Chapter 5: The Hand is a Ghost Claw

  The iron box was easily opened, and Ling Fei was still a bit nervous. Grandfather was mysterious, and before he opened it, he had some worries, fearing that there would be some kind of mechanism like in martial arts novels, or something scary would suddenly pop out and bite him.

  However, after opening the box, there was no mechanism inside, nor were there any deposit slips or checkbooks. Instead, there was an old notebook and a plastic bag containing some photos. Ah, it seemed that Grandpa had indeed taken some risqué pictures. The first photo showed a beautiful woman with her clothes lifted up, revealing her snowy white belly.

  Won't it be an old acquaintance? Grandpa is still good at this, but the woman looks really beautiful, and there's a number on top, 227. Ling Fei was stunned, could grandpa have so many women, isn't that too scary? More than two hundred!

  Curious, Ling Fei opened the bag and took out the second one. It was still that woman, but his heart suddenly felt a chill because it was still that woman, just wearing different clothes. However, on her belly, there was a faint outline of a man's face with a ferocious expression, staring at him menacingly.

  "What the hell...!" Ling Fei was so scared that he shuddered and dropped the photo. This was too eerie, how could the stretch marks on a woman's belly turn into a human face? He was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his chest.

  He picked up the cup on the bedside table and drank the cooled boiled water in a few gulps. Grandpa didn't know that one day he would see it, did he intentionally scare himself? He turned his head to look at the photo again, no, besides the number on the edge of the photo, there were also small words, he hurriedly picked it up and took a look, which read "Notebook 49 pages".

  He grabbed the notebook and quickly flipped to page 49. The words on it were still in grandfather's peculiar calligraphy, probably no one else in this world could understand it except him. Even the nurses at the hospital wouldn't be able to decipher it. It also included traditional Chinese characters, which made it even more exhausting to read.

  But after reading only the first paragraph, Ling Fei was stunned. His grandfather said that this woman was a middle school teacher, surnamed Bai. In the summer of 2006, she returned to her hometown in the countryside and began to experience stomach pain. Her spirit also became worse day by day, and at night, she often had nightmares about a man doing intimate things with her. Within half a month, she started having lower back pain and her spirit became disoriented.

  There was such a thing, Ling Fei continued to look down at it, and he wanted to see how his grandfather diagnosed it. As a result, the first half of what Grandfather wrote was still a rigorous medical conclusion, something like yuanqi deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, yin deficiency, etc., but the latter part of the pen turned, two words, collided with evil.

  "Knock your head off, this White Teacher just wants men." Ling Fei said in a low voice, but he still continued to look on, Grandpa gave this conclusion, there must be some reason for it.

  Slowly, Ling Fei's eyes grew bigger and her breathing became more urgent. Grandfather's argument was quite sufficient. Firstly, the matter between White Teacher and her husband had always been normal. Every time, White Teacher could obtain the most pleasant feeling, and her husband was very proactive. However, since she fell ill, although her husband was still very proactive, every time he got on top of her, her stomach would hurt so much that it was unbearable. If her husband moved a bit faster, the pain down there was like being cut by a knife, making it impossible to continue.

  Her husband doesn't touch her, she has no physical problems, she went to the hospital for a check-up and didn't find any inflammation or other gynecological diseases. When taking a bath, she also tried inserting her hand and felt normal. The psychologist's answer is that she has psychological disorders.

  Later, she met her former secret crush and was momentarily infatuated, following him to a remote area. Unthinkingly, she allowed the man's hand to touch her lower body, and suddenly felt as if someone was fiercely slashing inside her abdomen with a knife. The man instantly fainted, and two days later, it was said that he had died from a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. A physical examination he had done just half a month prior showed everything was normal, especially his head blood vessels which had no problems at all.

  Later, Teacher Bai's colleague took her to find Grandfather, and as a result, Grandfather discovered that it was a ghost causing trouble, so he directly used his ghostly powers to grab it out and eliminate it.

  "Grandpa, you're not joking, and you still use that ghostly hand to grab me. Where did your ghostly hand come from? Ghosts don't even exist!" Ling Fei shook his head, but he felt a strange sensation in his heart. Suddenly, he shivered as he remembered that Grandpa's right hand had also been unusual before. Someone had come looking for trouble, and Grandpa's right hand had turned white, chasing away over a dozen strong men with one breath. And Grandpa's right hand seemed to have a similar pattern on it too.

  No, that's definitely not right. He immediately flipped his notebook to the first page and saw a passage that made him even more frightened: "In the late Ming dynasty, swords and guns rose, Yangzhou was haunted for ten days, and the Ling family ancestors received guidance from a mysterious person, killing one hundred years of evil spirits, cutting off one ghost claw, choosing a descendant with strong yang energy, using secret methods to practice entering the right hand, becoming a ghost hand, treating illnesses with the right hand, harming people with the left hand. From then on, every generation produced talented individuals who could cure various strange diseases and eliminate various evil villains. Today, the method of practicing the hundred-year-old fierce ghost hand into one's body is the Ling family's absolute secret."

  "Are you kidding me? It's that powerful, how come I didn't know?" Ling Fei said, and then he saw the list below, which listed many names, what generation, who was under the elder with ghost hands, got ghost hands, and became a famous doctor of his generation.

  But the most frightening thing is to refine the ghost hand, according to Grandpa's words, it has been a hundred years since then. After all, we have to kill a hundred-year-old ghost and force the ghost's power into our right hand, leaving only the ghost hand behind. The ghost will be wiped out, losing its chance of reincarnation. Moreover, the ghost hand belongs to yin, and those who obtain it are often affected in some way, with their personality becoming somewhat eccentric. Therefore, only people with a strong eight-character horoscope and an inherently kind nature can possess a ghost hand. Once their yang lifespan is up, they will die and become a ghost without any chance of reincarnation.

  Later, the Ling family discovered another drawback: the branch with ghost hands could only have one son, and the rest were daughters. Moreover, the son couldn't have ghost hands; it was only possible for the grandson's generation to have them. In old society, this was a big problem, as people emphasized having many children and many blessings. If there weren't many sons, people would gossip behind their backs.

  After this, it was said that strange events were encountered, such as people colliding with evil spirits, phenomena, and corresponding photos. One by one, strange stories appeared before Ling Fei's eyes, making him unable to disbelieve, all with photos as evidence. Those cases weren't fabricated either, and the people involved could still be found.

  He looked all the way to the end, and Ling Fei saw his own name. It turned out that on the day he sneaked a peek at the box, Grandfather had sensed from the ghost's hand that his yang life was almost gone. So he knocked Ling Fei unconscious and ran to a place where ghosts were causing trouble, using all his strength to defeat a 130-year-old fierce ghost. He grafted the ghost's claw onto Ling Fei's body because the ghost had exceeded a hundred years and was also a bandit who had caused chaos in the past. Grandfather didn't know what impact it would have on Ling Fei, so he added a powerful seal, hoping that when Ling Fei turned 28 and his body reached an excellent state, it would merge automatically.

  However, the seal was strong. If Ling Fei encountered a life-or-death crisis, it would automatically open. A life-or-death crisis, Ling Fei was electrocuted, that's 220 volts of alternating current, enough to be fatal. He wasn't shocked at the time? What a pit! As a result, Gui Shou unsealed it ahead of schedule.

  The fierce ghost is more powerful than the old ghost, but the power of the ghost hand is no more than three kinds. One is a brutal attack, just like his appearance this afternoon, with infinite strength, and once used, it needs a long time to recover. If you want to have it again in a short time, just like charging, you need to absorb a large amount of evil energy and sick energy.

  The second is the ability to cure diseases. When Ghost Hand touches a sick person, it can naturally sense where the disease is and how to treat it, how to absorb the disease into Ghost Hand, just like replenishing energy, that is, recharging.

  The third is to make people sick, this is a bit sinister. When hands come into contact with others, they can sense what moves and what illnesses people will get, struggling to survive but unable to die. Using it once also consumes energy.

  These three abilities, although very powerful, are generally better at treating illnesses and saving lives. It's like recharging, something that Ling Fei enjoys. Seeing patients recover makes him happy, but he doesn't really think about harming people. As a massage therapist, he also likes to help people treat their illnesses.

  Suddenly, an idea popped up in his mind. There were quite a few people who had wronged him today; shouldn't he go and take revenge too? As soon as this thought emerged, his breathing and heartbeat accelerated greatly, and no matter how hard he tried to suppress it, he couldn't.

  Ling Fei suddenly understood in his heart, this might be what Grandfather meant by "influence", it's quite mysterious. And the last two sentences, Grandfather was talking about two things, as if he was entrusting him with some matters after he's gone. The first thing is how to refine the Ghost Hand, when one's Yang life force is almost depleted, they will naturally know. The second thing is that the power of the Ghost Hand also has its limitations, using it will consume a large amount of spiritual energy, so it can't be used blindly, there must be benefits to do so. What's meant by "benefits" is when it's good for oneself and most people.

  "My god, I didn't expect my hand to be a ghost claw!" Ling Fei lifted up his right hand and looked at it. No matter how he looked at it, it was just an ordinary hand, at most there was something strange on the palm of his hand that looked a bit uncomfortable, but after looking for a long time, it actually had a kind of eerie beauty to it.

  The phone rang again at this time, but Ling Fei took a look and it was an extremely unfamiliar number.