This really gave me a fright. Her expression didn't seem like she was joking at all. It sent chills down my spine. Instinctively, I wanted to stand up, but Gu Yuan pushed me back down.
"I'm here. It can't hurt you. Change the topic and ask her the key points."
He was really cold - blooded. But I could only think about it in my heart. How dare I really say it out loud?
I bit my lip and continued to ask, "Did you feel anything strange at night?"
Lihua shook her head. She didn't feel anything strange and had never heard any noise from upstairs.
Lihua placed her hand on her belly and stroked it, saying, "Thank goodness the baby is okay. If anything happened to this baby, I'd definitely fight Qilian to the death."
I also shifted my gaze to her abdomen. Lihua's belly was bulging high. It seemed that she was about to give birth soon.
"How many months are you?" I asked curiously.
"It should be soon." Lihua lovingly stroked the baby in her belly, full of affection.
"Lihua, can I go upstairs and take a look?"
"Sure. I'll go up with you." As she said this, she was about to get up, but I stopped her.
"Don't. It's inconvenient for you to go upstairs with your big belly. I'll just go up and come right back down."
Lihua didn't stop me. Gu Yuan and I then went up to the attic.
The attic was empty. There was nothing in it. It was square - shaped, and the corners were clearly visible.
"Third Master, is there anything special in here?" I asked.
"What's wrong with you today?" Instead of answering my question directly, he asked me what was wrong when he heard me call him Third Master.
The sun must be rising in the west. He actually cared about me.
"I'm fine. I'm okay." I gave him a polite smile.
I thought it was good to be so polite to each other.
Before he could react, I immediately changed the topic, "There's something wrong with the baby in Lihua's belly, right?"
"You noticed?"
"I just guessed. I still need you to confirm it."
"What she's carrying in her belly is a ghost baby. Someone deliberately raised it in her belly."
"You can do that deliberately?" I didn't quite understand.
Just as Gu Yuan was about to continue, they heard a gust of wind coming from the window. Gu Yuan glanced over gently, as if he had detected something.
"What's wrong?" I was a bit scared. I looked around, but he pulled me over and leaned my head against his chest.
"Nothing."
If nothing was wrong, why did he pull me? I quickly pushed myself out of his arms and tidied up my messy hair.
Gu Yuan didn't care about my uneasiness. He continued, "It should be the resentment of the original inhabitants."
"Original inhabitants?"
Gu Yuan folded his arms across his chest and gently nodded his chin.
"Under this house was originally a graveyard. The graveyard was leveled, and buildings could be built on it. But it had to be suppressed by the surnames of hundreds of families. For example, you could build a high - rise building or a school because there are so many different surnames, which can suppress ghosts. But they just built a single house for one family. They definitely couldn't suppress the resentment of the 'original inhabitants' whose graveyard was dug up. So they came up to cause trouble."
So that's it. So the ghost baby in Lihua's belly was caused by the original inhabitants.
"Will the ghost baby born from the original inhabitants be delivered?" I asked again.
"Yes. When the host dies, it will break out of the belly and become a monster that is neither human nor ghost. During this period, the host will only become more and more hungry and will eat anything, including raw meat."
"What should we do now? We can't just watch Lihua starve to death."
"Just take her out of this place," Gu Yuan said.
"Is it that simple?"
"It wasn't a difficult thing in the first place. I checked the attic. Most of the Yin energy has dissipated. Now all the Yin energy has gathered in Lihua's abdomen. As long as you take her more than two kilometers away from this house for over an hour, the Yin energy will naturally return to this house. Then I'll have my own way to deal with it."
"We shouldn't waste any time. What are we waiting for? I'll go downstairs and take Lihua out. You stay here to deal with the ghost."
I didn't expect this job to be so easy. It was solved effortlessly.
Gu Yuan seemed to say something later, but I was in a hurry to save Lihua and didn't hear it clearly.
When I went downstairs, Lihua was rummaging through things in the kitchen. She had food all over the place and was still shouting that she was hungry.
"Lihua, let's go out. As long as we leave this house, you'll be okay." Obviously, she was only interested in eating and didn't care about anything else.
"Lihua, I'll take you out to eat. I'll treat you to whatever you want. How about it?"
As soon as Lihua heard there was delicious food, she immediately got excited and agreed right away.
I hurriedly grabbed her hand and drove away from the house. I followed the road we came on. When we had driven about two kilometers, I stopped the car.
There was a farmhouse here. I took Lihua towards it. It wasn't lunchtime at this hour, so there weren't many people in the restaurant.
When I just walked to the door, I seemed to feel something was wrong. This was the way back. I had walked on it before and remembered clearly that there were only mountains and fields along the way. There was no restaurant at all.
A sense of foreboding welled up in my heart.
I quickly grabbed Lihua's hand and turned around to run.
But as soon as I turned around, a powerful force suddenly appeared behind me and pulled Lihua and me back into the restaurant.
The door of the restaurant "banged" shut, and Lihua and I fell heavily to the ground.
This fall really hurt. My chest ached.
I struggled on the ground for a long time before I managed to prop myself up and stand up. I turned to look at Lihua. She seemed to have no sense of pain and had already stood up and was looking for food in the refrigerator.
I supported my aching lower back and walked to the door and pulled it hard. I had already expected that it wouldn't open.
Not only couldn't I open it, but there were also talisman papers pasted all around the room. The yellow papers with cinnabar were obviously talisman papers used to suppress souls.
What did this mean? Who on earth wanted to trap me here?
I tried many ways to break the door, but it was no use. All the windows around were covered with iron bars, and the glass was extremely hard. If no one opened the door from the outside, it would be extremely difficult to get out.
I quickly took out my phone and tried to call Gu Yuan, but there was not a single bar of signal on my phone.
Just as I was desperately looking for a way out, two people were standing outside the window without my noticing. One of them was Qilian. He no longer looked respectful as he did when he first saw me.
The strange smile on his lips sent shivers down my spine.
When I saw it was him, I got really angry. I grabbed the window bars with both hands and asked, "Qilian, what on earth are you doing?"
After hearing my question, Qilian's strange smile gradually turned cold. He said word by word, "I want you dead..."
At the same time, Lihua, who couldn't find any food, was extremely hungry.
She slowly fixed her gaze on me. Her greedy black pupils were like those of a predator staring at a delicious meal. Her Adam's apple kept rolling, and saliva dripped from her mouth.
At this moment, I knew that they had used the talisman papers to suppress the ghost baby in Lihua's body and accelerated its alienation. Now Lihua had completely lost her mind. Just like a wild beast, when she saw food, she would bite crazily.
I was extremely scared. I wanted to shake the silver bell on my arm, but then I suddenly realized that I had forgotten to put it on in my hurry.
At this moment, I was really desperate. I banged on the iron window crazily and shouted for help, hoping that someone passing by would notice.
"Don't bother shouting. No one will hear you. I thought there was some powerful spiritual being following you. But it's not that great. A simple trap was enough to keep him in that old house for an hour," Qilian said with a slight curl of his lips, showing a sinister smile.
"However, judging from Lihua's current state, you'll be finished long before an hour is up."
It was me they were after again. Last time it was Jinyue, and this time it was Qilian. The last one was for revenge. Why did Qilian want to harm me?
"Qilian, you're so despicable. I have no grudges against you. Why do you want to kill me?"