Yesterday, she was busy with work and she had stayed up almost the whole night to finish her documents. When she returned to her room, she slept right away. While sleeping, she heard 

a

 child crying. 

At first, she didn’t mind it

 and thought 

that 

a

 kid in the neighbor’s house was crying. 

S

he soon recognized 

something

 wasn’t right. She heard crying everywhere. Moreover, 

the source of the sound

 seemed to get closer and closer to her! 

She woke up. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw 

the face

 of a crying kid 

in her

 closet. The kid had a very pale face and was crying blood. She was so scared

 that s

he screamed and kicked the door open

. Then, she ran 

away from her bedroom. 

Unexpectedly, the living room was even more frightening.

 Th

e TV, the wallpaper, and even the floor

were full of crying faces. 

She was s

cared out of her wits.

S

he rushed out of the house and ran to the police station. That’s when she encountered us. 

I frowned

 and checked 

the sky outside. The night had just begun. Even if there was no sunlight due to the rain, foul things didn’t dare to come out so early. I thought the otherworldly item wasn’t simple. 

After having a 

simple

 dinner, I asked Wang Ping to go to her room to rest. 

She was scared

 and held 

my sleeve

. She asked 

worriedly

,

 “Those crying faces will come again, right?” 

I nodded. “

When they come

, I can figure out how to deal with them. I need them to show up.” 

Although Wang Ping was scared, she listened to me and went to her room to rest. I simply 

stuck

 some low-level evil expelling talismans in her room. These talismans weren’t very powerful. However, 

they 

could protect her life and not scare the spirit that much. 

I

t was suitable for the severity of the situation. 

After arranging everything, I hid in Wang Ping’s closet and left a slit at the door to look. 

Most of her clothes were kept in the guest room. This place had some clothes she wore at home. 

There

 was more than enough space for me to hide in. 

Wang Ping was weary. After a few minutes of lying on her bed, her breathing became stable

. S

he even snored. 

I held the Sirius Whip

 and closed 

my eyes to regain my composure. 

At this time

, I was completely concentrating on the commotion around

.

It always felt like a long time 

whenever I had to wait. 

I kept checking my watch. I didn’t know why, but I felt restless

 as I watched 

the hand of the watch 

tick

 by. 

It was 

midnight

 now

, but n

othing had happened yet.

I thought it wouldn’t show up tonight. When I relaxed my 

tense

 nerves, I started to 

feel

 sleepy. All of a sudden, I felt like fainting. 

Suddenly, a woman’s shrill cry woke me up. My sleepy head was clear at that instant. I grabbed the Sirius Whip

 and rushed 

out of the closet! 

When I faced Wang Ping, I saw the 

scared 

woman

. She was 

gazing at me. I knew something 

bad

 had happened. Immediately, I took a quick step forward

, 

turned around

, and lashed 

the Sirius Whip. 

A

 horrible cry echoed in the room. I lifted my head and saw the crying faces on the ceiling

 and t

he closet

. They were

 everywhere, just 

as

 Wang Ping had described. 

It was a child’s face

. 

I couldn’t tell if it belonged to a boy or a girl. The grim expression and the

 child’s loud cries

 should have made people pity it. However, its pale skin and blood tears made people’s scalps tingle. My palm was damp

with sweat. My nerves tensed up.

There were a few types of evil spirits. There were 

some

 that you could help ascend

, but there were also others

 that wouldn’t stop pestering you until you died. 

W

hen child ghosts became evil spirits, it 

would be

 extremely tough to deal with them. 

I wielded the Sirius Whip and furiously hit one of the faces. The crying face shrilled sharply. Then, it burst like a shattered 

mirror and revealed 

a mess of blood and brain. I refrained from puking

 and lashed 

another face. However, they seemed to be able to grow endlessly. 

After a long time, I was so tired that I had to gasp for my breath. The Sirius Whip’s power had almost run out. At the same time, those crying faces started to crawl up from the corners 

of the room and headed

 toward the middle section of the room. 

Wang Ping 

hid under

her

 blanket

. She screamed unceasingly

. She had almost lost her mind. 

I didn’t have time to comfort her. 

As I watched

 the faces shorten the distance between us, I retrieved the Sirius Whip

 and 

sprinkled a handful of refined salt on them. 

As soon as the salt hit them, the crying faces sizzled as if they were being roasted on a stove. 

I didn’t know if it 

was

a

misconception,

 but I smelled roast meat. Those faces were smart

, though

. After they got hit, they shrank and retreated to the ceiling, closets, or wal

l. They waited 

like 

a

 tiger lurking for a chance to snatch their prey. 

“Argh!” 

Right when 

I had just 

taken in

 a sigh 

of

 relief, 

a

 kid’s scream came from upstairs. 

“God damn it!” I cursed. Wang Ping’s son was still upstairs. 

I q

uickly 

considered 

things. I then 

took out the Peach Soul Flower to protect Wang Ping

 and 

sprinkled salt 

at

 the door. The 

cries

 of the ghost arose again with the sizzling noise 

of

 roasted meat. 

Seizing the chance, I pulled the door open and brought Wang Ping w

ith me

. We 

tried t

o rush upstairs. 

The scene outside the room made me gasp for my breath

. 

The crying faces were everywhere. When they saw me, they started to cry and roar. 

Facing several hundred faces crying blood, my head 

went blank

. I was stunned for a few seconds. 

After b

eing 

in shock

 for a while, I realized that a few faces had already climbed on my trousers. 

They tore 

my muscles 

as they cried

. 

A

 sharp pain pulled my nerves together. I used the same trick

 and sprinkled 

salt on my legs to expel the ghosts. I didn’t have time to worry about my bleeding legs

 and rushed 

upstairs. 

Amongst hundreds of crying voices,

one belonged to Wang Ping’s son. He had cried loudly at first. However, during the time I was held back downstairs, his voice seemed to have disappeared. 

I was restlessly worried

 and rushed 

upstairs. I reached the boy’s room and found that his room was locked from the inside. I took a few steps 

back

and

kicked

 the door.

I hurried to enter the room. The kid was sitting on his bed

. His 

face 

looked 

sleepy. He looked like he didn’t know what had just happened. 

“You didn’t cry, did you?” I was surprised. His fair-skinned face didn’t have a streak of tears. 

He shook his head

 and hugged 

his cloth tiger tighter

 as he cautiously looked 

at me. It seemed he 

had woken

 up because I had kicked the door. He didn’t know anything. 

I smiled embarrassedly and left his room, closing the door behind me. However, after a few steps, I recognized that something was wrong. I was sure that I had heard a shriek 

that stood out 

from the ghosts

’ cries

. 

Did I get 

tricked

? I patted my thigh angrily and rushed downstairs. 

While running, I kept wielding my Sirius Whip, which helped clear a path from the faces that had packed the stairs. 

Wang Ping’s call

s

 for help 

were

 feeble. When I came to the living room, the ghostly faces were crawling all over her body. Her face had many cuts. Her mouth was open, but she couldn’t make loud sounds. 

My heart sank. I hurried to read a spell. The Peach Soul Flower in Wang Ping’s chest spun 

as

 the activat

ion

 spell was read

. It released 

waves of light

 that covered and protected

 Wang Ping. 

The faces on Wang Ping

’s body

 knew it wasn’t safe anymore. They hurriedly scattered from her. However, 

since

 the Peach Soul Flower 

had been

 boosted with my spell, how could they escape? 

I 

shouted

 when the spell was 

complete

. All the ghostly faces nearest to the Peach Soul Flower were smashed into wisps of black smoke

, vanishing 

into thin air. After Wang Ping was saved, my

 beating

 heart finally 

calmed down

. 

W

hen I got upstairs, I felt that something was wrong. The first floor had been submerged 

with

 ghos

ts’ cries

, but 

it

 was dead silent 

on the

 second floor! It was really strange. However, 

back then

, I was so worried about the boy that I had ignored this. 

After the whole incident, I calmed down. The living room was still filled with the crying of children, which gave me a head-splitting headache. I had to think about how to stop them. 

I had used up the power of the Sirius Whip and I had almost used up all of the refined salt. Since I 

had come

 here directly from the police station, I didn’t bring anything else w

ith me

. 

Feeling r

estless, I looked around the room to see if I could find anything to defend myself with. Unexpectedly, I 

saw something

. 

Perhaps Wang Ping hadn’t noticed 

it

, either. There was a blood-stained area on her white trousers that she had just changed into when she came home. It meant she was 

on her

 period! 

After seeing

 the ghostly faces 

try

 to swarm us again, I screamed, “Take off your trousers!”