Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 280 Ghost Phone Call

The two ate hot fried chicken burgers and drank ice-cold cola.

While satisfying their appetites, they also chatted casually about various topics.

The three of them, who had just returned from the perilous Old Wang Mountain and were now in the haunted city of Moonlit City, chatted freely under the lamplight at the entrance, exuded an inexplicable sense of relaxation and ease.

At least on Park Road, they don't have to worry about the danger of the gates of hell opening.

“Speaking of which, school starts in a few days,” Long Zongshu suddenly brought up the matter after the three finished eating, sounding somewhat dejected: “Please don’t open the gates of hell at school, or we’ll be in trouble when we study at night.”

School starts in a few days, and I'll be a senior in high school.

The next ten months will be the most important sprint stage for these senior high school students to prepare for the college entrance examination.

Ten years of hard study will be put to the test in this final exam.

Not to mention Ran Qing, who always felt a lot of academic pressure, even Long Zongshu, whose academic performance was average and who always studied sporadically and spent his days reading martial arts novels at school, felt the pressure at this moment.

Mo Li was more concerned about something else: "Isn't your classmate Ouyang Xue Grandpa Shou?"

Mo Li suddenly brought up the matter, blinking at the two of them: "Do you think Ouyang Xue will still dare to go to school after the start of the semester?"

Mo Li's question left Ran Qing and Long Zongshu looking at each other in bewilderment.

After a few seconds of silence, Long Zongshu scratched his head and said, "Um... she probably won't dare to go, right? Ran Qing and I can easily take care of her if we join forces."

Mo Li disagreed: "What, are you two going to tear her apart?"

Mo Li shook his head and said, "I have to remind you, as long as Ouyang Xue doesn't cause trouble at school, you shouldn't provoke her."

"If you want to deal with her, you have to do it off campus."

“If people find out that you two killed her, then Ran Qing, you’ll lose your chance to go to the university you’ve been dreaming of.”

Mo Li's reminder caused Ran Qing to frown slightly.

He thought for a moment and shook his head: "If Ouyang Xue weren't stupid, she wouldn't be coming to school."

Such special beings as Grandfather Shou are half-human and half-ghost, and are greatly taboo. Even those of us who practice unorthodox metaphysics cannot tolerate them.

Evil spirits and demons wouldn't consider it one of their own.

Now that Yue Zhao is so dangerous, that old man Shou should be hiding. Showing his face would be suicide.

The night passed peacefully without any danger.

Ran Qing soaked the ghost in the clay pot in alcohol and waited for it to finish soaking.

As for the curse of the Life Master card, he did not apply it.

Old Sheepskin said that Xiong Dacheng's matter should be investigated soon. After Ran Qing and the others found out Xiong Dacheng's address, they would put a curse on Xiong Dacheng.

The curse of the Life Master card is reserved for Xiong Dacheng.

Nothing was said that night, and Ran Qing, for the first time in a long time, opened the test paper and began to do the questions.

With the new school term approaching, he could no longer afford to neglect his studies.

While catching ghosts is important, one should not neglect one's studies.

After daybreak, Long Zongshu returned home to move some clothes, toiletries, and his books, intending to stay with Ran Qing for a while.

After all, in the current Moonlit City, only Park Road is the safest, and there's no chance of the Ghost Gate opening nearby.

Around noon, Old Sheepskin called.

But to Ran Qing's surprise, the phone call did not lead to Xiong Dacheng's home address.

Old Sheepskin called for another reason.

"...Boss Ran, others have witnessed the recent opening of the gates of hell in Moonlit City." "I just received a mysterious phone call at my home, saying that the gates of hell in Moonlit City have opened, and the disaster of ten years ago is about to repeat itself. They want to invite fellow practitioners to apartment 444 in the elevator building to discuss how to deal with it, and they've invited me to a Dharma assembly..."

Old Sheepskin's voice sounded somewhat uneasy.

Although he deals with spirit mediums, he's not considered a heretical or superstitious practitioner. So why would the phone call go to him?

Therefore, after receiving the call, Lao Yangpi immediately called Ran Qing for help.

After listening to what Old Sheepskin had said on the phone, Ran Qing was also taken aback, her brows furrowing: "An elevator building? Inviting like-minded people to discuss how to deal with it?"

Who is this person gathering heretics and esoteric practitioners?
And the address is in a building with an elevator?!
The mere mention of the elevator filled Ran Qing with a sense of apprehension and unease.

"Did the other party say who they were?" Ran Qing asked calmly.

But after he finished speaking, Old Sheepskin's voice did not come from the other end of the phone.

Instead, a strange hissing sound came from the telephone receiver, like signal interference.

The piercing sound made Ran Qing frown, and she instinctively moved the receiver away from her ear.

At that moment, a cold, mechanical yet strangely pleasant female voice suddenly rang out from the telephone receiver.

"...Hello, are you listening?"

The woman's voice was cold and devoid of any emotional fluctuation; it was cold, mechanical, and inexplicably eerie.

Upon hearing this voice, Ran Qing felt a chill run down her spine for no apparent reason.

He gripped the receiver tightly and poured his soul power into it.

But the woman's voice on the other end of the phone remained unaffected; she spoke coldly.

"If you are listening, please be aware that the disaster of ten years ago has been repeated."

"In the present Moonlit City, the gates of hell are wide open, and the legendary evil spirits of the ancient Luo Kingdom are about to return to the human world."

"If you are available, please arrive at Room 444, Elevator Building, Moonlit City on the 18th day of the seventh lunar month to attend this Dharma assembly. We will invite like-minded people to join us in this grand event and help us save ourselves in this crisis of disaster."

"Please remember, it's the 18th day of the seventh lunar month, at 8 PM, in room 444 of the Moonlit Elevator Building... We look forward to your arrival."

rustling --

That harsh, unpleasant signal noise started up again.

Amidst the static, Old Sheepskin's curious voice came through the telephone receiver.

"...Mr. Ran? Mr. Ran, are you still listening? Mr. Ran?"

Old Sheepskin asked uneasily.

Upon hearing this voice, Ran Qing snapped back to reality and asked, "Old Sheepskin, did you hear that just now?"

"Uh... what did you hear?" Old Sheepskin became even more uneasy.

Ran Qing, holding the receiver, had a gloomy expression and slowly said, "...The call has already come in. It was during our conversation that they invited me to attend the Dharma assembly on July 19th."

During his phone call with Old Sheepskin, a call was abruptly interrupted, coldly announcing the time of the Dharma assembly.

This phone call from an unknown source was eerie and unsettling to Ran Qing.

But what unsettled him most was the owner of the phone... was the other party really summoning the unorthodox cultivators in Moonlit City?
How did it do it?
The call was precisely directed to his home landline...

Based on Old Sheepskin's situation, it seems he somehow located someone in Moonlit City who possesses spiritual vision and is associated with unorthodox spiritual cultivation?

If the other party can get through by phone, can they also come to our door?
Ran Qing went outside and told her companions about it.

Mo Li's eyes widened, his face showing a look of utter disbelief: "This sounds like The Ring! Has Sadako from the mountain village come to Tsukishiro?"

(End of this chapter)