That night, we were sitting at home for dinner.

Suddenly, a "poof" sound was heard.

The window shuddered violently.

"Looks like someone is tapping on the window?" I stared at the curtains and had a bad feeling in my heart.

Putting down my chopsticks, I walked out of the house.

The gate in the courtyard was open, and there was no one around.

This is strange, I heard someone tapping the window just now.

When I turned my head to look, I saw a large bloody handprint on the window.

I remember that the broken monument in my grandfather's grave also has this bloody handprint.

What's going on?

When I got closer, I found a dagger stuck in the wooden frame under the window, and a yellow note was left on it.

I carefully pulled out the dagger, then unfolded the note, which read:

"If you want to collect the corpse, tomorrow night, Lan will go to Nanshan."

Seeing this, I sighed coldly, and my heart couldn't help but tremble.

A strange feeling haunted me for a long time.

The person who left this bloody handprint must have been the one who stole my grandfather's body.

Things have finally turned around!

"Tatsuko, what's going on?" My dad shouted in the house.

I quickly wiped the bloody handprints off the window with paper.

"I don't know whose kid did the prank, it's okay!" I tore up the bloody paper and threw it into a dirty bucket.

They didn't care, so they didn't ask much.

After eating, when I returned to the house, my heart went up and down, vaguely, as if something was going to happen again.

What I don't understand is that grandpa is already dead, why did that mysterious man steal his body?

Now he left this note again, asking me to go to Nanshan in Lanshang Village to collect the body, which is obviously to give me an urn to catch turtles.

But it got to this point, and I had to bite the bullet, otherwise my whole family would be in danger.

In the past few days, my mind has been full of grandfather's affairs, and I have asked many people in private, but there are no clues at all.

Unexpectedly, he took the initiative to come to the door, which was also to my liking......

By the time I opened my eyes, it was already the second day, and I began to plan my actions for tonight.

Arashimi Village is ten miles away from my home.

The mountains there are not only dangerous, but also many deadly, one heavy around the other, if you don't recognize the way, plunge into it, no one leads the way, you can't get out at all.

Luckily, I'm familiar with the terrain and won't get lost.

But what I can't understand is that if that mysterious person wants to kill me, since he has come to the door, why doesn't he just do it, but instead lead me to the bottom of the South Mountain?

I put the axe in my bag, and if something happens tonight, he won't want to get out of the way!

After dinner, I left a note for my parents: "If I don't come back tonight, leave here with my grandmother."

After doing all this, I carried a bag with an axe and a short knife and rushed to Arashigami Village alone.

By then, it was nearly ten o'clock, and there was not much light in the village.

I felt the darkness and followed a rugged path to the bottom of the South Mountain.

At the bottom of the mountain, the weeds grow taller than people.

The cold wind swept and the grass made a whirring sound.

I looked at the time, and there was still more than an hour before the agreed time.

I lit a cigarette, sat down on the floor, and smoked.

Unconsciously remembered my grandfather, and a sour feeling hit my heart.

I think that at the beginning, on the night when Erdanzi burned the first seven, my grandfather kicked me out of the village in front of everyone.

Presumably, at that time, he had already expected it, so he asked me to leave this place of right and wrong.

His good intentions have been misunderstood by me over the years.

However, when a man dies like a lamp goes out, and now that he is gone, all I can do is to find his bones and bury him......

The cool breeze that poured down from the mountains was like an awl stuck in the bones.

I shivered from the cold.

Why haven't you come yet?

For a moment, I was a little anxious.

It was not easy for things to come to an eyebrow, and I was afraid that the clues would be broken again.

After half a box of cigarettes went down, I didn't know what was wrong, and the upper and lower eyelids were fighting.

……

Call~~

In a daze, I felt a swishing wind blowing behind my neck.

I hadn't been asleep at the time, and I woke up all at once.

In front of me, there was a doll wearing a belly pocket.

He has two small pigtails on his head, his face is as white as porcelain, and his eyes are dark and swarthy, looking like the big-headed son in the cartoon.

But behind his ears and under his palate, there were hideous blue tendons of blue-black.

He pouted with a purple-black mouth, and blew cold air at me.

His feet were off the ground, but there was not a shadow behind him.

This is...... Ghost?

His appearance suddenly reminded me of the fact that in Thailand. In the national temple, I saw the corpse of a baby soaked in a jar.

I heard the locals say that it is a ghost raising technique, one of the three evil arts in the South Seas!

This is how the head descender uses this technique to raise ghosts, but in the middle of the night, he needs to dig up the graves of babies or unbroken boys and girls, remove the corpses, and let them sit upright.

The chin of the corpse was then roasted with a candle stamped with a secret spell until the chin was burned open and the corpse oil dripped out.

The head descender will use a palm-sized locust coffin to hold the corpse oil, and then cover it with a talisman, and recite the incantation for the last seven days and forty-nine days, and the little ghost will listen to the messengers.

Thinking of this, looking at his hideous green tendons, my scalp was numb, and my limbs shivered.

His eyes were fixed on me, and for a moment, I felt uncomfortable.

Suddenly, his brows furrowed, and his eyes gave birth to an extremely strong killing intent.

Not good!

I can't think about it too much, but now I can only strike first.

I pulled an axe out of my bag and slashed at him with all my might.

His dark eyes flickered, and he turned sideways to the right.

This axe split a void.

His little porcelain-like face turned grim and blue, his eyes glowed red, and his little cherry mouth suddenly cracked into a large mouth full of sharp teeth.

I swallowed, picked up my axe, and slashed at him again.

After he made two "bangs" from his mouth, the ghost disappeared in an instant.

Where did you go?

The spine on my back was cold, and I turned around sharply, only to see a mouthful of blood biting at me.

I hurriedly pulled a yellow talisman out of my pocket and slapped it at his grim face.

Bang.

White smoke rose from his face, and his body quickly retreated.

Fortunately, when I came, I carried the yellow charm that my grandfather gave me in my pocket.

At first, I was just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, but I didn't think that this thing would really work.

I pulled out another yellow talisman and held it in my hand, beware of him coming at me again.

At this point, his eyes turned black, glowing faintly like obsidian in the sun.

When he saw that I had a yellow talisman in my hand, his body trembled and he didn't dare to step forward.

Looking at his eccentric appearance, I couldn't be ruthless.

I stared at him, and he stared at me.

In this way, one person and one ghost, in the barren mountains and mountains in the middle of the night, staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes......

After a long while, seeing that his eyes were blinking, I opened my mouth and asked, "Who sent you?" ”

He squirmed and didn't say a word for a long time.

This little ghost, can't you speak?

However, he seemed to understand what I was saying.

At this time, he withdrew his sharp teeth and big mouth, and floated into the air, his dark eyes flowing, and he looked at me, and then at the mountain.

As if to tell me that the man was in the mountains.

"Take me!" I looked at him and said.

He pouted, nodded, turned around, and drifted into the mountains.

At that time, I didn't know where I got the courage to carry the guy's business and followed......