Chapter 21: Duel of Masters

  I took Xu Ying to the front of my apartment building.

  "It's here." I pointed at the entrance of the apartment building.

  "The place you live in is not bad." Xu Ying said after looking around.

  "Are you sure you can handle that female ghost?" I asked again, "She's a crazy ghost."

  "Even if I couldn't catch her, scaring her away is still possible." Xu Ying said calmly.

  "You'll be seeing it soon." I said to Xu Ying.

  "Take me up." Xu Ying still had no expression on her face.

  "Good."

  At this moment, I have no other choice but to put all my hopes on Xu Ying.

  I brought Xu Ying in front of my house door.

  "Knock on the door." Xu Ying ordered.

  "I don't dare!" I took two steps back. The scene from before was still vivid in my mind, and I really didn't dare to go in easily.

  "Open the door! I'm coming in." Xu Ying didn't make things difficult for me.

  I quietly opened the lock on the door and immediately hid behind Xu Ying.

  Xu Ying stretched out her hand and pushed open the door.

  At the moment when Xu Ying pushed open the door, a face also poked out from inside.

  Time was running out. Xuyan's twin peaks trembled slightly, and one of her long legs, clad in black stockings, lifted up from the bottom and kicked the person inside the door.

  "Ah!" The person inside the door cried out and fell backwards, hitting the ground.

  Wow.

  A burst of crying erupted.

  "She's not a ghost!" Xu Ying said, pointing at the person who had fallen to the ground.

  I hastily rubbed my eyes and looked at that person.

  That person is indeed not a ghost, but an idiot.

  "Baby?" I called out.

  "Dry dad, this bad guy hit me." The baby wiped away tears with one hand and pointed at Xu Ying with the other.

  "Old dry?" Xu Ying turned her head towards me, "Hehe, didn't expect you to be good at this dialect."

  "What's with what? I'll explain this to you later." I said hastily, "Baby, where is that crazy female ghost?"

  "What crazy woman?" Baby blinked and asked me.

  "It's you, Aunt Liu Mei." I said.

  "Oh, in the kitchen." The baby pointed to the kitchen and said.

  "Go to the kitchen."

  No sooner had I spoken than Xu Ying rushed over.

  The two of us had not yet reached the kitchen door when Liu Mei came out from inside.

  "Are you back?" Liu Mei smiled warmly and said softly to me.

  At that time, Liu Mei and that madman were like heaven and earth compared to each other. If it weren't for personal experience, I'm afraid they would never be linked together forever.

  "The resentment is very strong." Xu Ying said lightly.

  "Is this beauty your girlfriend?" Liu Mei continued to chat with me about some trivial matters.

  "She has killed people." Xu Ying said again.

  "She's really beautiful, wow, so sexy!" Liu Mei praised.

  "She is not an ordinary vengeful spirit." Xu Ying said again.

  "But women who look beautiful on the outside usually have a poisonous snake's heart." Liu Mei chuckled.

  "She shouldn't be here." Xu Ying's two hands were clenched together, her eyes fixed on the front.

  "Don't you believe me? I can dig it out and show you." Liu Mei laughed even louder.

  "Heh heh." Xue Ying coldly smiled and said, "Can't you see who I am?"

  "Can you tell who I am?" Liu Mei retorted.

  "You let him go, I'll let you go." Xu Ying pointed at me.

  "I will never let go of a man who has betrayed me." Liu Mei laughed and said, "He's done for!"

  "You're done for too." Xu Ying hummed.

  "Oh? I've never really lived." Liu Mei said disdainfully.

  "You will be frightened out of your wits." Xu Ying said.

  "Do you want to take action here?" Liu Mei glanced at the baby, "How about going out to talk?"

  "Good." Xue Ying said, then turned and walked away.

  Liu Mei followed along too.

  "Liu Mei Auntie, don't follow this person, she's a bad guy." Baby pointed at Xu Ying and said to Liu Mei.

  "Shut up!" I shouted and walked over to grab Bao Bao.

  "Wait for me to come back." Liu Mei smiled at the baby.

  I held onto the baby, while Liu Mei followed Xu Ying out of the room.

  "Dry dad, what did you bring that bad guy here for?" Baby shouted in my arms.

  "Bad person? How do you know she's a bad person?" I explained to the baby, "That Liu Mei aunt of yours is the real bad person, no, she's not even human, she's a ghost, and what's more, a crazy ghost."

  "Ghost?" The baby blinked, "You mean Liu Mei auntie is a ghost?"

  "Right." I nodded, "So let's pack up and get out of here quickly."

  "Liu Mei Auntie is very nice, doesn't seem like a bad person, she gave me milk to drink and even made bamboo shoots stir-fried liver for me." Baby looked at me with one eye and said to me.

  "My aunt is coming! Don't even mention stir-fried bamboo shoots with liver! Do you know what she's going to use to stir-fry the bamboo shoots? She's going to dig out my liver to stir-fry the bamboo shoots! She wants to kill me, her tongue is so long, one stretch and it can wrap around my neck." I told Baobao sentence by sentence.

  The baby's eyes widened.

  "Really?" She still didn't believe me. "Uncle, you're just kidding, right? Why would Aunt Liu Mei want to dig out your liver?"

  "She wants to cook for you!"

  "Then I'll go tell her I don't eat liver anymore, and she won't dig out your liver again."

  The baby said, and was about to run out.

  I pulled her into my arms.

  "You're really stupid!" I cursed, "Can that madwoman listen to you? She now hates me to death, whatever you say she'll kill me!"

  "What's going to happen?" The baby suddenly started crying again.

  "Come with me and hide, let's talk after they're done," I said. "I think Xu Ying can handle that madman."

  "Who is Xu Ying?" Baby asked.

  "It was just that woman from earlier." I said to Baby.

  "Oh." The baby nodded, "Will she hurt Liu Mei's aunt?"

  "Do you still have the mood to care about her? Is she your godfather or am I your godfather?" I said to Baobao, "Anyway, I need to find a place to hide first and avoid this place for one night. You can follow me if you want, it's up to you. For your 100,000 yuan, my old man almost lost his life, which is also worth the conscience."

  "Grandpa, are you angry?" Baby blinked her eyes.

  "I'm leaving." I didn't want to care about her anymore, so I turned around and ran outside.

  I really need to find a better place to hide for now. In case Xu Ying can't beat that female ghost, I can sneak back to the bar and inform others, and look for more people.

  I don't know what that crazy female ghost did to me. At the time, she actually took out my internal organs one by one. Suddenly, I felt like my heart, liver, lungs and spleen were dropping inside my body, swaying left and right, shaking up and down.

  Damn it!

  Is she casting some kind of curse on me? She said that if I don't listen to her, I'll die a terrible death. I've thought about this before, but I didn't think it would come so soon. My original plan was to have Xu Ying catch her and force her to save me, but instead Xu Ying took her away. This temporarily guarantees my safety, but what if she really has done something to me? Won't I die a terrible death after all?

  As I walked up the stairs, I was thinking about these things, with a mix of emotions in my chest, my mind was in disarray, and my heart was racing.

  "Dry dad, don't abandon me." The baby somehow followed me without my knowledge.

  "Leave me alone!" I was too lazy to bother with her anymore.

  "Don't bother me, and you won't abandon me, okay?" The baby looked at me.

  I turned around and glared at her fiercely.

  "Love whatever you want." I hastily ran downstairs.

  As soon as I got downstairs, I saw Xu Ying.

  Xu Ying stood quietly under the moonlight of the black night, her extremely short skirt floating slightly in the night wind, revealing some parts that shouldn't be seen, making people feel an urge to bleed from the nose. This appearance of hers, if someone didn't know the truth, would absolutely not think she was going to fight with someone, and would definitely be thought to be flirting.

  I took a glance at her.

  She didn't look at me.

  Her eyes stared at one wall, and on that wall there was a shadow of a person.

  That shadow is red.

  A red shadow is moving back and forth on the wall.

  "Heh heh."

  A faint, ominous laughter came from the shadows.

  "The heart should be red."

  "Blood should be red."

  "Bones should be white."

  "If one's heart is blackened, then this heart is not good to eat."

  These words were also spoken by that red shadow.

  After hearing these words, I can be sure that the red shadow is the mad ghost Liu Mei from before.

  "How did she become like this?" I asked in fright.

  Xu Ying didn't say anything, her eyes fixed on that red shadow.

  I saw this and hastily hid back inside the building.

  Liu Mei was fighting with Xu Ying at the entrance of the building, probably also afraid that I would run away from here. This crazy woman is really poisonous in her actions.

  I hid in the corridor and secretly looked outside.

  The baby also squatted behind my butt and didn't make a sound.

  One minute passed and Xu Ying didn't move, two minutes passed and Xu Ying still hadn't moved.

  Three minutes, four minutes......

  More than ten minutes have passed, and Xu Ying is still motionless, without saying a word.

  That mad ghost Liu Mei was still floating back and forth on the wall.

  She would occasionally say things like "heart" and "liver" from her mouth. These things sound terrifying and disgusting to me, but she says them with great enthusiasm, and even adds several types of laughter. There's hearty laughter, cold hums...

  The two of them just stood there like that, and I and Bao Bao just crouched in the corridor.

  Although this scene is a bit strange, it can also be understood. On TV, inside and outside, those masters are like this when they make their moves: the body doesn't move, but the mind does; in an instant, victory or defeat is decided, and a single glance can defeat the opponent.

  I think Xu Ying might be just such a master.

  The female ghost is outside, I don't dare run either. Can only wait now.

  About ten minutes passed again.

  The female ghost suddenly stopped smiling and didn't say a word, her floating figure also came to a standstill.

  A red tongue stretched out from within the wall and shot towards Xue Ying.

  I thought Xu Ying could dodge this move, but Xu Ying didn't dodge at all.

  The tongue pierced her left shoulder, and her shoulder was instantly pierced.

  Blood flowed out in red...