Max-Level Metaphysician: A Debt Repayment Journey-Chapter 1311: She Just Wants to Stay Here
It was from that moment that He Ruomei started plotting how to change her skin.
At first, she bought some animals back to use their skin.
After a few experiments, it surprisingly worked.
Not only that, the power of the stone made her skin quickly fuse together, as if it were her original skin, with no visible difference to outsiders.
But, there seemed to be some rejection between animal skin and human skin, and within a few days, the place where the skin was attached began to swell and fester, not lasting long.
He Ruomei experimented a few times, but no matter how she tried, animal skin couldn’t last more than three days.
She couldn’t possibly keep a large number of animals at home, ready to peel their skin anytime, Wu Jianhan and the family would definitely become suspicious.
He Ruomei then turned her attention to human skin.
But, where to find human skin?
Human skin isn’t like animal skin; there’s no market for it.
"So, you set your sights on those tourists?" Xun Tianhai heard this, furrowing his brows deeply, angrily supporting his waist as he paced back and forth, "What did those tourists ever do to provoke you? You just use them to maintain your human form?"
He Ruomei lowered her head and whispered, "I... I had no choice; I can’t let my family see me like this, especially not let my child see me..."
When she first thought of human skin, she had struggled with the idea.
But soon, her body began to rot and decay from the inside out, deteriorating drastically; in less than a day, she almost turned into a skeleton.
Luckily, during those days the child was at her parents’ house, and Wu Jianhan was at the guesthouse, so no one discovered her abnormality.
She forcefully stuffed the flesh back, then used animal skin to roughly give herself a human appearance.
At this point, she couldn’t control it anymore.
If she didn’t harm others, she would be the one to die.
She’s not greedy; she doesn’t want to live forever, she just wants to hold on until her child becomes an adult.
As long as the child becomes an adult, it wouldn’t matter if she died.
Before the child becomes an adult, she could only betray others.
Thus, she had no choice but to target those tourists.
He Ruomei, being the owner of the guesthouse, knew where the surveillance was and how to avoid it, and also knew how to replace it.
She observed for two days in the guesthouse, confirming that a tourist came alone and was an orphan, with no family.
This proved that even if he went missing outside, no one would report him missing.
Furthermore, it was easy to deal with one person.
He Ruomei decided to act against that person.
She silently peeled off her own skin, entered the guest room in spirit form, knocked the person unconscious, quietly brought him into the secret chamber without anyone noticing, then changed her skin.
To prevent her family from discovering her completely different skin, she dared not change large areas at a time, only bit by bit.
For this reason, she had to capture many people to prepare for her skin change.
It was difficult to maintain her appearance, but the missing tourists aroused Wu Jianhan’s suspicion.
Although Wu Jianhan was once a company executive, he was quite superstitious himself, visiting temples to offer incense and pray on the first and fifteenth of each month.
Aware that tourists kept disappearing and the police couldn’t find a clue, Wu Jianhan thought this matter wasn’t that simple, having seen guesthouses or hotels having issues in ghost movies.
He speculated that their guesthouse might have some Feng Shui problems or dark forces at play.
Wu Jianhan began searching online for relevant information, hoping to find a reliable master to drive away evil and inspect the guesthouse for any issues.
