Chapter 35 You Are the Bait

Xie Chengjin has been dreaming about Xie Yanyu a lot lately.

Sometimes the dream unfolded from her first-person perspective, and he could directly perceive her thoughts. In addition, there were also times when the dream unfolded from his perspective, with some fragmented scenes, such as Xie Yanyu being caught having an affair with Helan Wei, and later being put under house arrest by him because of her notoriety; another example was Xie Yanyu defecting to the demon clan, and in the dream he regretted not killing her earlier.

These images have no beginning or end, and the cause and effect are unclear, but any one of them is enough to be outrageous.

However, it is just a dream scene, fragmented and fragmented.

Xie Chengjin didn't take it too seriously and had almost forgotten it as soon as he got up.

But now,

He held Xie Yanyu's hand and touched the gauze on her wrist. Suddenly, he felt a headache.

Those images that had only appeared in his dreams flashed through his mind for the first time while he was awake. They were still fragmented and fleeting, so fast that he couldn't grasp them, but one thought became extremely clear -

Kill her.

Although she is only pretending to obey now, it will cause great disaster in the future.

Kill her now, it's easy to kill her now.

Xie Chengjin's chest heaved up and down.

Those images flipped back and forth forcefully in his mind, as if it was not a dream, as if he had experienced and witnessed these images before. They were part of his memory, forgotten by him, but now reviving. He tried to grasp them but couldn't, and it gave him a splitting headache, as if thousands of needles were pricking his forehead one by one.

Even the consciousness is in chaos.

He could only instinctively clench Xie Yanyu's hand.

He used a lot of force, which must have hurt Xie Yanyu, and even the wound on his palm that had not healed was split open again.

Blood gushed out and seeped into the bones of the two people.

Xie Chengjin tried to use this to sober himself up. In the past, the pain in his palms always brought him back to his senses and made him sober.

But at this moment, even though his palms were stinging, he was still not clear-headed. With his eyes lowered, he could only sense the touch of her fingers on his palms in the chaos. They were slightly cool, slender, hard and rough, like bamboo, and like her, with a stubborn and rebellious nature.

Never listens.

*

Xie Yanyu was still trying to pull his hand out.

However, the more he moved, the tighter he gripped.

Later, the wound on his palm was cracked, and her hand was covered in blood, but he did not let go.

She then looked up at him and found that he seemed a little abnormal.

According to his current appearance,

No matter how hard she tried to pull her hand out, it was useless. She might even break her hand bones, but he wouldn't let go.

She realized this and finally stopped with a gloomy face. She took a few deep breaths before asking him, "What's wrong with you?"

She still suppressed her voice, and even at this time she did not forget to pretend,

If she hadn't already noticed her identity,

Xie Chengjin only heard her voice and couldn't tell that this person was her.

At this moment, she finished speaking.

Xie Chengjin seemed to have regained some consciousness.

He raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes were a little red, and his gaze was as sharp as a knife.

Xie Yanyu had never seen Xie Chengjin like this before.

He usually looks cold and emotionless. When has he ever shown such a look in his eyes? It was as if he wanted to cut open her skin to see her flesh and bones. He was clearly angry.

A little scary.

It feels very oppressive.

Xie Yanyu's scalp tingled when he was looked at.

The hot and wet feeling of blood on her hands also made her scalp tingle.

But she was more annoyed than afraid. Unable to bear it any longer, she pulled her hand away again and said sarcastically, "Young Master, you look like a respectable man. Why do you keep targeting me?"

She didn't know he recognized her yet.

So I still pretend to be innocent and act sarcastic here.

When Xie Chengjin saw her like this, the idea in his mind started to surge again.

Kill her.

Kill her.

Even if she hadn't done anything terribly wrong, killing her now would be against the rules, and he still couldn't help wanting to kill her and break this disobedient bamboo.

A little bloody taste came out of Xie Chengjin's mouth, and he tightly grasped her wrist.

He had always been a law-abiding person and was unwilling to break the rules at this moment, so he suppressed the murderous intent and had an absurd thought in his mind: give her another chance. If she admitted her mistake, he would give her a light punishment and make a big warning to clear up the matter instead of taking her life.

With such a ridiculous idea,

He did not expose her, but asked coldly: "Why am I targeting you? Tell me yourself."

He meant something.

Xie Yanyu's back stiffened, and for a moment he thought he had seen through her identity.

She almost wanted to admit her mistake.

But when she was about to say it, she raised her eyes and met his gaze, and saw her own appearance reflected in his eyes -

The disguise technique is still working fine and has not failed.

She also kept speaking in a low voice, and her sleeves were long enough to cover the gauze on her wrists, not revealing any of her features.

Even though he held her hand and touched the back of her hand just now, it was just a light touch and he probably didn't touch the gauze on her wrist.

He had no reason to recognize her.

Besides, even if he really recognized her, he wouldn't be so angry.

After all, he has never had any emotions. How could someone as insignificant as her stir up his emotions and make him so angry?

Isn't that funny? Who would believe it?

Xie Yanyu looked into his eyes and recalled the night not long ago when she went to steal the antidote for the love silk poison.

He waited for her at the medicine pavilion that night, but he had no evidence that she had taken the love silk Gu, so he could only test her indirectly. Given his personality, if he really recognized her, he would not deceive her like this, but would expose her directly.

Xie Yanyu paused and took back his words of admitting his mistake.

After all, Xie Chengjin might not recognize her. Since he didn't know she was Xie Yanyu, she might just be a stranger in his eyes. So why should she endure it?

So her attitude suddenly became tough, and she said impatiently: "I am Helan Wei's subordinate. I followed him here. I have never met you before, right? What grudge could I have against you? If you don't like Helan Wei, go and deal with him yourself. Why bother with me?"

As soon as these words fell,

Xie Chengjin's blood boiled, and he almost laughed out of anger: "Helan Wei's people?"

No repentance.

Even at this point he still refused to admit it.

Not only did she behave intimately with Helan Wei in front of him, but now she also said that she was Helan Wei's person.

He felt as if a ball of fire was burning in his lungs. He was usually restrained and rarely felt the emotion of anger.

But he didn't know whether it was because she had refused to change her ways and didn't observe etiquette, or for some other reason, but at this moment his emotions were more intense than ever, burning him, as if drawing out the remaining poison in his body, causing his heart to ache, and his entire body, even his fingertips, to ache.

Xie Yanyu was very sensitive to the fact that he was in a bad mood.

He looked even angrier than before.

She even felt a chilling murderous intent from him, and goose bumps were almost appearing on her arms. She thought he was weird and just wanted to shake off his hand and stay away from him. Just at this moment, she heard the footsteps of Helan Wei coming back.

So she quickly shook her hand and said, "Let go!"

This time,

Instead, she shook his hand away.

Seeing that his face became even uglier, she turned her head away and sat down in her previous seat with a gloomy face.

*

Considering that Xie Yanyu was still in the room, Helan Wei was not out for long.

When I came back,

I saw Xie Chengjin and Xie Yanyu still sitting in their original seats, but Xie Chengjin's face didn't look good, with some bloodshot eyes. He was looking at Xie Yanyu, while Xie Yanyu was looking down at the map.

The room was very quiet, and neither of them spoke a word.

It's a little strange.

Helan Wei keenly sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

But when he glanced at them, he couldn't tell what was strange specifically. He just felt that Xie Chengjin looked different from usual. He didn't look emotionless, but rather a little angry.

He sat back at the table, blocking Xie Yanyu.

Then he asked slowly, "I'll just be out for a moment. What happened? Why do you look so upset?"

Because Helan Wei stood in front of Xie Yanyu,

Xie Chengjin couldn't see Xie Yanyu anymore, so he turned his eyes away.

Hearing this, he glanced at Helan Wei coldly again.

He is a man of few words, but whenever someone asks him something, he will answer politely.

This time, for the first time in history, he didn't make a sound.

Helan Wei didn't care about others, and it was even harder for him to have any emotions. Seeing Xie Chengjin's cold face, he didn't care too much.

He turned back to look at Xie Yanyu.

She sat in her original position, looking quite obedient.

Helan Wei could even sense some rejection of Xie Chengjin from her. He felt a little strange, but he did not feel much displeasure in his heart.

After a moment's thought,

He lowered his head slightly and moved closer to her, as if he wanted to talk to her.

However, at this moment,

Xie Chengjin suddenly spoke, interrupting Helan Wei's actions, his voice cold: "Let's talk business."

He pointed at the map and said, "The plan is set, but we still need to divide the work."

The plan to deal with the vengeful ghost is not complicated.

Helan Wei and Xie Chengjin have speculated that this house was transformed from the body of a vengeful ghost, or in other words, this house is the real body of the vengeful ghost.

On the day they first arrived at the resentful house, the resentful ghost came out to greet them using his clone. However, because the house was his true body, he could be everywhere and control the evil spirits to randomly attack the people in the house.

It transformed into a house,

If you use ordinary methods, you can't hurt it. You can only find its Dantian.

Only by using a formation to destroy its Dantian can we severely injure it, force it to transform back into an ordinary ghost, and then capture it.

So the whole plan is divided into two steps:

The first step is to find its Dantian. Since it has transformed into a house, the Dantian must have transformed into a part of the house, perhaps a pavilion or a courtyard. Find this place, then destroy its Dantian and severely damage it.

The second step is to wait at the pavilion in the center of the house, because the vengeful ghost used a transformation array to transform into a house, and the center of the array is between the pavilions. After the vengeful ghost turns back into a ghost, it will appear there. Just fight with it there and then catch it.

Xie Chengjin is good at formations and is responsible for finding its dantian and then setting up a formation to destroy it.

Helan Wei was responsible for waiting at the pavilion and capturing the vengeful ghosts.

Clear division of labor,

But to complete this plan, a third person is needed.

Helan Wei said lightly, "This third person should be the bait. You and I need to deal with the vengeful ghost. The bait can be any of my servants."

The vengeful ghost is very cunning, so it often reshapes the terrain of the house. Except for the pavilion in the center of the house, every road and every courtyard in the house are constantly changing positions, so the position of its dantian will also change constantly. Maybe its dantian was in a courtyard in the west in the last second, and became a tree in the southernmost part in the next second.

Only when it eats,

It is temporarily unable to change the position of its Dantian because it needs to use its Dantian to absorb "food" and transform the "food" into cultivation.

Therefore, someone needs to take the initiative to become its food and stay in its dantian, so that its dantian cannot change position temporarily, and Xie Chengjin will have time to set up a formation and destroy its dantian.

Xie Chengjin needed to set up the formation, and he really didn't have time to sit there and serve as food for the vengeful ghosts.

He thought for a moment and replied, "Okay."

He said, "Tell your attendant to just sit on its dantian, and I will protect it and won't let the vengeful ghost actually eat it."

Xie Yanyu was listening to them talking.

Hearing this,

She suddenly tugged at Helan Wei's sleeve: "Why don't I do it?"

She just needed to get the inner elixir of the resentful ghost.

The inner elixir is in the dantian. She took the initiative to become the food of the resentful ghost. This is a good opportunity to get the inner elixir of the resentful ghost.

Furthermore, Xie Chengjin said that he would protect the "bait". His cultivation level is there. If he said he could keep people safe, he would definitely be able to keep people safe, so this matter should be very safe. She could also use this opportunity to sell Helan Wei out.

As soon as these words fell,

Helan Wei lowered his eyes to look at her for a while, then said lightly, "What are you planning now?"

Xie Yanyu said in a gentle tone: "I've said before that I only heard this to help you, sir. Didn't you ask me to prove it? Is this enough?"

*

After hearing Xie Yanyu's words,

Xie Chengjin's face turned cold again.

His head began to ache again, as if being pricked by needles. He looked at her, and the thought came to his mind again -

Kill her.

He should have killed someone like her, even if she hadn't done anything serious. Killing her would be against the rules, but hadn't he made an exception for her?

Xie Chengjin suddenly realized,

He has made exceptions for her more than once. He is struggling with whether to follow the rules and whether to spare her life. But isn't this person who has made him make exceptions time and again the one who deserves to be killed the most?

Kill her and everything will return to normal, and the order that has been constantly broken will be restored.

Killing her will prevent future troubles.

And at this point he didn't even need to do it himself.

Being a bait is inherently dangerous.

He only needs to watch coldly and not take any action to protect her, otherwise she will be devoured by the vengeful ghost and will surely die.

She asked for death herself.

Xie Chengjin's breath smelled of blood.

His chest heaved, his fingers tightened, and his eyes grew cold.

Maybe his eyes were still red, but he didn't care. He wanted to expose her and force her to admit her mistake just now, but now he felt it was unnecessary. He looked at her face and felt it was very dazzling. She deliberately changed her voice and it was a little sharp. At this moment, he also felt that her voice was very harsh. He wanted to tear her face apart and poison her throat. Such resentful thoughts should not have popped out of his mind, but at this moment, he really wanted him to die.

So the well-behaved Mr. Xie,

For the first time, he actively and consciously broke the rules and decided to kill her.

He killed his stepsister, whose crime was not punishable by death but who refused to change and kept telling lies.

He looked at her.

After a while, he suddenly said coldly: "Since you are willing to be the bait, then it's you."