The sudden female voice behind me made my heart tighten.
I quickly turned around, but my eyes darkened because I saw a female ghost floating behind me.
The ghost girl was wearing a long nightgown, which was stained with bright red blood. Her hair was long and hung on both sides of her cheeks. There were tears in her eyes, and it seemed that she had just cried.
I remember this female ghost. It was the one who knocked on my door that night after Shan Daye left the apartment I rented, wanting to find her child.
The female ghost's body was wrapped in a thick ghost aura, and her slender arms hung on both sides of her body as if they were about to break.
"It's you!"
I said in surprise.
The female ghost glanced at me indifferently, and said to me in a vague voice: "I can help you save this Taoist priest, but you must help me find my child!"
Finding the child may have become the ghost girl's obsession, otherwise, she would not have come here.
It seems that she has been following me for these days.
It was really scary. I didn't even notice her existence, which made my heart palpitate.
Master Jiang has helped me so much, and now his life is almost critical, and I can't just stand by and watch him die.
I nodded and said to the ghost girl in a deep voice, "Okay, I promise, I can help you find the child. But I have a lot of things to do recently, so I hope you can wait for me. After I finish my business, I will help you find the child."
"What do you think?"
The ghost girl didn't reply to my question immediately. Her soul was suspended there motionless, her slender eyebrows were tightly knitted, and I don't know what she was thinking about.
After a moment, she stared at me again with a cold gaze and asked in a deep voice, "How long do you need?"
I thought about it and said, "I'll do it as soon as possible, maybe a week at most."
There have been a lot of things going on recently. Just to save Yan Huanhuan, I spent more than two days, and I met a gray-robed man on the way. The gray-robed man was refining the "Rejuvenation Pill", which is a heinous crime that cannot be tolerated by people in the Taoist profession. But the gray-robed man is too powerful, so I need to contact some people.
And now the key point is, although I just subdued that man, but according to what he said, he has a master who knows ghost magic. It seems that his master is not a good guy either.
In short, things still need to be done one by one.
Now that I am a Taoist priest, I feel that being a Taoist priest is not easy. I am always bothered by various things. I really envy those people who sit in the office to drink tea and chat.
But what I find strange is that there are many Taoist priests, why did the female ghost choose me instead of other Taoist priests? This is a question.
The female ghost seemed to have figured it out.
She nodded and whispered to me, "Okay then! I'll wait for you for a week. If you don't help me after a week, I'll make you unlucky."
Damn it, a little ghost like this is threatening me. But now I need help from a ghost, so I can't be too indifferent.
I hurriedly said to the ghost: "Okay, in this case, it's settled! ... Didn't you say you could help me save people? Then do it now, otherwise my friend may not live for much longer!"
Master Jiang's eyelids were closed and his breathing was weak.
His face also turned black, and he looked as if he had just crawled out of a coal mine.
The female ghost didn't say anything else. Her soul flashed and appeared directly in front of Master Jiang.
I stand aside quietly
He watched her take action calmly, but his heart was filled with mixed feelings.
Then I saw a small cloth bag in the ghost girl's hand.
She carefully opened the small cloth bag and reached into it.
What I didn’t expect was that when the female ghost pulled her hand out of the cloth bag, I found that there were a few milky white insects lying in her palm.
I don't know what the female ghost's intention was in taking out those bugs.
Seeing my serious look, the female ghost explained in a deep voice: "This is a ghost worm. I brought it out when I escaped from the underworld. Don't worry, it only swallows poison and won't hurt people!"
Then the female ghost placed several ghost insects in her hand on Master Jiang's arm.
Those worms have small black heads and milky white bodies. They crawl in a hunched posture and look no different from ordinary caterpillars. But since the female ghost said that the worms were brought from the underworld, I think the things in the underworld must be very special.
After the Hades worm was placed on Master Jiang's arm, it seemed to smell something it liked.
They found the wound of Master Jiang very accurately, and then quickly crawled towards that place. Several finger-sized insects looked quite cute.
Soon, several ghost insects crawled to Master Jiang's wound.
What I didn't expect was that when they arrived at the wound, something similar to a mosquito's mouthparts actually extended from their heads. If you don't look closely with your naked eyes, you really can't see that kind of "mouthparts".
The female ghost said in a cold voice at this time: "Your friend's poison is not very serious, and the Hellworm can handle it. It shouldn't be a big problem."
I nodded, and at the same time warned those insects with my eyes.
The insects lay on the wound of Master Jiang, extended their "mouthparts" to the bite, and began to suck the toxins from Master Jiang's body. Their milky white bodies swelled up and then shrank back, just like a human belly swelling and shrinking.
Time moves forward little by little.
After about an incense stick of time, I noticed that Master Jiang's originally dark face had actually become lighter, with a little bit of redness beginning to appear. His breathing also seemed to become even.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the female ghost told me about herself and her child.
The ghost girl's name is Tong Xue, she is from this city. Her child's nickname is Jun Jun, he is a boy, six years old.
Tong Xue divorced her husband three years ago, and she has been raising her child, Junjun, alone since the divorce. Her husband is a beast to her, not only gambling and playing with other women, but also abusing her.
This made Tong Xue leave her husband.
After leaving her husband, Tong Xue became completely independent. She worked in a garment factory, leaving home early and returning late every day.
The child was still young and Tong Xue couldn't afford a babysitter, so she locked the child at home.
But two months later, when Tong Xue returned home that night, she found that her son Junjun was missing. The door of the house was open.
Tong Xue panicked at the time. She ran out of her rented apartment anxiously to look for her son Junjun.
But she searched everywhere, whether it was the streets or the nearby parks, but she couldn't find the whereabouts of her child, Junjun. She called her husband and asked if he had taken Junjun away. But her husband was having sex with a woman and hung up the phone when he heard her voice.
Tong Xue found her parents' home again and also went to her husband's place in person, but she couldn't find Junjun.
During that time, her son Junjun was completely devastated.
It evaporated. Calling the police also yielded no results.
She had seen many news reports on TV about children being abducted or stolen. Tong Xue wondered if her own child Junjun had run away from home and been abducted or sold.
Tong Xue didn't work during that period, so the factory fired her. She couldn't eat or sleep well every day, and in the middle of the night, she would go out alone in her pajamas to look for her child.
When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, you might have seen a distraught woman in her nightgown on the street. That person might be Tong Xue who was looking for her child.
But Tong Xue's child was never found.
Tong Xue's mental state was getting worse and worse. Several female colleagues who used to be close to her went to her home to comfort her when they knew her child was lost. But she always blocked the door and refused to let those people in, saying that they had stolen her child. Even one female colleague was bitten on the hand by Tong Xue.
From then on, no one came to see Tong Xue, and Tong Xue never went out.
Half a year passed and Tong Xue had been staying in her home.
The person who rented the apartment to Tong Xue was an old woman. The old woman knew that Tong Xue had lost her child, but she didn't care. But six months later, when it was time to collect the rent, when she knocked on Tong Xue's door, she saw Tong Xue, who was dirty, cold-eyed, and gloomy.
Tong Xue is like a madman.
Tong Xue was indeed crazy at that time. She grabbed the old woman and asked her where her child Junjun was. But the old woman had no idea. During the struggle, one of the gold earrings on the old woman's ear was torn off, and blood was dripping. It was all over the old woman's cheek.
Maybe the blood stimulated Tong Xue. After she hurt the old woman, she ran out of her house.
It was broad daylight, and Tong Xue was running wildly on the road. Vehicles were driving very fast on the street, and a cold drink delivery truck directly hit Tong Xue to death.
Tong Xue's body tumbled in the sky for several weeks and landed on the ground head first.
Tong Xue died instantly when her neck was broken.
Later, Tong Xue turned into a ghost.
When she first became a ghost, her consciousness was not very clear, and she followed a ghost with a mourning stick to the underworld. But when she saw more dead souls, she knew she was dead.
But she was unwilling to give up, because she had an obsession in her heart, which was to find her son Junjun.
So while the ghost catcher was dealing with a noisy ghost, Tong Xue escaped. She fled to the ghost town in the underworld, and in the ghost town, with the help of a man who claimed to be a "Taoist priest", she left the underworld.
When I heard this, I was moved by the story of the female ghost Tong Xue.
A mother who became a ghost gave up reincarnation in order to find her child, and even violated the laws of the underworld and escaped. It's really great.
I even felt that the female ghost Tong Xue was quite pitiful. She reminded me of the little girl Yi Yi whom I met when I first started to become a Taoist priest.
I sighed, comforted the ghost girl, and said, "Don't be sad, and don't be anxious. I, Yang Tianyi, promise you right now that I will definitely help you find your son Junjun! You are a good mother, and I am willing to help you!"
"good!"
The ghost girl nodded sadly, but her look was still grim.
But I am still a little curious. I am surprised that there is a ghost town in the underworld. But I am puzzled that there are Taoist priests in the ghost town.
I asked, "Um... Sister Tong, how come there is a Taoist priest in the ghost town you mentioned?"
(to be continued)
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