Pushing open the door, you're greeted by a room full of strange decorations. It looks like no one has been here for years, yet there's not a speck of dust, except for cobwebs in the corners.
Jiang Nuo observed and poked the strange sculpture placed on a bed board in the very center.
"Griffin... sheep?"
He reluctantly gave this strange thing a general name.
After staring at the drooping, triangular goat eyes for a few seconds, he frowned uncomfortably, grabbed something and placed it on the sculpture's head, conveniently blocking the goat's eyes.
"Let's begin," Su Yi said.
According to the game rules provided by their grandmother, Jiang Nuo and Su Yi each occupied a corner and clapped their hands with their backs to the sides.
"Great... uh, Mr. Ghost? I am your believer in this life, please come out and take a look."
Jiang Nuo muttered to himself as his hands slapped together loudly.
Splash--
In the darkness, two sheep figurines fell from the tall cabinet.
Hearing any noise means a vengeful ghost has arrived.
Jiang Nuo and Su Yi exchanged a glance and each found a place to hide.
After looking around the room, Jiang Nuo opened the cabinet door and crawled inside, leaving a crack to observe the outside.
I yawned as soon as I sat down.
Jiang Nuo listlessly propped her chin up with her hand. "Aren't you coming? I'm so sleepy."
Plop, something fell into Jiang Nuo's palm.
Jiang Nuo looked up and saw that it was originally stuck to the top of the cabinet.
I was playing with it, initially thinking it was a skull toy, but the more I looked at it, the more real it seemed.
He paused slightly, then picked it up to examine it closely.
"It really is a human skull."
Looking out through the crack again, sweeping across the entire haunted house, the organs inside the glass tubes and the human skin nailed to the wall were real, and the intestines wrapped around the wall like ropes were also real.
"This isn't a haunted house, it's a dismemberment scene."
Jiang Nuo didn't react much, muttering a complaint under her breath.
Another bone rolled to the ground at his feet.
He didn't even look at it, leaning back lazily, his handsome brows slightly furrowed, making the narrow cabinet feel like a bed.
He toyed with the small beads he took out of his spatial storage.
A few minutes later, another large bone fell down.
Jiang Nuo: "..."
It's never going to end!
He pushed open the cabinet door, kicked away all the bones that had fallen inside, and let one long leg dangle down, as if afraid the vengeful ghost wouldn't be able to find it.
Su Yi crouched under the table, looking at Jiang Nuo, who had deliberately exposed himself, with a puzzled expression, not quite understanding what he wanted to do.
Time ticked by, and Su Yi's breathing suddenly tightened. She stared intently at the corner of the wall behind Jiang Nuo, pointed, and gestured for him to be careful.
Jiang Nuo noticed and nodded slightly.
Su Yi thought he understood her meaning and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when her heart jumped again.
Jiang Nuo turned around abruptly, getting face-to-face with the vengeful ghost, and gave a sinister sneer.
The vengeful ghost shrank back in fright.
Holy crap! That scared the hell out of me!
"What are you hiding for? Come out."
Jiang Nuo jumped out of the closet and tapped the corner of the wall with her fingers, each tap sounding like a death knell.
"I don't eat ghosts."
Su Yi: "..."
However, is this line something you should say?!
The vengeful ghost seemed enraged at being frightened; it poked its head out from the corner of the wall—semi-transparent, terrifying, and bloody.
Jiang Nuo's attention, however, was entirely focused on his head.
Why... do you have a pair of ram horns?
Although ram horns are a symbol of evil, it's not really appropriate for a ghost to have them on.
While Jiang Nuo was dealing with the vengeful ghost, Su Yi quickly cast a spell under the table, bit her finger, and rubbed it against her eyelids.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw the vengeful ghost in its previous life.
It's like a series of scenes played on fast-forward.
The vengeful ghost was a middle-aged man, and the younger Shali hugged his leg, sweetly calling him "Daddy."
Then the man pushed Shali aside and went into the haunted house alone. At that time, the haunted house wasn't so dark, and the table in the middle was clean.
The man tightly closed the door of the haunted house. From this angle, Su Yi could see the sheep's eyes reflected in the stained glass.
No, that's not right, this must be a hallucination.
Su Yi shook her head, holding her breath, but she could tell that ordinary men couldn't.
He stared at the hallucination that appeared, his hand reaching out to touch the sheep's eyes. Suddenly, he screamed and was pressed against the long table in the middle by an invisible force.
It started festering from the fingers that touched it, then spread to the arms, chest, eyes, scalp... like a white candle near a flame, oozing a murky white liquid, the organs melting away.
The body was dismembered and incorporated into the haunted house's decor; the soul was imprisoned there forever, becoming a vengeful ghost enslaved by the demon's eyes.
At the end of the scene, Su Yi saw those eyes again, her pupils suddenly contracted, and a sharp pain shot through her head.
Unable to withstand the pressure, she quickly pulled away from the screen and suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
[Holy crap! What happened to Su Yi?]
She must have seen something! Otherwise, why would she smear blood on her eyes?
Hearing Su Yi's commotion, the vengeful ghost assumed she was afraid and, finally finding some dignity as a ghost, charged towards Su Yi menacingly.
Su Yi was horrified. She quickly crawled out from under the table, squeezed out a few more drops of blood from her bitten middle finger, and muttered something under her breath.
"Shield!"
A semi-transparent blood shield appeared in front of her, and the vengeful ghost charged forward, roaring as it charged again with its ram horns.
After only a few seconds, Su Yi was forced to retreat repeatedly by the powerful Demonic Qi.
Jiang Nuo flicked the red rope in her hand, tied it around the sheep's horns from behind, grabbed them and dragged them towards her, then threw out a red bead.
The red bead struck the vengeful ghost and immediately exploded into blue flames, scorching only its soul.
"Aaaaaah--"
The vengeful ghost howled, filled with anger and fear.
Jiang Nuo dragged it over and beat it up, then asked with a smile.
"What about the child's soul?"
The vengeful ghost roared, "How should I know!"
"Agh!!" Jiang Nuo's fist could strike directly at the soul; one punch was enough to overwhelm any vengeful ghost.
" Jiang Nuo!" Su Yi called out to him, her brows furrowed. "This man is Shali's father!"
There was a moment of silence.
Holy crap?! This man is their father?!
"That vengeful ghost wouldn't kill its own daughter, would it? Could there be someone else who's the murderer?"
Why isn't God Nuo responding? Is he thinking?
[ God Nuo's expression... well... fans reasonably suspect he doesn't remember who Shali is.]
Jiang Nuo paused, lowered his fist, hesitated for two seconds, and asked, "Who is Shali?"
Su Yi: "..."
Didn't you just see her?
Su Yi suspected that Jiang Nuo hadn't even remembered her name.
"The little girl who brought us back," Su Yi explained.
Jiang Nuo suddenly realized.
He grabbed the vengeful ghost, who was nearly beaten to a pulp, and tried to pry off the ram's horns, but couldn't. So he gave up and kicked it instead.
"You killed your daughter?"
"I didn't! I wanted to save her! But the terrifying yet magnificent... is still here! I can't escape."
The ghost's roar was very loud.
But Jiang Nuo still didn't hear the name.
Just like last time when the boss spoke, Jiang Nuo thought she hadn't heard him clearly, but now it seems that wasn't the case.
Jiang Nuo lowered his body, staring intently at the vengeful ghost's festering mouth.
Ba, "Say it again, what's so great?"
The vengeful ghost repeated the story, his pupils filled with terror as he spoke.
Jiang Nuo blinked in confusion, making sure he hadn't been daydreaming. He looked at Su Yi, "Did you hear that?"
Su Yi shook her head.
"Then it can only mean... the town's rules don't allow us to hear about it for the time being."
Jiang Nuo scoffed, coldly glancing out the glass window.
That's interesting.
"Terrifying yet magnificent, it means even their names are kept secret."
The vengeful ghost finally told the truth, and felt much better. She weakly pleaded, "Please return my body to my soul... I don't want to be trapped here any longer."
Jiang Nuo lowered her eyes; she wasn't in a good mood at the moment.
"Benefit."
The ghost thought for a moment, "I can guide you... guide you to the secret chamber of the church. Stranger, believe me, I am not a supporter of the church!"