Chapter 187: The Eyes Behind The Door
“Are you sure Li Datou didn’t see wrong?”
“How could this be fake?”
Old Li’s Wife slapped her thigh, “You know my husband’s situation better than anyone. Running in the mountain, besides you, who can match him?”
“Whether it’s a person or a ghost, he can still tell the difference.”
“Then it’s bad, he shouldn’t have gone back!”
Old Hong’s face changed immediately, “Let’s go, hurry and check it out.”
Seeing Old Hong like this, Old Li’s Wife immediately became anxious.
“What’s wrong, what’s the situation?”
Old Hong didn’t explain.
He looked toward Ye Zhen beside him.
Ye Zhen nodded.
The coffin in the inn was open, but there was nothing inside.
The other coffins all had corpses inside.
Just that one didn’t.
This meant the thing inside had escaped.
They chased out immediately, following all the way out of the Big Mountain.
But they found nothing.
Now seeing Old Li’s Wife come looking.
They finally understood, they had chased ahead.
The thing had nothing to pack up, the usable items Old Hong always carried on him.
The three hurried toward Old Li’s House.
Along the way, Old Li’s Wife was uneasy, keep asking Old Hong exactly what the situation was.
Old Hong said nothing, just hurried on.
The village wasn’t big, in a few minutes they arrived at Old Li’s House.
“Why is the door open?”
“I remember closing it when I left earlier.”
Seeing the wide-open front door, Old Li’s Wife immediately felt something was off.
Wasn’t her husband going to take a bath?
How could he bathe with the door open?
Old Li’s Wife feared something had happened to her husband and planned to rush in.
Old Hong grabbed Old Li’s Wife.
“Old Hong, what’s wrong?”
Old Hong shook his head and pointed behind the front door.
“Look carefully, isn’t there a person peering at us through the door crack behind?”
Rural doors mostly have two or three.
One is the kitchen door.
The other is the main hall front door.
And only the main hall door is called the front door.
City buildings don’t have this, just one door.
Not even a back door.
And now the one open was the front door.
The door wasn’t an iron door, it was a wooden door.
Most rural houses actually have wooden doors, though later they gradually became iron doors.
A household’s front door often determines the house’s Feng Shui.
Old Li’s Wife looked carefully upon hearing this.
She was immediately startled.
Behind the open door, in the gap, there really was a person inside.
A pair of eyes stared eerily at them.
Old Li’s Wife swallowed and didn’t dare go in anymore.
“Old Li, Old Li? Is that you?”
Old Li’s Wife still couldn’t rest easy about her husband.
She called out worriedly from outside the door.
Old Hong didn’t stop her, he stared at those eyes with a grave expression.
“What do you think?”
Ye Zhen shook his head upon hearing this, “No need to look, just make your move directly.”
Old Hong’s face darkened, “It’s really not a person inside the door?”
“What do you think?”
“I advise you to hurry, the ghost is hiding behind the door now, we haven’t been attacked yet only because we haven’t triggered the fierce ghost’s killing pattern.”
“Once triggered, I’ll be fine, but you two…”
Ye Zhen didn’t continue.
How could ordinary people withstand a fierce ghost attack?
He couldn’t act now, not that he couldn’t act at all.
He could only use some supernatural, but not his abilities.
He could only use supernatural to suppress the opponent’s supernatural.
And his current supernatural was very weak.
“Re… really a ghost?”
“How could a ghost come to my home?”
Old Li’s Wife was full of terror.
“A ghost in my home, then Old Li…”
Old Hong patted Old Li’s Wife’s shoulder.
He didn’t comfort her.
At this point, there was nothing to say.
Old Hong took out a black incense stick and lit it.
The incense was lit but didn’t emit smoke.
Ye Zhen’s gaze shifted slightly, the supernatural in his body stirred the moment the incense was lit.
But soon the stir calmed down.
This seemed to be incense that could attract fierce ghosts.
Something like the Ghost Candle?
Ye Zhen guessed.
Old Hong lit the incense and stared fixedly at the front door.
“How could…”
The incense was lit, but the eyes behind the door still existed, not even moving.
“Something’s wrong.”
Old Hong instantly realized something.
“It’s useless?”
Ye Zhen frowned.
Old Hong shook his head, “It’s useless, the worst outcome has happened.”
“My father said, when even the incense is useless, it means the ghost is hiding in the corpse.”
“My incense can’t attract corpses, only the lantern can.”
“But…”
“Sigh…”
Ye Zhen knew what he meant, the lantern had just been used yesterday.
It wasn’t with them now.
“Then what to do?”
Ye Zhen asked.
“No choice, either wait for the lantern or you act.”
“But you said you have no ability to act now.”
But suddenly, Old Hong paused, as if thinking of something.
“That shovel and fan…”
Ye Zhen’s eyes flashed, but he soon shook his head, “You can use it if I give it to you, but if you use it, you’re likely to get yourself killed.”
The two spoke very softly.
Old Li’s Wife couldn’t hear what they were saying, just that they were muttering.
She vaguely heard something about shovel and fan.
She didn’t understand.
“Old Hong, what do we do now!”
Old Li’s Wife shouted anxiously.
Old Hong glanced at Old Li’s Wife, “Why panic, aren’t we thinking of a way?”
“Don’t rush, this kind of thing can’t be rushed.”
After calming Old Li’s Wife, Old Hong looked at Ye Zhen.
“Are you sure you can handle it with the shovel?”
Ye Zhen stroked his chin, “Barring accidents, yes.”
“Barring accidents?”
Old Hong frowned, “What do you mean by accident.”
“Well… for example, the ghost inside is very terrifying.”
“Anything else?”
“Nope.”
Ye Zhen spread his hands, “Put it this way, any ghost with lower supernatural than that shovel can be handled with one shovel.”
Lin Qian’s shovel had extremely high supernatural intensity.
He didn’t know before using it, but after using it he knew the shovel was really powerful.
“How to judge if the opponent is weaker than the shovel?”
Old Hong asked.
“Simple, smack it with one shovel, if it doesn’t fall to the ground, it’s stronger than the shovel; if it falls, it’s weaker.”
Ye Zhen said very seriously.
Old Hong: “…”
Old Hong felt this was a bit unreliable.
“Of course, the shovel might be useless now.”
“At most it can deal with some very weak ghosts, or ghost controllers.”
Ye Zhen spread his hands.
Of the three supernatural items, only the Ghost Scissors hadn’t gone dormant due to its special supernatural nature.
The other two supernatural items had gone dormant.
Supernatural items in this state had greatly reduced danger.
Old Hong: “…”
He didn’t know how to retort.
