Chapter 17: The Monument in Dream Hill Cemetery

What the? Yin and Yang Road? How could this road come up with such a terrible name?

Could it be that this mountain road is the road between the two worlds of yin and yang?

When I saw this sign, I was scared.

No, I can't go up again, I'd better go back.

But when I looked behind me, I was stunned!

The mountain road I just walked on disappeared, disappeared without a trace!

No, it didn't disappear, it suddenly broke down! In the place where I once walked, there was a cliff more than ten meters wide.

On the edge of the cliff, those gravels are still falling downward!

I saw the woods below, and the ghost hospital in the middle of the woods, surrounded by a thick fog.

My way back has been cut off by the waist, and if I go down again, it will be a bottomless abyss!

I sighed and had to keep walking up the hill, and I had to hurry! Otherwise, who knows if the gravel road under my feet will also fall off with it, and whether I will also fall into the bottomless abyss?

The instinct to survive drove me to take out the strength to feed, and I ran all the way up the yin and yang road.

Finally, I made it to the top of the mountain. There, there is a large flat land.

After going up, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and this time, I didn't dare to look down the mountain again.

I took a few more steps forward, and saw an iron fence gate in front of me, blocking my direction.

What is this place?

I walked slowly forward to the iron fence gate.

On the wall of the gate, there seemed to be an iron sign still hanging on it, but it was covered with thick vines hanging down.

I pushed aside the vines, and finally saw the rusty iron sign.

Under the illumination of the flashlight, I saw four terrifying words - "Dream Hill Cemetery"!

What the? Is this a cemetery?

Oh my God, this is a cemetery? I'm a big living person, what are you doing in this hellish place?

Although I was very reluctant and walked around the entrance of this cemetery, I did not find any other way out.

So, I had no choice but to push open the iron fence gate and walk in.

It's strange that the gate is not locked at all?

However, in this kind of place, it doesn't matter if it is locked or not, who would come here to steal things? Here, apart from corpses, what else could be of value?

At this point, I couldn't turn back, because the gravel mountain road I had just come up on seemed to be collapsing little by little. If I go down any further, I will have to kill myself.

Rather than that, why not die and survive? This cemetery, no matter what, is it a little better than the ghost hospital and the yin and yang road, right?

When I entered the cemetery, I realized that my worries were unfounded.

There is no scene here where I imagined there to be graves everywhere. On the contrary, in front of it is an open flat land, and in the middle of the flat land, stands a tall monument.

The monument is herringbone, and it stands tall as if a man had spread his legs and was greeting the new owner who had come here.

However, I don't want to be the new owner of this place, because those are dead people, and only dead people live here!

In front of this monument, there is a pool. The pool is not dry, there are even a few small fountains, bubbling quietly, if I didn't know that this is a cemetery, I would have thought that this is the fountain pool in the central square of the city.

However, there is one thing that makes me feel disgusting, and that is that what comes out of the fountain is not spring water, but a black liquid.

So what is it?

At this moment, it was as if something had hit me in the face, and it seemed to be some kind of liquid.

Could it be that it is raining?

I looked up and saw that in the sky above the monument, there were dark clouds and rain dripping.

Although it didn't rain much, it did rain.

I touched the raindrops that had fallen on me and put them in the palm of my hand to look at them. However, when I saw this, I was shocked! ,

The raindrops were also black, the same color as the water in the pool. Moreover, there seems to be some ash left.

Ash? I suddenly remembered the tall chimneys of the crematorium. From there, the heavens are often gray, huh? Could it be that there are crematories here too? Could it be that there are ashes in this rain?

I was startled and ran away.

As soon as I left the fountain, the rain suddenly stopped.

I looked up again and looked at the tall humanoid monument again.

There is not a single word engraved on this monument, which is completely different from the monuments in those cemeteries in my impression.

Looking at it, this wordless monument seems to be staring at me, too.

Yes, it did look too much like a standing giant, and vaguely, there seemed to be a pair of wide-open eyes, staring at me condescendingly.

I shuddered suddenly, and involuntarily stepped back.

At that moment, I heard a noise coming from the fountain, and it became louder and louder, as if something was pouring out of it.

I was startled, and poked my head out to look, only to see that the fountain in the pool, which was originally a small stream, had grown bigger and bigger!

The fountain in the pool rolled more and more fiercely, and flowed faster and faster, and soon, the water on the surface of the pool rose out. Moreover, in the water, there seemed to be something tumbling and bubbling, as if there was some fish and shrimp hiding underneath, and they were struggling to get out of here.

Suddenly, something really came out of the water.

I raised my flashlight and shone it over the water.

However, when I saw it, I vomited.

What came out of the water and floated on the surface of the water was some bones!

That's a man's leg bones, arms, and even severed fingers! They were floating and drifting on the dirty, black water, and some of them had even reached the edge of the pool, ready to crawl out at any moment.

If we go down further, will there be dead people coming out from underneath?

Just as I was gagging, the rain in the sky fell again.

However, this time it was not black water mixed with ashes, but a solid meteor that seemed to be hail!

I was hit on the head by a "hailstone" the size of an egg and it hurt!

But when I lowered my body and picked it up, I froze!

Oh my God, this wasn't hail at all, it was a fragment of a bone!

More and more broken bones are falling from the sky!

Of course I couldn't stop here and wait for myself to be hit by those bones.

At this time, I noticed that there was a small room diagonally in front of me.

Just, I'll just hide there and shelter from the rain!

So I ran towards the hut.

It's a house that looks a bit like a grocery store, with a hidden door. The shadow of the room, alone cast on the ground, looked a little scary.

I stopped at the door, not knowing if I should go in or not.

What's so scary in there?

However, I was already hungry and thirsty at this point, and I needed to get food and water.

After a moment's hesitation, I pushed open the door and walked in.

When I went inside, I found that there was no food or drink in the house, nothing to eat or drink.

It's not a grocery store, it's a place full of wreaths. In addition to wreaths, I also saw scattered paper money, and even, there were shrouds on the walls.

Obviously, this is only the stuff that the dead will use.

Seeing this, my heart sank, and I wanted to get out of here immediately.

But when my eyes swept to a corner, a table, I didn't want to go.

Because, on that table, there was a pig's head and a few plates of things that seemed to be chicken, duck and fish. In addition, there are dishes and chopsticks on the table, and there are some things that look like rice wine in the bowls.

It must be an offering table for the dead, right?

Hunger and thirst stopped me from fear, so I stepped forward.

Sure enough, there was a spirit card on the table, which was inlaid in a glass frame, and under the illumination of the flashlight, it still glowed with a faint white light.

However, my attention was focused only on the offering table.

I was so hungry that I ate first.

I'm sorry, but I'm so hungry that I'm dying of hunger. Just let me enjoy it first, your old man can bear with it first, and when I turn around, I'll burn a little more paper money for you.

After gobbling up a few sips, I actually filled my stomach, and I took a few more sips of the "rice wine" on the table.

This rice wine is really not very tasty, a bit like rice bran for pigs. However, I was so thirsty that I drank all the rice wine in one go.

After eating and drinking, I looked at the spirit card in the glass frame again.

Strange, there seems to be no words on it? Could it be that my eyes are spent?

Probably because of the effect of the rice wine, I was bold, so I took the spirit card, held it in my hand and looked at it.

However, the spirit card really hasn't been written yet? Could it be that the owner of this house hasn't figured out whose name to write on it?

I don't care who the person who pared the sacrifice was, though I owe the dead ghost a favor, no, a ghost.

But when I saw the glass again, I saw my own face.

However, the light in the room was so dim that I didn't know which nerve was wrong, so I picked up a flashlight and shone it at the glass again.

Suddenly, a green-faced fang, ghost-like face appeared on the glass!

I was startled, and the spirit card and flashlight in my hand fell to the ground.

I, I see a ghost? Is that really a ghost? Could it be that it is behind my back?

I turned my head in horror, but there was no one behind me, not even a ghost.

If there really is a ghost here, then isn't it me who shines on the glass?

I shuddered and reached out and touched my face.

Strange, no, I didn't turn into a monster, did I? Could it be that it was my own hallucination just now?

The room was eerily quiet, and I was scared if there would be a real ghost popping up here!

Could it be that the ghost is angry because I stole those sacrifices? He was deliberately trying to scare me by hallucinating me?

When I looked at the sacrifice on the table again, my legs were so weak that I almost didn't fall to the ground.

I saw that the sacrifices that I had eaten and leftover, and that were left in a mess, turned into a pile of ashes, like ashes!

I was so frightened that I quickly picked up the flashlight from the ground, and I didn't care about the spirit card anymore, so I ran out with my life!

Behind me, there was a whirring wind, as if a group of ghosts were chasing me!

I didn't dare to turn back, so I rushed up the hill.

It wasn't until I couldn't run anymore that I turned around.

Behind me, however, the tall human-shaped monument and the small room were slowly obscured by the fog.

The dense fog in the ghost hospital had actually climbed up from the foot of the mountain, step by step.

It's slowly devouring everything here, and eventually, I'm afraid it will devour me······