Mysterious Séancer: My Doll Can Really Show Its Power

"This is the 110 emergency call center, please speak."

"A person has committed suicide on Yundu Road. Please dispatch the police as soon as possible. Thank you."

The operator seemed to have rarely encountered such a calm and polite caller, and was a little taken aback. "Okay, okay, could you please provide a more detailed address and the specific details?"

"On the eastern section of Yundu Road, a woman was holding a knife. First, she stabbed herself in the eye, then she stabbed herself in the ribs, followed by her chest, lower abdomen, and both sides of her ribs. There were eleven stabs in total. Several of them were to her chest, some aimed at her heart, some at her liver, and some at her pancreas—"

"Stop, stop! How do you know so much?! Please tell me who you are!"

"Me? My name is Yang Ning."

"I have already dispatched officers. Please stay where you are and do not leave. Officers will come over to inquire about the situation shortly."

"Yes, I'm not leaving. I just paid a month's rent."

Are you a merchant in this area?

"Yes, I just rented No. 24 Yundu Road. The one who died was my landlord."

"..."

"Um?"

"Oh, okay, please wait here for the police to arrive. Thank you for your cooperation."

"You're welcome, it's nothing."

......

Ding-a-ling—

The wind chimes rang incessantly. In front of No. 24 Yundu Road, Yang Ning watched as Zhang Wen, whose clothes were covered in blood, hung up the phone.

Zhang Wen was no longer the dignified and demure woman she once was. Covered in blood, she was hunched over, her long hair hanging down, revealing only a bloodshot eye. Holding a boning knife, she looked at Yang Ning and let out chilling, maniacal laughs, "Hehe, hehe..."

"Chengcheng, what's your wish?"

Yang Ning straightened his white t-shirt and smiled, "Sister Wenwen, my wish is..."

At this moment, Zhang Wen interrupted him, "Hehehehe... Let me guess!"

"Back when the old madman was buying the goods, he once said that his lifelong wish was to refine a red-clad vengeful ghost..."

Looking down at her body covered in crimson blood, Zhang Wen grinned at Yang Ning. A near-maniacal smile appeared on her blood-stained face, hidden behind her disheveled hair. "Chengcheng, your wish, I suppose, is also like this?"

Yang Ning frowned and muttered to himself, "The old man's long-cherished wish? To refine a red-clad vengeful ghost?"

"Really? I don't remember..."

"It seems so..."

Zhang Wen, dressed in red, threw her head back and laughed wildly, her disheveled hair spreading out to reveal a bloodshot eye socket on her face. "Chengcheng! Come, turn me into a vengeful ghost in red and fulfill your wish!"

Yang Ning shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a very normal person, my wishes aren't that perverted."

Zhang Wen: "?"

"W-Do you want to hear what you're saying?"

With a calm gaze and composed expression, Yang Ning said, "My wish is that no one in the world will commit evil, no one will abduct children, no one will forcibly harvest organs from others, and no one will waste other people's lives..."

"Just like the ancestral precepts of our Lingmen sect, all living things come and go according to their causes and conditions."

Yang Ning lowered his head slightly, looking directly into Zhang Wen's eye, which now only had one eyeball. His calm gaze was filled with a shimmering light, and his voice was gentle and melodious: "If someone tramples on another's life, then I will trample on their life."

After listening to Yang Ning finish speaking, Zhang Wen slightly turned her head, and the blood vessels in her eyes, visible even through her hair, suddenly bulged. She shouted fiercely, "No! Change it!"

Yang Ning smiled and shook his head: "No trade."

"Then go die!"

A mournful howl rang out from Zhang Wen's mouth, and in an instant, all the streetlights on the entire Yundu Road pedestrian street began to shake violently!

In front of shop number 24 on Yundu Road, Zhang Wen, dressed in red, charged straight at Yang Ning with a knife!

However, at this moment, Yang Ning's face revealed a rare look of excitement. "Resentment? Resentment!"

Behind him, a boy who was all white and had bright red hands appeared out of thin air. The boy was holding a small human-shaped doll, which was the one that Yang Ning had just finished sculpting that night!

But unlike before, the doll's entire body was gradually turning as red as blood!

As Zhang Wen charged toward Yang Ning with a knife, the boy's expression gradually turned mocking!

Swish!

Zhang Wen plunged the knife into Yang Ning's body, but the scene of blood splattering on the spot did not occur!

Clang!

Zhang Wen's knife fell to the ground, along with the doll that the boy had just been holding.

At this moment, the doll's entire body was covered in a blood-red color, and the features on its lifelike face moved slightly, becoming even more ferocious!

No matter how her expression changed, she was still just a palm-sized humanoid doll.

Zhang Wen, who had just appeared in the store, had completely disappeared.

Yang Ning reached out and picked up the red-clothed doll from the ground, patted it twice, and said, "I remember you took special care of me back then."

"So, I still have a little selfish motive towards you."

"Actually, I've left you a way out. As long as you're determined to cut off your hand, you can still live in this world."

"But at the last moment, you still chose to protect yourself by hurting others, so how can I let you live?"

"You think you're stabbing someone else, but in the end, each stab will only take your own life. What a fast knife..."

"Sister Wenwen, does it hurt?"

Picking up the red-clad doll with its fierce expression and grotesque features, Yang Ning gently kissed it. "From now on, you will stay by my side forever. Don't go out and harm anyone anymore."

Behind.

Fourteen little ghost children stared at the scene before them.

"Ugh? Chengcheng is so disgusting!"

"Pah! What a jerk! I've heard that a hundred times!"

"Yes! He said the same thing to every single doll in red, regardless of whether they were male or female!"

Is it possible that Chengcheng doesn't want a girlfriend because he only likes girls in red?

"Friendly reminder: red isn't just for young ladies, it's also for young men."

"But Chengcheng never kisses older boys, she only kisses older girls."

"He was kissing the doll, not the actual doll. Do you understand the importance of ritual?"

"That young man in red?"

"Why would you need any ceremony when you're already dressed in red?"

"That lady in red?"

"A young lady definitely needs a sense of ceremony; it has nothing to do with whether she's wearing red or not!"

"..."

The other kids chattered amongst themselves, but Yamei, a little girl with two topknots and her arms wrapped around her chest, raised her tiny head and banged it against the floor repeatedly, saying in a childish voice, "Congratulations, Chengcheng, on getting your revenge! You've taken care of all your enemies!"

Yang Ning casually placed the red-dressed doll, modeled after Zhang Wen's, into her handbag. She then snatched Ya Mei's head from her hands and carefully placed it back on her neck. "Ya Mei, your head should be on your neck, not in your arms!"

Then he kicked a chubby little ghost next to him who was constantly pulling out its intestines from its belly, sending it flying. "Sun Da Pang! If you play with the stuff in your belly again, I'll kick you into the sky next time!"

Finally, he reached out and took down a little ghost hanging from the chandelier, its limbs all cut off in half. He hugged it to his chest and patted its head. "You've already lost your arms and legs, can't you just behave yourself?"

After finishing all this, Yang Ning turned and walked out. "I'm going to take care of something. Don't wander off!"

After leaving the store, Yang Ning walked towards the east side of Yundu Road. Not long after, he saw Zhang Wen's body lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the road.

The one who just rushed into Yang Ning's shop was the vengeful ghost Zhang Wen. Zhang Wen's body was still left where she had left the eleventh shop.

The surrounding crowd surged, but everyone seemed to have lost their minds and no one noticed the unusually conspicuous corpse on the ground.

Yang Ning came over, took out a paper contract, lifted Zhang Wen's blood-covered finger, and pressed his fingerprint on the contract without even needing ink.

Then, looking at the contract in his hand, Yang Ning took out the red-dressed doll from Zhang Wen's collection and said, "This is just a normal rental contract, with only a few clauses added."

"This means that even if something unexpected happens to you, I will still lease your shop, and the lease term will be automatically extended until I no longer wish to lease it."

"Don't worry, I'll burn the rent money for you on time every month."

After Yang Ning finished speaking, he stepped back a short distance to the side. At the same time, two police cars stopped at the entrance of Yundu Road Pedestrian Street.

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