nucmednet Chapter 286 - 287: Sinister Crawling
Chapter 286 - 287: Sinister Crawling
"But Uncle Yang... he has no reason to harm us. He’s always been so good to us. If he really wanted to hurt us, wouldn’t he have done it a long time ago?"
Mr. Su couldn’t understand it, but Su Nian just shook her head.
"You can’t judge a book by its cover. He might seem nice on the surface, but he could be a thoroughly bad person underneath. For now, let me just take care of this thing."
Mr. Su was skeptical even after hearing all this, but now that Su Nian was talking about "taking care of it," he was filled with doubt.
"Can you really handle this? If not, I can just call a master to come over. Don’t overexert yourself."
He said that, but the disbelief in his eyes was practically overflowing.
Su Nian shook her head. "Don’t worry. This is a small matter I can handle."
With that, Su Nian dismissed all the maids, leaving just the two of them in the living room.
Su Nian picked up the bottle and smashed it on the floor. Shards of glass exploded everywhere.
CRASH!!
The very instant the bottle shattered, Mr. Su saw with perfect clarity a beautiful woman slowly crawling out from within it.
She twitched and contorted as if she had Parkinson’s disease.
Her limbs were splayed grotesquely on the ground, making her look like a lizard. In classic female ghost fashion, all of her hair was draped uniformly over her face.
It crawled on all fours like a lizard, inching closer and closer to Mr. Su.
Mr. Su was stunned. He instantly leaped up, jumping from the floor onto the sofa.
"Niannian! Get it, get it now!"
His voice was frantic. Seeing Su Nian standing motionless, he assumed she was frozen in fear. He anxiously grabbed her and tried to pull her behind him for protection, but to his surprise, Su Nian produced a sheet of talisman paper she had been holding.
The female ghost didn’t know what was happening; all it knew was that it was finally free, able to see the light of day again.
In life, she had been a vicious and wicked person, using her beauty to deceive and murder many men.
The resentment of those who died violent deaths at her hands was etched into her very bones and blood. Now that she was a ghost, her hatred was even stronger, and her only thought was to kill.
It crawled sinisterly toward Su Nian and her father, its body twisting unnaturally.
Mr. Su’s fingers trembled, and sweat poured down his face.
"I-I’ll call your Uncle Li! I heard he knows a really effective master who can definitely come and save us now!"
It didn’t take long for him to go from doubting Su Nian to believing in her completely. The proof was right in front of his eyes; he had no choice but to believe.
But he was still worried about his daughter’s actual abilities.
Su Nian, however, simply held up the talisman paper. With no flame in sight, the paper ignited on its own.
The flame hovered at Su Nian’s fingertips, yet she seemed to feel nothing. With a flick of her wrist, she flung the talisman paper onto the sinister, contorting female ghost.
The female ghost’s reaction was violent. The moment the talisman paper landed on its back, it couldn’t bear the pain and leaped up.
All its previous grotesqueness and revulsion vanished. In that instant, Su Nian kicked it square in the stomach.
Su Nian used immense force, sending it flying from the center of the living room all the way to the opposite wall.
Su Nian then walked over brutally, grabbed it by the hair, and held its head down.
She slammed its head against the wall a few times. BAM! BAM! The loud noise and her brutal methods made Mr. Su gulp and instinctively take a few steps back.
"What, never seen the world before? Is that it? You really thought you could mess with me?"
Su Nian smiled faintly, but her hands showed no mercy.
She pressed down hard on the female ghost’s head.
As a vengeful spirit, this was the female ghost’s first time out in the world, but it hadn’t even had a chance to unleash its terror.
Su Nian had beaten it so badly it was stunned speechless.
Now, all it could do was writhe in frustration and shake its head frantically, trying to show that it hadn’t meant to cause trouble.
But that wasn’t enough for Su Nian, who grabbed its hair and dragged it all the way back into the living room.
"Dad, what do you think we should do with it?"
Mr. Su swallowed hard, momentarily too scared to speak.
’My daughter... is she really this brutal?’
Compared to the female ghost, who was cowering in a ball, he felt as if their roles had been completely reversed.
’Why do I have this strange feeling that Su Nian is more demonic than the demon?’
What normal person could drag a ghost around by the hair with their bare hands? Looking at the long trail of blood on the floor—all from the female ghost’s forehead...
Mr. Su couldn’t help but gape, rendered speechless for a moment.
He had heard some rumors that his daughter was quite capable, but he never imagined this was what "capable" meant.
He swallowed cautiously, only one thought in his mind.
’She beat the ghost, so please don’t beat me next.’
But he immediately cast the absurd thought aside. He pretended to be calm, cleared his throat with a few coughs, and asked carefully.
"What... what do you have in mind?"
Su Nian was incredibly formidable, but her expression had now returned to its usual gentleness.
Her fair fingers gently traced the female ghost’s features, but Su Nian’s smile was utterly cruel. "Then let’s just tear it to pieces. Let it die a second time."
Mr. Su was completely and utterly shocked. Were these words that could come out of his sweet, soft-spoken, well-behaved little girl’s mouth?!!
He looked at the dejected female ghost, its head beaten so badly it couldn’t lift it, its hair still clutched in his "well-behaved" daughter’s hand.
Then he looked at his daughter’s gentle face, while she held this... thing in her hand as if she were holding a mop.
And when he remembered how Su Nian had slammed its head against the wall without a moment’s hesitation, Mr. Su was at a loss for words.
He wanted to object, but then he recalled the ghost’s terrifying appearance and the way it had crawled toward them, and he swallowed hard instead.
"Why don’t you... just handle it yourself."
Su Nian nodded, and in that instant, the light in the female ghost’s eyes was extinguished.
Its hope for survival had been personally snuffed out by Mr. Su. It didn’t dare vent its anger at Su Nian.
Instead, it stared at Mr. Su with eyes full of hatred. It loathed him completely. But before it could even begin its sinister, contorted crawl...
...Su Nian slapped it on the head again.
"I suggest you fix your expression. Or I’ll tear you to shreds, believe it or not!"
Su Nian’s tone was no joke—this wasn’t an empty threat. The female ghost instantly caved, collapsing meekly to the side.
The female ghost was filled with rage! Its grand ambitions hadn’t even had a chance to be realized before a few slaps from Su Nian beat it back into submission.
It hated that in its past life, it had at least been a famous criminal, but now it had fallen into the hands of this demon for no reason at all.