The Exorcist

Just when countless black hands were about to grab her, Xiaoxia reacted quickly, subconsciously leaned down and narrowly avoided it. She knelt down on the ground, suppressing the huge feeling of fear and nausea in her chest, and forced her way out of the crowd of ghosts.

Some of the legs of those ghosts were rotten and exuded a disgusting stench, some were simply bones, and some seemed to be frivolous decorations, which made Xiaoxia infer a lot while squeezing out. As the legs were broken, the body above also fell to the ground, hitting the crawling Xiaoxia, forcing her to dodge left and right.

Those terrifying ghost faces were all facing her when they fell, with the same expression, the same excitement, the same big black hole-like mouth, with black teeth exposed, and a biting posture. Some of them even had their heads cut off. It fell down, but it still struggled to roll towards her, sucking in her breath greedily.

Xiaoxia crawled desperately, and was almost bitten by the fallen ghosts several times. She was so frightened that she had no energy to judge whether her actions were right or wrong, she just wanted to escape from here. Gradually, she discovered that these ghosts were all the same. There were no eyeballs in their eye frames, their ears were rotten, and only their noses and mouths existed. They relied on her scent to track her location, or, because these were the only two functions left, they were particularly keen.

She may be able to hide her voice, or even her body, but she can't hide her smell! Because of this, they are chasing after her like maggots attached to their bones!

Because Xiaoxia was crawling around on the ground, the ghosts without vision and hearing were always half a beat too late when they wanted to catch her. But when she struggled to crawl out of the gathering of ghosts, she found that those ghosts also They all lay on the ground and came to catch her parallel to her. But they crawled much faster than she did, almost clinging to the ground and scurrying around like huge black rats densely packed on the ground.

She stood up and ran away, not thinking about the east, west, north, south, and west. She just felt that the corridor was as large and clueless as a maze, with no room, and there were windows on both sides, and it was pitch black outside the windows. She didn't know how long she had been running, but even though she ran to a different place every time, the ghosts could still catch up with them. However, as she ran around wildly, the numbers became less dense and began to become sparse. But this also meant that no matter where she ran, she would encounter one or two, gradually blocking all her access.

She was their food and they wanted to eat her!

This knowledge made her panic so much that it would be easier to kill her. She ran to a cross corridor in panic and found that she was completely surrounded, with drooling ghosts in all directions. She felt like a small animal being hunted by wild beasts, dazed and frightened, but with no way to escape.

With no other choice, she had no choice but to desperately try to open the window, thinking that she would rather fall to death than be eaten. But the window was rusted to death and couldn't be opened at all, and the hungry ghosts surrounding her had slowly narrowed their circle. The reason why we haven't done anything yet is because everyone is vying to get the first bite.

They pushed and squeezed, making "ho ho ho" swallowing sounds in their throats, and slowly approached her. This made Xiaoxia's panic indescribable. The despair that she was about to be torn to pieces, bitten, and swallowed into pieces made her mind go blank. She was only afraid of -

There was a crisp 'pop' sound, which made Xiaoxia scream and hold her head.

"This way!" a woman's straight voice called.

Xiaoxia turned her head and saw that the glass of the window was broken, and a pale and very thin woman's hand was hanging there, making a pulling gesture towards her.

"Hurry up!" The voice still urged.

The smell of the air outside made the hungry ghosts who were all focused on Xiaoxia realize something, and they began to get restless and rush towards Xiaoxia desperately. This gave Xiaoxia no chance to hesitate, so she had to stretch out her hand and let that hand hold her. She pulled out of the window.

"Ah!" Xiaoxia yelled because a hungry ghost grabbed one of her feet and left her hanging in the air, unable to get out or get down. The person pulling her outside the window increased his strength, but the ghost inside the house refused to let go. Xiaoxia was pulled almost to the point of breaking in two. And the ghost was still groping her feet in a daze, opening his mouth to bite her.

She subconsciously kicked with all her strength, and with a click, the ghost's head tilted and fell, and dense ants sprouted from the neck.

In a moment of relaxation, Xiaoxia was suddenly pulled out of the window, escaping from the clutches of the hungry ghosts. Panting heavily, she realized that she was sitting on the tree crown, with a bottomless abyss below, and she hurriedly tightened the trunk.

There was a groping sound behind her, and she knew it was the person who saved her.

"Thank you," she said, turning away.

The person who looked like a nurse was squatting sideways. The nurse was crouching down, with a strand of black hair hanging down, blocking her face. She was whittling a wooden stick in her hand, one step at a time, very hard, and it became sharper and sharper. .

"You are so strong!" Xiaoxia looked at her unusually thin figure and remembered the feeling when she pulled her from the outside. Now he saw her effortlessly cutting such a thick piece of wood with a small scalpel, and vaguely felt Something was wrong, "What are you doing?" she asked.

"Do you know why this place is called Hungry Ghost Path?" The nurse answered the question. The voice was flat and without any tune.

"Why?"

"Because the ghosts who stay here feel unbearable hunger every day. No matter what comes, they will be eaten to the last dregs, without exception."

"Then why did you save me?" Xiaoxia quietly moved to the side.

"I don't want to save you, I want to enjoy you alone." She said and turned her head, smiling happily. She also had no eyes or ears, and there were insects going in and out of the rotten flesh on her face.

"I'll use this." She raised the sharp wood in her hand. "I'll use this to pierce your heart. I'll use this to pour it on the white rice I've saved for many years. Then I'll hang you on the top of a tree where no one can reach it to dry. , eat meat slowly.”

She said and stretched out her hand to Xiaoxia, but Xiaoxia dodged and jumped down.

She would rather die!

In a daze, she felt she saw Hong Haohao's face, and then a sharp pain made her pass out.

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Ruan Zhan stood beside Xiao Xia's bed and gently stroked her frown with his fingers. He knew that her soul was not in her body and could not feel his comfort, but thinking of the torture she was going through, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

He stood for a while, then turned around and left. He understood that if the soul did not return to the body for a long time, she might never wake up, so he had no time to feel distressed and had to do something.

When he came to the living room, Wan Li opened the door and came in.

"How is it?" he asked eagerly. He took a look at the surrounding people to make sure there was no one watching them.

Wan Li shook his head, "Yang Muyou is not in this city, or has no entry record. He cannot be found through proper channels. Even Hong Haohao has disappeared. At present, we are unable to do anything and have no way to say anything. Even if you plan to follow He tried his best and couldn't find him. What about your research? Have you found anything?"

Ruan Zhan took out the things he got from Gu Yufang's fish tank that day from his pocket and put them on the table. It was a small flat round stone, dark and shiny, oily and smooth.

"It's really beautiful. Is this the one you came from Gu and Fang's family that day?" Wan Li picked up the stone and looked at it, and exclaimed, "Isn't it a gem? Oops -" Before he could finish his words, he felt numbness in his palms. , the stinging and itching feeling made him put down the stone immediately, "It's alive and can bite people."

"Look at the front. It's very smooth." Ruan Zhan picked up the stone and showed it to Wan Li, then turned it over, "but the back is still rough."

"Did you prick my hand just now instead of biting me?"

Ruan Zhan didn't say anything, but suddenly took out a knife and slid it on his hand, and blood immediately poured out. He dropped the blood on the rough side of the stone, and the stone immediately moved, as if it were alive, and then sucked all the blood in, leaving nothing exposed, as if nothing had been dripped on it a few seconds ago.

Wan Li looked at all this in surprise, seeing the stone trembling, its rough surface slowly becoming smooth, and finally becoming motionless again.

"This - this -" He looked up at Ruan Zhan, seeking the answer.

"Yes, this is the key point. When you entered Gu Yufang's bedroom that day, I accidentally felt that there was a strange feeling in the fish tank. As a result, I happened to see a small fish accidentally touch the stone and was immediately attracted to it. Up there, until death.”

"Until death? Is this a stone or a monster?" Wan Li plucked the stone with his fingers and felt that it was indeed alive. "What kind of mineral structure is it? Let's take it to a scientific research institution for inspection."

"If you want to cause trouble, just take it." Ruan Zhan said, "I don't know what it is anyway, but I remember reading an ancient book before, which is a romance about ghost stories. It records that there is a kind of stone It can suck people's essence and blood, and it will completely drain them. I once thought it was a legend, but now it seems that the world is really big and full of wonders. Guess - what happened to that little fish? "

"It won't turn into black and gray, right?" Wan Li said casually.

"answer."

Wan Li was stunned. He didn't expect that the truth would be like this. "Is this why those women's corpses completely deviated from the laws of physics?" Wan Li was shocked. "He--I mean where did Yang Muyou get such terrible things?" Stone."

"This world is so colorful, how much can humans know?" Ruan Zhan carefully wrapped the stone, "I don't understand what he is using the stone to absorb the essence and blood of these women?"

"Isn't it the Taoist thing about gathering yin and replenishing yang?"

"This is evil magic and has nothing to do with real Taoist magic -"

He stopped mid-sentence, and at the same time Wan Li also felt the dizziness.

"What happened? Earthquake?"

"No!" Ruan Zhan gritted his teeth, "He's coming." He said before running to Xiao Xia's room.

The bed was empty, and Xiaoxia was nowhere to be found.