Chapter 23: Mother, Save Me!
Ruan Yu was stunned by Nan Yuanman, who didn’t play by the rules, forgetting to even scold her for breaking into a private home, and subconsciously asked back: “What did I drop?”
The next second, a pitch-black ghostly shadow flew out from the small coffin in Nan Yuanman’s hand, crawling rapidly on the ground while screeching and crying: “Mommy, mommy, she’s so scary, mommy! Save me, mommy!”
Ruan Yu: “!!!”
Cheng Yi: “!!!”
“Mom, watch out!” Cheng Yi instinctively kicked away the pitch-black figure crawling toward Ruan Yu and protected her in front of him.
Ruan Yu looked at Nan Yuanman in shock and astonishment. Wasn’t this the little ghost she had sent to kill Meng Lei?! How did it end up in this child’s hands?!
She had thought that after escaping from the little demon’s hands, she would be welcomed into mommy’s warm embrace, but instead, she got a big stinky foot.
The little ghost was completely furious. Her eyes were blood-red, filled with hostility and grievance as she looked at Cheng Yi and Ruan Yu, and she demanded: “Mommy, didn’t you say you only have me and brother as your two children? Didn’t you say you would love me forever?”
“Who is this person?! Why does he call you mommy too! Why didn’t you stop him when he hit me!”
“Mommy…” Her angry, shrill voice gradually turned plaintive: “Don’t you love me anymore?”
It was Cheng Yi’s first time facing something so weird. His body trembled slightly in fear as he asked: “Mom, what is this thing? Why does it… call you mommy?”
Ruan Yu’s face turned pale: “I… I…”
“She’s not your mommy!” The little ghost screamed jealously, crawling rapidly on the ground toward Ruan Yu: “She’s the only mommy for me and brother! I won’t allow you to call her that!”
“Mommy, it’s okay, I forgive you. We’ll be together soon.” In the blink of an eye, the little ghost appeared in front of Ruan Yu, her pitch-black hands tightly hugging her little legs.
The heavy yin energy and grievance from her body instantly enveloped Ruan Yu and Cheng Yi.
Ruan Yu was terrified: “No—!”
Nan Yuanman glanced indifferently, ignored them, and ran quickly into the villa on her short legs.
Those who raise little ghosts must be prepared for backlash from them.
This was the karma between Ruan Yu and the little ghost; she wouldn’t interfere.
–
At that moment, the attic of the villa was in chaos.
Jia Ping’an was bound by pitch-black yin energy and hung up in the air. The hand that had touched the jar was twisted into an unnatural arc, his chest pierced by yin energy, eyes wide open with no breath left.
Meng Lei protected Meng Qinian as they huddled in the corner. Master Zhang and his second disciple Wen Yongkang were being chased all over the room.
“I’ll kill you! Kill you all! Damn stinky Taoist priest!!”
Master Zhang ran desperately, tears and snot flying. Wen Yongkang rolled and crawled after him, crying out: “Master! Think of something!”
Meng Lei’s face was ashen. He anxiously spoke up too: “Master Zhang! Hurry and deal with it!”
“Master has no way either!!” Master Zhang was about to cry. Anxiously, he pulled out talismans from his shoulder bag and scattered them toward Zhuang Zhuang on the ground like heavenly maidens scattering flowers, urgently chanting: “Heavenly essence of the mystic sect, root of all qi, four spirits and heavenly lamps, six jia and six ding, aid me to extinguish the essence, demons and goblins perish in form!”
The talismans landed on Zhuang Zhuang, having no effect at all.
Master Zhang: “!!”
“The living move to die, the dead move to perish. By the decree of Taishang Laojun, urgently as the law commands!”
Still no use.
Zhuang Zhuang let out mocking laughter: “Are you cheering for your own death? How interesting!”
Master Zhang: “…”
His face was full of despair. My life is over!
Meng Qinian, using Meng Lei’s cover, tremblingly pulled out his mobile phone to call Nan Yuanman, only to despairingly discover that Nan Yuanman! She! Had no! Telephone!
It’s over!
This time it’s completely over!
In the blink of an eye, Zhuang Zhuang had caught up to Master Zhang and his disciple, using yin energy to hang them up, their necks twisted into unnatural arcs by the yin energy.
Meng Qinian shuddered all over, took a deep breath, and threw the safety talisman Nan Yuanman had given him toward them.
The safety talisman ignited instantly upon touching the yin energy, burning away the yin energy binding Master Zhang and his disciple.
Zhuang Zhuang grunted in pain, her scarlet eyes glaring hatefully at Meng Qinian, and angrily flung a ball of yin energy at him: “You’re asking to die!”
Meng Qinian’s pupils shrank: “!!”
Meng Lei quickly hugged Meng Qinian to his chest, using his back to block the yin energy ball flung by Zhuang Zhuang.
The yin energy ball hit him, and Meng Lei felt a burning heat where the safety talisman was on his chest.
The next second, after the burning faded, came extreme yin chill.
Zhuang Zhuang had appeared behind him at some point, her small palm turning into a cone shape, viciously stabbing toward Meng Lei’s back.
Meng Qinian’s eyes nearly split: “Dad—!”
At the critical moment, a coffin fell from the sky, about to smash onto Zhuang Zhuang, who instantly turned her entire body into black mist and dissipated.
Zhuang Zhuang: “!!!”
“Who is it?!” Zhuang Zhuang’s face was ferocious, eyes full of vigilance as she growled lowly.
“To collect you!” A crisp, soft child’s voice rang out from the coffin board. Nan Yuanman threw out Xiao Cao, who had one lame leg: “Xiao Cao, go!”
Xiao Cao charged straight at Zhuang Zhuang. Zhuang Zhuang shrieked and fearlessly pounced at Xiao Cao, her small palm turning into sharp claws, wanting to tear Xiao Cao apart.
Xiao Cao did a 360° flip in mid-air, and her other intact leg kicked viciously at Zhuang Zhuang’s back.
Under the forceful impact, Zhuang Zhuang’s body suddenly flew backward.
Nan Yuanman cooperatively opened the coffin lid and stuffed the astonished Zhuang Zhuang into the small coffin: “Done!”
The person and the scarecrow cooperated perfectly, collecting Zhuang Zhuang in the blink of an eye.
Meng Qinian, dumbfounded: “…!!”
Holy crap!
These days, even scarecrows have become spirits!!
Nan Yuanman patted her soft little hands, shrank the coffin and put it away, then turned to ask Brother Qinian with concern: “Brother Qinian, Uncle Meng, are you okay?”
“We’re fine…” Meng Qinian gasped heavily, his legs going soft as he collapsed uncontrollably to the ground.
Meng Lei was also covered in cold sweat from fright and gratefully looked at Nan Yuanman: “Yuanman, thank you for coming in time. We’re fine.”
He turned around and looked at Master Zhang, who had been knocked unconscious by the yin energy on the ground, and Jia Ping’an, who had no breath left: “It’s just… Master Zhang and the others…”
“Master my ass! That guy is a fraud!” After recovering, Meng Qinian excitedly said: “I told you to find Yuanman! You wouldn’t listen. Now look, someone’s dead! See how you handle this!”
Meng Lei smiled awkwardly and didn’t dare speak. He just thought… adults would be more reliable, right?
Who knew the one they found was a fraud…
“Yuanman, what exactly is going on? Where’s that ghost?” Meng Qinian asked.
Nan Yuanman jumped down from the coffin, spread her fingers slightly, and the coffin shrank back into her hand: “I collected him. He and the little ghost I caught yesterday are being raised by a woman in this villa.”
“Oh right, when I first arrived, I saw her trying to escape, so I let out yesterday’s little ghost to go play with her.”
Nan Yuanman tilted her head: “They should be having a lot of fun right now, right?”
Meng Qinian’s expression was indescribable: “…”
He suddenly felt that, compared to ghosts, Yuanman seemed even more terrifying.
–
After recovering, Meng Lei called his assistant to come clean up the mess.
Before the assistant arrived, he and Meng Qinian moved the unconscious Master Zhang and Wen Yongkang, as well as Jia Ping’an’s corpse, down from the attic.
Then they went with Nan Yuanman to the front yard of the villa to see who exactly was the person raising little ghosts to harm them!
In the front yard, Meng Lei looked at the two people fallen unconscious on the ground and was completely stunned: “How could it be them?”
Meng Qinian was surprised at first but not at all unexpected. He sneered: “I knew this mother and son pair weren’t up to any good. Now they’ve invited the wolf in.”
Meng Lei’s emotions were complicated. He opened his mouth and looked at Nan Yuanman: “Yuanman, can you wake Ruan Yu? I… want to ask her.”
Nan Yuanman nodded and waved her hand. The little ghost curled up in Ruan Yu’s arms was summoned over.
The little ghost instinctively glared discontentedly at the newcomer, but shrank her little neck upon seeing it was Nan Yuanman and didn’t dare make a sound.
Without the little ghost’s control, Ruan Yu let out a whimper and slowly opened her eyes.
When she saw Meng Lei’s gloomy face and Meng Qinian’s face full of mockery, she instantly understood—they had found out.
Her expression panicked, and she looked at Meng Lei with full weakness and innocence: “Lei Bro, it was those little ghosts who forced me! I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to harm you!”
“I love you so much, how could I possibly harm you?”
“You’re lying!!” The little ghost in Nan Yuanman’s hand instantly got agitated. She glared viciously and hatefully at Ruan Yu: “It was you, it was you who gave me the order to go kill this man!”
Ruan Yu’s face changed drastically, her expression ferocious: “Shut up!”
The little ghost bared her teeth: “I won’t!”
She was full of malice: “You bad woman! You also told me to kill this brother’s mommy! All the sins on us come from you! You can never shake us off in this lifetime!”
