Chapter 22 (2/2)
The moment Fang Lan saw the headless corpse, she went into a frenzy. That pair of resentful eyes dripped with blood as she violently pounced on Xiao Tangqiu.
At that critical juncture, Xiao Tangqiu decisively pulled out the jade pendant and threw it at Fang Lan’s face.
When the jade pendant touched Fang Lan’s skin, her face suddenly festered and melted off like it had been splashed with acid. Her originally swollen and deformed face became a mangled, unhuman mess. Pieces of rotten flesh fell off her face onto the ground; she screamed hideously as she collapsed into that large patch of festering flesh. The jade pendant crumbled into dust with this one blow.
The jade pendant’s gone……..
At that thought, Xiao Tangqiu’s heart almost jumped out of his chest. He wasn’t sure whether the jade pendant had the power to stop Fang Lan, but he could only fight till the end. Fortunately, the jade pendant was useful, but it had also shattered.
Xiao Tangqiu picked up the bamboo pole from the coffin and shouted at Tang Mianmian who was paralyzed on the ground, “Run! This damn thing isn’t dead yet! “
Before Tang Mianmian could even breathe a sigh of relief, his eyes widened in shock, “Not dead…… not dead yet?!”
“Are you stupid? If she’s really dead, then mission would be completed!” Xiao Tangqiu kicked Tang Mianmian’s butt, “She’s probably lost the ability to act temporarily, so we have to take this chance to run! Run as far can we can ah!”
Looking at the pile of rotten flesh not far away, Tang Mianmian jumped up in horror and started running alongside Xiao Tangqiu, “Fuck! That jade pendant is so powerful but it can only stop her temporarily? What sort of magic weapon would we need to find to kill her completely?! Wait, what are you doing with this bamboo pole? Please don’t tell me you plan to defeat the ghost with this! Even such a long bamboo pole isn’t enough to beat her!”
Xiao Tangqiu had trouble catching his breath, but he still managed to roll his eyes at Tang Mianmian, “Zhou Hai came up with a riddle, and the answer to it is this thing!”
Dewy green leaves and branches in her maiden home
Married out, thereafter, wilted, yellow and wan
Time and again the waters submerge
Resurfacing, gleaming with tears
The answer to the riddle was that bamboo pole.
“Huh?” Tang Mianmian couldn’t wrap his head around it, “When did he come up with a riddle? Why would he give us a riddle?”
Xiao Tangqiu threw the bamboo pole to Tang Mianmian and casually explained. Tang Mianmian suddenly realized, “Oh, so that’s what it is! But what can this thing be used for?”
“I don’t know, but you hold on to it first.” Xiao Tangqiu said with a frown, “There’s still a lot that I don’t understand……”
“Tell me about it, we’ll analyze it together,” Tang Mianmian had no trouble running with that long bamboo pole in his arms.
Xiao Tangqiu frowned and said: “According to Fang Lan’s memories, after she died and turned into an evil spirit, she dug out Zhou Hai’s eyes while he was still alive. So theoretically speaking, Zhou Hai should’ve died after Fang Lan…….”
Tang Mianmian agreed, “There’s nothing wrong with this, so what’s the problem?”
Xiao Tangqiu was silent for a few seconds before burst out, “If Zhou Hai had died after Fang Lan, how could his grave be there? After Fang Lan died and turned into an evil spirit, she burned the entire Yunjia Village. If the whole village was destroyed, who was it that buried Zhou Hai?”
Tang Mianmian paused, “Fang Lan?”
“How is that possible? Fang Lan hated him to the core, why would she dig him a grave? And, why place it behind the village chief’s house?” Xiao Tangqiu contemplated before he said faintly, “Since Zhou Hai’s grave is there, it means that he had already died before all that happened.”
“……Zhou Hai must’ve died before Fang Lan burned the entire Yunjia Village, most likely much earlier than that.”