Chapter 31: The Dead Man's Tree

An island town. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A girl like no other has loved to listen to whimsical horror thrillers since she was a child, loves the unknown in the dark, and at a very young age she needs to listen to a bedtime horror story every night when she goes to bed so that the girl can fall asleep.

From the age of five, she will go to the familiar neighborhood neighbor's house to visit the door, so that the uncle and aunt can bring more novel horror stories, and everyone in the whole street knows such a little girl who likes to listen to horror stories.

In the same way, this very human habit makes children of the same age also think of little girls as outliers.

On the big chestnut tree behind the yard, the father built a small unique tree house for the girl on her seventh birthday as a birthday present, which stored the horror story books and some little secrets that the girl bought with her pocket money.

From elementary school onwards, girls go straight to the treehouse after school and even spend the night inside, gradually becoming alienated from the people around them.

During the summer vacation of the second grade of elementary school, a girl who was reading horror in a treehouse at night saw a group of non-town personnel wearing white hazmat suits quietly leaving the town at night, unaware of anything dangerous happening.

The little girl didn't care and continued to spend time in the treehouse.

Strangely, after waking up the next day, the girl's parents did not come to urge her to go to school, and the normally noisy streets became silent during the day.

On the third day, when the little girl was reading a horror book in the treehouse and trying to draw the horror in pencil, her skin was gradually turning into a hard shell and falling off her body.

On the fourth day, when he woke up, he was unconscious and unable to move the flesh tissue of his right hand. Perhaps because she was too hungry, the girl tried the 'ogre' method in the horror story to eat the useless arms and fill her stomach.

On the fifth day, the girl's skin ulcerated from the inside, and a large amount of pus overflowed from the skin tissue.

On the sixth day, a rotten hole appeared in the abdomen, and even the internal organs were all damaged.

Worried that dirt would come out of her stomach and contaminate the items collected in the treehouse, the little girl planned to leave the treehouse for the first time and go out for treatment. After using the last bit of strength to climb out of the wooden house, he fell directly from the end of the big chestnut tree more than ten meters high, and his loose body was directly thrown to pieces, and the minced meat and organs surrounded the big chestnut tree.

On the seventh day, the little girl had the feeling of waking up from her sleep, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the ruined and decayed town unfold in front of her. When the body wants to move, a few leaves will be swayed and dropped, and when you are hungry and want to eat, you will draw nutrients from the lower end of the soil, and your vision can be transferred to any position of the large apricot tree.

On the eighth day, the whole body was in pain, worse than being eaten by insects, a large number of leaves were scattered all over the ground, and even many branches were rotten and broken.

On the ninth day, a man wrapped in a raincoat came to him and took out a rope and tied one end of the rope to one of the thicker trunks of the large almond tree, and the other end to tie his neck.

The feeling and scene of the girl watching the man hang himself are additionally similar to a horror story called "The Dead Man's Tree", and the girl can also draw special nutrients from the inside of the corpse.

On the tenth day, the branches of the trees in the early morning showed rare new green leaves.

When a family of four walked in front of the big apricot tree, after looking at the man in the raincoat hanging from the branch, the family followed suit and found the rope and the whole family also hanged himself, even though one of the little boys seemed unwilling to struggle in pain, but was still forcibly hung with hemp rope by his parents.

This scene made the girl who became one with the big apricot tree very excited.

On the eleventh day, when more and more people passed by the big chestnut tree, their desperate eyes revealed a sense of relief, and they took the hemp rope and chose to hang themselves here.

Fresh nutrients fed the growth of the big chestnut tree, more and more new thick branches spread and grew, and more and more townspeople hanged themselves, and the little girl grew bigger and bigger with the help of everyone's strength, and gradually looked across the island to the brightly lit inland city of the 20th arrondissement.

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After telling the terrifying preface story, the plant woman in front of the three of them cracked a hollow gap in the trunk of the big chestnut tree that could be entered by one person. According to the requirements, the three of them will enter the interior to experience the rest of the real horror story, and it is also possible to find the core of the tree ghost inside the trunk, thus ending it all once and for all.

"Let's go inside."

Yu Jing walked in front with a candle without any worries, and Yu Xiaoxiao clinged behind him.

"Do you really want to go in...... The injuries left by the previous battle with the old ghost of bones have not fully recovered. ”

Menqian's heart was still struggling and hesitating, if he was tricked by the woman outside, he would inevitably die in the trunk of the tree, and finally end up with the same fate as the townspeople who were blocked in the island and had no choice but to hang themselves, becoming a part of this 'dead man's tree'.

"Xiaoxiao, be careful when you go in."

"Hmm."

Yu Jing and Yu Xiaoxiao entered the interior in turn.

Menqian stopped, finally trusting his own judgment, and ten fingers pulled the silver thread to instantly tear the body of the plant woman in front of him before she had time to react.

"I'm going to cut every branch."

When Menqian was about to continue pulling the silver thread, several thick roots suddenly jumped up from the ground and restrained his whole body, and even a few rotten arms grabbed Menqian's legs, completely blocking the movement.

"It's still very powerful that you can kill the old man by yourself, but among the three people, you should be the best one...... If you follow the leader into the interior, you might be able to live a little longer. You stop because you are afraid. ”

The girl whose whole body was torn apart before was repaired by connecting vines and forming a human form in front of Menqian.

"Haha, will my Menqian be afraid of you? As I said before, don't think too highly of yourself! ”

Two of Menqian's fingers were not completely restrained, and he pulled back hard, and part of the roots of the tree were cut off. After breaking free, he immediately attacked the vegetative woman in front of him, while holding the sharpest scalpel in his mouth.

"No...... You're not afraid of me, you're afraid of yourself, you're afraid of death. ”

The moment the plant woman rushed over with his murderous intent, her whole body shrank into a green seed.

"Oops!"

Men Qian was caught off guard by this change, and before he could swing the silver thread, the seed slammed into Men Qian's body. The school uniform in the protective suit mode does not have any physical protection ability, and the spikes on the seeds tear apart the clothing and the skin of Menqian, and quickly burrow into the body.

"Surgery!"

Without hesitation, he was ready to perform a full-body operation on himself, and the seeds had to be removed in a short time.

At this time, a large number of roots grew on the ground again to restrain Menqian's body, and the seeds rooted in his body had begun to grow slowly, squeezing Menqian's vitality......