The next day , the rain has stopped pouring the soil was still damp and one could smell the freshness of it. All the employees and aunty Lu have came back to work in the inn as usual.
Aunty Lu made everyone's breakfast, today her special was wonton soup with noodles. It's was a perfect warm breakfast for such chillied and windy weather.
Sian was still asleep back then and woke up late, after everyone finished their breakfast. She couldn't sleep well last night, well the scene she saw was quite memorable.
Sian feared that if she feel asleep next could be her turn , last night she slept with her gun clenched tightly in her hands through she doubt if it can kill a ghosts. But don't think she is a big coward, well just a little bit. She was trained very strictly during her agent training period so she didn't fear someone humans attacking her or something. What she feared was that those who she didn't ever seen before suddenly appearing in front of her , that is a ghost of course. Now that she saw those strange creature or a monster last night, she feared that they will suddenly appear out of nowhere in front of her which will gave her a shock or maybe a heart attack or maybe she might even faint , which she absolutely hates. She was up for a long time watching her phone and clenching the gun until sleep dragged her down.
Sian quickly tidy up , dressed in a clumsy and hurried way , as she ran to the inn. While Wan sect was outside of the inn, they seems to be going somewhere. She made her way to them as she greeted them.
" Good morning everyone, are you heading somewhere, is it related to your mission?" She asked through she felt like she was asking too much but she was wondering if she should tell them about last night accident.
"Good morning miss Yi , you are absolutely right! We are going to the recent place where the people have gone missing, we just got the news this morning." Li Cheng said as he clenched his sword. "Whoever's doing this, better prepare themselves once I found out them I'll definitely beat them up."
Sian looked at him in a surprised awe , she has heard great things about him from her sister which she always felt that it was cringe but now seeing this with her eyes , she can definitely say that this man is really kinda heroic. The determination in his eyes can be seen as clearly as water.
"I wish you all good luck then." Sian bid them farewell as the Wan sect made their way out with a determined look in their eyes.
Looking back , she went to the inn kitchen , aunty Lu has left her portion of breakfast for her on the table as she has went out of the shop , to give her husband food.
Sian quickly took her seat and gobbled up her breakfast, it was still a little warms.
"Looks like aunty Lu warms this up again before leaving, oh she is so kind. Mmhh! It's delicious..." She hurriedly ate her food when suddenly a thought came in her mind , she stopped. "Oh!! I forget to tell the MC's about last night! Hmm ..but they must had made it far away now so it no use to go after them . I should definitely tell them when they come back."
After finishing her food, she went out to search for the jeweller. Last time when she went out to buy the jewel materials the shop keeper gave her the address of a jeweller who make good jewelries in cheap price.
Sian followed the address as it was written.
"Dragon street , an old house near blossom tree.. hmm ... This is so complicated! There are so many tree and it's not even the season of Blooming! How am I supposed to find this ?! "
Sian was restless now , she was roaming around everywhere and there were so many street name dragon street 1,2 ,3 etc, how will she know which one is the one. She has searched for hours now but found nothing, after asking some people she found they are five Dragon streets so she decided to search all of them . In starting four streets she found nothing after so much investigation.
By then it was evening, the sun was setting down , Sian made her ways to the last dragon street. There she saw a Blooming blossom tree, it was quite unbelievable for her, it was the only tree that was blooming even after the end of it's blooming season.
She quickly made her way there , this tree was inside someone's house yard, the house was quite big but also very old. She tired to look in , in hope of spotting someone but no one was there , then she tried to call out to someone but no one came out.
After sometimes of waiting, she slowly made her way in.
"Sorry , I called out but no one came so I am coming in, I am not trespassing."
This house quite big but quite scary too. Like it was dusty, broken from here and there with web and insects everywhere. It was very quiet, Sian look around from the outside for a while then decide to go in.
She took a deep breath, muster up her courage and went inside the old house , the room she entered was mostly likely living room , the artifact she saw look quite expensive but they were covered in dust and webs.
Sian made her ways Inside more. One by one crossing this puzzled like house but spotting no sign of life other than insects .
After passing five to six room she finally understood something, she stopped in her way .
"Isn't this the place I came to before , why do I feel like I am roaming around in the same place again and again?!" Sian quickly look around for a way out and suddenly the door of the room shut down .
"Hey!! Open up!" She banged her feist on the door but no one answered, panicked she look around the room looking everywhere to find an escape. She opened the sliding cupboard, it was empty and dark then suddenly an hand grabbed her and dragged her in.
"You!! Let's go , dammit!!" She was dragged in the dark , in a few seconds she was inside another room , she slowly opened her eyes, shocked, what she was in front of her was quite shocking after all. An female ghost or a monster maybe was looking directly and closely at her . They made eye contact, Sian's heart raced in full speed ready to come out anytime, her body became stiff.
She always wondered how will she reacts when she see a real ghost in front of her, will she scream, run , faint or cry ? and now after she has seen one for real she could do nothing more than stand there stiffly, as she stared at the ghost running towards her, who looked like it was about to eat her. Sian closed her eyes blaming herself for being a gready fool, then suddenly she felt something on her face and she heard a screaming sound of the ghouls.
Sian slowly opened her eyes , the ghost or rather a monster was sliced in front of her , screaming in pain as it died there. In front of her stood a slender guy with a sword in his hand , he was wearing a straw hat , his face was still hidden. Sian remembered him , he's the guest who was staying at her inn.
Even though the site in front of her was quite bloody Sian didn't mind that, her attention was fully on the man in front of her. He was looking quite heroic with his sword , like a real hero even better than Li Cheng , he was quite , must be a lone wolf , as he was very quiet from the start she saw him.
Sian quite started admiring him now, he was like her saviour now that he had help her.
"Thank --you...."
She wanted to repay him but before she could say anything he left the room in a flash.
For a movement of silence, she could only hear her heart beating fast maybe it's because of the jump scare she experienced now or maybe something else , she didn't know.
After a minute before she could stood up , the door was the room she's in opened up , Li Cheng and the Wan sect member entered the room , they both made eye contact.
"Oh!! Miss Yi !!? What are you doing here?!" Li Cheng said in a surprised look as he helped her stood up , Sian could felt Xi mie murderous glaring the moment he held his hand to Sian,to help her stood up.
Sian quickly withdraw her hand.
"Well that's a very long story."
"Oh you can tell us on the way , let's get on of here first , this place is quite dangerous." Xi mie said as she came forward and lightly push Sian out of the room as she dragged her with her.
"Miss xi can you tell me , what's happening here? When I came here I have been walking back and forth for so many times, it's like the house is moving itself."
Sian said as she look around the room, caution , she was ready to face any ghost she will see now. She saw it one time and the second time was nothing for her , now that the main leads is hereits even better . Moreover, the ghost or monster, whatever she saw ,if it can be touch and killed,she can kill them herself too.
"Miss Yi , currently we are in someone's formation, it must be related to our mission."
Xi mie said as she holds Sian's arms.
"Oh.. then what about the thing I saw earlier ?"
"Well it was a demon to be exact and a low level at that, but why was it dead , did you kill it? You know how to fight?" Xi mie asked excited as I lean in closer to Sian.
"No no it's not like that miss xi , actually... It wasn't me." Sian back away from her but her arm was trapped still with her's.
"Then who?" Li Cheng asked as she followed the girls behind them.
"Well....the thing is...."
Sian , on the way, told everyone about what had happened, about last night incidence and the demon she saw earlier , how it attacked her and about the man she saw today, and how he saved her.
In her mind , that man was like a hero now, her survivor . Sian was determined to repay his help the next time she see him.
A sense of relief and tiredness wash over her. Relief because she wasn't alone now and tired because she spended so many hours searching for this house but this house is haunted, moreover she couldn't find the jeweller either, she thought today isn't her day and decided to give up now searching for the jeweller, she decided to give up greed over cheapness now .
" Miss Yi we want to take you back to your house but we are struck here too , through I want to destroy this house with my power but it's not that easy to do that in someone's formation and we don't know if it can trigger something else, we will investigate this further before taking some actions. And thank you for the information you gave us , it got one step easy for us now to solve this mystery." Li Cheng said.
"Oh it's nothing,I just told you what I saw , nothing much. I don't want to disturb you all on your mission , so I'll try my best to keep myself out of trouble and burden any of you." Sian said .
"Don't worry miss Yi, we will protect you definitely even if you didn't tha thatt " Xi mie tighten her arms around Sian's arm as she smile deadly at her.
Looks like she is a jealous type , Sian can't even talk to Li Cheng now huh. It was kinda troublesome for her to being misunderstood like this.
Sian's lean down to xi mie's ear and whispered,
"Miss xi , don't look at me like this , you can have Li Cheng all by yourself. Don't misunderstand me, we were just talking, it's no use being jealous."
Xi Mie blushed at the realisation and lightly slapped Sian's arms.
"Wh-who's jealous, I am not."
She quickly let Sian go and went forward, blushing as Sian lightly laughed at her.
They stop in front of the door , Xi mie got behind Li Cheng as he opened the door.
The whole scenario had changed, they were in different place , it was not the house but a big gloomy ground with caves.
Sian quickly look back , there was no room , she was no more in the house, the sky was red, it was an open space.
In the centre bunch of people's were tied up and around them were the demons , who were scarring and beating the people as they laughed loudly.
Behind them , in a big throne like place to sit a man in purple colour robe , his face was hidden by a hideous mask . He was sitting there , enjoying the view.
Sian and the Wan sect there surprised, all the missing people in the village were here.
The mask man saw them as he stood up and walked toward them a few steps. He clapped his hand as he said loudly.
"Welcome welcome, you must be the people who were searching for me like crazy. So today I thought why not invite you in and you can join these people too."
He indicated some demons towards us , as they circled around us.
Li Cheng glared at him , "why not you join us instead." He pull out his sword , with him other pull out their sword too and here was Sian , who stood there dumbfounded, still processing the scene and planning where to hide.
'I knew that this is a cultivation novel, so there obviously will be demons , fightings and many unexpected things, I was sure I could handle this but now that I saw it for real it's kinda exciting. But why do I feel I am forgetting something.'
To be continued...