Chapter 320 - Sacrifice! (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“One body, two deaths. All the villagers said that the woman was unlucky, so they found a few young fellas to come crack open the well to haul the body up. However, weird things happened then. The woman’s head was facing downward when she jumped, but half way through the digging, people saw the woman’s face turning upward.

“The dead person’s face was soaked until it was white. Her eyes were bulging, staring at the people outside the well. With guilt suffocating their hearts, the young men were all spooked, and none had the courage to continue digging.

“But they couldn’t just leave the body inside the well. The elder discussed this with the girl’s new family, and they would provide the money to hire outsiders to dig the well. However, when they returned to the well the next day, the body, which had been facing upward, changed to legs facing upwards. It looked like she was trying to swim deeper into the well.

“Those who saw this reported it to the elder. To prevent panic, the elder said the earlier digging must have affected the water flow and the body slipped down on its own. No one bought this excuse, and on the third day, the villagers discovered that the body inside the well had disappeared!

“There are in total four wells around the village. They were built on top of the same underground river. Since the body had disappeared, they thought it might float up in any one of them. Then weird things continued to happen. The well that the woman died in was the west well, so to avoid her, many people went to the east well.

“The water looked normal, but when they used it to cook rice, they would discover woman’s long hair in the rice. One week later, those who lived near the well heard the sound of water splashing in the middle of the night like something was climbing up the wall of the well.

“The villager looked out the window and saw a red shadow climbing out the well!

“The following day, the villagers discovered the woman’s husband dead in his own bedroom. The woman’s husband was one with a deformity; he had a problem on his face and his arms. When he died, his head was shoved inside a water barrel, cause of death was drowning. This sent a wave of panic through the village. The elder called everyone and suggested calling a doctor from outside to take a look, but before the doctor arrived, the livestock in the village started to die by massive numbers.

“Some who were afraid uprooted and left. However, the scariest thing was, every night, those deserters would be found deposited at the valley in front of the village with various causes of death.

“It appeared like whoever drank the well water would be dragged back and killed. The villagers didn’t have time to build coffins and have funerals because there were too many dead people, so they just left them half-buried.

“Escaping the village meant certain death, and staying behind wasn’t going to save us either. The villagers tried many things, but they couldn’t do anything to the female ghost. Her resentment was too deep, and every night, one or two families would be found dead.

“The number of deaths soared. The people here were superstitious, and we believed if the dead weren’t buried inside coffin, they would return as a hungry ghost. No one knew who would die next, but death was coming. Therefore, every family started to make their own coffins, and this was why each family had coffins instead of beds.

“One month later, the woman finally stopped, but by then, there was no normal looking person left in the village. She had killed every normal person and sinner in the village.

“Then, people understood what she was trying to do. It was because the villagers were afraid of the effects of consanguineous marriages on the future generations that they started kidnapping outside women. Thus, the female ghost would kill all the normal villagers and leave behind the abnormal monsters inside the village. Her message was—let the villagers only show themselves as monsters!”