A face that has no skin.
"Oh!"
Ruan Ya 'er's fear was magnified infinitely.
She spread her fingers and tightened her knuckles. She used all her strength to clench the wooden board, creating a creaking sound.
It was like the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard!
The tall person in front of her had her entire face hidden under her hood, making it difficult to see her appearance.
However, the hand holding the butcher's knife had wrinkled skin, slender bones, and bulging veins. It was clearly a woman's hand.
"Don't be afraid. It will be over soon."
The voice was deep and gloomy.
It gripped people's hearts and made them shiver.
As the butcher's knife was slowly raised, Ruan Ya 'er's fear turned into despair.
She even forgot to struggle!
The blade glowed white as it slowly descended.
Suddenly!
Thud!
A sound came from the wooden ceiling.
The butcher's knife paused in mid-air.
The sound amplified Ruan Ya 'er's desire to live. She turned her head to look at the opening on the ceiling. Light seeped in.
"Oh ~ Save …"
Ruan Ya 'er used all her strength to make a sound.
The woman standing on top of her grinned and put down the butcher's knife. She didn't show the slightest bit of nervousness. Instead, she leisurely walked to the chair and sat down.
She waited for the person above to come down.
Jing Rong had already lifted the wooden floor of the basement. The light from above penetrated the room, causing some dust to appear.
He took the lead and Ji Yunshu followed behind.
The torch in his hand went deep, illuminating the smelly basement.
The light shifted to Ruan Ya 'er, who was tied to the wooden board. At the same time, it shifted to the woman sitting on the chair.
"You're finally here!" The woman said.
Jing Rong lit an oil lamp inside the room and extended the lamp forward.
He coldly said, "Let her go!"
"Is this kind of woman worth saving?"
"Then what did you get for killing so many people?"
"These people deserve to die." The woman was agitated.
Jing Rong pressed forward, "It's not up to you to decide whether they deserve to die or not. You don't have the right to kill them."
"I do!" he roared angrily.
He stood up abruptly, and the butcher's knife in his hand fell on Ruan Ya 'er's neck. However, he did not chop it down. Instead, Ruan Ya' er was so frightened that her legs gave way and she fainted.
The woman laughed a few times. Her eyes, hidden in the darkness, flashed with an orange light. She bypassed Jing Rong and looked at Ji Yunshu.
Pointing with his finger, he said, "If it weren't for you, everything would have gone perfectly."
Ji Yunshu calmly looked at her. She took a small step forward, but Jing Rong stopped her.
"It's okay."
Only then did Jing Rong loosen his grip.
Ji Yunshu stepped forward and gradually approached him. Once again, she could smell the faint scent of cosmetics.
The woman stared at her and fiercely said, "You killed my Xiang 'er and Zhi' er."
"It's not me who killed him, it's you!"
"Me?" The woman grinned and sneered. It was very strange.
She continued, "Your son and daughter died for you. They used their lives to atone for your crimes. Do you really not have a shred of conscience in your heart?"
Son?
Daughter?
Could this person be Mei Xiang 'er's mother?
Didn't she die a long time ago?
The woman sneered again. "How did you know?"
"You don't need to care about how I know. I can guess that you are here. Naturally, I have my reasons."
"It's Xiang 'er?" The woman's voice trembled.
Ji Yunshu's gaze fell on the woman's hand that was holding the butcher's knife. She took another step forward and said, "Your crime was ultimately shouldered by your daughter. Her greatest wish before her death was for you to stop. But she was wrong. No matter how much she protected you, she couldn't change a cruel person's nature."
"What are you trying to say?"
Ji Yunshu took out Mei Xiang 'er's note from her sleeve and handed it to the figure in the darkness.
After a while, there was a whooshing sound.
In the darkness, the pale and dry hand quickly took it.
The woman quickly opened the note and read the words in the letter one by one.
Ji Yunshu couldn't see the woman's expression, but she could clearly see the woman's fingers exerting force as she slowly crumpled a corner of the note into a ball.
"Before she died, she stuffed this note into my clothes. Perhaps when Heaven gave me a chance, it also gave her a chance. She asked me to give this letter to you. If you can read it, she hopes that you can let go and stop harming others. In this world, aside from her, no one can protect you. She didn't want to die with remaining grievances. She didn't want to see her mother suffer in the abyss of sin."
Ji Yunshu decided to strike while the iron was hot. She continued, "Miss Xiang 'er is already dead. Until the moment she died, she never blamed you. Even when your bloody hands peeled off her skin layer by layer, she never hated you. In order to protect you, she was willing to use her and her brother's deaths to cover up the truth without the slightest hesitation. "
The note trembled in the darkness.
As Ji Yunshu finished speaking, it slipped from the woman's hand and fell on Ruan Ya 'er's body.
The woman didn't move for a long time. Only when the butcher knife in her hand moved away from Ruan Ya 'er's neck and fell on the wooden plank with a clang did she turn around. She took out a lighter from her waist and blew on it to light another oil lamp.
He turned around once more, raised his hand, and pulled off his hat as well.
A head of grizzled hair and a pair of deep, bloodshot eyes were revealed. As the light grew brighter, the terrifying face was also revealed.
It was a shameless face!
The dark red blood vessels were clearly visible. It was extremely disgusting!
"Is it very scary?" The woman asked Ji Yunshu.
Ji Yunshu shook her head. Her eyes were filled with sympathy as she said, "I think Miss Xiang 'er didn't tell the whole story."
"…"
"Why don't I finish it for her? That year, because you gave birth to a son who was born with a strange disease, the entire village said that he was an inauspicious person and drove you away. Not long after, you heard that as long as you found a piece of skin for your son, he would be able to return to being an ordinary person. So, you skinned your daughter and skinned yourself for your son, but it was useless. You originally gave up, but two months ago, when you saw someone humiliating Mei Xiang 'er because of the scar on her neck, you killed them. You didn't expect that it would be seen by Gan Chuliang. In order to cover up your crime of murder, Mei Xiang' er begged him to help you dispose of the corpses. As a result, you killed them again and again without any hesitation."
"If my guess is correct, not only did you want to skin them for your son, but you also wanted your son to defile them. You probably hoped that these women would inherit your son's lineage!"
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