Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 152 Cave

Geng Miaowan looked at her. Although she didn't even have a head, she seemed to see two lines of clear tears sliding down her cheeks and flowing into her heart.

"So, the headless female corpse that was discovered was Jiang Qingping?" Geng Miaowan had always thought that the legendary headless female corpse was Zheng Xiuxiu, but that didn't make sense. "The legend says that a headless female corpse was discovered not long after Qiluo Village was built, didn't it?"

“You said it yourself, it’s just a legend,” Zheng Xiuxiu replied quickly.

Geng Miaowan thought about it and agreed. The difference between the phenomena in the underworld and the legends showed just how unreliable the legends were. "And what about her now?"

"They've gone to be reincarnated."

"Didn't you say that you can't be reincarnated without a head?" Geng Miaowan was also puzzled; this statement clearly didn't make sense.

At this moment, Zheng Xiuxiu reached out and grabbed a blade of grass, pulling hard. The blade of grass swayed twice as if blown by the wind. "I also asked Brother Niu about this. He said that she has a head. He also said that no matter what kind of death a person has, they are complete after becoming a ghost. I am the only ghost he has ever seen that is missing a part."

The words "missing parts" amused Geng Miaowan, making her feel less heavy-hearted than before.

"You've been talking for so long, but you still haven't told me how you died?"

Geng Miaowan turned her head following the sound and saw that Xu Ruwen had opened his eyes at some point, his beautiful fox-like eyes fixed on Zheng Xiuxiu. Meanwhile, Xiao Bai, not far away, was still lying there motionless, but its ears were twitching, clearly waiting for Zheng Xiuxiu to continue.

When Xu Ruwen suddenly asked her this question, Zheng Xiuxiu hurriedly replied, "It's almost time, it's almost time, I'm about to die."

That sounds really awkward; it's like they're urging someone to their death.

"After I saw Qingping being killed, I was so scared that I ran for my life. It was already dark by then. I didn't know which way to go, I just kept running forward, taking any step I could find. I don't know why, but those guys kept chasing me. Then, as I was running, I saw a big, dark hole in front of me. I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but I just stepped into the hole. Now that I think about it, that hole was so big. They could have seen it as soon as they caught up. If they had gone into the hole too, there would have been nowhere to escape."

"Your thinking is quite clear now," Xu Ruwen said calmly, his tone ambiguous, neither praising nor criticizing him. Zheng Xiuxiu didn't argue with him.

"Shortly after I ran in, the three men who had been chasing me also discovered the cave and ran in. I hid close to the cave wall, not daring to make a sound, because it was very dark inside and not a single ray of light could penetrate. So they didn't see me for a while. They shouted in the cave for a while, probably because they thought it was too dark, and one of them said he was going to go out and get a piece of wood, light it, and then come back in to search."

"Just then, the cave suddenly lit up, like a sky full of stars, twinkling and very beautiful, yet also eerie. I looked up at the lights with a puzzled expression and felt something drip onto my face. When I touched it, it was sticky. I tried to wipe it off, but then I found that I couldn't move my head."

"why is that?"

"I don't know. At that moment, the three men let out screams filled with terror and fear. I didn't know what had happened to them, I only knew that the screams stopped after a while, and the cave became deathly silent. I knew and was sure that something I didn't know had happened. I tried my best to break free from the thing stuck to my face and leave, but it was firmly stuck to my face and I couldn't move at all. Slowly, I felt something crawling down from the top of my head... Oh, no, not crawling, but wrapping, wrapping my head little by little."

Geng Miaowan's heart jumped, as if that thing would wrap around her at any moment. "What is it?"

“I don’t know…” Zheng Xiuxiu thought for a moment, “I only remember that when I looked up again, I could only see that thing was glowing with a white light, at least that was the case where it was closer to me. A cold sensation started to spread from the top of my head, and along with the cold sensation came an indescribable, bone-chilling pain, as if it could tear my soul apart. At that moment, I thought, no, I can’t die, I can’t let Qingping’s body be left to rot in the wilderness like this, I pushed upwards with all my might, trying to break free.”

At this point, Zheng Xiuxiu paused for a long while until Geng Miaowan couldn't help but ask her, "And then what happened?"

"Later?" Zheng Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment. "Later I remember it hurt a lot, and then I lost consciousness. When I regained consciousness, I was already at the same place where Qingping had the accident."

"That's it?" Xu Ruwen couldn't help but ask.

"yes……"

Geng Miaowan and Xu Ruwen exchanged a glance. It felt as if their hearts were suspended high in the air, swaying precariously in the wind, fearing they would shatter upon impact. But when they actually fell, they discovered that the ground beneath them was soft and yielding, offering no support whatsoever.

Zheng Xiuxiu stood up and clapped her hands. "It's strange, but things that I could never remember before suddenly came to mind when I ran into you this time."

Geng Miaowan felt that the cave was even stranger than this. She suddenly looked up at Zheng Xiuxiu and asked, "What's wrong with those people in your village? They clearly knew there was something in the cave, yet they still sent those girls in to their deaths?"

"I don't know either. Ever since I can remember, the people in our village have always been very secretive, and no one is usually allowed to go up that mountain. If I hadn't panicked and lost my way that time, I wouldn't have known there was such a cave there." Zheng Xiuxiu's figure suddenly flashed, and she sat on a branch of a big tree next to her, swinging her legs.

If it were anyone else, they would surely be heartbroken or indignant about their unjust death, but she returned to a leisurely demeanor, showing no sign of the heartbreaking experience she had gone through before her death.

Geng Miaowan let out a long sigh of relief. "So, those villagers must have known about the things in the cave for a long time, and they've been doing so for quite some time."

"What cave?" Xu Ruwen hadn't gone with them, so he naturally didn't know what had happened on the other side of the mountain.

Geng Miaowan recounted what she had seen to him, and he concluded, "It seems there is indeed something wrong with that hole." (To be continued.)