"Red Hair Blood Face?"
As soon as he said it, Sha LiFei laughed. "Isn't that just something used to scare children?"
Even Li Yan frowned slightly when he heard it.
In every corner of the Divine Land, there were always strange folk tales in the countryside: shadows behind people at night, hands in latrines, faces on windows, Tiger Auntie...
Red Hair Blood Face was one of them.
According to rumor, this thing wore a Large Green Robe, had red hair and a face covered in blood. It often appeared around dusk. If any children were still playing at that hour, it would lure them away.
It often appeared beside old trees. The elders swore up and down that the children from some nearby village had once gone up the mountain to play, only to encounter Red Hair Blood Face.
The other children had fled in panic. Even after looking back, they could still see that frightening green-robed, red-faced shadow beneath the tree at dusk, coldly staring at them. After returning home, they would all fall seriously ill, and some were even frightened out of their souls.
Some elders said that one child had failed to return. The child had vanished, and later, after a master from Chang'an City had been invited to perform a ritual, the child's bones were found three feet beneath that tree.
A coffin was discovered at the same time, but the master refused to let anyone open it. He simply left it beneath the blazing sun until it burned to ash.
In short, the tale was told with such vivid detail that it sounded utterly convincing.
After learning that the mystical world existed, Li Yan believed in zombies and Demons and Monsters, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt this was a story