CHAPTER 66: CHAPTER 58: THE EVIL GATE’S CEMETERY

Jiang Yunxiu and another person inexplicably got goosebumps, whereas Song Zi was laughing so hard that her shoulders were shaking.

Well, she had just realized the most "sinister" person here was not Jiang Yunxiu, the smiley-faced miracle doctor as others called her, but the fairest-skinned Sui Yi.

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After eating some breakfast to fill their stomachs, Sui Yi had not yet risen when someone rushed into the door urgently.

"Sister Sui Yi, it’s bad... those bad people have come again! They say they want to dig graves... The village chief and the others have all gone, my parents too..."

Wang Pu was frantic, but seeing so many people still seated and eating, he immediately felt embarrassed. Fortunately, Sui Yi wiped her mouth and said calmly, "Mmm, I know... Have you eaten yet?"

"Me?... No..." Wang Pu responded weakly.

"Sit down and eat..."

"Ah"

"No hurry," Sui Yi simply said these two words.

"...."

Perhaps influenced by Sui Yi’s calm demeanor, Wang Pu inexplicably felt settled and promptly sat down...

After Sui Yi finished a cup of milk, she wiped her mouth and walked out of the house.

Ah Mao hurried to follow,

Jiang Yunxiu and Song Zi were clueless about the situation, but the commotion so early in the morning was quite loud, indicating something must have happened, so they followed as well.

Along the way, more villagers headed toward the desolate area. In fact, it was only about a ten-minute walk. Soon, Sui Yi and the others saw a lonely grave situated on a dusky plateau a hundred meters ahead. The grass around it grew tall, and in the densest clumps, saw grass sharp enough to slice through your cheek.

As Sui Yi and her group stood on a high earth mound and looked over, they only saw a huge old banyan tree with its roots sprawled behind the grave mound. Even from a kilometer away, its shape was ferocious, with darkly hanging leaves...

The scene was inexplicably eerie, yet the noise around the grave somehow diluted the fear.

"Huh~~ What is this place, it looks so sinister~~" Song Zi and Jiang Yunxiu were quite astonished, setting up a grave in such a place was indeed...

But along the way, they had listened to Wang Pu explain the situation and found it incredibly unbelievable. Damn, in this day and age, people still offer money to dig up ancestral graves?

What’s more bizarre, the descendants of those graves actually happily accepted?

"Sister Sui Yi, look, these people really are going into that forbidden area!" Wang Pu, like the other young children, had long become accustomed to referring to the three-hundred-meter radius around the grave as the forbidden area.

The Monkey and others now forcefully crossed the specifically dug trench marking the boundary under the obstruction of the villagers, and charged in.

"Ha, these troublemakers, now they don’t dare to come in!"

"Big brother, they are scared, a bunch of superstitious old fools..." Ye Zhang hadn’t brought his wife along today, and Monkey casually asked about it. He simply said that Wang Yu was too noisy with her constant nagging...

"Your wife indeed talks like a duck.." Monkey sneered, and Ye Zhang reluctantly agreed, though inwardly he cursed that his foul-mouthed wife was afraid of ghosts and didn’t dare to come to this place... Is this place really that terrifying?

Women are always so timid and fearful!

Ye Zhang turned his head to look at the villagers who didn’t dare to enter, merely cursing from outside, and he smiled with evident pride!

But as his gaze passed, he also noticed Sui Yi and the others on the earth mound behind the villagers.

His expression grew even more smug!

At that moment, a bold underling of Monkey and others began to move; some drew out paper and pencil to sketch the dimensions of the grave, some had brooding long faces, some cleaned and studied the grave...

Some had already squatted down at the center of the grave, making gestures with hammers and explosives on a vertical stone gate...

Would they force open a hole, or just blow it up?

One man lifted a hammer, positioned it over the grave floor, raised it, and smashed it down!

The villagers cried out against the sacrilege, their anger visibly swelling, especially after the heavy hammer slammed down...

Boom!

A heavy, muffled grunt!

"Ah~!!"

A piercing scream suddenly erupted, like thunder on a rainy night, startling everyone, even Sui Yi and her group were taken aback.

Sui Yi looked toward that side, her vision undoubtedly the strongest here, clearly observing the situation, but initially, her attention was drawn to the old banyan tree!

Rustle rustle!

As the scream was released, that old banyan tree suddenly rustled loudly, the black leaves ominously flying up as if flapping wings, black feathers fell, they were crows!

The creepy calls of a swarm of crows filled the air.

Could there be anything more terrifying than this situation?

Crows are extremely ominous creatures, already looking dead on the tree, and to suddenly act like this, was truly frightening!

Jiang Yunxiu and the others’ heartbeats skipped, Song Zi shivered, "My God, is this a horror movie?"

"What’s going on over there?"

Meanwhile, at the grave site, Monkey and others were chilled to the bone by the crows, normally bold, but now somewhat panicked, they scurried over to take a look!

A man who had been surveying the weedy area around the gravesite suddenly fell to the ground and started rolling violently, one hand clutching his own arm.

"What, what’s going on! Ah Mao, was your mom bitten by something, screaming like that? Let me see,"

Monkey, bold as ever, stepped forward and took a look. His eyes widened and his face turned green. With a loud cry of "Mom!" he stumbled and fell to the ground, his hands flailing as he quickly backed away...

The man on the ground suddenly raised his arm, whimpering in pain, and started crawling toward him... His palm emitted a hissing sound as a layer of green mist formed, and under the visible eye, his broad palm oozed green slime, revealing ghastly white bones~~

Ah Mao’s face had turned a sickly shade of green... his eyes bulged out, and his mouth foamed white.

With a painful roar, he violently lunged at Monkey...

Monkey’s legs trembled as he watched this subordinate, who usually joked around with him, lunge toward him...

A long leg kicked fiercely!

It struck Ah Mao’s head, sending him flying to the ground with great force; Sui Yi could imagine that this young man must have used all his strength in that kick.

Ah Mao immediately collapsed to the ground without a sound, a hissing noise being the only sign of life...

His entire arm had turned to bone, and it seemed, the green mist was spreading rapidly, already reaching Ah Mao’s neck...

One could imagine, soon he would become nothing but a skeletal corpse.

Everyone present fell into stunned silence.

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"Oh, Mom!"

"I knew it, I knew it, sins lead to death, to death!"

"Ghost! Let’s go, let’s go!"

Some of the villagers were terribly pale with fright, only some of the elderly stayed back to shout to Monkey and the others inside, urging them to come out quickly...

At this moment, Ye Zhang was shocked and also smelled a strong odor of urine.

His own and Monkey’s...

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"What is this, what is this..." Jiang Yunxiu was a doctor, a materialist, and upon seeing such a scene, he maintained his composure for a moment, thinking that medically, there were certain potions that could turn a living person into a corpse, but...

Never this terrifyingly efficient.

But Song Zi and Wang Pu couldn’t handle it. Their legs trembled, their faces drained of all color.

There, Monkey and the others cried out as they all stared at the person on the ground... It seemed someone yelled out, "Gone, gone..."

Skeleton and such.

It seemed the person had turned to bone.

Jiang Yunxiu initially wanted to check it out, after all, he was a doctor and interested in such matters, but Wang Pu wouldn’t let him enter, and with Sui Yi shaking her head, he had no choice but to give up.

Sui Yi was silent for a moment, "Let’s go."

That green mist reminded her of that monster... The more she thought, the more she felt that this ordinary little village was filled with eerie sensations.

No, it wasn’t just eerie, but dangerous.

And earlier in that pond, the monster had expelled a green liquid from its mouth, some of which had gotten on her. She wondered if it had affected her.

Sui Yi instinctively pressed her hand against the Xiezhi Dagger concealed at her waist...

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It seemed these people wouldn’t disturb that grave again, which might be the only good thing, right?

But Sui Yi still felt something was off.

It seemed the grave was hiding some secret.

When the group returned home, even if Song Zi liked Sui Yi, she didn’t want to stay long. Jiang Yunxiu also felt he had imposed greatly, given what had happened; not many women could remain calm...

"Sui Yi, we’re going to head back now. About your grandmother... My advice is to send her to Provincial City as soon as possible, as the medical facilities there are adequate, and I can help later. If this happens again and I’m not in Nanxun..."

Jiang Yun stuck to the facts. After all, this time was timely, but there might not be a next. Plus, medically speaking, recurrent severe illness worsens with each occurrence, becoming harder to cure each time.

The old lady’s situation wasn’t promising.

Sui Yi caught the implication in his words and nodded. She currently had about $120,000, which counted as a modest wealth in Nanxun, but was far from sufficient for purchasing a house and covering medical bills in Provincial City. She could just about manage it, but the problem of transferring her school was a headache, not to mention the difficulty of persuading her grandmother.

Jiang Yunxiu thought about offering his help, but considering Sui Yi’s personality, he held back the offer and left with Song Zi.

Initially, he wanted to study the anomalies at the grave, but Sui Yi wouldn’t allow it, and besides, the situation was complex, and Song Zi was there; it made no sense to implicate her. As for the dead man...

He wasn’t foolish; he could tell that the young people and the grave both had some peculiar aspects, and it was not suitable for him to intervene.

"I’ll go back and ask Old Yi... This place is too sinister. I’ve got to get this girl out of here," Jiang Yunxiu decided.

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