Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Yang Sisi, what are you crazy about? ...
"Xu, living beings controlled by evil thoughts, haunted by evil spirits and filled with malice, bordering on demonic, demonic, and unworthy of human eyes..."
Xu Ying held the door:
"Why are you spouting all this pedantic nonsense? These guys are definitely not human. The point is, what should we do now—"
As soon as she and Ji Chu opened the door, they saw a group of people with hideous faces. They were similar to Niu Niu, the servants of the Zhao Mansion and others they had met before, but they were obviously much more terrifying.
The warm yellow light and the sweet aroma of snacks in the room immediately attracted the attention of the group of people, and Ji Chu and Xu Ying, who were in a completely different state from them, became sitting ducks.
Suddenly, many people rushed over with sticks and kitchen knives, shouting "Zhao the thief deserves death"...
Although they were not the target of their hatred, this group of people seemed unreasonable. When they saw them coming out of Zhao Yulin's house, they attacked them.
Xu Ying held the door behind her with both hands and looked at Ji Chu anxiously.
Ji Chu flipped the page back and found that the rest of the page was blank:
"That's all. Zhao Yulin's notes end here."
Xu Ying was furious:
"That bastard Jiang Chengxu must have seen this before, but he didn't tell us! Don't go out... He must have known it would turn out like this!"
Before Ji Chu could answer, he rushed to the window in two steps and beat out a maid dressed as someone who tried to break in. Then he quickly closed the window and held it with his back. Only then did he have time to say to Xu Ying:
"These people should transform into ghosts at night and return to normal during the day. Can we take action?"
"Why can't we take action? They're not human anymore anyway. Are we just waiting for them to kill us?"
Although Xu Ying said this, she still leaned against the door without moving.
She had the same concerns as Ji Chu: these "筆" would return to their human form during the day, and it was impossible for them to be so focused on killing them as if they were exorcising demons.
Those servants and maids, and children like Niuniu, clearly could not cause any harm to them. If they were killed without explanation at night, would they really be able to face their own Daoist aspirations calmly during the day?
The windows and doors were banging and making crackling sounds. Ji Chu suggested:
"Let's get out of here first."
The two of them counted silently to "three, two, one", and then let go at the same time.
The door and window were opened at the same time, and cold wind rushed in instantly, blowing out the candles on the table.
In the pitch darkness, the only sounds in the room were the books spread out on the table rustling in the wind. Apart from them, there was no one else.
Without a target, Xu, who had broken in, became agitated for a while but soon calmed down. He walked towards the main courtyard again, holding his weapon like a wandering soul.
Ji Chu and Xu Ying were clinging to the beams like spiders. When they saw them leave, they let go and jumped down, following them in the dark.
"They look very resentful."
Xu Ying said: "It can be seen that the Zhao family does not treat them well. It is really difficult for workers."
After waiting for a long time without hearing Ji Chu's reply, she couldn't help but wonder and asked again:
"Are you talking about... Ji Chu——?"
The ending tone changed.
Ji Chu, who had been walking beside her, disappeared at some point. Only a ghost face with bloodshot eyes followed her, getting very close to her.
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Ji Chu was originally holding Xu Ying's hand, but as they walked, he suddenly felt a cold and damp touch in his palm, as if he was holding a fish that had just been caught from the river, and an unpleasant fishy smell hit him in the face.
She immediately realized that something was wrong.
A woman's faint voice came from my ears:
"Life is full of suffering, you..."
Ji Chu didn't listen to her at all. The moment he let go, he decisively summoned his long sword, drew a streak of sword light across the air, and then hit something as hard as iron, which turned out to be a pair of swollen, black and blue ghost claws.
Ji Chu: “Ugh—”
When she thought about what she had just touched, she couldn't help but retching.
Unexpectedly, this subconscious reaction actually angered the disheveled ghost in front of him. A ghost face whose features could not be seen suddenly came forward, opened its mouth and screamed loudly:
"Impertinent boy! You're looking for death—"
Ji Chu was caught off guard and was attacked by the ghost. He hurriedly took a step back to avoid the attack.
Just as he stood up, he lowered his head and vomited.
This time, after retching, he didn't forget to explain: "I'm sorry, this smell is really too bad..."
“Ahhhhhh—”
The ghost in front of him was completely furious.
She didn't care about seduction or not, she wanted to bleed this rude kid to death on the spot!
The ghost claws stretched to several inches long, and the surface of the claws was deep red with a bloody smell, as if covered with many layers of coagulated blood.
Hiding beneath the hair was a face so swollen it was unrecognizable, covered in blue and purple spots, like a zombie just dug out of the ground.
Tongue extended, eyeballs...
Ji Chu took a look at the ghost's eyeballs that were bulging out to the point of falling out, and his throat suddenly became uncontrollable, and he retched again.
This was her first time to face such a terrifying ghost, and the sticky and cold touch of the ghost's claws lingering on her hands made her want to chop her hands off.
Unfortunately, she couldn't do that. She hadn't learned how to regenerate a broken arm yet, so she could only wash it and continue using it.
So Ji Chu kept repeating the action of throwing the "cleansing technique" at his hands while swinging his sword to block the ghosts.
Because it was disgusting to look at and even more disgusting to touch, Ji Chu was almost risking his life. Not only was he always on guard against the ghost's approach, he also put all his strength into chopping it down before the other party showed its face.
After several fights, the ghost had all ten fingers broken by her and was in a miserable state. It no longer had the strength to scream and threaten like before, and kept begging Ji Chu to let it go.
While Ji Chu was calming himself down, he solved the problem with one sword without hesitation.
It was not until the ghost turned into mist and dissipated that Ji Chu felt his nose start working again.
But there was always a heavy, damp smell with every breath, making her feel as if she had fallen into some kind of haunted den.
This is indeed the case.
When one ghost died, thousands and millions of ghosts stood up. In the darkness, pairs of green eyes stared at her, and some even had only a pair of eyeballs hanging in the air.
The shrill and eerie ghost cries came one after another, getting closer and louder, like fingernails scratching against iron sheets, mixed with wailing and sobbing, as if everyone in the room was complaining in her ear at the same time, making it difficult for her to control her irritation and pain, and she even felt the urge to cut something to vent her anger.
Ji Chu: “…”
Have I fallen into the underworld?
She was doubtful and tightened her grip on the hilt of the sword.
So annoying, I really want to chop something...
As soon as this thought came to mind, the scene in front of Ji Chu changed instantly.
The ghost in front of him disappeared, and in the center of the cold and icy light, a tender branch broke out of the ground, and then in front of Ji Chu, it quickly completed the process of sprouting, thickening, growing taller, and blooming.
In the blink of an eye, a peach tree with lush branches and flowers appeared in front of Ji Chu. The peach blossoms on it were clustered together, looking extremely gorgeous, and one could faintly smell the sweet fragrance of the peach blossoms.
Ji Chu frowned, and the malice in his heart grew to infinity. He looked around and saw no one else, so he followed his instinct and raised his sword to chop hard at the flower branch.
The peach branches are broken, the flowers are lying on the ground, and the petals are flying everywhere. It is such a sad and beautiful scene.
Ji Chu became happy instead:
"I've been wanting to chop down this tree for a long time! Finally, I've waited until my senior brother is gone!"
Yes, the thing she wanted to cut down most was the peach tree full of flowers in her senior brother's yard.
Hit her, right? I'll cut off all the branches and forks for you today, and see what you can use to hit her when you come back!
Ji Chu hummed twice, and poured spiritual power into the sword. He imitated the way his senior brother attacked, and with a decisive and sharp move, he slashed at the roots of the peach tree.
Screams suddenly broke out.
A long roar suddenly came from the peach tree in front of him that was chopped into pieces. Ji Chu was startled and the sword was still stuck in the tree roots.
The violent scream broke Ji Chu's joy of immersing himself in chopping trees.
At the same time, a slender figure appeared beside him. He was tall and graceful, with a calm gaze. His appearance could not be seen clearly due to the mist, but he vaguely looked like his senior brother.
Ji Chu realized what he had done and his heart skipped a beat.
She was so bold as to cut down her senior brother's tree, and she did it in such a radical way, even in front of her senior brother!
When did she become so brave!
Although she had plucked the flowers from her senior brother's yard in her previous life and cooked them for food, she was soon stabbed to death by her senior brother with a sword. Presumably, her senior brother didn't know it was her who did it until the end. But this time she was still alive and well. How could she explain it?
Ji Chu's thoughts were running wildly. In a short period of time, he came up with a hundred explanations, but they were all rejected one by one.
Finally, I can only bite the bullet and explain:
"Brother, it's not what you think..."
The person opposite didn't speak.
Ji Chu's mind was in turmoil. He looked around and picked up a branch that was barely acceptable. He patted the non-existent dirt on it, handed it to his senior brother, and proposed a plan:
"How about... I help you plant another one?"
The senior brother didn't answer, and even tilted his head slightly, looking at her with interest.
Ji Chu was holding a piece of branch, feeling very uncomfortable, thinking, "I really can't fool you." He said in a frustrated tone:
"Okay, okay, I was wrong. I shouldn't have secretly cut down your tree. Brother, you have reason to be angry..."
At a certain moment, her gaze inadvertently shifted to the peach tree in front of her, and then she discovered that on the tree trunk closest to her, a pair of eyes were glowing with a strange light, as if smiling at her.
As he laughed, blood began to flow from his left eyeball and his pupil began to roll upwards, but he still maintained a smile.
Why do peach trees have eyes?
wrong!
Can peach trees scream?
Ji Chu suddenly opened his eyes wide and felt a chill on his back.
The illusion shattered as she woke up. There was no peach tree in front of her anymore. Instead, there was a bunch of little ghosts huddled together pretending to be peach trees.
The peach blossoms she knocked down turned into green ghost eyes, rolling helplessly on the ground and wailing.
And in her hand...
Ji Chu looked down at his hands stiffly.
What she was holding in her hand was naturally not a branch, but a piece of pale broken bone!
When people are extremely frightened, they will freeze on the spot.
Ji Chu: “…”
She calmly let go and the broken bone fell to the ground.
Then she drew her sword and took a step back, looking calm and composed, as if she were otherworldly.
Even when Meng Yuci thought she was really so calm, Ji Chu suddenly screamed "Ah--", sounding scared and devastated, mixed with anger and rage.
Ji Chu felt that he had been fooled.
Not only do these ghosts look disgusting, they even pretend to be her senior brothers to scare her!
Look at this ghost. He hasn't revealed his true form until now. He is simply making a fool of her!
Ji Chu clenched his fists, anger rising up, and then he grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands and smashed it towards the man in front of him like a sledgehammer.
The mist was cut open by the spiritual power on the sword, revealing Yang Nianzhi's handsome face.
A pair of dark eyes were looking at her, neither dodging nor avoiding.
Ji Chu's sword suddenly stopped.
Her voice was a little uncertain: "Yang Nianzhi? Brother?"
She withdrew her sword but did not retract it, still keeping a distance, and carefully poked his shoulder with the tip of the sword:
"Don't try to trick me, kid."
Meng Yuci's eyes swept over Ji Chu's face, confirming that there was no evil spirit in her. She had not turned into a ghost, nor was she possessed by a demon. She was still the same as before she left home that morning, but she was frightened even more stupidly by the ghost. Then he slowly spoke:
"Yang Sisi, what are you crazy about?"
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The author has something to say: Senior Brother: Let me see what the inner demon of my junior sister is.
Ah, it’s a peach tree [question mark]
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