Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
Ghost possessing the body
After being persuaded by them, Gu-laolao and a group of trusted hired bodyguards were on the lookout.
Ye Zun and the little boy stood in the middle of the dark bedroom, fingers holding a pen together, chanting the spell to summon the pen fairy.
This was the first time Ye Zun took the initiative to attract ghosts.
If what San-gugu said was true, this woman can use ghosts to kill people, and normal methods can’t deal with her at all.
He must use the ghost in the room to explore as much of Er-gugu’s past in advance as possible, as well as her plans.
“Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, I am your past life, you are my present life…” The mantra can only be recited by the little boy.
He seemed to find this very fun and couldn’t help laughing the whole time.
Ye Zun didn’t want him to join in at first. After all, ghosts were too dangerous for normal people. However, he couldn’t play the game entirely by himself.
Right now, seeing how the little boy only seemed to be curious and didn’t take this seriously, he actually felt a little relieved.
“…if you wish to show yourself, please draw a circle on the paper.”
In fact, there was no need. Ye Zun covered his left eye, and with the narrow vision of his right eye, he saw a cold black figure appearing beside them in an instant, placing a finger on the pen they were holding.
Ye Zun loosened his grip and immediately grabbed the ghost’s arm, forcing the other to look at him.
He looked into the ghost’s scary eyes, unblinking.
——I don’t care who you are, since you are a ghost in this house, tell me everything you know about that woman!
The ghost opened its black hole-like mouth, and inside, there was a pale middle-aged man’s face, and on that face there was a pair of terrifying eyes.
The ghost face with an open mouth rushed towards him. Ye Zun unconsciously grasped the little boy’s hand with his other hand, and controlled his heart not to be afraid.
……
A five or six-year-old girl was wearing a princess dress, lying on the bed pitifully with tears in her eyes. She sobbing and acting spoiled to her father who was coaxing her to sleep.
“Baba, will you love me forever?”
“Of course, you are Baba’s little princess ah.”
“Will you still love me if I do bad things?”
“Of course, the little princess can be forgiven for anything she does wrong, but you can’t do bad things on your own initiative. “
“Baba, you are so nice.” She understood. As long as there is a reason for doing a bad thing, it would not be done on her initiative, but by force.
“Sleep ba.” The man yawned. “Baba is going to bed too, and he has to go to work tomorrow to earn money for the little princess to buy toys.”
“I don’t want toys, I want beautiful dresses, very, very expensive and delicious food, I want shiny jewellery.”
“Hahahaha, okay, okay, okay, the little princess can have everything she wants.”
The man didn’t take the child’s words seriously and after putting his daughter to sleep, he turned off the light and walked out quietly.
The little girl was breathing steadily with a sweet smile on her face.
In the dark room after the lights were turned off, the dreamy princess lace decorations during the day looked like a twisting witch’s forest with hanged ghosts in the dark.
She seemed to be a little cold suddenly, and shrank under the blanket.
Under the cake-like princess bed and from the dark shadows, a skinny and pale arm slowly stretched out, and a ghost with dishevelled hair crawled out, little by little.
She turned over, frowning unconsciously. Her face was pale and she woke up from the dream without warning. When she opened her eyes she saw her dead mother’s face, lying down right next to her with their eyes directly level.
The little girl’s eyes froze. As if she thought it was a hallucination, she slowly turned over stiffly.
When she stopped on her back, the female ghost beside her was still looking at her, and in the lace bed curtain above her head, was the ghost of her twin sister, looking exactly like her. The ghost looked down at her, maintaining the same twisted and terrifying posture as when she died.
The little girl swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her eyes widening.
She knew she had no chance of escape.
“Mama, Jiejie.” She squeezed out a smile, pretending to be innocent, as if she didn’t know that they were ghosts with the intention of killing her. “I miss you two so much ah, it’s great, we can still live together, just like before.”
The ghost looked at her coldly and without any emotion, like a mass of resentment formed from concentrated dead air, with only the intent to kill her. Other than that, there was no consciousness.
She forced a smile, her eyeballs rolling around in a flurry.
“Don’t, don’t kill me! I have a lot of beautiful dresses for Jiejie to wear, and a lot of beautiful jewellery, Mama will also like it very much. Are you two unadjusted with your deaths? But I am alive, we can share, don’t kill me, keep me, you two can have full use of my body, it will be exactly the same as when you were alive.”
That was the only time in her life where she felt fear.
But fortunately, she managed to open her eyes the next morning.
Mama and Jiejie’s ghosts didn’t kill her, they were convinced by her.
In the beginning, they just appeared beside her out of the blue. When she was eating, wearing new clothes, going to various banquets with her father, and going to high-end places.
There was some fear at first, but when she cursed with all the resentment in her heart at a boy from an uncle’s family, who was richer than her father, for soiling her new dress while playing and then not apologising, her sister’s appeared appeared and directly pushed the boy from a great height, and the other person broke his leg.
She began to feel that being haunted by the ghosts of her mother and sister was not some kind of bad thing. It was simply her superpower.
As she got older, the ghosts could do more and more things for her, and they also began to demand the possession of her body, using her to experience the taste of being alive.
At first she was worried about being deprived of her body, whether it would be the same as dying, but as she contacted the ghosts more and more, she found that ghosts were actually nothing to be afraid of. As long as there is no fear, ghosts can do very little, and they have very little power.
She gradually learned to take the lead, and she would instruct the ghosts to do things. Only if she was willing could the ghosts possess her, and she could squeeze them out at any time to regain the authority of the body.
She originally wanted to use this new ability to kill her first stepmother, but she was too young to know how to hide her true colours in the beginning, and was discovered by the woman, who was always on guard against her. Ordinary people couldn’t see ghosts, so she also couldn’t use the ghosts to scare her to death.
Before she could think of a way, the stepmother resolutely divorced her father and moved away, not even taking her biological daughter with her.
Losing her access to the other party, she had no way to harm the other person anymore, so she had to give up.
When she was abroad with her father, because of the flourishing witchcraft there, her ability to control the ghosts had been further strengthened.
After just a few years, her father found her current mother, who had married many people before, and was also very rich.
At this time, she had grown up and knew that there is no need to compete with her father’s wife. So she hid her true character, deliberately flattering people, and against the backdrop of her little sister who appeared to be unpleasant because of her straightforward words, the relationship between her and the current stepmother was very good. The people outside would even think they were a mother and her biological daughter.
But the reason why she did this, of course, was because the other party was very wealthy.
However, Baba was indeed like many other men; he valued his stepson even more than his own daughter.
That Da-ge was very talented, and he was actually pretty good to her. When she was in school, because she had such an influential big brother, her school career was very exciting.
However, if the other person threatened her money, then she could only be sorry.
……
“That man was the first person she killed with a ghost. She studied for many years and finally attained the technique.
“She chose a driver who was frustrated with life, and extremely mentally unstable. Then she deliberately got into his car, disguised herself as a ghost, stirring up his fears, and left her sister’s and mother’s relics in his car.
“Once his fear had destroyed his mental defences, she had the ghosts of her mother and sister reveal themselves to him, harassing him from time to time. When his mind was completely broken, the ghosts could try to influence him.
“I am, that unlucky chosen driver.”
In the dark wilderness, a desolate and cold voice spoke.
“The car accident was not a one-time success. There were at least two or three opportunities that failed due to various factors. As a normal person, I instinctively controlled the steering wheel of the car. But perhaps because of my early actions, the target did not find anything out of the ordinary.
“Until the last time, at a critical moment, a ghost of a woman took control of me, and when my mind was a blank white slate, the steering wheel turned by itself and directly crashed into that person.
“It was the first time she had done this, so there was a lot of evidence. She didn’t want to be discovered, so she killed me. I have been following her all this time, but there are two fierce and terrifying ghosts at her side. They seemed to be sharing that body. Not only that, although that woman is human, because she had given up her body so many times, whenever she uses that body, the ghost of a little girl will run out.
“You have to be careful of that little girl. Whoever the little girl targets to be close to, is the target of her evil thoughts.”
Most people’s spirits are extremely fragile, and they don’t have much energy even after they become a ghost. After the middle-aged man’s ghost narration was over, Ye Zun was pulled back to reality with one pull.
The little boy smiled, and looked at him curiously with clear eyes. “Did you really see a ghost? What does the ghost look like, is it fun? I want to see it too.”
Ye Zun shook his head.
——Er-gugu really does have two ghosts by her side, who help her kill people. It’s her older sister and mum.
The little boy was a little surprised, and looked at him with wide eyes. “Didn’t you say that her sister and mum were killed by her? Are ghosts so stupid? They actually help the person who killed them.”
——Because she said, they can share her body and life with her, and, once they meet a suitable body, she will let the ghosts of her sister and mum return to the world.
The little boy said in amazement, “Then San-gugu’s mental instability is because she wants the ghosts to take over San-gugu’s body?”
Ye Zun hadn’t thought about it like this at all before. His pupils trembled.
——We can’t do anything now. And also, those ghosts can control the living, so we must remind Nainai to pay attention.
……
In the dark, a woman was dressing up, sitting in front of the mirror, carefully applying lipstick.
Then she admired her own beauty in the mirror.
In the blink of an eye, two ghosts, one big and one small, appeared behind her in the mirror.
The woman looked at her golden finger*. “I am indeed the one chosen by the heavens.”
[T/N: like plot armour]
She was so powerful, but it was a pity she couldn’t share her secrets with anyone. The feeling in her heart was far too unbearable. She has liked to show off since she was a child, but now she couldn’t show off, so it was simply a punishment for her.
So, she set her sights on that pitiful, miserable little sister.
After the divorce of her first stepmother, she stopped putting on an act in front of this younger sister who was hated and disliked by everyone around her, under her deliberate efforts.
This feeling of knowing the entire truth, but no one believes it, must be very hopeless ba.
And when she stood in the crowd, seeing her little sister clearly telling the truth that she herself told her, and those stupid people around her believing in herself without hesitation, this feeling was also extremely refreshing.
There was a sense of being above everyone else.
“To be honest, I quite like this Meimei, but if Jiejie likes her body, I can only give it to Jiejie. As long as we do one more thing, she will probably break completely. When that time comes, I will go and pick Jiejie up.”
She spoke with a smile to the little girl in the mirror.
Then she looked at the female ghost with her curved eyebrows under heavy makeup. “Mama, haven’t you always hated that woman? You can make your move now. She should be with many people right now, control whoever you want, and kill her ba.”
The female ghosts in the mirror disappeared.
She laughed happily, laughing loudly.
Soon, all those properties will be hers.
She was also tired of these two ghosts sharing the same body with her. Other things are okay, but men absolutely cannot be shared with other people, let alone other ghosts.
……
In Gu-laolao’s villa.
There were six hired-workers at home.
An old housekeeper who was always with Gu-laolao, a nanny who took care of the children, an aunt who shopped for groceries and cooked the meals, a driver, and two young security guards who were mainly responsible for security.
The others, like the gardeners who handled the garden and the housekeepers who cleaned and did chores such as the laundry did not count.
Tonight, except for the old housekeeper and the old great aunt who were guarding outside the little boy’s room on the fourth floor, everyone else was doing their own business.
The nanny and aunt check the safety hazards in the kitchen and prepare some food and drinks for everyone.
The driver and the two young men patrolled the entrance of the villa.
“Sure enough, something happened ah. San-guniang* is actually a psycho.”
[T/N: 姑娘/guniang: lady]
“What’s there to be surprised about, she’s always been neurotic.”
“But I didn’t expect that Er-guniang and her husband would be kicked out. There really is something wrong with this family.”
“Why aren’t they letting anyone sleep tonight, do they want to keep torturing people?”
“They say it’s…a…haunting…” That person lowered their voice.
“Yi, where did Xiao-Fang go? We were only walking for a little bit, why is it just the two of us?”
While the driver was chatting with one of the security guards, the security guard who was walking at the back suddenly froze and stayed where he stood. He watched them walk away, and then silently turned his head back.
He headed into the dark garden, and soon walked out with a shovel. The soil-stained shovel shone sharply under the light of the lamps.
He set off on a straight path to the villa, with dirt footprints left behind on the clean floor and stairs, all the way upstairs.
【 Kill her! That old woman always looks at you with contempt, have you forgotten the anger accumulated in your heart? 】
【 Use this shovel to cut off her head, shovel and mash it up like garden soil! Just do it! 】
“These damn rich people! Not seeing me as a human being!”
In the dark night, a person’s hostility was like a flame, being stirred up little by little.
The small amount of friction and resentment in the past seemed to be instigated. The resentment and anger burned more and more, almost burning up all reason.
They were obviously trivial things that were not worth remembering in the day, but in the dark and under the inexplicable impulse, the resentment burned all intellect like a madness.
It was as if, if he didn’t vent his resentment and anger, he would no longer be able to live well.
【 Kill her! Kill her! Just do it! 】
“Xiao-Fang, why are you here? Didn’t you go to patrol the garden with them?”
“Oh yes, we made some supper, have some before you go. I’ll get it for you.”
The aunt walked to the kitchen with her back to him, not paying attention to the red-hot eyes of the person behind her at all.
The man held on to the shovel tightly, but because the aunt walked into the kitchen with quick steps, he gave up again and headed to the fourth floor according to the impulse in his heart.
Tragic screams sounded from the villa.
The aunt who came out of the kitchen noticed the footprints on the ground, and finally realised that something was wrong with Xiao-Fang.
Many people in the house talked about the old lady’s superstitions, about the sorcery in Southeast Asia and so on. Older people have much richer experiences, so once they see someone like this, they would immediately think of a ghost possessing the body.
Regardless of whether it is or not, she called the two patrolling people hurriedly, and quietly called them back to the house.
After Xiao-Fang went upstairs, he searched room by room. The shovel broke through many doors.
In the end, the old housekeeper and two aunts smothered his head with clothing rails, vases, and blankets, and then he was immobilised by the driver and security guard who came back.
Of course, all of this was possible because Ye Zun ran out right after his psychic encounter with the ghost, to bring them in the loop in advance, so that everyone could be mentally prepared beforehand.
“Aiya, scared me to death, scared me to death.”
The two aunts were quick to move when it started, but only after they knocked down the person did they feel lingering fears.
They all made up their minds. As soon as the sun comes out tomorrow, they will pay the money and leave. They can no longer work for this family.
The old housekeeper was an old gentleman who had been following the old lady for many years, even since when she lived abroad. He immediately asked everyone to return to their rooms and stay there.
“The driver and the security guard are watching the other one. A-yi*, please quickly call the police.”
[T/N: housekeeping auntie (no one has names, it’s making it so hard for me)]
He and the old lady looked at each other, with worry in their hearts. There were too many people. Once a young man who was considered very strong was possessed by a ghost, the rest of them would have no chance of winning.
When they turned their heads, there was another scream.
“What’s the matter, what’s wrong?”
“Zhang-yi* disappeared, all the network and phone lines in the house were cut.”
[T/N: Aunt Zhang]
“Where’s the phone? Where is the mobile phone?”
“The phone is also gone.”
Just now, everyone was busy dealing with the ghost who possessed the security guard’s body. Who would still carry a mobile phone with them?
“Quick, find a place to hide.”
“No, drive out, leave this place by car, go to the police station! We can’t stay at home!” The old housekeeper made a decision immediately.
There was chaos* in the darkness.
[T/N: 兵荒马乱, literally soldiers mutiny and troops rebel (chaos of war)]
The old lady and the nanny took Ye Zun and the little boy, and the old housekeeper ran out before quickly coming back.
“The breaker box was smashed in, the cars in the garage can’t be driven out, and the gate can’t be opened.”
“Oh no, we saw a lot of oil on the floor in the rooms, is she trying to set it on fire?”
“Stay in the open space!”
Not only did everyone have to guard against the person in the dark, but also guard against the surroundings. One second, you are a normal person, the next, you could be possessed by a ghost, and turn around to attack everyone.
While the crowd was panicked and desperate, the little boy and Ye Zun leaned against Gu-laolao’s body obediently, their two arms linked.
Ye Zun’s expression was quiet. He thought that this group of people dealt with things very well, and once a ghost appeared, he would be able to spot it immediately, so he was not very worried.
Whether the little boy was influenced by him, or if he was too young to know the severity of the matter, his clear and bright eyes simply blinked, filled with curiosity, and his ‘not-paying-attention’ appearance was a little undisciplined.
Ye Zun held his hand.
——Don’t worry, the ghost is not here.
Compared to ghosts, right now, Ye Zun was more afraid of these uncontrollable people.
People didn’t need a ghost possessing their bodies to do evil, and they may also be bribed by money because of their interests and hatred. And these things cannot be seen at all.
“En.” The little boy looked at him, trusting.
Suddenly, a dazzling light came from outside.
“Mum, Mum! Are you all okay ba!“
At this critical moment, Er-gufu returned in the car, bringing the police. They crashed open the gate.
“Why did you come?”
“The house’s security system is connected to my phone, it’s never been turned off. I suddenly received a notification that the system was breached in the middle of the night, and I knew something happened.”
Er-gufu brought the police with him. Before Aunt Zhang could set the place on fire, they were able to bring her under their control first and clean up those fire hazards. By the time the work was over, the sun was just about to come out.
This night could also be counted as having no casualties*.
[T/N: 有惊无险, to be more scared than hurt]
Except, after the sun came up, both the security guard and Aunt Zhang had a face of confusion, neither knowing what they had done last night.
Everyone also knew the reasons behind these events, so it could only be attributed to a sudden lapse of mental illness.
Gu-laolao also didn’t want to hold these two people accountable. Essentially, they also suffered an unexpected disaster.
She gave bonuses to everyone who helped last night. Some people resigned with lingering fears, and although some people with strong hearts wanted to stay, most of them planned to leave.
It was even more impossible for the two who were possessed by ghosts to stay.
“That won’t work. If there is one, there will be two. Xiao-jie*, you should leave for abroad with me ba. Let’s go find a grandmaster. There are only a thousand days to be a thief, there are no thousand days to guard against a thief*. It is impossible to keep guard ah.” The old housekeeper tried to persuade her.
[T/N: Young miss]
[T/N: 只有千日做贼的，哪有千日防贼, basically, it’s difficult to guard against a thief for a long time]
Er-gufu was also told by Gu-laolao about the root cause of everything that happened last night. Hearing that everything was done by his wife, that his wife could drive ghosts to kill people, the man was completely in a daze, sitting there the entire time in a sullen mood with a depressed appearance.
Then, he got a call from the hospital.
Ye Zun stood at the side and heard the contents of the call.
San-gugu who was forcibly taken to the hospital last night suddenly committed suicide, and was currently being saved in the hospital.
Ye Zun thought of what he had learned from the psychic session with the ghost last night. Er-gugu destroyed San-gugu’s spirit because she wanted to leave her body to the ghost of her twin big sister.
San-gugu’s suicide may be a resistance to her, or it perhaps she had been successfully seized.
When they were taking notes at the police station, Gu-laolao also claimed that it was her second daughter who was behind the scenes, wanting to kill her for money.
However, after Er-gugu was summoned, she gave an alibi for last night, so she had to be let go.
Gu-laolao was ruthless. “I can’t do anything to her legally. But I have a way to make her incapable of living as a human.”
She immediately mobilised her social circle to publicise the disputes in her family.
Saying that the second daughter raised ghosts to kill, killed her elder brother and father, and drove her little sister crazy. Now she was making a move on her nephews and old lady, almost killing them.
The Vanity Fair social circle didn’t look at the evidence at all, only the gossip. Once this incident gets out, everyone will look at her with coloured glasses, which can be regarded as a social death for her.
Coupled with the fact that Er-gufu was a man with integrity, he immediately filed a divorce lawsuit against Er-gugu.
He met and knew Gu-laolao before the fall of his family. His blind date and marriage to Er-gugu was also because of this predestined fate.
But the old lady still underestimated her.
After Er-gugu found out about this, she immediately posted a video.
With a plain face and haggard tears, she described her younger sister as a scheming green tea* who has overwhelmed her since she was a child, and even coveted her husband when she grew up. Her husband divorced her because of that woman.
[T/N: 綠茶(婊)/green tea bitch, someone who seems innocent but is actually manipulative]
She said that her younger sister deliberately acted mentally ill in order to frame her, and even pretended to commit suicide. The family was deceived, but she didn’t blame them, and just cried in the video, begging her husband to come home.
The public opinion will always be more sympathetic to the original partner when it comes to the original partner or the mistress. In addition, there was no real evidence for controlling ghosts and the murders she committed, so she was asked to come over for one conversation.
And so, Er-gugu appeared at their house not long after, swaggering in.
At that time, Er-gufu and the old housekeeper were not at home and out to go through the procedures for the family to leave abroad. There was only the old grandparent, two children, and an aunt who cooked.
This time, she didn’t put on an act again. Wearing high heels, sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, behaving as arrogantly as she wanted.
She even lit a cigarette, and the ash was indifferently flicked onto the couch, burning holes in the fabric.
“This is my house.” She rolled her eyes at the ugly old lady. “My Dad is dead, does that mean I can’t come home?”
After tearing her face apart, she was completely fearless, and even more terrifying.
“You, what do you want to do?”
She puffed out a ring of smoke at the old lady. The old lady was so furious she became dizzy, lying on the couch and covering her head.
She passed the old lady and headed straight into the house.
In the corridor, Ye Zun saw Er-gugu, and before he could be surprised, he saw the ghost of San-gugu behind her. His heart sank.
Did San-gugu die? Or was her body taken away?
The smoking Er-gugu who acted arrogantly stopped, looked behind her, and seemed to also see her little sister’s ghost.
But she was only a little surprised at first. There was no trace of fear on her face.
She looked at Ye Zun in the corridor, then at San-gugu’s ghost, and nodded, coming to a sudden realisation.
“I was wondering why the plan failed. It turned out that it was because a brat like you can see ghosts. In other words, you’ve known it for a long time, and you even know how to pretend.”
She smiled and looked at Ye Zun seriously. Whether it was because there was resentment hidden under the smile, or if the evil was covered up with that smile, that big smile made people very uncomfortable.
Until now, this smile was more horrifying than any of the female ghosts Ye Zun has seen.
She blocked Ye Zun in the corner of the corridor and approached him. The hand holding the cigarette hovered very close to Ye Zun’s face.
“Say, can Gugu blind your eyes with this cigarette? Anyway, you are mute, even if you want to identify me afterwards, you will be blind, and you can not speak. How pitiful.”
“Gugu.” The innocent voice of the little boy appeared behind them. “Did you say you will blind Didi’s eyes with cigarettes?”
Er-gugu turned her head.
Ye Zun looked over with her, at the little boy on the other end of the corridor.
The little boy smiled with his mouth open. His skin was very fair, and he looked so innocent with that beautiful smile. At this moment, he held a phone in his hand, screen facing them.
“Police-shushu*, Er-gugu said that to Didi with a cigarette in her hand. You also heard that ba.”
[T/N: uncle police]
The woman’s complexion changed, and she said with a smile, “Gugu was just joking with you.”
“Er-gugu was just accused by Nainai of wanting to kill us all. Although the evidence is insufficient and the case has not been filed, if Er-gugu made such a joke when she was alone with Didi, is it really just a joke?”
“You are a monster!” The woman cursed and marched over with quick footsteps. She snatched the little boy’s phone and smashed it to the ground, the high heels stomping viciously on the device several times.
She was panting, as if she had gone mad, as if she didn’t care about the consequences of what she had just done.
The little boy walked up to Ye Zun while she was stepping on the phone, looking at her in astonishment and with innocence. “Er-gugu, the police-shushu already saw it all, he will be coming to see you in just a bit. Are you really okay?”
The woman pushed back her hair roughly, staring at him with cold eyes. She suddenly laughed, and took out a knife from her bag. “When I was a kid, and I killed my sister and mum so easily for the first time, I understood, that killing is actually very simple. All it takes is one thought.”
She approached them step by step, and said with a smile, “From then on, I understood that it doesn’t matter how you kill people, what matters is how to kill people without being punished. It’s okay if a kid under the age of fourteen kills someone, but my skills weren’t good enough back then. That woman was too alert, and I let her escape. After the age of fourteen, it’s not easy to kill people, but I have ghosts who can help me.”
She charged at the two children with the knife.
Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
Ghost possessing the body
After being persuaded by them, Gu-laolao and a group of trusted hired bodyguards were on the lookout.
Ye Zun and the little boy stood in the middle of the dark bedroom, fingers holding a pen together, chanting the spell to summon the pen fairy.
This was the first time Ye Zun took the initiative to attract ghosts.
If what San-gugu said was true, this woman can use ghosts to kill people, and normal methods can’t deal with her at all.
He must use the ghost in the room to explore as much of Er-gugu’s past in advance as possible, as well as her plans.
“Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, I am your past life, you are my present life…” The mantra can only be recited by the little boy.
He seemed to find this very fun and couldn’t help laughing the whole time.
Ye Zun didn’t want him to join in at first. After all, ghosts were too dangerous for normal people. However, he couldn’t play the game entirely by himself.
Right now, seeing how the little boy only seemed to be curious and didn’t take this seriously, he actually felt a little relieved.
“…if you wish to show yourself, please draw a circle on the paper.”
In fact, there was no need. Ye Zun covered his left eye, and with the narrow vision of his right eye, he saw a cold black figure appearing beside them in an instant, placing a finger on the pen they were holding.
Ye Zun loosened his grip and immediately grabbed the ghost’s arm, forcing the other to look at him.
He looked into the ghost’s scary eyes, unblinking.
——I don’t care who you are, since you are a ghost in this house, tell me everything you know about that woman!
The ghost opened its black hole-like mouth, and inside, there was a pale middle-aged man’s face, and on that face there was a pair of terrifying eyes.
The ghost face with an open mouth rushed towards him. Ye Zun unconsciously grasped the little boy’s hand with his other hand, and controlled his heart not to be afraid.
……
A five or six-year-old girl was wearing a princess dress, lying on the bed pitifully with tears in her eyes. She sobbing and acting spoiled to her father who was coaxing her to sleep.
“Baba, will you love me forever?”
“Of course, you are Baba’s little princess ah.”
“Will you still love me if I do bad things?”
“Of course, the little princess can be forgiven for anything she does wrong, but you can’t do bad things on your own initiative. “
“Baba, you are so nice.” She understood. As long as there is a reason for doing a bad thing, it would not be done on her initiative, but by force.
“Sleep ba.” The man yawned. “Baba is going to bed too, and he has to go to work tomorrow to earn money for the little princess to buy toys.”
“I don’t want toys, I want beautiful dresses, very, very expensive and delicious food, I want shiny jewellery.”
“Hahahaha, okay, okay, okay, the little princess can have everything she wants.”
The man didn’t take the child’s words seriously and after putting his daughter to sleep, he turned off the light and walked out quietly.
The little girl was breathing steadily with a sweet smile on her face.
In the dark room after the lights were turned off, the dreamy princess lace decorations during the day looked like a twisting witch’s forest with hanged ghosts in the dark.
She seemed to be a little cold suddenly, and shrank under the blanket.
Under the cake-like princess bed and from the dark shadows, a skinny and pale arm slowly stretched out, and a ghost with dishevelled hair crawled out, little by little.
She turned over, frowning unconsciously. Her face was pale and she woke up from the dream without warning. When she opened her eyes she saw her dead mother’s face, lying down right next to her with their eyes directly level.
The little girl’s eyes froze. As if she thought it was a hallucination, she slowly turned over stiffly.
When she stopped on her back, the female ghost beside her was still looking at her, and in the lace bed curtain above her head, was the ghost of her twin sister, looking exactly like her. The ghost looked down at her, maintaining the same twisted and terrifying posture as when she died.
The little girl swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her eyes widening.
She knew she had no chance of escape.
“Mama, Jiejie.” She squeezed out a smile, pretending to be innocent, as if she didn’t know that they were ghosts with the intention of killing her. “I miss you two so much ah, it’s great, we can still live together, just like before.”
The ghost looked at her coldly and without any emotion, like a mass of resentment formed from concentrated dead air, with only the intent to kill her. Other than that, there was no consciousness.
She forced a smile, her eyeballs rolling around in a flurry.
“Don’t, don’t kill me! I have a lot of beautiful dresses for Jiejie to wear, and a lot of beautiful jewellery, Mama will also like it very much. Are you two unadjusted with your deaths? But I am alive, we can share, don’t kill me, keep me, you two can have full use of my body, it will be exactly the same as when you were alive.”
That was the only time in her life where she felt fear.
But fortunately, she managed to open her eyes the next morning.
Mama and Jiejie’s ghosts didn’t kill her, they were convinced by her.
In the beginning, they just appeared beside her out of the blue. When she was eating, wearing new clothes, going to various banquets with her father, and going to high-end places.
There was some fear at first, but when she cursed with all the resentment in her heart at a boy from an uncle’s family, who was richer than her father, for soiling her new dress while playing and then not apologising, her sister’s appeared appeared and directly pushed the boy from a great height, and the other person broke his leg.
She began to feel that being haunted by the ghosts of her mother and sister was not some kind of bad thing. It was simply her superpower.
As she got older, the ghosts could do more and more things for her, and they also began to demand the possession of her body, using her to experience the taste of being alive.
At first she was worried about being deprived of her body, whether it would be the same as dying, but as she contacted the ghosts more and more, she found that ghosts were actually nothing to be afraid of. As long as there is no fear, ghosts can do very little, and they have very little power.
She gradually learned to take the lead, and she would instruct the ghosts to do things. Only if she was willing could the ghosts possess her, and she could squeeze them out at any time to regain the authority of the body.
She originally wanted to use this new ability to kill her first stepmother, but she was too young to know how to hide her true colours in the beginning, and was discovered by the woman, who was always on guard against her. Ordinary people couldn’t see ghosts, so she also couldn’t use the ghosts to scare her to death.
Before she could think of a way, the stepmother resolutely divorced her father and moved away, not even taking her biological daughter with her.
Losing her access to the other party, she had no way to harm the other person anymore, so she had to give up.
When she was abroad with her father, because of the flourishing witchcraft there, her ability to control the ghosts had been further strengthened.
After just a few years, her father found her current mother, who had married many people before, and was also very rich.
At this time, she had grown up and knew that there is no need to compete with her father’s wife. So she hid her true character, deliberately flattering people, and against the backdrop of her little sister who appeared to be unpleasant because of her straightforward words, the relationship between her and the current stepmother was very good. The people outside would even think they were a mother and her biological daughter.
But the reason why she did this, of course, was because the other party was very wealthy.
However, Baba was indeed like many other men; he valued his stepson even more than his own daughter.
That Da-ge was very talented, and he was actually pretty good to her. When she was in school, because she had such an influential big brother, her school career was very exciting.
However, if the other person threatened her money, then she could only be sorry.
……
“That man was the first person she killed with a ghost. She studied for many years and finally attained the technique.
“She chose a driver who was frustrated with life, and extremely mentally unstable. Then she deliberately got into his car, disguised herself as a ghost, stirring up his fears, and left her sister’s and mother’s relics in his car.
“Once his fear had destroyed his mental defences, she had the ghosts of her mother and sister reveal themselves to him, harassing him from time to time. When his mind was completely broken, the ghosts could try to influence him.
“I am, that unlucky chosen driver.”
In the dark wilderness, a desolate and cold voice spoke.
“The car accident was not a one-time success. There were at least two or three opportunities that failed due to various factors. As a normal person, I instinctively controlled the steering wheel of the car. But perhaps because of my early actions, the target did not find anything out of the ordinary.
“Until the last time, at a critical moment, a ghost of a woman took control of me, and when my mind was a blank white slate, the steering wheel turned by itself and directly crashed into that person.
“It was the first time she had done this, so there was a lot of evidence. She didn’t want to be discovered, so she killed me. I have been following her all this time, but there are two fierce and terrifying ghosts at her side. They seemed to be sharing that body. Not only that, although that woman is human, because she had given up her body so many times, whenever she uses that body, the ghost of a little girl will run out.
“You have to be careful of that little girl. Whoever the little girl targets to be close to, is the target of her evil thoughts.”
Most people’s spirits are extremely fragile, and they don’t have much energy even after they become a ghost. After the middle-aged man’s ghost narration was over, Ye Zun was pulled back to reality with one pull.
The little boy smiled, and looked at him curiously with clear eyes. “Did you really see a ghost? What does the ghost look like, is it fun? I want to see it too.”
Ye Zun shook his head.
——Er-gugu really does have two ghosts by her side, who help her kill people. It’s her older sister and mum.
The little boy was a little surprised, and looked at him with wide eyes. “Didn’t you say that her sister and mum were killed by her? Are ghosts so stupid? They actually help the person who killed them.”
——Because she said, they can share her body and life with her, and, once they meet a suitable body, she will let the ghosts of her sister and mum return to the world.
The little boy said in amazement, “Then San-gugu’s mental instability is because she wants the ghosts to take over San-gugu’s body?”
Ye Zun hadn’t thought about it like this at all before. His pupils trembled.
——We can’t do anything now. And also, those ghosts can control the living, so we must remind Nainai to pay attention.
……
In the dark, a woman was dressing up, sitting in front of the mirror, carefully applying lipstick.
Then she admired her own beauty in the mirror.
In the blink of an eye, two ghosts, one big and one small, appeared behind her in the mirror.
The woman looked at her golden finger*. “I am indeed the one chosen by the heavens.”
[T/N: like plot armour]
She was so powerful, but it was a pity she couldn’t share her secrets with anyone. The feeling in her heart was far too unbearable. She has liked to show off since she was a child, but now she couldn’t show off, so it was simply a punishment for her.
So, she set her sights on that pitiful, miserable little sister.
After the divorce of her first stepmother, she stopped putting on an act in front of this younger sister who was hated and disliked by everyone around her, under her deliberate efforts.
This feeling of knowing the entire truth, but no one believes it, must be very hopeless ba.
And when she stood in the crowd, seeing her little sister clearly telling the truth that she herself told her, and those stupid people around her believing in herself without hesitation, this feeling was also extremely refreshing.
There was a sense of being above everyone else.
“To be honest, I quite like this Meimei, but if Jiejie likes her body, I can only give it to Jiejie. As long as we do one more thing, she will probably break completely. When that time comes, I will go and pick Jiejie up.”
She spoke with a smile to the little girl in the mirror.
Then she looked at the female ghost with her curved eyebrows under heavy makeup. “Mama, haven’t you always hated that woman? You can make your move now. She should be with many people right now, control whoever you want, and kill her ba.”
The female ghosts in the mirror disappeared.
She laughed happily, laughing loudly.
Soon, all those properties will be hers.
She was also tired of these two ghosts sharing the same body with her. Other things are okay, but men absolutely cannot be shared with other people, let alone other ghosts.
……
In Gu-laolao’s villa.
There were six hired-workers at home.
An old housekeeper who was always with Gu-laolao, a nanny who took care of the children, an aunt who shopped for groceries and cooked the meals, a driver, and two young security guards who were mainly responsible for security.
The others, like the gardeners who handled the garden and the housekeepers who cleaned and did chores such as the laundry did not count.
Tonight, except for the old housekeeper and the old great aunt who were guarding outside the little boy’s room on the fourth floor, everyone else was doing their own business.
The nanny and aunt check the safety hazards in the kitchen and prepare some food and drinks for everyone.
The driver and the two young men patrolled the entrance of the villa.
“Sure enough, something happened ah. San-guniang* is actually a psycho.”
[T/N: 姑娘/guniang: lady]
“What’s there to be surprised about, she’s always been neurotic.”
“But I didn’t expect that Er-guniang and her husband would be kicked out. There really is something wrong with this family.”
“Why aren’t they letting anyone sleep tonight, do they want to keep torturing people?”
“They say it’s…a…haunting…” That person lowered their voice.
“Yi, where did Xiao-Fang go? We were only walking for a little bit, why is it just the two of us?”
While the driver was chatting with one of the security guards, the security guard who was walking at the back suddenly froze and stayed where he stood. He watched them walk away, and then silently turned his head back.
He headed into the dark garden, and soon walked out with a shovel. The soil-stained shovel shone sharply under the light of the lamps.
He set off on a straight path to the villa, with dirt footprints left behind on the clean floor and stairs, all the way upstairs.
【 Kill her! That old woman always looks at you with contempt, have you forgotten the anger accumulated in your heart? 】
【 Use this shovel to cut off her head, shovel and mash it up like garden soil! Just do it! 】
“These damn rich people! Not seeing me as a human being!”
In the dark night, a person’s hostility was like a flame, being stirred up little by little.
The small amount of friction and resentment in the past seemed to be instigated. The resentment and anger burned more and more, almost burning up all reason.
They were obviously trivial things that were not worth remembering in the day, but in the dark and under the inexplicable impulse, the resentment burned all intellect like a madness.
It was as if, if he didn’t vent his resentment and anger, he would no longer be able to live well.
【 Kill her! Kill her! Just do it! 】
“Xiao-Fang, why are you here? Didn’t you go to patrol the garden with them?”
“Oh yes, we made some supper, have some before you go. I’ll get it for you.”
The aunt walked to the kitchen with her back to him, not paying attention to the red-hot eyes of the person behind her at all.
The man held on to the shovel tightly, but because the aunt walked into the kitchen with quick steps, he gave up again and headed to the fourth floor according to the impulse in his heart.
Tragic screams sounded from the villa.
The aunt who came out of the kitchen noticed the footprints on the ground, and finally realised that something was wrong with Xiao-Fang.
Many people in the house talked about the old lady’s superstitions, about the sorcery in Southeast Asia and so on. Older people have much richer experiences, so once they see someone like this, they would immediately think of a ghost possessing the body.
Regardless of whether it is or not, she called the two patrolling people hurriedly, and quietly called them back to the house.
After Xiao-Fang went upstairs, he searched room by room. The shovel broke through many doors.
In the end, the old housekeeper and two aunts smothered his head with clothing rails, vases, and blankets, and then he was immobilised by the driver and security guard who came back.
Of course, all of this was possible because Ye Zun ran out right after his psychic encounter with the ghost, to bring them in the loop in advance, so that everyone could be mentally prepared beforehand.
“Aiya, scared me to death, scared me to death.”
The two aunts were quick to move when it started, but only after they knocked down the person did they feel lingering fears.
They all made up their minds. As soon as the sun comes out tomorrow, they will pay the money and leave. They can no longer work for this family.
The old housekeeper was an old gentleman who had been following the old lady for many years, even since when she lived abroad. He immediately asked everyone to return to their rooms and stay there.
“The driver and the security guard are watching the other one. A-yi*, please quickly call the police.”
[T/N: housekeeping auntie (no one has names, it’s making it so hard for me)]
He and the old lady looked at each other, with worry in their hearts. There were too many people. Once a young man who was considered very strong was possessed by a ghost, the rest of them would have no chance of winning.
When they turned their heads, there was another scream.
“What’s the matter, what’s wrong?”
“Zhang-yi* disappeared, all the network and phone lines in the house were cut.”
[T/N: Aunt Zhang]
“Where’s the phone? Where is the mobile phone?”
“The phone is also gone.”
Just now, everyone was busy dealing with the ghost who possessed the security guard’s body. Who would still carry a mobile phone with them?
“Quick, find a place to hide.”
“No, drive out, leave this place by car, go to the police station! We can’t stay at home!” The old housekeeper made a decision immediately.
There was chaos* in the darkness.
[T/N: 兵荒马乱, literally soldiers mutiny and troops rebel (chaos of war)]
The old lady and the nanny took Ye Zun and the little boy, and the old housekeeper ran out before quickly coming back.
“The breaker box was smashed in, the cars in the garage can’t be driven out, and the gate can’t be opened.”
“Oh no, we saw a lot of oil on the floor in the rooms, is she trying to set it on fire?”
“Stay in the open space!”
Not only did everyone have to guard against the person in the dark, but also guard against the surroundings. One second, you are a normal person, the next, you could be possessed by a ghost, and turn around to attack everyone.
While the crowd was panicked and desperate, the little boy and Ye Zun leaned against Gu-laolao’s body obediently, their two arms linked.
Ye Zun’s expression was quiet. He thought that this group of people dealt with things very well, and once a ghost appeared, he would be able to spot it immediately, so he was not very worried.
Whether the little boy was influenced by him, or if he was too young to know the severity of the matter, his clear and bright eyes simply blinked, filled with curiosity, and his ‘not-paying-attention’ appearance was a little undisciplined.
Ye Zun held his hand.
——Don’t worry, the ghost is not here.
Compared to ghosts, right now, Ye Zun was more afraid of these uncontrollable people.
People didn’t need a ghost possessing their bodies to do evil, and they may also be bribed by money because of their interests and hatred. And these things cannot be seen at all.
“En.” The little boy looked at him, trusting.
Suddenly, a dazzling light came from outside.
“Mum, Mum! Are you all okay ba!“
At this critical moment, Er-gufu returned in the car, bringing the police. They crashed open the gate.
“Why did you come?”
“The house’s security system is connected to my phone, it’s never been turned off. I suddenly received a notification that the system was breached in the middle of the night, and I knew something happened.”
Er-gufu brought the police with him. Before Aunt Zhang could set the place on fire, they were able to bring her under their control first and clean up those fire hazards. By the time the work was over, the sun was just about to come out.
This night could also be counted as having no casualties*.
[T/N: 有惊无险, to be more scared than hurt]
Except, after the sun came up, both the security guard and Aunt Zhang had a face of confusion, neither knowing what they had done last night.
Everyone also knew the reasons behind these events, so it could only be attributed to a sudden lapse of mental illness.
Gu-laolao also didn’t want to hold these two people accountable. Essentially, they also suffered an unexpected disaster.
She gave bonuses to everyone who helped last night. Some people resigned with lingering fears, and although some people with strong hearts wanted to stay, most of them planned to leave.
It was even more impossible for the two who were possessed by ghosts to stay.
“That won’t work. If there is one, there will be two. Xiao-jie*, you should leave for abroad with me ba. Let’s go find a grandmaster. There are only a thousand days to be a thief, there are no thousand days to guard against a thief*. It is impossible to keep guard ah.” The old housekeeper tried to persuade her.
[T/N: Young miss]
[T/N: 只有千日做贼的，哪有千日防贼, basically, it’s difficult to guard against a thief for a long time]
Er-gufu was also told by Gu-laolao about the root cause of everything that happened last night. Hearing that everything was done by his wife, that his wife could drive ghosts to kill people, the man was completely in a daze, sitting there the entire time in a sullen mood with a depressed appearance.
Then, he got a call from the hospital.
Ye Zun stood at the side and heard the contents of the call.
San-gugu who was forcibly taken to the hospital last night suddenly committed suicide, and was currently being saved in the hospital.
Ye Zun thought of what he had learned from the psychic session with the ghost last night. Er-gugu destroyed San-gugu’s spirit because she wanted to leave her body to the ghost of her twin big sister.
San-gugu’s suicide may be a resistance to her, or it perhaps she had been successfully seized.
When they were taking notes at the police station, Gu-laolao also claimed that it was her second daughter who was behind the scenes, wanting to kill her for money.
However, after Er-gugu was summoned, she gave an alibi for last night, so she had to be let go.
Gu-laolao was ruthless. “I can’t do anything to her legally. But I have a way to make her incapable of living as a human.”
She immediately mobilised her social circle to publicise the disputes in her family.
Saying that the second daughter raised ghosts to kill, killed her elder brother and father, and drove her little sister crazy. Now she was making a move on her nephews and old lady, almost killing them.
The Vanity Fair social circle didn’t look at the evidence at all, only the gossip. Once this incident gets out, everyone will look at her with coloured glasses, which can be regarded as a social death for her.
Coupled with the fact that Er-gufu was a man with integrity, he immediately filed a divorce lawsuit against Er-gugu.
He met and knew Gu-laolao before the fall of his family. His blind date and marriage to Er-gugu was also because of this predestined fate.
But the old lady still underestimated her.
After Er-gugu found out about this, she immediately posted a video.
With a plain face and haggard tears, she described her younger sister as a scheming green tea* who has overwhelmed her since she was a child, and even coveted her husband when she grew up. Her husband divorced her because of that woman.
[T/N: 綠茶(婊)/green tea bitch, someone who seems innocent but is actually manipulative]
She said that her younger sister deliberately acted mentally ill in order to frame her, and even pretended to commit suicide. The family was deceived, but she didn’t blame them, and just cried in the video, begging her husband to come home.
The public opinion will always be more sympathetic to the original partner when it comes to the original partner or the mistress. In addition, there was no real evidence for controlling ghosts and the murders she committed, so she was asked to come over for one conversation.
And so, Er-gugu appeared at their house not long after, swaggering in.
At that time, Er-gufu and the old housekeeper were not at home and out to go through the procedures for the family to leave abroad. There was only the old grandparent, two children, and an aunt who cooked.
This time, she didn’t put on an act again. Wearing high heels, sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, behaving as arrogantly as she wanted.
She even lit a cigarette, and the ash was indifferently flicked onto the couch, burning holes in the fabric.
“This is my house.” She rolled her eyes at the ugly old lady. “My Dad is dead, does that mean I can’t come home?”
After tearing her face apart, she was completely fearless, and even more terrifying.
“You, what do you want to do?”
She puffed out a ring of smoke at the old lady. The old lady was so furious she became dizzy, lying on the couch and covering her head.
She passed the old lady and headed straight into the house.
In the corridor, Ye Zun saw Er-gugu, and before he could be surprised, he saw the ghost of San-gugu behind her. His heart sank.
Did San-gugu die? Or was her body taken away?
The smoking Er-gugu who acted arrogantly stopped, looked behind her, and seemed to also see her little sister’s ghost.
But she was only a little surprised at first. There was no trace of fear on her face.
She looked at Ye Zun in the corridor, then at San-gugu’s ghost, and nodded, coming to a sudden realisation.
“I was wondering why the plan failed. It turned out that it was because a brat like you can see ghosts. In other words, you’ve known it for a long time, and you even know how to pretend.”
She smiled and looked at Ye Zun seriously. Whether it was because there was resentment hidden under the smile, or if the evil was covered up with that smile, that big smile made people very uncomfortable.
Until now, this smile was more horrifying than any of the female ghosts Ye Zun has seen.
She blocked Ye Zun in the corner of the corridor and approached him. The hand holding the cigarette hovered very close to Ye Zun’s face.
“Say, can Gugu blind your eyes with this cigarette? Anyway, you are mute, even if you want to identify me afterwards, you will be blind, and you can not speak. How pitiful.”
“Gugu.” The innocent voice of the little boy appeared behind them. “Did you say you will blind Didi’s eyes with cigarettes?”
Er-gugu turned her head.
Ye Zun looked over with her, at the little boy on the other end of the corridor.
The little boy smiled with his mouth open. His skin was very fair, and he looked so innocent with that beautiful smile. At this moment, he held a phone in his hand, screen facing them.
“Police-shushu*, Er-gugu said that to Didi with a cigarette in her hand. You also heard that ba.”
[T/N: uncle police]
The woman’s complexion changed, and she said with a smile, “Gugu was just joking with you.”
“Er-gugu was just accused by Nainai of wanting to kill us all. Although the evidence is insufficient and the case has not been filed, if Er-gugu made such a joke when she was alone with Didi, is it really just a joke?”
“You are a monster!” The woman cursed and marched over with quick footsteps. She snatched the little boy’s phone and smashed it to the ground, the high heels stomping viciously on the device several times.
She was panting, as if she had gone mad, as if she didn’t care about the consequences of what she had just done.
The little boy walked up to Ye Zun while she was stepping on the phone, looking at her in astonishment and with innocence. “Er-gugu, the police-shushu already saw it all, he will be coming to see you in just a bit. Are you really okay?”
The woman pushed back her hair roughly, staring at him with cold eyes. She suddenly laughed, and took out a knife from her bag. “When I was a kid, and I killed my sister and mum so easily for the first time, I understood, that killing is actually very simple. All it takes is one thought.”
She approached them step by step, and said with a smile, “From then on, I understood that it doesn’t matter how you kill people, what matters is how to kill people without being punished. It’s okay if a kid under the age of fourteen kills someone, but my skills weren’t good enough back then. That woman was too alert, and I let her escape. After the age of fourteen, it’s not easy to kill people, but I have ghosts who can help me.”
She charged at the two children with the knife.
