122 Spell

◎Suppressing evil spirits◎

The break is over and it's afternoon.

Since Gu Shitang was ill and Xia Jian was missing, the director modified today's filming plan and gave the remaining two leading actors a day off, so they only filmed some supporting roles.

The sudden accident two days ago made everyone panic. Before the filming, everyone prayed silently in their hearts, hoping that no strange things would happen again. Fortunately, it seemed that God heard their wishes, and the filming process in the afternoon went very smoothly.

The director finished work before midnight, and everyone got on the bus for the return trip exhausted.

After arriving at the hotel, Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing reunited. Instead of rushing back to their room, they went to Su Wen's room first. Su Wen had been staying in the hospital for the past two days and had not slept much, so the director also gave her a day off.

Qi Qiuxue raised her hand and knocked on the door: "Did you rest well? We came to see you."

"Not bad." Su Wen walked over and opened the door, yawning as he let the two in. "Why are you finishing work just now?"

"Did anything happen on set today?"

"No, everything is fine." Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing sat down on the sofa and got straight to the point. "Is Xia Jian back?"

"No." Su Wen shook his head. "There's been no news, and the phone call is unavailable."

"But I'm not completely unsuccessful. I found that Gu Shitang and Wen Yun, who were also staying in the hotel to rest, seemed to have some problems."

Qi Qiuxue raised an eyebrow when she heard the voice: "What's the problem?"

Su Wen said truthfully, "The relationship between them doesn't seem as stiff as it appears."

"I went to the actors' floor several times this afternoon and paid careful attention to the movements of several key NPCs. The first three times I went, the main actors were all resting in their rooms. I could hear footsteps, occasional sounds of running water, and media playback coming from their rooms. But when I went there for the fourth time, the sounds from Gu Shitang's room disappeared."

"I thought she was resting, but soon I found that she appeared in Wen Yun's room."

Qi Qiuxue: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Su Wen: "I heard two women's voices coming from Wen Yun's room. One voice was her own, and the other was Gu Shitang."

"They seemed to be discussing something in the room. Their voices were very low, and I could only hear a few key words sporadically, such as Xia Jian, whereabouts, changes, and plans..."

Qi Qiuxue fell into deep thought.

They were actually also paying attention to Xia Jian, and the content of their conversation did not seem to be just ordinary chat. If that was true, was Xia Jian's fainting related to them? Was Gu Shitang involved in the incident that occurred on the night of the ceremony?

This includes whether the two people deliberately pretending to be unfamiliar with each other was also part of the so-called plan.

Just as I was thinking about it, a dazzling light flashed quickly in the distance.

Seeing this, Li Yiqing beside her quickly stood up and went to the window to observe. After a moment, she turned around.

"It's Xia Jian."

“…”

Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing took the elevator downstairs together and happened to run into Xia Jian and his assistant who were waiting for the elevator in the lobby on the first floor.

It was already one o'clock in the morning, and it was unusually quiet both inside and outside the hotel. Xia Jian returned home late at night, exhausted, feeling cold and smelling strange.

Li Yiqing sniffed it briefly, then leaned close to Qi Qiuxue's ear and whispered, "It's the smell of burning incense."

"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded gently. Standing at the elevator entrance, she looked up in surprise and met Xia Jian's gaze. "Brother Xia, you're back. How's your body...ah, what's wrong with your eyes?"

She seemed concerned and said something extra, then raised her hand in panic and pointed at Xia Jian's right eye. Compared to before, there was a pure white eye patch on his right eye. It looked like it was artificially cut and had an irregular shape. Upon closer inspection, there was a pattern painted with incense ash on it.

Qi Qiuxue couldn't tell what the pattern was. It was more like a curse drawn by someone than a pattern, and the eye mask was the talisman paper that carried the curse. Its existence seemed to be deliberately suppressing something, which was very strange.

Xia Jian did not answer, but turned his face away reflexively, not wanting others to see him like this.

On the contrary, the assistant beside him was quite polite. Knowing that they were all crew members, he just casually said, "Nothing, just accidentally bumped into something."

He cleverly changed the subject: "Why aren't you asleep yet? Do you have something to do?"

"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded, "I'm going to do something."

"Hurry up." The assistant helped Xia Jian, whose condition had improved slightly but was still dazed, into the elevator. His right hand subconsciously moved towards the close button, waiting for them to quickly leave and close the elevator door. "It's too late. It's not safe outside. Go early and come back early."

"Okay." Qi Qiuxue smiled and was about to leave, holding Li Yiqing's hand. But before she even stepped out of the elevator, she suddenly cried out, as if she had remembered something, "I think I forgot something in the room. I have to go back again."

"How can you be so careless." Li Yiqing cooperated very tacitly and without waiting for the assistant to say anything, he took advantage of his height and long arms to press the door closing button first.

“…”

In the next second, a trace of imperceptible annoyance flashed across the assistant's face.

The elevator door slowly closed in front of the crowd and began to rise at a steady speed. The twenty seconds or so before reaching the destination seemed incredibly long at this moment. Qi Qiuxue noticed that Xia Jian was becoming increasingly uneasy, his entire body appearing extremely anxious. He even opened his lips and silently repeated something.

“a jie mo luo, pi ke bo ye.”

Qi Qiuxue didn't know exactly which words they were, but she could tell from his mouth shape that they were roughly pronounced like this.

After a few seconds, the elevator finally arrived at the corresponding floor, and the assistant helped Xia Jian walk down.

Qi Qiuxue pressed the off button again. After a few seconds, the elevator stopped on the eighteenth floor. Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing got off the elevator together and quickly returned to the room.

"It feels like a string of spells." Li Yiqing said. There was a big temperature difference between the hall and the room, and the alternation of hot and cold made her cough a few more times.

Qi Qiuxue handed her the water, patted her back gently, and waited quietly for her to finish drinking.

Then he said, “I think so too.”

【a jie mo luo，pi ke bo ye。】

She entered the pronunciation of the spell into the browser and searched for it separately with Li Yiqing. The probability of finding it by pronunciation alone without the correct text was too small. The two browsed many related web pages but failed to find any useful information.

So Qi Qiuxue quit the browser and continued searching using other search engines. After switching to several engines, she finally found relevant information in a forum post from more than ten years ago.

I will teach you a spell that can be used to suppress evil spirits when necessary. But remember, you must memorize the spell in full. While reciting it, write the correct words in your mind. Both are indispensable. The spell is: Ajimo Luo, Vike Bu Ye.

This post did not receive any response and naturally sank into obscurity. Qi Qiuxue clicked on the poster's homepage, but because it was too long ago, the account showed that the last login time was five years ago.

Suppress evil spirits.

Qi Qiuxue unconsciously recalled Xia Jian's hysterical reaction in the video that night. It seemed that there really was some ghost in his eyes.

Why was the ghost in his eyes?

Who is that ghost?

【Author’s words】

Here I come. I was sick for several days and just felt better today. I came back to update. I'm really sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. Thank you.

I will give you guys a small red envelope as compensation in the comment section of this chapter, and I will shout before the next chapter is updated.

And a special thanks to Xiaoyu for the deep water! It was so expensive! qaq. And thank you all for your concern these days! I've seen it all, woooooo! I love you all so much! Everyone, take care of yourselves and stay healthy! Lots of kisses!