Gloomy and cold.
In the darkness, it seemed as if there were many pairs of eyes full of malice, making one's hair stand on end.
"Huzi? Huzi, where are you?"
Lu Fei hurriedly turned on the flashlight on his phone and shone it around.
"Boss, I'm here!"
Not far away, Huzi ran over towards the light. He was covered in dust, looking disheveled but unharmed.
Lu Fei breathed a sigh of relief.
"What about the others?"
He wasn't worried about Xu Bei, but the Zhuang father and son were likely in danger.
"I don't know, I just got up and didn't see them," Huzi felt goosebumps all over his body and nervously looked around the pitch-black surroundings, "Boss, I feel like there are a lot of eyes watching us."
"Be careful, there's something strange down here!"
Lu Fei took out his ghost-whipping whip, and Hu Zi hastily drew his demon-head saber, guarding cautiously.
"Vice President Xu? Mr. Zhuang?"
The two began to move around in the dark basement, looking for signs of others.
But no one responded.
The floor of this space below was concrete, without any paint, but Lu Fei noticed that the walls were covered with a series of red, peculiar runes.
He moved closer, shining his flashlight over them, and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
These runes were all drawn in blood.
The bloody runes extended upward, converging into a red circle in the middle of the ceiling.
Something was also drawn inside the circle, but the light from the flashlight was limited, making it unclear to see.
"Draw the talisman with blood, this is a Yin-nourishing formation!" Lu Fei said with a serious expression.
Leopard Man must be no ordinary person to have run a casino here for decades. If the Zhuang father and son are not with Xu Bei, they're probably in deep trouble.
Lu Fei couldn't help but shake his head.
He guessed that the Zhuang family had offended someone, but he didn't expect it was due to Father Zhuang's youthful indiscretions.
After all, Father Zhuang always claimed he had never offended anyone.
It is unknown whether there are other hidden circumstances involved.
That Leopard Man is truly disgusting, using the torture of the innocent Mingcheng Zhuang as a means to get back at Father Zhuang.
I wonder what his connection to the little ghost is?
A man with his appearance, ruthless, selfish, and self-serving, would not seek revenge for the little ghost and his mother without a special reason!
"Boss, something's coming out!"
There was no time to think about these things now. Hu Zi held the ghost-head saber horizontally in front of him, looking nervously in one direction.
Lu Fei immediately shone his flashlight in that direction.
Only to see emaciated ghosts crawling out from the darkness, surrounding the two of them. The ghosts' sunken eyes glowed with greed, and they emitted muffled cries from their throats.
"Money!"
"Give me money!"
Lu Fei gave a cold laugh.
They were gambling ghosts.
Their gaunt appearances clearly showed that they had been drained dry by the casinos when they were alive, their resources completely squeezed out.
Even after death, they still harbored the delusion of having money to turn their luck around.
Each of the gambling ghosts exuded a heavy aura of yin energy.
Yin energy rose and gathered, concentrating in the red circle at the center of the ceiling.
Using gambling ghosts to nourish yin objects.
This casino is truly ruthless, not even letting go of gamblers after they die!
Staring under those extremely greedy gazes, Husi felt all the hair on his body stand up.
"Give me money!"
The gambling ghosts rushed forward like monsters, fighting to be the first.
"Looking for death!"
Lu Fei brandished his willow whip and lashed it fiercely at the head of the gambling ghost that came first.
Crack!
The sharp sound of the whip echoed in the darkness.
The gambler tumbled, not even managing to let out a scream before turning into a puff of black smoke.
The other gamblers all froze for a moment.
But it was only a moment; they then charged forward frenziedly again.
"Huzi, it's time for you to get some practice!" Lu Fei calmly lashed his whip.
"Yes, Boss!"
Encouraged by the boss, Huzi's morale soared. He rushed forward and swung his large blade at the gamblers.
These gamblers were like locusts.
A single one was not very powerful, and Huzi could easily cut them down, but when a dense swarm surged in, they became extremely troublesome.
This casino had been open for decades, and who knew how many hopeless gamblers had died here. The two of them were completely surrounded.
Fortunately, they were already very well-coordinated, and working together, they managed to keep the gamblers at bay.
Huzi became more and more courageous as he fought.
The ghost-headed saber swung, leaving a trail of afterimages. It sliced through the gamblers like chopping vegetables; the area in front of them was cleared out.
The remaining gamblers finally knew fear, retreating into the darkness, only daring to stare at them with sinister glances.
"You see how powerful Hu Zi Lord is? One Hu Zi Lord can take on ten of you!"
Huzi was panting heavily, feeling very proud of himself.
"Don't get too excited. These gamblers are just fodder. There must be something much bigger here!" Lu Fei had kept his strength in reserve and hadn't gone all out.
"Something bigger?" Huzi was startled, his previous pride vanishing instantly. He looked around cautiously, "Where?"
"It must be related to what's above!"
Lu Fei looked up, always feeling that there was something amiss in the center of that circle, but this underground place was too empty, with no place to step on.
"Let's look around first."
The two of them wandered around, finally getting a rough idea of the situation in this space.
Below was a massive, round, enclosed space, with rows of blood-colored runes arranged vertically, making it look like a gigantic cage.
What kind of malevolent entity would be kept in a cage?
"Boss, there's no exit. These walls are solid!"
Huzi tapped on the walls with his ghost blade, and his thick eyebrows furrowed.
"The exit must be up there. To get out, we need to deal with what's up there first..." Lu Fei looked up at the red circle, his hand reaching for the black umbrella.
At that moment.
The blood-colored runes on the walls suddenly came to life, shaking as if they had a life of their own.
"Hmm?" Lu Fei immediately became alert.
A dense, evil aura surged from the runes, and the entire underground space was filled with a black, murky air.
One by one, the emaciated gambling spirits crawled out, their greedy and sinister eyes staring straight at the two of them.
"How dare you come again!"
Hu Zi was both startled and furious, immediately charging forward with his blade to slash at them.
Lu Fei handled it calmly with his whip.
This wave of gambling spirits was eliminated without any major danger, but after these two rounds of fighting, they had also expended a considerable amount of their energy.
"It seems that this formation will launch an attack every now and then," Lu Fei frowned.
"Isn't that just a war of attrition, trying to wear us out? Damn old bastard, how utterly despicable!" Hu Zi raged, cursing loudly.
He was good at fighting people, but he was still lacking when it came to fighting ghosts.
Unlike the boss, who was brimming with magical power, he relied entirely on his physical strength.
Round after round of attacks from the ghostly beings would be too much for even the best stamina to bear, not to mention that the yin energy would also damage the body. Staying here for too long might result in him becoming part of those gambling spirits.
"Don't panic, it's not that easy to trap us!"
Lu Fei opened the black umbrella, and fine strands of hair drifted out, flying towards the ceiling with his will.
The hair seemed to be somewhat afraid of the blood-colored rune and didn't dare to get too close, hovering beneath the ceiling, unable to find a place to hold on to.
Unable to find a grip, Lu Fei couldn't go up.
"What are you afraid of?"
He switched the ghost-whipping whip for a thunder-struck jujube wood stick and shouted at the black hair.
Only then, reluctantly, did the hair strands force themselves into the ceiling.