☆, Chapter 35: Act and continue to act
Just when Mu Xiaoxiao was extremely desperate, the female ghost suddenly let out a scream even more shrill than hers.
Then, he vanished from Mu Xiaoxiao's body in a tumble. Before leaving, he turned around and glared at Mu Xiaoxiao, looking extremely resentful.
Mu Xiaoxiao was stunned at first, and then burst into great anger.
, You almost killed me and I don't feel any resentment yet
Mu Xiaoxiao was so angry that she sat up in bed, wanting to pull the ghost back and give her a good beating. But before she could move, she immediately broke out in a cold sweat. That was a ghost, not a little bitch she could just pull over and mess with.
Mu Xiaoxiao's strength suddenly drained away, and she was overcome with fear and dread. She knew she had a lucky escape this time; otherwise, the ghost girl's intention was to take her away.
Then, Mu Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered a detail: the ghost seemed to have screamed because someone had touched her hair. And today, during the day, only Yu Jiuyin had slapped her.
Mu Xiaoxiao subconsciously pulled her hair to her nose and sniffed it. The faint scent of sandalwood instantly calmed her heart. The icy cold air around her also became warmer in this light scent.
Could it be Yu Jiuyin who saved her? Mu Xiaoxiao hugged her shoulders tightly, curled up in a ball, and sobbed softly. Cheng Dong and Qi Ming, who were beside her, also remained unconscious from beginning to end. Or perhaps they had actually woken up, but were just pretending not to.
The room gradually returned to calm.
The long night finally passed. When dawn finally arrived, Mu Xiaoxiao's first thought was to find Yu Jiuyin. She wasn't stupid; she knew it was Yu Jiuyin who had saved her life the previous day.
"Why are you going to find them? Didn't you say that Yi Qing was a lunatic?" Qi Ming stretched out his hand to stop him.
"A madman is better than a coward." Mu Xiaoxiao looked at him with disdain.
"What do you mean?" Qi Ming was completely angry.
"What do you mean you really fell asleep last night?" Mu Xiaoxiao sneered and turned away. She was so scared last night, and Qi Ming was right next to her. How could she not know that the female ghost might have been lying between him and Qi Ming when she first arrived?
Qi Ming was so angry that he wanted to say something, but Cheng Dong stopped him and said, "Don't bother with a woman."
"So what do we do now?"
"Let's go and take a look together. What if something happens to Mu Xiaoxiao, a girl?" Cheng Dong said, and quickly put on his shoes and followed Mu Xiaoxiao. Qiming was a minority who obeyed the majority, so they had to act together.
However, what Qi Ming didn't know was that although Cheng Dong spoke in high-sounding words, he actually had a plan in mind.
He saw everything that happened last night clearly. According to common sense, Mu Xiaoxiao would have died, but she had escaped. Now, she insisted on finding Yu Jiuyin, which proved that there was something magical about Yu Jiuyin.
Cheng Dong clearly wanted to survive this game. So even though he disliked Yu Jiuyin so much yesterday, now that he knew Yu Jiuyin might have a solution, he was still determined to cling to her regardless of his moral integrity.
But after they left, they regretted their decision. Cheng Dong discovered that Yu Jiuyin was in even more trouble than they were. The idea that Yu Jiuyin could possibly help them escape was completely absurd. Yu Jiuyin himself was already in a desperate situation.
Blood was everywhere, flowing straight down from the stairs, making the entire floor wet. If you stood there for a while, even the soles of your shoes would be soaked with blood.
"Could those two people upstairs have already..." Qi Ming's heart was beating fast.
"Impossible, this blood is not just from two people." Mu Xiaoxiao shook her head affirmatively. She firmly believed that Yu Jiuyin must still be alive.
Cheng Dong observed for a while and gave his own answer. "I don't know if the two upstairs are still alive, but according to the human body's blood volume, it would take at least ten people to cover the entire room with blood. Even if the six of us died here last night and were bled out, we wouldn't be able to cause this."
"Yes, so I plan to take a look." Mu Xiaoxiao insisted.
Qi Ming stopped him again, "How are you going to get there? Are you not afraid of another accident if you step directly into the blood?"
"I've already died once, why would I still care about this?" Thinking of the shock she'd experienced last night, Mu Xiaoxiao held her breath. She didn't care what lay beneath her feet; finding Yu Jiuyin was the most important thing. She simply walked forward.
"Wait a minute." Cheng Dong hesitated for a moment and followed. Qi Ming had no choice but to fall behind.
However, when they arrived at Yu Jiuyin's room, the atmosphere inside was so strange that it shocked them.
The entire second floor was filled with a chilling atmosphere, as cold as an ice cellar. Inside, Yu Jiuyin and Rong Qing were huddled together, huddled tightly against the edge of the bed.
Not knowing what they had just experienced, Rong Qing was completely terrified and threw herself into Yu Jiuyin's arms, trembling. Yu Jiuyin's face was not much better, as pale as paper.
At their feet, two thin skirts were soaked in blood, and their original colors could no longer be distinguished.
It turned out that the blood on the first floor had flowed out from their room. And the cabinet in the corner of the room was the real source of the blood.
"Are you two okay?" Mu Xiaoxiao wanted to go into the house, but she was so scared that she couldn't even stretch her feet out.
However, at this moment, the cabinet in the corner seemed to sense someone coming and suddenly vibrated even more violently, as if something was trying to struggle out from inside.
The attention of Mu Xiaoxiao and the other two was immediately drawn over.
There was a loud bang, and the cabinet door opened wide, followed by the shrill sounds of children playing and laughing coming from inside.
The wooden horse in the room swayed and creaked without any wind, and the blood flowing out of the wardrobe became more and more abundant and thicker.
"Come on, come and play!"
"Hehehe, don't be afraid, come in and find me!" The childish voice became clearer and clearer. It was clearly in the closet. Everyone's eyes involuntarily gathered there. Then, they saw a scene that they would never forget.
That cabinet—no, it wasn't a cabinet at all. They could clearly see that inside, hanging were clearly the ranks of the dead. And behind them, two faces filled with resentment stared back at them.
Those were the faces of dead people, and the smell was that of a dead person. Their resentful eyes were greedily lingering over Mu Xiaoxiao and the other two, as if they were going to pull them into the closet and make them their companions in the next second.
"Ah" This time not only Mu Xiaoxiao, but also Cheng Dong and Qi Ming screamed in fright.
"No!" Rong Qing on the bed seemed to be frightened. His voice was low and a little tearful, like a harmless cat. But Yu Jiuyin was so out of character that he almost laughed.
Because from Yu Jiuyin's perspective, he could see firsthand how the pair of evil spirits in the closet were nearly frightened to pieces by Rongqing's "no." Then, the ranks began to shake.
Not to scare people, but because they are afraid.
"Don't collapse! Keep going!" Rong Qing, sensing their fear, gave a silent command. Perhaps the incident of wearing a skirt yesterday had irritated Rong Qing, leaving him in a bad mood all night and even harsher towards the evil spirits.
The two ghosts looked at Rongqing timidly, then had to work even harder to scare him. As for the blood, it flowed even more, as if it was about to flood the entire room.
"That's enough. Too much is as bad as too little." Yu Jiuyin reminded Rongqing softly in his ear.
"Hmm." Rong Qing withdrew his gaze from the cabinet. The cabinet door immediately closed. It looked like he couldn't wait to send Rong Qing away and get her out of the room.
This is really a rip-off. Why would two huge Buddha statues come to such a place? It’s so difficult to find a scapegoat these days.
Yu Jiuyin looked at it and couldn't help laughing again, but at this moment, his cell phone rang.
It was the mastermind behind the scenes. He seemed dissatisfied with the fact that no one died on the first night, so he issued a second order.
"The quality of your team is better than I expected. But the first night doesn't mean true victory. I'll add an interesting little game for you: the spirit summoning game, where you eat food. Only those who can escape the judgment of the evil spirits will be qualified to serve the goddess."
"Do we have to play?" Mu Xiaoxiao asked with a trembling voice.
"You can choose not to participate, but then you will be the first to die." After saying that, the phone was hung up.
Mu Xiaoxiao looked up with a pale face, forcing a smile that was uglier than tears. Sheng Chun, who had come a step behind, stood surprisingly quiet at the doorway, watching the people in the room expressionlessly, as if he were watching a pantomime. Not even the grimace in the closet could stir him. As for Qi Ming and Cheng Dong, they were in deep sorrow, like they had lost their parents.
They all felt that it would be difficult for them to survive in this game.
However, no matter how scared they were, they were now in the trap and had no right to resist.
Qi Ming looked around and took a few deep breaths before finally calming down. "You've all heard the game, now that everyone's here, let's get ready."
"Yeah. It's better to play during the day than at night." Cheng Dong also nodded.
"But we don't have any live chickens," Sheng Chun reminded them.
"The same goes for the blood of a living person." Perhaps it was because the series of blows were too much, so Qi Ming also started to break the jar and smash it.
Several people worked quickly, some steaming the rice, some finding bowls and chopsticks. Within twenty minutes, all the necessary preparations were complete. The last step was to drip blood into the rice.
"Let me go first." Qi Ming picked up the knife and cut his finger. The bright red blood fell on the rice, but it seeped in after a while.
Cheng Dong took a deep breath and then picked up the knife. Sheng Chun followed, followed by Mu Xiaoxiao. But when it was Yu Jiuyin's turn, he suddenly pulled Mu Xiaoxiao's hand and cut another finger.
Mu Xiaoxiao "What are you doing?"
Yu Jiuyin "I'm Afraid of Pain"
Mu Xiaoxiao widened her eyes in amazement.
Yu Jiuyin was not finished yet. As he spoke, he quickly grabbed Sheng Chun's hand and cut it open, letting the blood drip into the bowl in front of Rong Qing. He kept muttering, "Help me, help me, look at how thin my Qingqing is. Do you have the nerve to make him bleed?"
It's also shameless to the extreme.
Sheng Chun glared at him and asked, "Why don't you do it for him yourself?"
Yu Jiuyin said as a matter of course, "Because I'm afraid of pain."
Sheng Chun was so angry that she scolded him, "Yi Duojin, are you a man?"
Yu Jiuyin suddenly laughed and said, "Then I'll take it out and show it to you."
Sheng Chun was so blatantly bullied that he didn't know what to say for a long time. Mu Xiaoxiao, who was standing next to him, also had the urge to strangle Yu Jiuyin to death.
But Yu Jiuyin patted her and whispered in her ear, "Cheng Dong and the other two can't do it. Do you want to sleep with us tonight?"
"What, what's wrong? What are you talking about?" Is this a direct dirty joke? Mu Xiaoxiao was shocked.
Yu Jiuyin looked her up and down, "What are you thinking about? My brother is a hundred times more handsome than you."
Yi Qing is also a man. You have nothing wrong in inviting a girl like me to sleep with you. You must have some ulterior motive. Mu Xiaoxiao really wanted to refute this, but when she saw Rong Qing's beautiful and exquisite face, she couldn't say it with confidence.
Compared to Rongqing, she was like a real man. Mu Xiaoxiao was so angry at Yu Jiuyin that she was fuming. Instead of being afraid, she angrily stuck her chopsticks into the rice and turned her back, thinking that out of sight, out of mind.
Seeing this, others followed suit.
The brief hiccup quickly passed, and the spirit-calling game officially began. Everyone formed a circle, walked around the rice, and silently chanted, "Passing spirits, please come and eat my food; if you eat my food, please help me solve my problems."
At first, there was no movement, but when they recited it for the tenth time, the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed.
An indescribable chill suddenly descended, and the air around them became crowded, as if there were eyes watching them from the unknown.
"Look what's this?" Mu Xiaoxiao was the first to notice something was wrong. She pointed at the bowl and couldn't help but exclaim. Everyone looked over and saw that the blood that had soaked into the rice was slowly seeping out, dripping onto the white paper beneath the bowl. At the same time, starting with Mu Xiaoxiao, almost everyone felt a strange sensation, as if something cold was holding their hands under the table.
If you haven't experienced it yourself, you might never know what it feels like to have a fierce ghost standing next to you. Mu Xiaoxiao was already frightened and crying, but Sheng Chun remained calm and reminded everyone that it was time to ask questions.
"Don't ask too many questions, or you'll get into trouble." Qi Ming reminded everyone in a low voice.
But no one expected that Cheng Dong, who seemed to be quiet, would actually ask such a terrible question: "Who among us will die first?"
The most taboo thing when you ask for help is asking about life and death. If the King of Hell calls you to die at three o'clock in the morning, who would dare to keep you alive until five o'clock? What's more, what they ask for is not a god, but most likely a ghost.
"Cheng Dong, you..." Mu Xiaoxiao was immediately angry, but Cheng Dong argued.
"Stop pretending. Don't you want to know that you're all going to die sooner or later? Isn't it better to know first and prepare the coffin first?"
At this moment, a sound like a broken ballpoint pen moving on paper was heard, and the thing that was invited actually began to answer.
They had to get the piece of paper before the bowl broke, or they would be haunted by a ghost. When everyone thought of the taboos of this spirit summoning game, they were all extremely nervous.
However, Cheng Dong's actions once again surprised everyone. He grabbed Mu Xiaoxiao and Sheng Chun's heads and pushed them to the ground. Then he quickly turned around and took the paper that belonged to him.
In just a few seconds, the bowl of rice shattered, and Mu Xiaoxiao and Sheng Chun lost their papers completely.
No one knows what will happen next, but the ending for Mu Xiaoxiao and Sheng Chun will definitely not be a good one.
Mu Xiaoxiao burst into tears in despair, and Sheng Chun's face became extremely ugly. Yu Jiuyin glanced at Cheng Dong meaningfully. As for Rong Qing, the look he gave Cheng Dong was more like looking at a dead person.
"What are you doing?" At this point, Cheng Dong finally revealed his true colors. "Don't look at me like that. What's wrong with wanting to live? I'm going to die anyway. Don't you all want to see the goddess? Go die, and you can see the goddess after you die."
Cheng Dong glared at Yu Jiuyin and Rong Qing fiercely, then turned to Qi Ming beside him and said, "Qi Ming, you are not a fool, are you? Two of these people are definitely going to die, and there is also a lame lunatic and a psychopath. Only the two of us can survive together."
Qi Ming wanted to refute at first, but the desire to live was above everything else. In addition, Cheng Dong was right that Yu Jiuyin and the other three were typical old, weak and sick people, so he finally chose to stand on Cheng Dong's side.
Yu Jiuyin: "When God wants people to die, mothers want people to marry. Cheng Dong is courting death."
Rongqing: "I'm afraid that I'm no longer a human being."
Yu Jiuyin laughed softly, "Isn't it true? Wearing the clothes of a scapegoat, how could he survive the fifth watch? He might have died long ago."
Yu Jiuyin's words sounded strange, and Rongqing didn't understand for a moment.
Yu Jiuyin smiled and pinched his face. "Little brother, call me a nice voice, and I'll show you a big secret later."
Rong Qing stared at Yu Jiuyin for a while, then slowly added, "What big secret are you taking out? Is it bigger than Sheng Chun's?"
Yu Jiuyin was so offended by Rongqing's words that he didn't know how to respond for a long time. In the end, he could only sigh, "Don't mess with me, don't mess with me!" This class of students' ability to draw inferences from one instance is really too strong.
However, even though Yu Jiuyin was fooling around, his words always counted. As expected, just a few hours after Yu Jiuyin finished speaking, someone really died downstairs.
When Qi Ming's screams came from the first floor hall, Yu Jiuyin and the others standing downstairs looked down and saw Cheng Dong lying on the ground as if he had fallen asleep, without a drop of blood on his body. But strangely, he was wearing the clothes that belonged to the grandfather of this house.
The long gown and short jacket were all bright red, with a round embroidered longevity character. It was clearly a funeral garment.
Mu Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she was numb, and even seeing a dead person didn't make any reaction. Sheng Chun hated Cheng Dong so much that she didn't even lament his death.
Only Yu Jiuyin curled the corners of his lips in sarcasm and sneered.
Qi Ming, who was downstairs, heard the voice and looked up in despair. His face was paler than paper. After more than five minutes of silence, he pointed at Cheng Dong's body and said tremblingly, "I, I saw it. Just now, there was an old man in the yard with no clothes on. He asked Cheng Dong to return his clothes to him."
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