Chapter 316 - Graveclothes (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“That was to save you.” Chen Ge shoved the hammer back into his backpack. “The escape of the three shadows means that we’ve been exposed; we cannot stay here any longer.”

“We’re finally leaving?” Ol’ Wei had been wanting to leave for a long time already.

“Coffin Village is very quiet at night, so our fight earlier must have echoed very far. I’m afraid other monsters might hear that and come to surround us.” Chen Ge had his own plan. “The first reaction of the earlier three monsters when they saw us was to attack. This goes to show that it wasn’t out of kindness the old lady led us here. The villagers here are not as kind as Master Bai assumed.”

Master Bai disagreed with Chen Ge. “I haven’t been inside Coffin Village at night before, but I don’t understand this change. In my memory, Coffin Village’s real villagers would not do something like this; they’re no different from normal people.”

“Master Bai, you haven’t been back here for years already; you don’t know what happened when you were gone, so we’d better be careful.” Chen Ge looked around and bent over to pick up the paper doll on the floor. The paper doll that had been tormented by the boy had its limps almost torn off, and its expression was one of pain.

“Zhu Fengxi?” There was a name on the back of the doll. It was unknown what kind of ink it was, but based on Chen Ge’s experience, it felt like dried blood.

“This name is rather familiar.” Master Bai moved close to Chen Ge to take a look at the doll. “He sounds like one of the escapes from Coffin Village.”

“The dolls have the names of the escapees.” Chen Ge related this to the weird phenomena he had observed at Lin Guan Village. Many old houses had a cleaver behind the door and a rope by the window. Combining that with what had happened to them inside the house, he had a brief understanding why things were that way.

If a monster tried to crawl in through the window, then the rope was to tie around their neck, and the cleaver behind the door was for self-defense. The more isolated the village, the weirder the tradition—that was the only way Chen Ge could interpret these traditions.

Those who escaped from Coffin Village spent their days in fear. Could the thing that cause that fear be the ghost from Coffin Village? If they were captured, would they end up as paper dolls to be tormented eternally?

Chen Ge had another question that needed to be answer. Why did these people escape from Coffin Village in the first place? What kind of event transpired at this old village to cause a mass exodus?

To know all that, I’ll need to find a villager to ask. Chen Ge pocketed the paper doll. “I have a plan to discuss with you.”

“Tell me.”

“First, we leave this village.”

“Okay.” Ol’ Wei and Master Bai nodded. They also felt that the village was too dangerous.

“Then, we’ll inspect each house, starting from the ones near the entrance, moving inwards. No matter what we come across, we must detain them.” There was a sparkle in Chen Ge’s eyes. “As long as we don’t make too much noise, we should be able to take them down one by one.”

Chen Ge had given his plan much thought. Whenever Xu Yin consumed a ghost, the blood stain on his clothes increased. Based on this progression, there was a high chance of him turning into a real Red Specter that night!

There was a great power difference between a normal Specter and a Red Specter. Without a Red Specter by his side, Chen Ge did not feel safe.