Chapter 339

Chapter 339

I estimated the height.

The platform where Zhao Xingyun stood was not extremely high, but a fall would still leave her dead or permanently disabled.

And if she landed headfirst, she would die on the spot!

I glanced at Sun Yuan and the others. They did not seem able to see the female Ghost. Only Anning and I could.

It appeared the Ghost had been dead for a long time. She possessed some cultivation, and her resentment was extremely intense.

“Mr. Chen!”

The director grabbed me, his face filled with terror. He was one step away from kneeling. “You can’t let her die. I’m begging you, get her down. If she dies, I’m finished! My whole life is finished! She has tens of millions of fucking followers!”

Everything had happened too suddenly. I had not yet figured out what was going on.

“Stop shouting. Be quiet and let me think.”

What exactly was happening?

Why were there two Ghosts?

Under the female Ghost’s control, Zhao Xingyun suddenly began dancing on the raised platform.

Zhao Xingyun was very beautiful and had a first-rate figure. Otherwise, she could never have become the female lead.

But there was not the slightest beauty in her dance. Her movements were stiff, making the performance deeply unsettling.

She resembled a puppet controlled by invisible strings. The scene was almost impossible to describe.

The crew members could not see the female Ghost. They only saw Zhao Xingyun dancing like a madwoman.

She stood at the very edge and nearly fell several times. Everyone watched with their hearts in their throats, yet no one dared cry out for fear of startling her into falling.

Then I noticed Lu Yihao.

He looked terrified.

He had still been furious because Anning and I had attacked him. But the moment Zhao Xingyun began dancing, his expression turned to a mixture of terror and shock, as if he had seen something he recognized and deeply feared.

My first reaction was that he knew the female Ghost possessing Zhao Xingyun. More precisely, he recognized the dance and the person who had once performed it.

But investigating Lu Yihao could wait. First, I needed to stop the Ghost from harming Zhao Xingyun.

If I approached now, I would certainly alarm the Ghost. One wrong step from Zhao Xingyun, and she would either die or be permanently disabled.

I quickly recalled an important detail.

The first victim had been a supporting actress, the second the second female lead, the third Lu Yihao, and the fourth Zhao Xingyun.

Three of the four were women. The hexagram showed that the second female lead had been killed by the female Ghost, and I suspected the supporting actress had been harmed by her as well.

So the female Ghost targeted women, while the baby attacked Lu Yihao.

Lu Yihao was clearly involved. Could the female Ghost, the baby, and Lu Yihao be connected?

Could the baby be the female Ghost’s child?

At the thought, I hurriedly pulled out my phone and searched the web for “sound of a baby crying.”

I had no way to rescue Zhao Xingyun directly. All I could do was gamble.

I quickly played a recording and turned the volume all the way up.

It was the sound of a baby crying.

The instant it rang out, Zhao Xingyun froze. Her head turned from side to side as if she were searching for its source.

The others were startled by the sound and all turned toward me.

I raised a finger to my lips, signaling them to remain silent.

Then Zhao Xingyun, still under the female Ghost’s control, stepped down from the platform.
My gamble had paid off. The Infant Spirit that tried to strangle Lu Yihao was the female Ghost’s child.

The female Ghost thought her baby was crying and had come looking for it.

Fortunately, I had already frightened the Infant Spirit away. Holding up the phone, I walked toward Zhao Xingyun, with Anning close behind me.

As I moved toward Zhao Xingyun, she moved toward me. Before long, only a few steps separated us.

I stopped advancing and slowly backed away, passing the phone to Anning with the smallest movements possible.

Once she took it, I hurriedly formed a Fifth-Rank Lotus Seal and prepared to communicate with the female Ghost possessing Zhao Xingyun.

Everyone else had already retreated from the corridor into the building, hardly daring to breathe.

They could not see the female Ghost, but they could see Zhao Xingyun’s abnormal behavior.

Her expression and movements had strayed so far from normal that she was frightening in her own right.

“Are you looking for your child?”

When I asked, the female Ghost clinging to Zhao Xingyun’s back remained perfectly still, but Zhao Xingyun moved.

Her eyes blank, she nodded at me.

“What is your name? Can you tell me?”

“I’d like to talk to you.”

I asked again.

Zhao Xingyun looked lost, as if trying to recall her own name.

“My name is…”

I was on the verge of learning the female Ghost’s identity when, at that critical moment, some bastard rushed out of the building and fell directly in front of Zhao Xingyun, startling the Ghost possessing her.

“No!”

I had barely shouted when Anning reacted with incredible speed. She immediately pulled a long strip of yellow cloth from her backpack and wrapped it around Zhao Xingyun’s lower leg.

With one forceful tug, she swept Zhao Xingyun off her feet.

I hurriedly straddled her and squeezed her throat with every ounce of strength I possessed.

“Chopsticks! Get me some chopsticks!”

“Chopsticks! Does anyone have chopsticks?”

The useless director had been frightened senseless. Fortunately, the assistant director reacted and immediately called out to the crew.

But who carried chopsticks with them? The crew ate boxed lunches with disposable chopsticks, all of which had already been thrown away.

“Master Chen, there aren’t any chopsticks!”

Sweat poured down my forehead in my panic.

What was I supposed to do without chopsticks? How could I perform Exorcism for Zhao Xingyun?

Zhao Xingyun was possessed, but her face still showed expressions. That meant her Human Soul had been suppressed by the Ghost. If I forcibly expelled the Ghost with the Hexagram Art, I might injure her Human Soul. She would awaken with a mental disorder.

And clinically, that disorder would manifest as an organic mental condition from which recovery would be extremely difficult.

I had no other solution, and Seventh Master was not here.

In my desperation, I remembered the most primitive method of all: Ghosts feared vicious people too!

I raised my hand and backhanded Zhao Xingyun across the face, cursing loudly. “What the fuck are you staring at? Who do you think you’re dealing with? Fuck your ancestors! You think you can scare me? I can make you die all over again!”

I struck her from both sides while continuing to curse. “You think you’re hot shit because you possessed someone? Now that you’ve crossed me, you won’t know whether you’ll live or die! I’ll find someone to deal with your brat right now! I’ll make sure mother and child never see each other again!”

After I had cursed for a long time, Zhao Xingyun suddenly began convulsing. Before long, the convulsions stopped, and she lost consciousness.

I pulled open one of her eyelids. Her pupil had returned to normal.