Those coins had just saved Li Mazi

’s

 life! 

From inside the room, Ru Xue and Yin Xinyue 

could see that

 we were in danger. As such, 

t

hey threw the coins 

towards the ghost

 to help us. Since the coins had passed through the hands of thousands of people, 

strong

 Yang energy emanated from t

hem

.

When 

the coins 

sensed the ghost’s Yin energy, they turned into 

a 

golden light, attacking the 

spirit

. 

However, they were also destroyed 

in the process

. The bronze color of the coins had turned black

, with s

ome coins 

even

cracking

. That female ghost

 had formidable strength

! 

Tho

se coins 

were 

our last resort, and 

they only served to cause some pain to the ghost

. If we chased after her, it wouldn’t be different from seeking death. Fortunately, the ghost was scared of the 

coins

. If she knew that we had used all the coins, we 

wouldn’t 

survive long enough to imagine the consequences! 

“

Damn, we almost died

!” Li Mazi sat down, cursing.

Yet, shortly after

, I heard him 

begin to snore

. He 

had fallen asleep on the floor

. 

“Brother Zhang, help me 

carry him

 to the bed! He’s too tired.” Ru Xue felt sorry for him. 

I nodded and helped her bring Li Mazi to the bed. After 

he was settled down

, I looked at the bruise on his neck. He 

was 

scratch

ing

 it the whole day

, and 

I 

felt something was off, 

so I wanted to check it. 

However, he was exhausted, so I left him be. I sighed, 

planning 

to do it tomorrow. 

I later regretted

 doing this as it

almost caused Li Mazi’s death in a foreign land! 

Since Li Mazi was sleeping in my room, I took Yin Xinyue to the other room to sleep.

No matter what, the female ghost was wounded

, so

 she wouldn’t be able to come to

our room tonight. I washed my face and fell asleep shortly after. However, not long afterward, I felt someone walking in front of me. 

I 

had yet to fall into a deep sleep

 as 

I had just laid down on the bed

. I was still conscious

, so 

I instantly knew that som

e ghost

 had visited my room. 

Yin Xinyue was 

asleep

, hugging me. She was snoring softly like a purring kitten.

I didn’t lift the blanket immediately 

since 

I was afraid of awakening her. My eyes slowly opened

, and

 I saw a big face right in front of me

. The face couldn’t have been more

 than five centimeters away from mine. The two blank eyes bulged as if they would burst out in the next second and hit my face. 

I felt my heart leap, and

 I 

a

lmost screamed

.

However, this pair of eyes looked familiar! I opened my eyes 

entirely to see that

i

t was Li Mazi’s face. 

I exhaled

 and 

sat up, barking, “Dude, why 

aren’t you a

sleep? It’s midnight. Why 

did you come in

to my room? 

Do y

ou want to scare me 

with 

your ghostly face?” 

I took out a cigarette and was about to light it. Unexpectedly, Li Mazi grabbed my arm, his voice low. “You’d better not smoke at night.” 

When Li Mazi spoke, his voice didn’t sound like his own

. Moreover, the moment he touched me, his skin felt strangely cold.

I had a bad premonition. 

Is Li Mazi 

being controlled 

by that thing?

My 

mind

 almost 

went blank

 when 

a quick glance brought the door to the room into my eyesight

. 

The door

 was still closed! When we got into the room, we had locked the door carefully

, so

Li Mazi 

couldn’t have entered the room

! 

The man in front of me isn’t Li Mazi! 

It was possible that he was

 a ghost. Ghosts were afraid of fire. That

 might be

 why he didn’t want me to light up my cigarette. 

I didn’t know why it wanted to impersonate Li Mazi and 

enter 

my room, but I was 

sure 

it

 was bad news for us

! 

Instinctively, I checked my clothes. Luckily, I still had some wheat in my pocket. 

However, 

Li Mazi sneered coldly. “No need to waste your strength. Do you think I’m afraid of wheat grains?” 

Then, he bent down and picked up a handful of durum wheat grains, throwing them in the 

air

. 

I 

remembered that

b

efore night 

arrived, 

I poured durum wheat grains on the important spots 

in 

this room. 

Looking at Li Mazi 

smiling evilly

, I 

felt 

fear rising from the bottom of my heart. However, I 

kept my voice calm,

 “Who are you?” 

If he were a human, how could he 

enter my room without making any noise

?

Moreover, his body was 

as cold as ice,

 and his 

movements were 

stiff. He didn’t look like a living person

, b

ut he wasn’t afraid of wheat

, either

. 

Is 

he

 so strong th

at

 he can ignore the Yang power of the wheat? 

Although I was 

terrified

, I wore a calm face

 as I gazed 

at him, trying to 

see if I could gather anything from his face

. Li Mazi stopped smiling,

 and

 his eyes met mine. 

Right as I was about to look away

, he got on his knees, crying

,

 “Little 

B

rother Zhang, h

-

help me! Please, save me!” 

It was Li Mazi’s voice when he said that. 

My fear had abandoned me at this moment

, and I remembered the ring-shaped bruise on Li Mazi’s neck. “Is there something

 wrong with

 your neck?” 

He didn’t answer. Or, he couldn’t make a sound. 

His mouth opened and closed as he was trying to say something. I read his lips

 and guessed that he was

 repeatedly 

saying

, “Help me!” 

I 

grew more

 worried when he did that. I grabbed his arm, screaming, “Brother, what happened to you? You shouldn’t scare me like this!” 

Yet, 

he couldn’t make a single sound,

 and h

is body began to melt. In the end, he turned into a puddle of blood. 

I’d seen 

plenty of 

horrible scenes throughout my life. However, this was the first time I saw a man d

ie

 like this. I couldn’t 

stop myself as I began

 screaming. 

Afterward, I jolted up from my bed, my back damp and cold. My sweat had soaked the bed sheet underneath me. Yin Xinyue rubbed my face, her voice worried. “Brother Zhang, did you have a nightmare?” 

“When did you wake up?” I was 

suspicious

. 

She smiled. “I haven’t slept yet! Ru Xue and I slept for the whole day. How could I sleep any

 longer

? I’ve been playing with my phone.” 

“What?” Instinctively, I turned to see the place where Li Mazi had turned into a puddle of blood. There was only 

the 

line of durum wheat I had poured on the floor. 

There was n

o blood. 

The pack of cigarettes was where I had put it before going to sleep. I checked the time. It had been only h

a

lf an hour since we 

entered the room

. 

I now realized that I just had a nightmare

 and 

sigh

ed

 deeply. Yin Xinyue wiped my sweaty forehead. “What did you see in your dream?” 

I couldn’t 

stop myself from thinking about it

, and I 

didn’t bother to

 tell her about the dream.

I hurried to put on 

my 

clothes, going to Ru Xue’s room. 

I knocked on the door. 

Soon, the door opened, and 

Ru Xue showed up

 in

 her nightgown, fuming

,

 “Why 

aren’t 

you sleeping? It’s midnight. Are you trying to scare me?” 

“Don’t talk nonsense. Where’s Li Mazi?” 

I saw 

that their bed was empty

. My intuition told me that something 

terrible

was happening

. My voice slowly turned hoarse. 

“Squatting 

on 

the toilet. What happened?” Ru Xue stopped joking when she saw my tense face.

She reached her hand to knock on the 

bathroom 

door. “Mazi, are you done yet?” 

Before she finished talking, the door slid open

 on its own

. I craned my neck to see

 inside but was left with a

 horrible 

feeling

. 

There

 was

 no one 

on 

the toilet! 

“It’s midnight. Where would he go? Why did you come to see him all of a sudden? Did you find something?” Ru Xue 

took a few seconds to pull herself together

. She looked panicked 

as she also felt that

 something was wrong. 

I balled my 

hands 

into fists, asking Ru Xue

,

 “What time 

was 

it when you last saw him?” 

“A few minutes before you 

got here

!” 

Ru Xue almost cried when she said that. After listening to her, I rushed downstairs to 

search for Li Mazi

. I saw Yin Xinyue 

in

 the corridor. “Xinyue, 

go

 and stay with Ru Xue.

You 

must

 stay 

awake 

until the morning. No matter what, don’t open the door. Just wait until the morning!” 

I didn’t have time to answer their questions, hurrying down to the lobby. I then went to the 

security office

, asking the staff to show me the surveillance cameras. The enthusiastic Italian staff mem

ber

 helped me 

watch the scene from

 a few minutes ago. I saw Li Mazi 

leave

 and walk on the meandering, narrow path behind the hotel. 

Before I left, the staff member grabbed my arm, using his broken Chinese to advise me, “Friend, you shouldn’t go there at night. People say that the Devil lives there!” 

“Thank you!” 

I was surprised, thanking him 

before 

dashing toward the path Li Mazi had 

taken

. 

Every ethnicity had

 something

 they worshipped or 

were 

scared of. 

People from the East

worshipped

 the Jade Emperor and feared ghosts. 

People from the

 Wes

t

 worshipped God and were afraid of Satan.

It sounded superstitious, but who could 

say for certain 

that those supernatural beings didn’t exist? 

That Italian staff member was a local. If he said that place was 

haunted

, it 

had to

 be true. I was even more anxious now.