After thinking for a while, Lu Siye finally decided to exchange for seven Blood Replenishment Pills and see how they worked.
After setting down his phone, Lu Siye looked toward the bedroom, his brows drawing together.
"Can it really stay that calm?"
Ever since he came in through the balcony, Lu Siye had sensed a ghost in his bedroom. The ghost's Yin energy wasn't very strong, though, so it probably wasn't very powerful.
Since his own strength had been damaged, he'd planned to pretend to cultivate as if he hadn't noticed it, luring it out in the process.
He hadn't expected the ghost in the bedroom to remain in exactly the same spot for so long.
But now that he'd recovered two-thirds of his strength, Lu Siye was confident he could easily handle it, so there was no need to lure it out anymore.
He pushed open the bedroom door and glanced up at the light that had somehow been switched on. Then he cast a sidelong glance at the wardrobe and walked in, pretending not to notice anything.
Just as Lu Siye was about to walk over, he spotted a note that had appeared on his desk.
He went over to the desk and picked up the note. It bore a few lines in fairly neat handwriting.
"Someone's trying to hurt you. Call the police, and contact the Town Demon Suppression Division for help!"
Who had written this? Could it have been the ghost in the wardrobe?
Without giving anything away, Lu Siye glanced at the wardrobe out of the corner of his eye. He could sense a faint trace of Yin energy on the note.
Suddenly, a cockroach that seemed to have come out of nowhere flew right at Lu Siye.
He instinctively whipped around and slapped at it, then quickly reined in his strength when he came to his senses.
He didn't want to splatter the cockroach and get its sticky white innards all over his hand.
The cockroach probably never expected that a human would slap it one day. Like a kite with its string cut, it flew toward the wardrobe.
After hitting the floor, it bounced—and, by sheer coincidence, slipped through the crack in the wardrobe door.
"Shit, my clothes—" Lu Siye reacted at once, but before he could finish shouting, a much louder commotion erupted from inside the wardrobe.
"Ah!!!"
A piercing scream burst out of the wardrobe. A female ghost with a deathly pale face, wearing a T-shirt printed with Pikachu on the front and a pair of jeans, shrieked as she charged out.
She leaped onto Lu Siye's bed and shook her pants frantically, like she was doing some kind of laser dance. It was as if there were a bomb hidden inside them.
Cowardly Fang Lanyue was scared out of her wits. Fear Points +99! Cowardly Fang Lanyue was scared out of her wits. Fear Points +99! Cowardly Fang Lanyue was scared out of her wits. Fear Points +99! ...
Hearing the notifications ring out beside him, Lu Siye couldn't help widening his eyes.
What the hell?
A cowardly ghost?
What the hell—ghosts could be cowards too?
Lu Siye watched the female ghost dancing on his bed. The sheer terror on her face didn't look fake at all, and he felt as if his whole worldview was about to be turned upside down.
After bouncing around for more than ten seconds, a cockroach, frozen stiff, flew out of the female ghost's pant leg and landed on the floor with a splat.
"Waaah~ That scared me to death!" As soon as the cockroach flew away, the female ghost plopped down on the bed and started crying.
Cowardly Fang Lanyue was still shaken. Fear Points +88!
Lu Siye gathered Yang energy in his eyes and looked at her. The female ghost was surrounded by grayish-white Yin energy, but there was no pitch-black resentment.
There was a common saying in the Town Demon Suppression Division: before a person died, they would feel some degree of resentment toward whoever had caused their death.
Since there was no resentment on cowardly Fang Lanyue, that meant she probably hadn't taken any lives.
That left Lu Siye completely stumped.
She hadn't taken any lives and was possibly the one who'd written the note. Should he kill her or not?
"Hey! This note..." Lu Siye figured he should confirm it, so he held up the note and called out to the female ghost.
But before he could finish, the female ghost sprang up from the bed with a cry as if she'd been electrocuted, turned into a gust of wind, and darted back into the wardrobe.
Fang Lanyue jumped in fright. Oh my god! He found me! Fear Points +66!
With a muffled bang, the wardrobe door slammed shut.
Cowardly Fang Lanyue was scared. It's so dark! Fear Points +76!
The next moment, the wardrobe door was pushed open a crack. A sock wedged itself into the gap, keeping the door from closing.
Lu Siye's mouth twitched. He was now eighty percent sure this was one stupid ghost.
He walked over to the wardrobe and knocked on the door.
Help, he found me! Fear Points +66!
Lu Siye's forehead was covered in black lines. I'm not stupid, and I'm not blind either.
He opened his mouth, then realized he'd suddenly gone blank. He'd forgotten what he'd been about to say.
He lowered his head and looked at the note in his hand. Only then did he remember what he'd wanted to ask.
"Come out. I saw you ages ago. Did you write the note on the desk?" Lu Siye knocked on the door again.
Inside the wardrobe, Fang Lanyue curled up into a ball, covered her ears, and burrowed into the pile of clothes.
After waiting a while, Lu Siye still didn't see cowardly Fang Lanyue come out.
With a helpless sigh, Lu Siye simply yanked the wardrobe door open. Inside, he saw Fang Lanyue curled up with her eyes tightly shut and her hands covering her ears.
As if she'd sensed the wardrobe door opening, Fang Lanyue cautiously opened one eye. It met Lu Siye's gaze.
Oh my god! Don't come any closer! Fear Points +99!
"Ah!" Fang Lanyue shuddered all over and screamed, curling herself up even tighter.
Lu Siye couldn't take it anymore. He reached in, hauled her out, and tossed her onto the bed.
Watching the female ghost on the bed try to burrow under the covers, Lu Siye laughed in exasperation.
How could someone like this even become a ghost? Had she died of fright while reading a horror story in the middle of the night?
Lu Siye went over to the bed, grabbed Fang Lanyue by the scruff of her neck like a kitten, and pulled her out from under the covers. Then he held the note up in front of her.
Don't...
"Open your eyes and take a good look. Did you write this?" Lu Siye set her down and asked as gently as he could.
"Mhm!" Fang Lanyue cautiously opened her eyes a little, then nodded like a chick pecking at grain.
"Why did you warn me?" Lu Siye pressed.
"Because... because I don't dare kill anyone!" Fang Lanyue replied in a voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz.
"Did the Web send you?"
"What's the Web?" Fang Lanyue asked curiously, her eyes wide.
Lu Siye watched her look so genuinely curious. It seemed she really didn't know about the Web.
"Did someone send you here?" Lu Siye asked another way.
"A little boy found me and asked me to come here and hurt someone. He promised he'd protect me for the rest of my life afterward." Fang Lanyue hesitated before replying.
If he hadn't promised to help her live more safely, she wouldn't have wanted to come!
"Was the little boy you mentioned less than four feet tall, with a mouthful of sharp teeth and pitch-black pupils?" Lu Siye thought for a moment, then described the Twin Ghost Infants.
Fang Lanyue pictured the person Lu Siye had described, and her body immediately trembled with fear.
Fear Points +...
"N-no... It was a big-headed doll with a really large head," she said weakly.
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