1099 Last laugh

Ji Ziyi called Master Pei a few times softly, she wanted to tell him that she was leaving the ward for a minute but when the man did not say anything, she could only turn on her heels and then head inside the bathing room with a talisman that Master Pei handed her earlier in the afternoon.

Inside the ward, only the sound of Master Pei's incantation and the sound of clock ticking echoed. Soon there were only three minutes left at three O'clock, Ji Ziyi glanced at the clock and then at Master Pei, she was really nervous as the ghost always came to her ward around three in the morning. 

She had heard from Song Yan that the hour between three and four in the morning was when the yin energy was the strongest and thus she could not help but get nervous. 

" It will be fine, I still have Master Pei's talisman," she told herself as Ji Ziyi pushed the door of the washroom and then entered. If possible she would have waited till the morning but she had drunk a lot of ' Holy water' that Master Pei asked her to drink causing her to feel a bit uncomfortable. 

Ji Ziyi entered the washroom and then turned the lights on before she did her job, after she was done she washed her hands and then looked up at the mirror which reflected her reflection. 

At first Ji Ziyi did not sense anything amiss but then she suddenly stiffened. If she was not wrong then she had asked Cai Wu to cover this mirror such that she would not see anything including her own reflection that scared her the last time. But now the mirror was uncovered, there was nothing hiding or covering it. 

Ji Ziyi could not help but tremble when she saw this, she did not see the hands that clutched tightly on her neck but she did feel a wave of cold air wash over her as if someone had dumped a bucket of ice on her head. 

No…no..no.. this was not possible. Cai Wu must have forgotten to cover the mirror this morning and nothing else there was nothing for her to be afraid of but Cai Wu did go inside the washroom this morning. No, she must have remembered it wrongly. 

That must be it! 

Just as Ji Ziyi was hyperventilating, she felt something brush past her. Startled she looked back but she did not see anyone, her heart was thudding against her chest as she looked at the the mirror, her movements slow and jerky as she stared at the mirror that only showed her reflection and nothing else. 

While she was looking in the mirror she heard the sound of the wardroom open and then the sound of someone walking inside the ward echoed in her ear causing Ji Ziyi to tremble. It must be Master Pei! Master Pei must be the one walking and she was the one who was scaring herself! 

" I am just thinking too much——" Her words were cut off as someone knocked on the door of the bathing room where she was, the knocking was slow and steady but something about it made Ji Ziyi shudder in fright. 

Her face turned pale and her heart started to pound so hard that she could feel it beat against her ribs. If not for the fact that it could not jump out of her chest, it would have already done it! Her teeth started to chatter as she stared at the door that was shuddering under the impact of the knocks. 

"Master Pei? Are you the one who is knocking?" She asked. 

The knocking at the door paused before it started again but this time it was more fervent than before. 

Ji Ziyi stumbled back and she gripped the edges of the sink as she looked at the door in horror. Was it the ghost? 

' Because I have to exorcise a very dangerous spirit, I will have to stay quiet until I finish exorcising it. So please don't speak to me, Miss Ji,' 

Master Pei's words suddenly flooded inside her head and Ji Ziyi heaved a sigh of relief. She was scaring herself! It must be Master Pei who was knocking on the door, as he could not speak he was knocking on the door asking for her to come out. 

With that thought in her head, Ji Ziyi pushed open the door and then walked out. She expected to see Master Pei but as soon as she opened the door, she saw nothing. There was no one standing outside the door of the washroom! 

This time Ji Ziyi felt real terror climbing up her spine as she looked around. She did not dare to stay at the threshold of the restroom and thus rushed towards Master Pei who was sitting in the middle of the ward. 

He was still sitting in the same position as before while his lips were still moving silently. Ji Ziyi thought that he was chanting spells and thus heaved a sigh of relief. The ghost must be scaring her because it was in trouble right? Wanted to get a last laugh before disappearing for good? 

" Master Pei, are you done? How much longer do I have to wait for the evil spirit to leave? I cannot wait anymore!" She told Master Pei softly as she was afraid that the evil spirit would hear her. No sooner did she finish speaking than the door of the bathing room was opened on its own with a loud bang. 

Ji Ziyi jumped as she looked at the door that was closing slowly on its own while making an eerie laughing sound. Though the door was only creaking, Ji Ziyi felt like the sound was similar to someone's laugh. 

She pursed her lips and then looked at Master Pei before turning her attention to the door, did this happen because she did not close the door or was it because Master Pei was chanting?