Chapter 78: Kick
A chill quickly spread upwards along his hands and feet, causing Xiao Di to tremble instantly, as if he was in an ice cave. Xiao Di couldn't move even if he wanted to, his hands and feet wouldn't obey him, and he could only wait for the chill to wrap around his whole body from bottom to top, from outside to inside.
"Tan Xuan!" Xiao Di cried out. She knew she must have gotten into trouble again, but now she had no time to blame herself for her recklessness. She just wanted to get out of this cold and panic as soon as possible. If she stayed for another second, she would be in danger of dying here, and the only one who could help her get out was Tan Xuan.
As she cried, Xiao Di felt a warmth in her heart. She looked over and saw that the sandalwood beads hanging around Tan Xuan's neck were glowing. The warmth came from there. The warmth soon condensed into a warm current, flowing from her heart to her limbs, and her body was soon able to move again.
After realizing that she could move, Xiao Di immediately stood up and threw herself into Tan Xuan's arms, hugged Tan Xuan tightly, and cried, "Tan Xuan, there is a ghost! Woo..."
"It's okay, why are you crying? There's no ghost." Tan Xuan hugged Xiao Di and patted her on the shoulder without any blame.
Tan Xuan let Xiao Di hold him, because he tried to push him away several times but failed. Tan Xuan raised his hands and went around Xiao Di's body, clasped his fists towards the other side, and said loudly: "My friend is ignorant and offended. I will offer you some incense, please don't blame me."
After Tan Xuan finished speaking, the knocking sound in the drawer did not subside, but became louder, as if it could burst out at any time, and the fluorescent lights flickered more frequently, scaring Xiao Di so much that she trembled even more violently while lying in Tan Xuan's arms.
Tan Xuan's brows gradually furrowed, and his voice gradually became low, "I've been angry, I've been thrown, I've been scared, it's enough, so as not to hurt the harmony."
Before Tan Xuan finished his words, one of the fluorescent lights in the room went out with a snap, and then the freezers on both sides began to shake spontaneously as if someone was pushing them.
There was a rumbling sound, as if there was a sudden earthquake, and several drawers were shaking and slightly protruding from the freezer.
"ah!"
Xiao Di screamed and buried her head in Tan Xuan's chest. She had completely set her sights on Tan Xuan and would never let go even if she died.
"Enough, this is never going to end, is it?" Tan Xuan was angry. He took a few steps and then stomped his feet heavily. The refrigerators on both sides paused for a moment and then continued to shake, and the amplitude was even greater than before. Most of the drawers had been exposed by the shaking.
"You're forcing me to do it, so I won't be polite."
After Tan Xuan finished speaking, he turned his head and spat toward the ground. There was no other way, as there was a "koala" hanging in front of him. He had to be deliberate in completing the actions he usually did, otherwise he would spit on Xiao Di if he was not careful.
Tan Xuan stomped his feet again, stepping his left foot on the saliva he had just spit out. Then he moved his left foot to the left, using the saliva to draw a horizontal line on the ground. Then he retracted his right foot, drew a half circle on the ground, and then stood with his feet together at the far left end of the horizontal line.
"One hand opens the world, two feet step on yin and yang! Three steps move mountains and rivers, five steps determine the fate of the world."
As he spoke, Tan Xuan twisted his feet, pressed his hands on Xiao Di's back, and turned Xiao Di on the spot, from facing the door to facing away from the door, and then slowly raised his left foot, very slowly and with great effort, as if it was filled with lead.
"step!"
“Bang!”
Tan Xuan's left foot landed heavily as he shouted coldly, causing the floor of the morgue to shake. The freezer that was originally shaking violently stopped shaking immediately.
Tan Xuan raised his right foot again, even more slowly and with more effort than before, and then dropped it heavily once again, causing the ground to shake again.
“Two steps!”
“Crash!”
“Click!”
The empty drawers that had been shaken out all moved back during the shaking, just like they had just come out to show off and now they retreated when they saw that things were not going well.
Xiao Di suddenly opened her tightly closed eyes, because as Tan Xuan took these two steps, she felt that her feet were empty, as if she was not stepping on the ground. Just now when Tan Xuan took the first step, she felt something unusual, her body seemed to be lifted up a little, but it was not obvious. She thought that Tan Xuan was holding her tightly and lifted her up a little when he took a step. Now that Tan Xuan took two steps, she realized that something was wrong, because her feet were completely empty.
Xiao Di leaned over and looked down, she was stunned for a moment, because she saw that both her feet and Tan Xuan's feet were more than ten centimeters off the ground. It turned out that Tan Xuan was not simply lifting one step and putting it down one step, but was walking up slowly like climbing a staircase. Moreover, with his feet in the air, Tan Xuan had already taken another slow third step.
Xiao Di was dumbfounded, not knowing what was going on. She looked up at Tan Xuan, only to see that Tan Xuan was slightly raising his head with a serious expression and a look of anger. She quickly closed her eyes again and hugged Tan Xuan even tighter with her hands.
Tan Xuan finally took the third step, which took longer than the previous two steps combined. Xiao Di felt that a long time had passed, and she could feel Tan Xuan's body trembling, and the shaking was quite severe. Xiao Di opened her eyes and found that Tan Xuan was sweating profusely, and his brows were furrowed, and his face looked a little ugly.
"Am I too heavy and affecting your spellcasting? Or you could put me down first." Xiao Di asked nervously.
Tan Xuan did not answer Xiao Di's words, but gritted his teeth and took a step forward.
There was a loud "boom", louder than before, and then Xiao Di felt his body shaking even more violently in Tan Xuan's arms.
“Bang!”
Suddenly there was a burst of explosions at the door of the morgue, and then the ground shook violently, and several floor tiles collapsed from the ground. Not only did the freezers shake, but even the entire morgue shook a bit, and then there was a series of rumbling sounds underground, just like an explosion. Tan Xuan and Xiao Di also paused and fell back to the ground from the suspended place. Fortunately, they were not high from the ground, so they landed relatively steadily.
"ah!"
The successive changes frightened Xiao Di so much that she screamed again. Especially when her feet paused, she was so scared that she hugged Tan Xuan even tighter and put her head against his shoulder, fearing that she would fall. Even when the ground stopped shaking, she still hugged him tightly, holding on to Tan Xuan tightly, not moving at all, and not even opening her eyes.
The morgue was completely quiet again. There was no "rumbling" sound from the freezer shaking, no "clang" sound coming from the drawers, and even the two people's breathing seemed to become inaudible.
After a while of silence, Tan Xuan moved and pushed Xiao Di out, but instead of pushing her away, she hugged her tighter. Tan Xuan patted Xiao Di's shoulder, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Hey! Big sister, it's safe now, nothing happened, can you let me go?"
"I don't!" Xiao Di shook his head vigorously.
"It's all right now, just let me go, you've pinched me until I'm blue." Seeing that this had no effect, Tan Xuan chuckled and didn't push Xiao Di away. Instead, he hugged Xiao Di tightly in his arms, making them fit together more closely.
"I didn't realize you were so well-endowed. You look so comfortable when I hug you. But we're hugging so tightly, aren't you afraid of getting uncomfortable? Then don't call me a hooligan or something like that again."
Tan Xuan's behavior of going against the grain really worked. Xiao Di knew what he meant by those things, and she pushed away Tan Xuan's hug. But thinking about the horrible experience just now, she hurriedly hugged Tan Xuan again, just turned her head and looked around. Anyway, she had hugged him already, so it didn't matter if she hugged him for a while.
"Where are those ghosts just now? Were they all blown away by the explosion caused by your few steps?" Xiao Di asked with lingering fear.
Tan Xuan smiled and said, "What kind of ghost is this? Did you see a ghost? There is no ghost here at all."
Although Xiao Di was afraid, he still pinched Tan Xuan's back without hesitation, "Speak properly, you've been in such a mess just now, is it not a ghost but a zombie?"
"What are you talking about? That was not a ghost. I have told you so many times that there are not so many ghosts in the world. If there really are ghosts, wouldn't they all resurrect after seeing themselves being cremated? That was just a spirit formed by the evil energy here, and it was annoyed by your actions."
"Not a ghost? What is the spiritual body formed by the evil energy?" Xiao Di asked again.
Tan Xuan didn't know how to explain it to Xiao Di. It was like a kindergarten kid asking a university professor what calculus was. There was no way to explain it clearly to someone who didn't understand it. He could only say vaguely, "What is it? It's a monster at best."
"A monster!" Xiao Di dug deeper into Tan Xuan's arms again, "Is it scarier than a ghost?"
He just loosened his grip a little, and now he held it tighter. Tan Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "Don't be afraid. It was causing trouble just now, and I have already taught it a lesson. Do you think I can be in the air for no reason? It's because I stepped on those nodes of evil spirits."
As he spoke, a sneer appeared on Tan Xuan's face. "Just now, it escaped quickly, but it also suffered heavy losses. If I were allowed to complete five steps, I would make the evil spirit here disappear completely and kill it directly. A little monster, without even a physical body, dares to act so presumptuously in front of me."
"It escaped?"
"Yeah." Tan Xuan nodded slightly. Feeling the pain in his back, he couldn't help but grin. "It's okay now. Can you let me go? My back is swollen from you pinching me, and you're holding me so tightly. I'm really afraid I can't control myself."
Xiao Di felt that something was obviously different somewhere in Tan Xuan's body, so he quickly pushed Tan Xuan out, then cursed with a red face: "Tan Xuan, you bastard, hooligan!"
Xiao Di felt a little cold in front of her body, and when she looked down, she found that the front of her clothes had been soaked with sweat during the hug. Now it was exposed to the air, how could it not be cold? She couldn't help feeling uncomfortable, and even more embarrassed. When Xiao Di saw Tan Xuan noticed this, she quickly crossed her arms to block some of it, and then glanced at Tan Xuan unhappily, as if everything was Tan Xuan's fault and she had suffered a great injustice.
Tan Xuan knew that he shouldn't look at things, and he felt what he should feel after hugging for a long time, so he didn't feel at a disadvantage when he was scolded. But seeing Xiao Di always looking at him with that look, he couldn't pretend not to see it. After enduring for a moment, he said again: "Let me tell you, I can't get a good word from you. I won't say that you are a normal person with hot blood. If I don't say anything, do you think this is an insult to you or to me?"
"Shut up!" Tan Xuan's words were not an explanation, but a provocation. If Xiao Di hadn't been afraid to do anything, he would have slapped him. Now he could only glare at Tan Xuan fiercely, using his eyes to show his anger that he could no longer suppress. "If you continue to talk nonsense, I will beat you to a cripple. Let's see if you dare to talk nonsense again."
"Yes, I knew it was like this." Tan Xuan spread his hands and stopped arguing with Xiao Di. If he continued arguing, he would become a hooligan. He turned around and walked to the innermost row of freezers and started knocking on the drawers one by one. In his eyes, Xiao Di was more frightening than Wang Dongxue's corpse. After all, if he couldn't beat one, he couldn't beat the other either.
Finally, Tan Xuan didn't just "knock on the door". After confirming that the sound was wrong, he directly pulled out a drawer. However, before the drawer was pulled out much, he pushed the drawer back and said apologetically, "Sorry for disturbing you". However, after what happened just now, he no longer had much sincerity.
"What's wrong?"
Xiao Di behind her cursed a few words and the embarrassment in her heart was gone. Seeing that Tan Xuan finally pulled out one but pushed it back again, she was a little puzzled again.
"What's the matter? I just found the wrong one." Tan Xuan agreed unhappily and continued to knock on the next drawer.
"oh."
Xiao Di didn't say anything. His brain wasn't working properly just now, so he asked such an idiotic question. It would be really strange if there was only Wang Dongxue's body in the morgue of such a big Jiangzhou Funeral Home.
Tan Xuan opened several drawers one after another, but none of them turned out to be Wang Dongxue, and he even apologized. Fortunately, the morgue did not accommodate too many passers-by, and Tan Xuan finally found Wang Dongxue's body in the drawer in the far corner.
