The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 119

“You seem so serious. I wonder if you know what it is? Is it a monster or something? Is it your enemy?”

Although Mei Zhuyu didn’t answer, his eyes revealed his thoughts. Wu Zhen raised her hand in understanding and said, “Okay, I understand.”

Mei Zhuyu grabbed her hand helplessly and said, “Go to sleep. If we still can’t find him tomorrow, we’ll find other ways to locate him.”

Wu Zhen was not sleepy. She was used to going out at night. She used to fall asleep when she was tired, but she was not. However, looking at her abdomen, Wu Zhen still considered not disturbing her husband’s rest. She lay there bored and thinking about something.

It was not until the middle of the night that Wu Zhen felt drowsy. Just when she was feeling sleepy, she felt the person lying next to her sit up straight without any sound.

Wu Zhen woke up immediately. She was about to ask her husband what was wrong, but she also keenly sensed that something was wrong. She reached out to grab her husband’s hand, but halfway through her hand she bumped into his. The two of them immediately clasped hands, stood up at the same time, and looked around the room vigilantly.

That was an inn in the city. Although the surrounding area was not a busy place, one could often hear dogs barking and night watchmen beating at night. But at that moment, the surroundings were very quiet, so quiet that it seemed that even the sound of the wind had disappeared.

Not only was it quiet, but it was also very dark. Wu Zhen looked towards the window, where the moonlight should have cast a shadow. She had stared at it for a long time before going to bed, but the moonlight had disappeared, and everything was immersed in darkness, a darkness deeper than the night.

Mei Zhuyu looked indifferent and listened to something with his head tilted. Wu Zhen noticed his expression and was a little surprised. She had never seen such indifference, and even disgust in his eyes.

Was there something coming that her husband hated?

There was a clattering sound outside the door. It didn’t sound like human footsteps, but more like the sound of an animal’s hooves stomping on the ground. It wasn’t heavy, but a lighter sound.

Wu Zhen felt the oppressive feeling brought by the thing gradually approaching, and she even smelled a faint stench of decay.

A shadow appeared in front of their door, and the tapping sound suddenly stopped. Wu Zhen saw two scaly hooves passing through the locked wooden door, followed by two mottled antlers… That thing passed through the wooden door as if it was poking its body out of a whirlpool, and in addition to the hooves and horns, the front half of its body also appeared.

However, the half of the body that appeared before the two people was not as normal as the hooves and horns, and it was quite hard to look at it directly. It was a rotten mass, revealing the bones underneath.

It stuck a small half of its body in, and the other half was outside the door. Wu Zhen saw the large black shadow and realized that its entire body was actually very bloated, which did not match its light cry.

Quietly, two flickering lights hidden under the rotten flesh and bones, staring at Wu Zhen, or rather, staring at Wu Zhen who possessed Mei Zhuyu’s body.

It said, “Found you.” The voice was dull, like a strange sound made by being buried in the soil.

Wu Zhen felt her back tingle under the gaze of these two bright lights that looked like eyes. It was also the first time that she felt this kind of horror simply because of someone’s gaze. However, she suppressed it, her eyes flickered for a moment, and she suddenly leaned forward, trying to block Mei Zhuyu.

The thing moved almost at the same time as Wu Zhen. It was extremely fast and appeared in front of the bed in a flash.

However, Mei Zhuyu was the fastest. He seemed to have anticipated that before the two of them. With one hand, he stopped Wu Zhen’s movements and pushed her behind him. With the other hand, he made a seal and inserted it into the throat under the two horns of that thing.

Everything happened very quickly in a flash. Wu Zhen was not prepared for Mei Zhuyu and was thrown onto the bed by him. She saw her husband insert his hand into the “throat” of that thing and tear it apart fiercely. Rotten flesh and blood splattered in front of her eyes.

However, the thing did not react as if it was injured. It just suddenly opened a dark hole and swallowed Mei Zhuyu whole.

Wu Zhen’s pupils constricted, and she stretched out her hand, quickly raising it to grab forward, but she grabbed nothing and was hit in the face by a ball of splattered flesh and blood.

After that thing swallowed Mei Zhuyu, it quickly disappeared and its figure faded away.

Wu Zhen heard it still say to her in that dull voice that one couldn’t tell whether it was male or female, “Mei, you know what you should use to get this person back. I’m waiting for you to exchange it at the place where you killed me the first time.”

Wu Zhen watched it disappear from the spot and couldn’t help but curse.

That thing really had no eyes. “The boy surnamed Mei”? The boy surnamed Mei had been kidnapped by it. The one left was the wife of the boy surnamed Mei.

Wu Zhen simply didn’t know what expression to use to face that sudden development. That thing seemed to imply that she was to exchange something for her husband, but only her husband knew what to exchange, and she had no idea. So, what was there to exchange for? Even if she was willing, she didn’t know what or where to exchange.

Wu Zhen pulled the quilt over to wipe the blood off her hands and felt that her own body was more useful. If it was her own body, she would definitely be able to move faster than that thing and would never have let it disappear like that.

There was no point in thinking more; her husband had been taken away.

Wu Zhen sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing her temples and thinking about what to do next.

Should she find this thing’s lair and kill it directly? Or should she ask for help? Or… should she find Cousin Pei and ask him to help get her husband back?

Wu Zhen decided to choose the last option. No matter what, she would feel more at ease if she were the one to be ‘kidnapped’.

Wu Zhen changed her previous calmness and ordered the summoned monsters around with a dark face. “Search, not only in this city but also in places farther away. I don’t believe we can’t find Pei Jiya!”

Wu Zhen also went out to look for the person herself, but before she could find him, someone found her first.

A young man in a Taoist robe on a paper bird flew to Wu Zhen, smiled at her, bowed respectfully, and called out, “Junior Master, I finally found you.”

Wu Zhen: Who is this?

The young Taoist priest had a delicate appearance like a little girl but was quite steady. Seeing that the Junior Master didn’t say anything, he explained, “It was the Grand Master who said that you would have a disaster recently, so he asked me to find you and ask you to go back to the mountain to see him.”