Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 1784: Chapter 1023: Village Guardian Tide Woman

"Tell me, what do you want to know?" Lin Tian Jianci looked at Qingshui Cangjie’s somewhat serious face.

The process went smoother than expected, which couldn’t help but raise Yang Xiao’s suspicions, "How did you know we came for Asakura Yodou?"

"If you’d come a few years ago, I wouldn’t have let you in, but now... it doesn’t matter anymore." Lin Tian Jianci looked at the black and white photo hanging on the wall, with an undeniable sadness in his eyes, "My wife is no longer here, I have no worries anymore."

"I’m not afraid of it, I’m not afraid of it coming after me, my wife and daughter are no longer here, I have nothing to lose, it ruined my life, ruined everything for me, I just hate myself for not having the ability to kill it." As he spoke, Lin Tian Jianci’s eyes filled with tears, making the scene touching.

"Mr. Lin Tian, we’re here because of this matter, we have a way to completely deal with that thing, but we need your help." These words coming from Qingshui Cangjie were evidently more convincing than from Yang Xiao.

Compared to the two, Yang Xiao seemed like Qingshui Cangjie’s follower.

"I know you are from the Shrine; you have a way to deal with it." Lin Tian Jianci lowered his voice, a hint of determination appearing on his face.

"Although I’ve left Chao Wei Village for years, I’ve always kept an eye on Eightfold Kashi Mountain Hotel’s movements, I know someone died there recently, a worker repairing the hotel, I knew that wasn’t the end of it, that thing will come back and kill again." Lin Tian Jianci said through gritted teeth.

"Mr. Lin Tian, tell us about what you know about Asakura Yodou’s family." Yang Xiao said.

"They’re all good people. Yodou was a good kid too. Our families lived next to each other for ten years and always got along well."

"I watched Yodou grow up; he was inherently kind-hearted and studied with my daughter Meizi; our families had a great relationship."

At this point, Lin Tian Jianci’s emotions suddenly flared up, "Please believe me, it wasn’t Yodou who killed people, he was bewitched by a demon, a demon inhabited his body!"

"How do you know?"

"It was my daughter Xingzi who told me. When Yodou hurt my daughter with a compass, he kept whispering ’leave, leave’." Lin Tian Jianci spoke quickly. freeweɓnøvel.com

"But as far as we know, Asakura Yodou is mute." Yang Xiao suddenly realized.

Lin Tian Jianci shook his head, "No, it’s not like that. Yodou was just used to shutting himself off, he never speaks when outsiders or unfamiliar people are around, but to people he knows well, he says a few words, including my daughter."

"It wasn’t until many years later, after my wife and I moved to this city, that I gradually understood, maybe hurting those people wasn’t Yodou’s real intention, I guess he wanted to chase those people away because... because it was about to appear!" Lin Tian Jianci said emotionally. freēwebnovel.com

Upon hearing this, both Yang Xiao and Qingshui Cangjie were shocked. Yang Xiao immediately recalled the intelligence Tong Han sent last night, Tong Han mentioned that the child ghost was trying to drive away Shibuki Naoko.

Originally, they instinctively believed the child ghost was the female ghost’s Chang Ghost, that they were cooperating in killing, with the child ghost driving people near the female ghost, who then killed them.

But after hearing Lin Tian Jianci’s guess, their original hypothesis was thoroughly overturned, Yang Xiao realized they had made a fatal mistake.

These two ghosts weren’t in cahoots, the child ghost, which is Asakura Yodou, his obsession was rescuing people, whereas the female ghost was the one who killed.

This unidentified female ghost was the Source Ghost in the Nightmare World, the cause of everything.

Yang Xiao’s mind gradually cleared. He understood, now everything made sense: Asakura Yodou appearing in the first half of the night was to warn them that the cursed female ghost was coming, Asakura Yodou wanted to drive them away.

If they were scared off, the female ghost that followed would come up empty, meaning no one would be cursed or dragged into the Ghost Dream World, and no one would die.

At the same time, Yang Xiao thought of Tong Han; her judgment faltered at the last moment, she foolishly ran the opposite direction from Asakura Yodou’s attacks, which was a big mistake, only by following Asakura Yodou could one find the true way to survive, escape the female ghost’s pursuit.

But this wasn’t entirely her fault; after all, who would have thought the child ghost who harmed them with a compass would turn out to be their savior?

"Mr. Lin Tian, when did Asakura Yodou start showing abnormalities?" Yang Xiao pressed on.

"It was the summer when he went from first to second grade, my daughter was the same, so I remember it clearly."

"What happened during that vacation?" Yang Xiao realized he touched upon a key issue.

Lin Tian Jianci was silent for a moment, as if recalling, "There was one incident, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with this; one evening during the summer vacation, Yodou’s parents hurriedly ran to our house, knocking on the door, anxiously asking if we’d seen Yodou, saying he went out to play during the day and hadn’t returned."

"But he was found later, he came back by himself late at night, having gotten caught in the rain, fell ill, and I later heard he went to play in the back mountain, and when it suddenly rained, he hurried to find shelter and got lost."

At this point, Lin Tian Jianci explained, "The mountain looks small, but the environment inside is complex; even villagers don’t venture too deep."