Chapter 20 The Mysterious Person

Ghosts can’t make footsteps. If it wants you to hear the footsteps in the dark, it’s just to scare you. There are many ways to get rid of this sound. For example, the simplest way is not to care about it at all, or to concentrate on other things.

But for me, unless the ghost has grown to a certain level, and is a being that can influence me, as described in the Taoist classics about powerful and terrifying things, I can ignore everything else.

But no matter what I did, I couldn’t get rid of the sound of footsteps. On the contrary, it became clearer and clearer. After less than a minute, I even heard the sound of the door being pushed open…

What kind of powerful ghost is that? I closed my eyes and frowned slightly, but in the world of perception, I could only feel a dark, heavy blackness that represented the gathering of negative energy, but I could not feel the presence of any powerful ghost. That could only mean one thing: the person who pushed open the door and made the footsteps was a human being!

The judgment of a human being made my thoughts suddenly a little chaotic, and the mystery of this small town became even more difficult to solve.

What worried me even more was that Ruyue was sleeping in another room. Although I had told Ruyue before she went to sleep that in order to discover the secrets of the town, as long as she was not actually harmed, she should not disturb the situation if she could resist it, I didn’t know if Ruyue could hold out… After all, the appearance of a person for no reason made the situation even more complicated.

The footsteps stopped as soon as they entered the courtyard… I don’t know what they were doing, but they were inexplicably making me nervous.

My mind kept guessing, but in less than a few seconds, I felt countless gusts of wind blowing into my room with Brother Chengxin. The next moment, I closed my eyes and could feel the whole room bustling… because all of a sudden, no fewer than five or six ghosts came rushing in.

After all, in order not to alarm the snakes, I did not open my third eye, but only closed my eyes to perceive. I also could not make these ghosts take concrete shape. They didn’t seem to be trying to scare us, but deliberately wanted us to “see” something. In short, I could only feel that these five or six ghosts were a gray, dusty mass, and after entering the room, they rushed towards me and Brother Chengxin.

So that’s it… From the sound of Chengxin’s breathing, I could tell that he had woken up. I guessed that the words I had said to him before I lay down had had an effect. Faced with this sudden change, he didn’t make any move. At this time, the ghosts pounced on us. I was afraid that he would resist, so I couldn’t help but gently pinch his arm, hinting that he shouldn’t make any move.

“Ghost bed-pressing” is all they want to do. They use the ghost’s own spiritual power to oppress us and prevent us from waking up from sleep… Soon, these ghosts pressed down on me and Chengxin separately. I closed my eyes and felt my body being wrapped in a gray, dusty mass. If I had opened my third eye, I would have seen the ghosts pressing down on my body or limbs in an instant. This is not a pleasant sight, and I would rather not see it.

The moment I was pressed, I felt a chill throughout my body. This chill started in my chest, and it was a completely different feeling from the general feeling of being so sleepy that I couldn’t wake up. But because of the strength of my own soul, this level of ghost bed pressure could not restrain me at all. In order to make it more realistic, I pretended to groan twice and began to deliberately try to move my fingers or something… But soon, I felt that many more ghosts had entered the room, and then they came at me with a desperate pressure and entanglement.

This feeling is very uncomfortable, like a heavy object pressing on my chest, my whole body is heavy, but there is no way to wake up. If I choose to sleep, I feel like I will never wake up… This is the first time I have been haunted by a ghost since I became a Taoist priest. I never imagined that the taste would be so uncomfortable. At this time, what I must maintain is a trace of clarity in my heart, otherwise I will really be unable to break free and wake up.

I knew in my heart that this was the only correct way to do it, not only for me, but also for ordinary people. If ordinary people are unable to wake up temporarily, they must also maintain this trace of lucidity, not panic but must slowly break free with a strong will… If you choose to give up, and the ghosts and spirits don’t plan to leave, it is very likely that you will end up completely ‘sleeping’ and dying, and medical judgment may be that you died of a heart attack or something.

I was thinking nonsense, and this is also a way to keep my mind clear. Because my soul is strong, I am relatively unlucky, with no less than eight or nine ghosts oppressing me, and they are all full of resentment… When I solve these guys later, I hope I don’t make too much noise. I must be quick!

My whole body was motionless, but my mind was very active. At this time, I was completely suppressed… Next to me, I didn’t know the situation of Chengxin, but the fact that he didn’t make any noise was already the most ideal state. Ruoyue didn’t make any special noise either… I wasn’t worried anymore After all, there are still many curses on Ru Yue that can restrain ghosts without making a sound. At the very least, if she wakes up the fat silkworm, she can deal with these bed-pressing ghosts in an instant. Compared to this, if she struggles later, she will even have an advantage over me.

There were no more new ghosts coming in, and the temperature in the courtyard had dropped to its lowest point. It was estimated that the fog had completely filled the area, but there was no new movement outside. The silence was always hard to bear. I didn’t know why, but I was afraid that the person who had been silent in the courtyard had discovered something unusual. So in this situation of oppression, my heartbeat also became faster because of the tension.

After enduring this for about ten seconds, I heard a ‘huff’ in the courtyard, followed by footsteps… The ghosts pressing down on me had already begun to affect my thinking at this point, hypnotizing me and suggesting that everything was just a dream, that I just needed to sleep peacefully and give up any resistance… After all, the effects of a bed-bound ghost are not simply from the body and limbs, but also from the will.

But at this time, how could I possibly be “hypnotized” by them? My mind was clear and unmoved. In this silent standoff, I was still paying attention to the situation in the courtyard.

The footsteps stopped at our door. The presence in the courtyard seemed to try to push our door open, but since the room was locked by me and Brother Chengxin, he couldn’t get in even if he had the key, so the door just made a noise and then fell silent.

But soon, the footsteps came to our window, and I remembered that the window was not closed, but was ajar because I had been in too much of a hurry when I went back to bed.

My keen intuition allowed me to feel that the person in the courtyard had stopped at our window, and his eyes were fixed on me and Chengxin, observing something. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see what kind of person it was, but I could feel his movements.

He quickly opened the window, which was ajar, and the cold wind outside rushed into the room. He moved nimbly over the window, and I heard the sound of him landing in the room.

Then he walked over to the bed where I and Cheng Xin Ge were sitting, stood quietly in front of our bed, and I don’t know what he was thinking. Under these circumstances, I was obviously very nervous, but I still had to keep adjusting my breathing to make it sound calm.

Fortunately, the most basic Taoist kung fu is to practice breathing in one breath. This kind of control is something that both Chengxin and I can do, and everything is still under control.

The man stood silently in front of our bed, exuding a strange coldness. This coldness was not like the breath of a human being. Could it be that the person standing in front of us was a vampire? This speculation made my muscles tense up. I tried my best to control myself and not let my emotions get the better of me.

However, the pressure he exuded as he stood by the bed was immense. I didn’t know how long I could pretend to be so calm.

Fortunately, there was a new sound in the courtyard at this time, the sound of a door opening with a creak. The sound came from the old man’s room, and then the old man’s footsteps could be heard in the courtyard.

I felt that the old man looked back at us, and his body turned slightly, causing a slight breeze. Then he took a few steps back, turned around and walked towards the window, and then climbed out of the window again.

The old man’s voice could be heard in the courtyard, still using the local dialect. We couldn’t understand it at all, but I could guess a few scattered sentences, probably meaning that there was no problem or something like that?

In the face of the old man’s words, the man remained silent. In the end, I only heard him say the word “go,” and then the old man walked out of the courtyard with him, and the gate was closed again.

What was going on? My confusion grew. At this point, I had already made up my mind. I had to follow them!