Chapter 82:
Yang Jian poked Sadako's shoulder like he was examining a new toy.
"Interesting — a spirit body composed purely of yin energy."
So, it seems these things are aggregates of energy, or perhaps they gained those abilities because they possess some kind of energy inside.
This energy could be resentment, or it could be something else. In China, this kind of thing is called yin qi.
He pinched a strand of dripping black hair and rubbed it. "With this level of怨氣, you've killed quite a few people."
Sadako curled into a ball, trembling. A puddle of water spread across the floor from her white robe.
She had no idea what was happening. She had only accidentally come here. Who knew a man this powerful would suddenly appear?
If it was just physical strength, she wouldn't be afraid at all. But right now, she felt like a snowman thrown into the core of the sun.
The energy surging inside this man made every inch of her body burn.
This energy felt like something that absolutely countered her, making it impossible for her to resist.
Even more terrifying was that she could sense the horrifying energy contained within him — enough to evaporate her millions of times over.
"Lift your head. Let me see."
Yang Jian suddenly commanded, "I want to see what the legendary Sadako actually looks like."
Sadako trembled all over. She didn't know why this man was making such a request.
But she didn't dare resist. She slowly raised the face completely covered by her long hair.
"Move the hair aside!"
Yang Jian said speechlessly: "How am I supposed to see anything like this?"
"..."
Sadako's pale fingers shook as she parted her long hair, revealing a bluish-gray, rotting face.
Her eye sockets, devoid of pupils, wriggled with maggots. The corners of her mouth, split all the way to her ears, still had viscous fluid that looked suspiciously like brain matter.
The room fell into dead silence.
Two seconds later.
"Fuck!"
Yang Jian slapped her into the floor. "What the hell are you trying to do scaring people in the middle of the night?!"
Boom!
The wooden floor exploded with a huge hole. Sadako was embedded in the ceiling of the floor below in a starfish shape. Black怨氣 sprayed out from her seven orifices like a leaking tire.
Her shattered spirit body trembled wildly. If she could still cry, she would definitely be sobbing rivers right now.
You were the one who wanted to see, you bastard!
Downstairs, Sadako, who was desperately trying to pry herself out of the ceiling, suddenly shivered.
She had a vague premonition that she was about to face a fate even worse than being sealed at the bottom of a well.
Yang Jian squatted at the edge of the hole, smiling as he watched Sadako struggling to get up from the floor below.
"Don't be nervous. That was just a little joke!"
Sadako pulled herself out of the floor, trembling. Inside, she was roaring madly.
You call that a little joke?! What kind of normal person slaps someone into the concrete floor?!
She quickly teleported to the corner of the room, wishing she could stuff herself into the wall crack.
"Quite the personality."
Yang Jian sat back in the chair leisurely, fingers lightly tapping the armrest.
"Tell me — why did you come looking for me? I haven't touched any cursed videotape."
Upon hearing this, a trace of excitement seemed to flash across Sadako's pale face.
She slid to Yang Jian's feet in a bizarre posture. Her rotting lips began to move rapidly.
No sound came out.
Only the pattering sound of drool.
Combined with her pitch-black eye sockets, the scene was mentally contaminating.
Smack!
Yang Jian slapped her to the ground again: "Can't you speak properly?!"
Sadako lay on the floor, looking up at Yang Jian pitifully with her pupilless eyes. Her lips continued to move silently.
I was speaking! It's you who can't understand ghost language, okay?!
Yang Jian looked at Sadako, who looked like she was mentally challenged.
Did you leave your vocal cords at home?!
"Wait!"
Yang Jian suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Was it possible that Sadako had been speaking, but he just couldn't understand her?
He immediately snapped his fingers: "Let me turn on a cheat!"
His eyes suddenly glowed with golden light. Yang Jian silently chanted in his heart.
[I can understand all spirit body languages!]
A trace of energy flashed through Yang Jian's body. A certain rule was rewritten.
"Alright," Yang Jian said confidently as he looked at Sadako.
"Try again?"
Sadako trembled as she crawled up. Her lips moved slightly.
[Can you hear me now?]
A hoarse female voice suddenly sounded in Yang Jian's mind.
"Perfect!"
Yang Jian clapped. "So now you can explain?"
Sadako shrank her neck. Her voice echoed directly in Yang Jian's mind.
[It's like this — I'm looking for my cat. It jumped into the TV and ran away while I was climbing out of the well.]
[I sensed a powerful energy fluctuation here and thought some colleague was causing trouble, so I came to ask.]
Her voice grew smaller and smaller toward the end.
Yang Jian: .....
The room fell into an eerie silence.
The legendary cursed female ghost was now fidgeting like a neighbor girl who had lost her pet, awkwardly rubbing the hem of her robe.
And a certain cross-universe traveler was seriously considering the philosophical question of whether to help a ghost find her cat.
Yang Jian's mouth twitched: "So you crawled out of the TV in the middle of the night just to look for a cat?"
Sadako nodded timidly. Water droplets from her long hair splashed everywhere.
[His name is Xiao Hei. He's the only living thing that isn't afraid of me.] She suddenly became excited.
[You don't know how hard it is to catch stray cats these days! It took me a full seventy years to…]
"Stop stop stop!"
Yang Jian held his forehead. "Specific characteristics?"
[Pure black short-haired cat, with a V-shaped notch on the right ear.]
Sadako gestured with her rotting fingers in the air. [The most special thing is…]
She suddenly lifted her long hair, revealing eye sockets crawling with maggots. [He dares to eat the maggots that fall out of my eyes!]
"Fuck!"
Yang Jian nearly spat out his juice. "You call that a characteristic?!"
"Considering I slapped you, I'll help you out."
He immediately activated super vision and scanned the globe.
Three seconds later, his expression became strange.
"There's a black cat in Shibuya, Tokyo, eating oden at a convenience store."
[That's him!]
Sadako got so excited her hair stood up. [Xiao Hei loves konjac threads the most!]
"Wait," Yang Jian suddenly narrowed his eyes.
"As payment…"
Sadako immediately curled into a ball: [I… I can help you scare people! Professional-level intimidation! Winner of the "Vengeful Spirit Weekly" Most Terrifying Female Ghost Gold Award for seven consecutive years.]
Yang Jian waved his hand: "I don't need you to scare people for me."
"But, as payment, you have to tell me what kind of world this is."
Sadako looked as if she had been granted amnesty and nodded frantically: [Yes, yes! This world is very special!]
She floated into the air, her rotting fingers gesturing in the air.
[Besides spirits like me, there's the slit-mouthed woman who crawls out of mirrors at midnight, the ghost who kills people in phone booths, the faceless driver who likes chasing cars in tunnels…]
Yang Jian's eyes flashed with interest: [Sounds like a mishmash?]
[There's more!] Sadako danced with excitement.
[There's a haunted mental hospital to the west with an immortal serial killer inside. There are man-eating voodoo dolls hidden in the forest to the south. Even the government has a midnight department专门 handling supernatural incidents.]
As Sadako continued, Yang Jian's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
His super brain rapidly analyzed the information. This was indeed a special world that fused various horror elements.
"Pretty interesting."
He stood up and walked to the window, looking at the moonlight. "Those so-called exorcists — do they really have the ability to deal with you guys?"
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