Two Wraiths Collide

The final mental shock.

It nearly knocked Wu Xian unconscious.

Fortunately, the Ghost Mother's emotions hadn't erupted, so the rest would be easy to handle.

With his eyes closed, Wu Xian felt his way out of 401. He stumbled and bumped into things along the way, but managed to shut the door behind him. Then he returned to 404, quietly closed and locked the door, and only then switched places with the others.

From that moment on,

none of them would leave room 404. Instead, they would take turns playing the Clap Game and passing the seeker role to one another.

Only the Ghost Mother remained alone in 401, waiting for three in the morning.

The survivors huddled in 404, unable to open their eyes. They could only press themselves against the walls and anxiously wait for sounds from outside. When Wu Xian heard the keys jingling, all the blood in his body turned cold.

The Child-Seeking Ghost Mother, who had been waiting in 401, had reached the limit of her patience. She didn't want to stay in the same room any longer, so her emotions grew restless and she began clapping loudly of her own accord.

Whoosh!

The hallway lights went out.

It wasn't soft and yielding like a woman's, the sort of thing he could tear apart with ease. The thing in his hands felt more like a hard block of ice bristling with spikes!

"Ah!"

The collision between two major wraiths made the Concealing Breath Technique fail completely. The Child-Seeking Ghost Mother's immense aura poured out without restraint.

Of all the rooms left, theirs was the only one that had to be opened!

The Door-Breaking Wraith reached the door of 404. Its huge hand inserted the tiny key into the lock, and the four people inside felt their hearts leap into their throats.

Then the Door-Breaking Wraith kicked open the door to 401. At a glance, it saw a woman's shadow cast in front of the window.

But just then,

the Breaking Door Wraith appeared out of nowhere downstairs at the hostel. Beneath the cold moonlight, its figure sent a chill through anyone who saw it.

Even when he was alive, he hadn't cared for Yu Yinghua. Otherwise, he wouldn't have strangled her and buried her beneath cement in the supermarket's basement storeroom.

Tonight, there was no trace of that woman at Ping'an Hostel. The hostel had become his territory once more.

The Door-Breaking Wraith was delighted when it saw the Ghost Mother.

The Door-Breaking Wraith ignored the pain in its hands.

The air between the two major wraiths, once taut with hostility, suddenly relaxed.

This enraged Wang Zhiwu, the Breaking Door Wraith. From now on, there'd be no evil spirits to help him find Living Persons he could conveniently attack, so he decided to kill to his heart's content tonight.

Even beasts didn't fight to the death the moment they met. The Door-Breaking Wraith had only backed down a little to the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother, and she had forgiven it, allowing it to leave unharmed.

Which room should it open next?

The Door-Breaking Wraith was constrained by the rules of the blessed land. It could now open only two doors a day.

There was no internet in the blessed land, but the phone signal still worked.

With his eyes closed, Wu Xian picked up Lu Yuzhu's phone. Following the practice he'd done during the day, he felt his way through the buttons and called the number he'd prepared in advance.

He'd married her only because she was stupid and useful.

With a piercing shriek, the Ghost Mother unleashed her Evil Qi. It blasted the Door-Breaking Wraith's huge hands away, sending a torrent of Filthy Blood spraying through the air.

The Ghost Mother raised her head, revealing a face even more terrifying than the Door-Breaking Wraith's.

The ringtone wasn't pleasant music. It was a recording Wu Xian had prepared beforehand.

When they heard the sound of a door being kicked open, all four of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The air froze.

That was the fourth condition in Wu Xian's plan.

The plan had been foolproof, but Yu Yinghua's death had made the Door-Breaking Wraith start using its brain. That was something he could never have predicted.

Then it hesitated.

"Dear Ghost Mother, this may be our only chance to speak. If you want to know the truth behind your daughter's disappearance, please answer the call, turn on speakerphone, and protect the phone. Don't let anyone else destroy it."

The idea that wraiths would inevitably fight if they met was just a pleasant, arrogant fantasy of humanity. Wu Xian had never been so optimistic.

After exchanging a few words,

second, Yu Yinghua had died.

Since these people had managed to kill Yu Yinghua, they must have noticed her mark. So... they would avoid it!

The vast Evil Qi abruptly drew back, growing subdued and compact. The Ghost Mother had prepared herself for battle. Under the Door-Breaking Wraith's tense gaze,

But the evil spirit she'd become had died too.

It was furious now.

The Breaking Door Wraith, which had just been allowed to leave the Ghost Mother's Territory, immediately stopped in its tracks.

Bang!

It first kicked open the door to 403. The room was pitch-black, and there wasn't the slightest trace of anyone human inside. The Door-Breaking Wraith let out an enraged roar.

Wraiths were like beasts.

The Door-Breaking Wraith appeared in the middle of the hallway.

But that didn't mean they were completely hostile toward one another.

Zhao Juan's phone rang.

The first door could be kicked open.

But it immediately sensed that something was wrong!

First, the previous night, the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother had taken over his hostel, preventing him from killing Living Persons to his heart's content.

The second door had to be opened with a key.

Three in the morning.

Everyone heard rhythmic clapping.

Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap...

To its surprise, it found that the door to 401 was only ajar!

A terrifying smile appeared on the Door-Breaking Wraith's face, its skin missing in places. Since this room could be opened, there was no need to waste a precious opportunity to use a key.

Ever since it became a wraith, the Door-Breaking Wraith had never liked thinking, because Yu Yinghua had always been there. But now that Yu Yinghua was dead, it had started using its brain again for the first time in ages.

The Breaking Door Wraith began to slowly back away. The Ghost Mother showed no intention of pursuing it, and the Clap Game was about to begin again.

So there was a fifth necessary condition for getting two wraiths to fight!

"Now, there's just one last thing to do."

She was already furious over how unfair the game had been. The Door-Breaking Wraith's actions were a blatant provocation, so she attacked at once.

"This woman has no wraith aura. She's a Living Person!"

So it immediately reached out with both hands and grabbed the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother. It had meant to tear her apart and bathe in her blood to its heart's content.

Since becoming a wraith, this was the first time he'd felt fear.

Fortunately, everything had worked out.

The Door-Breaking Wraith took out its key ring and found the key to 404.

It gave two strange little hops and let out a screech at the Ghost Mother. She screeched back. This was the language wraiths spoke to one another, though to Living Persons it sounded like irritating gibberish.

By all logic,

the Door-Breaking Wraith suddenly turned around.

It was obvious who "anyone else" meant.

It had already wasted its chance to kick in a door, so it needed to think carefully about which door to open with a key.

Make the two wraiths collide in a room as far away from the four of them as possible.

They all fed on humans, and each had its own territory. The Child-Seeking Ghost Mother was stronger, so the Door-Breaking Wraith would willingly give way to her.

The Ghost Mother reached out a pale finger and answered the call.

"Speak!"