"Changming, what are you doing?" Hu Ergou appeared behind me at some point and asked with a puzzled tone.
My tense heart suddenly calmed down a lot. I turned around and glanced at Hu Ergou, then hurriedly shouted, "Uncle Hu, the dirty thing is right behind me. Hurry up and take it down!"
Now that Hu Ergou has arrived, I can finally relax. Thankfully, I'm still alive. I had longed countless times for Hu Ergou to come and deal with this filthy thing, and now my wish has finally come true.
Strangely enough, even after I had Hu Ergou make a move, he still stared at me without moving, looking very puzzled, and even frowned.
"Uncle Hu, why aren't you doing anything? The filth is right behind me!" I shouted anxiously.
"Wake up!" Hu Ergou raised an eyebrow, suddenly roared, and slapped me across the face.
"Smack!"
I felt a burning pain on my face and asked, puzzled, "Uncle Hu, why did you hit me?"
"Look down at what you're doing!" Hu Ergou said, then took out his official seal and slapped it on my forehead.
My head was spinning from Hu Ergou's slap. When I came to my senses, I quickly looked down at my feet, and my face instantly changed. I exclaimed in horror, "How did I end up standing here?"
Right now I'm standing on those offerings, and I clearly remember that I was about a meter away from them. What's going on?
"Take a look at your hands," Hu Ergou said in a deep voice, his brows furrowed.
I stretched out my hands, and my pupils suddenly contracted. I didn't know when, but I was holding two plastic tea and wine cups in my hands, and the tea and wine were all over my hands.
"What's wrong with me?" I took a step back in disbelief, my whole body trembling uncontrollably. I clearly saw these tea and wine cups shatter in front of me, and the offerings on the ground were also kicked over.
“Brother Changming, I just saw you get up to offer a toast at the corner. After you bowed, you suddenly fell to the ground like you were possessed, smashing everything. I called your name twice but you didn’t answer, so I ran back to get my dad.” Hu Tudao appeared in front of me at some point and said with a suspicious look.
"Changming, do you remember what just happened? Did you see anything?" Hu Ergou asked, his face grim.
I recounted in detail what I had just seen and heard to Hu Ergou.
Hu Ergou's expression shifted between anger and uncertainty. He pointed to the small house not far away and said, "Changming, are you saying there's something dirty in here?"
"I guess so!" I said blankly.
At this moment, my heart is in turmoil. Everything just now felt so real. Fang Lei was clearly standing in front of me, and then he disappeared in the blink of an eye. Did I really break all of this myself?
"It's alright, Changming, I'm here. Just wait and see how I deal with this filthy thing." Hu Ergou patted my shoulder, reassuring me with a confident look.
“Yes, Changming, with my dad here, even if this evil spirit is powerful, it will be utterly destroyed. You see, ever since my dad appeared, this evil spirit has been hiding. I bet it’s trembling in the little house right now.” Hu Tudao glanced at the little house with disdain and turned his head to say to me.
I nodded subconsciously. What Hu Tudao said made sense. I was clearly possessed by an evil spirit just now, but as soon as Hu Ergou arrived, he casually patted my head and I recovered.
Moreover, the candles on the ground had returned to their yellow color, the wooden door of the hut was tightly closed, and the chilly feeling from before had disappeared.
I wiped the sweat from my forehead and said softly, "Uncle Hu, this time you must not let him off easily."
"I understand." Hu Ergou nodded slightly, then took out a talisman from his side pocket and said, "Changming, I'll use this talisman to force him out and make him kneel obediently in front of you."
"Okay." A smug look appeared on my face. After being tormented for so long, I was finally about to get my revenge.
Hu Ergou made a strange hand gesture, then his lips moved rapidly, uttering incomprehensible incantations. Immediately afterward, Hu Ergou's brows furrowed, and a long needle the size of a charging cable appeared in his hand. He pierced the talisman, flicked it, and with a whoosh, pinned the talisman to the wooden door. He shouted, "You brat, knowing that this master has returned, why don't you obediently kneel before me?"
Seeing Hu Ergou's domineering appearance, I couldn't help but feel envious. If I had half of his abilities, how could these filthy things dare to approach me or harm me?
After Hu Ergou finished shouting, he waited for a while, but the hut remained calm, and the talisman remained quietly pasted there.
"Changming, are you really sure that dirty thing is inside?" Hu Ergou asked, looking at me with a hint of embarrassment.
"I..." I didn't know how to answer for a moment. I wasn't sure if the evil thing was in the hut. Besides, Hu Ergou was a ghost-catching master, so he shouldn't be asking me.
Hu Ergou took out a compass from his side bag, studied it carefully for a while, and then said softly, "Changming, there's nothing dirty here. Maybe there was something originally, but it ran away before I arrived."
Hu Ergou's explanation put me in a difficult position. If I can't get rid of Fang Lei tonight, then tomorrow night will be the three-day deadline, and I'll be in danger then.
"Uncle Hu, is there any other way to find him?" I asked, somewhat unwilling to give up.
“Changming, this kind of filthy thing is hard to find if it hides. It must have smelled my dad’s scent beforehand and has already hidden far away. Don’t worry, it knows you can get a powerful figure like my dad to help. Even if it had ten times the courage, it would never dare to cause you any more trouble,” Hu Tu said confidently.
"Hehe, really?"
Just then, a clear, ethereal voice came from somewhere.
"Who? Who's speaking?" Hu Ergou's expression changed. He looked around and asked loudly.
"Changming, was that you just speaking?" Hu Tudao was also startled and quickly hid behind Hu Ergou, popping his head out to look at me and ask.
I felt a chill run down my spine and said in a trembling voice, "I...I don't know. I didn't say anything just now. My voice doesn't sound like this."
Suddenly, the compass in Hu Ergou's hand began to tremble, and the pointer on it started to spin like an electric fan, so fast that it was almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
The talisman pasted on the wooden door suddenly burst into flames without warning, and strangely, the flames were a ghostly blue.
"Creak!"
Just then, the wooden door of the cabin suddenly opened a crack.
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