Lu Fei felt a tightness in his heart.
Although Liu Fugui's yang fire had stabilized, there was only one last bit of vital energy left. If Xiao Mei took it away, he would be finished for good.
"Old Liu! Wake up!"
Lu Fei called Liu Fugui on his phone.
But Liu Fugui had been rendered unconscious by the corpse oil, and no amount of shouting would help.
The ghost-repelling character Lu Fei gave him was in his pocket. In a moment of panic, he had taken off his clothes without taking out the talisman.
Pat pat!
In a moment of desperation, Lu Fei slapped the window to attract Xiaomei's attention.
"Hmm?"
Xiaomei suddenly raised her head, her slender eyebrows furrowed, her eyes filled with suspicion.
Lu Fei quickly gestured to Huzi, signaling him to continue distracting Xiaomei while he snuck into the house to rescue the others.
Huzi nodded and scratched the glass forcefully, creating an unpleasant noise.
Lu Fei, holding the ghosthead saber, crept along the wall towards the door.
The door was deliberately left ajar by Liu Fugui, not fully closed.
"What is it?"
Xiaomei, hearing the continuous noise outside the window, her face turned extremely unpleasant. She jumped off Liu Fugui and strode to the window.
Whoosh!
She yanked the curtain open, and the dim yellow light spilled out through the glass.
She poked her head out to look outside.
The bushes in the green belt swayed slightly, and from the shadows in the corner came a few cat meows.
"Stupid cat! I'll eat you one of these days!"
Xiaomei, with a dark expression, cursed viciously.
Lu Fei took the opportunity while she was closing the window to quietly open the door, crouch down, and slip into the house.
Xiao Mei closed the window and drew the curtains tightly, then turned around.
Lu Fei quickly hid behind the cabinet.
Xiao Mei glanced at Liu Fugui, who was lying on the sofa like a dead pig, scratched her neck, adjusted her mood, and forced a smile as she went back to enjoying her meal.
Lu Fei leaned against the cabinet, gripping the ghost head knife tightly with both hands, his body tense.
If he couldn't find an opportunity to wake up Liu Fugui, he would have no choice but to confront Xiao Mei directly.
Unexpectedly, just as Xiao Mei's red lips approached Liu Fugui, the sound of something scratching at the window glass started again.
The grating noise was extremely harsh.
Xiao Mei's face instantly darkened, and her thin eyebrows knitted together.
She took a deep breath, trying not to pay attention to the sound outside the window.
But the grating sound continued without stopping, making her incredibly annoyed, completely ruining her good mood.
"Damn cat!"
A chilling coldness emanated from her eyes as she suddenly stood up and quickly walked into the kitchen, taking out a sharp fruit knife, and rushed to the window.
She yanked the curtains open, her icy gaze sweeping across the outside, the knife in her hand glinting with a cold light.
Lu Fei took this opportunity to quickly walk to the sofa and pinch Liu Fugui's philtrum forcefully.
Liu Fugui shuddered and dazedly opened his eyes.
"How did I..."
Lu Fei hurriedly covered his mouth and slipped a ghost-repelling talisman into his hand, then carefully retreated and hid behind a cabinet.
"Hold on to the talisman I gave you and stay alert."
Lu Fei communicated with Liu Fugui in a low voice through his phone.
Hearing Lu Fei's voice through the earpiece, Liu Fugui snapped back to reality, and the thought of being unknowingly put under by Xiaomei again made him feel a chill run down his spine.
"Find an opportunity to get Xiaomei to take a bath," Lu Fei said again.
When Xiaomei takes a bath, she will take off her head, and perhaps that's when she reveals her true form.
"I... I'll try my best."
Liu Fugui secretly glanced at Xiaomei, his heart filled with a thousand impulses to run, but he knew that even if he could escape today, he couldn't escape tomorrow. He could only grit his teeth and endure.
Xiaomei held the knife and searched by the window for a long time, but she couldn't find that damned cat.
"After I finish eating, I'll deal with you! None of you are getting away!"
Xiaomei angrily closed the window and turned around to see Liu Fugui sitting up, causing her to pause. She quickly hid the knife behind her back and put on a charming smile.
"Honey, why are you awake?"
"I, I'm thirsty... How about, Xiaomei, you go take a bath..." Liu Fugui stammered, almost letting slip what he was thinking.
"Take a bath?"
Xiaomei tilted her head in confusion.
"You know, don't you usually have to wash up? Hurry up and go, I can't wait, haha."
Under Xiaomei's gaze, Liugui Fu was drenched in sweat and laughed awkwardly as he desperately tried to make amends.
"Look at you, so eager! Alright, I'll go wash up. Wait for me obediently!"
Hearing him say this, Xiaomei smiled instead and swayed her hips as she walked into the bathroom.
Soon.
The sound of running water could be heard, splashing loudly.
A mist developed on the bathroom door.
"Little Lu, she's in there."
Liugui Fu looked at the fogged-up glass door and carefully gestured in Lu Fei's direction.
Lu Fei then revealed his face, glanced at the bathroom, and cautiously approached while holding the ghosthead saber and crouching down, moving as quietly as possible.
Liu Fugui also couldn't sit still and walked over with trepidation.
The two of them, one on each side, squinted their eyes and peered through the crack in the door, looking inside.
Liu Fugui's heart was pounding like thunder, but he couldn't help wanting to look.
Could it be that he had been hallucinating that day?
Their gazes gradually inched further in.
The bathroom was shrouded in mist.
Clothes with very little fabric were tossed on the washbasin.
Behind the water-droplet-covered glass partition, Xiaomei's curvaceous figure was revealed.
She was facing away from the door, with her key parts partially obscured by the mist, leaving much to the imagination.
The warm water washed over her smooth back, making the red silk scarf around her neck even more conspicuous. She scratched her neck and finally lifted her hand to gently pull off the scarf.
At this moment, both Lu Fei and Liu Fugui's hearts tightened, their eyes not blinking at all.
As the bright red scarf fell, a gruesome scar was revealed on Xiaomei's fair neck.
The scar almost encircled her entire neck, resembling an ugly worm crawling across it, in stark contrast to her beautiful body.
Xiaomei touched the scar, bent down, and let the showerhead rinse her head as she started washing her hair.
A faint scent of shampoo wafted out.
After waiting for a long time, Lu Fei still didn't see Xiaomei take off her head.
"Isn't this quite normal?"
Lu Fei looked at Liu Fugui with a questioning glance from the other side of the door.
"I don't know either," said Liu Fugui, who was also very confused.
Could it be that he was mistaken that day, and Xiao Mei was just bending down to wash her hair? He was too panicked and thought she had taken her head off.
But this mistake was too outrageous!
"Wait a little longer." Liu Fugui gestured to Lu Fei.
Lu Fei, holding his patience, continued to peek inside.
However, until Xiao Mei finished washing her hair, she did not take her head off.
Outside the door, Lu Fei and Liu Fugui stared at each other in disbelief.
Could they have been wrong?
Was it just because the scar on her neck was too ugly that Xiao Mei refused to take off her scarf, and she was not a monster at all?
No way!
But in the next moment, Lu Fei immediately dismissed this idea.
If Xiaomei is not a monster, then what about the corpse oil?
And how about Liu Fugui having his essence drained?