Chapter 14 - 8.1: The Ghost Holds a Wedding, The Crown Prince Climbs Onto the Marriage Sedan
However, the moment Xie Lian turned around, he froze in his place as his pupils shrunk.
A group of women wearing crimson wedding dresses and covered with veils stood stiffly in front of him.
In addition, that faint, rotting odor was drifting over from the bodies of these women.
Xie Lian quickly calmed down before counting those women. One, two, three, four...he counted all the way to seventeen.
They were really the seventeen brides who had gone missing in the Mount Yu Jun region!
The red colour on some of those brides' wedding dresses looked a bit faded, and the clothes themselves looked ragged and old. These brides ought to have been the ones who had gone missing first. On the other hand, some of the brides' wedding dresses looked brand new. The style of the dresses was also currently popular as well. In addition, the smell of a rotting corpse that came from these brides was also quite light. These brides ought to have been the ones who had gone missing recently. Xie Lian thought for a moment before uncovering the veils of one of the brides.
The face revealed under the scarlet veil was extremely pale. The skin tone was so white, it actually looked a bit green. Lit by the dim moonlight, she looked terribly frightening. The scariest thing about her, however, was that although this woman's muscles had twisted after death, on that twisted face, she still wore a rigid smile.
Xie Lian took off the veil of the girl beside her. Once again, this girl's mouth was curved up in the same smile.
In fact, all of the dead people in this room wore wedding garments while smiling even in death.
Beside his ear, Xie Lian seemingly began hearing that child's voice as they sang that strange song. "New bride, new bride, new bride on the red marriage sedan...Eyes brimming with tears, passing the mountain's mound, under the veil do not hold a rising smile..."
Suddenly, he heard a strange noise that seemed to originate from outside the temple.