The figure sprang out from the broken blood net and in a few breaths, it had disappeared into the night.
“Huh?”
The old woman’s eyes gleamed as she looked at the big hole made by the flames, then looked into the night. After a long time, she laughed lowly: “I couldn’t tell, but you have some abilities, even the blood net is broken? No doubt worthy of possessing the Spirit Mystical Body, it just isn’t the same. However, you won’t be able to escape!”
As her voice fell, she went in search of Feng Jiu again. However, as she continued forwards, with her spirit intent released, she was unable to detect the slightest fluctuation or breath of spiritual power. She couldn’t help but be slightly surprised.
“Gone? Hiding? You want to play hide and seek with me?”
Her voice hoarsely through the night along with the night breeze and drifted around. The blood net under her feet intertwined and surged, moving her along.
“Come out! The boundaries here are all covered with blood nets, you can’t escape!”
At this moment, Feng Jiu who had gathered her breath was hiding in a tree behind a dilapidated house. She gasped for breath in the tree as she watched the old woman looking for her in the distance. As she looked at the dark deserted town under control of the old woman, a huge web of blood rose from the ground. It made the eerie town look even more terrifying.
“Ring ring ring….”
Suddenly, there was a clear sound of bells ringing in her ears. She lowered her head and saw that it was the bell on her waist that her sworn elder sister had given her. It was said that she was the only one who could hear the ringing of the bell, and the bell would only ring when ghosts were around.
She stretched out her hand and held up the bell. She glanced at it and the ringing went from weak to strong, slow to fast. When the rapid ringing reached her ears, she stood up in the tree to look.
She saw figures emerging from the web of blood, there were big and small figures, there were men and women, and some were struggling in the web of fresh blood. As she looked at the scene unfolding in front of her, she could imagine that the entire town had been drained of blood by the old woman, whether they were adults or children, they were unable to escape…..
In the web of blood, the figures floated, weeping, and the ghosts cried out like wolves howling, making one’s heart feel heavy. Originally, this place had no presence of ghosts. After the barrier on the earth had been broken, the web of blood surged. It made this place seem like hell on earth at this moment, gloomy and terrifying.
Her hands twisted into fists involuntarily and her heart was filled with anger.
There were so many ghosts, there were so many people! They had all died here!
All the villagers in the town had moved away? She couldn’t bear to leave? They were all lies!
Even if all the people in the town had moved away, it was impossible to have left the place so clean and impossible to make this look like a ghost town. Also, for someone who had never left the town, she had a lot of sesame cakes from Huang County. Did she think that she was a three year old child who could be fooled so easily?
Though she was wary and vigilant against the old woman, she had never expected the town to be like this. If she was unsure before, after seeing the ghosts in the web of blood, she could say with certainty that all the people in this small town were killed, and they were drained of blood!
