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Chapter 358: Survival with Memory as the Stake

The cabinet door was closed. Gao Ming, whose body was covered with prayer words, was holding a pen. He did not continue writing in the diary. His eyes were fixed on the vibrating mobile phone.

Grandma's voice messages appeared one after another, like death notes.

If Gao Ming didn't answer the call, the voice would not stop, and the frequency of the calls would become faster and faster, as if to drive people crazy.

One minute later, the voice message suddenly stopped and a video invitation box popped up on the phone. Grandma's black and white portrait looked particularly creepy, as if she was about to crawl out of the vibrating phone.

"Video invitation?"

The face covered with words was a little distorted. After hesitating for a moment, Gao Ming decided to answer the video call.

"Gao Ming, do you know how worried I am about you? Don't leave this room. Once you go out, all our arrangements will be ruined! Do you still remember your father and mother? They had an accident just because they didn't listen to me!" The old man in the video looks a bit like Gao Ming, with a head full of silver hair. He looks a little vicissitudes and tired, and his clothes are dirty.

The old woman operated the mobile phone clumsily and shouted at the screen. Various magical instruments and "magic medicines" were placed around her. Basically, all the valuable things in the house were offered by her to the immortal.

"Listen! The master said! The disaster on you will be broken in seven days!"

Gao Ming stared at the video silently, his eyes becoming more and more strange.

Gao Ming was very familiar with the room in the video, but the scenes in the video were somewhat different from those in reality.

Grandma shouted loudly in the video, tears in her eyes, and seemed to be really worried about Gao Ming, but...

Throwing away the half-written diary, Gao Ming reopened the cabinet door and walked towards another bedroom in the apartment.

"Don't open the door! This is the Heart-breaking Evil! I am trying to get rid of the disaster for you! Get rid of the disaster!"

There are two bedrooms facing each other on both sides of the dark and narrow corridor. Gao Ming’s small bedroom is on the left, and grandma lives in the large bedroom on the right.

The faint stench in the house came from the bedroom on the right. There was a rope woven with talismans wrapped around the door handle, and a row of yellow paper was pasted on the door frame.

"Don't open the door! Gao Ming! If you open the door, all the evil spirits will escape!"

The old woman had already begun begging. She really believed that the immortal could help her find her son and daughter-in-law and could really help her avoid disasters and seek refuge.

"But you are obviously dead..."

After breaking the talisman on the door, Gao Ming heard the screams coming from the video call. The moment he pushed open the bedroom door, the video call was hung up.

A strong stench emanated from the house, and the scene before my eyes was horrifying.

There was a chair in the middle of the bedroom, and grandma's skinny body was fixed on the chair. Her face was purple, and there was a big lump in her throat. Various pills were scattered on her big red coat, and she was still holding a medicine bottle in her hand until her death.

There was no production date, no markings, and the brown glass bottle contained the medicine that my grandma had obtained with great difficulty from the immortal.

She was dressed in red, with unkempt hair and dirty face, her eyes were almost completely bulging out, and her body was covered with strange and low-quality "jade" stones.

Those stones engraved with characters may only be worth a few cents, but they carry all of grandma's hopes.

Since Gao Ming was very young, his grandmother began to bring all kinds of "treasures" into the house. Those magical objects that could ward off disasters and evil finally turned this home into a horrible "ghost cellar."

When you are sick, you don’t need to seek treatment, just drink water mixed with incense ash and talismans; if you are isolated or bullied at school, don’t deal with it, just wear the Wenqu Talisman; all bad things should be solved by the immortals, and all good things are the credit of your husband, so you should repay your vow as soon as possible.

I picked up the brown paper used to wrap the medicine bottle on the ground. It had instructions for taking the medicine written on it. I swallowed the medicine at noon, when the sun was at its peak, and placed offerings at midnight, when the sun was at its peak, to neutralize the medicine. Everything in grandma's bedroom was carefully placed. The apartment itself was a hole where foul air was deposited, and the place where grandma sat was the most yin in the room.

She took pills for several days in a row, hoping to see ghosts and gods, but she didn't expect to be killed by those pills.

The man my grandmother trusted the most prescribed those special medicines for her, and it was these medicines that cost her her life.

"Eliminate the disaster? Eliminate what disaster? You are the disaster..."

Looking at the body that had lost its temperature on the chair, Gao Ming clenched his phone tightly. This room made him feel very uncomfortable.

In addition to various kinds of talismans, there was also a statue of a god on the altar directly opposite grandma. Gao Ming didn't know what kind of god this was, but when he saw him, his heart ached and some fragmented memories came to his mind.

These memories are not hidden in the brain, but surge out from the flesh and blood.

He came here a few days ago, and his heart of flesh and blood was pierced with a bronze chain by a god and cut into pieces; his spiritual heart was torn into pieces by another god and divided into different pasts.

He had never seen such strange powers, one that killed him from the past, and one that turned the worst future into reality.

The severe pain made his body twitch. These memories had surfaced more than once, and he didn't know whether they were true or false. But one thing was certain - he was not dead yet, and everything was not over yet.

The cell phone vibrated very suddenly. Gao Ming no longer tried to touch the memories hidden in his flesh and blood. He opened his eyes and saw another video call from his grandmother.

"Why? You turned me into this when you were alive! And you're still holding on to me even after you've died!"

When he touched the answer button, the previous scene did not appear on the screen. Instead, Gao Ming himself appeared, standing at the bedroom door with a mobile phone in his hand.

"This... seems to be the perspective of grandma's corpse?"

Looking up, grandma's shriveled face had been raised, and her turbid eyes were staring straight at Gao Ming.

"Didn't I tell you not to come in? Didn't I tell you not to come in!!!"

The hanging arms began to shake, and something seemed to move in grandma's swollen throat. Her head followed Gao Ming's rotation, and her body rose higher and higher. The ropes binding her joints instantly tightened.

"Is the failure to eliminate the disaster due to me? The failure to eliminate the disaster is due to you! You are the disaster!" Fear grew wildly in his heart like a poisonous weed. Gao Ming stepped back and closed the door of his grandmother's room.

"Snapped!"

The sound of the rope breaking reached Gao Ming's ears, and it seemed that grandma was about to come out of the bedroom!

Turning around, he picked up his schoolbag, put away his diary, and ran directly to the living room. No matter what happened outside, he would rather die than stay in this house any longer.

In order to prevent Gao Ming from going out, grandma wrapped a chain around the living room door and pasted talismans all over it, so that it could only be opened with a key.

"Oh!"

Gao Ming slammed into the door and kicked the lock, trying desperately to escape from the room.

The door shook with repeated bangs. Gao Ming could hear creepy and strange noises coming from his grandmother's bedroom. It seemed like she was about to crawl out!
"Get out! You must leave!"

(End of this chapter)