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Panda Novel

It was really exciting just like watching those “Kaleidoscopes” when he was a child.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer entertainers who perform in the streets and alleys. They used to beat gongs, drums and pull strings along the streets. It would make the audience stick close to the window gaps and watch the performances. Many of these entertainers may not even be seen by the post-90s generation.

It was almost the same experience this time but entertainers were replaced by horrifying models.

One, two, three, four… seven!

After Lawyer An had passed the initial shock, he leisurely counted.

Seven women were locked inside. Their bodies and faces were a little dirty. However, they still looked delicate and pretty, especially their eyes. They were bright and lively. They were smiling at him.

They were very polite even when they were facing a peeping tom. They were surprisingly gentle like the wind.

It was true that Lawyer An was shocked. It would have been an exaggeration of him to jump up and start screaming. After all, he was a person who had seen the world, so he couldn’t be that shocked.

Moreover, after the initial shock, things became much smoother. Lawyer An responded with a smile.

Yes, everyone was very polite.

“What did you see?” Zhou Ze asked from the side.

Lawyer An straightened his body and twisted his neck. He handed the flashlight to Zhou Ze. He motioned for Zhou Ze to take a look for himself.

Zhou Ze did not refuse. He bent down and moved his eyes to the small hole. He turned on the flashlight and shone it in.

Hiss…

Zhou Ze sucked in a breath of cold air.

There were seven women in his view. They faced him. Unlike the way they smiled at Lawyer An, these seven women acted foolishly in Zhou Ze’s view.

A woman held a doll in her arms. A woman tilted her neck and drooled. A woman raised her head and grinned foolishly. A woman lay on the ground and faced Zhou Ze. A woman supported herself against the wall and stood on her head.

“Hehehe.”

All sorts of different appearances. They were all looking at Zhou Ze. They all seemed very neat because the women in the room remained motionless.

It was as if the students in the school were taking graduation photos. However, instead of the silly looks in graduation photos, they gave people a deeper level of terror!

Zhou Ze stood up and looked at Lawyer An.

“How is it? It’s quite beautiful.” Lawyer An asked.

“…” Zhou Ze.

“Are you so picky now?”

“They look like survivors,” Lawyer An guessed.

“Why do I feel like they’re victims?” Zhou Ze asked in return.

The scene they each saw was different. Hence, the conclusion they came to was naturally different.

“Victims?” Lawyer An was stunned. “That’s not right…”

The women in the hut were only slightly dirty compared to the other people in the village who were hanging from the ceiling. Their minds should still be clear.

“A group of women locked in a room. Why do they all look like women who were kidnapped and sold to go crazy?” Zhou Ze said.

“Crazy?” Lawyer An was completely confused.

“That’s right. I’ve seen a lot of reports in the past. Even if kidnapped women were tortured to the point of madness, they would still be locked up. They will even be forced to accept sex trafficking or give birth to children to carry on the family line.”

“Wait, boss…” Lawyer An interrupted Zhou Ze.

The more he listened, the more he felt that something was wrong. He took the flashlight from Zhou Ze’s hand. Then, he bent down and looked at the small hole.

“Buzz!” A tremor was heard.

Lawyer An immediately turned sideways. A blue beam of light shot out from the small hole. Lawyer An was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat. He almost lost his eyes!

“Clang! Clang! Clang!”

The door of the tiny house started violently shaking. The lock of the door was also shaking non-stop as if it could break at any time.

“Let us out!”

“Let us out!!!”

“Let us out! Ahhh!!!”

“Please let me go. Please let me go!!!”

Waves of sobs and pleas came from the small room. The women inside screamed hysterically.

Lawyer An frowned and stood up. He instinctively reached out to touch the lock. However, his hand stopped. He looked at Zhou Ze who was beside him.

“Should I open the door, boss?”

When it was time to take the blame, he naturally thought of the leader.

“There’s no point in not opening it.” Zhou Ze looked at Lawyer An. “It’s just a copper lock. Can it really stop them?”

As he spoke Zhou Ze stepped forward. He used his fingernails to break the copper lock.

“Bang!”

After the copper lock broke, the door directly collapsed.

Seven rays of blue light whistled out from within and surrounded Zhou Ze and Lawyer An.

Seven women with twisted faces looked at the two of them. These women’s eyes were filled with deep hatred. Only those who had experienced torture for a long time could accumulate such terrifying hatred in their hearts.

Zhou Ze spread out his hands, indicating that he had no ill intentions. At the same time, he threw the copper lock that he had just broken on the ground.

After a short while, the seven figures turned around and gradually disappeared into the distance. They did not attack Zhou Ze and his companion.

“Dead?” Lawyer An seemed to have thought of something and immediately stood up to enter the small room.

The small room was filled with a foul stench. It was the effect of accumulated feces.

In the room, there was a corpse of a woman lying there. She should have died not too long ago.

However, seven women had come out of the room but there was only one corpse. Was it the same woman who had been locked up here before?

Perhaps, she had been locked up here for a long time so that her obsession and resentment would linger here after she died and not be able to leave?

“If we hadn’t opened the lock just now, would their hatred have been directed at us?” Lawyer An looked at Zhou Ze, who was beside him.

“More or less. Half of the reason why this village has become like this is because of this strange fog. The other half should be because of their revenge.”

“These should be the pitiful women who had been abducted and sold into this village over the years. Some of them might have already passed away. Their spirits were able to return because of the fog and kill everyone in this village as if they were Avengers. Not even a chicken or dog was left.”

Zhou Ze reached into his pocket and took out two cigarettes. He handed one to Lawyer An.

“We are outsiders. They wanted to kill us but with the premise that there was a cause and effect.”

“If we were willing to unlock the lock and save them, the cause and effect wouldn’t fall on us. If we weren’t willing, we would be leaving them to die. They would naturally hate and kill us.”

“Boss, I didn’t think of this so quickly.”

Lawyer An smiled and lit the cigarette. He was a little surprised that Zhou Ze’s judgment this time was quicker and more accurate than his experienced self.

“Zhu Shengnan’s matter a while ago gave me some perspective about this kind of people or ghosts.” Zhou Ze shrugged and raised his head.

This fog… Why hasn’t it dissipated yet?

Zhou Ze didn’t have much sympathy towards this village that had been killed by a malicious ghost. It wasn’t just one woman who had been abducted. He had seen two before. He had seen another seven just now.

With so many poor girls being abducted, was it possible to say that most of the people in this village didn’t know about it?

Perhaps, if not for this heavy fog and this strange environment, many poor women would have shed their tears in vain. This heavy fog made revenge very straightforward and enjoyable.

Reap what you sow. Tit for tat.

Zhou Ze felt that even if he had known about this matter in advance and called Zhang Yanfeng to inform the police, this matter would not have been handled so smoothly.

Oh no, it was that the matter would not have fallen to such a terrible state.

Boss Zhou would still maintain an attitude of condemnation in terms of emotion for this kind of evil spirit’s revenge. After all, punishment outside the law was not desirable.

It was a pity this matter did not happen in Tongcheng. It was a pity he was late again.

He was not able to save the villagers in time. In his heart, he felt a little guilty and uneasy.

Of course, Boss Zhou was a more open-minded person. Lawyer An was an official who had been “Shuanggui” before. It was too difficult for these two men to have a sense of justice and act on behalf of the heavens.

For the time being, they didn’t plan to leave. They couldn’t go out anyway. Besides, these women wouldn’t attack them anymore. Zhou Ze and Lawyer An simply found a house and cooked a few dishes with their earthen stove.

They were brothers in distress and were alone outside so Boss Zhou generously took out the spider lilies’ oral liquid and gave it to Lawyer An.

The two of them drank the beer that they had stolen from the house next door. One mouthful of wine and one mouthful of food. It was quite delicious.

In the evening, the people who were tired of playing outside returned to their own homes and quietly returned to the state of hanging.

Zhou Ze scooped up a few bowls of rice with chopsticks on them and placed them in the room where they hung themselves. It could be considered as offering offerings.

It wasn’t that they were pitiful and wanted to pay their respects to them. They had simply eaten the rice of others, so they paid respect.

They were full from drinking and eating. Occasionally, they could see a woman’s resentful gaze flash by the window and the door. Zhou Ze and Lawyer An were used to it after a while.

At first, they were a little nervous. Gradually, they saw that they were only here to take a look and did not attack. Naturally, it did not matter. Men would not lose a limb just by being looked at.

The problem of eating could be solved by the spider lilies oral liquid but how could the problem of sleeping be solved?

Zhou Ze and Lawyer An were two big men. Hugging each other, could not even be half as effective as a white oriole.

Sitting in the armchair, Zhou Ze suddenly thought of Bai Yingying. He missed her very much. He didn’t know if Bai Yingying had encountered any danger in the fog. She should be fine.

As for Old Master, Zhou Ze seemed to have forgotten that he had come out with him.

Lawyer An went from house to house and found a few cell phones. Unfortunately, the cell phones had no signal. They couldn’t be used except to play a single-player game on the phone.

“Give it up. Have you seen any ghost movies where mobile phones can be used?” Zhou Ze comforted him.

Lawyer An nodded and walked to the door. Even though it was late at night, the fog did not disperse.

Then, a crisp “Pa” sound came from outside. It was ear-piercing. It was as if it shook the entire village.

It was the sound of a whip!

“The Underworld is orderly. The dead are on their way!!!” A melodious shout rang out.

Zhou Ze and Lawyer An quickly looked at each other. They saw a hint of shock in each other’s eyes.

Damn it. In this strange village where there were no living people under the thick fog, there was a ghost?

“What’s going on?” Zhou Ze stood up and walked to the door.

At this moment, Zhou Ze saw a few members of this family break away from their hanging position and walked out of the house. Others who had been hanged also walked out from the opposite house and the neighboring house. Everyone staggered to the road together. They lined up neatly and walked towards the village entrance.

“Pa!”

There was the sound of a whip again,

“The Underworld is orderly. The dead are on their way!!!”

“We’re from the same unit, shouldn’t we go and greet them?” Zhou Ze asked Lawyer An, but he didn’t move.

“Yeah, maybe they’ll give us a few heads as merit points for the sake of the same unit. They’ll also find a car and send us out of the mountain?

“If they’re more enthusiastic, they’ll treat us to a meal and give us some local specialties. You know, the Ghost Messengers in our Yin department are the most hospitable.” Lawyer An agreed, but he didn’t move.

They both knew one thing. Ghost messengers leading the way in this place where the whole village was shrouded in fog?

How incredible was this?

How dedicated they were!