In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

Some of the audience expressed comfort, while others shouted incomprehensible slogans.

When Xiduo returned to the backstage, not only his teammates were there, but also Ouyang Sun, Xingge, and Yang Cai. Now there were no other staff outside except the sound engineer.

"Xiduo Xiduo, come here and take a look. This is the ghost that President Ouyang caught." Hong Xia excitedly pointed at the bottle on the table.

"Senior Hongxia, please don't call my name continuously. When you call my name, don't mix it with words like 'come here' or 'come back here'." Kita complained about the inconvenience caused by his name every day.

"Let me see what a real ghost looks like." Feeling unhappy about the name, Kita immediately became optimistic again.

"President Ouyang, can I take a photo with my phone?"

"Whatever." Ouyang Xuan meant that if you can't take the picture, just take it whatever you want.

When Kita walked to the side of the table with great anticipation, squatted down and took out his mobile phone, ready to take a good picture of this ghost that he had only heard of in legends, Kita was dumbfounded. There was only a ball of black mist floating around in the bottle. If you said it was a magic trick or CG, others might believe it, but if you told others that this was a legendary ghost, others would probably just think you were a fool.

The little girl in the bottle cannot see the outside world. The transparent glass looks like a pure white wall to her. She keeps turning around in it, just wanting to find the elder sister who plays the music that makes her feel excited. She only wants an autograph and to hear her elder sister's complete performance.

Chapter 31 Music Fans

"..."

Kita looked at the moving black fog and didn't know what to say for a moment. Could it be that this ghost was the king, and only smart people could see it?

"Since you are all here, you should decide quickly what to do with this spirit." Seeing that Kita had finally arrived, Ouyang Jun went straight to the point.

"Are all the people here?"

Kita always feels like something is missing, Manager Xingge, President Ouyang, Ms. Amano, Senior Ijichi, Senior Liang, and Mango Box.

"Um, where's Goto-san? He hasn't arrived yet, and everyone else isn't here yet."

"Kita."

"senior?"

Hearing Liang's cry, Kita quickly turned around, and then saw Liang grabbing the mango box on the ground and pulling it up. Pochi, who was squatting there with his knees hugged and his body pale, was just covered by the mango box.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"Sunshine, I can't see the sun! I'll die, that social scum Goto Ichiri will die!"

With his butt sticking up and covering his head, Pochi fell to the ground and twisted around, like a fish that had come ashore.

"You're not a vampire, you won't die from exposure to the sun. Besides, this is the cheapest basement, how can we have something as luxurious as sunlight?"

Snap! Ryo slapped Pochi where his face was pouting.

"Deal with it? President Ouyang, just drive her away, just like we said." Now that the source of the haunted and supernatural incidents was caught, Hong Xia's mood improved a lot.

"Drive away?" Ouyang Jun tapped the glass bottle with his fingers, and the little girl inside immediately squatted down in fear, blinking her eyes curiously about what had just happened.

"This spirit will deteriorate and become an evil spirit in a week. Now she has two paths left: one is to be liberated and reincarnated, and the other is to be beaten to ashes by me."

"Two! Let's choose two!" Liang Yiru insisted on his opinion.

"It must be for salvation. How can you bear to let such a cute little girl ghost turn to ashes?" Hong Xia pouted in dissatisfaction.

"Cute!?" Pochi exclaimed.

"Cute?" Liang glanced at the bottle on the table again, then at Hong Xia. "To us, isn't the bottle just a cloud of smoke? What's so cute about it?"

"What smoke? Isn't this a little girl in white clothes? Look, she's so cute, don't you think, Pochi?"

"Eh? Cute? Eh? That ghost?"

Just thinking back to the red and white things he saw on the stage, Pochi's stomach couldn't help but twitch, and the look in Pochi's eyes when he looked at Hongxia was strange.

Cute, can that really be called cute? Huh? Has today's JK aesthetic for cuteness become like this? Is it really cute to film a horror movie I wouldn't even dare watch without makeup?!

"No... it's not cute..." In the end, Pochi couldn't go against his own heart.

"Pochi-chan!?"

"Ijichi, what you're seeing now is just a beautified version of the bottle. Goto is seeing the original, so some discrepancies are normal." Ouyang Sun explained to Pochi, who was lying on the ground with only his butt outside the mango box. "What Goto saw was probably the head opening up, revealing ○○ and ○○, and then ○○ and ○ flowing out of the opening."

"Eh?"

After listening to Ouyang Xuan's description, Hong Xia looked at the delicate little girl in the bottle in disbelief, and then looked at Pochi who was squatting in the corner because Ouyang Xuan's vivid description brought back bad memories.

"If possible, President Ouyang, please try to choose salvation." Hong Xia shook her head and threw away the half-rendered picture in her mind.

"I agree. Anyway, the outcome is that this guy won't come back to Fanxing."

Ouyang Xuan glanced at Xingge, and Xingge understood that he was asking for his opinion.

"Then I will first read the fragments of her soul to see what supports her to become a spirit and wander the world."

After most people die, their souls will enter reincarnation. Those who remain in the human world for various reasons will become ghosts. They often lose their memories and only remember one thought or one obsession, which supports them to stay in the human world. If you want to liberate them, you must know what their thoughts or obsessions are. You just need to complete them for them to liberate them.

Of course, you can also ask monks to chant sutras at super-intensity to push them into reincarnation alive, but Ouyang Xuan and his disciples generally do not advocate this. They either fulfill their wishes and obsessions or perform physical salvation.

"President Ouyang, can you let me take a look too?"

"Ms. Ijichi," Haruna said, grabbing Nijika's shoulder. "This soul fragment reading process takes a lot of energy, both physically and mentally. If you just give it a try, you'll end up spending the next day in bed exhausted."

"And if you see those bad things, you'll have nightmares for a week!"

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm the drummer of the band." Hong Xia crossed her arms and patted her slender arms that showed the lines of her muscles. "If you don't have enough physical strength, you won't be able to play the drums for a long time."

"I don't even need to turn on the lights when watching horror movies. I won't have nightmares."

In the end, Hong Xia didn't listen to the advice of the experienced Yang Cai, and put her hand on Ouyang Xuan's shoulder. As Ouyang Xuan chanted the spell, a large number of bizarre scenes suddenly appeared in front of Hong Xia's eyes.

It didn't take long, just half a minute to read the soul fragments. As soon as Yang Cai saw Ouyang Xuan open his eyes, she knew it was over. She walked to Hong Xia's side, and when Hong Xia fell, she held Hong Xia's shoulders and let her light body lean on her.

"I told you, watching this is very tiring. The first time I watched it, if Miss 2B hadn't pulled me back, I would have fallen straight into the farmland. Miss Ichichi, drink some milk before you go to sleep tonight, and you'll feel better—Miss Ichichi!"

Hongxia, who was supported by Hina, covered her mouth tightly with both hands, and tears kept flowing out. Hongxia made a choking sound and wanted to speak, but all the words were stuck in her throat and she couldn't say a word.

Kita, who was patting Pochi's back to make her feel better, and Liang, who was bored reading a magazine, had been paying attention to Hongxia's Xingge. When they saw Hongxia's appearance, they all surrounded her and made Hongxia sit on the ground. They wanted to ask Hongxia what happened, but Hongxia just kept crying.

"She came to watch your performance on the day of the last typhoon. She was hit by a truck while crossing the road and died on the spot." Ouyang Xuan calmly recounted the information he saw from the little girl's soul fragments. He had seen a lot and there was nothing to be emotional about.

"That makes sense. Why is she so obsessed with this place? She even went up to Goto and asked for an autograph. So she's one of your fans. This makes it easier to find a way to help her pass away. Just give her a performance and that should be enough."

"Of course, if you don't want to act, I can just deal with her for you."

Ouyang Sun's hand placed on the bottle emitted a faint blue light. As long as Hong Xia or Xing Ge agreed, Ouyang Sun would strike the little girl in the bottle with lightning. Compared to a bullet that would struggle for a while before disappearing, being killed by lightning would only take a moment and she would not even feel any pain.

"You bastard! What do you want to do to my fans!?"

The first person to react was Liang, who had advocated exorcism from the beginning to the end. He suddenly jumped up, snatched the bottle from Ouyang Xuan's hands, and held it tightly in his arms, fearing that Ouyang Xuan would snatch it back and then deal with the little girl inside.

"Hey."

"My name isn't Hey, it's Yamada Ryo." Ryo stared at Ouyang Sun with wide eyes, like a tigress protecting her cubs. "I didn't know about this child before, but now that I know about him, there's no way I'll let you sweep him away like dust."

Liang is indeed very disdainful, but her love for rock or music is unquestionable. Now facing such a fan who died on the way to see her band perform, Liang's sympathy and love for her almost reached the peak in an instant. She wants to fulfill the little girl's last wish and let her go to heaven without any worries.

People who truly like rock music must be good people, so they will definitely go to heaven. Liang thinks so, and she also feels that she will definitely go to heaven.

"Kita, Nijika, Pochi." Ryo looked at his teammates, "Since this is our fan, let's give her the best performance to send her off."

"Yeah!" Hong Xia gradually came out of her sadness and nodded vigorously.

"No problem! Senior Liang!" Kita supports Liang's decision 100%.

"..."

Pochi was crawling in the dark on the ground, his pink body moving towards the door little by little. When Liang snatched the bottle from the little girl and confronted Ouyang Sun, Pochi was crawling slowly and firmly towards the door.

"Pochi, where do you want to go?" Liang blocked Pochi's way.

"I...I...I..." Pochi uttered incoherent words tremblingly, "My social energy has been used up. If I stay outside today, I will die. Please let me go home."

"That's absolutely not possible." Liang cold-bloodedly rejected Pochi's request, "No one of us can leave until we give this child a complete performance!"

"Pochi, this kid is pushing you, DD, we're in the band, how can you run away! Charge towards the jeep, oh no, charge towards the stage!"

Squatting down, Liang held the bottle in both hands and put the bottle against Pochi's face. Pochi didn't even need to focus his eyes to see the black mist ball moving inside the bottle. It seemed that it could also sense that he was approaching Pochi. Although he couldn't see outside, the little girl inside was spinning significantly faster.

"How about tomorrow?" Pochi said with a sad face, "I, I really can't do it anymore. I don't have the energy for today."

"Then overdraw tomorrow's money and leave now!"

Liang held the bottle in his left hand and held Pochi by the scruff of his neck with his right hand, striding back to the stage to perform. However, before he could even leave the lounge, he was stopped. The person who stopped Liang was none other than the store manager Xingge. The reason was...

"There's still music going on outside. If there's a place for you to play music, go stay there. Wait until it's all over, then you can go."

"Cut~~"

Although he was unhappy, Liang had no choice but to listen to Xingge and wait until today's performance was over before taking the members of the Bond Band to prepare.

There was no one in Fanxing anymore. The place that was originally crowded with people now had a table and a few chairs. Ouyang Xuan, Xing Ge, and Yang Cai were sitting on the chairs. There was a bottle with a little girl in it on the table. This place was facing the stage and was the best viewing spot.

After the blocking spell was removed, the little girl in the bottle could see outside, but because she didn't see Pochi and the Bond Band, she sat there listlessly. Although she was a spirit that didn't need to sleep, her head drooped as if she was sleepy.

"Boss, today's work went really smoothly. This is the first time since summer vacation that I've completed a project in one day."

"It won't be so smooth." Ouyang Xuan poured a bucket of cold water on Yang Cai who was in high spirits.

"Didn't this ghost just want to see Miss Ijichi and the others perform?" Hina asked doubtfully. "Now that she's shown it, she can ascend directly to heaven tonight. How could it not go smoothly?"

"Could it be that this ghost has begun to turn into an evil spirit?" Yang Cai thought of something and whispered in Ouyang Xuan's ear.

"I told you, she won't start turning into an evil spirit until a week later. Right now she's just an ordinary spirit."

"Then why did you say it wouldn't go smoothly? Isn't it enough to just listen to the performance now?"

"Does Goto look like he can play it?" Ouyang Jun asked back.

"Hmm? Uh..."

Just thinking back to Pochi's resistance backstage, Hina felt that today's mission would not be so smooth.

"Unlike the others, Goto wasn't very courageous to begin with. Plus, she's socially anxious, so she's naturally sensitive, prone to depression, and overthinking." Ouyang Sun attempted to analyze Pochi. "When she was concentrating her performance, she was hit in the face by a ghost with blood and brains all over its head. You can imagine how much of a trauma this must have left on her. Most people wouldn't be surprised to be frightened to death, but the fact that she still dared to go on stage exceeded my expectations."

While the audience was speaking, the people on the stage were already in place. Pochi didn't bring her mango box with her and just went on stage like that. Her eyes were a little cloudy and her movements were a little stiff. She probably didn't even know when she went on stage or what she was doing. She was holding a guitar in her hand, and people thought she was holding the weapon of some young lady Kamen Rider.

"Today is a special for Miss Ghost! A special performance by the Bond Band!"

"Listen now! Guitar, solitude and a blue planet!"

As Hongxia beat the drumsticks on the stage, the sounds of guitar and guitar rang out along with the drums. Four minutes later, the song ended. The people on the stage were panting, and the audience was distracted. After a long time, Yangcai slowly said the first sentence.

“It sucks…”

Chapter 32 The power furnace is heating up

In that four-minute performance, the coordination between the lead guitar and the rhythm guitar was a mess. Pochi, who played the lead guitar, played a little faster and didn't even realize it. In order to keep up with Pochi's rhythm, the lead singer Kitao also adjusted the rhythm of his playing and singing, which caused Kitao, who was not yet a guitar expert, to make mistakes on both sides.

The guitar rhythm was messed up, and even if the drum beats were on point, they would seem abrupt. One could even hear the sound of the bass. A minute later, the performance became a complete mess. Although Bochi tried to rescue the messed-up rhythm, he was powerless, and in the end, he could only end the song in a mess.

"It's so bad..." Hina complained subconsciously.

"What happened to you? Why did you go back to the way you were at the beginning?"

Xingge frowned. She had watched the Bond Band grow up and was very clear about their level at every stage. The performance they just had was like, no, it was even worse than their first time on stage. If they were to perform on the street, they would be chased away for making noise.

"Oh my, we messed up." Hong Xia came out to smooth things over with a smile, "So many things happened today, and it had such a huge impact on everyone. No one can really perform at their best. It's terrible."

"We still have a week left, don't be discouraged, take a good rest, and try to give Miss Ghost a perfect performance tomorrow."

As the captain, Hong Xia shared the blame for the messed up performance with everyone, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was Pochi's fault. However, at this time, everyone also understood Pochi's current state, and it was quite unfair to force her to go on stage.

"Pochi, take a good rest and adjust your condition. It's my fault for messing up this time. I shouldn't have dragged you onto the stage when you were in a bad condition." Liang admitted for the first time that he was responsible this time.

"Hmm~~ah!"

Pochi suddenly let out a loud scream, and raised his head as if waking up from a dream. Looking at Liang who would not regret even if he destroyed the world, he actually showed a shameful expression. Pochi was even more surprised than seeing himself become a super Yangjiao and then hold a concert in the martial arts arena.

"Ryo, what's wrong with you?" Pochi was in a panic, not knowing why Ryo was like this. "Hey, weren't we resting backstage? How did you suddenly appear on the stage, as if you were performing? Hey, why did all the audience leave?"

Pochi's sudden reaction after waking up from a long dream told the people present that Pochi had just completed a disastrous performance in a sleepwalking state.

"Goto-kun, we are holding a memorial concert for Miss Ghost."

"Pochi-chan was actually asleep when she came on stage?"

"Ghost...concert..." Pochi's head snapped and he saw the bottle on the table and the little girl dancing and cheering inside.

Countless billions of pixels of images in her mind were retrieved, details as clear as if they were right in front of her eyes, and the fishy smell seemed to be lingering around her nose. Pochi's brain, which had just been awake for a few minutes, was immediately overloaded with fear. Her eyes rolled back and she was about to faint. Fortunately, Kita grabbed her in time and prevented Pochi from falling straight to the ground.