Chapter 0324 – Qualities Recognized by the Knightly Ghosts
Chen Ge climbed out of the tunnel and looked around.
There were no windows in the house, and not far from the entrance of the tunnel lay a few poultry that hadn’t been dead for long.
”She used the blood of poultry? This can also fool the Lich Demon?”
A baby’s cry could be faintly heard in his ears, and Chen Ge followed the stairs to the second floor.
It could clearly be seen that this was a woman’s room, with simple furniture in the room, and the difference with other mansions was that there was no coffin parked in this room, but rather a wooden bed.
Lifting the thick bed curtains, the wooden bed was placed side by side with several bamboo baskets, in which each baby had a blade of grass placed on its mouth.
The grass leaf seemed to have a tranquilizing effect, and the several babies were not crying too hard despite leaving their parents.
”This Zhu woman actually wants to protect the children every time she takes them away?”
Soon Chen Ge found a book under the pillow of the bed, and when he flipped it open, a person’s name and address were recorded on it.
The person who wrote these things probably knew a limited number of words, and many places were replaced with symbols.
”That Zhu woman outside looks like she’s only 30 or 40 years old, but this book is yellowed and worn, so it feels like it should be from many years ago.” Chen Ge held the book, he really couldn’t read the words on it, it looked like Chinese characters, but he couldn’t recognize most of them, “The address is very vague, but the names of the people can distinguish a few of them, could they be the children who were rescued?”
”You’re right, they are all the children I sent out.” An old woman’s voice suddenly came from behind her, and Chen Ge immediately turned around with the repeater.
”I’m the one who should be scared, right? Or do you think that I, an old man with half of his feet buried in a coffin, can bring you threats?”
Seemingly because of the lack of teeth, the voice sounded strange, and Singer Chen took the repeater towards the inside of the house, and saw a severely hunched, wrinkled old woman in the second floor cubicle.
She was reclining on a wooden bed in the cubicle, her legs’ muscles atrophied, and only her head and one arm could still barely move.
”You are?” The old man looked very old, and Chen Ge couldn’t help but use “you” to address her.
The old man looked at Chen Ge, and she grinned, “I am a person who is favored by the Lich Demon.”
Hearing these words, Chen Ge’s head buzzed, the word the old man said was all too familiar to him!
”You kid makes me feel very close to you, you should have dealt with them as well.” The they in the old man’s mouth naturally referred to the stern ghosts.
”That’s right, not only have I dealt with them, but I also built a home just for the purpose of taking them in.”
”Then you are much better than me.” The old man tried very hard to express his goodwill, “Sit down, I didn’t hear the door slam, you should have run in from the shrine tunnels, I’m guessing you’re planning to sneak the baby away while the ritual is going on?”
”En, there is this intention.” Chen Ge did not move closer to the old man and just put down the repeater in his hand.
”Just as I thought, those who can be favored by the severe ghosts are bound to have qualities in them that even the ghosts recognize.” The old man’s voice was flat, but it was comforting to hear.
”Qualities recognized by the severe ghosts?”
”En.”
The old man nodded laboriously, and under Chen Ge’s pressing questions, she told the original story of what happened back then.
It was roughly similar to what Ah Qing had said, with the difference being that the severe ghost in the old man’s mouth was not uncontrollably killing and taking revenge, and there seemed to be a trace of residual emotion.
The old man had saved the female ghost three times, and the female ghost promised to help the old man do three things that were not excessive.
Normally, it would also treat the old man in a special way, for example, it would never enter the old man’s house, and when other evil spirits appeared in the village, as long as they threatened the old man’s life, the female ghost would appear to exterminate them.
”She blood-washed the village, and none of the evil-doers were spared, all of which I could understand, and even felt great joy. But what happened later made me feel that there was something wrong.” The old man’s body was very poor, and he had to rest for a moment when he said a paragraph, “Originally, a red door appeared in the house of the family she had lived in, and this door could only be pushed open by her.”
”After blood washing the village, she let go of her obsession and was supposed to leave. Before she left she wanted to enter the door and look inside, but that’s how she saw the problem.”
”When she came out of the door again, her grudge was wrapped around her, her gaze was filled with malice, and she had completely transformed into a different person.”
”I’m not sure what she encountered inside the door, I only know that she was filled with malice towards everything, she was prepared to imprison the offspring of the evil doers, so that they could only be monsters for the rest of their lives, even all normal people were unforgivable in her eyes.”
A trace of deeply hidden pain appeared in the old man’s voice, “I have no ability to stop her, I can only save some innocent children by my own means when she goes mad.”
”As you can see today, once a year she will awaken into the world behind the door, these children will be killed by her in passing if they are placed elsewhere, and only in my place can they be kept safe.”
”Get through it, just get through this night and when she comes out from inside the door she will fall back into slumber.”
The old man didn’t know exactly what was in the world behind the door, she was only clear that the female ghost would make a trip to the world inside the door at this time of the year.
”Then why don’t you all run away? All leave the village.” Chen Ge spoke up.
”All those who have drunk from the well water can’t escape, they will be haunted by her for the rest of their lives, this is also the reason why I only save newborn babies.”
”Entangled for life? But I heard that more than ten years ago, a part of your village escaped, and they didn’t have any accidents.” Chen Ge was talking about Jiang Ling’s father and them.
”That was an accident, one day more than ten years ago, after she entered the door side, she didn’t return that night.”
”The people in the village spent a month on tenterhooks and realized that she still hadn’t returned, and some thought that she might have died on the door side.”
”At that time, there were two voices in the village, one was to stay in the mountain village with peace of mind, and the other was to take advantage of the opportunity to escape.”
”Later, a part of the people whose physical deformities were not obvious secretly escaped, and just on the third day after they fled, she returned.”
”Among those who fled were my offspring, I pleaded with her to spare those people and used up two favors to keep them safe for twenty years.”
The old man coughed more and more, Chen Ge didn’t dare to continue asking, he already knew enough from the old man.
”Granny, take a good rest, I won’t bother you anymore. I’m going to take one of those children with me, this is my agreement with someone in your village.”
Chen Ge turned around and prepared to go to the bedside to look for Ah Qing’s children, and before he could take a few steps out, the old man’s voice came from behind him, “Actually, there’s another thing I called you over for.”
”Is it related to that female ghost who jumped into the well?” Chen Ge had already found the cute looking baby with the copper coins hanging from its neck.
The old man shook his head, his eyes staring at Chen Ge’s face, “Have you noticed that your body temperature is slowly getting lower?”