Giving Birth in a Supernatural Game

Chapter 17: Human Skin Lantern (4)

"That was a ghost, it was really a ghost."

Perhaps they were afraid of others not believing it, so the two newcomers emphasized it while shivering. But they were thinking too much. Chen Caixing had seen a ghost just now, and Jia Di even said directly: "I said earlier that the mountains have some unclear things, and it is easy to attract them at night."

"No!" One of the girls heard this and burst into tears, "You didn't explain it clearly! Now Lili is dead!"

Chen Caixing understood that watching the death of their companion really affected the newcomers mentality, but you couldn't blame anyone except the game for that. Besides, everyone made their own choices before coming to the village.

"I told you people." Jia Di impatiently hit the table with the smoking pipe.

The girl's voice went quiet. With a dull expression she seemed to be thinking of what Jia Di said in the afternoon and the words Li Xuan told them about the mountain.

"What happened?" Chen Caixing asked the other girl that looked less panicked.

"After you left, the three of us - me, Lili, and Zihan - planned to find a way to go back. We walked along the path you came from, but couldn't find the way out of the mountain. Lili remembered that there were wolves in the mountains and wanted to go back to the village first out of fear. She said we could always pay the villagers to show us the directions if we had enough money. We went back along the road, but it was like we were walking in circles. It also was dark and we were too scared. At that time, Zihan said she saw a person under one of the trees and went to ask for help"

Needless to say, that 'person' was a ghost.

"T-that thing wasn't human, first it grabbed Zihan's arm and said 'don't go back', then its skin started falling off and as blood poured everywhere it yelled 'give me back my skin'. We tried to help Zihan, but it wouldn't let her go." The girl explained between sobs "Lili was caught to save Zihan and only then we managed to escape. The two of us ran all the way over here and knocked on every door in the village, but they all ignored us..."

She talked non stop with a terrified look on her face. Chen Caixing glanced at the Jia father and sons on the side and noticed their ugly expressions when she recounted the words of the ghost, especially the youngest while listening to the "return my skin to me" part.

Of the three newcomers, Lili was the dead one and the one bawling at the door was Zihan.

"What's your name?"

"Me-Mei Qing."

Chen Caixing said: "It's alright, Mei Qing. You're back now."

"It's okay, we're back, Zihan, we're back." Mei Qing murmured with tears in her eyes, looking both happy and scared.

Jia Di couldn't bear it anymore, and said with a dark face: "It's late now and not safe. All of you hurry up and go to sleep." He went back to his room. As soon as he left, his two sons followed.

Yuan Jiuwan seemed tired, and Chen Caixing chose to leave at the sight. He figured that it was safer to fall asleep at night since it was easy to bump into weird things when it got late.

After getting up, the bed that was finally warmed by them ended up cold again.

Chen Caixing was shivering a little due to the cold when Yuan Jiuwan suddenly rolled into his arms and he could not help but sigh: "Xiao Jiu is so full of energy. Be good and sleep."

Nothing happened overnight.

Early next morning, the roosters next door were already crowing and Chen Caixing woke up due to the noise. By his side, Yuan Jiuwan slept comfortably with his hair in a mess. He looked very cute, Chen Caixing couldn't resist patting his head.