MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 16
by VolareChapter 16: Bullying Went Too Far
Shen Yucheng subconsciously hid, but the female voice acted faster, breaking out from the wall of people. It was a tall girl, her long black hair tied into a low braid, the cotton coat on her body tattered, with bits of burnt ash on the edges. She casually brushed off the scraps of cloth, looked around, and almost instantly noticed Shen Yucheng at the doorway.
The other party frowned tightly, quickly walking over. Shen Yucheng didn’t know what she was going to do, and was forced to step back to the right.
Before Shen Yucheng could react, he was forced to take a step to the right.
The girl came to him in a few steps, her delicate face close. Shen Yucheng had never been in such close contact with a girl, and his cheeks flushed red instantly, his eyes flickering.
“Excuse me, have you seen a very good-looking man? His name is Shen Yucheng,” she asked.
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Wait a minute, there’s a bit too much information here.
Shen Yucheng was incredulous. After analyzing it, he tentatively asked, “Mo Yifeng?”
Immediately, the hope in his heart was shattered by the light flashing in the other person’s eyes. Mo Yifeng hugged Shen Yucheng tightly: “Yucheng-ge!”
Shen Yucheng’s height was just enough to fit into Mo Yifeng’s embrace, his whole person like swallowed by a big dog, unable to breathe. He desperately patted the other person’s back to escape from the confinement.
“How could you be in that group of people?” Shen Yucheng gasped.
Mo Yifeng touched his body, checking for injuries: “I don’t know, I was in a pit of fire when I woke up, and then a group of people rushed over to pull me.”
Fortunately, apart from his clothes being torn, he had no injuries on his skin.
“Do you know where this is?” Shen Yucheng looked around. This place looked like Jitan Village, but how could there be so many people in the village.
Mo Yifeng recalled some records he had seen in the classics: “This seems like the ‘Time Dao’ unique to a high spiritual power realm. You can see the creation process of this realm, and only people whose spiritual power is highly synchronized with the realm creator can enter.”
“Then are we in someone else’s body?” Shen Yucheng grabbed the edge of his clothes.
“No, the things in the Time Dao are all from the past. Outsiders who enter will automatically create an identity.”
Shen Yucheng nodded, relieved that he hadn’t taken someone else’s body.
Suddenly, he found Mo Yifeng staring at him, smiling charmingly: “What are you looking at?”
Mo Yifeng looked at Shen Yucheng’s petite figure at this moment and said in a low voice, “The feel is pretty good.”
“???”
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As night fell, Shen Yucheng and Mo Yifeng sat cross-legged on the bed, exchanging the information they had collected during the day.
“The current village is from four years ago. According to the villagers, those who jumped into the fire pit are possessed. They believe it’s a punishment from the mountain god, and several households are possessed every day, seemingly randomly,” Shen Yucheng said. “And you are the third sister of Fang’er, the third time being possessed.”
Mo Yifeng recalled when people were whispering in a circle, and he took the opportunity to slip in.
Villager: “That girl from the Fang family is possessed again. Only their family and a few poor ghosts didn’t light incense.”
Another villager: “The way she came out of the fire pit was no different from a ghost. In my opinion, she’s been possessed by something dirty.”
“That’s so scary, I’ll burn two more incense sticks when I get back.”
Mo Yifeng wanted to hear more, but was discovered and chased out.
“What is the incense they’re talking about?” Shen Yucheng seized the key point.
Mo Yifeng shook his head. At that time, he also wanted to investigate, but the sun had just set, and every household had their doors tightly closed.
Unexpectedly, the corners of Shen Yucheng’s mouth curved up, as if he had planned it long ago, and he said to the empty space, “Come over now.”
Mo Yifeng guessed what he wanted to do: “Yucheng-ge, you are too prescient.”
Before long, footsteps came from the doorway, seeming to stop in front of the door. Shen Yucheng gave the order: “Knock on the door three times.”
The wooden door really rang three times. “Come in,” Shen Yucheng said, directly letting in the person he had called.
“Creak—” The old wooden door was gently pushed open, making a sound.
The moonlight couldn’t illuminate the environment in the room. Shen Yucheng looked from the bed and only saw a figure standing in the doorway, backlit and unable to see its expression, especially frightening.
He regretted it a bit. Next time, it would be safer to just find someone directly.
The figure slowly came in and then closed the door. Shen Yucheng couldn’t wait for this dawdling: “Hurry up.”
“Bang!” The door slammed shut.
It even has a temper?
Mo Yifeng recognized that it was the aunt who shouted the loudest by the fire pit during the day. The aunt came to their bed, and Shen Yucheng found that she was holding an incense burner, with a wisp of white smoke rising from it, with a turbid smell.
“What are you holding in your hand?” Mo Yifeng asked.
The aunt’s pupils were scattered: “Given by Doctor Liu, a cold-dispelling spiritual object. You won’t feel cold if you use it.”
At this time, the aunt was wearing thin clothes, which was simply not enough in a place with perennial extreme cold. Shen Yucheng and Mo Yifeng, as cultivators, were not sensitive to extreme temperatures. The two looked at each other, and Shen Yucheng asked, “Are you cold now?”
“Not cold,” the aunt said, stretching out her hand.
Shen Yucheng touched it, and gasped. How could this be possible?
It’s freezing.
The aunt’s hands were as cold as no ordinary person’s, and she actually said she wasn’t cold.
Mo Yifeng also touched it. It seemed that this incense burner was the “incense” the villagers were talking about, making them think they weren’t cold, while their bodies were constantly damaged. The villagers jumping into the fire pit could also be explained by this.
Shen Yucheng nodded: “And the Doctor Liu who gave the villagers the incense burner also has a problem.”
Shen Yucheng agreed. It was clear that it was unbearably cold, and they would go crazy when they saw fire, it was the body’s instinct to get close to warm things, “And the Doctor Liu who gave the villagers the incense burner also has a problem.”
Early the next morning, the two found the villager who was whispering yesterday. Mo Yifeng’s height and strength were still excellent, ambushing from behind with a chokehold. Shen Yucheng was small, shrunk to the side, and after touching the man for five seconds, ordered him: “Why do you get possessed if you don’t use the incense burner?”
He forgot to ask the aunt last night.
The man said blankly: “Doctor Liu said that if you don’t use the incense burner, your mind will be eroded by demons, and you will commit suicide by jumping into the fire. He told us that we must light the incense, especially when falling asleep at night, to drive away the demons.”
Unexpectedly, Doctor Liu’s statement was completely opposite. He didn’t want the villagers to notice that they were cold and put on warm clothes, and deliberately said this to mislead the villagers.
But he didn’t understand the meaning of forcing the villagers to jump into the fire pit.
The two casually ordered the man to go to the outhouse for half an hour before he was allowed to come out, and ran to the man’s house. As soon as they opened the door, the inside was filled with incense burners that had been burning all night, without a breath of fresh air, all white mist.
Shen Yucheng looked at the white smoke coming out of the cracks in the door, and a chill rose in his heart. Sleeping in this kind of room for one night would cause problems even if you were fine.
He went in and found incense burners burning on the bedside table and the table, and the fire pit furnace was also burning together, no wonder the smell was so strong. Shen Yucheng covered his mouth and nose, and found that the man’s wardrobe was full of short clothes, without any winter clothes. At this time, Mo Yifeng silently walked straight to the fire pit. Shen Yucheng thought he had found a problem, but the next second, the other party raised his right foot as if to enter the pit.
“!” Shen Yucheng quickly grabbed him, but the difference in body shape between the two was too great, and the strength was vastly different. Originally, Shen Yucheng wanted to stop him, but soon it turned into Mo Yifeng trying to push him into the fire pit. He looked at Mo Yifeng’s face, using all his strength, his hands and feet trembling, but he still couldn’t beat him, and his body slowly fell. First, a bit of flame was ignited on his hair.
There was no light in Mo Yifeng’s eyes. Even though he was hypnotized by the incense burner, he felt that the other party’s hands were as cold as ice, and he was shocked. When did it become like this?
Looking at Mo Yifeng’s eyes, was he also so cold last night?
The two continued to fight. The flame was about to burn Shen Yucheng’s collar. In a moment of desperation, he bit down hard on Mo Yifeng’s softest lips. As expected, Mo Yifeng paused, at a loss for this sudden attack. Shen Yucheng seized the opportunity to counterattack and knocked him down, bursting out all his strength and dragging him out of the house in a continuous motion.
After panting, Shen Yucheng felt a slight stinging pain on his lips, which must have been caused by Mo Yifeng bumping into them during the struggle. He regretfully slapped the person sitting paralyzed on the ground hard on the face.
Originally, Mo Yifeng’s daughter-like appearance was already beautiful and moving. At this moment, there were bloodstains on his red lips, and his cheeks were also flushed red, blankly on the ground. Shen Yucheng’s heart actually inexplicably twitched. Was he bullying him too much?
But this also confirmed that the incense was the cause of the entire village’s tragedy.
That night, Shen Yucheng forced Mo Yifeng to put on a wool coat, which he rummaged through the village to find from the bottom of a family’s box. If it weren’t for Mo Yifeng’s body, he wouldn’t care about his life or death.
In the end, Mo Yifeng was wrapped up like a rice dumpling. He touched the wound on his mouth and asked when he got it, why didn’t he remember.
Shen Yucheng, relying on the fact that the other party didn’t have the memory when he lost his mind, vaguely said that he left it when he bumped into the cabinet.
Mo Yifeng licked it: “It doesn’t look like it, it seems like there’s a tooth mark.”
After saying that, he stared at Shen Yucheng, making him feel uneasy. Shen Yucheng burrowed into the quilt in one breath.
He shouldn’t have saved him.
And he shouldn’t have stolen the wool coat, let him freeze to death.
Mo Yifeng extinguished the oil lamp. Although his limbs were still cold, looking at the person beside him, there was a deep red finger mark on his palm. As soon as he saw it, he knew who did it. This morning, after he came back to his senses, Shen Yucheng didn’t say anything, and asked him to go back to rest.
Touching his lips, his heart was warm, what was this feeling.
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At the third watch, a scream resounded throughout the village. Shen Yucheng, who had been sleeping soundly for a long time in this mortal body, was also awakened.
“Shh.” Just as he was about to get out of bed, Mo Yifeng was already awake, stopping him from going down, pointing his hand to his ear, signaling him to listen.
Shen Yucheng found that besides the scream, there were faint shouts rising and falling outside nearby. But what was even stranger was that no one came out to check after the screams.
If Mo Yifeng hadn’t been holding him, he would have looked for the source of the sound.
After a moment, the sound suddenly stopped, giving rise to an ominous feeling in their hearts.
“It’s like they’re all dead, leaving only us,” Mo Yifeng whispered in his ear.
Suddenly, the wooden door of a nearby house was violently kicked open. The two lowered their breathing to the lowest, and Shen Yucheng saw a golden orange figure flash past from the small window.
… An illusion?
The next second, their wooden door was slammed hard, but fortunately they had a wooden plank jammed against the door in front of their bed. Shen Yucheng’s heart rate accelerated instantly, and when he saw the golden orange color reflected under the crack in the door, his hair stood on end. It was the guy who passed by the window.