Ghost Diary - Chapter 31
"Because I am Xia Canyue's father."
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Thunderbolt! I feel like this is a bolt from the blue!
We followed Xia Canyue's father into the front yard. Gu Ming turned around and saw us, smiling but saying nothing. Xia Canyue introduced her father to everyone, and everyone stared in astonishment for a long time. Then Cang Yue, Cang Yu, Cang Lang, and Cang Zhenzhen stood up first and bowed to Xia's father, saying, "Disciples of Bailu Mountain pay their respects to Mr. Gu."
Mr. Xia smiled kindly, "Why so many rules? Get up quickly. How is Daoist Cangyi?"
“My teacher is doing well, and I always think of him.”
Watching them go back and forth, Xiao Bi shuffled closer to me and asked, "Isn't Xia Canyue's dad an old man?"
I shook my head.
"Didn't he retire to the mountains? Why doesn't he have the air of a Taoist immortal?"
Shake head.
Why does he look like a movie star? Are we seeing an illusion?
Shaking his head...
After breakfast, I was going back to school with Xiao Bi and Deng Fei to do experiments. Gu Ming insisted on coming with us to school to make arrangements because of what happened last night. Xia's father, after learning about what had happened these past few days, insisted on going to Er Gou Manor in person. So we split up and met again at the entrance of "Moonlight".
When I arrived at school, I went straight to the lab. Cuihua was there too, but she looked unwell. She said she didn't know why, but as soon as she entered the lab building today, she felt cold all over and felt very uncomfortable. I knew it was because the lingering yin energy hadn't dissipated yet.
Gu Ming looked around and finally stopped outside the restroom. With a flick of his wrist, several talismans suddenly appeared on the ground. He made a hand seal with his left hand and slapped the ground with his right. The talismans seemed to flash for a moment before disappearing into the ground, thus clearing away the evil spirits.
"Have you put the purple jade I gave you around your neck?" Gu Ming asked.
"I brought it with me."
"That's good. We don't know the purpose of that thing, but it is indeed very powerful. I have set up a barrier in your laboratory. Don't wander around alone unless necessary. Come back to 'Moonlight' when you're done."
"knew."
After Gu Ming left, we all started our experiments. During that time, none of us went out alone. Even when we went to the restroom, we went with Xiao Bi Cuihua. Deng Fei and Jia Yanchan were worried, so they stood guard at the entrance of the women's restroom on either side, which attracted the attention of passersby. They felt very embarrassed.
After lunch, Gu Ming called, and I told him everything was fine.
In the afternoon, my experiment was very complicated, with many steps that were both troublesome and time-consuming. Just when I was almost finished, it was already dark. While busy with my work, I asked Xiao Bi and the others how their progress was. But after waiting for a long time, I didn't hear a reply. When I turned around, there wasn't a single person in the lab.
"Where did they all go?" I muttered as I continued the experiment. The bacteria under the microscope were long and clear, but something was different from before.
"Ah!" I exclaimed in surprise. Why had the originally transparent background turned blood red?
He hurriedly removed the glass slide containing the bacterial solution from the microscope, and sure enough, there was a drop of unidentified red liquid in the center, gleaming eerily under the light. He shuddered, turned around, and saw that the empty laboratory was still deserted. Suddenly, he realized what had happened.
Sure enough, the next second, a familiar chill swept over me. The room's lights cooperated with a crackling sound, their incandescent light flickering. Soon, a layer of cold mist filled the entire laboratory, a damp smell mingled with a fishy odor and a faint, familiar fragrance. It was the scent of the white-clad female ghost, but at this moment, I strangely and clearly knew that this scent did not belong to her, but to another person hidden somewhere in this room.
The fog grew thicker, as if all the moisture in the building had gathered there. The rows of test tubes and Erlenmeyer flasks on the lab bench gradually became indistinct in the mist, but they seemed to be filled with something, a dark red color, like the blood on the glass shard in my hand. The pungent, yet fragrant, smell grew stronger, so strong it made me want to vomit. I snapped back to reality and reached into my pocket for my phone.
"Oh no! I put it in my bag after calling Gu Ming at noon." He thought to himself, what should he do now?
Looking around, the fog was thick, but there wasn't a single person in sight. Yet, that intense presence permeated the entire room. Driven by some unknown force, he blurted out, "Who are you?"
As soon as I finished speaking, a pale blue figure suddenly appeared in the mist. The fragrance in the air was extremely strong, while the fishy smell was much lighter. The blue figure stood in the corner of the room furthest from me, and I couldn't see its appearance clearly at all. But judging from its figure and clothing, it must be a woman. Her long, jet-black hair seemed to reach her heels and fluttered inexplicably behind her blue dress.
The person stood silently in the corner, motionless, but I could feel their gaze fixed on me. The May sky had turned eerie and cold, and the drop of blood on the glass shard in my hand had frozen solid. Looking around, I realized I was at the very back of the lab, and the person in blue was in the corner closest to the door. Normally, if I wanted to escape through that door, she would arrive before me. But now she was staring at me, and I was frozen in place. If this continued, I'd either be killed by her attack or freeze to death. I might as well fight it out.
I slightly moved my nearly numb legs, my eyes scanning the aisle between the lab benches before fixing them on the door. I took a deep breath, about to run towards it, when suddenly, a stench assaulted me, drowning out the previously rich aroma. My legs gave way, and I couldn't help but vomit violently. Looking up again, I saw a round, blood-red object next to the blue figure, and the stench was emanating from that object.
I couldn't care less about anything else. The stench in the air and the sudden appearance of the creature made me feel a strong sense of oppression and danger. I turned and ran towards the door. The creature seemed to know my intention, but it just stood by the man in blue and watched everything without moving. I felt like the gazes on me were burning me. Nausea, vomiting, and even unspeakable fear enveloped me. The temperature in the room dropped even lower. Those few steps felt like ten thousand meters. When I reached the door, I didn't bother to look back and just turned the doorknob.
Snap!
The door opened...
But I stood there, unable to move, because outside the door wasn't a corridor at all, but endless darkness. Despair washed over me in an instant; it felt like being adrift in a strange space, with nothing to lean on, nothing to hold onto. You didn't know where you were, or where you would drift to next.
Wow!
Suddenly, a sound like a baby's voice came from the corner, and the gaze on my back seemed even more sinister. I slowly turned around, and about ten meters away, the two figures, one in blue and one in red, were still standing quietly. This time I was much closer, and I still couldn't see the person's face clearly in the mist, but I could see that the red thing was actually hidden under the blue person's extremely long black hair, with a sticky, fleshy surface tangled with the hair.
Guh!
Another sound, and the red thing suddenly twitched, sending a thick, white sneer straight toward my face, mixed with some red, foul-smelling stuff. I wanted to dodge, but for some reason, my body couldn't move at all, as if I were firmly rooted to the ground by some force. As I watched the sneer and the stench approach, I unconsciously cried out in my heart, "Gu Ming, Gu Ming, where are you?"
Purple Jade!
Suddenly, Gu Ming's words before he left echoed in her mind: "Did you put the purple jade I gave you around your neck?"
Action seemed to precede thought. Subconsciously, I focused my mind on the small stone around my neck. For some reason, the strange encounter on White Deer Mountain suddenly appeared before my eyes. The red-haired boy placed his hand on my head, with clear eyes and a pure voice. He said he wished me peace in the name of heaven and earth. At that moment, I also felt a warm current enter my body, and the small stone on my chest also heated up, as if a strange power was enveloping me. After a slight shock, I opened my eyes. The screeching breath had long been dissipated, and what lay on the ground were those red, foul-smelling things. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that they were rotting flesh and blood, with white maggots wriggling among them.
The two figures in blue and red in the corner trembled, seemingly in panic. A slightly trembling woman's voice came, "How could he have encountered him? How could he have such a strong aura?"
Who met whom?
I was stunned. The two figures vanished in an instant, and the fog dissipated, revealing a bright scene. I wasn't standing by the door, but sitting upright at the workbench, the glass slide in my hand covered in white bacterial solution. If it weren't for Xiao Bi, Deng Fei, Jia Yanchang, and Cuihua anxiously watching me, and the floor covered in the vomit from earlier, I would have thought it was all a dream…
I rushed to "Moonlight," where Mr. Xia was mixing drinks in the front. His impressive skills attracted a lot of people, and I then remembered that this bar was actually owned by Mr. Xia. He smiled at me, but the smile froze on his face the next second. He put down what he was holding and hurriedly came out from behind the bar, pulling me aside and asking, "Son, what's wrong?"
Before I could answer, they led us to the backyard. Gu Ming and Xia Canyue happened to be coming out of the house, followed by Gao Tian and Xiao Bai, whom I hadn't seen for several days. Except for Gao Tian, the other three were stunned when they saw me. Gu Ming ran over and looked me up and down in a panic. "What's wrong? Did we run into them again? Are you hurt anywhere?"
I shook my head to tell him I was fine, but Xiao Bai suddenly came over and pushed Gu Ming aside. He stared at me carefully, then sniffed me left and right. Finally, with a grim expression, he asked me, "You saw two, right? One smelled even stronger than Chen Si, and the other stank horribly."
"Yes." I recounted everything that had just happened.
After listening, Gu Ming came over and took my hand, whispering regretfully in my ear, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you there alone. I thought it would be safe if I set up a barrier at the entrance of the laboratory, but I didn't expect that thing could create illusions through the barrier to harm you."
"An illusion? I see." No wonder I was sitting at the control panel when I opened my eyes, even though I had run to the door.
"Let's not talk about that now, we might be in big trouble." Xiaobai jumped up and down anxiously.
"What's wrong?"
"She smells of blood spirit, she's a blood spirit!"
As soon as Xiao Bai uttered those words, Gu Ming and the others were all startled. Cang Yue and the others who came out from the next room also exclaimed in surprise. Judging from everyone's expressions, that Blood Spirit must be something powerful.
"The formation of a Blood Spirit is very complex. It is originally a normal fetus trapped in the womb due to the death of its mother. Some mothers harbor resentment before their death, which is absorbed by the fetus. The fetus survives until birth by relying on that resentment and the flesh and blood from the mother's corpse. When the Blood Spirit is born, the mother's flesh and blood are completely drained, and the bones turn to ash. The Blood Spirit has extremely strong attack power and can never be reincarnated. It can only survive by consuming rotten flesh and resentment in agony..." Xia's father explained from the side.
A fetus? I suddenly remembered the red, foul-smelling object I had just seen. Could that have been a fetus? The flesh and blood crawling with white maggots seemed to still be shimmering before my eyes.
Author: Lin Xiaomo Reply Date: 2007-05-24 12:08:00
"She smells of blood spirit, she's a blood spirit!"
As soon as Xiao Bai uttered those words, Gu Ming and the others were all startled. Cang Yue and the others who came out from the next room also exclaimed in surprise. Judging from everyone's expressions, that Blood Spirit must be something powerful.
"The formation of a Blood Spirit is very complex. It is originally a normal fetus trapped in the womb due to the death of its mother. Some mothers harbor resentment before their death, which is absorbed by the fetus. The fetus survives until birth by relying on that resentment and the flesh and blood from the mother's corpse. When the Blood Spirit is born, the mother's flesh and blood are completely drained, and the bones turn to ash. The Blood Spirit has extremely strong attack power and can never be reincarnated. It can only survive by consuming rotten flesh and resentment in agony..." Xia's father explained from the side.
A fetus? I suddenly remembered the red, foul-smelling object I had just seen. Could that have been a fetus? The flesh and blood crawling with white maggots seemed to be swaying in front of me, and a feeling of nausea churned in my stomach.
"Blood spirits are born from feeding on their mothers' flesh and blood, so they smell incredibly foul. The white fox's sense of smell is never wrong," Little White said confidently from the side.
“But Blood Spirits never travel with other ghosts and monsters. Xiao Mo said that she just encountered two people,” Xia Canyue raised a question.
Everyone fell silent. Xia's father, as if he had just thought of something, let out a soft "hmm." Everyone looked at him, and he said uncertainly, "Xiao Mo said that the red thing she saw was hidden behind the blue-clothed man's hair, and the surface was still tangled with the hair. If it really is a Blood Spirit, then there is only one person who can make a Blood Spirit follow so closely."
“You mean…” Xia Canyue’s eyes widened, “the mother of the Blood Spirit.”
"How could that be? Usually, once the soul leaves the body, it goes to reincarnation," Xiaobai said, shaking her head.
“No, if that soul encounters Li, it will become a wandering spirit that can never be reincarnated,” Xia’s father said.
"The chances of that are very small. Even if they become wandering spirits, they would never just stand by and watch their children become blood spirits."
"Yes, it will." Xia's father looked into the distance with a complicated expression.
Xiao Bai was stunned for a moment, then murmured, "Yes... Could it be that she wants to use that child to take revenge? How can there be such a heartless mother in the world?"
"When hatred reaches its extreme, one won't care about anything..."
There were still many questions that hadn't been answered when I started feeling extremely unwell and developed a fever again. Gu Ming said that the celestial energy I encountered today was too strong and that I would probably need to rest for two days. He held my hand tightly in his palm the whole night without letting go.
In a daze, I vaguely saw one blue and one red, one quiet and one brutal, but both seemed to be filled with endless sorrow...
On May 3, 2005, the doubts gradually dissipated.
When I opened my eyes in the morning, Gu Ming was still beside me, his brows furrowed as he slept.
My throat was so dry and sore. I was about to get up and pour myself a glass of water when I woke him up. He reached out and put his hand on my forehead. "You still feel a little hot. Does your throat hurt? I'll go get you some water."
I felt better after drinking two large glasses. I opened my mouth, but my voice was still hoarse. "Go back and get some sleep. I'm fine now."
Gu Ming looked at me in silence for a while, then smiled and said, "I will never leave you alone again."
Her heart sank, and she snuggled into his shoulder, her nose stinging, and said, "I'm with Little Stone, aren't I? Little Stone is super brave. If you were here, I'd be worried you'd cause trouble."
"You're lying. You were scared to death back then, weren't you? If I were there, I wouldn't have been scared, would I?"
“Gu Ming…”
"kindness?"
"Um... I'm hungry."
"..." Gu Ming's face twitched.
What kind of expression is that?
"I'm just annoyed that you're always hungry? Didn't you see I'm here sweet-talking you?"
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After breakfast, Xiao Bi and the others went back to school for their experiment. Xia's father sat at the table, took out a piece of paper, and said, "Yesterday I went to Tang Er Gou Manor and saw the skeletons on the mountain. That person was indeed buried alive, and after suffocating, his soul was forcibly sucked away. This easily makes one think of the gathering of ten thousand ghosts, but the gathering of ten thousand ghosts can directly take a person's soul without burying him alive. Why would they go to such lengths?"
"Then how do you explain it?"
Mr. Xia handed everyone a piece of paper. It had many mountains drawn on it, and in the center of a depression surrounded by mountains was Er Gou Manor. Golden gas was drawn on the mountaintops, purple gas on the mountainside, and the entire Er Gou Manor and the depression were shrouded in a layer of pure white gas. I looked at the picture and asked in confusion, "What are these gases?"