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Chapter 567: The Bone in the Toilet

Holding a memorial service in the hotel was quite a strange idea. Of course, the hotel’s manager wasn’t pleased. That

 was

 why security guards were shooing people away. 

Compared to the security guards, the deceased’s family members were even more stirred up. They said that the hotel had killed peopl

e and that 

they wanted justice. 

Someone had called the police. Soon, the police came and took all the trouble-makers away. They also asked the hotel’s manager to go to the police station to report the situation. 

The guests

 at

 the hotel returned to their rooms as the fun was over. I waited until they all left to 

have

 a closer look. 

The portrait of the deceased 

depicted

 a very young girl. It was 

a pity 

that she had died 

at such

 

a

 young age. 

After t

hinking about the paranormal activities the front desk clerk had mentioned, I decided to enter the room to check. 

I was lucky that no one had remembered to lock the room because of the

 

turmoil. But 

a

s soon as I 

stepped

 into the room, I shuddered. It seemed the girl at the front desk was right. 

A f

ast battle, a fast victory. I took out the Peach Soul Flower

 and held 

it in my hand. It should be enough to 

deal with

 

an ordinary

 ghost. 

The temperature in the room dropped by a few degrees. It seemed the

 

spirit here couldn’t 

stay still

. I sat on the bed and pretended to lie down to sleep. 

While lying down, I saw a white shadow 

fall

 from the ceiling. I was prepared. I rolled 

over

 and got up

, looking into

 the white eyes of the ghost. 

It seemed to be an evil ghost. I didn’t dare to be careless. I jumped from the bed and pointed the Peach Soul Flower at her

. I yelled

, “Why do you harm people?” 

She didn’t react to me but screamed hoarsely

,

 hurl

ing

 herself toward me. I hastily threw the Peach Soul Flower 

at

 her. I didn’t expect that her body would suddenly make a hole that allowed the Peach Soul Flower to 

pass

 through and close right after that. 

was surprised that

 the Peach Soul Flower couldn’t subdue her. 

After realizing that 

my 

bright ide

a’

 hadn

’t worked, 

felt like

 

slapping

 myself. I quickly scanned the room and saw a big mirror by the door. I 

went over and

 broke the mirror with my bare hands. I picked a big shard and shone it at the female ghost. 

The mirror was an item that could expel evil

 spirits

 and ghosts, but not many people knew 

that

. People often 

placed

 mirrors 

in the wrong position

 in the house. 

A

 mirror in 

the wrong

 location couldn’t expel evil

 spirits. Instead, it would 

invite 

them

. Gradually, people 

stopped using

 mirrors to expel evil

 spirits

However, a 

mirror was a good tool 

for 

exorcis

ms

. Mirrors c

ould

 reflect light

, and looking

 at such light 

for

 a long time 

could

 make people nervous and even 

hallucinate

T

his kind of reflected light was powerful when dealing with ghosts! 

The female ghost screamed when the mirror shone at her. She ran to the window

,

 where she bounced back 

due to

 

an

 invisible barrier. 

I was surprised but soon got it. She had stayed here and done evil things because she was imprisoned in this room. 

H

er resentful energy had accumulated day afte

r day

. It would be strange if she didn’t harm anybody! 

When the ghost recognized 

that she couldn’t escape, 

she

 bared her teeth and rolled her eyes at me. She roared again but didn’t dare to attack me. 

Holding the mirror, I 

said,

 “I can help you leave this place.” 

She didn’t look like she understood what I had said. She looked at me

 and whined about 

something. 

Feeling h

elpless, 

I

 had to look around the room as I kept 

an

 eye on her. There must be 

a

 formation or something mysterious in this room that had bound her here. 

I’d been here for quite a long time but I 

couldn’t

 

notice

 the existence of a formation. 

T

he possibility 

of there being

 something else in this room loomed bigger.

 

Soon, I had checked all the things I could see except for under the bed. 

The female ghost was as fierce as a tiger lurking 

at

 its prey. I didn’t dare to bend to check the bed. Luck

ily for

 me, this hotel room was equipped with a cloth rack for the guests to use. I took it and extended it underneath the table

 to search. 

I found that the bed was solid and there 

was

 no space underneat

h

. Then, my eyes moved to the bathroom. 

It seemed that thing was in the bathroom. After 

s

eeing me linger outside the bathroom, the ghost suddenly stirred up. She wanted to jump toward me many times,

 but 

she hesitated 

for some reason

There should be something in there as she was afraid of 

the place

. She didn’t dare to approach the 

bathroom

. I eased my nervous heart and checked the bathroom. The glazed counter, the showerhead, and 

the

 shower chamber

 

looked normal. Eventually, my eyes turned to the toilet bowl… 

I thought to myself, 

I

t shouldn’t be that melodramatic, should it?

However, I still boldly lifted the toilet lid. I found a bone with a talisman in the toilet. 

This piece of bone was 

so

 small that I couldn’t recognize what kind of bone it was. However, the bone that could entice the soul was often from 

a

 skull. 

I showed the piece of bone to the ghost. She stirred up again

 and roared 

at me. It seemed the bone belonged to this ghost. I activated the Yin and Yang Umbrella to protect myself. Then, I read the runes on the talisman. 

It was just a simple spell to subdue the soul. 

A

 talisman on a skull could confine the deceased’s soul. Of course, it was easy to solve this spell. I just needed to tear the talisman. 

I wondered who had a big grudge against this woman

.

 She was dead, but she couldn’t rest. 

It was n

o wonder why she had become 

violent

I shook my head and peeled the talisman off the bone. As soon as the ghost saw that the talisman was deactivated, she turned and moved toward the window. 

I followed her. 

F

ortunately, I was on the third floor, 

so

 I could just jump and land on some air conditioner covers. I followed the ghost’s aura to track her down. 

After c

hasing after 

her

 for a long time, I found that something was wrong. It was ill-lit inside the hotel, which was why the ghost could appear. 

However,

 it was sunny outside. How could she dare to go out? 

I patted my thigh 

when

 I knew I was tricked. I hurriedly returned to the hotel. When I got there, the entire third floor was covered in a dark miasma. People were screaming inside. 

I rush to the third floor to rescue the people trapped in the dark miasma. Then, I returned to that room. 

Without the talisman, she wa

s no longer scared of m

e. She reached out her hands

 and rolled 

her eyes at me. 

I hated that I couldn’t just slap myself. 

Why did

 I do

 such a careless 

thing

 

and

 released her?! 

Anyway, this ghost wanted to kill her

 

savior

, so s

he 

wouldn’t 

have 

a

 bright future. I happened to have a bag of rooster blood mixed with cinnabar left from Aji’s case. I didn’t show mercy

 and splashed

 the mixture on her. 

“A

hhh

!” The ghost shot to the ground as though she was electrified. She screamed and screeched, but I 

didn’t have any 

sympathy for her now. I threw the Yin and Yang Umbrella on her and read the activating spell. I didn’t stop reading the spell until she had turned into ashes.

When I 

went

 downstairs, I saw the two young women at the front desk 

whispering 

to each other again. They seemed to be discussing how bad the ghost was. 

I pouted. Humans’ hearts were more frightening than ghosts. However, people could hide their hearts while ghosts couldn’t…