Ghosts

Chapter 24 Ghosts

In the middle of the night, Li Wuxiang was lying in the woodshed.

The woodshed was on the left side of the Xue family's main house. It was a small room, half of which was occupied by firewood, and the remaining half was just enough to set up a straw shop, with space left for entry and exit. It had been smoked for a long time before moving in, so even if there were snakes, rats, etc., they all ran away. Then sprinkled with realgar powder bought from Chen's grocery store, there would be no unexpected guests.

Li Wuxiang made his breathing long and steady, like a person who was really asleep. This was not easy, and it could even be considered strenuous. Because he was getting hungrier and hungrier, so hungry that he felt weak and could not maintain his current human form.

This reminded him of vampires. He was now as hungry as a vampire, and he was extremely eager for flesh and blood. He even planned to wait until dawn to kill the hen, drink the blood first, and then eat the meat. This thought made all the tentacles in his body wriggle under his skin, wriggling towards the main house outside the door, where there was fresh flesh and fat, much more than a hen...

The next moment he suddenly gathered his mind, took a deep breath, and told himself to calm down.

There was a sound.

It was very slight, like the sound of leaves falling on the stone slabs in the yard. If it were an ordinary person, he would never notice this kind of noise, but there were no trees in the Xue family yard, and it didn't rain tonight, and the sound was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and was coming...

Li Wuxiang listened attentively--

It was coming to the woodshed.

Someone was visiting the Xue family at night, which was exactly what he wanted. Everything he did these days was to attract people's attention, so that the news could reach Zhao Qi's ears and create opportunities for the two to contact, so that he could figure out whether the appearance of this Qi-refining master surnamed Zhao in Jinshui these days was a coincidence or for Zhao Kui.

But he was not sure who was coming now. The town master's people? Come and see if this "little son of the Li family" and "the blood of the royal family of the town" will cause any more trouble in the town?

The voice stopped in front of the door, and Li Wuxiang opened his eyes slightly. There was a waning moon tonight, and only a little moonlight leaked in from the window crack, but it was enough for him.

He waited for a few breaths, but there was still no other movement. He was wondering if the person who came was still in front of the door, and suddenly saw a huge black shadow covering the entire window.

Then the wind blew outside the house! It whistled, making the door and window panels sway. Li Wuxiang was shocked and wanted to get up immediately, but found that he was motionless and his body was completely out of control.

The strong wind blew for a while, and the door and window panels were blown open. Then Li Wuxiang saw two huge palms, one holding the window frame and the other holding the door frame, and put their fingers in. The hand was huge, one finger was as thick as his arm, like orange peel, shining with iron blue light, with curved and sharp black nails on the fingertips, and a foul smell.

The two hands scratched and left deep scratches on the door frame and wall, and dirt fell down. Then Li Wuxiang saw the eyes of the thing outside again - blood-red eyeballs the size of a bowl, looking into the house through the cracks of the window and door that were opened. When it found him, its pupils shrank immediately and stared at him.

Then, a thunder-like sound rang out, and the thing outside the door began to shout angrily: "Call me in, call me in!"

Li Wuxiang was almost fainted by the stench of the ghost. For a moment, he had no thoughts in his mind. He just thought that he must not agree to it, so he closed his eyes tightly and didn't answer a word.

The ghost outside the house seemed to be even more angry, and his hands retracted from the cracks of the door and window. Then the tiles on the roof made a loud noise, and dust fell like rain. The ghost blew on the roof again, until several tiles and the thatch underneath were blown off, and then he looked at him from the crack of the roof and shouted: "Call me in! Call me in!"

Li Wuxiang still closed his eyes and didn't speak. The big ghost tossed on the roof for a while, and seemed to feel tired, so he stopped using his hands to dig, and lay there, putting a big red eyeball close to the crack, and asked sternly: "Who are you? Where are you from!?"

Li Wuxiang instinctively wanted to tell it to leave quickly, and almost immediately blurted out: "I am Li Wuxiang, I came from..."

But just as he was about to say it, he felt a little confused in his heart - the name Li Wuxiang is the name of the owner of this body, is it mine? And where did I come from? I can't remember clearly... at least I don't remember which city or which...

The next moment, he was startled and immediately realized that his state was not right. Now he seemed to be half asleep and half awake, almost unconscious - this ghost must be sent by Zhao Qi to find out his details! I didn't expect his method to be so powerful! He wanted to tell himself to keep silent, but the pungent stench of the big ghost came again, making him dazed for a while, and he almost lost consciousness again immediately.

I must not say it!

But his mouth was no longer obedient, and the voice squeezed out of his throat: "I... Li..."

Can't say it!

What to do!

External... external evil... external evil!

At this moment, Li Wuxiang thought of the external evil attached to him.

After escaping from the trap, the external evil seemed to disappear. He had been deliberately avoiding thinking about that thing, thinking that it might be dispelled by the bowl of chicken blood like Zhao Kui's soul attached to the copper net, and it was indeed safe and sound for more than ten days.

But now he had to try to call it - Waixie, help me!

The next moment, everything around him suddenly faded away and became hazy. Li Wuxiang once again felt that huge and empty thing, as if it had been waiting for a long time and now appeared impatiently.

But after that, Li Wuxiang felt that it was just "there", leaving him no common sense, concepts, or any other reactions like last time.

After just a moment's thought, he realized the possibility - maybe it was an evil god, or something else. Just like people in Jinshui Town worship the Kitchen God, it also requires belief and worship.

As soon as this idea came up, Li Wuxiang was stunned. It's not that the external evil didn't give me anything... the thought in my mind now should be what it left behind.

So he immediately said in his heart: No matter who you are, if you help me this time, I can live peacefully, I can try to learn some magic methods, I can worship you... I can find tributes for you! What do you want?

He knew that these words lacked sincerity and seemed like an empty promise. Just as he was about to say a few more words, he suddenly felt a subtle sense of satisfaction and joy, as well as the greed hidden behind it that he had also experienced last time.

Is it satisfied? Which sentence moved it?

But he didn't have time to think too much. Everything around him suddenly came in like a tide. Li Wuxiang felt that his head was completely clear again. He immediately continued the words that he spat out with difficulty: "I... Li... I am...Li Jiawan, Li..."

During the day, he asked Xue Baoping what the name of the young master in Lijiawan was, but she didn't know. She only knew that the town owner of Lijiawan was named Li Mao. Speaking of.

He then said: "...Li Mao...my father...father...Lijiawan...wan..."

The big ghost heard what he said hesitantly, and then he yelled angrily. But now Li Wuxiang is not afraid of him anymore - this thing is probably bluffing, otherwise with its size, let alone smashing the doors and windows, it would be easy to push the house away, but now it can only roar outside the house, it can be seen that it is not Nothing to be afraid of!

He then made up his mind and just pretended to be delirious, mumbling words such as "Lijiawan", "Li Mao", "father and mother". After a while, the big ghost finally roared again and retracted his huge blood-red eyeballs——

Li Wuxiang suddenly sat up from the straw bed!

The wind picked up outside, making the doors and windows rattle. He wiped his face, and there was no mud on his face. Looking at the walls and roof, they are all intact...it was just a dream!

Li Wuxiang stood up, walked to the door and listened outside first, then slowly opened the door bolt and pushed the door open through an inconspicuous small crack - he immediately saw a thin strip under the wall at the door. Thin lines of fire spread rapidly on something, and in the smell of fireworks, there was also a faint fragrance of bamboo.

He didn't go out, but took a closer look - it was a little origami figure. He drew a face on the figure's body with ink, and lit a pair of eyes with cinnabar. When he saw it, his eyes lit up quickly. All done. Li Wuxiang took a long breath and smelled a more subtle odor, which was very similar to the smell emanating from the ghost in the dream, making people dizzy.

So he slowly pushed the door shut and gently lowered the bolt.

The big ghost just now must be this little man. That stinky smell... is some kind of intoxicating drug sprinkled on the paper man that can make people unconscious? It seems that Zhao Qi is not as powerful as he thought in his dream.

However, there is one thing that he is absolutely sure of now - Zhao Qi is most likely a disciple or relative of Zhao Puppet, and he also uses bamboo paper!

He was still hungry now, but it was no longer the kind of hunger he felt when he was cornered and faced with a desperate situation, but more like the kind of hunger he felt when he was faced with a delicious dish and began to taste it calmly.

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