C14 (1/2)

Whoosh

An ear-piercing sound suddenly rang into the ears of Bai Mu, who was sleeping soundly. The sound caused even his ears to ring, and Bai Mu was forced to sit up from the bed.

”That sound sounds like …”

With a puzzled expression, Bai Mu looked around the pitch-black room. The kerosene lamp had long been burnt out, and Mo Xin wasn't in the room either.

Whoosh

The sound of a knife being sharpened drifted into Bai Mu's ears once again. This sound of a knife being sharpened made Bai Mu's eyes darken. The sound of the sharpening knife was different from that of ordinary sharpening knives. Bai Mu walked quietly to the door and peeked through the gap in the door. He saw the old woman sharpening a knife on a stone slab.

Under the weak moonlight, a withered hand was holding the handle of the saber, while the other hand seemed to be using all of its strength to hold the blade. Under the weak moonlight, a shriveled hand was holding the handle of the saber, while the other hand seemed to be using all of its strength to hold the blade.

Looking at the mechanical movements of the old woman, Bai Mu felt his scalp go numb.

”Why isn't Mo Xin back yet?” Seeing that Mo Xin wasn't in the room, Bai Mu felt slightly puzzled. Logically speaking, he should have already slept for a while. This amount of time was nothing to a ghost. Wanting to wander around the entire village was an easy task.

However, at this time, Mo Xin had actually disappeared?

After glancing at the room, Bai Mu quietly opened the door and walked out of the hall. The old woman's back was still facing him as she sharpened her knife on the stone floor in the courtyard.

He looked at the sky outside. It should be midnight by now.

”An old man came out to sharpen his saber in the middle of the night without sleeping?” Bai Mu naturally wouldn't believe that this old lady had a habit of sleepwalking. From the first moment he laid eyes on her, he felt that something was off.

Taking advantage of the old granny's back to him, Bai Mu lowered his voice and walked towards her step by step.

As he got closer, the 'chi chi' sound of the sharpening knife made Bai Mu's scalp tingle even more. He had the nagging feeling that the knife wasn't used for cutting vegetables but for killing people.

Bai Mu shuddered as he tried to suppress his overabundance of imagination. When he was one meter away from the old lady, he stopped abruptly.

My god!

A face covered in blood was facing him, and a eyes that was like a dead fish was staring at him. He didn't know if it was just an illusion, but he felt that eye was smiling at him.

When he saw the man's face, Bai Mu could only feel his stomach churning.

The young man with blood all over his face was completely naked, his chest above his head was still intact, and from his stomach to his legs, everything had been cut open by a knife. White internal organs and large intestines were scattered around the old lady.

Bai Mu found it strange that the person's entire body, other than his internal organs and flesh, had no bones. Not only that, his body had been cut open by the saber. Besides his face being stained with blood, there wasn't even a drop of blood.

The sound of the knife suddenly stopped, and the old woman slowly turned around.

Bai Mu frowned as he retreated to a corner in panic.

Under the weak moonlight, the old woman stiffly turned around and grabbed the intestines that were scattered on the ground with her withered, branch-like hands, pulling them into his own hands bit by bit. Bai Mu continuously swallowed his saliva as he watched the old woman's actions.

When she reached the end, the old woman's hand stopped. The tail of the large intestine was connected to the caudal portion of the corpse.

”Gurgle ~ ~” The sound that seemed to echo out from the old woman's throat sounded for a moment, then she picked up the kitchen knife beside her, raised it high, and swung it down, chopping at the corpse's tail without hesitation.

It was as fast as chopping a meatball at home, but at this moment, the meat turned into human flesh. The meaty meat flew everywhere under the sharpened knife, and Bai Mu couldn't take it anymore. He quickly turned around, took a deep breath, and held his chest.

Just as he turned his head, he bumped into the old woman's line of sight. It was precisely because of this gaze that Bai Mu was able to clearly see the old woman's face.

Under the moonlight, the old face that was wrinkled like an orange peel looked as if its flesh and blood had been sucked dry, leaving only a piece of yellow skin covering it.

Fortunately, the old woman only glanced in Bai Mu's direction and didn't stop there. She placed the intestines on the chopping board with her hands and cut them into pieces.

Bai Mu didn't know what sort of mentality he had when he saw the impact in front of his eyes. After the old woman finished slicing the intestines, she slowly placed the clotted intestines into the wooden bucket that Bai Mu had helped her talk about in the afternoon.

After the old woman finished doing all of this, she picked up the wooden bucket and walked step by step towards the pigsty.

What the heck!

Bai Mu finally understood the situation.