Chapter 336 - The Start of the Nightmare (1/2)

“She’s inside the well. She just hasn’t awakened yet.” The Zhu woman did not get scared off but stood firmly, shielding the two children.

“In that case, I’ll go look for her myself.” The black robe waved at the Red Specter beside him. The ghost that was just faces crawled into the villager’s body. In less than one second, the villager collapsed to the floor, dead.

“Looks like it’s not him.” The black robe raised his head. “She was forced to her death by the villagers, so even if her ghost form might disperse, she would not possess a villager, then who could it be?”

Instead of contemplation, it sounded more like the black robe was trying to see the Zhu woman’s reaction. Before entering Coffin Village, the ghost stories society had gathered a lot of information, but it was vague and needed confirmation. Hearing what the black robe had to say, the Zhu woman was anxious.

“She hates the villagers, but there is one lady by the surname Zhu who is the sole exception.” The black robe called the Red Specter to return. His finger stroked the creature’s hair gently like he was treating his lover. “If I were that woman, I would leave my spirit with the person I trusted the most.”

He patted the Red Specter’s forehead lightly, and his tone changed as he pointed at the Zhu woman. “Kill her!”

The crazy man was still talking about something else the last moment, but the next second, he turned aggressive. The Zhu lady did not expect this turn of events. During the crucial moment, the jewelry that she took out from the red coffin changed. Each of the jewels was hiding a half Red Specter; this was the woman’s last trump card.

She whispered something to Jiang Liang before turning to focus on controlling the ghosts to deal with the man’s Red Specter. Jiang Ling and Fan Yu heard what the woman had to say and slowly retreated.

The Red Specter with faces elicited a creepy laugh. This Red Specter was different from others; it was more like a coagulation of people’s resentment, and it had most likely come from behind the ‘door’. The ghosts that came out of the jewelry were torn apart, and all the faces on the monster made the same small action—they opened their mouth to bite at the Zhu woman.

The black robe seemed to have been waiting for this moment for a long time already. His voice was shaking. “We’re going to consume a top Red Specter. This was unimaginable in the past!”

The man finally said the real reason the society came to Coffin Village. They had managed to find out there was an injured powerful Red Specter in Coffin Village through some means, and their plan was surrounding this Red Specter. After consuming a powerful Red Specter, the society would have their own powerful Red Specter.

The mouths bit on the woman’s body. After two to three seconds, the face monster stopped.

“She’s not on here?” The black robe was surprised as he moved his gaze to Jiang Ling and Fan Yu. “This is rather troublesome. In that case, we’ll just need to slaughter everyone.”

The face monster charged at Jiang Ling while the black robe stood where he was. He seemed to already know the result, so he did not care about the rest and started to do his own stuff. He reached into his robe to search for something. He took out a handful of paper dolls, and each of them had a pained expression on their face.

“All 34 villagers of Lin Guan Village are here. According to their answers, all the villagers that escaped from Coffin Village decade ago had some connection to the Zhu woman. It even included her own progeny.” The man slowly stood up and looked at Jiang Ling. “Of all the deserters, only that little girl wasn’t made into a paper doll by me. In that case, there’s a very good chance the ghost is in her body.”

Fan Yu grabbed Jiang Ling’s hand as they raced into the village, but how could the two kids outrun a Red Specter? As the face monster approached then, Fan Yu suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the corner ahead. “This way!”

Chen Ge shoved the hammer and comic into his backpack. He stood before them with both of his hands empty. He looked like he was ready to run.