Chapter 6: Sphinx

The boss's wife could no longer be called a human being, she was like a ball of strangled meat, sewing herself up with the traction of a needle and thread, and after losing her daytime make-up, she completely revealed her most ghastly face in the gloomy midnight.

No one knew why the boss's wife became like this. She felt threatened by Jiang Luo's three men, and her expression became fierce, but instead of attacking Jiang Luo's three men, she pounced fiercely on the old and young men sleeping on the bed.

Ye Xun subconsciously bit his finger and stuffed it into the rabbit doll's mouth, blood dripped out, there was a dark light flashing in the rabbit doll's dark and shiny eyes, Ye Xun's expression was grave, he placed the doll on the ground, "Xiao Fen, go and swallow her."

Xiao Fen moves stiffly toward the boss's wife.

The doll, surprisingly, moved.

Jiang Luo colorful expression rare lost, blank piece of looking at Xiao Fen.

Ye Xun manipulatively threw the penultimate and the penultimate at the door, "Get out, you guys, and don't mess me up here."

Room door in front of Jiang Luo and Lu Youyi closed heavily, Jiang Luo slowed down for a long time, and Lu Youyi walked to the balcony, squatting next to the boss who smoked.

Exactly the same posture, he and the boss looked like the difference between idol theater and reality. The boss, however, did not care, he was panicking in his mind, the cigarette he was holding in his hand shook with him, and he himself did not know what he was talking about, rambling lyrically about his nervousness, "How did she turn out like that? Did I see it wrong?"

Faint smoke drifted toward Jiang Luo, blurring his brow.

Jiang Luo asked, as if casually, "Boss, what are you and your wife's zodiac signs?"

The owner said, "I'm a rat and my wife is a horse."

Jiang Luo nodded his head in a seemingly absent manner.

The boss on the side sighed and said bitterly, "Since the business failed, I can't fight every day, it's all my fault, it's all because I didn't notice my wife in time," he gradually choked up and wiped his tears, "My wife has become like that... ...I can't believe I didn't notice ...... I'm so fucking inhuman!"

He cried very hard, look very wretched, Lu Youyi's eyes also followed the red. Jiang Luo lowered his head in silence, his expression somewhat cold in the smoke. When the boss had reached the end of his cigarette, Jiang Luo stood up and looked down at the boss, saying, "You really didn't realize?"

The still-crying boss was stunned.

Jiang Luo: "Such a piece of feng shui land is not easy to find, you dare to open a hotel here, enough to prove that you pay attention to feng shui. Your zodiac sign is the rat, corresponding to the twelve earthly branches of the son, for the kan water, and your wife's zodiac sign is the horse, corresponding to the twelve earthly branches of the afternoon, for the fire, the two collide. This room sits in the north and faces south, the room type is favorable to the male owner but unfavorable to the female owner, do you really not know that?"

The owner froze and looked up at him from the palm of his hand.

Jiang Luo smiled, the corners of his lips curved up, but the words were cold and to the point, "But because you are too troublesome, lazy to care, not to put it in the heart, only to make such a big trouble."

He turned and went back into the room.

Lu Youyi followed by his side with a complicated mood, "Jiang Luo, are you telling the truth?"

Jiang Luo hmmm.

Lu Youyi wilfully shut his mouth.

Jiang Luo Yu Guang glanced at Lu Youyi.

Lu Youyi's sense of justice is so strong that he will cry his eyes out over a false story, and he will also be angry over the tragic deaths of the three girls. Such a person is like a fire, and will there be a moment when his fire will be extinguished due to the darkness and helplessness of reality?

Jiang Luo thought wildly, and Lu Youyi waited at the door of the bedroom, waiting for fifteen minutes, Ye Xun opened the door sweating profusely, "Okay."

The figure of the boss's wife was no longer inside the door, and the pink rabbit doll Ye Xun was holding in his arms still looked the same as before. The grandmother on the bed had woken up and was shivering with her frightened grandson in her arms.

The boss rushed in from behind, and the little child instantly howled when he saw his father, sobbing, "Daddy, hug!"

The boss hurriedly hugged his son and pacified his old lady, and walked to Ye Xun with a complicated expression, "Ye students, my wife ......"

"She has become evil, we will find a way to transcend her," Ye Xun said after a pause, "Her body is mixed with the skin and flesh of at least three people, we have completed your commission."

The boss's eyes reddened and he wanted to ask something more, but the little child hugged his head again and cried out for sleepy, he wanted to say something, but he had to carry the child back to put him to sleep, "Please wait until tomorrow, there is something else I want to ask."

Ye Xun nodded.

After the boss had gone to his room with the child in his arms, the grandmother went to the other room to rest in shock.

The three of them came down from upstairs, Ye Xun said, "Jiang Luo, what did you say, the boss seems afraid to look at you."

Jiang Luo waved his hand, "Who knows."

Lu Youyi came back to his senses and said quietly, "Yeah, who knows."

After going downstairs, Ye Xun and Lu Youyi were going back to their rooms to sleep, but Jiang Luo stood still, and the two looked back at him, wondering, "Aren't you going back?"

Jiang Luo looked around and simply sat down on the steps with a big grin, "Wait a minute."

"Wait for what?"

Jiang Luo looks upstairs, "Waiting for a scream, or a bubble of child's urine."

Ye Xun cocked his head, "Screams?"

Lu Youyi: "Child's urine?"

Jiang Luo asked slowly, "You really don't think the boss's wife is the murderer, do you?"

Ye Xun said factually, "She has the flesh of three people inside her body, and Xiao Fen ate it out."

Jiang Luo held his chin and asked seriously, "But no one will somehow turn from a human into a ghost, she was obviously a human before, but now she has turned into such a crumbly mess as she is now, have you ever wondered why?"

Lu Youyi and Ye Xun looked at him blankly.

These two are good at everything, but too innocent. But if they weren't innocent, they wouldn't have believed Jiang Luo's made-up story about his relationship with Chi You.

Jiang Luo patiently said, "Is it possible that she, too, is a victim?"

After a moment's pause, he said, "Honestly, she gives me the feeling of having been swallowed in a big gulp at one time, and then she cut open her stomach and ran out, taking the shredded flesh of her other victims with her, and sewing herself haphazardly into her human form."

Lu Youyi was creeped out and couldn't help but step forward, "What?!"

"Is there a kind of ghost that can take on the appearance of a person, sneak into a person's home, and devour the person's stomach when the person is not paying attention?" Jiang Luo pondered and slowly said, "It has the exact same face as a human, and when it turns into a ghost it cannot be detected by our naked eyes. But it loves to eat human flesh, and will devour a person from head to toe, from skin to bone, leaving only a few hairs stuck to the pillow-- Ye Xun, Lu Youyi, is there such a ghost?"

Lu Youyi said, "How could--"

His words came to a screeching halt as he turned his head in shock to lock eyes with Ye Xun, and the two said in unison, "Sphinx!"

The human-faced guest, a ghost that takes on the appearance of a living person when it puts on clothes discarded by the living. It will sneak into the homes of humans while the living are away, talking and laughing with the families during the day, but at night, the human-faced guest will reveal its true nature and go from room to room to eat people.

No crumbs left to eat.

The two thought of a certain possibility, Ye Xun was at a loss for words, Lu Youyi was even more speechless, they looked at Jiang Luo in a daze, as if they were frightened.

Jiang Luo pointed to the roof of the building, "So I'm waiting for a scream, or a bubble of child's urine."

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The son was frightened, the boss coaxed his son to sleep with great difficulty, but his heart was complex and heavy, a long time, he also followed and slowly fell asleep.

Just as he was drifting off to sleep, he opened his eyes in the middle of the night with a sudden jolt of alarm.

Who knew that as soon as he opened his eyes, he would see an eerie figure standing next to his bed.

The boss was shocked, his heart flew into his throat, he quickly turned on the lights, saw who it was before he breathed a sigh of relief and said in a cold sweat, "Mom, why did you come over."

The old man smiled, a strange and eerie smile on her dead face, and she said kindly, "Go back to sleep, O son."

The old woman's mouth was still chewing on something, and her words were slurred. The boss subconsciously felt a bit uncomfortable, "Mom, what are you eating?"

He fixed his eyes on the old man, but he saw bright red red blood on the old man's white teeth, the boss suddenly rose a wave of uneasiness, he looked down, and saw that the old man's hands were holding his arm, and his arm had been gnawed out of a bloody piece.

The boss's eyes suddenly widened, a chill ran down his spine, and the extreme fear made his throat let out a "ho-ho" sound of cold air, and he couldn't even send out a scream.

The old man continued to grin, burying his head and nibbling on the arm, the blood being sucked into the old man's mouth cherishingly, as greedily as if he were sipping on a delicious juice drink.

The sound of chewing food grew louder and louder. The old man's wrinkled face was half stained red with blood, the boss was so horrified that his eyes were falling off, his body was convulsing, his other arm which was trembling incessantly kept pressing on his son's fleshy and bulging little tummy, the small child in his sleep was ignorant and unaware of it, but the child's urine which he had held in for a day had noiselessly stained a large part of the bed sheet.

The old man ate, but his face suddenly changed, jerked back to avoid the child's urine, his eyes staring resentfully at the boss and the child.

The boss was finally able to scream, "Ah-!"

The three men downstairs rushed up instantly.

When they arrived, the boss was hiding in the corner of the bed with his son in his arms, shivering and shielding himself. When the blood-covered sphinx saw them, his eyes became even more resentful, and he turned around and was about to jump out the window to escape.

Lu Youyi's speed was fast, he ripped back the Sphinx's clothes and was about to yank the Sphinx back, but the clothes were torn, and the moment the shredded clothes were destroyed, the Sphinx's skin seemed to be destroyed as well, and it instantly turned into a mass of bloodied flesh and rotting appearance.

Like a man without skin.

The boss didn't take a breath and directly fainted with a blank stare.

Lu Youyi almost screamed, but the headless walker's head beat him to it, "Ahhhh", "How horrible, how horrible!"

Lu Youyi's scream choked hard in his throat, and contemptuously threw the head that he had purposely tried to follow over to Jiang Luo, "I'll go clean up the Human-Faced Guest! Human-Faced Guest is afraid of fire, come on a fire!"

Jiang Luo grabbed the lighter from the boss and threw it to him, Lu Youyi pulled the sheet and was about to pounce on the sphinx.

There was still the scent of child's urine on top of the bedsheets, the human-faced guest shrieked in alarm, its voice was as harsh as the sound of a mouse, Ye Xun understood, glanced at the sleeping small child with a smile, and said, "It's a good thing that he peed a child's urine, otherwise this human-faced guest would have eaten the boss's entire body long ago."

Jiang Luo shrugged, doing a good deed, "Yeah."

Ye Xun was worried that Lu Youyi couldn't control Sphinx, so he bit his finger and asked Xiao Fen to help Lu Youyi. the rabbit doll's hand shook, and he got up and walked towards Sphinx.

Jiang Luo scooted over to Ye Xun's side and watched with rapt attention, "Ye Xun, is this thing really a doll?"

Ye Xun glanced at him and said, "Spiteful dolls."

Jiang Luo ："...... "His previous words of fooling the boss seem to have come true.

As anything with the word "grudge" in it is not to be messed with, Ye Xun volunteered, "Do you want one too?"

Jiang Luo was flattered, "May I?"

Ye Xun laughed, "No, I'm just craving for you."

Jiang Luo: "......"

Lu Youyi, who was still wrestling with the Sphinx, struggled to say, "Grrr, can you guys look at me?"

As soon as he spoke, the rabbit doll had already walked in front of the man-faced guest, half the size of an adult doll, but extraordinarily rigid, its furry paws on the body of the man-faced guest, "tearing" sound, and scratched the rotten flesh on the body of the man-faced guest.

The Sphinx's body was made up of all sorts of humans that it had eaten. In one piece of minced meat could be the lives of several people. Lu Youyi's stomach retched as he stepped back and let the Doll Bunny and the Sphinx fight it out. The Sphinx roared angrily at the doll rabbit, like a mouse that had its tail stepped on.

Lu Youyi covered his mouth and retreated to Jiang Luo's side, "So disgusting ......"

Jiang Luo thought for a moment, stroked the hair of the severed ghost in his arms, and suddenly revealed a smile, "Ning Xiu old brother, how about a favor?"

Broken Headed Ghost was in a trance from his laughter and said dementedly, "Yes, yes."

Jiang Luo said, "Thanks, Ning Xiu."

After speaking, Jiang Luo straightened his arm and used his strength to swing his head in a half-circle, using the severed head ghost as a leather ball and ruthlessly smashing it towards the human-faced guest.

Guillotine let out a scream in the air and smashed the back of Sphinx's head with precision.

Sphinx screams and falls to the ground. Lu Youyi takes the opportunity to cover Sphinx with a sheet, and lights the sheet on fire with a lighter.

He and the rabbit doll were firmly pressed against the sides of the sheet, and it was only when the fire spread to the edge of the sheet that Lu Youyi picked up the rabbit doll and stepped back, watching as the blazing fire completely surrounded the sphinx.

As the flames grew larger, Jiang Luo came back to his senses and asked, "What next?"

Lu Youyi rubbed his arms and said tiredly, "No wonder your credits are only three points ...... Of course it is to call the police and then call an ambulance ah, oh yes, by the way, call the fire alarm."

Jiang Luo ："...... "Learned, the original can be so scientific.

Jiang Luo was inexperienced and followed the instructions of Lu Youyi and Ye Xun. Half an hour later, the police and ambulance came to Hotel 129. To Jiang Luo's surprise, the police and ambulance doctors reacted calmly to the strange phenomenon at the scene; they extinguished the fire, put the charred sphinx into a yellow bag, and led the three of them to leave.

Before he left, however, Jiang Luo remembered something, and he turned around and walked over to the little child's hand, reaching out and touching the circle of black mist.

Countless fragments of memory slammed into him.

He "saw" the memories of the boss's wife.

The boss's wife opened her eyes in the middle of the night and saw her mother-in-law, who she had been joking and chatting with during the day, standing at the window, finishing herself off one bite at a time.

He saw the desperation and fear of the boss's wife, the hatred and anger she felt after the sphinx coveted her son.

So the boss's wife dragged herself out of the sphinx's stomach, dragging all the broken flesh with her, and sewed herself into a human form with needle and thread.

She had lost her human mind, but instinctively wanted to protect her son. After waiting until her son fell asleep in the middle of the night, she stood stiffly at the end of the bed, staring at every move her son and the sphinx made.

This kid, so cute.

She wanted to.

She can't scare him.

So she wanted to get up and put on makeup.

The Sphinx, as a result, never ate another person after murdering three girls and the owner's wife.

The boss's wife's obsession with protecting her son rushes into Jiang Luo's brain.

Jiang Luo was so affected by the raging emotions that he couldn't control his tears, he gritted his teeth and breathed in oxygen with difficulty as he crouched on the ground trying to calm himself.

After a while, these emotions slowly faded away. Jiang Luo raised his hand to stop the others from caring about him as he did his best to say in a smooth voice, "I'm fine."

After a long time, he raised his head, looked back at the little fat man with a complicated glance, and followed his companion out.

It turns out that ...... motherhood is something that exists even when people die.

In the car, the police uncle gave them a cup of hot water and said in a warm voice, "Don't worry, we'll take care of the next thing. You guys are too tired today, and the intensity of this case is beyond our expectation, we will discuss with the school and give you more credits."

Lu Youyi didn't care about the credits anymore now, he nodded his head, his eyes looking at Jiang Luo every now and then, hesitantly saying, "Jiang Luo, are you alright."

Jiang Luo shook his head, not wanting them to ask more questions, so he took the initiative to open his mouth and change the topic, "Can things in the metaphysical world be known by the police?"

Ye Xun said, "The state knows about the existence of the metaphysical community, and naturally, the police officers who specialize in our part of the world will know about it as well."

Seeing Jiang Luo's absent-mindedness, he explained in more detail, "The metaphysical community, in cooperation with the state, has established 'natural science and social studies' programs in twelve colleges and universities across the country, with each program having only one class of fewer than ten students in a class. "

"The metaphysical world is declining, there are fewer and fewer people who are engaged and talented in this profession, the total number of people in the nation's colleges and universities counted together is only about a hundred," Ye Xun was silent for a while, "After the country meets a paranormal event, it will be distributed by region as a mission to the twelve schools. In addition to the schools, there are also six major sects in the metaphysical world."

Ye Xun looked towards Jiang Luo, his dark eyes cold as jade, "The Chi family that Chi You is a part of is the Puppet Soul Refining Sect."

"Puppet soul refining?" Jiang Luo repeated.

Ye Xun said, "That is a sect that can manipulate both people and ghosts. It is a sect that can refine the souls of both the living and the dead, and this is the awesomeness of the Chi family. However, this technique is too heaven-defying, and the Chi family is the only one who has truly integrated the puppet soul refining, Chi You."

That means that while Chi You is alive, both human beings and ghosts can be his puppets and become puppets on strings in his hands.

His eyes, they can be everywhere.

Jiang Luo raised his head as if he was aware of something and looked at the people around him. Everyone was hurriedly going about their business, and occasionally, when someone caught Jiang Luo's eye, they gave him a polite and courteous smile.

In Jiang Luo's eyes, such a smile is covered with a ghostly, eerie shadow that gradually twists into the shape of Chi You.

Jiang Luo returned to his senses and smiled to himself, suspecting that he was overthinking things.

In the original text, Chi You is now in a weakened state due to an incomplete soul, and thanks to the help of Feng Li, the protagonist's attacker, she is able to cultivate and get her revenge.

He was able to show up earlier in the restroom also because the timing and location fit.

How is it possible to have recovered to the point of being able to manipulate people.