My Family Is Very Odd

A sudden panic, like a drumbeat, struck Xili's heart.

For a moment, her mind went blank. She opened her eyes wide in confusion, arched her back, and clutched her chest. What, what was happening?

Shen Chen also noticed Xili's abnormality and frowned.

An indescribable panic made Xili instinctively want to summon her puppet back.

Something must have happened to the puppet.

"It seems that the little ghost is unexpectedly powerful!" Xili laughed dryly. She raised her head and glared at Shen Chen with resentment, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead.

It's okay, she just had to summon it back. So what if it's more powerful than imagined? She just had to summon it back. She could make a plan for next time.

Xili was completely flustered. She wasn't as confident and calm as she sounded because she knew it was definitely not a good choice to call back the injured puppet while Shen Chen was still there.

But her sixth sense told her that she had to summon the puppet back now.

It's okay, it's okay, she could handle it. It didn't matter what happened…

At least, she wouldn't die.

Thinking this, Xili widened her eyes, her eyes bloodshot. A circle of light appeared at her feet.

The color of the circle of light gradually became intense, revealing its original appearance.

"Ha!" Xili gasped sharply and looked down.

When you gaze into the abyss… the abyss gazes also into you.

"Ah—" Xili screamed.

The abyss stretched out countless chains, wrapping them around Xili and dragging her down.

"What is this? What is this! No, no! I don't want to! Don't pull me!" Xili struggled randomly, trying to break free from the chains, but she didn't know where these chains were wrapped around her.

Because these chains completely passed through her arms, chest, and back, completely submerged into the depths.

How could she untie them? Even if she used all her strength to pull the chains, they wouldn't budge.

This had happened once during the campus ghost story night. If Li Xiao Gui was here, she would find that unlike the boy who was entangled by chains, this had gone deeper from the surface.

Half of Xili's body had already sunk into the abyss. Her eyes widened, her pupils trembling in their sockets, and countless bloodshot eyes appeared in the whites of her eyes. "Help me! Help me!"

Xili stretched out her hand.

If a human had a relationship with something from the abyss, when it was sealed and expelled, the human would be dragged into the abyss along with it. The deeper the connection, the tighter the chains would be.

Shen Chen remembered what the young ghost had said.

Shen Chen frowned and stretched out his hand towards Xili, using his spiritual power at the same time.

But no tutorial had taught them how to break the connection between the abyss and humans. He could only try to use his spiritual power to pull Xili and attack the abyss, hoping to make the abyss merge.

Xili used all her strength to grab Shen Chen's hand like a drowning person struggling with all her might.

But Xili was still dragged into the abyss, full of despair and unwillingness.

The orphanage was quiet, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep.

After a while, Shen Chen's phone rang. He paused and pressed the answer button.

A female voice on the other end of the phone asked worriedly, "Shen Chen, is this the person who called 120?"

"Yes, teacher. We came to the kitchen and found Uncle Ah Qing fainted for some reason."

"..."

Shen Chen stayed in the kitchen to clean up a bit, and Li Xiao Gui ran towards the five ghosts like a little chick flapping its wings, raising her head proudly.

"Grandpa, grandma, dad, mom, brother! The exorcism was successful! Am I amazing?" Li Xiao Gui stopped, put her hands behind her back, raised her head, and asked with a bright smile.

The Burly ghost clicked his camera. "Little Gui baby is super amazing! Super cool!"

Ghost grandpa put the newspaper on the table, stretched out his old hand, and silently rubbed Li Xiao Gui's hair.

The pale and old hand was a few centimeters away from Li Xiao Gui's hair, slightly bent, stroking again and again.

Li Xiao Gui, who received the praise, happily narrowed her eyes.

The cool breeze also ruffled Li Xiao Gui's hair. It looked like it had really been messed up.

"This is the new exorcism technique I learned." Li Xiao Gui said.

Ghost grandma said, "Little Gui can protect herself now."

Li Xiao Gui replied, "Yes."

The Female ghost waved her hand and yawned lazily while combing Li Xiao Gui's hair strand by strand.

"Good job, little Gui."

Li Xiao Gui was overjoyed, her eyes meeting the Young ghost's eyes involuntarily, looking at it with expectant stars.

Only Li Xiao Gui would have such expectations for such lightless eyes. The Young ghost thought with disgust.

"Ah!"

Li Xiao Gui's feet were off the ground, and suddenly her whole body flew up.

The Young ghost stretched out its hand and raised both hands high. Li Xiao Gui flew in the air around them.

It was like being held and spun around.

Li Xiao Gui was so happy that her eyes narrowed.

The Young ghost flew around with Li Xiao Gui twice before putting her down.

As soon as Li Xiao Gui's toes touched the ground, a first aid kit suddenly appeared out of thin air, followed by her phone.

"Enough playing, it's time for medicine." The Young ghost skillfully opened the first aid kit and took out the sponge and iodine. "Look at your face, hands, and knees."

The Young ghost said with disgust, but when the sponge touched Li Xiao Gui's soft skin, its brows furrowed, and its movements became careful and serious.

"Hiss…" Li Xiao Gui gasped, the pain hitting her belatedly.

Li Xiao Gui's skin was fair, and any redness or bruising was very noticeable. A small hill appeared between the Young ghost's eyebrows, and its movements trembled along with Li Xiao Gui's voice.

"Oh my God, my baby, does it hurt a lot?" Ghost grandma said distressedly.

Li Xiao Gui blinked, puffed out her small chest, and put on a familiar expression of feigned maturity. "It doesn't hurt."

These injuries were just a trivial matter during the battle, but after it was over, they struck a hundred times more, as if magnified by a magnifying glass.

Li Xiao Gui clenched her small fists tightly, and the flesh on both sides of her pursed lips trembled slightly.

She looked both pitiful and funny, clearly in pain. But the medicine still had to be applied. The Young ghost could only make its movements lighter and lighter.

The good thing about ghosts applying medicine was that they were cold. Approaching them was like being near cold air, which slightly froze and calmed the wound. They could also make the sand grains float out of the wound one by one without having to rinse it repeatedly with water.

Li Xiao Gui had tried that at the school infirmary, and it was so painful.

Even with so many benefits, when the disinfectant touched the wound, Li Xiao Gui still felt like a bolt of lightning had struck her.

When Shen Chen finished cleaning up and found Li Xiao Gui, she was being surrounded by the five shadowless, pale ghosts who were applying medicine to her.

"Gently, gently," the Burly ghost said.

The Female ghost said, "There's also some on her forehead."

Ghost grandma said, "Oh dear, there's some on her knees too, on her knees too."

Ghost grandpa added, "And her arms."

Shen Chen was also carrying a first aid kit in his hand and slowly approached them. He had specifically asked the doctor for this first aid kit just now.

"Shen Chen." Li Xiao Gui called out.

"Yes." Shen Chen nodded and squatted down beside Li Xiao Gui. He opened the first aid kit and took out a sponge and some medicine to apply to Li Xiao Gui's wounds.

Li Xiao Gui said, "That's Uncle Ah Qing, right? Is he okay? I've driven the spirit away."

"He's fine. I've already contacted the doctor," Shen Chen replied.

Li Xiao Gui continued, "That's good. Shen Chen, I successfully exorcised two spirits by myself just now."

"That's amazing," Shen Chen praised.

Li Xiao Gui added, "Just now, in addition to the spirit that ran out of Uncle Ah Qing, there was also a parasitic abyss. I don't know where it came from."

"It was Xili's," Shen Chen revealed.

Li Xiao Gui was stunned for a moment, then let out a soft "ah."

"I'm going to apply the medicine now," Shen Chen said.

At this time, the Young ghost had just pressed the cotton wool on, and Li Xiao Gui came back to her senses with a jolt, nodding with a frown. "Okay."

As Shen Chen applied the medicine to Li Xiao Gui's wounds, when the disinfectant took effect and the pain became intense, he leaned down slightly and blew on her wounds.

Just like when they were kids.

A little blow and the pain was gone.

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