Chapter 248: Chapter 235 Half a Hide (Part Two) (5000 Words)_2
Yan Junze prepared to search for any classics or written records in the house; usually, the Tianng clan had the custom of keeping genealogical records, noting both the living and the dead.
Just like the Yan Family that Junze belonged to, there was also a genealogy in his ancestral ho.
Now, all he needed to do was find the genealogy, look through the records of the deceased, and he could locate their burial sites.
Soon, he entered a room that looked like a study, but it was filled with piles of newspapers and magazines, looking very chaotic.
There were only a few yellowed almanacs on the original bookshelves, not a single book in sight.
Yan Junze began to search carefully; although he was facing away, his movents were swift. However, during the struggle with the hide, he couldn’t help but tremble slightly.
At this mont, he believed that if it weren’t for the Back-faced Woman helping him exert strength from the other end, he would have long been completely controlled by this creature. Rewind was the only option.
He quickly found the information of the deceased and checked the nas one by one; finally, his finger stopped on the na “Mo Sheng.” Scanning through, he saw that the column for her burial site was blank.
Looking at the records of others who had passed away, their burial sites were clearly written, even including the size of the graves and the epitaphs used. But only Mo Sheng’s column was blank.
However, the ti of Mo Sheng’s death was exactly 16 years from her birth, aning she died that year, right after being desecrated by a forr life of the hide.
Yan Junze’s head began to throb with pain; the hide was clearly gaining the upper hand at this mont.
He felt the skin on his forehead was no longer his own, entirely numb, and there was even a sensation as if his head was bulging outward, extrely strange.
He quickly forced himself to focus on finding Mo Sheng’s grave. Since it wasn’t clearly stated here, it mustn’t be an oversight; there had to be a reason.
Upon careful consideration, Mo Sheng’s early death must have had a significant connection with the previous life of the hide, perhaps she couldn’t endure the disgrace and committed suicide.
Or following the ancient village rules, punishnts such as being drowned in a pig cage could have been ted out. In those tis, girls who suffered accidents that brought disgrace to the family would have their whole lives ruined because of it. They would not only fail to receive forgiveness but might also be subject to severe punishnt by the clanspeople.
If she truly had been subrged in the lake, Yan Junze would have nowhere to cry; this undoubtedly made the task of finding Mo Sheng’s body much more challenging, and for the hide, there would be one less effective ans to restrain it.
If all else failed, he could only try using the small mirror again or rewind to the ti before the hide had approached him.
Yan Junze pondered to himself.
Just then, a shadow suddenly appeared outside the study, moving rapidly. Originally appearing slowly at the door, in the next mont, it swiftly receded.
Despite his extraordinary sensitivity at this mont, Junze could still sense the other’s position. He imdiately put down the genealogy and hastily pursued backward.
A sudden surge of pain in his head made Junze stumble, almost falling, but he steadied himself by grabbing the door fra. Across from him, he watched as a shadow behind the door of a room disappeared quickly.
This ti he saw clearly, it was the silhouette of a frail woman, but definitely not a human, for no human’s feet would hover nearly two centiters off the ground when walking.
In other words, the slender woman’s shadow was walking on air.
It must have been the spirit of the woman, preparing to appear before the living as usual, but she hadn’t expected that the other person would be in a Semi-Spirit State and involved in an intense fight with an equally strange piece of hide.
The pressure between the entities caused the woman’s spirit to panic and flee in terror.
Yan Junze didn’t hesitate, quickly giving chase.
The woman fled to a room that led to another hallway, and through it another ordinary room. It was apparent that this ho of the village leader was quite expansive.
After passing through another room, he ca to a row of pigpens and cattle sheds; the woman had vanished.
Yan Junze stood there, one hand on the door, ignoring the throbbing pain in his head; it felt as if the skin on his neck was tightening, as though a thick rope had been tied around it and soone kept pulling from behind him.
After standing there for a while, Yan Junze noticed sothing unusual again.
Behind him, to the right on the rooftop, opposite the cattle shed, and at the tattered doorway leading to a field path, heads began to erge one after another.
Their faces were ashen as death, silent and expressionless, eyes staring blankly, as if looking into the distance, or perhaps at Yan Junze.
Seeing that they were all dead, to Junze, they were just ordinary strangenesses.
Despite facing his Semi-Spirit State and the attached hide, these strangenesses did not leave but kept their distance, maintaining a watchful presence, creating a very eerie scene.
Soon Yan Junze realized that among these people, the woman who had fled was not present, and their cloudy, colorless gazes seed not to be fixed on him but partially focused on the pigpen.
At this point, Junze could feel his breathing getting labored; the support from the Back-faced Woman seed to be fading, and his Semi-Spirit State was also diminishing.
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