MTL - Twilight Boundary

Chapter 1 The weird mother-in-law

Having a splitting headache, dry mouth, and a body that feels heavy as if it does not belong to oneself.

Just the act of opening his eyes took Hu Ma a long time, accompanied by waves of dizziness.

Now he is half-leaning in a room similar to a hall. In the middle of the room, there is a dirt-covered Eight Immortals table, several low square stools, and a blackened stone barrier against the wall. Get up the stove.

Several little paper figures were leaning against the wall, with weird smiles painted on their faces. Yellow, yellow and red talisman papers, with twisted runes drawn on them, were posted all over the house.

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 Subconsciously, I wanted to move, but my shoulders were heavy and painful.

An iron chain extended from the roof beam, and the end was divided into two ends, each connected with an iron hook.

Now, two iron hooks pierced Huma's pipa bones, and the **** spikes were exposed on the chest.

 He has been locked up here for six or seven days.

 But until now, he still doesn’t know why he is locked here.

He had just graduated from college and found a promising security job in an advanced laboratory that was known as the world's cutting-edge at the time. Then an explosion suddenly occurred and he floated up.

I don’t know how long it took to drift around in a hazy state until I was attracted by a strange sound and followed the sound, and suddenly I felt like I was falling rapidly.

 When he opened his eyes again, he was already in this place and was locked up.

And during these six or seven days, every night, an old woman would sit in front of him, silently chanting sutras, chanting mantras, waving some strange talismans, and sometimes tortured himself. The pain was like peeling off the skin of a pot, and after that, I fed myself some strange meat and medicinal soup.

 But no matter what he asked her or what he did, she turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye.

Anyway, she was hooked by these two iron hooks at this time, and she was dizzy and unconscious from time to time. She couldn't resist anything she did.

 “Why did she lock me up?”

 “What weird thing is she reciting to me every day?”

　　　…”

There is no answer to these flax.

During this period of time, he was always dizzy from time to time, feeling as if he was floating around. He was even more weak and exhausted from various tortures.

 Occasionally when I wake up, my mouth feels dry and my body feels like it has been completely hollowed out.

 The water tank is three meters away, close to the earth wall.

 The iron chains on the roof are attached to the beams and can slide, so Hu Ma can theoretically move around the house.

 But walking around will undoubtedly require a huge painful price.

It took him dozens of seconds to endure the pain from his shoulder blades on both sides and slowly stood up.

Then, holding on to the wall tremblingly, he moved towards the water tank bit by bit.

 The friction between the bones of the shoulder and the iron hook will produce a strange and cold sound.

 A little blood seeped out slowly as he moved.

 But not much, maybe it’s all gone.

 Finally arrived at the water tank and saw the clear water inside, with half a gourd floating on it.

Hu Ma scooped up half a ladle of water, otherwise her arms couldn't hold it up, so she brought it to her mouth and drank it.

 The heat and headache in the body seem to have been relieved a lot.

 But when he pressed the gourd and picked up the ladle, his thirst was relieved, but he became hungry again.

Hu Ma subconsciously looked at the rough porcelain bowl on the Eight Immortals table.

After hesitating for a long time, he still went through.

He opened the bowl on top and saw a square piece of reddish boiled meat on the plate below.

 For him, who was hungry, this represented an extremely strong temptation, but he still resisted.

That weird old woman, in addition to chanting sutras and mantras to him every day, would feed him some weird things from time to time, including herbs and boiled talisman water, but the most important thing among them was this unknown meat. .

Whether Hu Ma has an appetite or not, he has to be forced to stuff it in, forcing him to chew and swallow. Every time he eats it, it is an extremely painful experience.

 This resulted in him not wanting to touch this piece of meat no matter how hungry he was at this moment.

 “Escape while she’s not around, you must escape…”

Hu Ma warned herself secretly and realized the most important problem.

Confirming that there was no one around him, he endured the dull pain, raised his right hand, and grasped the iron hook that passed through his left shoulder.

 He tried hard little by little, trying to push the iron hook out of his flesh.

 Severe pain hit the brain, and even the brain was throbbing with pain. The hook had grown together with the flesh.

 But Hu Ma gritted his teeth and tried little by little.

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Just when the pain was getting worse, a gust of wind suddenly opened the door, and the light in the room became a little darker.

 “That weird old lady is back?”

Hu Ma was startled. She turned around and saw a short, thin, middle-aged man. The sunlight coming in from behind made his face blurry.

 “Are there any outsiders?”

Hu Ma felt happy when she saw the person coming.

 In the past few days, he had only seen the weird mother-in-law and a little girl in red with a red headband in this room.

This was the first time I saw anyone other than the two of them, and the desire for help immediately rose in my heart.

 But before he could open his mouth, he suddenly stopped:

If this man is an accomplice of the mother-in-law, wouldn't it be possible for him to seek help at this time in exchange for even greater torture?

Besides, even if he didn't ask for help, this man should have seen the iron hooks on his shoulders.

If he were an outsider, wouldn’t he feel strange?

And when Hu Ma stared at this person, trying to judge from his reaction whether it was worth asking for help, she saw that this person turned a blind eye to her appearance. He just turned around stiffly, as if looking around, still a little numb. Question:

 “Where is your mother-in-law?”

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 “Oops, it looks like he’s an acquaintance of that mother-in-law…”

Hu Ma thought to herself that there was little hope of asking for help, but maybe she could try to get some information from him?

 “Mother-in-law is out.”

He tried to look calm and said, "What do you want to do with your mother-in-law?"

The man's voice was dull: "I'm looking for my mother-in-law to settle the score."

 “Settling accounts?”

Hu Ma suddenly felt hope in her heart: "Is this person the enemy of that weird mother-in-law?"

“She has gone out. She often goes out during the day. Counting the time, she will probably be back soon.”

 He suppressed his excitement and said slowly: "You..."

“My mother-in-law is coming back soon, so I have to hurry up.”

This dull man suddenly turned his head and looked at Hu Ma. Now he was no longer facing the sunshine outside the door, but his face was still unclear.

His voice was shrill and intermittent, as if he was running out of energy, and he said: "I was doing well in the woods, but my mother-in-law suddenly found someone to come and chop me up, cut me into pieces, and made me into a Coffin, you said..."

 “…Is this hatred big?”

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Hu Ma was supposed to follow what he said, but suddenly she heard that the meaning of his words was not quite right, and she was confused for a moment.

“I would have attained enlightenment in another year or two.”

The man continued talking, with a high-pitched cry in his voice: "But my mother-in-law insisted on cutting off my future. I wrapped the dead body of the Cui family grandfather in the soil, smelling him rotting bit by bit. It stinks. I feel the maggots crawling in his body, and I feel the rotten water on his body flowing to me and seeping into my body. Tell me, can my mother-in-law and I have a blood feud?"

As Hu Ma listened, his scalp suddenly became numb and he staggered back a few steps.

It was only then that he suddenly realized that the man walking just now had a very strange posture.

 The knees don’t seem to bend, and they move straight, as if the board is sliding on the ground.

And as he became more and more excited and got closer to him, Hu Ma's eyes suddenly blurred, and he finally saw clearly under his black robe and black hat, the face that he had always been unable to see clearly... that face under the hat. , not a face at all.

 But a board, a dirty, black board.

Even at this moment, I began to smell the stench emanating from his body.

 Coffin board.

But this coffin board is now cursing at herself in a high-pitched and excited tone: "I'm here to settle the score with her."

 “She ruined my conduct, so I will take away her grandson…”

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Hu Ma subconsciously wanted to escape, but her body was still weak and her legs were weak.

He felt dizzy for a while and watched helplessly as the coffin board was about to be stuck to his face.

 The putrid smell and the sharp sound poured into his head from his ears and nostrils, making him almost faint.

 “Ahem!”

But at this moment, he suddenly heard a light cough coming from the direction of the door, followed by an old voice:

"If you have some spiritual skills, you will get lost in the woods and harm others, even pregnant women. I thought it was not easy for you to cultivate, so I thought that I would let you live after I let you guard the body of Mr. Cui for twenty years. Not only did you You don’t appreciate it, and you want to come here to harm my grandson..."

“Then this time, let’s just burn it!”

　　　…”

Immediately afterwards, he only heard a frightened scream, and there was a strong wind in the room, and he could feel the strong wind blowing across his face.

When he saw what was in front of him clearly, he saw a bare coffin board lying on the ground.

 A girl with two pigtails was squatting on the board in a certain animal posture, smiling at herself.

The stern mother-in-law, hunched over, stood silently by the door.

 (End of this chapter)