Chapter 23: Inviting Ghosts
The curtains upstairs were drawn, and there was still some light shining through them, but it soon became completely dark. The lights in the house had been turned off, and only the lights downstairs were still on in the entire building, which was particularly prominent and different in the quiet and dark courtyard. There was also a faint light in the courtyard, which was from Xiao Di's computer, but it was not very real through the car film.
Tan Xuan leaned sideways in the car and saw Xiao Di staring intently at the screen. He followed her gaze and saw that the black and white figures on the screen had already started their activities, but there were three spots of light on the ground in the middle of the room that were particularly eye-catching. Tan Xuan sat up with a sudden movement and hit his head heavily on the roof of the car.
"Damn! Don't they have any memory?"
Tan Xuan couldn't help but be angry. Those guys actually burned incense in the house during the time they went downstairs, and even placed some tributes in a formal manner. But Tan Xuan soon lay back down, which made Xiao Di very puzzled.
"Why are you so startled? Is there any taboo about burning incense in the house?"
"It's okay, let them do whatever they want, they are all just full and full. Just take care of yourself, I'll get some sleep first. If they leave early, I can still work for half the night."
Tan Xuan didn't explain much. After he finished speaking, he rested his head on his hands, put his feet on the steering wheel, and really closed his eyes and planned to sleep.
"Hey!"
Xiao Di was speechless for a while, patting her chest to suppress her temper. Although Tan Xuan's feet were not smelly, they were too disgusting. She turned her head away with disdain, got out of the car with her laptop and moved to the back seat, just to be away from Tan Xuan's feet, and then continued to watch the performance with only her as the audience.
The doors and windows on the second floor under infrared monitoring were all closed, and the four people were clearly standing in the four corners of the room facing inward. Zhang Qinghe raised his right hand first, then turned and walked to the right along the wall. At the first corner, he met Guo Mingjia who was waiting facing the wall. Zhang Qinghe patted Guo Mingjia on the shoulder, and Guo Mingjia raised his right hand and continued to walk to the right along the wall, while Zhang Qinghe stood facing the wall at Guo Mingjia's original position.
Guo Minjia repeated Zhang Qinghe's steps and patted Su Cheng's shoulder, and then Su Cheng continued to walk and patted Cui Yuji 's shoulder. Cui Yuji walked along the wall to the next corner where there was no one. Cui Yuji jumped at that corner, made a move, and then continued to walk back until she met Zhang Qinghe and patted Zhang Qinghe's shoulder. Zhang Qinghe continued to walk, and Cui Yuji stood at the corner where Zhang Qinghe was.
The four people passed the ball to each other, and when they came across an empty corner, they jumped, made a move, and continued to move forward until they passed it to the next person. Round and round, the four people kept repeating this process, spinning endlessly and having a lot of fun.
The process on the screen was so boring that Xiao Di's eyes were sore, but they still repeated the same set of actions without getting tired. Hearing Tan Xuan's slight snoring beside him, Xiao Di also felt a little sleepy, put down the computer and stretched.
"Huh!"
Xiao Di suddenly cried out in confusion.
Tan Xuan was not sleeping soundly. He woke up as soon as Xiao Di heard a little noise. Tan Xuan slightly opened his sleepy eyes, glanced at Xiao Di beside him, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Di shook his head, picked up the water bottle and took a sip of water, sobering up a bit. "Nothing, just a man walked by and went straight into 102. He should be with Su Cheng and the others. He's late."
"Another person has come?" Tan Xuan opened his eyes completely and instantly lost all sleepiness. He then asked, "Is that person a man or a woman? What does he look like?"
Xiao Di glanced at Tan Xuan in dissatisfaction, "It's so dark outside, how can I see what she looks like? I can only tell from her figure that she is a woman."
"Female?" Tan Xuan's expression immediately turned serious. "Look at the surveillance camera and see if you can see her?"
Xiao Di gave Tan Xuan a puzzled look and said, "You are talking nonsense. I am using an infrared camera. How can she, a living person, not see it?"
"I told you to look, so just look. Why are you taking so long?" Tan Xuan urged impatiently. There was nothing he could do. Xiao Di never spoke to him in a nice tone, and he treated Xiao Di the same way.
"Tsk, you're the only one who has too many things to do."
Xiao Di refused to give in, but he did not hesitate in his actions. He opened his laptop and looked for the girl on the screen.
"There's nothing on the first floor. Why are you going upstairs so soon? There's nothing in this room on the second floor... There's nothing in the room where they're doing the activity..."
Xiao Di was holding the notebook in a daze. He reached out his hand and poked Tan Xuan's face with a trembling hand. He said in a trembling voice: "Tan Xuan, look, what's going on? I checked the images of all the cameras, but why can't I see that girl?"
"Isn't there also one in the room where Su Cheng and the others are?" Tan Xuan asked, leaning over to look at the laptop screen.
"No, the door of that room is still closed." As he said that, Xiao Di was afraid that Tan Xuan couldn't see clearly, so he pushed the notebook directly in front of Tan Xuan.
Tan Xuan looked through the screen and saw that the four people were still circling there. The incense sticks on the ground had burned almost halfway, but the brightness of the flames at the incense heads was brighter than when he had just seen them. Tan Xuan looked carefully again and found that the incense was burning much faster than normal, and the smoke from the incense heads did not rise in a straight line, but swirled up in circles.
As he watched, Tan Xuan's brows soon frowned again.
Seeing that Tan Xuan stared at the screen for a long time without saying anything, and his expression became more and more serious under the reflection of the screen, Xiao Di reached out and pushed Tan Xuan, and asked in a low voice: "Tan Xuan, was that a ghost I saw just now? Su Cheng and the others really summoned it."
Tan Xuan turned his gaze from the screen to Xiao Di, his expression instantly lost its previous serious look, "So what if it's a ghost? Inviting the ghost here just satisfies your wishes, their activities are successful, you have collected materials, and you can all become famous in your respective circles. But yours is a little short, your camera can't even capture the shadow of the ghost, it seems you still need to process it in the later stage."
Xiao Di was very upset by Tan Xuan's attitude, and he said coldly: "What are you talking about? Although I want to record phenomena that cannot be explained by science, and Su Cheng and the others also want to see things they have never seen, if there is really danger, you can't just sit here and say rumors. It doesn't matter whether I can record it or not, their safety is the most important."
Tan Xuan pushed the computer back to Xiao Di and continued to respond in a gloomy tone, "Why should I care? They wanted to see a ghost, and now the ghost has come. If they are lucky enough to see it, then they have got what they wanted. Why should I join in the fun? Wouldn't that just be annoying?"
"Tan Xuan, why are you such a bastard? No, I have to go and remind Su Cheng." Xiao Di took the phone and called Su Cheng, then quickly threw the phone on the seat.
"Why is Su Cheng's phone turned off?"
"She is only thinking about finding excitement. How can she be disturbed during an activity? You are just worrying about it. She is not afraid at all. Why are you worrying about it?"
"No, I have to go upstairs and tell them." Xiao Di planned to get out of the car, but the door wouldn't open after he pushed it several times.
"Open the door." Xiao Di shouted loudly to Tan Xuan.
Tan Xuan snorted and said, "I didn't let you get off the car for your own good. If you go down and disrupt their activities, they won't be grateful to you, it will only make them angry. Have you forgotten the attitude when Zhang Qinghe spoke just now? They came here just to attract ghosts. After a long time of grinding upstairs, they finally saw a ghost, but you ruined it out of kindness. How do you think they should thank you? Besides, now that you have seen a ghost, don't you realize anything?"
Xiao Di was confused by what Tan Xuan said and asked in a low voice: "What did you realize?"
Tan Xuan snorted again, "You can see ghosts for no reason, which means that the method I taught you last time to fascinate the nine orifices has failed. Although your aura has been restored, it is not stable. If you rush in rashly, have you forgotten what happened to you in the bath center last time?"
"Ah!" When the old things were brought up again, Xiao Di felt a surge of fear. She was not afraid that she had seen something, but she was terrified at the thought of what she would be like after being possessed.
Seeing that Xiao Di was frightened, Tan Xuan took back his words, "In fact, it's completely . The female ghost has been up for a long time now, and they are not in any danger. Aren't they still circling around very enthusiastically? You should put your heart at ease and watch your surveillance. Even if the female ghost shows up in front of them, there is no need to be afraid. Just watch the fun. If something really happens, it won't be too late to call me."
"If there is danger, will you really take action?" Xiao Di looked at Tan Xuan and asked doubtfully.
Tan Xuan curled his lips and said unhappily, "You are the one who said this. If they are in danger, can I just sit back and do nothing? Last time, Su Cheng and the others invited that Yin God, and later it was me who cleaned up their mess. I really don't know what image I have in your mind. If you don't trust me, don't ask me to come. I'm busy running around and I don't get a single good word from you."
Xiao Di smiled at Tan Xuan and said, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have said that to you. Okay?"
"I shouldn't have said that, but you said it. What am I trying to achieve by spending the day like this? I'm obviously a good person, but even doing good things has me being criticized. It's not hard to be a good person, but I'm afraid of meeting someone who can't tell good from bad."
"Who are you talking about who can't tell good from bad? Are you looking for a fight?"
Xiao Di's words made Tan Xuan behave himself, because she said that beating people was never just talk. Tan Xuan didn't know how she treated others, but for him, she would beat him without mercy.
Xiao Di stared at the screen again. The people on the screen were still circling, but the three spots of light in the middle of the room had disappeared.
"Hey, that's not right." Xiao Di suddenly pushed Tan Xuan, "Look at them, why are they spinning in circles?"
