Chapter 25: Fraud after death
I opened the door of the shop, but before anyone entered, the strong smell of fish hit my face. The man at the counter was emaciated, pale, with high cheekbones, and his eyes were a little sunken and glazed.
"What do you want?" His hoarse voice made him feel a little tired.
"Boss, I want to ask you about something, there are always children missing in elementary school recently, do you know?" The ghost did not shy away from it, and asked him directly.
Hearing that the child was missing, his body trembled visibly.
"I've also heard that some people's graves have been dug up lately, and the bodies of funeral homes in the eastern suburbs have also been stolen." I struck while the iron was hot, and I said all the key issues in one go, and then carefully observed his reaction.
"You...... What are you talking to me about? If you don't buy something, just go! Don't delay me in doing business. He looked a little cramped and uneasy, and his eyes couldn't stop glancing in.
"Go and ask the school guard about the child's disappearance, you're the one who's missing! Some people are destined to leave or leave, and forcing them to stay will only kill more people. "What I said was very straightforward, and I don't believe that he continues to pretend to be confused.
"There are some things you don't understand, and you can't help me." His emotions were a little excited, his eyes were mixed with some tears, and he was trembling all over, seeing that he was acting very abnormally, could it be that there was a secret behind the filial son praised by everyone?
"We're experts in dealing with paranormal people, you can trust us." The ghost's gentle tone was very demagogic.
He stared at us for a long time, nodding vigorously and as if he had made up his mind. He picked up a pencil and wrote the words "save me" on the ledger next to him.
Then he pointed in the direction of the inner room, and the ghost and I nodded knowingly, and walked towards the inner room step by step.
The ghost took a red rope out of his bag and handed it to me, and the further we went, the fishy smell became stronger, and the smell of blood mixed with the two smells was disgusting.
The ghost and I walked through the narrow corridor into a courtyard, and in the middle of the courtyard were fish piled up, which was two meters wide and one meter high, no wonder it smelled so fishy.
From the storeroom came the sound of small pieces, like the sound of a dog gnawing on bones. I stopped the ghost walking in front of me and motioned for her to stand back, and I walked ahead.
The ghost nodded and stepped back behind me, lighting my way with a flashlight. I gently pushed the door open, and the smell of blood immediately overshadowed the smell of fish in the yard, and before I could see clearly, something threw itself on the ground, and the world spun around.
There was a hot pain on my face, I subconsciously used my hand to block it, it was also a hot pain, and with the light from the flashlight, a half-cat, half-human face was magnified in front of my eyes. The ghost quickly dodged and strangled its neck from behind with a flashlight, and it turned around and threw the ghost out of the way.
Afraid that it would run out, I quickly got up from the ground and closed the door of the storeroom. The darkness in the storeroom completes its vision.
"Ling'er, are you okay?"
"Brother, be careful."
With the exclamation of the ghost, my chest was pierced by a sharp object, and regardless of the pain, I wrapped the red rope in my hand around her neck, "meow", a low cat meow, my neck was entangled by a furry thing, the tighter and tighter it became, and I couldn't breathe well.
Out of nowhere, the ghost got a knife, cut the furry thing, pulled me over, and retreated to the wall.
I took a big breath of air, and my hand subconsciously touched the surroundings, and a chill hit, and my heart was suddenly shocked, it was a human hand.
"Ling'er, hurry up and find the switch."
"I didn't touch it, the switch shouldn't be here."
Suddenly the lights in the room came on, and through the small window, I saw the scrawny man, standing outside the storeroom, carefully observing the movement in the house.
It was only then that I could see the inside of the house clearly, and the scene was simply shocking. That old Mrs. Xu is not only half a cat face, but even that half of her body is a cat body, but it looks a little mutated.
At this time, it was holding a heart in its hand, gnawing frantically, this picture was as disgusting as it was, maybe because of the ghost's knife just now, it was a little scared, its yellow eyes flashed, it looked at us cautiously, it took a few steps back and pulled away from us, its tail was still bleeding.
The corpses in the room were piled up in a mess, and on the left was the corpse of a child, which emitted a foul smell. On the right is supposed to be a body that has just been dug up from a coffin. There was also a pile of red and bright hearts in the center, no wonder I felt that I had kicked something under my feet just now.
The ghost couldn't help but hold on to the wall and keep spitting sour water.
"What are we going to do with this half-human monster?"
"I don't think we can handle this mutated thing, so we're either going to strangle it or we're going to stab it with a knife."
"You're quite violent, I'll go up and grab it, and you'll stab it in the back." I stepped over a pile of hearts on the ground and quickly pounced on Mrs. Xu, who was not tall, and now that the lights were on, it would be much easier to catch it.
I grabbed its hands and claws, and it kept struggling, and its sharp claws scratched my clothes, pants, arms, and face, one by one.
"Ling'er, if you don't do it, I'll be scratched to death by it."
The ghost spirit held the knife, rushed over, closed his eyes and slashed at the old Mrs. Xu, and there was no knife in the right place.
I locked the struggling old Mrs. Xu with my legs, "Give me the knife." ”
The ghost immediately handed the knife to my hand, and I pinpointed its heart and thrust it in, and with a high-pitched scream, it stopped struggling, and it was all over.
Half of its cat face slowly returned to normal, and a number "3" appeared on that face.
This made me feel very surprised, just when I was thinking about the problem, Mrs. Xu's corpse instantly decomposed only a handful of bones, and the rotten flesh stained everywhere on my pants and clothes, and the stench made me vomit.
The scrawny man watched all this from the window until Mrs. Xu died. He didn't even frown.
"Thank you so much, I can finally stop being angry with this old witch, hahahahahaha!" He jumped for joy, and kicked his heart on the ground, and the red heart rolled everywhere.
"Your mother is dead, you are so happy, you are still a filial son, I think you are a wolf-hearted thing." I scolded him angrily, and I felt that his heart was very twisted.
"Filial son? When she was there, I was filial to her, and when she died, the ghost did not disperse, and I actually deceived the corpse, do you know? This month I lived a life worse than death, and I was tormented every day in front of a monster that eats people's hearts. He excitedly pounded his left chest with his hand.
"No one could have expected that she would cheat the corpse, and she certainly didn't want to, and now you say she's a monster, and you won't be biological at first glance." The ghost angrily accused him and pushed the door straight out.
"I'll leave this to you! I'm gone too. With that, I handed him the knife in my hand, and followed the ghost out of the storeroom.
He followed, and ran quickly ahead of us, blocking me and the spirits.
"You don't know anything, so that's what you say about me."
He pushed the ghost hard, and then lifted his clothes, dense smoke scars on his chest, new and old, which couldn't help but make people's eyes sour.