Chapter 7: Kill the Old Ghost
But i didn’t see the bullet screen. When I took out a claw hammer to extract the nails, my phone vibrated.
Was it Tang Mingli?
I took out my phone. It was the recently-friended Lord of Lord Zhengyang.
Friends on Heiyan TV could talk privately with each other. I hesitated but still answered his audio call.
After all, he paid money on my channel.
The call was connected. It was an old man’s voice, “Kid, don’t believe ghosts. If you want to take her on your side, you do as what I’m gonna tell you.”
I was startled. Did an old man know how to go on live streaming?
“Do you have black dog blood with you? You should draw the word ‘censure’ on her forehead with it.” Lord Zhengyang said.
Many elders knew how to expel ghosts. I took out the black dog blood and did as what he said. The she-ghost stared at me maliciously, which crept me.
Luckily I didn’t extract nails first, otherwise I would be the first one to die.
“Now you can get the nails out.” He said.
Once I got the nails out, the ghost pounced at me right away and attacked me in the head with her black, dirty fingernails.
I was terrified and covered my head with my arms. However, the ghost screamed, and the “censure” drawing on her forehead illuminated red light and then turned into a plume of blue smoke.
I was surprised that how well it worked.
The ghost glared at me, picked up my claw hammer and rusty nails, and then flew out.
I was relieved. Picking up the Life-killing Knife, I went gingerly upstairs. I heard an angry roar from the stairway.
It was Tang Mingli!
I ran toward the voice coming out from a room which had a yellow spotty door and a dirty doorplate written Treatment Room.
I peeked through the crack in the door and saw Tang Mingli struggling on an old dirty operating table. A doctor ghost in white robe was about to cut his throat with a rusty scalpel.
“Stop!” I shouted and rushed in. The doctor turned his head back at me slowly and stared at me with evil eyes. His robe was painted red with blood and he had two cuts on his face, making him look dreadful.
There was a doctor in this private apartment, who was choped to death here. It should be him.
My instinct told me to run but Lord Zhengyang told her over the phone, “Calm down. Apply the Life-killing Knife with some black dog blood, and cut his head off. He will die.”
I gritted my teeth, grabbed the bottle and poured all the black dog blood onto the blade, then shouted, and ran towards the doctor ghost.
Suddenly I felt a little dizzy and the ghost doctor had already dashed in front of me, choked around my neck and lifted me up instantly. With a creepy smile on his pale face, he threw his scalpel at my face.
At the critical moment, Tang Mingli struggled to untie himself with a roar. I passed the knife to him and he grabbed it, and stabbed the ghost doctor’s head with it.
I fell on the floor and started to cough violently. The doctor ghost turned into a plume of dark smoke which drifted into my nose
[Bossy CEO, what an amazing stab! With all my respect!]
[Bossy CEO, a real kung fu master! Please take me as your disciple. I will treat you very well, in bed or out of bed.]
[Gay talk!]
“Are you alright?” Tang Mingli hopped off the table, pulled me up, “Darn it! How can I get caught by a ghost! What a shame! ”
I told him about the nurse ghost. He picked up his peach sword and said, “Let’s go have a look.”
We arrived at the office on the top floor. It was quiet in there. Tang Mingli pushed the door open slightly. A bloody and rotten smell came out of the room.
As soon as we walked into the room, the light flash flickered once and went out.
“What’s going on?” I slapped it and it turned on again. Then I saw a crowd of old pale-faced ghosts.
I was so scared that I nearly dropped my flashlight. Tang Mingli clinched my shoulder and covered my mouth before I screamed.
Countless old ghosts were standing around us. They had pale faces with wrinkles and livor mortis all over. They stared at us with their small-pupil eyes.
Lord Zhengyang said on the phone again, “Don’t panic! They are the most common ghosts. The young man has a great peach sword. Tell him to do as what I tell you. ”
I whispered at Tang’s ears, “Bite the tip of your tongue and spray your blood to the sword, then say what I say.”
Tang didn’t waste a second before he bit his tongue and sprayed the blood to the sword which shone with golden lights.
“Sun, moon and stars, up to sky, down to earth, through ghosts,” As I said the spell, Tang followed one by one, “Ghostbuster kills, against strong, first evil ghost, then night light. Conquer all spirits! Deter all ghosts! Expel!”
Then he cleaved a golden light beam in the darkness with his sword. The ghosts were all terrified and ran away.
But it was too late. When the light beam scanned all the ghosts, they all screamed and vanished.
Tang fell down on the floor like he had no strength left.
“Human’s spirit is gathered at the tip of the tongue and the tip of a man’s tongue has the most powerful spirit. Since this young man has practiced kung fu for ages, he has even more powerful spirit, which made him kill all of these ghosts at once. But now he is exhausted. He will be fine if he can rest for a while. “Lord Zhengyang explained.
I felt relived. When I was about to carry Tang for a rest, I felt something wrong.
Looking around, I saw an empty but strange room, but I couldn’t figure out why.
Lord Zhengyang didn’t say anything. I read the live comments.
[Shadow! Look at your shadow!]
I got goose bumps and turned my head slowly, found that my shadow was a hunchbacked old man.
“Mwahaha!” The shadow reached his hands for my neck.
I couldn’t be more unlucky to be chocked around the neck for quite a few times in a day.
The bodiless hands were powerful to chock me to death. Tang wasn’t recovered yet but still tried to struggle to his feet. He darted the sword at the shadow on the wall.
Then a nail was pinned into the shadow.
As soon as the shadow let go of me, Tang grabbed my wrist, pulled me behind his back, and stared at the shadow with tension.
Was he trying to protect me?
For the very first time, a man was actually protecting me, which warmed my heart.
All of sudden, the wooden door cracked open. A ghost slid in with a claw hammer and nails in her hand.
It was Yang Yang, the nurse ghost.
She stared at An Shibing who showed himself gradually with evilness and resentment in his eyes.
Things got intense between them.
The nurse pounced at him with the claw hammer in hands. Live comments surged on my channel.
[Nurse ghost vs. old man ghost, what a great show! I will never see horror movies again. Your live streaming is enough.]
[I bet five cents on the old man.]
[One yuan on the nurse.]
[Hello, police? Someone is gambling.]
I rolled my eyes at their chitchat, but I was so happy that I even couldn’t feel any pain when I saw their rewards.
“It is our chance to go.” Tang grabbed my elbow and rested his arm around my shoulder. We walked out.
Right at the moment I heard a shrill cry and looked back, An Shibing was stabbed with nails all over his body though, he was still powerful enough to grab Yang Yang. Suddenly he opened his mouth extremely wide and swallowed Yang Yang.
It crept me out. I rushed out but Lord Zhengyang stopped me, “No. The old man has great anger. If he finishes eating the nurse ghost, he will become even more powerful. By then, neither of you can escape. ”
“What should I do?” I gasped.
“He is eating now, the weakest moment. If you want to kill him, it is now or never.” Lord Zhengyang said, “Now I am teaching you a simple formation, named Five Element Repellent.”
I put Tang aside, got the red thread out of my bag, picked up some nails on the floor and pinned them into the floor, and then wrapped with red thread to form a Five Element Pattern.
“Great! Stand on the Fire position, and follow me to chant.”
Five Element Pattern was a pentagonal pattern, each angle representing each element: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. I stood on the corner of Fire, assembled a magic print in front of my chest, and spelled, “Five stars shine the universe. Saints above bless me. All ghosts vanish. Expel!”
As the old man was about to finish eating Yangyang, I shouted, “Censure!”
Boom! The old man burnt into a fire ball. He screamed crazily and threw himself at me.
But once he reached for the red thread, the fire even got stronger.
The red thread circled him inside. There was no chance for him to get out.
He was burnt into a dark smoke which hovered a bit and then swooped into my breath.
The whole world became quiet all of sudden. And I started to feel terrified. I sit on the floor and read live comments on my phone.
[You are so cool! You are definitely a living Lam Ching-ying!]
[I have made up my mind. You are my idol from now on. I will watch each of your live stream and I will reward you at least one jade every time.]
[Someone said he would reward five crowns. Where are you?]