My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 174 Malice's Choice

Chapter 174 Malice's Choice

Li Jiuhe lay down by the bed and fell asleep without realizing it.

When Li Yi woke up, it was already evening. Night had fallen outside the window, and the streetlights were just coming on, but she was still fast asleep.

The room was dimly lit.

He straightened up, moved his slightly sore and numb arms, and then opened his phone to check the screen.

He discovered that the deliveryman who delivered the clothes had called him, but he didn't answer. Then the deliveryman sent him a message saying that the clothes and shoes he had delivered were already placed in the hotel lobby.

At this moment, the only light in the room was from the faint glow of Li Jiuhe's phone screen; the rest of the room was dark.

Just then, Li Jiuhe noticed out of the corner of his eye that someone seemed to be sitting in a chair against the wall on his right.

Surprised, he turned his head to look. The light in that place was even dimmer, almost completely shrouded in darkness. He could only vaguely make out the outline of a chair and a figure sitting in it.

He became alert and immediately turned the light from his phone screen towards the corner where the chair was.

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Under the light, only an empty chair was visible, with no one sitting on it.

Li Jiuhe got up and approached, examining it carefully for a moment. He confirmed that it was just an empty chair, but the vague outline of the human figure from before still lingered in his mind.

He didn't know if it was his imagination or if there really was someone sitting there just now.

Li Yi was still fast asleep. He didn't dare turn on all the lights in the room. He walked to the other side of the bed and was groping to see which one was the ambient light when Li Yi turned over and opened her mouth sleepily.

"Dad, where are you?"

Li Jiuhe immediately replied, "Xiaoyi is awake, Daddy's here."

Li Yi stretched her arms out from under the covers and yawned.

"Watch out, squint your eyes, Dad's going to turn on the light," Li Jiuhe reminded him.

He then turned on the main light switch for the room.

The room was instantly filled with light, sweeping away the darkness in the corners.

Li Jiuhe said, "Get up first, I'll go downstairs to the lobby and get the new clothes I bought for you."

"Dad, don't go." Li Yi sat up in bed and shook her head quickly.

At this moment, Li Jiuhe noticed that one of her eyes was completely black and the other completely white, but this scene quickly disappeared, and her eyes instantly returned to normal.

He rushed over and took his daughter's little hand.

Did you have a nightmare?

Li Yi had been staying in that terrifying abandoned wooden house for a while, and it would definitely take her some time to adjust psychologically after coming out. So, in Li Jiuhe's opinion, it was normal for her to have nightmares.

Li Yi didn't answer him, but her expression became slightly tense: "Dad, I just dreamt that there were other people in this room!"

Li Jiuhe said, "I was sitting by the bed the whole time. It was just the two of us in the room, there was no—"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Yi interrupted him.

Li Yi pointed to the chair in the corner: "That person is sitting in that chair."

Li Jiuhe's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously looked at the chair again.

Li Yi's words coincided with his earlier illusion, because he had also had a vague feeling that he saw someone sitting in the corner of the wall in the darkness.

But when I got closer, I found nothing there, so I thought I was seeing things.

Was there really someone sitting there just now?

"Are you sure you were dreaming when you saw someone sitting in that chair?" Li Jiuhe asked in surprise.

Li Yi nodded: "Yes, it was the same when I was in the cabin. Even when I was asleep, I could tell if anything strange was approaching me, and I could even see them in my dreams."

Recalling the scene where Li Yi's eyes had turned black and white, Li Jiuhe believed her words without a doubt.

"Is the person sitting in that chair a man or a woman?" he asked.

"A woman."

"What does it look like?"

Li Yi thought for a while before saying, "She looks very strange, like—a witch. She's wearing a small hat, has a pointed chin, a high and pointed nose, and she's wearing a very dirty dress, with what looks like little bugs crawling on it."

Li Jiuhe looked suspicious. Based on Li Yi's description, he couldn't recall ever having seen this person before.

Moreover, this person's appearance doesn't seem to be that of someone from the Tian Shu Kingdom.

"Is she... a Westerner?" Li Jiuhe suddenly asked.

Li Yi nodded: "It looks a bit like her, but her hat covered it up, so I couldn't see it very clearly."

Just then, Li Jiuhe suddenly thought of a possibility.

He remembered that when Ma Li came out of the haunted house, she told him that there was a playing card under Guo Fan's body, and the card was "Q".

This "Q" card represents the Queen, and it depicts a Westerner.

Normally, this empress should have a dignified and elegant appearance, befitting a mother of the nation. However, after seeing the clown figure in the Joker card, Li Jiuhe no longer believes that this "empress" is normal.

Therefore, Guo Fan may have played this card before his death. The specific function of this card is currently unknown, but it is most likely to be detrimental to his own side.

"And now? Can you still sense that woman's presence?" Li Jiuhe asked.

"She's gone." Li Yi shook her head. "She left after I woke up."

As she spoke, she quickly glanced around the room before turning her gaze away from the doorway.

Li Jiuhe was constantly on a mission cycle, so he wasn't worried about danger, but it was always better to be cautious.

"Then I'll have someone bring your new clothes up. After you change, we'll go to the hospital to see Uncle Tong."

"it is good."

The two quickly got ready, left the hotel, hailed a taxi on the street, and headed straight to the hospital.

On the way to the hospital, Li Jiuhe mentally asked the Death Pass, "This time I owe you the life of an evil sequence user. If you find a suitable target, remember to tell me in advance."

Don't worry, I've been keeping an eye on things. There are several targets right now, including some within the Bureau of Investigation, but you definitely won't take action against them.

Death Pass clearly hasn't forgotten this agreement and has been working hard to explore it.

Li Jiuhe smiled and said, "It's good that you know. By the way, if you already know the purpose of those people combining you with the haunted house and tearing open the space-time rift, remember to tell me as soon as possible."

Of course, our agreement is that I will provide you with all kinds of information, and I will definitely notify you as soon as there is any news.

One of the seven Yin-Yang locations, an extremely steep mirror-like cliff.

This mountain wall is like a huge mirror, as if it had been sculpted by a knife, eerily suspended thousands of meters in the dim sky.

Below is a bottomless abyss, above is an endless expanse.

At this moment, in one of the locations on this enormous mirror wall, inside the transparent cliff face, a young man wearing baggy shorts, a white vest, and flip-flops can be seen walking freely inside.

This guy gives off an impression of being irresponsible and unproductive at first glance.

He seemed very familiar with the inside of the cliff, and there seemed to be nothing blocking his way. He quickly arrived at a cracked rock inside.

The young man lay prone in the crack, which was about the size of a fist, his mouth close to the fissure. He spoke, "Miss Shi, someone wants to open a spatial rift. Could you check if it's someone in the Abyss who wants to enter my world? Let me know if you get any information."

The crack initially showed no reaction, but after the nonchalant young man finished speaking, the entire crack suddenly began to tremble.

A rumbling sound rang out, and small pebbles fell, seemingly in response to the young man.

The young man smiled and nodded, then turned and left.

One of the Seven Lands of Yin and Yang, the Mysterious Forest.

This is a forest that is shrouded in gray fog all year round, never seeing the sun, and filled with gloomy energy. The trees in it are all towering giants, covered with burls from trunk to branch, growing at strange angles and with extremely exaggerated shapes.

The carefree young man soon emerged from a huge tree hole.

He seemed quite familiar with this place. Standing outside the tree hollow, he looked up at the eerie forest and could see that many areas of the giant trees in the distance were already shrouded in darkness.

After a moment, the young man sighed, "It seems you'll follow in the footsteps of those who live in the abandoned wooden huts. What exactly is this 'Abyss' planning?"

He then took a step forward and soon came to a giant tree that was taller than all the trees around him.

It would probably take more than forty people to encircle this giant tree. As the young man approached, the leaves rustled as if greeting him.

The young man, familiar with the way, turned to the other side of the giant tree and saw that there was still a hole in the trunk on this side.

The shape of this tree hole is quite peculiar, resembling a person sitting cross-legged inside.

The young man poked his head into the tree hollow and spoke the same words repeatedly: "Grandpa Tree, someone is trying to open a spacetime rift. Could you check if anyone in the 'Abyss' wants to come to my world? Let me know if you find out."

Just as he was about to turn and leave, the tree hole suddenly trembled violently, and then the edges of the hole suddenly contracted.

The young man was taken aback and turned to look at it.

A tremor came from the tree hollow, and soon something fell out and rolled to the young man's feet.

The young man bent down and picked it up, discovering it was a tree carving depicting a human figure, though the body looked somewhat strange.

The young man frowned, somewhat puzzled when he first saw the tree carving.

After examining it carefully for a while, he suddenly remembered something, turned the tree carving over and over and looked at it carefully several times, his eyes becoming more and more surprised.

"It's him. Could it be that he wants to enter our world?" the young man muttered to himself. "What exactly does this guy want?"

He must have promised Guo Fan some benefits, otherwise that kid wouldn't have gone to such lengths, risking offending the Investigation Bureau to try and bring him over.

After a pause, the young man guessed, "The Guo family lacks nothing. If they could entice Guo Fan, could the thing he promised be—a divine prodigy?"

Looking back now, only a divine curse could make the Guo family make such a sacrifice, and only a divine curse is something that all the major families, including the Guo family, need right now.

"Thank you, Grandpa Tree, I understand now." The young man looked up and thanked him.

The towering tree began to tremble violently, as if it were trying to express something.

The young man looked troubled: "Sigh, Grandpa Tree, I don't know what to do either. Hang in there a little longer, I dare not enter the Abyss during this time; it's too chaotic there. Things are relatively better here, but that abandoned wooden hut is completely ruined, and even the Withering Lord has appeared—"

"Holy crap, why are plane tickets to overseas destinations so expensive? The allowance Brother Li gave me isn't enough."

Ma Li sat in the tea bar at Yuanmeng City Airport, clutching a world travel map she had taken from the bookshelf next to her.

Because she wanted to stay as far away from Tian Shu Kingdom as possible, she chose those countries that were relatively far away.

However, airfares to these countries are not cheap, and you also need a passport or something, which she doesn't have, and she doesn't know if she can get them.

After all, Li Jiuhe had helped her get her ID card.

If all else fails, Ma Li is prepared to take the old route and run into the deep mountains and forests, even if it's a slower escape, as long as she gets away from Tian Shu Kingdom.

However, after spending some time in the city, she had gotten used to this kind of life, and the thought of returning to the deep mountains and forests made her feel reluctant to leave the bustling city.

Moreover, she doesn't have enough money right now, so she needs to find a way to get some more on her.

Before long, ant larvae emerged from under her skirt, quickly crawled to the corner of the wall, and approached a man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing a gold watch, with a fat head and big ears.

The black ants crawled onto the sofa where the man was sitting, and then transformed into a black hand, reaching into the suitcase he had placed next to him.

Not long after, Ant Li dejectedly recalled Ant Cubs and muttered under her breath, "Why don't people carry cash anymore?"

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Just then, she suddenly felt like she was being watched, and thought it was the man she had stolen from who had discovered her.

I turned my head and saw that the person hadn't looked up at all; they were just scrolling through their phone.

Ma Li was surprised because she still felt like she was being watched.

My gaze swept over the man's shoulder and looked behind him. I saw a person sitting behind the man. It seemed that the person was wearing a hat, but most of their body was obscured by the obese man.

Ma Li was increasingly surprised. She leaned back and tilted her head, trying to see behind the man.

Before long, she caught a glimpse of a strange hat; beneath the brim was a strand of long hair that covered two-thirds of the face.

The part that wasn't covered revealed half of the corner of the mouth and a pointed chin.

The exposed facial skin was an eerie color, resembling white jade.

In addition, it can be seen that the woman's clothes on her shoulders seem to be decorated with sequins, but the fabric is tattered.

She soon discovered that there were worms crawling on the sequined dress. Upon closer inspection, she realized that they were maggots that crawl in feces, each one large and plump.

Ma Li was startled and suddenly stood up, looking behind the fat man with big ears, only to find that there was no one there.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Ma Li didn't linger. Instead, she quickly left the tea bar, found the nearest restroom, and rushed inside.

She had just entered the restroom when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw that they were other passengers from the airport.

She then went into a toilet stall and closed the door.

Feeling uneasy, Ma Li quickly released the ant larvae, specifically the strongest batch that had been protecting her.

These ant larvae were much larger than the previous black ant colony, and they moved extremely fast. As soon as they appeared, they formed a giant ant in front of Ma Li.

Soon after, footsteps sounded outside again, sounding like bare feet walking on the ground.

Soon the first toilet stall opened, followed by the second stall —

Then, the sound of a door opening came from the third cubicle, and a woman's voice immediately came from that cubicle: "Someone's here."

A moment later, the sound of a door opening came from the fourth cubicle.

"Someone's here," someone inside quickly replied.

The person who pushed open the door remained silent.

Shortly after, the fifth cubicle where Ma Li was located was pushed open from the outside.

Ma Li was prepared, and she calmly spoke in the voice of the two women in the previous cubicles, saying, "Someone's here."

Then her gaze shifted to the direction of the sixth cubicle next door.

But after waiting for a while, there was no sound from the other side; instead, a sense of danger approached.

Ma Li subconsciously looked up and saw a strange woman wearing a bizarre hat lying above the cubicle, peeking out half her head and staring at her intently.

Maggots were crawling all over the woman's body and hands.

Her eyes widened, her purplish-blue lips slowly parted, and a foul stench, accompanied by a large number of maggots, spewed from her mouth, attacking Ma Li.

The giant black ant in front of Ma Li immediately straightened up, not only catching a large number of maggots that were being spat out, but also leaping up and pouncing out.

The cubicle door shattered and collapsed, and a giant black ant pinned the strange woman to the ground.

The incredibly hard tentacles and slender legs quickly pierced through the woman's body, but soon the black ant began to tremble.

The woman's wound was oozing a pale blue liquid, which appeared to be highly corrosive.

Soon, the black ant's enormous body could no longer solidify and collapsed into countless ant larvae. These ant larvae did not retreat, but instead surged towards the woman like a tide, wriggling densely and enveloping her body.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ma Li quickly rushed out of the stall and ran towards the toilet exit.

She was well aware of the strength of her black ant swarm; they could even put up a fight against high-level sequencers from ordinary sequence lines, and had a very high probability of killing their opponents.

But now it seems that when facing this strange woman, all we can do is stall her, with no chance of winning.

She ran to the toilet door, turned her head and saw a large number of black ants bursting open one after another, making a crackling sound.

At the same time, the woman on the ground quickly rolled up her dirty dress adorned with sequins, wrapping it around countless black ants. The dress acted like some kind of chewing organ, rapidly devouring the ant larvae.

Ma Li was heartbroken, but she knew that if she really wanted to win over this woman, she would have to pay a heavy price, and it might even result in both of them being hurt.

Without pausing, she quickly recalled the black ants she could summon and transformed into the appearance of another woman.

Several more people entered the restroom at this moment, and screamed in fright at what they saw.

Ma Li immediately rushed out of the airport at top speed, concealing her tracks all the way, and soon ran to the outskirts of the city, more than 30 kilometers away from the airport.

At this moment, she had already detected the scent on the woman from earlier, and guessed that she was most likely the Queen of Spades.

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In fact, after mastering the other party's scent, she was now able to avoid the woman in advance and continue to escape through her keen senses. However, after a moment's thought, the scene of Li Jiuhe meeting with her daughter flashed through her mind.

"That thing couldn't have only been targeting me. Actually, the person Guo Fan hated the most was Brother Li, since he was the one who fell into Brother Li's hands. I just delivered the final blow. Besides, that woman is elusive and impossible to guard against—"

She was conflicted. She looked up at the rolling mountains in the distance, then turned to look at Yuanmeng City on the other side.

"Should I escape directly into the mountains, or—"

Ma Li frowned deeply, her mind in turmoil.

A moment later, she stomped her foot angrily: "Damn it, fine, I'll go to the shelter then!"

After saying that, he turned and quickly headed towards the center of Yuanmeng City.

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