"I...I..."
Jiang Yu stammered for a long time, but couldn't get a word out.
People do indeed exhibit this behavior when faced with immense fear.
The mother's eyes were cold, but a smile gradually appeared on her face.
It's time to eat again.
"Smack!"
A crisp sound rang out in the hallway.
Jiang Yu covered her face, staring at Xia Tianqiong with shock and confusion in her eyes.
The ghost mother was equally surprised.
It turned out that Xia Tianqiong suddenly gave Jiang Yu a powerful slap, and a red handprint immediately appeared on her fair face.
"Speak up!"
Xia Tianqiong was so disappointed in her that she really wanted to slap her again.
"oh oh……"
Jiang Yu finally realized what was happening. She stammered a bit, but managed to say something complete: "I... I promise to help you find... find your child."
The duck that was about to be eaten flew away, and the ghost mother felt a little disappointed.
It turned its head and glared at Xia Tianqiong, its expression unfriendly, its eyes filled with resentment.
"My child is lost. Can you help me find my child?"
"I'm willing to help you."
Xia Tianqiong answered very readily, while also sizing up the Ghost Mother.
The ghost mother was dressed in a white, waist-length ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), and her hair was styled in a classical way, making her look like an ancient person.
To be honest, if it weren't for her intimidating eyes, she would actually be quite pretty.
This apartment building has only seven floors. After Xia Tianqiong agreed, everyone in the entire building had been asked once.
After completing the first rule, the Ghost Mother suddenly disappeared from the spot.
"She's gone?" Jiang Yu asked, trembling.
"It's temporary, I'll be back soon."
Xia Tianqiong sighed; he didn't know how to get through this ordeal.
Will they come back?
Exclamations of surprise came from the bottom of the stairs.
It turned out that the surviving residents from downstairs had come up, and there were quite a few of them.
They all wanted to ask the person who had just warned them what was going on.
A burly man walked up to Xia Tianqiong and asked, "Brother, how do you know about the female ghost?"
Xia Tianqiong hesitated for a moment, then made up a lie, "I've seen ghost stories like this online before. They say that a female ghost asks people to help her find her child. If they don't agree, she will kill them. If they agree, they will still die even if they can't find their child."
He wasn't afraid of leaking some information, after all, everyone here could die, including himself.
If we can unite everyone to search for the strange infant, there might still be a glimmer of hope.
"Really? How could a ghost story be true?"
A middle-aged woman in pajamas still seemed somewhat skeptical.
Someone nearby immediately retorted, "At this point, it's better to believe it's true. What if that female ghost really comes back and demands our child back?"
"Are the child of a female ghost also a ghost?"
"The crying just now was very unusual; it might be coming from inside our building."
This building has seven floors, with two households on each floor, and about thirty people live here.
Eight or nine people died under the first rule of the Ghost Mother, and more than twenty people survived. They are now crowded in the stairwell on the sixth and seventh floors, arguing endlessly.
"Forget about ghosts, let's call the police!"
"If I could call the police, I would have done so already. Do you see if your phone still has a signal?"
"Not only is there no cell phone signal, but the building entrance is also locked, and the windows are neither openable nor breakable. Even if I wanted to jump out, I couldn't."
Everyone was alarmed and realized the seriousness of the problem.
Xia Tianqiong looked at them but didn't say anything more.
The Ghost Mother is a malevolent ghost-level being, one level higher than the Ghost Infant. It possesses a ghost domain that has already enveloped the entire unit, isolating it from the outside world.
It will only withdraw its ghostly domain and leave this place if everyone dies or someone finds the ghost infant.
"Young man, in that ghost story you were reading, did it say how to get rid of a female ghost?"
A middle-aged woman suddenly raised a question, and everyone's eyes turned to Xia Tianqiong.
"They didn't say anything specific, they just said that if they found the baby, the baby would survive."
Xia Tianqiong looked at everyone and continued, "Let's not waste time here. The female ghost appears every ten minutes. Let's all go back to our homes, turn on all the lights, search every dark corner, and maybe the female ghost's child is hiding there."
Upon hearing this, everyone realized that there was no other way but to go find the child.
So they gradually dispersed and went home.
But at that moment, the ghost mother suddenly appeared behind a man.
While everyone was discussing, ten minutes had quietly passed.
"Have you found my child?"
"I...I was just about to go look for it!"
The man was trembling all over, and as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly found that he could not move his body.
The wicked mother grinned and pounced on him.
Its entire body enveloped the man like mist.
Amidst the horrified and panicked gazes of the crowd, the man aged rapidly, turning into a desiccated corpse in the blink of an eye.
"ah!"
"Run!"
The crowd gasped and scattered, some running upstairs and others downstairs.
The ghostly mother licked her lips, watched the food escape, gave a sinister smile, and vanished again.
"Everyone, panicking won't help. Hurry home and find your children!"
Xia Tianqiong had been watching all of this with a cold eye from beginning to end, but at this moment she couldn't help but speak up again to remind everyone.
After the initial panic subsided, seeing the female ghost disappear, everyone quickly ran back to their homes.
"Xia Tianqiong, I'm scared, can I come to your room?"
Jiang Yu witnessed the female ghost kill someone, and was so frightened that her face turned pale, and cold sweat poured down her face, soaking her pink nightgown, revealing her curvaceous figure.
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