I grabbed Jun He's arm and stepped back, my heart pounding in my throat.
Behind the spider webs stood a row of new brides in red dresses. They seemed to be arranged in order. It was obvious that the wedding dresses of the brides on the outside were much more tattered, and many of them had faded. The closer to the inside, the more eye - catching the red was.
There were brides covering the entire wall. With red veils on their heads, they stood upright in the kiln wall like mannequins in a showroom.
If there were no spider webs blocking them, they would look like trapped wild beasts. Once released, there was bound to be a bloodbath.
"This place is so terrifying... Let's go." I grabbed Jun He's arm and looked around warily.
I was afraid that the brides in the kiln would rush towards us.
Suddenly, Jun He raised his arm and shouted in a panicked voice, "Look over there!"
"Ah..." I didn't dare to look. I immediately closed my eyes and screamed, hiding behind him.
Seeing my timid look, Jun He tilted his head back and laughed.
"You're still so timid when it comes to unexpected things. You haven't made any progress at all."
It turned out that this guy was deliberately scaring me.
"Humph... You scared me." I frowned and pushed him.
Jun He hadn't finished laughing. He stood there, bent over with laughter.
However, just as he was laughing without restraint, my heart rose to my throat again.
One of the brides who had been standing in the back row was missing.
When we came in, we clearly counted them row by row, and there hadn't been such a big gap in the middle.
In just the blink of an eye, one person had disappeared silently.
This was just too strange.
"Jun He, look there. One person is missing." I said with a panicked look on my face, pointing at the gap.
But Jun He didn't believe me at all. There was a sneering smile on his face.
"Eating what others have chewed is not delicious." He laughed like an innocent boy, completely different from his cold look before.
"I'm not lying to you. There really is one person missing." I said, "If you don't believe me, look back."
I was so anxious. This guy was still pretending to be an innocent and naive fool.
However, in another blink of an eye, another bride in the wall disappeared without a trace.
"Tap, tap, tap." There was a sound of something hitting the ground outside the brick kiln.
"La - la - la... La - la - la..." A sad and beautiful humming sound lingered in the kiln. As the footsteps got closer, a long and slender shadow was reflected in the flickering light.
It was said that evil ghosts had no shadows, but this person was obviously possessed. The distorted shadow exuded a demonic evilness.
Jun He's ears twitched. He didn't turn around. The smile on his face had already disappeared.
He waved his hand gently over me, and we both changed into brides' clothes.
He pulled me to the wall and said, "Stand on it."
I glanced at the brides on both sides. The hands of these two women left outside were in a terrible state. One hand had rotted away, and the other had shriveled and wrinkled skin with red - and - white muscles oozing out, giving off a strong stench of rotten flesh that was almost suffocating.
"Ah? No, I'm scared." I hesitated and didn't dare to step forward. Who would want to stand side by side with two corpses?
"Do you want to live?" Jun He's words were always so harsh and to the point. This question was redundant. Who didn't want to live well in this world?
Before I could answer, he directly picked me up and put me on the wall. Then he stood beside me. His tall figure gradually shrank so that he wouldn't look out of place.
The song was getting closer and clearer. I tried my best to control my fear. Through the gap under the red veil, I felt the woman passing by me.
No, it wasn't just her floating by. There were three of them. All three of them were floating without touching the ground, their toes drooping.
The first one was bare - footed with red - painted toenails, and the other two were wearing the same red embroidered shoes as the brides.
It seemed that this woman had found two more women to put on the wall.
As the woman's singing paused, she suddenly stopped in front of me.
At this moment, I could clearly feel that my breathing was trembling.
This wouldn't do. I would be discovered. I slowly took a deep breath, held it, and tried to stop myself from shaking.
The feet with red - painted toenails had now turned around, the toes facing me.
Had she noticed something abnormal?
I seemed to feel that the woman under the red veil was staring at me. We were only separated by a red veil, almost face to face.
I was so scared that I could hardly hold my breath. This woman had started to fiddle with the veil in front of me.
Her long red nails grabbed a corner of the veil in front of me.
Those red - painted nails slowly pulled the veil up. In just a little while, our eyes would meet.
I nervously gritted my back teeth. My heart was in my throat, and a cold sweat broke out on my forehead.
I wanted to ask Jun He for help, but with the veil on, I couldn't see his face.
"Meow~" With a meow of a cat, there was a clanging sound from the side. It should be the sound of the cat knocking something over.
The woman was attracted by the meow of the cat. She let go of the veil in my hand and floated towards the direction of the meow.
As she walked away, I heaved a heavy sigh of relief. I had almost suffocated just now.
"Scared, right?" Jun He's voice flashed through my mind. I had heard this voice before. On the day of the red - and - white ghost encounter, it was this voice that lingered in my ear.
Jun He had come to snatch me that day. It was just that he hadn't been able to defeat the white ghost, so I had been taken into the coffin.
Fortunately, he hadn't given up. Otherwise, I would already be a soul under the king of ghosts.
But things weren't much better now. If it weren't for the trouble he had caused by creating this snow spider, I wouldn't have been poisoned by that damned gu.
Thinking of this, I missed Gu Yuan so much. If he were here, how could he have let me suffer like this?
I lowered my head slightly and didn't respond to him. It was impossible not to be scared.
"She's gone far away." Jun He reached out and lifted the red veil off my head. I looked up and met his eyes.
The moment he saw me, he froze there, staring straight at me as if longing for something.
The atmosphere suddenly became so charming. I didn't dare to look at him anymore. I quickly pulled down the veil he was holding and lowered my head.
When he came to his senses, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a look of loss on his face.
"Where should we go next?" I asked in a low voice.
"Find the souls of your two so - called best friends, and then go straight for the heart of the enemy." Jun He in a red dress with his cold face. Suddenly, I felt that he looked very familiar, as if I had seen him somewhere before.
"If it weren't for that cat just now, we would definitely have been exposed." I felt scared just thinking about it.
As my voice faded, there suddenly came a "click, click, click" sound beside me, similar to the sound of grinding teeth.