The Exorcist

Chapter 40 Human Skin Doll

Xiaoxia took the amulet away from her heart, shortened the adjustable string, and placed it between her eyebrows like a forehead wiper! This time, the function of the amulet is to block Zhang Jialin from detecting her thoughts!

She just wanted to warn Ruan Zhan and tell him not to come to save her easily, so as soon as she felt his anxious response in her heart, she immediately stopped responding to him. Through communicating with his soul, letting him find this place based on his feelings was not what she wanted!

She is his partner, not a burden to him. This sentence is not just for words, she can definitely do it too! Thinking of this, she calmed down her breathing and mustered up the courage to start saving herself.

The cell phone is on my left wrist. Because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to hear calls if her phone was in her backpack, she always put her phone in a wrist phone case every summer. After she was dragged here, the first thing she did was to quietly remove the battery from her cell phone. This mobile phone is her only means of communicating with the outside world and even saving her life. She cannot be discovered by Zhang Jialin!

After quietly replacing the battery, she hesitated for a moment, then held the phone tightly with both hands and pressed a button at random, but despite this, a beeping sound came from the palm of her hand, in this dead silent room. It seemed particularly harsh and sudden, startling herself first.

Fortunately, the room was still silent. Xiaoxia swallowed and slowly took the phone out of her palm.

After a long period of darkness, the faint blue light that suddenly appeared on the screen was a bit dazzling, and it took Xiaoxia a few seconds to adapt to this lighting. Judging from the unusual darkness and humid and moldy air here, she had always thought that she was locked in a windowless basement, which was about ten square meters. Now that the light was shining on it, her judgment was completely confirmed.

Xiaoxia raised her phone high and vaguely saw an empty wall four or five meters across, with nothing but a heavy-looking wooden door!

Even though she knew the door was unlikely to be open, she slowly walked over and gave it a try. The footsteps echoed step by step, and each step seemed to be stepping on her heart, making her feel terrified. Only then did she realize that silence itself was also a kind of horror, because every smallest sound was infinitely amplified. , seems incompatible with this silence, seems to be an extra burden on the heart!

When my hand touched the door handle, a cold and sticky feeling immediately came over me. There seemed to be another layer of moss growing on the rusty metal, making it feel like I was touching a snake. Xiaoxia immediately withdrew her hand and wiped on the wall next to her, confirming that this road was blocked. So she wanted to find out if there were any wooden sticks or iron bars in the room that she could use as tools. But as soon as she turned around, she suddenly had a very strong feeling - there were many 'people' in this room, and she was not the only one!

She had always felt that she was the only one in this basement and had never felt that there were other 'people', but at this moment, she suddenly felt it. This made her hair stand on end. When she thought about sitting in the dark with many 'people', and they kept staring at her, but she didn't realize it, she was so horrified that her heart almost stopped!

Without warning, the light of the phone disappeared, and Xiaoxia fell into darkness again. Seeing light from darkness requires adaptation, but returning from light to darkness takes even longer! At this moment, the darkness in front of her was like a bottomless abyss, and the scary thing was that she knew that she was surrounded by many, many people!

She stood there frozen, not daring to move.

Deathly silence continued all around, and there was no reaction, as if he was confronting her. Gritting her teeth, Xiaoxia pressed the phone again, enduring the sound of the keys that seemed to break the air, and moved a step forward so that the blue light of the phone screen could shine farther.

Opposite, there was a dense darkness. It was not the blackness of the wall, but thick shadows, a blurry area with different heights and different shapes. But even if she couldn't see clearly, Xiaoxia could still tell that there were many. Judging from the appearance, they look like a lot of children!

The blood squeezed her heart, making it impossible for her to breathe, and a thought slowly expanded in her mind. Her legs were weak, as if she would fall to her knees if she took another step, but she still moved forward involuntarily.

The figure of a child broke into her eyes!

She was a girl of about five or six years old, with curly hair and neatly combed hair, but the clothes she wore were crooked, the buttons were not fastened, and the shoes were not worn on the left and right feet. She was standing against the wall, with a strange posture, as if she was reaching out for someone to hug her.

Her skin, hair and eyes looked like those of a real person, but her expression was dull, her eyes unblinking, just looking straight and blankly ahead, motionless, quieter than a piece of wood!

For a moment, Xiaoxia was not sure whether it was a real person or a puppet, so she forced herself to reach out and gently touched the little girl's face and hair. At the touch, she was so frightened that she immediately retracted her hand, because the feeling on her fingertips told her that this was a real child, but also a doll without a soul. In other words, this was a real doll!

Shocked, Xiaoxia moved her phone and looked to the side. I saw another child next to this child, and another child next to him. I took a rough photo with my mobile phone, and there were more than a dozen of them, more female than male. Each child was in the same state, as if their soul had been taken away. , only the body remains!

Are these the missing children?

What does that feel like? Xiaoxia couldn't describe it. Under normal circumstances, a person would be very happy to be surrounded by many innocent children, but now in this dark basement, seeing them as cold as corpses, but his eyes widened. Staring at her, without breathing or laughter, she felt cold from the bottom of her heart. She was extremely scared. This most fragile and soft human being had become the most terrifying demon!

One next to the other, there are two or three floors. They are staying in the corners on both sides of the wall where Xiaoxia once sat, standing or sitting, but the middle area of ​​the entire wall is empty. , seems to be waiting for Xiaoxia to fill it in, as if this room is not a basement, but someone's toy shelf, and these children and Xiaoxia are all toys placed on it!

Being placed on a shelf, Xiaoxia had experienced it before, but it was just the soul attached to the body of the porcelain doll. At this moment, all the 'dolls' were real people, and it felt even more terrifying!

In a blink of an eye, a familiar face appeared in front of Xiaoxia's eyes.

It’s Zhang Jialin! She was standing at the outermost corner of the other side of the wall. She was in the same outfit as what Xiaoxia had seen, except that all the real dolls had their eyes open, but she had her eyes tightly closed!

The last few times Zhang Jialin attacked them, they all appeared in illusory images. Although she transformed into Zhang Jialin, she was actually one of the two demon boys. According to Ruan Zhan's investigation, it was probably the virgin who was buried with him. For this reason, Xiao Xia has always suspected that Zhang Jialin, the first missing child, had died due to unbearable torture. Now that she saw the little girl's body clearly in front of her, she couldn't help but want to step forward to confirm.

Her fingertips were cold and her breathing was cut off. Like other children, there was nothing 'abnormal' about Zhang Jialin. But from a medical point of view, if the human body does not breathe for a period of time, it will cause brain damage and other physical injuries. So are these children dead or alive? If they are dead, then the children now are human skin dolls. Although they have human bodies, they do not have human souls. If they are still alive, then after they defeat the pair of demon boys and rescue these children, they can still live normally. ?

"I'm here!" Zhang Jialin suddenly spoke and her eyes opened suddenly. Xiaoxia was so frightened that she took a step back and fell to the ground. The phone also lost its light at this moment.

In the darkness, gentle footsteps sounded, as if something was walking towards her. She hurriedly pressed the button again, and sure enough, she saw Zhang Jialin standing in front of her in the blue light, her small face made even more weird and gloomy by the blue light.

"I don't like this body!" she said again.

No, although Zhang Jialin was standing next to her, she didn't move her mouth when she spoke, and it didn't sound like it was coming from her abdomen. The sound obviously came from behind her!

Xiaoxia quickly got up and turned around!

On the wall behind her, that is, the wall with the door, a dark shadow walked down from it. It was as simple as walking down the steps, stepping on the ground in one step!

The shadow also looked like a five or six-year-old child, with two small goat's horn-like buns on his head. He was wearing a torn red clothes and pants, and an indistinguishable ornament hung on his chest. , like a longevity lock or something like that. There was an obvious stain on the corner of her clothes. For some reason, Xiaoxia felt that it was stained when she wiped the moss on the wall just now!

This little shadow came closer step by step, but her face was still dark and unclear. She seemed to be rotten and gave off a strange smell. It was not only smelly, but also smelled of medicine, incense, and wet mud!

At this time, Xiaoxia no longer cared about her ability to see through her own thoughts. She pulled off the amulet and held it in front of her, "Don't come here!" she shouted!

"That doesn't work for me!"

Xiaoxia shivered! Who says that ferocious things are scary? The most terrifying things in the world are incongruous things. For example, a child's body has adult eyes, just like a child; and a childish voice has a cold tone. Like the one in front of me!

"Then come!" Xiaoxia's anger was stronger than her fear.

With a 'swish' sound, a gust of wind blew up in the sealed basement for no apparent reason. The wind was so cold that when it blew on Xiaoxia, her whole body immediately felt like she had fallen into a glacier with a biting chill, which made her teeth tremble.

"If I lock you up for ten or eight days, your amulet will no longer have the Holy Light. After all, it is not a treasure. It can only protect you with the magic and telekinesis on it." The little black shadow said what an adult would say. , "But I can't wait, because after ten or eight days, you will be so hungry that your skin will shrink, and it will be difficult to handle!"

Xiaoxia was shocked! Is she going to skin herself?

Instinctively, facing the approach of the little black shadow, she stepped back step by step until her back hit the wall.

"Don't worry, I don't want your skin, I want your skin." Without the amulet to block her thoughts, Xiaoxia no longer deliberately concealed her feelings, and the little black shadow began to understand her heart again, "I am already over three hundred years old. Now, you can't always look like a child, don't you think? Only skin can't support the soul, so I want you."

It turns out that what this little succubus wants is her body! But why her?

"You're not that beautiful, but my brother likes you." The little banshee suddenly changed her tone and said angrily, "Besides, I don't want you to have a body, I will prepare more clothes." !" She laughed happily as she spoke, and her giggle could only be heard in the entire empty space.

Xiaoxia imagined that she and all kinds of other women were hanging in the basement like clothes, waiting for the little banshee to take them at any time. She broke into a cold sweat and felt a strong desire to resist in her heart.

"But I really want to have my own body like my brother and grow up slowly!" The little banshee sighed quietly, with infinite sadness and helplessness in her tone. It was sad and shocking to hear it in this environment. fear.

"Go and be reincarnated!" Xiaoxia replied, thinking of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and just as she was about to think of the previous sentence, she was interrupted again.

"Reciting his name means nothing to me. I have never been to his place, and he has no control over me!" The little banshee suddenly became fierce, and waved her hand at Xiaoxia, and a dark wind hit Xiaoxia directly. Although most of it was blocked by the light emitted by the amulet, the remaining tail that swept onto her arm still made her feel a pain like a knife. But at this moment, a thought flashed through her mind, which attracted her attention more than the physical pain.

Did she just say 'her brother'? Is it a child? She said that her brother could grow naturally, but when Zhang Zixin died, Lu Yan was pregnant. Could it be that the child was born a ghost child? But according to folk wisdom, a person has a soul since birth, so what is the soul of a child? Why didn't this little succubus become a ghost boy?

"No one gave me a chance to reincarnate, so now I don't want to go!" The little banshee was still angry and didn't pay attention to what Xiao Xia was thinking, "No one can manipulate me anymore!"

"I sympathize with you. But you have turned from a victim to a harmer." Xiaoxia knew that persuading such a resentful little banshee would be ineffective, but in order to buy time, she still said this while holding her mobile phone. He pressed the button again with his hand to ensure that the room would not be instantly darkened. "Irrational people do not exist. You are causing trouble for yourself!"

"Idiot!" the little banshee said contemptuously, "I really don't understand why my brother wants to marry you!"

Marry her? ! How is this going?

Talking to one of the two culprits for the first time, one message after another made Xiaoxia unable to accept it for a while, but none of the messages frightened her more than this! Is the brother the little banshee talks about really a kid? But he is only five years old, no, no, he is over three hundred years old! But even if he is three thousand years old, what does this have to do with her? Why choose her? Why did the two siblings choose her? Is she particularly unlucky or is there something she doesn't know about?

Xiaoxia's mind was confused for a moment, and she couldn't digest these situations. Just when she was stunned, the little banshee took a step forward and wanted to get closer to her, but the light of the amulet stopped her again.

This made her very angry. After snorting coldly, she turned around and pointed at the children!