The village chief looked up, his face filled with terror.

"My wife, she has short hair! She doesn't have hair that long!"

After saying that, he leaned on the table again, lowered his head, and began to dry heave.

"It's just a few long hairs. Even if it's someone else's, it doesn't matter. Maybe it fell in when the vegetable seller was buying vegetables."

Luo Tianhe waved his hand dismissively as before.

I suddenly realized that this is the countryside, not the city.

As I walked along, most of the women I saw had neat short hair, after all, they still had to do farm work.

Moreover, even if there are a few who occasionally have long hair, they often don't take care of it, and their hair is often dry, yellow, and split.

And the hair we get from eating is clearly jet black and shiny...

I explained it to Luo Tianhe briefly.

His face immediately changed, and like the village chief, he covered the table and began to dry heave.

I also felt a bit nauseous, but Li Huai seemed to have long accepted this kind of thing.

"Oh dear, you guys haven't seen enough ghosts. Finding hair in your food is nothing. I've even found my finger in my food before!"

Upon hearing Li Huai's words, the village chief's gaze towards him immediately changed.

He always thought Li Huai was just an ordinary follower.

After all, he knew my identity; I was a master invited by Ge Wang.

Luo Tianhe is clearly an extraordinary guy; he has the qualities of a leader.

Moreover, he's strong and robust, so he's probably a formidable fighter.

Compared to the two of us, Li Huai seemed much more ordinary.

However, Li Huai, who continued eating after saying those words, soon suffered a backlash.

He suddenly spat out a clump of black hair, making a coughing sound in his throat.

When I looked closely, I saw that Li Huai's throat seemed to be completely blocked, his eyes had rolled back, and he was about to lose consciousness.

"This idiot, everyone else is refusing to eat, but he insists on eating it!"

I cursed angrily, pulled out a yellow talisman, reached out with my left hand and grabbed Li Huai's chin, then with a forceful pull, his mouth opened.

Immediately afterwards, I quickly shook my right hand, which was holding the yellow talisman, and the talisman spontaneously combusted.

"All gods pay homage, and thunder is at your command!"

I yelled and shoved the yellow talisman into Li Huai's wide-open mouth, then slammed his jaw shut, letting the talisman burn inside his mouth.

Li Huai was able to catch his breath immediately, and felt something burning in his mouth. He desperately tried to open his mouth.

But I held his chin tightly, and Luo Tianhe reacted and rushed over to help me hold his hand down.

I only let go when I estimated that the time was almost up.

Li Huai spat out a mouthful of incense ash with a "pfft," and said with a slurred speech:

"My mouth, my mouth feels like it's burned and blistered!"

"It's just a little bubble, nothing serious. I'm already being kind of you for not suffocating, you son of a bitch."

I cursed back angrily.

Luo Tianhe also looked puzzled; he didn't remember Li Huai being like this.

"Are you bewitched? Knowing there was something wrong with the food, you still ate it regardless! Are you a reincarnated starving ghost?!"

Li Huai spat out the incense ash from his mouth a few more times before saying with a bitter face:

"How would I know? Under normal circumstances, if there's something wrong with this food, I would absolutely not eat it! But just now, for some reason, that food had an unparalleled attraction for me."

"This evil spirit can pull off these tricks in broad daylight; imagine what it would be like at night,"

I stopped abruptly halfway through my sentence.

But anyone could hear the apprehension in my tone.

"The three of us will sleep in one room tonight."

I noticed the village chief standing to the side; he hesitated, as if he wanted to say something. Knowing what he was thinking, I interrupted him.

"You and your wife can sleep in another room. This evil spirit is clearly after us! Before we arrived, it had never visited your house before!"

Upon hearing this, the village chief shuddered and realized how foolish his previous idea had been.

He nodded hastily and hurriedly.

At this point, we've lost our appetite; we've already eaten more than half a meal anyway.

Since I'm a little tipsy from drinking, I plan to take a nap and not sleep tonight.

I told Li Huai and Luo Tianhe about this idea, and they both agreed.

After all, it's easier to be haunted by evil spirits while sleeping at night, so it's better to sleep during the day and be on high alert at night.

The village chief has already had his wife vacate the room for us, so we can just take our luggage and go check it out.

Before leaving, I told the village chief to wake us up at 8:00 AM.

We quickly fell asleep thanks to the alcohol. When the village chief woke us up, it was already dark. I checked my phone and it was a little after 7 p.m.

I took out the five-emperor coins, cinnabar thread, and cinnabar mixed with iron filings that I had prepared beforehand, and first set up a simple warding-off-evil array in the room I was staying in.

Then we waited, feeling utterly bored.

There's no internet here, and we haven't downloaded any single-player games on our phones, so our phones are practically useless here.

So we went to the village chief and got some playing cards, and sat down together to play Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game).

Around midnight, Li Huai suddenly said he needed to go to the toilet.

Actually, the village chief had prepared chamber pots for us, but how could the three of us young men possibly have the nerve to use such a thing in the room?

Especially in front of his two good brothers.

"Don't go too far, just find a wall to pee against."

I gave him a few words of advice, fearing that something unexpected might happen to Li Huai.

Li Huai initially thought there was nothing to be afraid of, but after my reminder, he shrank back and became hesitant.

Seeing him shift his gaze to the chamber pot, I snapped at him impatiently:

"Didn't you claim to have seen countless ghosts? Why are you so scared now!"

Li Huai scratched his head, chuckled sheepishly, and said:

"How can that be the same? This is a monstrous zombie with hundreds of years of cultivation, and it killed so many people in just over ten days!"

"What I encountered before were mostly ghosts of people who died tragically. To be honest, they didn't necessarily have much resentment. Their methods were just to scare people."

"Fine, I'll go with you. I also need to use the restroom."

Luo Tianhe rolled his eyes and patted Li Huai on the shoulder.

Li Huai was overjoyed.

After they both left the room, I felt a bit eerie being left alone in the huge room.

I casually checked the time on my phone; it was exactly midnight, the time of day when yin energy is at its strongest.

Suddenly, I heard a strange sound outside the door, like cloth being torn.

Why did they both come back so quickly?

I was a little confused, so I stuck my head out of the window and looked out. I immediately felt a chill run through my body, and my blood seemed to freeze.