Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
The little girl lifted the drum in her hand and kept beating it.
The vague shadows in the room suddenly became restless.
They all surrounded Xiaotuanzi without the slightest hesitation, rushing towards them with claws outstretched.
These ghosts attacked with great ferocity, each move carrying an overwhelming force.
With the blessing of the Sister Drum, the muddled souls were abnormally ferocious.
They had no thought of cowardice or retreat.
They were now just soulless puppets being manipulated. If they were dealing with a conscious ghost, it might be intimidated by the aura of Niannian and the others, cowering and being at a disadvantage.
But now, there was no such possibility.
Daoist Qingyun quickly opened a barrier to block the advance of these ghosts. Just then, a girl's voice suddenly came from the corner.
"I'll come and help you!"
A disheveled girl in a black robe stumbled out of the shadows.
It seemed that she was the witch they were looking for.
"Are you Sister Annie?"
Niannian looked at her hesitantly and asked doubtfully.
Sister Annie had been on the first floor just now, but they had been standing here for a while, and they hadn't noticed her presence before.
Where had she been hiding?
The disheveled girl nodded, very surprised that Xiaotuanzi knew her name.
"Miss Lilia sent us to find you. Where were you hiding before?"
"I've been right there. I couldn't get out and no one could hear me. I only managed to get out of that place after these spirits started moving."
The girl pointed to the corner of the wall.
It was just a tiny space, but it had trapped her for a long time. The area was less than a meter, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get out.
If Niannian and the others hadn't come today, Annie would have starved to death in that corner sooner or later.
"You're in no condition to withstand the attack of these ghosts. Hide behind us. Niannian, go upstairs and snatch the drum from that little girl's hand. These ghosts are all obedient to the Sister Drum. As long as the drumming stops, these ghosts will stop moving."
Shen Weixun looked up at the little girl on the second floor who was constantly beating the human - skin drum. After making sure that she was just an ordinary person, he assigned this task to Xiaotuanzi.
The ghosts downstairs, although they couldn't be all captured quickly, could be held off for a while.
With Niannian's ability, even if the little girl had some other tricks up her sleeve, it wouldn't be a problem for Xiaotuanzi. Sending her to deal with the little girl was the best arrangement.
Niannian obediently nodded, took out her peach - wood sword, waved it left and right, and directly scattered the souls of two attacking spirits. Then she trotted up the stairs as fast as she could on her short legs.
The little girl saw a little girl about her own age charging up the stairs so boldly. Without thinking, she turned around and ran.
Niannian didn't expect her to be such a coward. She thought there would be a fierce battle, but it turned out to be like this?
However, it was good that the little girl was afraid. At least it proved that she knew she couldn't beat Niannian.
Wouldn't it be easy to snatch the thing?
The little girl's speed was naturally no match for Niannian.
She wanted to open the door and hide in the room next to her. Xiaotuanzi saw through her intention and threw the peach - wood sword in her hand. It hit the little girl's leg.
The little girl fell to the ground, and the drum in her hand flew far away with a thud.
Niannian ran forward, first picked up her peach - wood sword, and then was about to pick up the drum.
But just then, a dark shadow suddenly rushed out beside her, picked up the human - skin drum, and hugged it in her arms.
It was Annie.
"What a beautiful drum. Now it should belong to me."
Annie's sudden appearance on the second floor was unexpected by everyone, including Shen Weixun, who had been protecting her.
Niannian frowned and looked at Annie's crazy and obsessed appearance. She felt something was wrong.
It seemed that Annie had been bewitched.
She then turned to look at the little girl. She saw the girl stumble to her feet, stare at Annie with dead - fish eyes, and say word by word, "Can you give my sister back to me?"
Niannian:!!!
She was actually speaking ghost language?
Xiaotuanzi couldn't understand it at all. She took two steps back and carefully observed this little girl of the same age as herself. She was absolutely sure that there was no spiritual light of a sorcerer or a Taoist on her.
She wasn't even an evil cultivator.
She was really just a completely ordinary little girl.
How could she speak ghost language?
"Can you give my sister back to me?"
The little girl seemed to only know how to say this one sentence. Ignoring Niannian, who had hit her, she kept repeating this sentence to Annie.
The mechanical pronunciation was like that of a child who had just learned to speak.
But the most urgent thing now was to make those lost souls stop on their own.
Now that the human - skin drum was in Annie's arms, without anyone's order, those ghosts were still attacking all living things crazily.
Niannian opened her Yin - Yang eyes and sure enough saw something unusual.
The human - skin drum was related to the soul they had talked to at first.
The soul of the flayed girl was quietly standing in the corner on the first floor, looking at them with a very cold look and a sinister smile on her face.
The problem was with her.
"Go and control that soul. She's controlling the human - skin drum."
Niannian shouted downstairs. Daoist Qingyun immediately took action.
Several senior brothers were not to be outdone. They all wanted to break through the encirclement and control the girl's soul first.
But these lost souls in front of them seemed endless.
And they really were endless.
The Sister Drum could summon all the souls around. Not only the ones that originally existed in the villa, but also the lost souls from around were attracted. All of them were used by the flayed girl as cannon fodder to block in front.
If this continued, they would be exhausted.
After all, human physical strength was limited.
Niannian looked angrily at the increasing number of souls. Finally, she couldn't help it and was about to jump downstairs horizontally to deal with the girl first.
But just then, the little girl beside her, who had been motionless before, suddenly hugged her thigh and tried her best to stop her.
"You can't go down. You'll hurt my sister. You can't go down!"
The little girl was quite smart. She knew who was the most powerful among the people present.
Daoist Qingyun had been held back. As long as she could hold back Niannian, the flayed girl would always be safe.
"Get out of the way!"
Niannian held up her peach - wood sword and gave a warning.
For those who wanted to use the human - skin drum to control souls and harm them, Niannian had no mercy, regardless of age or gender.
The little girl shook her head desperately and just wouldn't let go. Niannian was too lazy to waste any more words.
She raised her hand and was about to use the peach - wood sword to knock the little girl away.