"That woman is ruthless."
Luo Tianhe was also stunned. He bit off all ten of his fingers, staining his clothes red.
With that kind of perseverance, there are so many good things to do, why do you have to turn into a vengeful ghost and harm people!
"Zhang Qiang, listen to me! Take her body away and cremate it now, or the consequences will be dire!"
I gave him some instructions over the phone, and Zhang Qiang immediately fell silent.
“You know, we don’t have that power. Even though she’s a murderer, she hasn’t been stripped of her political status yet, and her parents haven’t been notified.”
After a long while, Xiao An's voice came from the other end of the phone.
No wonder Zhang Qiang cared so much about Xiao An back then; were they boyfriend and girlfriend?
But why are you, Zhang Qiang, keeping quiet and letting her say all this? Are you trying to shirk responsibility? I immediately got angry.
“Zhang Qiang, now is not the time to worry about those things. Her becoming a vengeful ghost was originally due to your inadequate monitoring. Do you want to continue making mistakes? Will you only wake up when she kills a few people? To put it bluntly, you were the ones who killed that old man!”
Li Huai and Luo Tianhe exchanged glances with me, indicating that I had spoken too harshly.
"I'm sorry! You're right, it's my fault. I'm going to the police station right now. Don't worry, even if I quit my job as a police officer, I'll still cremate her!"
This time it was Zhang Qiang who spoke, and I breathed a sigh of relief; at least he had some sense of the bigger picture.
Just as Zhang Qiang hung up the phone, without warning, all the lights in the funeral home went out with a "snap".
Suddenly, the surroundings were swallowed up by thick darkness, with only a few streetlights still lit in the distance.
"What happened? Did the power trip?"
Li Huai's voice trembled slightly as he asked with a hint of hope.
I wasn't lying. The funeral home's electrical circuits were just connected. How could they trip so easily?
Luo Tianhe gritted his teeth, took out his phone, and wanted to turn on the flashlight.
The next moment, he screamed and threw his phone away. I looked over instinctively and saw that his phone screen was lit up in blood red, as if it had been soaked in blood.
In the center of the blood-red screen, a woman's face slowly appeared—it was the face of the woman from earlier that day!
However, her face was deathly pale, and blood was flowing from her seven orifices, but the corners of her mouth were stretched into an exaggerated arc.
The woman on the screen slowly raised her hands, her ten fingers completely mangled and bloody, revealing sharp bone fragments. She was now using her severed fingers to write words stroke by stroke on the blood-red screen.
What was written was none other than the names of the three of us!
"Chen...yan..."
Luo...Tianhe
"Li...Huai..."
With each stroke of the pen, the screen made a sickening "sizzling" sound, as if a fingernail were scratching it.
I tried to stop it, but found my limbs stiff, as if I were frozen in place, beyond my control.
When our names were completely written, I suddenly felt a tightness in my chest, as if an invisible hand was gripping my neck tightly.
Luo Tianhe and Li Huai next to me also stared wide-eyed. Their bodies had been dragged off the ground, and they were making "hoarse" sounds from their throats, like leaky bellows.
I bit my tongue, and the intense pain gave me a moment of control over my body. I took the opportunity to stomp on Luo Tianhe's phone and smash it. The red light and the female ghost that were projected on it disappeared instantly, and Luo Tianhe and Li Huai both fell to the ground.
"Li Huai, Luo Tianhe, bite your tongues and stay awake."
I shouted out loud and scrambled to grab the yellow talisman. Once I had it, I immediately felt a sense of relief.
Upon hearing my words, Luo Tianhe and Li Huai also bit their tongues hard, drawing blood.
They all crowded around me.
Just then, I noticed my phone vibrating, and a blinding red light shone out.
I slapped the yellow talisman on the phone, and it immediately stopped vibrating.
"Quick, quick, Brother Yan, put one up for me too."
Li Huai held up his phone, his face deathly pale. The screen had completely turned blood red.
"What the hell are you going to stick on?!"
Luo Tianhe snatched Li Huai's phone and smashed it on the ground. The phone shattered into pieces, and the red light dimmed.
"Damn it, my phone."
Li Huai's face, which was already pale, turned even paler. He hadn't cried when the ghost grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up, but now his voice was trembling with a sob.
"Stop wailing, I'll buy you the latest model tomorrow!"
Luo Tianhe was annoyed by Li Huai's shouting.
Their outburst completely dispelled the fear in my heart. In a fit of anger, I rushed straight out of the funeral home.
"Let's go to the police station, nail a Soul-Destroying Nail between her eyebrows, and then burn her to ashes. Let's see if she can still cause trouble!"
"Brother Yan, Brother Luo, don't run so fast, wait for me!"
As soon as I got on the bus, I shivered.
The car was colder than a morgue. I glanced in the rearview mirror and saw a woman in red sitting in the back seat, staring intently at me.
"What are you looking at, you bitch? You killed someone out of jealousy, so it's only right that you pay with your life. Do you think you're so cool just because you've become a vengeful ghost?!"
Luo Tianhe and Li Huai were about to get into the car when they heard me cursing angrily, and they froze on the spot.
"What are you standing there for? Come on up."
I shouted impatiently at them. Li Huai climbed onto the car and asked cautiously:
"Brother Yan, what were you cursing just now? Were you possessed by a ghost?"
I glanced at the rearview mirror; the blood-red figure had vanished.
I started the car and said:
"I wasn't possessed by a ghost. I was just cursing that female ghost."
Li Huai swallowed hard. "She followed us too?"
I said, "Of course, she was sitting in the seat you were sitting in just now."
Li Huai shivered and instinctively moved to the side.
"Chen Yan, this ghost is powerful, but not as powerful as I imagined,"
Luo Tianhe scratched his head. Although he had almost been strangled to death by this ghost, he felt that this ghost was not as oppressive as the ghosts he had encountered at Anning Girls' High School and Mayai Village. Although it almost wiped them out at the beginning, it had a feeling of starting strong but ending weakly.
I naturally knew what was going on, and explained as I drove:
"Because she just died, generally speaking, such ghosts are most terrifying on the seventh day after death. Even I wouldn't dare say I could take her down 100%. But on the first day, she couldn't hold back anymore, so naturally she lacked staying power."
"There's another way to say it."
Luo Tianhe murmured, then spoke with a hint of despair:
"So, even if I was wearing red when I was killed by the demon, I wouldn't be a match for her right after becoming a demon?"
"Nonsense, otherwise why would those masters wear Taoist robes when they exorcise ghosts? They could all wear red. If they can defeat the ghost, they can exorcise it; if they can't, they can transform into a vengeful ghost to achieve their goal."
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