Gentle Sleep Instructor
Chapter 908 Holy Maiden
Shang Zuo took a deep breath, shook his head, and said, "There are no treasures inside, only a strange corpse."
"The corpse was wearing a brocade robe, very bright, completely different from the local people's clothing. It looked like a young and beautiful woman."
"But the strange thing is that the woman's head was wrapped in a large wooden box."
"Out of curiosity, we opened the wooden box, and there was another layer of golden yellow cloth." Shang Zuo suddenly showed a look of remorse, holding his head and saying, "I already felt something was wrong at this time. I recognized it. It wasn't just ordinary yellow cloth, but a very special Tuo Luo Jing Bei (dharani quilt), the kind used to suppress evil spirits!"
"I immediately stopped them, told them not to open it again, to leave immediately, seal the tomb door, and never come back!"
"But... but they didn't believe it at all. No, I suspect they were simply bewitched by the things in this tomb."
"After lifting that layer of Tuo Luo Jing Bei, we saw this head."
"This... how could this be a human head? It's clearly that kind of thing."
"It's a ghost, it's a ghost!"
"My boss pulled out his gun, pointed it at me, and said it was all because of me that they lost everything. He... he actually wanted me to saw off this head!"
"He even said he wanted to take it back!" Shang Zuo's voice trembled.
Hearing this, Jiang Cheng and his group felt their hearts surge violently, thinking that this boss must be either controlled or simply insane.
"He had a gun, and in our line of work, killing someone in a tomb is like killing a chicken. No matter how scared I was, I didn't dare not to do it."
Shang Zuo grabbed his hair, his voice filled with fear. "I did it. I... I sawed off the corpse's head, then put it in my backpack, carried it on my back, along with the Jing Bei that wrapped the head, and took it away."
"The moment I sawed off the head, I heard a sharp scream, the kind that could pierce eardrums. I was terrified, but when I asked everyone, I was the only one who heard it."
"We entered the Saintess Tomb around noon, but when we came out, it was already dark outside."
"We were only inside for a maximum of 2 hours!"
"As soon as we left the Saintess Tomb, a huge blizzard started outside, covering the sky and the earth. I had never seen anything like it."
"Our group got lost in the blizzard and couldn't find our way out. People kept dying for various reasons along the way."
"What's even more terrifying is that we gradually discovered that there was a ferocious hungry ghost hidden in the storm!"
"It's... it's the hungry ghost that attacked us!" Shang Zuo suddenly raised his head and said.
"The hungry ghost is after that head," Jiang Cheng said calmly.
Shang Zuo nodded painfully, released his hand, and several strands of pulled-out hair were stuck between his fingers. "In the end, only the boss and I were left. We trudged through the snow with difficulty, like walking corpses. We had eaten everything."
Shang Zuo gritted his teeth, his face full of madness. "My boss actually had the idea of targeting me. He told me to walk in front, then hid behind and shot me in the back!"
"Afraid that I wouldn't die, he even fired another shot." Shang Zuo's expression turned pale. "After I was shot, I fell to the ground. When he came over to check, I seized the opportunity to pounce on him, and then I killed him!"
Shang Zuo showed a strange smile, more like a cry than a smile. "In the end, I relied on my boss to finally get out of the blizzard."
Hearing this, Huai Yi, Gongsun Zhi Ruo, and the others couldn't help but change their expressions.
"Your boss hid behind and shot you in the head with a gun, and even followed up with another shot, and you still managed to kill him?" Zi Gui asked skeptically.
"Both shots hit my head," Shang Zuo explained with a strange expression. "Isn't it strange? I walked for so long, but I didn't lose this head."
"I can't figure this out either. It's like a voice kept telling me in my ear not to lose it. I... I actually listened to that voice." Shang Zuo swallowed hard, raised his head, and gestured with a strange voice, "And... and it was a woman's voice."
Looking at the strange human head growing on Shang Zuo's back, connected to him, everyone had a strange feeling, as if the head could open its eyes and come alive in the next second.
"After I went down the mountain, I thought about it more and more and felt something was wrong, so I found a safe place and planned to take off my backpack and dispose of the head inside."
"But..." Shang Zuo's fearful eyes were trembling. "I couldn't take off the backpack. When I used force, it was the kind of pain where the skin and flesh tore apart, as if the backpack had grown on my body."
"I faced away from the mirror and cut the backpack open little by little with scissors, only to find that the head had somehow started growing on my back!"
"I didn't feel anything!"
"It's too scary!"
"And I can also feel that there's something around me, right near me, that's looking for me. It's that kind of gaze, that feeling of being watched..." Shang Zuo described as best he could, and finally looked at everyone and said, "Can you understand?"
Jiang Cheng glanced at his shadow inadvertently, retracted his gaze, and nodded. "I can understand, roughly."
"It's that guy in the blizzard, the hungry ghost. It's looking for me. It doesn't plan to let me go!"
"I'm afraid. I don't dare to stay in one place, otherwise it will find me sooner or later. So I chose to run away."
"First, go back to the country."
"I found a smuggler and bought a smuggled ticket to go back to the country. On the way, I found the golden yellow Jing Bei that wrapped the head and used it to wrap the head. The feeling of being spied on got a lot better."
"Looking back, I think that Jing Bei should have the effect of isolating things," Shang Zuo said seriously.
"But after about a week, when I got back home, I found out that something had happened to my family. My parents were dead."
"I only glanced at the way they died, and I knew it was the hungry ghost who did it!"
"I don't dare to stay near my home. It's already found me, but I have to avenge my parents!" Shang Zuo's face turned fierce. "I carefully studied the notes my grandfather left behind, plus my own experience, and I roughly sorted out the whole story."
"It's just like what I told you, the rumors about the Saintess Tomb are true. The saintess did seal the hungry ghost in her body."
"And I... under the coercion of the boss, sawed off the saintess's head and released the hungry ghost with my own hands!"
"Now the only way to deal with the hungry ghost is to go back to the Saintess Tomb, put the saintess's head back on, and seal the hungry ghost again!" Shang Zuo emphasized.
"This saintess's appearance is too scary! I feel like this saintess isn't a normal person either!" Fatty said the concerns of many people.
"Of course she's not a normal person." Jiang Cheng stared at the head and said, "She's a disciple. This appearance shows that she has been completely eroded."