Chapter 9: The Female Ghost's Fury

  The next afternoon, Cao Sen went to the neighboring dormitory after waking up. The girls had gone somewhere. As graduation was approaching, most of the senior year dormitories were empty, and it was easy to vacate a single dormitory for the girls to stay in last night. Cao Sen and his three friends also moved into one dormitory.

  The four brothers casually ate something and sat down to discuss the female ghost. The focus of their discussion was twofold: first, what means did the female ghost have to harm people; second, whether or not to invite an expert to exorcise the evil spirit.

  As for how the female ghost harms living people, they concluded that her main method of dealing with humans is intimidation, based on the fact that they escaped unscathed twice after encountering the ghost. People who are timid will naturally be frightened to death. As for them, even thunder and lightning have no effect, let alone a mere female ghost?

  As for the second point, all four people agree that it's rare to encounter such an exciting game, so let's play for a few more days before considering asking someone to catch the female ghost. If things really get out of hand, like the female ghost harassing other students, then we can ask someone to handle it at that time.

  Actually, Cao Sen had another killer move that he didn't mention. When they encountered the female ghost last night, Lan Er and Jing Jing were threatened by her. At the moment when Cao Sen was anxious, he saw those silk threads again, similar to what he saw in the mountain flood. The silk threads faintly outlined the shape of the female ghost, so Cao Sen could grasp her movements in the fog. Meanwhile, Cao Sen discovered that the maze that made them lose their way was also composed of a kind of silk thread, but it was very sparse. Cao Sen led everyone to break out of the maze's restraint from the gaps between those silk threads. From this, Cao Sen believed that he had completely possessed some special ability, although he didn't know what it was, but it was harmless and at least effective against the female ghost.

  As for how this ability ended up on himself, Cao Sen didn't think much about it. Maybe it was the lightning, maybe it was the mountain flood, or maybe he had it since birth, but it burst out yesterday when his life was in danger. In short, he is now extremely awesome, extremely extraordinary, and extremely formidable.

  Cao Sen tried to see those silk threads again in the things around him, and unexpectedly found some hidden ones in the sunlight and air. The silk threads in the sunlight were bright, like silkworms; while the silk threads in the air were flowing, like countless tiny ribbons floating with the wind, this unexpected discovery made him delighted.

  Cao Sen immediately shifted his gaze to the three brothers, and as long as he concentrated his spirit on their eyes, Cao Sen also discovered some threads on them. Both flowing and shining threads could be seen. Cao Sen became interested and tried to control those threads with his mind. After a few attempts, a strand of flowing thread on Ding Haitao's arm was controlled by Cao Sen, who tried to bend the thread.

  At this time, Ding Haitao was reaching out to grab a glass of water when his arm suddenly lost control and slapped himself in the face. Ding Haitao was startled and cursed, "Damn it, what's going on?"

  Cao Sen was overjoyed and set his sights on Guo Jing, who closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. Cao Sen only saw silken threads like silk on him, but they didn't flow. The silken threads seemed to be completely beyond Cao Sen's control, and after trying a few times, he gave up.

  His interest unabated, he looked at Teng Fei again.

  Teng Fei was wiping his gun, and with the movement of his hands, a flowing thread clearly unfolded before Cao Sen's eyes. Cao Sen stared at one of them, using his mind to imagine the thread coiling around it.

  "Ah, damn it! My finger cramped up!"

  Cao Sen was extremely excited, and from his previous experience, he came to the conclusion that what he could control was power. In other words, when there was a powerful force around him, he could manipulate it, just like using the power of the flood in the mountain torrent to throw himself onto the shore.

  To confirm his idea, Cao Sen found a paper ball and threw it into the air. During the fall of the paper ball, Cao Sen manipulated the silk thread to make the landing point deviate, succeeding! He couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "Damn it, nothing's going right today." Ding Haitao muttered to himself, staring at his arm.

  "Brother Sen, are you okay? My hand cramped up, did your nerves cramp up?" Teng Fei looked at Cao Sen in confusion.

  Should I tell the brothers? Cao Sen thought for a while and decided to wait until he fully understood what his abilities could do before telling them, giving them a thorough surprise.

  For an entire afternoon, Cao Sen walked around the dormitory building, constantly testing his new abilities, and as a result, many inexplicable things happened in the dormitory.

  A boy poured water and his arm shook inexplicably, spilling a whole basin of water all over his own legs.

  A boy was dragging something on the ground, his arm jerked up strangely, and the mop head was pressed onto the bed.

  There were also boys who poured trash into their own drawers, scattered playing cards all over the sky and so on. Wherever Cao Sen's eyes scanned, there would be things that made people cry and laugh at the same time. Cao Sen, who had obtained his powers, was like a child who had just received his favorite toy, showing off his abilities everywhere until he got into trouble.

  At the entrance of a dormitory, Cao Sen saw several boys struggling to lift a bookcase. He clearly saw the earth's attraction to the bookcase and wanted to control gravity to reduce the weight for the boys. As soon as he made up his mind, Cao Sen suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous, and with a thud, he fell to the ground, feeling sick and uncomfortable in his chest and abdomen, covered in cold sweat without any strength.

  The boys around were shocked and those who knew Cao Sen rushed over, shouting "Sen Ge, Sen Ge".

  After catching his breath, Cao Sen finally had some strength and struggled to get up, declining the help of several enthusiastic male students. He slowly walked back to his dormitory. In his heart, he was very clear that his ability had a limit, but just now he exceeded this limit, and fainting was the consequence.

  As soon as Cao Sen entered the dormitory, Teng Fei and several others were very surprised, and they hurried over to support him, letting Cao Sen lie down on the bed.

  "Just now everything was fine, what's going on?" Teng Fei asked anxiously.

  "It's nothing, I just saw a beautiful girl and was stunned for a moment." Cao Sen said weakly.

  "Damn it!" The three brothers cursed in unison.

  "Really nothing?" Guo Jing asked with concern.

  Cao Sen felt very sleepy and barely managed a few words before falling asleep.

  When he woke up, it was already midnight. The dormitory was lit with a desk lamp, and under the dim light, Guo Jing and others were sleeping soundly. On the table, there was a boxed meal and a bottle of beer, next to which were a bunch of fruits and various snacks.

  Cao Sen gently got up and saw a plastic bag filled with fruit, inside which was placed a paper doll. A few simple strokes outlined its eyebrows and eyes, and its smiling face looked very cute. He picked it up and took a look, seeing a line of small words: "Black Horse Prince, wake up quickly, the three princesses have come to see you." It was Wu Fang and the others, Cao Sen smiled slightly, girls just like making these little things.

  The boxed meal was spare ribs with rice, Cao Sen's usual favorite food. It must have been specially bought for him by his brothers, but he had no appetite at the moment. He bit open a beer bottle with his teeth and drank half of it in one gulp, feeling much refreshed.

  He walked out of the dormitory quietly, lit a cigarette and came to the window in the corridor to look outside. The stars dotted the quiet night sky, and there was still a hint of coolness in the air coming towards him. He slowly concentrated his mind, trying to find a clue from the starlight, but got nothing. Could it be that overusing that power would lose this special ability? Cao Sen shook his head, if so, this ability was really too fragile, forget it.

  Whether lost or not, Cao Sen couldn't control it, he decided not to think about these things. The coolness brought by the early summer night wind made Cao Sen shiver, feeling a bit urgent, Cao Sen walked towards the toilet.

  When Cao Sen finished washing up and tidying his clothes, he found that the elastic band of his casual shorts was broken, and he could only hold it with his hand to prevent it from falling down. Luckily, it was at night, Cao Sen thought thankfully.

  Walking slowly towards the dormitory, a faint and familiar high-heeled shoe sound made Cao Sen's heart skip another beat. Oh no, it's a female ghost!

  The female ghost arrived very quickly this time. Cao Sen had just reacted when she appeared, but he could only see her skirt and a pair of legs, with nothing on the upper half of her body.

  "This time it's just you alone," the female ghost's head appeared again between her legs, her blood-red eyes staring at Cao Sen through her disheveled hair, "I'll see where you escape to!"

  Cao Sen was fearless, "What can you do to me? I'm just one person!"

  "I'll eat you!" The female ghost suddenly accelerated and rushed over, opening her black lips to reveal sharp teeth, viciously biting down on Cao Sen's leg.

  Cao Sen hastily retreated and dodged, reaching for the handgun at his waist, but it wasn't there!

  His shorts had no elastic waistband, and with one hand pulling up the back of his shirt and the other grabbing for support, his shorts suddenly lost all restraint and fell to his ankles. Cao Sen was retreating at this moment, not expecting his shorts to trip him up, and he fell backwards onto the floor with a thud.

  This is going to be a big trouble, Cao Sen thought secretly.

  "Scoundrel!!" The female ghost let out a terrifying and furious shriek.

  Rogue? Who is a rogue? Cao Sen didn't react for a moment, what rogue?

  He looked at the female ghost's embarrassed face and closed eyes, then looked at his own shorts that had fallen off to reveal white underwear, and finally understood that the female ghost was saying he was a rascal... this is too ridiculous! Is the female ghost in front of him a dignified lady-like ghost who adheres to etiquette?

  "If you are a real man, put on your pants and clothes and duel with me!" The female ghost still spoke with her eyes closed.

  Cao Sen had a big temper to begin with, and now he's even more confident. This female ghost is actually too ashamed to say the word "pants" out loud, using clothes as a substitute instead. Hehe, this makes things easier. Brother, I'm not a virgin, so it's no big deal if you let this female ghost take a look.

  Cao Sen slowly got up, but didn't pull up his shorts. Instead, he put his hands on his underwear and said, "Okay, I've put on my clothes. You can open your eyes now."

  The moment the female ghost opened her eyes, Cao Sen made a motion of pulling down his pants. The female ghost let out an extremely angry shriek and rapidly disappeared, leaving behind her lingering anger in the corridor, "Despicable! Shameless!"

  Cao Sen stood there for a long time without moving, and after a while, he burst out laughing. "Wow, this female ghost is not only not scary, but also a bit crazy."

  "Who's standing there smiling stupidly in the middle of the night?" a furious roar came from one of the dorms.

  Cao Sen didn't respond and didn't notice why others couldn't hear the female ghost's voice. After she left, his laughter startled those around him. He just wanted to return to the dormitory and tell the three brothers about what had just happened. From now on, he had a way to restrain the female ghost, and it was very simple.

  "Get up, all of you!" As soon as they returned to their dormitory, Cao Sen called out to wake up all three brothers.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Is it daytime?"

  "My god, 1 o'clock in the morning! Are you out of your mind?"

  "Haha, I'm not sick, it's that female ghost who is sick!"

  "Female ghost? She's appeared again?"

  Cao Sen laughed and recounted his experience from just now, and his three brothers looked at him strangely.

  "Brother Sen, are you okay? You didn't take a dream for real, did you?" Ding Haitao didn't believe that what Cao Sen said was actually true.

  Cao Sen had no choice but to repeatedly explain that what he said was indeed what he had just experienced.

  The three brothers finally believed a little, but still felt a bit unbelievable.

  "Simple, let's go verify it tomorrow night." Cao Sen said out his plan.

  On the second night, the four brothers came to Donglin again. After entering the depths of the forest, they began to mock the female ghost for her lowly attire and lack of taste. Before they could say a few words, a strong gust of wind blew, and the enraged female ghost appeared.

  "Brother Sen, you're here. Let's see if your ultimate move works." Teng Fei quietly said to Cao Sen while pressing the gun handle behind his waist.

  "Hey, open your eyes wide." Cao Sen smiled and looked at the female ghost, "Today we're all dressed up properly, go ahead and use whatever tricks you have."

  The female ghost stared at Cao Sen with an extremely resentful gaze, summoning a strong gust of yin wind that rushed over.

  Just as the female ghost was about to rush up, Cao Sen suddenly pulled out a long, bar-shaped object from his pocket and held it in front of him. The female ghost took one look and let out a piercing shriek, spinning around rapidly and quickly retreating behind a large tree, her skirt corner fluttering wildly as she seemed to be frightened by what was in Cao Sen's hand.

  Cao Sen was holding a plastic stick in his hand, which he had bought at the husband and wife supplies store during the day. When Cao Sen made the purchase, the shop owner looked at him with a special gaze, thinking that this sturdy young man must be buying it for some perverted purpose. The shop owner did not know that this young man was going to use this plastic stick to exorcise ghosts and demons.

  After seeing the female ghost, Cao Sen took out a bright object and established an extraordinary achievement. The female ghost was extremely afraid of this thing, which was more effective than the legendary spirit symbol or peach wood sword.

  Kuo Ching, Teng Fei, and Ting Hai-tao burst out laughing, releasing their grip on the gun handles, each also pulling out a fake cigarette from their pockets.

  Cao Sen was greatly surprised, they had also made emotional preparations, but how did their stuff and his own look so similar?

  "No need to be surprised, we bought it from the same store, you left and we went in right after." Guo Jing said with a smile.

  "You should have said so earlier, we can get a discount if we buy all four together," Cao Sen said.

  "Haha, we're all dual-wielding masters now! Brothers, that female ghost is still there, let's go!" Ding Haitao was eager to give it a try.

  "Divide our troops into four routes and surround them, making sure the female ghost has no way to ascend to heaven and no gate to enter hell!"

  Being able to bully the terrifying female ghost from legend into this state, the four brothers were all smug, pulling open a distance and surrounding the female ghost behind the big tree from different angles.

  "That's enough! Have you had enough of your nonsense?" a voice suddenly shouted loudly.