Li Xinyan looked at the tiny little Yanbao and smiled kindly. Just as Li Muhao and little Yanbao were wondering why this female ghost also had the surname Li, an extremely foul smell began to fill the room.
What does it taste like?
Li Muhao secretly covered his nose with his sleeve, while glancing at Li Xinyan out of the corner of his eye. He saw a black gas churning up and down on Li Xinyan's right temple, and it even began to spread along some kind of pattern on Li Xinyan's face. In just a few seconds, it outlined a terrifying scene: the face that had been broken and then pieced back together reappeared.
"Sister Li, what's wrong?"
Xiao Yanbao didn't dislike Li Xinyan. Seeing that Li Xinyan's condition was not right, he asked her with concern. Cracks kept flashing across Li Xinyan's face, as if she was experiencing indescribable pain. Several minutes later, Li Xinyan's condition stabilized.
"Was that music nice? Would you like to go outside?"
Li Muhao nodded repeatedly, while Xiao Yanbao stared intently at Li Xinyan, his brows furrowing at times.
"How about we play hide-and-seek? If I can't find you within half an hour, I'll let you go, okay?"
"good!"
As soon as Li Muhao opened his mouth, he noticed that Li Xinyan had disappeared. After looking around and seeing that Li Xinyan had indeed left, Li Muhao relaxed a little and even felt a sense of rebirth.
You have two minutes to hide!
A charming voice drifted from outside the door, and the door creaked open automatically. Li Muhao, who had just relaxed, was almost startled and jumped up. Trembling, he tried to pull Xiao Yanbao towards the door, but Xiao Yanbao held him back forcefully.
"Third brother, we'll hide here."
"Here? Are you sure?"
Li Muhao was filled with fear of the piano room and refused to hide there any longer, but Xiao Yanbao was determined to continue hiding under the piano.
"We are safest hiding here."
Xiao Yanbao was talking about safety, but Li Muhao didn't understand. He thought she meant that the area under the piano was the most secluded. He was about to retort when he suddenly remembered the saying, "The most dangerous place is the safest place." He thought he understood what Xiao Yanbao meant and had a look of sudden realization.
"You're something else, I didn't expect you to know the principle of hiding where the light is dark. We'll hide here, she'll never guess we're still here."
As he spoke, Li Muhao first pushed Xiao Yanbao under the piano, and then crawled in himself, the two of them neatly hidden in the shadows under the piano.
Two minutes later, the sound of high heels clicking on the floor echoed in the hallway, and Li Muhao's heart tightened and relaxed with the distance of the sound.
Time passed slowly, and as expected, Li Xinyan did not come to the piano room to look for Li Muhao and Xiao Yanbao. It wasn't until time was almost up that Li Muhao was about to start celebrating.
A faint, fishy odor filled the piano room again, and the clattering of high heels could be heard. But Li Muhao did not see Li Xinyan. Instead, Xiao Yanbao reached out and grabbed his wrist.
Li Muhao thought Xiao Yanbao was scared, so he turned to look at Xiao Yanbao. Just as he was about to reach out to comfort Xiao Yanbao, he heard a long, mournful sound coming from above the piano.
"Where did you hide? I can't find you!"
Even the faint sound of sobbing mixed in with her voice caused Li Muhao's body to tense instantly. After feeling that familiar bloody smell, his body stiffened abruptly. Li Xinyan expressionlessly pulled Li Muhao out from under the piano.
"Hehe, found it! Where's my little bean?"
Xiao Yanbao did not let go of Li Muhao's wrist, and was also pulled out. The moment Li Xinyan saw Xiao Yanbao, a blood-smelling evil wind swept through the piano room.
"Little Bean, did he hide you?"
Li Xinyan waved her hand, holding Li Muhao in mid-air. Li Muhao looked at Li Xinyan, whose face was covered in cracks, and almost fainted. However, at this moment, Xiao Yanbao waved her hand and scattered a field of golden light spots the size of rice grains. After these light spots came into contact with Li Xinyan, they quickly merged into her body. A wisp of black smoke with a fishy smell rose from the cracks on Li Xinyan's face.
"I... Yanbao, you... Waaaaah..."
Li Muhao was shocked by Xiao Yanbao's actions. As soon as he opened his mouth, the black smoke emanating from Li Xinyan's body went straight into Li Muhao's mouth. In an instant, Li Muhao felt as if his body had fallen into an ice cave, and everything in sight turned blood red.
"Third brother, don't speak."
As Xiao Yanbao spoke, she transformed the golden righteous energy she had used earlier into a ball and sent it into Li Muhao's body. As the golden energy ball entered his body, Li Muhao recovered, and even his body, which had been controlled in mid-air, fell to the ground.
Having just witnessed that scene, Li Muhao obediently kept his mouth shut, but the shock in his eyes grew stronger.
After noticing the changes in her body, Li Xinyan's originally loose hair began to float in the air, and patches of blood appeared on her pale yellow cheongsam. The moon-white orchids gradually turned dark brown.
"Little Bean, why are you starting to go against your mother too?"
As she spoke, drops of bloody tears streamed down her cheeks and onto the ground. Then, Li Xinyan's gaze was fixed on Li Muhao.
"Is it because of him? He must have instigated it all. Give me back my cute little bean!"
Li Xinyan raised her hand and sprinkled countless drops of blood towards Li Muhao. Xiao Yanbao hurriedly used the spell she had just learned to erect a defensive barrier in front of Li Muhao. After a series of crackling sounds, Li Muhao was unharmed, but dozens of small black holes appeared on the wall next to him. The blood drops controlled by Li Xinyan not only had great power, but also had a strong corrosive effect.
"Third brother, hide behind me."
Li Muhao hurriedly walked behind Xiao Yanbao and carefully squatted down so that Xiao Yanbao could protect him as much as possible. He only realized today that ghosts really exist in this world, and that Xiao Yanbao is very powerful.
"Yanbao, can you beat her? Or should we run away?"
Although Li Muhao knew that Xiao Yanbao was very powerful, he still couldn't quite believe that a three-and-a-half-year-old child could defeat such a terrifying ghost.
"I don't want to hit her."
As Xiao Yanbao spoke, he strengthened the defensive barrier in front of him, while Li Xinyan on the other side seemed to have lost her mind, frantically attacking Xiao Yanbao's barrier with blood droplets.
Seeing this, Li Muhao felt a chill run down his spine. A moment later, a whip suddenly appeared in Xiao Yanbao's hand. The whip whistled and tore through the air. Just as it was about to fall on Li Xinyan, Xiao Yanbao flicked his wrist, and the long whip, as nimbly as a snake, was tied around Li Xinyan's waist.
(End of this chapter)
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