“Ah!!”
At the sight of this, two piercing screams rang out at once.
Wang Haiyan and Wang Shanshan could not suppress the terror in their hearts. Seeing the bluish-black ghost child peeking around the bedroom doorway, looks of horror spread across their faces, and they screamed shrilly.
This scene, as though a horror movie had walked into reality, made even Wang Bin, a grown man, tremble—let alone the two of them.
“D-die!”
Although Wang Bin was afraid, so afraid that even his legs were trembling, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the clothes-hanger pole beside him, and smashed it toward the ghost infant.
But the ghost infant paid no attention to the pole Wang Bin swung at it. After dodging nimbly, it stepped onto the wall at an extremely fast speed and went around Wang Bin.
The ghost infant treated gravity as if it did not exist. It crawled along the ceiling, leaving black footprints and handprints on the walls. Finally, after drawing close to Wang Shanshan, it leapt down and pounced toward her below.
The mother and daughter screamed at the top of their lungs. Wang Haiyan and Wang Shanshan grabbed anything within reach and threw it upward, trying to stop the ghost infant from getting close. Among the things they threw was a one-inch photo.
In midair, the ghost infant opened its mouth wide, splitting it to a degree far beyond that of an ordinary person—wide enough to swallow an entire person in one bite.
There was no tongue inside that huge mouth. Deep within the bluish-black cavity was only a hole like a black hole, connected to some unknown place, as though it could devour everything.
It actually wanted to swallow Wang Shanshan whole.
But at that moment, the ghost infant’s lunging body froze in midair.
Because a deathly pale arm suddenly stretched out from a one-inch photo flying past it, extending in a bizarre, utterly disproportionate manner, and seized the ghost infant by the back of the neck.
Then, a female ghost in white, her loose hair covering her face, crawled completely out of the one-inch photo that had been thrown away and fell to the ground, her hand still gripping the ghost infant.
The visual intimidation brought by this female ghost was far stronger than that childlike ghost. She was already as tall as an adult.
Behind them, Wang Bin had still been holding the clothes hanger, ready to smash the ghost infant, but after this female ghost crawled out of the photo, his legs simply went weak, and he did not dare take a single step forward. This was the body’s reaction to extreme fear.
“Shanshan, run!”
Wang Bin’s legs had gone weak, but he still swung the hand holding the clothes hanger forward, though like this, he could not touch the female ghost at all.
“Wait, this… this seems to be Teacher Wang’s…”
The fear in Wang Shanshan’s heart weakened slightly. She recognized this female ghost, the one Teacher Wang had once controlled to fight against the knocking ghost.
The female ghost’s sharp black fingernails dug into the ghost infant’s neck. Black blood vessels ruptured in her palm, and a foul, bloody stench spread through the air. Thick black blood flowed down along the female ghost’s hand and spread over the ghost infant’s body, producing sizzling sounds.
The ghost infant was still very weak at present. This level of supernatural suppression was enough to instantly make the ghost infant in the female ghost’s hand go completely still, as if it had wilted.
The ghost infant’s potential was extremely high. Back at No. 7 High School, it had still looked like a newborn infant, but now it had already turned into a child of two or three. In the future, as it killed more people and ate more ghosts, it would grow into the endlessly ghost-devouring starving ghost, something even coffin nails would find difficult to absolutely suppress.
But the current juvenile ghost infant, even though the one appearing was only a derivative Sadako, was still easily suppressed by the derivative Sadako’s overall supernatural power under the enhancement of the ghost blood.
Tap, tap.
After the room door and bedroom door were invaded by the ghost infant, they were both now open. Therefore, the faint sound of someone going upstairs in the corridor could be heard by everyone in the room, but they had no time to consider what exactly was happening out in the corridor.
Inside the room, the female ghost held the ghost infant by the neck, standing barefoot on the floor without moving. Her hair hung loose, and a pair of resentful, vicious eyes flickered in and out between the black strands, staring fixedly at Wang Shanshan and the other two.
This made the three members of the Wang family not dare move recklessly at all. Even though Wang Shanshan knew this female ghost was related to Teacher Wang, she still did not dare relax. After all, this was a ghost.
For a moment, the scene became somewhat quiet, making the sound of footsteps climbing the stairs outside the door increasingly obvious.
The footsteps stopped on this floor. Someone pushed open the room door and walked in, arriving at the bedroom.
“Teacher… Teacher Wang!” Wang Haiyan, who had seen Wang Liang at the parent-teacher meeting, cried out in shock.
The trembling of Wang Shanshan’s body lessened, gradually becoming steady.
Wang Liang walked into the bedroom and came before the female ghost in white. He opened the golden body bag, very naturally pulled the ghost infant out of the female ghost’s hand and stuffed it inside, then zipped it shut.
Resolved.
And at that very moment, the light on the bedroom ceiling flickered and suddenly turned into an eerie red. The glowing bulb was like a slightly swaying red eye. The surrounding walls all seemed to be giving off a red glow, carrying a strange unnaturalness that filled the room with an eerie atmosphere.
The Ghost Eye’s ghost domain.
Yang Jian, his body emitting red light, walked out through the wall from a corner of the bedroom, looking as though he was not in the same space as reality.
“Hm? Teacher Wang. Sure enough, I should’ve thought of it. Wang Shanshan had one of your one-inch photos too. Sigh, in that case, I came for nothing, and even used supernatural power. My five hundred thousand is gone too.”
“It wasn’t for nothing. See the palm print on Wang Shanshan’s neck and the eye mark on her wrist? Those are the ghost infant’s mark and your ghost slave mark. Just in case, you’d better deepen your mark and remove the ghost infant’s mark. You have a ghost domain, so only you can do this. Otherwise, leaving the ghost infant’s ghost slave mark behind will be a hidden danger sooner or later,” Wang Liang said.
“Oh? You can do that?”
Yang Jian looked over from the corner of his eye. His pupils immediately shrank as he discovered that there really was a faint red mark on Wang Shanshan’s wrist, like an eye!
Wang Liang roughly explained to Yang Jian what a ghost slave mark was, as well as the harm caused after being imprinted with one. Then he prepared to turn and leave.
“Can… can that mark be removed completely?” Seeing that Wang Liang was about to leave, Wang Bin, who had been listening anxiously the entire time, hurriedly asked.
“No. If you remove one, you have to replace it with another. I suggest you let Yang Jian do it. For you, that’s the best outcome.”
“Teacher Wang, you can’t leave! You’re a teacher! If you don’t take care of this, who will? You can’t leave!” Wang Haiyan shrieked then, holding her daughter.
Wang Liang frowned. What kind of logic was that? She was asking someone for help, yet using this tone?
Faced with this kind of person, Wang Liang instantly lost even the desire to speak. If not for the fact that these were Wang Shanshan’s parents, he would even have wanted to make the other party properly recognize reality.
But now, he did not want to pay her any attention at all. He turned and continued walking outside.
Yang Jian said speechlessly, “Enough, shut up, Auntie Wang. Something like this has already happened, so put away that awful personality of yours. With things turning out like this, what school and teachers are there anymore? It’s enough that I call him teacher. You’re still trying to use the title of teacher to pressure people in a matter like this? Do you still think this is school?
“You scream when facing the ghost infant, but dare speak like this to someone who controls a malicious ghost. Who gave you the nerve and courage? Are you really not afraid of death? Enough. Are we treating Wang Shanshan’s condition or not? Uncle Wang, give me an answer. The money still has to be paid. I’m in a hurry right now.”
“Be quiet, Haiyan. Yang Jian is right. How is this still a normal situation? Ghosts have already appeared! Stop making trouble!” Wang Bin shakily took out a cigarette and lit it. “Treat her. No matter how much it costs, we’ll treat her!”