After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 75

"What? You guys came to the haunted house?"

Lin Rui's eyes widened: "How is this possible? Weren't you at home? How could you have arrived so quickly?"

It takes at least an hour and a half to get from Yangcheng to Dongcheng. She only finished her call with Bai Chen less than half an hour ago? Are they in Dongcheng? But didn't Bai Chen say they were all at home farming?
"Don't worry about that right now. Listen to me, get out of here right now. If you stay where you are, the wedding dress will be here in less than two minutes, and then you'll be in danger!"

In a state of extreme panic, anything can become a lifeline. Lin Rui didn't even have time to consider how Bai Lu knew the wedding dress would be found so soon, down to the minute. She just hated herself—

"But—" Lin Rui was on the verge of tears: "I'm from the South, I can't tell east from west! Where is east? And here I can't use the sun to determine north, south, west, and east!"

Egret: "..."

This must be the worst blow to the reputation of Southerners ever!

Why can't Southerners tell east from west?!

"Ahhhh!"

Suddenly, Lin Rui screamed in a low voice, "Big sister! I heard a sound! I heard bells! There are bells on the wedding dress! She's coming! What should I do? Can I...can I still get out now?"

Lin Rui's voice trembled noticeably, and even through the receiver, Bai Lu could sense her panic.

Bai Chen was extremely anxious: "Sis! If you had this much time, you could have found Xiao Rui by walking a few steps faster!"

Bai Lu glared at him: "You're really amazing! I don't want to find her? There are only two minutes, where am I supposed to find her! I calculated that her lucky direction today is east, as long as she goes east, she'll be safe!"

"Xiao Rui, did you hear me! You have to come out of the closet now!"

Bai Chen said, "Your phone comes with a compass app. Open it—"

"What are you yelling about!" Bailu slapped him. In this situation, being rushed only makes things more chaotic. "Xiaorui, take a deep breath, calm down—"

Lin Rui took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. Her fingers trembled as she searched through her phone and actually found a compass app. She opened it, granted all the permissions it offered, and finally determined her direction.

"I...I need to go out—"

Listening to the intermittent sound of bells, with her own heartbeat filling both ears, Lin Rui pushed open the cabinet door. The "creak" sounded particularly crisp in the dark space, causing her to pause for a moment.

"Good. Now go in that direction. No matter what you encounter, don't look back! Don't look back! Remember that? As long as you don't look back, you'll be fine!"

The egret's voice carried a sense of caution.

Lin Rui nodded emphatically, even though the egret couldn't see her.

She took a deep breath and then crawled out of the closet.

The haunted house was pitch black, with only occasional flickering eerie green lights. These lights not only failed to illuminate the path ahead but also made Lin Rui's heart leap into her throat.

She didn't dare turn on her phone's flashlight, so she could only carefully grope her way forward. Slowly, her eyes adjusted to the darkness.

Suddenly, the bells on the wedding dress rang louder and louder in the darkness. She could feel the wedding dress getting closer and closer to her. Her heart was pounding, but she didn't stop. She didn't dare to look back. She could only keep her eyes half open and walk forward with her head down.

Just then, a faint light appeared in her sight. Her eyes lit up, thinking it was the exit, and she immediately quickened her pace, running desperately towards the light.

However, just as she was about to reach the exit, a red figure suddenly appeared in front of her.

—That's a wedding dress.

An eerie red light flickered in the darkness, flashing intermittently, revealing a body with clothes but no head.

She stopped abruptly, instinctively wanting to back away, but her mind firmly remembered Bailu's words—she couldn't back down, and she couldn't run away, at least not back!

"Hehehe, I found you~"

The girl in the wedding dress laughed with a touch of innocence: "Sister, I've been looking for you for ages!"

She paused for a moment, then spoke with a hint of surprise, "Sister, you are very elegant. How about we have you be a bride together tonight?"

Lin Rui: It won't get any better!
"Since you're not saying anything, does that mean you agree? Well then, here I come! You must look beautiful today. After we become one, we'll find a husband and live a happy and peaceful life together!"

She doesn't even have a husband, what kind of ghost bride is she?!

An overwhelming fear surged within Lin Rui, and she wanted to scream, which is exactly what she did. She screamed "Ahhhhhhh—" and rushed toward the wedding dress, startling the dress, which shrank back and stopped in its tracks for a moment.

With the wedding dress just inches away, Lin Rui swerved to the side, bypassing it—and charged forward headlong!
I was so scared! Waaaaaah!

"Your sister is being naughty!"

The angry voice of the bride rang out behind her, the crisp sound of bells following her like a shadow. Lin Rui felt a chill run down her spine, but she dared not stop running. However, when bad luck strikes, even drinking water can cause problems. A skull appeared in the middle of the road at some point. Lin Rui stepped on it, slipped, and fell flat on her face, which landed on a stick-shaped object. If nothing unexpected happened, it was part of the skull set.

Lin Rui lay on the ground, with only one thought in her mind—it's over, Barbie Q is dead.

"Hehehe, it's so funny when my sister falls!"

Just as Lin Rui was about to struggle to get up, she clearly felt the hem of her wedding dress brush against her bare calves, instantly raising goosebumps.

She slowly closed her eyes and waited.

"Xiao Rui?"

Suddenly, Bai Chen's voice came through the phone. Lin Rui wanted to tell Bai Chen—Run!
But she was so frightened that she forgot everything, her mind went blank with fear, and she couldn't even open her mouth.

"Huh? That's a stinky man's voice?"

The woman in the wedding dress paused, turned around, but seeing no one, turned back and said to Lin Rui, "Wild men are no good. Let me see if you've ever been with any wild men. If you have, that won't do—"

The wedding dress bent over as if it were a person, its sleeves rising and reaching towards Lin Rui. Suddenly, the light ahead brightened, and Lin Rui vaguely heard Bai Chen's voice: "Don't touch her! Sister! Go!"

Upon hearing Lin Rui's shouts, Bai Lu and Bai Chen rushed over and saw that Jia Yi was about to do something to Lin Rui. Bai Chen hurriedly shouted, and Bai Lu really wanted to slap her. What are you doing? Is she a dog?
But her hand moved faster than her brain; a talisman flew out and stuck firmly to the wedding dress. The dress immediately began to smoke, and it abruptly withdrew its hand from Lin Rui, letting out a shrill scream. The wide hem of the dress seemed to be controlled by a hand, desperately trying to brush the talisman off its chest, but whenever the dress touched the talisman, it too emitted puffs of white smoke. The wedding dress let out an angry scream: "Who are you? Why are you trying to harm me?"

The egret still had several talismans between its fingers: "Those who harm others will always be harmed in return! Didn't you harm others first?!"

Bai Chen was too lazy to watch his sister show off. He had a strong sense of stealth and tore a talisman off Bai Lu's fingers. He also took off the lightning-struck wood and the peace talisman from his body. He immediately ran to Lin Rui, without helping her up. Without saying a word, he put the things on her and stuffed them into her body, telling her to take good care of them.

Lin Rui held a talisman in her hand, completely bewildered.

Seeing the wedding dress with talismans pasted on it, steaming and emitting smoke, made her even more confused!
"You, you guys..."

She glanced at her boyfriend and then at Bai Lu, as if she knew something incredible. Staring at Bai Chen's face, she was both surprised and delighted: "You kept it a secret pretty well!"

Bai Chen chuckled awkwardly, "I've been so busy lately, I forgot to tell you...hehe—"

Lin Rui would never normally let such scumbag quotes go unpunished, but now—she's still alive, so nothing else matters!
"ah!"

Suddenly, the wedding dress let out a loud shout, as if she had made a decision. She threw away the two sleeves and tore the talisman open with a heavy heart. The sleeves were scorched black. The whole wedding dress was trembling, whether from pain or anger, it was hard to tell. Then, she suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Was it destroyed?"

Lin Rui stared at Bai Chen with eyes full of curiosity, but Bai Chen had no idea; he was too busy taking care of his girlfriend!

Bai Lu shook her head: "She must have been summoned back by some kind of magic. Be careful, things might not be that simple here. Let's go out first."

"Okay, okay!" Lin Rui hurriedly agreed. She would never again give up on such a pitch-black place.

From now on, if anyone dares to mention haunted houses to her again, she'll get angry!
In the pitch-black passage, a spark of fire suddenly appeared from Bai Lu's fingertips, and Lin Rui immediately looked at him with admiration.

Seeing this, Bai Chen immediately ordered a small portion for himself. Lin Rui, who had never seen anything like this before, immediately cast half of her admiring gaze at him. Bai Chen was extremely smug, and with his other hand around her waist, he explained to her, "The yin energy here is too heavy, and even if you turn on your phone's flashlight, it won't illuminate much of the area, so we use this method."

Lin Rui was puzzled but impressed. She said "Oh" twice. Indeed, those two small flames illuminated the entire passage.

When Lin Rui emerged from Gate 1 and saw the ticket seller now watching the young man sway his hips, a feeling of relief washed over her. She finally couldn't help but throw herself into Bai Chen's arms, tears streaming down her face.

Her body was still trembling, but her heart was filled with peace.

"Thank you, thank you for coming to save me." Lin Rui's voice was choked with sobs.

"Silly girl, why are you being so polite to us?"

The egret gently patted her back.

Seeing someone emerge, the ticket seller immediately locked her phone: "Did you get scared, young lady? Are you alright? Those ghosts and monsters inside are just my colleagues, they're fake!"

"Don't call me sister!"

Lin Rui lifted her head from Bai Chen's embrace, her eyes filled with malice.

The ticket seller was embarrassed. The current term "sister" with the added "young" means young and beautiful. Why was the customer angry when she was complimenting her on being young and beautiful?
He didn't want to say much, but after waiting a while and no one came out, he couldn't help but ask, "Young...guest, where are your friends?"

No one ever comes to a haunted house alone. Moreover, he recognizes Bai Chen and Bai Lu. They are here to visit a friend. This young lady must be their friend. Wasn't it supposed to be eight people, three men and five women? Why is only one person coming out?

Lin Rui's lips trembled, and she burst into tears again—her colleagues were likely in grave danger.

The colleagues who can hang out together generally have good relationships. The guy who was initially "eaten up" by the wedding dress is the company's General Manager Wang. He's a nice guy, not at all like a "general manager," and everyone likes him.

Now... I doubt even all the bones can be found...

"I...I didn't say anything this time!"

The ticket seller was at a loss. After thinking it over, she realized that she really hadn't said anything offensive or made the customer cry twice. If she was found out, she would have her pay docked!

Bailu waved to him, "It's alright, you go ahead and do your work!"

The ticket seller dared not leave and immediately turned on the surveillance camera at Gate 1. Soon, Bai Lu and Bai Chen appeared in one of the shots, while Lin Rui's panicked running figure appeared in another.

The wedding dress that Lin Rui feared was impossible to photograph.

The scene of bones and remains on the ground was captured on camera, but it didn't seem out of place at all in the haunted house full of props, and the ticket seller naturally didn't notice it either.

"Xiao Zhao, you should go back now!"

At this moment, a middle-aged man led a group of people this way. He was covered in sweat and said to the ticket seller.

Although Xiao Zhao didn't know what had happened, he only earned a little over three or four thousand yuan a month, so naturally he preferred to avoid trouble. He didn't even pack his things, grabbed his phone, and was about to leave when he suddenly stopped after a few steps. He turned around and asked Manager Liu, "What about my afternoon's salary?"

"Send it! Send it as usual!" Manager Liu waved his hand impatiently at him: "Get out of here!"

What kind of mess is this?! How did a perfectly good haunted house suddenly become haunted?!
When his boss called him, he thought he was being scammed!
The boss wanted to personally receive the people from the "special department," but he was out of town and wouldn't be back until evening at the earliest, so he had to come instead!

Good heavens! He doesn't want to entertain them!
There's something fishy going on, God!
What if he gets hurt?
He has an 80-year-old mother to care for and an eight-year-old child to raise…

"You're Miss Bai?"

One of the women, who wasn't very old but had a serious demeanor, stepped forward and asked.

Egret: "It's me."

"I've heard so much about you," the woman said. "My name is Huang Dan. Could you please tell us about the situation inside?"

The incident at "Construction Site No. 3" involved Bai Lu sacrificing her cultivation level to help Daoist Qingxu and others resolve a wandering corpse. Thanks to Daoist Qingxu's "publicity," the story had spread throughout the entire Xuanmen circle. Some questioned it, while others praised it, and the woman naturally belonged to the latter group.

Wandering corpses, those are legendary evil creatures!
Bai Lu shook his head: "I don't know the specifics, but I'm sure there's more than one evil creature inside, and its power is definitely not shallow. You guys—find some more helpers!"

(End of this chapter)