"Ghost!"
A long-drawn-out scream, like a eunuch announcing an edict, suddenly sounded out, scaring away the screams the others were about to make.
Li Changan rolled his eyes. He had heard enough screams tonight that his eardrums could hardly stand it.
He shined his flashlight into the crowd to see who had such a strange voice, but he saw Taoist Suxuan holding his hands on his chest and "singing loudly".
Well, if he can still come to terms with it now, he'll be damned!
"Clang."
Over there, Liu Zhugan rolled his eyes and fell straight to the ground. Seeing Liu Zhugan fall, the "female ghost" suddenly smiled strangely and leaned over.
"Mr. Li!" Boss Liu still had some conscience and did not run away immediately.
Li Changan nodded, took off the long sword from his back, held it with the sheath in his hand, his nose twitched, and sneered:
"Ghost? I think he's pretending to be a ghost!"
With that said, he jumped down from the stairs.
When the "female ghost" noticed someone coming down, she threw away her bamboo pole and rushed towards Li Changan. Before anyone arrived, he threw the piece of meat in his hand. Li Changan swung his sword away and saw a few lints on the piece of meat from the corner of his eye.
When he looked back, the "female ghost" had already rushed in front of him.
This "female ghost" had long hair spread out in random directions, and the white dress she was wearing was stained with blood. In the middle of the night, seeing such a sudden rush towards someone can really make one's heart paralyze.
As a result, the screams of Boss Liu and his gang at the top of the stairs were louder. Li Changan rubbed his ears and thought that if there was another job like this in the future, everyone must wear a gag.
Looking at the "female ghost" rushing over, he actually laughed.
"You don't smell like a ghost at all, how dare you pretend to be a ghost?"
Li Changan dodged the attack of the "female ghost" on one side of his body. At the same time, he stretched out his feet and the "female ghost" suddenly turned into a rolling gourd.
Before she could get up, Li Changan stepped over, twisted the "female ghost"'s hands behind her back, and pushed her back to the ground. This "female ghost" hunched over the ground for a while, but she couldn't break free. She stopped struggling and just giggled.
Li Changan freed up a hand and lifted up his disheveled hair, revealing the face of a dirty middle-aged woman.
"It's indeed a human being." He turned the middle-aged woman's face to the others, "Does anyone know her?"
But Li Changan was shocked to find that instead of relaxing, the expressions of Boss Liu were even more frightened.
Boss Liu trembled and pointed behind Li Changan.
"Mr. Li, behind you..."
"later?!"
Without thinking, Li Changan immediately rolled forward, turned his body at the same time, and unsheathed the long sword in his hand.
However?
Li Changan looked at the empty place in front of him. There was nothing except the woman who was pretending to be a ghost.
He looked at Boss Liu in confusion, wanting to know what happened.
But as soon as he turned his head, he was met with several high-pitched screams. Boss Liu rushed down the stairs and ran away in the blink of an eye.
"Uh...hiss..."
But it was Liu Zhugan who got up from the ground, covering the back of his head.
"Liu..."
Just when Li Changan was about to say hello, Liu Zhugan stared blankly, jumped up, and ran away!
Li Changan blinked and looked around suspiciously for a long time.
But there is nothing.
He opened the black umbrella, and Mr. Wu's round and swollen body squeezed out from under the umbrella.
Boss Wu stayed in the umbrella for most of the night, before he could stretch his edematous body and take a breath of "free" air. He was grabbed by Li Changan and asked:
"Is there anything dirty in here?"
Boss Wu was stunned for a moment, then protested: "I'm not dirty."
"You're nothing, either." Li Changan replied casually, "I mean, except for you."
Boss Wu always felt that this was a bit wrong, but he still checked around a few times.
"No."
"Really not?"
"Not really."
"Is it really weird?" Li Changan frowned. He didn't smell ghost smell, and Boss Wu didn't find any similar scent. Why did Liu Zhugan and the others have such terrifying expressions? Could it be that they were experiencing a collective hallucination?
Li Changan was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a cry of "beep babbling" in his ears.
It turned out that the "female ghost" got up from the ground again, picked up the piece of meat, squatted on the ground and took small bites. When she found Li Changan looking at her, she hid the piece of meat behind her and put her hair in front of her body. , babbling at Li Changan.
Li Changan couldn't help but feel a little pity. He originally thought that she was a competitor or enemy of Boss Liu who was sent to do tricks to sabotage the business. Now it seems that she is just a crazy and pitiful person.
"Is this the female ghost?" Boss Wu floated next to the woman and asked curiously. While he is in the umbrella, his range of external perception is limited.
"What a female ghost, she's just a wandering mental patient."
"madman?"
Boss Wu muttered, walked around her twice, and suddenly stretched his hand towards the woman's face, turned his wrist, and actually inserted his hand into the woman's nostril.
Li Changan stared.
"What are you doing..."
Before he finished speaking, Boss Wu had already retracted his hand. He used his other hand to rub it from his arm to his fingertips, and actually picked up a lump.
"……what?"
Li Changan came closer and took a closer look. In Boss Wu's hand, there was a handful of fine yellow hairs stuck to strange mucus.
"I could tell something was wrong at a glance." Boss Wu chuckled, "She's not crazy, she's obsessed with something."
Li Changan suddenly realized when he thought of the yellow shadow behind the painting.
After he obtained the two changes of "Tongyou" and "Swordsmanship", both his nerve reflexes and his eyesight and skill improved a lot. The yellow shadow flashed past, and he vaguely saw that it was a fox.
Foxes are very evil. Compared with other animals, they are particularly easy to become spirits. Therefore, in ancient legends, vixens appear most frequently. Even if they don't become monsters, foxes that live for a long time will have some strange abilities that confuse people.
No wonder Boss Liu and the others were so easily frightened during this period of time, and Taoist Su Xuan's disciples also acted strangely, and in the end, they collectively had hallucinations. It turned out that he had fallen into the trap as soon as he entered the house and saw the ghost face painting. Coupled with the environment at the scene and the subsequent accident, he fell deeper and deeper into the trap.
However, this little ability is not enough, so it can make Liu Zhugan and others hallucinate, but it cannot confuse Li Changan who possesses magical power.
Li Changan, on the other hand, was only looking for ghosts and did not notice that it was a fox causing trouble.
Looking at the middle-aged woman again, after taking out the broken hair from her body, she has broken free from the fox's confusion. Perhaps she has exhausted too much energy and has fallen asleep.
Li Changan settled her down for a while, planning to let Boss Liu and others handle it while he went to look for the fox's misfortune first.
When he went out, he didn't see anyone else. No one answered the call to Liu Zhugan, but fortunately it was quiet in the mountains, and the ringing of the phone could be vaguely heard in the distance.
Li Changan followed the sound and saw a glowing butt in the distance. When he got closer, he saw Liu Zhugan lying upside down in the ditch.
In the nearby bushes, Boss Liu was running around a crooked tree, panting and about to foam at the mouth.
Li Changan took another photo with his flashlight, and other people fell to the ground in pieces around him.
After pulling Liu Zhugan out of the ditch and checking it, he found that although the landlord's expression was distorted, his breath was still there.
Li Changan breathed a sigh of relief and threw Liu Zhugan back into the ditch. He stood up and grabbed Boss Liu, who was already running away and rolled his eyes. He took out a "Shock Calming Talisman" and put it on his forehead.
Boss Liu immediately became quiet, but he didn't speak or make any expression. He just stayed there with empty eyes.
"Boss Liu? Mr. Liu?"
Li Changan called several times but got no response. He was thinking about asking Boss Wu to take a handful.
"Wow!"
Boss Liu suddenly burst into tears, his body collapsed on the ground, but his hands tightly hugged Li Changan's legs. He couldn't say a complete sentence. He just cried for a while and yelled "Master Li" and "help". .
Li Changan was not interested in comforting a middle-aged man, so he used his hands and feet to throw him away. Over there, Boss Wu has already checked everyone else one by one.
"How about it?"
"It's nothing." Boss Wu spread his hands and said, "They were all stunned by fright."
Li Changan was a little relieved, it was only scary but not harmful. It seemed that the fox was not evil at all.
It was too troublesome to wake them up one by one, so Li Changan simply used a "Calming Talisman" for each person. Under the yellow talisman, everyone gradually woke up. Only Taoist Su Xuan still had his eyes closed tightly, as if the talisman of calming down had no effect on him. As a last resort, Li Changan had no choice but to use physical therapy.
He opened his bow from left to right and slapped twice, which made Taoist Suxuan's cheeks "pink", but he still didn't wake up.
Li Changan was thinking about whether to do it again, but he accidentally saw Taoist Su Xuan clenching his hands into fists, with his nails digging into his flesh.
Li Changan suddenly realized that it wasn't that he couldn't wake up, but that he didn't want to wake up. I really don’t know whether I should call this person thick-skinned or thin-skinned.
Li Changan ignored him and turned to the others: "That thing has run away, you go back first..."
After taking two steps, he remembered that there was another person lying in the house, so he turned around and said, "Remember to take the lady in the house with you."
"Master Li." Boss Liu shouted hurriedly, "Where are you going?"
"Me?" Li Changan didn't look back, "I took your money, of course, to do your business."
……………………
Li Changan walked around to the back of the house.
Boss Wu picked up a piece of A4 paper under the window and took it over. Li Changan took a look and saw that it was the portrait of the ghost face from before. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the painting technique was very poor and completely disorganized, like a child's graffiti. However, the artist's silent fear seemed to be pouring into the distorted lines one after another.
Li Changan put away the painting, turned on the flashlight and searched around for a while.
Finally, I found a yellow hair under a bush.
He put the yellow hair under his nose and found a faint spooky smell under the strong fishy smell.
