Chapter 40: Something Worse Than Death

The stream is not deep, only up to Natsu's knees, which allows her to clearly see the woman underneath.

Her face not only looks the same as Xiao Xia's, but if you look closely, even her figure is very similar, wearing gorgeous national costumes, and a pair of embroidered shoes that only a bride wears, although there are many differences from Xiao Xia's dress, but it is also a bride's dress!

"Dororo, Dororo, Yue Xiaoxia, back the black cauldron; Oh hehe, oh hehe, Yue Xiaoxia, come for me! She suddenly spoke, singing a ballad. The familiar voice clearly told Natsu that she was the woman in the basin last night, not a new vision or a new ghost!

Her arm gripped Natsu's ankles across her sides at an unimaginably strange angle, and just as Natsu was overwhelmed by her sudden appearance and the song she was reading, she suddenly lifted it hard, causing Natsu to fall straight backwards into the water.

Although the water is not deep, the incident happened suddenly, and Xiao Xia was originally a landlubber, so when she got up from the water, she was already choking and coughing, and she couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south.

"Didn't anyone tell you?" The female ghost's head silently sticked out from behind Xiao Natsu, placed it on her left shoulder, and whispered, "In the final stage of the 'Find the Bride' campaign, a good friend of the bride will secretly tell the groom where the bride is hiding. Look at the two of us, how similar they look, like twins, we should be closer than any friends! ”

She looked like she was gently snuggling Xiao Xia, if someone was watching from the side, they would definitely think that the two sisters were whispering in the boudoir, but in the eyes of the person concerned, Xiao Xia, she felt that she was carrying a huge water bag on her back, damp, cold, and soft, and it was difficult to even breathe, so that she couldn't get up at all.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Xia finally said a word.

"Now I'm going to tell the groom that the bride is in the water!"

"Don't you think about it!" Xiao Xia was so pressed that she couldn't even breathe, and she was so angry that she forgot her fear. She tried her best to stand up, but she couldn't try a few times, only to feel that the things on her back were getting heavier and heavier, and it was difficult to turn her head!

"I've been in the water for years, and now it's your turn!" The female ghost smiled and said, "How good it is in the water, always so cool, always so clean, and I can't hear the messy sound outside, just feel the gentle flowing water every day, how good, how good!" She said as she stroked the back of Natsu's neck, as if looking for a good place to start. Xiao Xia only felt that her entire back was cold and wet, and there was obviously condensing moisture, which made her hairs stand on end, but she couldn't break free.

"You just stay quietly in the water, for a year, five years, ten years, a hundred years, and you can't move, let the gentlest flowing water corrode your flesh and skin, let the fish and shrimp feed on your body, until the coolness turns into endless cold, until the next unlucky one runs in front of you, so that you can sing a ballad to her." She continued gloating, but her tone changed from soft at the beginning to bleak and malicious, and the last few words were even more ferocious!

"Dororo, Dororo, Yue Xiaoxia, back the black cauldron; Oh hehe, oh hehe, Yue Xiaoxia, come for me! ”

She sang the ballad again, and as she sang, she exerted more force on Natsu's neck, and despite Natsu's desperate struggles, she was gradually pressed into the water!

The cool water of the stream slowly soaked over Natsu's head, completely cutting off her breathing and part of her hearing. She watched her face get closer and closer to the bottom of the stream, her hands waving and scratching in vain in the water, and many thoughts turned through her mind for a moment.

Will you never see your parents again? How sad they would be! How will Boss Pan react to her death? Won't Wanli still be able to save after all? Will they meet in that world? If he is there, he shouldn't be scared on the Huangquan Road, right? Also, what about Ruan Zhan? What about the cold and fragile him? He still didn't belong to her in the end, and he would still live this life in the infinite loneliness in his heart. He has yin and yang eyes, and he can probably see himself. What would he do with her? With a little sympathy in her indifference to other ghosts, or will you have a ghost affair with her? Can her plan of 'the countryside surround the city' have another chance in that world? What is that world like, is it really as Ruan Zhan said - death is just the beginning!

She never knew that when human beings faced death, they would think about so many things that had nothing to do with life and death, fear? It's not nothing, but the nostalgia for this world trumps everything. She didn't know what was going on with other people, but she was.

She has so many unfulfilled wishes, she has so many people who can't let go, she has the best best friend in the world waiting for her to save her life, she also has the loneliest and loneliest man in the world waiting for her to be warm, she can't die!

Don't die!

This is not the arrangement of fate, nor is it normal birth, old age, sickness and death, there are ghosts and monsters that want to harm her, no matter how terrifying they are, how powerful they are, she has to fight hard!

This thought lifted her heart for a moment, and although her strength did not increase greatly, her mind cleared up a lot, and she immediately remembered that there were still a few charms folded into triangles in her waist bag.

It doesn't mean anything special to fold into that shape, just to distinguish the different charms. This kind of charm will cause fire, and it will cause that kind of fire that is different from ordinary and has spiritual power.

She had just fallen into the water, and now she was pressed into the stream again, and it stands to reason that the charm was so wet that she could not use it. However, the material of her waist bag is waterproof silk, and Ruan Zhan's mana is very large, maybe she can be rescued and used!

Thinking so, one of her hands has consciously and spontaneously reached into her waist bag, and immediately touched a few things with folded corners, although she can't tell whether it is triangular or not, and the rune paper is also so wet that it seems to absorb water, but after all, there is still a sense of shape, maybe you can fight!

She grasped the charm tightly in the palm of her hand, and happened to feel that the thing behind her was pressing on the side of the charm she was grabbing, so she didn't even think about it, and with her feeling, she put her backhand on the cold.

"It works! Work! She thought desperately.

A few seconds of silence made her think the spell had no effect. But then she heard a humming scream, and felt the strength on the back of her neck loosen, and she sat up from the water with a sharp struggle.

She greedily inhaled the fresh air, and saw a red flame burning on the left side of the body of the female ghost dressed as a bride, burning her screaming and jumping in the water, and in a matter of seconds, she had changed from a beautiful bride to a mass of dry bones in ragged clothes, then scorched bones, and then an empty shelf in a ragged garment.

It turns out she's the Clothed Ghost!

Ruan Zhan didn't kill her that day, but only ruined her bewildering appearance and broke her mana. She actually escaped back, and then found her master, in a vain attempt to regather the evil power, although she has not succeeded yet, but it is more than enough to bully Xiao Xia.

The clothed ghost obviously didn't expect Xiao Xia to be able to resist in that situation, and thought that Xiao Xia's arms were just struggling before death, but he was hit all at once. It's a pity that the spell was soaked in water and lost her mana, so although Xiao Xia used all the spells at once, the effect of the talisman was still greatly discounted, and she was burned out of her original form, and it was 'suddenly' extinguished!

"I won't let you go, you have to come for me!" As soon as she escaped the damage of the spell, she screamed and pounced on her, with an extremely terrifying momentum, like madness, and the clothes on her body were all open in anger like the thorns of a hedgehog!

Xiao Xia was taken aback, and before he could react, he saw a black shadow in the sky as a hood!

She subconsciously blocked it with her hand, thinking that this time she would definitely die, but she knew that the clothed ghost fell down again in mid-air, and immediately understood that although she was not 'burned' by the rune fire, she was seriously injured.

But despite this, she was still hurt by the ghost's desperate pounce, only to feel a yin wind sweep her face, in the blink of an eye, as if her whole body was frozen, she could no longer control her body, and fell into the water again.

This time she was lying on her back in the water, dressed in a bride's dress and beautiful embroidered shoes, staring at the bottom of the stream with wide eyes and looking desperately at the water!

She looked exactly like the ghost, and she was lying in the same place at the moment, except for the difference in clothing, it seemed that she had unintentionally formed that situation - she stayed underwater for the ghost! She's really its stand-in!

She could not breathe or move, and though she could not see, she could faintly hear the man in the cloak say triumphantly in a weak voice, 'The bride is underwater!' The bride is underwater! Knowing that she went to report the news, to report the person behind the scenes, the bride search is finally over!

She still lost!

The inability to breathe made her more and more uncomfortable, and in her confusion, she heard the excited cries of the cloaked ghost drift away until they disappeared completely. When she finally couldn't hear anything and only felt the sound of running water, she suddenly understood the boundless loneliness of the Demoliquin Ghost underwater, and then slowly closed her eyes!

She felt death!

It wasn't as terrible as I imagined, except for the pain that was as short as a moment but as long as eternity! She only felt darkness, dead silence but warm darkness! It's like she's the only one in the world, and although there is no danger, she feels absolutely panicked.

Is this death? But why didn't her soul stand in the air and watch all this? Doesn't the book of soul experience say that the dead see a ray of light? Will it feel like a tunnel? Why can't she see it, is it because her soul is imprisoned? Does she really want to become a stand-in for that cloth, the next thing to harm people, and a ghost Gu without free will?

This fear is far more terrible than death!

She doesn't want to be controlled like a puppet and use her misery to hurt others! She doesn't want to be taken advantage of, to be the villain behind the scenes or an accomplice to the evil ghosts!

The thought made her run through the darkness, trying to find an exit! Her feet were soft, she didn't know if she had stepped on the ground, and she didn't have a sense of space and time, but she still kept running.

She just wants to find an exit, even hell, as long as she doesn't become a ghost who has been tricked! In that case, it may be Ruan Zhan who will kill herself, and it will make her even more unbearable than losing everything!

After running around for a while, she didn't feel tired but also didn't feel any sense of progress, as if she had been staying where she was. When she was anxious, she suddenly felt a huge suction force from the depths of the darkness, as if she was going to pull her somewhere!

This made her panic and fear, afraid that it was the person behind the scenes who was waiting for her on the other side of the darkness!

At this time, among all the ghosts in the world, I am afraid she is the only one who longs to go to hell!

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