A very strange face appeared on the ground. This "face" looked very uncomfortable because it was a "human body painting" composed of arms connected to the hands. These severed limbs emerged from the ground.

into the shape of a face.

Gu Lan looked at the severed hand on the ground grabbing the "Lantern Ghost"'s leg.

Her first reaction was——

"Lantern Ghost" has no neck, but it has legs. It is a lantern monster with legs and hands.

A bit like a cartoon character.

Then Gu Lan had a second reaction——

Who is this aunt? Her voice is a bit scary. Is she a professional in ghost movies?

Then Gu Lan started to feel caring towards her classmate "Lantern Ghost" like a normal person.

"Does it hurt if it scratches you?"

Gu Lan asked "Lantern Ghost".

"Lantern Ghost" seems to be able to communicate with Gu Lan, and it can also understand human speech (not in a derogatory sense). "Lantern Ghost" nodded, and Gu Lan showed a gentle smile.

"Then please wait a little longer and I'll study what this hand is."

In the yard, the wind blew the twisted trees, making harsh rustling sounds. In the yard, among the pale faces of severed limbs on the ground, a "young man" with blood tattoos on half his face bent down excitedly.

Gu Lan tore off a piece of cloth as if pulling a carrot and put it on his hand, then grabbed the hand on the "Lantern Ghost" ankle.

Gu Lan sang while pulling out, "Pull out the radish~~Pull out the radish~~Pull out a big radish... Ouch——!"

In terms of strength, Gu Lan might lose.

But when it comes to singing, Gu Lan never wins.

Her singing helped her pull out the "big carrot" from the ground——

A piece of shoulder glued to the broken arm.

The entire shoulder was cut open. Looking at the sharp blade, Gu Lan couldn't help but think of Ximen Chuixue and Dugu Nine Swords, but this world obviously didn't have such a thing. Those who skillfully chopped off half of a person's body were either skilled murderers or butchers.

Having a broken limb is actually not scary, but it is very scary if the broken limb can move.

The broken arm held by Gu Lan was originally hanging helplessly on Gu Lan's body, but it suddenly exploded.

The broken limb's wrist turned upwards 180 degrees in a posture that a living person would never be able to do. The fingertips almost touched his own wrist, and the sharp nails were aimed at Gu Lan's arm!

Then the wrist was broken by the "Lantern Ghost".

After the wrists were broken, all the arms buried underground began to vibrate. The arms rose and the soil covering them was lifted up. Gu Lan and the "Lantern Ghost" were both lifted up.

Several severed limbs grabbed Gu Lan's ankles, and these hands were so cold that Gu Lan was frightened.

Gu Lan seemed to understand why there were so many ghosts without calves in this place——

They might have fallen into the trap here. They were caught by the ankles, and in order to escape, they could only leave their calves behind. Gu Lan thought, this thing buried in the ground might have a woman's arms on top, and maybe a woman's arms on the bottom.

Men's calves.

The antagonism between men and women is very strong in this place. You can see a similar place in the East Village. Women's arms form root systems under the trees. Their arms absorb nutrients, and the fruits of the big trees growing above them nourish them.

The whole village.

Men here regard women as livestock, objects that are to be killed if they lose their reproductive function.

In a sense, the mother's body breeds new life, and women who cannot conceive are abandoned. This has some similarities with Nishimura's stand-in culture. The similarity is that they all transfer their own misfortune to others.

Gu Lan looked down at the arms rising from the ground, feeling inexplicably like a "dead man's sacrificial ceremony."

Tangled arms stretched out from the ground. They had no body. These arms were once white and soft, but now they were cut off and buried in the ground, becoming stiff and smelly with corpse spots.

Gu Lan felt that the "Lantern Ghost" was worried about him.

Gu Lan smiled at the "Lantern Ghost". She knew that there were many secrets in this village, and it might be related to her that Yan Xiao's world had mentioned in the past...

"Don't worry, I've already prepared."

Everyone in the yard has no calves, how could Gu Lan not prepare something...

Gu Lan then said to the "Lantern Ghost", "I doubt that you can't see me at all. Otherwise, wouldn't you have noticed that when I talked to you later, I kept bending down to be as tall as before. In other words,

You didn't notice that I've grown taller."

Gu Lan's sneakers turned into booster pads, and the ankles that those hands grasped, which they thought were her weak points, were actually her insteps... But it wasn't a big problem.

These hands have no intention of harming her yet. They rise from the ground and lift them to a higher place...

Gu Lan was surprised to find——

Its daybreak.

It was originally daytime now.

It's the black mist spread by ghosts that blocks the darkness.

But when these broken limbs lifted her into the air, they passed through the black mist and reached a higher position. The darkness dissipated and light suddenly appeared.

When the light shone on her body, Gu Lan couldn't help but narrowed her eyes.

She looked at the sky in the distance. It was already afternoon. The ground in the distance was also filled with a thick layer of fog that could not be broken away. The sunlight was blocked from the fog...

Gu Lan enjoyed the sunshine, but within a minute, Gu Lan felt that her body began to feel hot. The temperature of this sunlight was at least 30 degrees hotter than the ordinary sun, and her skin was about to be scorched.

The skin even broke out on my face.

Gu Lan's face was burned red and purple.

"Did you see that?"

The old and ghostly female voice echoed again, her voice seemed to come from her arm.

The voice didn't wait for Gu Lan to answer and continued.
Chapter completed!