Chapter 12: The Legend of Guidaowan (11)

The dream that night was so strange that even after many years, Master Liu still vividly remembered the scene in the dream. He left a message for his descendants: “At the time, I didn’t know if I was dreaming, but after I woke up, one thought became more and more certain as the days passed. It was in that dream that day. If I had really been pushed onto that boat, I would never have come back.”

But this was only an unwavering idea that Liu Er could not verify, because he did not get on the strange ship that night. He only saw in his dream that the fierce wind blew up the corner of the thick curtain covering the cabin. From that corner, you could see the feet of several women wearing red wedding shoes and the feet of men wearing black cloth shoes.

It wasn’t scary, just weird… He was too stiff to get on the boat, but the people behind him were pushing him on the boat, and he didn’t dare to resist because the strange man with the greenish face was not far away… After seeing the corner of the cabin, Liu’s body was about to be pushed onto the deck… At that moment, a deafening noise suddenly came.

At that moment, Liu Er’s real body trembled like it had been struck by lightning. In the dark, he suddenly opened his eyes and realized that both the cup covering his body and the mattress under his body were wet with his own sweat…

“Who made so much noise in the middle of the night? Are you trying to die?” The old woman grumbled and rolled over, causing a cool breeze in the quilt, and then continued to sleep. It was only this small, inadvertent action that allowed Liu Erye to completely come back to his senses and feel a breath of life.

In that dream, not to mention the terrifying woman in red and green skin, apart from her, the whole dream was full of a desolate, dead silence… I can’t say why, but the colors in that dream were hopeless…

Liu Er almost cried out, and suddenly he felt that it was really good to be alive. He subconsciously got out of bed, put on a piece of clothing, and fumbled to light the oil lamp…

At this time, he was afraid, but he sensed that it was impossible for such a coincidence to happen. At the most critical moment in his dream, he was woken up by a loud noise. The sound of the loud noise should have come from the alley outside his home. He felt that he should investigate it no matter what!

It must be a good thing, otherwise I would have been pushed onto the boat in my dream… Master Liu comforted himself in his heart. At the same time, the oil lamp was lit, and the warm yellow light illuminated the entire room.

The old woman in bed scolded him again, probably for lighting the lamp in the middle of the night, but fortunately she didn’t wake up and went to sleep again. Liu Er was relieved that he didn’t have to explain, but the next moment he turned pale and cold sweat covered his forehead.

Because of the old woman’s unintentional scolding, he glanced at the bed, and in the blink of an eye, he suddenly discovered two footprints on the ground next to the bed… It was snowing outside, and the footprints looked like they had stepped in the snow and mud, and then walked into the house, leaving footprints… The footprints were not big, and they were clearly the footprints of a woman. Moreover, this footprint was so familiar. Wasn’t it the pair of footprints of the woman he saw in the afternoon?

How could this be? Master Liu didn’t even dare to imagine it. While he was sleeping, a strange corpse was standing next to his bed… Just thinking about it a little bit, Master Liu felt like he was about to be scared to death in this house.

At this time, the gate of the courtyard made a dull sound, and the already frightened Liu Er immediately rushed into the courtyard without thinking. As a Taoist priest for so many years, Liu Er still had a little intuition. Just as he had subconsciously gotten up to go out and investigate, he did not feel any danger. In general, if someone encountered this situation, they would never go out.

“That person outside can save me,” was what Liu Er thought.

So he rushed into the courtyard, almost without thinking, and opened the gate to his courtyard. Then he saw a figure sitting in front of his courtyard gate. Under the light coming from the house, it was turning its head to look at him at the moment, with a very dirty face.

At that moment, Liu’s heart almost jumped out of his chest. Although he believed in his intuition, it was not true to say that he was not at all afraid. However, the next time, when he saw clearly the person at the door, all that remained in his heart was full of doubt.

How could it be him? The dog left behind who had fled the famine to this small town?

“Dog…” Master Liu hesitated to speak, and as soon as he said a word, he felt that it was not appropriate to call him Dog Leftover. In his heart, he had already vaguely equated Dog Leftover with a high-level person. After all, he had loved listening to his father tell stories since he was a child. In his father’s stories, Taoist high-level people were always unpredictable and free-spirited, and they loved to appear in people’s lives in the image of beggars, old farmers, and the like.

“It’s all right, I’m just a little tired. I’ll rest at your door… Your family is fine, so go to sleep. I’m going to the lumber depot.” Before Liu Er could say anything, Gou Sheng’er had already stood up. His face was dirty, and it was hard to tell if he was really tired. His smile was very unpredictable, careless, but also heavy… that kind of contradictory smile.

But when it came to the timber distribution office… Master Liu’s heart suddenly grew heavy again. The corpse… should he remind Gou Sheng’er? But if someone else already knew, wouldn’t his reminder seem ridiculous?

Just as he was hesitating, Gou Sheng’er wiped his face and was about to leave, but at the end of the alley, there was a sound of footsteps coming in all directions, and the light of a few flashlights.

Before Liu Er could see what was going on, the flashlight beam hit him, and the dog standing next to him subconsciously stepped back… With the flashlight beam, Liu Er could see that the person was the second in command. Before he could say anything, the second in command’s panicked voice came into Liu Er’s ears: “Something’s happened…”

Although from the footprints in the house, Liu Er had long expected something to happen at the timber depot, but when he suddenly heard it, his body still couldn’t help but stiffen. After all, things happen in varying degrees of severity. What kind of thing happened?

At this moment, the dog that had been behind Liu Er suddenly sighed and took a step forward…

On a snowy night, the flashlight quietly illuminated the empty space in front of the broken wooden house. The fire, which was about to go out, was re-ignited with the addition of more firewood.

Wei Dahan’s body was placed in front of the fire, but his family had not yet been notified because they did not know how to notify them and explain Wei Dahan’s current state of death.

This is better than before. His body was at the entrance of the broken wooden house, his eyes wide open, clearly in a state of shock, but with a strange smile, and bloodshot eyes.

His upper body was naked, but there were two purple-black handprints on his back and waist. The handprints were not large, and they were clearly the handprints of a woman… He was lying on his front in front of the door, with one hand outstretched, not knowing what he wanted to grab.

What was even more terrifying was that Wei Dahan was originally a burly man with strong muscles. When his body was discovered, it was found that his muscles had all atrophied, and he was a whole size smaller. No one knew what was going on. No one dared to approach Wei Dahan’s body or the broken wooden house.

There weren’t many people there, except for a few men who were on guard duty, the head and deputy head of the gang, and behind them was Liu Er, followed by Gou Sheng.

This matter cannot be publicized. It is already the limit that so many people can come.

The second in command originally did not agree to the presence of Gou Sheng’er, but it was Liu Er’s insistence that allowed Gou Sheng’er to follow the “main force” here.

When no one wanted to go near the broken wooden house, it was this dog that stepped forward, with a nonchalant expression, and walked step by step toward the broken wooden house…

“Don’t…” Thinking of the tragedy just now, one of the workers on night watch couldn’t help but shout.

But the dog didn’t seem to hear him, and just kept walking. The second-in-command looked at Liu Er, who said with gritted teeth, “Let him go. No one else in this town can take on this task.”

So, without any surprise, people watched as Gou Sheng’er carried the body of Wei Dahan back and put it in front of the fire. He also watched as he entered the small wooden house, found the clothes that Wei Dahan had worn before, and carefully dressed him.

Everyone watched in silence, except for Gou Sheng’er, who said, “The deceased is the most important. We can’t go to the afterlife in a shabby state. Let me do something for him.”

No one dared to respond, all of them were stunned by the terrifying appearance of Wei Dahan’s corpse. Until Gou Sheng’er had finished dealing with everything, everyone was still silent…

After a while, it became the scene just now. I didn’t know how to notify Wei Dahan’s family because the corpse of Wei Dahan, who had put on clothes, had recovered normal limbs, and his eyes had been closed by the dog, was still so strange.

First of all, that smile still existed, and the other was that the whole corpse began to slowly change color, covered with a kind of light black, just like being poisoned.

“I don’t care how you deal with the corpse, and I can’t do anything about it. But you all have to leave. I’m going to stay in this cabin tonight… I have two things to say. First, this matter must be kept strictly confidential. Second, no one should come near here, not even within two miles, or I can’t guarantee that something will happen.” In the silence, Gou Sheng’er spoke impatiently.

“You… you want to live in this broken wooden house?” Liu Er couldn’t help but ask.

“What else? Let the town be flooded with blood?” Gou Sheng walked towards the broken wooden house without an explanation, and he didn’t turn back.

With the light of the flashlight, Liu Er didn’t know what was going on, so he took a big chance and shone it into the hut. He suddenly realized that the hut was empty… He suddenly remembered the footprints in his own hut.

“She…” Liu Er couldn’t help but speak anxiously.

“She will come back.” Gou Sheng didn’t turn around, but it seemed as if he had seen through what Liu Erni thought, and his simple four words gave all the answers.