The Otherworldly God I Serve Is Actually a Demon - Chapter 19

“I’ll eat you first, then deal with my disobedient daughter. Hehehe.”

Li Fang’s mother fully opened the door, stepping out from inside. As she completely emerged, a chilling aura rushed toward them.

Her sharp red nails clawed at Ruan Jiao, but Ruan Jiao agilely dodged. Seizing the moment before Li Fang’s mother could react, she grabbed Xiang You and dashed into the house, swiftly and decisively slamming the door shut.

The way out was blocked by a wall, forcing her to run into Li Fang’s home.

Moreover, she had already noticed that Li Fang’s mother’s movements were extremely stiff, to put it bluntly, she seemed unaccustomed to her own body, making her rather clumsy.

Ruan Jiao pulled Xiang You into the house, and immediately, the sharp, grating sound of nails scraping against the iron door echoed from behind. Li Fang’s mother frantically pounded on the door while dragging her nails across it.

Her voice remained gentle, yet it seeped with coldness: “Open the door, good children. I’m your mother. Why are you locking Mommy outside…”

Suddenly, the knocking and scraping sounds ceased in an instant.

Ruan Jiao knew something was wrong. In the dim light, she quickly scanned the room for a place to hide.

A drop of water fell from above onto her forehead, instantly filling her nostrils with a foul, nauseating stench. The hairband on her wrist suddenly throbbed with a sharp, needle-like pain.

Ruan Jiao looked up and met the gaze of Li Fang’s mother, who was hanging upside down from the ceiling, staring down at her. Blood-red liquid dripped from her mouth, one of those drops had just landed on Ruan Jiao’s forehead.

“…”

Sometimes, she really wanted to call the police.

“Jiaojiao, run! I’ll hold her off!” Xiang You pushed Ruan Jiao aside.

Idiot.

Pushing her like that only swapped their positions, but the ghost was still right above them. And with that shove, Ruan Jiao tumbled to the ground, her leg hitting something and aching faintly.

Xiang You meant well, but Ruan Jiao had already decided to go out with her less often in the future.

Li Fang’s mother, hanging upside down from the ceiling, bypassed Xiang You entirely. Flipping her limbs over to support herself, she crawled toward Ruan Jiao.

She looked like an overturned stool with its legs in the air. Ruan Jiao couldn’t believe she had the leisure to think of such things at a time like this.

She scrambled to her feet, grabbed Xiang You from the ground, and sprinted toward Li Fang’s room, where the earlier sounds had come from. Running there was also a decision she made after careful consideration.

Li Fang had tricked them into coming here to ask for help. Li Fang herself had started acting strange three days ago, stopped coming to school yesterday, and sent them messages to lure them over.

Since Li Fang was still alive, she must have come up with this terrible idea to seek help from others when she couldn’t directly reach out to the outside world. It was possible she had contacted other people too, but they might have all been turned away by her “mother.”

If that was the case, her attempts to seek help were definitely not a one-time thing. As an ordinary person, she hadn’t died immediately at the hands of the ghost, which meant she had either discovered the ghost’s weakness or accidentally hidden somewhere the ghost couldn’t reach her.

Therefore, her hiding spot might be safe.

Thanks to her previous two encounters with ghosts, Ruan Jiao was able to come up with a plan of action so quickly.

Stay calm, then find the ghost’s weakness. If all else fails, call Jun Gongyu for help.

She quickly formulated a plan in her mind, then twisted the doorknob of Li Fang’s bedroom. Thankfully, it wasn’t locked. The two slipped into the room and closed the door, locking it from the inside in one smooth motion.

After piling everything within reach against the door, Ruan Jiao finally had a moment to check on Li Fang inside the room.

Li Fang was lying near the door, holding her phone, it was the sound of her knocking on the door with the phone earlier. In just one day, Li Fang had become as thin as a sheet of paper, her cheeks sunken like a refugee who hadn’t eaten for days. Her legs were weak, unable to support her own weight. The noise Ruan Jiao had heard earlier was her falling from the bed to the floor and crawling to the door.

Seeing Ruan Jiao and Xiang You hide inside, the glimmer of hope in Li Fang’s eyes, the belief that she had been saved, shattered completely.

“Why did you come in? You should have called the police! Let the police come and take this thing away. It’s all your fault. Now everything’s ruined. We’re all going to die here,” Li Fang screamed hysterically.

Ruan Jiao walked over without another word and slapped Li Fang across the face.

Li Fang hadn’t expected the first thing Ruan Jiao would do upon entering was to hit her. Caught off guard, she took the slap, then covered her face and began to cry.

“You could have died on your own, but you had to trick us into coming here before you died. And now you have the nerve to blame us?” Ruan Jiao was already in a bad mood, and seeing Li Fang like this only made her angrier.

“I didn’t want to, but I couldn’t call the police, and I couldn’t tell you the truth. If I said that sentence, that thing would go crazy. My dad, my dad was…” Li Fang seemed to recall something extremely terrifying. Her entire body trembled, and she even forgot to cry, covering her mouth as she dry-heaved. But she hadn’t had a drop of water in four days, so nothing came out.

Ruan Jiao felt frustrated. She had hoped to get some breakthrough information from Li Fang, but it seemed the time spent with the ghost had nearly driven her insane.

A scratching sound came from the bedroom door, and a chilling aura seeped through, sending shivers down their spines.

“Wh-what do we do, Jiaojiao?” Xiang You grabbed Ruan Jiao’s arm, on the verge of tears.

Having encountered ghosts twice in one day, Ruan Jiao was now the only source of security for Xiang You, her pillar of strength.

In comparison, Ruan Jiao felt that while Xiang You hadn’t been much help, at least she wasn’t causing trouble. The sounds of Li Fang’s dry-heaving and the occasional ghostly wails were giving her a headache.

She walked over, grabbed Li Fang by the shoulders, and pulled her up from the floor, shaking her body in an attempt to snap her back to reality.

“Li Fang, pull yourself together. I can get you out of here alive, but I need your cooperation. You have to calm down now and tell me everything you know about this ghost.”

A flicker of hope finally appeared on Li Fang’s lifeless face at Ruan Jiao’s words, “I can get you out of here alive.”

“Y-you really can get me out alive?” she asked, disbelief mixed with a glimmer of hope.

Of course, Ruan Jiao wasn’t sure.

Her priority was ensuring her own survival. Only on that basis would she try to help Li Fang escape. She said this only to calm Li Fang down and get her to communicate properly.

Ruan Jiao had no intention of playing the savior. In her view, abandoning anyone to save oneself or being abandoned by anyone for survival was entirely understandable.

Placing hope in others was like a bubble, it could burst in an instant. The only person one could truly rely on was oneself.

“Of course, I will definitely take you out of here. So, can you tell me everything you know now?” Ruan Jiao said the lie with a calm expression.

Her only purpose in doing this was to quickly extract useful information from Li Fang’s mouth.

“Alright, I’ll tell you.”

Li Fang shrank back, stealing a glance at the bedroom door, then began recounting her story with a face full of fear.

“My mother passed away from cancer. On the day of her burial, all our relatives and friends came. But just one month after she was buried, five days ago, she suddenly returned home as if nothing had happened…”