After Marrying the Lord of the Underworld

Ye Feng: ???

He turned his head sharply.

In the shadow of the swaying trees, there was a touch of inconspicuous whiteness. That whiteness quickly shuttled through the greenery, and it was difficult for human eyes to catch it. Fortunately, the whiteness stopped quickly——

That was indeed a woman.

She was wearing a white skirt, which had been torn to pieces, revealing the rotting skin underneath. Her nails were abnormally sharp, digging into the bark of the tree, staying on the tree five or six meters above the ground, like a wild monkey, or a leopard preparing to prey.

The woman’s face had rotted, her eyeballs were all black, and her hair clung to her cheeks in a mess.

But it was in this flashy gaze that Ye Feng recognized her!

This was indeed his second grandmother who had been dead for many years!

For a moment, words couldn’t describe the horror in Ye Feng’s heart.

The second grandmother’s name was Zhang Nianyun. He had seen her three or five times when he was a child. In his impression, she was an elegant and taciturn woman, and her age could not hide her temperament.

They didn’t talk a few times, but one day, Ye Feng played wildly outside, and returned to the compound covered in rain and mud.

He had predicted that he would be scolded.

But Zhang Nianyun instead brought him clean clothes, silently took the dirty clothes to wash, and finally brought him a bowl of ginger tea.

When she was making ginger tea, she hummed a nice song – this was Ye Feng’s deepest impression of her.

Not long after, she passed away due to illness.

And the woman in front of him had exactly the same face as Zhang Nianyun.

Ye Feng also saw the wedding ring on her ring finger in Zhou Liang’s live broadcast room!

The  huge impact slowed his movements for half a beat, and when he tried to take out the talisman paper for inviting the gods, Zhang Nianyun uttered a strange cry!

The cry was extremely sharp, like a drill, and was desperately drilling into the ears. All the birds in this area were startled, and they spread their wings and flew away.

A few anchors couldn’t take it anymore, covered their ears and rolled on the ground desperately.

Ye Feng and Xiao Li were a little better, but it was too late.

There was a flash of white in the shadow of the trees, and Zhang Nianyun ran away grabbing the branches with her hands and feet in the posture of a beast.

Ye Feng turned his head again, only to see an invisible barrier descending from the air, which only exorcists could feel.

There was a ghostly air, and the atmosphere of the entire nursing home seemed a little cold.

They were trapped in this enchantment by the ghost.

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Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian walked in the building of the nursing home.

The body of the assistant was inconvenient to handle, thus Lu Yingjiu just moved him down from the window, put him on the ground, and pulled a curtain to cover it temporarily. Although crude, they could only make do with it.

The assistant’s body was full of yin energy, he pinched a piece of talisman paper, and gently swept the corpse’s face, bringing a little bit of yin energy over.

The person who found the body was a female anchor named Song Qiao.

Song Qiao followed them closely at this time, and said as she walked, “The Zhou Liang you mentioned to me about, we should have met before.”

Lu Yingjiu asked, “In the village?”

“Yes.” Song Qiao’s voice was still trembling, “We also talked a few words in the hotel lobby. After all, we are anchors on the same platform, and we are familiar with each other. He went up the mountain the day before yesterday and I only came just this morning. However, I didn’t think that there was such a ghost here. Zhou Liang, he, he is not already dead, is he?”

“It’s hard to say.” Lu Yingjiu said, scanning the corridors of the nursing home, there were spider webs everywhere – those little eight-legged creatures were not very friendly, and they all hid in the corners.

But after seeing the assistant’s body, it was rather easier trying to find someone.

The talisman paper stained with the yin energy was floating beside him, slowly leading the way.

The yin energy left by this ghost was clear, and it could be easily traced with a talisman paper.

As for whether it would take them to the ghost or to the other victims, he didn’t know. 

The talisman fluttered, leading them to the back door on the first floor.

The rear door was actually quite large, leaving plenty of room for a hospital bed to get in and out.

At this moment, it was blocked by several fallen wooden storage cabinets, and it was stuck so tightly that it could hardly be moved. Documents, large and small, were scattered all over the ground, all covered in dust. A few spiders had woven their webs in the gaps, and their eight eyes watched vigilantly at whoever came.

There were really many spiders here.

Lu Yingjiu didn’t know much about the types of insects, but along the way, he saw at least seven or eight different kinds of spiders.

The storage cabinets were scattered all over the place, with strange angles. Jing Xian stepped on the storage cabinets and went up in a few steps. Halfway up, he turned around and stretched out his hand to Lu Yingjiu.

Lu Yingjiu took his hand, was dragged by him, and reached the cabinet without any effort.

The two men stood on the same storage cabinet, and the weight made it groan, but fortunately it was of good quality, and at least was still very strong.

Lu Yingjiu said in a low voice, “I can come up by myself.”

Jing Xian: “Mn-mn-mn.” He just wanted to take the opportunity to grab his hand.

“Seriously.” Lu Yingjiu thought he didn’t believe it.

“I know,” Jing Xian took it for granted, “Of course my wife is the most powerful.”

Lu Yingjiu: “…!”

It was the first time he heard Jing Xian blatantly call him that, he was really caught off guard, then he subconsciously looked back at Song Qiao——

This girl was worthy of being someone who dared to search for spirits alone, she was very skilled. She had also climbed on the top of the locker, and climbed up quite easily.

She didn’t even look this way, she must not have heard it.

Lu Yingjiu breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, “What was that call for?”

It was almost heard by Ye Feng and Xiao Li before, but now it happened again.

“Isn’t it?” Jing Xian raised his eyebrows and said, “Come, let me hold you down again.”

Lu Yingjiu ignored him this time, pulled his hand back, bent over the door frame above his head, supported himself with the next storage cabinet with one hand, and jumped down neatly.

His ears were a little hot.

But he felt that Jing Xian didn’t see it.

Following the talisman just like this, the three of them arrived at the back of the Ruoshui building.

Here was an open space, full of weeds, covered by the thick shadow of the building, and even the trees were narrow. In the corner near the wall, there were several crumbling hospital beds with no mattresses, only rusted iron frames. In addition, there were more than a dozen storage cabinets, tables, and chairs in the corner, which were also in a mess.

Probably when the compound was closed that year, the people in the compound moved out the things and prepared to transport them away, but in the end they didn’t, and thus just threw them outside.

Up to now, no one cared about their origins any more.

Lu Yingjiu followed the guidance of the talisman and walked straight to a storage cabinet.

As soon as he pulled it open, a terrified face faced him.

Zhou Liang was almost stunned and screamed, “Why are you opening the door! Hide! She’s coming soon! Don’t pull me if you want to die!!”

After he finished speaking, he slammed the storage cabinet door shut, and Lu Yingjiu couldn’t open it again no matter what.

It seems that the person is all right, but is scared enough.

Lu Yingjiu took two steps back and said, “I’m a ghost exorcist, come out first and follow me, I can take you back to the village.”

The word “ghost exorcist” still carried a lot of weight.

Although a supernatural explorer anchor also knew how to exorcise ghosts, he was still a layman, not skilled in that area, and not as good as a professional.

Zhou Liang said hesitantly, “Really?”

“En.” Lu Yingjiu said, “Come out.”

He then heard another terrified voice from the storage cabinet next to him. “Don’t open the door! She will find us!”

Lu Yingjiu asked: “Who is that?”

Zhou Liang replied, “My assistant!” He stammered, “There were three of us, but now there are only two of us left.”

That’s not it, the third person is already dead.

Lu Yingjiu didn’t intend to tell the situation for the time being, and cause unnecessary panic.

He knocked on the cabinet door again, “Anyway, it’s not an option for you to hide here, go join others first.”

The two men were terrified, and they didn’t know how long they had been hiding in the cabinet.

Zhou Liang shouted, “I don’t know if you are a human or a ghost! What if you are a ghost who came to deceive us, what will we do!”

Lu Yingjiu said, “If I were a ghost, you would have died long ago, so why still knock on the cabinet door?”

Song Qiao also spoke to help persuade, “Brother Zhou Liang, I’m Song Qiao. Didn’t we meet at the hotel before? How could I be a ghost? You’d better come out quickly.”

Zhou Liang: “I don’t know if there are any ghosts outside!”

Just as Lu Yingjiu wanted to assure him that there was absolutely nothing, he saw Jing Xian when he turned his head.

…There is indeed a ghost out here.

Nevertheless a big ghost.

Jing Xian stared at the storage cabinets, with words written all over his face: If those two people don’t listen to Lu Yingjiu and come out, he will tear down all the cabinets on impulse.

With his destructive power, it was estimated that if the cabinet was dismantled, the people inside would also be gone.

Lu Yingjiu: “…..”

He poked Jing Xian, and said helplessly, “Don’t have such dangerous thoughts all day long. Be patient with ordinary people.”

After being poked by him, Jing Xian reluctantly became patient and was willing to wait beside him.

Lu Yingjiu persuaded them a few more words, but they still refused to come out, staying inside the cabinet and not daring to come out.

Then the phone screen lit up for a moment.

It was Ye Feng who sent him a message, briefly explaining the situation.

He said that the entire nursing home was blocked by a barrier, and no one could get out. He had now gathered people at the main entrance, but everyone was panicking, and he didn’t know if he could maintain order.

[Also, you may not believe it] Ye Feng said, [The ghost here seems to be my second grandma Zhang Nianyun. I saw her in the tree just now. ]

[I really really don’t understand what is happening at all]

[The specific situation will be discussed when you come over, Xiao Li and I are going to arrange talisman papers]

Lu Yingjiu frowned.

He looked at the cabinet again, and said to the two of them, “My time is limited, and I can’t wait for you all the time. If you don’t come out, I’ll leave a few talisman papers here, and come back after the ghosts are dealt with. “

He could force them out.

But in such a high-risk situation, having two disobedient teammates, it was better to have none.

Unexpectedly, when he heard that he was leaving, Zhou Liang was shaken instead.

A few seconds later, Zhou Liang gritted his teeth and pushed open the cabinet door. “I’ll go with you.”

When the assistant heard that he was going to leave, he opened the cabinet door with a swipe and shouted, “Me too! I promised to come out with you!”

Lu Yingjiu: “……”

He didn’t understand the brain circuit of these two people.

In short, they were willing to come out, which was a good thing.

Zhou Liang and his assistant’s complexion was very bad, blue and white. They didn’t know how long they had been frightened and hadn’t eaten or drank. They also have amazing perseverance, able to hide for dozens of hours in small cabinets, it seemed that they were really scared.

But compared to the dead man, they were still very lucky.

Song Qiao gave them some of her own water and chocolate bars, and the two of them took them and devoured them hungrily.

Lu Yingjiu led them to the gate.

After eating and drinking, and being protected by an exorcist, Zhou Liang relaxed a lot.

He finally began to talk about the situation at that time. “We just entered the Ruoshui building not long before we got separated. Then there was a female ghost chasing us, our, our wounds were all done by her. The three of us are new here, where could we possibly form a grudge with her?”

Lu Yingjiu asked, “Did you get caught by her?”

Zhou Liang shivered. “That’s right, she caught me when I was alone. Fortunately, she was blocked by this for a while.”

He showed Lu Yingjiu the jade pendant around his neck.

The jade pendant was carved with a bodhisattva with a benevolent face, which was cut in two from the middle.

Without it, Zhou Liang would have died long ago.

Lu Yingjiu: “When she appeared, did you notice something unusual? Or, did any of you actually see her?”

“Unusual…” Zhou Liang recalled, “She covered my eyes from behind, and I didn’t see what she looked like. But when she appeared, I seemed to hear a faint singing.”

“Right right right.” The assistant said vaguely with a chocolate bar in his mouth, “I heard it too, just humming, I don’t know what she is singing about.”

Lu Yingjiu thought silently.

The deaths of Zhang Nianyun and Ye Deyong are bound to have a mystery, and they are related to Mt Gassan Nursing Home.

Moreover, he didn’t know that Ye Feng’s second grandmother was surnamed Zhang.

The Zhang family was also one of the aristocratic families that exorcise ghosts. Although it had not fallen sharply in recent years, an emaciated camel was still bigger than a horse, even if it was on its own, it would still be powerful enough.

After bypassing a pile of weeds and bushes, they finally could see the gate and a crowd of people there from a distance.

Ye Feng saw them and waved to them in the crowd.

Xiao Li next to him was still pasting talisman papers all over the floor. It’s like in Journey to the West, Monkey King drew a circle on the ground and told Monk Tang not to go out. He also made a circle with talisman paper, and surrounded the anchors, for extra safety.

——At least, it looks extraordinarily safe.

Seeing so many people, Zhou Liang and his assistants finally let go of their hearts, their faces brimming with the joy of remaining alive after the catastrophe, and hurried into the circle.

Ye Feng told Lu Yingjiu everything about the situation.

In the end, he concluded, “Since Zhang Nianyun lowered this enchantment, we can only deal with her.”

Lu Yingjiu asked, “Did she really die of illness?”

“I don’t know.” Ye Feng hesitated for a moment, “To be honest, I don’t know. I rarely see her. According to my family, she died of illness in the nursing home.”

Lu Yingjiu said, “What’s the matter with your Ye family? Your grandfather stuffed ashes into your toys, and now your grandma is climbing a tree. Do the dead people have the habit of having parties in the mountains?”

“How do I know! I’m even more ignorant than you guys, and I’ve said it all, the ashes definitely don’t belong to the second grandpa!” Ye Feng scratched his head vigorously, scratching his already messy hair into a chicken coop, “I, I have already told my family members about this matter, and they said that a few elders will come over to check on the situation, and that I should be careful.” He murmured to himself, “And, why…..why are those two people have strange likes.”

Although that’s the case, they did not need to wait for others to come and rescue them.

Lu Yingjiu: “I’ll go to the nursing home again first. But according to your description, Zhang Nianyun has no desire to communicate at all, and her consciousness is not clear. It is almost impossible to communicate with her.”

“Yes.” Ye Feng sighed, “I can only get rid of her.”

In the end, it was Xiao Li and Ye Feng who guarded the group, while Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian re-entered the nursing home.

They started to go looking at the Ruoshui building.

The talisman paper stained with yin energy floated beside Lu Yingjiu, but it seemed to have lost its target, and it didn’t know where to go.

Lu Yingjiu released the Maotuanzi. (TL: hairball)

The Maotuanzi rolled round under his feet, then ran out with a “awwo”, and started to smell everywhere.

But Jing Xian said, “The anchor just now said that there is singing in the place where she appeared.”

“En.” Lu Yingjiu nodded.

Jing Xian said, “Come with me.” After saying that, he headed in one direction.

Probably because Jing Xian’s performance was too confusing, Lu Yingjiu still thought that Jing Xian came out for a spring outing with him – Lu Yingjiu was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that Jing Xian was the biggest cheat here.

He didn’t need to look for it at all, just follow Jing Xian and it would be over.

Lu Yingjiu had a rare experience of not exerting effort, and followed Jing Xian to the third floor of Changliu Building.

As soon as they came to this floor, the atmosphere changed immediately. An empty room was still an empty room, and the rotten curtains were still rotten curtains, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that something was not right. Even his own shadow that flashes past in the windows seemed a little weird.

Lu Yingjiu heard the singing.

The song was ethereal and eerie, it was a woman’s humming.

In this empty corridor, she abruptly sang which had the sensation of the reverberation in the concert hall, which was a little nice and a little scary.

After walking a few steps forward, a gust of cold wind blew——

Bang! Bang!

The doors of all the wards were closed in an instant!

The curtains rolled up abruptly, sweeping away the sunlight outside the window, the corridor dimmed, and the visibility became extremely low, as if the scene before the approaching rain. The doors and windows of each room seemed to be covered with a thick layer of white mist. In the blur, only a few pale hands could be seen pounding against the glass, making “bang bang” noise.

There was another light source in the corridor.

It looked like the kerosene lamp Lu Yingjiu had seen in the mountains.

Kling ling kling—

A sharp toll of a bell rang.

It seemed to be some kind of warning tone in the compound before.

After the bell rang, the ghost pounded the glass harder and harder, almost like a heady tempest!

Ka-cha!

Finally, after a certain moment, the first glass cracked. Three or four dead white hands fell on the window sill, their nails were sharp, and their arms were full of needles.

Several nursing staff with decaying faces slowly crawled out from the rooms, their dull eyes fixed on Lu Yingjiu.

Their movements were slow, but their numbers were much larger than those in the mountains.

In less than 20 seconds, the entire corridor was full of howling nursing staff. There were twenty or thirty of them. Some nurses could walk upright, staggered with oil lamps, accidentally bumped into the wall, and lost a part of their faces; some were crawling on the ground, while climbing, kept spitting out organs, such as heart, lungs and spleen, and with a “ka-cha”, fell into a bloody mess to the ground.

More were coming out from the rooms, carrying a thick white mist, taking advantage of the dim skylight, it made people’s scalp tingle, like a picture scroll from hell.

Lu Yingjiu narrowed his eyes——

His eyes swept over the nurses in white.

He still remembered what Zhang Nianyun looked like, and wanted to find out if she was hiding among the nurses.

Before he could finish watching all the ghosts, his right hand was suddenly grabbed.

Jing Xian said, “Don’t be afraid.”

Lu Yingjiu: “…ah?”

As if in response, Jing Xian grabbed his hand even tighter, stopped in front of him, and walked straight to the nurses. From Lu Yingjiu’s perspective, he could only see his handsome and expressionless side face, which, in the dim light, exuded a hint of ghostly majesty and indifference.

Lu Yingjiu was led by him, and he went blank for a few seconds.

——I don’t know how many years it has been, no one has ever said these two words to him before.

Just kidding, who is even qualified to tell him this?

He has never been afraid of ghosts, and he has always been the only one who comforts others.

If anyone dared to say that he wanted to protect Lu Yingjiu, he would probably be laughed at as a joke for a year, and would be regarded as a good example.

Yet the only unsolvable ghost that Lu Yingjiu had ever seen in his life was holding his hand at this very moment.

Then those monsters pounced over.

In the next second, blood splattered like fireworks, but it didn’t drip on them. The mist like milk was dyed red, red and white entangled together, like a strange dance. Everything was meaningless in the face of absolute power, the flesh was torn to pieces before it could howl. The oil lamp fell to the ground, rolled a few times, and went out.

An understatement, it was easier than crushing ants.

After the lights went out, there was only a mess everywhere.

It seemed that he disliked the ugliness of flesh and blood, therefore it was unknown what method Jing Xian used, but flowers grew in the flesh and blood.

The big flowers were full and vigorous, and the petals were a bloody color, as if they had absorbed blood for thousands of years. They spread vigorously in the white mist, and the cool aroma exploded in the air, infiltrating the heart.

Just like an ordinary stroll in the afternoon, when Lu Yingjiu walked through the sea of flowers, his body remained clean.

Jing Xian led him forward, without separating their hands for half a second.

Obviously he was the most feared ghost that Lu Yingjiu had ever seen.

But he only repeated seriously, “Don’t be afraid.”

After walking through the corridor, Lu Yingjiu looked back.

The entire corridor was full of flowers. If one wouldn’t mention it, no one would have thought that they grew from the bones of ghosts.

Jing Xian stood in front of the stairs, looking up, expressionless.

Lu Yingjiu knew what he was looking at: Zhang Nianyun was on top. He heard Jing Xian say again, “You stay here, wait for me for a few seconds.” Then he let go of his hand——

Lu Yingjiu stopped him. “Don’t make a move, it’s okay for me to deal with the ghost grandma.”

Jing Xian: “…..”

“I stood still because I was looking for Ye Feng’s second grandma.” Lu Yingjiu added helplessly, “It’s not that I’m too scared to move.”

Jing Xian was half convinced and half skeptical, “Oh. You’re really not afraid?”

“No. Don’t do this next time. Didn’t I tell you to use less power?”

Jing Xian didn’t look so gloomy now—if not, in response to his expression just now, Lu Yingjiu suspected that he could demolish this building and set fire to the mountain.

Lu Yingjiu said, “Set fire to the mountain, and you will be imprisoned.”

Jing Xian was startled. “How did you know I wanted to set a fire!”

Lu Yingjiu: “…..” He held Jing Xian, with a bit of earnestness in his words, “You have to be a good ghost who abides by the law, obey the law, start by caring for flowers and plants, otherwise I can only go visit the prison every week.”

Jing Xian thought for a few seconds. “You are right, I can no longer make you a widow.”

Widow.

It’s that damn word again.

This word caused the little pony to hop around in Lu Yingjiu’s head for a long time.

This time, he finally had the rationale to complain, “What ‘widow’, it’s not that my husband is dead.”

“Isn’t it?” Jing Xian said, “I have always been dead before.”

Lu Yingjiu rubbed his eyebrows. “Then according to what you said, I’m a widow now. No matter what you do, you can’t come back from the dead.”

Jing Xian suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment.

Lu Yingjiu: “…..”

Jing Xian pulled him, and his face was full of pain. “Then it seems that you will have to be a widow for the rest of your life.”

Lu Yingjiu said, “Not necessarily.”

He smiled at Jing Xian.

This smile really tickled Jing Xian’s heart, wishing he could go up and kiss him on the spot, but the next second, he heard Lu Yingjiu say, “I can still remarry.”

As soon as the word was uttered, Lu Yingjiu saw Jing Xian’s expression change.

Before he had time to speak, his whole body was hugged firmly – this time Jing Xian used extra strength, hugging his entire body.

Lu Yingjiu struggled a few times, but it was as fruitless as before, so he simply let Jing Xian’s handsome face confront him.

Jing Xian: “Remarry!”

Lu Yingjiu: “Right right right.”

Jing Xian: “You want to remarry!”

Lu Yingjiu: “Mn-mn-mn.”

Jing Xian: “I’m a terrible priest, I kill people without blinking an eye, I’m bloodthirsty, and I also seize by force and imprison!”

“I know, I know.” Lu Yingjiu said perfunctorily, “Overbearing President Jing, you are awesome.”

Jing Xian: “I can also press you against the wall and kiss you!”

This time Lu Yingjiu was alerted——

Others, Jing Xian can do, but the last one sounds too easy to achieve, especially now that the two of them are next to each other, it’s just the right time and place…people may be a little bit at odds, in short, if it continues to develop, he will be in danger!

Jing Xian: “Are you still remarrying?”

“I won’t, I won’t anymore.” Lu Yingjiu said, “I wasn’t afraid just now, but now I’m afraid.”

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