Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 324 Turning into a Ghost
"I'm turning into a ghost?!"

Ran Qing's expression changed drastically upon seeing the changes in her body.

He suddenly took several steps back, staring incredulously at his own hands and fingers.

In the dim light, he looked almost indistinguishable from a ghost at that moment.

Ran Qing suddenly remembered something and quickly took out her sixth aunt's small bronze mirror from her canvas bag, pointing it at herself.

A pale, ferocious face can be clearly seen in the bright bronze mirror reflection.

Ran Qing's facial features and eyebrows were all her own, but her eyes had become deathly white and had no pupils.

His face was ashen and pale, no different from that of a corpse.

Such a terrifying appearance was enough to shock not only Mo Li and Long Zongshu Xiao Mianhua standing to the side.

Even Ran Qing was startled when she saw herself in the mirror.

Little Cotton exclaimed in terror, "Ran Qing! You're possessed by a ghost!"

But as soon as Xiao Mianhua finished speaking, before Ran Qing could even reply, his expression in the mirror quickly returned to normal.

Ran Qing's strange fingernails visibly shrank, and even her pale hands quickly regained their color.

Just a few seconds later, Ran Qing, who had been looking like a ferocious demon, had already returned to her original appearance.

Looking at herself in the mirror, now back to normal, Ran Qing's expression turned somewhat somber.

"...It's not possession by a ghost, it's still psychic communication."

"It's just that this psychic ghost wants to replace me."

This is a situation even more dangerous than being possessed by a ghost.

Possession by a ghost, or being possessed by a vengeful spirit, can only last for a short period of time. There are many ways to drive away vengeful spirits.

If, during a spiritual connection, a ghost enters through the Confucius Temple and replaces Ran Qing, then Ran Qing becomes a ghost, and that ghost will enter Ran Qing's body and live on in her place.

This was a similar situation to that dilapidated Taoist temple back then.

The evil god inside the Taoist temple used such sorcery to turn three living people into ghosts, and then had the ghosts of three tomb raiders replace the three siblings as they left the temple.

Being replaced by a ghost during a psychic session is extremely rare, but it has happened before.

Auntie Shen once traveled with a ghost for three months, only to discover in the end that her companion was not a psychic at all, but a ghost.

Thinking of this, Ran Qing looked up at the rusty iron gate in the distance, then looked down at the cement ground beneath her feet.

"...It's not Ran Jianfei."

Ran Qing's sudden words startled Mo Li and Long Zongshu.

Long Zongshu looked at him in surprise and asked, "You suspect that the ghost is Uncle Ran?"

Ran Qing was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "I had doubts before..."

He has very few blood relatives within three generations; you can count them on your fingers.

Among those who would appear in this ghost town, the most suspicious is undoubtedly Ran Jianfei.

It just so happens that Ran Jianfei went missing in this ghost town last night.

Ran Qing previously suspected that the ghost he communicated with was Ran Jianfei.

But looking back now, something doesn't seem right.

From his perspective during his psychic encounters, he saw Ran Jianfei twice passing by with a female corpse in red.

At that time, "it" was clearly following Ran Jianfei in secret, and there was more than one ghost following him.

Finally, all the ghosts followed Ran Jian into the dark, old building in front.

Long Zongshu hesitated and asked, "Should we go into that building...?"

That building was dark and gloomy, the only area in the brightly lit ghost town without any lights on.

From a distance, the deep, gloomy darkness stands like a mountain, giving people a sense of awe and fear.

Ran Qing remained silent for a few seconds, then glanced discreetly behind her.

Noticing Ran Qing's gaze, Long Zongshu whispered.

"...They're still following, but they seem to be keeping a distance, as if they're afraid to get closer." Long Zongshu was referring to the evil spirits that had followed them in.

Old Beibei, and other dirty things that came with him.

Upon hearing Long Zongshu's reply, Ran Qing took a deep breath and said, "Go in!"

The more bizarre and dangerous the situation ahead, the more it proves that they have found the right path.

Tonight we're here to catch ghosts.

Ran Qing was the first to step forward, walking towards the rusty iron gate at the end of the tree-lined path.

Along the cement roads in the old factory area, there is a row of dirty trees with dusty leaves.

Among the rows of roadside trees, there are old, blackened streetlights.

The streetlights cast a dim, yellowish light, which was also blocked by the leaves on both sides, illuminating only a small area of ​​land beneath them.

The rest of the area outside the streetlights remained shrouded in darkness.

Ran Qing and the other two walked along the dark, shady path. The closer they got to the rusty gate, the stronger the eerie chill in the air became.

When they reached the rusty iron gate, a cold wind suddenly blew out, like in late autumn, making their skin sting.

On the cement wall next to the rusty iron gate, there are rows of old, upright wooden plaques.

Judging from the contents of these old wooden signs, whose original writing is almost illegible, this is the administrative building of the Laro mining district.

There is also a workers' canteen inside.

But the building was dark and gloomy, standing out starkly against the brightly lit ghost town.

Ran Qing and the other two were stunned when they stepped through the rusty gate.

The beams of their flashlights were shaking violently.

Just two seconds later, the flashlights in the three people's hands went out.

Boundless darkness enveloped them from all directions, and the three of them seemed to have fallen into an abyss of darkness in an instant.

A chilling wind blew in from all directions, and in that biting wind, it seemed as if many eerie eyes were circling around them.

Ran Qing even felt something cold in the darkness, close to his body.

hum!
With a muffled thud, a strange and eerie green light suddenly shone in the darkness.

Ran Qing stood still, but the human head cane in his hand suddenly opened its eyes.

The eyes of the man-headed cane emitted an eerie, ghastly green light.

At this moment, Ran Qing's human head cane seemed to become a torch.

He coldly raised his cane and swept it around. Where the pale green light swept, the darkness receded, and the icy, sinister gaze disappeared.

Long Zongshu's forehead was covered in cold sweat; "...We've entered a ghost's lair."

Outside, in the brightly lit ghost town, many wandering spirits and ghosts roam.

But as they walked along, the wandering ghosts ignored the three of them, as if they couldn't see their existence.

But as soon as they stepped through the rusty door, the things in the darkness surged in like a tide, almost drowning the three of them.

Inside this rusty gate, it seemed as if one had entered another world.

Ran Qing sniffed lightly and said, "It's not the Ghost Nest."

He held up the staff made of human heads, stared at the dry, barren loess soil beneath his feet, and smelled the familiar, chilling wind in the air. He said, "This place is very similar to the Ghost Realm of Wujiang..."

Or rather, they are exactly the same!
Mo Li was somewhat surprised: "We've entered a haunted house?"

The fierce and malevolent ghosts can create burial sites in the ghost realm of Wujiang.

But Ran Qing frowned as she looked at the barren, hard ground beneath her feet and said, "...It's not a yin house."

Ran Qing sprinkled a handful of incense ash from his canvas bag, and the hideous, writhing faces of the dead immediately began to twitch and dance in the ash.

Upon seeing this scene, Ran Qing slowly said, "This is the Ghost Realm of Wujiang."

(End of this chapter)