The door of the ancestral hall opened again . The scissors in her hands were dripping with blood, matching the color of her dress . Seeing this, the villager who sent the basket into the ancestral hall collapsed to the ground . She tried to hold it in, but she still cried . No one came to help her; no one even dared raise their head to look .
The woman walked out the ancestral hall to stop beside the coffin . She whispered to the coffin like she was communicating with the thing inside it . Then, she turned to speak to the villagers .
The villager who held the second basket kept shaking her head like she was unwilling to give her child away . The woman held out three fingers; before she finished the countdown, the villagers beside the second villager grabbed the basket away from her and placed it before the woman .
The hand that held the scissors lifted up the basket . With the smell of blood surrounding him, the baby cried harder, but no one dared to stop this travesty . The woman entered the ancestral hall, and the door slammed shut . No one knew what happened inside .
The ceremony continued . As the babies' cries rose, Coffin Village turned creepier and creepier . Strange eyes opened in the dark .
Chen Ge and Ol' Wei, who were hiding in the room, also faced a problem . The relatively quiet courtyard started to move . The soil loosened like something was trying to crawl out . The pieces of fabric that were tied to the beam fluttered in the wind . Some of them seemed to be covering twisted faces . Shadows were cast on the windows, and there were weird noises inside the room like someone was knocking on the wooden bedframe from underneath the bed .
The ghosts were waking up, and horror gripped every villager's heart . The old door of the ancestral hall was pushed open, and the crying stopped . The blood trailed down the scissors, and even against the red of her dress, one could pick out the blood stains .
That's the second one . Chen Ge kept his gaze on Ah Qing . The man's arms kept shaking . The woman stood beside the coffin . A woman's cackles could be heard coming out from the coffin; it was like a curse that could not be broken .
The hand that held the scissors rose . The woman seemed to understand the meaning of the red coffin . She turned to look at the villager holding the third basket .
Detached, aloof, and hopeless, the villager voluntarily placed the basket before the woman . When the woman took the third basket inside the hall, the ceremonial table shook, and the plaques all fell to the floor like they could not witness this anymore .
The door slammed shut, and the baby's crying intensified before it stopped suddenly . Blood seeped out from the door, and various voices echoed around the village like the ground itself was crying .
The old house Chen Ge's group was in started to change . The coffins in the bedroom creaked . The eyes of the people in the pictures on the wall flew open, and their expressions twisted with pain . The female ghost seemed to be tormenting the people inside the village . Even when they were dead, they were not going to have their release .
The woman came out of the ancestral hall for the third time . Blood trailed down her dress, and Chen Ge finally understood why she was wearing such a bright red dress . With every step, a bloodied footprint formed on the ground . The woman asked the coffin, but only laughter was her answer .
Hearing this sound, Ah Qing's quivering legs finally gave . He crumbled to the floor, and his arms of uneven length held tight to the bamboo basket . The woman held out her three fingers, and the other villagers wearing the masks forcibly separated Ah Qing from the basket . Before the countdown finished, the basket was handed to the woman .
The ancestral hall's door closed . No one knew what the woman did to the baby, but they knew all the souls in the village were crying . The forgiveness that the villagers prayed for did not happen . It was not until all the babies were carried inside the ancestral hall that the laughter inside the coffin stopped .
The woman's dress was completely drenched . She put the scissors away and had the villagers open the red coffin . There was no body inside the coffin but a set of jewelry . They were probably what the woman had been wearing when she was kidnapped to Coffin Village . The woman put the jewelry on piece by piece . The more she added to her body, the chillier her presence became, and even her skin turned whiter .
After putting on all the jewelry, the woman walked into the crowd . The villagers moved away, and only a pair of boy and girl remained in the center of the ground . The boy was thin, and even though he was surrounded by such a creepy environment, he did not feel fear .
The girl's reaction was completely different from the boy . Her body was shaking, and she looked pitiable like a newborn kitten . The children were Fan Yu and Jiang Ling .
"Welcome home, no one will be able to harm you here . " The woman touched Jiang Ling's head . She held her hand and led her toward the village entrance . The other villagers followed behind with the white lanterns . The crowd soon left the center of the village, taking Fan Yu and Jiang Ling with them .
Based on the woman's tone, it doesn't sound like they will harm Jiang Ling . Fan Yu escorted Jiang Ling home, so they have no reason to harm him either .
With his Yin Yang Vision, he could see the wounds on Fan Yu's body . His shirt had been torn apart by branches, his arms were scratched, and there were mosquito bite marks on his face . To protect Jiang Ling, he had suffered quite a bit .
The woman said no one can harm Jiang Ling here, so it does look like Jiang Ling and Fan Yu had to run back here to protect themselves . Chen Ge thought about it from another perspective . In Jiujiang, the only party that can cause Jiang Ling's sister such pressure that they had to escape is probably the ghost stories society .
The village was still changing . Chen Ge did not dare to delay . He called Master Bai and Ol' Wei as they headed for the ancestral hall . Once he pushed the door open, the smell of blood hit them like wave . The scene they saw made them frown .
"Would the woman have… those babies…"
Chen Ge entered the ancestral hall . The ceremonial table was covered with dust like it had not been cleaned for a long time already . The plaques were on the floor . Some were cracked, but no one had cleaned them up .
"Chen Ge, this blood probably didn't come from the babies . " Ol' Wei touched the blood on the floor . "When the woman entered the ancestral hall, she was holding a pair of scissors . If that was from a murder, the blood splatter wouldn't have been so uniform . "
"In other words, the babies might be safe?" Chen Ge followed the trail of blood and eventually stopped at the corner of the hall where a bunch of trash was piled up . He moved it away and discovered an underground tunnel .
"Stay out here . I'll go take a look . " Chen Ge pressed on the recorder and climbed into the tunnel . The tunnel was only three meters wide, and the end was covered by a wooden board . Chen Ge pushed the board aside and found himself inside the two-story building next to the ancestral hall .
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