Grandma Ji had just been looking at Ji Mingxia with a stern face, but when she saw that Ji Mingxia was smiling and trying to comfort herself even though she was obviously scared to death, she couldn't control herself and her whole body started to tremble.
Her cloudy eye sockets became moist. Grandma Ji looked at Ji Mingxia and opened her mouth, wanting to say something to him, but no sound came out. Only the sound of rapid breathing could be heard.
Seeing this, Ji Mingxia quickly asked Zhou Tao: "Why can't she say it?"
"It's normal for me to feel a little bit of stimulation when I'm old." Zhou Tao said indifferently, and urged, "You've seen the person, isn't it time to cooperate with me to eat?"
As he spoke, he licked the saliva that was about to flow down the corner of his mouth and looked at Ji Mingxia greedily, wishing he could suck all his life out on the spot.
Ji Mingxia looked at Grandma Ji who was unable to speak, and remained silent.
The faint green light shining on Grandma Ji was reflected on Ji Mingxia's face.
He lowered his head slightly, and for the first time, a gloomy look of anger appeared on his usually bright face.
He had his back to Zhou Tao, holding a cell phone in one hand and quickly picking up a few things in the other.
When Zhou Tao urged again, Ji Mingxia said, "You said I'm special. Not only is the energy in me enough to extend your and Zhou Mei's lifespan, but it's also difficult for you to absorb my lifespan without my consent."
Zhou Tao narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard Ji Mingxia's words: "Ji Mingxia, what do you mean, do you want to go back on your word? You don't think that I can't do anything to you just because you met Grandma Ji, do you?"
"It seems that I guessed right." Ji Mingxia smiled.
When Zhou Tao heard Ji Mingxia's laughter, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Ji Mingxia should be timid, frightened, irrational, and completely at his mercy.
Even if laughter is emitted, it should be high-pitched and wildly yelled.
Would a person who couldn't even stand steadily utter such a mocking laugh at this moment
Thinking of this, Zhou Tao's face changed and he walked quickly towards the corridor.
The moment he stepped onto the stairs, Ji Mingxia seemed to have fully anticipated his action. He suddenly turned around, raised the thing in his hand, and shone it at Zhou Tao.
Zhou Tao only felt a dazzling light shining towards his eyes. Caught off guard, he closed his eyes almost reflexively.
But it was too late.
The entire Ji family's home was in darkness, with only Grandma Ji's body emitting a faint green light.
But the light was extremely dim, barely enough for people to distinguish objects. Otherwise, the statue would not look so eerie and terrifying.
After adapting to this environment, Zhou Tao was suddenly faced with the dazzling light, which was shining directly into his eyes at a close distance. He almost screamed, took a step back and covered his eyes.
The physiological reaction caused his eyelids to wrinkle tightly together and he shed tears on the spot.
Not to mention walking up to Grandma Ji, facing the glaring light, he couldn't even raise his head, let alone open his eyes.
"Ji Mingxia, you fucking..." Realizing that Ji Mingxia had tricked him, Zhou Tao couldn't help but curse on the spot.
But soon, he couldn't even utter a curse.
A burning smell wafted down the corridor.
After Ji Mingxia shone a light into Zhou Tao's eyes with his mobile phone to stop him, he immediately turned around and flicked on a lighter that he had hidden long ago, took out the "RMB" from the coin box, and lit it on the spot.
These coins are lighter in color and thinner in texture than ordinary RMB coins. They are obviously a bunch of counterfeit coins.
More importantly, on the counterfeit note, a copper coin pattern was drawn with a bloody red pen, and next to the copper coin pattern, two bloody characters were written:
"Borrowing life"!
Ji Mingxia looked at the large scarlet characters on the counterfeit currency, an expression of "as expected" flashed across his face.
All this happened from this afternoon.
After the ghost knocked on the door, Ji Mingxia deduced from what Grandma Ji said that all this might be related to Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao's mother.
He went to the supermarket to investigate, but unexpectedly found that Zhou Tao's family was preparing to leave Jiaoye Village. Before leaving, Zhou Tao asked Ji Mingxia to help him deliver the last seafood to Aunt Cheng's house.
In order to prevent a dangerous person like Zhou Tao from returning to Jiaoye Village again, Ji Mingxia agreed on the spot.
When the courier saw Ji Mingxia, he looked as if he had seen a ghost and turned around and ran away.
When Ji Mingxia saw Aunt Cheng, when she found out that the deliveryman was Ji Mingxia, Aunt Cheng was terrified and almost couldn't wait to close the door, not wanting to talk to him anymore.
Perhaps because she had watched Ji Mingxia grow up, before closing the door, Aunt Cheng told Ji Mingxia to go home and ask Grandma Ji more.
At that time, Ji Mingxia was completely confused and had no idea what was going on.
Running all the way from Aunt Cheng's house back to Ji's house, every scene that happened in Jiaoye Village appeared in Ji Mingxia's mind. He felt that the truth was at hand, but due to the lack of key clues, he could not find the truth.
It was not until he returned to the Ji family and was about to unlock the door and put his hand on the door lock that a picture suddenly flashed through Ji Mingxia's mind.
When he returned home yesterday, there was a bag of goods hanging on the front door of the Ji family. These were daily necessities and food delivered by a small supermarket. They were convenient to carry with the name of the small supermarket written on them.
Ji Mingxia remembered that he was the one who helped Grandma Ji carry the bag of things into the house. He even took a special look to see what Grandma Ji bought.
In addition to daily necessities and food, there was also a stack of pocket money in it.
At that time, Ji Mingxia discovered that the color of the stack of RMB was slightly different from that of ordinary coins.
But when he saw Grandma Ji's face next, Ji Mingxia was shocked that her appearance was completely different from the face he remembered. This incident had a great impact on him, and Ji Mingxia quickly ignored this small detail.
It was not until this moment that Ji Mingxia suddenly remembered this little detail.
At the same time, the previous scenes quickly emerged in Ji Mingxia's mind.
When he dragged his suitcase into Jiaoye Village, he passed by a small supermarket and saw Aunt Cheng coming out of the supermarket with some goods. At that time, Ji Mingxia's ring emitted a faint light;
He returned to the Ji family and saw the goods that Grandma Ji had purchased in front of the Ji family's door, which contained a stack of supplies and banknotes;
That night, the Ji family encountered a ghost knocking on the door;
The next day, Ji Mingxia met Zhou Tao in a small supermarket and saw the statue.
Zhou Tao was wearing a copper coin bracelet, and the statue was holding a copper coin chain, with the end of the chain pointed at the worshiper, as if to demand his life.
The next day, Ji Mingxia helped Aunt Cheng collect the goods and accepted the seafood and banknotes in his name...
Throughout the entire incident, the only thing that can connect it from beginning to end is money.
Since it comes in two forms: copper coins and paper money, it is easily overlooked.
When he realized that the problem was with the coins, Ji Mingxia was like a lost traveler who had found his way out of the fog and suddenly found a clear direction.
Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao's mother, who were suffering from cancer, somehow found a mysterious item related to copper coins. Through the method of worship, they used the mysterious item to absorb the lifespan of others and prolong their own lives.
The first people to have their lifespans sucked away should be the villagers' relatives, the two Vietnamese guys.
Based on the current clues, it can be inferred that Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao's mother attacked the two Vietnamese guys immediately on the night they returned to Jiaoye Village. Due to their haste, the two guys were sucked into middle-aged men and died suddenly.
In order to cover up the crime, Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao's mother set fire to the body on the spot.
The next day, two middle-aged male corpses appeared in the village inexplicably. Their identities and names were unknown. The villagers were in a panic and no one would connect them with the missing Vietnamese boy.
A few days later, the villagers discovered that their relative was missing and reported the case to the police. However, due to the lack of surveillance in the village and the inability to find the body, this case was ultimately treated as a missing persons case.
Since the two men were foreign nationals, the domestic police did not have their genetic files, and their ages did not match at all, so the murder case was ultimately handled as two separate cases.
In this way, Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao were completely cleared of suspicion, and no one would even think that they were criminals.
Until the entire Banana Leaf Village was shrouded in the shadow of ghosts knocking on the door.
The only thing that Ji Mingxia couldn't understand in this matter was why Zhou Mei and Zhou Tao, who had been absorbing life energy in the village for so long and no one had ever opposed them, suddenly chose to move away
Ji Mingxia was puzzled until he found that the coin was the key clue, and then he suddenly understood.
Before leaving, Zhou Tao deliberately set a trap for Ji Mingxia to receive the goods, intending to make Ji Mingxia the object of drug abuse.
And the time when he suddenly moved was the day after Ji Mingxia returned to the village.
Ji Mingxia had a bold guess in his mind.
Zhou Tao... was coming for him.
Ji Mingxia had just figured it all out, but unexpectedly, Zhou Tao had already taken action against Grandma Ji.
Seeing that the Ji family was in darkness and Grandma Ji was in danger, when Zhou Tao hid in the Ji family and issued a death invitation to Ji Mingxia, Ji Mingxia could only choose to suppress it and pretend to know nothing and agreed.
As soon as he entered the Ji family, he found that Zhou Tao was trying to scare him in a mysterious way in order to break down Ji Mingxia's psychological defenses.
If it was a few months ago, Ji Mingxia would have been frightened to death by Zhou Tao.
But having experienced so many supernatural events with Yu Ning, and the ghost knocking on the door last night, it sounded a warning bell in Ji Mingxia's heart. With some preparation, although Ji Mingxia was still very scared, he still had his sanity.
Zhou Tao took advantage of the information asymmetry and set a trap for him by sending seafood. Ji Mingxia used the same method against him. He also pretended not to know Zhou Tao's intention, and was frightened and stumbled all the way, pretending that his hands and feet were weak and he couldn't even walk.
He deliberately walked to the living room, pretending to be frightened, knocked over everything on the coffee table, and then took the coin box containing the coins while Zhou Tao was not paying attention;
He deliberately tried to escape towards the kitchen, knocked over the glass, and took the opportunity to put the lighter into his pocket.
After completing all this, Ji Mingxia immediately squatted down, pretending to lose his fighting spirit, waiting for Zhou Tao to show up.
Thanks to Yu Ning who taught him how to deceive Song Yuelin in the forest before.
Ji Mingxia used the same trick on Zhou Tao, and sure enough, Zhou Tao was fooled quickly!
After finding his grandmother and confirming that she was still alive, Ji Mingxia did not delay and took immediate action.
As a medium for absorbing longevity, coins are of vital importance to Zhou Tao.
The money on Ji Mingxia's body had already been handed over to Aunt Cheng.
And according to Zhou Tao's performance, this method of absorbing lifespan seems to be ineffective for him, so while Ji Mingxia was at Aunt Cheng's house, Zhou Tao quietly lurked in Ji's house, waiting for Ji Mingxia to return.
Therefore, what Ji Mingxia has to do now is to burn the fake coins in Grandma Ji’s coin box.
Zhou Tao was at the scene, and if Ji Mingxia burned the counterfeit currency in front of him, Zhou Tao would definitely stop him.
Ji Mingxia's cell phone played a crucial role at this moment.
Before entering the Ji family, Ji Mingxia's cell phone was always set to turn on the flashlight at any time. He was ready to use the cell phone as a self-defense weapon at the critical moment.
Using a flashlight to stop Zhou Tao is the most appropriate option at this moment.
Seeing that Zhou Tao's eyes were filled with tears and he was unable to catch up in time, Ji Mingxia immediately burned the fake currency completely.
After all, it was fake paper money. Once it touched the flame of the lighter, it immediately curled up and burned. In just a few seconds, the whole stack of fake money was burned to ashes.
When the fake currency was completely burned, Grandma Ji, who had been sitting there unable to move, struggled a little, grabbed Ji Mingxia's hand and shouted, "Mingxia, go!"
However, Grandma Ji's warning was too late.
The moment the counterfeit currency was burned, not only was Grandma Ji no longer under Zhou Tao's control, but the entire Ji family also changed rapidly!
The darkness that enveloped the entire Ji family gradually curled up as if it was burned by flames, then shrank little by little, and finally shrank back to Zhou Tao's side, turning back into the form of a statue.
It turned out that the entire Ji family was shrouded in the statue, and the pitch-black darkness was actually caused by the wooden niche outside the statue!
When the wooden niche was returned to the side of the statue, the Ji family's home became bright again.
The light softly illuminated the entire Ji family. Whether it was Grandma Ji, Ji Mingxia or Zhou Tao, all their faces were clear.
Under this light, the light from Ji Mingxia's flashlight seemed insignificant.
However, Zhou Tao's eyes had just been illuminated by Ji Mingxia's flashlight.
By the time Ji Mingxia was burning the counterfeit currency, he had already adapted to the glaring light.
At this moment, he was even the fastest to react among the three!
Zhou Tao became furious when he found out that Ji Mingxia had played a trick on him, not only allowing him to meet Grandma Ji but also destroying his coins.
Without any hesitation, Zhou Tao quickly controlled the statue in his hand and flew behind Ji Mingxia.
At this moment, the face of the statue was exactly the same as Zhou Tao's.
When Zhou Tao raised his hand high, the statue also grabbed the copper coin chain and pointed it directly at Ji Mingxia's throat!
He actually wanted to kill Ji Mingxia on the spot!
At the last moment, Ji Mingxia stuffed the phone into Grandma Ji's hand, grabbed Grandma Ji and pushed her upstairs.
When Ji Mingxia returned home and found Zhou Tao waiting for him, he realized that he might be in danger this time.
Zhou Tao came towards him with a mysterious object in his hand.
In order to be able to suck Ji Mingxia's blood, they even moved away from Jiaoye Village. It was not because they wanted to give up the longevity of Jiaoye Village, but because they wanted to get rid of the suspicion of murder after killing Ji Mingxia.
Therefore, they must have made up their minds to use Ji Mingxia as a sacrifice.
And Ji Mingxia... is just an ordinary person.
Although he had come into contact with mysterious objects, he had never been able to control them.
Although Zhou Tao's mysterious item is not offensive and cannot harm him for the time being, Ji Mingxia is very clear that in a head-on confrontation, Ji Mingxia will definitely not be Zhou Tao's opponent.
Anyway, Zhou Tao's target was also him, so Ji Mingxia made up his mind to save Grandma Ji.
Now that Grandma Ji has resumed her actions, Zhou Tao is busy dealing with her and certainly has no time to take care of Grandma Ji.
As long as Grandma Ji went back to her bedroom upstairs, locked the door, and used her cell phone to call for help, even if it was the police who came, she would definitely survive in the end.
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia used all his strength to push Grandma Ji away, and then prepared himself mentally to die.
—The expected pain and death did not come.
A rich blood-red color transformed into a shield with complex patterns, protecting against the fatal blow!
At some point, the blood-red ring flew out of Ji Mingxia's hand and hovered above him.
With it as the center, scarlet blood spread like smoke and fog, quickly covering the surroundings, not only protecting Ji Mingxia and Grandma Ji, but also going straight to Zhou Tao!
Wherever the blood went, the statues and coins all turned into nothing.
Ji Mingxia stood there in a daze, watching the statue and the black wooden niche that had been showing off their power just a moment ago being torn apart and devoured by the blood-red ring, and watching Zhou Tao being controlled by the blood-red ring.
The man who was so arrogant just now was now imprisoned by layers of red iron chains.
Zhou Tao never imagined that in the blink of an eye, he would inexplicably become a prisoner.
He struggled unwillingly, but the more he struggled, the tighter the red iron chain became, and finally it even merged into his skin, weaving through Zhou Tao's flesh.
Zhou Tao's body was twitching in pain, and he let out a scream and fell to the ground on the spot, like a worm bound by red light, with no room for struggle.
After confirming that Zhou Tao was captured and Ji Mingxia was safe, the blood-red ring slowly fell down. In the sight of Ji Mingxia and Grandma Ji, it automatically floated back into Ji Mingxia's hand and fit perfectly on Ji Mingxia's ring finger.
After killing everyone, it changed back to the ring form, but it looked even more red than before.
Just like a dazzling red gem, it sparkles with clear and bright red light without any light.
The icy touch is not cold at all, but rather refreshing and moist.
Ji Mingxia's mind flashed back to the time when he and Yu Ning first got the blood-red ring at school;
Thinking of the scene in the forest when Yu Ning got the two rings and kept playing with them;
Thinking of the time inside the airport when he and Yu Ning sat in silence, Ji Mingxia didn't know how to say goodbye to Yu Ning, and Yu Ning also held the two rings tightly without saying a word.
And... before they parted, Yu Ning put the ring on him without saying anything while they were hugging.
At that time, Ji Mingxia didn't understand what Yu Ning meant.
The mysterious object might be somewhat contaminating. This was the theory Pei Yuan had just proposed. Then Yu Ning put a ring on Ji Mingxia's hand.
Out of trust in Yu Ning, Ji Mingxia did not think much about it. However, he could no longer get through to Yu Ning on the phone, which made him extremely worried and disappointed.
He kept comforting himself, thinking that Yu Ning and Pei Yuan were together, they were the protagonists, and everything would be fine.
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, it was the blood-red ring that saved his life.
He remembered that when Li You died, they learned that after the two blood-red rings were merged, they would trigger a new protective function.
But the prerequisite is that the owner of the mysterious object must have complete control over it.
From the time Yu Ning received the two rings to the time they said goodbye at the airport, it only took one night.
Even Pei Yuan, a genius, could not fully control the two mysterious objects in such a short time.
After Yu Ning put the ring on Ji Mingxia's hand, Ji Mingxia never thought that Yu Ning had completed the possibility of fusion of the ring.
But in the end, it was proved that Yu Ning did it.
Ji Mingxia thought that since they had broken up, he should be prepared to be alone from now on.
Even when facing danger and Yu Ning is not around, he always has to face everything alone.
He learned from Yu Ning's thinking, absorbed everything he learned from Yu Ning, tried his best to save people, and was ready to die...
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia raised his hand and stared blankly at the blood-red ring that had returned to calm.
It turns out... Yu Ning has been protecting him all along.