A 16-year-old girl with a sweet appearance and a ponytail was walking home with a backpack. As she passed the corner like usual, she was surprised to find a new clothing store with dreamy decorations that had just opened on the street. However, the girl did not immediately go inside. She instructed tilted her head slightly and looked at the storefront in confusion. She had passed by here on her way to school this morning, and there was no store there then. How did it suddenly appear?
Unable to figure it out, she decided to stop thinking about it and turned to leave and go home. But in the moment she turned, her body paused, and then her eyes went blank.
She pushed open the glass door and walked into the clothing store.
“Hello, young lady, is there anything you would like to buy?” A seductive woman dressed in a tight red dress looked at her with a charming smile.
The young girl stood there blankly for a while, then pointed to the white dress hanging in the most prominent position and said, “I want that one.”
The woman followed the direction of her finger, and her smile grew even more obvious. “Okay, I’ll go get it for you.” She brought the dress over. “Here is the one you wanted.”
The girl took the garment bag and immediately turned around and left the store. As for the girl’s action of not paying, the woman simply spoke with a hint of excitement into the air, “That’s the last one, be sure not to mess it up.”
“Understood.” A voice answered out of nowhere.
Then, without anyone noticing, the clothing store mysteriously disappeared, as if it had never been there.
“Jia Jia, what do you have in your hands?” The girl holding the bag of clothes did not react until her mother asked her. She looked down blankly and shook her head.
“Come, let me see.” Jia Jia’s mom took the bag and opened it, but it was empty. “Huh? There’s nothing in it?”
“Huh? But it’s not…” Jia Jia looked at the exquisite dress in the bag. There was an obvious surprise on her face. She came back to her senses and quietly confirmed to her mom, “Mom, can’t you see the thing in the bag?”
“Thing?” Jia Jia’s mom laughed and patted her head. “Ah, you little rascal, are you joking with your mom again? Your mom doesn’t have old eyes, how could I not see something if it was there?”
“Hehe.” Jia Jia just smiled without saying anything, because she had just heard a mysterious voice in her mind, and because of that, she decided not to say anything more.
After dinner, Jia Ji closed her door and took out the white dress from the bag. Under the temptation of the voice in her mind, she put on the dress and looked at herself in the mirror with a dazed expression.
“Jia Jia, it’s late, remember to go to bed early.” A voice came from the door, startling Jia Jia. She furrowed her brow, always feeling that she seemed to have forgotten something.
“Okay, I’ll go to sleep right away.” Jia Jia took off the dress and went to bed. Just as she closed her eyes, a light breeze blew in through the window, and a blurry figure appeared in the mirror. She was wearing the same red dress that Jia Jia had just taken off, with the only difference that it was now dazzling red.
Luo Xiao and Ye Lan did not rush to tell Mr. Huo about their guess. They were worried that it would be a false alarm, so they planned to wait until they were more sure.
At noon that day, after the they finished having lunch, they decided to take a walk on the playground to digest and relax.
Suddenly, the conversation between the two girls who passed by them caused them to raise their guards.
Luo Xiao and Ye Lan exchanged a glance, then turned around and slowly followed behind them.
Because of their good hearing, they could clearly hear the content of the conversation. But the more they listened, they more their expressions grew grim.
“Yezi, just now, that person could not be…” Luo Xi furrowed his brows with a worried look. Ye Lan nodded heavily, “Let’s tell Grandpa Huo about this matter once the school ends this afternoon. I have a feeling that this matter is that not simple.”
It turned out that from the conversation between the two girls, they discovered that the girl called Song Jian was probably the next victim. Because based on Old Man Yu’s investigation, the previous victims all suddenly became strange. Sometimes they would act listless similar to a wooden man. Since the clues have been found, it would be better to share it to their master.
So Luo Xiao and Ye Lan caught up with the two girls in a few steps. Luo Xiao smiled and asked, “This, I have a question to ask, the girl called Song Jian you mentioned, what grade is she in our school?”
“Why are you asking this?” One of the girls with short hair looked at them suspiciously.
Luo Xiao tried his best to show as much goodwill as possible and waved his hand with a smile: “Don’t misunderstand, we two don’t have any malicious intent. We just accidentally overheard your conversation, and the classmate next to me is a bit curious about the girl named Song Jia you mentioned. Because we once had a similar situation with a classmate of ours. But he didn’t dare to ask you directly, so I came forward to gossip a bit.”
“Oh, I see.” The short-haired girl nodded and gave Ye Lan, who had a poker face, a strange look, a trace of complicated emotions appearing in her eyes. But seeing that the two of them didn’t seem to be bad people, she said, “We also heard from someone else that this Song Jia is a student in Class 6 of Grade 2 at our school.”
“I see, thank you, classmate.” Luo Xiao thanked her with a smile. After the two girls left, Ye Lan next to him looked at Luo Xiao with a smile that was not quite a smile: “Oh? I’m so curious?”
“Hehe, it was just a slip of the tongue, a pure slip of the tongue.” Luo Xiao smiled apologetically, “Yezi, a great person doesn’t bother with small matters, especially someone as magnanimous as you!”
“You!” Ye Lan looked at him with a doting expression and then ruffled Luo Xiao’s fluffy little head.
After school, the two of them told Mr. Huo what they had discovered. Luo Xiao especially pointed out that he had gone to Class 6 Grade 2 to verify that the girl named Song Jia had a feeling that made him very uncomfortable.
After hearing this, Mr. Huo immediately attached great importance to it and directly called Old Man Yu and Old Man Ouyang. After they arrived, he immediately told them about the discovery.
The two old masters also had a grave expression on their faces. Old Man Yu clapped his hands and stood up, saying, “Okay, let’s not speculate here anymore. Since we have a clue, it’s better to go directly to understand the situation.”
The group got in the car and rushed to Song Jia’s house, but unfortunately they were still a step too late. When they arrived, before they even went in, Luo Xiao’s sensitive sense of smell told him that there was bad news.
Sure enough, when they broke into the house and saw the situation inside, Song Jia was already lying on the ground, her face pale and lifeless. When Song’s father and mother saw this scene, they immediately collapsed to the ground. This was their only precious daughter, the only child they had been looking forward to for five years and finally obtained. How could she suddenly be gone?
Old Man Yu immediately called the nearest people and directly sealed off the crime scene so that they could find useful clues this time.
After questioning the couple, a detail mentioned in Song’s mother’s words caught Old Man Yu’s attention, and he further inquired: “Mrs. Song, you just said that your daughter seemed a bit off when she came home yesterday?”
“Yes, that’s right.” Mrs. Song recalled while sobbing, “Jia Jia is an outgoing and caring child. Whenever she comes home, she would greet us loudly. But yesterday, she not only didn’t greet us, but she also zoned out from time to time when we talked to her. We asked her what was wrong, and she just shook her head. My husband and I thought she was just too tired from studying recently, and we didn’t think much of it. But who would have thought that she, she, wuwu!”
“Mrs. Song, please be strong.” Old Man Yu sighed, “By the way, apart from your daughter’s unusual action yesterday, was there anything else unusual?”
“Anything else unusual?” Mrs. Song thought carefully and then suddenly clapped her hands excitedly, “I remember now, yesterday, my daughter came back holding an empty clothes bag.”
“An empty clothes bag?” The voice of the man next to them suddenly rose, “Was it one of those very exquisite white bags?”
Old Man Yu frowned and glanced at him, “Qiangzi, what are you calling out?”
Seeing Mrs. Song nod, Qiangzi said to Old Man Yu in an excited tone, “Master, the bag, this bag is the common point.”
“You mean?” Old Man Yu’s brow furrowed as he immediately understood, turning to Mrs. Song and saying, “Mrs. Song, where did you put that clothes bag?”
“It should be in Jia Jia’s room, I haven’t touched that bag.”
Old Man Yu gave Qiangzi a look, but the disappointment was written all over Qiangzi’s face when he came out: “Master, just like the others, the bag has disappeared.”
Old Man Yu frowned upon hearing this. They finally made some progress, but this clue had been cut off again?
At this time, Mrs. Song on the side hesitantly spoke up, “That, I remember, there seemed to be a pattern on that bag.”
“A pattern? What kind of pattern?”
“It should be a red flower, and there was something else on it too.” Mrs. Song said haltingly as she tried to remember.
When Mr. Huo heard Mrs. Song’s description, he had a vague guess in his mind. He went to a corner where no one was, used his magical powers to reveal a pattern on a white paper, and then showed it to Mrs. Song before saying, “Mrs. Song, take a look, is this the pattern?”
Mrs. Song looked carefully and immediately pointed excitedly at the paper, “Yes, that’s it!”
Seeing the puzzled looks of the others, Mr. Huo gave a look, and Old Man Yu, Old Man Ouyang, as well as Luo Xiao and Ye Lan walked aside. Then Mr. Huo uttered three words: “The Blood Maiden.”
Old Man Yu and Old Man Ouyang both widened their eyes, while Luo Xiao and Ye Lan looked at them puzzled.
The Blood Maiden? What is that?
Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 34.1