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Chapter 164 Liu Qingyan, are you lonely?

"What the heck?"

Lu Jiaqi touched his face and looked under the bed, where he saw a dark shadow that looked like a monkey curled up.

Lu Jiaqi was stunned for a moment.

He felt inexplicably familiar with the thing, and then glanced uncertainly under the bed again.

Now he remembered!
This is... a spirit that drains people's life force? Sanjay is lying, this room is a spirit that keeps people alive!
Lu Jiaqi was so frightened that his whole body went cold. He opened his mouth to scream, but the dark shadow under the bed pounced on him.

"Snapped--!"

A hard slap landed on Lu Jiaqi's face.

Before Lu Jiaqi could even scream, he was slapped hard in the buttocks by "Daojiao Xian," which stopped his scream. He was stunned and forgot to scream.

"...?"

"Sss—!" The head of the grotesque immortal suddenly loomed close to Lu Jiaqi's face, baring its teeth at him. Its distorted face had two scarlet eyes that looked particularly eerie in the dark.

Lu Jiaqi's eyes widened, the extreme fear preventing him from screaming, and then his head lolled to the side and he fainted.

Sudden.

A talisman-like light shone from Lu Jiaqi's body, startling the shadowy figure, which quickly scurried back under the bed.

"Lu Jiaqi".

Jiang Nanxi jumped off the bed and patted Lu Jiaqi's face, but he didn't react.

Jiang Nanxi glanced under the bed and shone a flashlight on it, but saw nothing.

"Running so fast?"

Jiang Nanxi muttered something to herself.

Just as she was about to put the flashlight away, Liu Qingyan's voice came, "Shine the flashlight this way."

To avoid being noticed by others in the village, Jiang Nanxi used a low-powered flashlight this time, which couldn't illuminate the dark area under the bed.

Jiang Nanxi turned to look at Liu Qingyan, and then shone the flashlight in the direction he was pointing.

On one side of the wall under the bed, there was a small, half-closed wooden door.

Jiang Nanxi initially thought it was storage space under the bed, but when Liu Qingyan crawled under the bed and opened the small door, she saw an old mahogany shrine inside.

The shrine was covered in dust and cobwebs, and there was a handful of broken clay sculptures. It seemed that the sculptures had been neglected and never maintained after they broke.

Jiang Nanxi couldn't resist crawling under the bed as well, shining her flashlight on the things inside the shrine and saying, "I've seen this broken clay statue before. What god is this? It doesn't look like the God of Falling Feet."

The clay sculptures inside the shrine were so badly damaged that it was impossible to tell what they originally looked like.

Liu Qingyan turned to her and asked, "Where did you meet her?"

Jiang Nanxi used her watch to bring up two photos of the deceased, both of whom had clay statues of deities beside them.

In the first photo, next to the Saba people who were nailed to the cliff and died tragically, the clay statues of gods and those in the shrines are all shattered into pieces.

The second photo is of the tourist's death. The statue next to the deceased is well preserved, except that there is a crack at the top of the statue.

Looking at the photo, Jiang Nanxi said to Liu Qingyan, "The material is the same, so it should be the same kind of statue."

Liu Qingyan pondered for a moment, "Based on the intact appearance of the statue, it doesn't seem to be a 'reversed foot immortal'."

I don't think so either.

Looking at the intact photo of the deity, Jiang Nanxi could see that it was a strong and robust man with two legs and four arms, which were raised high as if supporting something.

The Immortal with the Downward-Legged Foot, also known as the One-Legged Five-Brother, is a human-faced beast with only one foot and one hand.

"If it's not a 'foot-reversing immortal,' then what is it?"

Jiang Nanxi recalled the dark figure she had just seen. "There was a trace of ghostly energy left on the shrine, which means something entered the room through this damaged shrine. I saw it just now. It only had one leg and one arm, and it looked like a monkey. When it was lying on Lu Jiaqi, it even had its tail sticking up. Human face and beast body, that thing should be the 'Reversed Foot Immortal'."

Liu Qingyan suddenly said, "Although it has a ghostly aura, it is not a ghost." After a moment of contemplation, he added, "Half-human, half-ghost."

What does "half-human, half-ghost" mean?

Liu Qingyan: "The name 'Daojiao Xian' sounds nice, but it's actually a mountain ghost, a soul. It doesn't have human energy, but that thing does."

As soon as the words were spoken, a loud "bang" came from under the bed.

The two quickly climbed out.

Lu Jiaqi suddenly sat up from the bamboo mat, remembering what happened before he fainted, and opened his mouth to shout.

Jiang Nanxi quickly rushed over and covered his mouth, "What are you doing? Sangjie said we can't make a sound at night!"

"No no no!"

Lu Jiaqi gestured for himself not to shout, and Jiang Nanxi then released her hand from his.

Lu Jiaqi looked at the two people beside her, lowered her voice, and said in horror, "I saw the 'foot-swapping fairy'! He even gave me a huge 'bucket'!"

Liu Qingyan fell into deep thought, because he was sleeping next to Lu Jiaqi, and when he opened his eyes just now, he saw Lu Jiaqi being thrown around by a dark figure.

It was this large hole that made him realize the shadowy figure was half-human and half-ghost, not a pure ghost.

"Why did you only get a big bag instead of having your soul taken away? If it were really a ghost, it would definitely be here to take your soul and eat you."

"How could I know!"

Lu Jiaqi cautiously guessed, "Is it trying to knock me unconscious and then suck my soul away?"

Jiang Nanxi's lips twitched. "That method is too simple and unrefined. Ghosts and monsters usually have many ways to harm people and make you faint without anyone noticing. There's no need to do it this way, is there?"

"..."

If you're not going to absorb his soul, why give him a big shovel right away? What a waste of time!

Lu Jiaqi was speechless for a moment.

At this moment, Liu Qingyan returned to the bamboo mat and continued to lie down. "Don't think about it anymore, just keep sleeping. Maybe you'll know why when you wake up tomorrow."

Lu Jiaqi rubbed his cheeks and leaned closer, saying, "Teacher Liu, let's switch seats."

Seeing that he was so nervous, Liu Qingyan didn't mind switching with him, but as soon as he got up, Lu Jiaqi said, "Teacher Song, wake up. I think it's better if I switch with you. You're further away from under the bed."

Song Shixing hesitated, "I'm scared too. Didn't you notice I've been sleeping with a broom in my arms?"

Lu Jiaqi: :(
As Jiang Nanxi lay in bed, she heard Lu Jiaqi and Song Shixing arguing over who should sleep in the spot furthest from the bottom of the bed.

She thought for a moment, then sat up and said, "You two come and sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the bottom. If that thing comes again, I'll have a chance to see what it is."

The two of them quickly switched places with her.

As soon as Jiang Nanxi lay down, she heard the man beside her say casually, "Teacher Jiang, it's not proper for men and women to touch each other. Isn't it inappropriate for you to sleep on the same mat as me like this?"

Jiang Nanxi didn't say anything.

Liu Qingyan pondered for a moment and then said, "It seems the drone wasn't turned off. It won't sound good if word gets out."

Jiang Nanxi remained silent.

Liu Qingyan frowned slightly, thinking she was asleep, and called her name, "Jiang Nanxi?"

Jiang Nanxi: "That's right, it's that cold that makes you feel incredibly lost."

Liu Qingyan:?

Jiang Nanxi: "Whose fault is loneliness? Loneliness makes you so vulnerable."

Liu Qingyan:?