A Guest in a Ghost House Chapter 46 The Bloody Words from the Bathroom

Soon enough, the taxi arrived to my destination. Before I got off the taxi I was startled by what was going on at the scene. Countless people had surrounded Jiang San's house and they were all chattering with each other. The police were there in charge of maintaining order. Several large pieces of equipment were slowly being carried in. Countless spotlights had been set up around the area. The entire scene was lit up as if it were day time.

I was getting out of the car, but as I made my way in, so did the crowd. It was as if Jiang San's green brick house had turned into a famous scenic spot. One where countless people came in and out just to take pictures, the flashing cameras were so many that it almost felt as if the area was permanently lit be them.

It was all centered around at the same place where the Taoist priest had danced earlier. Now there was just a big pit, around which several lights had been erected. Through the lights, the neatly lined roads and walls of turquoise could be seen behind it .

While I was at a loss, my arm was pulled. I looked back. It was He Xiaoyong that said loudly: "Come with me." He pulled me out of the crowd, and my whole body was like a marionette, leaving him to lead the way. This day was getting too mysterious for my taste.

He Xiaoyong pulled me to one side and Wu Jian and He Xiaoru's face turned dull. Huang Xiaolong disappeared. I walked up to them and loudly asked, "What is going on?!"

Wu Jian woke up from sleepwalking after a long time: "I don't know. It's weird."

I turned my head to He Xiaoru who smiled bitterly: "After you left, the police came, but there was no way to save the Taoist priest, so they sent for a digging machine, which was going to dig away the earth, but before they managed to dig for a more than a couple of minutes, the whole ground collapsed into a massive hole, and it appears that there was this earth palace hidden underground!"

I was dumbfounded. An earth palace? For starters, nobody even consider there would be any possibility of the existance of a palace every existing in our small province. The way that the earth palace had appeared had also greatly impressed the eye of the public.

I had no interest in the earth palace however, perhaps because I had not seen the palace yet, so I had no sense of shock. "What about the walls? Has anything changed?" I asked.

"Yeah." said He Xiaoyong, "At night, there was more and more dark red liquid pouring out with every passing hour, there were signs of some of them twisting into words, but as soon as the palace appeared, it seemed as if all the liquid had shrunk back into the bricks. Perhaps it was because there was too many people there to see it. It now looked no different from the rest of the walls. "

I sat next to Wu Jian. I wasn't expecting things to be this hectic at such a crucial moment. I was feeling extremely frustrated.

When I said that Qin beauty did not wanted to see me, Wu Jian came back to mind. He was just about to speak, when his phone rang. Wu Jian went off to the side to answer the phone while I asked for Huang Xiaolong's whereabouts.

He Xiaoru told me that Huang Xiaolong was acting very strange when the earth palace appeared, as if he was both excited and scared at the same time. He ordered everyone not to go down to the palace and hurried away, saying that there was an urgent matter at home. Everyone felt strange, because no one saw him answer the phone at all. He also said that so long as we didn't get too far from the palace, Su Qing or anything else wouldn't be able to hurt us.

I was a little relieved. As for what Huang Xiaolong's had said, I still only trusted him 7 out 8 times. Wu Jian finished talking on the phone and came to us to tell us that he had been ordered to cancel his time off duty and assist the security detail of the palace.

He Xiaoru looked at each other as Wu Jian went off in the distance. I didn't know how to react. Ever since I met He xiaoru, it felt like everything was unreal. As if everything was just a dream and I was just drifting through it.

For some reason, I started thinking about the three pictures I was getting in the mail when this whole thing started. I haven't received those horrible pictures for a long time. What ever happened with all that? I felt like I was stuck in a spider's web. I could only see in one direction, but I could feel the vibrations of the spiders creeping up behind me.

A myriad of thoughts crowded my mind as I decided to begin heading home alone. I felt the need to get some rest and think about everything that was going on.

After said goodbye to He Xiaoru and her brother, I hailed a taxi. The revelation of the earth palace had such a great impact on the locals that a lot of taxis were driving over, hoping to make some extra money. It was very convenient for me considering I was so tired.

Once I made it back home, I realized my place was a mess. It was as if I was having a great epiphany about this period of my life and how much it had changed. I looked at my laptop, the same one that was always open and used. There was a thin layer of dust on it that showed evidence of its abandonment since this all began. I smiled bitterly, went over to it and turned on the computer.

The familiar startup sound could be heard on the speakers and the computer screen lit up. I habitually signed on to my WeChat account, it began loading as typical startup noises filled the room. The notification in the lower right corner kept flashing. It seemed I had a message.

The profile picture was a familiar on. It was He Xiaoru's, she must have sent it after I left the earth palace. I remembered the last time I didn't return her messages and how she scolded me for not getting back to her. I clicked on the He Xiaoru's chat window to find just one strange message.

Home Buddha: Hey, I'm leaving to the United States. It's going to be more than half a year before I come back. Maybe when I come back we can check the house out again!

It was already strange enough, then I noticed the date stamp on it. It was sent three days after we had gone to the ghost building. Could it be possible that He Xiaoru's parents made her go to the United States at that time, but she somehow stayed behind? He Xiaoru hadn't mentioned any of this to me, so I figured it must not have been that big a deal. I closed the chat window and went on with my business.

After some time of getting back to some friend's messages, I opened the local forum which I used to log on to on the daily. At the top of the forum was a gray post, with no trace of other colors. I curiously clicked on it. It was a mourning post about an accident. It appeared a plane had crashed somewhere. It was pretty odd. I couldn't see why this post would be pinned to the top. I guessed some well-known people on the forum must have been on this plane, but what caught my attention was just one reply.

The reply was a link, written after the link: The legend of the bloody words in the bathroom .

I shivered. Could it be...

I quickly clicked on the link, the person who posted did not write anything, there was only one photo, and the photo was very familiar to me. It was the abandoned toilet. My heart skipped a beat, I slowly minimized the post. The image of blood running down the wall flashed before my eyes.

"Crack". The whole computer screen went black and the lights in the room all turned off. I startled, but quickly snapped back to reality. It must have been a power failure. I looked out of the window. All the street lights were off, I was right.

I really didn't know how to evaluate my luck. That power failure really came at a critical time.

I crawled back to bed, too lazy to take a shower. So I thought about the mess I was in for a moment longer before a heavy sleep slowly crept up on me.

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