Chapter 280 Demon
Chapter 280 Demon
“Ah…Ah…”
In the dark and narrow corridor, it was so quiet that the only sound of each other's breathing could be heard. Ning Zheping stretched out his right arm and raised the lantern high. The light illuminated the pale figure standing in the corner. Its lips were slightly open, and hoarse moans came from its dry throat, and its whole body was shaking like a sieve.
The next moment, Spencer suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with light, staring straight at the blonde girl who had her face buried in Ning Zhe's chest, too scared to look up, and an inhuman cry leaked out of his throat.
“Eee-Eee——”
Bang bang, the wall beside Ning Zhe suddenly made the sound of stone being hit by a blunt object, and the other ghosts wandering in the castle were also attracted. Dong-dong-the dull impact sound came one after another, and each one was like a heavy hammer hitting Bai Zhi's heart, and the wall and the floor vibrated hummingly.
Ning Zhe remained unmoved, his eyes calmly staring at Spencer who was moaning as he walked towards him.
"I remember he seemed to be strangled to death?"
Ning Zhe recalled his memories when he was in the hall on the first floor of the castle as Cynthia. At that time, Spencer disturbed the ghosts wandering in the hall by knocking over the candlestick. Hundreds of ghosts were rampant and tried to grab him. Ning Zhe clearly remembered that a pair of ghost hands pinched Spencer's neck, so he thought he was probably strangled to death by the ghosts.
But now it seems that is not the case.
Ning Zhe looked carefully and found that there were no bruises on Spencer's neck, nor any obvious scars anywhere else on his body. Only his face was distorted and as pale as paper, as if all the blood had been drained.
"Hmm?" Ning Zhe turned his eyes and noticed something that he had never had the chance to observe before.
finger.
"Spencer is missing a finger on his left hand, it's his little finger." Ning Zhe frowned slightly, looking at the uneven fracture on Spencer's left hand. There was no bone between the skin and flesh. His left little finger should have been broken off by hand rather than chopped off by a sword or other sharp weapon.
He remembered that when Spencer was still alive, his left hand was intact, so was Spencer's little finger broken off after his death? Was it broken by a ghost? Or did he break it himself?
While Ning Zhe was thinking, the wall beside him shook more and more violently, shaking off clouds of dust. Spencer walked into the light and came in front of Ning Zhe.
It stretched out its hand slowly with its whole body convulsing, and its bleeding fingertips gently touched Baizhi's slightly trembling back.
Huh—Ning Zhe blew out the corpse oil lamp, and the corridor fell into darkness.
The girl in Ning Zhe's arms disappeared as the lights went out. At the same time, Spencer, who had been stuck like a rusty gear, suddenly became ferocious. He grabbed Ning Zhe's neck with a pair of cold hands, and the heavy force made Ning Zhe dizzy.
Thump—thump—the sound of pounding the wall became more and more crazy. Ning Zhe barely opened his mouth while being strangled by Spencer, and moaned with all his might: "Spencer, don't you want to protect me?"
Before he finished speaking, the force that was strangling Ning Zhe's neck suddenly loosened, and a moment later, he was strangled even harder.
"I... I'm Cynthia..." Ning Zhe reached out and touched Spencer's pale face, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't you remember? Nabal, I'm Cynthia, aren't you going to protect me and Kaqiuya? What are you doing now?"
The woman's voice was sobbing, and in the darkness two lines of tears fell from the corners of Ning Zhe's eyes. The warm tears fell on Spencer's wrist, making him a little confused.
Seeing the right moment, Ning Zhe broke free from Spencer's hands, took out a lighter and lit the corpse oil lamp with a click. The warm light dispelled the darkness, and Bai Zhi reappeared in the corridor with a confused look on her face.
At the same time, the wall next to it suddenly broke apart, and a pale and thin hand stretched out from the gap between the bricks and stones.
"Ning Zhe?" Bai Zhi's face turned pale with shock: "What should we do now?" "Nothing." Ning Zhe reluctantly grabbed Bai Zhi with his broken left hand and pulled her closer to him. The fallen bricks fell to the ground with a crash, and the crack in the wall suddenly widened, allowing a ghost to get in.
She was a white girl with long flaxen hair. She was wearing a loose down jacket. The hood with a zipper behind the collar was taken off. Her green eyes were shining faintly.
"That, that is..." Bai Zhi opened her eyes wide.
"That's Cynthia." Ning Zhe took Bai Zhi back two steps, and a girl with long flaxen hair crawled in from the crack in the wall. She was Ning Zhe's last identity, Spencer's college classmate and pursuit object, a white girl named Cynthia: "It seems that after I died in the hall, Cynthia also became one of them."
Looking at Cynthia crawling into the secret passage from the crack, Ning Zhe suddenly noticed her pale hand, which, like Spencer's, was missing a finger.
Spencer is missing the little finger on his left hand, and Cynthia is missing the little finger on her right hand.
Is there any connection between these two?
Before Ning Zhe could think about it, Cynthia had already squeezed through the crack and stretched out her broken hand towards Bai Zhi, crawling over with a groan. She was also killed by a ghost, and she was also driven by the order to "kill all living people in the castle."
But the next moment, Cynthia's steps suddenly stopped, and it was Spencer who grabbed her arm from behind. That was Jue Yuan's mental stamp, Spencer would protect Cynthia and Kaqiuya no matter what.
Cynthia turned her head mechanically, staring at Spencer with eyes full of resentment.
While the two ghosts were still struggling in the passage, Ning Zhe pulled Bai Zhi up and turned to run. The two climbed up the stairs along the secret passage and ran all the way back to the city lord's bedroom. After climbing out of the cave, they slammed the lid shut and locked it. Ning Zhe asked Bai Zhi to sit at the head of the bed, and he walked to the corner with a lamp to prevent her from being illuminated by the light.
"It's safe for now." Ning Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, hung the lamp on the wall, and moved a chair to sit under the oil lamp.
Bai Zhi looked at the locked manhole cover, then looked at Ning Zhe who was sitting far away, and asked with some lingering fear: "Just now...what happened? What on earth happened?"
"The ghosts are just fighting among themselves." Ning Zhe thought for a moment, and explained to Bai Zhi the conflict of rules that happened to Spencer in the shortest possible language, and then said: "These dead people wandering in the castle seem to be controlled by the same ghost, but I have no idea how it controls them..."
Before he finished speaking, Ning Zhe recalled the broken fingers on Spencer's left hand, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.
"…No, maybe I have a clue."
"Are you talking about those two ghost fingers?" Bai Zhi asked.
"That's right." Ning Zhe nodded and said, "Men on the left and women on the right... I seem to have seen this kind of ghost in a book."
Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said softly, "When I was reading Liao Zhai before, I saw a story that said that the soul of a person who was eaten by a tiger would turn into a ghost, deceiving passers-by so that they would also be eaten by the tiger and turned into ghosts together.
A big tiger that has eaten many people may even have hundreds or even thousands of minions gathered on the hill where it lives, and their resentment will rise to the sky, and the accumulated resentment will turn into a demon. "
"The book also says that the way to identify evil spirits is to look at their fingers. Although evil spirits can deceive living people, they dare not let living people look at their fingers."
Bai Zhi continued, "Because male minions don't have little fingers on their left hands, and female minions don't have little fingers on their right hands, once someone sees the minions' hands, they will be exposed."
(End of this chapter)