After Saving The Villain, He Had Sex With The Female Ghost. Chapter 16

Chapter 16 The Pipa Toad (V)

“Ah, excuse me, I lost my composure.” Huang Lin’s mother suddenly calmed down. The overhead light in the private room cast a long shadow across her face. She sat silently in the light, and in a lull between the waves of pain, Chu Yu suddenly recalled a movie.

It was an old foreign stop-motion animation. In the film, the mother was tall and slender with high cheekbones, resembling an eight-legged spider, vowing to capture her runaway daughter and bring her back.

“So, where is my daughter?” Huang Lin’s mother clasped her hands on the table, her index fingers tapping lightly. The pain was still spreading. Li Heru held her, and a cool, soothing energy flowed from her shoulder into Chu Yu’s internal organs. She shakily finished the tea in her cup, finally gathering some strength.

“She doesn’t want to tell you.” Chu Yu stood up, leaning on the table.

Leaving the teahouse, the wind rustled through the bamboo grove. Walking along the small path in the woods, Chu Yu sighed with emotion, “No wonder Huang Lin hasn’t wanted to see her mother all these years. If it were me, I wouldn’t either.”

Li Heru seemed to be in a bad mood, nodding in agreement with her head down. “What’s wrong?” Chu Yu gently patted her.

“I’m thinking about how to resolve the resentment between this infant spirit and Huang Lin. Force won’t work, so how do we approach it gently?” Li Heru pondered.

Indeed, violence was a double-edged sword. If it struck the infant spirit, the spirit might lose control the next second, and the blade would turn back on them, endangering Chu Yu and the six members of the film crew.

Even if she were hundreds of miles away, she couldn’t escape its control. Chu Yu extended her hand, her five fingers poking out from the gauze. The gauze had been freshly changed last night, pristine white.

“If only a severed hand could grow back,” she sighed.

Upon hearing this, Li Heru immediately gave her a sharp rap on the head. “You lunatic! This is just the first ghost we can’t coerce into being transcended. We’ll encounter many more ghosts in the future. How many hands would you need to grow back?”

Hearing this, Chu Yu suddenly spread her arms wide, twisting in an odd, stiff posture. Li Heru frowned. “If you’re itchy, go take a shower.”

Chu Yu lowered her arms and sighed again. “I’m an octopus.”

The day-and-a-half trip to Qingwa County quickly concluded. Back in the city, the two headed straight for a mother and baby store.

“What can I help you find?” the store clerk, wearing a pink apron, asked enthusiastically.

“Baby supplies, the kind for newborns. Toys, snacks, things like that,” Chu Yu said. Li Heru reminded her, “You can buy slightly larger items. That infant spirit is several years old.”

“Do you have anything more complex? The child is quite intelligent,” Chu Yu added. The surrounding customers chuckled, and the clerk couldn’t help but smile. “Of course. All parents think their babies are smart.”

Chu Yu’s face flushed. Speaking of which, she remembered someone in the film crew who, right after giving birth, kept praising how beautiful her baby was and asked the director to give the baby a role, playing the beautiful infant born to a popular celebrity.

The director asked for a photo, but the baby looked exactly like the person’s husband, making it hard to look at twice.

So, the matter was dropped.

The clerk was very diligent, adding a comment with every toy she picked out: “This is perfect for a smart baby.” “This one has many ways to play.” Chu Yu’s face felt hot. She gave a few perfunctory replies, tossed everything the clerk recommended into a bag, paid, and rushed out the door.

Outside, Li Heru was laughing so hard she was bent over. “You have quite thin skin.” Chu Yu carried the large bag with one hand and rubbed her ear with the other. “It’s embarrassing to boast. I’m not good at it.”

“Why? You usually seem adept at handling everything, never shy,” Li Heru asked curiously, moving closer to her.

Li Heru felt cool, like mint mist. Chu Yu walked slowly. Why? Was it because she was somewhat self-conscious? Perhaps because her luck had always been poor since childhood. Others grew through setbacks; she grew through dashed expectations.

If she couldn’t do anything well, then confidence lost its meaning, and self-praise became nothing but lies.

“I have a bit of social anxiety,” Chu Yu offered a casual excuse. Li Heru pouted, clearly unconvinced. “Keep making things up. One day, you’ll tell me everything about yourself in person.”

Chu Yu glanced sideways at her. Li Heru raised her eyebrows and looked up at her. “Seriously, my words are always accurate.”

The aquarium remained unchanged. The water on the ground had reduced due to evaporation, making it less slippery to walk on. The sound of parenting programs still played in the corridor leading to the children’s playground. Third time’s the charm, and this was Chu Yu’s third visit, so she easily found Huang Lin’s location.

She was sitting on a rocking horse, bare-chested, glaring sideways at the two of them, the toad in her mouth chewing messily, splattering blood.

Chu Yu put down the bag with a rustle of plastic. Huang Lin’s gaze pierced her. Chu Yu slowly pulled out a pink unicorn from the bag.

“For your child,” she offered it to Huang Lin. Huang Lin hesitated for a moment, then took it.

“And these?” she pointed to the bag. Chu Yu nodded, listing them off like treasures. “There are toys, clothes, and snacks. All the latest models, various styles.”

“I also brought incense,” Chu Yu pulled out a paper roll and an incense burner from the bag to show her. A complex expression crossed Huang Lin’s face. She took the bag, walked over to a blood-stained play mat, and dumped the contents out.

Chu Yu took the opportunity to light the incense and placed it in front of the toys.

At that moment, Huang Lin reached behind her back. She gently coaxed a purplish-black ball of flesh with four weak limbs to crawl onto the ground. An umbilical cord extended from its belly, connecting it to the hole in its mother’s back.

This ball—no, this infant spirit—crawled into the pile of toys. Its small hands were weak and powerless; it grabbed a rabbit doll only to drop it again. Seeing this, Chu Yu quickly grabbed a piece of cod sausage, peeled it, and offered it to the spirit.

“Eat this, it’s small.” Before she finished speaking, a cold tongue swept across her fingernail. Chu Yu quickly let go. The ball of flesh split in half down the middle, revealing densely packed, spiraling teeth. The sausage instantly vanished.

“Gooch.” It let out a satisfied burp. Huang Lin grabbed an entire package of cod sausage and poured it into its mouth. Skin and sausage, nothing was left.

“Does it usually eat like this? Won’t it have trouble digesting…” Chu Yu couldn’t help but ask. Huang Lin looked at her as if she were an idiot. “It’s already dead, why worry about digestion? Feeding it milk before was the real pain. Look what it did to me?”

With that, she exposed her chest and turned toward Chu Yu, frightening Chu Yu into looking up at the ceiling. She grabbed a baby outfit at random. “I won’t look. Being a mother is hard, I understand. I also bought clothes for it. Want to try them on?”

A moment later, the ball of flesh burrowed into the baby outfit. Its four limbs strained but couldn’t reach out. It had no expression, only using its limbs to flail and hold up the clothes to show its anger, spitting dark red fluid and extending its tongue to chew the garment to shreds.

Chu Yu stood aside. Huang Lin looked at her with a face full of fury. Chu Yu offered an awkward smile. “Sorry…”

Before Huang Lin could speak, hurried footsteps echoed from the corridor. “This place is truly eerie. What kind of non-human, non-ghost thing would want to live here?”

“The deeper the water, the bigger the fish. This means our trip was worthwhile.” The voice was calm and familiar.

Huang Lin frowned, glaring fiercely at Chu Yu. “You ambushed me?” The next instant, she snatched the infant spirit, ripped off the baby outfit, and stuffed it into her back. Abruptly grabbed by its mother, the infant spirit felt wronged and began to cry loudly.

As it cried, Chu Yu’s legs went weak, and she was about to collapse to her knees. Li Heru grabbed her, her finger hooking up and pointing directly at Huang Lin. “Tell your dead child to shut up, or both of you will be annihilated!”

“You want something from me, don’t you? Why else would you come looking for me repeatedly? If I’m annihilated, you’ll get nothing,” Huang Lin sneered.

“There are plenty of ghosts; we don’t lack one like you,” Li Heru smiled even colder than Huang Lin. Just as she was about to act, a woman’s voice came from behind her. “If you don’t want it, give it to us. We do.”

Hearing the voice, Chu Yu stiffened. She grabbed Li Heru and turned to look. The woman wore a long dress and a long robe, with an elegant, almost Taoist demeanor. Beside her was a short-haired woman with a cold expression, wearing glasses.

“Long time no see, Chu Yu.” Director Zheng tilted her head, offering a forced smile. “What are you doing here? Don’t tell me you have a feud with her again?” Chu Yu felt like she might vomit blood and die.

Since their falling out at the Yu Mansion, she hadn’t contacted Director Zheng outside of work. As far as she knew, wasn’t Director Zheng busy attending press conferences and interviews recently? Why was she running around in this abandoned aquarium?

Ming Wanli crossed her arms and smiled. “No feud. It’s just that if you want a ghost of this quality, we naturally want it too. And Ms. Chu, aren’t you an actress? When did you become a geomancer?

Tsk tsk, how pathetic. An actress is so washed up that she can tell people in the film industry she’s a geomancer without being exposed. That’s quite a success.”

It seemed they had also learned of Huang Lin’s whereabouts through the injured crew members. Chu Yu felt slightly better. She looked back; Huang Lin had vanished. Ripples spread across the water surface, leaving only the pool of dark red liquid behind.

“Who told you I was an actress? My main profession is geomancer. My mother is a spirit medium, and I am also somewhat skilled in this path,” Chu Yu said while backing away. Li Heru moved aside. Their eyes met, and Chu Yu raised an eyebrow at her.

“Which lineage are you from? I’ve never heard of it,” Ming Wanli frowned. Director Zheng threw out a few talismans and slapped her hard. “Idiot! The ghost ran away, and you’re still chatting with her?”

Just then, Chu Yu scooped up the viscous liquid and charged toward the two of them.