Chapter 123 Haunted
Chapter 123 Haunted
"Huh?" Yin Lishang looked at the words on the phone screen and blinked curiously: "Brother, are you sick too?"
Ning Zhe didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Just as he was about to nod in agreement with her question, Yin Lishang suddenly lowered his head and waved happily towards the wall behind Ning Zhe: "Grandma! Come and have a look, my brother said that his voice is hoarse and he can't speak."
Ning Zhe's thoughts paused and he looked back subconsciously, only to see a round dog hole that had appeared on the wall next to the gate. A gray-haired old man's head slowly stretched out of the dog hole, with jealousy and resentment filling his wrinkled face. It was the human bone snake that had crawled out of Ji Taixuan's grandmother's body.
When did a dog hole appear on the wall?
Ning Zhe was caught off guard by the sudden change. He was blocked outside the door by the copper lock and it took him nearly ten minutes to look for a gap that could lead him into the house. He didn't find the hole until a bee finally got in through the screen mesh on the door.
Ning Zhe is a careful person. If there was such a big hole in the corner of the wall near the door from the beginning that could allow a human body to drill through, he would not have failed to notice it.
"No... this hole seems to have existed 'for a long time'."
From a memory dug up from Ji Taixu's cognition, Xiang Ningzhe understood the origin of this dog hole - when Ji Taixu was very young, he had just entered the first grade of primary school. His grandparents' home once raised a big yellow dog named Dahuang. The yellow dog had a white face, a broad chest and a broad back. The dog hole next to the door was specially dug by his grandfather for the big yellow dog to enter and exit conveniently.
Later, when Ji Taiyu grew up, the dog Dahuang raised by his grandmother died of old age and was buried in the bamboo forest behind the house. His grandfather did not get a new dog, but sealed the dog hole with bricks and cement.
But now, the dog hole that had long been blocked by bricks and cement reappeared at the base of the wall next to the gate. A pale, decayed old man's head was embedded in the hole. His wide-open eyes were filled with dark filaments, staring at the outsider standing in front of his granddaughter.
Why did the dog hole that had been blocked for a long time appear again?
How did Ji Taixuan's grandmother appear here? On the -2 floor? Shouldn't she be on the -1 floor now?
Could it be that during the time when I came here from the land temple, my grandmother triggered the death rule in Yanglao Village and went down from the -1 floor to the -2 floor? How did she do that?
Ning Zhe looked sideways and saw an old military coat spread on the ground next to the dog hole - it was his grandfather's old clothes and also the place where Dahuang usually slept.
"Grandma, didn't you bring the key? How did you climb through the dog hole?" Yin Lishang supported his knees with his hands, half-knelt down and looked at the old man's head sticking out of the hole curiously.
Grandma opened her mouth and screamed silently, so Yin Lishang became even more curious: "What did you say?"
Grandma's mouth opened and closed constantly, as if she was shouting something loudly, but no matter what she wanted to say, or how she got here, she could not violate the rules of this world, and she could not say a single word.
'Xi' is without sound.
The anxious grandmother struggled violently in the dog hole, her snow-white ribs stretched out.
It twisted its neck and crawled its bony body through the dog hole into the house like a giant snake. Its long spine lifted up the upper human head, and its two white ribs spread out to the sides like the folds of skin on a cobra's neck, forming a pocket shape, showing a dangerous posture as if it was about to attack people.
However, just as grandma's snake body was raised up, it had to stop where it was. The ribs that were originally spread wide to the sides also drooped down. Only her wrinkled old face was full of jealousy, staring viciously at the back of Yin Lishang.
Because just now, Ning Zhe, with a face like Ji Taixu, silently pulled out a pistol from his arms and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the back of Yin Lishang's head.
He raised a finger to his lips, smiled and made a 'hush' gesture.
The man and the snake fell into a tacit silence.
Although they didn't say a word from beginning to end.
"Brother?" Yin Lishang turned his head to look at Ning Zhe behind him, then looked at the human bone snake in front of him: "Grandma?"
"What's wrong with you? Why aren't you talking?" Yin Lishang's face was full of confusion. The horrific scene before her didn't make her look scared at all, as if the person standing in front of her at this moment was not an inhuman monster with her grandmother's head on her head, but her grandmother who was no different from usual. No, maybe in her eyes, whether she was alive or dead, her grandmother's appearance had never changed.
"Brother, what's wrong with you two? Are you playing a prank?" Yin Lishang bit her lips lightly, clutching the corner of Ning Zhe's clothes tightly with both hands, her eyes full of pleading as she looked dejected and about to cry.
Yin Lishang has been staying at her grandmother's house to recuperate since she was a child, and she has hardly even left Yanglao Village. Her world is very small, so small that the neglect of her two relatives is like the sky falling down on her.
Ning Zhe touched her head with a smile. Her dry hair ends were a little split. Yin Lishang looked at him pitifully. If it weren't for that scary face, such a well-behaved and clingy little sister would have been very cute.
Letting go of his hand, Ning Zhe ignored his grandmother's resentful and vigilant look, walked to the wall, pressed the switch, and turned on the lights in the living room.
"Surprise~" he said silently.
As the lights came on, two shadows appeared under the gate.
One was a long shadow standing upright on the ground, with its two ribs spread out to the sides and its claws and fangs bared. It was a human bone snake that crawled into the house from the dog hole.
One was a woman in a long skirt standing quietly in the corner, holding a short knife about one foot long in her hand.
The moment the light came on, the shadow of the woman rushed to the grandmother in one step, cut the long spine of the snake in half with a knife, the snake's tail was still stuck in the dog hole, and the head and ribs of the upper body fell to the ground, like a piece of porcelain silently shattered in this "xi" world.
Before my grandmother could react, another knife cut across the human bone snake's neck. Without the support of the cervical vertebrae, the head fell to the ground like a watermelon without a stem, and rolled along the wall to the corner. All this happened in a flash after the lights came on.
Two deformed snake bodies curled up on the cement floor behind the door, twitching violently. A pale head lay in the corner, eyes wide open and mouth wide open, letting out a silent scream.
——Even though it was beheaded by Ye Yao, it still did not die. If it was dead, it should have fallen into a deeper level of "Yi".
Ning Zhe therefore noticed one thing: Ye Yao itself did not have lethality. What dismembered the human bone snake's body was the sword that pierced into the shadow with the help of the rules, not the rules themselves. Ye Yao was not a rule-based killing like special allowance or summoning, but an indirect injury caused by the rules.
Swords can kill people, but they cannot kill ghosts, let alone monsters.
"Grandma!" Yin Lishang was so frightened that he subconsciously grasped the corner of Ning Zhe's clothes tightly, and two lines of tears fell immediately: "Brother, grandma, what happened to grandma? Grandma just now..."
No matter how gentle her personality was, Yin Lishang was still a little girl under 15 years old. The relatives she had been with day and night died suddenly in front of her, and their heads rolled to the ground. Such a horrific scene would be a huge shock even to adults, let alone Yin Lishang. She was at a loss and could only instinctively hold on to Ning Zhe tightly. For a moment, she didn't know whether to go forward to check on the condition of her grandmother's body, or persuade her brother to leave this horrible place as soon as possible.
Ning Zhe patted her shoulder and handed her a note.
Yin Lishang looked down and saw the words written on it:
【Did you see it just now? 】
[A woman's shadow appears in front of the door, then disappears.]
[What is that? Is the house haunted? ]
"Haunted?" Yin Lishang cautiously turned his head to look and saw his grandmother's head lying in the corner, with her upper and lower gums rubbing against each other.
(End of this chapter)