Wei Yuan's motorcycle throttle suddenly got out of control and accelerated automatically, racing on the mountain road.
Just as he was about to jump off the motorcycle in panic to save his life, he was awakened by the yellow talisman I had pasted on the fuel tank.
Wei Yuan took a deep breath, tightened his grip on the motorcycle handlebars, and regained his composure.
The speed on the speedometer had just exceeded 100 mph. For a speed - racing enthusiast like him, it was like crawling at a snail's pace.
Moreover, when he had panicked and wanted to jump off just now, a car beside him had been honking continuously.
Seeing him calm down now, the driver immediately rolled down the window and shouted, "Young Master Wei, our General Manager Si has sent me to take you back to the city!"
...
As I tidied up the room, I listened to Wei Yuan's ghost telling me about his terrifying experience on the mountain road.
The dark shadow that had flashed across the treetops must have been the vengeful female ghost. My talisman had worked, but... how could Wei Yuan still be sent to the ICU for emergency treatment?!
As if sensing my confusion, Wei Yuan sighed and said, "It's all my mother's doing... She happened to invite a famous feng shui master from Hong Kong to divine my father's business prospects. That master insisted that I was wearing a curse from a ghost, which would lower my fortune and even endanger my life in the long run..."
"Oh."
I didn't feel the slightest bit of anger.
Those in the esoteric arts world always like to belittle their peers to show off their own superiority.
My grandfather, Du Wenzhong, once told me that there are many people in Hong Kong who firmly believe in fortune - telling and divination. Not only ordinary people and business tycoons, but even the SAR government would go to the famous Wong Tai Sin Temple at the beginning of the New Year to draw a fortune stick and see if Hong Kong would enjoy good weather and prosperity in the coming year.
Wei Wenzhao is rich. The master he invited all the way from Hong Kong must be a well - known figure.
If that master said that wearing my talisman would bring bad luck, how could Wei Yuan not listen?
"Miss Du, I didn't!"
Seeing my indifferent expression, Wei Yuan quickly explained, "I didn't pay any attention to that old fool's nonsense! I kept your talisman close to my body in my upper - pocket."
"Oh."
I still remained expressionless.
If he had really kept it on him all the time, he wouldn't be in this state now.
"Please believe me. It was really..."
Wei Yuan looked a bit embarrassed and stammered, "I even took the talisman into the bathroom when I took a shower. I didn't expect that my mother thought I was possessed by a ghost and threw the talisman away... And then! That female ghost appeared in the bathroom and pressed me tightly into the bathtub!"
"Were you drowned?"
So that's it! Now I finally understood Wei Yuan's current state.
"... I'm not dead yet!"
Wei Yuan said dejectedly, "I was still being rescued. I don't know how, but I just floated out of my body!"
"I've already captured that female ghost. There's no reason for you not to wake up."
I held the ghost - capturing bottle in my hand. I could feel a bone - chilling coldness seeping through my fingers. Her malice would only grow stronger in confinement.
In fact, after I captured the female ghost, I had seen that the vital signs on the monitors in the ICU where Wei Yuan was being rescued had basically returned to normal.
As the saying goes, "A long illness makes a doctor." After seeing so many of Du Wenzhong's medical data, I basically knew how to tell the physical condition of a patient in the ICU.
"This state isn't so bad either!"
Wei Yuan frowned and glanced at me. "Now, let that bitch out and ask her why she was thrown into the garbage dump!"
"Good idea."
I clapped my hands. The person who tied the knot should untie it. As long as that female ghost didn't pass on, even if Wei Yuan returned to his body, he might not have a good life.
"Then I'll let her out."
The ice - cold little bottle was in my hand. In the midsummer air, a thin layer of frost had already formed on it.
I gently pulled open the yellow talisman balled up at the bottle mouth. In an instant, a red shadow burst out of the small bottle.
The temperature in the room dropped rapidly. Wearing a T - shirt and shorts, I shivered in the cold yin wind and my teeth chattered.
"How dare you capture me?! Who do you think you are to capture me?! I'm the victim!!"
Every time the female ghost questioned me, a red glow would emanate from her black clothes. When she suddenly rushed towards me, her black clothes were already clinging tightly to her pale skin, looking as if they were soaked in blood.
"I'm so full of hatred! I hate so much. You all should die!!"
The female ghost's fingers suddenly stretched out, and her sharp nails reached towards my neck. "You're an accomplice. You die first!"
The yin energy was so thick that the air in the room seemed to have solidified. Wei Yuan had never seen such a scene before and instinctively hid behind me.
A red - clothed evil ghost!
I had never encountered such a vengeful ghost either.
I immediately made a fist with my right hand, pressing my thumb on the nails of the other four fingers, forming a Yang Five - Thunder hand seal, and quickly recited the spell in my mouth: "Heavenly Fire Thunder God, the Five Directions send down thunder. Earthly Fire Thunder God, subdue demons and eliminate evil spirits... Strike!"
This was the Yang Five - Thunder spell I was most familiar with. Once activated, the thunder would surely strike the ghost, making it scatter like a spirit burned by fire.
But seeing the female ghost's long blood - stained fingers about to touch the skin on my neck, the Yang Five - Thunder spell I had already cast disappeared without a sound. There was not the slightest sign of it being activated!
"Is that all you've got?!"
The red - clothed female ghost had originally intended to fight me to the death when she saw me use the thunder spell. But unexpectedly, I was just bluffing and had scared her.
I also didn't expect that the thunder spell I was most proficient in would fail!
In this critical moment, not to mention thunder and fire from the sky and earth, not even a trace of the celestial qi was activated.
In desperation, I grabbed a yellow talisman at hand and slapped it on the back of the red - clothed female ghost. It was just an ordinary ghost - suppressing talisman, and it might not be very effective against such a highly malevolent ghost.
Sure enough, when the yellow talisman touched the female ghost, it was like being placed on a red - hot charcoal. With a hiss, white smoke rose, and it immediately turned into ashes.
"Hahaha! Where's your power now?!"
The red - clothed female ghost's mouth suddenly split open, extending all the way to her cheeks. Her white, terrifying teeth were exposed. She actually wanted to eat my soul and occupy my body. "You're quite good - looking! I might as well use this body!"
"What do you think you are?!"
In the critical moment, as I was about to form a Thunder Ancestor hand seal with both hands, I heard an angry scolding voice coming from the cabinet beside the bed.
Immediately afterwards, a white shadow flashed out like lightning from a small, open porcelain jar beside the cabinet and blocked between the red - clothed female ghost and me.
"A Jian!"
I had just been tidying up and opened A Jian's jar to let him breathe and get used to the new environment. I didn't expect my thunder spell to suddenly fail. A Jian immediately rushed out to protect me.
How could the female ghost give up such a good opportunity to possess a body? The one in front of her was just a white - clothed ghost. She was already a red - clothed evil ghost. She was much more powerful than him!
Her blood - filled mouth that had split to her ears was full of small fangs. She bit towards A Jian's pale and handsome face.