Chapter 117: Ah Hong's trace, the correct use of wind chimes

Looking at the iron boxes in front of him, Cao Yang was indeed a little skeptical.

The iron box was not sealed. There were some holes of different sizes chiseled on its surface. Cao Yang had roughly guessed what it was used for.

The ice jar is also one of the props used for skinning. The person is put into an iron box and water is poured in through the holes. The temperature difference is used to make the skin and flesh stick to the iron. When the person's skin is completely stuck to the ice jar, the person can be simply and roughly pulled out of the box and his skin will be torn off directly. The principle is similar to touching a lamp post after washing hands in the middle of winter.

Something seemed to be sticking out of a small hole. It was a thin red line that seemed to be stained with blood. The strange red line looked at Cao Yang in front of it like a small snake, and Cao Yang naturally noticed the appearance of the red line. It was not an ordinary red line, but a real ghost!
"The red thread seems to have appeared once in the original novel. If I remember correctly, it seemed to be a ghost controlled by the person in charge of Tai O City. I wonder if there is any connection between the two."

Cao Yang instinctively took a few steps back. No ghost should be underestimated, especially since this was a mysterious place.

Red threads kept coming out of the holes in the iron box. These threads were wriggling like worms, and blood was even dripping down.

"The blood looks fresh. Ghosts don't have this kind of blood. This can only mean that there is a person in the box, or a corpse that died not long ago."

Cao Yang looked at the red line and did not act rashly. The ghost line did not attack him, which meant that the pattern was not triggered.

However, while guarding against the ghost line, Cao Yang also has to pay attention to the colorful and strange human skin on the broken bed. Ah Hong's code name is ghost makeup, so it is hard to say whether this human skin is hers.

The ghost thread squirmed wildly, causing the iron box to tremble slightly, and black blood oozed out, as if something inside was about to be pulled out by the ghost thread.

At this moment, the human skin on the bed suddenly moved. The lifeless skin seemed to be draped over by an invisible figure, and it swayed wildly without wind, making a rustling sound.

"It's not good. I'm surrounded."

Cao Yang looked back and saw that the human skin was very intact, with almost no damage. It was also easy to tell that it was a female skin, with heavy makeup on the face, a thick layer of makeup, like a layer of oil paint.

"Ah Hong?!"

That’s right, the female skin was exactly Ah Hong’s, at least that’s what Cao Yang thought, because the skin was covering Ah Hong’s face, and the oil paint was Ah Hong’s ghost makeup.

No one knows what the real Ah Hong looks like. When people see her, she is always wearing thick makeup, but there is no doubt that it is a face that is so beautiful that it even seems unreal.

"If the human skin is Ah Hong's skin, then where is her body?"

Cao Yang's gaze fell on the metal box in front of him again. No more blood was oozing out of the box, perhaps it had already dried up.

"So, that body in the box could be yours?"

In the current situation, although this piece of human skin is covering Ah Hong’s face, it does not mean that Ah Hong is dead. We need some stronger evidence. What if she is not dead?

"If there is human skin, it means that the skinning ghost really exists. Chen Yi is not lying. But... could it be that the ghost is also in the box?"

The ghost line was very agitated and had even begun to attack Cao Yang, but was avoided by Cao Yang.

"This ghost line is like a snake. It's not a good thing."

More and more threads began to emerge from the box. No one knew how long the red threads were. The only thing that could be seen was that all the threads were stained with wet blood. Not only that, the box began to smell like corpses and blood, which further proved that there was something inside the box, and it was most likely... a corpse.

The human skin behind him had completely stood up. Just looking at the heavily made-up human skin made people's scalps numb. The human skin seemed to be inflated at this moment, and the whole body slowly filled up, but the dead face was really creepy.

Cao Yang covered himself with a ghost den, but the ghosts were not affected at all and continued to rush towards Cao Yang like poisonous snakes.

He couldn't dodge in time, and the red line as thick as his little finger left a hole of the same size on Cao Yang's body, and the flesh here was directly pierced!
"hiss!"

There was no pain, no feeling, the wound was numb, but the horror of the ghost line made Cao Yang feel frightened.

Cao Yang took a few steps back and took out a string of wind chimes. He wanted to shake the wind chimes to temporarily dispel the evil spirit, but he didn't expect that a small piece of black jade in the wind chime would weather away, leaving only an old and rough piece of yellow paper on Cao Yang's body.

"What does this mean? Did you accidentally figure out the true use of the Black Jade Wind Chime?"

Cao Yang was a little surprised because the blood hole on his body left by the ghost line attack just now disappeared, and the black jade wind chime grew some healthy flesh and blood out of thin air and filled the hole again.

"Repair, or transfer the damage. Then the wind chime will disappear, leaving behind the talisman paper. The talisman paper is the price of using the wind chime. As for what the talisman paper will bring, it is unknown."

At this moment, Cao Yang finally understood the use of the wind chime.

"The wind chime is somewhat similar to the surrogate doll. The surrogate doll can deflect attacks without any cost. The wind chime can repair the damage to the body. In other words, the damage can be transferred away, but the cost is incurred by the talisman paper."

“Ding Ding~!”

As the injury was transferred, Cao Yang still chose to shake the wind chimes. Upon hearing the crisp sound of the wind chimes, the ghost line instantly shrank back. Although it was still waving its claws and fangs outside the box, it did not attack Cao Yang again.

At this moment, the human skin behind him suddenly spoke.

"Who are you? Why are you here?"

The human skin was still leaking air when it spoke, and its voice was dry and hoarse, just like a real ghost.

"Headquarters Cao Yang, here to look for Ah Hong."

Cao Yang did not speak, but typed these words on his phone and showed them to the human skin. Whether or not he read the words would help him determine whether the human skin was a ghost.

Human skin is very light, and it is difficult to keep it stable even without wind. If Cao Yang was not afraid of something going wrong, he really wanted to cover it directly with the ghost cave, and use the law of gravity that ghosts will die if they lose balance to hit it, to see if it would still go crazy.

However, this idea can only be limited to an idea. Cao Yang is a cautious person and will not mess around in a supernatural place.

"Cao Yang?"

The human skin tried its best to control its body shape and moved closer to Cao Yang. With a pair of hollow eyelids, it looked at the words on the phone and read them out slowly.

(End of this chapter)