My Family Is Very Odd

"Remember to brush your teeth before bed." Shen Chen stood at the door, took out his phone, and sent a message on WeChat before leaving.

It was too late, and Shen Chen was afraid that Li Xiao Gui would forget to brush her teeth if she overslept. Ever since Li Xiao Gui cried at the dentist's last time, he had been keeping a close eye on her pearly whites.

As Shen Chen walked, he exited WeChat and opened his text messages. The message he received was as he expected:

The person is gone.

Shen Chen lowered his eyes and put away his phone.

At three o'clock in the morning, in front of the shattered mirror, Shen Chen tapped his finger on the cold sink.

The shattered mirror was silent for a moment, then a black shadow slowly emerged from its depths.

At this time, the fourth stall in the restroom was empty.

Shen Chen stood in front of the mirror, his eyes cold. The mirror ghost remembered how he had ruthlessly grabbed that human by the throat and pressed him against the door, how he had smashed his head against the door until it bled, and then tossed him into the stall like garbage!

In stark contrast to his previous brutality, he gently wiped the bloodstains on the door panel with a handkerchief and closed the door softly… like an elegant gentleman (with two sides).

The shattered mirror trembled, reflecting the secret events in the seemingly peaceful restroom. The mirror ghost knew what the exorcist in front of it wanted.

A moment later, the mirror reflected a man in uniform walking slowly into the quiet restroom. The man walked straight to the fourth stall without any hesitation, as if he knew what was inside the closed stall.

The man turned around and picked up the unconscious person lying there. As he bent down to turn, there was a slight reflection of light, like a thin, long line?

Shen Chen narrowed his eyes. He had to carefully discern the fragmented mirror to confirm that the reflection of light at the bend of the uniformed man's shoulder was indeed a thin white line.

Not just the shoulders, Shen Chen looked closely and found that in the flow of light, there were faint reflections at the bends of the human body's lines. His shoulders, waist, and legs all had thin white lines, and even his eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, which were slightly exposed from the side, had white lines that went deep into his skin. It looked a bit scary under the dim light.

The lines extended all the way outside the restroom, controlled by something.

The controlled man turned his head towards the mirror with a cracking sound and smiled slightly. The white lines that went deep into his skin were more obvious under the fragmented reflection.

The man stood up holding the unconscious person and walked out step by step.

This was the scene the mirror saw.

After everything was replayed, the mirror returned to its calmness.

Shen Chen took out a yellow talisman from his pocket, sandwiched it between his index and middle fingers, and said with concentration, "Point - straight line."

A blue dot emerged from the talisman and stretched into a straight line, passing through Shen Chen's back from front to back, extending straight out of the restroom.

The line passed through a dark alley and ended in a certain room. Shen Chen walked in.

As soon as he stepped in, a dark shadow pounced on him. Shen Chen instinctively reached out, but then realized that it was a human, and spiritual power was useless. His long, powerful legs naturally took over the following action, kicking the dark shadow fiercely.

"Divine Word: Solidify."

At the same time, his fingers drew a circle, quickly cutting off the white line on the shadow.

The shadow immediately flew back like a kite with its string cut.

Behind the shadow was a rubber doll of a little boy with a big back head, wearing a small suit and a red bow tie. Its rubber neck was strangely long.

White lines stretched out from its open fingers. The little boy with the big back head had two cracks on the corners of his mouth. The cracks opened and closed, connected to the corners of his mouth:

"Wow, attacking the police~"

The man lying on the ground unable to get up was wearing a uniform. The straight line of Shen Chen's talisman was connected to his back. The doll's eyebrows raised, and it let out an excited, strange cry!

"Sentence! Sentence! Sentence him! Just sentence him to be my new doll!" The doll's ten joints bent, and ten lines shot towards Shen Chen.

Shen Chen dodged one and jumped up, stepping on the white line, wanting to step on the line and quickly reach the doll to grab it head-on. However, as soon as he jumped up and stepped on the line, the white line entered Shen Chen's skin without any resistance. He frowned.

The white line pulled at Shen Chen's leg, controlling it.

"New doll! New doll! If you become my new doll! This time it will definitely succeed! If it's you, if I use you! I can definitely take that kid down!"

"Divine Word: Solidify!"

The essence of blue spiritual power concentrated on his fingertips. He moved his fingers and quickly cut off the white line.

The white line was just the beginning. Three more figures pounced on him. The man lying on the ground, the man who attacked Li Xiao Gui in the restroom, and another thin man rushed towards him from three directions.

Shen Chen grabbed one man's wrist, twisted it, and the muscles from his arm to his shoulder twisted. Blue veins popped out, and there was a clicking sound of bones dislocating.

"Ah!" The man in uniform screamed.

Shen Chen took advantage of the momentum and smashed the man into the people behind him. Then, he kicked forward, sending the thin man flying. He quickly approached the leader of the three.

His movements were decisive, clean, and flowed smoothly without any pause.

Right, horizontal, down, vertical, left, seal.

Shen Chen quickly drew a cuboid, originally wanting to seal the boy doll. However, another slightly taller doll rushed out of the darkness. The doll's expression was the inherent stiffness and eerieness of rubber, and it was carrying a watermelon knife.

Very exciting. If this knife went down, it would definitely draw blood. This was not a small matter.

Shen Chen didn't hesitate at all. He changed his target and pointed his finger at the tall doll.

"Divine Word:"

"Talisman: Water Burst!"

Shen Chen felt a wet pressure behind him and decisively rolled to the side. The sudden water ball was cut off by the doll holding the knife. Shen Chen turned his head and looked at the thin man behind him with heavy eyes: "Exorcist?"

It was only when Shen Chen stopped that he realized that his right ankle was stinging a little, as if it had been scratched by something. He looked down and saw that the trouser leg of his right ankle had been cut open.

There was a black footprint on the thin man's chest. Shen Chen thought of something and looked at the pocket on the man's chest.

It was slightly bulging, as if something was inside.

The thin man's lips trembled: "I, I can't help it, I, I was summoned by the abyss, I can't help it!"

He was now one with the doll. He had seen those sealed dolls. The contractor would be dragged into the abyss along with them. He didn't want that, he couldn't help but help them.

The thin man bit his lip: "Talisman: Water Burst!"

Divine Word, language was the switch, language gave meaning to spiritual power. Without a command to give meaning, spiritual power had no master, it was formless, powerful, but meaningless. It was just spiritual power.

He had to interrupt Shen Chen's sentence and not let him speak.

He couldn't fall into the abyss.

When the water ball smashed over, the doll's white lines also shot over. Shen Chen looked at the white lines, his eyes flashed with realization, and then he looked at the exorcist.

"You know, right? You understand me, I can't help it! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Seeing the look in Shen Chen's eyes, the exorcist's eyes welled up with a humble, pitiful look that craved approval. But there was none.

Shen Chen looked at him with calm and indifferent eyes, not taking him seriously at all, high and mighty. A surge of anger suddenly welled up in the exorcist's heart, and his humble and frightened expression shattered.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Why are you looking down on me? You look down on me? What right do you have to look down on me! We're all the same! I'm helping the abyss, although I'm forced to, I don't mean it, I don't want to…" he said painfully, "But aren't you helping ghosts? We're both the same, why are you acting so high and mighty!"

Shen Chen: "?"

Shen Chen: "…The ghost you're talking about is exorcising for an exorcist."

"But they're ghosts! You actually trust them! You think that just because they're raising a human, playing house and becoming her guardian, they're really human? How many people have they saved now, and how many will they be able to kill when they lose control later! Can you control them? Ghosts are ghosts! You trust them? Or do you know that even if they break down, they will still help the evildoers? Then why don't you just side with the ghosts from the beginning?"

Shen Chen only said, "How do you know I can't?"

The exorcist was stunned for a moment. After realizing what the kid had said, his eyes widened. He only felt that it was ridiculous. Those five ghosts were so powerful, they had never failed to exorcise so many powerful ghosts, yet this kid actually dared to say such arrogant words.

Twenty minutes later, the exorcist was pinned to the ground, the man in uniform collapsed on the ground, unable to get up again. All the dolls except the one in the exorcist's pocket were sealed.

Shen Chen pressed his finger on the struggling doll in the exorcist's pocket and said, "Is that all?"

The exorcist was scared and looked at Shen Chen in horror. He didn't expect that powerful doll to be sealed so easily. Thinking about how the man had been dragged into the abyss by chains the moment the doll was sealed, his legs trembled and his hands and feet went limp. He didn't want to be the next.

"Don't! Don't seal it! Please, I don't want to fall into the abyss! I, I don't want to! Please!"

Shen Chen only asked calmly, "What's the purpose? Why target Li Xiao Gui?"

"Don't, don't blame me! I was forced, I didn't want to! It's all, all Li Xiao Gui's fault, relying on the ghosts' love, helping humans to contain the abyss, don't you think it's too ridiculous? She can't be raised by ghosts like this, yet she's helping humans, her stance is so ambiguous! She won't be accepted by either side! We just wanted to ask Li Xiao Gui for a favor, to persuade the ghosts that are raising her! Really, really!"

Persuade? Was it always persuasion, or did they only say "persuade" after they lost?

"Let's, let's work together! You, you know, as long as the ones raising Li Xiao Gui are ghosts, no one will trust them! No matter how much you do! You won't be trusted! Why don't you join us! We should be on the same side, right? You, you came here today because of her, right? You like her! You should help her! She should be on our side!" the cowardly exorcist said hopefully.

"Shh. Shut up."

"Don't you dare lay a finger on her."

Shen Chen said, then sealed the doll in the exorcist's pocket.

"Divine Word: Seal."

After doing all this, Shen Chen looked up at a corner on the second floor. A ghost had just left from there.

×××

In the haunted house, the female ghost walked through the door. She sat on the sofa, opened the second drawer of the cabinet next to the sofa, and took out a notebook and a pen.

She ticked the box next to "Boyfriend material".

After thinking about it, she also silently ticked the boxes next to "Understands Li Xiao Gui" and "Respects Li Xiao Gui".

Then, thinking of Shen Chen's arrogant words of "How could I not?" and his confident words of sealing them if they lost control, she silently crossed out the keyword "Filial".

She nodded and shook her head as she ticked and crossed out, as if she was evaluating something.

"Pass."

"Pass."

"Fail."

Author's Note:

Female ghost: Sigh, what a difficult decision.

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