Chapter 109: The Reality of Death

"No Ji Wuxie, what does that mean?"

Ji Taimei opened his mouth to speak, but saw the old face belonging to Wang Nainai on the human bone snake's head suddenly widen her eyes, her eyebrows raised high, her mouth wide open, and in an instant, she showed her ferocity. Piercing pain came from both armpits, and the sticky sound of skin and flesh tearing passed into his cochlea along with the bones.

Creak creak, Wang Nainai's opened ribs stabbed into his chest, piercing blood holes the size of fingers on both sides of Ji Taimei's body. The fishy, sweet blood flowed out from them, and the huge pain surged into his brain along the spine, making Ji Taimei let out a heart-piercing scream.

"Ah! Ah... ah... ah ah ah!" He instinctively twisted his body and struggled. The appearance of his body constantly bending and twisting while being tied by the ribs was like a fish thrown onto the shore.

However, the monster's bones wrapped around his body were as strong as cast copper and iron. The piercing pain did not diminish by half because of Ji Taimei's struggle. The sharp ribs instead stabbed deeper and deeper, creak, creak, deeper and deeper.

Wang Nainai lowered her head and bit into Ji Taimei's neck. The black rotten teeth embedded into the throat, and with a plop, she tore his Adam's apple down with skin and flesh, and the warm arterial blood sprayed out from the throat that was torn apart alive.

Ji Taimei opened his eyes wide, watching Wang Nainai swallow the Adam's apple she tore from his neck in one gulp, and a feeling of extreme unreality surged in his heart. Even the pain of flesh being torn seemed illusory, as if watching a movie.

The pain that humans can bear in a short period of time has a threshold. When this threshold is triggered, the brain, which foresees the life-and-death crisis, will automatically secrete a large amount of painkillers to maintain its own consciousness and prevent shock caused by excessive pain, so as to increase its survival probability.

At this moment, Ji Taimei felt that all his senses were clearer than ever before. He could clearly feel the shape of each rib inserted into his body, like sharp knives stabbing deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper, until—with a pop.

Like piercing a balloon, the ribs of the human bone snake finally closed completely, stabbing directly into his beating heart.

A warm feeling filled from the depths of his chest. That was the arterial blood pumped out from the heart and blood vessels, filling his chest cavity and soaking his gradually cold internal organs.

Ji Taimei's eyes were dull. Heavy breathing and chewing sounds kept coming from his ears. That was Wang Nainai still biting and tearing on his neck, tearing down bloody skin and flesh mouthful by mouthful like a wild dog, swallowing them in one gulp, and then falling down from the broken section of the throat.

He clearly felt his carotid artery exposed like an electric wire pulled out of a transformer box, felt his pierced heart convulsing and twitching in a pool of fresh blood, and finally, it didn't move at all.

Ji Taimei's heart stopped beating.

The night sky above his head was filled with snow-white moonlight. A few wisps of thin clouds passed through the sky. The creaking sound of chewing flesh gradually drifted away, and even the pain of his chest cavity being pierced seemed illusory. I don't know how long it took, a fish-belly white appeared on the distant horizon, but his consciousness sank into darkness.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah——!!!"

Ji Taimei shuddered all over, screamed loudly, and struggled to get up in the darkness. Dong, his forehead hit something that felt like wood, and the pain followed. His hands waving wildly in all directions, as well as his feet kicking and kicking because of fear, were all blocked by two narrow 'walls' around him, failing to stretch out.

"This is...?" Ji Taimei felt around with trembling hands and found that he was trapped in a rectangular, closed space with corners. The stuffy air was filled with the unique pine scent of pine wood. There was no light in the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers.

Is this a coffin?

Ji Taimei supported the wooden board above his head with both hands and pushed upward with all his might. The heavy wooden board was pushed open a slit, and bright light scattered into the coffin. He was indeed lying in a coffin now.

"How could I be in a coffin?" Ji Taimei looked up at the light shooting into the coffin through the slit, wanting to push the coffin lid completely open and leave here.

But the terrifying scene from just now flashed before his eyes. Wang Nainai's pale face and resentful eyes were still fresh in his memory, making his shoulders tremble, and he couldn't help but put the coffin lid that he had just pushed open a slit back down, and the surroundings fell into darkness again. The sun outside was bright, it seemed it was already dawn, and he entered Sheep Prison Village around eleven o'clock last night.

—Could it be that I slept in this coffin until now?

The forehead that hit the coffin lid was still aching. Ji Taimei felt the narrowness and darkness of the coffin, recalling what happened last night:

"Last night... I saw the Land God's temple on the way into the village. His head dragged a long, complete spine and crawled out of his body. I was so scared that I ran for my life and ran directly into the village."

"After entering the village, I walked toward Grandma's house by memory. On the side of the road in the bamboo forest, I saw a coffin placed on a shed, and another coffin was placed casually next to a residential house..."

"Then, from the window of the house next to the coffin, a snake-like monster with Wang Nainai's head crawled out..."

That monster's ribs pierced my chest, its teeth bit off my neck... It killed me, it killed me!

It killed me!

Extreme anger surged into Ji Taimei's brain. Even he didn't know why his emotion now was anger instead of fear.

After the anger, Ji Taimei calmed down slightly. The feeling at that time was very clear. He felt his throat being bitten through, his heart being pierced, and internal bleeding soaking his internal organs... Everything that happened last night was so real. He witnessed his body being eaten alive mouthful by mouthful with his own eyes.

But he was still thinking, which meant he was still alive.

So was the experience last night actually fake? Was that an illusion?

There is a very simple way to confirm this. Ji Taimei reached out and touched his face lightly, feeling the soft touch of flesh.

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"Fortunately..." Ji Taimei breathed a sigh of relief secretly.

But then his fingertips slid from his cheekbone to his cheek, and the soft touch was gone, replaced by a row of hard, cold, and somewhat sharp things on his cheek.

Those were teeth.

"Ah... ah ah..."

A bad premonition arose spontaneously. Ji Taimei tried to open his mouth, and several fingers stretched directly into his mouth from the side of his cheek without any obstruction.

No, he no longer had an 'oral' cavity in the general sense.

Ji Taimei's hands trembled. He felt deep bite marks on his face that broke flesh and chiseled bones. The flesh on both sides of his cheeks had disappeared, and the bloody gums were exposed.

His palms left his cheeks and continued to touch downward. There was a bloody, big hole on his neck that was torn open alive. His chest was cold, and a lump of dead meat, his heart, was soaked inside, motionless.

He really died.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 110 =====