Chapter 13: Ghost hunting also requires blockbuster effects

There was also another door in the kitchen, and I opened it, but it was locked too! 

The exam venue was an escape room. You needed to escape the room, at the same time, deal with a ghost. 

It was an impossible feat for a mere mortal!

But when it came to playing games… hehe… and the more impossible the task, the more I, Xia Xiaolan, would like to play!

Inexplicably, it ignited my excitement more~~

There was no time for nonsense, so I placed the bundle of dangerous items on the marble countertop that was closest to the window, then I moved to the sink. The sink happened to be a dangerous place in the movie where sorts of oddities like hairs appeared. I covered it with a board, removed the tap next, then wrapped it in cling film. A cling film was a must have, a universal artifact in the kitchen! 

Ha! This time, I showed my strong lady’s skills. At home, dad and I depended on each other. I was also a half-man there, so I had done various jobs. 

I quickly unplugged the water pipes, got a rag to block all the drains, then I sprinkled a circle of salt on the side to prevent weird things from coming and going. In Chinese and foreign ghost films, salt was commonly used to exorcise evil entities. I didn’t know if this was true or not, anyway, I would still use it. I sprinkled another row of salt at the entrance of the kitchen which consumed a lot. 

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“Bang!” The glass shattered, splashing everywhere like sparkles of light flying into the dark outside. 

“Bah…” the lights flickered in the kitchen. When I looked back at the timer floating in the air, it was nowhere to be seen. Silence  descended in the whole villa like it was a tomb. 

I didn’t have the leisure to dwell on fear. Continuing my previous actions, I smashed the remaining crumbs of glass on the window frame, so I wouldn’t get stabbed. Holding the hammer in my hand was more practical.   

I grabbed the knife and fork, and threw them out of the window. Having read many ghost stories, I was aware that ghosts were bound to the house and wouldn’t go out. It was safer outside. 

The temperature in the house plummeted rapidly, and the hairs on my body stood up because of the sudden chill in the air. I faced the entrance guardedly. The light went out with a bang!

“Ah!” I sneezed because of the cold. I rubbed my arms together to ward off the cold. 

I picked up the lid of the wok, and moved behind the stove with a hammer in the other hand. The flames of the stove lit up the kitchen. 

During this time, it was useless to turn on the lights because, for sure, they wouldn’t work.  

I carefully picked up the soaked bottles of vegetable and sesame oils, and brought them to the stove top to light them. Then, I placed them on two corners to provide more light. 

“Hehehe…” A child’s laughter echoed in the darkness. 

“Ta, ta, ta, ta…” It was the sound of something rolling amidst the dark. “Bang, bang…” Jumping sounds followed, it was getting closer to me. 

I put down the lid and hammer, and replaced it with the pot, but it didn’t work against the ball. 

The black ball jumped over my salt defense, then it rolled on the ground. “Gululu…” With the flickering light, I could see traces of hair on the floor. 

“Huh, I know it’s your head!” My lips curved in a wicked grin. 

“Stay with me…” I didn’t hesitate to catch the head with the pot as it moved toward me! This sister had been watching horror movies since I was six years old. How could I not know that you were the head of a ghost?! Hmph! I grew up watching scary horror movies!

“Ah! Let me go! Let me go!” It banged under the pot. 

I put heavy pressure on the pot, pushed it forward on the floor toward the oversized double-door freezer. I sat my butt down on the pot as I thought about what to do. Then, I calmly opened the freezer, took out all the frozen boxes, moved my ass, and slightly opened the side of the pot facing the freezer. “Thud!” The head jumped out, directly into the exit I prepared: the freezer!

“Ah!” The head was stunned, so I immediately closed the door of the freezer. 

“Thump!” It tried to escape but it was shut inside. 

“Thud! Thud!” It banged inside. 

I leaned on the freezer with one hand, and the other flicked my messy bangs. I said, “You’re already dead but still so unsophisticated, dead people should stay in the freezer… do you  understand?~~~ If you come out, you’ll rot fast, idiot!” 

Suddenly, there was no sound inside. It should have been quiet. 

There were only two kinds of ghosts on TV, one was a spirit with no substance. If you touch the ghost, your hand would penetrate through it. The spirit would go through anything. This kind  of ghost was usually the main lead of romance ghost movies. Anyway, I hadn’t watched much of them as the protagonist of hardcore horror movies. 

Most often, the kind of spirit in hardcore horror movies would have physical presence and would chase you around to kill you in a horrible way. I didn’t know if my knowledge pertaining to horror movies was applicable here, it was like beating a dead horse. 

“My head… give me back my head…” Before I could catch my breath, a headless woman walked out of the darkness. “Give me back my head…” When she was at the entrance of the kitchen, she suddenly stopped. Huh, the salt sure did do its job!

“Crack…” Her body curved downwards as I grabbed my hammer and pot lid again. “Crack!” Her hands folded too, stood on all fours, then she jumped over the white salt. I was dumbfounded as I watched her leapt to the roof. 

“Damn hell! This thing is good! It can climb walls!” She climbed on the roof to my position over my head, and as soon as she reached out her hand, the freezer door opened with a “swish!”. The human head flew out, and as it passed by me, I instinctively held the lid. 

“Bang~~~” The human  head hit the lid of my tempered glass pot. “Bang!” It fell onto the stove in front of me, and without thinking about it, I grabbed the hair quickly, opened the oven below, and threw it inside. My move was so fast that I didn’t react on time,  it was solely an instinctive reaction. Only after doing it did I feel the sticky feeling of decomposed meat and the disgusting smell of rot in my hands. 

I wiped my hands on my clothes and knelt down to look at the head inside the oven. She turned to me, glaring angrily. “Hmm-mm- let me out…” 

I shrugged. “Sorry, habitual reaction to flying objects. I’m used to swatting mosquitoes and flies.” 

“Ah-ah-ah-”  

“You’re noisy!” I grimaced and turned on the oven quickly. She looked at my hand in panic. “Dont… don’t—” 

“Don’t?” I raised an eyebrow, “What do I care? I want to pass! If you have complaints, please complain to the leaders of the academy.” 

“Ah—” she hissed in anger as her eyes widened. “Bang!” Suddenly, something hit me. I was smashed with a heavy object, and the rotten smell rushed to me. It was her body!

Immediately, I crawled out from under the smelly body, but my feet were suddenly yanked down. I turned around, grabbed my hammer, and smashed it into the hand that held me. 

With a cry of pain, the head in the oven screamed. Escaping successfully, I got up and grabbed the pot of water I prepared and put out the fire on the stove top which instantly plunged the kitchen into darkness, and only the two oil bottles were left. 

At the same time, a soft, hissing sound appeared. It was the sound of a gas leakage.  

The woman’s body turned around to turn on the stove in the darkness, so I immediately grabbed the gas canister, picked up the oil bottle, aimed it at the woman’s hand, then blasted the gas.

“Whoo—” The flames hit the woman’s hand directly.    

“Ah-ah-ah-ah!” The woman stepped back as I let go of the gas canister, and smelled the gas in the air. 

Immediately, I picked up the previously prepared wine bottles, ran to the window and crawled out, standing far away. I faced the kitchen, took out my lighter and ignited the napkin at the mouth of the wine. Then, I threw it to the woman inside!

“Bang!” Sparks flew into the air, and in the middle of the fire, the woman stood up and joined her head to her neck. When I saw it, I quickly threw the other wine bottle at her. 

“Bang!” The flames grew stronger, and the woman stiffly stretched her hand in front of her. Glaring angrily at me, her face was scorched and her eyes were bloody. One eyeball almost fell out of the eye socket.   

She roared angrily, “Ah-ah-ah!” It was full of extreme hatred directed at me. It made me uncomfortable, making me a bit guilty. 

When the words, “I’m sorry…” came out, there was a loud explosion inside, “Boom!” The strong shockwave sent me flying, and I landed on the ground hard. “Thud!” The pain was unbearable, feeling like my butt shattered into pieces. I couldn’t even yell.   

“Bang!” The kitchen door burst open, blown to my side. It startled me. 

“Ugh…” I gasped as I got up, rubbing my butt as I looked at the scorching flames inside the kitchen. After checking it out for a while, I screamed in excitement, “Yes!” 

Damn! Hollywood movies! Blowing up a house was very awesome!

Could you even do it in real life? Did you have the courage?

“Hahahahaha… cool!” I laughed and laughed with my hands on my hips. Suddenly, my mouth turned cramp because I saw the woman take a step out of the fire, one at a time. She proceeded to walk outside of the kitchen door!

She was charred, and all that was left on her face was one bloodshot eye! Earlier, there was another eye hanging out of the socket, now, it was nowhere to be seen. It must have been blown out to only God knows where. The empty eye socket was especially frightening. 

Holy shit! I thought ghosts like this couldn’t come out of the house!