Hearing the scream from upstairs again, I got up and ran up the stairs.
I just reached the second floor when I saw a woman in pajamas with disheveled hair running from the corridor. The woman had a delicate appearance so even when her face was frightened and even a little distorted, it didn't hide her beautiful features.
This woman must be Su Yulan.
"Ghosts! There are ghosts!" The woman screamed and ran towards me crazily.
As if she didn't see me, she slammed me away from the stairs with her shoulder and desperately ran down the stairs.
She threw herself onto the old man and cried, "Dad, there are ghosts; there are ghosts!"
I felt my hair on the back of my neck standing up on end.
I turned my head towards the deep end of the corridor and saw the ghost infant walking towards me slowly, step by step. His whole body was swollen all over, and he had a ferocious expression. He had returned to the appearance of a malicious ghost again.
"It was you! You possessed me when I was asleep. Where's my ring?"
The ghost infant laughed spookily and threw something at me. The thing glittered like frost, drew an arc in mid-air, and fell at my feet with a bang. It was the skull ring Ming Si gave me. I picked up the ring and put it on. I looked up again and saw the ghost infant standing in front of me.
I took a step back reflexively, and my back slammed into the barrier of the stairs causing mind-numbing pain to spread throughout my body.
"Let me warn you, don't meddle in my business. You can leave now," The ghost infant said to me word by word while clenching his jaw. All of a sudden, it now sounded like a powerful being.
I swallowed my saliva and felt sweat trickle down from my forehead.
I didn't know what he was going to do next. He might have even killed the old man.
"What do you want to do?"
"I want to kill the Su family and let the Su family die off without any descendants."
My heart sank, and I objected sternly, "Don't do such a stupid thing."
The ghost infant stared at me without speaking. I hurriedly said, "You wanted to meet your mother, and here you are. Your wish has already come true. Now, let Shang Yi send you away."
"You are wrong. My ultimate goal isn't as simple as just wanting to meet my mother. I want to kill her."
The words of the ghost infant sent chills down my spine.
After all this while, it was just a disguise that he wanted to meet Su Yulan. His real purpose was to kill the Su family.
Shang Yi was right. Ghost infants had too many resentments. They are not kind, but I was soft-hearted to believe in his words.
"Don't mess around. If you harm people, you will never be able to reincarnate forever. You will be tortured on the eighteenth level of the netherworld."
This was not a joke. He was originally a ghost who died unjustly. After he resolved his resentment, he would be able to reincarnate again. If he insisted on snowballing his sins, he would not be able to escape the torture of the netherworld.
However, the ghost infant smiled coldly, "I don't care. I am a ghost foetus. Even if I live in this world, I would just be treated as a freak by others. It's ok for me to be dead, but the one who killed me was my biological mother. She must pay with her life."
The stubbornness and extreme thought of the ghost infant made me realize that I had to stop him. However, I only had two things on me at that moment that could deal with him. One was the ghost subduing talisman given to me by Shang Yi which could restrain him temporarily; the other one was the skull ring gifted to me by Ming Si. If I could unleash the Nether Blade and stab it into his body, his soul would most likely scatter and he would disappear.
I didn't know much about the function of Nether Blade. Besides saving people who were possessed by ghosts, I vaguely remember Ming Si also said that the Nether Blade was a sharp weapon that could kill ghosts.
Yet this was only a memory deep inside my brain. I wasn't sure if Ming Si had really said it. When he explained the use of the Nether Blade, I had fallen asleep and my memory was very vague.
However, I must try to delay some time, at least until Su Yulan successfully escapes from the villa. I must prevent another tragedy from happening again.
I stretched out my hand to stop the ghost infant. His face was strategizing and he flashed at a speed so fast it was a blur. In the blink of an eye, he reached the hall on the first floor and stood in front of Su Yulan.
Su Yulan was still crouching over the old man, crying.
At this time, I could see sunlight peeking through the windows. It was becoming morning.
I quickly rushed down the stairs, simultaneously taking out the ghost talisman out of my blindfold thinking that I could try to suppress the ghost infant. However, my speed was much slower than the ghost infant. When I was about to stick the ghost talisman on him, he flashed and appeared behind Su Yulan's back. He used his swollen arms to strangle Su Yulan's neck tightly from behind. Su Yulan's small face immediately turned pale from fear and her legs started kicking on the ground, struggling.
"Dad, there are ghosts, there are ghosts…"
It was as if she only knew this sentence.
She seems truly crazy... I guess she really has a mental disorder.
I was afraid that the ghost infant would really strangle Su Yulan to death, so I hurriedly persuaded him, "Don't get so agitated. Let go of her first, let go of her quickly."
The ghost infant smiled gloomily and started to tighten his grip even more. Su Yulan's cheeks started and reddened, her eyes kept turning upwards, looking like she was about to die.
I couldn't care anymore. Saving a person's life was always more important. I unleashed the Nether Blade and stabbed it toward the ghost infant's body.
The ghost infant turned around and used Su Yulan's body to block the attack of the Nether Blade, but the sharp blade pierced through Su Yulan's body and passed through her like a transparent object without hurting her at all.
I realized then that the Nether Blade was only effective for ghosts and couldn't hurt people. I was overjoyed, I didn't have to avoid hurting humans anymore. I continued to stab the Nether Blade at the ghost infant.
The ghost infant released Su Yulan to protect himself and fled.
Su Yulan slipped, fell onto the ground and coughed fiercely. I didn't have time to take care of her and started chasing after the ghost infant.
The ghost infant ran very fast. He dashed around the house, making a mess of the place. Many antique vases and decorations fell from the cabinet and broke into pieces.
In a few seconds, the house had become a complete wreck. The ghost infant still avoided my attack at lightning speed.
I stared at his movement, dazzled. He was too fast and I couldn't catch him at all.
"Elder sister, I treat you as someone who was benevolent as you had the heart to help me at first so I will not kill you, but if you interfere with my affairs, don't blame me for treating you badly."
The ghost infant warned me.
His voice seemed to be coming from all directions at the same time. I couldn't find any signs of him and could only see black shadows flashing in front of me.
He was spinning around me and I started to feel dizzy. My stomach started to get upset and I was about to vomit.
"Stop. Let's talk properly."
"Impossible, my death was caused by the Su family. Su Yulan is crazy. It was the Su family who persuaded her to strangle me. They took her to the dry well and threw me into the well. I was still breathing but they conspired to kill me, and I want them all to pay with their lives."
The ghost infant said bitterly and he started crying. His cries were hysterical, giving me the chills.
I didn't know if it was caused by grief or some other reason, but his speed had actually slowed down and I could now vaguely see his outline. I forced myself to stab the Nether Blade in his direction but I missed again.