Chapter 9: The Long Road

Dong Qi and Dong Ning followed Himura Flower Flame and walked into the dense jungle. The sky was becoming more somber at this point, with dark clouds gradually covering up the moon. To Dong Xie and Dong Ning, who were used to living in the brightly lit city, such truly absolute darkness was really a bit creepy. At this moment in front of them, only the lanterns of the flower fire in front of them could radiate light. At the same time, Dong Xie also took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight on it, and began to go scanning left and right. Right now, their siblings were waiting to come and step on the spot for Mo Yuan and the other occupants in a head start. When Hua Huo said the passage just now, he began to scrutinize the surrounding area to make sure that there were no evil spirits carrying out activities around them, and this would also become an important clue to the way of life. "Two." Just then, without looking back, Himura Hanabi said to the two of them in English, "As I said before, please don't look around. Also, stay close to me." Her English spat out clearly and her pronunciation was quite standard, very different from the accent that Dong Xie plainly remembered Japanese people speaking in English. Therefore, this sentence was also understood by Dong Xie. "The Spirit of Words" …… Dong Xie in the past in order to collect novel material, some of Japan's strange stories, folklore he also collected a lot of, after all, Asian horror novels and movies, Japan can be said to be the forerunner, which and this country because of the geographic location of the disaster, lack of resources and so on, resulting in out of a worship of the culture of death related. In Japan, people can easily be humiliated and commit hara-kiri, this is precisely because, in this island country death is commonplace, and then even more so to produce a panpsychist religious ideas. When collecting novel material, Dong Qi considered just how to write a Japanese style of horror, but now I think, this island those horror legends circulating, perhaps a lot of them are true …… Right at this moment, Dong Ning suddenly pulled Dong Xie's arm! Dong Xie was slightly distracted just now, and suddenly Dong Ning pulled him back, also startling him. "What's wrong? Ah Ning?" However, Dong Ning's eyes were wide open as he stretched out a finger and pointed behind him. Dong Xie was just about to turn his head back when Himura Hanabi in front of him spoke again. "Both of you, don't …… turn back. Just pretend that you didn't see it. Don't let 'it' think that you've sensed 'it's' presence. At that time, I won't be able to protect you two." "Good …… me, I know." Dong Qi noticed that Ah Ning's cell phone screen was pitch black, and she had just, most likely, seen something behind her through the mirror image of her cell phone screen. There was …… no sound behind him. Dong Qi now in fact, as long as the phone is turned on the selfie mode, turn on a flash, you can see the screen behind. However, he didn t dare to do that either. Now they are in the blood word execution before entering the blood word execution place, and even themselves are not the occupants who received the instructions of this blood word, and the apartment is afraid that it will not confer protection. In this state, naturally, there was no restriction of "killing a resident only when a clue to the way of life appears". Therefore, he thought it was better to listen to Himura Hanabi first. This journey was very depressing. As long as Dong Xie thought of an "unclean thing" following him at any time, he felt his scalp tingle. However, in this situation now, he had no choice but to believe Himura Hanabi's words. "The two of you ……" Just at this time, Himura Flower Fire suddenly said, "Next …… when I say start, please be sure to lower your heads, preferably with your neck and torso at ninety degrees, and just stare at my feet. Don't raise your head and don't speak. Otherwise, I can't guarantee that I'll successfully lead you into the shrine. Don't worry …… Just walk for about ten more minutes and you'll be there. Until I say to look up, never, ever look up." What is this? "Start!" With the English sentence Start, both Dong Evil and Dong Ning immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look up, their sights dead focused on Himura Flower Flame's feet. At this moment, sweat continued to flow down Dong Xie's forehead, and his heart was beating furiously. At this moment, he felt even more terrifying than he usually did when he was executing the Blood Characters on his own, and whether it was in the Blue Moon Village or on the Blackwater Island, it hadn't given him such a terrifying sense of oppression. Because, he was now completely unable to take ownership of his own destiny, and didn't even dare to raise his head to look, not even knowing what would happen next. At this moment, his neck, all felt sore to death, but he all always dared not raise his head, and could only stare at Flower Fire's feet, and from time to time, he looked at Ah Ning next to him. And then he realized that Ah Ning's level of nervousness and fear was still far above his. At this moment, Ah Ning's body was trembling like sifting chaff, and when she moved her feet, she even felt incredibly stiff. However, the thing that Dong Xie and Dong Ning were most afraid of was whether or not the Flower Flame in front of them was a living person or not. If this could not be determined, then whether or not her words were believable also became a question. Seriously, this journey, was it going to the North Mountain Shrine, or would it take them to hell? However, Dong Xie thought carefully, this Bloodletter mission didn't involve the entrance to hell, so that means there shouldn't be a hell, right? Suddenly, he heard above his head, some kind of strange sound. That sound, obviously, was very close to himself. And this sound, it is very strange, as if the …… screws are rotating, and while rotating, the strange sound of something cracking can be heard constantly. With a step forward, roughly five or six meters at a time, a similar sound could be heard. Himura Hanabi is still still in front of the unhurriedly walking, completely without half a bit of fear, the pace is also not at all chaotic. This made Dong Qi's heart tremble even more inside, what kind of people is the family that Kitayama Jinglong belongs to? This reminded him of one of Beishan Jinglong's masterpieces, Deadly Insects, a novel depicting a bizarre family specializing in parasites and corpse catching as a backdrop. Come to think of it, many of the characters in that novel were quite similar to Himura Hanabi's bizarre words and actions. Now, Dong Xie could be sure that many of Kitayama Jinglong's novels were not fictionalized, but were set against the backdrop of his mother's family. At this moment, the only thing he could do was to trust the Himura Hanabi in front of him. At the same time, he began to recall the contents of the novels at the time, to see if he could do anything to improve the situation at hand? This was one of Dong Xie's great strengths, the more his life was at stake, the calmer he became instead, and the clearer his logical thinking skills became. This was also the reason why he could survive four bloodletters (including one that was not executed by him). While listening carefully to those horrible and strange sounds above him, he was thinking in his head …… thinking …… Countermeasures, there must be countermeasures! At this time, he suddenly remembered the plot of "Dead Bugs", where paper people were utilized to invoke souls. The heroine played by Mother Ziyi was the one who possessed the ability to make paper people, and some of those paper people would transform into evil spirits, while others were usually the servants of the family, looking lifelike, but without expressions that belonged to them, just like robots. Could it be that Himura Hanabi, is a paper person? Paper people in novels, there are good spirits and evil spirits, and those belonging to the latter are extremely terrifying. At this time, he suddenly heard something even weirder. That sound sounded like it was right above his head. Hearing this sound, Ning quickly grabbed his hand! Touching her sweaty palms, Dong Xie knew how scared she was at this time. As for that voice overhead, it sounded as if a person's neck was being strangled by something, causing the voice to be intermittent, but it was clearly an extremely agonizing whimper. That voice was always overhead, and no matter how far it traveled, it remained unchanged! At this moment, Dong Xie could completely brainstorm a terrifying image. Some kind of evil spirit floating in the air had been following him and Ning! Then, Dong Xie sensed that the voice was getting closer and closer. He grabbed hold of Ning, turned his head to look at her, put his finger on his lips and made a "shhh" gesture. By this time, Ah Ning's face was already covered in sweat, and her footsteps were all soft. Dong Xie vividly remembered what Himura Hanabi had just said. "Don't let it feel that you perceive its presence." But walking with its head so low, it wasn't considered to be detected by it? As long as it didn't react in any way to the sound it made? The sound was getting closer and closer, and it seemed to be one or two inches above their heads. Both Dong Xie and Dong Ning felt that the "thing" above their heads was continuously emitting painful whimpering sounds, as if the next moment, it would be able to take them both to the Yellow Springs Kingdom of the Undead!