"It should be the water ghost coming!" Shen Weixun immediately reacted. The water ghost was truly cunning. It had blended itself into the water. Since they couldn't see the real situation clearly, the ghost had quietly entered the house.
Fortunately, they had closed the door, which was like realizing the plan of "catching a turtle in a jar" in a different way.
Shen Weixun and Niannian used all their strength to pull their legs out a little.
Xiaotuanzi looked down and saw a pale and swollen hand on her ankle. As soon as her eyes met it, the hand quickly retracted.
Niannian suddenly lost the pulling force and rolled to the wall with Shen Weixun.
"The water ghost let go," Shen Weixun said with a long sigh of relief.
"I just saw its hand. It retracted as soon as it emerged from the water," Niannian said curiously. What about that determined look just now, when it seemed willing to fight to the death and must pull her into the water? How could it give up so easily?
"Water ghosts are like fish. They are afraid of air. Without water, they will become extremely weak," Shen Weixun explained.
"But how can we get it onto the shore? It's so strong in the water. I can't beat it," Xiaotuanzi pouted, looking a bit aggrieved. Losing to a ghost in terms of strength was simply a great humiliation for Niannian.
Shen Weixun didn't reply. Instead, he lay on the ground and stared closely at the water surface.
The water was quiet, without a single ripple, just like a stagnant pond. Where on earth had the water ghost gone?
"Alas, that water ghost doesn't even enter the house. Alas, Third Brother, why do you and Junior Sister look so embarrassed?" Zhang Zicheng, the bait who had just swam out of the water, was a bit confused when he saw the two of them in such a sorry state. Normally, he should be the one doing the most dangerous job. Shouldn't he be the most embarrassed one?
Shen Weixun gave him a disdainful look and told him what had just happened. Zhang Zicheng frowned and asked, "I was just in the water. Instead of causing trouble for me, it targeted Niannian. Is this water ghost crazy?"
"Maybe it just looks down on you," Shen Weixun said indifferently.
With the thick light of merit on Niannian's body, any ghost that could withstand it would surely want to make Niannian a scapegoat. Once the light of merit was transferred to itself, the water ghost could almost be said to be invincible.
"Hey, why are you making personal attacks? What's wrong with me? Why does it look down on me?"
"Do you even want to compete for being a scapegoat? Stop talking so much nonsense. Quickly think of a way to drain the water out of the house. It's already inside the house. As long as we can drain the water out and expose the water ghost to the air, we'll have a chance to kill it."
Shen Weixun didn't avoid mentioning the water ghost that was hiding somewhere at the moment. He was conspiring so openly. Anyway, even if the water ghost heard them, it didn't dare to show itself. It couldn't get out at the moment. Since it dared to come in and covet his junior sister, it had to pay the corresponding price.
"Wait for me. I'll go get something." Zhang Zicheng thought for a while, then walked into a room on the second floor. After rummaging around for a while, he came out with a tube in his hand.
"What are you going to do with this?" Shen Weixun was a bit confused.
"Drain the water out. This house is blessed with the Snow Girl's magic. As long as the door is closed, it's sealed. I just saw a window on the top that opens outwards. If we stick this tube out and seal the rest of the places, the water should be able to be drained out."
Shen Weixun thought carefully and felt that this was a good idea. But they needed someone to wait outside to prevent the water ghost from blending into the water and flowing out with it.
"Then you go outside and keep an eye on it. Make sure it doesn't run out."
"Me again?!" Zhang Zicheng felt like a big fool at the moment. He always felt that something was strange.
"The capable should do more work," Shen Weixun patted him on the shoulder and then ignored him. Instead, he threw one end of the tube into the water, asked Xiaotuanzi for a few water - controlling talismans, and took a few sealing talismans.
Zhang Zicheng had no choice but to climb up to the second floor. It took him a lot of effort to open the window on the top. He sealed the other gaps with the sealing talismans to make sure the water wouldn't flow in, and then knocked on the window.
Hearing the knock on the window, Shen Weixun started to control the water to flow out.
After a while, Zhang Zicheng, who was holding his breath in the water, felt a wave of yin energy rushing towards him from the tube.
Sure enough, the water ghost was trying to escape. Zhang Zicheng quickly took out a sealing talisman and slapped it on the mouth of the tube.
The yin energy was suddenly blocked. Maybe because the impact of the water was a bit strong, Zhang Zicheng was shaken back a few steps. He took a big gulp of water before he could catch his breath.
Zhang Zicheng swallowed a big mouthful of water that had soaked the water ghost's body. Immediately, he felt his stomach churning. He barely managed to hold back the urge to vomit.
Inside the house, Niannian felt the fluctuation and judged that the water ghost was causing trouble. She immediately searched for the water ghost's figure in the water pipe. Finally, at the third section, she found the place with the strongest yin energy.
Stretching out two fingers, Xiaotuanzi didn't hesitate to pinch that part of the water pipe. Immediately, a wailing sound came from it.
Zhang Zicheng quickly climbed in through the window. After choking on that mouthful of water just now, there was not much oxygen left in his mouth. He had to come in to catch his breath.
Maybe the water ghost was as slippery as an eel. After being pinched by Niannian for a while, it somehow slipped back into the water inside the wooden house.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Zicheng had to run outside again to unseal the tube and guide the water to flow out. This time, the water ghost didn't rush out recklessly. It knew that there was someone outside guarding it, and it simply couldn't get out. It might as well conserve its strength and wait to deal with these three people later.
The water level in the wooden house slowly dropped. It took a long time to drain half of the water. Then, they found that the tube wasn't long enough, and they couldn't drain the remaining half no matter what.
Shen Weixun could already faintly see half of the water ghost's body.
Zhang Zicheng stopped the water from flowing out and climbed back into the house. When he got back to Xiaotuanzi's side, he saw the disgusting face of the water ghost. Zhang Zicheng remembered the water he had swallowed just now.
"Ugh..." He couldn't help it. He still wanted to vomit.
There wasn't much water on the first floor anymore. It was only up to the waist. Shen Weixun shook his head and still thought it wasn't enough. He stood on the second floor, thinking hard but couldn't come up with a good idea.
"Third Brother, let me go," Niannian said when she saw the revealed water ghost. After weighing the fighting capabilities of the two of them, she felt that she still had the ability to fight.
"No. That water ghost is too strong. You can't even move properly. How can you fight with it? Even with just that much water, the water ghost's strength might not be weakened much," Shen Weixun refused immediately. No matter who took the risk, Niannian couldn't.
But how could Niannian listen to him? While her third - brother wasn't paying attention, she slipped downstairs in a flash.
When the water ghost saw Niannian, it was like a dog seeing a bone. It quickly swam towards her. Niannian had only taken a few steps when she was caught by the water ghost.
She had expected this situation long ago. Xiaotuanzi immediately took out a few fire talismans and threw them at it. The water ghost instinctively dodged and let go of its hand. This was the fear from the depths of the soul due to the mutual restraint of all things.
But the next second, the fire talismans approaching it went out on their own. The fire from the fire talismans was just ordinary fire. There was so much water around, and there was also a mist of water around the water ghost. A few fire talismans couldn't make any difference. They couldn't even stir up a single ripple.
But at this moment, Xiaotuanzi had already taken this opportunity to distance herself from the water ghost.
The water ghost, feeling played with, looked even more ferocious. Without saying a word, one could tell how angry it was at the moment.
But no matter how fast it was next, it couldn't catch Niannian anymore. Because Xiaotuanzi's speed was actually on par with it.
Seeing the one - person and one - ghost downstairs chasing each other, Zhang Zicheng was so anxious that he wanted to jump down. But at this moment, Shen Weixun grabbed his arm.
"What are you doing? Can't you see Junior Sister fighting down there? I have to go and help her!"
Shen Weixun looked at him like he was a fool. Frowning, he said, "Now Junior Sister can keep a certain distance from the water ghost in the water at the same speed. If you go down and the water ghost targets you instead, are you sure you can outrun it? If you can't and the water ghost catches you and uses you to threaten Junior Sister, what will you do? If you don't have the ability, don't cause trouble. Junior Sister has her own plan."
Shen Weixun had just noticed the trajectory of Xiaotuanzi's running. She wasn't running randomly. She was setting up a formation. She threw out talismans at an extremely fast speed and set up a trapped - fire formation. Once the formation was activated, the big fire would be enough to dry up all the water below.
Sure enough, his idea coincided with Xiaotuanzi's. Finally, after pasting the last talisman paper, Niannian recited the incantation and activated the formation.
The big fire immediately burned at an extremely fast speed. The blazing flames turned all the water on the ground into water vapor. At the same time, it was also burning the oxygen in the house.
Niannian quickly got out and came to the second floor. But the sudden evaporation of oxygen and the surrounding heat also made the three of them feel extremely uncomfortable.
Just hold on for a while. As long as the last drop of water was dried up, they could eliminate the water ghost!
Just when the three of them were a bit dizzy and staggering, Niannian vaguely saw that the ground was completely dry. The big fire seemed to be spreading.
Xiaotuanzi immediately pushed the formation to stop the big fire. But there was still fire burning below. It was all the furniture that had been ignited. After all, this was a wooden house, and all the things in the house were made of wood. They couldn't withstand such burning.
The water ghost had completely revealed its form at this moment. Its ferocious and bloated body was wriggling on the ground. The water ghost on the shore moved even slower than a sloth. It could only watch helplessly as Xiaotuanzi threw talismans into its body. Its ferocious and ugly face twisted for a while and finally disappeared in front of them.
The water light outside faded. In the blink of an eye, they had reached the next level.