I hurriedly retracted my head, pressed it against the wall and waited quietly, while the green smoke of the incense candle continued to float out...
"rustle…"
There was a vague strange sound in my ears. I turned my head slightly and saw an old face full of wrinkles suddenly leaning over from the other side of the wall. His eyes turned white and he stared at me first, and then his eyes were blurred.
Attracted by the scented candle in my hand...
The corners of his chapped mouth curled up slightly, and a pair of withered hands slowly stretched out...
I took a step back, picked up the incense candle and waved it in front of him.
"Want it?"
The old man's expression changed and he made an old voice,
"You can see me..."
I didn’t want to talk nonsense with him, so I got straight to the point:
"I'm asking you about a person, no, it's a ghost. If you tell me honestly, I can give you this incense candle. After you enjoy it, I will save you."
"hehe…"
The old man curled his lips and laughed a few times,
"You want to send me away with just one incense candle?"
I thought about it,
"Then five incense candles and one piece of paper money."
He laughed a few more times, then suddenly stretched out his old face in front of me and said in a sinister voice:
"One hundred incense candles, five hundred pieces of paper money, nothing less!"
I frowned, this old guy is really greedy!
Then he raised his hand to form a sword and pressed it against the ghost gate on the old man's forehead, and said coldly:
"As long as I exert a slight force, your ghost door will be broken. You should know the consequences, so it is best not to negotiate terms with me. Let me ask you, have you ever seen a female ghost wearing a cheongsam?
"
When the old man saw that I was serious about it, he immediately showed fear on his face.
"Great... Archmage, please don't get excited. I... I saw the female ghost you mentioned..."
"lead the way!"
"I'll take you there right now..."
After saying that, the old man slowly turned around and walked towards the old locust tree, and I followed closely behind.
The homeless man who had been trapped by a ghost before had already fallen to the ground. The old man stopped pestering him. It would not take long for him to wake up, so I left him alone for the time being.
When he came to the locust tree, the old man trembled and said:
"Great... Archmage, I saw her under this tree before, and I don't know where she went after that."
I was suspicious and didn't quite believe what he said, so I took out the compass and looked at it, and found that the pointer kept spinning in place, which meant that Ye Qing was indeed here. But the strange thing was that I glanced around,
Didn't find her figure...
Just when I couldn't figure it out, the old ghost beside me said calmly:
"Arch mage, are you down here..."
When I saw him pointing at the root of the tree, I understood immediately. I was frightened and immediately took out the folding shovel from my backpack and started digging at the root of the tree.
"Don't let anything happen..."
I kept mumbling while digging hard.
Ten minutes later, I stopped what I was doing and looked at the tree pit at my feet in surprise.
I saw a strange thing appear in the tree pit. This thing was oval-shaped, as long as a person, like a silkworm chrysalis, but the outermost layer was not silk, but wrapped in branches.
I could vaguely feel the ghostly aura emanating from the gaps in the branches, which was very weak!
An ominous premonition came to my mind. I hurriedly squatted down and tried to break off the branches with my hands, but because they were wrapped too tightly, they wouldn't budge no matter how hard I tried!
So I turned around and picked up the folding shovel and chopped it down with all my strength. I heard a crisp "click" sound and several outer branches were broken in succession. I felt happy and lifted up the folding shovel again, but this time,
When the folding shovel was lifted into the air, it couldn't fall down.
As if being held up by something...
I was suddenly startled and looked up quickly, only to see a five or six-year-old little girl hanging upside down from the tree and clutching the folding shovel with her hands!
The little girl's face was pale, her eyes were white, and her long hair fell right on my face, which made me shiver all over.
"Holy shit!"
I cursed loudly, subconsciously let go of my hand, and wanted to avoid it, but found that I couldn't move my two feet!
I looked down and saw this man lying on the ground. He grabbed my legs tightly with both hands, raised his head and grinned at me. It was the old man!
"what are you doing?!"
As soon as I asked the question, I felt my neck tighten suddenly, as if it was entangled with something. I leaned over and looked, and found that it was actually hair!
It’s the hair of the little girl hanging upside down from the tree!
Without allowing me to react, the hair tightened around my neck and lifted me up. I suddenly felt difficulty breathing, my head was deprived of oxygen, and my eyes were about to bleed!
But I still struggled hard and kept kicking my feet in the air!
"Hehe... Bah! A young boy still wants to save me!"
A sinister sound of laughter and curses penetrated my ears.
But I couldn't care less about talking to him now. The hair around my neck was tightening continuously. I rolled my eyes and used my last strength to take out a handful of red saltpeter powder from my backpack and ignored it.
Spreading to the top of the head...
A shrill scream immediately came from above my head, and I felt my neck suddenly loosen up, and I fell directly to the ground, and the little girl also fell down with me!
I put one hand on the ground and coughed violently, and with the other hand I took out the Yin-Yang mirror and inserted it on the ground in front of me. The old man and the girl exclaimed at the same time and turned around quickly, for fear of seeing themselves in the mirror.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, I quickly took a few deep breaths and replenished the air I had lacked before. I put away the yin-yang mirror, held a large coin in my hand and said in a deep voice to the two ghosts in front of me:
"The old man and the young man are harming others here. It seems I can't keep you here!"
"Mother Casting Big Money?!"
The old man's expression changed, and he turned around and ran away into the distance. The little girl also looked at me bitterly, then lightly jumped onto the old ghost's shoulder and ran away with her...
"I just thought of running away now, it's too late!"