Wu Weiwei's voice echoed in the open space, mixed with the clear sound of dripping water.
"She should be nearby." Li Hongyu took out the compass, and the needle was spinning in circles quickly.
Wu Weiwei's eyelids jumped after just one look. Just from the appearance, it was obvious that Li Hongyu's compass was an old item. The accumulation of years and long-term ghost hunting and acupoint identification made its spiritual power continue to grow.
Now that the pointer is spinning so wildly, it can only mean that this water ghost is very evil and very dangerous.
He opened the safety buckle of the crossbow, took a step back, and stood side by side with Li Hongyu. He was also extremely alert and focused all his attention on his surroundings.
Tick.
The sound of dripping water suddenly became louder.
Wu Weiwei turned around and saw that the faucet had stopped dripping.
But, this is only temporary.
Soon, drops of water rolled out of the faucet one after another, dripping much faster than before.
Most importantly, the color of the water droplets is dark red.
The light suddenly dimmed, the bright moonlight outside was blocked by clouds, and the remaining hot air from the day was also taken away, and the temperature suddenly dropped several degrees.
Wu Weiwei moved his feet, his back pressed against Li Hongyu's, "Is she here?"
"Yeah." Li Hongyu also apparently noticed the abnormality of the water, "Pay attention to that pool of water."
Wu Weiwei's throat rolled, his heart was nervous, and he kept rubbing the strap of the crossbow on his right hand with his left hand.
"Don't be nervous." Li Hongyu seemed to sense his emotions. "When people are emotionally unstable, ghosts are most likely to get close to them."
"I understand." Wu Weiwei closed his eyes and breathed in and out deeply. His heartbeat sounded in his mind, and the body temperature from another person on his back made him feel more secure.
With the sound of rapid dripping, the pool of water grew bigger and bigger. It seemed to have eyes and spread towards Wu Weiwei's feet.
Wu Weiwei pretended not to notice, and even quietly adjusted the position of his feet, while pointing the crossbow in front of his toes.
Li Hongyu pulled out the copper coin sword on his back, flexibly disassembled it, and wrapped the red rope around his wrist. The copper coins collided with each other, making a crisp sound. His eyes darkened, and when the water hit Wu Weiwei's soles, he suddenly pulled him away.
The red rope carrying the copper coins flew out and just happened to entangle a hand that stretched out from the water.
Wu Weiwei, who was standing behind Li Hongyu, was not idle either, and immediately fired an arrow. The arrowhead stained with the blood of the Yang penetrated the palm of the ghost hand, and the flesh there quickly turned black, emitting a foul odor.
Li Hongyu moved his wrist, the red rope tightened, and he immediately pulled out the forearm connected to the ghost hand.
Wu Weiwei wanted to move closer to lend a hand, but the water suddenly spread very quickly, soaking the area where he was standing in an instant. Before he could react, another hand stretched out from the water, grabbed his ankle tightly, and with one force, he fell to the ground.
"Any place with water may be a part of her body!" Li Hongyu clamped the ghost hand with one hand, and tried to pull Wu Weiwei up with the other hand. Just as his fingertips were about to touch Wu Weiwei's hand, the water pipe wrapped in the wall suddenly burst, and water sprayed in all directions.
But in the blink of an eye, both of them were soaked.
Wu Weiwei's body was dragged by the ghost hand and rubbed on the rough ground. Ignoring the pain, he kicked hard at the ghost hand that was holding him tightly. The nails of that hand were very long and black, and the entire skin was a terrifying bluish-white color, fragile and weird, like a piece of white paper that could be torn with a poke.
He raised the crossbow again, aimed as best he could, and fired.
This time, the arrow missed its target and was caught by a bunch of hair that suddenly emerged from the water. The amulet on the arrow was not to be underestimated, and the hair was immediately burnt, causing the arrow to fall to the ground from mid-air.
Wu Weiwei sat up with his stomach curled up, picked up the arrow and stabbed it at the ghost hand on his ankle.
With a "puff", the arrow was thrust into the tiger's mouth of the ghost hand. Wu Weiwei did not let go, but quickly grabbed the arrow and slashed it to the right.
The place where the arrow passed was charred black, and half of the ghost hand was cut off without much effort.
Seeing that the remaining half of the ghost hand wanted to retract into the water, Wu Weiwei pounced on it and grabbed it with force. Although the cold touch made him feel sick, he was extremely satisfied to have caught the water ghost by himself.
Just when I was feeling happy, suddenly a lot of black thread-like objects appeared on the ghost's hand.
Wu Weiwei was stunned, and immediately understood what it was. He freed one hand to take out the talisman paper from his backpack. But the water ghost did not give him a chance. Those black threads were hair buried under the skin. They extended from the broken part of the ghost hand, like dense silk, and completely wrapped his face.
The hairs were not satisfied with this. They spread out, with some spreading along the living person's body to his limbs, and some desperately drilling into Wu Weiwei's eyes, ears, mouth and nose, trying to block all his senses.
The world suddenly became quiet, and the only sound I could hear was the pounding of my heart and the sounds of my labored breathing from my nose and throat.
The brain has become dull due to lack of oxygen, and the vision has become blurry.
In a daze, I heard someone seemed to be calling me.
Wu Weiwei tried hard to open his eyes, and through the gaps between his hair, he saw Li Hongyu rushing towards him, but his way was blocked by the female ghost who had completely revealed herself.
The female ghost controlled the water around her, and her black hair pierced out from the water columns and splashing water droplets like sharp swords, attacking Li Hongyu from all directions.
The copper coin thread in Li Hongyu's hand had long been threaded into a copper coin sword, slashing in the air with a red afterimage. His movements became faster and faster, and his brows revealed a different kind of impatience and hostility.
At the end of each strand of hair cut off by the copper coin sword, there will be a burning spot left. That is the remnant of the yang energy of the Five Emperors' Coins. They will find their owner along the hair and then burn her together.
The female ghost obviously knew this, and she secretly exerted her strength, trying to suffocate Wu Weiwei to death as quickly as possible.
This is the scapegoat she has chosen.
As long as this person dies, she will be free.
Wu Weiwei felt the restraints from head to toe becoming tighter and tighter, and the hair that kept drilling into his esophagus had completely blocked his throat.
He tried hard to blink a few times in the darkness, trying to retain a bit of clarity. Just when his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier and he was about to give up, Li Hongyu's voice rang out again.
“Wu Weiwei!”
Wu Weiwei opened his eyes again, and the darkness in front of him was broken by a golden light. The hair covering his face was parted in the middle, and he could just see the sword tassel passing by from above.
The copper coin sword flew past Wu Weiwei's body, just cutting through the hair that wrapped him like a cocoon.
The moment the fresh air rushed in, Wu Weiwei suddenly felt like he was reborn. He quickly got up from the ground, picked up the copper coin sword on the ground and threw it towards Li Hongyu.
The water ghost's plans were repeatedly destroyed, and she was furious and trembling all over. The Yin Qi quietly sank into the water along her toes and spread around. They hid in the water, like parasites that cannot be seen by the naked eye, trying to penetrate into the body of a living person through skin contact.
Li Hongyu saw through her thoughts and immediately bit his finger to draw a blood symbol on the copper coin sword. Then he held the hilt tightly with both hands, knelt on one knee, and stabbed the sword into the ground with force.
The yang energy from the copper coin sword spread around him, and Wu Weiwei, who had just shivered because of the yin energy entering his body, immediately felt a warmth and refreshed.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the water ghost immediately dived into the water and disappeared.
Wu Weiwei raised his crossbow and shouted to Li Hongyu, "Where's your compass?"
Li Hongyu walked over quickly with a sword in hand. The compass in his palm was tremblingly pointing in a certain direction. He only took a glance and reported an accurate number: "Thirty degrees east."
Wu Weiwei: "...Brother, I'm not a machine, how can I be so accurate?"
Li Hongyu didn't say anything extra. He raised his hand and held Wu Weiwei's hand that was tied with the crossbow. His fingers were slightly bent, completely covering the fist inside.
Wu Weiwei: "You..."
Li Hongyu's face was almost touching Wu Weiwei's temples. He lowered his eyes to look at the compass needle, held Wu Weiwei's hand and shifted it a few millimeters to the right. "Don't be nervous, just focus on the front."
Wu Weiwei closed his eyes and said with gritted teeth: "I'm not nervous."
"Yes." Li Hongyu tapped Wu Weiwei's fist with his fingertips, "Release the arrow."
Almost at the same time as the words fell, the arrow shot out and pierced into the pool of water in front at an angle.
The pool of water seemed to be boiling, with bubbles of varying sizes tumbling in it, gradually forming a curled-up human figure.
Wu Weiwei's arrow hit the water ghost right on the back. She curled up in pain, her eyes, which were mostly covered by her hair, filled with resentment.
Seeing the two men coming towards her, she showed a fierce resistance, but she was unable to move because of the wound on her back and the remaining Yang Qi from the Five Emperors' Coins. She could only lie on the ground like a beast that had lost its ability to move, showing the most terrifying appearance to drive away the enemy.
Li Hongyu stopped in front of the female ghost: "Do you remember your name?"
Wu Weiwei stood quietly by the side, lowering his head to fasten the safety buckle of the crossbow to avoid accidentally shooting and hurting people. When his eyes passed over the back of his hand, his face froze, and he felt uncomfortable all over when he remembered that he was almost held in Li Hongyu's arms just now.
He pursed his lips and quietly looked up at Li Hongyu, who was asking questions seriously, no different from usual.
Wu Weiwei thought silently that, given the situation at the time, if he and Li Hongyu had switched positions, he would also teach Li Hongyu how to aim step by step, and then tap the other's hand as a prompt when it was time to fire.
Wu Weiwei: “…”
No, it still feels weird.
He rubbed his face vigorously, forcing himself to turn his attention to the business, "What did she say?"
Li Hongyu asked calmly, "Are you distracted?"
"Yeah." Wu Weiwei looked away guiltily and asked again, only to get the answer: the water ghost had lost her mind due to violence and resentment, and she didn't remember anything. She only remembered that she wanted to kill someone and find a scapegoat for herself.
Wu Weiwei was stunned: "What should we do then?"
He scratched the back of his head, and suddenly thought of something. He clapped his hands vigorously, "You can use the Heart Purification Mantra to drive away her evil spirit!"
As if praising him for answering the question correctly, Li Hongyu smiled, threw the copper coin sword into Wu Weiwei's arms, and sat down cross-legged.
The mysterious spell slowly flowed out from his lips and teeth, and the water ghost trembled, roared, and rolled in the water in pain. On her face, veins appeared from nothing, turned from blue to black, and then protruded one by one, like wriggling earthworms drilling on the skin.
I don't know how long it took, but the water ghost stopped struggling.
She lay prone in the water, then turned over weakly and lay on her back.
Knowing that the excess evil spirit in her body had been expelled, Wu Weiwei was no longer afraid of her and bent down to look down.
"How are you?" he asked.
The water ghost blinked, and her blood-red eye sockets were wet. It was hard to tell whether it was the water droplets spilled from the burst pipe or her tears.
Wu Weiwei was silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "Do you remember who killed you?"
The ghost girl's pupils shrank into a small black dot, and her gaze was fixed on Wu Weiwei's face. The liquid that had gathered in her eye sockets and did not fall out began to turn red.
Tears of blood flowed from her eyes, rolled down her pale cheeks, and sad cries came out of her mouth.
Sound after sound, desolate and painful.
Wu Weiwei had never interacted with women before. When he accompanied Brother Chen on business before, most of the female ghosts he encountered were ferocious. He had no idea how to deal with the current situation.
He looked at Li Hongyu for help: "What should I do?"
Li Hongyu said indifferently: "Let's talk about it after she has cried enough."
“…” Wu Weiwei turned his head speechlessly, thought for a while, then took out a pack of tissues from his trouser pocket.
Most of the tissue was wet. He took out a piece, wrung out the water, and handed it to the water ghost: "Wipe your tears first."
Li Hongyu, who was standing behind him, was stunned for a second, then laughed silently.
Seeing that the water ghost didn't answer, Wu Weiwei directly pressed the tissue on her face: "Hurry up and wipe it clean, and then answer our questions honestly."
The water ghost hesitated for a moment and nodded.
The tissue was soon stained red with blood and tears. The water ghost held the paper in his hand, lowered his eyes and whispered: "My name is Ning Letong... A black car driver killed me."
"Illegal taxi driver?!" Wu Weiwei asked, "Do you remember what he looks like?"
Ning Letong said angrily: "Remember, I will never forget that face even if it turns to ashes!"
Wu Weiwei hurriedly took out his mobile phone and opened the notepad to write it down.
"He is about 1.7 meters tall, in his thirties, with an accent from another place. He has a mole on his left eyebrow, a square face, and a scar at the corner of his mouth!" The moment the appearance of the black car driver appeared in Ning Letong's mind, a deep resentment gathered in her body again.
She still could not forget how she hugged that man's legs like a dog and begged for mercy.
"Calm down." Li Hongyu suddenly spoke, with a piece of talisman paper in his hand.
Thinking of the pain from being burned by the yang energy of the Five Emperors' Coins and the arrows, Ning Letong shrank back, and the resentment that had slowly seeped out of her body immediately disappeared.
Wu Weiwei threw a coquettish glance at Li Hongyu, praising him for his good singing.
After clearing his throat, he put on a serious look and continued, "Do you remember the driver's license plate number?"