Chapter 1 The Beginning

The empty underground cave, the terrifying lake of blood.

Each scene spoke of the horror of this place's master.

"Guan Shuangyu, you are a water-系 (xì, element) mage, try to control the blood lake below!" Wang Tiezhu said.

"I'll try my best."

Guan Shuangyu, who had been silent in the Azure Sky Academy's team, stepped forward.

She raised her staff towards the blood lake below. She focused her gaze, and the blood in the lake slowly rose.

"It works!" Guan Shuangyu's voice was filled with surprise.

But before she could be happy for long, an astonishing blood mist suddenly erupted from the center of the blood lake.

The blood mist drove the lake water to rotate slowly, forming a huge scarlet vortex.

At the very center of the vortex, a red-haired woman with her eyes tightly closed was slowly rising, revealing herself.

This red-haired woman had delicate features and wore a white robe, juban (undergarment), and hakama (skirt), with white tabi socks and red-laced sandals on her feet, and her long hair was tied up with white tan paper.

Everyone was stunned.

They had originally thought that whatever was sleeping in such a terrifying blood lake must be some ancient monster, but they never expected it to be such a beautiful woman.

Was this a case of rising unsullied from the mud?

"Careful! Don't be fooled by this woman's appearance. The only thing that can slumber in this kind of place is the Ghost King of Silent Town!" Zhang Nianyu took out a stack of talismans and reminded everyone.

However, before they could react, the same scene appeared before everyone's eyes.

The woman from the blood lake appeared in the picture, but unlike before, she was wearing modern jeans and a white t-shirt, tied up like a pretzel on a dilapidated bed, her face covered in tears.

"Auntie, please, let me go. I can have my dad give you money, please!"

The fair-skinned woman seemed out of place with the surrounding old environment.

"Oh, my good daughter-in-law, just accept your fate! Our family spent a lot of money to buy you back! We don't want your money, we just want you to give us a big, fat son! Our family will treat you well!"

A middle-aged woman who looked like a peasant woman was comforting the woman, her face full of kindness and compassion.

"Wife! Mom! Do I have a wife?"

A short, fat man pushed open the door and grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and carrying a strange smell.

The woman on the bed was frightened by his ugly and slovenly appearance.

"Wow! What a radiant wife!"

The short, fat man's eyes lit up, and he reached out to grab the woman's body, scaring the woman into screaming.

"Ah!!! Get away, get away from me!"

"Get away? More like get into bed! Mom, you go out, I'm going to take care of this woman!"

The middle-aged woman silently stood up upon hearing this, and closed the door as she left.

As soon as the door closed, the short, fat man pounced on the woman like a hungry tiger.

He was a head shorter than the tall woman, but the woman's hands and feet were tied up, so she couldn't resist at all.

For a moment, the woman's screams and the man's laughter rose and fell.

During the long three minutes, everyone present was angered by the scene before them, their eyes turning red.

Zhao Ziyue and the other women put themselves in her shoes and felt a chill run down their spines.

After being tortured, the woman seemed to have resigned herself to her fate, her eyes were dull, staring blankly at the ceiling, without moving.

After the short, fat man finished, he put on his shorts and opened the door, looking smug.

"Mom! Awesome! So awesome, this girl from the city has such supple skin, there's no comparison with those from our small town!"

The middle-aged woman glared at him.

"You, hurry up and let her give birth to a big, fat son. Once she gives birth to a child, she'll settle down!"

"Okay! I'll work harder tonight!" The short, fat man grinned.

But when he walked into the room again that night, where was the woman's shadow? Only a small piece of rope remained on the bed.

"It's over, Mom! I forgot to tie her tight after I finished, that woman ran away!" The man was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

"What?" The middle-aged woman's expression also changed drastically. The mother and son turned on their flashlights and chased out overnight.

Did the woman escape? The answer is no.

In this unfamiliar small town, without any means of transportation, she could only run barefoot on the road.

Sharp stones cut countless bloody marks on her delicate soles, but she still insisted on running outwards.

Finally, she saw a glimmer of light on the dark road. Seeing that glimmer of light was like a drowning person seeing a life-saving straw.

"Help! Help!"

She shouted with a hoarse voice, and a gleaming motorcycle stopped in front of her.

"Little sister, what's wrong? Are you lost?" The one who spoke was a simple-looking middle-aged man, who gave people a strong sense of security as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Uncle, please help me, I was tricked into coming here, please take me out," the woman begged.

"What? There's such a thing?" The middle-aged man was shocked, "Get on!"

The woman sat on the back seat of the car, and tears fell like a levee breaking. She couldn't help but rejoice that she had finally met a good person.

However, ten minutes later, even greater despair choked her throat like a nightmare.

The car stopped. The place where it stopped had a man and a woman looking at her with gloomy faces.

The woman turned around and wanted to run, but the middle-aged woman instantly grabbed her long hair.

"Still want to run?!"

The middle-aged woman slapped the woman's cheeks red and swollen.

"Let you run! Let you run! You slut!"

The middle-aged woman's eyes were bloodshot, like a fierce ghost. Where was the kind and compassionate look she had before?

"A'Shu, I brought the person back for you, look..." The middle-aged man still had that simple look, and rubbed two fingers in front of him.

The short, fat man called A'Shu reluctantly took out two bills and handed them to the man.

The man instantly showed a smile: "Okay! You must keep a close eye on her this time, don't let her run away again!"

"Don't worry! She will never escape!" A'Shu's face showed a cruel smile.

He turned around, took out a hoe, aimed it at the woman's calf and smashed it hard, the woman's calf directly bent into a strange arc.

"Ah!!!"

The woman let out a pig-like scream, and then passed out directly.

When she woke up again, a chain as thick as an arm was tied to her ankle.

In the following year, she never had a chance to escape while chained.

Every time A'Shu was angry outside, he would take out his belt and whip her to death with the buckle end.

It wasn't until her belly gradually bulged that she was no longer beaten.

The woman at this time was completely different from her glamorous appearance when she first arrived.

Her eyes were bloodshot, saliva kept flowing from the corners of her mouth, she had a limp, and she looked like a mad woman on the side of the road.

As her belly grew bigger day by day, A'Shu and his mother became more and more happy.

On this day, the two of them also rarely killed an old hen to make soup.

"Hahaha, come on wife, quickly drink the chicken soup, you can give birth to a big fat son after drinking it!"

A'Shu pushed open the door with the chicken soup, but found that the woman's eyes were wide open, her face was pale, and her tongue was sticking out, she had hanged herself!

"Ah!!! Mom! Mom! Come quickly!"

A'Shu was so frightened that he crawled and rolled, and the middle-aged woman was also frightened when she came.

The woman hanged herself with the chain on her ankle. She wrapped the chain around the windowsill and put her neck in it.

The windowsill was only one meter high, and the woman squatted down, maintaining a half-squatting posture to hang herself.

If she had any desire to live, she could have just straightened her legs and stood up to survive, but she didn't, she was determined to die.

The will to die had surpassed her instinct to survive.

And with the death of the woman, the tranquility of this small town was also broken by various strange events.

First, an uncle who drove a motorcycle was strangely found dead on the road. He had pulled his entire tongue out of his mouth.

Then there was the middle-aged woman, who suddenly plunged her head into the boiling lard while frying it.

Then A'Shu's death was even more bizarre. He took a hoe and smashed himself into meat paste, one hit after another.

As various strange things happened, the whole town was in panic, and countless people moved away.

The town slowly became desolate and dilapidated. The woman's monstrous resentment was the best nourishment, and the town eventually became a gathering place for all kinds of lonely ghosts.

The scene finally came to an abrupt end.

Everyone then realized that the woman in the center of the blood lake vortex had opened her eyes at some point. Her eyes were large and bright, and her pupils reflected the figures of everyone.