Chapter 22 (1/2)

Xiao Tangqiu broke out in cold sweat: “….. Fuck! Why the hell does it have Sadako’s abilities!”

Tang Mianmian’s face fell, “Why is it chasing after us?” They had clearly split up several ways to escape, but Fang Lan had only chased after them. Wasn’t her hatred for them a little too extreme?!

Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help but feel guilty. Although the letter was thrown by Tang Mianmian, he was the one who had opened the box, “….Instead of fucking around, let’s run away first!”

However, it was too late; the evil spirit’s speed was much faster than that of a human being. In the blink of an eye, Fang Lan had already lunged towards them. That swollen and deformed face was so close that Xiao Tangqiu could even smell the thick rotten odor emanating from her. It scared the daylights out of him.

In that instant, he suddenly thought of the mysterious jade pendant and quickly pulled it out. As soon as Fang Lan saw the jade pendant, her expression changed drastically, as if she was extremely terrified of the jade pendant.

Fang Lan stopped moving closer towards Xiao Tangqiu, but didn’t turn around and leave immediately either. Instead, she stood not far away from him, glaring at him with bitterness and hatred in her eyes. She appeared afraid to approach him but also unwilling to leave.

Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t figure out why Fang Lan was so attached to him. He was extremely nervous and wanted to turn around and run, but at the same time, he was afraid of exposing his back to Fang Lan. Obviously, dragging out this stalemate wasn’t the best idea. He could only grip the jade pendant tightly in his hand, slowly retreating away while eyeing Fang Lan’s movements.

Yet, every step backwards he took, Fang Lan would also move a step forwards. She stared at him in contempt, all the while maintaining a set distance from him, obviously, unwilling to let him go.

Xiao Tangqiu’s heart pounded wildly; he was afraid that Fang Lan would pounce on him in the next second and tear him in half. Although Fang Lan hadn’t attack him because of the jade pendant in his hand, this sort of scenario where he had a knife permanently hanging over his head was most terrible. Just like Hitchcock’s ticking time bomb, he was constantly holding his breath.

What should he do?! What could he do?!

Xiao Tangqiu’s brain spun at top speed. All at once, countless images flashed through his mind; the skull at the bottom of the well, the box without the key; the coffin buried behind the house, the boatman without eyes…..

Right then, he linked it all together – the skull at the bottom of the well was missing its eyes because Fang Lan had dug out Zhou Hai’s eyes while he was still alive, and at the beginning the boatman who sent them to Yunjia Village was also missing his eyes……

“Tang Mianmian! Do you still remember what the boatman said to us?!”

“Huh? The boatman?” Tang Mianmian had picked up a sharp stone from the ground when Xiao Tangqiu wasn’t paying attention, and was holding it as a weapon to guard against Fang Lan. After hearing Xiao Tangqiu’s words, he thought for a second before saying, “…..I don’t think he said anything, but….. he seemed to have sang a song?”

The two men ran like the wind, with Fang Lan hot on their tail. Very soon, they had ran over half the village.

“Damn it! I fucking hate chasing “contes” the most!” As a “handicapped” player, Tang Mianmian loathed the chasing “contests” in video games, what more those in a real-life game. But when he saw how pale Xiao Tangqiu was, he grabbed Xiao Tangqiu by the wrist and pulled him forwards as he ran for his life.

Xiao Tangqiu was gasping for breath so hard that he couldn’t even say a thank you. Ever since he was young, his physical strength had never been good. He had been a geek for so many years; although he had rich experience in running for his life in-game, in reality, it was far off from that. He had neither the physical quality of a protagonist nor the protagonist’s plug-in bundles. It so happened that he didn’t have the luck of the protagonist, but he got the protagonist’s disease of triggering the BOSS’ rage! He hated this “skill” so much!

Did he have a face that looked like he was asking for it, making it impossible for the BOSS to stop chasing him?

Just then, the two of them finally reached the village chief’s door, but Fang Lan had inexplicably stopped at the front. She merely stood there, looking as if she had thought of something as her eyes filled up with resentment.

Seeing this, Xiao Tangqiu quickly pulled Tang Mianmian into the house, found the shovel and went round to the back of the house. As he had expected, because this fishing village had the custom of burying the dead in the back of the house, naturally every household had tools.

Xiao Tangqiu gave Tang Mianmian a shovel and barked, “Dig!”

“Again? We’re digging up graves again?!” Tang Mianmian wanted to cry, but he gritted his teeth and chose to trust Xiao Tangqiu’s judgement unconditionally. He picked up the shovel and started to dig!

They dug as quick as they possibly could, and after a while, perhaps because the grave was rather shallow, they soon dug out a coffin. At this time, Fang Lan, who had been pacing back and forth in front of the house, finally came to look for them. As her gaze landed on Zhou Hai’s coffin, that pair of resentful  eyes suddenly shot out bitter hatred.

Tang Mianmian raised his shovel at Fang Lan and threatened with a trembling voice, “Dont…. Don’t…. Don’t you dare come over! Or else, I’ll … I’ll … I’ll hit you with the shovel!”

Xiao Tangqiu used this opportunity to lift the coffin lid. He looked down and frowned; there was a headless corpse in the coffin. And beside the corpse was a bamboo pole used for rowing boats.