Fatal Game Syndrome

"I go!"

Li Dongyuan looked at the wall on the left. The entire wall was covered with tools, all kinds of knives of different sizes.

Hearing Li Dongyuan's movement, Ruan Lanzhu went over to take a look. There was a long table under the wall where the knives were hung. Judging from the extent of the blood soaking through the wood, it was very old and had been used many times.

"Isn't this the place where people are killed and skinned?"

Ling Jiushi covered his nose and leaned forward to look inside. The floor and walls were covered with spots of blood. Although they had dried, they still emitted a smell.

"There's a side door. Do you want to go in and take a look?"

There is a small wooden door on the wall opposite to them. If a door can be opened in this room, the things behind it must be extraordinary.

"The crying sound last night came from this direction. Maybe there really is something in there!"

Ling Jiushi followed Ruan Lanzhu into the room and said, "You two should stay outside!"

As a result, just as the three of them entered, the door was slammed shut with a bang, and Ling Jiushi was so scared that his hair almost stood up.

"I go!"

Ling Jiushi looked back with horror. Could there really be a ghost?

"It's okay, let's look for clues first!"

Ruan Lanzhu grabbed his wrist tightly to comfort him, and his eyes, which were originally looking at Ling Jiu, suddenly swept to the wall behind the door.

"So loud noises are prohibited, is that the reason?"

Ling Jiushi also followed his gaze and looked over. There was a wooden plaque hanging on the wall with words embossed on it, which looked clearly visible.

"what?"

Li Dongyuan was originally looking up at the knives on the wall, and when he heard Ling Jiushi's voice, he walked over.

"The skin of the jie drum is the purest medium in the world. Don't let it be tainted by dull sounds."

This is what is written on the wooden sign, so this should be the reason for the taboos here.

“So this is really the place to peel!”

Ling Jiushi frowned. With such a strong smell, he wondered how many innocent girls had died under these knives!

"Go check out that door!"

Everywhere else was empty, except for the wall where the knife was hung, you could see the bottom at a glance.

"Ugh~"

As soon as Ruan Lanzhu pushed the door open, Ling Jiushi turned around, bent over and began to dry heave, tears coming out of his eyes. The smell behind the door was even stronger than outside, and the source of the smell was the skeletons piled inside.

"There are eight of them!"

Li Dongyuan counted the skeletons inside, and these skeletons looked very small, and they were all female skeletons.

"What on earth do they want to do?!"

Li Dongyuan's brows were furrowed so much that he almost pinched a fly to death. To be the drummer, isn't killing one person enough?

"What do you want to do?"

Ruan Lanzhu looked at the skeleton inside the door thoughtfully, "The taboo here is not to make loud noises."

"You mean the ancestral hall..."

Ling Jiushi wiped his red eyes. If he couldn't look up, did that mean there was something on the roof of the ancestral hall? Maybe it was related to the human skin drum?

"How big is a drum? How could it require so many human skins?"

Ruan Lanzhu looked at Ling Jiushi and nodded, and continued to follow his thoughts, "And there are eight girls' skeletons here, so where are their skins? We walked all the way through the village today, but we didn't see a drum!"

"Here's a needle and thread!"

Li Dongyuan opened the drawer under the long table, which was filled with sewing tools. Each transparent needle was covered in blood, which was creepy to see.

After the drawer was opened, before Ruan Lanzhu and the others had time to get closer to take a look, the small window opposite the knife wall was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind. The window kept hitting the window frame due to the strong wind, and the whole room suddenly darkened. The weird atmosphere made people feel creepy.

"Xu Jin..."

Ling Jiushi, who was unable to open his eyes due to the wind, caught a glimpse of a figure suddenly appearing at the window. He put down his hands that were blocking his eyes and then he could see the person clearly.

Ruan Lanzhu also recognized this figure. The light in the room was dim, but the person's body shape and clothing were exactly the same as Xu Jin's before.

"How did you..."

When Ling Jiushi saw that it was a familiar person (ghost), he didn't seem so scared anymore and took a step forward.

Xu Jin did not expect that the person who came here would be her old acquaintance Ling Jiushi. In order to get him to go out, she and her sister almost died together.

"Ugh!"

Xu Jin sighed softly and walked to the long table and sat down. At this time, the wind outside the window stopped and the light in the room returned to normal.

"Didn't you leave at that time? My sister pulled me to die together."

Ling Jiushi's eyes widened. Her sister was really a lunatic! He was also stabbed. If Xu Jin hadn't helped him, he might not have been able to get out.

"She died immediately, but I was lucky enough to survive. Although I was seriously injured, my life was not in danger!"

The three of them sat down opposite her and looked at Xu Jin seriously, listening attentively.

"When my wounds were almost healed, my father sent me to the watchtower and made me into a human-skin drum."

Xu Jin's voice was calm, as if he was used to such behavior.

"Are you the clan leader's little daughter who disappeared half a year ago?"

Xu Jin nodded, but Li Dongyuan was a little confused, "Don't you have a younger sister? How can she be the clan leader's youngest daughter?"

"I have two older sisters. If my younger sister dies, then I will be the youngest daughter, right?"

"Your sister..."

Ling Jiushi swallowed and pointed at the small door next to him with trembling fingers.

"Yes, their bodies are in there too!"

Xu Jin nodded. "At first I thought they would stop contacting us after they got married, but I didn't expect that!"

"What on earth is your village trying to do? You've already killed eight girls. Even if you want to make a sister drum, you don't need so many human skins, right?"

"Eight?"

Hearing Li Dongyuan's words, Xu Jin waved his hand and said, "This is the second batch. The first batch of bones have been moved to the back of the ancestral hall to plant flowers!"

Planting flowers on corpses?

What kind of perverted behavior is this?

"The medicine powder that the old lady behind the ancestral hall gave you last time was ground from the soil she dug out."

"......"

The three of them were speechless.

"It takes two skins to make a drumhead, and nine people's skins are needed to sew a complete one. There are only eight people in the second batch, one more missing, but there are no girls left in the village!"

Ling Jiushi was startled. Tan Zaozao was the only girl in their group. "So they would attack someone who has just passed through their family?"

Xu Jin nodded, "Only one person is missing!"

Ruan Lanzhu and Ling Jiushi quickly stood up and walked towards the door. They were afraid that there might be danger inside, so they asked Tan Zaozao and Cheng Qianli to wait outside. With Cheng Qianli's intelligence and fighting ability, they were afraid that he could not protect one person.

"Zao Zao!"

Ling Jiushi anxiously pulled the door handle, but the door wouldn't open at all. After trying for a long time, it didn't budge at all.

"Brother Lingling!"

Tan Zaozao's voice was heard from outside. Although it was very low, it made Ling Jiushi and the others feel relieved. If Tan Zaozao died again, they would probably never have the chance to get out again!

"Let me kick it open!"

Ruan Lanzhu patted Ling Jiushi, who was patting his chest and breathing, and after he moved aside, he kicked the door. The wooden door was quite solid, and Ruan Lanzhu's legs were almost numb before he managed to kick a hole in it.

Ling Jiushi got out from the broken door and said, "It's not locked, why can't it be opened?"

"I thought something happened to you!"

Tan Zaozao's face didn't look good. She heard Ling Jiushi calling her from inside and the sound of banging on the door. Her heart almost jumped out of fear.

"It's okay, just follow us for the next two days, it might be dangerous!"

Ling Jiushi smiled soothingly, but he only said that he was in danger, and did not mention Cheng Qianli or Li Dongyuan. The clever Tan Zaozao immediately guessed that the danger was only to women, or only to herself.

"it is good!"

Tan Zaozao immediately nodded and agreed. Her life was more important, so it would be safer to follow the boss. She couldn't go there and not come back!