Jiang Haitang hesitated and asked, "How else?"
Wen Xi said coldly, "Otherwise, I will let you know what absolute suppression means. In front of me, you have no right to say no."
Jiang Haitang snorted coldly, "You are indeed more powerful than those men, and you even have such a ghost under your command. But I said, this is my movie, and I have the final say on how it goes. It's not certain who will suppress whom!"
She opened her arms, the earth shook, and towering trees were uprooted. The winding roots became its legs for walking. It waved countless vines and branches and attacked others.
Jiang Haitang smiled triumphantly, "I used to be weak and helpless, and was bullied wantonly. Now in my world, no one can try to make me change. Here, I have the final say!"
"Yeah?"
Wen Xi's gentle tone revealed a hint of nonchalance, and when he glanced at her with contempt, Jiang Haitang's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition came to her mind.
"I told you to be polite first and then use force. If you don't obey, don't blame me for being rude."
Wen Xi snapped his fingers, and a light golden flame appeared at his fingertips. With a flick of his hand, the flame landed on the branches of the towering tree.
A single spark can start a prairie fire. The pale golden flame quickly burned up. In just a few minutes, the tree was burning vigorously and the temperature nearby suddenly soared.
"Captain Tie, take them away from here quickly."
Wen Xi had no intention of controlling the fire and asked Tie Ruonan to take the people away.
Tie Ruonan completely trusted Wen Xi and readily arranged for the students to go to a safe area.
“Rain, rain!”
Jiang Haitang was stunned and quickly summoned rain. This was her movie world, and soon it began to rain heavily, but the fire still did not subside at all.
"Bury it! Get underground quickly!"
Jiang Haitang rubbed his hair frantically and ordered the tree to drill into the ground, but it was still no use. A big hole was dug out, and the golden flame was still burning brightly.
Jiang Haitang screamed hysterically at Wen Xi, "Ah! This tree is the culmination of my years of hard work. It's also where my soul is buried. Hurry up and put out the fire, hurry up!"
Wen Xi said lightly, "Why? You told me to put out the fire, so I put it out? Who are you? Who gave you the face to do that?"
Jiang Haitang wanted to cry but had no tears. Her tone was full of pleading. "Please, I'm wrong. I apologize to you. I'm sorry. Please put out the fire quickly."
Wen Xi said, "If I don't destroy it, I won't!"
The tree was burning fiercely. The leaves and branches on the top were burned to ashes and fell to the ground. Jiang Haitang's breathing became heavy, and her soul became faintly transparent.
Her face changed drastically, and she finally couldn't help herself and knelt on the ground to kowtow to her, "Please, put out the fire. It's my fault for not recognizing a great man. I was too arrogant. This is all my fault. I will let them go now. Please forgive me for not having harmed them."
When Tie Ruonan returned, she saw Jiang Haitang begging for mercy and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "Sister Wen Xi, what's going on? Why did she make such a big fuss after burning this tree?"
Wen Xi said calmly, "Because she is using her soul to nurture the tree spirit. Perhaps the days here are too lonely, so she formed a pact with the tree spirit to share power. If the tree is completely burned, her soul will be destroyed as well, which is equivalent to her soul being scattered."
Tie Ruonan was shocked. "Make a pact with a tree? My goodness, how much do you hate men? Would you rather make a pact with a tree? This is not necessary, right?"
Jiang Haitang heard their conversation and glanced at Tie Ruonan with resentment. "This is my own choice. What does it have to do with you? Men are all heartless and filthy. In this world, only this tree has developed spiritual intelligence. He and I have a tacit understanding. So what if I use my soul to nurture him? He is much better than men like you."
Wen Xi said, "But you're using other people's souls to nourish it, treating it as fertilizer. That's your problem. Besides... who told you this method, killing people and taking their souls to use as nutrients? Jiang Haitang, don't be so foolish as to not even realize you've been fooled by a so-called tree spirit."
Jiang Haitang was stunned. She raised her head and looked at the burning towering tree. She shook her head in disbelief, "No, this is impossible. How could he lie to me?"
"This is a cursed reel of film."
Wen Xi said, "Do you think that because you were filmed in this movie, the film was infected by ghost energy and became a murder weapon?"
Jiang Haitang's stunned expression clearly showed that she did think so.
"Shit, isn't it?"
Tie Ruonan took a breath and said, "I think so too."
Wen Xi shook his head and looked at the towering tree being burned by flames. A dark shadow seemed to be gradually emerging within the flames. "This roll of film was cursed first. Filming Jiang Haitang in it was purely accidental. Or maybe he was fanning the flames!"
"Add fuel to the fire?"
Jiang Haitang slumped to the ground, full of disbelief, until she saw the towering tree being burned and a dark shadow appearing from inside. It was a male ghost she had never seen before, an ordinary-looking, burly male ghost. His soul was curled up on the ground, without any extra clothes. He opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Haitang in pain and pleading.
He said, "Haitang, save me!"
Jiang Haitang shuddered, unable to stop dry heaving in nausea. "Ugh...it's actually a man! How disgusting! He's been transforming into a tree to communicate with me. He knows I hate men, so he's deliberately trying to trick me into sympathizing? And he's so comfortable absorbing the soul I found for him?"
Wen Xi said, "Bingo, you're right. You are the heroine of this movie, and he is the leader of this movie. You can also think of him as the director. He is the one who can truly control this movie. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to turn into a tree here. This cursed film was used to trap him, so his soul is very weak and needs someone to help nurture him. At this time, you appeared. It's hard to say that the accident didn't happen without your help. After all, he relied on your nurturing to nurture his soul."
"Ah! He actually did this to me. My tragic cry and abrupt end to my life are all because of him?"
Jiang Haitang clenched her fists and glared at the male ghost with hatred. "I thought my enemy was dead, but it turns out that my biggest enemy has been living next to me, and I'm still supporting him? This is really too hateful. I want to eat him and devour his soul!"
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