The female ghost, Madam Huang Li, replied with unusual melancholy.
Her expression remained blank.
Her response stunned us all.
This female ghost had been raising Wu Lianhua as a pig.
Thinking back, it wasn't surprising she was so fat and could make pig noises at night.
This was not possession by a pig demon, nor by a starving ghost.
Instead, the female ghost possessing her believed her to be a pig she had raised in life.
She intended to fatten her up to settle a debt with the landlord.
"Ghost child, that's my daughter, not a pig, not a pig!"
Mother Wu cried out.
Wu Lianyong also spoke:
"Yes, that's my sister, she's human. You've made a mistake. If you need to repay a debt, we'll burn more money for you. Please don't harm my sister."
Both were quite agitated.
However, the female ghost in the mirror remained unchanged.
Without any emotional shift, she continued:
"This is the pig I raised, you are mistaken..."
With that, the pale-faced female ghost
suddenly took two steps back in the mirror.
She then bowed to us.
It was the ancient female etiquette of placing hands at the waist and slightly crouching.
After performing the bow,
the mirror's surface rippled again.
Then, the female ghost disappeared from the mirror.
Not only that, the chopsticks stuck in the water bowl snapped with a "crack."
The dark green candle flame also returned to its normal, fiery color.
"Old Qin, she's not talking to us anymore,"
Old Mo interjected with a frown.
I nodded as well.
This situation was somewhat different from what I had imagined.
To call her a vengeful spirit?
She wasn't exactly that.
To say she couldn't communicate? She could.
But the possessing ghost was stubbornly fixated.
As if her brain was injured, she insisted Wu Lianhua was a pig she had raised.
She planned to fatten her up to settle a debt with the landlord.
Just as I was contemplating the next step,
the comatose Wu Lianhua woke up.
As soon as her eyes opened, she roared:
"I'm hungry, I'm so hungry. Dad, brother, I want to eat, I want to eat..."
As she spoke, her body began to struggle.
The wooden bed could not withstand such a heavy weight.
With a "clang," it collapsed.
"My daughter, my daughter..."
Mother Wu, extremely worried about Wu Lianhua, quickly turned on the light and rushed towards her.
However, as Mother Wu got close, Wu Lianhua's eyes turned red. She grabbed Mother Wu with a sudden pull.
Shouting:
"Mom, I'm hungry, I'm so hungry..."
After saying that, she opened her mouth.
And bit down on her own mother's face.
"Ah!"
Mother Wu cried out in pain.
This scene happened too suddenly.
Even Old Mo and I hadn't anticipated it.
My heart leaped, and Old Mo and I rushed to stop her.
Wu Lianyong was also terrified:
"Mom!"
He then rushed over as well.
But Wu Lianhua had gone mad and was completely uncontrollable.
She bit off a piece of flesh from Mother Wu's face.
She began to chew it, blood splattered, her mouth full of blood.
Seeing Old Mo and me approaching, she grabbed us and tried to bite our feet.
But Old Mo grabbed her by the neck.
I also restrained her hands.
However, I discovered she possessed monstrous strength.
Her force was immense.
Even with my current cultivation, I struggled to hold her down.
Besides struggling and letting out low growls,
black pig hairs began to visibly sprout from her skin.
Wild boar tusks grew from the corners of her mouth.
"Holy crap, she's growing tusks!"
Old Mo exclaimed in shock.
I also felt something was unusual about her condition.
Coupled with that strange monstrous strength, and her feet gradually regaining mobility.
I knew I had to subdue her, no matter what.
Seeing the dire situation, I quickly said to Wu Lianyong, who was supporting Mother Wu and looking lost:
"Mr. Wu, quickly bring me the Bagua mirror from my bag."
Wu Lianyong, seeing the situation, knew it was serious.
"Oh, okay..."
He then turned and ran outside.
Wu Lianhua's body became increasingly bizarre.
It was as if her genes had mutated.
Tusks growing from her mouth and hair all over her body.
Her low growls gradually turned into pig grunts of "oink, oink."
Occasionally, interspersed with garbled words like "hungry, want to eat."
"Damn it, is she a monster?"
Old Mo held her head firmly.
Because Wu Lianhua was human, we couldn't kill her directly.
This made things so difficult.
"Don't worry about that for now, just hold her down,"
I replied.
At the same time, Wu Lianyong returned with the Bagua mirror:
"Qin, Daoist Priest Qin, the Bagua mirror, the Bagua mirror..."
"Give it to me!"
I shouted, reaching out to take it.
The moment I released one hand, Wu Lianhua's hand lunged for my neck.
She kept shouting "hungry."
I pressed her palm's tiger's mouth firmly with my chin.
After getting the Bagua mirror, I didn't hesitate.
I slapped it directly onto Wu Lianhua's forehead.
I even let out a low growl:
"Bagua mirror, open!"
The Bagua mirror flashed yellow light, instantly unleashing its power.
It sizzled and popped upon contact with Wu Lianhua's forehead.
Streams of black smoke continuously billowed out.
At the same time, there was the smell of burning flesh.
Wu Lianhua let out continuous pig grunts of "oink, oink" and struggled.
Her strength was immense.
Muffled thuds emanated from the floorboards.
However, aside from that, the black pig hairs that had grown from Wu Lianhua's pores, and the wild boar tusks in her mouth, began to shrink after the Bagua mirror was placed on her.
They slowly retracted back into her skin.