Telling You a Scary Story

Having successfully discovered the reason why the Witch Doctor had sent him away, Yu Xing headed towards the village after the person disappeared in the water and the Witch Doctor walked upstream.

Although the forest was somewhat misleading, Yu Xing had a strong memory, so remembering the way was no problem for him. He walked through the trees that blocked out the sunlight and returned to the village.

When Yu Xing first arrived in the village, just yesterday, he knocked on the door twice, but the villagers who opened the door were unfriendly to him, even avoiding him like the plague. He could guess why.

The villagers all believed themselves to be the lucky ones, the protected ones, who were escaping the clutches of the Black and White Impermanence. Every outsider who joined them risked revealing their secrets.

If too many people find out about this, and the Immortal Lord are exposed, then their dream of immortality will be ruined!

It can be said that scammers often exploit this psychology of victims; if the victims themselves don't want to be discovered, then it's truly difficult for others to rescue them.

Yu Xing is not as embarrassed as he was yesterday. The news that he has been accepted by the Witch Doctor has already spread throughout the village. Everyone looks at him as if he were the youngest member of their own family, full of curiosity about him.

Yu Xing didn't want to get involved with these delusional fools. After entering the village, he went straight to the Witch Doctor's house, casually searched the place where the Witch Doctor had left her medical kit before leaving, and quickly found the kit. He then took it and left.

At this time, the young and middle-aged people in the village were all working in the fields, and even the women went to help, leaving only the elderly and children behind.

As he stepped out of the room, for some reason, he was suddenly targeted by a child.

The child was about five or six years old, with a round head and a body much stronger than the sturdier adults in the village. It seemed that he hadn't offered much flesh as sacrifice.

Perhaps because he was still young, and his family didn't need him to worship gods and seek immortality so early, he was also more outgoing than the adults in the village, not shy at all. The child was initially squatting on the small mound, but when he saw Yu Xing, he jumped down and grabbed Yu Xing's clothes. "Big brother, what are you holding?"

"Medical kit." This memory stage Yu Xing the most cold and sensitive period for Yu Xing. He had no desire to talk to the child and would leave after answering the question.

"Brother, brother, can you play with me for a while?" the child pleaded, looking at him expectantly. "If you won't play with me, I heard you're from outside, so please tell me a story!"

Yu Xing: "..."

Yu Xing initially wanted to shake off the child, but then she thought that perhaps some things were easier to find out from a child, so she softened her tone and lowered her head, saying, "Telling stories is fine, but in exchange, you have to tell me something too, okay?"

The child blinked his big eyes. "What is it?"

Yu Xing asked, "Are you the only child in the village?"

The child glanced at him and shook his head. "No, there are many, but they won't play with me."

"Why?"

"They said, they said I'm too stupid, always siding with outsiders... You're not an outsider now, are you? I came to play with you, will I get scolded?" Halfway through his sentence, the child suddenly shrank back, looking wary.

Yu Xing's attention was drawn to the child's question. Looking up, he could vaguely see some scars on the child's collar.

He pointed to the child. "Here, where he was hit?"

The child looked down, his lips pursed, and he seemed a little sad.

"So, because you sided with outsiders, kids your age hit you?" Yu Xing narrowed her long, phoenix-shaped eyes and patted the child's round head. "What's your name?"

"Xiao Hu."

"Okay, Xiao Hu, tell your brother... who came to this village before me? What did you do that made the other kids bully you?"

"Just a few days ago, a new little girl came to the village. She was brought here by people from the next village. She cried so hard when she arrived. The Witch Doctor accepted her, saying she was destined to be with the Immortal Lord and that she would be sent to the Immortal Lord." Xiao Hu clenched his little fists. "But I don't think she wanted to at all. Although everyone wants to be close to the Immortal Lord, if she doesn't want to, then let's send someone else. Why force her?"

"When I said that, the Witch Doctor seemed very unhappy, so my mother beat me up. After that, the other kids stopped playing with me and even pushed me. They said I was stupid and bold, daring to disobey even the Immortal Lord... What was that word again? Oh right, disobey!" Xiao Hu was very aggrieved, but Yu Xing understood perfectly.

The little girl sent from the neighboring village... if nothing unexpected happens, it should be Mai Mai.

From the conversation between the Witch Doctor and the Water Ghost that he overheard, it's not hard to guess that the little girl is dead and was eaten by the Water Ghost.

That's a bit of a pity.

Yu Xing sighed. Although he had only met Mai Mai once—or rather, only once in his memory— Yu Xing a good impression of her; she was a very spirited young girl.

Why did Old Zhang's village forcibly send Mai Mai to the village of the Witch Doctor? Does Old Zhang know?

When he mentioned the neighboring village to the Witch Doctor used the words "betrayal" and "greed." Could it be...?

Without Old Zhang's knowledge, the villagers kidnapped Mai Mai and handed her over to the Witch Doctor?

He glanced at Xiao Hu again. "Your thinking isn't wrong; it's just that others are less intelligent than you, which is why they can't understand you."

"Really?" Xiao Hu's eyes sparkled; encouraged, he felt as if he had received the most precious gift.

"Really? So, tell your brother, what happened to that little girl afterward? Did you see how she was sent to the gods?" Yu Xing showed an expression of great interest in this matter.

"I didn't see anything, I just saw the Witch Doctor pulling her out of the village, and then my mom locked me in the house and beat me up." Xiao Hu pouted.

He remembered why he had called out to Yu Xing in the first place, and tugged at Yu Xing's sleeve, shaking it gently. "Big brother, it's your turn to tell me a story~"

"Okay." Yu Xing did get some information from Xiao Hu, and Xiao Hu's way of thinking made Yu Xing feel that there was still hope for him, so she decided to give Yu Xing Xiao Hu a reward.

He looked at Xiao Hu, put the first-aid kit on the ground, squatted down, and softened his tone, "Let me tell you a... ghost story."

Xiao Hu was stunned, never expecting anyone to tell him this.

Isn't he still a child?

Yu Xing didn't give Xiao Hu a chance to bargain. He slowed down his speech and used a captivating tone that drew attention to his voice. "Once upon a time, there was a woman in the village whose husband broke his leg by a grave at night. So every day she had to do farm work alone until very late before returning home."

That day, after the woman finished her work, it was completely dark. On her way home, she saw an old woman dressed in black standing by a graveyard. The old woman saw her and asked, "How do I get to the village?" The woman, without thinking much of it, assumed she was a relative of someone in the village and replied, "Just keep walking along this road."