Bound by Algae

　　The attention of the three was almost instantly drawn to Fangcun Pond.

　　The surging and boiling sound of water continued to come from Fangcun Pond, as if something was about to come out of that place!

　　The three of them all stared at Fangcun Terrace on the high platform, their hearts tensed to the extreme!

　　"Back off!"

　　Bai whispered.

　　All three slowly backed away, but soon, they discovered that the black algae under their feet actually began to wriggle, quickly climbing up their legs and fixing them in place!

　　"Damn it!"

　　Liu's eyes widened.

　　He reached out his hand to try and remove the black algae, but the black algae was surprisingly strong, no matter how much he pushed, it wouldn't budge, as if it had grown into his body!

　　Bai, who wasn't far away, reached into her backpack, seemingly wanting to take out something, but just then, a terrifying red figure slowly rose directly from Fangcun Pond!

　　The three of them looked up at the red figure, feeling as if all the blood in their bodies had solidified…

　　It was clearly a bloody woman's skin!

　　The outside of this skin was full of cuts, as if it had gone through a slow torture!

　　And the algae on the ground were originally this woman's hair!

　　"Damn…it"

　　At this moment, all Liu could utter were these two words.

　　Besides that, he couldn't say anything else, all thirty-six thousand pores on his body seemed to be emitting cold air.

　　After the woman's skin appeared, the pair of eyeballs hanging outside the eye sockets rolled a few times, suddenly locking onto the three people below the high platform!

　　Dah—

　　Dah—

　　Dah—

　　The skin's feet landed on the ground, stepping one step at a time on the stone steps, blood gurgled down, dyeing the entire stone steps red.

　　It slowly walked towards Ning, who was closest to it, its eyes filled with terrifying resentment and grief.

　　This process was clearly not long, but it made people feel like they were living through years, as if every second was torment!

　　Finally, the skin stopped in front of Ning.

　　By now, all three of them were completely unable to move!

　　Bai, who was beside her, had her back soaked in cold sweat. 

　　She had her own life-saving items, and this female ghost couldn't kill her, but now she was bound by the black algae and couldn't take anything out to save Ning, she could only watch helplessly as the woman's skin pointed its finger at Ning's brow!

　　"Ugh—"

　　Ning felt the threat of death, the coldness on his forehead gradually spread to his whole body, he struggled frantically!

　　After the coldness came terrible pain!

　　Ning felt like his whole body was about to split open, as if an invisible knife was cutting his flesh, scraping away his bones, digging out his internal organs…

　　At first, he was still able to endure it with gritted teeth, but as that terrifying pain spread to his entire body, Ning finally couldn't hold back and screamed.

　　It was this scream that allowed him to slightly break through the woman's skin hair's binding, and his body leaned to the side.

　　Something fell out of his pocket onto the ground.

　　Plop—

　　This sound wasn't loud.

　　But in the silent forest, it seemed so clear.

　　They heard it.

　　The woman's skin also heard it.

　　It was the 'Guang' plaque.

　　Focusing her eyes on this plaque, the female ghost paused for a moment, and actually withdrew the finger she had pointed at Ning's forehead, her hair moved, and rolled the 'Guang' plaque on the ground into her hand.

　　She stared at this plaque for a long time, as if lost in some distant memory, she didn't move again.

　　At this time, Ning finally caught his breath slightly.

　　He saw the grief in the female ghost's eyes and seemed to understand something, ignoring the pain that was almost tearing his body apart, and yelled at the female ghost:

　　"I'm not from this village, I'm here to investigate the truth!"

　　"What happened in the village during the famine?"

　　"How did Guangxiu's family… die?!"

　　"You must know something, tell me!"

　　Under Ning's questioning, the female ghost actually raised her head, only her eyes were still filled with terrifying coldness and death!

　　She stared at Ning.

　　For a long time.

　　The female ghost grinned, revealing a terrifying smile, her mouth made a sobbing, frenzied laugh:

　　"Bring her to see me…"

　　"Bring her… to see me!!"

　　After repeating this a few times, her body suddenly fluttered like a kite, and finally drifted onto the high platform, sinking into Fangcun Pond…

　　On the ground, all the black algae receded, returning to their original appearance.

　　As if… none of this had happened.

　　Dong—

　　Ning knelt on one knee, about to fall, but thankfully Bai, who was beside him, quickly caught Ning.

　　"Ning, are you alright?"

　　Bai asked worriedly.

　　Ning gasped, waving his hand.

　　He felt like all his bones were about to break, he tried to stand a few times, but he couldn't succeed.

　　"I'll carry you!"

　　Liu didn't say anything, he directly carried Ning on his back.

　　" Bro, don't worry, I won't abandon you, from now on, I am your legs, you tell me to go east, and I will never go west!"

　　Ning nodded slightly, took a few breaths, and pointed to the high platform:

　　"Take me to see Fangcun Pond."

　　Liu looked at Fangcun Pond on the high platform, remembering what had happened, he was silent for a few seconds, gently put Ning down, and then covered his calves, yelling ow, ow, ow.

　　"No way, bro, my legs hurt so much, I must have a cramp!"

　　Seeing his appearance, the two couldn't help but roll their eyes.

　　"Don't worry, if that female ghost wanted to kill us, we would have died just now… at least you and I would have been dead."

　　"The fact that she's willing to entrust us to help her with something means that she won't kill us for now."

　　"This is a good opportunity."

　　Liu sighed, looking at Ning with complex eyes.

　　"I don't know what kind of evil I, Liu, have done, but why did I meet such a reckless teammate…"

　　He complained, but still carried Ning on his back, carefully stepping up the stone steps, one step at a time, onto the high platform.

　　Bai followed them.

　　After getting onto the high platform, the three of them looked into Fangcun Pond, and they were stunned.

　　"I, I, damn it…"

　　The terrifying sight inside made Liu's legs go weak, and he almost fell!

　　After seeing what was at the bottom of the pond, they understood what the iron chains around the platform were for…

　　They saw that in the pond, a woman's skin was pierced through its four limbs by four iron chains, fixed in the water, facing the sky.

　　And the skin's arms, legs, chest and abdomen, and cheeks were all covered with dense cuts.

　　At the bottom of the pond below the skin, a large number of complete bones were scattered…

　　This woman… was actually fixed in Fangcun Pond during her lifetime, and all her bones were stripped alive!