Chapter 64 Man-eating Building

• The fearful expression on the old man suggested that he wasn't lying. He swallowed the lump on his throat and he made a hand gesture to us fearfully, signaling us to speak outside.
• "The day I brought this root carving back, I felt a cold chill. And in the night I dreamt of a dripping wet woman. I thought I was abstaining for too long and I didn't pay much attention to it. The next day I carried it to the carpenter and asked him to clean up the dirt in the gaps.
• He rubbed his face, "The next day when I go to his place, his family said that he went out in the middle of the night and they didn't know where he went. The root carving was cleaned up and left in the shop. Therefore I carried it back home... After that I dreamt of the wet woman again. She said she was starving and asked me to satisfy her... *cough* I was just an ordinary man..."