The time is certain, but this kind of waiting is no less than torture for Mrs. Chen.
Glancing at the 23:57 clearly displayed on the clock, Mrs. Chen's breathing became heavier. She shifted her gaze to the table, first focusing on the red cloth, and finally looking at the hair in the cloth.
That's Zhao Huanzhen's hair.
It is true that a variety of complicated props are needed to hold a soul-calling ceremony, but no matter what, there is one thing that must be present, and that is the belongings of the deceased.
The so-called objects of the deceased refer to objects that the deceased often came into contact with during his lifetime or simply a part of the body of the deceased. Only in this way can the objects be used to channel spirits and then summon the spirits of the dead.
In fact, when she first came up with the idea of calling for ghosts, Mrs. Chen set out to search the house where Zhao Huanzhen lived before her death. Finally, she found a few women's hair in the bedroom. When she came back, she happened to see a woman standing in front of her door. There was one person, none other than the young foreigner named He Fei. At the same time, this also explained why Granny Chen appeared from behind the young man yesterday.
Of course, the above is not the focus now, the focus is...
when! when! when……
The old-fashioned clock in the room rang suddenly, ringing 12 times in succession, so clear and ear-piercing in this midnight rainstorm.
Soon after, when the bell rang, Mrs. Chen moved.
Whether she wanted to or not, whether she was afraid or not, as long as midnight came, she had to take action during this time.
The conjuring has begun!
Picking up the brush, lightly dipping it in the inkstone filled with cinnabar juice, he quickly picked up the brush and wrote the three words "Zhao Huanzhen" on the blank canvas of the soul-calling flag.
The matter was not over yet. After putting down the brush, Mrs. Chen took out the carving knife and pierced the tip of the knife into the index finger of her left hand. .
The tip of the knife penetrated and blood gushed out. The frowning Mrs. Chen dripped the blood onto the red cloth and onto the hair in the cloth.
After doing all this, Mrs. Chen, who was not the first to summon souls, continued her movements skillfully. She picked up the soul-summoning flag and sat cross-legged on the ground. At the same time, her hands holding the soul-summoning flag began to shake from side to side. During the shaking, her eyes were slightly closed and she muttered something. :
"Human beings are yang, and worms are yin. People and worms have different paths. Today we sacrifice blood to meet each other. I have something to discuss with you and want to tell you."
"Zhao Huanzhen, come quickly, Zhao Huanzhen, come quickly, Zhao Huanzhen, come quickly..."
At this moment, Mrs. Chen was waving the flag and repeatedly calling Zhao Huanzhen's name. Almost at the same time, as Mrs. Chen was mumbling something, the candle flames on the tabletop, which had been burning slowly and calmly earlier, actually continued to change with Mrs. Chen's words. An abnormality occurred due to the call. The flames began to flicker without wind blowing. Sometimes the flames intensified, and sometimes the flames suddenly weakened and almost went out. No, no, it was not just the candles on the table, but also the other dozen or so scattered around the room. The candles also collectively flickered on and off.
As Mrs. Chen's speaking speed gradually increased, more and more incomprehensible phenomena continued to occur.
Hooray.
In the room with the flickering candlelight, I don't know when the wind started to blow. Although it was so weak that it was almost undetectable, there was a real wind. For a while, bursts of sourceless breeze began to flow in this room with closed doors and windows. Blow freely.
Blah blah blah, blah blah.
The wind got stronger and louder, until it made several portraits of the True Lord rattle.
Then, the room began to cool down suddenly.
………
Time returns to 20 minutes ago, south of the village.
The village fell into silence in the heavy rain that was approaching midnight, and every house and courtyard lost its sound. It was as if the whole world had died, the noise no longer existed, and there were only thunder, lightning, and the never-ending pouring rain.
Chu Pengguang had a feeling that he was the only one left in the whole village, or even the only living person left in the whole world.
His wife had disappeared inexplicably as early as the beginning of Li Qi's troubles, and she was the first batch of missing persons in the village.
After losing his wife, Chu Pengguang burst into tears. He searched frantically in the village, asking questions about everyone he saw, and even begged the villagers to help search. However, no matter where he looked, no matter where he went, he searched all the places he could find and found nothing. Until recently, nothing was found. The number of missing people in the village was increasing. It was not until yesterday that even Zheng Dashan and his wife who lived next door disappeared inexplicably. Chu Pengguang suddenly discovered...
At some point, all his neighbors disappeared, and he was the only one left in the entire south of the village.
In other words, he was the only one left in Jingtao Village.
Crash.
Looking out the window at the heavy rain that was raging like water, listening to the continuous sound of raindrops outside, and the occasional bursts of thunder, Chu Pengguang, who was sitting alone in the middle of the hall, was covered in cold sweat, and his whole body was frightened.
At first, he comforted himself and tried to go to bed and close his eyes to rest. However, after discovering that he could not close his eyes and fall asleep no matter what, Chu Pengguang gave up and gave up rest. Instead, he held a candle and put on his shoes and got out of bed. The purpose was to come to the main room, and then he sat at the table and thought wildly, not knowing what to do for a while.
As the saying goes, the more you think about fear, the more you fear, and the more you think about it. Especially when a person is alone, he is more easily affected by the environmental atmosphere. However, Chu Pengguang is currently trapped in the kind of fear caused by loneliness, which prompts him to frequently Guess, can't help but think about it.
What is the scariest thing in the world?
There are many answers, but unknown is firmly ranked first.
Unknown, completely unknown. Although I had long known from Granny Chen that the worms in the village were caused by the ghost of Zhao Huanzhen, but what could this mean? To be honest, what really scares Chu Pengguang is not the female locust itself, but the mysterious disappearance caused by the female locust!
I don’t know when I will be quietly disappeared by the female locust. I don’t know when I will disappear from the world like my wife and neighbors. This is the most frightening and terrifying thing. In the combined family and the entire village, only my loneliness is left. Due to the influence of many factors, this man who was lucky enough to survive until now was on the verge of collapse.
It was precisely because of being too lonely and too scared that his already random thoughts deepened and became increasingly difficult to extricate himself.
(My wife is missing, Zheng Dashan and his wife are missing, Zhou Mingfa and his family are missing, and the whole village is silent. What about me? How long can I exist? I will disappear sooner or later! Maybe, maybe it will be my turn tonight! )
Chu Pengguang never thinks that he is special than others, and he never thinks that he can live a long life. Yes, so many people in the village have disappeared for no reason, and countless villagers are alive and dead. Why can he, Chu Pengguang, live to this day? at last? Soon, soon, he had a feeling that it would be his turn soon!
It is said that most of the time fear comes from scaring oneself. This is true. Feeling the dead silence in the living room and watching the pouring rain outside the window, Chu Pengguang became more and more frightened as he thought about it more and more. The cold sweat on his forehead became more and more until lightning flashed outside the window. Finally, , amidst the rolling thunder that followed, Chu Pengguang could not sit still. Thinking that he would die tonight, he suddenly left his seat and stood up in fear. While twitching the corner of his mouth, he muttered to himself:
"No, no, I can't go on like this. I don't want to. I don't want to wait to die. I, I... I want to escape!"
"I want to get out of here!"
Of course Chu Pengguang knew that there were a large number of living corpses wandering outside the village, and the reason why he could stay in the village until now was precisely because of the living corpses. If there was no threat from the living corpses, he would have packed up his belongings and fled the village long ago, but , it is different now, very different. The so-called lesser of two evils. After several days of ideological struggle, the man believes that although living corpses are scary, they are visible and tangible after all, and they can be avoided after all. Compared with the physical threat of living corpses that can at least escape when encountered, disappearing for no reason is the most terrifying, and it is even more inevitable.
In this case, is it necessary for me to stay in the village and wait for death?
So, in this way, Chu Pengguang, who was overwhelmed by fear, believed that staying in the village would lead to death sooner or later, and believed that only by escaping from the village could he have hope of survival.
At first glance, this idea seemed quite reasonable, but unfortunately, despite his hard thinking and weighing the pros and cons, he still neglected something and ignored an extremely important natural phenomenon, that is...
It is raining now, and the entire village is covered with water. Although he is in a dry and waterless environment at home, there is a pouring rain outside the house next to the door. It has already become a world of water, an ocean of water.
He did whatever he thought of, especially when he decided that he could not stay in the village for a single second longer, so the man acted decisively.
I ran into the bedroom and rummaged through the cabinets. I simply packed my luggage, put on my bamboo hat and raincoat, and immediately ran out the door without saying a word.
squeak.
Wow!
Pushing open the door, countless raindrops hit him head-on under the strong wind, but it didn't matter anymore. Chu Pengguang didn't care about the rain at all. Instead, he thought in his heart that it might be more convenient for him to escape with the help of the rain.
Soon, stepping on the cold water everywhere on the ground, and facing the dense raindrops above, Chu Pengguang ran away, rushed out of the yard as fast as possible, and finally disappeared into the village street, disappearing into the night that was now ruled by water. middle.
Blah blah blah, blah blah.
As mentioned before, because the fear in his heart had reached its peak, Chu Pengguang, who had left home but intended to leave the village, was still running fast. His footsteps made a series of slapping sounds when he stepped on the water. He was soaked in water and did not think it at all. The purpose is very clear, that is, to run. First leave the village as fast as possible, and then carefully pass through the area outside the village where the living corpses are infested. As long as you can get away from the village within one kilometer, it means safety and means escape. God, then I won’t have to be afraid anymore!
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"
The camera moves to the entrance of the village.
The hard work paid off. As a native of Jingtao Village, he had been familiar with the village terrain for many years. Even though it was late at night and it was raining heavily, it only took a few minutes for Chu Pengguang to successfully reach the east exit of the village and reach the edge of the village smoothly. .
After confirming that the exit was close at hand, the man couldn't help but become energetic. He didn't even bother to take a break. He was eager to escape and ran again, running to the outside of the village in one breath.
He left the village, but when he got here, Chu Pengguang didn't dare to be as unscrupulous as he was in the village, because he knew that there were living corpses in a certain area outside the village. Those living corpses could kill people and kill anyone who left the village. Villagers are killed, and what’s even more weird and terrifying is that any villager who dies outside the village will soon transform into a terrifying living corpse covered in blood, and then become a member of the army of living corpses!
Affected by the night and heavy rain, Chu Pengguang's vision was blocked. He opened his eyes and observed for a moment. After confirming that there was nothing abnormal in the wasteland ahead, the man gritted his teeth and took steps, slowly walking towards the outside of the village.
(God bless, bless me, you must bless me!)
While walking, he knew the power of living corpses and was always on guard against surprise. He never forgot to look around every step he took, as if he was taking his caution to the extreme.
Thankfully, nothing and everything happened nearby during the walk.
This further increased Chu Pengguang's confidence in escaping.
Next…
While walking, Chu Pengguang stopped.
Just a few steps away from stepping into the grass on the opposite side, he suddenly stopped, stopped moving, and froze on the spot.
The reason is that he just heard a sound, heard someone calling him, someone calling his name.
(Um?)
He was secretly wondering whether he heard correctly, but before he could figure out the result, the voice came again, clearly coming from the direction behind him:
"Tomomitsu!"
………
Imagine that when a person is in a state of panic and nervousness, and suddenly hears someone calling his or her name, how do people usually react at such times?
The standard answer is to immediately look for the sound, turn around and look closely, and observe the owner of the voice behind you. If the other person is a stranger, the person being called will most likely ignore it and choose to run away decisively.
This is said to be true, and it is also true in reality. Chu Pengguang is like this at present. When he confirms that there is a voice calling him from behind, he instinctively stops, and then maintains vigilance and looks back to observe, but...
He did not run away, but continued to stay where he was.
because……
He saw an acquaintance who was a woman, a woman who was too familiar to Chu Pengguang.
In the field of vision, more than ten meters behind him, there was a woman standing in the rain, a woman wearing native flower cloth.
At this moment, the woman stood there and screamed at Chu Pengguang with a desperate expression: "Pengguang, why are you leaving? Don't you want me anymore? Why don't you take me with you if you want to leave?" Go together?"
"Aling!"
With the help of the moonlight, after seeing the woman's appearance clearly and hearing the woman's cries and shouts filled with resentment, Chu Pengguang was stunned for a moment and blurted out the woman's name immediately.
That's his wife!
Surprisingly, it is his wife A Ling who has disappeared without any reason due to the recent turmoil in the village!
He originally thought that his wife would be missing for the rest of his life, and he thought that he would never see her again in this life. He never thought that his missing wife would reappear in front of him!
The reason why people are called humans, in addition to having wisdom and knowing how to think, is that humans are emotional animals. Human beings have emotions.
"Aling! It's been so hard for me to look for you during this time!"
Sure enough, as he turned around to look at the other person clearly, he saw that the other person was not only a stranger but his most intimate wife. Seeing this, Chu Pengguang, who was frightened and nervous just now, suddenly turned from worry to joy. Under the joy, he also considered Not being able to run away, he answered first, then turned around and ran towards his wife with great strides.
Seeing this, some people must have doubts, and then wonder why Chu Pengguang believed his wife without doubting it after seeing her? Yes, as a villager in Jingtao Village who has personally experienced the chaos in the village, doesn't he know that people have been missing frequently recently? Shouldn't he first be suspicious of the sudden appearance of his missing wife? The truth is true, but in fact it is not the case. Chu Pengguang himself is not an idiot. The reason why a man is so excited and abandons doubt after seeing his wife is that there is a key factor, and that is...
His wife is simply missing!
Yes, first of all, we must understand that A Ling is not dead, but has recently disappeared. At least before seeing the body, Chu Pengguang still believed in his heart that his wife was not dead.
Now I find that my wife who has been missing for a long time has appeared. Although I am still suspicious of why my wife appeared, the joy of seeing her again after a long separation still overwhelms the suspicion in my heart.
Humans are emotional animals after all.
Snap, snap, snap.
Stepping on the muddy ground and puddles of water, Chu Pengguang ran very fast. He had a good relationship with A Ling and he really wanted to hold his wife in his arms. He thought so, but in reality, he did so. .
As soon as he ran to his wife, the man opened his arms and hugged the woman. At the same time, he murmured with joy: "A Ling, I finally found you, finally found you..."
As he spoke, Chu Pengguang's subsequent words suddenly stopped.
It's not that he doesn't want to say it, or that he's too excited to say it, but...
But he suddenly discovered that at this moment, the body of the woman he was holding tightly was so cold!
It was cold, bone-to-bone cold, or in other words, the moment he hugged the woman, the deep chill from her body swept through his limbs and body in an instant.
Cold, so cold, it felt like what I was holding in my arms was not a human being, but more like a piece of thousand-year-old ice!
Upon noticing this, his heart and body suddenly trembled at this moment. The man who noticed something was wrong immediately turned his head and looked at his wife, looking at A Ling who was being hugged tightly by him.
Then……
He saw a face as pale as paper, a face that looked slightly rotten as if it had been soaked in water for too long.
That face was also looking at him now, staring at him with a pair of blood-colored eyes. While staring, the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a ferocious smile.
This face is not his wife's face, but he seems to have seen this face, or the woman he is currently holding.
Zhao Huanzhen!
The woman in his arms turned out to be Zhao Huanzhen, who had been dead for a long time!
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
The next second, the man's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly let out a series of frightened screams that were almost different in tone!
While screaming, Chu Pengguang made a move, subconsciously wanting to push the woman away, turn around and run away, but what was strange and incomprehensible was...
He couldn't move.
His body and Zhao Huanzhen's body were as if they were stuck together with strong glue and could no longer be separated.
Upon seeing this, Chu Pengguang, who had been frightened to death for a long time, instantly suffered from liver and gallbladder splitting. He urinated and urinated on the spot. His whole body was shaking wildly and he kept twisting and trying to break free. He struggled wildly with all his strength. He pushed and turned with all his strength, screaming and struggling in an unprecedented and crazy way.
But unfortunately, it was useless, completely useless. No matter how hard he screamed and how hard he tried, his bodies were still close to each other and the distance was still zero. All his efforts had no effect. At this moment, he was holding Zhao Huanzhen tightly. , tightly holding the woman in his arms, no, not a woman, but a Li Qi, a Li Qi born out of resentment and demanding his life! ! !
"Heheheheheheheh……"
At the same time, just as Chu Pengguang was screaming and struggling with his liver and gallbladder broken, Zhao Huanzhen smiled in his arms. His face, which was already as pale as paper, was more ferocious and twisted than before, and a string of strange laughter filled with echoes came out of his mouth. , laughter echoed wantonly in the deserted dark wilderness.
Then, Zhao Huanzhen's body became transparent, and the transparency of her body became increasingly blurry in a way that was visible to the naked eye.
Yes, it was transparent. Under Chu Pengguang's close gaze, it quickly faded until it turned into a ball of water, a human-shaped stream of water.
The water flow rushed forward, easily covering Chu Pengguang, and covered the man's entire body during his frantic struggle.
Water can isolate air and sound, so when the water flow wrapped around the man, Chu Pengguang's scream disappeared, and only the man could be seen struggling in the water with his hands covering his neck.
I couldn't breathe, and a lot of water poured into my mouth when I opened my mouth.
During this period, he moved his legs to try to escape, trying to break out of the water ball. However, the water flow could also move and tightly wrapped him like a piece of clothing that stuck to his body. Wherever the man went, the water ball followed. From beginning to end, the man was wrapped in a ball of water.
Under the heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, time passed by slowly, minute by minute.
Three minutes later.
In the water mass, the man's struggle became smaller and smaller, from intense at first to weak, until silent, until only his body was left twitching unconsciously in the water.
Four minutes later, the twitching stopped.
Chu Pengguang died, drowned in the water.
In an open space that was neither the bottom of a river nor a well, a man drowned...
Plop.
At this moment, Chu Pengguang was lying on his back and fell to the ground, motionless under the heavy raindrops. The man's eyes were protruding, his mouth was wide open, and his face was extremely ferocious. He died in extremely painful ways, as if he could not close his eyes to death!
After the man died, the water ball that originally wrapped his body broke away on its own, and then transformed into a woman next to him, a woman named Zhao Huanzhen.
Staring at the corpse on the ground, Zhao Huanzhen's already pale and horrifying face further revealed a ferocious smile. Then, the vengeful viper, which had basically slaughtered the entire village, moved, turned around and rushed towards the village without moving its legs, completely Using the accumulated water on the ground as a driving force, I moved forward lightly, looming in the rain and moving forward leisurely.
However, at this moment, the female locust was about to enter the village...
"Human beings are yang, and worms are yin. People and worms have different paths. Today we sacrifice blood to meet each other. I have something to discuss with you and want to tell you."
"Zhao Huanzhen, come quickly, come quickly, come quickly..."
A string of repeated calls and whispers that came out of nowhere echoed inexplicably around the female locust.
Feeling the call of the voice, the female locust disappeared. She disappeared on the same spot. No, she didn't really disappear. Instead, she dissolved into water and immediately disappeared into the endless rain ahead.
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