I

 quickly

 pulled myself together, asking the others to be more vigilant. Li Mazi seemed to have 

transformed into

 another person 

at

 this moment. The 

fatigue 

on his face vanished, replaced by deep hatred! 

However, while we were holding our breath and listening carefully, we heard a mournful melody played by a violin. 

The music

 was so clear that it 

seemed like someone was playing right outside 

the 

door. 

Although I 

didn’t know much about this type of music

, I could hear the perfect transitions of the glides. This piece of music could make people cry when 

the climax arrived

. 

Inadvertently, I 

became mesmerized by

 the music. A gold-haired

,

 blue-eyed woman with 

an oval

 face appeared in my head. She 

wore a satin dress with medieval characteristics

and looked like

 a European noblewoman.

Although she didn’t do anything, she exuded strong enticing power

, giving me a strong

 urge to 

move closer

 to her. 

At this moment

, the woman’s 

expression was 

extremely sad and 

mournful

. Her deep blue eyes 

were filled with sorrow

, and her cheeks looked as if they were covered with frost.

Her brows slammed together. She 

appeared 

to be suffering from something 

truly 

heart-breaking. 

Listening to the sad melody from the violin, I seemed to understand the woman’s grief.

 From deep within my soul

, I felt an urge to 

go 

and pull her into my embrace to love and comfort her. At the same time, my legs 

were refusing to listen to me, and were

 about to walk to the door. 

Fortunately, my brain 

ran speedily, and

 I pulled myself together.

That thing’s trying to bewitch us!

I looked around

 to find that 

Li Mazi and the other two women were infatuated with the music, stiffly walking toward the door! My heart sank

, and

 I bit the tip of my tongue. The taste of blood helped me completely regain my sanity from the music. 

I hurried to walk forward as Li Mazi 

was nearing 

the door.

How could I let him go out

? 

Immediately, I 

gave him a hard slap

, 

waking

 him

 up.

“

Ouch!

 What’s wrong with you?” asked Li Ma

zi.

“We were bewitched! You should keep some durum wheat in your mouth. 

If you feel in danger

, chew but don’t swallow!”

I then took out two coins, pressing them on Ru Xue’s and Yin Xinyue’s glabellas. They awakened, slumping on the ground. Ru Xue 

was

 so scared that she couldn’t even utter a word. She kept rubbing her chest to calm down.

Yin Xinyue didn’t feel good either, her voice shivering,

“Brother Zhang, what should we do now?” 

“If that thing enticed us to make us walk out of this room, it means the durum wheat works. As long as we’re not going out, we’ll be all right…” 

I gave the girls some wheat grains, asking them to keep the grains in their mouths. “Li Mazi, come to the window.” 

“Little 

B

rother Zhang, can we deal with it?” asked Li Mazi. 

“Hard to say,” I shook my head. 

I gently pushed the 

window

 open to see. If the weather 

was

good

, I would climb 

down

 with Li Mazi. We would then use the emergency staircase to go to the corridor and see the real face of that thing. 

Unexpectedly, there was a thin fog outside, and even the street lights had become immensely hazy. If the two of us 

climbed down

, we would be attacked by the ghost. In this case, it 

was

 better to go out directly through the door and have a nice fight with that spirit! 

Li Mazi looked scared, but he

 quickly

 got a hold of himself. He put more durum wheat into his pocket and gave his coins to Ru Xue and Yin Xinyue, asking them to stay in the room. No matter what happened, they shouldn’t go out. 

After preparing everything, he took a deep breath. “I don’t care what kind of 

creature

 it is. Tonight, 

it’s either me or that thing

!” 

I gave Li Mazi a thumbs-up then took the lead, pushing the door open. Li Mazi followed close behind me. After my first step out of the room, I felt a strong resentful energy lingering around the door.

My heart sank. I immediately withdrew my foot, turning and sending Li Mazi a glance. 

Li Mazi was a little surprised. However, he took out a handful of durum wheat grains, ready to throw out

.

When we stopped moving, I seemed to feel the resentful energy subsiding. That female ghost had guessed that we wanted to go out, so it planned to lurk outside and 

kill

 us. I sneered, taking off my jacket and throwing it out of the room. 

At that gleam of time, a red, ring-shaped object flash

ed

, directly 

surrounding

the

 collar of my clothes

 and shrinking

. 

I sweated immediately at the scene. If I hadn’t sensed the danger 

just now

, 

I

 would have been 

strangled

! 

The ring-shaped object found that it was tricked. It resumed its original size and 

tried to escape

. However, Li Mazi was ready

; he hurled

 forward all the grains in his hand.

The ring-shaped object couldn’t dodge. When it got hit, a wisp of black smoke appeared. It shook a few times and turned into a human shadow

.

 I squinted and found 

that it was

 the European woman 

that had appeared

 in my head a moment ago! 

Her face was covered with maggots

, and h

er two bulging eyes were hostilely gazing at me and Li Mazi. My scalp felt numb under her gaze. Instinctively, I stooped my head. 

Next, I realized that the

 ghost didn’t have a tummy! 

She looked like a chicken that was disemboweled. From under her breasts to above her hip, 

there

 was a horrible hole that had only a strip of skin on each side to connect her upper and lower body parts. Her appearance was creepily gruesome! Moreover, as soon as she 

manifested

in

 her 

original form

, she reeked of a nauseous stench, which was even more unpleasant than

 the smell of 

rotten animals. 

Li Mazi pinched his 

nose

 with one hand while 

using the

 other 

to

scratch

 his neck. After one day, the bruise on his neck hadn’t 

healed

. 

I

n fact, 

i

t looked even 

worse

 now. 

I was worried as I guessed that the Yin energy in his body hadn’t been 

completely expelled.

Anyway, before I could

pull

 myself together, the female ghost screamed

 and

flew

 toward me. 

S

he kept changing her shape in midair. When she approached my neck, she had become 

a

 ring-shaped object again. 

At this critical

 moment, all of my potential was stimulated. My upper body 

instinctively

 leaned backward. 

Then

, I saw a red light brush past the tip of my nose! 

The hairs of my bangs were cut off, and a 

trickle

 of blood fell down along with my hairs. 

I 

had 

narrowly escaped

 death.

I hurried to turn around and looked at the red ring-shaped object, throwing a handful of durum wheat toward it

.

The female ghost 

saw

 that I was well-prepared. She turned and flew toward Li Mazi. I hurried to sprinkle more wheat grains

, but t

he ghost dodged them easily.

Li Mazi thought that the ghost 

would deal with me first,

 so he was also focused on me. When the ghost 

suddenly

 turned around to attack him, he 

was caught by surprise

. 

He could only look

 at the red light 

getting

 bigger and bigger in his eyes

, unsure as to

 what to do.

The

 ghost

was 

too strong

. If he got hit, his 

head

 would be cut

 off

.

I was so worried

, but

there was nothing I could do

at this

 moment. 

Suddenly, 

a 

golden light flashed behind Li Mazi

, and something hit the 

ring-shaped 

object

. The ring-shaped object was forced to turn back to 

its ‘human’

form

. 

T

his time, 

the ghost

 looked even more horrifying. Her 

right

 eyeball 

was

 dangling from her 

eye

 socket

, and h

er entire right cheek 

had sunk

 deep into her skull, just as if a big rock 

had

 hit her there. 

Still confused, she lifted

 her hea

d

, trying to identify what had just 

hurt

 her. 

Li Mazi and I would never let 

such a

 chance slip away. We exchanged looks and took out a handful of wheat grains, throwing them at her. This time, our joined attack worked much better.

Shortly after, the female ghost exuded black smoke and sizzled. 

Her body

 trembled hard

, then dashed

 toward the other end of the corridor. Li Mazi gritted his teeth

 and

followed

 her. However, I grabbed him and pulled him back to the room. 

“Why did you let the ghost go?” 

This

 was the first thing Li Mazi asked me when we returned to the hotel room. 

“Do you think that it’s so easy to deal with that ghost?”

Then, I bent my upper body to pick up the

coins at the door

. I gave

 them to him and 

asked

 him to take a look at them. 

“Holy 

cow

, how 

could this

 be

?!

” Looking at the blackened coins, Li Mazi 

was stunned

.