The more anxious she was, the more it meant she had something to hide. Li Yijin was determined to wait here.
"Honey, what exactly happened?" Li Yijin asked.
"We'll know once the sun sets," Ye Xingchen said calmly. "Didn't I tell you that she has yin energy? The answer will be revealed soon."
"Okay." Li Yijin nodded.
“This courtyard will be different after dark, you should leave,” Ye Xingchen said.
"No, I need to find out what happened." Li Yijin shook her head; the little girl was quite stubborn.
"Alright then, I hope you won't regret it later." Ye Xingchen shook his head helplessly, he really couldn't do anything about her.
Soon, it got completely dark. This place was already filled with yin energy, and once it got dark, it became even colder and more chilling.
Moreover, faint shadows occasionally appear in the tangled grass, which is quite unsettling.
Li Yijin clutched Ye Xingchen's clothes, clearly terrified, but she still tried her best to remain calm.
Lu Yinan was initially very resistant to the two of them being there, but she couldn't break free, so she quieted down.
Suddenly, the living room lights came on. It was candlelight, and through the candlelight, a shadow appeared at the window.
"I told you to leave, why didn't you leave?" Lü Yinan's tone was somewhat sad.
"I need to find out what happened to you." Li Yijin's tone remained stubborn: "You're my good friend, and now that you're in trouble, how can I just sit idly by?"
"It will ruin you, you fool." Lü Yinan bit her lip.
"Who is inside?" Li Yijin asked with some surprise, looking at the shadows cast by the candlelight.
"Why don't we go in and take a look?" Ye Xingchen smiled slightly and looked at Lü Yinan: "Or you can just tell us the truth, who exactly is inside?"
Lü Yinan remained silent, but said bitterly, "It's not too late to leave now."
"It's too late." Ye Xingchen shook his head.
No sooner had he finished speaking than a hoarse female voice came from inside the room: "Nannan, have we had a guest?"
The voice was hoarse and indistinct, which Li Yijin found strange. The voice sounded familiar, but she couldn't quite place it.
"Yes, there are guests." Lü Yinan's expression immediately tensed up; she seemed somewhat afraid of the voice coming from inside the room.
"Then bring him in for a look." The hoarse voice rang out again.
By this time, it was pitch black outside. Because of the water and power outage, the lights couldn't be turned on. Lü Yinan gritted her teeth and opened the door.
The room was equally dark, with only one candle burning. A woman sat upright at the table, her back to everyone.
"Nan Nan, who is she?" Li Yijin asked, somewhat puzzled.
After Lü Yinan's parents divorced, she moved to the old house with her mother, and there was no news of her having any other relatives.
But if they aren't relatives, why would they be at her place?
Lü Yinan lowered her head and remained silent.
"Oh, hehe, it's Yijin." The woman's hoarse voice suddenly softened. "Long time no see. Come in and have a seat."
"Who are you? How do you know me?" Li Yijin's expression faltered slightly.
She sensed that the other person's tone was hesitant, and that each sentence seemed to be spoken with great difficulty. She felt that the voice was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't quite place it for the moment.
“You’ve been coming here often since you were little, how could I not recognize you?” The woman slowly stood up and turned around.
Her body was stiff, and every movement was incredibly rigid, as if she had used up all her strength.
When she turned around, Li Yijin's scalp tingled, and the hairs on her head stood on end. She exclaimed, "How is it you?"
Because the person in front of them was none other than Lü Yinan's mother.
She has been gone for quite some time now.
"Why can't it be me?" The woman took a step forward, a smile appearing on her ashen face, bringing her closer to Li Yijin.
Li Yijin then realized that her face was already somewhat rotten.
"Ah..." Li Yijin let out a high-pitched scream, her vision went black, and she almost fainted.
"I told you to go first, but you wouldn't." Ye Xingchen said helplessly, supporting her and holding her hand.
The girl's hand was so cold from fright that Ye Xingchen sent a wisp of his true energy to calm her nerves and soothe her nerves.
"You didn't say... I would see ghosts." Li Yijin was so scared that her teeth were chattering.
"She's not a ghost." Ye Xingchen smiled slightly, stepped forward, and stared at the woman: "Is living like this meaningful?"
"How could it be meaningless? I'm dead, but I can still live in this world and be with my dear daughter forever. Isn't that good?" the woman chuckled.
She slowly raised her head, and a piece of flesh fell from her rotting face. Even though the death curse slowed down the decay of her body, it could not stop her from gradually dying.
"Mom, let them go," Lü Yinan said in a pleading tone. "This has nothing to do with them."
"Leave? Heh, can anyone who comes here leave? My dear daughter, you're too merciful." The woman laughed heartily, "Two decent bodies. As long as I transfer my soul, I can use their bodies to walk in the world."
"As long as you are obedient enough, I can live in this world forever in different people's bodies. My daughter and I will never be separated."
"Nannan, is this your mother? She...isn't she already dead?" Li Yijin finally came to her senses and asked Lü Yinan in surprise.
"She is dead," Ye Xingchen said calmly. "But there is a kind of evil magic in Southeast Asia called 'dead man curse,' which is made by refining corpse oil and applying it to the body of a dying person."
"In this way, even if a person dies, their soul will be sealed inside their body. After a week of this treatment, the deceased can live in this world as a walking corpse. However, they cannot see sunlight all day, and they will still remember some things from their previous life."
"Is this... her current condition? Is she a human, or a ghost?" Li Yijin was horrified.
"Neither human nor ghost," Ye Xingchen said calmly. "The Dead Man's Curse can slow down the decay of a corpse, but it will eventually turn into a skeleton. If it can absorb the essence of a person within forty-nine days and transfer its own soul to that person, then it will be able to live in that body."
"Now, your target is your daughter, isn't it? She is covered in yin energy, her yin and yang energies are disordered, and her essence, energy, and spirit are all weak. This is because you are absorbing her spirit. After a while, her essence and soul will be destroyed, and you will live in this world by using her body. Then, before your daughter's corpse rots, you will find your next target."
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