Chapter 26: Haunted Hill House (26)
“Bang!”
The straight long legs stepped calmly into the pool of blood without any panic.
In the bloody dim light, Yan Shixun's handsome face was half hidden in the light and shadow. He leaned his upper body back wantonly and happily, and laughed with a hearty fighting spirit.
There was no sign that a second ago he grabbed a skeleton that was rushing towards him by its long hair and threw it out of the corridor railing like a discus.
The female corpse's bones fell straight into the living room on the first floor, and blood splattered high.
Yan Shixun leaned leisurely on the peeling gilded railing and looked down, as if waiting for something.
The few remaining female corpses took the opportunity to move forward, with the bones of their limbs propped up on the ground like spiders, crawling quickly along the ground, picking up blood and falling down again, making a slight sound.
However, Yan Shixun seemed to have eyes on his back. He raised his other arm without any delay and pointed it accurately at the bones of the female corpses. A golden light flashed under his palm.
The female corpses paused for a moment in fear, but then rushed forward again as if they had received some instructions.
The Five Thunder Talismans that he had been reciting silently all the time immediately appeared in the air, turning into golden characters that fell towards the female corpses. At the same time, Yan Shixun, who was originally leaning on the railing, pushed his strong arms and lifted his slender body into the air, making it impossible for the female corpses who were rushing towards him to dodge. They could only watch helplessly as they rushed towards the railing, breaking the wooden handrails and falling directly into the air in the atrium.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Suddenly, heavy muffled sounds mixed with the teeth-grinding sound of bones breaking rang out one after another.
The blood splattered several meters into the air and almost fell on the horizontal surface of the fourth floor.
Yan Shixun reacted quickly and jumped to the side the moment the handrail broke, avoiding falling down the stairs with the female corpse. Then he jumped gracefully and stood next to the railing again.
As all the female corpses and bones were thrown down the stairs by Yan Shixun or burned into ashes with talismans, the pool of blood that originally covered the fourth floor quickly receded, revealing the original wooden floor, and the rustling noises also disappeared.
However, until the bones of the female corpse that fell on the first floor and turned into a pile of broken bones, blood, and long black hair tangled together gradually disappeared, the villa was still silent. Except for Yan Shixun's own breathing, there was no other sound.
It was as if he was the only living person in the entire villa.
Not to mention the scream from Zhang Wubing that Yan Shixun was waiting for.
Based on what Yan Shixun has known about Zhang Wubing over the years, if Zhang Wubing was still staying in the living room that he had confirmed before he set out, then seeing the bloody ghost-killing scene, the ghost-fearing and timid Zhang Wubing would definitely sing so high notes that would blow the roof off.
Even after he walked into the fourth floor, Zhang Wubing took everyone to search for food and water out of his sense of responsibility as a director, wanting to make a backup plan for the worst-case scenario. In the case that there were two seriously injured people, Zhang Wubing would still leave a few people to watch over the emergency room on the first floor.
It is very likely that those people have never seen a ghost, and their ability to withstand this aspect is even worse than Zhang Wubing's. Seeing such a horrifying ghost-killing scene, no matter how calm they are, they should make sounds or have changes in their breathing.
However, there was not even a sound.
This confirmed the guess that Yan Shixun had in his mind since he left the memory world and saw the female ghost Xi Shuangqi.
——The silent villa, all the crew members disappeared, the height of blood splattering that violated the laws of physics... Yan Shixun could be sure that this was not the Ghost Mountain Villa where he originally lived.
After leaving the memory world, he did not return to the haunted mountain that the program crew entered.
Instead, he entered the evil ghost's obsession cage on the fourth floor, which was completely controlled by Xi Shuang alone.
This is also why when the program crew first arrived at the villa, the old butler used the excuse that the fourth floor was flooded to prevent everyone from choosing the rooms on the fourth floor. And even though the old butler had a strong desire for control, he never appeared on the fourth floor to stop An Nanyuan from conducting a live broadcast of his exploration on the fourth floor.
Because there was frost on the fourth floor.
The old butler Zhou Shi, the bandit leader who killed the wet nurse and Xi Shuang a hundred years ago, is deeply afraid of Xi Shuang.
Yan Shixun had already confirmed that the fourth floor was controlled by Xi Shuang after watching the entire memory of a hundred years ago reappear from the perspective of the bandit leader Zhou Shi, so he was not surprised by it.
——The exploration over the past two days made Yan Shixun discover that there are very strict but not obvious boundaries in Ghost Mountain.
For example, the female ghost Xishuang's different attitudes towards the rooms on the left and right sides of the villa, the old housekeeper's range of activities, the monster that can move freely with an axe, the human-faced rose in the garden that is afraid of the woodshed, and Shang Linzhong's bloody monster that appeared in the split screen of the male actor who was scared crazy.
They are like water in a well and water in a river, and they must not step into the territory controlled by other things.
However, Xi Shuang, who played a large role in the events that happened in the past, was never discovered by Yan Shixun about the territory she controlled.
Even though the female ghost Xishuang was nice to Baishuang in the left room, she once used hallucinations to try to make Yan Shixun commit suicide. And when Yan Shixun discovered her weakness and deliberately scolded her lover, the female ghost Xishuang did not dare to climb from the garden to the third floor even though she was extremely angry.
At that time, Yan Shixun guessed that the territory held by Xishuang was most likely the fourth floor that had never been explored before.
In the memory world, the nanny's words to him, "I have been denied entry to the fourth floor for a hundred years and have not been able to see the young lady," also proved the rationality of Yan Shixun's guess.
What surprised Yan Shixun was that the source of the female ghost Xishuang's obsession and resentment was actually different from what he had guessed.
Among the evil spirits he had seen in the past, the souls of the killed were generally those who feared and hated the murderers. After all, even if they turned into evil spirits, they would be afraid of their own death and would not want to mention it.
However, Zhou Shi, the bandit who killed Xi Shuang, was actually afraid of Xi Shuang?
Yan Shixun rarely saw such a scene.
unless……
Xi Shuang also killed Zhou Shi.
Yan Shixun couldn't help but start to doubt, are the old memories he just saw complete?
After all, those scenes ended abruptly when the bandits were reveling, but Guishan had always heard rumors of the bandits' tragic deaths. What happened after that, the part he didn't see?
But Yan Shixun was unable to ask Xi Shuang directly, who knew the answer best.
A moment ago, when the female ghost Xishuang was shouting like a madman to return the nanny to him and rushed towards Yan Shixun, Yan Shixun, who had deliberately provoked her, was prepared and immediately snatched the gold rose hairpin from Xishuang's hand.
He even smiled and said to Xi Shuang, "Return your wet nurse? She willingly accepted salvation and purification, and was guided to reincarnation. How can she be returned to you? If you hadn't repeatedly rejected her kindness over the past hundred years and always kept her outside your fence, no one could have snatched her away from you."
"In the final analysis, it was you who caused her death, and it was you who made her wait for a hundred years and suffer so much." Yan Shixun sneered, "It's a pity that she was still worried about your safety at the last moment before she left. However, you, whom she regarded as her own child, failed to bring her happiness at all, and instead made her suffer unnecessary harm."
"As a son, are you really worthy of her?"
Yan Shixun's question was like a heavy hammer, which made Xi Shuang forget to take back the golden hairpin. She stared at him blankly with red eyes.
"You turned a blind eye to her pain, ignored her pleas for a hundred years, and indulged in your own pain and hatred, but ended up hurting the person you least deserved to hurt."
"Are you really worthy of being her daughter?"
Yan Shixun's questions became more and more serious, and he pressed on step by step, causing the originally ferocious Xi Shuang to shake her head in panic and take several steps back.
"No, it's not!"
Xi Shuang retorted subconsciously, but she didn't even have the confidence. Her blood-red eyes wandered around in panic. She didn't look like a ghost that even the bandit leader feared. Instead, she looked like a little girl who was guilty of doing something wrong but didn't dare to admit it. She just stiffened her neck and kept talking stubbornly, yet she knew she was wrong.
She seemed to want to explain something, but when she looked around, she didn't find any trace of the nanny. She realized that the nanny she regarded as her new mother had left the villa where she had lived with her for a hundred years and went to the place where all souls should go, re-entering reincarnation. Then, as a brand new person, she would never recognize her again.
Never again will I call her by her nickname affectionately and lovingly.
The moment she realized this, Xi Shuang seemed to have lost all her strength. She hung her head dejectedly, feeling as lonely as a child abandoned in the crowd. She looked around in panic but couldn't find him anywhere.
Her long black hair covered her face, and even deeper resentment burst out.
The black mist wrapped Xi Shuang up, and the next moment, she disappeared from Yan Shixun's sight out of thin air!
Yan Shixun, who originally just wanted to use the information he got from the wet nurse to test Xi Shuang and get more detailed information about the villa, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.
Xi Shuang's reaction was so violent that it even shook her soul which had already become a ghost.
Yan Shixun had not expected this.
Could it be that his guess was wrong?
The one who has kept Xishuang trapped in the Ghost Mountain for a hundred years and unable to reincarnate was not her lover whom she had been waiting for, nor the bandits who killed her, but her wet nurse?
In the corridor on the fourth floor, the portraits originally hanging on the walls were all tilted and fell down, and the ground was covered with glass fragments and wood chips.
The whole space was silent.
Even the female corpse that had just come aggressively to claim her life had never appeared again after being killed on the spot by Yan Shixun.
Xi Shuang was nowhere to be found. Yan Shixun tried to test her bottom line several times, even shouting Zhou Shi's name, but she never showed up again.
This made Yan Shixun wonder, was he really going too far? How come this famous Cantonese opera star who had died a hundred years ago was a bit like what modern girls often say, autistic?
However, since Xi Shuang was not there, it was convenient for Yan Shixun to reconfirm the scenes he saw in the live broadcast of the exploration of Annanyuan.
——The memory world, the world controlled by Xishuang, and the world where the program team is located. What are the differences between them, and how to return to Guishan from the world controlled by Xishuang?
Yan Shixun had a hunch that if he knew how to make Xi Shuang willingly release her control over the fourth floor and the entire villa, then he would be able to find a way to leave Guishan and go to Guishan.
Even though there are many different ghosts in the villa that restrain each other.
But he guessed that this was the root of everything in Ghost Mountain.
In the frost.
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