Crack, crack!
The warehouse door was battered like raindrops.
Lu Fei had no idea how many eels were outside; he pasted three ghost-repelling talismans on the door, hoping it would hold a bit longer.
In the dim light of the flashlight.
The human-faced eel, with its thick, black, and long body like that of a python, slid slowly along the corner, leaving layer upon layer of mucus on the floor. Its two cold, black fish eyes stared straight at Lu Fei.
Lu Fei also kept his eyes on it, not giving it any chance to get near the lamb in the cage.
To be honest, the more he looked at that eerie, almost human face, the more uncomfortable he felt all over.
But to defeat such a creature, he had to overcome this psychological barrier.
Perhaps because it couldn't get to the food, the human-faced eel seemed to become impatient, wriggling its thick and agile body, and started crawling straight towards Lu Fei.
Lu Fei tensed his body, holding the thunderstruck jujube wood across his chest.
"Sss——"
The human-faced eel opened its flat, wide mouth, baring its sharp teeth as it lunged at Lu Fei's calf.
Its head was larger than its body, and it struck like lightning; this bite was no trifling matter.
Lu Fei didn't dare to block it directly. As he swung his thunderstrike jujube stick, he dodged to the side.
The eel's head twisted nimbly, avoiding the jujube stick, and then contorted in a bizarre manner, its cold tail instantly coiling around Lu Fei's left leg.
The icy, slick sensation made Lu Fei's hair stand on end, and he felt an instinctive resistance.
The eel did not pause, wrapping itself around Lu Fei's thigh, trying to climb onto his back. Its pitch-black eyes fixed on Lu Fei's throat.
Lu Fei endured the discomfort and urgently used the jujube stick to strike the eel's slime-covered body with all his might.
Hum!
In the dim light, a faint blue electric current flickered.
The face eel's body stiffened, and it fell directly from Lu Fei's legs, fleeing in a panic under the cage.
Lu Fei was breathing heavily, his body covered in the cold, slimy secretion of the face eel, the strong, strange aroma making him feel sick.
He simply took off his coat and threw it to the side.
"Come on then!"
His thin muscles tensed, Lu Fei glared fiercely at the face eel cowering in the corner, spitting out a mouthful of saliva.
Fortunately, after that one loss, the face eel dared not come out from under the cage.
The pounding on the door outside gradually ceased.
The residual power of the heavenly thunder contained within the jujube stick was the bane of all evil spirits, and this face eel was no exception.
If it hadn't been quick to escape just now, it might have been electrocuted by the heavenly thunder.
Lu Fei stared intently for a while, and when he realized that the creature was genuinely terrified, he felt slightly relieved.
About five minutes have passed, and if Hu Zi is quick, he should be on his way back with the salt.
As long as we use the salt to dissolve the mucus on this monster, it will become a large, sluggish worm that can only be slaughtered at our mercy.
Now, all Lu Fei needs to do is to keep watch over it.
The room is filled with a nauseating, strange fragrance, and the lambs in the cage are in a deep sleep.
Time ticks by, second by second.
"Why hasn't Hu Zi come back yet?" Lu Fei's slightly relaxed heart tightened again, "Could he have been discovered? No, if he had been found out, there should be some noise outside..."
He was getting anxious, took out his phone, and prepared to send a message to Hu Zi.
But at that moment, he heard the sound of the door to the bungalow being pushed open.
Creak—
The sound was very slow, as if the person pushing the door was being extremely cautious.
"Huzi?"
Lu Fei hurriedly put down his phone, leaning against the door, eyes fixed on the human-faced eel, ears listening to the sounds outside.
The door opened, followed by very light footsteps.
"It's not Huzi!"
Lu Fei's heart skipped a beat immediately.
Huzi is tall and big, with heavier and more forceful footsteps. Such light footsteps are more like those of a woman.
"Is it someone from the manor?"
Lu Fei's heart was pounding, and he held his breath to make no sound.
The footsteps lingered by the pool.
Lu Fei felt relieved that the storeroom had no windows, and the gap in the door was blocked with miscellaneous items, so the light from the flashlight couldn't be seen from outside.
But after those footsteps lingered for a while, they still came running towards the storeroom.
"What's wrong with these eels?"
Through the door panel, Lu Fei indeed heard a woman's startled cry.
Then, the door panel was pushed.
However, the woman didn't know there were obstacles behind the door, so she failed to push it open on the first try.
"What's going on?" The woman was very anxious and started to push the door with force.
Lu Fei's mind raced. He couldn't turn off the flashlight and pretend no one was there, or the human-faced eels would take the opportunity to attack the lambs.
He decided to let go of the door panel and hid by the side of the door.
Bang!
The door was pushed open, the clutter was disturbed, and another flashlight beam shone in.
"No! Someone..."
Seeing the light in the room, the woman turned pale with fright and took a step back, not entering the storeroom at all.
"Who's in there?"
She turned the flashlight and, seeing the messy, slippery trail on the ground, her face darkened as she asked coldly.
Lu Fei leaned against the wall without making a sound.
The human-faced eel hiding under the cage reacted, wriggling agitatedly like a pet that had been wronged seeing its owner.
It made a sickening, sticky, watery sound.
"Black Lady?!" The woman's voice was urgent, "To actually force my Black Lady into a corner, who are you exactly?"
After a pause, seeing no response from inside, she sneered, "You're here for the little ones, aren't you? If you don't come out, I'll kill them!"
This woman was extremely cautious and not stupid at all.
Lu Fei knew it was no use hiding, so he slowly walked out from the side of the door.
"It's you!"
The woman outside the door, upon seeing Lu Fei, her face instantly changed color.
"I knew all along that you harbored ill intentions! Giving that talisman to my husband was to trick him, to stop him from going out at night!"
She had heard some commotion and, not feeling assured, came over to check, only to find someone had intruded.
"That bald man is your husband?"
Lu Fei was somewhat surprised; didn't Chen Jinfa say that the bald man was impotent? How could he have a wife?
"Originally, you go your own way, and we stick to ours. Why do you have to meddle in our affairs?" The woman's face was dark with anger.
"So, you're the one who knows the art of creating beasts!" Lu Fei looked the woman up and down.
There was a large black birthmark on her left cheek, and combined with her fierce expression at that moment, she looked extremely hideous.
"That creature, did you raise it too?"
"So what if I did? Since you've discovered my secret, there's no way I'm letting you leave the manor today!" The woman raised her hands fiercely; in her hands was a long joss stick.
Lu Fei immediately recognized it as the same type of incense he had seen in the bald man's bedroom, which the bald man had said was for calming the mind and aiding sleep.
"Soul-enchanting incense!"
Lu Fei instantly understood that the woman intended to use the incense to incapacitate him.
Those who know the art of zoanthropy often use soul-enchanting incense. They first stupefy children or women, then drape animal skins over them, and through their rituals, transform them into animals, thereby abducting them without anyone knowing.
Lu Fei, protected by his magical powers, would not be affected by the soul-enchanting incense, but he needed to protect those innocent children.
The woman could at any moment use her spells to kill the children, and beneath the cage lurked a face eel, ready to strike.
Just as Lu Fei was growing increasingly anxious, he noticed a tall figure outside, silently approaching the woman.
His heart leaped with joy.
Play along.
"What do you want?" Lu Fei put on an exaggerated look of horror to catch the woman's attention.