Chapter 23 Chapter Seven: The Mirror Ghost Appears

Perhaps because of too much fear, Liang Caixia's body trembled uncontrollably when she told her experience of encountering the ghost of the hidden mirror, and she choked up and couldn't speak.It wasn't until Wu Wei hugged her tightly that she calmed down a bit and continued to tell us about the situation that night—— I knelt down and kowtowed to the female ghost in the glass, begging her to spare my life, but she didn't let me go, and told me to raise my head.I looked up at her terrifying face, and immediately felt chills all over my body, and my scalp was as numb as if being pricked by needles.She looked so terrible!

Although rouge was applied on her face, it couldn't cover her livid complexion; although her eyebrows were drawn long and neatly, they turned upwards; although her eyes were big and watery, they were blood-red and round; although her lips were painted with bright lipstick, But it still couldn't hide the purple-black lip color... What's more frightening is that whenever she opened her mouth, she would reveal jagged fangs, as if she would eat me in one bite at any time. She asked me to raise my head and stared at me. When I was about to be unbearable, she suddenly opened her mouth and said: "Always a little old, but it's better than those five little devils who don't know anything. You will follow me from now on." Me, be my maid."

I didn't understand what she meant for a while, but it definitely wouldn't be a good thing, so I wanted to ask her to let me go.But her face was so horrible that I couldn't look at her and talk.And because I was so scared in my heart, I was a little slurred, and it was hard to speak out. But as soon as I said that, she slapped me so hard that I fell to the ground.I was stared at by her, and before I recovered, I was grabbed by her hair again.She pulled me to the window, and said to me viciously: "Being my maid is a blessing you have cultivated in your previous life. If you dare to say no, I will make your life worse than death."

She held up one finger, with a nail like an awl... no, a claw like an awl slowly protruding from the fingertip.She shook her finger and said to me: "Do you want to know what is 'life is better than death'?" As she spoke, she stabbed my arm with her claws. Her claws were like frozen iron awls. After her arm was pierced, besides the pain, it also felt very cold.However, this was just the feeling at the beginning, and the next moment I understood what she meant by "life is better than death". The cold feeling gradually subsided, and severe pain followed, and the pain spread from the place where it was pierced to the entire arm.The pain was not just for a moment, but lasted for a while before it began to subside, making me want to cut off the whole arm.

She stabbed my arm three times in a row, and I rolled on the ground in pain, just like she said-life would be better than death.Then she grabbed my hair again, pulled me to the window, and asked me if I wanted to suffer like this.Of course I said I didn't want to, and she said, "If you don't want to suffer, you have to be my maid and serve me obediently in the future." Although I didn't want to agree, the pain just now was too terrible, so I had no choice but to obey her.However, I am a human being and she is a ghost, so how can I serve her?Thinking of this, my heart immediately turned cold, because I knew that she would definitely kill me and make me her ghost maid.

Sure enough, the facts were just as I imagined, she suddenly strangled my neck, and asked me how I wanted to die, whether to let her strangle me alive, or throw her into the water and drown.I said it’s all the same anyway, but she said, “Of course it’s different. It’s quick and easy to strangle you to death, but it’s pretty ugly if you keep sticking out your tongue afterwards. Throwing it in the water might look nicer. But find a place where you can drown." I thought I was going to die anyway, so let’s die in a better way, so I told her that I wanted to drown in the water.She didn't seem to be very happy, but she didn't regret it. She grabbed my hair and walked to the back of the elementary school, saying that she would throw me into the fish pond next to the air-raid shelter and drown.

I thought I would definitely die this time, but within a few steps, she suddenly said to me: "By the way, I have to give you a name. Your surname is Cai, and you will be drowned later... let's call it Cui." Ping!" I told her that my surname is not Cai, but my name is Liang Caixia.She looked at me in astonishment, her blood-red round eyes moved mysteriously, and it took a while before she yelled at me: "Is your surname really not Cai?" I shook my head tremblingly, but she suddenly slapped me hard, and then yelled at me again: "Back then, I believed so much in you lowly people with foreign surnames that I was killed by my own maid! I won't believe you either, so I have to find someone surnamed Cai to be my maid. Since your surname is not Cai, get out of here immediately!"

Her moodiness frightened me, tortured me half to death for a while, asked me to be her ghost maid, and then let me go without any reason.I didn't know whether she really wanted to let me go, or wanted to torture me again, so I immediately knelt down and begged her for mercy.But I didn't expect that as soon as I begged her for mercy, she kicked me on the chest, kicked me backwards, and yelled at me: "You don't want to leave, do you! Okay, I will fulfill you and send you to the hospital!" Huangquan Road!" After she finished cursing, she stretched out her hands, with awl-like sharp claws sticking out from ten fingers.

I was frightened crazy by her actions. I was poked three times just now and the pain was so painful that I would have died. If she poked me with ten claws at the same time, it would be better to cut off my flesh with a knife.So, when I saw that she was about to pounce on me, I ran away without thinking about anything. Her creepy laughter sounded behind me, as if following me right behind me, laughing wildly in my ears.I thought I would be caught by her again soon, but after running for a while, I didn't get pulled by her hair again, but the terrible laughter still echoed in my ears.I felt that she was right behind me, so I didn't dare to stop for a moment, let alone look back, and ran home with all my strength.

Until I ran back home, I still vaguely heard her laughter, she seemed to be following me all the time, as if she would appear in a certain mirror at any time... After narrating the horrific experience, Liang Caixia, with the help of her husband, showed us the scars on her arms.There were three small wounds on her arm that had healed, which looked like they had been poked out by sharpened chopsticks, but according to her account, the three wounds were made by the sharp claws of the mirror ghost. In the scope of my knowledge, ghosts are illusory spirits, and they should not cause physical harm to people.If the hidden mirror ghost is disguised as a person, or if it is a real monster, then it is another matter.

But this is also impossible, because from Liang Caixia's narration, the hidden mirror ghost only appeared in the windows of the teaching building from the beginning to the end, and it is definitely impossible for people.When the hidden mirror ghost attacked her, he just waved his hands and feet in the glass, but what fell on her was invisible fists and feet, and it was impossible for a tangible monster to do this. This makes me worry again, what exactly is the hidden mirror ghost?A tangible entity, or an ethereal ghost? However, this confusion stems from Liang Caixia's narration. If her narration is false, then all doubts can be reasonably explained.Perhaps, I should change my thinking. According to Liang Caixia, before she met the ghost of the hidden mirror, she had quarreled with Wu Wei, so she stayed at her mother's house very late and didn't want to go home.Based on this inference, she may have made up this lie because she was fighting against her husband and couldn't step down for a while.If this is the case, then the scars on her arms are likely to be caused by herself.The easiest way to make these scars is to use sharpened chopsticks or bamboo sticks. I suddenly remembered that in Wu Wei's frozen meat shop, there were meat skewers strung on bamboo sticks. Liang Caixia could use these bamboo sticks to make wounds.But this is easy to say, but not easy to do in practice - not everyone can poke one's arm three times with a bamboo stick.If the purpose of doing this is just to fight against her husband, according to common sense, the possibility is not high. Moreover, in Liang Caixia's narration, Cangjinggui once mentioned "five little ghosts who don't understand anything", and when she encountered Cangjinggui, it happened to be the day when the fifth sister and brother of Wangcun disappeared. Judging from these signs , what she said is very likely to be the truth. Anyway, the police car was parked outside the playground of the elementary school. Before I left, I planned to investigate outside the elementary school to confirm whether her account was false. The country roads are difficult to walk, and it is already late at night, Wu Wei has repeatedly said politely that he will take us to the elementary school.But considering Liang Caixia's situation, I had no choice but to politely decline.After saying goodbye to them, Zhen Zhen and I came to Wangcun Primary School. Before, I just observed from across the playground, but now when I come to the teaching building, I can feel the oppression brought by these large windows in front of me.The terrible hidden mirror ghost seems to be hiding in a certain window, silently watching our every move. However, apart from twenty or so large windows, there seemed to be no other noteworthy places. This place was as peaceful and comfortable as an ordinary rural elementary school.If it weren't for the terrifying legend of the hidden mirror ghost, this might be a good place to talk about love. I didn't find anything special in front of the teaching building, so I thought of checking behind the school.According to the data, there is an air-raid shelter behind the school that has been abandoned for many years, and an unattended fish pond, where the bodies of the five Wangcun siblings were found. When I proposed to go to the back of the school to investigate, Zhenzhen frowned: "It's so late, let's go tomorrow!" I teased, "Are you scared?" "What am I afraid of!" Although she was trying to be brave, her complexion was not very good. "I'm afraid I'll bury you." "Just because you're crippled?" She clenched her fists, crackling her knuckles, and slowly approached me, as if she was about to "gesture" with me. I hurriedly begged her for mercy: "The heroine, please spare me!" "Beautiful idea!" After she said that, she lifted her foot and kicked me over. When I got up and was going to say that she was abusing violence, I was hit hard on the head. I felt dizzy immediately, staring at my eyes, and fell down again.She pulled me up, said that she didn't use much force, and she couldn't kill anyone, and told me to stop pretending. I stood up with great difficulty, my head was still spinning, and it took me a while to recover, and I cursed at her: "You didn't use much force, you almost knocked my head off." She stared at me dumbfounded, and it took a long time to say: "I didn't hit you on the head!" When she said that, I froze.Thinking about it, even though she usually behaves rudely and hits me frequently, she is very measured every time she strikes, and she will definitely not beat me to the point of fainting like just now. Just when I was feeling confused about this matter, a sharp laughter echoed in the night sky: "Hee hee... It was Miss Ben who hit you just now." The voice was ethereal and hollow, as if it came from another dimension, It was hard to tell which direction the time was coming from. Zhenzhen and I instinctively looked around, looking for the owner of the voice, but within the range we could see, there was no third party except the two of us, so who was talking?I suppressed the fear in my heart and looked at the window of the teaching building. Sure enough, the "person" who spoke was in one of the windows on the first floor. On the wide glass of the window, there is a woman in a cheongsam, her dress is like a lady in the Republic of China period in TV dramas.However, her face did not have the virtuousness of a lady, and the blood-red round eyes alone were enough to scare people half to death.I think she is probably the legendary hidden mirror ghost. Although the hidden mirror ghost has a fierce look in his eyes, he has a smile on his mouth, but his weird laughter makes people shudder: "Hehe...you two came just in time. To the servants and the cook." Zhen Zhen's face turned blue when she saw this terrifying evil ghost, but she was from a famous family anyway, so she wouldn't be petrified, immediately picked up a stone and threw it towards the window.There was a bang, and the glass shattered. Although the glass was broken, the mirror ghost immediately appeared in another window, and cursed at Zhen Zhen viciously: "How dare you dare to be rude to me, let's see how I deal with you crazy girl." Said Then, she raised her index finger, and a sharp claw like an awl stretched out from her fingertips. According to Liang Caixia, being poked by the hidden mirror ghost's claws will cause severe pain like death, so seeing her show her claws, Zhenzhen and I feel like we are facing a big enemy.However, while I was afraid, I also had a glimmer of expectation, hoping to know how the hidden mirror ghost hiding in the glass would attack us.Although I was slapped on the head by her just now, I didn't see how she made the move, so I watched her every move intently this time. "Crazy girl, let you taste my strength now!" Cang Jinggui waved her finger at Zhen Zhen as she said that. Although she was only waving through the glass, and the distance between Zhen Zhen and the window was more than five meters, this finger could be swiped through the air like a yang finger in a martial arts novel.As she waved her hand, Zhen Zhen suddenly let out a scream, as if her body had been impacted, she took two steps back to stabilize her body, and immediately pressed her right arm. I hurried forward and asked her if she was injured?She said first that she was fine, but that her arms felt cold and numb, but just after she finished speaking, she screamed again, and this time the scream was a hundred times more painful than before, and she squatted down unconsciously. I squatted in front of her, let go of her hand, and found that there was a blood hole on her arm that seemed to be poked out by chopsticks. The shape was almost the same as the scar on Liang Caixia's arm, and a small amount of blood was gushing out.I immediately took off my shirt and gave her a simple bandage. But before I had time to bandage it up, I was hit on the head again, and I jumped forward, pushing Zhenzhen down. I turned over and found that the hidden mirror ghost was shaking her sharp claws, and said viciously: "This is what happens when you are rude to me, do you want to try it too?" The door of the teaching building opened slowly. Could it be that the hidden mirror ghost wants to reveal his true body?