Chapter 18

In a dream.

Time suddenly turned back to the past.

The warm sun shone on the old street, willows were fluttering, and the elderly sat in groups of three or five in the sun chatting.

Wu Xian squatted in front of the hostel, surrounded by several half-grown children.

They were playing card flipping.

The toys used in this game are round cards printed with game or anime characters. Usually, out-of-print cards that are no longer issued are more valuable. Both sides take turns using their own cards to slap the opponent's cards. As long as the cards are flipped over, they can win the opponent's cards.

They had been playing for more than an hour.

Wu Xian discovered them, and these two little child malevolent entities also moved. Their palms began to slap Wu Xian's body indiscriminately, and cold pain poured in from the small palm prints one by one.

Wu Xian was stunned.

"Qi Zhiyong once said that the more powerful the malevolent entity, the greater the restrictions it receives. These little things are probably able to sneak into the room silently because they are weak. They might be even lower-level than wandering malevolent entities."

Especially Qi Zhiyong, who is the most exhausted.

"Great, great!"

Ha!

Wu Xian bit his tongue hard, and the sharp pain instantly pulled him out of the dream.

"How dare such things attack me so openly?"

Wu Xian sneered and raised the copper coin sword to cut them down, but just as he was about to kill a small malevolent entity, his movements stopped.

"Something's wrong!"

Wu Xian scanned everyone's faces and found that he seemed to be the only one with palm prints on his face. Everyone else's faces were clean, as if he were the only one attacked by the little child malevolent entities last night.

Dark eyes stared at Wu Xian without any emotion.

Slap!

The last card was also flipped over.

Let these little things live and see how things develop later.

But Wu Xian saw two pale old faces again in the quilt.

"Damn!"

Wu Xian stood up from the ground and went to the bathroom to look in the mirror first.

"These little malevolent entities are too weak."

Wu Xian immediately realized the key to the problem.

Today is different from yesterday in one point, that is, there are no living people living in the marked room, so the Gate-Breaking Great Malevolent Entity made a wasted trip.

As soon as he went out, he looked towards 408. Yue Mei's door was kicked open by a big foot. The room looked like it had been robbed ten times. Everything had been smashed, and no props or divine statues remained inside.

Three little child malevolent entities pushed Wu Xian's body. Every touch brought a piercing pain.

Wu Xian, this person, looked like he was going to die on the first day.

The more Qi Zhiyong thought about it, the more suspicious he felt about Wu Xian. His gaze made Wu Xian feel a little guilty.

"Give it back to me, return what you took from us!"

According to yesterday's experience.

Wu Xian in the dream noticed something wrong. Why did they ask for what was taken, not the round cards won?

Wu Xian hurriedly seized the opportunity, lifted the quilt, and raised his sword with a murderous look, ready to slash.

The oppressive long night is about to end. There is half an hour left until dawn. The dizzy little child malevolent entities fled from Wu Xian's room one after another.

Five children grabbed him and started to act shamelessly, pushing him around.

These two little child malevolent entities were the same. Their tiny palms actually touched a hot, long object.

There were more than thirty small bruises on his body. These bruises were all left by those little child malevolent entities. They felt icy cold to the touch, and pressing them caused sharp pain.

The two little child malevolent entities let out a silent but ear-piercing scream.

I haven't even made a move yet, and you're already this scared?

He looked at everyone's faces over and over again, and finally landed on Wu Xian's dark circles.

The first thing Wu Xian saw when he woke up was six eyes.

"Let's play."

He looked around and found new mud-water palm prints at Shi Ji's door, but this time Wu Xian just looked and didn't make any extra moves.

But fortunately, these handprints were just purely painful and would not affect Wu Xian's actions.

"Give it back, give it back to me!"

The little child malevolent entity asked weakly: "Play, play what?"

This scene was truly a bit scary. Wu Xian hurriedly got into the quilt. It wasn't that he was cowardly, but he needed to use the quilt to block for a while to think about how to deal with it.

But he lived until now in a sickly state and often provided some important clues, and the person Qi Zhiyong offended the most happened to be Wu Xian.

Touching around in other people's quilts is easy to touch things that shouldn't be touched.

Wu Xian shook his head: "It seems that I still have to stir up trouble."

As everyone knows.

Wu Xian bets it can't!

Copper coin sword!

Heats up when encountering ghosts, can slash malevolent entities!

"Ha!!!"

If so, a new problem arises: can the Great Malevolent Entity communicate with these little child malevolent entities?

As Wu Xian gradually woke up, the tone of these children also became ferocious. The whole environment turned black, dark and deep, and the buildings were twisted and alienated.

If you don't kill anyone once, little child malevolent entities will appear, so what about twice or three times? Will the difficulty of the Fudi increase because everyone escapes repeatedly?

It should be.

Wu Xian laughed wildly with his hands on his hips, stood up, and was about to leave with the cards. He outside the dream also showed a satisfied smile. This kind of happiness was what he had longed for since childhood but never had the chance to experience.

The desolate moonlight shone into the room. By Wu Xian's window stood three pale little people.

The survivors living in the hostel are still those people from last night.

His ferocious appearance scared the little child malevolent entities to tremble all over. They hid in the corner full of fear, their expressions aggrieved and helpless.

Suddenly shocked.

Beside Wu Xian's hand was a plastic bag full of cards, while the cards in the hands of the children were already few.

Wu Xian opened the door and entered the corridor with ease.

They shouted in old yet childish, eerie voices.

Dawn was approaching, and the door opened.

Perhaps because of this, the Great Malevolent Entity changed its mode of action and personally released these little child malevolent entities to test which of the remaining rooms had living people!

He was mentally tense all night to guard against the Great Malevolent Entity, but only waited for a group of white-bodied little malevolent entities. Now he is racking his brains, unable to figure out why he was not the one attacked last night.

This proves that Yu Yinghua's handprint mark did not mark the person, but the room or the door, so as long as you leave the marked room, you are safe.

"It seems that my guess is correct."

But the dark circles on everyone's faces indicate that no one slept well last night.

"Sudoku, neurasthenia, interested?"

"If you don't return it, then go die!"

These three little people clearly had the bodies of toddlers, but they had the faces of old men. Their wrinkled faces were extremely terrifying, and their dark eyes without whites emitted captivating resentment.

Could it be that he was plotted against?

The information about handprints and attacks was also provided by Wu Xian.

Perhaps the Great Malevolent Entity judges whether there are people in the room based on the loss of the little child malevolent entities!

So Wu Xian retracted the copper coin sword and showed a gentle smile.

But the appearance of the little child malevolent entities added new variables.

Then I don't have to be afraid of you!

Strange...

"Ah ah ah!"

The sudden scream interrupted Qi Zhiyong's thinking.

Child Ghost: Notes on Strange Tales — Notes on Strange Tales Volume 13 Li Yu Fights Ghosts

Wuweijun ordered Li Yu to welcome the new county magistrate at the west of the city. After walking more than ten miles, hearing that it was still far, he returned home. Suddenly, about a hundred children came out from the roadside, all four or five years old, shouting loudly and moving forward, surrounding and hitting him. Li was not afraid at first and fought with them. Every time he swung his fist, dozens of them fell to the ground, but they got up as soon as they fell, and scattered and regrouped. This happened three or four times. Some jumped onto his shoulders to grab his towel and hair. Li became more embarrassed and couldn't escape. While hitting and moving forward, an old man in a cloth robe and straw sandals, not knowing where he came from, shouted sternly: "This official often holds the Lotus Sutra. If you harm him, won't it implicate me?" He scolded them to retreat, and the children scattered, and the old man also disappeared. Li returned to the gate and couldn't walk. The gate guards helped him home. When he arrived home, he was in a coma and didn't wake up. His children lifted his clothes to look, and only blue marks were all over his body. They called his soul at that place and called a monk to chant scriptures. After more than half a year, he was able to go out with a cane. The old man was suspected to be the Earth God. This was in the 28th year of Shaoxing.

(End of chapter)