Outside the delivery room, I seemed even more nervous than Lu Xiyu's husband.
He made a few phone calls casually, then stared expressionlessly at the words "No Admittance for Idlers" outside the delivery room.
I couldn't help but press my face against the frosted glass window of the delivery room door and peer desperately inside.
"Tap, tap..."
I couldn't see anything through the frosted glass, but a strange sound reached my ears, as if... someone was dragging their feet across the floor.
I quickly turned my head and found that Lu Xiyu's husband was also looking in the direction from which the sound came.
The delivery room of the Beijing Hospital was right next to the elevator. Generally, whether it was the parturient or the family members, they would surely take the elevator directly up. No one would abandon such a convenient and fast means of transportation and climb up from the elevator lobby...
Unless...
A chill ran down my spine. I stared intently at the beige door of the stairwell, my hand secretly clutching a talisman drawn by Si Jiangchen.
No matter what kind of monster it was, as long as it dared to have designs on Lu Xiyu, I would blast it to pieces with the Five Thunderbolts!!
"Creak!"
Just as I was on high alert, with a heavy creaking sound of the door's damping, the door of the stairwell opened a crack.
In an instant, it seemed to me that countless inky black liquids rushed in through the crack like a flood. It was neither fog nor smoke. That black water glinting with a ferocious light swept towards us overwhelming.
"Ugh!!"
The powerful sense of oppression made it hard for me to breathe. I involuntarily squinted my eyes, and as I slapped out the green talisman, I began to chant the spell.
"Nature is round and the earth is square, and the Nine Commandments shall prevail..."
I felt my lips go numb, and my tongue seemed to be weighed down by a boulder and couldn't be lifted.
When the black water rushed in front of me, trying to devour everything, suddenly a hand patted me on the shoulder. Then I heard Lu Xiyu's husband's cold voice ask, "What are you doing here?"
With his voice, the overwhelming black water in front of my eyes instantly melted away. It was still that long, deserted corridor. Only under the slightly buzzing LED white cold light, an old man looking like a beggar was dragging his heavy feet and slowly walking towards us...
"Acheng, long time no see!"
The man who looked like a beggar had a messy nest of hair on his head, and there were still some rice grains sticking to his messy beard. But when he spoke, he seemed to be very familiar with Lu Xiyu's husband!
He squinted his eyes, as if he hadn't seen bright light for many years. Even the gentle light in the corridor was unbearable for him. He had to cover his eyes with his dirty hands full of mud and grinned hideously, "You're very prosperous now, aren't you? You've got a firm grip on the entire Hongjun Group... Hehe, is there going to be another addition to the family now?!"
"What on earth do you want?"
A flash of sternness passed through Lu Xiyu's husband's amber eyes.
"Hehe, why are you so nervous? I'm the little one's real uncle."
The beggar sneered sinisterly, "I'm here to give a congratulatory gift!"
The beggar was laughing coldly, but the hairs on my body stood up as if attracted by a strong electromagnetic field.
I clearly saw that on the beggar's greasy and dirty body, there was an old man on his back!
The old man's face was so old that it was hardly human-like. There was only a thin layer of skin tightly attached to his skeleton-like frame. When he noticed me staring at him, the old thing's head actually "thud" and fell to the ground, rolling towards me. "Little girl, can you see me?!"
Those blood-red eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Give me some yang energy and let me live forever!!"
The skeleton-like head jumped up and was about to bite at my face.
"Old thing!"
It was just a bound spirit on someone's back, yet it dared to dream of immortality?!
How could I be polite to such a thing? I kicked it right away, kicking its incomplete spiritual body far away from me.
"Brother, I spared your life. I just hope you can live in seclusion honestly."
There was no trace of joy on Lu Xiyu's husband's face at seeing his relative. His already ice-cold expression became even more like a million-year glacier, making people shiver just by looking at him. "The money I left you is enough for you to live a good life for the rest of your life!"
"Right!! Hahaha!!"
The beggar suddenly burst into crazy laughter with his eyes wide open. "Look how well I'm living now! Alone but supported by all. I'm almost becoming an immortal! It's even more advanced than the old man's immortality!!"
As he spoke, the skeleton-like old man's head bounced a few times on the ground and then returned to the beggar's back. "Aze, calculate the time well! The great gift we're giving can't miss the time when the little one is born..."
"Get out! Old thing! It's none of your business!"
The beggar was extremely impatient with the old man on his back. He reached out to grab and tug at the disgusting old thing, but as a mortal, he could see it but couldn't touch it. The old man grinned wickedly, coiling his feet around the beggar's waist. His two bony hands tore at the beggar's cheeks, and his toothless mouth, like a stinking black hole, chewed on the beggar's hair bit by bit.
The bald patches on the beggar's head were all the work of this old thing!
"I want that little one's body! I want to be reborn!"
The old man shouted maniacally, "You have to get it for me! Otherwise, I won't help you. What you want is even more precious than what I want!!"
The man and the ghost actually started to fight in the corridor over Lu Xiyu's child.
"O Six Ding and Six Jia Generals, heed my command..."
I started to chant the spell to subdue ghosts of the Six Ding and Six Jia Generals.
Since this man and this ghost were obviously close relatives of Lu Xiyu's husband, I was afraid that if I really beat them to ashes, it would cause unnecessary trouble. So I planned to capture them first and then figure out what to do.
But the beggar took advantage of the time when I was dealing with the old man behind me and rushed towards the closed door of the delivery room.
I don't know if this delivery room in Beijing today had been booked by Lu Xiyu's husband. It was deserted, and Lu Xiyu was the only parturient.
How could Lu Xiyu's husband allow anyone to endanger his wife? He quickly stretched out his long arm, grabbed the beggar by the collar, and pinned him against the wall.
The man had already had the intention to kill. I saw a faint purple mist swirling behind him. The mist gradually condensed into a strange Dharma image. Its four arms rotated and grabbed at the emaciated spiritual body behind the beggar.
Just by looking at that terrifying aura, I already felt my heart stop beating. But that headless old thing actually sneered hideously and voluntarily offered its head, still shouting, "Gu Fancheng, you little bastard! I think you've forgotten the power of the blood curse!"
The man's Dharma image was lofty, but the arm that was slapping at the hideous old ghost was like ice meeting magma. It hissed and melted into countless tiny purple gases.
The man spat out a mouthful of blood with a "puff"!