"Xiao He, is there anything else?"
Two kind - hearted neighbors carried Song Yixuan into his room. Looking at the strange Tibetan religious implements all over the room, they shook their heads in surprise. "Isn't this guy a celebrity? Why does he act like a sorcerer!"
"Thank you, Uncle Li and Uncle Zhao."
I curled my lips into a faint smile, took out two sealed red envelopes and handed them to them. "These are red envelopes for good luck."
Since they were red envelopes for a happy occasion, the two neighbors took them with a big smile. Then they asked again, "Xiao He, shall we go back together by car? It'll save us some fare."
"Don't go! Miss Du, you can't leave!! Please... spare me!"
Song Yixuan was thrown onto the sofa in the living - room. Seeing that we were about to leave, he immediately rolled off the sofa and crawled towards me on his elbows, pleading, "Get her away! Get her away!"
The two neighbors couldn't see that on Song Yixuan's back, Wang Yingxiu in a red wedding dress was sitting ferociously, as if on the back of a slowly moving turtle.
"Axiu is your wife now."
I bent down, looking at Song Yixuan's extremely frightened face, and said calmly, "She'll naturally stay with you. Don't worry. As long as she's by your side, you won't be invaded by external evil spirits. You'll be perfectly safe!"
When I first entered Song Yixuan's room, I had already checked. This man thought that he had been favored by the One - Eyed Buddha Mother and would never become a paralytic again. So he even thought his wheelchair was inauspicious and had thrown it into the landfill long ago.
Now he had suddenly become a disabled person who could only move his two hands and his head. Moreover, he had to face a ferocious female ghost day and night... Just thinking about it made Song Yixuan feel that life was worse than death. When he heard me say that as long as Wang Yingxiu was around, he wouldn't be invaded by external evil spirits, the first thing that came to his mind was the One - Eyed Buddha Mother he worshiped. If she couldn't enter his body, wouldn't he never be able to stand up again?!
"You can't leave!! Du Xinghe! It's all your fault that I've ended up like this. You have to take responsibility! Get Wang Yingxiu away! I want the Buddha Mother to descend... I want the Buddha Mother to possess me!!"
Song Yixuan was a cowardly and scumbag man. Seeing that he was bound with Wang Yingxiu's evil soul, how could he just sit back and wait for death? He grabbed the corner of my pants and cried hysterically.
"You should take responsibility for your own karma."
I sneered. Recently, I had seen so many scumbag men. It seemed that they all had the same pattern. They always liked to attribute all their mistakes to others.
"Let's go, let's go!"
The two neighbor uncles looked at the strange and evil statues all over the room, the skulls and intestines. They couldn't help rubbing their faces at the same time. "The things in this room look so creepy. They give me goosebumps all over!"
As they were talking, I also felt a chill coming from the walls of the room. The yin energy was so overwhelming that it was almost unbearable.
"Yeah, let's go!"
I also stood up and planned to leave Song Yixuan's apartment with them.
Unexpectedly, the two uncles who had walked to the door suddenly let out a surprised "Huh" and stopped in their tracks.
"What's going on?"
They were quite tall and just blocked my view.
"Uh, there are people."
Uncle Zhao replied to me. Then he stepped aside and murmured in a low voice, "Really! Standing in the corridor in the middle of the night with so many people. What's wrong with them?!"
Hearing his words, I was shocked. I quickly rushed two steps forward and found that the corridor on the first floor of the apartment was indeed full of people.
Some were wearing pajamas, and more were wearing all kinds of strange clothes. It was obvious that they had just run out of the live - broadcast room.
These people were of all kinds, but they all had one thing in common: their expressions were dull and their movements were stiff. They looked like a group of sleepwalkers on the move...
"Uncle Zhao, Uncle Li, take these and put them in your pockets!"
I took out two yellow talismans folded into triangles from my pocket and stuffed them into their hands.
These were ghost - exorcising talismans. I was afraid that there were ghosts among these people. The two neighbors had been so kind to help, and I couldn't let them get hurt!
However... We had only stayed in Song Yixuan's place for less than ten minutes in total, and the One - Eyed Buddha Mother had already left Song Yixuan's body long ago. How could she have gathered a group of nightmare - ridden people so quickly?!
Seeing my solemn expression, the two neighbor uncles also became nervous. They simply clenched the triangular yellow talismans in their hands and ran all the way towards the main door in the middle of the corridor.
There was a small lobby at the main entrance of the apartment building. The artificial crystal chandelier hanging from the plaster ceiling refracted strange and colorful lights on the floor.
Sure enough, there were also a few dull - looking people standing in the lobby. When they saw the three of us running out in a hurry, they immediately stretched out their hands stiffly and walked slowly towards us step by step...
Seeing that the hands of those people were about to touch my face, Uncle Zhao immediately gave a hard push and knocked down the two nightmare - ridden people closest to us!
Seeing that these people didn't seem to be very powerful, Uncle Li immediately did the same and knocked down a row of those people following us out like a row of dominoes.
"Hey? These people possessed by ghosts aren't that powerful!"
The two uncles had watched a lot of horror zombie movies on weekdays. In movies like *World War Z*, the zombies were fast and invincible. They were simply a nightmare for humanity.
But these wooden - headed guys in front of them were not as scary as those in the movies.
"Open the door." I said in a low voice, warning the two uncles not to underestimate the enemy.
This was the territory of the One - Eyed Buddha Mother. I didn't dare to be careless at all.
I didn't know if it was because my talismans had worked. Those people whose bodies were being controlled really didn't seem to have much power other than scaring people. As long as we ran fast enough, their snail - like movements couldn't catch up with us.
"Hey! Xiao He, I can't open it!"
Uncle Zhao pushed the main door hard twice, but it didn't move at all. It was obviously locked from the outside.
"Smash it!"
I immediately picked up the folding chair at the lobby's security post and smashed it at the tempered glass on the main door.
With a loud "Crash", it was like a loud bell ringing in people's ears. All those zombie - like residents trembled at the same time and screamed.
"Ahhh!! What's going on!"
"Why am I outside?!"
"The live - broadcast is still on. Why did I come out?"
"Is it sleepwalking?"
"Oh my god... Why did I come out dressed like this!!"
The awakened people screamed hysterically. They didn't understand their situation either and rushed towards the main door that I had just smashed.
"Ahh!!"
"Ouch!"
As soon as a few nimble young people rushed out of the shattered door, they let out miserable screams and disappeared instantly!
"Xiao He, aren't we on the first floor?"
The two neighbor uncles were right next to the door. They originally wanted to run out with the awakened sleepwalkers, but unexpectedly they were pushed aside by those people. Now they turned to me with a panicked look on their faces and asked, "How... How are we in mid - air?!"
I threw away the folding chair in my hand and also ran to the door. The moment my hand touched the metal frame of the door, everything in front of me changed. What I was holding was not the main door leading to the outside yard at all!
In front of me was the broken glass edge of a floor - to - ceiling window. Under my feet was a floor dozens of meters high. Only now did the sounds of "Thud" and the miserable screams of those who had fallen come up!