I stared intently at the water level in the coffin. The blood was churning, rippling, which made one's hair stand on end.
It wasn't until the blood had drained completely that the thing inside finally revealed its true appearance.
Inside the coffin was a woman dressed in Miao ethnic clothing. Her skin was fair, her cheeks rosy, and her lips were like cherries. She looked as if she were just sleeping. If one didn't know, one would never have guessed that it was a cold corpse.
The Miao ethnic clothing was intact, without a single bit of damage. All kinds of silverware were shining brightly, and the embroidery on the clothes was vivid.
However, there was a thick black chain wrapped around her body, and her hands were clasped in front of her chest, holding a large copper padlock.
I had seen this padlock before. Just now, the woman who had rushed towards me was also wrapped in the same chain.
There was also a large padlock hanging on her chest. If my guess was right, the woman who had just appeared was her lingering soul.
Could it be that Gu Yuan had really found the wrong place? This was the tomb of a Miao woman, not the burial place of Xun Mengsheng.
It couldn't be. The red thread had led here. Could it be that Xun Mengsheng was a woman? That would be too...
I firmly believed in Gu Yuan's judgment. He couldn't have found the wrong place.
"Woo... Save me..." Suddenly, a woman's cry for help came from behind me.
"I'm locked by the copper padlock. Can you let me out? Woo..." The hollow inside the tree hole made the woman's crying sound even more eerie and creepy, which made my hair stand on end.
I slowly turned my head and saw that the woman was now curled up in the corner, crying helplessly.
"Sister, I'm so scared. Save me..." A pair of dark purple eyes looked at me hopelessly.
For some reason, after seeing her eyes, my heart seemed to be controlled. I suddenly felt that this woman was so pitiful. I felt so sorry for her. She was already dead. Why was she still being locked up?
Her voice seemed to have a magic power, driving me to turn around and walk towards her. All I could think about was that she was so pitiful and I had to rescue her.
Step by step, I approached the girl. The woman's eyes were glowing with a faint purple halo, and the corner of her mouth curled into a smile.
"Thank you. Once the copper padlock is unlocked, I'll be free." Her voice was ethereal, washing away all the distracting thoughts in my mind. All I wanted to do was to unlock the padlock for her.
"Where's the key?"
"The key is your blood. Cut your wrist and pour the fresh blood into the copper padlock, and I can come out."
"Okay."
Without even thinking, I turned around to look for a dagger. The woman lowered her light eyes, opened her palm, and a cold dagger appeared in her pale palm.
"I have a dagger here." After she stopped crying, her ethereal voice became soft and long, making people feel intoxicated.
I picked up the dagger in her hand, raised my wrist, and cut it without hesitation.
"Chiyu, come back." Suddenly, someone grabbed my wrist, and my mind quickly came to my senses.
At this moment, I found that I was actually lying in the coffin.
My body was wrapped in chains, and I was holding a dagger in my hand, about to cut my wrist. Fortunately, someone had stopped me.
I looked up at the person who was holding my wrist. It was Gu Yuan. Half of his body had already reached in, and one hand was tightly holding mine.
His face was full of worry.
"Chiyu, come back quickly."
When I saw Gu Yuan, I suddenly couldn't hold it back anymore.
"Gu Yuan, Gu Yuan, I'm so scared... Woo..."
I quickly threw away the dagger, raised my hand, hugged his neck, and cried out loudly.
"Don't be afraid. I'm here."
Gu Yuan pulled the chain off my body and was about to pull me out.
Suddenly, something seemed to wrap around my waist. I was so scared that I let out a scream. Gu Yuan waved his hand, and a silver light hit the back of my shoulder.
I only heard a shrill scream behind my ear, and then Gu Yuan carried me out of the coffin.
I was so scared that I still remembered to look back. At this moment, the woman's face had sunken in completely. Her dark skin was wrinkled and stuck to the bones. If it weren't for the blood water soaking her and isolating the air, she would have rotted into mud long ago.
The only reason I could recognize that it was a woman was through her clothing and accessories.
"What's going on? Where were you just now?" I grabbed Gu Yuan's arm, and the look of panic on my face hadn't completely faded.
"I've been here all the time. It's just that we were affected by the miasma just now, so we got lost. Fortunately, I woke up in time. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable."
At this moment, I remembered that Gu Yuan was still an inexperienced boy. Even if his magic power was high, he could still be deceived.
"Are you scared? I promise it won't happen again." Gu Yuan grabbed my wrist and looked at it left and right, afraid that I was injured somewhere and he didn't notice in time. The look of worry made me feel so warm.
"I'm okay. Why is there a woman lying in this coffin? Did we get the wrong place?"
Gu Yuan grabbed my hand and walked to the coffin with a gloomy face.
"If you want to find a substitute, you should at least see who it is." After Gu Yuan finished speaking, he picked up a tree branch on the tree and stabbed it hard into the coffin. The Miao woman with the chain on the top and the body of a man below were both picked out.
At this moment, I found that the two of them were tied together.
The man at the bottom should be Xun Mengsheng.
"What's going on? Didn't he love Hu Qingluan to death? Why is he buried in the same tomb with another woman?"
"The fastest way to become a Bloodsucking Ghost is to lie under a corpse. Lying under a corpse means finding a newly dead woman. This Miao woman is just right. She was a concubine who was beaten to death. Her resentment is extremely heavy. Xun Mengsheng was a Miao witch doctor. He cut his wrist and fed the Miao woman his blood, absorbing her yin energy. Then he lay under her corpse and was buried in the same coffin with her for forty - nine days, absorbing the corpse qi to improve his cultivation, and then he would become a real Bloodsucking Ghost."
"It can be seen that the Miao woman was also a Miao doctor with some skills. So she wanted to find you as a substitute before her corpse qi was completely sucked dry."
"But it's too late. Her corpse qi has been completely sucked dry by Xun Mengsheng. Xun Mengsheng may have already become a real Bloodsucking Ghost."
"Bloodsucking Ghosts are neither real ghosts nor real humans. They are beyond the Three Realms. Many magical tools are not effective against them. Besides, he was originally a Miao witch doctor, so his magic power should not be underestimated."
My goodness, this is really appalling. How much did Xun Mengsheng like Hu Qingluan? For her, he was willing to give up being a good Miao doctor and become a Bloodsucking Ghost that was neither human nor ghost.
Just as Gu Yuan finished speaking, there was another thunder and lightning outside. The thunder was so loud that it made my eardrums buzz. The coffin also began to shake.
The blood that had originally disappeared in the coffin gushed out along the coffin opening, flowing all over the ground.
Before the blood could soak my clothes, Gu Yuan put his arm around my waist and took me out of the tree hole.
At this moment, the sky had already turned completely dark. Gu Yuan took me to a high place and raised his sleeve to block the cold wind for me.
The blood inside the tree hole overflowed. A blood - red figure, like a blood - colored clay figurine burned by fire, crawled out of the tree hole.