《Nightmare Apostle》


 #660 - A loving father and a filial son

    "Sister-in-law? Nephew?" Yang Xiao was shocked, and it took him a long time to react. He must have misunderstood. This kid was born with a gossipy soul, and who knows what kind of bloody plot he might have imagined.


    Although Yang Xiao tried his best to explain afterwards, it had little effect. Looking at Ximen Xiu''s wise eyes, it was clear that he didn''t believe it at all.


    After bringing the things he bought back to the apartment and making sure everything was safe in the room, Yang Xiao couldn''t wait to put on his costume and open the world in the mirror.


    Returning to the world in the mirror, the familiar feeling of coldness and gloom came over him again. Yang Xiao took a deep breath. Everything around him seemed to be the same as before, but when he calmed down and felt it carefully, he found that there were some differences.


    The world in the mirror used to give him a feeling of being dead and strange, a terrifying existence like a black hole, but now, at this moment, he actually had an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this place. When he closed his eyes, it seemed as if something in the dark was calling him.


    He knew that was the location of the mysterious room. Only after he killed the ghost in the mirror did he truly gain control over the space.


    The weirdness of the mirror world is difficult to describe in words. It is constantly changing, like a huge Rubik''s Cube that breeds new mirror ghosts. The location of the mysterious room is constantly changing, similar to the refresh in the game, but there is no pattern to follow. Unless Yang Xiao leads the way, it is almost impossible for outsiders to find it.


    Following the calling in his heart, Yang Xiao clearly sensed that this mysterious room appeared above his head.


    The distance between them is about three floors, and with the increase in mental strength, the space in the mirror world has become much larger this time. It can already include two entire apartment buildings, as well as the nearby small garden, parking lot and other supporting facilities.


    In other words, as long as he wanted, he could instantly move to any place within range as long as there was a reflective mirror.


    "What a great ability...


    Looking down at the bronze mirror in his hand, Yang Xiao couldn''t help but sigh. Although he had possessed the Soul-Capture Mirror for some time, this ability still made him very happy.


    Looking back, he was more worried and frightened at that time, but that was all in the past. After all, the ghost in the mirror that had been worrying him had been killed by him personally, and what appeared now was a new mirror ghost that was created based on his model.


    He had previously learned from Lu Youdao the identity of the young man imprisoned by the old dean of Rulin Academy. This man was actually the leader of the Yuyuan Sect. Whenever he thought of this, he couldn''t help but feel scared. After all, much of his equipment was snatched from the Yuyuan Sect.


    This clan leader is really patient, polite and courteous in his hospitality, and takes the trouble to answer his questions. But I don''t know what he is thinking in his heart, and he might have already broken himself into pieces.


    Fortunately, he didn''t see through the details of the costume, but... Yang Xiao frowned slightly, who can say for sure? Put yourself in his shoes, if you were captured and imprisoned, and used as a tool, then even if you found a treasure, you would definitely not tell anyone.


    He and the Yuyuan Sect have a feud, and keeping this guy around will be a disaster sooner or later, whether he can see it or not. In short, it would be best to find an opportunity to get rid of him in the future to prevent future troubles.


    He couldn''t do it in a short period of time with his own strength, so he planned to create something, preferably with the help of the old president of Rulin Academy, to kill people without anyone knowing.


    ¡°Tatttatt¡­¡±


    Suddenly, Yang Xiao looked up at the ceiling and heard footsteps coming from upstairs. The sound was not loud, as if a child was running over.


    Using the soul-catching mirror, Yang Xiao directly located a room upstairs, walked out of the dressing mirror behind the door, opened the door quickly and ran out, just in time to see a figure flash by at the end of the corridor, running upstairs with a staring face.


    It was definitely the new Mirror Ghost, but the new Mirror Ghost''s growth rate was even faster than Yang Xiao had expected. Judging from the back, it looked like a 7 or 8-year-old child.


    After confirming that it was the New Mirror Ghost, Yang Xiao was not in a hurry to chase after it. After all, he couldn''t scare the child. He also had to get along with the New Mirror Ghost as a father. He had to cultivate feelings first, appeal to his reason and emotion, and make the New Mirror Ghost willingly serve as his thug.


    "Don''t be afraid, kid. It''s Daddy." Yang Xiao followed behind slowly, shaking the bag full of toys and clothes in his hand, smiling, and speaking in a sweet and sticky tone, like a weird uncle, "Look, what good things Daddy brought you."


    Going up the stairs, he came to an unlocked room on the left side of the upper floor. Based on the previous footsteps, Yang Xiao confirmed that the new Mirror Ghost was hiding inside. However, after looking around, he did not find the Mirror Ghost. The bathroom door was open, and the things behind the door were scattered on the floor.


    Looking at the big mirror in the bathroom, Yang Xiao knew that the mirror ghost had escaped by using the ability to travel through the mirror.


    It has made rapid progress during this period.


    Also using this mirror as a medium, Yang Xiao followed the feeling in his heart and teleported to a room. He pushed open the door, walked out, and faced an unremarkable room.


    Just like many rooms in the building, there is an ordinary wooden door with a number plate on it, but Yang Xiao knows that this room is different from all the rooms in the building. This is the mysterious room that gave birth to the mirror ghost.


    As he walked forward, everything changed the moment his fingers touched the door. The wood color on the wooden door quickly peeled off, as if washed away by some force, and soon the bronze door hidden behind the wood color was revealed.


    Yang Xiao first coughed twice as a greeting, then gently pushed the door with his hand, and the bronze door that looked extremely heavy opened. Dim light shone through the room and reflected on Yang Xiao''s face, which was shining with fatherly love.


    "Child, your father is here!"


    But no one in the room responded to him. He stood outside the door and looked inside. Everything in the room was the same as before. The half box of chocolates he brought last time was still on the ground, but it was stepped on and smashed to pieces.


    Looking around the room, he did not find any trace of the mirror ghost, but Yang Xiao, who was naturally alert, still keenly discovered that a chair was missing in the room. It was originally next to the bed with two books on it, but now the chair was gone and the two books were just placed on the ground.


    Lowering his head slightly, Yang Xiao felt that the light under his feet was a little bit wrong. There was a strange shadow in the light, as if it was partially blocked by something above his head.


    Taking various circumstances into consideration, Yang Xiao confirmed the Mirror Ghost''s hiding place. This little guy, like his previous life, chose to hide on the wall above the door frame, holding a chair in his hand, trying to sneak attack him the moment he walked in.


    Yang Xiao could even imagine that the little guy must be very nervous now, and might be trembling with sweat in his palms.


    "call--"


    Yang Xiao simply moved his shoulders and a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He decided to teach his adopted son a lesson, let it know that there are people better than ghosts and there are fathers better than people, and to establish his authority.


    "Son, although we have known each other for a short time, there is no doubt that I am your father. Today, I will show you my methods."


    As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Xiao made his move. He dodged backwards the moment he entered the room, raised his hands and looked up, but the following plot did not go according to the script in his mind, and no chair fell on his head.


    After raising his head, Yang Xiao couldn''t help but be stunned for a moment. There was indeed something blocking the light above his head, but it was not a chair, but a bundle of hanging books.


    ¡°Fell into a trap¡­


    Before Yang Xiao could react, a strong wind blew from the side, hitting him hard on the back, and his head was buzzing.


    The mirror ghost was actually hiding at the wall behind the door, holding a chair in its hand and smashing it down fiercely, "Fuck you...:..." Yang Xiao turned around with pain, and was about to attack when he saw the half-grown child in front of him suddenly raised his leg and kicked him in the crotch between his legs.


    The kick was so strong that Yang Xiao couldn''t stand instantly. The severe pain made him unable to hold on and he almost kneeled down in front of his adopted son. However, Jing Gui did not take advantage of the situation. Instead, he grabbed his fist and punched Yang Xiao''s head twice, then pushed him hard, knocking him to the ground. Then he rushed out the door and ran away with a "thump thump".


    After struggling on the ground for half a minute, Yang Xiao finally caught his breath. His eyes were red and cold sweat was pouring down his forehead and back.


    It''s not just pain, I''m also angry.


    Yang Xiao climbed up with difficulty and held on to the wall. He couldn''t persuade himself to calm down. He chased after the ghost with the ghost lantern. Ten minutes later, Yang Xiao came back with the little mirror ghost tied up like a dumpling. On the way, he would occasionally pick up a mop handle he found on the road and whip the little mirror ghost''s buttocks, "How dare you plot against your own father? Do you want to rebel?"


    ¡°You¡¯ve even learned to use dirty tricks. Who did you learn this from?¡± Yang Xiao became angrier the more he thought about it. ¡°Can you use this dirty trick on your own father? You want to end your father¡¯s lineage so that no one will compete with you for the inheritance in the future, right? You¡¯re not a big devil, but you¡¯ve got a lot of tricks up your sleeve!¡±


    After returning to the mysterious hut, Yang Xiao directly hung the little mirror ghost up and hung him under the roof. He moved a chair, sat in front of him, and stared at him angrily.


    He also didn''t expect that this little mirror ghost was also a guy with a bad temper. He stared at him coldly the whole time, pursing his lips.


    Not a word.


    In the past, Yang Xiao was against the idea that a good son is born under the stick, but now, after he has a son, he feels that such an idea does have a certain necessity to exist.


    Naughty kids are so annoying, and so are naughty kids.


    However, even though he was angry, he couldn''t bear to use harsh force on his own child. Yang Xiao squatted down and observed the little guy closely. The delicate facial features, three-dimensional outline, and rebellious eyes already had some charm of his own. Fortunately, it was a ghost, otherwise, when he grew up, he would capture the hearts of many girls. It would be a real shame.


    "Do you know you''re wrong?" Yang Xiao asked with a stern face.


    The little mirror ghost still said nothing.


    "You have guts!"


    "Follow me!"


    Yang Xiao remained expressionless, but in his heart he was quite fond of this little guy. As expected, one loves the one he gave birth to, and he likes the child no matter how he looks at him.


    But no matter how Yang Xiao communicated with the little mirror ghost, the little guy was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.


    Finally, I just closed my eyes.

 #659 - Gift

    "Mo Daidai''s sister.:::


    1. Yang Xiao didn''t want to have anything to do with this woman. Like his brother, she was marked as dangerous by Yang Xiao.


    But reading the message without replying seemed too narrow-minded. Nalan Shuo was right. If Yang Xiao wanted to make a living in Rongcheng in the future, he would have to deal with the Chamber of Commerce. Yang Xiao also didn''t want to make the relationship too awkward, so after careful consideration, he replied to the message in a polite but distant tone, thanking her for her concern.


    Before he could put his phone down, a uniformed rabbit police officer suddenly popped up in the chat box, looking at him with seductive big eyes, "Brother Yang Xiao, how are you going to thank me?" The other party replied almost instantly.


    Even through the screen, Yang Xiao could guess what Chi Dan looked like now, but he had no interest in this woman, he just felt she was dangerous.


    Yang Xiao generously sent a red envelope of 200 yuan to the other party, with the note: Thank you, I''ll treat you to a midnight snack.


    After doing all this, Yang Xiao closed the chat box. Elder Park¡¯s incident served as a reminder to Yang Xiao. He thought for a moment, found a number and dialed it. After only two rings, the other party answered the call. It was a very steady and youthful voice.


    He called Ling Yanyu, his subordinate in Xiangma Town and also his half-apprentice, to naturally ask about Brother Sui''s recent situation.


    According to Ling Yanyu, the town has been relatively quiet recently. Brother Sui never goes out and does not contact the outside world.


    Moreover, after this period of treatment, his injuries have almost healed and he feels more energetic.


    "This is a turbulent time, so be alert. Where is Brother Sui? Give him the phone." Yang Xiao walked over and sat down beside the desk.


    Hearing the voice of Brother Sui whom he had not seen for a long time, Yang Xiao felt relieved at last. After the two chatted for a while, Yang Xiao got down to business and told him about a series of events that had happened in Rongcheng recently, including the Yiling Academy gathering a crowd to attack the Patrol Office.


    Now that Elder Park was seriously injured by him, and the other members of the team sent by Yiling Academy were also arrested by the Patrol Office, Brother Sui should be safe for a short time.


    When he heard about Elder Park and the man behind Elder Park, Sui Chengguo''s originally calm tone was instantly ignited. He gasped and told Yang Xiao that it was the man behind Elder Park who caused his family to be destroyed and killed his most beloved daughter.


    The identity of that little beast is not ordinary. He is the grandson of Sheng Jingxuan, the current president of Yiling Academy. Relying on his grandfather''s prestige, he is lawless in Yiling City. It was he who ordered the attack on his team of guards, resulting in the deaths of more than 20 brothers except Big Brother Sui. Now, as long as Big Brother Sui is eliminated, no one will know about this matter anymore.


    This Elder Park is a thug under the young master. Because he is good at flattery, he is regarded as a confidant by the young master. Behind the scenes, Elder Park has helped the young master do many shameful and ugly things. The two are birds of a feather and neither is a good person.


    "Brother Sui, don''t get excited. Just focus on recovering from your injuries and stay here in Xiangma Town. And help me keep an eye on the place." Yang Xiao skipped this unpleasant topic. "I have something else to do here. When everything is arranged, I will go to Xiangma Town to have a drink with you."


    "Brother Chu, I will never forget your life-saving grace. If I can be of use to you one day in the future, I will definitely repay you!" Sui Chengguo''s words were loud and clear.


    "Okay! It''s a deal!" Yang Xiao agreed readily. He didn''t expect Sui Chengguo to do anything for him, but he knew that Brother Sui was a man who cared about face. He would feel much better if he agreed.


    Huang Guochao took everyone away, which relieved a lot of pressure for Yang Xiao. He lived very peacefully for the next two days. However, living in the director''s office permanently was not a good idea. In addition, the apartment was no longer safe. Yang Xiao thought it was time to move.


    This time he is not renting, he wants to buy a house. With his current financial strength, he can afford to buy a villa in a better location in Rongcheng.


    Beibei Ximenxiu had advised him before to buy a house for investment, but he didn''t care at that time. After all, his job was not stable. Now everything is settled. As the captain of Lin''an Public Office, he may soon be promoted to deputy captain. He is also a well-known figure in Rongcheng. It is time to consider this matter. Living in an apartment with people coming and going is indeed inconvenient. He needs an independent space.


    At around 2 p.m., Yang Xiao finished his work for the day and handed over the follow-up chores to Sister Wen and Huang Qiang. He took the elevator down to the underground parking lot, where a black SUV was already parked outside the elevator door, waiting for him.


    As the car window rolled down, Ximen Xiu''s mean face was revealed. He was wearing a pair of wide sunglasses, and a set of trendy clothes with huge logos made him look like a nouveau riche.


    "My dear acting director, please get in the car!" Ximen Xiu took the initiative to help Yang Xiao open the passenger door, with a grin on his face that was very servile.


    After getting in the car, Yang Xiao fastened his seat belt. He tilted his head and saw the big gold chain on Ximen Xiu''s neck that was thicker than his little finger. He couldn''t help but complain: "When will your taste improve?"


    Hearing this, Ximen Xiu cried out that he was wronged. He explained that he had not originally planned to dress like that, but didn''t they have to accompany him to look at houses today? Those real estate agents are all snobbish and have a very vicious eye. If they all have to look after Yang Xiao and dress so casually, and the two of them said they wanted to look at villas, high-end villas at that, they wouldn''t even bother to pay attention to you.


    "Don''t judge a book by its cover, and don''t judge the depth of the sea by its depth." Yang Xiao shook his head. He knew that Ximen Xiu was right, but he didn''t agree.


    "Okay, my great deputy director, put away your old tricks. Clothes make the man, saddles make the horse, and even Buddha needs to be gilded. Last time I drove my shabby car to the temple to pray for marriage, the big monk guarding the parking lot refused to let me park. He said that these good spots are reserved for those who are destined to be together."


    "I asked him what it means to be considered a predestined person. Hey, guess what he said, one hundred yuan for each merit. As long as you donate ten thousand merits, you will be a predestined person in the temple." Ximen Xiu stepped on the accelerator and the car drove out of the underground parking lot. Soon it merged into the traffic outside.


    Ximen Xiu took him to visit four villa areas for most of the afternoon. It was obvious that Ximen Xiu was very familiar with them. There were some that Yang Xiao was quite satisfied with, but he wanted to see more for comparison.


    In the evening, Yang Xiao originally planned to call Beibei, Daxiong and Yu Shu out to treat everyone to a meal, but now was an extraordinary period, and that incident had just happened, and the entire Lin''an Patrol Office was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.


    After thinking about it, I had to give up.


    After having a simple meal with Ximen Xiu, Yang Xiao and Yu Guangjing saw a little boy in festive clothes sitting at the table diagonally opposite him. He didn''t know what he saw, but he was so amused that he kept laughing. He looked very cute.


    The memory in my mind was instantly awakened. I was too busy during this period and completely forgot about the ghost in the mirror.


    Now that so many days have passed, the ghost in the mirror should have grown up. I estimate it to be as big as a 4 or 5-year-old child.


    It is better to cultivate feelings as early as possible. Under the pretext of buying a gift for a friend''s child, Yang Xiao dragged Ximen Xiu into the mall to choose a gift for the ghost in the mirror.


    Soon, Ximen Xiu, who was accompanying him, was confused by Yang Xiao''s actions. Yang Xiao walked into a children''s clothing store and bought whatever he saw suitable. They were all for boys. He bought 4 or 5 pieces of the same style at once, and bought all sizes.


    Ximen Xiu was holding bags of various sizes in his hands, and felt the strange looks from the people around him. He felt that they didn''t come to buy anything at all, but rather to restock. "Captain... Captain, don''t you know how old your friend''s child is?"


    ¡°I don¡¯t remember clearly.¡± Yang Xiao evaded the question.


    "Then I can always make a phone call and ask." Ximen Xiu had a question mark on his forehead. It wouldn''t be a big deal to make a phone call. But if he bought the clothes and couldn''t wear them, and there were so many clothes, and they were not bought from the same children''s clothing store, it would be a hassle to return them.


    Hearing this, Yang Xiao did not explain much, but just shook his head and whispered that it was too troublesome and inconvenient.


    "Inconvenient..." These three words completely ignited Ximen Xiu''s gossiping spirit. It was inconvenient to even ask about the size when buying things for a child, and looking at the captain''s appearance, it was obvious that he had some unspeakable secret.


    Besides, who buys things for children like this? They are all famous brands, the animation series cost thousands or tens of thousands, and there are all kinds of high-end toys, all imported. In Ximen Xiu''s impression, Yang Xiao is not a person who spends money lavishly, and he was very abnormal today.


    Ximen Xiu has always been known as the paparazzi with sharp eyes in Rongcheng. He keenly smelled a hint of gossip. This child has a special relationship with the captain. If someone says that he is not his biological son, Ximen Xiu will be the first one to disbelieve it.


    After a moment, Ximen Xiu imagined a bloody drama in his mind. In his early years, Yang Xiao and a girl were in love with each other, but the girl''s family looked down on Yang Xiao and thought that a young man who wrote bad scripts had no future, so they forcibly broke up the ill-fated couple.


    But what they didn''t know was that the girl was already pregnant with Yang Xiao''s child before she left. After the girl married the man chosen by her parents, she gave birth to the child without telling her family.


    Now that Yang Xiao, the captain of the Rongcheng Patrol Department, learns about all this, he wants to make it up to his child as much as possible, to make up for the childhood his child missed, and to make up for the fatherly love he never gave.


    This also explains why the captain suddenly wanted to buy a house. He was not buying it for himself, but for his son whom he had never met, so that he could give his child a rich and stable life in the future.


    The logical loop was closed and seamless. At this moment, Ximen Xiu suddenly understood Yang Xiao''s eyes, which contained a bit of complex sadness, hesitation, and guilt hidden in the deepest part of his heart.


    He felt that the matter was settled, so he couldn''t help but take out his wallet, pulled out a bunch of red bills, and stuffed them into Yang Xiao''s hand with tears in his eyes, "Captain, don''t be so formal, this is for my nephew whom I have never met. Don''t think it''s too little, it''s a little gift from me as an uncle."


    Yang Xiao: ¡°???¡±


    "Captain, I''m a very tight-lipped person. Don''t worry, I won''t tell anyone what happened today." Ximen Xiu promised solemnly.


    "What did you say?" Yang Xiao was stunned. Could it be that buying a few pieces of clothes violated the taboo of the Patrol Office? People in the Patrol Office were not allowed to buy children''s clothes and toys?


    After a pause, Ximen Xiu leaned closer and lowered his voice, acting mysterious: "Captain, the fact that you cheated on someone else is known to heaven and earth, you and I know it, how about this, you don''t show up, I will take people to drive that blind guy out of Rongcheng, and I guarantee that he will never dare to come back."


    "After I finish my work, you can go and bring my sister-in-law and nephew back. We will buy a big villa and live a good life as a family of three."

 #658 - His level is not high enough, what about me?

    "Give Elder Park back to us! You people from the Patrol Office are too domineering. You actually dare to kidnap the elder of my academy in broad daylight. Is there any justice in the world?!" A man wearing a leather jacket and holding a long knife shouted.


    As expected, this so-called Yiling Academy gave Yang Xiao a worse impression. Including this time,


    I have had three conflicts with them.


    The first time was at the Rulin Academy, where I accidentally saw Han Jun, the second-in-command of the Council of Elders who was lurking in the academy, committing a crime. I was then chased by him. The second time was with Brother Sui, and today... is the third time, and this time is even more excessive. These guys actually came to my door.


    "You are confusing right and wrong. It was clearly your elder Pu who tried to assassinate me, but I caught him instead. I didn''t kill him on the spot.


    I have already given you face, but you are really shameless!" Yang Xiao took a step forward, not giving in.


    "Yang Xiao, don''t be so arrogant. You rely on the support of the Patrol Bureau and don''t take us, the martial arts sects, seriously at all!" someone from the other side shouted.


    These people were obviously well prepared. Among them were not only people from Yiling Academy, but also other martial arts forces. Yang Xiao even noticed that someone was secretly recording the video from behind, obviously trying to trick him and escalate the situation, magnifying the original problem between him and Elder Park to that between the Patrol Bureau and the entire Yiling Academy, and even causing conflicts between the Patrol Bureau and many martial arts sects. Such intentions were nothing short of vicious.


    "Yang Xiao, your rank is too low. Go call out your Director Nalan and I will talk to him!" The leader of this group of people was a middle-aged man wearing a leather coat, with a sturdy build and a scar on his rough cheek. Yang Xiao had seen him before, on the night when he fought with Brother Sui. This man was the leader of Yiling Academy.


    Yang Xiao sneered, knowing at a glance that this person was just pretending, "Don''t flatter yourself. If Director Nalan was at home, would you guys dare to come to his house?"


    The increasingly arrogant attitude of these people also annoyed Yang Xiao. He glanced at the faces of these guys in the front row one by one and decided to start with one of them. He didn''t want to cause trouble, but this group of guys seemed determined to seek death, so he didn''t mind sending a few of them to death first.


    He looked for familiar faces among these people to prevent the situation from escalating further. He let go of the other sects who were dragged in, and then he would kill the people from Yiling Academy. He would not touch the middle-aged man who was the leader for the time being, after all, Yang Xiao still had something to ask him later.


    Just when Yang Xiao had determined his target and was planning to kill him to establish his authority, there was a sudden commotion outside the gate, as if someone had come in, and it seemed like there were quite a few people.


    "His level is not high enough, what about me?" The next second, a voice came. The voice was not loud, but just loud enough for everyone present to hear clearly.


    Then, the enemy troops quickly dispersed and made way for a passage. Yang Xiao saw Qu Muzhi, holding a spear, walking towards him with a sullen face. Beside Qu Muzhi, a middle-aged man in the black uniform of the Patrol Office stepped towards him.


    The person who came was none other than Huang Guochao, the director of the City Center Office, and the only powerful figure in the Rongcheng Patrol Office who could be compared with Nalan Shuo.


    Seeing Huang Guochao coming, the middle-aged leader of the other side became much more polite and immediately stepped forward to greet him, "Director Huang, you are finally here. Today...::::


    But before the middle-aged man could get close, Qu Muzhi forced him back with a spear pointed at his nose. Huang Guochao didn''t even look at him from beginning to end.


    Huang Guochao walked straight to Yang Xiao and stopped in front of him. His deep eyes stayed on Yang Xiao''s face for a moment and he said, "Captain Yang, according to the Patrol Office''s guard regulations, how should we deal with the apostles who broke into our Patrol Office without permission?"


    "Capture him immediately and interrogate him strictly." Yang Xiao answered truthfully.


    "What if there is resistance?"


    "Anyone who dares to resist will be killed on the spot!" Yang Xiao stood at attention and answered loudly.


    "Follow orders." Huang Guochao turned around and looked coldly at the group of aggressive people in front of him, without a trace of mercy in his eyes. "Captain Yang, Captain Qu, if any of the bandits who broke into our patrol station today escape, you two go back and submit your resignation reports, and I will approve them."


    As soon as he finished speaking, there were dense footsteps outside the Patrol Office. Yang Xiao saw from afar that a large number of people in Patrol Office uniforms were rushing here in an orderly manner. Several black SUVs were parked directly outside the gate, blocking the group of people''s retreat.


    Some of these people were directing the teams to quickly seize commanding heights and advantageous terrain. Yang Xiao vaguely saw two familiar faces in the crowd, they were the team leaders Wu Zhengwu and Wu Zhe. It seemed that the brothers from various branches had come to support.


    Seeing that the incident tonight had become a big deal, the middle-aged man headed by Yiling Academy also panicked and shouted, "Director Huang! We don''t want to be enemies with the Rongcheng Patrol Office, but our elder was captured by Yang Xiao for no reason...:::


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    ¡°Get started!¡± Yang Xiao roared, and was the first to rush towards the middle-aged man who was talking nonsense. He had disliked him for a long time.


    Qu Muzhi and several captains followed closely behind. Qu Muzhi rushed into the crowd, grabbed the spear, and with one move, he swept away the first few people. Although he did not kill them, they still broke arms and legs.


    Except for a dozen people from Yiling Academy, the rest were a mob who were just brought in to make up the numbers. They were no match for the enemy and they didn''t dare to resist. After all, the strength of the Patrol Office was there, and even if they really wanted to kill them, no one would dare to say anything.


    The reason they agreed to come was because the leader of Yiling Academy told them that as long as they stood behind and shouted a few times to show their strength, they would get benefits. However, no one expected that one wrong step would lead to another and eventually they would end up in this situation.


    "Director Huang, Captain Yang, stop...stop fighting, we surrender!" Someone got up from the ground with blood all over his face. The weapon in his hand was dropped. He raised his hands to surrender, but before he could even raise his hands, he was kicked away by a whip.


    "Damn it, it''s too late to surrender now!!" Bei Bei, who had kicked the man away, turned around and grabbed the braid behind another man''s head. He exerted force from his waist and threw the man to the ground with a scissors kick. He then pulled out a dagger with his backhand and cut the tendons of the man''s left hand. The weapon in his hand fell to the ground.


    The battle on Yang Xiao''s side also came to an end. The middle-aged man was pinned to the ground and beaten by Yang Xiao, with a bloody head. He collapsed on the ground. This was because there were so many people here and many magic weapons were inconvenient to use, otherwise this man''s fate would have been even more miserable.


    With the cooperation of Yang Xiao, Qu Muzhi and several other captains, the battle was over in less than 10 minutes.


    There were dozens of people lying on the ground, wailing and begging for mercy. There were also a few people who were beaten to death, and their bodies were left there. They could only blame themselves for their bad luck.


    To be fair, these guys were not that weak, but on the one hand, they were not united and fought on their own, and on the other hand, they were scared and focused more on escaping. After all, they did not expect that Huang Guochao would come and start fighting without saying a word, and did not give Yiling Academy and many other sects any face at all.


    "Director, forty-seven were captured, four died, and nine of us were injured. Except for the three patrol members who were attacked at the beginning and were seriously injured, the rest were slightly injured." Qu Muzhi put away his spear and came to Huang Guochao who was watching the battle to report.


    "Take all these people away and bring them back to the city center office. After verifying their identities, send official letters to the sects they belong to, asking their sect leaders to come to our city center office in person to confess their crimes. If they don''t come within three days, the detained criminals will be sent to the provincial office and they will bear the consequences themselves."


    Huang Guochao looked coldly at these people who had their hands tied behind their backs and were forced to kneel on the ground facing the wall. Some people were cleaning up the corpses.


    Seeing that the situation had been completely controlled, Yang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and walked up to Huang Guochao, "Director Huang,


    Thank you for your help. ¡±


    A few seconds later, Huang Guochao looked away and looked at Yang Xiao, his expression solemn: "I am not helping you, but my patrol office cannot be insulted."


    Perhaps sensing Yang Xiao''s embarrassment, Huang Guochao''s icy expression softened a little, "Captain Yang,


    You did a good job this time. You reported the situation first when it was unclear, and sounded the alarm, indicating the alert level, and asked for help from the nearby brother offices. You did everything within your authority. When your Chief Nalan comes back, I will tell him that you have only been in the Patrol Office for a short time, but you still have a long way to go in the future. Young man, you have a bright future. "


    "Director Huang, thank you for your compliment." Yang Xiao clasped his fists in thanks. He felt it was just right to show the courtesy of a man of the underworld to this resolute and efficient director of the City Center Public Office.


    "Why does Elder Park want to kill you?" Huang Guochao suddenly asked.


    "have no idea."


    "Really?"


    "I dare not hide it from Director Huang." Yang Xiao answered decisively.


    Seeing that those people had been taken to the car, Huang Guochao did not stay for long and left with the main group. Looking at the long line of cars, Yang Xiao slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He could feel that Huang Guochao did not completely believe what he said.


    He will definitely interrogate Elder Park when he returns.


    But Yang Xiao was not afraid, because he had already hit Elder Pu several times with a human bone stick, not to mention that he had turned him into a fool.


    But his memory of this period must have been cleared, so there is nothing to be learned from asking him. However, after this incident, he has completely formed a grudge with Yiling Academy. I don''t know how the subsequent matters will be handled.


    At this time Yang Xiao couldn''t help but miss Director Nalan. If the old director were still alive, this matter would have been handled in a decent manner. The experience of these old martial arts masters was not something he could learn now. The martial arts world is not just about fighting and killing, but also about the human relationships and worldly wisdom.


    Yang Xiao even suspected that if Director Nalan was here, these guys might not dare to come today. They were just bullying him because he was young, and they had no intention of actually rushing into the Patrol Office and killing everyone. Instead, they wanted to gather a crowd to put pressure on him and force him to release the people.


    After all, once the person fell into the hands of their patrol department, the crime of attacking and assassinating the captain of the patrol department would be confirmed, and Yiling Academy could not afford and dared not bear this crime.


    In fact, when fighting with these people, Yang Xiao could feel that these guys were hesitant when they attacked.


    They didn''t dare to kill the enemy, and they focused more on looking for opportunities to break through and escape instead of fighting.


    Unfortunately, the patrol office had already surrounded the place like an iron barrel. Including Qu Muzhi, more than half of the captain and deputy captain of the Rongcheng patrol office had come. They worked together to cut melons and chop vegetables and took care of all these guys.


    Now it is Yiling Academy''s turn to have a headache. After all, if this matter is not handled properly, it will be a huge problem.


    "Captain Yang, you are not hurt, are you?" Wu Zhengwu walked over carelessly, the long knife in his hand still dripping with blood.


    "Captain Yang, you really give face to our Rongcheng Patrol Chief. I heard that you single-handedly took down Old Monster Pu from Yiling Academy. That''s amazing!" Wu Zhe, who was also walking over, gave Yang Xiao a thumbs up, his admiration was beyond words.


    "No, it was all thanks to Captain Qu for helping me today. I will always remember your assistance." Yang Xiao clasped his fists in thanks. He and Wu Zhengwu and Wu Zhe were old acquaintances. The two men had important matters to attend to, so there was no need for further politeness. They agreed to have a drink together later and then left with their men. Only the people from the Lin''an Patrol Office were still cleaning up the battlefield.


    Yang Xiao did not need to worry about the remaining chores such as counting the wounded, calculating the losses, and cleaning up the scene. Beibei and the others were capable of doing it. It was already dawn, and Yang Xiao returned to the director''s office to draft a report to be sent to the provincial office.


    After finishing the finishing work, it was almost noon. Yang Xiao was really tired after being busy for so long.


    He didn''t eat and just fell asleep on the sofa. He slept until the evening. After waking up, Yang Xiao found several messages on his mobile phone. The first one was from Fu Qingzhu, asking what happened last night. There was quite a lot of noise last night, so he thought that their federation also received the news, but did not know the details.


    Fu Qingzhu is his brother, so Yang Xiao did not hide anything from him and told him everything in detail. Fu Qingzhu on the opposite side could not help but sigh that the people from Yiling Academy must be crazy to dare to gather people to attack the important people of the Patrol Office. This was the first time in Rongcheng.


    However, he also helped Yang Xiao analyze that the other party must have a reason for doing so. After all, if Elder Park was allowed to fall into their hands and this person was convicted of assassinating the current captain of the Patrol Bureau, the consequences would only be more serious.


    At the same time, Fu Qingzhu also brought Yang Xiao some bad news. He had dealt with this Elder Pu when he let Sui Chengguo go last time. Later, he specifically checked this person''s background. This Elder Pu had a high status in Yiling Academy, not relying on strength, but on connections.


    This person has an unusual relationship with the grandson of the current president of Yiling Academy. It is said that he often helps this person deal with some unspeakable things behind the scenes. He relies on this relationship to act arrogantly and even looks down on some old elders in the academy.


    When Fu Qingzhu learned that Yang Xiao did not kill Elder Pu, he was relieved. After all, he did not want the relationship between Yang Xiao and Yiling Academy to become too strained. Fu Qingzhu was a sensible person and was good at weighing the pros and cons. Killing a person was nothing. He should be ruthless when necessary and patient when necessary. He could take it or leave it and had a sense of the overall situation. This was what a hero did.


    After giving Yang Xiao a few instructions, Fu Qingzhu hung up the phone. Yang Xiao continued to check messages, and soon, a message made him frown.


    "Brother Yang Xiao, uncle said there was a fight at your place last night, and it was quite fierce. They were worried about you and didn''t sleep the whole night. Are you okay?"


    The remark name is Chamber of Commerce Chi Dan.

 #657 - With Yang Xiao here, who dares to act recklessly? !

    After several fights, Yang Xiao had a rough idea of ??Elder Pu''s abilities. He had two magical weapons, one of which blocked the space here, and the other was a wooden crutch in his hand. The lower end of the crutch was connected to a dried-up little foot, which was the ghost child''s missing left foot, and it had been dried out and turned purple-brown.


    In addition to being able to summon ghost children, this wooden crutch can also teleport. Yang Xiao used a ghost lantern to find bloody footprints on the path the ghost children walked, and these footprints were the teleportation points.


    As long as it is a path that the ghost child has walked on and left bloody footprints, Elder Park can use his crutches to teleport. After landing, the dry little feet under the crutches will fall exactly where the ghost footprints are, and the two fit perfectly.


    But what is strange is that the foot under the crutch is clearly the left foot, while the bloody footprint left by the ghost child is the right foot.


    In addition, each teleportation point can only be used once, because after the teleportation, the corresponding blood footprint will disappear.


    Frankly speaking, this magic weapon is pretty good. If Yang Xiao didn''t have the Soul-Capture Mirror in his hand, he would seriously consider taking this crutch into his possession.


    Not wanting to waste any more time with Elder Pu, Yang Xiao intentionally exposed a flaw. Sure enough, the next second, Elder Pu appeared behind Yang Xiao and smashed down on him with his crutch at such a speed that it brought up a gust of wind.


    Yang Xiao held up the ghost lantern to block, but when the stick came down, the flame in the ghost lantern shook violently for a few times and was almost extinguished. Yang Xiao was also knocked back more than ten steps. In a pure mental battle, he was no match for the elder of Yiling Academy.


    However, the gap between the two was not as big as imagined. Yang Xiao''s retreat was more of a matter of course. After this attack, Yang Xiao thoroughly judged the strength of Elder Pu. It was true that he was very strong, but he was still far from a real ghost-level apostle like Brother Sui, Marquis of Pingxi. So far, neither of them had used their full strength. If they really fought to the death, it was still unknown who would win.


    "Yang Xiao, why don''t you surrender?!" Elder Pu was furious after failing to capture Yang Xiao several times. He knew that if the stalemate continued, the situation would be extremely unfavorable to him. He had to make a quick decision, even if he couldn''t survive, he would be fine to die!


    But before he could do anything, he felt a strong wind coming from behind. The next second, his left shoulder, back and knees were hit hard at the same time. He was blown away and fell heavily to the ground, looking quite embarrassed.


    When he came to his senses, Elder Park was shocked to find that there was a man about ten meters behind him. The man was not very old, with stern brows, a tough face, short gray hair, and was wearing a black uniform of the Patrol Office. He had a headless spear across his side, with the gun head falling down and the gun body slanted behind him. He walked towards him slowly, bringing him pressure like a mountain.


    "Qu Muzhi?!" Elder Pu knew this person. He had done his homework before coming to Rongcheng. This person was known as the number one captain of Rongcheng and was stronger than Yang Xiao.


    With the appearance of Qu Muzhi, the situation suddenly reversed. He was already struggling to deal with Yang Xiao alone, and now there was an even more troublesome guy.


    "You...how did you find this place?" Elder Park''s head was a mess as he had blocked off the space here in advance.


    But soon, Elder Pu figured it out. All this was the plan of that little bastard Yang Xiao. He came here today to fish. He calculated that he would attack him here, so he notified Qu Muzhi in advance to ambush him.


    Seeing Qu Muzhi take action, Yang Xiao felt relieved and grinned, "Captain Qu, have you recorded everything?"


    "Don''t worry, it''s all recorded. The video and sound are very clear. It''s enough to convict him." Qu Muzhi had a law enforcement recorder from the Patrol Bureau hanging in front of him. In order to cooperate with Yang Xiao, he specially replaced it with the latest model and recorded all the previous scenes.


    If Yang Xiao had not been worried about being recorded by those evil cultivators'' magical instruments, he would have used the ghost whisk or something like that. But now, with Qu Muzhi''s assistance, the two of them working together make it impossible for Elder Pu to escape.


    Elder Pu knew that today''s matter would never end peacefully, and with his strength, he had no chance of winning against the two top captains of the Rongcheng Patrol Bureau. He immediately changed his attitude and bowed to Yang Xiao with a smile, "Captain Yang, I was confused before. Please forgive me and let me go for the sake of the cooperative relationship between our Yiling Academy and the Patrol Bureau. Is that okay with you?"


    "Does Elder Park need to take away the things captured by the law enforcement camera?" Yang Xiao asked in a strange way.


    "This... This is natural. I have said a lot of nonsense. I hope Captain Yang and Captain Qu can give me this face. I am very grateful for your kindness." Elder Park is indeed a veteran. He bows his head when he should, without blushing at all.


    Yang Xiao just smiled, turned his head to look at Qu Muzhi who had cut off the old man''s retreat, and asked loudly: "Captain Qu, is the law enforcement recorder turned off?"


    "It was turned off the moment I made my move." Qu Muzhi was still as reliable as ever.


    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Yang Xiao retracted his gaze and looked at Elder Pu. His attitude changed instantly. ¡°You old coffin man, you were so arrogant before. Now you¡¯re thinking of asking me to let you go. It¡¯s too late! You think you¡¯re great just because you have an evil magic weapon. Haha, I¡¯ll show you something amazing today!¡±


    After saying that, Yang Xiao pulled out the Ghost Whisk in front of Elder Pu. After seeing the Ghost Whisk, Elder Pu could no longer look away. After a moment, his almost frozen expression suddenly exploded, "Little Holy Spirit White-robed Buddha Mother?!"


    "If you have some experience, I will teach you a lesson today!" Yang Xiao didn''t waste any words. He picked up the whisk and rushed forward. He had been holding back for a long time.


    He owed Yang Xiao a favor before, so this time Qu Muzhi did not stand idly by, he picked up his spear and rushed forward, using a powerful and heavy spear technique to smash at Elder Park''s back, which almost scared Elder Park to death. He directly used the ability of a human crutch and instantly moved behind a short tree. Qu Muzhi''s attack failed, so he changed the spear into a stick, tilted his body backwards and used a move to sweep away thousands of troops, so fast that only an afterimage could be seen.


    The tree trunk, which was as thick as a bowl, was broken in half by this blow, and wood chips flew everywhere. The scene was extremely brutal. Elder Park stared blankly and retreated more than ten steps before he could barely distance himself and control the ghost child beside him to attack Qu Muzhi.


    "Old dog, take my stick!" Yang Xiao, who had been lurking behind Elder Park silently, suddenly attacked and hit him on the back of his head with a stick. Elder Park was an old hand after all, and his reaction was extremely fast. He turned his head slightly, and the stick hit his shoulder heavily. After the hit, Yang Xiao kicked out and hit Elder Park''s waist from behind, sending him flying.


    Yang Xiao used all his strength in this kick, sending the man flying 5 or 6 meters, before he fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.


    In fact, if it was a ghost whisk, the old man would have died, but this thing was too brutal and it would be difficult to clean up the scene afterwards.


    This is Rongcheng after all, he has to consider the impact. Besides... he also has to capture this old guy alive, he is more useful alive than dead.


    "Whose child is not sleeping in the middle of the night and keeps crying? The child is ignorant and the adults are also ignorant. Some people are born without anyone to take care of them!" A door not far away was pushed open, and a man in clothes cursed outside.


    Seeing this, Elder Pu immediately controlled the ghost child to rush towards the family. Seeing this, Qu Muzhi flew over to stop him.


    Several shots were fired at the ghost child from a distance, but a shocking scene appeared. All the shots missed. The ghost child''s figure flashed, avoiding all attacks while rushing towards the man at an extremely fast speed.


    "Run!" He yelled at the sleepy man who was disturbed from his sweet dream, but he was still a step too late.


    The ghost child rushed towards the man and rushed into the room. The next second, a woman''s scream was heard from the room, but it only lasted for a moment.


    Qu Muzhi rushed forward with gun in hand, and Elder Pu, seeing that the other party''s attention was diverted, got up from the ground and turned to escape, but before he could take two steps, he was knocked to the ground by a strange mental attack from behind.


    Elder Pu''s eyes were dazed and he was trying to hold on to the crutch for a final struggle. A cold light flashed before his eyes, and the crutch and the left hand holding it no longer belonged to him. Yang Xiao held a kitchen knife and cut off his left hand with one stroke.


    ¡°Ah¡­Ah¡­Ah¡­¡± Elder Pu, who had lost his left hand, let out a tragic cry, hugged his broken arm, and rolled on the ground. Yang Xiao stepped forward and kicked him, knocking him unconscious.


    "Yu.:


    A powerful wave of power came from behind, and a long spear was thrown out like a spear, the target was Elder Park who had fainted on the ground.


    "Captain Qu, please show mercy!" Yang Xiao stood in front of the spear and summoned the Ghost Whisk, barely blocking the attack in a hurry.


    Worried that Qu Muzhi would do something irreversible in his impulse, Yang Xiao first tied up Elder Pu and threw him into the mirror world, then picked up his spear and walked towards Qu Muzhi.


    Qu Muzhi was standing in front of the door of the room, his fair face had turned red with anger. As soon as he got closer, Yang Xiao smelled a strong stench. The dark room was completely silent.


    Lifting up the ghost lantern, the tragic scene inside came into view. There were three bodies lying inside, all of them rotten and smelly.


    The ground was covered with corpses and water.


    The man fell on his back, his yellow eyes wide open, as if he didn''t know what happened before he died.


    There was a child lying on a wooden bed made of discarded old bed boards, his body so rotten that it was no longer human.


    The woman was lying face down on the edge of the bed, with her head facing the bed and her feet facing outward. From her posture, it can be seen that when faced with danger, the woman subconsciously wanted to rush forward to protect the child. Unfortunately, ordinary people like them had no chance of survival under the attack of ghosts.


    Handing the spear to Qu Muzhi, Yang Xiao slowly exhaled, "Captain Qu, don''t be impulsive. If we kill him now, we won''t be able to explain ourselves. Let''s take him back first and try him slowly. We will make him pay the price!"


    Under Qu Muzhi''s escort, the two took advantage of the night and returned to the Lin''an Office together. After arranging for people to detain Elder Pu, Qu Muzhi was about to leave. According to him, he would report today''s events to Director Huang Guochao of their Chengxin Office.


    Yang Xiao had no objection to this. After all, Qu Muzhi was also a witness to what happened today. Besides, this kind of thing could not be concealed and would be revealed to the world sooner or later.


    It was already early morning. This Elder Pu was no ordinary person. Director Nalan was not here now, and Yang Xiao was worried that something might go wrong, so he went to the detention room in person to watch over him. At the same time, he drafted a report and prepared to report it to the Provincial Office.


    This matter is of no trivial matter. The elders of Yiling Academy dared to attack the current captain of the Patrol Office, and in the territory of Rongcheng Patrol Office itself. Once this matter gets out, it will definitely cause an uproar. Before getting clear approval from the Provincial Office, Yang Xiao knows that he cannot act rashly.


    This is no longer a personal vendetta. If this matter is not handled properly, it will damage the relationship between the Patrol Office and Yiling Academy. Yang Xiao is not a coward, but he does not want this matter to affect Director Nalan and the Lin''an Patrol Office.


    He is not alone, he has a group of brothers from the Patrol Office behind him. Now that Nalan Shuo is not here, he is the acting chief and is responsible for everyone.


    After bringing Elder Park back, Yang Xiao immediately ordered the activation of the emergency plan and raised the alert level. The entire patrol team was dispatched to be on alert, and all members of the investigation team quickly returned to the team. Thanks to Nalan Shuo''s training, it only took a very short time for the Lin''an Office to become a fortress.


    But what Yang Xiao didn''t expect was that within a few hours, before dawn, trouble had already come knocking on his door.


    Yang Xiao, who was drafting a report in the detention room, vaguely heard the commotion outside. Just as he stood up, the door was pushed open and Ximen Xiu rushed in, "Captain, there''s trouble outside. People from Yiling Academy have come to our door and want us to hand over the person!"


    Hearing this, Yang Xiao slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying: "They are so bold, do they really think that my patrol station is made of mud?


    !¡±


    "What should we do now? They have already broken in and injured several of our patrol brothers. Sister Bei is leading people to confront them now." Ximen Xiu was visibly panicked. After all, no one had ever experienced such a scene before.


    "Don''t panic. Stay here and notify the nearby offices and tell them what happened here. Also report to the provincial office and say that Yiling Academy besieged our patrol office and we suffered casualties. Acting Director Yang Xiao is negotiating with Yiling Academy."


    After saying that, Yang Xiao took out the key, opened the door of the detention room, and picked up Elder Pu who was still unconscious.


    Drag him out. This person is the top priority now, and he cannot be out of their sight for a moment. Otherwise, it is hard to say that Yiling Academy is doing a covert operation, and the commotion in the beginning is just to distract their attention, and then send experts to sneak in and rescue the person. Then they will have no way to explain themselves, and may even be bitten back.


    When Yang Xiao walked out and arrived at the Patrol Office, he realized how serious the situation was. Dozens of people had come to Yiling Academy, and the gate of the Patrol Office had been knocked open by a car. Perhaps they were afraid to make things irreparable, so for the time being these people only dared to bluff in the courtyard and did not have the courage to break into the Patrol Office building.


    At this moment, Beibei was leading his men to block the yard. The two groups were less than 5 meters apart, with swords drawn, guns unsheathed, bullets loaded, and a conflict was about to break out.


    The next second, a figure flew out, leaped diagonally across the crowd, and fell heavily at the junction of the two groups of people.


    This sudden scene startled both parties and they couldn''t help but step back. Only then did the people from Yiling Academy see clearly that the wolf-like figure lying on the ground, face down, was none other than their Elder Pu.


    At this moment, Elder Pu, who was always so arrogant, had his arms tied behind his back and his whole body tied up like a dumpling. He lay on the ground like a dead dog, motionless, and no one knew whether he was dead or alive.


    "Elder Park!" someone shouted.


    The patrol officers separated in the middle to make way for a passage, through which a young man in a black uniform of the patrol officers walked out.


    "Yang Xiao is here, who dares to act insolently?!"

 Chapter 378 Survivors

    Suddenly, Sui Chengguo seemed to have discovered something. He walked towards the corner behind the door alone, and soon came back with a large sack made of linen. The scarecrow was placed there before. After waking up, Yang Xiao immediately checked it. However, there was nothing there, which meant that this cloth bag only appeared not long ago.


    Taking the cloth bag from Sui Chengguo''s hand, Yang Xiao observed it carefully. There was nothing strange about the bag itself.


    If you feel through the bag with your hand, you can feel something the size of a walnut and hard, like a stone, at the bottom of the bag.


    He opened the mouth of the bag, turned the bag upside down, shook it a few times, but did not pour out the stone. Sui Chengguo reached into the bag to dig out, but after digging for a long time, he did not touch the stone inside. To be precise, There is nothing in it, the bag is empty.


    Yang Xiao also reached in, and a strange scene occurred. He didn''t touch anything, but he could clearly feel the stone in the bag through the bag. His hand outside the bag grabbed the stone and used the bag to I tried to touch the hand inside the bag, but still found nothing. I couldn¡¯t even feel the existence of the hand outside the bag. Inside and outside the bag,


    It''s like two time and space.


    A bag is a universe, Yang Xiao understood. The second couplet was talking about this bag. Although he didn''t understand the mystery of the stone inside, it must be very important.


    The second couplet was found, so it was not difficult to guess the first couplet. Yang Xiao turned around and looked at the hanging curtain that divided the entire temple into two parts. Now the candlelight behind the curtain was extinguished, and it was dark behind it. Don''t know what is hidden.


    Yang Xiao walked to the curtain alone and listened for a moment. There was silence behind the curtain, but when he gathered up his courage,


    He planned to open the gap in the middle of the curtain, and after taking a sneak peek, a cold wind blew through the temple, blowing up the part of the curtain hanging on the ground. The next second, Yang Xiao''s whole body went numb, and he could only see the gap at the lower end of the curtain. The toes of both shoes were exposed.


    The tip of the shoe was very close to Yang Xiao, almost sticking behind the dirty curtain, pointing straight towards Yang Xiao''s position.


    No longer hesitating, Yang Xiao turned around and left with the others, pushed open the door, and left as if running away. The moment he closed the door and looked back, Yang Xiao vaguely saw a tall figure emerging from the curtain, the same as the scarecrows before. , body but no head.


    After leaving the temple and walking into the forest again, Yang Xiao was still frightened and couldn''t calm down for a long time. The headless figure seemed to be rooted in his mind. Whenever he closed his eyes, it was the shadow of the headless figure.


    It rained all night, and the group of them lost their way in the woods. Cheng Cha tore off his clothes and tied the strip of cloth to a crooked tree to use as a mark. But not long after, they actually walked back. Under the crooked neck tree.


    "This is impossible. We are going in the same direction. There is no reason to go back to where we were." Cheng Cha has been leading the way, and he has an absolute say in the outcome.


    Everyone''s expressions were grim. Sure enough, the journey back was not that simple. They might have encountered a ghost.


    "Let''s go again, this time I will lead the way." Yang Xiao made a decision, and they changed directions. But this time they just walked not far away when they heard a burst of crying, intermittent, coming from the depths of the dark forest, unable to Judging from the specific location, I could only tell that it was a woman.


    The woman cried heartbrokenly, as if she had suffered a great injustice. The cry made Yang Xiao and the others terrified. They tried their best to escape from the place where the cry came from, but everything was in vain. The cry was getting closer and closer to them.


    "Don''t move, everyone, come closer to me." Suddenly, Sui Chengguo''s voice sounded, and there was something obviously wrong with his voice.


    As everyone got closer in the dark forest, Yang Xiao also discovered the problem. He only saw seven figures.


    Counting him, there were only 8 people left in the team.


    One is missing.


    "It''s Hu Yanming, Hu Yanming is missing!" Liu Haiping suddenly shouted.


    After confirming the faces at close range, it turned out that Hu Yanming was missing. Tong Han recalled that he was still there after she got lost for the first time. At that time, Hu Yanming was walking beside her. She remembered clearly that it must have been not long ago. Just disappeared.


    "We::.Should we go back and look for it?" Liu Haiping asked in a low voice.


    "It''s not necessary." Yang Xiao objected directly. Hu Yanming didn''t get lost. He encountered a ghost. In this case, being missing is not much different from being dead.


    At this moment, Mi Shu stood up with an ugly face, and her words were trembling, "I...I have something to say, here...I seem to have been here before."


    Hearing this, everyone couldn''t help but be stunned, "Have you been here?"


    "This place is very similar to a mission I once experienced. I also lost my way in a forest. I also encountered crying sounds. It was a...a woman crying. At that time, a total of 7 people in our team were missing. 4 of them,


    I''m one of the last three survivors. "


    After a pause, Mi Shu continued: "One more thing, I... After drinking that bowl of wine, my consciousness became blurry. In my last memory, I seemed to see the curtain opposite being opened. One o''clock, there is a woman in white plain clothes with bleeding from all her orifices sitting behind her, no, it''s... a female ghost, the ghost in my resentful eyes! "


    The words instantly brought back Yang Xiao''s memories. He also encountered the same thing. The moment before he passed out from drunkenness, he saw a woman in red. When he woke up, he met four people from Sui Chengguo and came back to life. He forgot about this incident, but now that he thought about it, the woman in red he saw might be the original owner of the opera robe.


    At the same time, he noticed that the faces of Tong Han, Cheng Cha, Wu, Ma Haoming and the others also became strange. It seemed that everyone had a similar experience and saw the ghost in their eyes corresponding to their resentment.


    "In that mission where you got lost in the forest, you got the Eye of Resentment?" Sui Chengguo stared at Mi Shu and asked.


    "Yes, it''s me." Mi Shu nodded.


    "Then do you still remember the information about this female ghost? How to leave this ghost place?" Yang Xiao asked the key.


    Mi Shu thought for a moment and nodded, "This ghost is a poor man who was beaten to death by his husband because he wanted to marry another woman and the woman made a request. She will not be a concubine unless her first wife dies." She was willing to marry, so the man tricked the woman into a remote forest and stoned her to death. The resentment persisted, and she turned into a ghost. "


    "This ghost relies on cries to find people to kill. She can sense the fear in people''s hearts. Simply put, the more scared she is, the more she looks for them. According to our analysis at the time, she gave priority to killing men, and the method of killing was to smash them with stones. head."


    "Just tell us what we have to do to leave!" Lu Youcheng was anxious. He was not in the mood to listen to the whole story.


    Mi Shu asked him to calm down and explained that the female ghost has a limit on killing people. Only if they get lost once and return to the starting point, the ghost will attack again. But now that they stay where they are, the ghost cannot kill people. Of course, this will continue. That''s it for being trapped in a wall of ghosts.


    "We found some clues last time. If you want to leave here, you must first overcome your fear and close your eyes. Only by closing your eyes can you feel the direction of the crying. After confirming the direction, walk with your back to the direction of the crying. , keep walking until the crying disappears, that¡¯s considered walking out.¡±


    At the same time, Mi Shu solemnly emphasized: "Remember, no matter what you encounter or touch on the road, don''t be afraid, let alone open your eyes, otherwise you will be left behind forever. After someone screamed, we were hit by a ghost. Broken head."


    After repeatedly confirming the details of the operation, the group began to prepare. Mi Shu gave an order, and the eight people closed their eyes at the same time. Sure enough, after closing their eyes, the crying suddenly became clear. Yang Xiao quickly confirmed the cry. It came from the right side. He adjusted his body shape, turned his back to that direction, and then retreated in that direction step by step.


    He walked very slowly, and so did the footsteps around him. Everyone was careful, and every step was full of testing.


    Yang Xiao could clearly feel that he was getting closer and closer to the crying. At the same time, the crying became more and more shrill, and the heart-rending tone was like a pair of huge scissors, repeatedly cutting the bodies of Yang Xiao and others. Heartstrings, this is painful torture.


    Wu Mahaoming closed his eyes tightly, extremely scared. Especially Mi Shu''s statement that female ghosts attack men first, which made him even more frightened. He had a very clear understanding of himself. Among these men, only he and Hu Yanming were the most afraid. Cai, and now that Hu Yanming is dead, the next target of the ghost''s attack will almost certainly be him.


    He also knew that he shouldn''t be thinking about these things now, but his thoughts were extremely difficult to control. The less he thought about it, the more similar scenes came into his head. His uncontrollable mind made up Hu Yanming''s tragic situation. His body fell to the ground, the back of his head was smashed, his eyes widened in fear, and there was no life in the pupils. The ghost was standing behind the tree nearby, covered in blood, and still holding something in his hand. A large stone with edges,


    Blood was still dripping down along the sharp edge of the stone. That was Hu Yanming''s blood.


    The more he thought about it, the more he became afraid, and the more he became afraid, the more he thought about it. If it weren''t for fear of alarming ghosts, Wu Ma Haoming would have wanted to slap himself in the face. He forced himself to calm down, but the next second, his right foot stepped back and suddenly stepped on a soft object. Then his body leaned back and fell to the ground uncontrollably.


    Fortunately, he controlled himself at the last moment and did not open his eyes or scream. He just gritted his teeth.


    He groped and wanted to stand up immediately. In this environment, it would be a dead end to escape from the large army, but when his hand touched a wet and warm softness, he was dumbfounded and his whole body was unbearable. He shivered uncontrollably, and he knew what it was. It was a corpse, a very fresh, bloody corpse.


    With trembling fingers, he touched another bloody human head. Fortunately, he managed to touch the huge hole exposed behind the head, and the back of the head was sticky.


    Wu Ma Haoming stepped back on his hands and feet, trying to stay away from the recently deceased body, but he quickly stopped. His pale face became distorted, and his veins popped out one by one. His left hand pressed on one of his feet. Above, a skinny, cold bare foot.

 Chapter 379 I would rather hear ghosts crying than ghosts laughing

    "Tick tock."


    "Tick tock."


    Drops of warm viscous liquid fell on Wu Ma Haoming''s head, but he didn''t dare to raise his head at all, because he was sure that what was hanging above his head at this moment was a hand, and that hand was still holding a piece of Stone with sharp edges.


    There is no doubt that it was this stone that smashed Hu Yanming''s head.


    "It''s over..." Wu Mahao Ming was heartbroken.


    Yang Xiao kept Mi Shu''s reminder in mind and stepped back step by step, keeping his own pace, clearing his mind and restraining himself from random thoughts. Soon, the cries of the rash dissipated little by little, and finally could not be heard at all.


    But even so, Yang Xiao still didn''t open his eyes until he heard Mi Shu''s relieved voice, "We''re coming out!"


    Sure enough, after opening his eyes, the scene in front of him changed, and the crooked-necked tree marked with a cloth strip disappeared. Everyone gathered around and saw Wu Ma Haoming sitting alone on the ground not far away, using his hands and feet to move little by little. Climb backward.


    "What''s wrong with him?" Yang Xiao asked Mi Shu in a low voice. At this moment, Wu Ma Haoming''s posture was very strange, as if he was possessed by an evil spirit.


    Mi Shu was also stunned. She did not remember encountering such a situation in previous missions. Those who were targeted by ghosts had their heads smashed. This was the first time she had seen people crawling backwards like this.


    For a while, no one dared to disturb Wu Ma Haoming until Mi Shuqiang walked over to him. After observing for a moment, he kicked the opponent with his toes. Wu Ma Haoming was frightened and cried immediately. Although he closed his eyes tightly, he shed tears. The dripping water was flowing down, and she pursed her lips tightly, looking very pitiful.


    "Wuma Haoming!"


    Yang Xiao walked over and called him. After hearing the voices of different people, Wuma Haoming, who had been frightened for a long time, dared to open his eyes. Although he was almost frightened to death after touching the cold bare foot, he still didn''t Dare to open your eyes,


    He didn''t dare to make any sound, he just changed his angle, avoided the female ghost, and then moved his body bit by bit,


    Continue climbing backwards.


    Sui Chengguo sighed and couldn''t help but point out, "It''s too dangerous for you to do this. You move differently from all of us. You should stand up as soon as possible and continue to retreat."


    Hearing this, Wu Ma Haoming almost stopped and tears welled up in his eyes, "I wanted to too, but... But my legs were not up to par. My legs were weak at the time and my calves were cramped. Let alone stand up. , I almost couldn¡¯t crawl.¡±


    In any case, they were finally out of danger. After Yang Xiao and the others simply determined the direction, they continued walking out of the forest. On the way, Yang Xiao suddenly felt a little nervous in his chest. He took out the cloth bag with his hand.


    But surprisingly, the stone in the bag changed. It grew up silently, from the size of a walnut to the size of a fist.


    Yang Xiao opened his pocket and reached in to feel it. As before, he couldn''t find anything. The bag was empty.


    Although he didn''t know what it was, this unknown feeling put great pressure on Yang Xiao, and he urged to speed up.


    Soon, everyone walked out of the forest, but before they had time to rejoice, the scene in front of them made everyone stunned.


    A moonlight shone down, and a mass grave appeared in front of them. Dozens and hundreds of graves were arranged in an orderly manner, which was especially terrifying in the night.


    "Go back and avoid it." Yang Xiao made a decision. After all, there was something wrong with this cemetery, so it was better to avoid it.


    But the moment he turned around, the woods behind him disappeared. As far as the eye could see, there was only a desolate and dilapidated mass grave.


    A gust of night wind came, and a "humming" sound came from the mass grave, like someone sobbing softly.


    Wu Ma Haoming had not completely recovered from the fear of the female ghost. After seeing these barren graves, he couldn''t help but froze. He rubbed his eyes vigorously before he dared to believe that it was not an illusion, "I...I''ll do it. Pass here."


    Similar to Mi Shu''s experience, the cemetery in front of him was also his experience in the only mission. With Mi Shu''s example, everyone communicated much more smoothly. Wu Ma Haoming quickly talked about the way to survive in that mission.


    There is a male ghost buried in this graveyard. It is said that this man died in a miserable way. He was originally a businessman in the town, running a tea business. Although he was not a wealthy man, he could be said to have had no food and clothing. He was worried, but his wife was having an affair with the housekeeper behind his back. In order to seize the businessman''s wealth, the two of them did not stop fighting. The businessman''s wife drugged him and poisoned the businessman to death.


    But who knew that the businessman was actually not dead, but just passed out. He woke up in a daze while carrying the coffin for burial. At this moment, the businessman''s wife, who was crying along with the funeral procession, heard the cry for help from inside the coffin. She was worried that the matter would be exposed, so she immediately urged Several of the henchmen present sped up, so the ceremony went on as usual, and the merchant was buried alive.


    Worried that the businessman''s resentment would linger after his death and turn into a ghost seeking life, the businessman''s wife discussed with the housekeeper and paid a large sum of money to find a wandering Taoist priest to take the businessman''s coffin out of its original graveyard at night and send it away. Mass graves and hasty burials, followed by Taoist practices and arrangements near the graveyard, not only can suppress the merchant''s soul and never be reincarnated, but can also extract the merchant''s luck and bless the business controlled by the merchant''s wife and housekeeper. It is simply killing two birds with one stone. .


    As soon as they finished speaking, Yang Xiao and the others heard a burst of sinister laughter. It was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman. The sound was so depressing that those who heard it felt frightened.


    It is better to hear ghosts cry than laugh. Yang Xiao and the others have all heard this saying. When linked to the story told by Wuma Haoming, the ghosts in this mass grave are full of resentment.


    "Don''t be stunned, how can we break the situation?" Yang Xiaomeng frowned and urged.


    "Find the ghost''s grave, dig out the coffin, and... then lay it flat." Wu Ma Haoming quickly explained: "This ghost''s coffin is placed upside down, and the body in the coffin is face down."


    "There are so many graves here, how do we know which one we are looking for?"


    "There is a sign in front of the grave. There is a name written on it. The name is... Wait a minute. I''ll think about it. It''s been too long."


    Wu Ma Haoming racked his brains and thought for a long time, but in the end he still couldn''t figure it out. The anxious Lu Youcheng grabbed his fist and wanted to hit him. The next second, Wu Ma Haoming suddenly realized, "Don''t, don''t do it. Although I can''t remember the name." , but I remember that the sign standing in front of the grave is very special. It is a wooden sign, but this wooden sign is much heavier than ordinary wood. It is very cold in the hand, the kind of cold that penetrates into the bone marrow. The texture... The texture is like stone."


    "Is that brand pure black?" Yang Xiao asked.


    Hearing this, Wu Ma Haoming nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, it''s black. I don''t know if it''s pure or not."


    Yang Xiao turned his head, looked at everyone, nodded slightly and said: "That''s right, the wooden sign should be made of gloomy wood. Those people are really willing to spend money."


    Now that it has been determined, everyone decided to look for it immediately, but there are so many tombs here that it would be too late to look for them one by one. Upon seeing this, Wu Ma Haoming offered advice: "Don''t worry, everyone, we can search separately, but we must be careful not to stay in one location for a long time." , otherwise your name will appear bit by bit on the nearest tombstone. Once the name appears completely, the ghost will immediately appear and bury the person alive in the corresponding grave, just like how he died in the first place. "


    At this moment, Yang Xiao understood that it was no wonder that Wu Ma Haoming led them in circles in the cemetery. It turned out that there was such a taboo.


    After reconfirming the information, everyone searched separately and were divided into four groups. Yang Xiao was worried about the three people who had come back from the dead, Sui Chengguo, Lu Youcheng, and Liu Haiping, so he specially arranged for them to be separated. Everyone sent people to keep an eye on him. Tong Han and Cheng Cha are each responsible for one, so that if the other party behaves strangely, they will not be caught off guard.


    The search soon yielded results. Tong Han''s group waved from afar, and the other three groups immediately moved closer to them. In front of them was a very old tomb. It would be a compliment to say it was a tomb, but if it weren''t for the pitch black in front The wooden sign looks like an inconspicuous little bumpkin.


    "This should be it." Tong Han stared at the wooden sign in front of the grave.


    Yang Xiao stretched out his hand to touch it. The moment his fingers touched the wooden sign, he felt a chill. He suddenly retracted his hand and looked at Wu Ma Haoming.


    Wu Ma Haoming knelt down and seemed to recall something after seeing the words on the wooden sign clearly. He nodded repeatedly and confirmed that this was the place.


    Broken wooden signs were scattered around. After picking up a few handy pieces, everyone started digging graves. Digging graves in mass graves late at night, there were still ghost graves. This experience was also very novel for Yang Xiao, he thought You can write it into the script when you go back.


    A few people started digging the graves, and the remaining people were looking around. Tong Han clearly saw that several tombstones in front of the surrounding graves were loosening little by little. Then he turned toward the people digging the graves, and words were appearing little by little on the worn tombstones. ,


    The word was crooked, as if someone had dug it out bit by bit with fingernails, which made people shudder.


    "Okay, let''s change!" Tong Han decisively stopped the three people digging the grave after seeing that the first character of "Ping" appeared in Liu Haiping''s name.


    Yang Xiao, Liu Haiping, and Sui Chengguo were replaced, and the digging of graves continued. Miraculously, after Liu Haiping was replaced, the names on the corresponding tombstones slowly disappeared, and new names soon appeared again. , the same goes for the other two.


    Fortunately, the soil here is relatively soft, and the coffin was buried shallowly. After the fourth group of people arrived, the coffin was finally dug out. It was a large, dark coffin, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. It was buried upside down in the soil. Cover your feet.


    Two people were left to look out for the wind, and the rest of the people jumped into the big pit. They worked together to lift the coffin, and then turned it over with force. But at this moment, an accident happened. Something suddenly moved inside the coffin. one time,


    A force hit the coffin wall, the balance was broken, and the coffin tipped uncontrollably to the right, directly knocking down Wuma Haoming who could not avoid it, and also hit Lu Youcheng''s left leg.


    Lu Youcheng''s legs were instantly twisted, and Wu Ma Haoming was even more miserable. He didn''t even scream as he was pressed under the coffin.


    "Don''t worry about people yet, hold the coffin steady!" Yang Xiao yelled.


    After stabilizing the coffin, turning it over completely, and lowering it to a stable position, everyone started to save the person.


    Oddly enough, after the coffin was turned over, the faint ghostly laughter in the cemetery disappeared.


    Half of the names that appeared on several nearby tombstones were also missing.


    Lu Youcheng was fine, but Wu Ma Haoming was knocked unconscious. Everyone worked together to lift him out of the grave, and it took a lot of effort to wake him up.


    Fortunately, they were just skin injuries, and no muscles or bones were injured. Wu Ma Haoming recovered quickly. After getting up, he immediately asked everyone to leave with him. It was not suitable to stay here for a long time.


    "But the hole hasn''t been filled back yet?" Cheng Cha said.


    "No need, go ahead and get out of here quickly." Wuma Haoming said firmly.


    Yang Xiao couldn''t help but frown. It was taboo to dig a grave without filling it. Besides, if the coffin was exposed, the ghost''s true body would be inside. Isn''t Wu Ma Haoming worried?


    "Come on, didn''t you hear what I said?" Wu Ma Haoming was anxious, his expression seemed to be too frightened and already a little distorted, "Staying here any longer will only lead to death!"


    Now even Mi Shu and the others realized that something was wrong. Wu Ma Haoming was very timid before and didn''t dare to talk to them like this. Now that he was hit by the coffin, why did he feel like a different person?


    Yang Xiao did not continue to argue with Wu Ma Haoming, but instead tried to comfort him. Through observation, he noticed that Wu Ma Haoming always stood in front of the dark wood tombstone in front of the tomb, just blocking everyone''s sight. Realizing that something was wrong, he winked at Tong Han, and everyone walked out of the cemetery together, while Wu Ma Haoming stubbornly walked at the end of the team. The feeling of being stared at from behind reminded Yang Xiao of the Dujia Village Taoist who escorted them.


    As Yang Xiao walked, he suddenly fell to the ground, and shouted in a terrified tone: "Something grabbed my feet!


    While the scene was in a panic, Tong Han quickly turned around, quietly left the team, ran back to the tombstone, and quickly wiped the dust off the tombstone with his hands. The next second, a familiar name pierced Tong Han''s eyes.


    "Wuma Haoming!"

 Chapter 380 Pocket

    Now the situation is very clear. The Wu Ma Haoming in front of me is fake, and the real Wu Ma Haoming is dead.


    Buried alive in a coffin by a ghost.


    Seeing that his identity was revealed, the ghost in front of him stopped pretending. The face belonging to Wuma Haoming rotted away bit by bit, the lips fell off, revealing the ugly and terrifying gums, the left and right eyeballs fell out of the sockets, and the smelly pus was mixed with the rotten flesh. In just a short moment, the transformation from a "big living person" to a ghost was completed. Mi Shu opened her mouth wide.


    Still haven''t recovered yet.


    Yang Xiao observed that the nails on the ghost''s hands were broken and fell off, and the fingers showed varying degrees of fractures and bends. This showed that the ghost was indeed reanimated into the coffin before he died, because he woke up in the middle and kept scratching the coffin in the small and claustrophobic space. In the end, due to oxygen depletion, he died of asphyxiation. Thinking about this way of death is despairing.


    But what''s more troublesome now is that the only person who witnessed it, Wu Ma Haoming, is dead, and the rest of the people have extremely limited knowledge of this ghost. Now that the ghost has appeared, it is obviously unrealistic to use the previous methods to deal with it. They need to find it. A new way of life.


    And this not only takes time, but also requires someone to try and make mistakes.


    As the ghost approached step by step, Mi Shu and Liu Haiping''s face became extremely ugly, especially Liu Haiping, who couldn''t help but turn around and run away. The two of them were afraid of ghosts on one hand, and they were also afraid of ghosts lingering everywhere. The maggots that burrow in and out of the rotten flesh, those white and dirty worms, are a dimension-reducing blow to most girls.


    "Don''t mess up!" Yang Xiao shouted while retreating. The ghosts were not moving towards them very fast at this moment. They were about the same speed as a person walking slowly. It was unrealistic to catch them at such a speed. Yang Xiao suspected that the real killing move should be Elsewhere.


    The group tried their best not to scatter, and while retreating, they were alert to the ghost''s movements. Tong Han, who was alone, quickly made a large circle and rushed over to join Yang Xiao and the others.


    After a long time, Yang Xiao and the others also saw some doorways. The ghost showed no signs of speeding up and was still walking leisurely. However, the path the ghost walked became weird, and the tombs on both sides seemed to be different from before. Same.


    "The old tombs on both sides disappeared, and the new tombs that appeared were added from other places!" Sui Chengguo frowned and finally discovered the problem.


    With a word to wake up the dreamer, everyone now realized the real crisis. They raised their heads and looked around.


    Yang Xiao found that the area of ??the mass graves was much smaller than in memory, and the number of graves was also missing. This was because the ghosts had "erased" some graves. If this continued, the area of ??the mass graves would only become larger and larger. Small, the space left for them to move around is also continuously compressed. In the end, they will have no way to go and nowhere to retreat.


    "Find a way!" Liu Haiping was completely panicked. The huge pressure and fear made it difficult for her to breathe. She truly felt the threat of death.


    Now that he knew that the ghost did not have the means to kill them instantly, Yang Xiao also plucked up the courage to get as close as possible and observe the tombs "erased" by the ghost at close range. Tong Han followed him in case of any eventuality.


    After many observations, Yang Xiao finally discovered the clues. The tombstones on the ghost''s route had a pattern before disappearing. First, the names on the tombstones gradually became blurred, and then the tombstones were erased and replaced after they completely disappeared. Lose.


    "How do you think this ghost is tracking us?" Yang Xiao suddenly asked.


    Tong Han, who was behind him, thought for a while and replied: "It should be our living breath. This is a mass grave, and there are only a few of us alive."


    "Then what if we die?" Yang Xiao asked again.


    Tong Han is so smart, he can tell at once, "What you mean is that we each go to find a deserted tomb nearby, stay a little longer, and let our names appear on the tombstone."


    Just do it. Yang Xiao quickly went back and told everyone his plan. At this moment, the others had no better way but to treat the dead horse as a living horse. In order for the plan to proceed smoothly, everyone divided their heads. spread,


    Stay away from the ghost specifically, and then one by one the names appeared on the tombstone. A gratifying scene appeared. The ghost stopped and stayed in place like a wooden stake, motionless.


    Yang Xiao''s eyes were filled with joy. Sure enough, his guess was right. The appearance of their names on the tombstone signified that they were dead in a sense, and the ghost rock machine had lost its target.


    But this is by no means a long-term solution. The name on the tombstone is still being carved by a strange force.


    Once the name appears completely, it means that the person is really going to die, and the ghost will be activated immediately, dragging the person into the grave and burying him alive.


    He realized that the last word had already been written on the tombstone in front of him. However, Liu Haiping, Sui Chengguo and others took advantage of their long and complicated names. Yang Xiao regretted it. If he had known better, he would have named himself a smelly and ugly name. A long name is good. If the name has more than 20 characters, this carving ghost will not be exhausted. Maybe the entire tombstone will be carved and there will not be enough space. This may directly break the game.


    Looking back, Yang Xiao suddenly noticed that Mi Shu was biting her lips and looking at him pitifully, almost crying.


    The tombstone next to her has already written the last word of the lyric.


    "Quickly change positions, why are you standing there stupidly?" Yang Xiao was anxious. He didn''t know why this girl who didn''t look stupid was so dumb at the moment.


    After hearing the order, Mi Shu moved and came to stand in front of another grave. As Mi Shu moved, the sleeping ghost woke up again and walked towards Mi Shu step by step. But as Mi Shu moved, Shu''s name appeared again on another tombstone, and the ghost stopped again.


    This is not a solution. Yang Xiao asked everyone to disperse and look for clues on their own. Anyway, as long as there are enough graves and tombstones, their lives will be safe for the time being.


    Time passed by, and suddenly, Cheng Cha waved to them from a distance. Everyone rushed over to join them.


    Looking in the direction of Cheng Cha''s finger, there was a strange gray-white flag not far ahead. Yang Xiao recognized it. It was a soul-calling flag.


    What''s even more strange is that there was no wind in the mass grave at this moment, but the soul-calling flag kept shaking, as if dancing in the wind.


    "The vitality is blocked here, and there is a vent there, which must be the way to live!" Cheng Cha''s eyes were bright. Once upon a time, he also doubted whether everyone would die here today.


    Sure enough, after escaping to the vicinity of the soul-calling flag, the scene in front of them suddenly changed. The large expanse of wasteland around them disappeared, and the fog in front of them was floating and very humid. They had already left the woods, and now there was a river in front of them.


    There were two small boats parked by the river, with bamboo awnings on them, pitch black, just like the black-awned boats in the southern water town.


    The two small boats were more than ten meters apart, quietly parked on the shore, with mist floating on the river surface, and it was impossible to see the situation on the river surface.


    A gust of wind blew, bringing the mist to the shore, and Yang Xiao and others were immediately in the country in the clouds, their vision was obscured, and the surroundings were foggy for a while.


    Suddenly, Yang Xiao realized that something was wrong. He could only see Mi Shu and Sui Chengguo within his sight, and the rest disappeared in the mist.


    "Tong Han?" Mi Shu shouted to the surroundings.


    After a moment, a figure emerged in the mist, "How are you, where are the others?" Mi Shu walked towards the figure.


    But the next second, she was caught up by Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo, and the three of them kept retreating, "Don''t make a sound." Sui Chengguo warned in a low voice.


    At this moment, Mi Shu also realized that something was wrong. The figure in the mist seemed motionless, but in fact it was approaching them in a very strange way. In just a few blinks, the distance between them was shortened by half.


    But even if the distance was close, they still couldn''t see each other''s appearance clearly, and even the most basic height and body shape were very vague.


    Yang Xiao made a prompt decision and immediately gave up looking for teammates. He rushed to the river first to find a boat. Anyway, they would all get on the boat in the end. As long as the remaining people were still alive, they would definitely meet there.


    Following the direction in their memory, they quickly found one of the boats. After checking it closely, there was no one on the boat and the black sail was empty. But just as they were discussing going to another boat to take a look, suddenly, the boat started and headed towards the river.


    The three of them jumped onto the boat without thinking. At the same time, a chain that had been submerged in the water also surfaced. One end of the chain was tied to the bow, and the other end extended forward into the gray-white mist. Yang Xiao and the other two understood that the two boats should be connected by a chain, and they were being towed by the other boat.


    It seemed that Tong Han and the others had encountered the same thing as himself, and made the same choice, running to find a boat first.


    Except for the sound of water breaking under the boat, there was almost no other sound on the river. The surrounding fog was filled, and their boat seemed to be sailing in the Styx. The similar feeling reminded Yang Xiao of the first nightmare mission, the lake in the Feng family mansion.


    "Brother Chu, your...your pocket!" Sui Chengguo beside him seemed to have discovered some terrifying scene,


    his eyes widened.


    Yang Xiao took the pocket on his back in front of him, and the next second, he was also stunned. He saw that the stone inside had grown bigger again, and now it was the size of a football.


    But the pocket did not become heavier at all. To be precise, it was still like nothing was in it.


    Yang Xiao was a little panicked now. He had a bad feeling in his heart. As if to verify something, he stretched out his fingers to touch the surface of the "football" a little bit. After a moment, his heart skipped a beat. His guess came true. He touched some strange and regular bulges. The touch was a little soft, similar to the texture of leather. He understood that it was a face of an animal that had been sewn on.


    The bag contained the head of the ghost monk!


    No wonder he only saw the headless shadow of the ghost monk through the curtain of the temple before leaving. That was because while they were drunk, the ghost monk took off his head and put it in this bag. And they were taking the ghost monk''s head back to Dujia Village tonight.

 Chapter 381 Winning the Championship

    "Do we really...really need to carry this thing?" After touching the bag with her own hands, Mi Shu''s face turned pale. She suspected that everything she encountered now was related to this head.


    Yang Xiao nodded without hesitation and tied the bag tightly, "You must bring it with you. Think about it, those guys in Dujiacun will not let us go after we go back. We have no use value anymore, and they will kill us to silence us. This head is our only chance to make a comeback.¡±


    Sui Chengguo nodded silently when he heard this. It is true that the ghost monk''s hatred for Dujiacun is engraved in his bones. It is a clever plan to lure the ghost monk to deal with the people of Dujiacun and take advantage of the chaos to find a real way to survive.


    When Mi Shu lowered his head to think, his peripheral vision swept across the river inadvertently, and then he seemed to see some kind of terrifying scene, and his expression suddenly changed, "There is... someone!"


    Looking in the direction Mi Shu was looking, he saw a corpse floating in the mist 7 or 8 meters away from the side of the ship. The corpse was dressed in black cloth. It was unknown how long it had been dead. The exposed skin had already been whitened by the river water. Liang, because he was facing down and couldn''t see his face, but it felt like he was a man.


    What''s really strange is the man''s attire. He''s dressed in black cloth, which looks quite normal, just like an ordinary farmer. But the body has a red belt wrapped around his waist and a tricorn hat with two red hydrangeas hanging on his head. Dressed like an actor, two red hydrangeas connected by threads were floating up and down in the dark river water. The scene was indescribably weird.


    Before the three of them could take a closer look, more and more corpses floated out of the mist. Mi Shu couldn''t help but widen her eyes. The bodies were one after another until they were connected together. What was even more terrifying was that these corpses seemed to have consciousness. generally,


    Unknowingly, their ship was surrounded.


    "It''s not these corpses that are moving, it''s our boat that''s moving. It''s the boat that has entered this body of water." Yang Xiao quickly discovered the problem.


    There is something wrong with the floating corpses nearby. They are all face down. They are all dressed in the same style. The men wear black cloth clothes with a red belt around their waists and triangular hats with red hydrangeas on their heads. The women wear red and green clothes.


    Dressed in their own style.


    Yang Xiao held his breath and bent down as low as possible to observe carefully. He looked at each corpse one after another until he found a gold hairpin on the head of a woman who was most elegantly dressed. There were several jade pieces hanging on silver threads under the gold hairpin. piece.


    This discovery made Yang Xiao immediately confirm the identity of these people, "They are the people on the flower boat."


    "Flower boat?" Mi Shu was stunned.


    "The flower boat is also known as the painted boat. Look at these women in costumes, they are the dancing girls and singers on the boat. The painted boat is most prosperous at night, with bright lights, and music and music every night, all four seasons."


    Yang Xiao raised his hand again, motioning the other two to look at the well-dressed woman''s head, "Have you seen that golden hairpin? Only one dancer in a painted boat is qualified to wear that golden hairpin, and its meaning is almost here. The top card.¡±


    "Every grand festival, a celebration ceremony is held in the boat. Countless dancers and singers have the opportunity to perform on the stage. Those invited under the night stage are all wealthy people who spend a lot of money, or literati who are famous for their poems and articles. , each of these people will be given a piece of thin jade pendant, and the jade pendant will be given to whoever likes the talent the most. "


    ¡°When the performances are all over and the atmosphere is at its peak, the selection criteria will be based on the number of jade pendants the dancers have received.


    Select the dancing girl who wins in the end. Not only will this girl''s value rise greatly from then on, the jade pendant she receives will also become part of the glory and be allowed to hang under the golden hairpin. The literati and elegant people in the audience who are in high spirits will also I wrote a great article without any hesitation. "


    Hearing this, Sui Chengguo frowned and stared at the corpses, "Then why did these people die here? Could it be that their ship sank?"


    This possibility is not ruled out, but they know that things are definitely not that simple. After checking by the three of them, none of them have experienced the current scene. This mission does not belong to any of them.


    Also, their boat stopped moving and was just floating on the river. Sui Chengguo lowered his head to observe the water. After a while, he came to the conclusion that they were not on the river, but on the lake. The water here did not flow. The signs are like a pool of stagnant water.


    "Follow the chain and meet Brother Cheng and the others first." Sui Chengguo lowered his voice, and Mi Shu was alert to the movements around him. Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo squatted on the bow of the ship, pulled the chain hard, and slowly moved closer to the other ship.


    Since this mission does not belong to the three of them, the problem must lie with Tong Han, Cheng Cha and those four people. Only by finding the person involved can they understand the whole story.


    But pulling Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo along, they noticed something was wrong. They had already advanced at least 20 meters.


    But the other end of the chain was still in the fog. According to their observations on the shore, the chain connecting the two ships should be only a dozen meters long.


    But soon, a scene occurred that caught them off guard. Even though they no longer pulled the rope,


    But their ship was still heading deeper into the fog, even faster than before. It felt as if there was a force in the fog pulling them in.


    At this time, the three of them no longer cared about looking for Tong Han and his party. Yang Xiao made a prompt decision and removed the chains that were tied to the boat. Sui Chengguo also started to help. Just as the two of them lowered their heads to work, Mi Shu exclaimed from behind and looked up. When I went there, I saw a ship vaguely appearing in the mist ahead. It was a awning ship about the same size as theirs.


    What''s even weirder is that there are four figures standing side by side at the stern of the boat. "Mi Shu, is that you, Mi Shu?" The figure in the middle kept waving, and it was Tong Han''s voice.


    Yang Xiao confirmed that there was something wrong with the other party with just one glance. First of all, Tong Han would never directly call his teammates by their names in an environment full of floating corpses. Next, and most importantly, the load capacity of their two ships was not the same. Not big. If it were like what happened in the mist, with four big living people pressed against the stern of the boat, the boat would easily capsize.


    Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo ignored it at all and continued to remove the chains. Finally, just before the boat was about to sail out of the fog, they finally removed the chains and threw the chains into the water. A strange scene happened. The boat came towards them. He stopped immediately, then backed away a little, and the four figures on the boat became sluggish and stiff.


    Slowly, Mi Shu couldn''t help but widen her eyes, and saw a huge shadow slowly emerging from the mist behind the boat on the opposite side. It was an extremely huge ship, hundreds of times larger than the two of them. , it was pitch black above.


    Now the three people finally understood. It turned out that the previous ship was not pulled over by them, but pushed over by this big ship hidden in the fog. There is no doubt that the appearance of this mysterious big ship just verified Yang Xiao speculated that this was a painting boat with extremely high specifications.


    As the fog enveloped the surroundings, the small boat carrying four ghost figures not far in front of them, as well as the painting boat hidden behind, all disappeared in the fog, but the three of them did not dare to take it lightly. After all, this matter is not over yet, and the crisis has not passed yet. ,


    After all, there were dozens or hundreds of corpses floating on the lake around them at this moment, and these floating corpses had already surrounded them.


    They had already checked the things in the cabin before, and there were not many that could be used. There were only some simple tools, hooks and ropes, and two short oars for paddling.


    Mi Shu grabbed a short oar and suppressed her fear and asked, "Should we...should we try to paddle out?" Staying in such a place made her days feel like years. After all, no one knew whether these floating corpses could stay like this forever. Be honest.


    But this proposal was vetoed by Yang Xiao. Sui Chengguo remained silent and stared at the nearby lake, thinking about ways to get out of trouble.


    "Then what should we do now?" Mi Shu panicked, and now she urgently needed to do something to calm her inner panic.


    Yang Xiao took her hand and shook it hard, as if giving her strength, "Listen to me, we don''t have to do anything now."


    "But...but we can''t just sit back and wait for death." Although nothing can be seen yet, these floating corpses around are obviously not easy to deal with. If it continues, Mi Shu is worried that it will sink deeper. She has experienced similar crisis situations. , that time their team paid a heavy price for hesitating.


    "Brother Chu is right. The situation is unclear now. It would be better if we don''t do anything wrong." Sui Chengguo is the oldest among these people and his words are very weighty. "We need to wait now. This crisis is not caused by us. It should be caused by us." Cheng Cha, Tong Han and others, we have to believe them. They must be thinking of ways to break the situation now.


    They will succeed. We will not only harm ourselves but also harm them by trying randomly like headless chickens. "


    With the combined efforts of Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo to comfort her, Mi Shu, who was highly nervous, gradually calmed down. Tong Han''s face could not help but appear in her mind. She always had inexplicable confidence in Tong Han. He was a person with a strong heart, which made her People admire.


    At the same time, Tong Han, Cheng Cha and four others were also trapped in the foggy lake, with corpses floating in the black lake around them.


    Indeed, as Yang Xiao and the others had guessed, the difficulties they faced this time came from their teammates on the ship, or to be precise, from Tong Han.


    This is Tong Han''s experience.


    Staring at the body of the most luxuriously dressed woman on the lake, Tong Han couldn''t help but fall into deep thought. During that mission, she had put the jade pendant on the woman''s head with her own hands, and now this woman was the one she complained about. Ghost in the eyes.


    Speaking of which, a woman''s life is very hard. She was sold into Huafang by her gambling father since she was a child, and she grew up under the training and beatings of Lao Tungsten. Huafang is no better than a dark kiln on land, and she disdains the business of skin and flesh. It''s not that Lao Tungsten and The bosses behind the scenes are kind-hearted, but they know how to make money. They know that only those talented and beautiful people who can be seen but cannot be touched can empty the pockets of these young men from aristocratic families.


    As the girl grew up day by day, she became successful in playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her appearance became even more charming. She soon became the number one in the painting party.


    The girl rejected the advances of countless young men from aristocratic families and literati, not entirely because of the rules on the boat.


    The more important reason is that she doesn''t like men in the first place. Men are deceitful. Although she is young in the painting boat, she has already seen countless people.


    In the world, men are like mud and women are like water. She is looking forward to finding a beautiful woman to spend the rest of her life. For this reason, she has rejected countless wealthy young men who are willing to redeem her life. She is waiting for an opportunity.


    Every boat has an unwritten rule. As long as she wins five consecutive championships, she can redeem herself. Now she has won four consecutive championships, and tonight is the last time.

 #654 - Nightmare

    The room was dark. Before Yang Xiao could react, he was pushed from behind. He lost his balance and fell into the door.


    After running a few steps, Yang Xiao finally stood firm. He turned around and found that the door behind him had disappeared strangely. At the same time, an unsettling aura was looming around him, hidden in the darkness, and it was impossible to determine the location.


    There is a ghost in this room! !


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    Yang Xiao couldn''t figure out Lu Youdao''s intention, but he couldn''t think too much at this moment. After all, there was an unknown ghost in the room, and ghosts were unreasonable.


    With a thought, he held a ghost lantern in his left hand and a human bone stick in his right hand. As the flame in the ghost lantern lit up faintly, the pale green light dispelled the darkness. Yang Xiao was shocked to find that he was standing in a series of nested circles, just like a circular target used for shooting, and at this moment he was standing in the small circle at the center of the target.


    The darkness around him retreated like melting snow. This was not just black, but a strange and sticky black substance. Ordinary light would be absorbed by it. Only the ability of the resentful eye like the ghost lantern could dispel it.


    "One ring, two rings, three rings...


    Yang Xiao was alert to his surroundings while silently counting the number of rings that appeared on the ground. This circular target was not drawn by a person, but a ghost''s companion ghost domain. In other words, he was now in a supernatural event with an unknown degree of danger.


    Anyone who stepped into this room would be locked by the circular target and appear in the center of the target. This was related to the ability of this ghost.


    "Eight rings, nine rings, ten rings. "


    Yang Xiao has determined that this target has ten rings in total, and outside the ten rings is a mysterious area that even the ghost light of the ghost lantern cannot invade.


    And the area occupied by the target alone is far beyond the area of ??the room. The space here has been distorted and cannot be guessed by common sense.


    "Crack...


    "Crack...Crack...


    A burst of bone-breaking sounds sounded behind him. Yang Xiao turned around and saw a figure appearing on the outermost circle of the target at the edge of the darkness.


    The figure had his back to him, and was shrouded in a layer of light black mist. His body was twisted and deformed, as if he had suffered a serious car accident. At this moment, the twisted body was stretching out little by little, and it seemed that it would return to its original state in a short time.


    This person was wearing the black uniform of their patrol department. This back figure was too familiar to Yang Xiao.


    It was... Director Nalan!


    "Director! ! "


    This scene made Yang Xiao''s eyes red instantly. He immediately ran towards Nalan Shuo, but the distance between them did not change at all. The target under his feet also moved synchronously with Yang Xiao, and the center of the circle was tightly locked on his body.


    Overnight, the director turned into such a ghost, which made Yang Xiao unacceptable. They had obviously left the nightmare world.


    "Calm down!" Lu Youdao''s calm voice came from the surroundings, "It''s not your director, it''s just a ghost based on Nalan Shuo''s appearance."


    At this moment, Yang Xiao also noticed something wrong. The uniform on this guy was slightly different from the uniform they were currently issued. This uniform was an old style, at least 7 or 8 years ago. He had never seen the director wear this clothes.


    Also, the cold and stiff feeling on this person was really unspeakable. Even if he tried his best to disperse it with the green disc player of the ghost lantern, it didn''t work. He could even imagine the dead and numb face behind this person.


    This is not the director, but a complete ghost.


    "Why is this happening? "Yang Xiao roared.


    He was sure that this ghost must have a great connection with Nalan Shuo, otherwise there would be no reason for it to maintain the appearance of Nalan Shuo many years ago.


    The next second, the ghost suddenly moved and took a step towards Yang Xiao. Although it was facing away, the ghost walked straight, with its toes pointed at Yang Xiao.


    "Now is not the time to explain. If you don''t want to die, try to stop this ghost with the lantern in your hand.


    "Lu Youdao''s voice was emotionless.


    He cursed in his heart. He couldn''t even determine Lu Youdao''s position now, and the pressure brought by this ghost was a real threat. Yang Xiao had no doubt that if he let it get close, he would be in big trouble.


    Holding his breath and injecting a large amount of mental power into the ghost lantern, he controlled most of the green light to focus in front of the ghost. As the green light became more and more brilliant and enchanting, Yang Xiao could feel that the green light captured an entity and the two forces were colliding.


    The ghost walked towards him with the green light of the ghost lantern, one step, two steps... Yang Xiao''s forehead was covered with cold sweat. The ghost walking backwards quickly came from the 1st ring at the edge to the 5th ring, and at this moment, its pace gradually slowed down.


    But it was still walking, without stopping, Yang Xiao kept shrinking the green light that surrounded him for protection, controlling the range to a minimum alert area, and concentrated most of his strength on the ghost that was pressing forward step by step.


    Finally, at the position where the 7th ring was close to the 8th ring, the ghost barely stopped, and kept trying to lift his stiff legs, but he could not do it.


    At this moment, Yang Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he consumed a lot of mental power, it was far from the limit.


    After leaving the nightmare this time, his mental power seemed to have grown significantly again. Sure enough, the experience of the nightmare world is the best way to increase mental power, but this plan is extremely dangerous and more life-consuming.


    After the situation reached a stalemate, Yang Xiao decided to fight back and drive the ghost back, but no matter how hard he tried,


    This ghost just didn''t retreat.


    "Ka. Kaka...


    The next second, a bone-breaking sound that made Yang Xiao shudder was heard. Yang Xiao suddenly opened his eyes wide. The ghost in front of him was trembling, and the upper body was turning back little by little.


    This ghost... is going to turn back!!


    "Try to control your power and stop its movement." Lu Youdao''s hoarse voice came again, "Remember, control the scale, otherwise it will turn around from the other direction. "


    Yang Xiao understood Lu Youdao''s subtext. Whether the ghost turned from the left or the right, as long as it turned around, the result would be the same. In other words, as long as he could see its face, he would die.


    You can''t live if you see its face. Is this a bandit or a ghost?:. Yang Xiao cursed in his heart, and didn''t dare to relax mentally.


    The situation is more complicated now. He not only has to stop the ghost from approaching, but also has to divide his strength to stop it from turning around.


    Doing two things at the same time is a great test of strength and skills.


    Time passed by, and Yang Xiao was in danger several times. In order to stop the ghost from turning around, he always kept his back to himself, which required a high level of control over the strange power.


    If the power is too small, it won''t work. If it is too small, it will turn around. If it is too big, it will not work. The ghost will just turn around and turn around from the other direction. This is a delicate and difficult balance, and the bet is his life.


    "Mr. Lu, that''s enough. If you keep playing, I will die here. How will you...how will you explain to Director Nalan? "Yang Xiao knew that Lu Youdao could hear him. He was trapped in the ghost realm, but Lu Youdao could not.


    "Nalan Shuo and I had an agreement. I will train you, but the price is that if you die, your body will belong to me."


    "You want a grown man''s body. Are you a pervert? "Yang Xiao couldn''t help it anymore and cursed.


    Lu Youdao didn''t answer, but Yang Xiao''s mind flashed with Lu Youdao''s terrifying appearance, and he recalled what he had said to himself.


    When they first met, Lu Youdao had stared at him and praised him for his good looks.


    Now it seems that he has been thinking about him for a long time.


    Sure enough, excellent men are not only remembered by women, but also by men. Originally, Yang Xiao couldn''t hold it anymore,


    But when he thought that this body would be cheapened by Lu Youdao after his death, he couldn''t bear it, and gritted his teeth and continued to hold on.


    As time passed, Yang Xiao''s maintenance became more and more difficult, and his head twitched with pain. Suddenly, he seemed to see the ghost in front of him move.


    The next second, countless broken and chaotic pictures seemed to be forced into his mind, and noisy and meaningless noises rang in his ears at the same time.


    The picture in front of him began to blur, and when it became clearer, two people appeared in front of him , all with their backs facing away, the view was shaking like a camera. Yang Xiao soon realized that he was sitting in the back seat of a car. The space inside the car was very large. It should be an off-road vehicle. A burly man sat in the driver''s seat, and a short-haired woman sat in the passenger seat. Because of the angle, Yang Xiao could not see their faces clearly, but only their profiles.


    Both of them were wearing the black uniforms of the Patrol Department, but the style was older, which was consistent with the one worn by the ghost.


    Yang Xiao tried to open his mouth and wanted to say something, but all he could make was meaningless noise, which was soon covered by the engine sound.


    There was a long scar on the man''s resolute right face, which was twitching as he kept chewing.


    The four-leaf clover pendant under the woman''s left ear was swaying back and forth with the shaking of the vehicle.


    "Don''t be careless this time. Intelligence shows that the guy appeared in a densely populated downtown area. Try to avoid hurting innocent people when taking action. "


    Yang Xiao''s heart trembled. This voice came from his position, as if he had said it himself, but...


    But this was actually Nalan Shuo''s voice.


    "Got it, Boss." The man in the driver''s seat gripped the steering wheel and answered calmly.


    "Boss, the intelligence feedback shows that in addition to the sorcerer, there are also several of his disciples. The exact number is still being counted." The woman''s voice was cold, and she was lowering her head to operate a laptop. Her slender fingers danced on the keyboard like butterflies.


    "Tell them that before we arrive, they must confirm the number and location of the other side. These people are desperate. If someone slips through the net, the consequences will be disastrous. "Nalan Shuo''s voice came out of Yang Xiao''s body again.


    There was silence in the car for a moment. Yang Xiao saw the woman turned her head and looked back at him. This was a very young face, about 3 or 4 years older than Beibei. A trace of worry flashed in the woman''s eyes:


    "Boss, should we wait for support? This is a joint action. If we start first...


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    "Speed ??is of the essence in war. We must not let him escape again this time!"


    Before the woman finished speaking, she was interrupted coldly. Yang Xiao rarely heard Nalan Shuo speak in this tone, and he was still determined and unquestionable to his subordinates. Even as a bystander, Yang Xiao was overwhelmed.


    "Mingxi, rest assured, with the boss here, nothing will happen." The man driving smiled, as if to reassure the woman.


    The young woman no longer hesitated, nodded, and continued to type on the keyboard. Yang Xiao could feel that the two of them had absolute trust in Nalan Shuo.


    The next second, his mind twitched violently, as if a nail had smashed through his skull and inserted itself into it. The previous picture was shattered and Yang Xiao had a splitting headache. He didn''t know how long it had been before he came to his senses, and there was another picture before his eyes.


    However, this time is different from the previous one. Yang Xiao''s perspective seems to be stained with blood, and the picture is shaking constantly. The similar lens feeling is very much like a seriously injured person running and running.


    This is a deep corridor. It should have experienced a tragic battle before. Following the perspective, "Yang Xiao" walks and kneels. There is blood on the ground from time to time, and there are broken bodies. A door blocking the front is knocked open, but after seeing the scene in front of him, even Yang Xiao, as a bystander, can''t help but be stunned. A complex emotion of shock and anger bursts out instantly.


    In this room, there is a statue of Guan Gong standing against the wall. Guan Gong is almost half a person tall. In front of him is a triangular copper incense burner. On both sides of the incense burner are a tribute plate, and each plate has a human head.


    One is a man''s, with an old scar on the right cheek stained with blood. The head slightly opens his eyes, but his eyes are not open.


    The other one belonged to a young woman. The woman closed her eyes, bleeding from all seven orifices, and her mouth slightly opened, as if she had something to say. The four-leaf clover pendant under her ear was still shaking slightly, reflecting a beautiful light.


    Yang Xiao couldn''t see the following scene clearly. He suddenly heard a roar like a beast, and then the picture shook violently, as if running, followed by the sound of flesh being torn apart, screams, collisions, and roars. Someone was shouting something in fear, stop him! Stop him! !


    These messy and bloody pictures repeatedly impacted Yang Xiao''s spirit. The man''s slightly opened eyes and the woman''s floating four-leaf clover pendant seemed to have taken root in Yang Xiao''s mind, and no matter how he resisted, he couldn''t get rid of it.


    This was Nalan Shuo''s memory, and at this moment, it became his nightmare.


    In the blurry vision, two figures kept approaching. When they were close enough, Yang Xiao realized that they had no heads. They were a dead man and a dead woman. Their heads were placed in front of Guan Gong as sacrifices.


    "Boss, it hurts so much...


    "Director, save me...::


    Two ghosts, one on the left and one on the right, just like the positions of the tributes, surrounded "Yang Xiao" and kept making painful sounds.


    "Get out of my way!"


    At the critical moment, a green light exploded in front of Yang Xiao''s eyes, and the broken picture and the blurry ghosts were swept away. Panting heavily, Yang Xiao returned to this dark room again, with circles of targets under his feet.


    At this moment, the long-maintained balance was broken, and the ghost in front of him suddenly moved, but this time it was away, one step, and then another, at a slow speed. In Yang Xiao''s strange eyes, it returned to the outermost ring 1, still keeping its back to the posture, and the figure was quickly swallowed by the darkness.


    "Come back, you succeeded."


    At the same time, Lu Youdao''s voice came from behind again. Compared with the previous cold resistance, this time it was rare to bring a little relief.


    Turning around, Yang Xiao saw a door a few meters away, and Lu Youdao was standing outside the door looking at him.


    The surroundings were also chaotic and dark, and the only light was this door, but the light behind this door could not dispel the darkness.


    You can''t stay in a place of right and wrong for long. Yang Xiao walked towards the door quickly, and his feet felt uneven, as if he was stepping on a rugged mountain road.


    After going through the gates of hell, Yang Xiao no longer had the initial anger. His mind was now in a mess, and he was inexplicably panicked. There were many questions that urgently needed to be answered.


    "Tell me, what is the relationship between this ghost and the director? And, the director...where did the director go?!"


    Yang Xiao tightened the human bone stick, which was almost a naked threat. The previous scenes kept flashing in his mind, and he was now very emotionally unstable.


    Lu Youdao turned and walked deeper into the corridor, the dim light above his head shining on his shoulders and back.


    "Come with me, there are some things I should let you know."

 #655 - A guest is coming

    Following Lu Youdao, they came to a door at the end of the corridor. It was an old iron door with spots of rust on the corners. Yang Xiao held his breath and did not dare to slack off. He had a feeling that the director''s secret was hidden behind this door.


    Lu Youdao stretched out his hand and pushed lightly. With a creaky sound, the door opened and it was dark inside.


    Yang Xiao couldn''t help but be stunned. He didn''t expect that such an important door was actually... not locked. You know, almost every door here has a lock, because behind each door there is a secret that cannot be known to outsiders.


    Lu Youdao walked into the room and touched the wall behind it with his palm. With a crisp "knock" sound, the dim light illuminated the small room. An old light bulb was hung from the ceiling by black wires. It was the only source of light.


    The room was not big, only about twenty square meters. There was no desk or bed. There was a circle of wooden shelves around the wall, on which were placed various sundries, including all kinds of strange ornaments and bottles and jars, but most of them were boxes and boxes of different sizes.


    Under the dim light, these things were shrouded in a mysterious veil. It was obvious that no one had moved them for a long time and they were covered with a layer of dust.


    In the most conspicuous position are two old leather chairs placed opposite each other, with a low wooden table placed across the middle of the leather chairs. Due to age, the armrests of the chairs have been damaged, revealing the light yellow sponge inside.


    Yang Xiao could imagine that in the past many years, there had been two people sitting and looking at each other in this inconspicuous little house. One of them was naturally Lu Youdao, and the other was Director Nalan.


    The connection between these two people is deeper than I thought.


    There is also a standing clothes rack behind the door, on which hang several clothes, including an old-fashioned leather jacket with a fur lapel.


    There was also a black uniform, of an old style, the same one that the ghost he had seen before was wearing.


    Lu Youdao walked in naturally, came to the back of the hut, and took out an old box from the wooden shelf. Seeing this, Yang Xiao''s heart rose to his throat.


    He stared at the box. It looked like it was made of wood, but it was hard to tell whether it was made of the rare silver material used to store the Resentful Eye. The box was most likely filled with a Resentful Eye, and a very special one at that.


    At this moment, Yang Xiao also knew that the burden on his shoulders was heavy. It seemed that this Eye of Resentment was most likely the treasure hidden in the bottom of the box by the director or Lu Youdao, and it was given to him today after he passed the test. This was a great honor and a sign of trust in him.


    When Lu Youdao walked towards him, Yang Xiao took a step forward and solemnly stretched out his two hands, palms facing upwards.


    He made a move to take the box with an extremely serious expression.


    "What are you going to do?" Lu Youdao frowned.


    Hearing this, Yang Xiao was also stunned, and the two hands he stretched out stopped in mid-air, "Isn''t this for me?"


    "Do you smoke, too?"


    Lu Youdao sat down on the chair facing the door, opened the box, took out layers of tobacco from it, rolled a cigarette for himself with skillful movements, and lit the cigarette by striking a long-handled match.


    Taking a deep breath, Lu Youdao slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, looking at the gray-white smoke drifting away. The ignored Yang Xiao''s brain worked for three seconds, then he walked over and sat down on the chair opposite Lu Youdao, staring at him unwillingly.


    "You saw it, right?" Lu Youdao said in a deep and slow voice.


    "I saw Director Nalan participate in a mission, but the mission failed. Two team members, a man and a woman, were beheaded." Yang Xiao described what he saw and heard in the shortest possible language. In front of Lu Youdao, there was no need for him to hide anything. This man had a close relationship with Nalan Shuo.


    "Cough... cough cough...


    Lu Youdao seemed to be choked and started coughing violently. He had no choice but to put out the cigarette butt in his hand and looked at Yang Xiao with complicated eyes. "Their target is the evil sorcerer Xiang Fengchen. The man and woman who died were both subordinates of Nalan Shuo. The man was the captain of the investigation team like you, his name was Yu Xingye, and the woman''s name was Mingxi, she was the deputy captain."


    "They were ambushed. The entire investigation team, including Yu Xingye and Mingxi, were killed. Only Nalan Shuo survived."


    "That old ghost Xiang Fengchen called in a lot of helpers. In the end, except for Xiang Fengchen who managed to escape, the rest were killed."


    "Originally, our people captured a lot of people alive, including several of Xiang Fengchen''s disciples, but Nalan Shuo completely lost control after seeing that scene and killed them all. There were other brothers from the Patrol Bureau who wanted to stop him at the scene.


    He was also injured by Nalan Shuo. Because of this incident, Nalan Shuo was demoted to Rongcheng. Ten years have passed, and this incident has always been an indelible wound in his heart. "


    ¡°10 years¡­¡±


    "Yes, it''s been 10 years. Ten years ago, Nalan Shuo was the director, the youngest director-general in the province at that time. What you saw in the ghost was Nalan Shuo''s inner demon. He fell too deeply into it and can no longer extricate himself." Lu Youdao''s voice was hoarse.


    "Where is the director now?" Yang Xiao suddenly remembered.


    "Don''t worry, he''s fine. He went to the provincial government for you." Lu Youdao raised his heavy eyelids.


    Look towards Yang Xiao.


    "For me?"


    "Xiang Fengchen is a wanted criminal. Many good men in the Patrol Bureau have died at his hands over the years. You killed him this time, which is a great achievement. Your Chief Nalan has gone to ask for credit for you. If nothing unexpected happens, your deputy chief will not be able to escape."


    "With this title, you can compete with Qu Muzhi. What you need to do next is to get the position of Commissioner of the Joint Office. This will be a new starting point in your career."


    "We are old, and the future belongs to you young people. He sees hope in you."


    ¡°But I didn¡¯t kill Xiang Fengchen. He was plotted against. If we talk about who contributed more in the mission, the director is much better than me.¡± Yang Xiao did not dare to take credit for himself and told the truth.


    However, Lu Youdao just shook his head and said seriously: "That''s not important. Just because you are willing to take the risk with Nalan Shuo, you are worth it."


    "Mr. Lu, what''s going on with the ghost in that room? How come it has Director Nalan''s memories?" Yang Xiao asked.


    "We took that ghost after killing a group of evil cultivators. We originally wanted to use it to resolve Nalan Shuo''s inner demons bit by bit, but we didn''t expect that his obsession was too deep and he couldn''t resist the ghost''s ability. He fell deeper and deeper into the illusion. In the end, I had to stop this plan."


    "This ghost is very special. It is like a mirror. It can reflect the most unbearable and most reluctant past hidden deep in a person''s heart. It attacks you with the most vulnerable memories in your heart. Once you are completely defeated, you will completely lose control." Lu Youdao explained.


    "What I saw in the illusion were all about Director Nalan''s memories, but not mine. This ghost still needs to adapt to the new carrier, right?" Yang Xiao asked after thinking.


    "You are very smart. Today is just a test for you. If you can''t even get through this, then there is no need to continue." Lu Youdao said bluntly: "This ghost is much more terrifying than you think. You are adapting to it, and it is also trying to understand you."


    "I still don''t understand, what''s the point of letting me use this ghost as a sparring partner, to train my tolerance for pain?"


    After going through so much, Yang Xiao was no longer easily deceived by sweet words. What he was really worried about was that the ghost might see the secret about the costumes, and this secret must not be leaked, even to someone he trusted.


    Ghosts are not allowed either.


    What he was more worried about was that Lu Youdao had a way to see his illusion, or that someone would come to this room again in the future and see his part of the nightmare through the ghost, which might contain the secret of the costume.


    Lu Youdao did not explain too much. He took out a small book with a yellowed cover from his pocket, opened it and read: "The ghost walked from the 1st ring to the 5th ring before gradually slowing down, and finally stopped at the 7th ring. This proves that the strength of your mental power is close to the level of the upper level. As expected, the more difficult the task, the more significant the improvement of mental power.


    You didn¡¯t have this level before.¡±


    "In addition, judging from the time you took to stop the ghost from turning around and the results, your ability to control your mental power is extremely high, at least above the ghost level, and it is not ruled out that your level is close to the top of the ghost level. This is crucial for you to control high-level magic tools."


    As soon as these words came out, Yang Xiao understood that a person''s mental strength and ability to control mental strength can be seen from his performance in the battle with the ghost. The last time he heard the word "control" was from Professor Cui who was sent by the Provincial Government.


    Professor Cui is a very rare psychic tester, whose ability is to assess the strength of an apostle''s mental power, as well as his receptivity and control over it. Professor Cui once explained to himself that mental power strength determines the foundation, while receptivity and control are skills.


    To put it simply, the strength of mental power determines the lower limit of combat power, while the acceptance and control of mental power determines the upper limit of an apostle''s future growth.


    "Fighting with this ghost can enhance my mental strength and raise my bottom line." Yang Xiao suddenly realized.


    "No, it only improves your mental power a little, but it can improve your control over your mental power in disguise." Lu Youdao raised his broken hand and raised it upwards, "It can raise your upper limit, so that you can better adapt to and exert the power of high-level magic tools."


    Yang Xiao''s eyes lit up when he heard this, this was too important for him now. He now had a lot of weird... high-level magical weapons, but due to various reasons, he could not bring out even one tenth or one twelfth of the power of these magical weapons. In a two-on-one situation, he was beaten badly by the ghost-level apostles. Even the old dean of Rulin Academy could not stand it anymore.


    How can I describe that feeling? It''s like a eunuch visiting a brothel and can only stare at the pretty girls around him with envy.


    "You have a lot of good magic weapons on you. Believe me, this kind of training is very necessary for you." Lu Youdao said seriously, "Of course, there will inevitably be dangers, and such dangers are hard to guard against, so you can also refuse." Lu Youdao added.


    "A real man is born between heaven and earth, how can he be depressed and inferior to others for long? As a deputy captain of the department, I, Yang Xiao, should train diligently and shoulder the responsibility of protecting the peace of this area. If I don''t go to hell, who will? Let the storm come even more violently!" Yang Xiao slammed the table and stood up, speaking passionately.


    "Captain Yang, you are not yet at the deputy director level." Lu Youdao corrected kindly.


    "That''s not important." Yang Xiao waved his hand and spoke passionately, "As long as I can do my part to protect Rongcheng, it''s fine. Anyway, I''m willing to accept the training."


    "That''s great. Let''s stop here today. You go back first. The ghost''s situation is quite special. I''ll let you know when the next training will start." Lu Youdao stood up, issuing an order to expel him in disguise.


    This person never knows how to be polite.


    "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Lu." After thanking him, Yang Xiao turned and left.


    It was late at night, and there were few people on the street. On the way home, Yang Xiao lifted his backpack up.


    Then he turned up his collar to resist the cool night wind.


    His mind kept recalling the scenes that appeared in the illusion, as well as what Lu Youdao said to him. The training that could improve the control over mental strength was too tempting for Yang Xiao now. He also wanted to see what was the most fearful thing in his heart.


    Well...actually, it seems that there is no need to guess. It should be that the ghost girl in the opera costume is here and sooner or later, I will be skinned by her.


    But Yang Xiao is not a person who gives up easily. He can''t do anything to the female ghost in opera robes now, but that doesn''t mean he can''t do anything for the rest of his life. Now they have a relationship of mutual benefit. Before she changes her skin completely, the female ghost in opera robes will not let herself die.


    As he was walking, suddenly, Yang Xiao seemed to sense something and turned back abruptly. Under the street lights, there were only a few people on the street behind him, and they were quite far away. Everyone was walking in a hurry and no one was looking at him.


    After watching for ten seconds, Yang Xiao didn''t find any problems, so he turned around and continued walking. Not far ahead was the apartment building where he lived. There were two buildings in total. Yang Xiao lived in Building 1, but now he headed towards Building 2.


    After entering Apartment Building No. 2, Yang Xiao went straight to the public restroom on the first floor. There was no one in the restroom at this time, so he locked the door. Yang Xiao quickly took off his clothes, put on his theatrical robe, summoned the soul-catching mirror, and traveled outside the apartment building through the mirror in front of him.


    He never believed in accidents and coincidences. The reason he was able to survive until now was because of his caution. Using the power of the soul-stealing mirror, he searched the area around the apartment building twice but found nothing. To be on the safe side, he went back to the room where he lived. He did not show up in person, but hid in the mirror world and observed from different angles whether there was anyone hiding in the room.


    But after all the trouble, nothing happened. Yang Xiao was unsure. Could it be that he was too sensitive?


    After checking several nearby rooms and the dark areas of the corridor again, Yang Xiao appeared and returned to the room. He went straight to the computer, turned it on and accessed the surveillance video.


    Before, he asked Ximen Xiu to help him set up a line so that he could access the surveillance cameras near the apartment at any time. After checking the surveillance cameras in the recent period, Yang Xiao leaned back in his chair, frowning slightly. The surroundings were calm and there were no suspicious people around.


    He also saw his own figure in the surveillance video, and there was no tail behind him. The passers-by behaved normally and no one paid too much attention to him.


    But the more this happened, the more uneasy Yang Xiao felt. He had offended too many people, many of whom were difficult to deal with.


    Today, either he was being too paranoid and scaring himself, or someone really came over. Anyone who could avoid his detection would definitely not be a simple person.


    After thinking for a moment, Yang Xiao stood up, took out his laptop and stuffed it into his backpack, "No, we can''t live here anymore. It''s too windy."

 #656 - Missing

    Because of the sensitivity of his profession, Yang Xiao never kept any paper documents that could reveal his identity in his room. After simply packing up his things, he did not leave the door, but directly used the power of the soul-catching mirror to teleport several times and left the apartment far away.


    Without hesitation, he went straight back to the patrol station, moved into the director''s office, brought a quilt, and slept on the sofa.


    The safest place at the moment is the Patrol Station. He doesn''t believe that anyone would dare to break into the Patrol Station, especially the director''s office and kill people. That would not be a personal vendetta. Regardless of whether the other party succeeds or not, they will face revenge from the entire Patrol Station.


    Anyone who is not a fool can tell what is more important than what is less important.


    Of course, all of this might be due to his own paranoia, and he was just fighting wits with the air, but Yang Xiao didn''t care about the shame or the trouble, safety was his first priority.


    It was already early morning when he returned to the patrol station. After such an incident, Yang Xiao lost all desire to sleep. He turned on the light and lay on the sofa, listing suspicious targets one by one. He kept thinking until dawn, but still had no clue.


    After dawn, Yang Xiao took a short nap, then got up, washed his face with cold water, went downstairs to the cafeteria to eat, and after eating, started another day''s work.


    He was going to be promoted to the deputy director level, and he had to learn to share the director''s worries. Nalan Shuo treated him well, and Yang Xiao was determined to repay him if he had the chance in the future.


    At 10 o''clock in the morning, Yang Xiao was concentrating on a document on the table. Just when he had some ideas, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and Ximen Xiu rushed in with a tablet computer in his hand, "Brother Xiao, I have something to ask..."


    "Knock on the door before entering next time. Also, refer to your job title when working!" Yang Xiao frowned slightly as his train of thought was interrupted.


    "Yes, Captain, no... Acting Director, you asked me to keep an eye on a homeless man before. Do you remember that he disappeared last night?" Ximen Xiu said anxiously.


    "tramp....


    Yang Xiao''s thoughts instantly brought him back to a few days ago, when he had not yet followed the director into the nightmare world. He privately let Brother Sui go. There was indeed a homeless man at the scene, but the director gave him some money and sent him away.


    Ximen Xiu brought the tablet computer over, placed it on the table and played a video for Yang Xiao. The video was rather blurry as it was shot at night. Judging from the angle, it should have been taken by a surveillance camera at an alley entrance.


    A man in dark clothes walked into the alley stealthily, with his back to the surveillance camera, sticking to the wall.


    He looked back from time to time. Ximen Xiu pressed the pause button at the right time and enlarged the picture. Yang Xiao vaguely saw the man''s face.


    A familiar memory flashed through his mind. Yes, it was the homeless man who was let go by the director. He even ate a few sweet potatoes from him.


    "What''s going on?" Yang Xiao frowned, smelling a hint of danger.


    "This person had been staying in a small hotel nearby and hadn''t been out for several days. But somehow, he suddenly slipped out last night and never came back. We checked the nearby surveillance cameras and found him, but there were only people who went in, no one left."


    Ximen Xiu was silent for a moment, and then explained in a low voice, "I think this person must have had an accident. The hotel owner reported that


    He said that he still had three days'' rent for the room he rented, there were instant noodles and sausages on the table, and he hadn''t taken a few clothes with him. It was impossible for him, a penniless homeless man, to leave these things behind.


    Yang Xiao remembered that the director had warned him before, asking him to take the money and hide it somewhere, and not to come back within a week. However, he did not expect that this man would not listen to the advice. He must have come back after peeking because he was reluctant to part with the things in the broken house.


    But who would mess with a homeless person? The result was already obvious. Yang Xiao slowly exhaled, with murderous intent in his eyes.


    His premonition last night was correct. Someone was indeed watching him, and... he already knew the origin of the mysterious person last night.


    "I know about this matter. Go back and prepare a detailed report and give it to Director Nalan when he returns."


    "clear."


    After Ximen Xiu left, Yang Xiao thought for a moment, picked up his phone, found a number and dialed it. After a few seconds, the call was connected:


    "Is this Captain Qu? I am Yang Xiao."


    Yang Xiao was busy in the office all day. There were many complicated things to do in the Patrol Office, and many of them required him, the acting director, to do them personally. Raising his hand and slowly moving his wrist, Yang Xiao couldn''t help but sigh. As expected, the higher the position, the greater the responsibility. Nalan Shuo''s life was far from as glamorous as he had imagined.


    Fortunately, he has Sister Wen and Huang Qiang to assist him, one is in charge of internal affairs and the other is in charge of external affairs. Yang Xiao often feels that he is the redundant one. The work here can be completely handed over to these two people, and they will do a better job than himself.


    In comparison, Yang Xiao still missed the time when he was the captain. The investigation team seldom went out unless there was an emergency. Huang Qiang once said frankly that when he was not there, the so-called real emergency would not occur until once in half a year.


    In the evening, Yang Xiao finished his work for the day and went to the cafeteria downstairs to have a delicious meal. He also had three chicken legs. After having a full stomach, Yang Xiao did some simple exercises for a while and then went back to the office to rest. He slept until after 9 o''clock in the evening.


    After getting up, he was full of energy. He took out his backpack, took off his clothes, and put on his theatrical robe very skillfully. According to the old rules, the theatrical robe was worn innermost, close to the skin, and then he put on a dark coat outside to wrap his whole body.


    He then put on a baseball cap and pulled the brim down to cover the upper half of his face. Wearing this outfit, Yang Xiao quietly left the patrol station through the back door.


    In a remote place near the back door, Yang Xiao stopped a black car. The driver stepped on the accelerator, and soon he arrived at the entrance of the alley where the homeless man disappeared.


    After a quick observation nearby and finding nothing wrong, Yang Xiao pulled the brim of his hat even lower and then walked deeper into the alley. He vaguely remembered that there was an abandoned factory area in front of this place, and there were mostly abandoned low-rise houses in the alley.


    Although these bungalows are abandoned, their structures are still intact and many of them still have doors and windows, which has attracted some homeless people to spend the night here.


    This is what happened to the missing homeless man. He was eating sweet potatoes and singing in the room, and he met Yang Xiao by chance.


    Returning to this place again, Yang Xiao felt a lot of emotions in his heart. If he had not met him last time, Brother Sui would have been in danger. Those people from Yiling Academy would not let him go. He never expected that Brother Sui could have such powerful strength and be a real ghost-level apostle.


    As expected, the martial arts world is too vast, with numerous factions and numerous masters. It¡¯s just that I live in a small place like Rongcheng, so I don¡¯t know how vast and deep the martial arts world is.


    But he has no plans to leave for the time being. He likes this place and this is home to him.


    ¡°Tattattatt¡­¡±


    The alley was deep and quiet, with almost no windows with lights on. Only occasionally at the intersections were there a few lights that were dimly lit, emitting a half-life light.


    According to his memory, Yang Xiao quickly found the place where he had fought with Brother Sui, and the homeless man''s home was nearby.


    Following the path he remembered, he came to the small house. The doors and windows were closed, the room was dark and silent.


    But just as Yang Xiao approached, before he could stretch out his hand to push the door, he heard a "creak" and the door opened by itself in the light of Yang Xiao''s surprise, and a figure walked out calmly.


    This person was obviously not a homeless person. He was thin, leaning on a twisted wooden cane, and wearing a long black robe that covered most of his face and his entire body, making him look extremely mysterious.


    "My intuition was right, it is you." The man in the robe lifted his hat, revealing a gloomy and old face. It was none other than the elder who led the team from Yiling Academy, who had met Yang Xiao once before.


    "It''s you?!" Yang Xiao frowned and took a step back unconsciously.


    ¡°Tell me, where did you hide that person?!¡± Elder Pu stepped forward, staring at Yang Xiao with a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes, and threatened in a low voice: ¡°Boy, no one can save you today, I advise you to be sensible.¡±


    "How dare you attack the people from the Patrol Office?" Yang Xiao questioned.


    Hearing this, Elder Park suddenly laughed, his face twisted in horror, and he let out a hoarse and dull laugh, "No one will know, you are a smart person, I will not let you go out and talk nonsense, you must die today, but the difference is how you die."


    "No one knows you''re here. I can torture you to death little by little, or I can give you a quick death. It all depends on your choice."


    Elder Park had his hands behind his back, as if he was strolling in the garden. Facing a captain of the patrol department, Elder Park did not take him seriously at all. In a one-on-one situation, very few people in Rongcheng could be his opponent. This was not arrogance, but extreme confidence in his own strength.


    "Where is that homeless man?" Yang Xiao stepped back and looked towards the room that Elder Pu walked out of.


    Seeing this, Elder Park grinned and said with a sinister smile: "You are about to die, and you still have time to care about others. Don''t worry, you will see that stinky beggar soon."


    Now the situation has become completely clear. The homeless man who sneaked back was caught by Elder Park who was waiting here. As expected, he gave away Yang Xiao. Elder Park also analyzed that Sui Chengguo''s escape was most likely related to Yang Xiao, so he followed him late at night. The mysterious man who followed him last night was Elder Park from Yiling Academy.


    ¡°Elder Pu, I don¡¯t understand what you are saying. Our Patrol Office has always had a good relationship with your Yiling Academy. You attacked me today. Aren¡¯t you afraid of affecting the relationship between the two sides?¡± Yang Xiao said loudly, as if he was deliberately spreading the word, or for someone nearby to hear. ¡°Besides, you are an elder. By attacking a junior like me, aren¡¯t you afraid of ruining the reputation of Yiling Academy?¡±


    "Stop talking nonsense. Who do you think your Rongcheng Patrol Office is? A Nalan Shuo dares to show his displeasure to me. Do you really think I''m easy to mess with?" Elder Pu slammed the ground with his cane. It can be seen that he is still brooding over what happened that day, and there is no way he will let it go today.


    The next second, in Yang Xiao''s field of vision, Elder Park''s figure instantly disappeared, and then, a gust of wind blew from behind him. Yang Xiao reacted extremely quickly, and turned around to block the moment he pulled out the human bone stick, but even so, he was knocked away by a force.


    After finally stabilizing himself, Yang Xiao raised his head and saw Elder Pu holding a cane and appearing at the place where he once stood. He stared at him with a slightly strange look, "Good boy, you are quite capable. No wonder you can defeat the Venerable-level evil cultivator."


    "I will add another achievement to my record today, killing the elder of Yiling Academy." Yang Xiao grabbed the human bone stick,


    He hit Elder Park with two sticks.


    Elder Park raised his cane to block, but he didn''t expect that the invisible attack would penetrate the cane, one stick hitting him on the head and the other hitting him on the chest. He couldn''t help but feel dazed in his mind, but only for a moment.


    When Elder Pu came to his senses, he saw Yang Xiao running wildly along the alley with his back to him, "Want to run?!"


    In the blink of an eye, Yang Xiao had run to an intersection, but he had to slow down because the scene in front of him made him vaguely feel that something was wrong. He had been here before and remembered that the street lights here were on, but now, it was all dark.


    It was not completely black, but a chaotic gray, as if it was obscured by something.


    "Ming Ming...


    ,


    A dirty child wearing tattered clothes, barefoot, and covered in black, limped out from behind the corner, covering his face with his hands, crying as he ran.


    The first time he saw the child, Yang Xiao took out the ghost lantern. As the pale green light spread, he also saw the child''s true appearance.


    Sure enough, it was a ghost. The child''s facial skin had been completely peeled off, leaving only a skull face. His entire body was highly rotten, and as he ran, rotten flesh and blood dripped from time to time, leaving a muddy bloody trail on the ground.


    This bloody path is invisible to the naked eye and will only become visible with the help of magical tools such as the ghost lantern.


    In addition, the child was missing one of his left feet, and he limped when he ran, with yellowed bones exposed under the rotten wound.


    The ghost child rushed towards Yang Xiao, but fortunately his speed was not too fast, and Yang Xiao dodged in time, barely avoiding it.


    The ghost child, who was covering his face and had no eyes, crashed into a tree not far behind Yang Xiao. The part of the tree trunk that was hit was corroded and riddled with holes in an instant, and foul-smelling sewage flowed out from the honeycomb-like holes.


    While being shocked, Yang Xiao also confirmed the ability of this ghost, which is corrosion. Qian Fang must not be touched by it, otherwise the tree would end up like this.


    ¡°Elder Pu, this is a magical weapon of an evil cultivator. Aren¡¯t you afraid of being held accountable by Yiling Academy?¡± Yang Xiao shouted.


    "Hehe, the winner is the king. I am not the only one in the courtyard who has such a magical weapon. It''s just tacitly known!" Elder Pu attracted Yang Xiao''s attention while speaking, and then his figure disappeared. When he appeared again, he was not far from the corroded tree. He grabbed a stick and smashed it hard on Yang Xiao''s shoulder.


    There was no way to avoid it this time, so Yang Xiao directly used the ability of the Soul Mirror, and the two of them almost swapped positions.


    With a "bang" sound, dust and smoke were raised, and the stick fell down and actually smashed a small hole in the ground.


    Without waiting for Yang Xiao to catch his breath, the ghost child continued to run towards Yang Xiao barefoot. Its speed was obviously faster than before, and the speed at which its rotting flesh and blood fell off was also increasing. It covered its face and kept crying in pain.


    The current situation is extremely unfavorable to Yang Xiao. The space here has been blocked, he cannot escape, the ghost kid is chasing him, and on the other hand, he also has to guard against Elder Park''s sneak attack. This man is quite powerful, at least he has one foot in the ghost level. Now the situation is still at a stalemate, largely because Elder Park is afraid of the consequences and has not killed him.


    After all, he still had something to ask and hoped to be captured alive. Of course, after finding out the whereabouts of Brother Sui, death was the end that awaited him.


    "A magical weapon that can directly attack the spirit, what a great stuff!!" Elder Park''s eyes were filled with greed and murderous intent, knowing that he had picked up a treasure today.

 #657 - With Yang Xiao here, who dares to act recklessly? !

    After several fights, Yang Xiao had a rough idea of ??Elder Pu''s abilities. He had two magical weapons, one of which blocked the space here, and the other was a wooden crutch in his hand. The lower end of the crutch was connected to a dried-up little foot, which was the ghost child''s missing left foot, and it had been dried out and turned purple-brown.


    In addition to being able to summon ghost children, this wooden crutch can also teleport. Yang Xiao used a ghost lantern to find bloody footprints on the path the ghost children walked, and these footprints were the teleportation points.


    As long as it is a path that the ghost child has walked on and left bloody footprints, Elder Park can use his crutches to teleport. After landing, the dry little feet under the crutches will fall exactly where the ghost footprints are, and the two fit perfectly.


    But what is strange is that the foot under the crutch is clearly the left foot, while the bloody footprint left by the ghost child is the right foot.


    In addition, each teleportation point can only be used once, because after the teleportation, the corresponding blood footprint will disappear.


    Frankly speaking, this magic weapon is pretty good. If Yang Xiao didn''t have the Soul-Capture Mirror in his hand, he would seriously consider taking this crutch into his possession.


    Not wanting to waste any more time with Elder Pu, Yang Xiao intentionally exposed a flaw. Sure enough, the next second, Elder Pu appeared behind Yang Xiao and smashed down on him with his crutch at such a speed that it brought up a gust of wind.


    Yang Xiao held up the ghost lantern to block, but when the stick came down, the flame in the ghost lantern shook violently for a few times and was almost extinguished. Yang Xiao was also knocked back more than ten steps. In a pure mental battle, he was no match for the elder of Yiling Academy.


    However, the gap between the two was not as big as imagined. Yang Xiao''s retreat was more of a matter of course. After this attack, Yang Xiao thoroughly judged the strength of Elder Pu. It was true that he was very strong, but he was still far from a real ghost-level apostle like Brother Sui, Marquis of Pingxi. So far, neither of them had used their full strength. If they really fought to the death, it was still unknown who would win.


    "Yang Xiao, why don''t you surrender?!" Elder Pu was furious after failing to capture Yang Xiao several times. He knew that if the stalemate continued, the situation would be extremely unfavorable to him. He had to make a quick decision, even if he couldn''t survive, he would be fine to die!


    But before he could do anything, he felt a strong wind coming from behind. The next second, his left shoulder, back and knees were hit hard at the same time. He was blown away and fell heavily to the ground, looking quite embarrassed.


    When he came to his senses, Elder Park was shocked to find that there was a man about ten meters behind him. The man was not very old, with stern brows, a tough face, short gray hair, and was wearing a black uniform of the Patrol Office. He had a headless spear across his side, with the gun head falling down and the gun body slanted behind him. He walked towards him slowly, bringing him pressure like a mountain.


    "Qu Muzhi?!" Elder Pu knew this person. He had done his homework before coming to Rongcheng. This person was known as the number one captain of Rongcheng and was stronger than Yang Xiao.


    With the appearance of Qu Muzhi, the situation suddenly reversed. He was already struggling to deal with Yang Xiao alone, and now there was an even more troublesome guy.


    "You...how did you find this place?" Elder Park''s head was a mess as he had blocked off the space here in advance.


    But soon, Elder Pu figured it out. All this was the plan of that little bastard Yang Xiao. He came here today to fish. He calculated that he would attack him here, so he notified Qu Muzhi in advance to ambush him.


    Seeing Qu Muzhi take action, Yang Xiao felt relieved and grinned, "Captain Qu, have you recorded everything?"


    "Don''t worry, it''s all recorded. The video and sound are very clear. It''s enough to convict him." Qu Muzhi had a law enforcement recorder from the Patrol Bureau hanging in front of him. In order to cooperate with Yang Xiao, he specially replaced it with the latest model and recorded all the previous scenes.


    If Yang Xiao had not been worried about being recorded by those evil cultivators'' magical instruments, he would have used the ghost whisk or something like that. But now, with Qu Muzhi''s assistance, the two of them working together make it impossible for Elder Pu to escape.


    Elder Pu knew that today''s matter would never end peacefully, and with his strength, he had no chance of winning against the two top captains of the Rongcheng Patrol Bureau. He immediately changed his attitude and bowed to Yang Xiao with a smile, "Captain Yang, I was confused before. Please forgive me and let me go for the sake of the cooperative relationship between our Yiling Academy and the Patrol Bureau. Is that okay with you?"


    "Does Elder Park need to take away the things captured by the law enforcement camera?" Yang Xiao asked in a strange way.


    "This... This is natural. I have said a lot of nonsense. I hope Captain Yang and Captain Qu can give me this face. I am very grateful for your kindness." Elder Park is indeed a veteran. He bows his head when he should, without blushing at all.


    Yang Xiao just smiled, turned his head to look at Qu Muzhi who had cut off the old man''s retreat, and asked loudly: "Captain Qu, is the law enforcement recorder turned off?"


    "It was turned off the moment I made my move." Qu Muzhi was still as reliable as ever.


    ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± Yang Xiao retracted his gaze and looked at Elder Pu. His attitude changed instantly. ¡°You old coffin man, you were so arrogant before. Now you¡¯re thinking of asking me to let you go. It¡¯s too late! You think you¡¯re great just because you have an evil magic weapon. Haha, I¡¯ll show you something amazing today!¡±


    After saying that, Yang Xiao pulled out the Ghost Whisk in front of Elder Pu. After seeing the Ghost Whisk, Elder Pu could no longer look away. After a moment, his almost frozen expression suddenly exploded, "Little Holy Spirit White-robed Buddha Mother?!"


    "If you have some experience, I will teach you a lesson today!" Yang Xiao didn''t waste any words. He picked up the whisk and rushed forward. He had been holding back for a long time.


    He owed Yang Xiao a favor before, so this time Qu Muzhi did not stand idly by, he picked up his spear and rushed forward, using a powerful and heavy spear technique to smash at Elder Park''s back, which almost scared Elder Park to death. He directly used the ability of a human crutch and instantly moved behind a short tree. Qu Muzhi''s attack failed, so he changed the spear into a stick, tilted his body backwards and used a move to sweep away thousands of troops, so fast that only an afterimage could be seen.


    The tree trunk, which was as thick as a bowl, was broken in half by this blow, and wood chips flew everywhere. The scene was extremely brutal. Elder Park stared blankly and retreated more than ten steps before he could barely distance himself and control the ghost child beside him to attack Qu Muzhi.


    "Old dog, take my stick!" Yang Xiao, who had been lurking behind Elder Park silently, suddenly attacked and hit him on the back of his head with a stick. Elder Park was an old hand after all, and his reaction was extremely fast. He turned his head slightly, and the stick hit his shoulder heavily. After the hit, Yang Xiao kicked out and hit Elder Park''s waist from behind, sending him flying.


    Yang Xiao used all his strength in this kick, sending the man flying 5 or 6 meters, before he fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.


    In fact, if it was a ghost whisk, the old man would have died, but this thing was too brutal and it would be difficult to clean up the scene afterwards.


    This is Rongcheng after all, he has to consider the impact. Besides... he also has to capture this old guy alive, he is more useful alive than dead.


    "Whose child is not sleeping in the middle of the night and keeps crying? The child is ignorant and the adults are also ignorant. Some people are born without anyone to take care of them!" A door not far away was pushed open, and a man in clothes cursed outside.


    Seeing this, Elder Pu immediately controlled the ghost child to rush towards the family. Seeing this, Qu Muzhi flew over to stop him.


    Several shots were fired at the ghost child from a distance, but a shocking scene appeared. All the shots missed. The ghost child''s figure flashed, avoiding all attacks while rushing towards the man at an extremely fast speed.


    "Run!" He yelled at the sleepy man who was disturbed from his sweet dream, but he was still a step too late.


    The ghost child rushed towards the man and rushed into the room. The next second, a woman''s scream was heard from the room, but it only lasted for a moment.


    Qu Muzhi rushed forward with gun in hand, and Elder Pu, seeing that the other party''s attention was diverted, got up from the ground and turned to escape, but before he could take two steps, he was knocked to the ground by a strange mental attack from behind.


    Elder Pu''s eyes were dazed and he was trying to hold on to the crutch for a final struggle. A cold light flashed before his eyes, and the crutch and the left hand holding it no longer belonged to him. Yang Xiao held a kitchen knife and cut off his left hand with one stroke.


    ¡°Ah¡­Ah¡­Ah¡­¡± Elder Pu, who had lost his left hand, let out a tragic cry, hugged his broken arm, and rolled on the ground. Yang Xiao stepped forward and kicked him, knocking him unconscious.


    "Yu.:


    A powerful wave of power came from behind, and a long spear was thrown out like a spear, the target was Elder Park who had fainted on the ground.


    "Captain Qu, please show mercy!" Yang Xiao stood in front of the spear and summoned the Ghost Whisk, barely blocking the attack in a hurry.


    Worried that Qu Muzhi would do something irreversible in his impulse, Yang Xiao first tied up Elder Pu and threw him into the mirror world, then picked up his spear and walked towards Qu Muzhi.


    Qu Muzhi was standing in front of the door of the room, his fair face had turned red with anger. As soon as he got closer, Yang Xiao smelled a strong stench. The dark room was completely silent.


    Lifting up the ghost lantern, the tragic scene inside came into view. There were three bodies lying inside, all of them rotten and smelly.


    The ground was covered with corpses and water.


    The man fell on his back, his yellow eyes wide open, as if he didn''t know what happened before he died.


    There was a child lying on a wooden bed made of discarded old bed boards, his body so rotten that it was no longer human.


    The woman was lying face down on the edge of the bed, with her head facing the bed and her feet facing outward. From her posture, it can be seen that when faced with danger, the woman subconsciously wanted to rush forward to protect the child. Unfortunately, ordinary people like them had no chance of survival under the attack of ghosts.


    Handing the spear to Qu Muzhi, Yang Xiao slowly exhaled, "Captain Qu, don''t be impulsive. If we kill him now, we won''t be able to explain ourselves. Let''s take him back first and try him slowly. We will make him pay the price!"


    Under Qu Muzhi''s escort, the two took advantage of the night and returned to the Lin''an Office together. After arranging for people to detain Elder Pu, Qu Muzhi was about to leave. According to him, he would report today''s events to Director Huang Guochao of their Chengxin Office.


    Yang Xiao had no objection to this. After all, Qu Muzhi was also a witness to what happened today. Besides, this kind of thing could not be concealed and would be revealed to the world sooner or later.


    It was already early morning. This Elder Pu was no ordinary person. Director Nalan was not here now, and Yang Xiao was worried that something might go wrong, so he went to the detention room in person to watch over him. At the same time, he drafted a report and prepared to report it to the Provincial Office.


    This matter is of no trivial matter. The elders of Yiling Academy dared to attack the current captain of the Patrol Office, and in the territory of Rongcheng Patrol Office itself. Once this matter gets out, it will definitely cause an uproar. Before getting clear approval from the Provincial Office, Yang Xiao knows that he cannot act rashly.


    This is no longer a personal vendetta. If this matter is not handled properly, it will damage the relationship between the Patrol Office and Yiling Academy. Yang Xiao is not a coward, but he does not want this matter to affect Director Nalan and the Lin''an Patrol Office.


    He is not alone, he has a group of brothers from the Patrol Office behind him. Now that Nalan Shuo is not here, he is the acting chief and is responsible for everyone.


    After bringing Elder Park back, Yang Xiao immediately ordered the activation of the emergency plan and raised the alert level. The entire patrol team was dispatched to be on alert, and all members of the investigation team quickly returned to the team. Thanks to Nalan Shuo''s training, it only took a very short time for the Lin''an Office to become a fortress.


    But what Yang Xiao didn''t expect was that within a few hours, before dawn, trouble had already come knocking on his door.


    Yang Xiao, who was drafting a report in the detention room, vaguely heard the commotion outside. Just as he stood up, the door was pushed open and Ximen Xiu rushed in, "Captain, there''s trouble outside. People from Yiling Academy have come to our door and want us to hand over the person!"


    Hearing this, Yang Xiao slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying: "They are so bold, do they really think that my patrol station is made of mud?


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    "What should we do now? They have already broken in and injured several of our patrol brothers. Sister Bei is leading people to confront them now." Ximen Xiu was visibly panicked. After all, no one had ever experienced such a scene before.


    "Don''t panic. Stay here and notify the nearby offices and tell them what happened here. Also report to the provincial office and say that Yiling Academy besieged our patrol office and we suffered casualties. Acting Director Yang Xiao is negotiating with Yiling Academy."


    After saying that, Yang Xiao took out the key, opened the door of the detention room, and picked up Elder Pu who was still unconscious.


    Drag him out. This person is the top priority now, and he cannot be out of their sight for a moment. Otherwise, it is hard to say that Yiling Academy is doing a covert operation, and the commotion in the beginning is just to distract their attention, and then send experts to sneak in and rescue the person. Then they will have no way to explain themselves, and may even be bitten back.


    When Yang Xiao walked out and arrived at the Patrol Office, he realized how serious the situation was. Dozens of people had come to Yiling Academy, and the gate of the Patrol Office had been knocked open by a car. Perhaps they were afraid to make things irreparable, so for the time being these people only dared to bluff in the courtyard and did not have the courage to break into the Patrol Office building.


    At this moment, Beibei was leading his men to block the yard. The two groups were less than 5 meters apart, with swords drawn, guns unsheathed, bullets loaded, and a conflict was about to break out.


    The next second, a figure flew out, leaped diagonally across the crowd, and fell heavily at the junction of the two groups of people.


    This sudden scene startled both parties and they couldn''t help but step back. Only then did the people from Yiling Academy see clearly that the wolf-like figure lying on the ground, face down, was none other than their Elder Pu.


    At this moment, Elder Pu, who was always so arrogant, had his arms tied behind his back and his whole body tied up like a dumpling. He lay on the ground like a dead dog, motionless, and no one knew whether he was dead or alive.


    "Elder Park!" someone shouted.


    The patrol officers separated in the middle to make way for a passage, through which a young man in a black uniform of the patrol officers walked out.


    "Yang Xiao is here, who dares to act insolently?!"