The iron gate of the villa's outer courtyard was locked. Bai Ningning waited for Lu Shi to unlock it, and Lu Shi waited for Bai Ningning to get the key.
The two stood at the door for twenty seconds before Lu Shi began to think it was outrageous: "You don't have a key?"
Bai Ningning: "...where can I find the key? Sister Juan can open the combination lock inside. I thought you were prepared."
Lu Shi: "How did you originally plan to get in?"
Bai Ningning: "I'll see what happens after I get ready. Don't you have a Xuanmen unlocking tool?"
Lu Shi said confidently: "I didn't bring it."
Bai Ningning: “…”
Bai Ningning glanced at the dilapidated wall and suggested, "Why don't you let Mimi in and take a look?"
Lu Shi: "That won't work. What if there are shards of glass on the wall that might get stuck in my breast?"
Bai Ningning could only find a piece of wire, and with a few stabs, she opened the lock and said to Lu Shi, "Remember to report this when you get home, or I'll be considered trespassing."
Lu Shi joked, "Even if I didn't come with you, you brought Ma Juan with you. If you brought the owner of the house with you, it wouldn't count as trespassing."
Bai Ningning: “…”
Having said that, the police have to admit it.
If she really pointed at a ghost that the police couldn't see and said it was the hostess of this house, the police would call the mental hospital on the spot, okay?
Bai Ningning took out a hairpin and handed it to Lu Shi: "Ask Sister Juan for the password."
When Ma Juan appeared, she deliberately squatted down to re-tie her shoelaces and put the knife aside, making sure that once she put the knife down she would not be able to see ghosts, but she would be able to see them again when she picked up the knife.
Even when she put down the knife, Sister Juan's voice stopped abruptly.
Lu Shi teased her, "Are you still doing warm-up exercises before a long run? You're even tying your shoelaces."
Bai Ningning: "Yeah, otherwise it would be so embarrassing if my shoelaces came undone in the middle of a run."
Lu Shi: "Don't worry, just follow me, you won't have to run."
Lu Shi relayed the password, but Bai Ningning stared at the security camera at the gate and said, "Let's get in through the window, otherwise Cheng Jingwu will find out right away."
Lu Shi was puzzled: "But what if there are cameras in the villa?"
Bai Ningning: "This camera is different. This one automatically alarms. It's pointed at the combination lock. Did you see it? As long as someone appears there, regardless of whether they touch the combination keypad or not, Cheng Jingwu will immediately receive a notification."
Lu Shi was in front and Bai Ningning was behind. They both skillfully climbed through the window with one hand and entered the house.
But their behavior after entering the house was completely different. Lu Shi entered the house neatly and observed the situation inside the room; Bai Ningning was cautious and alert about her surroundings, with her hand still on the windowsill, ready to escape through the window again at any time.
Qinghuai in the knife: "..."
It was hard to believe that this coward in front of him had such an extreme power of words to suppress him.
Lu Shi noticed the dried water stains on the ground and said, "This is a formation... How can it be a formation that absorbs ghost energy?"
Lu Shi stretched out his hand and touched the water stain on the ground. The next second, he was wrapped up by ghost energy and slowly floated in the air, as if he was about to be thrown out.
Lu Shi found it interesting and said to Bai Ningning and Mimi in the room, "You guys try it too, it's quite interesting."
Bai Ningning looked horrified: "Don't play around - you can easily solve it, right?!"
Mimi cooperated quite well with its owner and also touched the formation. Perhaps because it was lighter, it floated much faster than Lu Shi.
Bai Ningning was helpless and prepared to flip out of the windowsill. She didn't dare to touch this formation. She and Lu Shi had different physiques. What if she was sent to the presence of an evil spirit?
Before she could touch the windowsill, the window closed automatically in front of her and the room became dark.
Bai Ningning: “…”
If this were a horror novel, she would probably be dead soon.
She tried to open the window, but found that it was restricted by some force. It was obviously not locked, but it could not be opened.
Bai Ningning banged on the window and yelled, "Senior Sister! Can you hear me?"
Lu Shi also knew that he had gone too far, so he quickly got down and said, "This window is blocked, I might open it a little slowly, please wait."
Bai Ningning: “…”
Lu Shi tried to make up for his loss and comforted his junior sister: "Don't be afraid, I left a talisman on your clothes in advance. Even a level 10 evil spirit can't do anything to you."
Bai Ningning accepted her fate and observed the furnishings in the room. She found a sticky note on the wall that read:
"The clue is hidden in the room.
PS: Time is limited, your ghost energy is counting down like an hourglass.
Bai Ningning understood: "Isn't this an escape room? Here you can find the clue to the door to the next room."
Lu Shi: "Isn't this what you are good at? You are smart."
Bai Ningning was speechless and reminded: "If I leave the room, where can you find me?"
She looked up and found that there was also a camera in the room, but it was broken.
The damage was similar to that of the broken camera at Ninghua Finance, both of which were caused by erosion by ghost energy.
While Lu Shi was removing the restrictions on the doors and windows, he said, "But doesn't the room where the ghost is also have a password? How can we open the door to her room without the password?"
"You are a master of Xuanmen after all, can't you let her come to you?" Bai Ningning had just finished speaking when she thought of something else, "You are not deliberately unable to open this broken window, wanting me to be your bait?"
Bai Ningning almost wanted to pry open Lu Shi’s forehead to see if there was a brain inside.
"Not really."
Lu Shi smiled awkwardly.
Although when Bai Ningning was around, they were used to using Bai Ningning as bait to lure evil spirits to their home, but she had always been honest and would never use deception to make Bai Ningning serve as bait.
Bai Ningning crouched aside, holding her sword, not daring to lean against the wall. She said to Lu Shi, "These formations are obviously set up by ghosts. There are probably quite a few in the villa. If you destroy them all, the ghosts will naturally come to you. Why would they use me as bait?"
Lu Shi found that this restriction was quite troublesome. The evil ghost might have been a little genius when he was alive.
She took the time to perfunctorily answer Bai Ningning: "Really?"
Bai Ningning didn't care if she was listening carefully or not, she just kept talking to herself to relieve her tension: "The way she arranged it is like Plants vs. Zombies. She has planted all kinds of 'plants' that attack ghosts in the house, just waiting for the ghosts to come and then destroy them in one fell swoop. If you destroy all her plants, she will come after you."
Bai Ningning stared at the formation on the ground and asked, "Can you change the formation? This one absorbs the ghost energy, so it should go to her, right? Can you change it to the opposite direction? Absorb her ghost energy instead?"
Lu Shi: "Fortunately, your spiritual acuity is not open, otherwise the ghosts would have called the police overnight."
Bai Ningning: "She's coming to me soon, I can weaken her a little bit."
Lu Shi: "Do you remember the formation diagram I showed you last Wednesday? Just change this to that."
"Remember."
Bai Ningning thought about it for a moment, and with just a few strokes, she changed the formation on the ground, causing the ghost energy to flow backwards, so that the ghost energy at the other end would be drawn to her side.
Lu Shi found that this restriction was like a nine-linked chain, and suddenly felt a little annoyed: "You wait here, I'll go through the main gate, it's faster than this."
"Then hurry up."
Bai Ningning gave some instructions and manually added a purification formation next to it, achieving fully automatic salvation.
If the evil spirits in the villa do not leave their location, they will be drained away by this formation sooner or later.
But Bai Ningning was a person with undeveloped spiritual awareness after all, and she suddenly had a bad premonition - plus there had been no barrage for such a long time.
She had observed that the barrage was usually not there when Qing Huai was around.
"Qinghuai, come out." she whispered.
Bai Ningning looked around nervously, alert: "A fierce ghost should be coming soon. Can you tell which direction it's coming from? Let me hide for a while."
Qing Huai told the truth: "No, this place is full of the other party's ghost energy."
Bai Ningning felt that there was no safety anywhere in the house, and even the walls were filled with unknown ghosts.
Suddenly, a lot of long hair appeared in the formation she had modified - as if a fierce ghost was about to crawl out.
Bai Ningning was frightened and subconsciously jumped in front of Qinghuai, lifted up Qinghuai's outer robe and hid inside.
She thought that the ancients wore so much fabric, as if they were wrapped in a small quilt, which made them feel particularly safe.
Qing Huai: “?”
He had never seen such a bold woman in all these years.
Bai Ningning had no such awareness at all. She was a human and he was a ghost.
To her, this is no different from hiding in a panda's arms. The only difference is that if it really is a panda, she will turn around, hug the panda and take a deep breath.
Qing Huai froze for a long moment, his face turning red—if ghosts could blush.
It was obvious that he had a surge of ghost energy, which was concentrated in his head and caused his face to turn red.
Bai Ningning didn't notice his change. She stared at the evil spirit gradually rising in the formation and whispered, "Don't hurt her first. What if she is Sister Juan's daughter?"
She muttered softly, "This is ridiculous! We were supposed to have a countercurrent of ghost energy, but how did it turn into a teleportation array..."
Qing Huai didn't say anything or move. After a while, he said "huh" in disdain and turned his head away.
As Bai Ningning expected, a female ghost with disheveled hair and a hideous face crawled out of the formation, and threatened her with her black voice from time to time.
Bai Ningning huddled in Qinghuai's robe, covering her eyes with only a slit visible, wanting to see but not daring to.
Bai Ningning was curious: "Qinghuai, can ghosts control their appearance?"
Qing Huai: "Yes, there's only one choice between a normal appearance before death and a normal appearance after death. Generally, I would choose the former."
The reason is self-evident; most of the latter are difficult to look at.
Bai Ningning plucked up the courage to take a look. The other party chose the latter. His hair was disheveled, his face was purple, and there were finger marks on his neck.
It looked scary, so she quickly looked away.
The other party came looking for trouble with great momentum, but the moment he encountered Qinghuai's ghost energy, his momentum was deflated, as if he had turned into a deflated balloon.
Wasn't the person she locked up in the villa a sweet-smelling human woman? Why did she become a male ghost whose ghostly aura was so much stronger than hers?!
What kind of new honey trap is this? They're even trying to trick ghosts!
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