ATFBETIBM Chapter 270.2

Bai Lixin walked up to the bookshelf and said, “If my judgment is correct, the triangular space is hidden behind the bookshelf.”

He turned his head to the three puzzled people and continued, “Since we’re here, let’s demolish it.”

The young man: “…”

The young man and the girl embraced each other, watching curiously as Bai Lixin swung the hammer.

An hour ago, they thought Bai Lixin was just a swindler. Then they thought although he was professional, he was weak. But now…

‘Sorry, we were wrong, we couldn’t see Mt. Tai with our eyes. Let’s start over.’

Xia Chi helped to push down the bookshelf, then Bai Lixin wielded the hammer and struck the wall forcefully, creating a hole.

Behind the wall was the triangular space they were looking for.

Bai Lixin swung the hammer again, and with a muffled “bang bang”, half of the wall fell straight down.

Girl: “…”

Young man: “…”

What is happening? Is Daiyu upside down and the willows are the ones weeping?

Handsome guy, go according to the script, okay?

Bai Lixin stepped inside after the dust settled a bit.
Xia Chi looked at Bai Lixin’s direction, then at the two people and the ghost behind him, and after struggling for two seconds, he also walked inside.

Although he was afraid, and the inside was also scary, the outside was even scarier. As long as his brother was around, it can give him courage.

He was not good at dealing with ghostly things, and even after spending three years in the game lobby, Senior Sister in Red still remained the most terrifying person in his heart, along with all the other ghosts.

Inside the triangular space was pitch black, and the thick dust clouded the vision like winter haze, reducing visibility to less than 30 centimeters.

Even with the light from his phone, Xia Chi could only make out a blurry figure in front of him.

Carefully avoiding the fallen rocks on the ground, he arrived behind Bai Lixin and asked, “Brother, have you made any discoveries?”

Bai Lixin used the flashlight to look ahead and replied, “I found the body.”

Xia Chi looked in the direction Bai Lixin pointed and saw a multicolored woven bag in front of him.

When he opened the bag, he found a shriveled and mummified corpse.

Just like the ghost outside, the corpse’s eyes and mouth were sewn shut with a thick fishing line.

Xia Chi was afraid of ghosts, but he was somewhat immune to this kind of corpse. He examined it carefully and suddenly made another discovery.

He pointed to the neck of the corpse and said, “Brother, the area here seems to be deformed. Maybe she was strangled to death.”

“But it’s strange. Can a corpse really control the spirit? By sewing the eyes and mouth shut, not only can the ghost not see or speak, but it also can’t find its way to the underworld. Isn’t this a bit far-fetched?”

The young couple outside did not follow them in, so Bai Lixin didn’t have to worry about them noticing any abnormality between him and Xia Chi. He took out a utility knife and carefully cut the fishing line that held the corpse’s eyes shut.

Because the time was too long, the upper and lower eyelids of the mummy were stuck together. Xia Chi suddenly said “huh”, “Brother, look at her eyes, the inner sockets are sunken, as if there are no eyeballs. Could it be because of microorganism corrode, or did they take out the eyeballs? Could this corpse be related to the eyeball mentioned in our task?”

Bai Lixin cut the eyes open, then he put his index finger and thumb on the upper and lower eyelids, and gently opened the eyes of the mummy.

Inside the eye sockets, the eyeballs were already missing.

Bai Lixin stared at the eye sockets for a moment and pointed to a shallow wound, saying, “Her eyes were gouged out. Look here, there’s a faint scar. It wouldn’t be like this if it was the natural decomposition by microorganisms.”

He paused for a moment and continued, “Moreover… her body is odd. Normally, being exposed like this without any preservation, she should have turned into a skeleton after such a long time. But as you can see, her facial features are still preserved, even though her body looks like a mummy.”

Xia Chi asked, “So what does that mean?”

Bai Lixin let go of the corpse’s eyelids and gently closed them again.

He said, “You were right about one thing; maybe she is indeed related to the eyeball mentioned in our task. Let’s see if we can find any clues from inside her mouth.”

Bai Lixin held a dagger and came to the mouth of the corpse.

Once again, he gently pried it open, and Xia Chi widened his eyes and said, “Brother, it looks like there’s something in her mouth.”

Bai Lixin saw it too and reached inside the corpse’s mouth. Soon, he pulled out something with a rough texture.

He frowned as he looked at it.

It was another cloth pouch.

A golden silk pouch.

As time passed, the gold color had faded, turning into a dull yellow.

Bai Lixin opened the silk pouch, and just like what he found at Cheng Ping’s house, there was a talisman inside, drawn with obscure symbols in red on a yellow background.

Bai Lixin stared at the talisman for a while and then sniffed it.

The only difference was that the red characters on this one were written with blood, while the one that trapped Chen Ping was written with cinnabar.

Xia Chi leaned over with curiosity, “What is this?”

“You asked me how Chen Ping was released,” Bai Lixin took out the other talisman from his backpack and held them side by side, “I also found this thing in the room where he committed suicide. It was this talisman that trapped him and turned that room into a haunted place.”

Xia Chi compared the two talismans carefully, “I can’t say they are identical, but they look really similar. Does this mean there’s something suspicious about Chen Ping’s suicide?”

Bai Lixin replied, “We’re not sure if there’s anything unusual about the suicide, but there’s definitely some hidden secret here.”

While they were discussing the yellow talismans, they suddenly heard a scream from outside. They rushed out to find the girl strangling the young man with a zombie-like pale face, her eyes completely black.

The young man could only hold on to the edge of the hole, his face flushed with fear from lack of oxygen, and he shouted hysterically for help.

With a swift movement, Xia Chi pulled the young man away from the girl, and pushed her away. He asked anxiously, “Are you okay? What happened?”

The young man coughed and said, “I don’t know. We were waiting for you, and suddenly that female ghost disappeared, then my girlfriend attacked me like she was possessed.”

As if to confirm his words, the girl who was pushed to the wall stood up immediately, showing no sign of pain. She had a terrifying and fierce expression, repeatedly saying, “Kill you all, kill you all, you must die…”

Xia Chi turned to Bai Lixin for help, “Brother, what’s going on? Is she possessed? Quickly think of a solution. Isn’t this guy the grandson of the female ghost? Why would she want to kill him? Could the female ghost have turned into a vengeful spirit?”

Bai Lixin stared at the girl and didn’t respond.

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In the live broadcast room

[Why did she want to kill the young man? He looks similar to his grandfather, maybe she mistook him for her husband and wanted revenge.]

[If I were treated like that, I’d seek revenge too. It’s so sinister. Not only will I seek revenge, but I’ll also make sure to repay them in kind.]

[Ah, brothers, I have to confess… wuuu… I was scared. Especially when the girl got possessed, her expression was so terrifying.]

[Ding! Congratulations, the Blanket Sealing Technique was successfully cast.]

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Just as the girl was about to attack again, Bai Lixin walked over and swiftly controlled her hands. The possessed girl struggled fiercely, snarling and clawing.

With a cold and indifferent expression, Bai Lixin spoke, “You asked me before if the shaking of the table and bookshelf was caused by your grandmother, right?”

“Now I can tell you, it wasn’t.”

Xia Chi and the young man looked at Bai Lixin in confusion.

He continued, “Just now there were two figures on the curtain. The first one was to scare us away, while the second one was to give us directions.”

“The first figure was taller, while the second guiding figure was smaller.”

“Shaking the table and chairs was to prevent us from smashing into the attic, indicating that they didn’t want us to go up.”

“Shaking the bookshelf was to show us where the body was.”

“From the beginning till now, there were always two ghosts in this room.”

“One was your long-trapped grandmother, and the other was your unwilling grandfather.”

“The one possessing your girlfriend and wants to kill is that unwilling grandfather, who didn’t want his secret known.”

“Grandma,” Bai Lixin shouted into the air, “you wanted revenge, right? Your enemy is right here, what are you waiting for?”

Just as he finished speaking, a white figure suddenly dashed out of the darkness. The figure rushed towards the possessed girl amidst the young man’s cries.

It collided with her and passed through, splitting into two white figures.

One of the figures was pushed back and it landed on the ground.

Unlike the female ghost they saw, it now had its eyes open, and the fishing line on its mouth was gone.

She pressed the other translucent white figure on the ground, and frantically gnawed on it in the most primitive and brutal way.

The male ghost lying under the female ghost tried to dodge her attacks in embarrassment, but because his body was controlled, such dodging was useless.

The female ghost was like a savage predator, biting and tearing at the male ghost. With each bite, she grew larger, while the other figure shrunk.

The male ghost opened his mouth, as if screaming. But no one could hear any sound. It was as if they were watching a vivid holographic silent film.

The young man recognized the figure as his grandfather.

He looked at his two relatives with complicated eyes, and finally chose to walk to the unconscious girlfriend, and hugged her in his arms. He looked at his grandfather who was being bitten in the distance with complex feelings.

Only moments ago, his grandfather had tried to kill him. The force and speed were such that if Bai Lixin and Xia Chi hadn’t arrived in time, he would have fallen from the attic and likely become a vegetable.

Despite his fear of his grandfather as he grew up, the young man still had deep respect for him.

A tiger doesn’t eat its own cubs, yet his own grandfather wanted to kill him. It was too terrifying.

The young man didn’t try to stop it until the female ghost had swallowed the male ghost, leaving only half of him. Only then did this farce come to an end.

The female ghost stopped, wiped the corner of her mouth, and let out a silent burp, showing a satisfied expression on her face.

At this moment, the female ghost had grown to 1.8 meters tall, while the male ghost had shrunk to about 1 meter.

The female ghost kicked the male ghost, who could no longer cause any disturbance, to the side and turned to look at Bai Lixin’s group.

She first came to Bai Lixin and slowly knelt down before him, kowtowing to him before turning to the young man.

The young man held his girlfriend tightly in his arms, protecting her with a fearful look on his pale face.

Although he knew the female ghost was his grandmother, the cruel scene of her devouring the male ghost just now was still vivid in his mind, causing a psychological shadow.

Moreover, if his grandfather could try to kill him without considering their relationship, what about a grandmother he had never met before?

Would she also want to kill him, who looks quite similar to his grandfather when he was young?

But the female ghost just looked at them gently and extended her transparent hand to pat the young man’s shoulder lightly.

In that moment, many sealed memories surged from the depths of his heart.

He remembered that when he was a child, he often fell ill. Sometimes, when his mother was busy with work, she would leave him at his grandfather’s house. Many times, when he was half-asleep at night, there would be a pair of tender, cold hands patting his back.

He had once thought those were his grandfather’s hands.

But today, as his grandmother’s hands patted his shoulder, he suddenly felt the same sense of security as he did back then.

The young man stared at the gentle, smiling female ghost in a daze, and tears suddenly flowed uncontrollably from his eyes.

“Grandma, it turns out you’ve been by my side protecting me. Wuuu.”

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In the live broadcast room.

[Ssss, wow, another plot twist, so exciting.]

[Taking revenge for oneself, of course it’s exciting. So, this grandpa could sacrifice his grandson’s life for the sake of his posthumous reputation. He’s not even human anymore.]

[Let me tell a joke: Such a trash actually died of natural causes. Hilarious.]

[Speaking of the underworld in this world, will it be related to the Underworld copy that God Xin cleared before? If so, people like him should end up in the eighteenth level of hell after death!]

[Yeah, eternal damnation!]

[Speaking of the Underworld copy, do you remember that dumpling?! Wow, he was so adorable. I wonder if we’ll ever see him again.]

[Finally, someone said it! I also think he was cute, and I want to see him again!]

[ Master Tuanzi, Master Tuanzi! You say one thing, and I say the next, the dumpling will be online tomorrow!]

[Haha, will he really come online?]

[Sigh, who knows.]