The feeling of weightlessness wasn't very frightening, but a hand still grabbed me.

Grandpa Zhao muttered, "You wicked creature, are you really forcing me to take action!"

A burning talisman flew out from Grandpa Zhao's other hand, emitting a golden light as it flew straight downstairs.

What am I doing?

Being lifted up by Grandpa Zhao, my mind instantly cleared.

"Grandpa Zhao, I..."

Grandpa Zhao gently stroked my forehead and said, "I already know, Jiabao."

Looking downstairs again, there was no trace of Tang Xiaoxiao.

As Grandpa Zhao carried me downstairs, my legs were trembling.

I don't remember how I got up to the rooftop, and I don't know why my body is so weak.

Back at home, Grandpa Zhao saw the miserable state of my mother and became furious.

"It seems I have to take action."

Carefully, he used scissors to cut the thread sewn on my mother's lips.

My mother burst into tears.

"Uncle Zhao, this beast Jiabao wants to kill me!"

"Don't you know what kind of person your own child is? Jiabao has been possessed by something unclean!"

"...What's going on?"

"I haven't figured it out yet, but this kind of thing usually attaches itself to someone with a connection. Don't worry, Jiabao's mother, I won't stand idly by."

My mother's face turned pale, and although she still seemed worried, she didn't say anything, probably because her mouth was too painful.

Grandpa Zhao burned a talisman and turned it into water for me to drink.

Perhaps it was psychological, but after drinking the talisman water, I felt a bit stronger.

After sending Grandpa Zhao back, I went to see my mother.

"What...what do you want to do?"

As soon as my mother saw me, she became pale with fear.

I don't know why I was so cruel to my own mother, and now I don't want to scare her, so I just went back to my room.

Early the next morning, Grandpa Zhao arrived with a long bundle on his back, but I didn't know what it contained.

"Jiabao, let's go. It's time to solve the problem."

I felt a bit scared, but seeing Grandpa Zhao's calm and composed demeanor, I reluctantly took him to Ji Dongsheng's old home.

"Jiabao, the thing we're dealing with this time might be a relative or someone from a family in this village, so we have to come and go quietly without alerting the villagers."

I thought his words made sense, so I secretly took him to the mountain behind Ji Dongsheng's house.

It didn't take much effort, and we found the girl's hiding place.

Grandpa Zhao even carried the girl's corpse out and placed it on the flat ground in the woods. After a brief examination, he let out a heavy sigh.

Perhaps due to severe dehydration, her entire body was just over a meter long.

She was already thin and weak in life, and now her bones were barely covered by a layer of shiny skin.

Nevertheless, the injuries on her body were still vivid.

There was a large patch on her head where no hair grew, her lips bore stitched marks, and there were strangulation marks on her neck.

There were marks left by a belt whipping her body.

One of her ribs was broken, piercing through the skin, sharp and pointed.

Her legs were even more horrific, with the thigh bone broken into several pieces, only held together by a thin layer of skin...

"With so many injuries on her body, she must have endured a lot of suffering in life. She's truly a pitiful soul..." Grandpa Zhao's voice choked up.