(Four)

With that thought in mind, Zhou Ziqiu stepped away from the car and walked into the mountains, while the staff returned to the car and continued to track Zhou Ziqiu's location.

Zhou Ziqiu was carrying nothing in his hands as he walked through the mountains, which were full of low shrubs and weeds, his steps uneven.

As night deepened, the night gradually fell.

The mountains were eerily quiet at night; even the chirping of insects had ceased, leaving only the sound of Zhou Ziqiu's footsteps breaking branches. As he walked, fog rolled in through the woods, obscuring everything beyond fifty meters.

Meanwhile, Wen Su and his two companions arrived at the forest late at night.

Glasses took out his ordinary compass and was about to check it when he was startled.

"Boss, boss, look!"

The person wearing glasses was trembling, whether from excitement or shock, it was hard to tell.

Wen Su didn't even glance at the compass, his expression grave as he looked at the fog-shrouded mountains.

At that moment, the compass in the glasses was swaying slightly, and then the swaying gradually decreased, with the needle vibrating and pointing in a certain direction.

This means there are ghosts here, and one of them is particularly powerful!

Suddenly, Glasses and Fatty seemed to realize something and both looked at Wen Su.

If they remember correctly, Wen Su has the ability to see ghosts, so can he see the ghosts here?

Wen Su saw the fat man and the man with glasses looking at him, and knew what they were thinking. He raised the corner of his lips slightly: "Scared?"

The fat man swallowed hard and said, "No, I'm not afraid."

"Tch... There are no ghosts around, look how scared you are."

Wen Su chuckled twice and led the two along the path.

Suddenly, Wen Su saw a tall, rectangular black shadow in the distance through the fog. When he got closer, he realized it was an SUV with a local license plate from Luoqi.

Wen Su went up to check the car and found someone inside. He reached out and knocked on the window, which was rolled down. Inside sat a staff member of Qingdeng.

"Mr. Wen?"

Wen Su nodded.

The staff member breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that you're here. Mr. Zhou has been gone for half an hour." As he spoke, he pointed in a direction, which was exactly the direction Zhou Ziqiu had just left.

"Okay." Wen Su patted the fat man and looked at his glasses: "You two stay here and guard the car with him, understand?"

"Oh." The fat man and the man with glasses got into the car. Just like the staff of Qingdeng, their fighting ability was also very weak.

After Wen Su finished speaking, he left the place directly in the direction the staff member had pointed out, without taking any exorcism items, leaving everything to Fatty and Glasses.

He has the ability to see ghosts, but for some reason, the wild ghosts in the mountains did not appear. However, it didn't matter whether they appeared or not, as the ghosts could not harm him. He felt no fear at all.

Wen Su didn't know where Mr. Zhou went after leaving in this direction, so he subconsciously followed his intuition and wandered aimlessly in the mountains.

Surprisingly, his route was the same as Zhou Ziqiu's.

Zhou Ziqiu was unaware that someone was walking along the path he had taken, because he was currently enduring the unpleasant smell of the underworld emanating from the ghost.

He realized that to find the vengeful ghost, he just needed to follow the scent. After smelling the same scent he had smelled in the hospital, he followed that scent until he reached an open space.

Zhou Ziqiu frowned as he looked at the small open space. The open space was not large, only about five or six square meters. There was no vegetation on the surface, but it looked as if someone had turned it upside down, and the soil had been turned up.

Based on the current situation, this place is very likely where something that holds a deep-seated obsession is buried. It's just that it's been turned upside down like this, and we don't know if it has been taken away.

He reached out, flicked his finger, and a flame emitting a green glow appeared at his fingertip. Then he squatted down and carefully searched the land.

After searching for a while, he finally discovered a faint green light emanating from the ground not far away. He walked closer, squatted down to examine it, and found that it was a broken glass object that was emitting a green light because of the green light on his hand.

He reached out and carefully picked the glass shards out of the soil and put them together. After examining them closely, he found that they looked very much like the fragments of a woman's broken bracelet.

He quickly pressed the earpiece to tell the staff his location. After telling them his location, he found a large leaf, placed the fragments on the leaf, and began to piece the fragments together little by little.

As he continued digging, he couldn't help but wonder: what were these people doing here digging? Were they just passing by, or was there something more important here?

The bracelet fragments were very scattered, and it took Zhou Ziqiu quite a while to piece them together. However, even after they were pieced together, the leaves would still scatter when the leaves moved.

So he reached out and placed his palm on the bracelet on the leaf. A moment later, when he removed his hand, the bracelet on the leaf had miraculously returned to its original state before it broke.

The fog around me seemed to have thickened.

Zhou Ziqiu stood up with the bracelet in his hand, but suddenly saw a woman in a cheongsam hanging from a tree branch behind him!

The woman seemed to have been dead for some time; her tongue was sticking out, her eyes were rolled back, and her entire body was white. A strong, putrid stench of decay filled the air.

Zhou Ziqiu wasn't frightened by the woman, but he was forced to cover his nose by the stench.

After a short while, the stench dissipated somewhat.

The woman hanging from the tree branch in front of Zhou Ziqiu also stirred. Her upturned eyes rolled down, her bulging eyeballs staring at Zhou Ziqiu, and her tongue became even longer.

"You...you're very fast..."

The woman's hoarse, withered voice rang out, no longer as sharp as it had been in the hospital; instead, it sounded like the noise of two extremely rough objects rubbing against each other.

"So, I've repaired your bracelet. Can you let that child go?"

The woman grinned, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth, her facial muscles contorted in pain.

"No way..."

Zhou Ziqiu's expression remained unchanged; the woman's answer was exactly what he had expected.

Those who hunt ghosts know that the way to break the cycle of a ghost taking one's soul for seven days is to drive away the ghost that is trying to steal it. However, they are unaware that there is another way to break the cycle: the ghost itself must give up trying to steal the soul.

Because no ghost would willingly give up the opportunity to steal a soul, this method is not widely known.

"Then you can only die."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Ziqiu suddenly exerted his strength and shot out like an arrow. A black longsword appeared in his hand and he stabbed at the female ghost. However, the yin energy was extremely strong at this moment, and the female ghost also had some ability to resist. Although she could not withstand Zhou Ziqiu's attack, she could immediately flash away. For a moment, neither the human nor the ghost gained any advantage.

Zhou Ziqiu knew exactly what the female ghost was thinking. He pretended to slash at her, but instead threw a Yang-gathering talisman at the spot where she would reappear.

Sure enough, the female ghost's shrill scream rang out, the sharp sound making Zhou Ziqiu's eardrums ache.

But what hurt even more was the hand that Zhou Ziqiu had just thrown out the talisman. Now, the hand behind his back had been burned to the bone by the Gathering Yang Talisman.

He approached the female ghost, whose body lay on the ground, seemingly about to disintegrate from the heat of the Yang-gathering talisman. She stared intently at Zhou Ziqiu's back.

Zhou Ziqiu reached out and stabbed the female ghost in the forehead with the long knife in his hand, pinning it to the ground. The female ghost's figure immediately dissipated a little more, but it still stared fixedly at Zhou Ziqiu's back. At this moment, Zhou Ziqiu suddenly realized something, turned his head sharply to look behind him, and his face turned deathly pale.

Meanwhile, Wen Su heard the female ghost's scream, stretched out his hand, pinched his thumb on his index and ring fingers, his expression changed, and he quickened his pace.

"broken!"

Zhou Ziqiu stood up and looked coldly at the man in front of him.

The man looked at the female ghost behind Zhou Ziqiu with an excited expression, as if he had seen a priceless treasure.

He received news from Lao Sun that there was a vengeful ghost in this mountain, so he rushed to the mountain and found it an hour earlier than Zhou Ziqiu. He also saw the broken bracelet on the ground, but he couldn't repair it. So he cast an invisibility spell on himself and waited for Qingdeng to come. Unexpectedly, he saw Zhou Ziqiu repairing the bracelet on the ground. He quickly set up a soul-refining array nearby.

He licked his lips, a hungry look on his face: "I didn't expect this..."

Zhou Ziqiu realized what the man was about to do, so he quickly shielded the female ghost behind him and said coldly, "Don't even think about it."

The man looked Zhou Ziqiu up and down and said in surprise, "Protecting a ghost, you're quite a strange one."

Hearing the man's words, Zhou Ziqiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief; the man hadn't noticed his hand.

“Demons may not be benevolent, but they are far better than demons like you who wear human skin,” Zhou Ziqiu replied coldly.

The man wasn't angry; he gave a wicked smile and said, "So what if I'm a demon? Today you'll perish together with that female ghost!"

After saying that, his hands moved rapidly in a hand seal. Almost instantly, talismans written in cinnabar appeared out of thin air in the open space beside Zhou Ziqiu and the female ghost. The talismans were connected together and surrounded Zhou Ziqiu and the female ghost. Black evil energy rose without wind.

Zhou Ziqiu reacted quickly, raising his hand to block the Soul Refining Banner that was falling from the heads of the human and the ghost. However, the Soul Refining Banner was inscribed with an array, and white smoke rose the moment Zhou Ziqiu's hand touched it, indicating that his hand was being burned by the Soul Refining Banner.

Large beads of sweat rolled down Zhou Ziqiu's face, which was deathly pale.

The man seemed to realize something then, pacing back and forth looking at Zhou Ziqiu with an expression of having found a treasure.

"Hahahaha, I can't believe I only just realized this now!"

Zhou Ziqiu remained silent, merely observing the man with cold eyes.

The man didn't care about Zhou Ziqiu's expression and patiently waited for his formation to refine the female ghost and Zhou Ziqiu.

The first to give way was the female ghost on the ground. The Soul Refining Array had completely absorbed her Yin energy, and her Yin energy was almost depleted. Once it was all absorbed, she would be refined into a mindless ghost general by the Soul Refining Array.

Zhou Ziqiu noticed the female ghost's condition, gritted his teeth, supported the Soul Refining Banner with one hand, and placed the other hand on the female ghost's head.

Why haven't the people who were supposed to help arrived yet?

Zhou Ziqiu's face was pale. He had to resist the erosion of the Soul Refining Array, the suppression of the Soul Refining Banner above his head, and the female ghost beside him. Although he would not die, serious injury was inevitable.

Just as he was in despair, he finally heard footsteps not far away. Just when he was hoping it was a powerful and accomplished expert, he heard a young, somewhat nonchalant voice.

"Hey, we're one short for this game, wanna join me?"

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