Chapter 38: Is it fun to earn blood money? (16) “Tonight…
Aji is not stupid.
He was eager to know what was hidden inside, but he had no intention of trying it himself.
"Gesan, Tashi, you two go in and take a look." He pointed to his two apprentices and gave orders calmly.
Gesang and Tashi looked at each other breathlessly.
Among all the people present, they two have the weakest magical powers, and the risk of danger is the greatest.
But even they themselves knew that Aji chose them two to go in because they were the weakest.
Gesang and Zhaxi knew clearly that they were cannon fodder, but they did not dare to disobey Aji's orders. They had to hold the prayer wheels made of human bones tightly in their hands and walk into the blue house with their heads held high.
Aji displayed a remarkable degree of "mercy" at this moment. Although Gesang and Tashi, driven by fear, inched forward, sometimes even taking two steps forward and one back, Aji offered no urgency, waiting patiently and quietly. Even when others tried to urge them forward, he silenced them with a stern look.
The Tumba family pays close attention to detail in their interactions with others. These seemingly insignificant details have earned the Tumba family endless favor over the past decades, and this trait has become ingrained in their members, imbuing them with a deep sense of empathy.
...As for the fact that Gesar and Tashi went to the blue house precisely because of Aji's instructions, this small flaw is not important now.
Anyway, the Tumba family doesn't need these two lives.
So after waiting for nearly twenty minutes, Gesang and Tashi finally completed the short distance of a few dozen meters and arrived at the door of the blue house.
Over a decade of practice had given them a keen sense of yin energy. Even standing in front of the door, a chilling, oppressive feeling twisted their chests, making them uncomfortable. Gesang instinctively clutched his chest, while Tashi gasped several times before finally mustering the courage to raise his hand and grasp the doorknob.
"Click--" The door handle was pushed down, and the metal lock tongue made a normal sound, but at this moment it made people's heart palpitate.
They walked into the room, and Zhaxi groped the wall nervously, and was extremely nervous when he pressed the switch.
Fortunately, although this house was rarely visited, it was regularly maintained, and the light in the house was still working. With a click of the switch, the light came on.
The two of them held their breath at the same time, opened their eyes wide and looked around: there were no partitions in the house, and under the white light above their heads, everything was visible.
The room was surrounded by a circle of stainless steel shelves, which were piled with miscellaneous items, mostly tools used for the manor's logistics, such as maintenance boxes, hardware parts, and items such as cleaning agents.
With just a quick glance, the two brothers didn't find any place for people to hide in the house.
This feeling and the bright light made them relax a little. They calmed themselves down and continued walking inside.
After walking only three or two steps, Zhaxi heard a creaking sound under his feet, as if the floor was loose.
They lowered their heads together, and almost at the same time, a gust of cold wind passed between them.
The gust of wind was so sharp and clear that they even felt the pain on their cheeks. They turned their heads again and saw the door of the room that had been opened suddenly slammed shut by the gust of wind.
Gesang and Zhaxi looked at each other and realized that something was wrong. They immediately rushed over to turn the door handle and tried to open the door. However, the door, which was not locked, did not move at all as if it was welded shut.
"Let us out! Ahhhhhh——" Zhaxi screamed in despair.
A few dozen meters away, although Aji and others did not hear Zhaxi's shouting, the sudden closing of the door was enough to make them realize that something was wrong.
Ah Ji's eyebrows twitched fiercely. He ran towards the blue house, waving to everyone, "Hurry!"
Faced with the sudden crisis, the fear of the people who were originally worried faded. When Aji called them, they obediently followed him.
Aji was the first to run to the door. He reached out to turn the doorknob and pushed the door, but there was no response from inside the room.
"Gesar? Tashi!" Aji shouted the two people's names, but he didn't know whether they had been killed or the magic blocked the sound, he didn't hear any response.
Inside the door, Gesang and Zhaxi did not hear Aji's shouts. They were still desperately trying to pull the door open, just wanting to quickly leave this ominous place, but -
"Ah!" Zhaxi screamed.
"Wow--!!!" The strange and distorted cry drowned out Zhaxi's scream.
——Gesan suddenly heard these two sounds and turned his head in horror. He saw a woman in a tattered wedding dress throwing herself on Tashi. The wedding dress was not only covered in blood, but also contained a smell of corrupted flesh.
Gesang: SAN value -10%.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!” Zhaxi was thrown to the ground and faced the bite of the zombie with deep eye sockets. His SAN value dropped by 30% as he screamed.
"Help! Help!!!" Zhaxi struggled in panic.
In fact, if he had been calmer, he would have discovered that although the zombie bride in front of him had a touching visual effect, it did not cause much substantial harm to him. The strength of her bite was about the same as that of an ordinary person.
However, the mental damage Zhaxi suffered at this time obviously made him unable to care about the severity of the physical damage.
His struggle was completely disorganized. Although his limbs were waving vigorously, it was completely meaningless. His original physical advantages as a young and strong man also disappeared in this panic.
Then, his panic triggered a chain reaction - from Gesan's perspective, Zhaxi struggled desperately but to no avail, which invisibly strengthened his fear.
So Gesang, who was supposed to cast a spell to help Tashi escape, completely lost control. It was as if all the blood in his body had frozen, and his feet seemed to be rooted to the ground, and he stayed there motionless.
until……
A cool breath blew on my neck.
Gesan shuddered, but was unable to recover for a moment.
The breath blew twice more, and a faint smell of burning entered Gesan's nose.
His sense of touch and smell were stimulated at the same time, and Gesan finally turned his face away with a startle as if he had been electrocuted.
...and then I came face to face with a charred face.
"Oh my god!" Gesan fell backwards to the ground, staring at the charred corpse with his mouth open.
Fredis was no longer reserved and pounced on Gesan with a grin.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!" Gesan began the same meaningless struggle as Tashi, with screams coming one after another.
-10%, -10%, -10%...
The SAN value also jumped up and down. Not long after, Zhaxi's value dropped to 20% first. Elizabeth cast a spell silently with the mentality of fighting against probability and bit Zhaxi's neck.
Puff——
Thick blood plasma gushed out from Zhaxi's carotid artery and rushed straight to the ceiling. Zhaxi's eyes rolled back and his legs twitched uncontrollably. After several times, he died completely.
Outside, several people used ordinary spells to break the door but failed. Aji's expression gradually became serious, and he said in a deep voice with bated breath: "Everyone, get out of the way."
Several disciples silently retreated a few meters away.
Aji clasped his hands together, closed his eyes and chanted the mantra: "Nan Weisutong, Maraj Pisaji!"
If this sentence is translated into a Chinese spell, it should probably be "Bind the Buddha as a medium, feed the evil and become a demon", but there is actually no such spell in Chinese. This is an evil secret technique unique to Siam.
As the last word fell, Aji suddenly opened his eyes. The whites of his eyes turned dark, and in the middle of them there was a dark green pupil like a vertical line.
Aji opened his mouth and cast the spell again: "Wei Ba!"
His voice became hoarse, with a light and thin hissing sound entwined in the hoarseness, reminding people of a cold and poisonous snake spitting out its tongue in the mountains.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew up all around! The gravel between the blades of grass was swept into small whirlpools, and all the dust suddenly gathered towards Aji, condensing into a yellow mist two people high behind him.
Within a few seconds, the outline of a giant snake quickly appeared in the yellow sand. It roared to the sky and rushed towards the door of the blue house with its bloody mouth wide open!
"Bang!"
With just one collision, the door that everyone tried their best to open suddenly flew out, and Elizabeth, who had just stood up from Tashi's body, was hit by the waist against the stainless steel frame behind her.
Crackling.
The miscellaneous items on the shelf fell to the ground due to the violent impact. Elizabeth was stunned for a moment. The people who successfully broke the door were also stunned when they suddenly saw a zombie and a charred corpse.
Fredis's eyes were stern. She left Gesang, who only had 30% SAN left, and stood up, staring at everyone sinisterly.
The two sides confronted each other in the gloomy wind. Elizabeth gradually recovered from the sudden collision, and her blurred vision slowly returned to normal.
She subconsciously looked outside the door, and coincidentally saw Aji's black and white eyes flash and turn into green and black vertical pupils.
Southeast Asian witchcraft!
Elizabeth leaped up and flashed to Fredis's side. She grabbed her wrist just before Fredis launched an attack, and without waiting for her to react, she dragged her around and ran towards the side window.
"Crack--" The fragile glass window was smashed by brute force. Aji's eyes flashed and he rushed into the door quickly, but he only saw the figures of two monsters in the park under the night sky.
Aji cursed inwardly and clenched his teeth.
"Master, what should we do?" A disciple walked up to him and asked cautiously.
Aji's green vertical pupils flickered several times before finally returning to normal.
He turned his head to look at the disciple beside him, and then looked over his disciple's shoulder to a place half a meter away - Gesang, who was still breathing, collapsed on the ground, staring at the ceiling with his eyes. No matter how his fellow disciples called him, slapped his face, or pinched his philtrum, he did not respond at all.
This situation is called "three souls have lost seven spirits" in Chinese saying, and "SAN value falls below the critical value" in Western saying.
For ordinary people, this situation is basically hopeless. Even if they appear normal for a while, their spirit will quickly collapse in half a day at most. Even if they are lucky enough to be saved, they will have to spend the rest of their lives in a mental hospital.
But for those of them who are “in the industry,” such situations can still be saved. Although the success rate is not 100%, they can usually restore most of the soul to its place, allowing the person to live out the rest of his life in a state of “weak body but relatively normal mind.”
However, that kind of "weakness"...
Aji stared at Gesan with his eyes narrowed into a line. The disciples around him who were waiting for him to speak were dazed for a moment. They felt that his expression was not like that of a master looking at his disciples, but more like that of a cold-blooded snake looking at its prey.
For a moment he was not even sure whether the evil spirit had left his master.
Aji stared at Gesang for a long while, then said calmly, "Let's find a stretcher to carry him."
The disciple was shocked.
——He did not mention the soul returning to its place, or even being sent to the hospital.
Aji continued, "We still need his help tonight. When this is over, I will summon his spirit."
"This...this..." the disciple stuttered.
They are all practitioners. Although his skills are far inferior to Aji's, he can basically guess his plan.
He obviously wanted to drive Gesan to continue to act as a "shield" in order to deal with the next danger.
Although this is indeed safer for others, for Gesang, the longer the lost soul is away from the body, the harder it will be for it to return. The fewer souls that return, the worse his recovery will be in the future. If it takes too long, he may even die.
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Author's Notes:
① [Three souls lost seven spirits] In fact, the original words should be "Lost three souls and lost seven spirits". It was simplified as it was passed down... but it does not hinder understanding hahaha. After thinking about it, I decided to use this inaccurate but more in line with spoken language version.
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