Record of Strange News in Northeast - C187
After placing a Heart Defensive Spell around the house, it was considered a defensive measure. Ordinary evil spirits and ghosts would all retreat after knowing the difficulties. After staying for a while longer, I saw that the family was really unhappy and instructed their families not to wander around.
“One advice for filial piety, gold for filial piety, filial piety for filial piety, disobedient disobedience for nurturing, two advice for daughter-in-law to filial piety, filial piety for parentage with many benefits, guarding and working for you, once again as your babysitter, three advice for parents-in-law to be unbiased, for daughter-in-law to be as intimate as her daughter …” As I was walking back, a humming sound came from behind me. I looked back and saw a man dressed in casual clothes walking towards me.
When he walked past me, I could smell a very unpleasant odor coming off him. It wasn’t strong, I wouldn’t have been able to smell it if it were a normal person. It was just that I could smell the scent of bird droppings.
This person passed by in a flash. It seemed like he was an ordinary person, but I kept feeling that something was amiss. I couldn’t tell where, but maybe the temperament he exuded was similar to that of an ordinary person. I had to pay more attention to him.
“Sigh, Old Deaf, you’re finally here.” Someone came out from a nearby household and called this idle person in. The person called Old Deaf did not say anything as he swaggered in.
The Old Deaf swaggered in, and the person who welcomed him looked to be quite young, and had even bowed his head in gratitude. He was bowing and bowing respectfully to the Old Deaf, and had a smile on his face, and did not look like he was paying respects to his friends, but instead looked like he had a request.
I pretended that I was passing by casually and stood in front of his house. Uncle Xie Zhe was currently accompanying the idler called Old Deaf, and I heard everything clearly from the door.
“Old Deaf, look, you are giving a discount to someone else’s family, even to my nephew’s family. We have known each other for so many years …”
I can’t, your family has an old lady who died. The children that I gave discounts to are all children. Kids save money, you won’t get a discount.” The old deaf man’s voice was hoarse, which made people uncomfortable. The bald man and the old deaf talked for a while, but the old deaf man refused to give up, so the bald man had no choice but to compromise.
Old Deaf walked into that house and very quickly, he went through every single one of the families that had died. It turned out that these families’ coffins were all booked by him, so he came to arrange for a size.
This is the first time I heard that after Old Deaf left, I silently followed behind him. Who knew that although he didn’t seem to be going fast, it was actually quite strenuous for me to follow him? Could it be that he had the ability to shrink the ground to only an inch?
He had walked for a long distance before he realized it. His coffin shop was located very far away from my house, and this person had specially chosen a path with very few people. At the very end, there was not even a single soul on the path, and in front of him was a small door with no signboard.
Old Deaf walked in unsteadily. The small door was dilapidated and looked like it was about to fall down the moment it opened and closed. I am becoming more and more curious about this person since he can live in such a place.
He didn’t turn on the light for a while after he went in, so I sneaked in through the back wall. I didn’t know why, but this person’s aura attracted me.
The window at the back of the house was very old and was devoid of any life. It didn’t seem like someone was living here, but rather that it had been abandoned for a long time. After finally finding a clear spot on the window, I pressed my face against it and looked inside.
The interior was extremely dark, and even with my eyesight stretched to the limit, I was still unable to see clearly. In the darkness, I could only faintly make out that something was standing or falling. Suddenly, my sight turned a deep blue, and the blue flame flickered like a flame, and stopped less than half a meter away from me. The blue flame was very small, and hung in the air, and for some reason, I kept feeling that the blue flame was staring at me.
After a while, the blue fire disappeared. I couldn’t see anything, so I carefully walked back. I was very curious about the unknown blue fire.
On the way back, I always felt that my shoulders were uncomfortable and my legs were getting worse. Originally, I didn’t know how tired I was when I was walking, but on the way back, I always felt uncomfortable and stopped to rest a few times.
“I’m back.” Senior sister was already awake, she was washing up in the kitchen. After hearing what I said, she came out and asked: “Fool Girl said that you went to see someone, why are you back so late? Which family?”
“The old lady who came to see you a few days ago, let’s not talk about it anymore. I feel a bit uncomfortable, so I’ll be taking a rest first.” As I talked, I felt dizzy and sick. I didn’t want to open my eyes at all, so I forced myself to stand up and prepare to head upstairs, but suddenly there was a sharp pain in my shoulder that almost made me scream out in pain. I fell to the ground, my eyes started to sparkle from the pain, and my mouth started to suck in air.
Senior Sister hurriedly helped me up. “What happened to you?” I said, “Maybe it’s cold and damp and my shoulder hurts like hell. I’m going up first. Don’t call me after dinner.”
It was as if the uncomfortable feeling had suddenly come over me when I was lying on the bed and rubbing my shoulders. The sudden sharp pain from before did not leave any mark, and I felt very strange, it was as if someone had used a kitchen knife to chop my shoulder, but now I did not feel anything at all. It was unbelievable.
As the pain faded, I started to recall the blue flame that I saw at the window of Old Deaf’s house. It was so small yet it seemed to be burning solid.
In the dream, I was walking along the path in a daze, surrounded by a desolate and barren scene, the wild land was filled with clumps of weeds, all tangled together like weeds, and they looked like they had been dead for a long time. As I walked slowly from the path to the wild land, the clumps of weeds grew larger and larger, and slowly the weeds began to wiggle, as if something was about to emerge from them, and for some reason I was terrified of what was about to appear.
All the clumps of grass began to squirm. I don’t understand why things that were lifeless would move. I don’t even know if it was its head or its tail. But it was really a little too big, almost as long as a snake, and when it stuck its head out and began to look around, it was sensing everything here, although I didn’t know what it was doing it with.
I don’t know why, but I was afraid of it. The sense of danger I got from this thick, slow-moving bug was so great that even if I didn’t know where its mouth was, even if it had a mouth, I wasn’t sure if it had one, but it carried an aura that didn’t seem to belong to this world, and I couldn’t help but step back, wanting to get as far away from it as possible.
It was crawling slowly on the pile of grass, as if it was slowly getting used to this place. I was more and more sure that it didn’t belong here, so I retreated to the edge of the grass behind me and stopped. I leaned against it and stared at the squirming insect.
I instinctively withdrew my hand and looked back. A bigger worm had appeared on the clump of grass behind me, and it had been flung away by me. It lifted its head abruptly, and even though there was no sign of a head on its head, I could still feel a kind of anger coming from it. Yes, it was anger, a thick, featureless worm that was exuding an emotion similar to that of a human being.
I cried out in alarm and retreated, only now did I realize that the bigger and smaller clumps of grass were filled with bugs, the bigger ones were filled with bigger ones, while the smaller ones were filled with smaller ones. They slowly crawled out of the clumps of grass and explored the world slowly, and they gave off an aura that was very familiar, they were trying to understand this place, they were trying to integrate here, excitement, nervousness, desire, and all sorts of emotions were being emitted from their bodies, these were emotions that only humans would have, for some reason, I could feel them from their bodies.
Breathing harder and harder, I slowly moved, trying to get away, unable to see where I was going, as if the whole world were filled with dead grass and insects, and by then I had nothing else to think about but running, and fear had already filled my mind.
I turned and ran, as if everything were the same, without any difference. I kept running, bypassing the clumps of grass, and the wind I brought with me attracted the attention of the bugs. They were so sensitive that they quickly discovered me, even if they didn’t have eyes.
Slowly, they targeted me, and I kept accelerating, running, and the wind in my ears made me realize that my fear was so strong, that the bugs were moving slowly but steadily, that the bugs I saw everywhere were coming at me, and that they didn’t seem to worry that I would run away, even if I could get rid of them very soon.
Slowly, more and more bugs began to gather behind me, and I was also constantly attracting the attention of the bugs. At this rate, I would be exhausted sooner or later, and thinking about this, my steps became heavier, and my originally light body suddenly felt as if a sack was placed on it.
As my footsteps slowed, the strength in my body slowly disappeared, my eyes dimmed, the sky seemed to darken, the bugs behind me swarmed closer and closer, and other than the endless clumps of grass in front of me, there was nothing else I could do. Fear and exhaustion completely destroyed me, and I finally fell to the ground.
The last image I could see was of the excited insects surrounding me, pressing down on me, layer by layer. I no longer had the strength to struggle, but my mind was so clear that I could clearly feel their joy after they had knocked me down, and I could clearly feel them drilling into my body. The bone-deep fear and pain engulfed me in an instant, and I had no strength to fight back.
“Ah …” With a cry of alarm, I woke up, and the soft light from the lamp gave me a sense of comfort and security. The dream was so real, so real that I wondered if I was really somewhere else, and the so-called dream was just another real space. I wiped the sweat from my forehead, and I felt my heart beating so hard that I wanted to get up and go for a drink of water.