Chapter 25.1: Ghost Animal (22)

The Bai couple looked at Bai Xiangning in shock.

They could not believe their eyes.

The middle-aged woman said, “Is it my eyes playing tricks on me? How could I see him come back?”

The middle-aged man looked down at the ground and exclaimed excitedly, “I saw it too! It’s not an illusion, Xiangning has really come back!”

They were both overjoyed but also a little frightened, so they took a quick step forward but stopped themselves.

The middle-aged woman placed one hand on her chest and tremblingly reached out the other hand towards him. “Xiangning, did you come back because we arranged a ghost wedding for you? Are you here to say goodbye to us?”

After their son died, they learned that unmarried people who died would become wandering ghosts that could not rest in peace or be reincarnated.

The two of them, one a university professor and the other a corporate executive, were highly educated people who did not believe in these things before their son’s death.

But after their son died, their world collapsed.

They only had one child, and only those who had experienced the pain of losing an only child could truly understand their suffering.

They almost followed their son to the grave.

They were willing to do anything to make their son’s afterlife better, even if it meant going to extreme lengths.

And so, the ghost wedding happened.

The middle-aged woman cried tears of joy, it seemed that they had really done something for their son.

However, they did not notice Bai Xiangning’s abnormal expression.

“Yes, it was because you arranged the ghost wedding for me that I came back,” Bai Xiangning murmured softly.

Then, unexpectedly, he leaned in and with one hand, grabbed the man’s neck, pressing them against the wall three meters away from him.

The sudden movement caused the decayed flesh on his face to fall off.

He leaned in close to him, his face twisted in a grimace of rage and hatred. “Why did you bring me to Huaiyang Village? Why did you arrange a ghost marriage for me? Why?!”

The two of them looked at him in shock, as if they no longer recognized their own son.

Their son, who had always been obedient and well-behaved under their meticulous care and education, excelling academically and being accepted to a prestigious university straight out of high school, had always been “the child of other people’s family” in others’ eyes. (T/N: The idiom is often used to describe a child who is well-behaved, talented, or successful, but who is not related to the speaker.)

How could he have changed like this?

The madness and hatred in his eyes frightened them.

“We, we...” the middle-aged woman spoke up loudly, “We did it for your own good!”

“Didn’t you control my life while I was alive? Why won’t you let me go even after I’m dead?!” Bai Xiangning shouted even more madly, his eyes turning bloodshot.

The two of them stared at him in shock.

Just then, two strange “people” appeared behind them.

One of them was a girl in a blood-stained red wedding dress whom they recognized. She had received their red envelope and called them mom and dad - their daughter-in-law.

The other man was shirtless, his face twisted with scars, and upon closer inspection, they could see the words “Bai Xiangning” on his face.

The two of them looked at them in confusion.

Wasn’t their son’s name carved on their daughter-in-law’s face?

Then, something even more shocking happened.

The two eerie figures smiled and looked at their son, who had been vicious just a second ago. Without hesitation, he knelt down to them, as if he had done it a thousand times before.

The two of them were shocked and widened their eyes, not understanding what was going on.

They held a ghost wedding for their son so that he would have a home in the underworld and not become a lonely ghost.

The woman they spent money to marry into the coffin should have been serving their son for the rest of her life through a series of operations.

Why did their son kneel down?

Something had deviated from their plan, making them more and more anxious.

The scarred man laughed wickedly. “You still want your son to have offspring and carry on the family line?”

“Forget about it. If you dare to carve his name below me, I’ll smash it countless times.”

The couple couldn’t believe it. “No, no...”

Another bride made a creepy laughter under the moonlight, “His heart is quite tasty. I just don’t know how yours... tastes?”

The two “brides” walked towards the couple, while Bai Xiangning knelt beside them, crying and laughing, collapsing into madness.

***

Huaiyang Village Church.

There were many people sitting here tonight, including locals from Huaiyang Village and those who had secretly come from outside with hats and masks.

They were excited and trembling with strange excitement, eager to see a bloody feast that would make their blood boil and their brains climax.

The bridesmaid in a white coat stood in the middle of the church, behind the altar, elegantly bowing to everyone. “Welcome, everyone.”

“The ragdoll dog from last time was very popular, so what are we going to do today?”

A young sheep was brought up to the altar, still with soft wool and no horns.

Next was a silver cat with emerald green eyes.

As usual, these two little animals were of different species. One was a local sheep from Huaiyang Village, and the other was a cat brought by Ms. Chen, who was No. 32 right now.

With fingers painted in dark red nail polish, the beautiful woman lifted the trembling chin of the little kitten and asked, “These emerald green eyes are so beautiful, what can we use them for?”

Excited commotion erupted from the audience.

They stared intently at the two animals on the altar and the beautiful woman holding a surgical knife, unaware of the appearance of two strange little creatures at the church entrance.

One had the face of a goat and the body of a human, while the other had the face of a human and the body of a dog.

They cast no shadows under the light. They quietly watched the two animals and the woman on the altar.

When the surgical knife cut off the little goat’s neck, the goat-faced creature suddenly rushed towards the bridesmaid.

His sharp horns pierced the bridesmaid’s neck, and his motor-like head shook rapidly from side to side, causing the bridesmaid’s head to swing back and forth twice before it fell to the ground with a loud thud.

The church was filled with screams of horror, but the chaos only lasted for a minute. When people saw the little creature holding the goat’s head, they inexplicably stopped running away, and some even sat down with their eyes wide open, staring at him expectantly and fearfully.

The little creature looked at the tools on the altar and placed the goat’s head on the bride’s neck.

The other little creature came over to help him.

The two of them used thread to sew the goat’s head onto the bridesmaid’s neck.

Their childish hands and dog paws were not skilled enough, and the stitching was rough and uneven, connecting the goat’s face and human body together haphazardly.

The people in the hall looked at the thick stitches, the open goat's face, and the twitching body, panting with excitement and eyes gleaming.

Two little beast-like creatures turned their heads to look at them.

When they came to their senses, there were already many little creatures and haphazardly assembled dead animals at the church door and windows, all of them ice-cold and emotionless, with innocent eyes staring motionlessly at them.

The people inside the church were finally overwhelmed with fear instead of excitement, with layers of cold sweat appearing on their faces and bodies.

The creatures slowly approached them, and in the same second, they all pounced on them.

As the screams and cries of agony echoed throughout the church, a pregnant ghost walked to the altar, next to the bridesmaid, with a goat's face.

The silver-layered little cat on the altar had long since hidden in the corner, and the body of the little goat whose head had been cut off by the bridesmaid was still there.

The pregnant ghost picked up the headless body of the goat, took a surgical knife, squatted next to the bridesmaid’s body, opened her abdomen, put the little goat inside, carefully sewed up her belly, patted her stomach in satisfaction, and giggled.

The bridesmaid’s head, which had fallen off, was facing him, and her widened eyes still retained the terror from before her death.

Several other pregnant ghosts walked into the Huaiyang Village Hospital.

The male ghost who had been abused by his family walked into the Wang family’s old house.

Many ghosts like him walked into their own homes.

When Huaiyang Village engaged in this kind of underworld business, they only came into contact with wealthy people and those who believed in feudal superstitions. Gradually, some people believed that this was a good thing that could bring prosperity to the clan, so they began to arrange ghost weddings for their family members.

At this point, every family had welcomed “relatives” in pairs.

When several players emerged from the inner world, they saw ghosts heading towards the places that they bore grudges to.

Huaiyang Village was shrouded in the smell of death in the late night, with desperate and frightened screams echoing one after another.

The smell of blood grew stronger and stronger, and with the night wind flying into the sky, the silver moon almost turned red.

They saw the bride in the red wedding gown at the entrance of the slaughterhouse.

This time, she was moving.

The moon in Huaiyang village was gradually soaked in blood, and the light gradually turned red and dim. The village under the moon was dark and gloomy.

There was a huge black dog with long hair and ghostly shadows, barking while leading the way in front of the bride in the red wedding gown.

The bride walked slowly on the main road of Huaiyang village, listening to the cries and screams around her, taking small and stiff steps.

The black dog occasionally looked back at her, its huge tail wagging gently, sweeping away all the obstacles on the road for her, such as debris, body parts, people, and ghosts.

Its fist-sized eyes were exceptionally bright, illuminating the way in front of the bride in the red wedding gown.

When it turned back, the yellowish light in its eyes completely enveloped the bride.

The little pig, Ning Su, was stunned as he watched this scene, thinking of the nights when the little puppy led the way for the girl who was afraid of the dark, and he lowered his head and grumbled.

Zhu Shuangshuang didn’t know why, but she suddenly felt very sad. “But the black dog is actually controlling the already dead bride.”

The bride in the red wedding gown walked slowly, with her eyes soaked in blood and tears, and the head of a broken black dog under the long and densely covered red hood.

This red hood was much longer than usual, covering her head tightly and not wanting to be lifted.

This way, she looked like a normal bride in a red wedding gown.

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