Chapter 268: Midnight Haunted House 55
This action caught Su Qingyun off guard. Does Xu Xinghe need to be so gentle?
She quickly stood up and left the task of cleaning the wound to Ye Jian.
"You help him deal with it, and I'll defend him. The woman in the red cheongsam should still be in the room."
As she spoke, she picked up the peach wood sword and stood by the window. At this time, she noticed a strange phenomenon outside: the moon had changed color.
There was a bright moon just now, but now it has turned blood red.
Because they first entered the room on the left side of the second floor, Su Qingyun could just see the situation in Qingshui Hutong from the window where she was standing.
At this time, Qingshui Hutong was dead silent, without a breath of wind, but the two locust trees at the gate of No. 33 were swaying, and the dense leaves made a rustling sound. Then, Su Qingyun saw a woman standing between the two locust trees.
A woman holding an umbrella, she put the umbrella on her shoulder and tilted her head slightly to look at Su Qingyun on the second floor, with a faint smile on her face.
Su Qingyun quickly put away the peach wood sword, took out the slingshot from his waist, and was about to set up the capture net when the woman disappeared.
Su Qingyun stepped back from the window, turned around and ran to the door. She pushed the door open and was about to go out when she saw a red figure flash by and go to the room opposite.
Then the door was closed in her face.
Su Qingyun stood at the door for two seconds, and finally she chose to go back. She closed the door and retreated to Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe, telling them what she had just seen.
Ye Jian had already squeezed out all the black blood from Xu Xinghe's legs and was now wiping it with anti-infection medicine. When he heard Su Qingyun say that the female ghost in red had gone to the next room, he was not nervous, but instead said, "That's great."
"It saves us from having to look for it."
"Shall we go in directly?" Su Qingyun asked.
They don’t know the strength of the female ghost in red. A child’s corpse has injured both her and Xu Xinghe. What if the female ghost in red is the ultimate boss in this haunted house?
Su Qingyun didn't want anyone to get hurt again.
She suddenly started complaining, "This crappy company didn't teach us how to deal with evil spirits except for giving us some cleaning tools. Luckily, this is a dungeon. If it were a company in the real world, I would have complained."
Ye Jian was amused by her.
"I didn't realize you were so angry. I thought you were just a beast of burden who only followed the rules and worked diligently."
“Even cows and horses have tempers.”
"No, cattle and horses must have wisdom."
Ye Jian helped Xu Xinghe wrap the gauze, then stood up and looked around, and he went to the sandalwood box.
When the female ghost in red appeared, all the items in the room returned to their original appearance. Later, the female ghost disappeared and the room returned to its original state after being burned down by the fire. However, the only thing that did not return to its original state was the actor's costume in the sandalwood box.
At that time, the costume was in Su Qingyun's hand. After the female ghost appeared, she threw the costume on the box, but now the costume was put back into the box.
Ye Jian wondered if the appearance of the female ghost was related to this costume.
Is this an item that triggers the plot?
Su Qingyun saw Ye Jian looking at the sandalwood box in thought, so she also walked over.
She asked, "Your wisdom is not to wear this costume and go there?"
"Well?"
Su Qingyun nodded in agreement. "That's a good idea. I see that everything in this room has been discarded, and only this costume is treasured in this box. I guess the owner of this costume is very important to the people in this room."
She took out the costume from the box and handed it to Ye Jian for him to put on. "Wear this dress to confuse the female ghost later."
"Me?" Ye Jian pointed at himself and shook his head. "Forget it. This is obviously a costume for a play about a talented scholar and a beautiful woman. My temperament doesn't match the owner of this dress."
He looked at Xu Xinghe, "Mr. Xu is gentle and affectionate. I think he is more suitable than me."
"He was injured. Is it appropriate for you to use an injured person as bait?" Su Qingyun questioned Ye Jian in a low voice.
Ye Jian said, "It's because he's injured that he's suitable. This way I can free up my hands to do the cleanup work."
Su Qingyun didn't want Xu Xinghe to take this risk.
Ye Jian felt a little jealous again, "Su Qingyun, am I really that tough in your heart? Can you please be a little more considerate of me?"
Is this a matter of cherishing?
"Ye Jian is right. This costume suits me best. He is better at dealing with vengeful spirits than I am."
Xu Xinghe brought the costume over, untied the backpack and handed it to Su Qingyun, then put on the costume.
"What should I do next? Should I just go over and knock on the door?" he asked Su Qingyun.
"Well, but you have to be careful." Su Qingyun still asked Xu Xinghe to wear gloves. "If the female ghost bites you, you can use your hands to block it. These gloves have a protective function."
After giving the instructions, she put Xu Xinghe's backpack on her back, and then took the peach wood sword to help Xu Xinghe clear the way.
The three of them went to the room opposite.
Ye Jian and Su Qingyun hid on both sides of the door, and Xu Xinghe raised his hand and knocked on the door.
No one answered the door.
This was similar to what Su Qingyun had guessed. She did see the female ghost enter the room, but the ghost entered the room to hide, not to wait for them to come and knock on the door.
After knocking three times and seeing no one answer, Xu Xinghe reached out and pushed the door open.
The room was very dark, the kind of darkness where you couldn't see the sun.
Because Xu Xinghe's backpack was on Su Qingyun, he had no light now, so naturally he didn't dare to go in rashly.
Su Qingyun took out a glow stick from the cloth bag, lit it, and threw it into the house.
Although the brightness of a firefly stick is not as good as that of a flashlight, it can still clearly show what is happening inside the house.
The furnishings in this room were exactly the same as the previous one, even the dried flower stems in the vase were the same.
Su Qingyun looked at the items in the room and then looked back at the room in front of her. She became confused.
"How can they be exactly the same?"
Ye Jian shook his head at her, telling her not to worry about it for now. Then he said to Xu Xinghe, "Call her name."
She, of course, refers to the female ghost.
So Xu Xinghe called out to Su Qingyun in the room.
He also asked, "Why aren't you turning on the lights?"
"Teng" the light in the room came on.
Just like before, as the lights came on, the objects in the room slowly returned to their appearance before the fire, with brightly colored flowers filling every vase.
Su Qingyun and Ye Jian quickly retreated to the window and looked inside through the glass.
The beautiful woman stood with her back to the door, still holding an umbrella, as if waiting for her beloved to call her again.
"Su Qingyun." Xu Xinghe called again.
The beautiful woman then slowly turned her head, smiled at Xu Xinghe, and gently called out "Xu Lang".
Xu Lang?
Su Qingyun's heart skipped a beat, thinking that it was bad enough that this beautiful woman had the same name as hers, but even her lover's surname was the same as Xu Xinghe's?
It's just a coincidence.
"Come in, Xu Lang!" The woman waved at Xu Xinghe.
Xu Xinghe actually went in.
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