When she heard this, Xia Wan’er turned her head and stared at him viciously, completely unlike before. “Paper cranes all look like this! You are not allowed to say it is fat! It is my family’s baby!”
“……”
“We, the paper-figure clan, make paper objects that are lifelike. I even have the title of the Hand of Souls, so how else could I roam the internet? Brother Yi, just watch.”
Xia Wan’er put the fat paper crane on her palm, closed her eyes, and muttered, “Paper crane, paper crane, I love you, just like mice love rice, paper crane, paper crane, follow my wishes, manifest quickly!”
After she finished speaking, Xia Wan’er opened her eyes. That paper crane really seemed to come to life, flapping its wings, about to fly forward.
Gu Yi was stunned.
The paper crane flapped twice, could not fly anymore, and fell down.
Gu Yi: “……”
“……Baby! Go for it!”
Xia Wan’er shouted loudly, even making Gu Yi jump.
That paper crane seemed to receive some kind of loving encouragement. Biting down hard, it forcibly dragged its heavy body and suddenly flew up again.
Xia Wan’er let out a breath.
At last she had not lost face.
“Brother Yi, let’s go.”
Xia Wan’er took Gu Yi’s hand and walked forward.
With the paper crane leading the way, they soon walked out of the array.
Xia Wan’er said, “I don’t know that female ghost, but she only trapped us. Could she have some connection with Brother Yi?”
Gu Yi froze for a moment, then said, “Maybe, it was just a coincidence.”
“Is that so?”
Xia Wan’er gave him a meaningful look and continued walking forward.
Lin Ming led Bo Si to his room. His room was very large, in an European style, and lavishly decorated. Bo Si stood at the door. Soon, Lin Father and Qing Sang also came up.
“Your house is pretty big. You really are rich,” Bo Si said.
Lin Father was modest. “Not at all, not at all.”
“Your son invited us at the cost of bankrupting his family. I didn’t expect Mr. Lin to have invited other people too.”
Lin Father’s expression turned somewhat sad. “I only have this one son. I can’t just watch him have an accident. His mother left early, and because of business, I often neglected him. Now that he has run into something like this, I also wanted to invite a few more people to protect him.”
Bo Si looked at him sideways and said indifferently, “If Mr. Lin really cared about his son, he should teach him what it means to be a person.”
Lin Father became embarrassed.
Bo Si walked into the room.
Gu Yi, Xia Wan’er, and Qing Sang also walked in.
At this moment the night was already deep, and there was very thick fog outside the window.
Lin Ming was curled up on the bed, and his spirits had not recovered yet.
Bo Si lit a cigarette and said, “That female ghost is here. She will definitely appear tonight. We should not sleep. We will wait for her to come.”
“Bo Si, you are so amazing. Just standing here, you don’t even need to use any tools to know that female ghost will definitely come. I admire you so much!”
Xia Wan’er ran to Bo Si’s side, eyes shining like stars.
Qing Sang silently turned his head away.
Bo Si looked at her. “Little girl, who are you?”
“……” Xia Wan’er was hit hard. Tears welled up in her eyes. “Bo Si, you don’t remember me anymore? I’m Xia Wan’er. I just introduced myself to you. How could you turn around and forget? You are so annoying! Sob sob sob……”
“……Cry somewhere else. Little girl, this big brother isn’t interested in you.”
Xia Wan’er was shocked. “You aren’t interested even in me, could it be that Bo Si, you are gay?!”
Bo Si was helpless. He glared at her and said, “Whether I am straight or gay has nothing to do with you. I don’t like men, and I don’t like little girls like you who haven’t fully developed. I prefer someone with a hotter figure, understand? Stay away from me.”
Bo Si continued smoking. Xia Wan’er was choked until tears streamed down her face. In the end, she could not take it anymore and ran behind Gu Yi while crying.
“Brother Yi, Bo Si doesn’t like me, sob sob sob……”
Bo Si’s temple twitched. He shot her a glare from the side and said angrily, “You stay far away from him too!”
“……Qing Sang!”
Xia Wan’er cried as she ran toward Qing Sang.
Qing Sang hurriedly comforted her. “Alright, be good, don’t cry, don’t cry.”
“Um, Boss.” Gu Yi weakly opened his mouth. “Don’t be so fierce to little girls.”
Bo Si said coldly, “I don’t need you to tell me what I am like. Want me to dock your pay?”
Gu Yi shut up.
Just like that, the night grew deeper and deeper.
The group gathered in the room. Lin Ming lay on the bed, quietly waiting for that red figure that could appear at any moment.
Every nerve in Lin Ming was taut. He was terrified to the extreme, afraid that the moment he opened his eyes, he would see a terrifying scene.
He did not dare to fall asleep, and could not fall asleep. Maybe if he slept, he would never wake up again.
But strangely, although everyone clearly knew they could not sleep right now, a strange drowsiness still spread among them.
Xia Wan’er could hardly keep her eyes open. Even the room’s lights looked blurry to her. She wanted to go to the bathroom. She shook Qing Sang beside her and found that Qing Sang had somehow already fallen asleep.
She did not feel comfortable calling Bo Si and Gu Yi, so she quietly walked into the bathroom alone.
Lin Ming’s room was very large, and the bathroom was also very large. After Xia Wan’er finished using the toilet, she went to the sink. She was just about to wash her face with cold water to clear her head when, suddenly, she heard a faint sound behind her.
She turned around and saw the bathroom door closing by itself without any wind.
All around was silent.
A faint laugh rang in Xia Wan’er’s ear.
Bit by bit, it went from blurred to clear.
Sticky liquid fell onto Xia Wan’er’s face.
She looked up and saw that red figure on the ceiling.
It faced her, and blood was crazily flowing down from every joint in its body.
Bai Nuo had died by jumping from a building. Her limbs were broken, and she crawled on the wall in a twisted posture. Her head was covered in blood and brain matter, and her red clothes were soaked with dense resentment.
Her once beautiful face was now so mangled that no features could be made out. Her whole body was a bloody mess. Only a pair of eyes remained, still unblinking in death, wide open, without eyeballs, only a barren and desperate white of the eyes, carrying boundless terror and deathly aura.
She knew Xia Wan’er was the one blocking her, and in the form of a blood-red ghost shadow she rushed toward her without a word. Xia Wan’er only froze for a moment, then took out the fat paper crane she had folded earlier. She recited the incantation, and that paper crane flew toward Bai Nuo as if it had come alive. The paper crane was folded from talisman paper. She had originally thought it would have some effect on the female ghost, but Bai Nuo was not an ordinary female ghost. She was a red-clad vengeful ghost. When the fat paper crane touched her ghost shadow, it only gave off a little smoke, then disappeared.
Xia Wan’er screamed in heartbreak, “Baby——!”
At once, Xia Wan’er’s face changed. She roared, “How dare you hurt my baby! I will never forgive you!”
Xia Wan’er pulled out a stack of yellow talismans and scattered them into the air. Her hands formed seals, and she rapidly chanted, “Why make things hard for women, baby, baby, lend me your strength, let me avenge you!”
In an instant, the yellow talismans turned into countless fat little paper cranes. They formed a circle, creating a cute-style magic array, trapping the female ghost inside.
Xia Wan’er shouted, “Break!”
The paper cranes exploded, and the female ghost screamed miserably.
Xia Wan’er was delighted. This time she had finally injured the female ghost, but she soon realized she was wrong. This level of damage was nothing at all to a vengeful ghost.
The green smoke dispersed, and the female ghost returned to her ferocious form. She once again lunged at Xia Wan’er. Xia Wan’er’s face turned pale with fright. “Damn it, I can’t beat her, help!”
She scrambled toward the door, beating on it desperately. “Help! Help! Qing Sang! Bo Si! I am trapped by that female ghost! I can’t beat her, she is so fierce!”
Xia Wan’er battered the door for a long time and it would not open. In despair, just as that female ghost was about to pounce on her, Xia Wan’er suddenly closed her eyes. At that moment, the door was smashed open with a crash!
Bo Si stood at the doorway and sneered, “Pretty good at finding someone to target.”
The moment the female ghost saw Bo Si, she quickly fled out of the bathroom.
“Sob sob sob, Bo Si, thank goodness you came, you scared baby to death, oh my god!” Xia Wan’er was tearful.
“What are you crying for? Is this the time to cry? Aren’t you an exorcist? Get up quickly!”
“Ah——!”
At this moment, Lin Ming’s scream came from outside!
Bo Si and Xia Wan’er hurriedly ran out. In the room, there was no sign of the female ghost. There was only a pair of white high heels, firmly planted on Lin Ming’s shoulder.
Lin Ming was already scared out of his wits. His mouth was open, and his eyes were bulging, as if in the next second they would roll out of their sockets.
Gu Yi recognized those high heels. They were the very pair Bai Nuo had been wearing when she killed herself!
He knew the one who had come was Bai Nuo. He remembered the scene he had seen before, and thought of Bai Nuo’s despair before death. If Bai Nuo kept killing people, she would still have to remain unable to reincarnate because of these people. Thinking of that, Gu Yi mustered up his courage, stepped forward, and shouted, “Bai Nuo!”
The yin energy in the room immediately became even heavier.
“Ah!” Lin Ming let out an even more miserable scream.
The high heels on his shoulder disappeared, and in their place was Bai Nuo’s blood-soaked head.
She turned her head, face to face with Lin Ming, and suddenly she revealed a smile, just like the smile she had shown when she jumped from the building, beautiful and moving.
“……”
Lin Ming was completely speechless, not even able to make a scream.
At the same time, a child’s tender voice sounded in the room, “Dad…… Dad……”
The child’s tone was innocent, ethereal as if it came from the edge of the sky. It repeated over and over in the room like something on loop, tireless. “Dad…… Dad……”
“No!”
Lin Ming broke down, and hoarsely shouted, “I am not your dad! I’m not! I’m not!”
Seeing this, Bo Si’s dark pupils shrank slightly. With one hand he formed a seal, and with a thought, the child’s voice in the room disappeared, and the head on Lin Ming’s shoulder was gone too.
Bo Si said, “It’s just an illusion. Don’t let it paralyze you.”
“That female ghost, she killed my baby, I will never let her go!”
Xia Wan’er was furious, as if she really had formed a deep grudge with that female ghost. “Every paper figurine of the paper-figure clan that has been given a name is a work of art. She actually dared to destroy my art, I want her soul scattered and spirit destroyed!”
At this moment, Qing Sang said, “She is still in this room!”
Qing Sang looked toward the door, then suddenly took out some wooden dolls from his clothes, like the puppet dolls from before. He pasted talismans onto each doll, and after finishing the incantation, he threw the dolls toward the door. Those dolls immediately moved, guarding the door tightly, each standing in military posture.
They looked extremely serious.
Bo Si looked at him and asked, “Are you a puppeteer?”
“That way she won’t be able to run out.” Qing Sang said, “I have sealed her in the house. We can act now.”
As he spoke, Qing Sang pulled out a talisman. That talisman was different from usual. It was dazzling gold.
After Qing Sang finished the incantation, just as he was about to throw the talisman out, the next second, Bo Si stopped him.
Qing Sang turned back. “What are you doing?”
Bo Si looked at the talisman in his hand. “A gold talisman, you want her soul scattered and spirit destroyed?”