Damn it!

I'm going crazy, my eyes glued to the little boy on the ceiling.

At that moment, I finally understood what this little boy really was!

He is an earthbound spirit, or you could say a guardian of the formation!

And just like the chubby boss lady I met at the Binhai Building before.

He didn't become a bound spirit because of some deep obsession; rather, he was turned into this grotesque state by someone using a magic array!

These things were living people in life, but they are trapped in this formation. Their bodies are still alive, but their souls are dead!

Moreover, they lack that kind of deep obsession, making them easily go mad within such a formation!

"Quick, run! He's the one guarding the position!" I retreated abruptly.

At this moment, Luo Tianhe stood there, his face deathly pale, muttering to himself:

"What the hell are you doing? Open the door or not!"

For a moment I was stunned, but I quickly came to my senses and kicked the door.

"Damn it, we can't just stand there and wait to die!"

Hearing me say that, Luo Tianhe suddenly came to his senses and joined me in banging on the door.

But the door remained tightly closed, and even forceful banging did not budge it.

The little boy on the ceiling giggled, and black saliva dripped onto the ground, corroding small pits.

"Xiao An didn't lie to me. You two are really easy to fool, it's really fun!"

He screamed excitedly, "Play with me, play forever!"

His expression became increasingly distorted, and Luo Tianhe and I froze upon hearing those words.

I slowly turned my head. This guy could actually communicate with that Xiao An!

I suddenly remembered that she had repeatedly emphasized that we should not enter the backyard or the dormitory building.

Now that I think about it, she probably said that on purpose to get us to come in!

He hunted geese all day long, and today a goose pecked out his eyes!

I was filled with remorse. That Xiao An probably didn't have much resentment at all, and it's impossible that he would have killed her there like we did!

The backyard and dormitory building are the real danger zones. She tricked us into coming here so that she could use these people to keep us in this orphanage forever!

The room began to warp, the walls squeezed inward, and the space became smaller and smaller!

Even more frightening is that our bodies are also starting to change!

Numbing spots the size of coins appeared on the back of Luo Tianhe's hand.

A faint red mark appeared on my neck. As the mark appeared, I felt my neck being slowly tightened, and I began to have difficulty breathing.

"He's assimilating us into his state!" I discovered in horror.

Luo Tianhe looked at the spots on his hands and almost collapsed: "What should I do? Think of something quickly!"

I forced myself to calm down, clutching the Five Emperors Coins and the yellow talisman in my hand, ready to bite my fingertip.

Suddenly, I realized that even though the entire room had become distorted, the wooden bed remained exactly the same!

"Bed! Get off the bed!" I shouted.

Instantly, the smile on the little boy's face vanished, replaced by a look of intense resentment.

"You're not allowed to go there, that's my territory!"

His voice turned sinister, and the black aura surrounding him grew stronger, transforming into a ghostly hand that reached out to grab us.

I threw out a yellow talisman, which burst into bright flames the instant it touched the ghostly hands!

Suddenly, the little boy let out a shrill scream, a chilling cry that sent shivers down the spines of both me and Luo Tianhe.

We desperately crawled under the bed; the cramped space was suffocating.

Strangely, the unusual phenomena stopped as soon as I entered under the bed!

The walls stopped being compressed, and the putrid smell faded considerably.

"What exactly happened? Why was it safe under the bed?"

Luo Tianhe, panting heavily, asked in bewilderment, unable to understand the reason.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm my wildly beating heart.

After a long pause, he finally spoke:

"This room is set up with an extremely vicious formation that can turn living people into ghosts, sealing them within this formation to suffer eternal torment!"

Luo Tianhe was startled, his lips trembling:

"Damn it, what kind of hatred is this to torture this child like this? No wonder his personality is so twisted."

I shook my head and explained:

"He didn't do this to torture the child, but to turn this place into a place shrouded by an array. He just needed a guardian of the array, a bound spirit, and that child just happened to be chosen and became a bound spirit."

"As for why it was safe under the bed, I guess it's because he set up the formation in a hurry, leaving loopholes and failing to hide the core of the formation."

"You mean, the key point of the formation is under the bed?"

Luo Tianhe's eyes widened in surprise.

"Pretty much, otherwise we wouldn't be unharmed. That child probably hid under the bed at the beginning."

I gestured with my lip, indicating that Luo Tianhe should look at the bed frame.

Luo Tianhe used his flashlight to illuminate the bottom of the bed board, which was covered with densely packed writing: "Save me!"

Seeing this, Luo Tianhe felt a sense of suffocation. He turned to look at me and couldn't help but ask:

"But if there's a safe zone, wouldn't it be better for him to just stay hidden here? How did he end up turning into a bound spirit?"

I shook my head and looked at him:

“You’re oversimplifying things. How could that person leave such a huge loophole? He’s just a child. Even if he finds this place and is safe for a while, he’ll eventually go out to find food when he gets hungry.”

Immediately, Luo Tianhe's body trembled involuntarily.

The formation that person set up did indeed leave a big loophole, but he took human nature into account.

He was just a little boy; there was no way he could have starved to death under the bed!

Therefore, he would inevitably go out, and once outside the formation, he would slowly transform into an earthbound spirit.

"So we can only starve to death here?" Luo Tianhe looked like he was about to cry.

I rolled my eyes. After lying down for a while, my strength had almost recovered.

"Nonsense! I'm not some clueless kid. Do you think I can't do anything?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Tianhe was overjoyed and grabbed my hand tightly.

"What tricks do you have up your sleeve? Show them to me, I don't want to stay under this bed any longer!"

"Yeah, let me, a little kid, see what you're capable of."

Upon hearing the voice, I turned my head sharply and came face to face with a small, bluish-purple face.

The child even crawled under the bed, not far from me, staring intently at me.

Fortunately, I was on the left side of the bed, and Luo Tianhe was on the right side. The child also crawled over from the right side, so he was closer to Luo Tianhe.

At that moment, I felt particularly safe with Luo Tianhe's height of over 1.8 meters.