Chapter 9: The Ghost Hand in the Night (Part 1)

  The two of us were together every day, eating and shopping together, but she valued her studies more, so sometimes she would ask me not to disturb her. It wasn't until I had some free time that I realized it had been a long time since I last contacted Uncle Zhang, Yue, and my middle school friends. I finally understood what "valuing romance over friendship" meant... Being with Tian Jin this whole time, every day was just about being together, not even thinking to ask about them at all.

  So I took advantage of the day off from school and called Zhang Shu outside. He didn't scold me, but only reminded me to be more careful, it seems that Zi Lin Wang's words are taken seriously by him. Who knows whether his words are true or false, let's take it one step at a time. Yue chatted with me casually for a few sentences, also reminding me to protect myself well, and said he would come find me when he had time.

  After calling Uncle Zhang, I made another call to Daqing. This month is almost over, so let's go find him to play next time. Daqing from the same village was admitted to No. 12 Middle School, although the ranking is not as good as our school, but it is said that the environment there is particularly good, and the school has a large fountain playground. Our school stipulates two days off per month, so I took advantage of the end of the month to go find him to play. Originally wanted to bring Tian Qing along, but she wanted to go home to study, so I went alone.

  When I arrived at the school gate by car on the last day of the month, he was already waiting there, still with the same expression as before.

  "Mingming, you've finally arrived! Our schools have different vacation times, how long has it been since we last played together?! I'm so happy you came to find me... As soon as he got off the bus, his mouth wouldn't stop running... It's true, after all, we've been playing together since childhood, this is what real brothers are like!"

  He didn't care whether I could get a word in edgewise, and continued to talk nonstop while dragging me towards his school. As soon as we entered the school, I saw a very large artificial hill, on top of which two lines of red characters were faintly visible. Two streams flowed from the top of the artificial hill, winding their way down to the pool below, with the splashing water droplets sparkling like stars under the sunlight, it was really quite beautiful!

  "Mingming, this is the first scenic spot of our school! There's even a motto on top of the artificial hill. Come on, don't just look at this one, there are more interesting things behind!" And with that, she dragged me away without caring whether I was willing or not... I hadn't finished looking yet...

  He pulled me along the east side of the artificial hill, where there was a large passageway. Along the way, we passed by a pavilion covered in green vines, next to which stood an old-fashioned clock tower. He said it seemed like that was one of their school's key protected objects, a witness to the school's development. Okay. As he spoke, the pavilion continued on inside, passing several teaching buildings, until we finally arrived at where he wanted to take me. It's so far... We've been walking for over 10 minutes already! This school is really big!

  "Look! Haha, that's our school's Fountain Park!" He said with a proud gesture, pointing his hand in the direction. Following his hand, I saw from afar a huge artificial fountain sculpture, with water droplets flying out in an arc shape from above. Several girls were walking and playing underneath it.

  "Your school is really rich, such a large facility can actually be afforded." I suddenly envied his school a lot.

  "This is... the facilities are not bad, but other conditions in the school are not that great..." He said with a silly smile, huh? He can be humble too?! My curiosity prompted me to ask: "What's not good about your school?"

  He somewhat awkwardly said: "Let's go, I'll take you to a snack shop! I'll tell you on the way." "En, okay." Following him, walking and listening to his story. It turns out that recently several girls in their school have been absent, some have even dropped out of school. He said this, making me even more confused and puzzled.

  "Hey, I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard it from someone in my class. It was something that happened at night. Let me tell you about what happened to this girl the day before yesterday. She got hungry in the middle of the night, but the dorm had already turned off the lights and everyone else was asleep. So she went to check if there was anything to eat in her cabinet. She was using a small flashlight to search around when she finally found a bag of potato chips. She was so excited that she started to take the chips back to bed to eat, but suddenly! A hand grabbed onto her chips tightly! And it seemed like there was blood on it too! The girl let out a loud scream and fainted." Daqing said.

  The more I listened, the more I felt there was a problem: "What happened next?"

  Daqing looked up at the sky: "That girl let out a sharp cry, and all the other girls woke up. They saw her fall to the ground, and everyone else was so scared! They quickly found the dorm manager, and then that girl was sent to the hospital. After that, that girl dropped out of school. It's said that she had some kind of nerve problem..."

  This... As soon as they entered the school, they felt a strong and refreshing atmosphere, it shouldn't have that kind of thing! Ah! Daqing just said that hand was snatching potato chips! I quickly asked him: "Where's that bag of potato chips?"

  "It's gone, what happened? Maybe it was lost when sweeping later, let's go, don't mention this anymore, let's eat, I'm treating! As we spoke, we arrived at the snack shop. Daqing started bragging again, saying how popular he was with girls in school. Meanwhile, I was thinking that the hand was actually a food thief, which means it didn't have malicious intentions from the start. Those girls heard the shouting and woke up together, so it wasn't a prank by someone in the dorm! Could it really be...?"

  "Daqing, where is the girls' dormitory in your school?" I asked.

  "In the back of the school, there's another row of senior high school boys' dormitories. Why are you asking this?!" I lost to his lewd gaze. The two of us chatted about strange things that happened in our schools, discussing which teacher taught the worst and talking about who was the prettiest girl in our class... Hehe. We've been chatting since we were kids, and now we played a game at the billiards hall near school. I'm a rookie, all thanks to Daqing letting me win."

  Before I knew it, it was already late afternoon. Although I had been hanging out with Daqing all along, I still hadn't forgotten about the girls' dorm thing. In order not to let Daqing know that I was worried, I pretended to head back and said goodbye to him before getting on the bus. After a while, I came back again. I asked other students for the specific location of the girls' dormitory, and then went to observe it first, so it would be more convenient to take action at night.

  Slowly, the sky has turned into a pot bottom. I found a fast food restaurant and ordered a braised eggplant rice bowl. I like to eat eggplant. My intuition tells me that there might be a fight tonight, so I need to eat more now and store some energy.

  It was already after 8 pm when I finished dinner, so I followed the route I designed during the day and went around to the girls' dormitory building from the side of their school. As expected, there was a problem. During the day, I didn't feel anything, but now I suddenly felt a chill in the air. Girls' bodies are naturally more prone to yin energy, and if they're not feeling well, they might attract unclean things.

  It wasn't until around 10 o'clock at night that I clearly felt the yin energy was much heavier than before. How can the yin energy feel different? Could it be two?!

  I didn't dare to think too much, I hurriedly jumped in along the wall, a yin spirit was already very damaging to the girl! Those two weren't slowly absorbing the essence of her body?! As soon as I jumped into the wall, I was enveloped by a light!

  "Where did this little hooligan come from! What are you doing running to the girls' dorm?! I'm dizzy! This is so unfair! Just came in and got caught by the school security guard right away! And was even mistaken for a little hooligan..."

  "No, teacher, I'm a student, listen to me explaining..." I hastened to defend myself.

  "What's the explanation! Come with me! Let's go back to the security office first and talk about it!" As he said that, he came over to grab me and take me away. I was so anxious! If I left! What if something happened in the girls' dormitory? Oh heaven! I'm here to help, why am I being treated like this?!

  Just as I was thinking, the security guard grabbed my collar and walked towards the security room, saying into the intercom: "Old Liu, the little hooligan has been caught! ...." Listening to this, I really wanted to scold him, what can be done about this?

  Suddenly! A scream came from the girls' dormitory! Ah... Both I and the security uncle were startled! The security uncle grabbed my collar and threw me against the wall: "Stand there, don't move! I'll come to find you later!" I quickly replied: "Yes, okay!" The security uncle looked at me again, then rushed towards the girls' dormitory.

  I went... This uncle is really funny, if I were a real little rascal, how could I wait for him at the original place. But it's also good that I can hurry up and go, just don't meet that uncle. No time to think again, I quickly ran towards the girls' dormitory!

  Not even close to the building yet! I saw a dark cloud pressing down on the rooftop! Such a huge resentment! Suddenly! A giant woman's head flew in from afar, and when she got closer, I saw that there were two hands under her head! Putting them together was as disgusting as it gets... Two eyeballs stared at me with all their might, as if they wanted to pop out! With this kind of skill, you can still scare ordinary people, but against me, humph!

  I let out a loud roar! Humph! Gathering my strength into my fist, I heavily punched the ghost's head. This punch of mine wasn't an ordinary one; I originally had the innate killing aura, and now that I've entered the path, I can cultivate it! My magical power has increased! An average little ghost like this would definitely have his soul scattered by this punch of mine.

  Only to see that one punch hit the ghost's face, only to hear a loud crash! The ghost head was directly shaken out by me for several meters! It can be seen that she is very painful, but she slowly gets up again, with more evil energy on her body than before. Is she still going to fight desperately? Since ancient times, good and evil do not coexist, she should have felt the evil energy on my body long ago, why did she still take the initiative to attack, making unnecessary disputes?.

  Here is the translation:

  Ah! I clearly felt that there were two of them, but now there's only one. Is the other one waiting for an opportunity to strike again? Just as I was thinking this, the ghostly head suddenly became smaller and smaller, but its palm grew enormous! The dark clouds on the rooftop slowly gathered towards the ghostly hand. Such a massive amount of yin energy! With my current abilities, it's impossible to resist! I quickly took out the talisman that Uncle Zhang gave me, infused it with 10% of my power, and threw it into the air. I recited the incantation: Xu Ming pays respects! Upper Saint, manifest your divine power! Lend me your strength! Purify all ghosts!... Open! As I shouted loudly, the talisman turned golden yellow! Fortunately, this place is a bit far from the dormitory building and relatively secluded; otherwise, it would have definitely attracted people over.

  On the other side, the ghost hand had concentrated its resentment and a large hand was fiercely attacking me! I felt that my eyes were almost unable to open, with a loud crash! I quickly forced my eyes open to take a look, and found that the talisman had just barely caught the ghost hand!

  But I clearly felt that the talisman's light was not as dazzling as before, and the ghost hand seemed to be angry! Even more powerful strikes on the talisman! Just as the talisman was about to be broken, someone suddenly shouted from the side: "What are you doing here?!"