Chapter 7 The Taste of Human Flesh
"Reincarnation of a spiritual practitioner? What does it mean?" I asked anxiously.
The master opened the drawer, took out a cone-shaped spice, took out a lighter and lit it.
The jumping flames reflected on the master's reflective sunglasses, and the master suddenly changed his words: "I can save you, but you have to answer a few questions."
When the spices are ignited, there is an indescribable sour smell.
When Song Shanshan heard that he could save me, her eyes immediately lit up: "Master, you can save my sister! Okay, okay, hurry up and ask, you can ask hundreds of questions!"
I belatedly answered her words and nodded: "Ah, yes, what does Master want to ask?"
The master was standing in the darkness, with his head lowered and his whole face gloomy. The strange atmosphere made me feel numb in my heart.
"You can see monsters and elves, right?"
My heart trembled as he poked at the little secret buried deep in my heart. Under Song Shanshan's surprised gaze, I nodded.
"When did it start?" he asked again.
I replied: "I have been able to see it since I was a child. I can't remember exactly when it started."
"Did you know that your blood can kill demons and ghosts?"
"I know." I didn't hide it.
The master suddenly sneered, "It is indeed a reincarnation... It's not in vain that I have been searching for it for so many years!"
Song Shanshan and I were both confused by his words, and there were some vague premonitions in our hearts.
I asked him: "Master, what are you talking about, what reincarnation?"
The master took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of eagle eyes with dark pupils slowly spreading: "Guess."
I was so frightened that I took several steps back. Without thinking, I grabbed Song Shanshan, who had the same colorless face, and turned around to run away.
But before I took two steps, my vision went dark, and I pulled Song Shanshan along with me and passed out on the spot...
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When I regained consciousness, I suddenly opened my eyes and found myself tied to a chair.
The surroundings were dark, except for two faintly fluorescent blue beads placed on a wooden table not far away.
My scalp was numb and I struggled for a while, trying to break free from the restraints and escape, but the clear pain from my wrist interrupted my panic.
I suddenly calmed down and listened carefully. There was a ding-dong sound next to my legs, and the sound of liquid falling into the iron basin...
There was a stream of heat flowing down drop by drop from my wrist, matching the rhythm of the tinkling sound of the iron basin.
A lightning struck my mind, and I realized the truth: I had been bled!
Just as he was about to open his mouth to call for help, he realized that his mouth was being strangled from behind by a thick hemp rope.
The hemp rope was pressed between my upper and lower teeth. Although it did not affect my voice, it did affect my enunciation.
Once your enunciation is unclear, even if you desperately cry for help, others will think you are a fool or sick.
But now I am tied up in this dark room and have no choice.
It's a knife to stretch out my neck, and it's a knife to shrink my neck. If I desperately call for help, I might have a 0.01% chance of escaping from this hellish place.
And if you don't call for help, then there will be no hope at all.
I twisted my exhausted body and tried to pull off the rope tied to my body with both hands, but the feel of the rope in the dark was clearly that of hemp rope.
It's so easy to break free from hemp rope!
"Oh, save my life!"
Unable to break free of the hemp rope, I yelled for help with all my strength.
But as soon as the two unclear words came out of his mouth, the pair of luminous blue beads in the darkness began to move.
Then a candle light was lit, and a tall and thin backlit figure was outlined in the dark and cramped little house.
We can tell that the figure is the fortune teller we saw at the beginning...
Looking up, the house is surrounded by walls, with no doors or windows visible.
There are two Taishi chairs and a wooden table in the room.
And the two blue beads I saw early in the morning were actually a pair of snake eyes.
The big python as big as a bowl was sitting on the wooden table with its head raised and its chest raised. Just the sight of that person and the snake scared me so much that I almost lost my breath.
The python's body coiled on the table squirmed slightly, and the pressure forced cold sweat on my forehead.
What kind of place is this? I can't find the door. Even if I escape from the chair, I can't get out!
There was still a rhythmic clicking sound coming from the big iron basin at my feet. I looked at my left wrist that was bloody and fleshy, and the hairs all over my body were covered in hair.
Blood, all red and dripping blood!
My eyes widened and I became excited, and I complained incoherently at the backlit black shadow: "Uh-huh! Who are you? Let me go! What do you want to do!"
The dark shadow in the backlight heard my shouting, and took a few steps closer to me with slow steps.
After a sneer, another candlelight lit up behind me, and this candlelight happened to shine on the front of the black shadow.
It was only now that I could really see his face clearly.
It was a face of a middle-aged man about fifty years old, covered with blue lines. The man's eyes were all black, without the whites of his eyes.
The way he looked at me and grinned was very vulgar and scary...
He walked over in a few steps, exuding a cold and terrifying aura all over his body.
Suddenly he leaned close to me, and I looked at the suddenly enlarged face with a ferocious expression. I was so frightened that I immediately screamed: "Ah——"
Before the shouting stopped, the man's rough hands grabbed my chin and ordered me in a hoarse voice:
"Don't scream! If you scream, the water in your body will be depleted faster and there will be less blood.
I want to take an extra drop of your blood before it dries up. I will take an extra drop."
He clamped my chin, and I was so frightened that I couldn't move. I could only open my eyes wide open, sweating profusely and trembling, and asked him:
"Who are you? Murder is illegal. Why do you want my blood? What are you going to do?"
"Illegal?"
He sneered, the smile on his face gradually became abnormal, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed into a ball, wantonly mocking my ignorance.
"Since I dare to attack you, I must have thought of how to deal with you.
What's more, you're already dead, but I didn't kill you. I just made the best use of it while you still had some blood."
His rough fingers squeezed my face hard, and his completely black eyes stared at me so hard that my heart almost burst.
"Why do I need your blood? Isn't it because your blood is useful to me? This is divine blood that is rare in a thousand years. Letting you die like this would be such a waste of Tianzhen."
Listening to these suffocating words, my whole head was shaking. I looked at him in fear and begged for mercy in a hopeless voice: "Let me go, please, let me go..."
I want to live, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die!
But he ignored my plea for mercy at all, turned to the big python coiled on the table behind him and said hoarsely:
"She has almost lost all her blood. This arm is going to be dry. Do you want to taste human flesh and bones?"
Chapter completed!