Chapter 68 Evil Spirit-eating (7)
Lv Jiayan's scream at this moment enraged the Resentful Granny.
Her bent back suddenly straightened, and the Resentful Granny also looked over. Upon seeing Lü Qiang and Wang Qin eating the candle, she hesitated for a moment.
But she immediately turned her head back, looking at the agitated Lv Jiayan, who was about to cry.
This was simply the best opportunity to intervene.
The Resentful Granny stretched out her withered arm, reaching for Lv Jiayan's face.
"Resentful Granny, they're eating the candle, look, hey, it smells so good!"
Yan Junze's voice came through.
Huang Chen was about to throw the Hidden Buckle and flee with Lv Jiayan at that moment.
But the Resentful Granny's movements suddenly stiffened, her arm remaining outstretched as she twisted her head back again to look in Yan Junze's direction.
The gaze emanating from her gray pupils paused silently on Lü Qiang and Wang Qin, who were eagerly engulfing the candle.
Seeing this, Huang Chen finally understood. No wonder Yan Junze was looking for candles; he knew about the strangenesses of Lü Qiang and Wang Qin in the restroom and deliberately found candles for them to eat, hence attracting Granny Ren's attention.
However... how did this kid know about the strangenesses of Lü Qiang and Wang Qin here? Despite being a qualified one-star exorcist, he himself was unaware of it.
At that moment, the Resentful Granny shook her head, turning back again, issuing a dull clucking sound from her mouth, accompanied by a strange, metal-like friction noise, as she once again redirected her focus to Lv Jiayan.
"I can't tempt her!"
Yan Junze, his heart hardening, carried Lü Qiang and Wang Qin directly behind the Resentful Granny and threw them at her feet.
At this time, the two strangenesses' candle-eating movements clearly began to slow, their bodies trembling incessantly, the immense pressure from the Resentful Granny making it impossible for them to continue feeding normally.
"Hmm, newly born evils feeding on candles, come take a look, what a beautiful scene!"
Yan Junze took two steps backward, crossing his arms in front of his chest as if admiring a beautiful painting.
Once again, the Resentful Granny stopped her motion toward Lv Jiayan, turned her head back, and slightly lowered it to look at the couple at her feet, slowly chewing on the candles.
The friction noise from her throat was no longer muffled but became increasingly sharp and piercing.
Her mouth opened slightly, and a voice as if coming directly from her throat uttered: "Scram..."
Just after uttering this word, as the Resentful Granny was about to turn her head back, Lü Qiang, who was feeding on the candle, suddenly reached out and clutched her left foot.
"Mom!" Lü Qiang, his mouth stuffed with red candlewax that was dribbling down the corners of his mouth, mumbled unclearly, "I... was wrong, don't, she is still... a child..."
"Mom!" Wang Qin also, with one hand clutching the remaining half of the candle and the other hand holding the Resentful Granny's right foot, said, "Spare her..."
The Resentful Granny's sallow face first froze in shock and then a hint of anger flashed across her always expressionless face as she stared down at Lü Qiang and Wang Qin.
Afterward, she slowly extended her index finger, pointing at her son lying at her feet, seeming to carry all the grievances and unwillingness within her, and from her throat, she again spat out two words, gritting her teeth.
"Beast..."
"Mom..."
Wang Qin was about to speak again when Lü Qiang cried out hoarsely, his voice strained, "I was wrong, Mom! I didn't mean to..."
"Huh? What's happening?"
Yan Junze detected an undertone in their words and couldn't help but pause for a moment.
Huang Chen was also taken aback, shifting his attention from the Resentful Granny and looking down at Lü Qiang, who was sprawled on the ground.
"You just need to... give me some money, and I'll leave, but you refuse! Why... won't you give it to me? I, your son, am... in a tight spot!" Lü Qiang cried out, "I was drinking, and that comb...
I didn't mean it, sorry... Mom, I'm sorry!"
The Resentful Granny's face was almost contorted at this moment; her gray, flower-like hair stood on end, and the strangeness around her intensified invisibly several times over, blowing the clothes of those present, making them flutter noisily.
"Such a strong weird magnetic field!"
At this moment, not just Huang Chen, but even Yan Junze, who had become involved in this halfway, could tell that something was amiss. The Resentful Granny before them, at this moment, seemed to be filled with even more resentment, and her terrifying strength was continuously increasing.
Under this intense pressure, Lü Qiang and Wang Qin couldn't speak anymore and even their hands, which had been clutching the Resentful Granny, involuntarily let go, curling up to the side.
The Resentful Granny turned her head again, facing Lu Jiayan, who was shivering violently.
"Continue... eating the candles," Yan Junze's voice rose.
Lü Qiang and Wang Qin came to their senses, exchanged a glance of strangeness, and once again clutched the Resentful Granny's legs, stuffing the candles into their mouths frantically, chewing non-stop.
The Resentful Granny twisted her head again, but this time it was to look at Yan Junze.
Yan Junze stepped back involuntarily.
Under a kind of instinctive allure, the Resentful Granny lowered her head again, her gaze falling on the couple as they consumed the candles.
Just then, she seemed to swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Yan Junze stepped further back, his voice instructing, "Look up at her, watch her eat."
The couple, despite the terror in their hearts, lifted their heads, facing the Resentful Granny, letting her clearly see the entire process of their eating the candles.
Seeing this scene, an innate craving grew uncontrollably in the heart of the Resentful Granny, the frictional sounds from her throat becoming increasingly intense.
Suddenly, unable to contain herself any longer, the Resentful Granny bent over and grabbed Lü Qiang by the shoulder.
Lü Qiang trembled in fright, and without control, he started to levitate; the Resentful Granny's expression clearly struggling and resisting something.
But the next second, the old woman opened her mouth anyway.
Her mouth was like a dried-up old well, pitch-black and profoundly deep.
"Lu Jiayan, close your eyes!" Huang Chen said.
Lu Jiayan, who had already been terrified out of her wits, immediately closed her eyes, but as she did, tears she had been holding back finally fell from her eyes.
A spine-chilling crackling sound ensued, causing goosebumps to rise all over one's body.
Lu Jiayan felt she was on the verge of collapse, everything around her seemed so unreal, more illusory than a dream, all falsehoods.
The crackling sound briefly paused.
About two seconds later, the agonized screams of Wang Qin could be heard. Lu Jiayan couldn't bear it any longer and fainted on the couch.
Contrary to Yan Junze's expectations, the entire process wasn't bloody since Lü Qiang and Wang Qin had already become strangenesses. They were like products of a weird magnetic field, devoid of real bodies. In the mouth of the Resentful Granny, they seemed to disintegrate, their body parts becoming mosaic-like, pieces of them being devoured.
At first, the Resentful Granny clearly struggled and resisted, but now she was quickening the pace of the spirit-eating, an uncontrollable sense of satisfaction showing in her expression.
Of course, the influence of the candles played a certain role in this consumption.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om