Chapter 6: Close Combat

Why did I take two steps back in fright? It was because at the moment Guo Er turned his head, I saw his face twist. In the blur, I saw a completely unfamiliar face.

The face was very thin, with almost no flesh, just a layer of grayish-blue skin attached to the bones. The skull was very deformed, very large and long, with two prominent forehead ridges, making the upper part of the head look like a square.

When ‘it’ looked at me, it suddenly roared at me. Only then did I see ‘its’ facial features clearly. It had no eyebrows, but the bone above its eyebrows was exceptionally prominent. Its eyes were not the clear white of human eyes, but pure blood red. It had a very large hooked nose, and its The teeth in its mouth were white, and the four fangs were terrifying. They were very long and looked sharper than canine teeth. As it roared at me, its mouth was very wide, and I saw a ball of fire burning in the depths of its throat.

The roar of the voice rang in my ears, deafening, and there was an indescribable horror, as if it was intimidating me or warning me.

“Sanwa, what’s wrong with you?” Su Rou grabbed me because I almost fell.

I came to my senses and took another look at Guo Er. Amazingly, his face had returned to normal, and now he was struggling so hard that he almost lifted the three people sitting on him.

I wiped the cold sweat off my face and turned to ask Su Rou: “Did you hear the roar just now? Did you see Guo Er’s face?”

Because that face suddenly felt very familiar, I needed Su Rou to help me recall it.

“What roar? What face? Sanwa, don’t scare me.” Su Rou’s face twitched, showing that he hadn’t seen anything at all, but was shocked by my words.

“Oh, that’s fine.” Did I accidentally open my heavenly eyes again? No, definitely not. Although I still can’t fully control my heavenly eyes, I am very clear about the feeling of seeing things with them. Since I didn’t open my heavenly eyes, I suddenly thought of a possibility.

Guo Er had something on him, and it was targeting me. It seemed to have realized that I was a Taoist priest and was a threat to it.

This thought made my spine feel cold, and I had no idea what to do. I used to watch my master easily capture ghosts and demons, but when it was my turn, I was at a loss. I desperately searched my mind for what I had learned, hoping to come up with an effective solution.

“Get out! Get out! Get out!” Suddenly, a voice came from the room as I was distracted.

It was Guo Er’s voice, but the feeling was so strange that everyone in the room changed their expression. How can I describe it? It was like an animal that couldn’t speak, trying to imitate the feeling of a human speaking.

Su Rou felt a little faint in his heart and turned to me and asked, “Sanwa, is he telling you to leave, or am I leaving? Why don’t we all leave?”

I knew that under such a strange situation, Su Rou didn’t want to stay for a moment, but I couldn’t bear to leave like this. I always felt that if I left like this, something very cruel would happen, and I never doubted my intuition.

“Get out, get out, get out…” Guo Er’s struggle grew stronger and stronger, and he looked at me and Su Rou as if he wanted to bite them. At this time, even Guo Dongliang rushed up to hold his father down.

“Big brother, you guys go.” The girl from the Guo family, who had not spoken up until now, pulled my sleeve, her eyes full of tears.

I sighed in my heart, still hesitant, still desperately trying to figure out what to do. Su Rou also pulled me: “I know what you’re thinking, but what can you do if you’re not good at it? Go find Master Jiang. Let’s go.”

Forget it, this is the only way. I couldn’t bear to see Guo Er’s family any longer, so I turned around and left with Su Rou.

But just a few steps away, a heart-wrenching scream came from the room. I recognized it as Guo Er’s father’s voice. I glanced at Su Rou, and I turned and rushed back. Su Rou hesitated for a moment, but she also followed me.

As soon as I got to the door of the room, I froze. I saw Guo Er already half kneeling on the ground, the rope at his feet already untied, smiling slyly, with a trace of fresh blood at the corner of his mouth.

Guo Er’s father was huddled in the corner of the room, covering his left hand in a painful manner. Even when he was covering it, the blood still flowed from between his fingers. Guo Er’s mother was supporting his father at this time.

Guo Er’s wife was holding Guo Dongliang and Guo’s daughter, hiding in another corner and shivering.

Guo Er was still struggling. He was tied up with his hands behind his back, and he was trying to break free from the ropes that bound his hands.

“You son of a bitch, are you going to eat people? Are you going to turn your back on your own family?” Perhaps because of the pain, Guo Er’s father couldn’t help but curse. After all, Guo Er was usually sober, but he was just so greedy that he had reached an incredible level. His father still thought that Guo Er was still the same Guo Er.

And this sentence about eating people suddenly gave me a flash of inspiration. I thought of what Guo Er was now.

I was about to speak when Su Rou shouted, “He broke free.”

I looked back and saw that Guo Er had indeed broken free of the ropes. At this time, he looked at me and smiled slyly: “Heh… heh…”

The sound made everyone present break out in goose bumps.

I slowly backed away with Su Rou. Outside the room was a corridor. If a fight broke out, there was no room to move. Maybe if we could get to the courtyard, we could think of some way out.

Guo Er stared at me, his eyes not at all like those of a human being, following me step by step.

Suddenly, Guo Er’s eyes turned to the meat, and I thought to myself, “This is bad.” I just wanted to make the meat move away, but I saw Guo Er move so fast that he suddenly pounced on the meat.

I only felt a gust of wind pass over my face, and then my body was slammed hard, and I was directly knocked into the corridor. I was unsteady on my feet and almost fell over.

Fortunately, I had practiced hard enough in my daily life. Although I was not proficient in martial arts, I still had some strength. I supported my body with one hand.

But as soon as I had regained my balance, I saw that Su Rou had been knocked to the ground by Guo Er. He had his hands around Su Rou’s neck and was about to bite down.

If Su Rou is bitten off a piece of meat, I will be guilty for the rest of my life? It was me who asked him to come with me! Seeing that he was already red in the face and almost scared to death, I was too late to save him. The Guo family was already scared to death on the side, and I was anxious.

Right, I suddenly shouted at Su Rou, “Fu, Su Rou, Fu!”

This kid, Su Rou, is a bit gutsy. At least he wasn’t completely dumbfounded at this point. He desperately used one hand to block Guo Er’s mouth from biting down, and with the other hand, he took out the talisman I gave him from his pocket.

This kid is ruthless enough to shove the talisman into Guo Er’s mouth.

“Ah…” Guo Er suddenly screamed, and immediately, blue smoke came out of his mouth. The talisman in his mouth actually ignited.

This is not a strange thing. Just like thunder and lightning, it is the collision of positive and negative energy, which can also be understood as the collision of yin and yang. It can produce such a huge movement. A talisman full of yang energy collides with the evil yin energy in Guo Er’s body, and naturally it can produce this reaction.

This is why a talisman with true Taoist power will spontaneously combust without any wind.

Guo Er seemed to have been burned, and his movements slowed down. But the next moment he spat out the talisman in his mouth. But I couldn’t let him hurt Su Rou again. I had already rushed over, stabilized my stance, and concentrated my strength in my hands. Holding back a breath of internal energy, I picked up Guo Er from Su Rou’s body and slammed him to the side.

“Damn you, Su Rou, run!” I yelled, and at the same time noticed that the hand that had just blocked Guo Er’s hand was bloody from being bitten.

Su Rou reacted quickly, stood up and ran downstairs. I leaned against Guo Er with my back, pushed him against the wall, and locked his hands behind his back. I yelled at the Guo family, “Your Guo Er is possessed by a hungry ghost. You should run to the neighbors to hide. Hurry up. I will call my master to save Guo Er later.”

The Guo family hesitated for a moment. Guo Er’s wife took the two children and ran, and Guo Er’s father also took Guo Er’s mother and was about to leave.

Guo Er’s struggle became more and more powerful. I held my breath, wanting to scold him but unable to make a sound. I was bitter to the core.