The mirror shattered, revealing a narrow space behind the wall.
A strong stench hit our nostrils like a physical force.
Boss Dong Jianhui had never seen such a sight before. Before he could even turn his head, he vomited out all the acid in his stomach.
I was also nearly blinded by the stench. I covered my nose and mouth tightly with both hands and could barely make out the human - shaped figures in the darkness...
Those people!
To be precise, they were human bodies wrapped in plastic film. The originally transparent material had been soaked by the corpse fluid and turned yellow - brown. Vaguely, one could see the ferocious faces inside. The dark eye sockets and the wide - open mouths seemed to be roaring in unwillingness to death!!
"Ugh!!"
Dong Jianhui took a few steps back and turned away to get farther from those terrifying figures. "How could there be so many dead people!! Mr. Si, call the police!"
"Ah!! I... I found it!"
Suddenly, a shrill scream came from behind us.
Li Xinrui rushed towards the corpses standing upright in the wall with an ecstatic look on her face, knocking the corpses leaning against the wall this way and that. "Where? Where is it!! Where's my body..."
"Xiao Li, what are you crazy about?!"
Dong Jianhui thought his employee was acting like a lunatic. How could she rush into such a terrifying and disgusting place?
Although he was vomiting so hard that he felt like he was going to vomit out his bile, Dong Jianhui still kindly reached out to pull her out.
"Mr. Dong, don't go!"
I quickly shouted to stop Dong Jianhui. "She's possessed!"
Just like Yang Fan before, Li Xinrui was now being controlled by the dead female customer service staff. She was like a puppet, only able to act according to the ghost's will!
"The essence of Yang, the divine power hidden in the heart, capturing the ghosts and demons, and hiding the human form..."
While I was stopping Dong Jianhui, I was silently reciting the spell to subdue evil spirits in my heart. Just as I was about to get close to Li Xinrui, Si Jiangchen suddenly pulled me into his arms.
"Do you have any talismans? Let him go!"
Si Jiangchen frowned and took a few steps back to get away from the stench.
"Ah!"
I immediately understood what he meant. This "fastidious" guy was probably afraid that I would smell of the stench if I went over.
"Mr. Si..."
Dong Jianhui grinned and looked at Si Jiangchen with an expression of "how could you value beauty over friendship".
Before I could object, there came a rustling noise from the ceiling.
"Where's mine?"
"Where's my body?"
"Why isn't it here? I'm so angry!"
"I'm so angry! Who cut off my head..."
The heads floating in the air like balloons had different expressions. Without physical bodies, they could only glare at Li Xinrui who was rummaging on the ground.
"Find him! Make him find it for us!"
Suddenly, a ferocious head swooped down towards Dong Jianhui.
"Evil spirit, retreat!"
I immediately pointed my finger like a sword at the head. Immediately, it burst like a balloon with a "pop". A faint stench filled the air. All the heads were frightened by this scene and didn't dare to get closer to us.
Dong Jianhui was completely unaware that he had almost been attacked just now. He just looked at me in surprise and asked, "Miss Du... What's going on?"
"There are ghosts!"
I simply replied with these two words and stuffed an exorcism talisman into his hand. "Hold it tight. Now go outside and make a call. Leave this to us."
"But, Mr. Si..."
Dong Jianhui was a bit flattered. He thought I should have valued Si Jiangchen more.
"You're my boss!"
I couldn't very well say that Si Jiangchen was a zombie and was not afraid of being possessed by ghosts at all!
"I found it!! I found it!!"
Suddenly, Li Xinrui's excited scream came into my ears again. I saw her tearing frantically at a body wrapped in white film. In just a few moments, she had torn off the rotting plastic. Along with the sticky and smelly liquid, many black charcoal blocks rolled down.
"What are those..."
I had a feeling of deja - vu about these things. It seemed that I had seen Landlady Xu use similar bamboo charcoal bags to remove the odor from the refrigerator.
And the plastic film wrapping the bodies was also used to isolate the stench of the corpses!
This was an artificially created soul - trapping formation. Taking advantage of the dead people's attachment to their own bodies, the corpses were simply preserved, and the souls of these poor people were trapped in this abandoned spa during the bardo state!
Looking at the layers of corpses... I'm afraid all the employees were buried here!
I felt a chill in my heart.
"Hehe!"
Li Xinrui wasn't satisfied with just tearing open one body. She started to tear the plastic film off other bodies. And the torn - open corpse actually wriggled and got up from the ground!
"Xiao He, the master of the soul - trapping formation can't be far from here," Du Wenzhong, my grandfather who had been beside me, suddenly said. "His altar must be within a hundred meters. Catch the ringleader first! Catch that bastard who bullied your grandfather, and we'll cut him into a thousand pieces!"
As he spoke, my grandfather gritted his teeth.
"Why not use the Five Thunder Spell?"
Si Jiangchen couldn't see my grandfather, nor could he hear his voice, but he proposed the simplest and most effective method.
The Yin Five Thunder Spell originated from within and could destroy everything.
Not only ghosts but also real human bodies in the mortal world would be torn to pieces.
But... If I did that, wouldn't these people have died in vain?
They couldn't even file a complaint in the City of the Wronged Dead in the Underworld. Wouldn't the person who killed them get away with it!
I shook my head and took out my compass again. The spinning pointer was extremely busy, pointing at Wang Yingxiu on the ceiling one moment, then at Du Wenzhong behind me, and Li Xinrui who was possessed was not spared either.
"The ghostly aura is in chaos. How can you find the person?"
Si Jiangchen saw me busy trying to locate the source and smiled helplessly.
"Don't just say sarcastic things..."
I didn't want to talk to him at first, but then I suddenly thought that although it was after working hours in this building, there were still many people.
Although a hundred meters wasn't a long distance, this floor was full of operating shops. If these corpses got out, God knows what kind of panic it would cause.
"Si, Si Jiangchen, can you help me?"
I pointed at the corpses that were already getting restless.
When we were on Miaofeng Mountain before, he had only used a single drop of blood to subdue hundreds of black zombies. Presumably, these few corpses, just vessels for the attached souls, should be a piece of cake for him!
Si Jiangchen seemed to be waiting for me to ask for his help. He squinted his slightly upturned peach - blossom eyes. "Sure."
"Ah!"
I didn't expect him to agree to my request so easily.
Just as I was about to thank him, he pulled me into his arms. In a very soft voice in my ear, he said, "I want my reward, Xiao He!"
He held my face and kissed me deeply. The index and middle fingers of the hand holding my cheek pointed vaguely at the wriggling corpses...