Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

The "Miko Festival" is when wealthy families hear the story of the Kadori Shrine. In order to pray for blessings for their children, they will pay a high price to send their girls to the Kadori Shrine for a ten-day training as "apprentice shrine maidens". During this week, the girls will follow the daily life and schoolwork of real shrine maidens. On the last day of the ten days, the "apprentice shrine maidens" who have completed the course are eligible to walk around the town with lanterns in their hands, and then return to the shrine to pray for their future life and the well-being of their families.

The "Miko Festival" is also the most profitable event of the Kadori Shrine. The last day of the "Miko Festival" should have been the busiest day in the town, but today there was almost no one watching the apprentice shrine maidens carrying lanterns for a night tour. Every family extinguished their candles and locked their doors, obviously frightened by the recent series of disappearances of girls.

However, in order to increase the profit and maintain the shrine this year, the chief priest of Kadori Shrine concealed the series of strange events that had occurred in the town recently from the families who sent the girls to study shrine maiden courses. The police did not make a large-scale report to the citizens of the surrounding cities, but suppressed the matter for fear of unnecessary panic and fear of alerting the serial killer, which would put the missing girls in danger.

The families of these "apprentice shrine maidens" were all waiting at the foot of the mountain. They had no idea about the strange things that had happened in the town recently, so they were all very confused. Tonight should have been the busiest day in the town, so why was the entire town so dead silent, with no one to be seen... But then they thought it was probably because of the heavy rain tonight, and it was normal for the town's residents not to want to go out in such bad weather.

Yuan Zhisheng noticed the guards in plain clothes patrolling in the corner of the town. He had a premonition that today's mission would be more difficult than he had imagined. First of all, the weather today was really bad. Such extreme weather provided convenient conditions for the criminals to commit evil. Secondly, today was the "Witch Festival", and the girls from outside were also within the range of possible attacks by the criminals, thus increasing the scope of victims. Then, those patrolling police officers must not be high-risk mixed-race opponents. Not only would they be unable to provide help to Yuan Zhisheng, they might even make the criminals more vigilant and increase the risk of Yuan Zhisheng being exposed.

Gennochi slowly moved on the roof towards the Kadori Shrine, trying not to make any noise while hiding his figure. Fortunately, the heavy rain provided a favorable environment for the criminal to commit the crime and also covered his actions. If the girls were cicadas, then it was still uncertain who the mantis and the oriole were.

Yuan Zhisheng accelerated the flow of dragon blood in his body through his veins, and his five senses were instantly enhanced to dozens of times that of a normal person. Perhaps high-risk hybrids could also improve their vision, hearing and sensitivity when their bloodline was out of control, but Yuan Zhisheng was a super hybrid who inherited the "royal blood". His normal state was already several times that of ordinary hybrids, or even far exceeded it. As long as Yuan Zhisheng remained vigilant at all times to prevent sneak attacks, there were very few enemies in this world who could confront him head-on.

Gen Chisei has arrived at the edge of the town, at the foot of the Kadori Shrine. At this time, the girls have already stepped onto the bluestone steps leading up the mountain with lanterns. It must be said that the training fees for the shrine maidens at the Kadori Shrine are expensive, but the effect is also very significant. These girls from the big city are now walking in the heavy rain with lanterns. No one is playing and no one is crying. In just ten days, they have transformed from the spoiled greenhouse flowers into well-educated apprentice shrine maidens.

The parents also followed the girls up the mountain in the rain, not only because they were afraid that the mountain road would be difficult to walk on due to the heavy rain and that something might happen to the girls, but also to see the results of the girls' ten-day training... The training of the apprentice shrine maidens is almost closed, which also means that these parents have not seen their daughters for ten days. The "Miko Festival" is equivalent to an exhibition of the results of these ten days of training, showing the parents whether their money was worth spending, what their daughters learned at Kakutori Shrine in these ten days, and how much they have changed.

Tonight's victim will definitely be among these girls. This is Yuan Zhisheng's firm belief. He has seen the list of missing girls, and every girl is someone he knows. One of the biggest common characteristics of these girls is that they are all very young. The oldest of them is only eighteen years old, and they are all very beautiful. Some girls have an ethereal beauty like mountain elves, and some girls are as beautiful as exquisite porcelain dolls.

Every girl has her own unique beauty. This mixed-race guy kidnapped these girls with different characteristics just to satisfy his own morbid collecting habit.

Yuan Zhisheng just looked at the "apprentice shrine maidens" who were carrying lanterns up the mountain from a distance. There were many beautiful girls among them, and the ages of these girls also met the criminal characteristics of the criminal. The most important thing was that Yuan Zhisheng put himself in the criminal's perspective. The girls in the town were nothing more than a few types, and the criminal had almost collected them all. These girls from big cities were going to leave the town tomorrow. Today was the best time to take action. How could the other party miss it?

The girls had already climbed up to the Kadori Shrine halfway up the mountain. Minamoto no Chisei did not follow them, but stayed on a roof at the foot of the mountain. The roof where he was was the best viewpoint, and he could clearly see the entire mountain road from the vermilion torii gate at the foot of the mountain to the shrine halfway up the mountain. There was only this one passage from the town to the shrine. The criminal would definitely go down the mountain through this road after kidnapping the girls, and the additional police officers sent by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department lived in the shrine. If the criminal committed a crime in the shrine and was discovered by the police and fled down the mountain, Minamoto no Chisei's position would be perfect for ambush him.

The shrine was a little far away from Minamoto Chisheng, and the heavy rain blocked his hearing. The whole town was shrouded in the sound of rain hitting tiles. Minamoto Chisheng waited patiently, staring at the road connecting the shrine and the torii gate at the foot of the mountain, his palm pressed tightly against the hilt of the long sword at his waist, like a black panther lurking in the darkness, ready to pounce on its prey at any time.

Time passed by minute by minute, Yuan Zhisheng looked down at his watch, then frowned slightly... Something incredible happened. Since time was running backwards, and the watch was developed by the scientific research team, it was not prone to malfunction. Before Yuan Zhisheng could think about whether he had fallen into the other party's spiritual realm, a scream suddenly came from the shrine on the mountainside.

Then there was a noisy discussion, the girls' crying and the parents' shouting mixed together, breaking the silence of the entire town. All the lights in the shrine were turned on, and the lights on the hillside were bright. For a moment, the people in the town were also shocked by the sudden movement, but they still did not dare to turn on the lights. They only dared to open a corner of the bedroom curtain to see what was happening outside.

Yuan Zhisheng felt something was wrong and quickly jumped off the roof and ran towards the shrine. At this time, Yuan Zhisheng didn't care whether he would be exposed or not. Judging from the movement in the shrine, the criminals might have already taken action. If Yuan Zhisheng could arrive in time, he might be able to save a few girls from persecution.

Passing through the vermilion torii, Gen Chisheng walked on the bluestone steps wet by the heavy rain, running all the way to the mountainside, with the scenery beside him rapidly receding... In his haste to reach the shrine, Gen Chisheng did not notice that strange cracks appeared in the rapidly receding scenery beside him, as if the space of this world had cracked for some reason, and on the other side of the cracks one could vaguely see snow-white mountains, huge deep wells, and monsters with broken limbs.

Gen Chisei came to the front yard of the shrine and saw a group of people gathered in the center of the front yard. The girls were shivering in their parents' arms. The parents tried their best to comfort their children, but the expressions on their faces were also very unnatural. Several parents were standing there crying and pulling at the clothes of the shrine staff. The police officers separated them. The police officer in charge and the chief priest of Kadori Shrine stood there, seemingly asking something. The chief priest's face was also very ugly, and he was full of disbelief, as if something terrible had just happened here.

Gen Chisei moved closer and listened to the conversation between the police officers and the shrine chief.

"How many girls are participating in the 'Miko Festival' this time? Please confirm it again." The police officer asked the chief priest cautiously.

"Seventeen people..." the chief priest stuttered. "I'm sure I remember correctly... Ten days ago, seventeen children were sent to the shrine to study. We collected seventeen fees and prepared seventeen sets of beds... Other people in the shrine can testify to this."

The police officer looked at an elderly shrine maiden standing nearby. This shrine maiden was the priest's wife. She had been responsible for preparing daily necessities for the girls and taking care of their daily lives. She should be very familiar with these girls.

The older shrine maiden nodded dully. Before the girls set off, the chief priest did not lie. The daily necessities prepared by the shrine were all in seventeen portions. She also personally counted the number of people before the girls' parade. There were seventeen people in total, and there was no mistake.

"No!" a girl suddenly interrupted, "There were eighteen people in total... I was standing at the back, and as I walked across the bridge, I counted the number of people one by one, and seventeen people passed in front of me!"

As soon as the girl finished speaking, she was pulled back by her parents. The parents covered her mouth and hugged her tightly in their arms, as if they were afraid that the girl's words would bring about some trouble.

The police officer looked at the chief priest and the elderly shrine maiden again. The elderly shrine maiden said apprehensively, "I didn't lie. There really were seventeen of them. You can go and see the shrine's backyard. There are only seventeen beds... and there are also account books. The shrine has been preparing for this 'Miko Festival' for a while now, and only these seventeen payments have been made this month!"

"The shrine people probably weren't lying," a police officer approached. "I counted and there are seventeen families here. After the 'Miko Festival,' the girls should go home. Even if some parents don't come to watch their children's 'Miko Festival,' they can't refuse to take their children home."

The officer in charge nodded. It didn't seem like the problem was with the shrine. Then his gaze fell on the girl who had said there were eighteen people. He walked up to her and asked in a very serious tone, "Did you really see eighteen people? Did you count wrong?"

"I can't have counted wrong," the girl said confidently, "because I was at the back of the group, and every time I turned a corner or crossed an intersection I would silently count how many people were in line, and every time it was my turn, it was always eighteen."

"Songzi, stop talking." The girl's father pulled her behind him, and the man said to the police officer, "Maybe the child really did count wrong. She's always been bad at math, and it's raining so hard today, so it's normal that she misjudged the number of people."

"But I really counted it many times." The girl named Matsuko said stubbornly.

Chapter 646 Criminals

"Did you really count correctly?" the officer rubbed his chin in distress. "That's strange. The evidence provided by the shrine indeed shows that there were only seventeen children sent there, but this girl named Matsuko insists she saw eighteen girls at the 'Miko Festival'. Who is lying? If no one is lying... then who is this extra girl?"

An inexplicable and eerie feeling permeated the crowd. The shrine priest and the old witch didn't seem to be deceiving anyone, and neither did the girl, Matsuko. So where did this girl come from? Was she a ghost?

There were similar rumors in the distant Edo period. The shrine maidens' procession not only brought peace and health to their families and the residents of the town, but also carried some kind of magical power. This power would attract ghosts wandering in the mountains. These ghosts were transformed from resentment. Because they lived extremely unhappy lives in life, they longed for redemption after death. Therefore, the shrine maiden's ceremony was also a kind of ritual to summon souls.

But even if these legends and strange stories are true, these girls are just apprentice shrine maidens who have been training at the shrine for ten days. Do apprentice shrine maidens have such strong magical powers to attract the vengeful spirits from the deep mountains? And what is the connection between this vengeful spirit and the recent frequent disappearances of girls?

The police officer shook his head and denied the talk of ghosts and apparitions. He was a law enforcement officer of the Metropolitan Police Department and he paid attention to evidence and clues when handling cases. A ghost kidnapping a girl in the mountains...it was too unscientific!

"There are still thirteen girls here. So are there four or five missing girls?" the officer in charge of the case asked another officer who was investigating the parents. "What do the parents say?"

"A total of four sets of parents claim their children are missing," the officer in charge of the parents' investigation said in a low voice. "They didn't find their children in the procession for the 'Miko Festival.' If we add the thirteen children currently in the group and the children of these four sets of parents who are missing, the number of girls should be seventeen."

"How do you police handle this?" a man who had lost his child stepped forward angrily. "What's the point of fretting over whether there were seventeen or eighteen people? Shouldn't the most urgent task now be to find the children?"

"It's all your fault, all your fault! I told you not to send girls to this mountain to participate in witch training, but you insisted on sending her here. Are you satisfied now? The child is gone!" A woman sobbed and beat the man's shoulder. "If my daughter can't be found... If my daughter can't be found, you can't go home tonight!"

"You, the shrine, have to take responsibility too!" a parent said to the chief priest and his wife at Kadori Shrine. "I paid you money, a lot of money! You have the responsibility and obligation to take good care of my child. Now my child is lost. If you can't find my child, I will never let you go!"

The chief priest of Kadori Shrine and the elderly shrine maiden looked at each other, their expressions as ugly as if they had just eaten two dead flies.

As a couple who have been living in Katori Shrine, they certainly know what has been happening in the town these days. They pray to the gods every day for the town to return to peace. A big part of the reason is that the residents of the town are panicked by the serial disappearances of girls. They go home after school and work all day and close their doors. The travel agencies in the town have also begun to not receive outsiders. No one has come to Katori Shrine to pray for blessings for a long time. The shrine's incense has plummeted. If this situation continues for a long time, Katori Shrine, which has lasted for hundreds of years, will probably collapse soon.

The "Miko Festival" is a good opportunity. It is the most profitable few days of the year for the shrine. The income from holding a "Miko Festival" can maintain the shrine's expenses for several months. The priests and their spouses are not without worry that these girls from the city will have accidents in the shrine, but the dilemma of the shrine forces them to take a risk without telling the girls' parents. Fortunately, the shrine maidens have spent the ten days of training safely, and it will be complete as long as the "Miko Festival" is over tonight. Just when the priests and their spouses were about to let go of the anxiety they had been feeling for the past ten days, an accident happened at the last moment.

"Then let's tentatively conclude there are seventeen girls." Under pressure from the parents, the police officer had to compromise and abandon the number of girls in the investigation. "Four girls are missing. We'll begin a search zone around the shrine."

"Um..." another girl suddenly interrupted, "Matsuko probably didn't lie...it seems like there really are five girls missing."

"What?" The officer in charge of the case frowned slightly. He looked at the girl who interrupted and asked urgently, "You said there were five girls missing? What's going on? Do you know anything?"

"I think I saw... When the parade started, a stranger broke into the group," the girl said in a low voice, looking a little timid. "He was standing in front of me, wearing the same clothes as us... He even talked to me at first."

"Someone you don't know? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" The officer was stunned. He quickly asked, "What kind of person is he? What did you talk about with him? Describe his appearance!"

"I don't remember... I don't remember." The girl's thoughts seemed a little confused. "I just remembered that there seemed to be such a person... but I really don't remember!"

"You don't remember anything?" the officer asked, bewildered. "Didn't this just happen? How could you not remember? You don't remember his face or his voice? You don't remember what we talked about?"

"I don't remember." The girl shook her head truthfully.

"What about gender?" This was an extremely important clue, but the officer still insisted, "You can always tell gender, right? Is that person who sneaked in a man or a woman?"

"I don't remember... I really don't remember..." The girl shook her head painfully, and then suddenly became irritable.

The girl screamed like crazy, hitting her head and tearing her hair, as if she had just woken up from a nightmare and couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality, scaring the people around her.

"Don't ask any more questions, she's just a child!" The girl's mother stood up and shouted at the police officer. She hugged the girl and comforted her softly, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. You just went through such a thing and got caught in the rain. You must be scared, right? We don't want to be witches anymore. We don't want to be witches anymore. We will take you home soon. Mom and Dad will take you home right now. We will never come to this crappy place again!"

The police officer also looked very embarrassed. He had finally found a new insider, and he was hoping to dig out some more clues from this girl, but this girl had forgotten all the most obvious features of the suspected suspect. It was really unbelievable. Judging from the girl's mental state and the look of a parent protecting her child, the police officer was afraid that it would be difficult to get any useful information from her.

The whole case was confusing and the police officer in charge was almost in despair. Just when he was about to organize a group of police officers to look for clues in the shrine, a figure in a black windbreaker walked quickly to the center of the shrine's front yard.

"When you passed by the torii gate at the foot of the mountain, did you see your children in the parade?" The young man in the black windbreaker asked the parents whose children were missing as soon as he arrived.

The parents were all confused. No one knew who this young man who suddenly appeared in a black windbreaker and looked very impressive was, nor did they know whether they should answer his questions.

"Who are you? What are you doing at the shrine at this time?" The police officers surrounded him and stared at the young man in the black windbreaker with a fierce look. The appearance of such an uninvited guest at the shrine during such a sensitive period could not help but arouse suspicion.

The young man didn't waste any time talking to the police officers. He opened his windbreaker, revealing the lining embroidered with a silver moon. He took out a black ID from the lining and showed it to the police officer in charge of the case.

"Execution Bureau?" The officer looked at the ID the young man showed him with a surprised expression. "Are you the deputy director of the Enforcement Bureau?"

The Enforcement Bureau of the Snake Eight Families often cooperates with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Although the police officers do not know what kind of organization the Enforcement Bureau is, the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department has issued instructions that in any case involving law enforcement officers from the Enforcement Bureau, everything must be based on the attitude of the law enforcement officers, and all police officers must cooperate unconditionally.

The Enforcement Bureau also informed the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in advance about this case. The police officer in charge of the case knew that someone from the Enforcement Bureau would come, but he didn't know that the person who came was the deputy director of the Enforcement Bureau, and that the deputy director was such a young man.

Calling him a man is a bit of an exaggeration; a boy is more appropriate. He looks like he hasn't even graduated from middle school... However, although this man is young, the fierce aura he exudes makes the police officers in charge feel secretly shocked. The credentials of the Enforcement Bureau cannot be forged. This young man is indeed the deputy director of the Enforcement Bureau and he cannot be fake.

"Please cooperate and answer the question this person just asked," the police officer said solemnly to the parents. "Whether your children can be found depends largely on this person."

The parents looked at each other in bewilderment. No one knew the identity of the young man in the black windbreaker, but when they saw the police officers' respectful attitude towards him, everyone realized that this man had an extraordinary background.

"We didn't see it clearly," the parent told Genjisheng. "During the Miko Festival, we can't get too close to the parade. It was raining heavily today, and the children all wore the same uniform and had their makeup on. We only realized our child was missing after they had returned to the shrine and washed up."

Gen Chisheng pondered for a moment, then looked at Matsuko, the girl who spoke first. "When your team passed through the torii gate, did you count how many people were left in front of you?"

"I remember... I remember I seemed to be the thirteenth." Songzi said uncertainly.

"So these girls disappeared before returning to the shrine," said Minamoto. "They were taken away during the procession."

"During the parade?" The officer was confused. "How is that possible? If several girls disappeared during the parade, wouldn't they be easily discovered?"

Yuan Zhisheng knew that this was possible. Because of the serial disappearances of girls, no one in the town would watch the "Miko Festival" parade tonight. The only witnesses were the girls in the parade. As long as he could hide it from the girls in some way, it would not be impossible to abduct the girls quietly during the parade.

"Then do you remember where was the last time you counted that there were only thirteen people left in the team?" Yuan Zhisheng asked Matsuko.

"I don't remember... I don't remember." Songzi's memory seemed confused. "I only remember that there were eighteen people at the intersection west of the town."

Yuan Zhisheng was stunned. He entered the town from the intersection on the west side of the town. He had passed that fork in the road countless times in his past life... because the town was on the right side of the intersection, and the home where he had been boarding since childhood was on the left side of the intersection.

Questioning the girl named Songzi again didn't yield any results. The key clue still lay with the second girl who spoke. She had seen the suspect with her own eyes and had spoken to him. She was the only witness. Yuan Zhisheng approached the second girl, slowly squatted down, and asked softly, "Can you think of anything else? When did that person you don't know appear, and when did he leave?"

The girl had not yet recovered from her previous emotional outburst. When she heard Yuan Zhisheng's voice, she turned her head to look at Yuan Zhisheng... and then an incredible scene appeared.

"It's you...it's you!" The girl pointed at Yuan Zhisheng's face, her expression terrified as if she had seen a ghost. "I remember now!"

Everyone was shocked by the girl's reaction. Yuan Zhisheng was also a little frightened, but he quickly calmed down, put his hand on the girl's shoulder and asked, "What are you talking about? Does the person who sneaked into the team look like me?"

As if feeling the warmth of Yuan Zhisheng's palm, the girl's emotions gradually calmed down. She carefully examined Yuan Zhisheng's face and said in surprise, "Yes, you two look alike... but he seems to look more like a boy than you, and his voice is a little deeper... I can't remember anything else."

"Hey, don't touch our child. Didn't you see that she was scared by you just now?" The girl's mother angrily slapped Yuan Zhisheng's hand away.

The police officers were still confused, and no one knew what the girl meant. Only Yuan Zhisheng's expression became more and more solemn... A suspicion gradually arose in his heart.

"Do you have any idea?" The police officer stepped forward to ask Yuan Zhisheng, but was pushed away by the latter.

Yuan Zhisheng almost ran down the mountain. He shuttled through the familiar streets of the town, and the strong wind and heavy rain whistled past his ears... The criminal was a half-blood, but which half-blood would come to a small town deep in the mountains like this?

An ominous premonition in Yuan Zhisheng's heart became more and more real, but he kept muttering "Impossible, impossible, impossible".

Running all the way to the intersection west of the town, Yuan Zhisheng saw a lantern on the side of the road.

Chapter 647 The Ghost in the Old House

Gen Chisheng picked up the lantern. The lantern had been exposed to heavy rain and water had seeped into the bottom, so it had gone out. However, Gen Chisheng recognized that this was the lantern held by the girls participating in the "Miko Festival".

There was still a certain aura that was extremely familiar to Yuan Zhisheng on this lantern... Or maybe it was just his illusion, because the ominous premonition in his heart made his guess, which he was unwilling to believe, gradually become a reality.

Yuan Zhisheng walked aimlessly towards the fork in the road on the left. This was the intersection west of the town that Songzi mentioned. On the right was the direction into the town. A few hundred meters ahead was the school where Yuan Zhisheng used to attend. On the left was a rugged mountain road, and one kilometer away was the home where he boarded during his childhood.

Obviously different from his frantic running in the small town, Yuan Zhisheng's pace was getting slower and slower, as if he wanted to escape from some reality... Yuan Zhisheng should have thought of this earlier. There were originally mixed-race people in this town, but he subconsciously ignored it because in his concept, that person was never a dangerous guy, but just the only relative he had since he was a child. In the poorest and most difficult days, they shared weal and woe and depended on each other.

Yuan Zhisheng took the fork in the road on the left and walked step by step towards his childhood home. After taking dozens of steps, he stopped again and stood blankly on the roadside in the heavy rain.

Because he saw another lantern in the grass inside, wet and covered with mud due to the heavy rain.

It is exactly the same as the one seen at the intersection. These are the lanterns carried by the girls who participated in the "Miko Festival". The girls who returned to Kanoji Shrine returned the lanterns to the shrine. There is no doubt that these lanterns lost on the roadside should have belonged to the missing girls... After leaving the parade, the missing girls did leave in this direction.

Yuan Zhisheng quickened his pace. He was escaping from reality just now, but now he wanted to verify it. If he moved faster, maybe he could save those girls before the tragedy happened... Most importantly, Yuan Zhisheng was even more afraid of returning to his childhood home and seeing a tragedy that was brewing or the consequences that were irreversible.

On the way, Yuan Zhisheng saw another lantern, but he was no longer in the mood to stop and check it out. It was not until he reached the dilapidated little house in his memory that he saw the last lantern thrown in front of the door.

Yuan Zhisheng stood in front of the door. The heavy rain that fell from the sky made the whole world dark. Yuan Zhisheng looked at the lantern on the ground. The rain hitting his body made his body get colder and colder. Even though the dragon blood in his body was flowing and boiling, he felt that he had never been so cold... This coldness came from the inside out, starting from the bottom of his heart and cooling down bit by bit. Yuan Zhisheng had a premonition of what was about to happen. He hoped that this was just a dream.

When Yuan Zhisheng wakes up from a nightmare, he will wake up by his own pillow or in front of the case of the Enforcement Bureau. In reality, there is no missing girl, no high-risk hybrid serial killer, and no cruel reality that he is about to face... He can be the boy in the town who yearns for the big city, or he can be the most capable newcomer in the Enforcement Bureau. After working hard to make a name for himself, he brings his brother to the big city, and they live a prosperous life together.

Walking past the lantern and pushing open the familiar yet shabby wooden door in his memory, Yuan Zhisheng saw a scene that made him feel like he was falling into hell.

The adoptive father and the girl who lived in the house in my memory are no longer here. The old house is dilapidated. In fact, from the broken stone bench in the front yard, the tiles that have not been repaired for a long time, the mold growing on the surface of everything, and the overgrown weeds on the road, it can be seen that no one has lived here for a long time and no one has even been here... No, maybe there is something living here, but it must not be a human, but an evil ghost from the underworld.

Blood, dripping blood, the whole room was covered in blood... The floor, the walls, the old furniture, and even the ceiling were all stained a vermilion color with thick blood.

Because it had not been repaired for a long time, the broken ceiling was leaking, and the leaking rainwater was also scarlet in color. The smell of blood in the house was so pungent that it could almost make people faint. Because the rainstorm outside was so heavy, the pungent stench never spread out, otherwise Yuan Zhisheng at the fork in the road would have smelled the pervasive bloody smell.

Yuan Zhisheng did not turn on the light. It would be useless even if he did because the light had broken down long ago. He had a very strong night vision, and the flashes of lightning in the sky were like flickering candlelight, illuminating the scene in the house from time to time, which added a bit of evil and weird atmosphere to the scene in the house.

Gen Chisheng saw the four missing girls in the house... Although it was called four, to be precise there were only two left. They were huddled in the corner of the living room, wearing the red and white shrine maiden costumes used in the "Miko Festival" parade. They were tied up with hemp ropes in a rough manner, and their mouths were stuffed with foot knots torn from their clothes to prevent them from making any sound.

As for the other two girls... they were also in the living room, but they were already dead. To be more precise, they were dismembered. The body parts were lying in the middle of the living room. They were clearly the bodies of two girls, but when put together, they didn't seem to be enough to make up the body of a single person.

There were several incomplete corpses piled up in the corner of the living room, but the broken limbs had already rotted away, and some even revealed white bones. Judging from the shape and size of the skeletons, they should be women's bodies, or young girls... The tearing of their flesh was very hideous, as if they had been torn and bitten by the sharp claws of some wild beast. The scene was cruel, bloody and terrifying.

Two girls in shrine maiden costumes were huddled in the corner of the living room, shivering. They were probably frightened by the scene of their companion being dismembered. Their faces were filled with fear and despair. But at this moment, they suddenly saw Yuan Zhisheng pushing the door open. They didn't seem to have expected that someone would suddenly break into this dilapidated little house in the wilderness at this time.

The two girls twisted their bodies and moved towards Yuan Zhisheng, sobbing something with their blocked mouths, probably asking for help. When they saw Yuan Zhisheng appear at this time, it was like seeing a savior in desperate situation.

Yuan Zhisheng suppressed the anger in his heart and quickly came to the two girls. He squatted down and pulled the hemp rope that bound the girls, then took out the cloth ball that was stuffed in the girls' mouths.

Because the sound of the rainstorm covered his ears, Yuan Zhisheng didn't notice it just now. Now that he was close to the girls, Yuan Zhisheng could hear clearly that some strange noises were coming from the house next door... It was like some strange beast was grinding its teeth and sucking blood, greedily gnawing on the blood food it had hunted.

Yuan Zhisheng's body trembled slightly. That room... that room was the room where he lived as a child. The room was very small and cramped, but it had to accommodate him and his brother. However, neither of the two brothers was dissatisfied when they were young because they had a good relationship. Moreover, for them at that time, having a place to live and enough food to eat was already a very happy thing.

At the same time, a flash of lightning streaked across the front of the house, thunder rolled, and the arc of blue lightning illuminated the scene in the house, as well as Yuan Zhisheng's face... The moment Yuan Zhisheng's face was clearly seen, the girl in front of him, who had just had the cloth taken out of her mouth, let out a terrified scream.

The other girl was also screaming. The two girls looked at Yuan Zhisheng with expressions as if they had seen a ghost. The great fear made them retreat away from Yuan Zhisheng. They once again shrank into the corner of the living room, hugging each other and trembling.

The girl's scream startled the people in the next door. The sounds of a beast eating suddenly stopped, followed by rustling sounds and footsteps. The footsteps stopped behind the door on the side of the house, as if the thing was hiding behind the door and could pounce out at any time.