Chapter 25: Nightmare
"I'm going in alone?!" I lost my voice. Looking at the darkness in the room, my heart was worried.
Ma Ming said: "I have the curse mark under this thing, and my spirit is easy to be controlled by it, and I will definitely not be able to help when the time comes, maybe I will strangle you to death with my backhand." So it's a task that only you can do. β
Speaking of this, he patted me on the shoulder again: "But don't worry, if it really comes to the point where I have to make a move, I will definitely save you." β
I muttered, "That's what you said." If I die and become a ghost, I will definitely be the first to let you go. β
Ma Ming took out a small tripod and an incense stick from his backpack, the incense he lit. Stand that little ding by the door. With a serious face, he said: "I have done a trick here before, I can suppress the ghost baby during this period when the incense is burning, so that he cannot physically cause harm to you. But you'll have to rush back before this incense burns out, or I don't know what's going to happen. β
I nodded and understood. Just as I was about to go in, Ma Ming stopped me again. I turned my head and said, "You want to burn the little scarecrow where Ma Wen is staying, right?" I know. With that, I buried my head and walked in. Leaving Ma Ming behind me with a stunned face, he said to himself, strange, what is going on with this kid today? Prophet of Unknown?
I walked into the room, first groping my way to the bed from memory, reaching under the pillow. The pillow was filled with dry straw. A hundred years have passed. The straw also became ashes. With a slight tap, countless choking soot shook off. I shone my flashlight on the bed, and when I removed the pillow, I didn't find any sign of the scarecrow.
I was on the spot. I didn't believe in evil and took a flashlight on the bed and under the bed, and took a picture of it from front to back, left and right. Finally, I have to admit one thing: the scarecrow doll is lost!
This house has been vacant for nearly a hundred years, and Ma Ming and I have been here only recently. Except for me and Ma Ming, there are only two powerful ghosts left. The scarecrow doll can't be taken by us, so could it be that Ma Wen knew that we were going to deal with her and transferred the scarecrow doll in advance.
I don't know this yet, but in the current situation, the most important thing is not this, but to destroy the cradle chair first. I stood up from my bed, flashlight sweeping behind me. Just as he was about to take a step towards the center of the room, he suddenly stopped in a hurry, took out the battery from his trouser pocket, and replaced the battery of the flashlight. I don't know why I'm doing this, but I always feel that this flashlight is very unreliable. It's about to run out of power.
After changing the battery, I continued to walk, and after about three or four seconds, the flashlight flashed and suddenly went out. I had just replaced its battery, so I'm sure it was a paranormal accident.
Not long after the flashlight went out, before I could take the initiative to fix it, it flashed twice and turned on automatically. However, after the flashlight light resumed, what appeared in front of me was an extraordinarily empty black space, and in the center of the space, a halo of light struck down, illuminating the cradle chair that exuded an eerie silence.
The first thing I knew when I saw it was that the cradle chair was an illusion that lured me in. Without rational judgment, my intuition told me so. And I was convinced of my instincts. I closed my eyes and walked straight to the route I remembered.
Because the atmosphere was terrifying, I subconsciously quickened my pace, but I didn't expect to tripped over something at my feet, and fell down with a pop, I grinned in pain, my left hand waved in mid-air, but it just grabbed the edge of the cradle chair, and my heart was relieved, like a long marathon finally ran to the end, I opened my eyes, uncorked the bottle, poured gasoline into it, and when I reached into my trouser pocket, I found that the lighter had fallen through the hole in my trouser pocket.
I hurriedly turned around to look for it again, and Ma Ming stood by the door and shouted, "Hurry up, there is only half of the incense left!" β
I found the lighter, looked up at the incense standing in the small ding, there was still a third left, and it was still too late! However, at the moment when I looked at the past, the incense suddenly burned at a speed visible to the naked eye, and my eyes widened in surprise, looking at Ma Ming's expression, he didn't seem to notice anything wrong, and was still there urging me.
I hurriedly turned around to light the cradle, but suddenly I heard the sound of a baby laughing in my ears, a white and fat baby seemed to appear out of thin air, lying abruptly in the cradle, I looked at its black grape-like eyes, and there was an irrepressible, dazzling panic in my heart, I shook my hand and threw the lighter in, the baby's innocent smile suddenly changed, and stared at me with a resentful face. It opened its mouth, I don't know how that little mouth could crack so big that it could almost swallow a football, and inside the mouth, there were thin teeth all over the roof of the mouth and tongue coating.
The light came out of its mouth, and I could almost see into its stomach pouch, and suddenly a sad face appeared from it, and it continued to wail at me like a lantern festival tumbling in a pot of thick soup. Among them were women with old buns, middle-aged men with braided heads, young women, and children...... At that moment, my mind became strange and sensitive, and I somehow came up with the right answerβI'm afraid these people were the servants and maids who died in the manor.
But why do they end up in the stomach pouch of the ghost baby? Could it be that it devoured them, so that it would not be Ma Wen who would bear the blame for the lives of the people who died in the manor, but this ghost baby!
My mind froze for a moment, and I could barely speak as I stared at its open mouth. The ghost baby was burned painfully, and rolled in the fire like an inflated dough, but the devouring light was getting closer and closer to me, and Ma Ming was anxious, and said, "What are you still doing in a daze!" Come out! β
I could hear him clearly, and it wasn't that I didn't want to move, but my body didn't know if it was because of fear or because of the inexplicable light, and I was almost still in place, even if my brain was crazy, I couldn't move a finger.
Suddenly, a lot of debris came in, and I remembered that I had already experienced such a situation once!
The ghost baby's eyes flashed with malicious light, I opened my mouth to scream, and suddenly my arm tightened, and it was Ma Ming who ran in and grabbed my hand, roaring angrily: "Are you stupid!" Come on!! β
I was pulled by him, and the truth of the sharp organization in my mind collapsed, and I turned and ran after him to the door, and right behind us, the body of the ghost baby exploded like a balloon that had swelled to the extreme, and the sulfuric acid burning liquid mixed with meat sauce splashed on my back, and my eyes blackened in pain, and I fell unconscious.
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"Shhh
Ma Ming, who was squatting next to me to sort out his backpack, was startled, turned his head and looked at me in surprise: "What, I accidentally stepped on you?" He looked at my expression and apologized, "It's too dark, I'm sorry." β
I blinked in confusion, cold sweat rolled down my forehead to my eyelashes, and I dripped into my eyes in the blink of an eye, making my eyes very sour.
I sat up cross-legged from the ground, touched a handful of cold sweat on my head, my palms were wet, not only that, but even the back of my T-shirt was soaked with sweat, and the temperature was obviously extremely cool, but I was full of heat, as if I had just gone through a strenuous exercise.
Ma Ming sorted out the jingling sound of bottles and cans, he heard no movement behind him, and turned his head to look at me again, my expression was dull, my eyes were blank, he was startled: "Huh...... Are you sweating profusely and having nightmares? β