Chapter 96:
The evil spirit bride floated in mid-air. Her blood-red wedding dress fluttered without wind, making an eerie rustling sound.
Her voice was as grating as fingernails scraping against glass.
"Stay… with… me…"
The people in the entire hall began moving mechanically toward the two of them in perfect unison, making bone-chilling cracking sounds.
Lily grabbed Yang Jian's clothes in terror: "They're coming! What do we do?"
Yang Jian didn't speak. This evil spirit was somewhat interesting.
His super vision analyzed the evil spirit's body, but the result showed it was an aggregate of energy, just like the previous Sadako.
At that moment, the bride in the air suddenly disappeared.
Lily let out a startled cry and quickly hid behind Yang Jian, nervously looking around.
"She… she's gone!"
Yang Jian remained calm and unhurried: "Are you scared? You'll know soon enough that there's nothing to be afraid of."
Although Lily didn't understand why Yang Jian was so confident, seeing his steady demeanor inexplicably calmed her a little.
"So… should we run out, or…?"
"Of course we solve her."
Yang Jian chuckled lightly. "Why would I avoid her edge?"
For an evil spirit of this level, one slap from him would finish it — why run?
Lily was about to speak when she suddenly felt a bone-chilling cold behind her.
The bride appeared in front of them without any warning, so close that Lily could see every detail of her deathly pale skin and smell the rotten stench coming from the wedding dress.
Ah!
Before Lily's scream could escape, she saw Yang Jian casually wave his hand.
Smack!
A crisp slap echoed through the hall.
The bride's deathly pale face still held a vicious expression.
Yet the entire ghost was sent flying like a rag doll, smashing heavily into the ground and creating a large crater.
Lily stared in shock at the scene.
The evil spirit that had terrified her moments ago was now sprawled in the pit.
Her wedding dress was disheveled, her long hair scattered, and her face showed an expression of doubting ghost life.
"Wuu!"
The bride let out a aggrieved whimper, completely unable to believe she had been slapped flying by a human.
Even worse, the slap had deliberately controlled its force — making her hurt terribly but not killing her. What kind of demonic operation was this?!
Lily mechanically turned her head to look at Yang Jian. He was casually shaking his hand, as if he had just swatted a mosquito.
"This… this is solved?" Lily's voice cracked.
Yang Jian shrugged, speaking as if it was obvious: "Otherwise? What did you think it would take?"
The bride in the pit struggled to get up. Her gaze toward Yang Jian was now filled with deep fear.
She had lived — no, been dead for so many years, and had never seen such a brutal human!
The energy contained in that slap was a perfect counter to her kind of spirit body. Even more terrifying was that the opponent's speed was so fast she couldn't react at all!
"Now," Yang Jian slowly walked toward the edge of the pit,
"we can have a proper talk."
The bride shrank back. After being a ghost for so many years, she felt fear for the first time.
Yang Jian stood at the edge of the pit, arms crossed, looking at the bride in the pit with interest.
Sunlight poured through the broken church dome, adding a touch of absurd warmth to the eerie scene.
"Tell me," Yang Jian said casually.
"What abilities do you have?"
The bride Alice clearly froze. Her deathly pale ghost face showed an expression of disbelief.
This human wasn't following the script at all! Shouldn't he either run away in fear or just destroy her directly?
Lily stood behind Yang Jian, her mouth twitching.
She watched the evil spirit that had been terrifying just moments ago now looking as helpless as a student being questioned by the teacher. She suddenly found the scene oddly comical.
"My name is Alice!"
The bride's voice was no longer sinister, but carried a hint of grievance. "A few years ago, my husband and I held our wedding here."
Her story gradually became fluent.
It turned out that on the day of the wedding, everyone in the village suddenly went mad and brutally killed all the guests and the groom.
Extreme resentment turned her into an evil spirit, and in turn she slaughtered the entire village.
Hearing this, Lily unconsciously showed a trace of sympathy, but then remembered her dead teammates and frowned again.
"Later I discovered…"
Alice continued, her blood-red fingernails quietly digging into her wedding dress.
"I discovered I couldn't leave this village. I could only move around near the church. Slowly, I learned to create this space."
Yang Jian nodded thoughtfully.
With his super vision, he could see that the entire space was indeed formed by a special energy field.
This reminded him of the Silent Hill phenomenon he had seen in another universe before.
The bride continued her story. Yang Jian and Lily listened quietly.
After hearing Alice's story, Yang Jian nodded lightly: "Your experience is indeed very pitiful."
His tone was calm.
A trace of joy had just appeared on the bride's pale face when Yang Jian continued:
"But you tried to kill me just now, so…"
"Goodbye."
The bride's ghost face instantly froze.
Before she could react, Yang Jian's right hand glowed with dazzling golden light and slapped down with lightning speed.
In that blinding light, the bride vaguely seemed to see the gates of heaven.
Then her spirit body evaporated completely, like a dewdrop under sunlight.
The entire space suddenly fell silent, leaving only the sound of Lily swallowing hard.
"So…"
She asked carefully, "What do we do next?"
Yang Jian clapped his hands: "What else? Go home, everyone to their own mom."
"Ah?" Lily looked confused.
"It's over just like that?"
Her gaze swept over the motionless puppets. In the last row, she saw her teammates' stiff figures.
In the end, she could only sigh: "Then let's go back."
"Close your eyes." Yang Jian suddenly said.
Although she didn't understand why, Lily obediently did as told.
After a dizzying sensation, Yang Jian's voice sounded beside her ear.
"You can open your eyes now."
When Lily opened her eyes again, she was shocked to find herself standing on the streets of the small town.
Soft moonlight bathed the stone road. A few pedestrians passed by them. Everything looked so ordinary.
"How did we get back here?"
Before Lily could finish her sentence, Yang Jian interrupted her with a smile.
"Superpower, you know?"
He waved casually. "You can walk the rest of the way yourself. Our adventure ends here."
Lily opened her mouth, but in the end she only said seriously:
"Thank you!"
Yang Jian nodded. After looking around, he seemed to find it rather boring.
He casually drew a line in the air. Golden sparks appeared out of nowhere, spinning to form a shining portal.
Lily stared wide-eyed at the scene that defied common physics.
"Goodbye."
Yang Jian waved handsomely and stepped into the portal.
As the last trace of golden light disappeared, the street returned to calm.
Lily took a deep breath and looked toward the distant village. Under the moonlight, that patch of woods looked especially quiet.
She knew that some stories had been left there forever.
And a new life was waiting for her on this ordinary street beneath her feet.
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