Chapter 721 Another Monster

As if she had thought of something, Li Qinyan quickly stepped forward to stop Aunt Fang.

"Aunt Fang, let's leave this to Miss Ye and not make things worse."

Aunt Fang looked reluctant, but since Li Qinyan had already said so, she couldn't insist any further and took two steps back with Li Qinyan.

The doll Zhao Fangzhao brought back was indeed placed in the bedside table, and Ye Wanxi saw it as soon as she opened it.

Compared to ordinary dolls, Zhao Fangzhao's doll is obviously larger, about forty centimeters long.

Her features were delicate, her figure lifelike, and she was even wearing a pink dress.

Thankfully it was broad daylight, otherwise, if I had suddenly opened the drawer and found such a lifelike doll inside, I might have been quite startled.

At first glance, Ye Wanxi didn't notice anything wrong with the doll, but she didn't dare to be careless. She reached out and pulled the doll out of the drawer, examining it carefully.

Li Qinyan and the others were also quite curious about the doll. Seeing that the doll seemed normal in Ye Wanxi's hands, they all took a step forward and stared at it.

"I've heard people say before that these dolls are very beautiful and lifelike, but I've never seen one in person." Li Qinyan stared at the doll for a moment and sincerely commented, "It's quite pretty."

Qiu Yuerong, who was following behind Ye Wanxi, chimed in at this moment: "These kinds of dolls are quite expensive to make, and the larger and more exquisite they are, the more complete the accessories are, the more expensive they are. Just the one that Sister Ye has is conservatively priced between four and six thousand."

"So expensive?"

Aunt Fang exclaimed in surprise. She had thought it was just an ordinary doll, worth at most tens or hundreds of yuan, but it turned out to cost several thousand yuan.

Uncle Zhao thought about it more than his wife. Regardless of whether the doll was worth the price, their daughter was still a student and only had a small allowance each month. Where would they get so much money to buy such a doll?

After her initial surprise, Aunt Fang clearly realized this as well, and looked at her still unconscious daughter on the bed with surprise and confusion.

Ye Wanxi carefully examined the doll, even twisting each of its joints, but still found nothing.

In the end, Ye Wanxi focused her attention on the doll's lifelike eyes.

The doll's eyes are made of glass, which looks quite realistic from a distance, but up close they look somewhat like the plastic eyes of typical animal dolls.

As Aunt Fang just mentioned, when she first saw this doll, she was looking directly into its eyes and inexplicably felt a chill.

This may be a kind of intuition that people have about danger; it is hard to explain but it certainly exists.

Therefore, when Ye Wanxi met the doll's eyes, she remained on high alert.

As it turned out, her precautions were justified.

Less than three seconds after meeting those eyes, Ye Wanxi saw swirling clouds, birdsong, insect chirps, and even the changing of the sea and the transformation of the land.

It's like a terrifying vortex, luring people to explore, only to violently swallow them up and tear them to pieces when they get close.

Li Qinyan and the others were discussing the doll's cost and features when they suddenly looked up and saw black energy surging around the doll. Almost instantly, two giant black hands condensed on either side, reaching out to embrace Ye Wanxi.

Aunt Fang gasped in shock, while Li Qinyan stared wide-eyed in astonishment: "Ye..."

"Sister Ye!"

As soon as Qiu Yuerong's scream subsided, Ye Wanxi seemed to wake up suddenly, her right hand curling into a claw and gouging out the doll's two eyeballs.

That's right, they are the doll's two eyeballs.

The doll, having lost its eyeballs, suddenly let out a scream, and blood began to flow from its empty eye sockets.

The black hand formed from condensed black energy suddenly froze, then reluctantly withdrew.

This scene stunned everyone in the room, especially Aunt Fang and her husband.

Although they had already prepared for the possibility of seeing something unclean when they invited Ye Wanxi here.

Imagine it or not, but when it actually happened, the impact was just as great. The couple were so frightened that they hugged each other tightly, trembling with fear.

Ye Wanxi had no time to care about their feelings at the moment. Although the doll looked terrible because it had lost its eyes, the thing that was possessing the doll actually had its true form in those two eyes.

After being pried off by Ye Wanxi, the other party seemed to realize that Ye Wanxi was not someone to be trifled with, and immediately tried to escape from this small vessel, instead rushing towards Zhao Fangzhao, who was unconscious on the bed.

How could Ye Wanxi let it succeed? She immediately slapped it with her palm, just like bouncing a ball, and sent it flying.

With a clang, a black ball bounced from top to bottom and from left to right before finally crashing into the glass cabinet in Zhao Fangzhao's room.

Crash——

The glass shattered all over the ground, and several pieces landed right on the black ball that had fallen to the ground.

This unexpected turn of events clearly angered the black ball. The small black ball, about the size of a soccer ball, swung violently at the spot that had been hit, its row of sharp teeth baring fiercely as if it were ready to devour everyone and chew them up.

Aunt Fang had never seen anything so terrifying in her life, and her legs went weak with fright: "Miss Ye... what... what kind of monster is this?"

"Damn." Ye Wanxi took out a wet tissue and carefully wiped her two fingers that had just touched the glass marble, her expression slightly cold.

"This thing is a hairy beard."

"A 'mao'? What's that?"

Have you ever heard of demons and monsters?

"I've...I've heard of it, but isn't that..."a legend?

Li Qinyan stopped mid-sentence. Wasn't the legend that the thing in front of her had already given her the answer?

"Many people regard '魑魅魍魉' as two kinds of ghosts, namely, mountain spirits and water ghosts, but this is not the case. 魑 and 魅 are two different kinds of spirits. 魅, also pronounced as 鬽, originally refers to spirits transformed from ancient artifacts, such as some ancient bronzes that, after being stained with human blood or resentment, unexpectedly gained sentience under certain conditions."

"Because it is formed from an object, this thing prefers to attach itself to objects rather than a demon. Once someone takes it home, it will appear every night, pressing down on the person to suck their blood and steal their soul."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Fang almost screamed out loud. Feeling cold all over, she leaned against her husband's chest, covering her mouth and trembling as she said, "So...so, the reason why Zhao Zhao is anemic and weak is because this thing sucked her blood?"

"It's not just about sucking blood; it sucks essence and vital energy. According to you, your daughter brought it home a month ago. At that time, it was probably just a tiny lump, about the size of a glass bead used as an eyeball, but now..."

(End of this chapter)