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The Heavenly Book concluded that Mr. Song was definitely possessed by a cat spirit, and the only way to help him was to seek help from Taoist practitioners like Fang Qin. However, both Fang Qin and her master, the Seven Seeking Immortals, would likely refuse to lend a hand after learning the whole story. Therefore, we also declined Mr. Song's offer, citing our inability to help.

"Let him be slowly tortured to death by the black cat's soul. He deserved this retribution for abusing others first!" These words were spoken by Linglong, who loved cats very much.

All living things have a spirit. Although we must kill some animals for survival, we should try our best to minimize their suffering in the process. Those who abuse animals, even if their victim is a stray cat, must pay a heavy price for their perverse behavior.

[End of File Seventeen]

Chapter 25 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Chapter 25 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

The groans in the eighteenth morgue

Author: Seeking No Desire

First published on: Tianya Ghost Stories (Reposting should be done responsibly)

"Although I feel that having sex in the morgue is a desecration of the dead, Xiaona really wants to try it. She believes it will give her the most perfect orgasm. And the reason she's with me is probably because I frequently handle corpses and have free access to the morgue." The speaker was a pathologist surnamed Jian, who, due to his profession, had never found a girlfriend. A month ago, a strange romance struck, but no one expected that his newlywed girlfriend, Xiaona, would die suddenly and mysteriously, and after her death…

"A pathologist sounds like an enviable job, but in reality, when people know that my daily work involves dissecting one corpse after another in the morgue, examining their tissues for pathological changes, and using this information to deduce their cause of death, most people instinctively keep their distance from me, as if I have a contagious disease. For this reason, I don't have many friends and have always been single, until I met Xiaona."

"That day was a weekend, a lonely weekend. I stayed in the office until very late because once I got home, I had nothing to do but stare at the TV. Instead of going to the parking lot to get my car, I went straight to the street, randomly went into a restaurant to eat, and then walked to a nearby movie theater. Although I was surrounded by crowds, I felt even more lonely. But I had already wasted a lot of time, and it was time to go home and face the empty four walls."

"When I returned to the hospital parking lot, I realized I had left my car keys in my office, so I had to go there. My office is right next to the morgue, and to get there I had to pass through it. As I passed the morgue, I heard sounds coming from inside. I was so scared I almost collapsed to the ground. There were only cold corpses inside, how could there be sounds coming from there?"

"Although I deal with corpses every day, it's impossible not to be afraid in this situation. However, no matter how scared I was, I had to find out what was going on. Besides it being related to my job, I also knew that if I didn't figure it out, it would leave a shadow in my heart. So, I forced myself to calm down, put my ear to the door, and listened carefully to what was coming from inside."

"After listening for a short while, I was certain that the sound coming from the morgue was a woman's moaning. Why would there be moaning coming from there? To find out the answer, I simply pushed open the door and went in to check. I kept silently chanting 'Namo Amitabha Buddha' in my heart. Although I am not a Buddhist, doing so helped me to be less afraid."

"I pushed open the morgue door, and it was pitch black inside. The familiar smell of disinfectant and formaldehyde immediately filled my nostrils, along with a hint of perfume. The groans didn't stop when I opened the door; instead, they became more urgent. Fear made me hesitate for a moment, and I immediately turned on the light switch."

"The light of the electric lamp dispelled the darkness and eliminated my fear, but as the fear subsided, astonishment surged forth. The scene before me is unforgettable, and even now, recalling it makes my face flush and my heart race. Among the silent corpses, a beautiful woman's body was completely naked before me, and she was... masturbating right in front of me."

"Although I face naked female corpses almost every day because of my work, those are just lifeless bodies, like specimens in a laboratory to me. I haven't seen a living, beautiful female body since I became an anatomist, let alone one that masturbates in front of me without any restraint. Not only does she not care about my presence, but she seems to become more excited because of my presence, and her moans are more rapid."

"I stood there stunned for a long time until she was dressed, and then I awkwardly asked her who she was. She told me that her name was Xiaona, that she was a new intern nurse, and asked me to keep it a secret for her."

"After that incredible encounter, Xiaona and I went on dates frequently and even had sex. Unlike others, she wasn't disgusted by my daily contact with corpses; on the contrary, she was very envious. She told me she had a fetish: she liked to masturbate in the morgue. She felt that being in the morgue, surrounded by so many corpses, was like being surrounded by countless ghosts. Although she felt fear, the more fear she felt, the stronger her orgasm became."

"After having sex with Xiaona, she repeatedly asked me to have sex with her in the morgue, saying that only then could I achieve a true orgasm and extreme pleasure. However, although I deal with corpses all day long and am not afraid to go in and out of the morgue, and could even stay there overnight without a problem, I absolutely refused to have sex in the morgue. Sex is sacred, and I absolutely did not want a third party involved, even if the participant was a cold corpse. Moreover, doing so would be extremely disrespectful to the deceased; for those of us who perform autopsies, the most taboo thing is to desecrate the dead."

"At first, I was firmly opposed to Xiaona's absurd demands, but later my firm stance gradually softened. Because I was afraid of losing Xiaona, and there was no other woman willing to accept me, I had to keep her by my side and accept her quirks."

That night, Xiaona was on night shift, and I returned to the hospital in the early hours of the morning. Outside the morgue, I could already hear Xiaona's moans; she was masturbating again, in front of so many corpses. When I pushed the door open, I didn't turn on the light because Xiaona had told me before that she could get a more perfect pleasure in the dark. I didn't even say anything, because when I walked up to her, her lips eagerly met mine.

"Xiao Na's body was a little cold, I thought it was because the air conditioning in the morgue was on high, so I used my body heat to warm her. Perhaps, as Xiao Na said, she would get extreme pleasure in the morgue, so she acted very wildly, her cool lips kissing every inch of my skin, her soft hands caressing every sensitive part of me..."

"That was the most wonderful sex experience of my life. Just like Xiaona said, in the darkness it felt like countless eyes were watching us. Fear and insecurity turned into pleasure, stimulating every nerve and taking us to a wonderful, blissful state."

"After a bout of passionate lovemaking, I felt exhausted and fell asleep on top of Xiaona without realizing it. I don't know how much time passed, but the cold woke me up. When I woke up, I found Xiaona still lying beneath me, motionless. Her body was ice-cold, as if she had no body temperature at all, and it was also a little stiff. I immediately realized that something had happened, so I kept calling her name, but she didn't respond at all. I timidly checked her breathing with my hand and found that she wasn't breathing. I checked her pulse, but there was no pulse."

"I was so scared that I fell to the ground and almost crawled to the light switch. When the light came on, I saw a face distorted by extreme fright..."

The forensic examination confirmed that Xiao Na died before she had sex with Dr. Jian, but Dr. Jian claimed that Xiao Na was still alive at the time. However, as a pathologist, after carefully recalling the events of that night, he admitted that Xiao Na's body was unusually cold during sex, and subsequently showed signs of stiffness.

Xiao Na most likely died of fright from seeing something terrifying before Dr. Jane arrived, but why she could still have sex with Dr. Jane after her death cannot be explained by common sense.

The celestial book taught me some knowledge about praying mantises. It turns out that before mating, the female praying mantis eats the male's head, and after mating, she eats the rest of the mantis. Although headless, the male can still complete the mating process using the central nervous system located in its thorax and abdomen. This characteristic of praying mantises is due to their reproductive needs, but humans do not possess this characteristic. So, what allowed Xiaona to continue having sex with Dr. Jane even after death?

"It's an unwavering belief!" Tian Shu said with certainty, "Xiao Na always believed that having sex in the morgue would bring her ultimate climax, so even though her body was dead, her unwavering belief allowed her to force herself to endure until the moment of climax. Just like male praying mantises, even though mating means death, they are still fearless in their pursuit of pleasure."

I said, "Even if your explanation makes sense, what scared her to death?"

The Heavenly Book said, "It's a fantasy. She keeps fantasizing that countless ghosts are watching her in the morgue. She turns fear into pleasure through fantasy, thereby achieving climax. Perhaps during the process of fantasizing, her mental state becomes extremely tense, like a taut bowstring. If she is slightly affected by external factors, she will jump to conclusions and believe that she has really seen a ghost."

After a moment of silence, Tian Shu said, "There is another possibility: she was really scared to death by a ghost. In fact, constantly imagining the image of a ghost in one's mind is a primitive way of summoning a soul. Moreover, there are many ghosts in the morgue. Perhaps she really did summon a ghost and scared herself to death."

Perhaps the interpretation of the celestial book is correct, but I feel that Xiaona brought misfortune upon herself because she blasphemed the dead.

[End of File 18]

Chapter 26 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Chapter 26 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

File 19: Deadly Text Messages

Author: Seeking No Desire

First published on: Tianya Ghost Stories (Reposting should be done responsibly)

"Legend has it that if you dial a mysterious number starting with 7 on your cell phone in the middle of the night, you will soon receive a message from hell. After reading the message, you will hear a knocking sound on the window, and outside the window is a messenger from hell who will help you fulfill your wish..." The speaker was a girl named Xiaoshan. She appeared very panicked, her body trembling uncontrollably, as she recounted her terrifying experience to her colleague who was handling the case.

"I heard this legend from Xiao Yu. She told it as if it were true. Although it was terrifying, it piqued my curiosity. I'm not a brave person, but people just like to seek thrills, like eating spicy food. Even if you can't stand it, the more you can't stand it, the more you want to eat it. So I was a little impulsive and wanted to test whether this legend was true."

"The start of school is fast approaching, and the long summer vacation is finally coming to an end. Every time I think about having to bury myself in mountains of textbooks, I get a headache, and those disgusting teachers make me want to vomit. Therefore, I want to dial that mysterious number even more and ask the messenger of hell to grant my wish—that I never have to go to school again."

"The weather yesterday wasn't good. It was gloomy all day, and it looked like it was going to rain heavily. Rain would have been good, at least it would have been cooler and less humid. But it was like God had prostatitis; He held back all day and not a single drop of rain came down. Looking at this awful weather, I felt even more irritable."

"Because I didn't know when it would rain, I didn't go out all day and stayed home texting Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu was also bored at home, and she was even worse off than me because her power was out. She said that when she texted me, sweat kept dripping onto her phone screen. We texted each other about school. In a few days, we'll have to go back to school and face that perverted 'Mediterranean' math teacher and that lecherous PE teacher."

"Xiaoyu and I both hate school, hate the endless homework, hate the endless tests, and hate those beasts in human skin teachers. As we chatted, Xiaoyu brought up that mysterious number again, saying she wanted to try dialing it to see if she could summon a messenger from hell who could grant wishes. I really wanted to dial that number too, so we made a pact to dial it together and ask the messenger from hell to find a way for us to never have to go to school again."

"Around two o'clock in the morning, I closed all the doors and windows of the room, drew the curtains, and turned off the lights. After getting ready, I crawled into bed and dialed that mysterious number on my phone's keypad. Just as my thumb was hovering over the call button, hesitating whether to press it or not, the phone suddenly rang and vibrated, startling me so much that I jumped up and threw the phone away."

"I frantically searched for my phone, and when I saw a new message on the screen, my heart pounded and my scalp tingled. I hadn't even pressed the call button or dialed that mysterious number yet—who sent the message? Although I was terrified, I still pressed the confirm button to check the message. After seeing the content and sender, I almost went crazy, because the message was from Xiaoyu. She said she was going to dial the mysterious number and asked if I wanted to dial it too."

“I replied to Xiaoyu with the most vicious curses I knew, and told her not to send any more messages. Then, I dialed the mysterious number again and pressed the call button without hesitation. The call was quickly connected, and a cold female voice came from the receiver, saying emotionlessly, ‘Hello, the number you dialed is not in service, please check and dial again…’”

I hung up the call with a bit of disappointment, and my tense mood calmed down immediately. But just then, my phone rang again, and the screen showed another new message. My heart started racing again, and a feeling of fear enveloped my whole body. A chill ran down my spine and spread to every corner of my body. I kept reassuring myself that the message must have been from Xiaoyu, but the screen showed an unknown number.

"With a trembling thumb, I pressed the confirm button. When I saw the message, I almost smashed my phone in anger. The message read, 'The Hong Kong Jockey Club authorizes the Mainland Information Department to provide lucky lottery players with a 100% chance of winning the special two-digit lottery in issue 098: Horse and Dog. Quickly contact Mr. Wang at 13858130549 to register for the special one-digit lottery in the next issue! Pay 4,000 yuan after winning the next issue.' I cursed this scammer to a terrible death while deleting the message, then turned off my phone, covered myself with the air-conditioning blanket, and prepared to go to sleep."

"Just as I was about to fall asleep, a clear knocking sound woke me up. I peeked out from under the covers and stared in horror at the window, which had already been drawn. The knocking became more and more urgent, as if there was an anxious person banging on the window outside. But my room is on the third floor, how could someone be knocking on my window? Suddenly, the outside was bright, followed by a loud bang, which scared me so much that I rolled off the bed."

"After crawling out from under the bed, I felt like cursing. Even God was bullying me, raining at this time, which scared me half to death. Although I knew it was raining, the raindrops hitting the window felt like someone was constantly banging on it outside, which made me very uneasy. So I pulled the blanket over my head, hoping to fall asleep as soon as possible."

"After I fell asleep, I had a dream. I dreamt of a girl who was about my age, with frighteningly pale skin. She asked me why I didn't open the window and why I turned off my phone. I asked her who she was, and she said her name was Jingyuan, and she was a messenger from hell who came to help me fulfill my wish."

"I had forgotten the dream after I woke up, but when I turned on my phone, I immediately received a message that not only gave me the creeps, but also made me immediately recall the dream I had last night. The message was from that mysterious number, and it said, 'Why don't you open the window? Why do you turn off your phone? I am Jingyuan, the messenger of hell who is here to help you fulfill your wishes.'"

"This message nearly scared me to death. Could the rumors be true? Was it not just raindrops knocking on the window last night, but also this messenger from hell named Jingyuan? I was terrified and didn't know what to do. I immediately dialed Xiaoyu's cell phone, but it was switched off after several attempts. I had no choice but to call her home phone. Xiaoyu's mother answered, and she told me, sobbing uncontrollably, that Xiaoyu was dead..."

"I don't remember how I hung up the phone. I only know that I was terrified. Xiaoyu texted me last night, but how could she suddenly die just a few hours later? Could it be... that she was killed by a messenger from hell?"

"I'm so scared, I don't know what to do, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die..."

The case was transferred to me the day after Xiaoshan sought help from the police, but when I went to her house to find out what was going on, she was already a cold corpse. I didn't know what had happened the night before, but when I checked Xiaoshan's phone, I found a very strange message: "Your wish has been fulfilled, you will never have to go to school again."

Perhaps the legend is true; the messenger of hell really did grant Xiao Shan's wish, freeing her from going to school, only the method she used was to kill her. Xiao Yu's experience was probably similar, except that she opened her window the very night she dialed the mysterious number.

Xiao Shan once mentioned that the name of the Hell Messenger was Jing Yuan, and not long ago, a high school girl with the same name mysteriously disappeared after practicing the Ghost Path. Could they be the same person? It's very likely.

[End of File Nineteen]

Chapter 27 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Chapter 27 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Archives Twenty Refrigerator

Author: Seeking No Desire

First published on: Tianya Ghost Stories (Reposting should be done responsibly)

“I know the saying that it’s good to meet but difficult to live together, so after my son got married, I moved back to the old house to live alone. I never expected to discover such a terrible thing. I’m afraid no one will dare to live in this house anymore.” The speaker was a woman surnamed Tan who was over fifty years old. After moving back to the old house, she encountered some strange things and then discovered a terrible murder case.

“My husband died young, but he left us, my son and me, two houses, so our lives aren’t too bad. My son is also very promising; he has a good job and even found a girlfriend last year. She’s a very sensible girl. As a mother, my greatest wish is for my children to get married and start their own families, so I kept urging them to get married. My son is very filial, and after I kept urging him, he agreed, and we got married a little over a month ago.”

"Although my son and daughter-in-law both asked me to live with them, I was a daughter-in-law myself and I know the saying that it's good to meet but difficult to live together. Living with my daughter-in-law for a long time will inevitably lead to some friction. Besides, I want to have a grandson as soon as possible, so I insisted on moving back to the old house to live alone. They couldn't persuade me otherwise, so they had to agree."

"The old house was built when my husband and I got married. It's not too dilapidated now, just a bit small and only one story. But it's enough for me since I live alone. The old house was previously rented to a couple surnamed Peng, but they suddenly moved out in a hurry a while ago, and it hasn't been rented to anyone else since."

"Because the house was fairly clean, and the Peng couple had inexplicably renovated the living room floor, I didn't spend any money on renovations and moved in directly. This is where my husband and I have lived for nearly twenty years; every corner is filled with memories and makes me nostalgic. It feels like my husband is still by my side. However, on my first night back in this familiar place, strange things happened."

"It was around 11 p.m., and I had just lain down in bed when I heard some knocking sounds coming from the living room. I thought, I just moved in and I didn't tell anyone, so why would anyone be looking for me? And even if it were a friend, they wouldn't choose this time! I went out of the living room, puzzled, and found that the knocking had suddenly stopped. Because the neighborhood isn't very safe, I didn't dare open the door and asked who was outside. I asked several times, but there was no response from outside."

"Although I felt confused, I still went back to my room and went to bed. When you get to my age, you don't sleep very well, and you always wake up once or twice in the middle of the night. This night was no different. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard knocking on the door. Because it was relatively quiet at night, I could hear it very clearly. The knocking sound seemed to be coming from the living room. The sound was very soft and deep, as if it was coming from behind a thick wall."

"I was going to ignore the knocking and go back to sleep, thinking it would stop soon, but it not only didn't stop, it got more and more urgent, and it got really annoying. I thought, if it were a thief, they wouldn't use knocking to rob someone, and even if there were such a strange thief, they wouldn't keep knocking on my door all night."

"The more I couldn't figure it out, the less I could sleep, so I simply got out of bed and went to the living room to see what was going on. I deliberately didn't wear slippers and tiptoed out of the living room barefoot. Although I tried my best not to make any noise, the knocking stopped as soon as I got to the living room. I sat on a chair in the living room for a while, and the strange knocking didn't start again. As I sat there, I fell asleep. In my half-awake state, I seemed to hear the knocking again, and I also heard a familiar woman's voice repeatedly saying 'Let me out.'"

"After daybreak, I told my neighbors about it, and they all said they had never encountered such a situation before. They also told me to close the doors and windows properly, since the neighborhood is not very safe."

"For nearly a month afterward, I would hear strange knocking sounds every night as I went to sleep, but the sounds would disappear when I stepped out of the living room. Although I couldn't figure out what was going on, I got used to it over time. It wasn't until I received the electricity bill that I realized something was amiss."

"After the Peng couple moved out, the house was vacant for more than two months, but the electricity bill showed that a lot of electricity was used during those two months. I live alone and shouldn't use much electricity, but the actual electricity consumption was more than I expected. I suspected that someone was stealing electricity, so I carefully checked all the wires."

"I spent the whole day searching and finally found a suspicious wire that ran along the wall and down to the living room floor. Actually, I could have just cut the wire and solved the problem, but I wasn't willing to let the electricity thief get away with it, so I called some construction workers to lift up the living room floor and try to find the electricity thief."

"After the construction workers turned over the floorboards, they didn't dig very deep before they hit something hard. When they continued digging, they found a refrigerator buried underground, and the electrical wires were connected to this refrigerator. I originally wanted to ask them to lift the refrigerator up, but it was very heavy and seemed to have something inside, so I asked them to open the refrigerator and take out the contents first."

"As soon as the refrigerator door was opened, a stench immediately wafted out. Inside was a woman's corpse. There were ligature marks on her neck, her tongue was sticking out, and her eyes were wide open like a goldfish. Although it was in the refrigerator, perhaps because it wasn't cold enough, the body had already begun to swell and decompose, and was oozing a nauseating yellow bodily fluid. Several construction workers felt nauseous and wanted to vomit on the spot, and I was almost scared out of my wits. But the woman's face looked familiar, so I endured the nausea and took a few more glances. To my horror, I discovered that the woman was none other than Mrs. Peng, the previous tenant."

It took us quite a while to apprehend Mr. Peng, who had fled to another province. He confessed to murdering his wife and hiding her body in the refrigerator. Of course, behind this "confession" lay a considerable amount of effort.

After handling the case, Aunt Tan told me that she never heard the strange knocking again, but she had a very strange dream in which the deceased Mrs. Peng thanked her.

[End of File 20]

Chapter 28 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Chapter 28 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

File 21: The Beauty Gu

Author: Seeking No Desire

First published on: Tianya Ghost Stories (Reposting should be done responsibly)

"It's a woman's nature to love beauty. Who doesn't want to become beautiful and charming? Even if I knew there would be such consequences, I would still use the 'Beauty Gu'." The speaker was a young woman surnamed Feng. She was lying on a hospital bed, her body wrapped in bandages like a mummy, with only her beautiful face showing.

Holding Ms. Feng's ID card, I repeatedly verified her identity. I did this because the ID card showed a rather ugly face, completely unrelated to the beautiful woman before me. Ms. Feng said she had never had plastic surgery and that the change in her appearance was entirely due to a "beauty spell."

“I used to hate taking pictures. Apart from ID photos and graduation photos, I never took any other photos. The reason I resisted taking pictures was because I was ugly. You can see how ugly I am from my ID card. I look like a monster. Ever since I can remember, people around me have called me a monster. I was often bullied when I was a child. The situation didn't improve much as I grew up. Because I was ugly, I was often treated unfairly.”

Ms. Feng's tone was very indifferent, as if she were talking about someone else's affairs, which had nothing to do with her. I looked at the photo on her ID card again, and it was indeed very ugly. Although it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe her as a monster, calling her a dinosaur wouldn't be an exaggeration either.

"Although being ugly isn't a crime, I live a more tiring life than others. Whether it's work or love, I have to give more than others, but receive very little in return, sometimes even nothing at all. Faced with all the disappointments in reality, I chose to escape into the virtual world of the internet. I opened an online store to resell mobile phones and accessories, and played the role of a beautiful woman in QQ and online games."

"Online, I don't have to deal with people directly, and I don't have to worry about others judging me, which makes me feel very safe. The profit from reselling mobile phones is quite high because I sell refurbished phones, which means I use second-hand phones with a new casing and sell them as new. Although sometimes I can only sell a few a month, sometimes business is quite good, so I basically don't have to worry about living expenses."

"I'm doing well at work, and I'm also doing well in my love life. Because netizens can't see my face directly, even if I say I'm ugly, they think I'm just making fun of myself. As long as I don't video chat with them or let them see my photos, they can have endless room for their imagination. In their minds, I might be an ethereal fairy."

"I stayed online like that for several years until I met Hui. Hui lived in the same city as me, so we had a lot in common. He was very knowledgeable, practically knowing everything, and he was also very humorous and good at making me happy. We always had endless topics to talk about, often chatting all night long. Our online relationship lasted for more than a year, and he asked me to meet him offline several times, but I refused each time, saying that I was too ugly. However, he thought that I was just afraid of meeting bad people, and repeatedly said that he didn't mind my appearance. What young man isn't passionate, what young woman doesn't dream of love? Actually, I had already fallen in love with Hui, and I often dreamed of embracing and kissing him passionately, but I was also very afraid of 'dying in the light'."

"On Valentine's Day, Hui posted a message on our usual gaming forum to express his love for me. He said that no matter how many flaws I had or what my past was like, he would not mind and would accept them. He also made a vow: 'I will marry no one but you in this life, and we will continue our love in the next.' His words moved me deeply, and I found myself shedding two tears while looking at the monitor."