Unusual Fate Records

Chapter 214 005. Thrilling (Read at your own risk if you are easily frightened)
"That guy has probably already come knocking on our door."

Jin Ziyue had barely finished speaking.

The lights in the room snapped off. Sanshui Linxin jumped up abruptly, her phone slipping from her grasp and landing on the sofa.

Jin Ziyue immediately protected the girl. He sensed an extremely powerful fluctuation spreading from the surrounding incantations, like a vengeful ghost bursting out of an endless hell.

"Zizi..."

Just then, Sanshui Linxin's phone suddenly rang.

She was startled and looked down at the faint light emanating from her phone, only to realize that she had accidentally pressed the play button when she bumped into the sofa, and the previously paused recording had started playing again.

"what……"

The actress's voice was melodious and graceful, clearly indicating her formidable fighting prowess.

call.

San Shui stuck out her tongue awkwardly; hearing such a sound in a tense situation was indeed a bit disruptive.

She bent down to pick up her phone, but suddenly Jin Ziyue grabbed her arm and forcibly pulled her away.

At that moment, the melodious female voice on the phone suddenly screamed, the sound extremely shrill. Unlike the cries for help in the recording, the hoarse voice was indistinguishable between male and female, as if the vocal cords were about to be torn apart, and the screams were bloody.

The sudden turn of events terrified Sanshui Linxin, who turned deathly pale. She watched as crimson blood slowly seeped from her phone screen, completely obscuring the fluorescent display.

Blood gushed out like a spring, quickly filling the phone screen. Accompanied by a shrill scream, the phone buzzed, and the volume buttons were clearly beyond the limits of a regular phone, the sound continuing to grow louder and showing no signs of stopping.

In the dimly lit room, Jin Ziyue grabbed Sanshui Linxin's arm and shouted, "Let's go!"

As they stepped onto the balcony, a cracking sound came from the sofa. By the moonlight, they could turn around and see crimson liquid trickling down the corner of the table in the gloomy living room.

Before San Shui Linxin could recover from her shock, Jin Ziyue pinched his lower lip with his fingers and whistled sharply. At the same time, he swept his arm around San Shui Linxin and lifted her up in his arms. Amid the girl's gasps, he leaped onto the balcony railing.

The moment he jumped, the glass door of the balcony shattered and exploded with a series of loud crashes, sending countless fragments flying everywhere.

"what!"

Under the moonlight, the black trench coat hung like an open canvas, and the girl in shorts nestled in the man's arms, feeling weightless, as if her heart was about to burst. Behind the man, glittering shards of glass rained down, shimmering in the moonlight like descending stars.

Jin Ziyue stopped, bent his knees to cushion the impact, and looked at Sanshui Linxin in his arms, who was already ashen-faced with fright.

He put the girl down, but Sanshui's legs were weak, and he could only keep holding her with his arms wrapped around her.

Fu Xun, who was keeping watch nearby, heard Jin Ziyue's whistle and immediately rushed over.

At this moment, the lights in the surrounding houses started to come on one after another, clearly indicating that the noise had alerted the residents.

"They're calling your soul out in the middle of the night when you're not sleeping!"

"Who announced the death in the middle of the night if someone in the family died?"

An elderly woman and a grumpy middle-aged man, whose origins are unknown, started shouting outside.

Some nosy neighbors also turned on their lights, saying, "What happened? Don't scare people in the middle of the night."

Jin Ziyue sensed something was wrong and said, "Let's leave here first."

Having said that, without caring that Sanshui Linxin was still clinging to his neck, he picked her up and rushed with Fu Xun into the van not far away.

San Shui Linxin looked extremely embarrassed. Having been a homebody for many years, she was now wearing loose pajamas and super short athletic shorts meant to seduce Jin Ziyue. Coupled with the shock of the near-death experience, her spirits had been dampened, and she was no longer as composed as before.

Fu Xun scrambled into the driver's seat, while Jin Ziyue shoved Sanshui Linxin into the van, and then climbed onto the door and squeezed in shortly after the car started moving.

As Jin Ziyue closed the car door, he reminded her, "That thing followed us."

San Shui frantically rummaged through his pockets, searching for something: "My amulet, where's my amulet?"

Although Fu Xun was driving, he was just driving on the main road and had no idea where he was going.

"Where are we going!" Fu Xun shouted, not letting the engine noise drown out his voice.

San Shui Lin Xin took out his talisman, the talisman paper wrapped in a brocade sachet. When he opened it, he saw that the paper had turned from yellow to gray, and the ink on the snake-shaped characters on it was almost gone.

She had just taken it out when, with a bang, the amulet turned into a ball of fire, startling Sanshui Linxin into screaming.

"what!"

Jin Ziyue caught the burning talisman at the right moment, only to find that the flames were ice-cold and would crumble at the slightest touch.

Still shaken, Sanshui Linxin's face looked rather pale. She forced herself to suppress her fear and said, "Go to Fuling Temple!"

"It's here, it's really come looking for us."

Sanshui muttered to himself.

"It's a vicious and malevolent aura." Jin Ziyue could already sense the astonishing fluctuations of the aura, which were at least a hundred years old, but since the other party neither revealed itself nor used any actual abilities, he still had no way of judging it.

"Fate can be played like this?" Fu Xun used all five fingers of one hand to quickly search for navigation, while keeping the steering wheel steady with the other, and he also had his mouth free to complain.

"I don't know how that guy can exist without relying on a human body, and his destructive power is astonishing. He's not afraid of disturbing the public at all."

"Damn, don't horror movies say that evil spirits don't dare to come out when there are many people around?"

Fu Xun muttered to himself, glancing at the road and occasionally glancing at the rearview mirror.

San Shui said in his heart, "That guy's goal is me. If it devours me, it's not afraid of being exposed to everyone. Two years ago, it ate my dad right in front of me."

Jin Ziyue glanced behind him and saw a faint current of air lingering in the night sky, relentlessly pursuing them.

Fu Xun was already driving on the main road. It was late at night, and there weren't many vehicles traveling at night. Fuling Temple was still several kilometers away from here.

"Could you explain in detail the origin of this tragic fate?"

Jin Ziyue asked.

"Hmm. I don't know where it came from, but it seems to covet the souls of our family of psychics. Back then, it somehow possessed my father and absorbed his soul."

"Does it grow by absorbing souls?"

"Yes. One evening, during a family dinner, my father suddenly bled from all seven orifices. An evil spirit emerged from his shadow. We couldn't see it, but it was able to strangle my father to death."

"To protect me, my mother transferred her guardian spirit into me, and then she also died tragically at home."

The girl recalled that night, at the family dinner, the hanging fluorescent lights illuminating the white steam rising from the pot.

Xiao Lin and her parents looked expectantly into the pot. The green scallions, bright red beef, mushrooms, and tofu exuded a delicious aroma that made their mouths water.

"I'm starting!" The little girl was carefree at home. Seeing that the beef was almost cooked, she grabbed her chopsticks and tried to pick it up.

My father smiled indulgently at the time and said, "Be careful not to get burned."

Her mother gently added food to her plate.

Suddenly, a scene flashed in her mind: her father collapsing, clutching his neck with both hands. Sanshui tried to rush forward, but was thrown back by a terrifying force and instantly lost consciousness.

The mother screamed, calling out to her guardian spirit: "Swordsman, protect the young lady!"

Despite being choked and pulled into the air, the mother gritted her teeth and extended a yellow talisman, waving it towards Sanshui Linxin, her eyes filled with reluctance and love.

"Quick...run..."

The evil spirit rushed towards Sanshui Linxin, but was repelled by a talisman that created a protective shield. The guardian Lin Piaoran appeared, wearing a mask that obscured her face. Her yellow eyes gleamed coldly in the darkness. She was able to make contact with the evil spirit. The two appeared and disappeared intermittently, fighting from the hall to the outside.

Sanshui woke up from her heartbeat, crying as she ran desperately toward Fuling Temple.

Later, when I got home...

The white smoke from the sukiyaki rose upwards, and the boiling pot remained untouched. Eventually, the sukiyaki simmered until it was charred and burnt, and on the blood-stained straw mat, two bodies, the closest of lovers in the world, lay there, their deaths tragic.

The light and shadow outside the car window changed.

Sanshui recounted the tragedy that occurred two years ago, her right hand resting on her left arm, her eyes lowered, no longer displaying her lively spirit.

I'm preparing a Qixi Festival bonus chapter these past few days, so there won't be any jokes. Should I include the preface or the rest of the chapters? I can't write the preface as a chapter summary, and including it in the rest of the chapters might affect readability (you'd have to manually skip ahead).
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