Chapter 3: Motherhood
"Mother!"
The moment the vulture pounced on me, I instinctively ran towards my pretty mother, but she ignored me, panicked into the reeds, and disappeared without a trace.
But the unsightly and smelly mother rushed over and grabbed me and ran away, no, she seemed to be floating.
When the vulture failed in its sneak attack, it was immediately furious, and raised its huge wings and slammed them, uprooting the reeds that were one man tall and making the sky dusty.
What's even more terrifying is that after the reeds were pulled up, countless rotting and smelly corpses were exposed under the roots, in addition to the Chen family who died not long ago, there were even village chiefs.
I probably counted at least twenty corpses, all of them from our village, and their faces were wrapped in reed roots, and they looked particularly horrible.
I was stupid, the corpses of the Chen family appeared inexplicably, not to mention, even the village chief was there, they didn't die at all? How did it end up in this cemetery?
I was so scared that my legs were shaking uncontrollably, and I couldn't stop.
The vulture was all black and its eyes exuded a terrifying aura, and it glanced at us gloomily, and suddenly let out a long roar.
After a while, seven or eight more vultures flew in mid-air, but they were not as big as this one.
They stood all around us, and when the leading vulture gave the order, they lowered their heads and began to devour the rotting corpses.
The stench of decay hit me, and my stomach suddenly tumbled.
I looked up at my mother, and I saw that she looked like a swollen and smelly person in the field, and the hand she pulled me was rotten to the point where it was not in shape, and I could even see the bones in it.
But I'm not afraid at all at this moment, no matter what she is. She must be my mother, because only a mother will try to protect me.
I worshiped her with all the things, touched my pocket, and found that the matches and the two white rabbit toffees were still there, so I took them out and handed them to my mother.
"Mother, you taste it, it's so sweet and delicious."
My mother looked down at me, her eyes full of love. I think this must be what she looked like when she died, and she can still be seen between her eyebrows.
She carefully took the toffee and gently rubbed my head, "Qi'er, run to the east, don't look back no matter what, my mother will protect you." ”
"Mother, mother, don't leave Qi'er......"
"Be good, obedient, today is the strongest day of the ghost moon, and many powerful ghosts will come out of the ghost gate. Your birth is yin, your body and blood are what the ghosts want, go quickly. ”
I don't really understand what my mother said about the ghost or something, but I understood that they all wanted my body, so I didn't insist, turned around and ran towards the east side of what my mother said.
The leading vulture wanted to catch me, but was stopped by my mother's roar. It stared at her mother gloomily for a long time, and suddenly pounced on her frantically.
I couldn't help but turn my head when I heard the voice, only to see seven or eight vultures pecking at her mother desperately, and she couldn't resist at all, and her clothes were pecked to shreds by the vultures, revealing her body full of carrion.
"Mother......
"Run, leave me alone!"
I wanted to turn back, but my mother raised her hand, and a yin wind hit me and pushed me far away.
At the same time, the vulture pecked at her shoulder, nearly tearing her arm off, and black blood spurted everywhere.
"Let go of my mother!" I immediately cried, and ran back desperately to hug my mother's bloody body.
My mother looked at me lovingly, rubbed my hair, and protected me. Her face had been pecked by a vulture, but I didn't think she looked terrible.
Seeing this, the vulture suddenly spread its wings and rushed into the air, looking down on the two of us condescendingly, its black air getting thicker and thicker, and its two eyes were blood-red.
My mother glanced up at the vulture, and suddenly took out a match from me and lit the reeds without hesitation, which were very dry and burned in a flash.
The fire in the reeds was blown by the wind, and it crackled.
The little vultures were burned to death, except for the largest one, which kept hovering above us and roaring, but it didn't dare to rush down.
My mother picked me up and ran away, saying that there was a river to the east of the cemetery, and as long as I went there, the evil spirits in the cemetery would have nothing to do with me.
It's just that her body is a little transparent from the fire, but she's still on a rampage, trying to take me out.
She finally led me to the river when she was about to go up in smoke, a big river that was black and had no bottom in sight.
On the surface of the river stood the little brother I had seen in my dreams, still wearing a white robe with a scarf wrapped around his head, and he was very handsome. He also had a horsewhip in his hand and was smiling and waving to me.
When my mother put me down, it was so transparent that I could barely see it, and she kissed me on the forehead, and then it was gone, without saying a word.
I looked at the raging fire behind me, and shouted hoarsely, but no one paid attention to me.
At this moment, the vulture that had been following me all this time came again and swooped down directly from mid-air.
"Damn brute!"
The little brother on the river shouted angrily, raised his horsewhip and dragged me over, and hugged me with one hand.
Then he swung another whip at the vulture, which seemed to be a little afraid of him, and circled back and forth for a long time before flying away.
I raised my hand and wiped a handful of tears, only to find that my hands were full of thin cuts, bubbling with blood, cut by those jagged reed leaves.
The little brother took my hand and looked at it for a long time, looking greedily at the blood on my hand, and kept swallowing his saliva, as if he wanted to eat me.
I gently tugged his hand and said, "Little brother, why are you here?" ”
"I've always been here." He laughed, his handsome face flushed. I looked stupid all of a sudden, and even forgot the grief of my mother's disappearance.
"Giggles!"
A burst of eerie laughter suddenly sounded around him, and the laughter was particularly terrifying.
The little brother frowned, and directly picked me up and quickly walked on the river. I was shocked to find that he had a red thread under his neck, and a familiar noose on it.
I remembered the boy with half a face under the reeds, and was about to ask if they were the same person, when he suddenly stopped.
When I looked at it, there was an unfathomable cliff below.
The eerie laughter was getting closer and closer, as if it was right behind us. The laughter was eerie, as if it would grab people's souls, and I felt creepy all over my body.
The little brother thought for a while and said, "Qiqi, give me your 'soul locking bell'." ”
The soul-locking bell he said was the little bell in my hand, which didn't have the same effect as my grandmother's soul-locking bell. I believed in him, so I didn't hesitate to take off the Soul Locking Bell and hand it to him.
He then took my hand again, bit my finger, and sucked the blood from my finger hard. I didn't understand why he did it, didn't ask.
After the little brother put the bell on his wrist, he looked down the cliff, then behind me, and pushed me off the cliff with a hard blow.
Suddenly, I seemed to hear him say that he would definitely come to me.