consciousness, prevent shock caused by excessive pain, and increase the probability of survival.

At this moment, Ji Taixuan felt that all his senses were clearer than ever before. He could clearly feel the shape of each rib inserted into his body, like a sharp knife stabbing deeper and deeper, until there was a snap.

Like puncturing a balloon, the human bone snake's open ribs finally closed completely and pierced his beating heart.

A warm feeling overflowed from deep in his chest. It was the arterial blood pumping out from his cardiovascular system, filling his chest and soaking his gradually cooling internal organs.

Ji Taiyu's eyes were lifeless, and he could hear heavy breathing and chewing sounds constantly in his ears. That was Grandma Wang still gnawing on his neck, tearing off bloody flesh like a wild dog and swallowing it whole, which then fell out from the broken throat.

He clearly felt his carotid artery exposed as if the wires were pulled out of the transformer box, and felt his pierced heart spasming and twitching violently in a pool of blood, and finally motionless.

Ji Taixuan's heart stopped beating.

The night sky above his head was filled with the snow-white moonlight. A few thin clouds streaked across the sky. The crunching sound of chewing flesh gradually drifted away. Even the pain of his chest being pierced seemed illusory. After an unknown amount of time, a hint of paleness appeared in the distant sky, and his consciousness sank into darkness.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!!!"

Ji Taiyu shuddered all over, screaming loudly as he struggled to stand up in the darkness. With a thud, his forehead hit something that looked like wood, and pain followed. His hands that were waving around and his legs that were kicking around in fear were blocked by the two narrow "walls" around him and could not be straightened out.

“What is this…?” Ji Taiyu felt around with trembling hands and found himself trapped in a square, angular, enclosed space. The sultry air was filled with the unique smell of pine wood, and there was no light at all in the pitch-black darkness.

Is this a coffin?

Ji Taiyu supported the wooden board above his head with both hands and pushed upward with all his strength. The heavy board was pushed open to create a gap, and bright light scattered in from it. He was indeed lying in a coffin now.

"Why am I in a coffin?" Ji Taiyu looked up at the light that was shining into the coffin through the gap above his head, and wanted to push the coffin lid open completely to leave here.

But the horrible scene before suddenly flashed before his eyes, and Grandma Wang's pale face and resentful eyes and voice were still vivid in his mind, causing his shoulders to tremble. He unconsciously put down the coffin lid that had just been pushed open a crack, and the surroundings fell into darkness again. The sun outside was just right, and it seemed that it was already dawn, and he entered Yanglao Village around eleven o'clock last night.

——Have I been sleeping in this coffin until now?
His forehead still ached from hitting the coffin lid just now. Ji Taixuan felt the narrowness and darkness of the coffin and recalled what happened last night:
"Last night... I saw the temple of the land god on the way into the village. His head crawled out of his body with his entire long spine. I was so scared that I ran straight into the village."

"After entering the village, I walked towards my grandmother's house based on my memory. In the bamboo forest by the roadside, I saw a coffin placed in a shed, and another coffin placed directly in the open air next to a house..."

"Then, out of the window of the house next to the coffin, a snake-like monster with Grandma Wang's head crawled out..."

The monster's ribs pierced my chest, and its teeth broke my neck... It killed me, it killed me!

It's killing me!

Extreme anger surged into Ji Taiyu's brain, and even he himself didn't know why he was feeling angry instead of fear.

After his anger, Ji Taiyu calmed down a little. The feeling at that time was very clear. He felt very clearly that his throat was bitten through, his heart was punctured, and internal bleeding soaked his internal organs... Everything that happened last night was so real. He witnessed very clearly that his body was eaten alive piece by piece.

But I am still thinking, which means I am still alive.

So last night's experience was actually fake? It was an illusion?
There is a very simple way to confirm this. Ji Taixuan reached out his hand to his face and touched it gently, feeling the soft touch of his skin.

"Fortunately..." Ji Taixuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But then the fingertips slid from the cheekbone to the cheek, and the soft touch was gone, replaced by a row of hard, cold, and somewhat sharp objects on his cheek.

Those are teeth.

“Ah…Ah…”

With a bad premonition, Ji Taiyu tried to open his mouth, and several fingers entered his mouth from the side of his cheek without any hindrance.

No, he no longer has a mouth in the normal sense.

Ji Taiyu's hands were shaking as he felt deep bite marks on his face that had torn flesh and gouged bones. The flesh on both sides of his cheeks had disappeared, exposing his bloody gums.

His hand left his cheek and continued to touch downwards. On his neck was a bloody hole that had been torn out by a bite. His chest was cold, and a dead heart was soaked inside, motionless.

He is really dead.

(End of this chapter)

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