He had a splitting headache, a dry mouth, and his body felt so heavy that his soul couldn't lift him at all.
Just the act of opening her eyes took Hu Ma a long time, accompanied by waves of dizziness.
Now he is half-leaning in a room similar to a hall. In the middle of the room, there is a dirt-covered Eight Immortals table, several low square stools, and a blackened stone barrier against the wall. When the stove was turned on, several little paper figures were leaning against the wall, with weird smiles painted on their faces. Yellow, yellow, and red runes, with twisted runes painted on them, were posted all over the house.
"Wow"
Subconsciously I wanted to move, but my shoulders were heavy and painful.
An iron chain extended from the roof beam, and the end was divided into two ends, each connected to an iron hook.
But now, two iron hooks pierced Hu Ma's pipa bones respectively, and the bloody spikes were exposed on the chest.
He has been locked here for six or seven days.
But until now, he still doesn't know why he is locked here.
He had just graduated from college and found a promising security job in an advanced laboratory that was known as the world's cutting-edge at the time. Then suddenly there was an explosion, and he was floating in the air. He was drifting in a daze for who knows how long. Until seven days ago, I was suddenly attracted by a strange sound. When I followed the sound, I suddenly felt like I was falling rapidly.
When he opened his eyes again, he was already in this place and was locked up.
And during these six or seven days, his only impression was that every night, there would be an old woman sitting in front of him, silently chanting sutras, chanting mantras, waving some strange talismans, and sometimes feeding him Make yourself some strange meat and medicinal soup.
But no matter what he asked her or what he did, she turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye.
Anyway, she was hooked by these two iron hooks, and she was dizzy and unconscious from time to time. She couldn't resist anything she did.
"Why did she lock me up?"
"What weird thing is she chanting to me every day?"
"..."
There are no answers to these flaxes.
Fortunately, after these seven days, he gradually woke up.
In the beginning, he always felt dizzy from time to time, feeling as if he was floating around, but that's not the case now.
Although his body is still weak and tired, he is at least a little more energetic.
But it's still almost impossible to escape.
While he was awake, he tried it with his hands. The iron hook was sharp and heavy, and he almost fainted from the pain when he touched it.
It was impossible to break free on his own, at least not with his weak body.
And now, he just wants to drink some water...
…
…
The water tank was three meters away, close to the earth wall.
The iron chains on the roof were attached to the beams and could slide, so Hu Ma could theoretically move around the house.
But this move undoubtedly comes at a very painful cost.
It took him dozens of seconds to endure the pain from his shoulder blades on both sides and slowly stand up.
Then, holding on to the wall tremblingly, he moved towards the water tank bit by bit.
It turns out that when the bones in the shoulder rub against the iron hook, a strange, cold sound will be produced.
Some blood slowly seeped out as he moved.
But not much, maybe it’s all gone.
Finally, when we arrived at the water tank, we saw the clear water inside, with half a gourd floating on it.
Hu Ma scooped up half a ladle of water, otherwise her arms couldn't hold it up, so she brought it to her mouth and drank it.
The heat and headache in the body seemed to be relieved a lot.
But when he pressed the gourd and lifted the gourd, his thirst was relieved, but he became hungry again.
Hu Ma subconsciously looked at the rough porcelain bowl on the Eight Immortals table.
After hesitating for a long time, he still went through.
After opening the bowl on top, he saw a square, reddish piece of boiled meat on the plate below.
For him, who was hungry, this represented an extremely strong temptation, but he still resisted.
That weird old woman, in addition to chanting sutras and mantras to him every day, would feed him some weird things from time to time, including herbs and boiled talisman water, but the most important thing among them was this unknown meat. , no matter whether Hu Ma has an appetite or not, he has to force it into himself, forcing him to chew and swallow. Every time he eats it, it is an extremely painful experience.
This led to him not wanting to touch this piece of meat no matter how hungry he was at this moment.
"The most important thing is to escape while they are away..."
Hu Ma warned herself secretly and realized the most important problem.
After making sure there was no one around him, he endured the dull pain, raised his right hand, and grasped the iron hook that passed through his left shoulder.
Little by little, he tried to push the iron hook out of his flesh.
Severe pain hit the brain, and even the brain was throbbing with pain. The hook had grown together with the flesh.
But Hu Ma gritted her teeth and tried little by little.
…
"Squeak..."
Just when the pain intensified again and again, suddenly a gust of wind blew open the door, and the light in the room became slightly darker.
"Is that weird mother-in-law back?"
Hu Ma was startled and turned around to look, only to see a short, thin, middle-aged man.
The sunlight coming in from behind made his face blurry.
"Are there any outsiders?"
Hu Ma felt happy when she saw the visitor.
In the past few days, he had only seen the weird mother-in-law and a little girl in red with a red headband in this room.
Now it was the first time I saw someone other than the two of them, and the desire for help immediately rose in my heart.
But before he could open his mouth, he suddenly stopped:
If this person is an accomplice of the mother-in-law, wouldn't it be possible for him to seek help in exchange for even greater torture?
Besides, even if he didn't ask for help, this person should have seen the iron hooks on his shoulders.
If he were an outsider, wouldn't he find it strange?
And when Hu Ma stared at this person, trying to judge from his reaction whether it was worth asking for help, she saw that this person turned a blind eye to her appearance. He just turned around stiffly, as if looking around, still a little numb. Question:
"Where's my mother-in-law?"
"..."
"Oops, it looks like he's an acquaintance of that mother-in-law..."
Hu Ma thought to herself that there was little hope of asking for help, but maybe she could try to get some information from him?
"Mother-in-law is out."
He tried to look calm and said, "What do you want from your mother-in-law?"
The man's voice was dull: "I'm going to settle the score with my mother-in-law."
"Settling accounts?"
Hu Ma suddenly felt hope in her heart: "Is this person the enemy of that weird mother-in-law?"
"She has gone out. She often goes out during the day. Counting the time, she will probably be back soon."
He suppressed his excitement and said slowly: "You..."
"My mother-in-law is coming back soon, so I have to hurry up."
The dull man suddenly turned his head and looked at Hu Ma. Now he was no longer facing the sunshine outside the door, but his face was still unclear. His voice was shrill and intermittent, as if he was running out of energy, and he said: "I was doing well in the woods, but my mother-in-law suddenly found someone to come and chop me up, cut me into pieces, and made me into a Coffin, you said..."
"...Is this hatred big?"
"..."
"?"
Hu Ma should have followed what he said, but suddenly she heard that something in his words was not quite right, and she was confused.
"I would have attained enlightenment in another year or two."
The man continued talking, with a high-pitched cry in his voice: "But my mother-in-law insisted on cutting off my future. I wrapped the dead body of the Cui family grandfather in the soil, smelling him rotting bit by bit. It stinks. I feel the maggots crawling in his body, and I feel the rotten water on his body flowing to me and seeping into my body. Do you think my mother-in-law and I have a blood feud?"
As Hu Ma listened, her scalp suddenly became numb and she staggered back a few steps.
It was only then that he suddenly realized that the person walking just now had a very strange walking posture.
The knees don't seem to bend, and they move straight, as if the board is sliding on the ground.
And as he became more and more excited and came closer to him, Hu Ma's eyes suddenly blurred, and he finally saw clearly under his black robe and black hat, the face that he had always been unable to see clearly...under the hat... Yes, it's not a face at all.
But a board, a dirty, black board.
Even at this moment, I began to smell the stench emanating from his body.
Coffin boards.
But this coffin board is now cursing at me in a high-pitched and excited tone: "I'm here to settle the score with her."
"She ruined my Taoism, and I will take her grandson away..."
"..."
Hu Ma subconsciously wanted to escape, but her body was still weak and her legs were weak.
He felt dizzy for a while and watched helplessly as the coffin board was about to stick to his face.
The putrid smell and sharp sound poured into his head from his ears and nostrils, making him almost faint.
"cough!"
But at this moment, he suddenly heard a light cough coming from the direction of the door, followed by an old voice:
"If you have some spiritual skills, you will get lost in the woods and harm others, even pregnant women. I thought it was not easy for you to cultivate, so I thought that I would let you live after I let you guard the body of Mr. Cui for twenty years. Not only did you You don’t appreciate it, and you want to come here to harm my grandson..."
"Then this time, let's just burn it!"
"..."
Immediately afterwards, he only heard a frightened scream, and there was a strong wind in the room, and he could feel the strong wind blowing across his face.
When he saw what was in front of him clearly, he saw a bare coffin board lying on the ground.
A girl with two pigtails was squatting on the board in a certain animal posture, smiling at herself.
The stern mother-in-law, hunched over, stood silently by the door.
