My Zombie Husband

17. Chapter 17: Battle with Ghosts

Translator: Cheryl_M

Born to bring back luck for his family… Xia Mingyu tried to search for clues in the shabby cottage but he found nothing in the end. It seemed that there was no clue at Nuonuo’s home. And he didn’t feel any Qi of ghost either. Hence, there was no problem with this place.

“Let’s go. There’s no problem here. Where’s his corpse?” Xia Mingyu slapped his hands and body off dust, saying to Doudou behind him. Doudou scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed face. Xia Mingyu narrowed his eyes and asked, “Don’t tell me you haven’t seen his corpse at all.”

The other child quickly waved his hand and explained, “No, no, we met once, but then…”

“What happened then?” Xia Mingyu asked. The child seemed afraid to talk further and then hid behind Doudou. Doudou swallowed hard and said intermittently, “We saw… That Nuonuo’s corpse stood up, and then jumped to the neighboring village…”

Jumping? The corpse rose? Xia Mingyu was a bit shocked. He was only a dilettante Taoist priest who couldn’t even deal with ghosts. If he met a zombie… Suddenly, Zhao Yun’s face just flashed through his mind. Xia Mingyu shook his head at once. Crap! Why did he think of him?

“If what you said is true, then Nuonuo is already a zombie. I can’t solve this problem.” Xia Mingyu streched out his arms, took out his phone and meant to call Mu Feng. Hastily, Doudou quickly stopped him, “No, Brother Xia, we haven’t finished talking. We didn’t only see Nuonuo’s corpse leave but also his soul!”

Xia Mingyu hedged and looked up at Doudou’s eyes. He didn’t look as if hiding anything. Seemingly, he was not lying…

“The corpse moved on its own, and they also saw his soul…” Xia Mingyu was so confused and then thought for a while, saying, “Where did you see his ghost?”

“We usually see his soul at night. Sometimes we meet when we are walking on the road. Sometimes we see him standing at the front of the village. At first, we were quite scared. However, he doesn’t feel anything wrong. He only greets us as usual and still wants to play with us.”

Listening to Doudou talking, Xia Mingyu decided to see how it went first. If he really couldn’t solve it, then he would turn to Mu Feng.

After making all the arrangements, Xia Mingyu stayed at Doudou’s house until the evening, during which Wangchuan called to ask him how the situation was. Xia Mingyu told him everything he learnt and hedged. Then he also reported what Doudou said about the rising corpse and the ghost.

“I’m not sure about the situation you talked of. It stands to reason that the rising corpse won’t have a soul wandering outside. Wait, I’ll ask Master first.”

Wangchuan hung up the phone, and it was already dark. Xia Mingyu rubbed his eyebrows and wanted to take a sip of tea. At the moment, DouDou ran anxiously and called,”Brother Xia, Dongdong said just now that he saw Nuonuo’s ghost!”

Xia Mingyu glanced at the phone. It was at 19:04 and night just fell. How time flew! Anyway, he had no way to back down. Wangchuan hadn’t called. If the ghost hurt anyone, then there would be big trouble. He must go to take a look.

When Xia Mingyu arrived at the destination with his peach wood sword , the child called Dongdong was hiding at home. Xia Mingyu frowned and asked, “Where’s Nuonuo?”

Trembling, Dongdong pointed outside the door. “You were… Wrong. He… He is at the door…”

At the door? But when he came in, he didn’t see anything. Oh shoot! He was taken in.

Xia Mingyu rushed back to the door and it turned out that the wooden gate had been closed. No matter how he pushed or banged the door, it was not opened anyway. He turned around and saw Doudou and other kids who were rather confused. Then he could only handed out several ghost-expelling talismans to them.

“Take these. Throw one at the ghost if any.” Xia Mingyu said with a stern face. The talisman could only buy some time for them. He knew his capability limit. The talisman could only support half a hour, which didn’t even work on the fierce ghost. Damn it. If he had the Kylin Pendant…

Several ghosts poured into the yard. At first, Xia Mingyu wondered why the children could see these ghosts, but on second thought, there were two possibilities. First, the children still had ghost-seeing eyes. It was said that kids could see ghosts, but when they grew up, this ability disappeared then, just like him when he was a child. Actually, he could still see ghosts now, probably because of Mu Feng.

The second was that the ghosts are strong enough to affect humans’ brain waves so that they could see ghosts temporarily. Forget it. He didn’t have time to think about how these children saw ghosts. He had to figure out how to deal with them now.

“Woo!” The ghost’s sharp cry came from all directions. Doudou and the other children were cuddling together and crying for their moms. Xia Mingyu didn’t feel well either. Without the Kylin Pendant, he had no confidence in protecting himself, and… These children.

He gritted his teeth and quickly set up a magic array around them. The ghosts didn’t act rashly and stood aside as if staring at their food. When Xia Mingyu just finished setting up the magic array, they started to rush forward and hit on the configuration. As the ghosts were driven away by the light curtain, the children were not so afraid but they still looked outside in horror. Xia Mingyu gritted his lips and checked the magic array. Instantly, his face turned pale.

He didn’t expect that the ghosts were so strong. His magic array could withstand at most three strikes of the ghosts. Once the ghosts broke through it, the children’s talismans might not be useful.

Xia Mingyu was a little panicked, but he didn’t tell DouDou and the other children. Instead, he only took out his phone to call Mu Feng. However, he had no bars on the phone so he couldn’t make the call.

“Lad, don’t waste your effort. Today all of you will become my collection.” An old voice came from the roof and Doudou opened his eyes and said, “Mr. Lin?”

Xia Mingyu also knew Mr. Lin because he was the head of this village. In this case, that Nuonuo’s corpse rose and went to the neighboring village, which Doudou and other children saw, was merely a cover-up by Mr. Lin? What was his purpose? To kill all the kids? Why?

“Lad, you are so unlucky. You’ve got in my way, but… Well, my ghost boy told me before that your soul is very special. I was still hesitating whether to take action. I didn’t expect you to come to me yourself. Then I will not care about the boy of the Murong Family. As long as you become my ghost child, the Murong Family is useless then!”

Lin Laowu said and waved his hand. The ghosts hit the magic array again. Xia Mingyu hurriedly put the talisman given by Wangchuan onto the light curtain. The light curtain became a bit brighter. Xia Mingyu wiped the sweat and held back vomitting the blood that came to his throat after being counterattacked by the magic array that was struck by the ghosts.

“Mr. Lin, why do you do this? Did you kill Nuonuo too?” Doudou,was hugging the other children, angry and frightened. Lin Laowu laughed a few times, “Nuonuo is a talented child and he is good after becoming my ghost boy. Initially, I intended to raise him for a few more years before killing him. Unfortunately, he saw me making a ghost child. I had to kill him then.”

Xia Mingyu just wanted to say that he was really unlucky. It was bad enough that his body was preyed by demons and ghosts. And now his soul became Lin Laowu’s prey too. According to Lin Laowu, he certainly knew who Lin Laowu was. He was simply a ghost raiser. God, he couldn’t even defeat a little ghost. Now that he met a ghost raiser, he did stumble right into the net himself.