Chapter 257: Humans and Ghosts Living Together
Snap! Snap!
The heavy rain poured down, hitting the broken bricks and tiles. The dense sound of the rain was disconcerting. The bean-sized flames swayed in this leaky hut in the storm, as if they would be blown out by the cold wind coming in through the cracks in the next moment.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to see how these ghosts are going to take my life."
Extreme despair and fear will turn into anger. The young man stood beside the oil lamp, holding a rusty kitchen knife in his hand, and his bloodshot eyes stared at the darkness that could not be reached by the faint light of the oil lamp.
The roof above my head was leaking continuously, and a corner of the bedding on the bed was already wet by the rain. A cold and damp air was emanating from the house and was gradually becoming thicker.
Phew~
A gust of cold wind blew in from the gap in the eaves, and in an instant it blew out the already dwindling flame of the oil lamp. The dimly lit room was completely plunged into dead silence and darkness. Only the boy's breathing became heavier.
"My dear, are you waiting for me?"
Suddenly, a faint fluorescent light lit up, and a gentle and charming voice was heard. Then, a pretty girl in a red wedding dress appeared in front of the boy's bed, smiling at the boy who was holding a kitchen knife and had his eyes wide open.
“…”
When he saw the ghost girl in wedding dress again, the young man felt a mixture of fear and anger. Although his body became stiff due to the cold and gloomy air blowing in his face, his mouth was still under his control.
With the experience of the day, the boy bit his tongue again without hesitation. A fishy and sweet smell of blood filled his mouth, but the same thing did not happen.
The figure of the girl in the wedding dress did not disappear as she did during the day. Instead, she became more and more real before his eyes, and her seemingly gentle smile contained a hint of teasing and mockery.
"My dear, it's useless for you to do this. You're just wasting your Yang energy."
Just like during the day, the girl in the wedding dress stretched out her hand, gently touched the boy's cheek, bit the tip of her tongue, and the warmth brought by the blood quickly dissipated. At this moment, the boy felt as if a piece of ice was roughly stuffed into his mouth.
"The night is long. My dear, since you have no desire to sleep, why don't you spend time with me..."
As she spoke, the girl in the wedding dress lowered her head and moved closer to the boy. However, such a charming scene not only did not make the boy feel happy and lustful, but instead made him feel panic and endless fear.
Because the girl's eyes suddenly turned blood red, and the scarlet blood turned into tears and flowed down, leaving two clearly visible bloodstains on her face. The cold and strange aura became thicker than ever before at this moment.
The young man, who was able to make some small movements originally, was now stiff as a clay sculpture. He had lost all his autonomy and could only watch as the extremely terrifying girl in the wedding dress got closer and closer to him.
As the distance shortened, the boy not only did not feel any of the sweetness that a girl should have , but instead felt a bloody stench that made him want to vomit.
No!
don't want!
She must not be allowed to touch it!
The boy's mind was warning him that if he was touched, he would never see the sun rising tomorrow. Under the intense crisis and the crazy mental stimulation of opportunity, the boy's heart was beating wildly.
boom--
Something seemed to explode in my mind, a roar sounded in my consciousness, something exploded in my chest, a burning warm current burst out in my heart and instantly spread to my whole body.
The boy's mind and thoughts became hazy, and an indescribable violent emotion engulfed his consciousness. The face of the girl, which kept enlarging in front of his eyes, with blood and tears flowing from the corners of her eyes , also became blurred.
Roar
An inhuman roar sounded in the small town submerged in the rain. In the night, there were still sporadic lights swaying in the darkness through the window paper, but now they were all extinguished. The whole town was completely submerged in the dark rain, without any life. From a distance, it looked like a cemetery.
Snap! Snap!
It was still raining heavily, and the irritating sound of rain never stopped. When the boy, who was aching all over, opened his eyes dazedly, everything familiar yet unfamiliar came into view.
When his hazy consciousness regained consciousness and everything that happened before he fell into a coma flooded into his mind, the boy suddenly struggled to stand up from the ground, and then looked around in a daze.
In the lightless darkness, the boy could see that his already extremely shabby home was now in a mess, with the walls even covered with chilling claw marks and traces of fire burns.
It was as if an extremely ferocious monster had broken into his home and wreaked havoc, but the strange thing was that the wedding dress ghost who wanted to harm him had disappeared, and he was still alive.
The monster saved him?
How could this be possible?
Hiss~
The boy was still immersed in confusion and surprise when he suddenly felt a piercing pain in his ten fingers. He looked down and suddenly found that his fingers were completely unrecognizable, with almost all his nails falling off, flesh and blood rolling, and even white bones visible.
"This is……"
The boy's reaction was not slow. He looked up at the shocking burning claw marks on the wall with an expression of disbelief on his face. He did not dare or did not want to believe that it was caused by himself.
“…I caught it?”
He staggered to his feet, and then found that his body was also unrecognizable. His clothes, which were already full of patches, became tattered and there were also traces of burns on them.
But what surprised the boy was that he did not find any scars from the fire on his body.
The young man was confused and puzzled by the changes before his eyes, and even suspected that he was dreaming. As he looked around the room, his eyes suddenly fixed.
Because he saw a familiar red hydrangea, but now it had become tattered and no longer had the previous eerie, chilling aura, and it also had signs of being burned by fire.
"What on earth happened?"
The young man's expression became more and more confused. He looked at the bed board that had fallen to the ground. He subconsciously walked over and wanted to pick it up. However, when he touched the bed board, there was a "click" sound, and a clear crack appeared on the bed board that was nearly an inch thick.
Looking at this incredible scene, the young man suddenly increased his strength, and then he saw that the bed board, which he had slept on for who knows how many years, was broken by him.
"How can I have so much strength?"
The young man let go of the broken bed board in his hand and couldn't help but take a few steps back. Surprise, confusion and fear of the unknown were mixed together. For a moment, he didn't know what to do. He had no idea what was happening to him.
But there is one thing he may be certain of now, that is, the ghost that wanted to murder him might have been killed by himself during the time when he lost consciousness.
ah!
Suddenly, a shrill scream suddenly sounded in the rainy night from outside the house. Hearing the creepy scream, the young man was startled. He suppressed all his thoughts and looked outside through the leaky door with a nervous expression.
At this moment, the boy suddenly realized that there was no candle lit in the room, but he could still see everything clearly in the dark.
However, the boy soon lost interest in exploring the strange and abrupt changes happening to him, because heavy footsteps and deep breathing appeared outside his house, approaching from afar.
A familiar chilly aura spread from outside the house, and along with it came a sickening stench of decay. The boy's hairs stood up. Although he seemed to have defeated an evil ghost, the unknown monster outside the door still frightened him.
The heavy rain was still pouring down from the sky, and occasionally a flash of thunder would streak across the sky, bringing a moment of brightness between heaven and earth.
Sizzle
The sound of sharp nails scratching against wooden boards could be heard. Even though it was so noisy on a rainy night, it couldn't cover up the terrifying sound.
The young man stared outside the door nervously, even ignoring the pain coming from various parts of his body. Suddenly, a dazzling thunder streaked through the clouds, followed by a roar that shook the earth and sky.
As the roar of thunder that illuminated the world for a moment echoed throughout the heaven and earth, all the strange movements outside the house stopped, including the heavy footsteps, low breathing, and the sound of the wooden door being scratched.
"Have you left?"
Feeling nervous and expectant, the boy carefully approached the door, bent down quietly, and looked outside the house through the crack in the door.
Boom boom
Another loud thunder streaked across the sky. Between the roar and the flash of thunder, the young man was so shocked that he couldn't help but take a step back, because at this moment, there was a figure outside the crack of the door, maintaining a similar posture as him, and looking at him.
"That's Uncle Sun?!"
The young man recalled the purple face he caught a glimpse of and felt that it was somewhat familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this was his neighbor.
"Why is he..."
Roar
Before the young man could recover from his shock, he heard a roar from outside the door. The leaky wooden door in front of him suddenly broke into pieces. A black shadow rushed in like a monkey and knocked the young man to the ground. The strong and nauseating smell of blood and rot kept entering the young man's nostrils.
"Uncle Sun!"
The young boy looked in horror at the monster that had knocked him down. He could vaguely recognize the broken face as that of the kind old man next door who often helped him.
But at this moment, the uncle has turned into a monster. In his wide-open mouth, one can see incomplete and dense black teeth, as well as blood and flesh residues dotted between the black teeth.
"ah--"
In panic, the young boy watched as the monster opened its mouth full of fine black teeth and bit down fiercely on his neck. The unprecedented pain of flesh and blood being torn apart made the young boy scream miserably.
But suddenly, a ball of fire broke out from his shoulder, or more accurately, it broke out from the flesh and blood torn from the monster's mouth. The raging fire ignited the monster's head in an instant.
The boy didn't need to struggle as the monster howled and screamed as it crawled away from him, trying to rush into the rainstorm. But before it could cross the threshold, it fell to the ground with a plop. A raging fire spread downward from its head, and in just a few breaths, the monster was completely wrapped up in it, turning into a pile of firewood that burned.
The young man stared at the scene in amazement, and even forgot the pain of the flesh on his shoulder being bitten off. The flames burned very quickly, and in just half a quarter of an hour, the monster that was transformed from a human was turned into a pool of ashes.
When the last wisp of flame went out, a wisp of black smoke that looked like a small snake or earthworm rose from the ashes. Seeing this strange wisp of black smoke, the boy subconsciously opened his mouth and took a light breath.
Before he could come to his senses, he had already swallowed the wisp of black smoke into his mouth, and a tingling and numb feeling suddenly spread from the wounds all over his body.
The young man then belatedly noticed the changes in himself. He tilted his head slightly and was immediately surprised to find that the blood from the wound on his shoulder was actually glowing slightly, like a red charcoal that had not yet burned out.
Sizzle
A drop of blood fell on the tattered clothes and actually ignited the clothes. The boy hurriedly put out the fire. Only then did he realize that the fire did not cause any harm to him but only burned his clothes.
"I, what's wrong?"
There was confusion in the boy's eyes. The blood that flowed out could actually ignite his clothes. Even monsters could not withstand it and would be burned to ashes. No matter what, this was not the blood that a human should have.
roar--
The heavy rain was still pouring down, the monster's roar sounded again, and the familiar stench wafted over again, but this time, the boy did not feel much fear in his heart, but instead felt a bit more inexplicable expectation.
Snap——
A bolt of white lightning fell from the sky like a sharp sword, striking outside the town and hitting a thousand-year-old locust tree that was so big that several people could hug it.
The terrifying power of heaven made the young man, who had cautiously poked his head out of the house, shrink back. However, the young man did not see that at the place where the thunder struck, a crack suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and then a black-armored general, who looked intimidating without even being angry, led the crowd out with a skeleton sword in his hand.
"Is this the human world?"
Behind the general, a young man in white walked out, raised his head to look at the sky, lowered his head to look at the earth, and then asked a question.
"It's the human world, but I don't know what happened."
In the dark night with heavy rain, the golden light shining in the eyes of the black-armored general was particularly eye-catching. However, this majestic general frowned as he looked at the gloomy and evil aura that gathered under the dark clouds.
“So many people died.”
"This is really rare. It really broadens my horizons."
Feng Qing'an looked at the small town shrouded in rain not far away. The strange sight of a mixture of life and death made him marvel at it.
He had been to many places, but this was the first time he saw the strange sight of humans and ghosts living together. However, the speed at which the ghost energy grew and the human energy declined was too rapid.
