I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 20 The Ghost is Coming

"You can't escape."

Teacher Orange said softly.

Her words made Lin Xing'an's face turn pale.

No wonder……

No wonder Yu Yu was able to find him before the police in a mysterious way the first two times he ran away.

No wonder Xu Can seemed to be waiting for him at Xiaoximen on purpose tonight.

No wonder his parents didn't restrict his freedom even after he ran away twice. They were just testing him...

"Don't worry, little brother."

"Unless there are special circumstances, the gluttonous ghosts will not deliberately target you. This requires them to reveal their true form and release their ghost domain."

"In other words, as long as you make sure your parents are asleep when you leave and they don't wake up during the trip, there will be no problem."

Fang Dajun hurriedly comforted him.

"But I came out tonight and I didn't plan to go back..."

"Besides... I did too much tonight and left myself no room to go back."

Lin Xing'an smiled bitterly.

Fang Dajun patted Lin Xing'an's shoulder in understanding, "Hey, little brother, just hold on for a few more days."

"As long as you kill three higher-ranking ghosts, the mark left by the gluttonous ghost on you will be removed, and you will be free."

"Wu Shang?"

Lin Xing'an frowned.

"Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, and Wu are the levels of classification for humans and gluttonous ghosts, and each major level is further divided into two smaller levels, upper and lower."

"After killing a ghost, its dark side will naturally enter the human body."

"Darkness can transform the human body and enhance human strength, but if there is too much darkness in the body..."

Teacher Orange paused.

"Then humans...will turn into ghosts?"

Lin Xing'an suddenly thought of the deep black spots that penetrated into Xu Can's body after his death.

"That's right. You only need to absorb the Yin Hui of three Wu-level upper-level ghosts, and the Yin Hui in your body will exceed the popularity, thus covering the mark of the gluttonous ghost."

"If you wish to improve further, you must continue to absorb darkness until... the last of your popularity is annihilated."

Teacher Orange closed her eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, his brown pupils had turned into a throbbing black.

In the dim moonlight inside the car, one could clearly see the gloomy look in her eyes.

"...Once the darkness is absorbed, it can never be eliminated?"

"can."

Qiao Qiao slammed the camera shut.

"The village chief of Taoyuan Village has the ability to remove the darkness in your body and turn you into an ordinary person again."

"Taoyuan Village..."

"A legendary village where only humans live, a paradise for humans."

"...Teacher Orange just told me."

A hint of suspicion flashed across Lin Xing'an's face. "Actually, I was just about to ask, since no one has ever seen Taoyuan Village, and no one knows how to get there, how do we know that Taoyuan Village really exists? How do we know that we humans really come from Taoyuan Village?"

he asked hesitantly.

"Haha, little brother, Taoyuan Village does exist. Humans have been working hard to open up Taoyuan Village for so many years."

Fang Dajun said with a smile, a hint of longing in his eyes.

"But... no one has seen it, and no one knows how to get there. Even... does it really exist?"

"No, no, no, it does exist."

Fang Dajun said quickly.

"Little brother, to be honest, I didn't believe it at first. How could such an illusory thing exist?"

"But half a year ago, I had a dream. I dreamed of Taoyuan Village, the true hometown of all of us humans."

"This dream has been experienced by all awakened humans. The details are exactly the same. You will understand when you dream it yourself."

He said with conviction.

"...A dream? That's not really...concrete evidence."

"Even if everyone's dreams are the same, that... doesn't seem to mean anything..."

"What if Taoyuan Village..."

Before Lin Xing'an could finish his words, Teacher Juzi waved her hand.

"Little brat, do you have a hundred thousand questions? Ask these questions after you join the organization."

She glanced at the time. It was already 1:30 in the morning. "Yun Xi, why hasn't Wang Xi come yet?"

"Sister Juzi, I just called four or five times, but Brother Xizi didn't answer or reply to my messages."

"Could there be any accident? Should I go look for it?"

Zhang Yunxi shook her phone and looked outside the car.

"...Wait a minute."

"Hey? Great, Orange, you caught another kid. I'm hungry tonight."

As soon as Teacher Orange finished speaking, a yellow-haired man opened the back door of the car.

"Hello Mr. Fang, I'll take you to your restaurant tonight and stew you!"

"Wang Xi, don't joke like that."

Qiao Qiao took off his glasses and glared at Wang Xi seriously. Fang Dajun also made a tut sound at him.

"Haha, just kidding, bro. My name is Wang Xi. You can call me whatever you want. I'll protect you from now on!"

"When you go to school, if someone bullies you, tell me your brother's name and I'll definitely let you off the hook!"

Wang Xi raised his chin nonchalantly.

"Brother Xizi, why didn't you answer my call?"

"Well, just turn it on silent! And it's raining heavily, who would look at their phone? I'll definitely do my best to complete the task!"

"Tsk, I think you are just being lazy..."

Zhang Yunxi crossed her arms with a look of doubt.

"Sister, don't tell me, I've achieved something tonight."

Wang Xi took off his raincoat and stretched half his body to get an AD calcium from the front seat of the car. "Here, I don't know if I took the picture, but I saw it."

He took a sip and handed the camera to Qiao Qiao beside him.

"What did you see?"

Teacher Orange and Qiao Qiao asked in unison.

"It was just a car, and the wind and rain were so strong that the black curtain covering it blew off a small corner."

"At that moment, I saw that what was inside seemed to be a statue, so I was delayed for a while and I don't know if I was able to capture it."

Wang Xi narrowed his eyes and recalled the scene he saw at that time.

"statue?"

Teacher Orange frowned.

"Forget it, let's talk about it when we get back. We can't delay it any longer."

She didn't ask any more questions.

But just as the car started, Teacher Orange's expression suddenly changed.

At some point, a layer of frost appeared on the car window.

The weather outside also became gloomy and gloomy.

The mottled rust crawled into the car like a poisonous snake.

"Crack!"

A dark green lightning suddenly streaked across the sky, and beneath the tearing thunder, the bean-sized raindrops turned scarlet.

“…A ghost is coming.”

Teacher Orange lowered her eyes and said.

She took a deep breath, and as she slowly exhaled, her entire aura changed again.

There was a sense of detachment in his every gesture.

"Lao Fang, come with me and solve this problem."

"it is good."

Fang Dajun turned his body and his arms continued to stretch like dough, easily reaching the last bag two meters away.

"Orange, do I need it?"

Wang Xi twisted his neck and moved his wrists.

"Your abilities are unstable, and you make a lot of noise. There are too many gluttons at the station. Forget it."

"Qiao Qiao, you should wait for us in the car too. You've already consumed too much energy tonight."

"Yunxi, please burn some incense. Give us a stick of incense."

Teacher Orange took out a long sword from her bag.

"...Sister Orange, can this cold weapon... kill ghosts?"

Lin Xing'an asked hesitantly.

"It's okay for lower-level ghosts, but only weapons with a dark side can harm higher-level ghosts."

"But if you want to kill a ghost, weapons are secondary. The key is to find their weaknesses."

Teacher Orange raised her eyes and said.

Seeing Lin Xing'an's confused expression, she also sighed softly.

"Weapons imbued with Darkness are like sticky rice to zombies and garlic cross to vampires. They can greatly weaken gluttons."

"But have you ever seen people kill zombies with sticky rice or vampires with garlic?"

"If you want to kill a ghost, unless you have a strength that completely crushes them by several levels, you must find their weaknesses to defeat them."

A sharp light flashed in her eyes.

"...Do we have to kill the ghost then? Can't we just walk away?"

A trace of worry flashed across Lin Xing'an's face.

"Yes, if you don't kill the ghost, you will never be able to leave the ghost realm unless it takes it back on its own initiative."

"Also, just call me Orange from now on."

Teacher Juzi nodded at Zhang Yunxi as she spoke, "Yunxi, burn incense."

She and Fang Dajun walked into the blood rain outside.

Zhang Yunxi also produced three incense sticks from her sleeve like magic.

She lit the incense stick while muttering something and then inserted it into the incense burner in front of the van.

After a while, the whole car was filled with a pleasant and soothing aroma.

The dilapidated feeling in the car gradually dissipated in this mist.

(End of this chapter)