CH 20.2

Lu Yingjiu squatted down in front of that person, took the human skin, and said, regardless of whether the other person could hear him or not, “It will hurt a little, bear with it.”

Then he gently covered him with the human skin.

The moment the two came into contact, the human skin seemed to melt onto his face. And Yang Tianle’s body suddenly jerked up!

Even if there was no sound, even if there was no expression, others could feel his pain. Under the pain, his frozen and stiff body exploded with astonishing strength. He trembled all over, his hands scratched in the air, his feet kicked lightly, and his head kept swinging—this swinging was quickly stopped by Jing Xian, who held him down. On both sides of Yang Tianle’s head, so that Lu Yingjiu could continue to stick it to his face.

Lu Yingjiu’s movements were light and fast, and within five or six seconds, he placed his entire face in.

Eyes, nose, mouth, ears… in short, there were many.

Yang Tianle opened his eyes and opened his mouth.

“Ahhhhhh!”

Lu Yingjiu held him down, “Shh! Keep your voice down, there are still ghosts here!”

Yang Tianle reacted for a few seconds before he understood what he said, and immediately stopped screaming, and trembled. His eyes fell on the other faceless people, he froze for a moment, and then staggered towards them.

Lu Yingjiu said in a low voice, “They are all still alive, but their faces were taken away.”

“I, I, I know.” Yang Tianle nodded repeatedly, his teeth chattering, “I saw it! We saw it!”

Most people did not have yin and yang eyes.

However, if one bumped into a ghost by themselves, many people would be able to see the ghost clearly when frightened.

“Your face is stuck on this cattle’s head.” Lu Yingjiu said, “Your companion should be in the same situation as well.”

Now, because the cattle’s head was no longer covered in skin, the red and white meat was exposed, and looked extremely hideous. Yang Tianle took a look, he almost retched, and subconsciously touched his face again.

Lu Yingjiu stretched out his hand, “Can you stand up? You have to leave quickly, there is too much movement here, the ghost must have noticed it.”

Yang Tianle quickly grabbed his hand and stood up against the wall.

They slowly helped the others up.

It was a terrible thing to be completely deprived of the five senses, enough to drive people crazy. Couldn’t see, hear, speak, or even smell. The whole world would be dark and chaotic. They could still breathe, but in fact, they were no different from the dead.

Yang Tianle’s reaction was quite quick, and he had calmed down in such a short time.

He took the hands of those people one by one, and lightly tapped their tiger’s mouth twice. Those people were still very disturbed at first, but after being touched by him, they all calmed down.

(t/n tiger’s mouth-The part where the base of the thumb and the base of the index finger meet.)

He swallowed his saliva and explained, “This is our secret code. Once we went to the haunted house, we discussed that if the ghost pretends to be one of us and we won’t be able to tell the difference, we can use ‘tap two on the other’s tiger’s mouth. It’s our secret code to distinguish between friend and foe.”

Lu Yingjiu nodded and said, “You let them hold hands, then you hold them and follow me.”

Hence, a group of people who were almost frozen just held hands, like kindergarten children, or groups of penguins, and waddled along the corridor one by one.

Except for the sound of their footsteps, the corridor was quiet.

It seemed that the sheep ghost just didn’t notice at all.

Yang Tianle said that he probably remembered the direction of the exit, and everyone went there slowly–when it was safe to go out, then he would consider how to get the faces of the others back.

Lu Yingjiu asked, “Why were you here?”

“We are anchors of Tanling.” Yang Tianle’s voice was still trembling, “You should know about that anchor of ‘Two-faced Buddha’. We heard that it seems to be haunted here, so we wanted to come and have a look, but we didn’t expect, we didn’t expect…”

In fact, they have been to many supernatural places, and they also know a little about exorcising ghosts.

Unexpectedly, the car overturned this time.

Yang Tianle began to tremble again, “Hey, say, can they get their faces back?”

“It depends on luck.” Lu Yingjiu said, “Not everyone is as lucky as you.” 

“Oh oh. ” Yang Tianle’s head drooped.

Jing Xian pointed to the sign in front of him, “Turn a corner over there, it should be the back door exit.”

As soon as the voice fell, there was a sharp friction sound!

Zi-Zi-Zi–

Zi-Zi-Zi–  

It was becoming faster and faster!

It was getting closer! 

When Yang Tianle heard this sound, his scalp went numb, his legs almost went limp and he knelt down, but was supported by Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian in a tacit understanding to stabilize him.

Lu Yingjiu said in a low voice, “Hurry up and hide.”

With so many refrigerated faceless people, he would not risk other people’s lives.

As soon as he looked up, there was a sign [Slaughter Room] written next to it, and the door was locked.

Lu Yingjiu looked at Jing Xian, “Can you open it?”

Jing Xian instinctively wanted to say no, but when he thought about it, he just removed the cold storage door in front of Lu Yingjiu, it seemed that there was no need to act. So he kicked the iron door open, “Come in!”

Yang Tianle:???

At one point, he thought that he had slept in the cold storage like Captain America for 70 years, and humans had evolved after waking up.

Several faceless people slowly moved into the slaughter room.

The equipment in the slaughter room had also been cleaned up. It was very empty, only a few iron tables, stainless steel rails in the air, and the tube-type meat hooks and bloodletting chains on it were left. There was also a bloody smell.

There was no place to hide inside the room, except for a strong iron table at the very end. Lu Yingjiu pointed there, “You take them there!”

Yang Tianle nodded, and led his companions over. The four of them hid behind the table obediently like little chickens.

Lu Yingjiu took out some talisman papers.

The talisman paper was drawn with blood, it would be powerful and an evil method, generally, this would be rarely used by usual exorcists.

Lu Yingjiu happened to have the confidence that he could control the evil method, thus, regardless of Jing Xian, who had just stopped the bleeding, he bit his finger and let the blood bleed out, and sketched on the talisman paper—simple one or two strokes, drawing smooth lines.

Just now, it was only him and Jing Xian, thus it was easy to avoid the ghost. But now that there were many people, ordinary people who didn’t know how to control their breaths, they needed powerful runes.

He drew six or seven sheets in a row, and gave half of them to Jing Xian, “Put one on each window.” Then he went to the front door by himself, carefully pasted the talisman papers on the front and back of the door, and wrapped the doorknob around with it.

In this way, a temporary barrier was formed, blocking the breath of the living.

Zi——Zi——Zi——

Listening to the sound, the sheep ghost started to run, and its footsteps were just a few meters away!

Lu Yingjiu didn’t have time to hide with those people, so he simply sat down against the wall. At the same time, the dragging sound stopped at the door!

The sheep ghost sniffed the scent, parted its lips, and looked around.

It was completely confused by the talisman paper arranged by Lu Yingjiu. From its point of view, the human breath seemed to spread out and run in different directions. It smelled it, didn’t understand what happened, and stood there, hesitating.

It seems that it can be fooled.

Lu Yingjiu held the talisman paper, not daring to relax his vigilance. Suddenly there was another person quietly beside him, it was Jing Xian who also came over.

Lu Yingjiu just wanted to signal Jing Xian not to move around——

Crash!

There was a strong wind above the head, and the glass exploded! The fragments fell, but just like last time, all were blocked by Jing Xian, and none of them landed on Lu Yingjiu.

The sheep ghost persevered with the mace, and directly smashed the glass, and the hard window frame was broken by it. If a person was hit by this, his spine might just be shattered.

It obviously noticed something, the whole sheep’s head stretched into the room, and it kept smelling on top of their heads.

Lu Yingjiu was right under it, the ghost was close, and the surroundings became so cold that it was bone-chilling.

However, he didn’t feel scared, and was just simply wondering: where was it exposed?

In less than half a second, he understood that it was his hand that was cut by the door. It didn’t matter if he bit his own finger, but other injuries could be easily detected by the ghost.

It seems that fighting is the only way.

He was just about to throw out a talisman paper when Jing Xian grabbed his hand.

The strength was not very strong.

Then Jing Xian hugged his whole body in his arms.

This hug was different from before, it’s not like an ordinary hug, it seemed to want to protect him completely under his figure, even to cover up his breath. In the darkness, Lu Yingjiu smelled the familiar cold fragrance again. Jing Xian’s chin was pressed against his hair, he was completely shrouded in Jing Xian’s shadow, and beside his ear were very light cloth friction sounds.

His hand was being held, maybe it was his illusion, but he felt Jing Xian gently rubbed his wound.

Jing Xian was in a very bad mood.

Lu Yingjiu didn’t know why he was unburdened in his mind and could think about such things at this juncture.

He didn’t know where this conclusion came from.

But he just knew it.

The sheep ghost rustled and sniffed above their heads.

It became confused again: How did the breath just now disappear?

It was extremely unwilling, and smashed two or three windows casually, yelled “baa baa”, and then dragged its mace away.

When the sheep ghost was completely gone, the four chicks hiding behind the table poked their heads, and Jing Xian also pulled Lu Yingjiu to stand up.

Yang Tianle said in a low voice, “Let’s go quickly.”

“Yes.” Lu Yingjiu nodded.

They took the people and continued to advance along the original route. Sure enough, when they passed the corner ahead, it should already be the back door exit.

The exit would have been originally a small door.

However, it was missing.

Yang Tianle’s face turned pale, “Impossible, the floor plan says the back door is here. I’ve seen it so many times, it’s absolutely impossible to remember it wrong.”

Lu Yingjiu touched the wall, and felt the dust with one hand. “There are ghosts here, and anything is possible. But no matter what, there will be a way out.”

“Where is the way?”

“Maybe we can find the ghost’s obsession, fulfill its wish, and then find the exit.” Lu Yingjiu said, “But this method is too complicated, and there are too many unpredictable factors, so I choose to just simply kill it directly.”

Yang Tianle: “……….”

He looked at the young man in front of him again, he looked good-looking and handsome, and the style of what he said was not quite right.

Lu Yingjiu looked at him and said seriously, “With you guys here, I dare not fight an unfamiliar ghost. This ghost is definitely not weak, so I need to find a place for you to hide first.”

Hiding place…

An idea flashed in Yang Tianle’s mind, “I know! We came this time to find the basement!”

“The basement?” Lu Yingjiu asked.

“Yes, it is said that they are doing something secretly in the basement. The basement should be very hidden. If we find it, we can hide there.”

Lu Yingjiu pondered for a few seconds, “Do you know the general direction?”

“I know! It’s not far away!”

The group moved slowly in the darkness again.

Yang Tianle said it was not far away, and indeed it was not far away, just two corners ahead.

When passing by that wall, Lu Yingjiu sensed something was wrong, and flung out a piece of talisman with a wave of his hand. The talisman fell lightly on the wall, the wall disappeared, and then a stair going down appeared.

Yang Tianle was so surprised that he couldn’t speak, and hurriedly led people down.

Halfway through, he turned back again, “Then you two……”

He froze for a moment.

Although it was very dark, after his eyes adapted to the darkness, he could still roughly see some outlines.

Lu Yingjiu was originally standing side by side with Jing Xian, but now there was only Lu Yingjiu on the stairs.

Yang Tianle: “Uh, is there someone missing? Where’s your friend?”

“Hm?” Lu Yingjiu’s face sank like water, and there was no expression on his face.

Jing Xian disappeared.

“Ah! Then what to do!” Yang Tianle was stunned, “Didn’t you say that ghost is very strong, he must have been captured by the ghost!”

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Zi——Zi——Zi——

The whole corridor was filled with this sound, hollow and terrifying. Meat hooks swayed slightly in the room, rusty knives were scattered in the corner, and there were decades of dried blood on the table. It was impossible to tell whether it was human blood or animal blood. 

The sheep ghost kept walking while dragging its mace, parted its lips, and kept catching a scent.

Suddenly, a figure appeared at the end of the corridor.

The handsome man stood against the wall.

As if waiting for it to arrive.

A living person!

The sheep ghost became excited for a moment, it grinded its hooves on the ground, bent its knees and sped up. The strong hind feet gave it terrifying speed, it ran extremely fast, and the mace rubbed against the ground, creating a string of bright sparks!

The spark lit up the darkness, before it could be extinguished, the sheep ghost had already rushed in front of Jing Xian.

Jing Xian was already very tall, but compared to this 2.5 meter ghost, he was still a tad bit shorter—or, in other words, everyone was so small in front of it.

It swung the mace high!

In the next second, its horns were lifted, and the world revolved in its eyes.

From an angle that it couldn’t see, countless ghost hands protruded out of thin air from the ground and the wall, densely covering its whole body, from the sharp horns, to the thick fur, and to the powerful hooves. Shrill laughter sounded in its ears, the horrifying ghosts cheered, and the ghost hands all exerted force, twisting its body into a blood mist!

The body dissipated, but the head was still there, and it rolled to the ground.

The sheep ghost watched as Jing Xian walked over. It wanted to utter some ghostly ravings, begging for forgiveness, but all sounds were blocked, leaving only eternal silence.

At the last moment of its life, it suddenly realized who was in front of it.

Jing Xian gave it a condescending look, and crushed its head with one foot.