The Exorcist

Chapter 21 Porcelain Doll

Dong-dong-dong-

A burst of footsteps came from the stairs. Perhaps because the stairs were made of wood and the tower was relatively empty, the dullness of the sound seemed particularly abrupt.

Xiaoxia stood up and looked at the stairs warily. I saw a figure slowly turning around, it was Reporter Ma.

"Is something wrong?" Xiao Xia was not familiar with Reporter Ma and didn't understand why he was here.

"No. I'm just asking you if you want a drink of water?" Reporter Ma raised his hand with a bottle of mineral water in his hand.

Drink water? Of course. I don’t know how long it’s been since I entered this empty city. I’ve been running for my life, I’ve been frightened, and I’m already thirsty.

"Where did you get the water?" Xiaoxia took the water bottle and asked hesitantly.

"I have been carrying my backpack." Reporter Ma pointed to the backpack on his back, "I brought it myself."

Xiaoxia breathed a sigh of relief, she was really afraid that he was getting water from the lake. But when I looked down, I saw that the bottle of water had not yet been opened. I laughed to myself that I was scared to death, and that I was too suspicious.

"Thank you."

"It's okay. But -" Reporter Ma smiled, "There's not much water left. You and Mr. Ruan should share it. He has been protecting us, so he is probably the most tired."

"Well, okay, I'll give it to him."

"Is he - okay? I think he seems to be in poor health."

"It's okay. He's just a little tired. He'll be fine after a while."

"Then - I'm leaving first. Remember to give him something to drink! You must remember it!" Reporter Ma seemed to be very concerned and asked, but Xiaoxia felt keenly that his eyes were a little disappointed. That's why, she felt a little strange.

Seeing him slowly walking down the stairs again, Xiaoxia sat down again.

She felt a little uneasy. She always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't grasp the feeling. It was as if there was an extremely small grain of sand stuck in the bottom of her soft heart. She couldn't tell where it was, but it hurt her very much. It couldn't be dug out, and it was mixed with her flesh and blood, which made her deeply experience the feeling of a thorn in the flesh. She looked at the water in her hand. There was nothing unusual about it. Even the production date on the bottle mouth was intact. It was impossible to have tampered with it.

Are you overthinking it? But now they are in such a dangerous environment and should be extra careful. This empty city is not only dangerous, but also full of dangers and traps!

She looked at the bottle of water in her hand again. The strong thirst in her mouth made her want to open it and drink it immediately, but in the end she licked her chapped lips and put the bottle of water next to her.

Let's wait until Ruan Zhan recovers some spiritual power. He should be able to know if there is anything wrong with the water. Her most important task now is to protect him and prevent anyone or spirits from coming in and disturbing him. Although she has no ability, if something happens, she can try her best to help him block it!

But what's wrong?

Dong-dong-dong-

Someone came upstairs again, this time it was Liu Hong!

Xiaoxia frowned. She was very annoyed with this woman because she had not contributed any strength since she encountered strange things. Not only that, she had also been causing more trouble to everyone. If possible, she did not want to say a word to her, but at this time Liu Hong But he walked towards her with a smile on his face, making it impossible for her to avoid him.

"What are you doing?" Xiaoxia was still a little rude.

"Xiao Ma asked me to bring some food." Liu Hong smiled ingratiatingly and raised the bread in her hand. "He has quite a lot in his backpack."

"Thank you, put it here!"

Liu Hong carefully placed the bread on the stair railing, "I wonder when Mr. Ruan can take us out? It's not a problem to be trapped here! Is he - okay? I want to see him, I don't know if it's okay ?”

"He's fine." Xiaoxia said coldly, "There's no need to look, he's resting. When he's ready, he will definitely take us out, don't worry."

"That's good, that's good. I'm just concerned." Liu Hong glanced at the bottle of undrinkable water placed next to Xiao Xia, "Aren't you hungry? How about you eat something first?"

She kept smiling at her, and Xiaoxia was embarrassed to be so rude, so she stood up and said, "Thank you, I'll eat it later."

Liu Hong said "Oh" and seemed a little disappointed. She nodded to Xiao Xia, then turned and went downstairs.

Looking at Liu Hong's back, the uneasy feeling in Xiao Xia's heart reappeared. What are they going to do? Why do you act so disappointed when you can’t see Ruan Zhan? Could it be that something had changed outside the tower that made them eager to get out? Fortunately, she didn't reveal anything to them, otherwise I wonder what would happen to them? But what is it that is out of character and makes her feel unsmooth and problematic?

She took two steps to get the bread placed on the railing. But the moment her fingers touched the bread, a flash of light suddenly flashed in her mind - she finally understood what was wrong!

Footsteps!

The floor of the entire tower is made of wood, and it is so empty. Of course there will be sounds when walking, but it is definitely not a muffled 'dong dong dong' sound. When Reporter Ma and Liu Hong were walking just now, it felt like they were deliberately slamming down on a wooden board. Although the sound was not loud, it was still very stiff!

Also, at that time, Xiaoxia was fully focused on what Liu Hong said and her expression, and was not aware of her physical condition. Now that she thought about it carefully, a detail made her heart contract instantly and almost stopped beating!

Her feet are wrong!

Reporter Ma was wearing long clothes and long trousers, so apart from the sound of footsteps, he didn't feel anything unusual. But Liu Hong was wearing an exquisite skirt. The skirt was above the knee, only exposing a small part of her calf and ankle. When she walked up just now, she did not stand on the top step of the stairs, and her legs were not visible at all. But when she went downstairs, But Xiaoxia could see it clearly!

Her legs were not as slender and soft as normal, but very stiff, fat, and pale like plaster!

Her legs are not human legs!

Thinking of this, Xiaoxia took a breath of air, knocked off the bread placed on the railing, and let the bread fall straight to the next floor. She looked down subconsciously and suddenly found that the entire tower had deformed and was no longer what it was before. There was darkness at the corner of the stairs, and she couldn't see where the next floor was. The stairs seemed to have no end!

Ah--

A huffing sound came from behind, frightening her to look back immediately like a conditioned reflex. As far as the eye could see, it was still empty. On the entire top floor, except for a small room that was partitioned off, she was alone.

However, the feeling of being spied on is quite strong!

She looked at the window in horror, and saw that the mist like white paint outside the window had become lighter at some point. The glass window was now densely covered with faces! There were men, women, and children, all with expressionless faces, blue eyes, no lips or eyes, but they were clearly staring at her, full of hatred!

They are surrounded and Ruan Zhan must be notified!

Thinking of this, she immediately rushed towards the small room, but she didn't move at all. She felt two stiff arms blocking her waist, and her mouth was covered by a warm hand.

"Don't move! Haha, don't tell the news, otherwise you will be killed together with the whole village!" A 'person' walked around and said to her.

It was Liu Hong, which meant that it was Reporter Ma who restrained her. In other words, they are two dummies with the looks of Liu Hong and Reporter Ma!

Xiaoxia struggled desperately, but to no avail. The 'Reporter Ma' behind her was so strong that the arms around her waist made her feel like her ribs were about to break.

"Every grievance has its owner, and every debt has its owner. If you have any grievances, just say it. I can help. Stop killing innocent people indiscriminately!" Xiaoxia was speechless and could only say 'uh huh', but she felt that the other party could clear.

"It's useless." "Liu Hong" said, "No one asked us to say a word back then. You don't need to defend yourself, everyone is guilty!"

"What's my crime?" Xiao Xia continued to say, "Huh", trying to increase the vibration of her voice, intending to let Ruan Zhan in the room hear it.

"You are guilty if you are with them!" 'Liu Hong' suddenly became fierce, "Don't expect to be able to notify the mage inside. No matter how loud you shout, the sound will not reach inside. I have already surrounded this place. !”

"Ruan Zhan, be careful, Ruan Zhan, be careful!" Xiaoxia ignored what she said and just kept struggling.

With a 'dong' sound, her foot kicked 'Liu Hong''s leg. She tried so hard that the pain in her toes made her cry, and she thought the toes might be broken.

'Liu Hong' smiled maliciously, as if he could read her mind, "You're fine, it's me who's in trouble. My leg was broken by your kick." She bent down and picked up a piece of debris, "Look, you It broke my leg bone." She said and reattached the piece to her calf.

Xiaoxia couldn't move, so she had no choice but to glance down, and saw that 'Liu Hong's' legs were actually made of clay, or her whole body was made of clay! The person talking to her now is just a clay figure! No, to be precise, her legs are brightly colored and made of porcelain! She is talking to a porcelain man! But where are the real reporters Liu Hong and Ma? Could it be that he was killed? In other words, didn't the temple tower block these resentful spirits and let them catch up?

"You're right, I'm not a clay figurine! I'm the most exquisite porcelain, do you understand? The best-fired porcelain!" 'Liu Hong' suddenly shouted, "Throw her into the cabinet!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiaoxia felt a huge force throwing her backwards, and she fell down the stairs. Before going down, she only had time to glance at the door handle of the cabin.

On it is her amulet.

Fortunately, she had just wrapped the amulet around the door handle, hoping that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva would bless Ruan Zhan and be safe! She thought comfortingly, feeling that she kept falling, but did not fall onto the stairs. Sure enough, the tower changed its appearance, making the stairs endless!

With a 'swish' sound, she was sucked into the darkness. She no longer fell down, but she could not move. She only felt that she was bound by an invisible force, and was locked in a tight place by something. Inside the cage!

"Open your eyes and see who I am?" a voice sounded.

This time it's not Liu Hong's voice, but it's also a woman's voice. The tone is not soft, but it has a bit of naughty tone. It's so familiar and she hears it every day. It's - it's her! It turned out to be myself!

Terrified, Xiao Xia felt her eyes light up and she could clearly see the person in front of her.

If not yourself, who is it? In other words, who took over her body? Moreover, why did she become so small, but the body that once belonged to her was so big in front of her? Is it because her soul was very small?

"That's right!" the 'person' who occupies her body said proudly, "I have taken over your body, and it feels pretty good. Unfortunately, under the spell cast by that person, I can't use a person's body for a long time. , it will slowly turn into porcelain, because I am already a fired porcelain!"

'She' laughed loudly and raised her arm, which had turned into a piece of snow-white porcelain.

Xiaoxia felt cold all over, not just because her soul was pulled out of her body, nor because her body turned into porcelain, but because she suddenly understood what the resentful spirit wanted to do with her body.

"Yes, I used your body to deceive that mage! He only trusts you and doesn't put any defense against you. We already know that he is injured and has little ability left. If I perform well, if we work together If we work together, he will die without a burial place!" 'She' became angry again, "Mage deserves to die! All mages deserve to die! He should not help the evildoers and seal us up in a dark place so that there is no appeal for this huge injustice. A place! Otherwise, we would have expressed our resentment a long time ago, and we would not be stuck in this place where there is neither Yin nor Yang and suffer endless suffering!"

"Don't hurt him, it's none of his business! He is not the mage who can suppress you!" Xiaoxia yelled anxiously. This time, she heard her own voice, but it was as small as a mosquito.

"If you're a mage, you deserve to die!" 'She' said softly.

Xiaoxia was shocked to see such treacherous malice on her face, and felt extremely uncomfortable. She could not imagine that an evil spirit would use her hands to hurt the person she loved most, the man she kept warm in her heart. This was How could she endure the heaviest punishment in the world!

"Don't go! Please! He is the most innocent! Others always force him, and he has never hurt anyone else! Don't blame everything on him! Don't!" Xiaoxia yelled, hitting the wall that surrounded her desperately, But she found that the 'house' moved under her crazy impact, but she still did not get out of the cage, but the scenery in front of her changed, as if the angle from which she saw things had changed.

Just when she was at a loss, a hand suddenly stretched out, and it was the resentful spirit that occupied her body that grabbed her. She thought it would hurt, but it didn't. She just felt dizzy for a while. When she calmed down and took a look, she saw the kind of glass exhibition cabinets that were displayed on the second to seventh floors of the tower.

When she went up to the tower, she was in a hurry and nervous, and the light was dim, so she didn't look carefully. Only now did she see that there were rows of porcelain dolls in the glass cabinet! The production is exquisite, the colors are bright, the expressions of men, women, old and young are different, lifelike!

If you look closely, it looks familiar! The eyebrows, the clothes, the special marks on the face -

It turned out to be the Shuanzhu family who tried to invade her in the white mist! And when she met Ruan Zhan, she saw those "people" living silently on the commercial street, the couple walking by her, the one who once snickered when she and Ruan Zhan were kissing. The female ghost!

The world was spinning, and she realized that the resentful spirit was holding her and looking around, because the cabinets were placed around the room.

Just looking around, the more she looked, the more frightened she became, because she saw people she was more familiar with - Zhao Jiayuan, Reporter Ma, Liu Hong! Except for those people she saw die, only Zuo De and Mao Fu were not there. These porcelain dolls are placed regularly at certain intervals, with only a blank space in one place!

Is that her place? Xiaoxia thought in horror.

That's why she feels so small, so she feels trapped in a 'room' that she can't get out of. It turns out that her soul is placed in a porcelain doll! But when did this happen? Did Liu Hong and others lose their bodies and be placed here just like him? So are the other porcelain dolls where those evil spirits live? Then wouldn't she be among the resentful spirits? If Ruan Zhan can't realize this, will she always be a little porcelain figure, visited as a decoration, living a life without sun or moon but unable to escape?

They first took over the bodies of Reporter Ma and Liu Hong, and then slowly approached them. Perhaps they didn't know Ruan Zhan's situation, so they tested twice. If the water was bread, they must use her hands to poison Ruan Zhan!

Fortunately, she was not fooled, but what should she do now? Although she didn't say anything, they still felt that Ruan Zhan was in bad condition, so they wanted to use her body to deceive and hurt Ruan Zhan!

what to do? what to do?

She was so anxious that she no longer cared about her own safety. Just as she was thinking about it, she felt dizzy again, and she was put back to her place on the cabinet!

"Shuan Zhu, look at her!" the resentful spirit occupying Xiao Xia's body said.

Xiao Xia couldn't move, but she could see the porcelain doll that looked like Shuan Zhu in the cabinet opposite. Seeing Xiao Xia's eyes sweeping towards him, the little man with a fixed expression suddenly opened his mouth and smiled at Xiao Xia, "I'm looking at you!" he said.

The strange thing is that he just moved his mouth, but Xiaoxia 'heard' his sinister voice.

But Xiaoxia couldn't care about him. Seeing that the resentful spirit was about to deal with Ruan Zhan, she hurriedly shouted to her, "Come back! I'm doing it for your own good. He has the most powerful spiritual power in the world and will make you lose your mind! Don't Go mess with him!" She tried to use other methods to stop the resentful spirit, "If you keep your soul, I will help you, and I swear that you will be vindicated. If you have any grievances, just say it, I can help you! I swear!"

She didn't know how Ruan Zhan was recovering now. After all, Sima Nan personally sealed him this time. He had been trying to break the seal, but the effect was not good! Although he didn't say it, she knew how dangerous the situation was this time!

The resentful spirit turned around and sneered, "There is no way of heaven in this world, otherwise we wouldn't have let those people live freely for twenty years! Moreover, the mage named Ruan must not be that powerful, otherwise why are you anxious!" Don't worry, after we kill him, we will eat up his soul, but we will make a porcelain man exactly like him and put it on the cabinet opposite. This way you can see what he looks like, although that one will be A real porcelain man has no soul and will not respond to your porcelain man! How about being kind?"

Is this mercy? This is the cruelest thing in the world! It doesn't matter how close you are to the world, and the other party is just a body, a body whose soul has completely disappeared!

She laughed loudly and walked upstairs without looking back!

Xiaoxia watched her figure, which was actually her own, leave in despair. She never thought she would hate her body so much. How she wished that some explosives would explode into her body at this moment and turn her into pieces, but she must not let Ruan Zhan fall into the trap of a resentful spirit because of that skin!

what to do? Can we just wait? !

"Xiaoxia!" A soft voice called her.

She was shocked.

It's Abai! Abai who has been missing for a long time!