vstars Chapter 630: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 2
Chapter 630: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 2
Chapter 630: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 2
With the suspicion in mind, Ruyi didn't dare to enter the village wearing her old clothes. This outfit was the modern outfit that Ruyi chose based on the era of the big world when she first encountered the dream-fulfilling system. If this was really the world of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", and she went in to ask people in modern clothes, the villagers would either regard her as a newly-emerged monster or a shameless prostitute.
After taking out the clothes she had collected in the ancient world and changing into them, Ruyi walked through the path and entered the village. As soon as she entered, she discovered that although there were many houses in this village, every household was empty and there was no one in it.
Ruyi walked from the beginning to the end of the village and finally came to the edge of the field. She stood up and looked into the distance. All the farmland she saw had been abandoned for a long time. Not only were they overgrown with weeds, but even the ditches used for irrigation on the side had dried up and cracked.
"Empty village."
Ruyi's face became more and more ugly after she came to the conclusion. She didn't know why all the people in the village were gone, but she knew that this situation was either due to a natural disaster or a man-made disaster.
It is unlikely to be a natural disaster. This place is close to the mountains, and the trees and grass are growing well. It is not near a river, so droughts and floods will not affect farming. So it can only be a man-made disaster.
But...if this is really the world of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", then the word "people" in this man-made disaster should be put in quotation marks.
Since there was no one to ask, there was no point in staying here any longer. Ruyi planned to leave before dark.
Not daring to walk up the mountain, Ruyi had to walk quickly down the mountain along the foot of the mountain. After walking for an unknown amount of time, it was already dark and Ruyi finally reached the main road.
Having not seen any buildings along the way, Ruyi had already determined that even if this world was not the world of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", it must be an ancient world. Especially after getting on the main road, Ruyi recognized at a glance that the traces on the road were left by horses.
“This should be the official road.”
The road was a dirt road and not very smooth, but fortunately it was wide enough, apparently enough for two carriages to pass side by side.
When we reached the official road, it proved that we were not far from where people lived. The stars in the sky were almost invisible, and even the moon looked gray, as if the entire sky was covered with a layer of gray gauze, revealing a pale, gray and ominous atmosphere.
"We must find a place to stay as soon as possible. We can't stay outside."
Ruyi quickened his pace and hurried along the official road. After passing a wasteland, he finally saw a village with people. Entering the village, Ruyi came to a low earthen house and knocked on the door.
"Knock, knock, knock. Hello, fellow villager. I am a passerby passing by. It is getting dark and I dare not walk at night. I wonder if you can stay with me for one night?"
After Ruyi finished speaking, she did not wait for the person in the room to answer. Instead, a gust of wind blew out the candle in the room.
"..."
Ruyi had no choice but to continue knocking on the door, "Don't worry, fellow villager, I am really a passerby, not something else."
The people inside still didn't speak, as if it was not easy to force them to do so. She just turned around and looked outside. The village, which had previously been lit with many candles, suddenly became dark. It was too late to switch to another one.
"Ugh......"
Ruyi sighed and said to the people in the room, "I know you are worried, and I have nowhere to go right now. Can I borrow your woodshed to stay?"
Perhaps it was because Ruyi had been asking politely and there was nothing wrong with it, or perhaps it was because the firewood room was outside and did not need the people inside to open the door. After Ruyi's repeated requests, the owner finally agreed: "I can lend you the firewood room for one night."
“Thank you, fellow!”
After finding a place to live, Ruyi could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Not long after it got dark, Ruyi had already noticed the malicious gazes hidden in the darkness. Those covetous eyes fell on Ruyi without any concealment, with deep desire and fear, just waiting for an opportunity to rush over and eat Ruyi alive.
Ruyi is now using the immortal body that she has cultivated with great difficulty. Although the immortal power is scarce, it does belong to the category of immortal spirits. In the eyes of the "thing" hidden in the darkness, Ruyi's whole body exudes a strong fragrance. Just a bite can make her reborn and greatly increase her cultivation.
However, no matter how low the immortal power is, it is still immortal power, and no matter how weak the immortal is, it is still an immortal. Although Ruyi did not have a very high level of cultivation, her originally strong spiritual sense became even more acute. After realizing that something was wrong from the beginning, Ruyi used her spiritual sense to investigate, and her heart immediately sank after the investigation.
"Rat spirit, fox spirit, snake spirit..." Hiding in the darkness are half-human, half-demon monsters. These little demonic spirits exude the same demonic aura as the monk and the Taoist priest in "Dream of Red Mansions", or even heavier than the monk and the Taoist priest.
Now I can't admit it anymore. The black mountain, the man-eating monsters, and the weird sky, this place is either "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" or "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Ruyi smiled bitterly. She had finally used the innate energy of creation in the spiritual jade to hide the merits and spirit in her body. However, she did not expect that in this world where demons were rampant and gods and Buddhas did not exist, the immortal energy in her body would become a tonic that thousands of demons and monsters desired.
This feeling is so damn familiar. In the last world, Ruyi was besieged and dragged to death by monsters because of their desire for evolution. Now that we have just changed to a new world, how come it has become like this again?
For some reason, Ruyi suddenly felt the same way as Tang Seng. However, Tang Seng had three disciples and a white dragon horse to protect him. What did she have? Nothing...
Ruyi took out bedding from the space and spread it on the straw, then carefully closed the door and set up warning devices around. Only then did she dare to close her eyes and rest while holding the shotgun. Before falling asleep, Ruyi was still thinking about carefully reading the spell book she got from "Dream of Red Mansions" tomorrow, and trying to learn all the spells in it as soon as possible.
After making sure that the person outside the door had left, the villagers in the house dared to breathe a sigh of relief. There was also a woman and a child in the house. They were the villager's wife and child.
"Are you gone?" the woman asked her husband in a low voice.
The man nodded, not daring to turn on the light, and walked towards the bed in the dark. Seeing the man come back, the woman seemed to feel safe, and then asked: "Do you think that woman just now could be a monster?"
The man suddenly covered the woman's mouth with his hand, pricked up his ears and listened quietly for a long time. When he didn't hear any other sounds, he breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and let go of the woman's hand, and cursed in a low voice: "You don't want to die, you dare to say anything?"
"No matter if she is a monster or not, as long as she doesn't harm our family, let her be."
"But her voice sounds very nice. She might be a vixen. We didn't invite her in today. What if she holds a grudge against us?" The woman didn't dare to speak louder, but the fear in her heart prevented her from just letting her go.
"......" The man didn't know what to do, but as the head of the family, he could only think of ways to comfort his wife, "It's okay, didn't we agree to let her sleep in the woodshed? I think it should be okay."
In this world where humans eat humans, monsters eat humans, and human life is worthless, the only thing people can do is to comfort themselves in this way.