bookbashuk Chapter 472 Infant Ghost
Chapter 472 Infant Ghost
"Old Meng, what's gotten into you?"
Old Fang glanced at Meng Guizi and said irritably.
"Damn, how could I not be excited? Five hundred tons of gold!" Meng Guizi said, rubbing his hands together.
"You won't get it anyway!" Old Fang said meaningfully.
"It's good to feast your eyes on it!" Meng Guizi said.
"Not only can you feast your eyes, you can also feast your hands. If there really are five hundred tons of gold behind this, I'll let you touch it to your heart's content!" Li Donglin said.
"Donglin, that's not fair of you. You're just letting us have a look and a touch?" Meng Guizi joked.
"What, you want to take two gold bricks home to have some fun?" Li Donglin joked.
Is this a joke?
Often, the truth is spoken as if it were a joke.
"I don't care about that thing!" Meng Guizi waved his hand and said.
"Then what are you so smug about?" Li Donglin still had a smile on his lips, but the atmosphere had quietly turned cold.
"Donglin, I heard that besides gold, there are also many jewels and cultural relics in the secret vault. If there are any fine pearls in there, get me a couple. I won't take them for free; I'll pay for them..."
"Chirp!"
Before the word "buy" could even be uttered, Xiao Ba suddenly let out a shriek, its quills bristled, and its pink little claws pointed at the top of our heads.
We looked up at the same time and saw drops of sticky, black liquid falling from the ceiling.
Without any hesitation, we retreated almost simultaneously, dodging the liquid.
After the liquid hit the ground, it stuck to the surface and emitted a foul odor.
"Xiao Ba said it's corpse oil!" Long Nier said quickly.
Xiao Ba stood on Long Ni'er's shoulder, its thorns still bristling, its pink little nose twitching as if searching for something.
"Chirp!"
After a couple of tugs, Xiao Ba pointed her little paws at the top of an ammunition box, and at the same time, the three of us shone our flashlights in that direction.
Under the bright light, a palm-sized baby was revealed hanging upside down in the shadows of the ceiling above.
The baby's body was shiny with oil, its skin was grayish-black, its eyes were two dark holes, and its limbs were hanging on the stone wall like a spider.
"squeak!"
The moment it was illuminated by the flashlight, the infant ghost let out a sharp scream that pierced the eardrums.
"Holy crap, what is this thing?"
Without a second thought, Lao Fang hid behind us.
"You brat!"
Meng Guizi also exclaimed in surprise, but did not move his feet.
The next moment, the infant ghost shrank into the darkness and disappeared from our sight.
"There's a pottery urn in the Japanese shrine, and inside is the corpse of an infant!" A thought suddenly struck me.
"Let's go to the shrine!"
Without any hesitation, Li Donglin immediately rushed to the ancestral hall.
Back at the shrine, they opened the earthenware urn, and the infant corpse they had seen earlier was gone.
"It really is this thing?"
Meng Guizi was somewhat surprised, but showed no sign of fear.
"That thing tried to ambush us with corpse oil while we weren't paying attention!" Li Donglin said in a deep voice.
"A sneak attack?"
I scoffed and said, "Did you even ask our Little Eight? Trying to ambush me? In your next life!"
"Chirp!"
Xiao Ba raised its head, as if to say, "With me here, it can't possibly launch a sneak attack."
"Oh, you're quite arrogant!"
Li Donglin chuckled, squatted down, and scraped the grease clinging to the inside of the earthenware jar. He brought it to his nose, sniffed it, and said, "My notes mentioned that the Japanese Onmyoji created some kind of demon-guarding secret vault. I never expected it to be this!"
"Donglin, why didn't you say so earlier if there was something fishy going on?" Old Fang was a little scared.
"Didn't I already give you the talisman?" Li Donglin replied.
"Old Fang, if you're scared, I'll send you out!" Meng Guizi said upon seeing this.
Old Fang's expression changed, and he retorted defiantly, "I'm not afraid at all!"
"Okay, you're not afraid!"
Meng Guizi chuckled and asked, "Donglin, what's the plan?"
"Easy, this thing is the gatekeeper. Let's open the gate, and it'll have to come out whether it wants to or not!" Li Donglin said.
After saying that, he looked at Xiao Ba and said, "Xiao Ba, we're counting on you for now. You keep a close eye on him!"
"Chirp!"
Little Hachi's back twitched, and its little head nodded firmly.
After leaving the shrine, we arrived once again at the gate of Vault No. 8.
Perhaps I left in such a hurry that I didn't lock the door.
Li Donglin glanced back, then he and Meng Guizi pushed open the door simultaneously, one on each side.
"squeak!"
The moment the door was pushed open, that ear-piercing scream rang out again.
"Chirp!"
At the same time, Xiao Ba issued another warning.
Li Donglin and Meng Guizi didn't move, they were still pushing the door open, while we pointed our flashlights at Xiao Bazhi. We saw the infant ghost hanging upside down on the stone wall above our heads like a spider, rushing towards us quickly.
Li Donglin is right, this thing's job is to guard the goal.
We don't need to look for it at all; it will rush over as soon as we open the door.
"Let's do it!"
As the infant ghost drew ever closer, Fatty Lin chuckled, flicked his wrist, and a talisman shot out, shouting, "Northern Feng Xuan Tian, evil spirits vanish instantly!"
Without thinking, I followed Fatty Lin's lead and threw out an exorcism talisman.
"squeak!"
The infant ghost screamed, dodged Fatty Lin and my talisman, and leaped down, pouncing on Li Donglin, who was pushing the iron gate so hard it creaked.
Li Donglin seemed oblivious, making no attempt to dodge and continuing to push against the iron gate.
Just as the infant ghost was about to pounce on Li Donglin, he turned around and opened his palm to grab at the infant ghost.
By the light of the flashlight, I glimpsed a talisman stuck to Li Donglin's palm at some point.
"squeak!"
The next moment, a scream rang out, a flash of golden light disappeared, and the infant ghost exploded on the spot, turning into a cloud of black smoke.
Before we could react, a dark shadow burst out of the black smoke, trying to escape.
"Go!"
Just then, the blind man on the left, who had been hiding in the shadows and hadn't made a sound, shouted and cast out a small net, which caught the infant ghost.
"Imperial Edict!"
The moment the net hit the ground, Li Donglin and Fatty Lin rushed over simultaneously, one holding a hand seal and the other a peach wood sword, and smashed it down at the little devil below the net.
"what!"
With a mournful cry, the infant ghost turned into a cloud of black mist, revealing a broken infant corpse beneath the silken net.
Looking at the infant's corpse, Fatty Lin cursed, "Damn it, it's pretty loyal, guarding this place for over sixty years!"
"This is just the first checkpoint; there's definitely something else behind that door!"
Li Donglin looked at the black steel door and said.
"Whatever he has, let's do it!" Fatty Lin said.
"That's right, let's do it!" Meng Guizi chimed in.
Compared to Meng Guizi, Lao Fang hesitated a bit; judging from his expression, he seemed a little scared.
"Old Fang, what are you doing? Scared?" Meng Guizi noticed something was wrong with Old Fang and asked provocatively.