Chapter 32: The Second Night

Nervous toughness - an excellent quality for humans. But it's not a good thing for people who are super timid and light enough to meet ghosts at any time.

Because then you have to face your fear all the time, and you can't use the loss of consciousness as a means of escape and self-preservation.

At this time, Xiao Xia was like this, if she could pass out, she would not be so scared and disgusted, but the more frightened she became, the more awake she became, and many thoughts and a series of questions that she didn't usually pay special attention to kept popping up in her mind.

What's going on? Who is this carrion? Why was his grave dug up? Who did it? Why did the 'old man' bring her here? Why didn't those strange footprints dare to come here?

She had only studied forensics, but not forensics, so she could not tell how long he had been dead from the appearance of his body. She only saw that he was a man, and the body had all decomposed, but not to the extent that only white bones remained, so the appearance was quite disgusting and terrifying.

Because Natsu fell from a high position, Natsu could see his upper body even if he was sitting in the coffin. Half of his face is rotten, his facial features are blurred, especially the rotten eye holes are very terrifying, no matter what angle he is, he feels like he is staring at you, leaving you with nowhere to escape!

The clothes on his body were not the kind of shroud in the funeral customs of the Han people, but the ordinary clothes of the local ethnic minorities, and it seems that the burial was quite hurried and not specially prepared.

The clothes were the kind of small gowns that were opposite, the color was no longer clear, and the placket was stretched. Xiao Xia guessed that it was because the corpse's abdomen was swollen and the clothes were tight, so it was propped up. But she couldn't understand why the rotting corpse's stomach had burst open, and the discolored things that couldn't tell whether they were muscles or internal organs were turning outward, and maggots crawled everywhere, emitting a disgusting stench.

Xiao Xia forcibly endured the feeling of vomiting and forced herself to calm down. She had heard stories about corpses, and it was said that they were all moved by the wind, and in that critical state of being raised from corpses, the slightest wind and grass would startle them!

The only bloodwood sword that could protect her was thrown on the edge of the pit the moment she fell into the pit, and now she is facing this unavoidable accident directly!

So she stared at the rotting corpse sitting in the coffin not far away, fearing that something might happen to it. But she can't just stay here, she has to find a way to leave, otherwise if it really dies, in this pit, she can only wait for death!

Thinking like this, she began to get up slowly with very light movements, trying not to make a sound, but in the dawn of this silent mountain forest, she could make a loud noise with every slight movement, which made her so nervous that her heart was about to stop, and she continued to observe the situation on the other side of the coffin while slowing down her movements like a mirror.

Fortunately, he didn't move. This gave Natsu the courage to start looking for a place to climb up.

A closer look revealed that the pit was not shallow, two people high, and the place where the coffin was located was even deeper. At her feet were uprooted flowers, which looked extremely gorgeous, and in the surrounding soil, the rhizomes of some plants had not been plucked out, but only hung there, looking like they would hang at any time. The color of the loess is quite new, and the traces are the newly dug grave, maybe it was a few hours ago in the night!

She tried to take a step, but there was a piercing pain in her ankle, reminding her that she had been injured when she had fallen into the pit, but the pain was secondary to her, and the panic and uneasiness were unbearable for her.

She saw a slope ahead, farther from the ground, but steeper enough to climb. But it was so close to the coffin that you almost had to stand next to the rotting corpse to do it. This made her hesitate for a moment, and finally decided to do it.

The closer she got to the coffin, the more furious she became, and she always felt like the rotting corpse was about to jump out, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that he was smiling at her, and even twisted his neck to stare at her as her position changed.

Standing next to the coffin, she and the rotting corpse 'looked at each other' for a moment, then gritted her teeth and turned around, trying her best to ignore the numbness and coldness in her back, and climbed up with her hands and feet!

She clearly understood that she couldn't fall down, because it was a big pit, and the place where she had fallen just now seemed to be for those beautiful and weird plants, and this side was very narrow, with only a coffin. If she crawls halfway down and slips down, she will definitely fall into this coffin and come into close contact with the rotting corpse.

But it looks easy, but it's not so easy to get up. With her right foot, she didn't need any strength, and there was nothing on the dirt wall to start with, she just kicked hard at the pothole, grasping the dirt and the remnants of the plant rhizomes with both hands, and clinging to the dirt slope like a gecko, slipping up three times with difficulty.

Two minutes of time, in Xiao Xia's feelings, but it was as long as hours, the desire to return to it, the fear of being attacked behind her, made her extremely nervous, so her physical strength was also extremely exhausted, and she felt that she couldn't hold on in such a short time.

At this time, a protruding plant rhizome appeared in front of her, and she tried her best to grab it in surprise, and her legs were strong, trying to use this 'life-saving straw' to successfully climb to the top, but under a kick, she suddenly felt that her feet were caught by something!

It's the carrion that's pulling her! He didn't want her to leave!

She thought in horror in her heart, desperately struggling to get rid of it, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't shake off the pull on her feet. And as soon as she struggled, the only 'life-saving straw' in her hand was loosened!

Stop it! Don't move! Don't move!

She froze there, constantly reminding herself.

The grass was so fragile that it hung there, and the grip underneath was so strong that as long as she moved, the grass could no longer bear her weight, and she would fall immediately.

She had to bear the weight of her body as hard as she could, holding on to the grass that would be pulled out at any time with one hand, and the other hand grasping the soil, even though her hand was bleeding from the sharp stones and various debris in the soil.

She didn't move, she lay on her stomach like a gecko clinging to the dirt, and she didn't even dare to look back, but fortunately the pull didn't go down again, so she was now half-hanging there, unable to get up or down, just praying that the grass would not loosen again, and then waiting for a miracle to happen.

"Ruan Zhan-" In desperation, she whispered his name. She always likes to think about him whenever she is in danger, and that makes her feel especially safe.

A hand appeared in front of her and suddenly grabbed her wrist. She screamed and tried to struggle, but she felt her body rise in the air, the grip on her feet was gone, and she was pulled to the ground in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, stepping on solid ground, the stinging pain of her injured foot caused her to fall forward again, and in that familiar and warm embrace, she had not lost consciousness in extreme terror, but she surrendered because of this safety!

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Ruan Zhan quietly hugged Xiao Xia for a while, and he actually felt a sense of peace in this desolate cemetery, but this rare time did not last long, and he immediately realized that the sky was about to be bright, and he could not let the corpse see the daylight. So I had to put Xiao Xia aside gently, cast a spell to burn those bewitching flowers to the ground, and let the rotting corpse automatically lie flat in the coffin, and then rebury it.

He dug this grave, in fact he dug three graves in one night!

Because there was no progress in investigating Huang Boheng's matter, but the violent death of the three brothers in Naman Village a few months ago attracted his attention. The three brothers died so strangely that no one knew how they died, and the villagers believed that they were wronged or unfilial people were punished by the gods. But in Ruan Zhan's opinion, this incident must have something to do with the strange things that happened in the city, so he decided to come to dig a grave in the middle of the night to have a look!

According to Xiao Xia, in several cases of the 'Helping Hand' legal aid firm, the deceased also died strangely, and plants appeared in the deceased's grave and the crime scene that moved on their own, as if they were alive. And how did this plant end up in the cemetery? If it is planted in a corpse like a Gu, why can't it be destroyed after cremation?

Xiao Xia also saw a strange black cat in the office, and Guan Zheng also killed a cat, and then Guan Zheng was killed. When they were attacked in the wild shop, a black cat appeared, and there were moving plants pretending to be zombies!

To sum up, when these strange things happen, there are black cats and moving plants!

Ten thousand miles were hit by Gu, and nine out of ten of the other dead were also hit Gu. And since he came here, he had only discovered what a powerful Gu master they were facing. He can use Gu to control ghosts, plants, and animals (that black cat is probably the one he used to do), and he also gave Wan Li such a vicious death Gu.

He didn't think it was because they came to investigate the details of their opponents, they knew that using so many tricks and laying down death Gu would also hurt the caster himself, unless he had a strong hatred, he wouldn't do it.

But why? Could it be that it's 'Yang Muyou' who is stirring up trouble in it, and even he may be from here, or have a major origin?

There is also a key figure - Huang Boheng.

Although no one recognized his photo, it doesn't mean anything, he is so rich that he can have plastic surgery. He had a feeling that Huang Boheng must have a close relationship here.

These chaotic clues made him puzzled, so he had to start from the most basic. He wanted to find out if the deaths of the three brothers were consistent with the cases in the city, and if the answer was yes, then he could be sure that he would be able to find the answer in the mountains and forests.

And, of course, that weirdo!

So he came here in the middle of the night to do the unethical things of digging people's graves and disturbing the dead. And as soon as he arrived, he found that there were three graves surrounded by bewitching and beautiful flowers, so he knew where the graves of the three brothers were almost without looking at the tombstones. And as expected, all three of them died from Gu magic, although he was not very familiar with this technique, but it was still evident from the death.

In addition, those flowers, like the ones that Xiao Xia investigated in the city case, were poppies. The poppies are very beautiful, but they are cremated in the city, although the seeds that have been treated with special magic do not die under the high temperature of cremation, but after all, they are not as good as before, so they only grow branches, and they die as soon as they leave the soil.

Here, these flowers grow in carcasses, and then take root in the soil, where they grow so luxuriantly that the grave must be dug up to destroy their roots, and they must be completely destroyed by fire.

And while he was doing these things, his heart sensed Xiao Xia's danger again.

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