Spots of faint green light were floating outside the door, illuminating an unclear human figure. The man had four limbs and was dragging something huge in his hands. His neck was broken flatly - he had no head.
"Did you hide my head?" The crying voice sounded again, and this time he seemed to be speaking through the crack of the door. It sounded very close, as if he could come in at the next second.
The old carved glass door began to shake, and scarlet liquid overflowed from the crack in the door. The smell of blood filled the room. In this horrifying atmosphere, even the female ghost in red became quieter. She no longer tried to hit the frame, but instead wanted to escape into the closet in fear.
Chi Shen went to turn on the light first.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s so old, but the lights in the room are not bright. They still use old incandescent bulbs. In the dim light, the flowing red liquid and the shaking door become clearer.
"Please come in." Chi Shen's voice was very polite. In such an old house, one would even wonder if he had prepared a cup of hot tea to entertain the guests.
The shaking door suddenly became quiet, and the headless ghost outside the door seemed to be confused for a moment.
"hehe."
A low laugh was heard, and the door slammed open. A cold wind blew paper money into the room, and a burly male corpse walked towards the door. Blood dripped from the broken neck and soaked into the ground. Every step he took left a bloody footprint on the ground.
"Gela——"
As he walked, the huge axe in his hand made a crisp sound as it scratched the bluestone ground. The axe, which was wider than a man, was covered with new and old bloodstains, layer upon layer, and the original color of the axe could no longer be seen. Only the sharp blade was still shiny.
"Have you seen my head?"
The voice of the headless ghost seemed to be heard from all directions. He clearly had no head, but the words he spoke seemed to be able to penetrate into people's bodies.
"If you can't find it, try using your head."
The headless ghost raised the huge axe in his hand high, and his cold laughter echoed in the house.
Chi Shen frowned and looked at the ground for a while. When the headless ghost raised the axe, he suddenly came to his senses and ran towards the cabinet.
The headless ghost seemed very excited, even his laughter was a little more cheerful. He liked to chase humans who strayed into the haunted house, see their painful and frightened expressions, and then try to see if their heads fit their bodies. He let the thin-looking man in front of him run into the house, and then slowly followed behind him, hoping to experience the ultimate fear.
"Is this the head you are looking for?" Chi Shen pulled out the head of a female ghost with disheveled hair from the cabinet.
The female ghost was mumbling something, but unfortunately her fat tongue was stuck in her mouth and no one could understand what she was saying. She anxiously began to make eye contact with the headless ghost, as if she wanted her neighbor to run away quickly.
“Hahaha, you violated the ‘death zone’ and got beaten like this, you loser!” Unfortunately, the neighbors didn’t understand the ghost girl’s hint. Voices from all directions laughed, “Even a human can control you. Don’t worry, I will eat you right away and make you forget this humiliation!”
"It seems that this head is not okay." Chi Shen showed a regretful expression and let go of his hand. The ghost girl's head fell straight to the ground. She immediately grabbed the bed leg with her only remaining hand and slipped under the bed.
The headless ghost was getting a little impatient. He just wanted to see people showing fear on their faces. However, this person seemed to be devoid of emotions from the time he appeared until now. He was very calm and did not show any fear at all. He decided to proceed to the last step and try whether his head fit his body.
He swung the giant axe in his hand again, and the wind suddenly blew, and paper money fluttered in like snowflakes.
"You may have made a mistake," Chi Shen looked at the giant axe and stretched out his right hand, "This young lady was not killed by the so-called 'death place', she was chopped by me."
The giant axe fell, and the headless ghost's arrogant laughter echoed in the room: "Is that... my head on your neck?"
The wind suddenly stopped, and even the falling paper money disappeared.
The laughter coming from all directions that seemed to squeeze one's heart also stopped.
Everything seemed to be paused.
The thin young man standing in the room raised his right hand and grasped the huge axe which was wider than his others. Blood flowed down his palm, but it was not his blood, but the blood that was already on the axe.
A snake-like black mist emerged from Chi Shen's sleeves and climbed up the giant axe like a vine. The giant axe trembled and soon broke into pieces. The black mist was still not satisfied and wrapped around the headless ghost's body one by one.
The sound that filled the house changed, too, becoming screams of terror.
"Very good." Chi Shen smiled. "You've also brought out some skills. This game has a lot to offer those who can complete it."
The female ghost in red climbed onto the bedpost with one hand and peeked furtively from under the bed. Then the eye that was not blocked by her hair revealed a sympathetic look. She didn't dare to look any longer, and immediately shrank back under the bed after taking a look.
"Even if you kill me, you won't be able to leave this house! There are ghosts everywhere that are more powerful than me!" The headless ghost's entire body was entangled by black snakes. Snake heads emerged from those misty things, eating away at his body bite by bite.
The headless ghost's body was filled with a fear he had never experienced since death, causing his voice to tremble. If he had been killed with one knife, he would not have been so frightened. Watching his body being eaten bit by bit, the feeling of his ghost life disappearing made him extremely regretful for provoking this man.
As long as I can survive... As long as I can survive...
"Who said I want to kill you?" Chi Shen waved his hand, and the black mist that was biting the headless ghost immediately retracted its snake heads and just swam over the headless ghost.
"Ah?" The headless ghost was about to say something threatening but suddenly stopped. With ecstasy in his heart, he immediately said, "If you can let me go, I can help you plead with those old ghosts..."
Chi Shen smiled: "Help me?"
"No! I will go tell those old ghosts how powerful you are, Big Brother! Let them know that Big Brother is not easy to mess with!" said the headless ghost immediately.
"I'm not your elder brother." Chi Shen waved to him.
The headless ghost immediately bowed and said, "Master! What do you want to say?"
The depth of the pool points to the ground.
The headless ghost sank half of his body into the ground obediently: "Let me go underground?"
"No." Chi Shen grinned, "Pick up the paper money for me, wipe the bloodstains for me, and your neck. If you dare to bleed and dirty the ground again, you will never have to look for your own head again."
The headless ghost's neck healed in a second. He even reached out to catch the blood on his clothes, fearing that they would drip onto the ground.
"New big brother..." A little boy wearing shroud with two blushes painted on his cheeks suddenly appeared at the door. He climbed the door and poked his head inside, "Come and play hide-and-seek with me..."
His voice suddenly stopped when he saw the headless ghost mopping the floor, and then he immediately took a step back.
"Don't run." Chi Shen saw that the clue that came to him was still running away, so he immediately chased after him, "Aren't we going to play hide and seek?"
The little boy ran quickly around the corner of the house. He was very familiar with this house, which was full of evil spirits. The man would certainly not dare to chase him too far, but to be on the safe side, he ran into the room he often stayed in, ran into the cupboard and closed the door.
Through the gap in the cabinet door, he saw that no one was chasing him and heaved a sigh of relief.
Then he found something wrong in the cabinet. There seemed to be someone else here besides him.
"This place is so small, are you used to living here?"
Chi Shen turned on the light of his cell phone. Under the pale light, Chi Shen's face looked very scary. With his sinister smile, he was even more terrifying than the little boy in the shroud.
The young man with a sinister smile stretched out his hand towards him: "I got you."
"ah!!!"
The cabinet door was immediately pushed open, and the little boy screamed and fell headfirst in panic. Chi Shen lifted him up by the back of his collar and slowly walked out of the room and went to his own room.
While walking through the corridor, Chi Shen tilted his head to glance at the main house of the house. The main house was sealed and looked normal, but the little ghost just now deliberately avoided the main house.
What's inside the main house?
Is this the "death place" that the evil spirit mentioned?
——
Outside the Bai family's old house, two young men stood by the door. One of them was timid and didn't want to go in, while the other one looked fierce and laughed at him: "With your courage, how can you work for the Bai family?"
The timid one said, "Let's come back tomorrow to collect his body. There are too many ghosts in this house. It's not safe to go in now."
The brave one said, "The young master said not to let him die on the first night. That would be too easy for him. We are going in to let those ghosts torture him more, not to collect his body."
The timid one shrank his neck: "That's still very dangerous."
The brave one sneered: "What are you afraid of? We have the Bai family amulet, those ghosts dare not touch us."
——
The clock in the room ticked to midnight.
The bedroom floor was cleaned so clean that one could even see a person's reflection on the floor.
Chi Shen was asking questions to the new kid he brought back.
"Do you know Bai Ran?"
The little ghost trembled and shook his head.
Chi Shen asked the headless ghost again: "What about you?"
The headless ghost couldn't shake his head. His voice rang out in the room: "I don't know him."
Because part of its body was eaten by the black mist, the headless ghost's voice was no longer loud, and the volume of his speech was neither loud nor soft. At this moment, his tone was even a little weak.
Chi Shen was not discouraged. He stood up and said, "Then let's go visit other people. As a new resident, I hope to have a good relationship with everyone. I want to have a good sleep without being disturbed. By the way, I want to ask them if they know the young master of this house."
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