Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 13 Yin Shou Shu

The sudden reunion caused Ran Qing's heart to ache violently. The intense sadness that surged in an instant made his eyes blur.

Although he had guessed and expected this, Ran Qing's defenses still collapsed instantly when he actually saw Li Hongye.

The girl's playful and cheerful laughter seemed to echo in his ears.

"...If your score can surpass mine, maybe I'd be willing to be your girlfriend."

Ran Qing never says unnecessary words and never does unnecessary things.

A dry wallet and a divorced family taught him to be cautious, thoughtful, and rarely impulsive from a young age.

He once thought that after the college entrance examination was over and he was admitted to a good university, he would express his feelings to that sunny girl.

But that sunny girl was different from Ran Qing. She was cheerful and lively, bold and naughty, and would often say some daring words to tease Ran Qing.

Every time, Ran Qing could only lower his head in embarrassment, listening to the girl's triumphant laughter after a successful prank, and pretending not to care.

He didn't dare respond to the girl's playful remarks because he couldn't tell which ones were sincere and which ones were just pranks.

The girl in my memory is so warm, it all seems like it was just yesterday, right in front of me, it seems...

In the windy woods, Ran Qing stared at the girl in front of him with blurred vision.

The playful and cute girl in the memory was now pale and expressionless, with the dark eyeballs in her eye sockets emitting a cold and terrifying light.

It is no longer Li Hongye.

Not only did he die, he even killed Ran Qing's father, and was even waiting for Ran Qing here.

——She wants to kill herself!

Ran Qing felt this very clearly in his heart.

The terrifying ghost in front of him, with its undisguised malice, was directed at him.

The little red rope figures under his feet were screaming and jumping in fear, circling around Ran Qing's feet like headless flies. They were stunned by the sudden appearance of Li Hongye.

The cold chill was getting closer and closer. Ran Qing held up the bronze mirror and pointed it at Li Hongye in front of him.

But the mirror that Aunt Liu said could burn evil spirits didn't work at this time!
Even the pungent smell of smoke from the cheap incense stick burning in Ran Qing's hand could not drive away the ghost in front of him.

The girl in the No. 3 Middle School uniform floated over coldly, getting closer and closer to Ran Qing.

All the tricks that Ran Qing had prepared in advance were useless at this moment.

As the distance between the two sides closed, the red string figures under Ran Qing's feet began to scream in pain. The eerie, cold, pale green flames burned through each red string figure, causing them to scream in agony.

Li Hongye's pale and creepy dead fingers had already touched Ran Qing's forehead.

Its fingers pressed on Ran Qing's eyebrows, and its dark eyes stared at Ran Qing's face.

Both sides are within easy reach.

An icy chill spread from the spot where Ran Qing's eyebrows were pressed to his entire body.

In the blink of an eye, Ran Qing seemed to have fallen into a cold ice cellar. The blood in his body began to turn cold and his body became stiff.

The cold darkness surged towards him like a tide, as if to drown him.

Staring blankly at the pale and creepy ghost of the girl in front of him, Ran Qing had given up all resistance and was unable to offer any resistance. He could only slide into the abyss of darkness in a daze.

...But just when Ran Qing was about to be submerged in the cold darkness, a pungent smell of hot smoke suddenly emerged from behind him.

In the blink of an eye, the hot smoke dispelled the coldness in Ran Qing's body.

Then came Sixth Aunt's anxious and panicked roar from behind Ran Qing, accompanied by a burst of rapid and violent drumbeats.

"Run! Little kid! Run!"

Ran Qing opened his eyes and saw countless sparks floating out from behind him, rushing towards Li Hongye in front of him with pungent and burning smoke.

In the pungent smell of smoke, one hideous dead face after another rushed out from behind Ran Qing and all rushed towards Li Hongye.

They bit Li Hongye frantically, like a mad river. But Li Hongye just retreated, indifferent and calm.

She suffered no injuries, not even her blood-stained No. 3 Middle School uniform was damaged.

Instead, the dead faces screamed one after another, with pale green ghost fire constantly emerging from their skin, quickly turning them into fireballs. The red rope figurines under Ran Qing's feet also desperately pushed Ran Qing's shoes.

As Li Hongye retreated, the green ghost fire on the red string figurine went out. They scrambled to push Ran Qing, wanting him to leave.

At this moment, Ran Qing, who had survived the disaster, did not hesitate at all.

Even though his father, who was in a daze, was sitting more than ten meters away, seemingly within reach, he could not move forward, and even turning back to take another look was a luxury.

He ran frantically towards the scorching sparks coming from behind him.

On the road behind him, a series of terrifying ghosts were rolling on the ground in pain.

The ferocious and violent drumbeats rang out wildly in the darkness, like the murderous war drums on the battlefield, or like the roar of a terrifying and evil god.

Amidst the fierce drumbeats, the ghosts on the roadside all screamed and struggled.

They howled in pain, as if they were tortured by the drum sounds, but when Ran Qing passed by, these evil spirits actually struggled and stretched out their hands to grab Ran Qing.

Ran Qing ran desperately without any hesitation, running wildly in the ocean of struggling and rolling evil spirits, stepping on all the ghost hands that wanted to catch him and avoiding all the ghost shadows that wanted to knock him down.

Behind him, the cold and evil chill that had originally gone away suddenly began to approach.

At the same time, the shrill wails of the dead faces kept by Aunt Six rang out. The drumbeats in the void gradually died down.

The dead faces in Aunt Liu's house couldn't stop Li Hongye!
Li Hongye caught up again!

Ran Qing was horrified and didn't dare to stop. He squeezed out every bit of strength in his body and ran like crazy, making his blood boil.

In the end, he ran madly with bloodshot eyes, ran past the Wuzhai Pass where he came from, ran past the gloomy woods where he came from, rushed down the loess path without looking back, and stumbled into the wooden door at the end of the loess path.

boom--

The sound of the door closing behind him finally blocked the cold and nasty chill that was following him.

Ran Qing, lying on the ground, was gasping for breath, his heart beating like a drum in his chest, and even his temples were beating wildly.

He raised his head with difficulty, gasping for breath, and saw the main hall of Aunt Liu's house under the dim light.

And Sixth Aunt sitting in the main room.

There were no screaming red rope figurines, no ferocious dead faces, no pungent smell of burning smoke, and even the howling of evil spirits had disappeared.

In the main hall filled with a faint smell of smoke, there was only Ran Qing besides Sixth Aunt.

Everything that just happened seemed to be Ran Qing's hallucination.

Even his previously soaked school uniform was now dry, its moisture gone. Instead, there was a faint smell of smoke. Ran Qing looked like he had been pulled from a temple incense burner, his entire body billowing with smoke.

Smelling the pungent smell of smoke on his body and looking at the quiet main room in front of him, Ran Qing gasped for breath and climbed up from the ground.

"Sixth...Aunt Six..."

He looked at his Sixth Aunt who was sitting in front of the tablets of Heaven, Earth, Emperor, Parents and Teacher, and wanted to say something.

But Aunt Liu was staring at the front with a dark face, as if she had seen something horrible. Her eyes were fixed on it and she did not respond to Ran Qing's shouting.

Such a strange situation made Ran Qing uneasy.

The next second, a shrill howl suddenly spread in the air.

Then, a chilling gust of wind suddenly appeared from the room, sweeping towards everyone inside. Wherever the wind blew, the two broken candles burning at Aunt Six's feet were instantly extinguished, and even the incense sticks burning in front of the tablets of Heaven, Earth, the Emperor, Parents, and Teacher were swept away.

It was not until this moment that Aunt Liu, whose face was ashen and body was stiff, suddenly came to her senses. She took a deep breath as if she was drowning.

"The Book of Longevity... The Book of Longevity..."

Aunt Liu looked at Ran Qing in disbelief, as if she had seen a ghost.

"Ran family kid! Did you see the Yin Shou book that thing was carrying?"

"Only the living have Yin Shou Books! The dead can't have them! How could she possibly have one?"

"What the hell is that?!"

(End of this chapter)