Chapter 27 - Evil

Chapter 27 - Evil

“Hihihi~ Tell me. Do I look like a human or a God?”

The ‘thing’ in the forest shook the branches, her voice growing louder and sharper.

“You look like a human! Please spare us! We are all hardworking people who are just trying to survive!”

Lu Zhuangyuan was overtaken by fear and started groveling on the floor, kowtowing endlessly toward the direction of the voice.

He continued groveling until he saw a pair of feet wearing red-colored embroidered shoes at the edges of the forest. Emerging from n0v@lbin☆, this material harbors clandestine details.

He felt chills running down his spine as he slowly raised his head and saw a girl wearing a padded flower jacket standing there, her feet looking comically small. Her face was large and white, but her mouth was very small by comparison. Her eyes were like black beads, unmoving and unblinking. Her white face was especially conspicuous within the darkness, almost looking like a floating balloon.

“Hehe, you think I’m a human?” The ‘girl’ with the tiny feet covered her mouth as ‘she’ laughed before walking closer toward the bonfire.

When Lu Zhuangyuan saw her body wriggling around as if ‘she’ didn’t have a skeleton, he knew that he was fucked. It was a real spirit this time!

“A-a child! Everyone! Wake up! I need a boy’s urine!” Lu Zhuangyuan's horror-filled voice woke everyone up.

Lu Juren grabbed a burning stick from the bonfire and threw it toward the spirit.

However, the burning stick just passed right through the body of the ‘girl’.

The ‘girl’ with tiny feet slowly approached the bonfire before stopping. ‘She’ then turned toward the Eastern direction.

At the same time, the tree branches before Li Huowang shook as he and the rest of his group appeared from the forest while holding a few glowing rocks in their hands.

“Hmm?” Bai Lingmiao, who had already taken off her blindfold, saw that something was wrong. “Senior Li, that ‘girl’ might be a spirit! She has another face on the back of her head!”

Li Huowang unsheathed his long sword and stared warily at the girl with tiny feet. “What are you?”

Lu Zhuangyuan even wiped the mouthpiece of the pipe he was smoking with his shirt before lighting up a puff and passing it to Li Huowang.

“Erm... thanks old man, but I don’t smoke. Now, can you tell me what it was that we just encountered? What was that thing called?” Li Huowang said as he gently pushed the pipe back into Lu Zhuangyuan’s hands.

Li Huowang still knew nothing about this world. If he wanted to survive here, he needed to learn more about it.

Lu Zhuangyuan was stunned by his question. “Huh? How would I know? Young Taoist, you were the one who chased it away. Shouldn’t you know more about it than me?”

Looking at the old man’s confused eyes, Li Huowang realized that he had asked the wrong person. The old man might not even know as much as him.

“I heard you shouting and asking for a boy’s urine. Would it be able to hurt that thing?”

“Yeah! These kinds of things are afraid of filthy things. I’ve heard that it could work even if we were to use our snot. But the best item would still be a young boy’s urine. It’s filled with Yang energy, and at the same time, it's considered really filthy.”

“Really? Have you used it before?”

In the face of this question, Lu Zhuangyuan, who had been certain of what he had said until now, suddenly turned sheepish. He chuckled as his eyes darted around. “Maybe? It was the elders in the village who always told us this technique. Since they told us about it so often, I guess it should work.”

Li Huowang sighed.

Why is it another folklore passed down using word of mouth? This place is much too backward.

“Alright old man. Then let me ask you something you would know the answer to. Have you encountered these kinds of things before? If yes, how frequent was it?”

“Nah, if I were to encounter these kinds of things every day, then I would’ve quit running around with my troupe and taken my son back to our village to tend to the fields,” Lu Zhuangyuan said as he placed his pipe in his mouth and took another puff.

“I’ve traveled the lands for so long and have only encountered spirits a total of four times,” he continued.

“I see.” Li Huowang surveyed the forest around him. He had gained a slightly better understanding of the world he was in.

After living with Dan Yangzi for such a long time, he had thought that things like the Black Taisui would be everywhere around him. However, that didn’t seem to be the case.

Even though everyone had heard of these kinds of things happening, from the looks of it, it was still very rare to experience such things.