Chapter 20
Yu Tu was awakened by the sound of breaking glass.
The sound is not loud, but steady and annoying, with a sense of unremitting determination.
Yu Tu turned sideways on the bed in pain and opened his eyes in despair. He didn't know when the fog started to rise outside the window. From inside the room, he could only see a vague and strange outline.
He got up and turned on the light. The light illuminated the room and the paper man outside the window. The head of the man made of red paper was pressed tightly against the glass, and the arms not covered by the red paper kept hitting the glass - it was another familiar face.
Maybe because the last time he encountered a scarier-looking groom had a greater impact on him, Yu Tu was not afraid at all this time. He dragged a stool and sat in front of the glass window, staring expressionlessly at the paper-studded man who was hitting the glass.
Paper-stitched man: snap--snap--snap--
Yu Tu: Stare—stare—stare—
The two men were in a stalemate for a long time. The paper-made man stopped hitting the glass, and a few black, thin claws poked out from the torn gaps in the red paper. They waved eagerly. From Yu Tu's perspective, it looked like the paper-made man had grown dense black tentacles, which was quite embarrassing.
Yu Tu: “……?”
He looked down at his hands to make sure he hadn't cut into the vest.
Was he dazzled? Otherwise, how could he see the ghost of the baby trapped in the old building attached to a paper-made man, and knock on his window in the middle of the night?
The tiny little claws kept waving at the paper man. Seeing that Yu Tu didn't respond, they got a little anxious. The red paper on the paper man was torn by the little claws, and more black little claws poked out from inside. Through the glass window, Yu Tu heard the sound of "Wow", which seemed louder than when they threw toys at him during the day when he said he would come again next time.
The paper-made figure had become tattered due to the anxiety of the baby spirits, and the bamboo frame was densely covered with black. Yu Tu opened the window, and the hand of the paper-made figure instantly grabbed Yu Tu's arm and almost pulled him out of the window.
Yu Tu quickly grabbed the window sash to avoid being dragged down by the sudden force: "If someone falls down, they will die!!"
The paper man's hand that was holding his hand froze, and Yu Tu could actually see the confusion and helplessness in the black color surging from its body.
"Can you guys wait for me at the gate?" Yu Tu sighed, knowing that she couldn't sleep anymore. "Do you know where the gate is?"
The black color surged, making a "chi chi chi" sound, and then the paper man's hands loosened and he fell from the second-floor windowsill. After falling to the ground, he climbed to the door in an unscientific posture.
Yu Tu: “…”
He suddenly remembered that the ghosts in the old building were still too young and probably couldn't walk yet, but this scene... was really weird! It was scarier than the scenes in horror movies!
Yu Tu went downstairs with an indescribable feeling. When he saw the paper man covered in black lying on his back at the gate waiting for him, the indescribable feeling turned into a dilemma.
The baby spirit may have never controlled human-shaped objects. It was fine when it knocked on the windowsill, but it may have become confused after falling from the windowsill. Its limbs, head and five parts have five thoughts. After Yu Tu opened the door, he followed it out. The limbs and head walked separately - yes, the head also participated in the walking, so that the current scene looked particularly like the ghost video made by animation students that was once popular on the Internet.
Yu Tu: “…”
His shock was deafening in the silence.
The baby spirits led him to find the way accurately in the surging mist, and returned to the old building that Yu Tu had visited during the day.
The mist at the door of the old building was a kind of dark green color, which made people's hearts tremble. When Yu Tu stepped over the threshold, he saw an extremely chaotic scene—
Under the flickering green candlelight on the walls of the old building, the bride, with her back to him, stretched out her arms and lifted up into the air with her pale hands a middle-aged man who had been pinched so hard that his eyes rolled back. Several people were lying all over the place at the bride's feet, with paper figures of young men and women standing beside them.
The paper-made man who led the way was abandoned by the baby spirits as soon as he stepped over the threshold. Black surged out from the bamboo frame of the paper-made man and quickly merged into the large army on the ground.
The baby spirits were divided into two groups. One group used their tiny claws to constantly grab the bride's shoes and hem of her clothes, and the edges of her red wedding dress were all torn into tassels. Another group climbed up the bride's arms and onto the top of the middle-aged man's head, slapping them randomly with their tiny black claws, trying to get the bride to let go.
The bride's hands were tightening, and the black balls made anxious "ah ah ah" sounds. Seeing that Yu Tu was still standing stupidly at the door, a small ball of black that was grabbing the tassels of the bride's clothes flew to his feet, then climbed up to his head along his trouser legs, grabbed his hair and went towards the bride.
Yu Tu felt a pain on his scalp and took a deep breath: "Be gentle! My head is going to be bald!"
"Ah-ah!" A small black ball was bouncing above his head. The coldness from it was so strong that Yu Tu was almost instantly frozen awake.
He ran to the bride and first checked the people lying on the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that they were all still breathing weakly.
Seeing the middle-aged man whose neck was being strangled by the bride with his eyes rolled back and his struggle becoming weaker and weaker, Yu Tu gritted his teeth, reached out to grab the bride's cold wrist, and began to help the baby spirits pry her hands open.
Gu Hongying sent him a lot of things in the past few days. Regardless of whether they were useful or not, he sent them all to Yu Tu. There was a lot of information in them that was obviously available only to insiders.
Yu Tu didn't know how Gu Hongying had managed to contact the special forces and sneak into the inner circle of the special forces in such a short time, but in such an urgent situation, he didn't have time to care about these stories that were not life and death matters. After confirming that the source of the information was authentic and reliable, Yu Tu was busy looking for the key points in the miscellaneous information.
The special task force has done a lot of ghost-related missions. Yu Tu extracted a general idea from the fragmentary information.
After a person dies, resentment turns into a ghost, which is a mixture of yin energy and death energy. The ghost's strength will continue to grow from the moment of death, reaching its peak on the seventh day. As its strength grows, the ghost's rationality will gradually disappear, and it will often kill its enemy on the seventh day to complete its revenge.
But once the enemy dies, it is like removing the last chain from the ghosts. Their rationality will completely disappear, and they will only kill from then on.
Therefore, when the special forces are on a mission and detect that a ghost has blood energy, they will suppress it directly. Under forced enforcement, the ghost will either be seriously injured or disappear.
It was not yet the seventh day of mourning, and the bride still had the rationality to communicate. Yu Tuding was extremely anxious and tried to pry her hands apart: "Stop pinching me! If you continue, I will die!!"
"You can't do anything about it because of a few scumbags!"
The bride's hands on the middle-aged man's neck were extremely steady and were gradually tightening. The middle-aged man's hands, which had been waving just now, were now slowly dropping down.
Yu Tu also knew that it was useless to persuade Cang Bai in a dry way, so he could only say something positive: "Think about it, you can become a ghost now, so you can definitely cultivate in this world! You can still live a second time! But if you kill someone and your hands are stained with human life, you may not be able to cultivate! Scumbags are not worth your second life!"
"Now that things have gotten so serious, there will definitely be people paying attention. Let's call the police and let them handle it. Don't be impulsive!" Yu Tu was sweating profusely in anxiety. "Manslaughter is also illegal!"
The black balls on Yu Tu's head couldn't understand what Yu Tu was saying. They just instinctively felt that they couldn't kill people, and something bad would happen. But they couldn't stop the bride, so they could only find someone who was kind to them. It was under such circumstances that Yu Tu was brought to the old building by them in a daze.
Amid the sounds of "Ah", "Wow", and "Wow", more and more black gathered around the bride's feet. Her clothes below the knees had been twisted into tassels in a very artistic style. The black followed the tassels and covered her arms layer by layer.
They resolutely rushed between the bride's hands and the middle-aged man's neck, not caring whether they would hurt anyone or not. On the premise that the bride's hands were unharmed and the middle-aged man's neck was covered in blood, they forced the bride's hands apart a little.
“Wow—”
The baby spirits looked very angry. Their previously weak voices now became as loud as normal people's and sounded very fierce.
“Ahhh——”
Although Yu Tu didn't understand what the baby spirits were saying, he could feel that they were arguing with the bride, well... a one-sided argument.
A large mass of black snatched the man from the bride's hands and dragged him to the ground. The bride stood there with her arms stiffly fixed, her black hair blocking her face, making it impossible to see her expression clearly.
Suddenly, the bride turned around and grabbed Yu Tu's neck!
Yu Tu only felt a flash before his eyes, and something as cold as an iron clamp gripped his throat, making him unable to breathe for a moment. Yu Tu subconsciously reached out to pry the bride's hands apart.
The black people who were slowly putting the middle-aged man down suddenly became anxious and ran away. The half-awake and half-conscious middle-aged man fell directly to the ground and fainted on the spot.
Large masses of black crawled up the bride's body, and countless tiny claws stretched out, scratching her. They were reluctant to scratch the bride, but they also didn't want Yu Tu to bleed like the middle-aged man, so they were helpless.
Then the tassels on the hem of the bride spread out even more wildly, and small black balls of hair jumped angrily on the ground, like elastic pearls scattered all over the ground.
Yu Tu only felt suffocated at the beginning. After a while, although breathing was a little difficult, he did not feel like he was about to die.
The bride still had some sense left, and she wasn't going to implicate the innocent. Yu Tu suddenly stopped panicking.
After jumping for a while, the little black pearls saw that the bride still did not let go, so they disappeared into the crack in the ground. After a while, they floated up from the crack in the ground again and gathered into a big ball, spitting out a bunch of small things with a "puff puff puff" sound.
Yu Tu looked down and saw little butterflies and dragonflies made of straw; small hairpins of dolphins and ducks; and colorful glass candies under the dim green light...
Almost all the things that Yu Tu had ever given were piled up at the feet of the bride. The black color was divided into two groups, one of which squatted beside these small things, and the other climbed to the top of Yu Tu's head and reached out to reach the bride's arm.
The meaning is clearly expressed—exchange.
Yu Tu felt a warm current in his heart when he saw the piled up little things. He looked at the bride's face covered with black hair and whispered, "Don't tease the little girl, or she will get angry."
The bride ignored him, but a gust of wind swirled in from the old building and suddenly blew away the bride's black hair. Yu Tu saw a pair of bloodshot eyes, a horrible made-up face, and the bride's mouth stuffed with rice bran.
Yu Tu's brows wrinkled.
To be honest, the bride's current appearance was really scary, the kind that would give people nightmares, but Yu Tu felt that it was not as scary as the groom's shattered face that he had smashed with a bench last night. After all, he had smashed the facial features so badly that they could only be blurred out for the camera.
What really made him frown was the bride's mouth stuffed with rice bran.
In folklore, covering the face with hair and stuffing the mouth with chaff is an extremely vicious curse. Covering the face with hair means that one will be too ashamed to face people on the road to the underworld, and stuffing the mouth with chaff means that one has grievances in his heart but cannot express them.
Yu Tu simply couldn't believe that there could be such a vicious person who not only bought the life of a living person to arrange a ghost marriage for his own child, but was also afraid that there were gods above his head and that there was Yan Jun in the underworld, so he used such a superstitious method to make the victim suffer even greater pain after death.
No matter how mature the makeup is, you can still tell that the bride is a minor!
The bride only strangled them half to death instead of killing them outright, which showed that she was very rational and emotionally stable.
"How about you stop pinching me and let's talk?" Yu Tu said sincerely, "I'll introduce you to a new world that ordinary people can't see and only exists in novels and TV dramas?"
After Yu Tu finished speaking, the two of them were in a stalemate for a while, and the bride slowly withdrew her hand, her black hair fell down, and blocked her face again. Then the bride took a step back and shook her head at the thing on the ground.
The baby spirits suddenly expanded into a larger black color and swallowed up everything on the ground in one gulp. When they dispersed again, the small things piled on the ground disappeared without a trace.
The bride was better at communication than he had imagined. Yu Tu felt relieved and quietly signaled the baby spirits to move those people away and try not to let them appear in the bride's sight to avoid irritating her.
Yu Tu led the bride to the other end of the tower-shaped load-bearing column, rubbed his neck which was a little painful from being pinched, and couldn't help asking: "How about I comb your hair for you? It will be easy to fall if your hair hits your face, right?"
"I can do a lot of hairstyles, such as high ponytails like celebrities, bow-knotted buns, elegant buns..." Yu Tu introduced herself, "My skills are pretty good. Every child who had their hair braided gave me five-star reviews."
Seeing that the bride showed no sign of impatience, Yu Tu walked up to her tentatively, pulled out a hairpin on her head, and then slowly removed the mess of inferior decorations on her head. He pulled back the bride's black hair that was covering her face, and pulled it a few times with his hands, but found that it didn't work, probably because the hair quality of the living and the dead is a little different.
Yu Tu pinched the little paws that were messing with his head and shoulders: "Baby, can you help me? Go to my house - where you found me - and bring me a comb."
Yu Tu pointed out the shape and position of the comb to the confused black man on his shoulder, and then said, "There are also clean spoons, towels, basins and thermoses."
Fearing that the thermos bottle might break on the way and scare the spirits, Yu Tu thought for a moment and changed his words: "Don't use the thermos bottle. Take a bucket of mineral water instead."
"Ah" The little paws on his shoulders opened and closed blankly, and continued to make a confused "ah".
Yu Tu repeated it patiently several times.
He didn't dare go back to get the things now, mainly because he was afraid that something unexpected would happen later. If he stayed here, he could at least respond to the situation, although as an ordinary person he didn't know what he could do.
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Yu Tu used the simplest and clearest language to describe to the spirits where and what each item he needed looked like. After confirming that they understood, Yu Tu turned to look at the bride's face and said, "I don't have any facial cleanser. Can you use detergent instead?"
I don’t know if it was Yu Tu’s illusion, but he actually saw a hint of silence in the bride’s bloodshot eyes.
No objection meant consent, and Yu Tu described to the baby spirits what the detergent looked like several times.
After understanding, a large piece of black slid down from his body and ran towards the abandoned paper man at the threshold. After the black color wrapped around the skeleton, the paper man crawled healthily on the ground with his limbs and head, and walked out happily in the form of a ghost animation.
Yu Tu withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes tightly. He admitted that the baby spirits were cute, but the scene before him was really beyond the limits of his human aesthetic.