Chapter 22: Ghost Animal (19)

They didn’t know why, but Ning Su fit in perfectly with a group of ghostly pregnant men, without any sense of discordance. He even looked just like those pregnant ghosts with his bulging belly.

The four of them looked at him blankly for a while, feeling that he would fit in well with the group of pregnant ghosts.

Chen Tian took a glance outside through the crack of the door.

At this moment, the scarred man was standing outside with a knife in his hand, hesitating.

He knew that his identity gave him a natural advantage in this world, but he still didn’t come in immediately.

Perhaps he felt that it was not appropriate to kill people in the hospital as soon as he arrived in this world, or maybe he had some concerns about this hospital.

Zhu Shuangshuang looked around the hospital and said, “Isn’t it difficult for grooms to leave their homes? Do they have to be hospitalized if they have something in their stomachs?”

She did not use the word “pregnant” because it was still uncertain whether they were pregnant or not.

After all, the idea of a male pregnancy was truly absurd, especially when they were all male ghosts without shadows.

Chen Tian said, “Maybe it’s to protect the things in their stomachs. If they stay at home, they will be tortured to death by the ‘bride’.”

Chen Tian obviously didn’t want to use the word “pregnant” either.

Perhaps only Ning Su could say things like “you also came to have a baby” so easily.

Su Wangsheng said, “If that’s the case, we should be safe here now.”

Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief and asked, “Why is Scarface chasing us?”

Zhu Shuangshuang replied, “He is the second ‘bride’ to appear in the real world. When we saw him, we took the opportunity to escape from the wedding hall. He might have transferred some of the resentment he experienced later to us.”

Chen Qing said helplessly, “That resentment is too much.”

A ghost’s mind is hard to fathom, especially a male ghost who was tortured to death as a ‘bride’.

Chen Tian said, “Why did he turn into a bride?”

Zhu Shuangshuang replied, “As I said before, the animals are a disadvantaged group compared to humans, and brides who are deceived are also disadvantaged compared to villagers. If he killed a black dog, or any other animal, he should have turned into that animal. But if he turned into a bride, could he have killed the bride?”

Currently, this was the only reason they could think of, and they were not sure what the scarred man did.

They didn’t dare to get involved with the incident involving the black-robed man earlier, because the other was completely dominant over them in this copy.

Chen Qing said, “By the way, what about the Black Robe? Lin Liang crawled out of the incinerator. Why didn’t the Black Robe crawl out?”

Zhu Shuangshuang remained silent.

Su Wangsheng said, “Ah, the Black Robe was heavily injured at that time. Maybe he couldn’t climb up.”

Chen Tian and Chen Qing were shocked.

“Who could have injured the Black Robe?”

Both of them looked at Ning Su, who was chatting with the pregnant ghost without any barriers.

“...”

After a moment of silence, Chen Tian asked, “Did you see Wang Ming? He was the one I left outside the incinerator to guard the door. You didn’t mention him after entering this inner world, so I guessed that you didn’t see him either. I have a premonition that something happened to Wang Ming.”

Zhu Shuangshuang nodded.

Chen Tian was silent for a while. He rubbed his forehead and said in a tired voice, “Since we’re here, let’s explore this hospital first.”

As the four of them were about to walk inside, a ghost nurse stopped them. “This is a restricted area of the hospital. Outsiders are not allowed to enter.”

They looked at Ning Su, who was chatting with the pregnant ghost.

The four of them retreated from the courtyard and back to the entrance, hoping that Ning Su could find out something.

A normal pregnant woman wouldn’t be walking around the yard so late, but would be sleeping early.

But they were ghosts. Maybe they didn’t like the daytime and preferred the night.

They didn’t like the sun, but liked the moonlight.

Ning Su looked up at the blood moon in the night sky. Its rich color was like the lily flower on the villa, as if it had been infused with countless years of blood.

The ghosts with big bellies walked around without shadows under the blood moonlight.

The blood moonlight fell on them, and there was a feeling that the light was being absorbed by them.

Ning Su stretched out his palm and caught a pool of moonlight.

The moonlight was also covered with a layer of hazy blood color, like a thin veil of blood mist sliding over the immortal’s body, and fell lightly on the white palm.

It immediately stirred a layer of black mist up on the palm.

Black and red fought and tangled in the white palm.

Ning Su closed his palm and glanced at the ghost’s protruding belly next to him, asking, “Brother, how did you get pregnant?”

The ghost stared at him without turning his eyes, saying nothing.

Ning Su made a sound, “I just want to learn something. My partner and I have tried so hard, it’s so difficult.”

“...”

The ghost’s gaze gradually became eerie, and it was hard to say a word.

Ning Su knew he had failed.

He was seen through.

Ning Su lowered his head without much shame. He moved his closed hand to the bony wrist of the ghost, and the dark red mixed energy seeped into the ghost’s body. The ghost trembled, and a faint light was stimulated in his hollow eyes, staring blankly at Ning Su.

“Brother, can I take a look at your stomach?” Ning Su asked.

The ghost stiffly lifted his clothes. He didn’t have a round belly, but two concave and convex areas with a scar after being sewn up. It wasn’t a natural pregnancy, but rather something that ghosts put into their stomachs and nurtured with ghost energy. Men indeed cannot get pregnant, even if they became ghosts. No wonder the ghost looked at him with such a weird gaze.

Ning Su, very rarely, felt a little embarrassed. He touched his stomach and stood up. “Brother, you sit down first. I’ll go for a walk.”

When Ning Su was about to leave, he saw four people at the door looking at him with indescribable expressions.

Ning Su: “...”

He waved to them and walked in calmly.

This small hospital in the village was not big, it was an expanded version of a quadrangle courtyard. The three-story buildings on both sides were the inpatient department, and the one in the middle was the outpatient department, with the operating room inside.

Ning Su stood with his hands on his waist, mixed in with pregnant ghosts, and followed the nurse to the outpatient department. He smelled the air and walked all the way to the operating room on the far right of the second floor.

The operating room door was tightly closed. Ning Su leaned over at the window and looked inside through the gap in the curtain.

On the wall facing outside of the operating room, there was an arched window with no curtains. The bloody moonlight shone through the swaying branches, casting a mottled light on the operating room.

Standing on the operating table was something wearing a white coat that was hard to say whether it was human or not.

Looking at the back half of the body, he looked indeed human, but the parts exposed from his clothes were covered with black hair.

Using the sharp claws on his hand, he opened up the stomach of a ghost and took out a puppy with a human body and a dog face.

The ghost on the operating table visibly fades away.

Ning Su now understood where those beastmen they saw in this inner world came from.

He looked at the ghost on the operating table, whose eyes had already lost his light.

The black-haired doctor pushes the operating table towards the window, letting the extremely weak ghost bathe in the moonlight before stuffing something into his stomach and sewing it back up.

The ghost on the operating table twisted and struggled in pain.

Ning Su saw something faintly converging into the ghost’s stomach, and his figure became increasingly faint, as if he’s just a ghostly apparition struggling to maintain himself under the bloody moonlight.

In this hospital, “grooms” could avoid the abuse of “brides”. But to stay here, they had to pay a heavy price. After all, if all the “grooms” in the village came here, it would be overcrowded.

This was just another place where they were tortured, a strange kind of reproductive suffering.

The things in their stomachs suck on what’s inside their bodies. These were not normal children, and they endure complex pain day and night, not just physically.

Why did they have to use this method?

Ning Su was lost in thought when he suddenly saw the doctor turning his head to look at him.

Ning Su immediately moved his hand away from the windowsill, and in that moment, his beautiful and frozen peach blossom eyes became even larger.

The long and fair fingers turned into short ones, with fine white hair growing on them.

The straight and long legs turned into short ones.

Ning Su stumbled and fell to the ground.

After the little ghost fell to the ground, he paused for a moment before getting up. He turned around and stared dumbfoundedly at the small white pig lying on the ground.

His eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

He remembered the words Ning Su had said to him the night before, when he had been lying on Ning Su’s chest. The little ghost quickly picked up his eyes and put them back in their sockets, then picked up the small pig and ran away.

He was already unsteady when he ran, and carrying a small pig his own size around made him even more unsteady.

He fell down on the stairs before even getting to the bottom and landed with a thud along with the small pig.

The little ghost made an indescribable sound, carefully touched the pig’s face, and didn’t even have time to pick up his own eyes before he hugged the pig and continued running, making sounds like “mm” and “mm”.

Zhu Shuangshuang and the other three couldn’t get into the hospital, so they had to rely on Ning Su to find out what was going on.

They kept an eye on the outside while looking inside from time to time.

They first heard a “thump” sound, then saw the little ghost, who was missing an eye and hand and had a swollen, bruised face, running out of the door with a small pig in his arms, staggering along the way.

He fell again on the stairs, but clearly he had learned from experience. When he landed with a “crack”, he put his little arms out to protect the pig, then immediately jumped up and ran again.

When he finally ran up to them while struggling to hold on to the small pig, the four of them finally realized who the pig was.

It was Ning Su, who had eaten six pig trotters.

He couldn’t escape the fate of being turned into a little pig.

Four people became nervous all of a sudden.

Especially Zhu Shuangshuang, who anxiously said, “What should we do? We don’t know how long it took for Fatty to turn into a black dog, but we can speculate that it didn’t take long for Thin Monkey and Scarface.”

Thin Monkey went to bury the black dog and was taken away for live streaming slaughter that night.

Zhu Shuangshuang still remembered the confusion and shock on the second bride’s face when ‘she’ appeared. Therefore, the scarred man should have been sealed in the coffin as soon as he turned into a bride, even faster than Thin Monkey!

Zhu Shuangshuang said, “We can’t continue to investigate like this. Ning Su will die!”

“Don’t panic,” Chen Qing comforted her. “What do you want to do then? We still have to look for clues in the village.”

Zhu Shuangshuang gritted her teeth. “I’ll go and lift the red veil of the bride. Those ghosts respect her so much, I think she must be the ghost master and we must go now!”

Chen Tian and Chen Qing hesitated.

Chen Tian said, “Shuangshuang, Ning Su saved our lives, and we will definitely save him. But you have to know that it’s dangerous to lift the veil of the bride because all the ghosts in the village respect her.”

“We may be swallowed by the ghosts in the village, or there may be something extremely terrifying under that strange red veil. Our reckless action may result with us being entirely wiped out.”

Zhu Shuangshuang suddenly shouted, “But we don’t have time!”

Chen Tian was so shocked that he couldn’t speak, and his anxiety was evident on his face. “Stay calm. Let’s plan how to lift the veil,” he said.

Zhu Shuangshuang anxiously looked at Su Wangsheng, her eyes on the verge of turning red. “Little Taoist, Ning Su will die if we wait any longer. Think about how fast Scarface died.”

Su Wangsheng was stunned. He frowned and thought for a moment before looking up and saying, “It’s getting faster.”

“It’s not yet midnight tonight, so there are two people with different transformations today. Scarface turned into a bride and Ning Su turned into a piglet.”

“After tomorrow at 12 o’clock, will it be three or four? If that happens, there’s no need to talk about us dying, it will be all over!”

Chen Tian didn’t hesitate anymore and said, “Let’s go!”

The four of them pushed open the door of the hospital and rushed out. They had just taken two steps when they saw the scarred man walking out of the nearby woods.

Bloodstained footprints were left on the gray-painted road, and he stood in the center of the road.

He held a long knife and was dressed in a wet, blood-soaked red wedding dress that exuded a strong smell of blood. The contradiction between the 188cm muscular man and the beautiful wedding dress was eerie.

The face, covered in flesh and blood, had some recovery, and you could vaguely make out the three twisted characters “Bai Xiangning” made up of twisted flesh on his face, which intersected with the original old scar in a sinister and terrifying way.

Under the blood-red moonlight, he laughed excitedly at them.

Su Wangsheng shouted, “How heavy is the resentment? Why don’t you go find the villagers instead of coming to us?!”

When they saw the scarred man appearing in front of them, the four of them stopped in their tracks. Only the Ghost Child, still holding onto the little pig without giving it to anyone, ran forward with his head down.

Half of his body hit the scarred man’s leg, and he fell down on his butt.

He remained silent immediately and skillfully stood up while holding the little pig.

When the scarred man saw the pig in his arms, his smile became even more excited, and the scars on his face trembled.

He slowly lifted the blood-stained long knife in his hand and placed the tip of the blade on the pig’s neck. A drop of blood stained the soft white fur red.

The child looked at the blade on the neck of the little pig in his arms.

The sharp tip of the blade reflected the bloody moonlight, which hit his pale little face.

The child slowly raised his head to look at the scarred man.

Under the blood-red moonlight, the difference between the two sides of his face became even more pronounced.

On the gray side of his face, there was one less eyeball, and the round, black eye sockets faced the scarred man like the entrance to an abyss.

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