Zhaokang became more ferocious, and the rope around his neck suddenly disappeared. He landed abruptly, standing in front of me.
With one hand still holding onto my arm tightly, the other hand reached towards my face!
At that moment, I seemed to see a glimmer of relief in his mad eyes.
He's seeking death?
It seems that he's thrown everything away, determined to attack me without any hesitation.
Actually, he seems to be trying to anger me so that I'll devour him?
A cold sweat suddenly soaked my back.
Indeed, people who can commit suicide have completely different fear thresholds!
He's almost hopelessly negative, even after dying as a ghost!
I took a sudden step back, but my hand didn't manage to break free; he held me too tightly.
However, I managed to dodge his hand that was reaching for my head.
In an instant, the faint glimmer of release in his eyes turned into astonishment.
Following that, was the extreme bitterness and anger.
"You're fooling around!" he screamed angrily.
Suddenly, he released my arm.
His arms snapped straight, his sharp nails exhaling a gray mist as they stabbed towards my neck!
With my right hand, I quickly rubbed through the pocket of my suit, pulling out a paper figure!
I raised my arm and pushed forward!
The paper figure blocked Zhao Kang's nails!
Suddenly, a fresh red blood oozed out from the wound on the paper figure!
The paper skin quickly turned from yellowish white to bright red, and then into thick, bloody flesh.
It was no longer the size of a palm; it had become a blood-soaked ghost without skin, with Zhao Kang's arms around its neck!
A wisp of black gas hung around the blood-soaked ghost.
I felt my palm cold as ice, quickly retreating several steps to break free from contact with the blood-soaked ghost.
The black gas is the earth's qi!
Indeed, there is still the earth's qi on the blood-soaked ghost, just as I guessed!
Painful wailing and cries echoed from Zhao Kang's mouth.
A large amount of chaotic gray gas rushed towards Zhao Kang from all directions. Despite his efforts, he tried to pull out his arms, but they seemed to be melting like wax, with the skin disappearing first, as if eaten by the blood-soaked ghost.
The most terrifying aspect was the blood holes on the neck of the blood-soaked ghost, resembling moving mouths, endlessly chewing.
Zhao Kang kept moving closer to it, as if being pushed by an invisible hand.
The gray gas infiltrated Zhao Kang's body, increasing his ferocity by threefold.
Yet he still couldn't break free!
He inch closer and inch closer to the blood-soaked ghost, being devoured bit by bit by the two blood holes on its neck.
Click, the glasses fell on the ground.
Zhao Kang was gone.
The gray gas, with no target left, quickly coiled around the frames, twisting and coiling endlessly.
The blood-soaked ghost suddenly turned around, looking at me with a mysterious gaze.
The blood holes on its neck writhed and vanished.
The faint black gas on its body seemed to have thickened a bit.
In the next moment, its blood-soaked and flesh-covered face changed its shape.
The woman's face, originally the size of a palm, had transformed into a full-bodied man's face. Cheeks with blush adorned it, while the rest of the skin was pale and leathery.
Suddenly, it smiled, the laughter emanating from its mouth showing a hint of the delicate womanliness, despite its appearance now resembling Zhao Kang's.
My scalp was getting numb in waves.
Leper ghost?
The blood-soaked ghost was about to kill me at that moment, but the earth's qi saved me.
In reality, it released the leper ghost as well?
Or perhaps... it's not a leper ghost at all; it was just transformed by the earth's qi, gaining a trace of the characteristics of a leper ghost!?
I retreated a step further, staring at it intently.
I didn't carry any tools for exorcism in case I got caught.
My mouth twitched slightly, ready to bite my tongue and spit blood at a moment's notice.
Suddenly, the blood-soaked ghost retreated three steps at a time, and in the next moment, it leaped backwards, landing at the edge of the balcony...
In an instant, the howling winds swept in.
Following the wind came a group of evil spirits, their arms entwined together.
Sir Ye quickly rushed into the balcony.
He paused at the spot where the blood-soaked ghost had "devoured" Zhao Kang.
Its pupilless eyes moved back and forth rapidly, and its high nose kept twitching.
A wisp of black gas slowly gathered in that spot, and Sir Ye snorted it into his nostrils.
The two faceless expressions had turned extremely fierce.
It just looked at me once before turning around and floating out of the seventeenth floor, disappearing into the night.
My eyelids convulsively twitched, and my heart thudded rapidly.
Could Sir Ye really come so quickly?
In general, I thought that the maleficent qi in the prison was so overwhelming that even if the blood-soaked ghost had earth qi, it could only withstand a little bit.
But I didn't expect the level of earth qi to be so much higher than the maleficent qi. Zhao Kang, who was protected by the maleficent prison, was swallowed without any resistance.
It's all right... The blood-soaked ghost ran away, otherwise I would be in big trouble.
Swallowing my heart palpitations, I went to pick up the glasses.
The cold sensation I felt upon picking up the glasses instantly spread through every bone and nerve in my body.
Intuition made me want to put on the glasses.
But instinct told me not to wear them. If I did, there might be things beyond my control happening.
With great effort, I suppressed the sensation and put the glasses in my suit jacket pocket, quickly leaving the seventeenth-floor room and heading towards the elevator.
When the elevator arrived at this floor, after opening the door, Xu Lan's paper figure disappeared without a trace.
I pressed the first floor, and the number kept going down.
I quickly reached the ground floor and rushed out.
The mournful sobs continued, and the gray gas was much more ferocious than before, as if it had become a tangible entity wrapping around me.
I looked in the direction of the pregnant woman one more time, and she suddenly stopped crying, turning her head to look at me with a face full of despair.
In the next second, the gray gas dispersed, and the pregnant woman vanished without a trace.
The earth that the pregnant woman dug open was back to its original level and smoothness, as if it had never been dug up.
In fact, the actions and behaviors I saw from the pregnant woman should be the repetitive scene of her death just before she passed away.
There is a large cement boulder on the right side of the flowerbed, which is extremely cold.
I didn't stop and continued walking forward.
When I exited the construction site, Zhuoying was still standing by the car.
She kept looking in the direction of the construction site, and her originally unstable gaze suddenly focused on me.
It seems that at this moment, she just noticed me, while I was inside the door, she couldn't see anything.
Without stopping, I walked over faster and got into the car directly.
Zhuoying quickly got into the driver's seat, and I whispered urgently, "Drive, let's go!"
I glanced at the construction site gate in an instant, my skin prickled with goosebumps.
A man, thin and long as a bamboo pole, stared at our car in a lifeless manner.
The man was constantly followed by "people" coming out from his side.
"Xu Lan... has become a ghost... and there are other local spirits as well..." Zhuoying exclaimed in horror.
"Go to the city temple! Drive!" I shouted low.
I opened the window quickly at the same time and spat out a mouthful of blood from the tip of my tongue!
In the instant I spat out the blood, a square-faced man's head suddenly emerged from below.
Xu Lan originally had a ferocious grin on his face, but it changed to one of extreme fear in an instant.
Blood sprayed him in the face!
I anticipated his actions.
At this moment, he retreated to the side of the road with a continuous scream, his face emitting white smoke, and two holes had rotted in his face.
Zhuoying fiercely pressed the gas pedal, the ear-piercing screeching and explosive roaring echoed, and the car swerved violently in a curve, heading towards the distance.
I quickly searched through the clothes on the passenger seat.
The gong and bell were taken out and struck twice, producing a clanging sound!
The ear-piercing gong sound burst, penetrating the window and floating away in the night sky.
