The Five Emperor Coins suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light, as if the entire Bagua formation had been infused with life!
The vengeful ghost let out a bloodcurdling scream, and the yin energy on its body melted away like accumulated snow.
Just then, Luo Tianhe suddenly put his hands together and began chanting the "Supreme Mysterious Heavenly Venerable's Sutra of Salvation from Suffering and Removal from Sins".
I glanced at him, pursed my lips, and said:
"You finally remembered that you have this skill. Before, you didn't say a word when you saw a ghost, like you were mute."
Luo Tianhe ignored me and continued reciting until he reached the last sentence. Only then did he look at me and retort:
"What do you mean by being like a mute? I just don't think there's any need to perform a ritual to help those ghosts pass on."
And Luo Tianhe's scripture seemed to really work; there, in the final moments before the vengeful ghost was about to dissipate, her face suddenly returned to calm.
In the instant she regained her composure, she suddenly looked at me, her lips moving as if she were saying something.
I looked closely, but I couldn't understand what he was trying to say.
"Li Huai isn't in the room on the right!"
Suddenly, Luo Tianhe's voice came from behind me. I turned around and looked at him in surprise:
"Wow, you can read lips too."
Luo Tianhe shrugged and spread his hands:
"Isn't that simple? Come on, watch me say it again, see if your lip movements are the same as hers just now."
Then Luo Tianhe repeated it again, and if I remember correctly, it was exactly the same as the mouth shape that the female ghost had made at the time.
At this moment, Xiaoya had completely vanished.
"There was only one room on the right, and I stopped there. If Li Huai wasn't in that room, where could he have gone?"
I frowned, completely baffled as to where that kid Li Huai could possibly have gone.
Luo Tianhe looked at me and hesitated:
"Do you think she might be lying to us? Li Huai is in the room on the right."
I thought for a long time, but I really couldn't figure out why she would lie to me. I shook my head and said:
"I think the possibility is very small, close to zero. As the old saying goes, a dying person's words are good!"
After a pause, I continued:
"Moreover, she had no reason to lie to us. On the contrary, it is possible that because your final chanting helped her pass on to the afterlife, she told the truth out of gratitude."
When Luo Tianhe heard what I said, he couldn't find a reason to refute it for a while. We continued to think about it for a while and decided to go out and take a look.
As I entered the corridor, I stared at the direction where the footprints disappeared. They were straight and straight, without any sign of turning, disappearing in front of the wall at the end of the corridor.
It's like a road that continues in the distance.
The door on the right appears to open with a simple push.
Normally, we would definitely look on the right, but the ghost's words made me feel reluctant to push open the right door.
Seeing that I hesitated, Luo Tianhe simply went to the wall, knocked on it, and made a dull sound.
The sound of him tapping on the wall echoed in the empty corridor, and the dull thud made my heart skip a beat.
“It’s solid,” Luo Tianhe said to me, turning his head with a furrowed brow.
I stared at that wall, feeling like something was off.
The footprints disappear here, and the wall is solid. What does this mean?
"Perhaps we've been thinking in the wrong direction," I murmured, then activated my third eye and looked at the wall in front of me!
Sure enough, the footsteps didn't disappear; instead, they walked straight up the wall!
And after walking up the wall, the person who left the footprints seemed to ignore gravity, and the footprints reappeared on the ceiling!
The moment I looked up, a terrifying sight sent chills down my spine.
All we could see on the dark ceiling were countless upside-down handprints and footprints, stretching all the way to the middle of the corridor, which was where we had just arrived!
The marks were fresh, as if someone had just walked upside down across the ceiling.
“Up there!” I cried out, my finger trembling as I pointed to the ceiling.
Luo Tianhe looked in the direction I pointed, then looked puzzled.
In his view, it was just an ordinary ceiling, and even though it was charred, it didn't seem to be anything special.
After all, this is a burned-down orphanage, so it's only natural that the ceiling is charred.
He scratched his head, puzzled, and asked:
"What's wrong, Chen Yan? Is there something unusual?"
It then occurred to me that Luo Tianhe, that kid, didn't have the Heavenly Eye either, so naturally he couldn't see those footprints.
"The footprints didn't disappear at the wall; they went all the way up the wall, and there were all sorts of footprints and bloody handprints on it!"
I explained in a hurried tone.
At the same time, a strange image flashed through both of our minds.
Li Huai walked in front, followed by a group of bloodied and charred children.
As he walked toward the wall, he suddenly broke free from the constraints of gravity and walked upside down on the wall!
Behind him followed those bloodied and mangled children, crawling on the ceiling like spiders, using their hands and feet to follow him!
Thinking of this, we looked at each other and couldn't help but shiver.
"Stop overthinking. Once we find Li Huai, everything will be clear!"
I shook my head and said firmly.
Luo Tianhe nodded. The most urgent task was indeed to find Li Huai!
We followed the marks on the ceiling, and when we reached the middle of the corridor, the eerie upside-down hand and footprint marks suddenly changed direction!
They point vertically downwards and disappear into the right-hand wall.
Disappeared again!
I stood there, rubbing my chin, carefully observing the side of the wall where the footprints had disappeared.
Suddenly, I realized that something seemed off!
I rushed to the wall and examined it carefully.
The wallpaper had yellowed and peeled off, revealing a dark wall underneath, seemingly no different from the rest of the place.
However, after checking every inch, I discovered a vertical crack that was almost invisible!
I gently pushed the wall open, and it slid open silently, revealing the narrow stairwell behind it.
A strong musty smell wafted over as the stairs ascended and disappeared into the darkness.
“An attic,” Luo Tianhe said in a low voice, “this godforsaken place even has an attic.”
We looked at each other and saw the fear in each other's eyes.
But thinking that Li Huai might be upstairs, he still gritted his teeth and stepped onto the stairs.
The stairs were narrow and steep, creaking with every step, as if they might collapse at any moment. The higher you went, the more damp and cold the air became, and the stronger the musty smell grew.
Upon reaching the top, a low wooden door appeared before us.
The door wasn't locked; it opened with a gentle push.
The attic was pitch black, with only a few rays of moonlight filtering in through the cracks.
By the light of a flashlight, we saw that the attic was filled with clutter, mostly children's old toys and clothes.
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