Chapter 107: Land God

Ji Taimei shivered. He looked down at his forearm, and the goosebumps on it stood up one by one, and he was covered in goosebumps all over.

He swallowed his saliva, gathered his courage to walk forward, and two sets of footsteps appeared on the small road together, click-clack, click-clack.

Slowly walking to the front of the Tudimiao, the smell of incense drifted into his nasal cavity. The Tudimiao in the countryside naturally did not have the good conditions of the Three Immortals Temple in the Chuyun Mountain tourist area. There was no copper incense burner. Only a two-hole cement brick was placed vertically on the ground. The two brick holes were filled with incense ash, and several sticks of incense were inserted into the incense ash, emitting a faint blue glow.

Ji Taimei walked slowly closer. The Tudimiao was also built with the same cement bricks, covered with glazed tiles. The Taoist temples in Yun Province all love to use glazed tiles. The small temple was only about 1 meter high, and a pottery-fired god statue sat cross-legged inside.

There were a few remaining cement bricks piled on the left side of the Tudimiao. Ji Taimei shone the flashlight over, and sure enough, he found a plastic bag that seemed to contain something under the bricks.

The plastic bag was black.

Ji Taimei's heart skipped a beat. He clearly remembered what was said on the letter:

【On the way into the village, you will encounter a Tudimiao. Remember to offer three sticks of incense to the Land God. The incense can be found in the red plastic bag under the brick next to the small temple. Remember, it is a red plastic bag. If you see any other color plastic bag, give up offering incense and leave immediately】

"Must leave immediately!" A thunderclap exploded in Ji Taimei's heart, and then a crisp sound came from the Tudimiao:

Crack—

It was the sound of porcelain cracking.

Ji Taimei turned his head stiffly, only to see some fruits scattered on the altar in the Tudimiao. The cold moonlight slanted into the temple, illuminating a pale pottery face.

The Land God's face was round, his features were soft, his forehead was full, and his earlobes were thick. It was a very typical folk incense god image, but on this face that could be called 'kind', bright red blood was flowing.

The terrifying scene made Ji Taimei's body stiffen, his legs went soft, and he couldn't even take a step successfully.

Two rusty nails were inserted into the Land God's two eye sockets, his upper and lower lips were sewn shut with thick black silk thread, his nose was shaved off with a knife, and his ears were filled with mud. Dripping blood flowed from his seven orifices, dyeing the pale pottery god statue's face enchanting and eerie.

Looking down, the Land God's two hands were also shackled, and one of his left feet was smashed while sitting cross-legged. The still-intact right foot was also pressed by a heavy cement brick.

The crisp 'crack' just now was the sound of this cement brick cracking from the middle.

Extreme fear pushed Ji Taimei's psychological defense line to the limit. His lips parted, trembling silently.

Under Ji Taimei's dazed gaze, the Land God's bright red lips, sewn shut with needle and thread, silently split upward and smiled.

"Ghost—!!!" Accompanied by a heart-piercing scream, he finally collapsed. Ji Taimei crawled up from the ground with his hands and feet, running for his life forward, not daring to stay for even a step.

It is hard to imagine that a net-addicted teenager who stays up late playing games every day could burst out with such speed. Ji Taimei ran on the road and disappeared in a flash. The Tudimiao with incense smoke was left far behind.

Also left behind was Feng Yushu, who had been following him.

She, who stayed at home all day, had poor athletic ability. Even if she wanted to catch up with Ji Taimei, she was powerless. Fortunately, the moon had already come out. Under the moonlight, the shadow of the teenager running was illuminated, so she wouldn't lose him.

Feng Yushu carefully turned her head slightly, looking at the Tudimiao that made the cracking sound just now. She didn't know what Ji Taimei saw just now that made him run for his life. She soon found out.

Because a pale head with seven orifices bleeding poked out from the temple entrance, two eye sockets poked blind by nails dripping with dripping blood, and lips sewn shut with black thick thread slightly parted a slit, as if smiling.

"......!" Feng Yushu was startled and subconsciously stepped back, wanting to pull away some distance, but she soon calmed down.

Feng Yushu looked up at the bright moon hanging in the night sky, silently moved two steps to the side according to the direction of the moonlight, and her heart was pounding in her chest. Under her nervous gaze, the 'Land God' crawled out of the temple.

A pale head, seven orifices bleeding, with bright pottery colors painted on the skin like burnt porcelain, poked out from the temple entrance. The Land God wore a bright red official hat with two wings on his head, stiffening his neck and stretching his head out from the temple entrance, seemingly crawling out of it in a beast-like posture using his hands and feet.

But after the neck stretched out, what followed the temple entrance was not the Land God's shoulders draped in bright red official robes, but a section of cervical spine with blood.

"Ah..." Feng Yushu covered her mouth unconsciously.

The Land God's pale head was connected to a bloody cervical spine, like a shower head hanging on the wall in a bathroom, or like a long snake with a human head crawling and crawling.

Behind the cervical spine were ribs. The complete 12 pairs of human ribs were connected to both sides of the spine, spreading outward like the eight legs of a spider. A bloody tailbone dragged on the gravel road under the ribs, bending and crawling, making a chattering sound.

Clatter—clatter—

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A complete set of human ribs topped with a pale, seven-orifice-bleeding corpse head, the Land God crawled out of the temple, and his long, deformed body cast a strange shadow like a snake under the moonlight.

Feng Yushu clenched her hands nervously, staring dead at the ground under her feet.

It was already very close. As long as the Land God crawled closer, closer, she could trigger the rule of Te Rang and try to 'kill' this ghost thing of unknown origin. The instant-death rule of Te Rang was extreme enough and threatening enough, but the direct collision between rules must be and can only be the last resort. Acting rashly in the absence of information is not rational.

This was what Ning Zhe taught her before setting off. Feng Yushu remembered every word he said in her heart.

The Land God's winding snake body crawled over the cement bricks filled with incense ash. The blood-dried eyes swept across Feng Yushu, but did not stop.

He turned around, crawled into the rice fields by the road, and disappeared without a trace.

"Great..." Feng Yushu patted her chest and let out a long breath.

She didn't know what the rule related to this 'Land God' was, but it was clear that she didn't trigger that rule. The Land God ignored her and left on his own.

After calming her emotions slightly, Feng Yushu came to the Tudimiao, gathered her courage to squat down slightly, and looked into the temple entrance.

In the small Tudimiao sat a headless corpse wearing a bright red official robe, a pitch-black hole at the neck, and a shriveled chest concave inward, looking like nothing more than an empty shell.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 108 =====