Chapter 15 Haunted Houses in the Republic of China (15)
After the two old players were scared away, they did not make any new moves for a long time. It was also possible that one of them was hit by a fallen branch and injured his leg, forcing them to rest quietly and wait for a new opportunity.
But the dungeon boss, who originally didn't care much about them, now regards them as a thorn in his side and decides to send ghosts to trouble them every night.
Of course, Xia Yingnuan would also leave them a way out. She wanted to see the expressions of those two people when they found out that their way out had been blocked by their own cleverness after their dying struggle. That must be very exciting!
Just as Xia Yingnuan was arranging the order in which the ghosts would cause trouble for them, Ning Hanqi returned to her residence and continued to carve the "gift" she was preparing for Xia Yingnuan. Without being disturbed by others, her hands moved much faster. In just half a day, the small doll had facial features. Although it was a Q-version doll, it was extremely similar to Xia Yingnuan.
"Creaky..." A faint noise came from the quiet room.
It was the half-broken ghost hand that was scratching the beams.
Ning Hanqi ignored it, but after a while the noise on the beam became louder and louder. If you didn't know, you might think it was catching mice. If it was making so much noise, it would surely fall down sooner or later, right?
Ning Hanqi's thought had just popped up in his mind when he heard a "thump" and the ghost hand with only two fingers left fell from above, and then hit Xia Yingnuan's dressing table. It rolled back and forth on the dressing table like a ghost hand with diarrhea after eating something bad, and accidentally knocked over a jewelry box.
"Bang!" Although the wooden dressing box was not broken, everything inside was scattered. The gold and silver jewelry was fine, but things like jade bracelets were broken into several pieces.
The ghost hand rolled off the table to the ground, with a big crack on the palm, which was full of sharp teeth. In the dark depths of the crack, several fingers seemed to stick out from its "throat", as if struggling desperately to crawl out.
Such a strange and terrifying scene did not attract Ning Hanqi's attention. Her eyes fell on the jewelry that fell out after the box was knocked over. As if driven by fate, a ring fell out of the jewelry box and rolled on the ground until it hit her shoes.
It was a plain silver ring with patterns on it. Ning Hanqi stared at it, and her eyes turned slightly red. She blinked hard, just wanting to make her vision clearer.
Ning Hanqi bent down and picked up the ring. She gently stroked the surface of the ring. Through the dim light outside, she could see three small letter symbols inside the ring wall.
But before she could take a closer look, a shadow suddenly blocked out all her light. When Ning Hanqi raised her head, she met Xia Yingnuan's bloodshot eyes.
Miss Xia, who always loved to laugh and make noises, now had a gloomy expression. Before, in front of Ning Hanqi, she had only smiled with a dagger hidden in her heart, but now there was no smile on her face, and for the first time, Ning Hanqi really felt the danger.
Xia Yingnuan took the ring from Ning Hanqi's hand. Perhaps because she saw the other party's eyes were slightly red when he looked up at her, and his pitiful and innocent look was quite sympathetic, Xia Yingnuan's somewhat scary expression gradually eased.
Even if those people wanted to dig up her bones, Xia Yingnuan had never been so vigilant. Even though she had long forgotten the past events surrounding this ring, the instinct to treasure it remained.
"Don't be afraid, I'll go and take care of that thing." Xia Yingnuan, who mistakenly thought that Ning Hanqi was crying because of the ghost hand, pinched her earlobe and whispered "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid" just like the old people at home used to use folk remedies to call back the souls of frightened children.
Ning Hanqi burst out laughing, "I'm not a child."
"You're no different from a child in my eyes~" Xia Yingnuan even reached out and rubbed her head.
Ning Hanqi looks to be in her early 20s. If you really calculate my age, it is at least in the three digits. She is just a child in front of me.
It would have been better if he hadn't said this. After he finished speaking, Ning Hanqi turned his head away somewhat displeasedly, seeming a little unhappy.
Is she not happy with herself saying that she is young?
Unexpectedly, Ning Hanqi, who looked more stable, had such a childish side. Xia Yingnuan's eyes were full of smiles, and she held back her laughter for a long time. Taking into account the fragile self-esteem of human beings, she did not continue to tease the young lady.
Xia Yingnuan squatted down and put all the jewelry scattered on the ground back into the box. Ning Hanqi wanted to help but she declined. She put the ring back into the secret compartment of the jewelry box, and stuffed the other things, whether broken or intact, in there at random. After doing all this, she found that Ning Hanqi was still looking at her, or to be more precise, at the jewelry box in her hand.
"Pa!" The ghost hand, struggling and jumping like a stranded fish, slapped Xia Yingnuan on the foot.
"...Is there anything in this box that you like?" Xia Yingnuan picked it out for a while, and finally put the whole box directly into Ning Hanqi's arms. "Except for the ring just now, you can take any one you like. I'm going to go take care of the misbehaving pets at home first and will be back soon."
After Xia Yingnuan finished speaking gently to Ning Hanqi, her expression immediately turned unfriendly when she looked at the ghost hand. She grabbed it, tied a knot, and dragged it away. Although it was in the shape of a human arm, this thing could be flattened and rolled into a ball like dough. She didn't know how it would be punished after going out. Its only two remaining fingers were clinging to the door sill, but unfortunately the door sill was cracked, and it had no foothold and was dragged away helplessly.
Xia Yingnuan put the most important thing into Ning Hanqi's arms without any precautions. On the one hand, she was confident in her own strength and believed that no one could steal her precious thing under the nose of the copy boss. On the other hand, it was also out of trust in Ning Hanqi, thinking that there was no reason for a weak young lady like herself to take away the useless ring.
Ning Hanqi gently stroked the jewelry box with ancient carvings, but she might be letting down Xia Yingnuan's trust.
Nuannuan was right. Facing a ghost that was countless times more powerful than oneself, let alone a head-on confrontation, even a sneak attack would be like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm. It was just like humans needing to use traps to capture powerful prey. They used bait to lure the prey into the trap, and then removed the prey in a way that would hurt their claws. At that time, the prey could only be at their mercy.
The bait is ready, now all we need is the rope to tie it to.
Ning Hanqi heard some noise outside the house. She looked up and found a human figure peeking stealthily at the door.
She smiled and called the deer in.
What a coincidence, the rope is here now.
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