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His tone was steady and authoritative, causing everyone to turn and be surprised to find that the speaker was just a high school student in a school uniform.
Xu Zhihui hurriedly followed behind An Xiaoshan, and upon seeing his younger brother, he was also taken aback—Xu Zhiyang's right foot seemed to have been completely twisted, lying in his mother's arms in an extremely unnatural position. The usually arrogant little brat was now crying miserably, and the surrounding parents also showed expressions of distress.
"It's her, it's her! She's the one who pushed me!" Xu Zhiyang heard someone arguing and instantly turned pale with anger. She pointed her finger fiercely in the direction of Yu Tiantian and began to roar with sobs, struggling to catch her breath.
Yu Tiantian was confused for a moment, maybe a few seconds, maybe more than ten seconds. Her mind went blank, first seeing the chaotic crowd, then the resentful expressions of father Xu and mother Xu, and finally the calm face of An Xiaoshan. As a result, Yu Tiantian calmed down.
She closed her eyes and felt everything around her again - the dust floating in the air, shimmering in the light of the chandelier; the guests' breathing, rising and falling like the endless waves on the sea. In an instant, the world seemed to reveal an unprecedented delicacy and vividness to her.
When she opened her eyes again, she noticed that the faint light around everyone had become clearer. Reds, yellows, blues, and greens - most of the halos were murky in color, like frosted glass. But An Xiaoshan was different; he was a beautiful golden color, as if bathed in pure golden light, shining brightly and standing out. Faced with this new world, Yu Tiantian felt like a newborn baby, and An Xiaoshan was her guide.
Suddenly, a deep black color caught her attention. Following the trail, Yu Tiantian was astonished to find a layer of black aura surrounding Xu Zhiyang's ankle! Looking at Xu Zhiyang, he had a reddish-brown halo around him, while mother Xu and father Xu had a gray one.
Yu Tiantian looked at An Xiaoshan in shock, and An Xiaoshan nodded slightly at her.
"What do you mean by that?" father Xu questioned An Xiaoshan sternly, his face looking very unpleasant. "If you've made a mistake, you should admit it frankly and take responsibility, instead of using some absurd excuses to evade accountability!"
father Xu has recently encountered difficulties in his business, and his temper is particularly bad. Xu Zhihui is afraid of a bigger conflict, so he quickly reached out and pulled An Xiaoshan's sleeve, signaling him to stop.
An Xiaoshan remained unmoved, staring directly into father Xu's eyes as he spoke, "Within your mansion, have there been frequent strange occurrences recently, such as eerie sounds, withering plants, and objects moving inexplicably, causing unrest and disturbance in your home?"
father Xu's expression suddenly changed, his eyes widened, and his lips moved a few times but no sound came out.
The atmosphere changed, and everyone seemed to realize the subtlety of it. father Xu's reaction seemed to confirm something. So the discussions in the hall gradually increased, and probing glances occasionally fell on An Xiaoshan.
Xu Zhihui suddenly realized, and she was suddenly annoyed. It turned out that An Xiaoshan had been fishing for information from her before! Her face turned red and then white again, and all of An Xiaoshan's peculiarities now made sense: the first time they met, An Xiaoshan asked her how she had been sleeping lately, saying she seemed mentally fatigued and appeared to be suffering from insomnia. She had thought it was concern for her! Just now, An Xiaoshan asked her if her parents had been arguing lately and told her not to worry about gossip...
I see, I see!
"your son's injury is definitely not a normal bump. To be precise, it's not something a human would do. If you don't believe me, you can check the back of his heart to see if there are any signs of coldness."
Mother Xu was comforting the crying Xu Zhiyang, and when she heard the news, she really reached out to touch his back, only to feel a chilling sensation. Mother Xu panicked, and her initial three-point belief increased to eight points. Recently, a lot has been happening at home, with her husband emotionally distant, a struggling career, and a constant tense atmosphere. Every step in life seems unusually difficult, leaving her exhausted, and her son's injury feels like the final straw that broke the camel's back.
Just as Mother Xu was at her wits' end, a piercing and urgent sound of a car horn came from a distance, like a godsend - the ambulance had arrived!
Now, no one has the mind to pay attention to any "supernatural events." Xu Zhiyang was quickly carried on a stretcher, and father Xu and mother Xu also hurriedly followed the ambulance, leaving Xu Zhihui to handle the aftermath of the birthday banquet. A bizarre farce was thus hastily paused. Amid the chaos, An Xiaoshan briefly explained a few things to Xu Zhihui and then signaled for Yu Tiantian and him to leave.
At this moment, Yu Tiantian finally came to her senses from the sensory stimulation and realized that she should go explain and apologize to Xu Zhiyang's family. However, Xu Zhihui was too busy to spare her much attention, and his attitude was not very good. After all, in everyone's eyes, Yu Tiantian was still the prime suspect in Xu Zhiyang's injury.
Yu Tiantian feels a little lost, not knowing how to comfort Xu Zhihui, nor how to prove her innocence. She feels awkward standing in place, sensing the guests' subtle glances, which cannot be called friendly. This makes Yu Tiantian increasingly uncomfortable.
The rain outside has stopped.
An Xiaoshan walked up to her and said, "Let's go."
Yu Tiantian then followed him.
"The efficacy of the transparent talisman should have reached its peak by now. If you're afraid, just tear the talisman off," An Xiaoshan reminded as soon as they walked out of the gate.
"I'm not afraid. This talisman is really powerful—ah!" Yu Tiantian shook her head, but suddenly everything went black before her eyes. She was abruptly enveloped in a pitch-black mist, and the mountain forest path disappeared from her sight. In the chilling wind gusts, countless sinister black mists with gnashing teeth and claws seemed to materialize and assail her.
An Xiaoshan seemed to have anticipated it, as he swiftly formed a hand seal with his ten fingers, causing the yellow talisman in Yu Tiantian's hand to spontaneously combust, quickly turning into a handful of ashes.
"This place is located on the south bank of Yin Water, with Yin energy spreading and gathering due to the mountain terrain. There is no obstruction in front of the the Xu Family, directly facing the cliff's edge, so the malevolent energy is soaring," An Xiaoshan explained. "It's best for ordinary people to have less contact with these things."
Yu Tiantian's hand was burned and she let go, the paper ash scattered in the wind, and everything in front of her returned to normal in an instant. She turned back into an ordinary person who couldn't see anything. She felt a little lost, but this emotion was immediately replaced by another kind of excitement. When she looked at An Xiaoshan again, Yu Tiantian was full of admiration: "Where did you learn these things?"
An Xiaoshan didn't answer, but instructed her to take out a willow branch and wave it in front of her to clear the way. Although Yu Tiantian felt it was ridiculous, she still did as she was told.
"What is Cinnabar used for?"
"It is used to ward off evil spirits and ensure safety."
"Where is the bronze mirror?"
"It drives away evil spirits and ensures safety."
"Ah, are all of these for me to use?"
"Mm."
"What did you say to Xu Zhihui?"
"Tell her to find me if she needs anything."
The two of them chatted aimlessly as they walked down the mountain. Before parting ways, Yu Tiantian asked for his phone number, but An Xiaoshan shook his head and said he didn't have one, leaving only a landline number. The next day, Xu Zhihui did indeed show up, but she first sought out Yu Tiantian.
Yu Tiantian saw her in the garden of the community.
Xu Zhihui still dressed very delicately, but her complexion has become much haggard. She told Yu Tiantian that Xu Zhiyang started to have a fever after being admitted to the hospital last night, but the examination only showed a fracture in his right ankle, and the cause of the high fever could not be found. As a result, in the middle of the night, Xu Zhiyang started to talk nonsense, like he was having a nightmare, screaming and crying, and no matter how they called him, he couldn't be woken up.
"The doctor said that fractures in the ankle area are usually stress fractures, such as from long-distance running, where repetitive force is concentrated on a specific point of the bone, causing it to break. But... Yangyang's bone fracture is very clean."
Xu Zhihui still remembers the eerie atmosphere in the clinic. When she arrived at the hospital, Xu Zhiyang had already been taken to get a cast. The attending physician showed them the X-ray of her brother, and the bone fracture on the film was clean and smooth, as if it had been instantly cut by some force. Seeing the terrified expressions on her parents' faces, she finally began to believe that this might not be a simple accident.
Yu Tiantian immediately dialed the number left by An Xiaoshan after listening. After three beeps, the call was answered.
"Hello, is this An Xiaoshan's residence? I am Yu Tiantian. Xu Zhihui is looking for..."
An Xiaoshan seemed to have known in advance that Xu Zhihui would come looking for him, "It's me. Give me the address, I'll come find you."
An hour later, on the lawn of Yu Tiantian's home community, three young people sat in a circle.
Xu Zhihui felt uncomfortable seeing An Xiaoshan again. She repeated Xu Zhiyang's situation to An Xiaoshan and awkwardly asked, "How did you know that there's a problem in my family?"
"You have been in contact with those things," An Xiaoshan looked at her. Despite it being the height of summer, his eyes made one feel as if they were in an ice cellar.
Xu Zhihui's face turned pale. She suddenly remembered something strange, took out her phone in a hurry, opened an app, and handed it to An Xiaoshan: "Could it be this? I had trouble sleeping at night for a while, so I downloaded this app to track my sleep." She pointed to a few records, hesitated, and said, "It has a recording function. Usually, when I talk in my sleep, it gets recorded... But a few times, it recorded these strange ambient sounds."
An Xiaoshan opened the first recording. Yu Tiantian listened nervously, and after a period of silence, she first heard the sound of Xu Zhihui turning over, occasionally accompanied by a few low sleep talk, and then a series of noisy static sounds appeared, lasting for nearly two minutes, like a poor electrical connection or signal interference.
The same goes for the second and third items. Yu Tiantian listened and suddenly felt that the voice was familiar. "Why do I feel like this sounds like the noise of a fan blowing into a microphone?" After listening for a while, she became more certain: "It's the sound of airflow!"
"Don't scare me," Xu Zhihui almost cried, "There's no fan in my room. Even if it's the air conditioning, it's impossible for the wind to be recorded only at these few points."
An Xiaoshan After listening to all the recordings, I came to a conclusion: "There is a sound of someone blowing into the microphone."
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