Chapter 46.1

Editor: Kat

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[Name: Statue containing the remnant soul of Ah Long (flying fox version)]

[Quality: Scene (It can only be used in this tour. You can’t bring it out from this tour)]

[Function: It acts as a contact node between the flying fox and Ah Long’s remnant soul]

[Note: After Ah Long died, the village head of Cordoned-off Village couldn’t bear the death of his only son. So, he collected some of his remnant soul through the statue using a secret technique and transferred his son’s soul to the flying fox]

[Name: Cordoned-off Village’s Village Head Diary (1 / 2)]

[Quality: Scene (It could only be used in this tour. You can’t bring it out from this tour)]

[Function: Obtain some information]

[Note: The diary of the village head of Cordoned-off Village records several major events]

Just as Pingping’s diary was divided into three parts, the diary of the village head of Cordoned-off Village was also divided into two parts. Wei Xun got only half of the diary. Wei Xun simply turned it over and found that it recorded a strange carving technique.

[Soul Transfer Carving Technique (Remnant Recipe)]

[Select a 100 year old locust tree that grew in a yin year, yin soil, and yin hole. Collect its black tree core and soak it with corpse paste, corpse oil, rotten plum skin, spices, and [remaining ingredients not written]. Bake it with Yin Fire, then split it down the middle when carving. Add the soul transferee’s hair, nails, skin, [remaining ingredients not written], and glue them together with corpse paste. Carve it into the shape of a container and worship it with incense ash for seven days and nights, and the soul transfer statue will be complete]

[For 365 days after the successful soul transfer, it is best if the soul transfer statue is kept by the blood relatives of the person conducting the soul transfer. If the statue is destroyed, the soul will die]

[Note: Since this technique lacks the items needed by two steps, only half of the soul transferee’s soul can be transferred to the target]

After the soul transfer carving, there were several pages of the diary which had been written by Cordoned-off Village’s village head.

It roughly stated that the soul transfer carving technique had been handed down from generation to generation in their family. Their ancestors had told them that it must not be used, otherwise it would bring about a disaster that would exterminate the whole village. However, starting from the generation of the village head’s father, it had became extremely difficult for their offspring to reproduce. The marriage of close relatives led to the babies who had been born being physically weak and ill. The village head’s wife had died of excessive uterine bleeding after giving birth to Pingping, and the village head of Cordoned-off Village could no longer have another child, so Ah Long became his only son.

However, when Ah Long had been 12 years old, he had become seriously ill and no medicine could cure him. He had weakened day by day and finally became unconscious. He was dying, and after seeing that the inheritance was going to end in the hands of his generation, the village head of Cordoned-off Village was sad and unwilling to have no one inherit their family’s inheritance, which had led to him using taboo means. After several attempts, he had transferred the remnant soul of Ah Long to the young flying fox.

In this diary, the village head of Cordoned-off Village had made several attempts and even gone so far as to experiment on Pingping. Unfortunately, Ah Long’s soul was too weak. If the remnant soul was transferred to a human, it would be suppressed and swallowed by the soul of the human it was about to possess. It would only succeed when it was transferred to an animal.

After seeing that the young flying fox showed extraordinary wisdom and was cute and intelligent, the village head felt that it was like Ah Long came back to life. The village head of Cordoned-off Village was ecstatic. At this time, he had found that Ah Long, who had lost half of his soul, was weakening rapidly. He busily made a statue to accommodate the other half of Ah Long’s soul.

But when he had finished carving the statue, something unexpected had happened….

The diary ended here.

“So this is the soul transfer carving technique.”

Wei Xun copied the contents of the remnant recipe word for word. Then, he put it away and fed it to the little fox. Afterwards, he looked at the statue in the box without reaching for it.

The statue had been soaked in corpse paste and corpse oil. Wei Xun couldn’t bear to imagine how dirty it was.

However, if one didn’t know how it was made, one would only notice that the statue’s lines were smooth and the form was luxurious. The carved statue was of the flying fox who had not been zombified and the serious flying fox appeared small, lovely, and bright. When you looked at its eyes, you would feel that there was light shining in them. It appeared so vivid that it looked as if it was about to come alive.

“Which do you think is delicious?” Wei Xun asked the young fox.

The little fox whimpered in a reserved manner, letting Wei Xun know that it existed as a “remnant soul.” Everything related to nourishing the soul, as well as the remnant souls of other creatures, was the best for the little fox to repair its soul.

Whether it was the treated old locust wood statue or the remnant soul of Ah Long trapped in the locust wood statue, both were delicious foods that made the young fox salivate.

“The remnant soul is in the statue. That is to say, what possessed the flying fox is a projection of Ah Long’s consciousness?”

Wei Xun raised his eyebrow. “It’s different from what’s written in the soul transfer carving technique’s recipe.”

If it weren’t for the young fox’s keen perception, he would have thought that the remnant soul of Ah Long had possessed the flying fox. In this way, even if he killed the flying fox, he couldn’t hurt the remnant soul of Ah Long.

Only by destroying the statue could the remnant soul finally be destroyed.

“Whose soul is stored in the other statue?”

Wei Xun suddenly smiled. His interest was kindled, and he asked, “If the soul is divided, will the consciousness also be divided?”

“It reminds me of He Who Must Not Be Named from Harry Potter, who split his soul,” Wei Xun said subtly.

He closed the locust box and stuffed the box that contained the statue into the little fox. He then got up and sighed.

“What a pity…”

Unfortunately, the secret passageway under the village head’s bed must lead somewhere. Another statue of Ah Long might be hidden there. However, Wang Pengpai had rolled down with the jiangshi village head first. Wei Xun felt that it was really a pity.

If he could go there, he could probably steal another batch of items.

“The village head wants Ah Long to be resurrected. No, rather than that, it’s Ah Long himself who urgently wants to be resurrected.”

“Since he had the consciousness of an ordinary human, why would he stoop down to acting as a beast?” Wei Xun uttered, his words filled with deep meaning.

Flying foxes feed on fruits, plant buds, and insects, and Ah Long’s consciousness had possessed the flying fox. If he had to eat such food everyday and didn’t go crazy from it, his willpower could be considered to be firm. Moreover, he also may have allowed his consciousness to possess other statues.

According to the diary, the village head had had no choice but to choose the flying fox as the soul transfer subject of Ah Long. What subject had he chosen for the second statue? What had happened at that time?

Although half of the diary was missing, Wei Xun vaguely guessed some information.

“The village head loved his child so much. But did he love his child to the extent that he was willing to die for his child?”

When he saw the village head just now, the village head was rigid and had only the instincts of a jiangshi. But earlier today, Wei Xun had been called to this room by the village head. Although he had been coughing all the time, he had spoken normally.

Wei Xun had a vague guess in his heart, but he didn’t intend to go to the secret passageway under the village head’s bed to find out.

Wei Xun stood up and said excitedly, “I’ll go and take this opportunity to meet Pingping. I don’t know whether Miao Fangfei sent my silver bracelet to Pingping.”

He looked at the time, and spoke maliciously, “Pingping will definitely like the bracelet I snatched from Fangfang.”

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“Pingping went crazy after seeing the silver bracelet.”

On the tourists’ side, Miao Fangfei, who was the most seriously injured, finally woke up from her coma. Her face was pale due to excessive blood loss, her voice was weak, and she said with a bitter smile, “It was very sudden. No one could have guessed it would happen.”

According to Miao Fangfei and Shi Tao’s original conjectures, Ah Sang and Ah Wen, the two locals of Cordoned-off Village, would certainly try to carry on with the wedding and prevent any possibility of them guiding Pingping into eloping. Therefore, before cutting the pig liver, Miao Fangfei had first attracted their hatred, and Shi Tao had quickly dug out the silver bracelet in the pig liver and handed it to Pingping.

Then, the two of them would have decided their next course of actions according to Pingping’s reaction.

“But the moment I took out the silver bracelet, I couldn’t budge an inch.”

Shi Tao was helpless. He was wrapped in a windbreaker, yet he was so cold that he was shivering. His pale face was no better than Miao Fangfei’s. His expression was very complex as he said, “I felt very desperate and upset. Anyway, it was as if I had suddenly fallen into a trance.

“We were wrapped up in Pingping’s emotions and saw a short part of her memories.”

Miao Fangfei frowned and seemed to still be struggling with something. She briefly said, “I saw this silver bracelet on another woman’s wrist.

“Yes, I saw Ah Cheng having a tryst with another woman.”

Shi Tao added, “It was from the perspective of a third person. That is, Pingping’s perspective.”

“What?!”

Lin Xi lost his voice and couldn’t believe it. “Ah Cheng, Ah Cheng, he——”

“Ah Cheng was unfaithful and it had been found out by Pingping.”

Miao Fangfei pondered, “These emotions of sadness, pain, and despair were Pingping’s emotions in the past.”

After speaking until now, she paused before continuing, “But…

“Ah Cheng indeed has two silver bracelets that look exactly the same.”

Xu Chen said, “When he came to the kitchen to find us, the silver bracelet was still in his hand. Ah Cheng said that the silver bracelet was a token of his love with Pingping.”

“A man wouldn’t wear a silver bracelet.”

Yu Hean muttered. Indeed, that was the truth. The two silver bracelets looked exactly the same. It couldn’t be that Ah Cheng would wear a woman’s bracelet.

“It’s too treacherous.”

Xu Chen shook his head and repeated, “It’s too treacherous.”

That was right. They originally thought that they only had to send a love token to Pingping. Who knew that Ah Cheng was a big scumbag? There was not only one love token for Pingping, but also one for another woman. Thus, Pingping had been stimulated. Xu Chen thought that Miao Fangfei and Shi Tao were lucky that they could survive without being directly wiped out by the spiteful ghost Pingping.

“Ah Cheng’s route is definitely a route with a high amount of deception.”

After saying this, Miao Fangfei and Shi Tao had a strange expression, and it was noticed by Xu Chen, who asked, “What’s the matter?”

“No, the strange thing is this.”

Miao Fangfei hesitated and seemed to be considering what to say, “It’s reasonable that Shi Tao and I should have died. In fact, it’s strange that we didn’t suffer any other attacks from Pingping except feeling Pingping’s emotions and seeing some memory fragments.”

“Yes.”

Shi Tao was terrified and said, “Pingping also killed Ah Sang and Ah Wen.”

Shi Tao thought of the scene he had seen when he had woken up. Pingping had put the silver bracelet on her wrist with a smile. While singing, she had cut off the heads of Ah Sang and Ah Wen with a pair of scissors, and blood had splashed around everywhere. He felt his hair raise when he thought about it.

But Pingping had not attacked them again.

“So, it looks like what the both of you did was right.”

“Yes, it’s indeed so.”

As Miao Fangfei and the others had analyzed before, if they destroyed the wedding, their enemies would be the people of Cordoned-off Village. Based on what had happened, this meant that the choice Miao Fangfei and Shi Tao had made had caused the spiteful ghost Pingping to kill Ah Sang and Ah Wen, and also succeed in satisfying Pingping. It had to be known that the situation had been extremely dangerous at that time. The paper women Ah Sang and Ah Wen were very powerful, and a paper knife had already struck Miao Fangfei’s body.

“At the start, I just had a guess. But after hearing what both of you said, I can understand what happened,” Xu Chen whispered.

He showed them a bloodstained and ragged piece of paper. It was the paper knife Miao Fangfei had brought back. When he unfolded it, they could see the words written on it.

There were not many words, just five lines. It told the story of an ethnic minority. The crux of the story was that a man and a woman had loved each other and made a lifelong commitment to each other. The man had bought expensive jewelry for the girl to express his feelings for her. The girl had happily worn it, but when she had been about to meet the man, she had found that another woman in the same village had been wearing the same jewelry as her. After asking, the girl had found out that the woman’s jewelry had also been given to her by the man. The girl had been extremely sad and had been so hurt that she had washed her face with tears all day. Afterwards…

The story written in black ink ended here. After turning over the paper, they found that there were several scarlet characters which had been written in blood.

[…The man had finally clearly realized his feelings for the girl and felt extremely guilty. He had broken up with the woman from the village, brought back the jewelry, and given it back to the girl]

“Ah Cheng brought the silver bracelet to Pingping after snatching it away from another woman.”

Xu Chen whispered, “The story is not over.”

Sure enough, under that line of bloody words, there were two lines of black words the size of a fly’s head.

[The girl chose to trust the man again and decided to elope with him. But the man didn’t come that night…]

“It’s a scene reenactment, that is, a reconstruction of the past.”

Zhao Hongtu said with a frown, “Both of you helped Ah Cheng return the silver bracelet, causing Pingping to feel satisfied with us. In this scenic spot, it is right to make Pingping satisfied, but…”

“But we tourists did not participate in the most crucial event that has occurred.”

Hou Feihu asked in a deep voice, “When did Ah Cheng snag the silver bracelet and why did he change his mind?”

This type of attraction was not uncommon. Hou Feihu had also experienced many similar attractions. Pingping was a person who would definitely take revenge, which could be seen by the poisoned pig liver. She had to take revenge on the people of Cordoned-off Village for all the harm she had suffered in the past. From this, it could be seen that in this attraction reenacting the scenes of the past, what they had to do was not change the past, but satisfy the spiteful ghost Pingping.

For example, they had to give Pingping the only non-poisonous pig liver, and they had to let her unfaithful lover come back, change his mind, and persuade him to choose Pingping.

As for the second problem, they hadn’t done anything yet. Why did Ah Cheng change his mind and decide to elope with Pingping again?

This was too illogical. If they hadn’t been sure that there were only eight tourists present at the moment, Hou Feihu would have thought that there was an extra tourist who had gotten Ah Cheng’s identity this time.

Something unexpected must have happened.