The ultimate master in the city

Chapter 117 The Old Lady and the Woman

Hearing what the woman in red said, Zhou Fengchen was stunned and felt quite horrified. He subconsciously looked behind her and, sure enough, the swaddling clothes on the bed were empty.

"How did that old lady eat the child?" Zhou Fengchen asked casually, noticing how upright the old lady was in protecting the little nun Huiyin.

The woman in red, her eyes bloodshot, gritted her teeth and said, "I went to the toilet just now, and when I came back I saw that old woman squatting by the bamboo eating something, and she was eating with such relish. When I got back to my room, I found... I found... my child was gone. I ran to the bamboo and saw my child's remains, sob sob sob..."

Zhou Fengchen frowned, staring at the woman from head to toe. He didn't know if this woman was human, or if what she said was true or false. The old woman opposite her ate her child, so she called her a thousand-year-old vengeful ghost? Why not say a hundred or ten thousand years? He had a strange feeling in his heart.

The woman in red stared at Zhou Fengchen: "What? You don't believe me?"

"Uh..." Zhou Fengchen nodded. "I believe you!"

"You still don't believe me!" The woman in red gritted her teeth, pulled him out the door, and said, "Come with me and see for yourself."

The two arrived at a bamboo grove not far from the door. The woman parted the withered bamboo leaves beneath the foliage and pointed inside, saying, "Look!"

Zhou Fengchen leaned down and took a closer look. A chill ran down his spine. Under the withered bamboo leaves, there was indeed a bloody skeleton of a child. The internal organs and flesh were gone, and the stench was overwhelming, making it extremely gruesome.

He was already half convinced and about to speak when the woman in red suddenly snapped to attention and said, "Shh! She's peeping!"

Zhou Fengchen looked up and saw the old woman peeking out from beside the bamboo not far away. Her white hair was messy, and she was looking at him with a face full of resentment and hatred. Her eyes were so fierce that no one dared to meet her gaze.

"Let's go!" The woman in red pulled Zhou Fengchen and hurriedly ran back into the house.

As soon as she entered the door, she grabbed Zhou Fengchen. "Little brother, you saw it too. Listen to your sister, run! That old lady is a thousand-year-old vengeful ghost! Her grave is under the house; she's been dead for a thousand years."

Zhou Fengchen scratched his head, thinking to himself, "How do you know all this? You even know how many years you've been dead and where you're buried. Isn't that ridiculous?" But he didn't ask directly, instead saying, "Then... why didn't you run away?"

"I..." The woman in red gave a bitter smile, "My husband died of illness, and my child was eaten by a ghost. Where can I go? I'll stay here with them. If the old lady wants to eat, then eat me too. You go! Don't worry about me!"

Zhou Fengchen thought for a moment and said, "Big sister, to be honest, if you were human, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, the woman in red interrupted him, glaring at him and saying, "What do you mean by that? What am I if not human?"

Zhou Fengchen chuckled dryly, "Then could you tell me if a monk around thirty years old has come to the nunnery these past few days, and where he is? Also, where did the three young men who came this morning go?"

The woman in red frowned. "What nonsense are you talking about? A nunnery? What nunnery? What monks and three young men?"

Zhou Fengchen was taken aback, looking at the woman in red with surprise. "What do you mean? Isn't this the incense room at Shuiyue Nunnery?"

"Crazy! Absolutely crazy!" The woman in red stood up and stamped her foot. "Silly brother, this is the Wu family compound!"

"The Wu Family Compound?" Zhou Fengchen was a little confused.

"Oh dear! It's an abandoned house, no one has lived here for a long time!" The woman in red pushed him out. "Stop talking, hurry up and go. Turn right after you go out the door, there's a bridge there. Run across the bridge and you'll survive."

"Uh, okay..." Zhou Fengchen scratched his head, turned around, and left the room.

Just as I stepped out the door, I heard a "bang" behind me as the door slammed shut and the kerosene lamp went out.

Zhou Fengchen glanced at the red-clad woman's room, then at the strange, blood-red mist in the courtyard, and felt an urge to curse. He was about to step out of the courtyard to investigate.

Just then, the old woman opposite him, hiding behind the bamboo, suddenly waved to him, "Young man! Come here, I have something to tell you!"

Zhou Fengchen thought for a moment, then walked over and looked at her coldly. "What is it?"

"Oh dear!" The old woman looked at the red-clothed woman's room with a frightened expression and said, "Young man, you'd better run for your life! That woman is a vengeful ghost. She's talking nonsense. You've talked to her so much, she's going to come and eat you soon."

Zhou Fengchen was completely bewildered. "Do you know what she said to me?"

"Oh dear! She must be saying I'm a thousand-year-old vengeful ghost, right? Don't listen to her nonsense, come in with me." The old lady said, pushing open the door to her room.

Zhou Fengchen gripped the hilt of the goose-wing blade tightly, gritted his teeth, and followed inside.

The old woman closed the door and said mysteriously, "This woman is a vengeful ghost, and she's mentally unstable. Two years ago, she and her family of three passed through here, and her husband fell ill and died a few days later. I felt sorry for her, so I paid for her husband's burial and often brought food to her and her child. But not long after, her child also died of illness. Then, she couldn't bear it and hanged herself. Because of her strong resentment, she became a vengeful ghost. She often comes out to bewitch passersby. First, she says that I am a thousand-year-old vengeful ghost who ate her child, then she digs up the child's bones to show people, and then she turns around and eats the passersby. There are at least dozens of people she has eaten."

Zhou Fengchen felt like he was being played. What the old lady said seemed to make some sense. That woman did look a bit abnormal, but... as a pilgrim who had lived here for several years, was it believable?

He slapped his forehead and asked, "Auntie, I just want to ask you one question: Is this Shuiyue Nunnery? Have you seen a monk who looks to be around thirty years old?"

The old woman was taken aback. "What nonsense are you talking about? There's no Shuiyue Nunnery here. Isn't this the Wu Family Compound? I live here all by myself!"

Zhou Fengchen cursed, his feelings a bit complicated, and turned to open the door, deciding not to play with them anymore.

The old woman grabbed him. "Where are you going? Young man, listen to my advice, don't stay here, run for your life!"

Zhou Fengchen smiled and asked, "Why didn't you run away?"

The old woman was taken aback, then said, "Oh dear! If I die, I'll die. Besides, I've done that vengeful ghost a favor, so she might not kill me! Listen to me, go out of the courtyard and turn left. There's a bridge there. Run across the bridge and you'll survive!"

"Turn left? Okay!" Zhou Fengchen nodded and went out the door.

A loud "bang" came from behind, and the old lady closed the door tightly and turned off the light.

Zhou Fengchen looked around, cursed under his breath, and ran out of the courtyard.

I was completely stunned when I got outside the courtyard.

The outside world has changed too; the road leading to the nunnery ahead is gone.

Directly in front was a large river, reddish-brown in color, stretching as far as the eye could see and its width unknown. To the left and right were two roads, overgrown with weeds and winding, leading to who-knows-where.

Zhou Fengchen took a deep breath and activated his Heavenly Eye. As expected, the hanging device was useless.

Looking at the two paths, he was confused. What did this all mean? Where the hell was he supposed to find Monk Yuanzhi?

Currently... we can only choose one path to go out and take a look.

But who are the woman in red and the old lady in the courtyard? One says go left, the other says go right! Who's telling the truth?

After thinking for a moment, he simply took out a coin from his pocket, thinking that heads would go to the left and tails to the right.

Toss the coin into the air, catch it, open it, and it's heads, the left side the old lady was referring to.

He drew his goose-wing knife, ran across, and after five minutes he reached the end, where a bridge indeed appeared.

Looking down at the bridge, Zhou Fengchen couldn't help but curse, "Fuck your mother! You're insane!"