"I was captured by a female ghost holding a kitchen knife." When mentioning this, Fan Zhiyi couldn't help but sigh. He had been unconscious for so long, why hadn't the female ghost holding a kitchen knife caught up with him yet?
Who knew that the girl opposite exclaimed: "Cleaning knife? Are you talking about Xue Xiuniang?"
Xue Xiuniang? Oh, yes, in the scene he had seen before, the female ghost seemed to be called Xue Xiuniang.
Fan Zhiyi asked, "Do you know her?"
Ah Yu nodded. "I died very young, and my soul couldn't leave. It wandered around this house, witnessing the deaths of countless people. If you were talking about other people, I might not remember them, but Xue Xiuniang left such a deep impression on me."
Fan Zhiyi continued, "She was hacked to death by her father with an axe."
"No, no, no!" Ah Yu denied, pushing himself forward a bit in excitement, then reacting and shrinking back to sit up straight. "Xue Xiuniang's family has a family affliction. For some reason, her father always wanted a perfect daughter, so he was very strict with Xue Xiuniang, beating and scolding her whenever she wasn't pleased. One day, he had a seizure and killed her with an axe, but she wasn't dead yet. Xue Xiuniang couldn't accept her father's denial of her, couldn't accept her own imperfections, so she went to the kitchen and slit her throat with a kitchen knife, dying with her eyes wide open."
Fan Zhiyi felt a chill down his spine when he heard this. From the images that the female ghost had shown him before, he had thought that the female ghost had been hacked to death.
Fan Zhiyi swallowed his saliva: "And then?"
"There was something strange about this house. Xue Xiuniang was filled with resentment and became a vengeful ghost. On the seventh day after her death, she returned and killed her father, mother, siblings, servants, and maids. She then continued to lure living people in, cut off the parts of their bodies she deemed most perfect, and pieced together a body for herself."
No wonder Fan Zhiyi always felt that the female ghost's body was very strange, as if all its organs were out of coordination, and she walked crookedly.
"But why is Xue Xiuniang the only one in this haunted house who can do this? And what about her family? Didn't they become ghosts?"
"The Xue family was originally a prominent family of immortal cultivators, and Xue Xiuniang was very powerful. After she wiped out her entire family, she went completely insane and ate the ghosts of the rest of the family, merging into one." The young woman sighed. "The remaining ghosts, having been killed by Xue Xiuniang, are afraid of her and can't even avoid her. How could they possibly appear before her?"
So the fact that Xue Xiuniang could chant spells, perform martial arts moves, fight on equal terms with Bing Nandong, and even deceive people, was probably due to her origin from a prominent family of immortal cultivators.
Fan Zhiyi was surprised after hearing this: "Since they are monks, why did they confiscate you?"
"Of course it's because of this house. In this house, there's a barrier between the living and the dead. Let's put it this way, the two realms of yin and yang, you're in the yang, I'm in the yin. I can see you and hear you, but you can't sense our presence. You can only intuitively feel that something is wrong with the house."
"Then why can I see and hear you now?"
"Because the power of the house has increased, and the ghost energy has intensified, it is good for us. But for a living person like you, you will only get lost here and become a plaything of ghosts."
When Fan Zhiyi heard this, he frowned unconsciously: "Who on earth is this house?"
A Yu shook his head: "I don't know."
Fan Zhiyi still had a question: "Why did she have to choose a kitchen knife as her weapon?"
Ah Yu was immediately amused. "I thought you were going to ask something, but you still have the time to care about this. Maybe you're not happy with the fact that your life was ended by a kitchen knife, so you want to use it to kill other people?"
Ah Yu waved his hands: "I'm just talking nonsense. How can I understand the thoughts of a crazy girl like Xue Xiuniang? But..." Ah Yu's tone changed, revealing an obsessed look, "Your blood smells so good, why does it smell so good?"
Such a Yu gave Fan Zhiyi goosebumps all over his body, and he grabbed the dagger again.
"Oh, don't worry. I don't drink human blood. It's disgusting. And just now your blood attracted a few wandering ghosts, and I was the one who chased them away." Ah Yu said proudly, scratching the tip of his nose. Seeing Fan Zhiyi stand up, he immediately stood up as well and landed lightly beside him: "Are you going out? She's still looking for you."
Fan Zhiyi knew exactly who she was referring to. Now that he was back in the haunted house, Bing Nandong and the others definitely didn't know where he was. If he wanted to survive, he could only rely on himself: "I can't hide here forever. She will find me eventually."
"Not for now." A Yu stretched out a finger and shook it. "It's raining outside, and the rain will wash away your blood. So the ones who just gathered here are just wandering souls who happened to be in this area. They were attracted by the fragrance of your wound. And one more thing, the blood you dripped on the ground was eaten by the house."
"W-what do you mean?"
"This house is alive. Didn't I tell you it's strange? Every person who moves in dies mysteriously. First one, then two, then three. If you don't move out quickly, it's only a matter of time before your entire family is wiped out. It loves blood and it loves killing."
For some reason, Fan Zhiyi suddenly felt that the floor was a little hot under his feet. He was really afraid that the floor would turn into a bloody mouth and swallow him up in the next second.
However, since this girl was able to drive away the little ghost, I wonder who is more powerful between her and Xue Xiuniang: "Then can you defeat Xue Xiuniang?"
"What are you thinking about? If I meet her, I will just run away. She is a lunatic and can eat ghosts. And I saw her dragging a human corpse back tonight. She must have tasted human blood again. She is even more powerful. How can a delicate lady like me compare with her?" A Yu held her face and looked at herself in the mirror, feeling sorry for herself.
Fan Zhiyi was speechless. How could this ghost still be so narcissistic?
Seeing that Fan Zhiyi was about to leave, A Yu blocked his way again: "Wait, wait, how about we make a deal?"
Fan Zhiyi felt his body was still limp, so he leaned his back against the wall and said, "Go ahead."
Seeing that there was room for negotiation, Ah Yu smiled and said, "I have two conditions. First, I want to leave this house. Please help me find a good place to bury my ashes and pray for my salvation. Second, there is a kitten by the wall of the South Garden. Please help me save it."
"Your cat?"
"How is that possible? I've been dead for hundreds of years." Ah Yu put his hands behind his back. "I found it two days ago. It must have strayed here and is now dying. I can't touch it, and I can't find anything to feed it. Besides, the ghost energy in the house will drain its vitality. If I don't save it, it will probably stay with me. In exchange, I can help you avoid Xue Xiuniang and find the right way out."
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