The ultimate master in the city

Chapter 118 The Circular Courtyard, Fork in the Road, Bridge, Old Lady, Woman in Red

There was a strange street lamp on the bridge, emitting a dim, yellowish light.

The woman in red who had just been complaining to him and urging him to run for his life was now standing under the streetlight, looking down at the swaddled baby in her arms. Her long, black hair was draped over her hips, her red clothes swayed in the wind, her face was deathly pale, her lips were black, and she was humming an unintelligible nursery rhyme, occasionally letting out a strange laugh.

This scene is absolutely terrifying no matter how you look at it!

Zhou Fengchen felt he had been tricked. He gripped his knife, ready to rush over, but then thought better of it and decided to check another road first.

He turned and ran back, and five minutes later he took another fork in the road. After running for another five minutes, he reached the end of the road, and sure enough, a stone bridge appeared in front of him.

There was a streetlamp on the bridge, and under it, an old lady pilgrim was walking back and forth with her cane, humming incessantly, as if she were looking for someone to settle a score with.

Zhou Fengchen was panting heavily. These two old women were talking nonsense to him? Damn it!

He drew his goose-wing knife with a swift motion and slowly walked towards the bridge.

The old woman turned her head and saw him. She grinned, revealing her large, dark mouth, and said in a hoarse voice, "Young man, why aren't you going to the left? What are you doing here?"

"Let's play!" Zhou Fengchen raised his knife. "Old hag, prepare to die!"

"Hehehehe..." The old woman chuckled evilly, slammed her cane down hard, and suddenly a string of thorns grew out of her back. Her old face turned eerily sharp, and her legs and arms became long and thick.

At first glance, it looks like a human-shaped hedgehog!

Zhou Fengchen arrived at that moment and swung his knife to slash. The old woman bent over and used the thorns on her back to block.

With a loud clang, Zhou Fengchen was jolted back two steps, while the old woman, unharmed, bounced and lunged forward, baring her teeth.

Zhou Fengchen gritted his teeth and swung his knife again.

For a moment, you pounced and I slashed, you slashed and I blocked, the clanging sounds echoing endlessly.

Zhou Fengchen became increasingly frustrated as he fought. The old woman was covered in needles that could retract, retracting like a tortoise shell, making it impossible to cut into her. The impact also caused pain in his hands. If she stood upright, he had nowhere to attack her. She was extremely difficult to deal with.

This won't do. He seized an opportunity to jump off the bridge, pulled out five talismans, and tossed them aside: "Xuan Shi, Five Elements Talisman Kill!"

The Five Elements Talisman flew around and instantly enveloped the old woman. The old woman's face changed drastically, and she screamed and fell to the ground.

Zhou Fengchen seized the opportunity to jump over and stab the old lady in the heart.

puff!

The "old hedgehog" was disemboweled, twitched a few times, and then lay still.

Zhou Fengchen kicked the "corpse" into the river, cursing under his breath, "If I had known, I would have used the talisman earlier. Why did I have to go through all this trouble?"

After crossing the bridge, there was another thatched road on the other side, with a similarly winding surface.

Zhou Fengchen was curious and wondered what was on the other side. Just as he was about to run out to take a look, a humming sound suddenly came from behind him.

He turned around abruptly and gasped, feeling a chill run down his spine and his heart pounding! The woman... had mysteriously come back to life, standing on the bridge under the streetlights, walking back and forth with her cane.

"Damn it! I don't care anymore!"

Zhou Fengchen gritted his teeth, took off running along the road, and decided to see where the road ended first.

The road wasn't long, it only took five or six minutes to reach the end. He looked around and was taken aback.

The neighborhood feels familiar. There's a vast river next to us, a fork in the road ahead, and a courtyard to the left.

"No, they won't be back again, will they?"

He swallowed hard, ran into the courtyard, and sure enough, it was exactly the same as the courtyard he had come out of.

He ran back to the innermost room, kicked open the door, and immediately felt utterly exhausted.

Leftovers and a large wooden bucket—all things I've used myself.

"I've run into a maze again..."

He kicked the table over, then ran out to the woman in red's room, which was empty and covered in cobwebs and dust, as if no one had ever been there.

He then went to the old lady's room, which was also filled with cobwebs and dust, and had a musty smell.

Once outside, looking at the unusually bright red moon in the sky, he decided to try going to the woman in red again. If that didn't work... he would have to think of another way.

After leaving the courtyard, we soon arrived at the bridge where the woman in red was.

The woman in red was still humming a song under the streetlamp, holding the swaddled baby. When she saw Zhou Fengchen approaching, she giggled, "Didn't I tell you to go to the right? Why are you here?"

Zhou Fengchen lost his temper, stepped onto the bridge, squatted down, and looked at the woman in red. "Big sister, stop trying to fool me, what exactly do you want?"

The woman in red chuckled and said, "Don't you want to do anything? Didn't I tell you to run for your life?"

"Where the hell do you expect me to run to?" Zhou Fengchen's temper flared up again, and he roared, "I want to swear right now, you know that?"

The woman in red rolled her eyes. "Then go ahead and curse!"

Zhou Fengchen glared at her: "You and the old lady are both idiots, sluts, whores!"

"You treacherous villain, how dare you insult me? You're asking for death!" The woman in red turned on me in an instant, her body trembling as she grew to be over ten meters tall, exuding a chilling and evil aura, baring her teeth in a terrifying manner.

"what!"

She let out a strange scream, almost threatening, then looked down at me and swung her hairy, sharp claws at me.

Zhou Fengchen breathed a sigh of relief. There was no time to take out a talisman, so he drew his goose-wing blade, leaped up, and lunged at Zhou Fengchen, slashing straight at his chest.

The woman neither dodged nor avoided the attack, but she was too large. The knife felt like a tickle to her, and there was a pungent stench that was unbearable to behold.

Seeing that his first stab had failed, Zhou Fengchen stepped on the woman's belly, about to deliver another blow into her heart, when suddenly a skinned, dead child crawled out of the swaddling clothes the woman was holding, screamed, and bit his neck.

"Go to hell!" Zhou Fengchen was extremely annoyed and slapped the other side of the blade away with the back of his hand.

The woman was enraged and swung her claw. Zhou Fengchen couldn't dodge in time and fell, tumbling several times in mid-air before regaining his footing. A burning pain shot through his chest.

"Hehehehe..."

The woman had long, black hair that swayed in the wind like a waterfall, and she chuckled strangely with a smug look on her face.

"Laugh at your grandpa!"

Zhou Fengchen cursed, reached into his robes, and found he had only a few talismans left. He bit his left finger, drew several seals on his right palm, and leaped up again, stepping on the woman's belly. He reached her large face, grinned, and swung his hand towards her forehead: "Xuan Shijiu, Five Thunder Orthodox Method, Exorcise Evil and Subdue Demons, Palm Thunder! Die!"

boom--

The woman's skull was ripped open, blood and sweat gushing everywhere. Her eyes widened as she fell straight down, the impact shaking the bridge.

Zhou Fengchen landed on the woman's belly, jogged to her neck, chopped off her head with a single stroke, kicked it into the water, thought for a moment, then stabbed her in the heart, splattering blood all over himself.

Then, after crossing the bridge with a few glances back, the huge headless female corpse suddenly disappeared after walking only a dozen meters. The woman in red reappeared on the bridge, holding the baby and humming a song, as if nothing had happened.

"Damn it!" Zhou Fengchen slapped his forehead and ran forward with his head down.

I reached the end after running for five minutes.

To the left is a river that stretches as far as the eye can see, with a fork in the road on the other side, and to the right is a courtyard.

Once inside the courtyard, it was the same house he had left behind.

No matter how I try to walk, I can't get out!

"What on earth is this thing? Is it a maze, with one thing leading to another?"

Zhou Fengchen roared, squatted down, looked around, and started singing in his hoarse voice: "I'm so annoyed lately, so annoyed..."