It did not take long before she was discovered, but she did not want to be captured and taken back.
Once she was caught and brought back that day, she would never have another chance to escape.
She thought of her friend’s miserable cries after being assaulted. She thought of the women nursing children, their expressions numb. That numb look was as if their souls were gone. She understood that it was the despair of being unable to resist.
So she ran desperately, ran with all her strength, only to escape this place where people’s hearts were terrifying.
But she was only a young high school girl. How could she outrun those strong men?
Seeing that she could not escape, she ran up the mountain instead. Those terrifying men pursued her relentlessly.
With no other choice, she chose to jump off the cliff.
Rather than live a lifetime in numbness in that mountain village, she would rather die.
She did not fall to the bottom of the cliff. Instead, her body became wedged halfway down the cliff face. Sharp rocks pierced through her body. She endured for three days before dying with unwillingness in her heart.
She had not escaped this place. She had not rescued her friend. She had not exposed the horror of this mountain village to the world. She had not warned those girls who loved to travel never to come here.
This place was a den of demons. It was an abyss. Once you entered, you could not leave.
Perhaps it was her unwillingness that turned her into a wandering ghost.
After regaining awareness, she drifted to the fork in the road that led into the village.
Whenever she saw girls heading this way, she would stir up eerie gusts of wind around them, trying to drive them away.
Over the course of three years, she stopped many girls who were on the verge of entering.
However, at this point, the plot had only just begun. It was also the beginning of her second tragedy.
That day, she once again saw a group of young girls come to play. She used the same method and did succeed in frightening them away.
However, among them was a girl named Ning Xiangsi, the female lead of this world. Although she was an ordinary person, she knew that ghosts existed in this world.
She believed that what happened that day was not simple. Since the other party had not attacked them, she assumed that the ghost was not powerful.
Coincidentally, she knew a disciple of a ghost hunting Taoist priest, the male lead of this world, Fang Yunchi.
After Fang Yunchi arrived, Ning Xiangsi brought him to the small mountain village. When the villagers heard that the place was haunted, some of them did not believe it.
Fang Yunchi’s cultivation was not yet fully developed. He only detected that the entire village was surrounded by ghostly energy. If this continued, they would all die unnatural deaths.
He said he would help them exorcise the ghost.
The villagers were half believing and half doubtful. Later, Fang Yunchi demonstrated his abilities.
Because Fang Yunchi showed his skills, the villagers no longer dared to harbor any improper thoughts toward Ning Xiangsi.
During the time the two of them stayed in the village, the villagers always acted as honest and simple people.
Until Fang Yunchi and Ning Xiangsi went through many hardships and finally destroyed the female ghost Tang Guo, they never discovered that the entire village was filled with people who wore human faces but had beastly hearts.
Whether it was Tang Guo, the ghost with the deepest resentment, or the other little ghosts, they were all mercilessly destroyed by Fang Yunchi.
After surviving life and death trials together, the two fell in love, stepping over the scattered soul of the original owner.
Later, that mountain village was still the same mountain village. The girls who came here for adventure still remained there forever.
Fang Yunchi captured ghosts in many places. His cultivation increased greatly, and he became well known far and near. Ning Xiangsi later also lived very well. The two were deeply in love and had a daughter.
Many years later, that daughter traveled to this mountain village and was captured by the villagers.
The two rushed over quickly, but they were still one step too late. Their daughter had already been violated by an old bachelor.
In his fury, Fang Yunchi used that ghost-catching sword and massacred everyone in the village.
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