Chapter 58. Busy All Night For Nothing.
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
After Du Yan sent Xiao Lang’s soul back to his body, he went straight back to his room.
He stood in front of the bed, feeling a little distressed. It must be said that Xiao Lang’s sudden appearance actually completely disrupted his plans for tonight.
As a celestial master of the exorcism sect, Du Yan is currently a disciple who has not yet completed his apprenticeship. Although his strength is considered good, he does not have any little ghosts to control.
For the Exorcism Master, not having the little ghost is like having no eyes, ears, or hands or feet, and he can only exert one tenth of his strength.
During the day, Du Yan suddenly asked to live in this single room because he saw something unusual on the stepping bed. The red-clothed female ghost was originally the first ghost chosen by Du Yan to be his ghost servant.
The plan was going very smoothly. As long as Du Yan’s talisman was attached to the back of the ghost’s head, he could receive the ghost into the magic weapon and refine her into a ghost that he could control.
However, at the critical moment of the last step, Xiao Lang disrupted the plan.
In the plot of the movie, Xiao Lang is not only the gateway between yin and yang. From time to time, strange events would happen to him where the space overlapped into another Shunping City. From the beginning to the end, he never showed any difference from ordinary people.
Compared to the soul leaving the body, Xiao Lang kicked the female ghost into almost nothingness, which is not so incomprehensible.
When the living soul escapes from the body, it will naturally no longer be affected by the seal. Xiao Lang’s living soul can communicate with yin and yang. He can contact the ghosts in the yin world, but he also carries strong yang energy from the yang world, which is almost fatal to the resentful ghosts.
Anyway, the current situation is that Xiao Lang returns to his body safely, and Du Yan has to clean up the mess for him.
There was nothing wrong with this stepping bed. If the supernatural incident of a female ghost combing her hair really happened every night, this hotel would have closed down long ago.
However, the seal on Xiao Lang has been gradually weakening. Du Yan’s reinforcement in the tunnel was only a one-time repair. The inertia of the movie plot determines that the seal on his body will gradually lose its effectiveness, which can not be changed.
Now, when Xiao Lang came to this room, the leaked energy caused the bed to communicate with another world.
Thus, the original owner of the bed, the woman in red, could appear in this world. Unfortunately, she died before she could accomplish her mission. Before she could commit any evil murder, she was kicked into almost nothingness by Xiao Lang.
The stepping bed in front of him has not yet returned to its previous state and still looks brand new.
Du Yan lifted his feet to the bed and groped his way along the bed frame inch by inch. After a long time of hard work, he finally found a small secret compartment in an extremely hidden place.
Du Yan took out a handful of hair from the secret compartment.
To be precise, this small bunch of hair should be the hair of two people tied together. One of the hair is black and shiny, as if it was just cut not long ago. The other hair is a little dry. Obviously, it has been left for a long time.
It seems that this is the medium between the female ghost and the living world. Du Yan stood up and took out a talisman paper from his backpack.
He stuck the talisman paper on the hair, and a faint light flashed on his fingertips, and he tapped the talisman paper. The talisman paper was ignited and turned into ashes.
From that bunch of hair, there was a wisp of green smoke coming out.
After the smoke cleared, the woman in red appeared in the room.
She was still wearing the bright red wedding dress, but her face had returned to normal, and her black hair had returned to her head. Except for her face being a little too pale and her figure being a little ethereal, she looked no different from an ordinary person.
As soon as the woman appeared, she looked around in horror.
Du Yan was a little amused and said: “The man has gone back, you don’t have to worry.”
The woman bowed to Du Yan and said, “Thank you, benefactor. That man was so rude just now. He almost kicked me to ashes.”
Du Yan pinched his brows, thinking that the current situation was really too strange.
What is going on now? Xiao Lang kicked away all the resentment in this woman. Now, the one standing in front of him is just a wandering soul, and there is no way to refine a wandering soul into a ghost servant.
The woman saw Du Yan’s cold expression. He was holding the hair in his hand. She was slightly startled, and then a tearful expression appeared on her face.
Du Yan naturally knew that this hair had a story. Otherwise, it would not have become a medium for the female ghost to reside in it.
In this situation, he can not just leave this wandering soul alone. Otherwise, she will slowly lose consciousness day by day and finally completely disappear between heaven and earth.
Du Yan was the cause of the whole incident, and he could only clean up the mess and try to send the wandering soul to reincarnation.
This was not Du Yan’s area of expertise, so he could only use the dumbest method, which was to help the ghost woman untie her knot. If she could figure it out and let go of her obsession, she could re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. Fortunately, the woman had not yet taken a life, so even though she had been delayed for a while, it was not difficult for her to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.
Thinking of this, Du Yan whispered to the woman: “Madam, you wander around in this world, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?”
The woman was already unable to suppress her emotions, and now, hearing Du Yan’s question, she told him her whole story.
In fact, this story is quite cliché. The woman was once a rich girl who fell in love with a poor scholar and thought he was very talented. She secretly decided to spend her life with him and sponsored him to go to the capital to take the imperial examination. The scholar promised to come back and marry her when he passed the imperial examination.
Her vision was indeed good. When the scholar passed the imperial examination and became the top scorer, the news spread to her hometown, and the woman waited patiently for the scholar to fulfill his promise and marry her in a grand sedan chair.
Just when she was embroidering her wedding dress, a thief broke into her home and killed her whole family. The woman was obsessed with the murder and turned into a vengeful ghost. She went to find the scholar and wanted her husband to catch the murderer.
However, she discovered that the scholar was trying to get close to the princess of the dynasty but was afraid that his engagement would be exposed, so he hired a bandit to kill her family. The woman wanted to seek revenge on the scholar, but the scholar hired a celestial master to suppress her. He sealed her in the bed that once held all her beautiful hopes, and she would never be able to reincarnate.
After hearing this, Du Yan remained expressionless, showing no sympathy or trying to comfort the sobbing woman. He simply asked: “Now it has been hundreds of years, and the scholar has long since become so rotten that even his bones can not be found. What are you going to do?”
Xiao Lang dispersed the female ghost’s resentment, and now she was no longer the fierce ghost who wanted to kill anyone she saw without knowing the reason. She showed a bit of hesitation on her face: “I don’t know what to do.”
Du Yan said: “That scholar killed more than 30 members of your family, including your XiongZhang’s unborn child.”
Du Yan smiled softly: “I calculated that such an evil person is probably still soaking in the oil pan of the underworld. When he enters reincarnation again, he will definitely not be reborn as a human in the next life. He will probably become a creature like a rat or a bedbug.
“If you really want to seek revenge on him, you can wait on the reincarnation platform. At least after he is reincarnated into something, you can follow him. If he is a mouse, you will be a cat. If he is a bug, you will be a bird.”
The woman hesitated: “But what I will be reincarnated into is not something I can control…”
Du Yan said: “You once said that your father often gave porridge to the poor people and exempted a lot of rent when encountering natural disasters. Such behavior will definitely bring merit to future generations. After you enter the underworld, tell the judges about your grievances and requests in detail, and they will consider it as appropriate.”
The woman’s eyes lit up, and a look of joy appeared on her face: “Thank you for your advice, benefactor. I will leave now.”
Perhaps it was Du Yan’s words that really opened the eyes of the woman. As soon as she finished speaking, a faint golden light shone on her body, and then her figure became fainter and fainter, and finally turned into a white light and disappeared on the spot.
Du Yan lowered his head to look at the bunch of hair in his hand again. The gorgeous black hair that seemed like satin turned into dust in an instant and was blown away by the wind.
The bed that Du Yan was sitting on gradually returned to the way it was when he first saw it.
Du Yan didn’t care that this bed had once been inhabited by a female ghost. He fell on the bed, feeling a little tired. He had been busy for most of the night and got nothing but instead saved a ghost.
It’s really not worth it.
Young people are always full of energy, and Xiao Lang’s roommates all got up very early due to their excitement of going out for fun.
Du Yan was so busy that he had to lie down at dawn. When Xiao Lang called him, he barely pulled himself out of his sleep.
Everyone agreed to meet in the lobby downstairs, but Du Yan was late.
Xiao Lang looked at the man walking out of the elevator. His face was pale, with two huge dark circles under his eyes. His gloomy temperament seemed even heavier, as if he were a wandering soul that did not exist in this world.
If someone else was like this, they would probably be considered decadent and unbearable to look at, but Du Yan displayed a kind of weird and world-weary beauty, which could be seen from the frequent glances cast by the lady at the front desk.
Xiao Lang went straight to him and asked concernedly: “What’s wrong with you? Didn’t you sleep well last night?”
Hearing this, Du Yan finally couldn’t help but roll his eyes at him: “And not sure who caused it.”
Xiao Lang was completely confused and had no idea what the other party was saying, but he apologized subconsciously: “Sorry…”
Du Yan rubbed his temples and finally woke up from the trance caused by a lack of sleep.
Xiao Lang had no idea what happened after the soul left the body, which was natural. There was no point in blaming this person who knew nothing.
He pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled at Xiao Lang: “I’m just not used to it. I just didn’t sleep well last night.”
The others happened to walk over and heard this. Zhou Tian said: “Could it be the room? I felt something was wrong when I entered this room yesterday. I think you’d better change the room today.”
Du Yan glanced at her. This girl seemed particularly sensitive in the movie.
He shook his head: “I’m just a little picky about my bed. I got used to it last night, so it shouldn’t happen again today.”
T/N-: See you next week.
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