CH 397

Zhao Tianhu, who was outside the house, heard Lv Xiucai's extremely miserable scream and said to Kui Sanjin in frustration, "Ah, not another one."

Before Kui Sanjin could speak, a chubby man next to him spoke up. "Boss Kui, I have a friend who is said to have a connection with the Monitoring Bureau. How about..."

"Smack!" Zhao Tianhu slapped him on the head. "Don't you know what business we're in? We're smugglers! Do you dare to provoke the Monitoring Bureau? Do you want them to come and kill us all?"

The chubby man, covering his mouth, retreated to the crowd in grievance. "They're not constables, and we, the illiterate scholars, are not under their jurisdiction."

Zhao Tianhu narrowed his eyes. "If it really doesn't work, let's forget about this artifact. We've already done our best for Fourth Brother by hiring so many people."

As soon as he said this, the people around him became anxious. "Lord Zhao, we can't just give up! That thing can turn Fourth Brother into that state, it must be a valuable treasure!"

"That's right! Even if we don't dare to use it, we can sell it to someone else for a fortune!"

"Hey! Lord Zhao! I also heard that those experts have elixirs that grant immortality! Let's exchange this cursed skin for one!"

"What's the point of talking so much? Shut up!" As soon as Zhao Tianhu spoke, everyone fell silent.

"If you have the ability, go and remove that strange cursed skin from Fourth Brother's body! Whoever removes it, I'll reward them! But do you dare?"

"I don't know if it's a valuable treasure, but the thing we dug out can kill people! Fourth Brother and Sixth Brother both died because of it. How many lives do you have to exchange?"

"That's settled then! Seal all the doors and windows, and we'll leave at dawn to avoid being targeted by the officials."

As soon as he said this, no one dared to speak up anymore, and they all began to prepare according to his instructions.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Lv Xiucai's miserable scream rang out from the room again.

"Oh?" Zhao Tianhu's face immediately showed a hint of joy. "He's still not dead. It seems like there's a show this time. Wait, don't rush, let's wait and see!"

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!" Lv Xiucai held a copper coin and hysterically shouted while spinning in the room. Behind him, a long neck with disheveled hair and a twisted body were chasing after him like a snake.

The contorted and twisted corpses beside him made Lv Xiucai exert all his strength to escape, fearing that he would end up like them.

Seeing that he was forced into a corner with no way out, Lv Xiucai gritted his teeth and raised the copper coin high in front of the approaching head, causing it to retreat half a step.

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"It's okay, it's okay! This thing is afraid of copper coins!" Lv Xiucai gasped for breath while comforting himself.

Covered in sweat from running, he finally had the opportunity to see what that thing really was.

It was a person, or rather, it used to be a person. His neck and limbs had become extremely long, twisting in the air like a snake.

On his chest was a moldy skin, sewn together from several pieces of face and scalp. The neat scars proved that these living faces were monks.

The facial features of these monks were sewn shut with thread, and their foreheads and cheeks were covered in what seemed to be Sanskrit, making this already eerie skin even more sinister.

With each movement of the person, the facial features of the monks would be pulled and twisted.

"Is that a human skin? Is it this skin that allows the head to stretch so long?" In the face of danger, Lv Xiucai's mind quickly turned.

He didn't care whether it was true or not. The most important thing now was to escape from this haunted place. He couldn't handle this.

Looking at the heads and hands twisting like snakes in front of him, Lv Xiucai thought for a moment and pushed forward with the five copper coins in his hand.

Seeing them suddenly shrink back, Lv Xiucai quickly raised the copper coins. He slowly moved towards the window, and when he reached the window, he began to tap on the wooden frame with his elbows.

Just as he was about to break the window and escape, the window suddenly pushed inwards from the outside, causing him to fall flat on his face.

When he got up from the ground, his head was just a few inches away from the disheveled head.

Looking at the monster in front of him, Lv Xiucai's breath almost stopped.

Just as the head opened its mouth and lunged towards him, a beam of light shot from the left side of Lv Xiucai, directly hitting the head.

The hair and flesh melted away, leaving only a pale skull rolling on the ground.

Without a head, the person wearing the human skin instantly went limp, looking completely dead.

Feeling the host's death, the scalp of the monk suddenly separated from the corpse and flew towards Lv Xiucai like a torn cloth.

At this critical moment, a wooden pole shot out with a "swish" and impaled the moving human skin into the ground.

Lv Xiucai, dumbfounded, followed the wooden pole upwards and saw a white banner hanging on it. Besides the yin-yang Taiji symbol at the top, there were six words written below.

If Lv Xiucai could read, he would understand that the meaning of those six words was face reading, fortune telling, and divination.

"Oh, I, Blind Chen, have been having bad luck for so many days. Today, I finally encountered something good." Blind Chen, who had made a deal with Li Huowang, felt around and reached for the white banner that advertised his services.

He walked over, stepped on it with his feet, and then pulled out the white banner.Looking at the blind old man in front of him, who was carrying a bamboo basket and fondly touching the moving human skin, Lv Xiucai finally snapped out of his daze and quickly got up from the ground.

"Thank you, master, for your help just now."

Blind Chen seemed not to hear him. He first wrapped the human skin in a piece of black cloth, then took out a mirror. It was the Bagua mirror that Li Huowang had returned to him earlier.

Outside, Zhao Tianhu and Kui Sanjin were crowding around the window, looking inside with surprise and curiosity.

They had seen what had just happened. They wondered about the identity of this blind man who was so powerful.

Blind Chen tucked the Bagua mirror under his arm and walked towards the window, tapping the ground with a white flag. "What are you all crowding around for? Isn't it too cramped? Step back."

Seeing that the blind man seemed to be preparing to climb out of the window, the people outside stepped back a few steps, but they didn't go too far. They formed a semi-circle around the window. Their skins were still in his bamboo basket.

"Ah, that's better." Blind Chen, with a solemn expression on his face, immediately took a horse stance. He held the Bagua mirror level with his left hand, and with his right hand, he drew something on the mirror while chanting softly.

Lv Xiucai, who was watching from the side, had a look of longing in his eyes. The blind man in front of him was so ethereal and noble. He wished he could be like that one day.

And the Bagua mirror in his hand, it was obviously a powerful tool for exorcising demons. He wondered how much it would cost to buy one.

Just as Lv Xiucai was thinking this, Blind Chen's chanting speeded up.

As soon as the chant stopped, Blind Chen immediately raised the Bagua mirror and shone it at the people outside.

"Heaven and earth are limitless, the law is just!"

A blinding light shot out from the mirror, piercing through everyone's bodies like a spear.

Amidst the desperate screams, all the people outside the window were turned into a puddle of red mud by the Bagua mirror in Blind Chen's hand.

(End of the chapter)