After the sirens sounded, it was dark and quiet outside again.
Although this place is not remote, it is some distance away from the bustling city. On the winter night before the New Year, not many people passed by here, and there was not even a busy street around, so it seemed particularly quiet.
In such a quiet atmosphere, the sound of the clock in the house seems particularly clear.
However, this little sound in the silence made people even more anxious.
Guilian began to crawl around anxiously on the sofa, sliding from one end to the other, and then quickly sliding back. Every time he slid back, he would look at Chi Shen's expression.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
Just then, there was a knock on the door. Guilian jumped up from the sofa with a start, hid behind Chi Shen, and looked towards the door vigilantly.
With a creak, the door swung open. There was no sound of footsteps outside. It was still exceptionally quiet. Looking out from the room with the yellow light on, one could see that it was pitch black through the gap in the open door.
There was a slight sound of paper rubbing against each other coming from outside the door. Gui Lian immediately trembled and shrank behind Chi Shen.
The first thing he saw clearly was a line of words reflected by a light from inside the door: [Master Chi Shen, I am here to bring you tea.]
Then came a cart with tea sets on it, which was stretched out from the slowly opening door. Finally, illuminated by the light from the room, was a pair of paper hands. The person pushing the cart was a paper man, but not the paper man who had led them before, but another one.
The paper man did not come in, but pushed the cart forward, bowed his head and respectfully retreated, then closed the door.
The cart slid accurately in front of Chi Shen as if someone was controlling it.
After the door was closed, the ghost face relaxed and stared at the tea set in confusion: "I'm afraid something has been planted in here!"
On this cold winter night, the teapot was still emitting hot steam slowly outside. Although it was some distance away, the faint aroma of tea could still be smelled.
Chi Shen didn't care about all this. He picked up the tea and poured himself a cup.
"Wait!" Gui Lian couldn't hold back any longer. "You're going to drink it just because I give it to you? Something bad will happen!"
Chi Shen took a sip calmly, and then said: "Come to think of it, I have never tasted such good tea in the past twenty years."
"Huh?" Gui Lian was confused by his sudden exclamation and was stunned for a while.
Chi Shen continued to talk to himself: "Since it is used to entertain guests, we can't let the host down."
The ghost face slid down from Chi Shen's shoulder, and stood with his face looking at the tea for a long time. As a water ghost, water was particularly attractive to him. But after looking at it for a long time, although he didn't see anything wrong, he still didn't go in, but started pacing on the coffee table again, pretending that he still had legs.
"What on earth do they want to do? Just trap us here? The other rooms are filled with evil spirits, but this room is cursed and cannot be left. What good is there in trapping us here...?"
Ghost Face stretched out the corners of his face and paced while muttering to himself. When he finished walking around the coffee table, he turned around and saw Chi Shen still drinking tea calmly in the posture of an emoji. He finally couldn't help but said: "How can you sit still!"
Chi Shen already used the tone of an elderly person, and said slowly: "Since you asked us to wait, we can just wait."
grimace:"……"
Chi Shen: "Mm, good tea."
The clock in the reception room ticked away little by little, and soon the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand all skipped the same space.
It's now twelve o'clock midnight.
At the same time, there was a sudden noise from the wall filled with magical instruments in the reception room.
The noise sounded like someone moving something, very slight, but in this silent room where you could hear a pin drop, it was very clear.
Gui Lian looked at the wall first, while Chi Shen slowly put down the teacup.
With a click, the cabinet in the corner of the wall suddenly moved, and the first sound that came in was Buddhist music.
The sound of the Buddhist music was also very low and not very clear. Only the intermittent chanting could be heard. Then the cabinet moved away to a position that could accommodate one person, revealing a dark passage. Then a young man with glasses poked his head out of the passage. He pushed his glasses on his face and glanced at the reception room: "Go this way."
Gui Lian looked at the young man warily, but Chi Shen stood up.
"My name is Bai Shi, we have met before." The young man said. He also saw the wary expression on Gui Lian's face and explained, "You may not remember me, but I was there that night at the old house when Second Grandfather performed the ritual. I know you saved us, and I want to rescue you."
"But this room—"
"Thank you." Gui Lian was about to say something when Chi Shen interrupted him. He stood up from the sofa and nodded to Bai Shi: "I remember you."
"Uncle... that is, Bai Ximing, wants to exchange his life. You can't stay here." Bai Shi waved at him, "You can go out this way, but you can't go out the main gate. There are only people from the Bai family outside."
Seeing Chi Shen was about to leave, Gui Lian immediately jumped onto Chi Shen. Chi Shen had just interrupted him, so he quickly climbed onto Chi Shen's shoulder and whispered, "Can we avoid being cursed if we leave from there?"
"No." Chi Shen said.
"Then you still..."
"Someone came to save me, I can't let their kindness down." Chi Shen said, and he took out a two-finger-wide piece of paper from somewhere and quickly made a human figure.
The angle at which Gui Lian saw the piece of paper was just right. He was stunned for a moment, and then he found that the color of the paper looked familiar. He soon remembered that this was the piece of paper on the paper man who had just brought them in.
It seems that when Chi Shen patted the paper man's shoulder just now, he also took a piece of paper from the paper man.
Gui Lian immediately understood what Chi Shen was going to do, but there was only one paper man. Seeing that Chi Shen was about to step out of the room, he quickly asked, "What should I do then!"
Chi Shen tilted his head and said, "It's relatively safe here. Just wait for me here."
As he said that, he stepped into the passage opened by Bai Shi. As his body passed through the door of the passage, the black hands that filled the entire room reached out to him like fast-growing vines, as if wanting him to stay. However, the direction of each hand's retention was different, and it didn't seem like an attempt to keep him, but rather an anger that would not let anyone out even if he was torn to pieces.
Gui Lian felt like he was about to be torn apart. The fear of his soul being torn apart made him jump off Chi Shen's shoulder immediately. The farther he was from the entrance of the passage, the less obvious the feeling of being torn apart would be. The consciousness of self-preservation made him float up and retreat quickly, but he was worried about Chi Shen. He stared in Chi Shen's direction with wide eyes. If he had hands, he might have pulled Chi Shen up, but unfortunately he didn't.
Those black hands fell on Chi Shen's body, but Chi Shen seemed not to feel it and walked into the passage.
Guilian blinked his eyes. He found that although he could not see, he felt something when the curse broke out. He seemed to "see" the black hands stretched out by the curse, but those black hands did not fall on Chi Shen at all, but on the paper man made of scraps of paper in Chi Shen's hands. The moment Chi Shen entered the passage, the paper man made of scraps of paper instantly turned into powder and floated down in the air.
At the door on the first floor of the building, a paper man holding a lantern suddenly trembled, and an expression of pain suddenly appeared on his paper face. The next second, his body suddenly exploded and turned into a pile of fluttering paper pieces, spreading all over the hall.
In the reception room where Chi Shen was, Bai Shi looked into the reception room. He suddenly felt his nose a little itchy. He wanted to sneeze, but he quickly covered his nose, closed the cabinet with his whole face flushed.
Seeing the cabinet being closed, Ghost Face suddenly realized something and wanted to rush over: "Wait - wait a minute! Don't leave a ghost like me here!"
The cabinet returned to its original position with a click.
Ghost Face looked at the empty reception room, shuddered suddenly, and slammed himself onto the sofa: "Chi Shen was sitting here just now, which means there must be nothing wrong here! He is so disloyal that he just ran away and left me, a ghost, here. I shouldn't have followed him out tonight. It would have been better for me to continue watching people drown at home..."
"Oh, no, that's not my house either."
"Yeah, I'm a ghost, how can I have a home?"
The frightened expression on Guimian's face gradually calmed down, and then he became a little lonely: "Even the silly Xiaohong has a home, so where is my home..."
"I thought," the ghost face's pale eyes turned and looked at the cabinet. Suddenly he sighed and slowly crawled into the teacup. The teacup contained a cup of tea that Chi Shen had filled before leaving, but had not yet drunk it.
"Forget it, living people cannot be trusted, living people cannot be trusted..."
In the passage behind the bookcase, Bai Shi handed Chi Shen a Bluetooth headset.
Chi Shen took it. Buddhist music was playing in the headphones, the same Buddhist music that Chi Shen had heard intermittently before.
Bai Shi then handed him a cell phone. "There are many things in this building that can disturb the mind. The playlist in this phone is full of scriptures that can help you concentrate and resist foul spirits. Take it."
"Thank you." Chi Shen didn't bother to be polite and took the phone.
"Is your ghost friend okay?" Bai Shi asked again, "I remember he is very strong, don't you want to bring him to help?"
Chi Shen glanced at Bai Shi. Looking at Bai Shi's expression, it seemed that he really didn't know about the curse in that room. However, he didn't say it out loud. He just said, "He is a ghost after all. Ghosts probably won't like the place you're taking me to."
Bai Shi nodded: "Indeed, they would dislike it. In order to prevent the ghosts from entering the old house, we filled it with things that the ghosts don't like."
"you?"
"Yes, we." Bai Shi led Chi Shen down a narrow staircase. "After the incident at the old house, I discussed it with several brothers and sisters. Oh, my brothers and sisters are also from the Bai family. I am considered your cousin, but we are a little distant. We feel that Bai Ximing is not worthy of being the patriarch of the Bai family. The Bai family is originally a family of exorcists. In the ancient books we have read, the first few ancestors were upright and dedicated to exorcising demons. We don't know why it has become like this today."
“We want change.”
"So we decided to abolish Bai Ximing's position as the patriarch."
"I'll choose you to be the new patriarch."
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