The Exorcist

After a few hours.

"Ruan Zhan, Ruan Zhan, Ruan Zhan!" Xiao Xia cried out, waking up from the boundless darkness.

"I'm here." Someone answered her. She followed the prestige and saw Ruan Zhan sitting on the opposite bed looking at her. Although his face was very pale, he didn't look like a ghost.

"Am I dead or are you still alive?" She was extremely surprised, unable to determine reality and illusion for the time being.

"We are all alive." Ruan Zhan said lightly.

"you promise?"

"I promise!"

"I want to touch your hand." She had to make sure that he wasn't a scholar and ghost who had come to lie to her again.

Hearing her calling his name in a dream made him feel that she was very conscientious, so he complied with her request.

Xiao Xia grabbed Ruan Zhan's wrist, feeling the warmth of his skin and the strong pulsation from her own palm, and finally felt at ease. She only felt that the alienated tone and reserved expression that she hated him the most had also become cute.

"Are you injured?" Looking at Ruan Zhan's pale face, Xiao Xia's heart was filled with uneasiness in an instant.

It's all because of her, otherwise this man would still be able to stay in the bar safely to make money and pick up girls. Although he was neatly dressed and looked calm now, she had witnessed him being bitten by countless little water ghosts before, and suffered serious flesh injuries. And in the time she's been out of the water, she's sure he must have encountered greater threats. She didn't know how he solved it, but it must have cost a lot, even life-threatening.

"It's okay, it'll be fine." He said lightly.

"I'm sorry for involving you in this matter." Seeing the firmness under his gentle appearance, Xiaoxia felt a little admiration for him in her heart, and let her conscience show a little. But she immediately remembered what happened before she lost consciousness, and asked with lingering fear: "But——you didn't come up for a long time after you threw me on the shore. Later, that scholar ghost took on your appearance to lie to me. I thought you were dead. "

"That's because you fainted from embarrassment on the spot, and didn't see the future developments."

Oh, this man! It's so cute. It took less than a minute to worry about what he was doing. Let the ghost strangle him to death!

Seeing Xiaoxia stare at him, Ruan Zhan's goal has been achieved. Whoever said that anger is a bad emotion, it all depends on where it appears, now it can make Xiao Xia quickly recover from the panic a few hours ago. He had called Wanli before and learned the cause and effect of the incident. He couldn't say that he was moved by Xiaoxia's brave behavior to support him, especially considering that she was very timid.

"Then what happened to it? Brave man!" Xiao Xia asked angrily. She is now very sure that they are the victorious party, otherwise they would not be alive and well, so she really wants to know the process, so even though she has repeatedly prevented herself from ignoring that 'hateful person', she still can't hold her breath .

"It won't come out to threaten anyone." Ruan Zhan paused, "In fact, it disappeared and was smashed to ashes by the blood wood sword."

"So cruel?"

"There is no way. There is no escaped soul under the blood-wood sword, let alone the stone sword that has been suppressing it." Ruan Zhan briefly explained what happened, picking out the main ones, and satisfied the curious baby. But even though he said it easily, Xiao Xia could still hear the danger in it.

"That—what's the matter with the blood wood sword? It will become bigger and smaller—" Xiao Xia asked hesitantly. She has never seen such a miraculous thing since she grew up. She thought she could only see it on TV, and she really wanted to keep it for herself.

"A bloodwood sword is a sword made of bloodwood."

"This is not nonsense!"

"The blood tree is a tree that has been extinct for many years, and it has only been heard of in legends." Ruan Zhan further explained, "It is said that it grows in extremely shady places and feeds on the blood of living creatures. Therefore, its branches are blood red , if any part is injured, it will bleed. It is originally the most evil thing, but if it can be refined with a spell, it will become an excellent evil thing."

"Is it to control evil with evil?"

"You can say that. As for this one, my father passed it down from his master for generations. I don't know how long ago it was a magic weapon."

"So you don't know how to use it at all, right? I just think you're acting recklessly." Xiao Xia never let go of the opportunity to ridicule Ruan Zhan.

Ruan Zhan didn't care. "That's right, it's a bit difficult to use the blood wood sword with my ability, but thanks to this sword, we can save our lives." He walked to the window while talking, and took a deep breath of the fresh air from the river , the feeling of suffocation of a few hours ago was swept away.

Those who have not experienced death will not know the value of life.

After he went down the river last night, he has been looking for the scholar's burial place again. Normally, destroying that place will greatly reduce the ability of the wraith spirit or even completely subdue it. But it was hidden so well that it couldn't be found, and it chased back because it sensed danger. The success of the fusion also brought him a great threat.

"I think I have to bear a little responsibility for this matter. I didn't think carefully and ran here without authorization, which almost killed you." When it comes to endangering life, Xiao Xia immediately launched self-criticism, and stopped attacking with small nose and small eyes. Ruan Zhan, "I almost killed you."

"On the contrary, it was you who saved my life. If you hadn't brought the blood-wood sword to support me, I would not have escaped." Ruan Zhan praised Xiaoxia's small contribution very gracefully. This sowed the 'curse' for the future.

"That's not the case." Xiao Xia scratched her head, feeling a little embarrassed, "It was a female ghost holding a child who led me there, or else I wouldn't know where you are." She told what she had experienced. Again, "Do you know who they are?"

"Now I know. Remember that stone box? It's the container where the scholar was sunk in the river." Ruan Zhan didn't know how to describe it. "There are many people's hair and a beating heart in it. You I saw it too."

Xiao Xia nodded, her heart was still flustered.

"Those hairs belonged to the victims of the Ye Mansion extermination case. That resentful spirit used their hair to trap their souls for it to enslave. And - Li Jingming's family, except for their father and son."

"What do you mean?" Xiao Xia was startled by the unexpected news, "You're joking! Doesn't this mean that Li Jingming's family died long ago?"

"That's right." Ruan Zhan said without any emotion, "That's why Li Jingming always said that their family is weird, because they were killed as early as the night they lived in Yeyuan, but the ghost used magic Keeping their souls in the body for him to drive, but it won't last long. So even if Li Jingming doesn't do it himself, after seventy-seven forty-nine days, they will still die."

"But why did it let Li Jingming and his son go? Does it really want Li Shulun's body? And that heart—is it Li Jingming's? That—we stabbed that heart, didn't we kill him? ?”

"Whether it wants Li Shulun's body, I didn't have time to ask you Miss, but it is very possible. As for the heart, do you think it can be installed back after leaving Li Jingming's body? Fact In fact, he has been dead since the time of "chest cold", but he didn't realize it, because the resentful spirit incarnated as his heart and stayed in his body. It can predict that Li Jingming's house is not peaceful It will definitely find someone to catch ghosts, so it is easy to control him this way, and this method of possessing is not easy to be seen by others. Only by being cautious can it succeed! Hmph, it is worthy of being a scholar during its lifetime. There are two tricks in mind, much better than ordinary evil spirits who shout to fight and kill."

"You still praise it! Really!"

"That's the truth. I said earlier that it has become a 'sha', and not only is it as simple as a half-sha, but it can even keep a part of the soul to practice magic at the bottom of the river. Fortunately, we were one step earlier. If we wait for it to become a big , I can only ask God to bless you."

"Is it practicing with that heart?"

"Obviously. I don't know what it is practicing, but it must be related to that heart. Otherwise, have you ever seen a heart that has been away from the body for so long still beating, and it is so powerful and so strange? Its most important power is there , so it was precisely because of 'killing' the heart that it was finally wiped out by luck."

Xiao Xia didn't speak. She knew that the causes and consequences analyzed by Ruan Zhan were correct, but she was still very disappointed. She has always wanted to save Li Jingming, so she can persevere through so many frightened things. Who knew that in the end, the bamboo basket fetched water in vain. It turned out that what she wanted to save was a person who could not be saved at all.

"Why does it insist on killing Li Jingming's family? Is there some deep hatred in the previous life?"

"There is no deep hatred, it just wants to harm people. It wants someone to be more miserable than it."

"In the final analysis, we still failed to save Li Jingming." Xiao Xia felt a pity in her heart, "He begged me so much, and I agreed."

"At least you saved Li Shulun." Ruan Zhan comforted her, "Believe me, he will be fine. And it is precisely because you insisted on handling this case that many ghosts who were enslaved by resentful spirits were able to go free. Isn’t that a good thing? Don’t just help people, sometimes ghosts need help too, it’s not good to be speciesist.”

His last sentence made Xiao Xia smile.

"Do you know? That female ghost is Miss Ye and all the people who died in Ye Mansion back then. You should know that they had good intentions about what happened last night. In fact, they want to ask you for help so that they can be relieved."

"They want to ask you for help, so they let me play a big supporting role!"

"As long as the goal is achieved." Ruan Zhan faced out of the window again. This morning he saw that the black air that had lingered on the river surface for a long time dissipated, presumably each of them had their own place, which also made him feel that this time it was not in vain.

"Actually, I sympathized with that scholar at the beginning, but although he was wronged back then, he did too much later!"

"Yeah, things that go against the law of nature will never end well. We were able to eliminate it. Is it a coincidence or good luck? It can only be said that the existence of unreasonable things will not last long, but it is all thanks to my hand."

"So everything is over?" Xiao Xia suddenly felt powerless when Ruan Zhan talked about the process of eliminating the scholar ghost, "Where is Li Jingming? Has he declared his death?"

Ruan Zhan nodded. "I just talked to Wan Li on the phone, and he left the moment the blood-wood sword pierced his heart last night."