Sueños Florales en la Ciudad

Capítulo 246

In that minute, Zhu Huahua's work had made substantial progress. After digging through the earth three or two times, they actually unearthed a corpse!

Zhu Huihui was practically going crazy. She went up and kicked Huahua in the butt. Was this pig starving or something? Did it want to eat people?!

"Hmph~~~~" The sound was extremely faint.

Zhu Huihui was furious and grabbed Huahua's ear hard: "You dare to talk back!"

Hua Hua shook her head frantically, partly because her ears were being pulled so hard, and partly to show that she wasn't talking back. Don't take advantage of my inability to speak and then blame everything on me...

"Who else could it be but you? You've even learned to lie!" Zhu Huihui grabbed its other ear as well. She used to just pull it up by the ear, but now, Hua Hua was too fat; she couldn't lift it anymore!

"Hmph~~~~~"

Another faint groan!

Zhu Huihui slapped Hua Hua's bottom: "Stop yelling! If you yell again, I'll kill you!"

Suddenly, Zhu Huihui took off running!

Even if she was careless, she could tell that her Zhu Huahua could not possibly hum such a mournful and eerie sound.

There's a ghost!

If she hadn't been biting her lip so hard, Zhu Huihui would have screamed more pitifully than a ghost!

"No...don't go..."

Of course they'd leave!

Zhu Huihui only regretted not walking faster! With a burst of strength, he darted more than a mile away. Hearing no movement behind him, he was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he turned around and his heart jumped even higher!

Hua Hua didn't follow!

Zhu Huihui was furious! That stupid pig! She had already given it a hint, but it still didn't know to run away! She mentally fried and roasted Hua Hua several times. Although she was terrified, she was still worried about her only companion, so she gritted her teeth and went back the way she came.

She turned around and was about to take a step when she suddenly felt a chill on the back of her neck, as if a large, cold hand was touching the back of her neck.

With a "whoosh," Zhu Huihui's hair and body hair stood on end. To be honest, she had been wandering around for many years and had seen quite a few corpses and dead people. She wasn't usually afraid of ghosts or monsters, but when this ghost was looking for a place to bite her neck, even the bravest person would feel terrified.

A scream was about to escape her lips, but she tightly closed them and forced it back.

No...don't scream! My mother always said that when you encounter someone worse than us, whether they're pretending to be tough or just acting tough, you can't back down. If you do, you'll be completely at their mercy!

Besides, someone like me can't even handle one ghost. What if I shout it out and attract even more ghosts to feast on me? Wouldn't that be even worse...?

Desperately trying to control her fear, Zhu Huihui pretended to be slow and spun around a few times to numb the ghost. She mustered her courage and called out "Hua Hua" twice, but her voice trembled like a candle in the wind, making even herself feel sorry for herself.

The ghost was probably really confused by her, and didn't move for a long time.

Zhu Huihui's heart, which had been pounding, finally began to ease a little. Although she really wanted to run away, there was no sign of Ben Huahua. Ben Huahua had more meat than her, and it would be more satisfying for the ghost to gnaw on it...

She steeled herself and started walking back the way she came, but after a few steps, she cried out in her heart, "Oh no!"—this desolate mountain forest had no paths to begin with, and she had just rushed out in a panic, completely disoriented. After going around in circles, she only felt surrounded by trees, and she couldn't tell where she had come from.

The forest was very dark. Although there was a faint starlight, it couldn't penetrate the dense foliage overhead. In the hazy light, all the trees looked exactly the same, each one with its own menacing, claw-like appearance, which looked quite eerie.

Zhu Huihui frowned, hesitated for a moment, then reached into her bag and pulled out a flint, steel, and tinder. Although ordinary fire starters sold in the general store weren't expensive, she was so poor that she didn't even have the money to buy one. This set of fire-making tools was something she had stolen when she went to pick up Huahua from the village chief's house in Qingfengya after being chased away by Mr. Beikonggu Chen and Mrs. Wan!

Thinking of his wife and husband, he immediately thought of their daughter, Mu, and then naturally of Feng Xuese. A bitter feeling welled up in his heart, and he suddenly felt a sense of despair. "Forget it! I might as well be bitten to death by a ghost. Anyway, no one in this world misses me!"

Despite her thoughts, she touched her neck and still couldn't bear to do it!

"Tap! Tap! Tap!"

He struck the flint and steel together a few times, and the tinder ignited, lighting a small, weak flame. Just as he raised it a little higher to try and find where he had been, his eyes suddenly caught sight of a figure under a tree beside him.

The person seemed to have been there the whole time, completely covered from head to toe in black cloth, blending into the tree trunk like an invisible man. Although she was only three feet away from Zhu Huihui, she hadn't noticed him at all, and couldn't even hear him breathing. If it weren't for his empty and ferocious eyes, she probably wouldn't have known it was a person even with their noses touching.

Zhu Huihui's hand trembled, the fire went out, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.

Men in black!

For Zhu Huihui, the man in black was far more terrifying than a ghost! At that moment, half of her soul had left her body. She threw down the flint and other objects, covered her head, and turned to run. But before she had run more than ten steps, a rope suddenly appeared around her neck. Before she could even cry out, the rope tightened, pulling her up into a tree.

Zhu Huihui felt as if her neck bones were about to break, unable to breathe, her blood rushing to her head. She managed to grip the rope with both hands, kicking her legs wildly in vain, but it was all in vain. Soon, she felt her limbs go weak, her head spinning, and her ears ringing. In her dazed state, she seemed to feel her body lighten, and she found herself flying into the air, coldly looking down at the figure hanging from the tree—it was over, her soul had left her body, and she would be a hanged ghost from now on…

Just as his life was about to end, with a "bang," the rope above his head suddenly snapped for some unknown reason.

Zhu Huihui fell heavily to the ground, her back still embedded in a protruding tree root, the pain making her vision blur and nearly causing her to faint. She desperately tried to suppress a groan, lying on the ground for a while until the dizziness and tinnitus finally subsided. A sliver of joy rose in her heart: "Heh heh, thank goodness the rope wasn't strong enough, I'm not dead!"

Then I thought again, it's too early to be glad now. If those old men of darkness were here, I might not even be alive!

She dared not move, lying on the ground pretending to be dead, her ears perked up, listening to the sounds around her.

There was no movement around.

Even the sound of the wind, the rustling of branches and leaves, and the chirping of night insects could not be heard!

If Zhu Huihui could still feel her heartbeat, she would almost suspect that she had just been thrown into hell.

"Tick-tock!"

A drop of liquid landed on Zhu Huihui's forehead. Just as she thought it might be the night dew, she smelled the stench of blood. A chill ran through her—blood!

"Tick-tock", "tick-tock", "tick-tock".

The blood dripped faster, landing entirely on Zhu Huihui's forehead, emitting a pungent, unpleasant stench. Even while feigning death, she couldn't help but stealthily shift to the side. Her foot accidentally kicked something, and before she could react, a dark shadow fell to the ground with a thud, hitting her squarely.