Chapter 17: Ghost Quality
But at times like this, I can't open my mouth to ask.
The master took the blood-stained copper coin in his mouth, and then muttered the incantation, I didn't understand the specific content, only that the master would shake the soul bell every three times.
Jingle Bell β
This scene reminded me of the scene a week ago when I called out the ghast downstairs and forced it to merge with the villa.
Soon the thing came.
Ticking sound, and a strong watery smell.....
Everything was exactly as I dreamed the night I came home!
Then.
In the dim light, a dense spot of water appeared on the wall of the secret room, and then an elongated black shadow appeared in front of us.
But it's worth noting that this shadow has no head......
A few minutes passed, and the master's expression became unusually solemn since the black shadow appeared, and then he closed his eyes, and his mouth opened and closed slightly, as if to communicate with the thing.
Zhang Fang and I didn't dare to speak out at all, for fear of disturbing them.
...... I don't know how it turned out.
At that moment, I suddenly noticed a change in the reflection on the ground.
Look up.
"Be careful!"
said that it was too late, and I took the master down with a flying pounce, and the ceiling fan on the ceiling fell in the next second.
The place where it fell was exactly where the master was just now.
If I hadn't reacted quickly, the consequences would have been unimaginable!
"Master, are you alright?" I propped myself up and went to check on my master.
"It's fine." The master opened his eyes suddenly, glanced at the place where the fan fell, and gritted his teeth, "Damn." Dare to yin me! β
I rarely hear my master swearing, unless he's really angry.
With that, the master got up from the ground and hurried to the wall, a mouthful of blood sprayed on the black shadow along with the copper coins in his mouth.
Zila!
The wall made a sound like barbecue, and the copper coin fell to the ground, and the black shadow suddenly shrank into a ball.
"Want to run?" The master sneered, raised the soul suppression pestle and smashed it down.
Ahh
The black shadow let out a terrible scream, and its already shrunken body became even more distorted......
But the master showed no mercy, and he raised his hammer and struck the soul pestle over and over again, while reciting a spell as if to beat the black shadow to pieces.
Zhang Fang had already fallen to the ground in fright, and I stood aside to watch this scene, but I always felt that something was wrong......
A miserable cry echoed through the chamber, and as I pondered, the smell of water in the air suddenly became stronger.
Wait, I seem to know something is wrong.
Wet all over, and the body exuding a watery smell is obviously a female corpse, but the screaming voice is more like a man!
"Master, hmm...!" I figured out the key and immediately reminded the master, but as soon as I opened my mouth, my throat was choked from behind.
"Zhang Fang... You.. Crazy...", I said with difficulty.
That's right, the guy who grabbed my neck was none other than Zhang Fang!
I didn't expect to be attacked by him at all, could it be that he was also one of the people who played the game?
I was surprised at first, but I quickly understood.
Because as I struggled to break open his hand, I saw the shadow of something else in his bodyβthe woman in the nightmare.
She grinned, her empty eyes staring at me.
Apparently there is more than one evil here.
Although Zhang Fang's size is not high, and his strength does not seem to be great, with the blessing of evil things, I have never been able to break free from being strangled and my face is blue.
The master noticed the noise.
"Stop!" He scolded.
Maybe even he didn't expect that there were two fierce men hidden in this small villa.
It didn't seem to want to kill me all at once, but to use me to blackmail the master, and if the master came to save me, the black shadow on the wall would escape, and if he didn't, I would be strangled.
It's kind of clever.
Obviously, my life was more important than the ferocity on the wall, but the master didn't let the shadow go hastily.
He should have seen that the relationship between the two fierce ones was not simple, so he threatened: "Stop, if you dare to touch my apprentice again, I will let your companion's soul fly away, and you will never be able to live again." β
As he spoke, the master struck another hammer on the soul suppression pestle, and the suppressed black shadow let out a miserable scream, and its body became smaller and almost dissipated.
The next moment.
"Noβ" A terrible scream echoed, and a dark wind suddenly rolled up in the closed chamber.
I could feel the thing that was manipulating Zhang Fang visibly tense, and the hand holding me loosened a little.
It seems that there is talking.
I winked at the master, who understood what I meant and began to use the "hostage" in his hand, no.... It should be a "ghost hostage" and the vicious one who caught me.
First, let me go.
The master threatened it: "Give you another chance, let go of my apprentice, otherwise..."
The soul pestle has the effect of deterring evil spirits and dispersing souls, and the black shadow on the wall is already very weak and can not withstand the next hammer.
It faltered, slowly letting go of me.
I waited for an opportunity, and as soon as it relaxed, I broke free.
"Ahem, ahem." My throat was a little dry because I was so tight, and I ran to the master while coughing.
Seeing that I was safe and sound, the master breathed a sigh of relief, and then he made a second request, get out of Zhang Fang's body.
The thing stared at the master, as if to say that you don't want to get an inch.
The master silently raised the soul suppressing pestle, and the thing looked at it sadly for a while, but finally compromised, and Zhang Fang's body fell to the ground with a limp.
The third request, the master thought for a while and said: "I know that you were a poor person when you were alive, and we were all taken advantage of, so I want to make a deal with you, I have a way to make the formation here invalidate and return you to freedom, and in return, the death contract between you and my apprentice Chen Jiu must be invalid." β
The vicious deed of death was supposed to be signed on the owner, but now it has been signed on me, and it has not only lost its freedom, but also deprived it of its enjoyment.
That's why it's targeting me......
The purpose of the master's trip is to save me, and if I can resolve it peacefully with the evil, it is undoubtedly the best way.
However, this third request was not answered, and the master asked me to relight the white candle that he had extinguished.
Then he said to the thing, "If the candle turns red, it means you agree." β
After that, the master asked me to hold up the candle.
I held the candle in front of me, carefully noticing its changes.
A minute passed... Two minutes passed... Three minutes...
At this moment, the original pale yellow candle flame suddenly changed color and was replaced by a splash of bright red!
"It agreed!" I exclaimed, I didn't expect this thing to be so easy to talk to.
The master took a breath and reminded me, "Don't be too happy. β