Chapter 163: Sacrificing the Three Corpses

The silent gaze was chilling.

At the end of the downward stairs, the four pale faces looking up at the sky had clear features, indicating that these stone statues had been stored indoors previously and had not experienced the ravages of wind and rain.

They stood there quietly, and that was all they did, without any other movement.

"Set your mind at ease; at least when they are being watched by us, they won't move."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said, walking down the stairs leisurely, coming to the front of a stone statue, facing it at close range, examining the man-made carving marks on the white stone with great interest.

Xia Yubing stood frozen in place, not daring to move at all.

The emotion called fear crawled over her body like maggots, chilling her to the bone. Xia Yubing's shoulders trembled slightly, and looking down at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's back standing at the bottom of the stairs, she inexplicably remembered that evil ghost mask with green face and fangs.

Xia Yubing pursed her lips, and the words Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had said to her not long ago suddenly echoed in her mind:

"You came to the wrong place. Zanju Town is not a trendy tourist spot suitable for streaming and checking in, but a portal leading to the Strange World. The opening time of this portal may be regular or irregular, entirely depending on luck. Coming here at the wrong time means being swept into strange events you shouldn't be involved in..."

Xia Yubing remembered Jiang Han, who had been panicked on the phone, remembered Xiao Ke upstairs who had already lost her vital signs, and these stone statues that moved secretly when she couldn't see them...

Is this the strange event he was talking about?

Xia Yubing gathered her courage and walked down the stairs, coming to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's side, lowering her head and asking in a low voice: "You said before, you could take me out of here, right?"

—Even a burly man like Lin Zhiyuan, who was over 1.8 meters tall, was still about a head shorter than Xia Yubing.

"Right, your aunt paid for it." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said nonchalantly: "Entrusted by others, loyal to the task. I will try my best to ensure you get out alive, provided you behave and don't cause trouble for me like before."

"... Okay." Xia Yubing nodded.

Shen Qing stood on the stairs, watching the two below whispering to each other, feeling even more uneasy. Until now, he was still in a state of confusion, not knowing what exactly had happened, nor having figured out the current situation, but he knew it couldn't be a good one.

Heaven knows that this paranormal stream done for traffic would actually encounter a real ghost.

Right, the stream.

The equipment previously used for streaming was broken during the struggle with Xiao Ke, the stream was temporarily interrupted, and the comment section now must be a mess. Once the news of Xiao Ke's death spreads, he didn't know how the public opinion would ferment.

Thinking of this, Shen Qing felt a headache.

Better to contact the production team to come to the scene and clean up the corpse. And this call couldn't be made by Xia Chong; it was better for him to do it.

However, his travel bag containing the satellite phone and backup phone was still left upstairs, and he hadn't had time to bring it down. Shen Qing said to those downstairs: "I'm going upstairs to get something," and turned to go upstairs.

However, just as he reached the stairwell on the second floor, before he had taken a few steps, Shen Qing was forced to stop.

The door leading to the rooftop was open, and the snow-white moonlight spilled down the stairs. Through the square door frame, looking up, one could see the silent face of the Four-Faced Buddha in the distance.

And that slender figure standing in the moonlight.

"Xiao, Xiao Ke...?" Shen Qing's mouth trembled slightly, and his tone changed.

The dress on Xiao Ke had been neatly put on by Xia Yubing, but the makeup on her face was a bit smudged. The bloodless skin exposed in the moonlight appeared exceptionally white. She slowly opened the eyes that Xia Yubing had closed and walked straight downstairs.

"I'm so hungry..." A dry voice came from the woman's breathless throat.

"So hungry..."

"... Hungry to death..."

She walked down the stairs step by step, the scent of jasmine perfume mixed with a heavy smell of blood slowly approaching. Shen Qing wanted to run away, but he couldn't move.

People lose control of their bodies in extreme fear; not collapsing to the ground with weak legs on the spot was already difficult for him. Shen Qing's lips trembled, his upper and lower teeth making a clattering friction sound uncontrollably. Under the moonlight, that slender figure grew closer and closer in the reflection of his pupils.

"So hungry..."

"Do you want a Snickers?"

A hand reached out from behind Shen Qing. It was a woman's hand, the snow-white skin as smooth as newly woven silk, the five fingers holding a dark brown packaged chocolate bar, already torn open.

The young woman wearing the evil ghost mask walked out from behind Shen Qing, handing the chocolate bar in her hand to the reanimated Xiao Ke: "If you don't eat it, I'll eat it myself."

Then Shen Qing saw the bloodless Xiao Ke silently lower her head, opening her mouth to bite the chocolate bar in her hand, the crushed peanuts making a crunching sound.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took another Snickers from his bag, pulled the mask up to reveal the lower half of his face, tore open the package, and ate it himself.

For a time, only the subtle sound of chewing food and Shen Qing's rapid heartbeat and breathing remained in the stairwell bathed in moonlight.

Outside the door, the Buddha's face lowered its eyes, overlooking everything before it without a word, neither sad nor happy.

Shen Qing's legs went weak, and he fell to the ground.

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Xia Yubing's voice came from behind, cautious: "How, how did you know that feeding her something would work?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe finished the Snickers, stuffed the remaining packaging into his bag, and said: "There is a saying in Daoist classics: People eat grains to fill their stomachs, and inside the belly reside the Three Corpses and Nine Worms."

"When a person is alive, the Three Corpses are not apparent, residing in the belly. After a person dies, the three souls ascend to heaven, and the seven spirits descend to earth. Only the Three Corpses leave the body, wandering in the world, with the same appearance and clothing as when the person was alive; they are called—ghosts."

As soon as the words fell, a crisp footstep sounded from the stair corner behind Xiao Ke, and a slim figure walked down from upstairs.

Tap—

The pink puffy dress, the bloodless pale skin, and the makeup smudged by tears and blood were enough to explain its identity, without Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe needing to say anything more.

"Two! Two Xiao Kes?!" Shen Qing exclaimed.

"Maybe three." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said, taking off a crystal-clear, round pearl necklace from his neck, and also taking off the milky-white jade bracelet from his wrist.

He handed both pieces of jewelry to the Xiao Ke who had just walked down from upstairs. The Xiao Ke who was eating also chewed and swallowed the last bite of the Snickers at this moment.

The moment the pearl necklace in Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's hand landed in her palm, the figures of the two Xiao Kes gradually faded and disappeared.

"Solved." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe clapped his hands and continued:

"Every year before New Year's Eve, my grandmother would boil a bowl of maltose and smear it on the mouth of the Kitchen God's portrait. The Kitchen God eats the honey, his mouth becomes sweet, and when he goes to heaven for the meeting during the Spring Festival, he won't be able to say bad things about my family."

"However, compared to the Kitchen God, the Three Corpses in the human body are harder to deal with—the Upper Corpse is greedy for treasures, the Middle Corpse is gluttonous for good tastes, and the Lower Corpse is lustful for carnal desires. If their three desires cannot be satisfied, the Three Corpses will harbor resentment and harm people's lives."

"Why do you say Three Corpses?" Xia Yubing opened her eyes wide, somewhat puzzled: "Didn't we just encounter two of her?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head and put the mask back on: "There are three. It's just that the Lower Corpse has already been fed by Shen Qing, so we didn't see it."

But the Strange World saw it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 164 =====