I will swear to protect the beauty with my life

“Ah…Ah…Ah…”

Maki Ikeuchi was so frightened that she couldn't speak clearly. Cold sweat broke out and her whole body stiffened instantly. She wanted to shout, but the sound was stuck in her throat.

Her entire face was purple, and Ikeuchi Maki could only raise her stiff hands and slowly point to the treetops, the terrifying ghost...

"Abbababa...Abba..."

"Big sister, what are you talking about?"

The innocent and questioning voices of the children awakened the little remaining rationality of Maki Ikeuchi, but she had only one thought at the moment.

run.

"Ghost! Run!!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ikeuchi Maki took the lead and ran as fast as she could, then turned around and ran away. She knew better than anyone else how terrifying ghosts were, but this was just a small ghost, not even as powerful as Nightmare's half a finger.

"Hehehehe...it would be better if you run faster..."

Just as Grandma Akita and the children were frightened and thought it was just a prank by Maki Ikeuchi, a strange, scary, cold and uncomfortable voice came from above their heads - there were only trees in that place.

Panic made several people look up, but they could only see a somewhat deformed figure staring at them with a pair of blood-red eyes.

"...Ghost!!!"

There was a brief silence, and several people were a little frightened, but as they watched Ikeuchi Maki walking away, their bodies burst out with strength beyond what they had before, and they quickly moved away from the ghost.

The ghost didn't care that the people walked away, he laughed wildly towards the sky. He could close to them in a short moment, so he might as well have some fun!

However, the panicked shouting of several people woke up the sleeping elderly people. Out of curiosity and fear, they pushed open the door to look, but they could only see the children running away frantically and the unknown figure in the tree in the distance.

"Akita! What happened!?"

"Koji! Come back quickly!!"

"Mu Lu! Who told you to run out in the middle of the night!"

Some brave old people, seeing the chaos outside or their own children running for their lives while crying, anxiously walked out of their homes to see what was going on...

“Don’t come out!!”

Ikeuchi Maki, whose starting time and speed were much faster than the others, reacted immediately and yelled at the old man who was leaving the house, but he could only see a figure flash by and a headless body falling down with blood...

“Hehehe…Run! Keep running!! Prey that runs is more interesting!!”

Seeing a fresh life die in front of her, Ikeuchi Maki's mind went blank instantly. This old man herself remembered that after entering this village, he gave her a lot of things... She also remembered that this old man seemed to be the grandfather of a child behind her, and gave her a lot of delicious food...

Just like that, he died right in front of his eyes...

"...Ghost! It's a ghost!"

"Oh my god, the old man down the mountain is coming...Xiao Kui, go back! Go and hide in the warehouse!"

"What our ancestors said is true..."

A group of old people, seeing the ghosts in the words that their ancestors had left behind, felt a chill in their heads...

But soon, the old men took out weapons such as pitchforks and axes from their own storehouses, and the old women took their sleeping children and climbed out from the back of their houses to escape...

Children are the future. Since I have been abandoned by my own sons and daughters, I must sacrifice my life to save my grandchildren!

"Run!"

The old men stepped forward with weapons in hand, protecting the old women and children who were fleeing behind them, and looked at the ghost standing motionless in front of them.

It was the first time they saw a ghost. The gray-black skin, the scary red vertical pupils, the hands that were much longer than a normal person's, almost hanging down to the knees, were staring at them with a ferocious face...

How terrible...

Although I don't know why this ghost is standing still, it's a good thing, isn't it? Let the children run away...they can only delay for as long as their old bodies can.

"Evil ghost!!!"

An old man who was still relatively young, looked at the children running away in the distance, then looked at the evil ghost in front of him who was becoming more and more ferocious. He picked up the pitchfork in his hand, roared - to cover up his fear, and rushed towards the ghost.

“Hahahaha… Great… Great! The prey is able to resist! This is simply awesome!!”

The evil ghost had a ferocious look of joy on his face. He looked at the old man charging at him, stretched out his hand to grab the tip of the pitchfork, bent it with his bare hands, and then faced the surprised and terrified eyes of the temporary coalition of old men in front of him, and punched the first man who dared to charge in front of him through the chest...

The old man vomited blood, his fist was pulled out by the evil ghost, and he fell to the ground. Blood gradually covered the dead land...

Silence, stillness, and fear permeated the air, but mixed with a hint of reluctance and anger...

“Let’s fight!!!”

“Evil ghost!!!!”

The old men were so shocked by the scene that they fell silent for a moment, and then let out an earth-shaking roar. Even though their voices were trembling, even though their bodies were shaking... they could not retreat.

“Hahahaha! This is fun!!! Killing the weak is so enjoyable!!!”

The evil ghost looked at the old people rushing towards him, let out a terrifying and ferocious laugh, and rushed into the crowd. In an instant, blood flew into the sky... A terrible massacre was brewing...

............

In the distance, Ikeuchi Maki had slowed down. She had regained some consciousness and was gradually slowing down, leading the crying, terrified children to run...

Countless screams and pleas for mercy were heard from the village, and the sky was filled with blood, as if the moon was dyed red...

"Grandma...Grandma, run!"

Seeing that the old men were beginning to lose strength and were gradually slowing down, Ikeuchi Maki was getting very anxious. She couldn't let those old men who stepped forward and died bravely die in vain!

"Child...you are a good child...Mother-in-law is dying, we...we will stay here for a while..."

The Akita grandmother who had run the longest, the one who had come out for a walk with Ikeuchi Maki at the beginning, was now slumped on the ground, gasping for breath, choking with sobs, and tears streaming down her face.

"Those old men wanted the children to run away. Now that the old men are gone, it's time for us old women to take over..."

The other mother-in-law came up from behind Ikeuchi Maki, panting, patted Ikeuchi Maki on the shoulder, and sat on the ground with the Akita mother-in-law.

"Let's go... kids, let's go... take Ah Hua and the others with you to survive..."

"Grandma... woooo... Grandma..."

"Go quickly!!"

A large group of elderly people, who already had physical disabilities, could no longer run after running for so long...

Maki Ikeuchi, who had been unable to hold back her tears any longer, tried to reach out to pull the old man, but was slapped away... They knew that no one wanted them anyway, and they didn't know what the point of living was.

Is it to... create value? Or... to see the beautiful scenery... No...

They took one last look and disappeared into the woods sobbing, still looking back and calling out reluctantly to the crying children, tears streaming down their cheeks.

It’s for the children and for the future.

It would be fine if I had to sacrifice my life...

The evil ghost in front of him had already come to kill him. Looking at the old women sitting on the ground with generous faces, a trace of boredom appeared on his face.

Another prey that doesn't struggle... How boring, but... It's so fun to kill it! ! ! !

The blood in the distance has not yet dried and solidified, and the blood here has once again soaked the earth...

Maki Ikeuchi was running wildly with the children... Along the way, there were children struggling to go back, but she held them tightly and dragged them to run...

She absolutely could not let the elderly people in that village die in vain! At least, at least she had to protect the children! !

At this moment, she hated herself so much that she had no power...

Master...where on earth are you!!!

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At this time, Fang Wuwei was still on his way on horseback...