817 A Million Times for You 179 (1/2)
An Xiaoning did not know exactly how many human skulls were hung on the wall. But, from her estimate, there were at least enough to belong to five hundred people.
She and Xiao Bai entered the room and searched every corner of it. At last, they found a thick paper notebook.
Even though she had only seen the first page of the notebook, she knew something important must have been recorded inside.
Just as they left the room, as An Xiaoning had expected, the old fellow was struggling arduously on the ground and was reaching out his hand to pull out the knife on his throat.
An Xiaoning took out yet another dagger and directly plunged it into his heart. In an instant, the old fellow stopped moving again.
”Sis, he's probably dead, right?”
”Not sure. He could be dead or still alive.”
She then pulled out the two daggers from the old fellow, wiped them, and then put them away properly.
Thereafter, An Xiaoning took out two talismans from her pocket and pasted one each on the elder and the young lady's heads. Puzzled, Xiao Bai asked, ”Sis, what does this do?”
”It prevents their souls from lingering after death. After dying, some successfully avoid the grim reaper and continue to harm the human realm. With this talisman, there won't be any possibility of that happening.”
When Fan Shixin returned to meet them, the wooden house was already engulfed in flames.
The grandfather and granddaughter pair was buried amongst these raging flames.
The sky was pitch dark and the flames were leaping to the sky.
It was bound to attract people.
The three took their luggage and speedily left the place.
They had nowhere else to go, so they went to a nearby mountain and watched the flames from a distance away with a pair of binoculars.
When the huge flames were on the verge of burning out, a group of people rushed to the scene.
”Can you see clearly who those people are?”
An Xiaoning shook her head. ”I can't, but there's quite a lot of them.”
”Will they come and find us?” Xiao Bai could not help but get worried.
”Don't know, let's wait and see.” She narrowed her eyes and continued to investigate. ”Shixin, was there anything unusual about that watermelon field?”
”You were right. Underneath the field, there are bodies buried, and they are all headless.”
”No wonder the vegetables and fruits in that field could grow so well without any fertilizer — the dead bodies were the fertilizer. Xiao Bai and I went to check the old fellow's room. There were at least five hundred human skulls hung inside. We also found a notebook.”
Xiao Bai took out the notebook. ”Look, this is the one.”
Fan Shixin flipped through it and remarked, ”There are so many names in this notebook. Don't tell me they're all the people the old fellow had killed?”
”Not necessarily. When we entered, he didn't ask for our names. Moreover, does he have to record the names of the people who have died to keep a record of his victory? I don't think so.”