Chapter 21 Jade Pendant

Huan Ni proudly raised her head. If Shi Yuan didn't appease her, she would go on strike, and she was very serious about it!

Shi Yuan nudged Huan Ni's bloated belly and said with a smile, "I was just kidding. The police have taken over Sun Guangyao's case, so let's hold back for now."

"Go and check if there are any widely circulated legends about this area in the past."

Huan Ni didn't understand: "Why is it a widely circulated legend? If there really was a problem, wouldn't plenty of people want to hide it?"

Shi Yuan used the phrase: "Trying to cover up only makes it more obvious!"

She believes in the saying that there are no secrets under the sun. The more you try to cover things up, the more people will dig them up. It's better to let things circulate openly and honestly, and many people will just laugh it off.

Of course, the stories and legends that have been passed down have all been embellished.

Huan Ni couldn't help but say, "Couldn't Sun Guangyao have simply disappeared?"

Shi Yuan shook her head: "I would rather this be an ordinary missing person case."

Seeing that Huan Ni was confused, Shi Yuan explained, "Given Aunt Yun's status, if it were just an ordinary missing person case, she would be willing to vouch for her, and Captain Qi would be willing to release her. There would be no need to arrange for me to be here."

Huan Ni became serious, thinking that Sheng Yunhua had arranged it this way to show how much he valued Shi Yuan.

"It's because he values ​​me that he keeps me under his nose and protects me." Otherwise, Sheng Yunhua knows her abilities; he could have simply sent her home, wouldn't that have been a much better outcome for everyone?

Furthermore, the fact that a captain of a police station in an obscure town in the south could remain calm and accurately call for help when facing a monster suggests that he is not a simple person.

Sun Guangyao is at most related to the Xie family of Beicheng. The disappearance of such a person should not be the responsibility of someone like Captain Qi.

Shi Yuan shrugged: "Therefore, there must be a lot of inside information that we don't know."

"Here's another piece of evidence, though I'm not sure if it counts."

"What?"

"The Ghost Festival in July has just passed, and these local soul-summoning talismans are proving to be far too effective."

Huan Ni suddenly realized: "Oh, right!" Logically speaking, wandering spirits shouldn't even exist.

"Thinking about it this way, it does seem like there's a problem."

"I don't know Aunt Yun's strength, but I think a flower fairy of Sang Rou's level shouldn't alarm the head of the Seventh Division to personally oversee things." What's more, there's Feng Cheng, who is comparable to the Ghost King, to help.

"But I still can't understand how someone like Sun Guangyao could get involved in such a shocking case."

Shi Yuan chuckled: "Maybe he just thought he was being clever and bumped into it!"

Shi Yuan's casual guess, though perhaps not entirely accurate, is not far off.

Sun Guangyao was an extremely shrewd man. When Wu Xingzhou asked him for the remittance slip, he knew that it would be impossible to get any more money from Xie Minyin.

Or rather, he was lucky that Xie Minyin didn't hold a grudge against him.

It can be said that if he had known earlier that the Wu family had not completely given up on Shi Yuan, he would never have been bribed by Xie Minyin to provoke Shi Yuan.

What he didn't tell Shi Yuan was that Xie Minyin gave him so much money not just to monitor him and his daughter.

Think of Shi Ling, who was seriously injured and dying at the beginning of the story, and took the initiative to send Shi Yuan to Beicheng!

Sun Guangyao has been a seasoned veteran of the underworld for many years and considers himself quite capable at judging people. He knows that Shi Yuan is not someone to be trifled with, and with the Wu family now backing her up, it's hard to say who will win against Xie Minyin.

But he'll definitely become an innocent bystander!

From the moment he handed over the remittance slip, he had been planning to leave. Before that, Shi Yuan asked A Da to tell him to disrupt Yang Fuguo's wedding. In order not to alert Yang Fuguo, he agreed.

The reason he ended up fleeing in such a sorry state is that Shi Yuan suddenly regained his senses, and since Shi Yuan had tortured him, he didn't want Shi Yuan to have an easy time.

So, before leaving, he took the initiative to contact Xie Minyin and told her about Shi Yuan regaining her senses and her recent situation, which was a way of currying favor with Xie Minyin.

We'll meet again anywhere in life!

If he were to reappear under Xie Minyin's nose one day, Xie Minyin wouldn't want to make things too difficult for him, considering his past kindness in tipping her off.

This is why, back then, when the police received the call, they would bring up the matter of Shi Yuan instructing Sun Guangyao to disrupt the wedding.

Oh right, that call from the Wu family in Beicheng was made by Xie Minyin.

Before that, Wu Xingzhou learned of Sun Guangyao's disappearance and called Wu Guanhai to ask if he could use some extraordinary means to bring Shi Yuan back.

Wu Guanhai agreed, and Xie Minyin, who was standing outside the study door, also heard it.

It can only be said that, with good intentions but no bad intentions, it was inevitable that Shi Yuan would be implicated in Sun Guangyao's disappearance case.

Huan Ni was very interested in the embellished legend that Shi Yuan had told her, but she couldn't ask him about it, which made her very anxious!

Shi Yuan suggested that she go find Shi Ling and ask her if she knew any legends about Qinglin Bay. If she didn't know, she should try to get information out of Li Mingfen.

Li Mingfen was a woman who married out of the area, but her husband, Yang Fengshou, was a native of Qinglin Bay. If the legend was related to Qinglin Bay, she would definitely know about it.

As for why Shi Yuan set her sights on Qinglin Bay, she could only say it was intuition.

Just as mutated plants naturally know where they are suitable to live, why did Sang Rou, a flower fairy, bury half of her original body in Qinglin Bay when she and Ma Rong settled in Beicheng?

What exactly is in Qinglin Bay?

Of course, even if she guessed wrong, it wouldn't matter; eliminating Qinglin Bay wouldn't be a wasted effort. "Also, have Ah Da protect Shi Ling and prevent those shady characters from the Wu family from bothering her."

"Okay, don't worry!"

After Huan Ni flew away, Shi Yuan conjured a gold coin and flicked her fingers, causing the coin to flip at her fingertips—a habit she had when contemplating problems.

She wondered, if she couldn't avoid her fate of going north, would she meet the female lead in the northern city?

The gold coins suddenly stopped. Shi Yuan remembered something: the jade pendant that the female lead had taken away without informing Shi Yuan as compensation!

She always felt that the female lead wouldn't take the jade pendant for no reason.

When Huan Ni arrived home, Sheng Yunhua had just left. Shi Ling was stroking a jade pendant, her eyes swirling with emotions.

Huan Ni glanced at the jade pendant, then looked away and explained Shi Yuan's meaning to Shi Ling.

After listening, Shi remained silent for a long time: "I don't know what legends Qinglin Bay has to offer." She tied the jade pendant around Huanni's neck, "But the secret of Qinglin Bay should be related to this jade pendant."

"Huan Ni, could you please take the jade pendant to Shi Yuan for me?" Seeing Huan Ni nod, she added, "I'll ask Sister Ming Fen about the legend tomorrow. Come back tomorrow night and I'll tell you."

"good."

"Aunt Ling, are you alright?" Ah Da's voice came from outside the courtyard.

"It's alright, I was just thinking about Shi Yuan."

"Don't worry, old man, Comrade Shiyuan will definitely be alright!"

"Thank you for your kind words!" Shi Ling said, straightening the jade pendant around Huan Ni's neck, and whispered, "Be careful on the road, and tell Shi Yuan not to worry about me."

Huan Ni listened patiently, nodding occasionally.

Huan Ni was very familiar with the road from Qinglin Bay to the town. As soon as she left home, she put the jade pendant into her storage space. It was dark, and she couldn't afford to lose it.

When Shi Yuan wasn't around, Huan Ni liked to fly high.

Looking down at the unremarkable Qinglin Bay under the night sky, Huan Ni couldn't help but sigh, never expecting that Qinglin Bay actually held such a great secret.

And she loves secrets the most!

Thinking of this, she flapped her wings faster, wanting to share this with Shi Yuan as soon as possible.

She has always been proud of her status as an ancient divine beast, and she knows that her presence is a deterrent to the wild beasts in this area. Therefore, she never thought that being prey would happen to her.

So when she was trapped under the eagle's claws, she froze for a moment and forgot to fight back when the eagle's beak pecked at her.

At the critical moment, a peach blossom branch flew through the air and struck the eagle, causing it to instinctively release its claws in pain.

Before Huan Ni could even spread her wings after gaining her freedom, she was swept away by a peach blossom branch with a "whoosh".

The eagle, its eyes bloodshot, chased after the peach blossoms for a while, but it didn't escape even after being whipped several times by the peach branches. It only gave up when it could no longer catch up.

The peach blossoms encircled the rainbow in the center, making it fly very high, almost as high as the moon. Occasionally, the rainbow would sway a few times, and one could see the rainbow soaring with the naked eye.

Huan Ni swallowed a mouthful of wind, and even her bird feathers were blown into a punk-style mess.

"Pah!" Huan Ni's gratitude towards the peach blossom branch had vanished. "Put me down!" she said, her tone somewhat fierce.

Upon hearing this, the peach blossom branch first tightened its branches, but then, as if remembering something, immediately loosened them.

Huan Ni was caught off guard by its sudden release and fell straight down before she could react: "Ah! You idiot... I..." The wind was too strong, and her words were blown away.

Seeing this, the peach blossom branch swiftly swept the phantom back.

Huan Ni: ...Very good, you've successfully caught my attention!

When Huan Ni flew back to Shi Yuan's side, her mind was still buzzing.

"What happened? Did you change your hairstyle?" Shi Yuan teased, her hands still busy, as she handed Huan Ni a glass of cooled water to her lips.

Normally, Huan Ni would have complained before drinking it, but today, she gulped down the water in no time.

Shi Yuan looked at the empty cup and felt that something was amiss, so she quickly asked her what had happened.

Huan Ni flapped her wings: "Let me catch my breath!"

Gu Linyuan propped his forehead up and issued a series of orders. After making the last phone call, he reached for the documents and found a corner of his desk covered with peach petals.

At this very moment, peach petals are still falling gently from the branches of the peach bonsai.

Gu Linyuan's lips curled slightly, a hint of a smile appearing in his eyes, and he said gently to the peach blossom bonsai, "You seem to be in a good mood."

As soon as he finished speaking, the peach petals fell even more merrily, and before long, they spelled out the word "good" on the desk.

Gu Linyuan chuckled, then subconsciously glanced at the small courtyard where Shi Yuan lived and asked in a low voice, "Do you like her that much?"

"Hmm!" The peach petals swirled to form another word, accompanied by an exclamation mark, decisive and resolute.

Gu Linyuan reached out and gently stroked the peach blossom bonsai, murmuring, "It's rare that you like it so much."

A peach blossom branch stretched out and wrapped around his wrist, rustling and rolling as if it were being coquettish.

Gu Linyuan's gaze softened further. He stroked the peach blossom branch a few times before picking up his documents and getting back to work.

In the courtyard, Huan Ni caught her breath, handed the jade pendant to Shi Yuan, repeated Shi Ling's words, and then started to rage and curse.

Seeing that Huan Ni was in good spirits and had no external injuries, Shi Yuan ignored her and carefully examined the jade pendant.

Ji Ying once vehemently criticized the plot involving the jade pendant in the story, saying, "What was the author trying to do by adding a jade pendant out of nowhere?"

"What kind of move is it for the female lead to take the jade pendant on her own initiative?"

"Taking without asking is stealing, isn't it!"

"The female lead's character has completely collapsed, I'm telling you!"

"The female lead went out and came back as the daughter of a high-ranking official. So, the female lead lived in Beicheng for so many years without anyone looking for her, and then she went out and solved the mystery of her origins?"

"The female lead's mystical abilities were taught to her by her adoptive father, seriously? There was absolutely no foreshadowing in the beginning!"

"And another thing! My goodness! The adoptive father's identity is so vague. How come he could teach a metaphysical master like the female lead, yet his character isn't developed at all later on!"

Despite her complaints, Ji Ying still really liked the story and shared it with her with great interest after she finished complaining.

Shi Yuan carefully stroked the jade pendant, trying to discern something from it.

"You really like this jade pendant?" Huan Ni flew over. "You have good taste; this jade has quite a history."

You know?

Seeing the joy in her eyes, Huan Ni didn't keep her in suspense and said directly, "This is a Soul Jade, and it's quite high-level. Even in our time, it would have been a rare treasure."

"Soul Jade." Shi Yuan grasped the jade pendant and asked the question that had been bothering her, "Is there anything special about this thing?"

"You can tell from the name that it can provide a place for souls to reside, can collect scattered souls, can..." Huan Ni stopped there, and she and Shi Yuan looked at each other in silence.

Finally, she stammered, "This thing... it looks like it was made specifically for the original Shi Yuan?"

"Was there any particular reason why Shi Ling chose to settle in Qinglin Bay back then?" Her voice grew softer and softer. "Also, could your arrival be related to this Soul Jade?"

Shi Yuan recalled something: "When I first woke up in this body, I did have a jade pendant around my neck." Later, when Shi Ling asked her for the jade pendant, she gave it to him without hesitation.

This must be the jade pendant.

Shi Ling's mental journey is easy to understand. Although she was good to Shi Yuan in the past, it was mainly because of Shi Yuan's body. Of course, she had to keep such a treasure with such a history as the jade pendant for herself.

Now that Shi Ling treats Shi Yuan like a daughter, she is naturally willing to give her the jade pendant.

"Shi Yuan".

"Um?"

"Quickly, perform a blood oath to establish the master!"

"What?" Shi Yuan was still marveling at Shi Ling's feelings for her and hadn't reacted yet.

"Let's bind it with blood!" Huan Ni said. "That way, no one can steal the jade pendant."

She pondered for a moment, then said, "Although you don't have spiritual power, you do have supernatural abilities."

"The highest level of a talisman master is to draw talismans in the void using spiritual energy. Your special ability allows you to draw talismans, and perhaps you can also activate this Soul Jade!"

"Then, shall we give it a try?"

"Hurry!" With such a treasure in hand, there's no time to dawdle!

Fearing that Shi Yuan would hesitate, Huan Ni stretched out her claw and scratched Shi Yuan's left ring finger. Shi Yuan immediately dripped the blood onto the jade pendant.

Huan Ni perched on Shi Yuan's shoulder, staring at the jade pendant with him, not daring to blink.

At first, the jade pendant didn't react. Huan Ni anxiously pried at it with her paw, and Shi Yuan was also a little disappointed.

But since the woman and the bird had nothing else to do, they simply kept their eyes on the jade pendant. What if? What if the jade pendant could recognize its owner? They couldn't afford to miss this opportunity!

Shi Yuan was prepared to stay up all night; by now, the jade pendant should have some reaction.

If there is no response, then continue dripping blood. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Where there's a will, there's a way!

Huan Ni scratched her head: ...Is this how you use an idiom? Something seems off!

Huan Ni didn't have time to investigate further because the jade pendant was reacting!

The blood dripping onto the jade pendant slowly dispersed, turning into tiny blood droplets that covered the entire pendant.

Gradually, the blood droplets were absorbed by the jade pendant and disappeared.

"What is this? Is it done?" Shi Yuan asked Huan Ni, tilting her head slightly, her eyes still fixed on the jade pendant.

Huan Ni didn't know either. Their divine beasts had storage realms, and they would devour any treasures they obtained!

"Do you feel anything?" Huan Ni asked her. "Like when you made a pact with me, do you feel like something has taken root deep in your soul after your mind has been cleansed?"

Shi Yuan: ...

"No!" she answered with absolute certainty, "I didn't feel anything when I made the contract with you!"

"No! Do you even understand anything?" Shi Yuan couldn't help but doubt. "What happened to the ancient mythical beasts that you were supposed to know so much?"

"Your beast persona has collapsed, Huan Ni!" came the familiar teasing.

"Hehe!" Huan Ni rolled her eyes and ignored Shi Yuan.

Despite their bickering, neither the man nor the bird took their eyes off the jade pendant.

After a while, the jade pendant still didn't react. Shi Yuan suggested, "Why don't we put the jade pendant under the moonlight?" In cultivation novels, the moon is a very magical entity.

What kind of orcs or special bloodline possessors can transform under the moonlight? What kind of rare and precious materials must be exposed to the moonlight for eighty-one days? What kind of divine weapons can only be sharpened after absorbing the moon's essence?

“This jade pendant may only be able to recognize its owner under the moonlight!” Shi Yuan said with certainty.

"Huh? Uh? Then?" Huan Ni looked at Shi Yuan, who was so confident, and couldn't think of what to say to her.

The moon is indeed a magical entity, and what Shi Yuan said cannot be said to be a misunderstanding of the moon.

"But I can explain this: the moon now is not the same as the moon before!"

It brings tears to my eyes. I remember when she was a carefree little demon, hoping that the moon goddess would bestow upon her the Emperor's Dew of the Three Realms and Six Paths every thousand years.

“Now all the moon does is shine.” Huan Ni sighed for a moment, then quickly cheered up. “But it’s still a place where the moon goddess once stayed. Maybe if you’re lucky, you can actually find something.”

"Shall we go to the yard?" Shi Yuan asked, eager to go.

As soon as she finished speaking, the blood beads that had been absorbed by the jade pendant began to seep out again.

Shi Yuan was speechless more times tonight than in all his other lives combined.

So, was she rejected by the jade pendant?

I'm not sure, let me check again!

After the blood beads seeped out, they slowly gathered together and gradually condensed into a flower whose name Shi Yuan couldn't recall.

Afterwards, the jade pendant transformed into green starlight that trailed behind the flowers.

Shi Yuan belatedly realized that the flowers and stars were flying towards her.

She wanted to ask Huan Ni what to do.

Before she could even ask, the flowers and starlight had already seeped into her heart!

"Huan Ni!" Shi Yuan reached out and touched her forehead, looking at Huan Ni. "Do I have a pattern on my forehead?"

Huan Ni was unusually generous, spitting out an antique-style diamond-shaped mirror: "See for yourself."

Shi Yuan indeed saw a flower appear on her forehead: "What kind of flower is this?" Isn't the flower of hell supposed to be the red spider lily? This isn't it either!

Don't ask her why she knows about the red spider lily in the apocalypse; she once led people to fight against the mutated spider lily, and that was not a good memory.

Huan Ni swallowed hard: "Do you know the phrase 'searching high and low'?"

"Of course!" Shi Yuan exclaimed in realization, "This is the Yellow Spring Flower!"

Huan Ni shook her head: "Legend has it that when the Three Realms and Six Paths first appeared, the Heavenly Dao left behind a breath of pure energy in the Underworld."

This pure energy separates the human realm from the underworld; it is also known as the Reincarnation Platform.

Beside the Reincarnation Platform grows a flower called the Three-Life Flower, from which those who are reincarnated can see their three lifetimes.

"...So it's the Three-Life Flower!" Shi Yuan suddenly realized.

Huan Ni glanced at Shi Yuan, her eyes filled with blatant jealousy. Ignoring Shi Yuan's words, she continued, "This is the only celestial flower that grows in the underworld."

Shi Yuan dared not suddenly realize this.

“Back in our day, this was a legendary existence.”

Shi Yuan nodded, but dared not touch her forehead any longer. She felt guilty and unworthy of him.

After thinking for a moment, Huan Ni still said, "Later, the Three Realms and Six Paths experienced a great calamity." The gods sacrificed themselves, transforming their bodies into realms, barely maintaining the operation of the Six Paths.

Almost all the legendary and non-legendary treasures were lost in that catastrophe.

"I was mistaken," Huan Ni sighed. "I really thought it was just a Soul Jade!"

Shi Yuan asked her hesitantly, "Then what exactly is this?" If it really is the Reincarnation Platform and the Three-Life Flower, she wouldn't be able to handle it, would she?

"Don't overthink it," Huan Ni comforted Shi Yuan. "You're very lucky, but not to that extent." Her tone became much lighter as she said this. "This Soul Jade must have gotten some kind of luck, because it projected an image of the Reincarnation Platform and the Three-Life Flower into it."

"After years of mutual support and nurturing, we have finally lived up to that opportunity and achieved some good fortune."

Shi Yuan felt a chill run down her spine when she saw Huan Ni staring blankly at her. She asked cautiously, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Huan Ni sighed deeply, "Shi Yuan, with the enhancement of this Soul Jade, you are now completely in harmony with this body."

"From now on, no one will be able to tell that you are different."

Shi Yuan nodded and asked the question she cared about most: "Has the Soul Jade recognized a master?" If not, I can recognize it as my master!

"I admit it, isn't it obvious?" Huan Ni looked up at the sky, but unfortunately, her bird body had no whites in her eyes.

"Then, does this Soul Jade possess any supernatural powers?"

"Figure it out yourself! I've never had a treasure like this before!" she huffed, feeling annoyed that none of her treasures in the storage world had such an opportunity!

Shi Yuan nodded, it was time for her to figure it out herself: "Can the pattern on my forehead be hidden?" If not, she would wear a hat and go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some cosmetics to cover it up. By the way, do they have foundation now? Do they have concealer?

No, she was getting a little excited, and her thoughts were starting to wander.

Whether you hide it or not is entirely up to you.

Shi Yuan spent the whole night figuring out how to hide the pattern. Huan Ni was right; it was something she could do in a flash, but it took her a whole night to finally get some insight.

When she came to her senses from that magical realization, it was already broad daylight.

Shi Yuan hadn't slept all night, but she was full of energy. She chuckled and poked Huan Ni's bird belly, saying, "I feel like I have inexhaustible strength!"

"You're saying that since such a magical thing as the Soul Jade has recognized a master, does that mean I can fly and teleport?"

"That's a good idea, but don't think about it yet." Huan Ni poured cold water on her idea. "In this day and age, it's impossible. You can see that from my perspective."

Shi Yuan was puzzled: "That's really strange."

"What's strange?"

"According to you, there shouldn't be any monsters or spirits appearing in our current era."

"But you see, you exist objectively, don't you?"

"And Zhu Xiangyun, the flower demon, and my uncle, what exactly is going on?"

She remembered that every time Ji Ying saw a mutated plant, she would mutter the same thing: "Holy crap, how did it grow like this! Didn't they say that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, plants weren't allowed to become sentient?!"

"There's such a saying?" Huan Ni was puzzled but impressed, then added, "Luckily, I became a spirit before the founding of the People's Republic of China, so it's alright."

Okay, her uncle and the flower demon must have been spirits before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

That's alright then.

It's a historical remnant; there's a seventh one, and it'll all be cleaned up sooner or later.

Shi Yuan suddenly blurted out, "Hey, tell me, does this have anything to do with becoming a spirit?"

"Get out of here!" Huan Ni said irritably, burying her head under her wings and ignoring Shi Yuan.

Shi Yuan stroked Huan Ni for a bit, then leaned back on the bed and closed her eyes to rest.

At the Zhendong Police Station, Qi Zhang flipped through the statements of Yang Fuguo and Wu Xinghe, irritably running his fingers through his hair.

After investigating for so long, the only thing that can be confirmed is that Sun Guangyao's disappearance was not related to anyone in his network of connections.

"Boss, I found something." Xiao Si knocked lightly on the office door twice and came in with a file folder. "Sun Guangyao filled out the proof of household registration transfer."

He pulled out a piece of paper: "Boss, look, this already has the official seal of the household registration office."

“He’s leaving.” Qi Zhang frowned as he flipped through the record book. “None of the people connected to him have mentioned this.”

Xiao Si then produced another ticket stub: "This is the accounting slip for the train ticket heading north three days from now. The ticket seller knows Sun Guangyao."

Qi Zhang pointed at the household registration certificate and train ticket and said, "Summon Wu Xingzhou, Shi Yuan, and Shi Ling."

"yes!"

Ring ring ring!

Shi Yuan opened her eyes: "Huan Ni, go answer the phone."

"Are you even human? You make me answer the phone!" Huan Ni cursed as she flew to the phone. She cleared her throat and answered, "Hello, who is this?" It was Shi Yuan's voice.

"Okay, I understand, I'll be right there."

"What's wrong?"

"It's Sheng Yunhua calling, asking you to go to the police station."

Shi Yuan nodded, tidied herself up quickly, and went out.

At the entrance of the black market redwood market, she ran into Sheng Yunhua and Feng Cheng. Sheng Yunhua smiled and said to her, "I'll go with you to the police station."

Shi Yuan glanced at Fengcheng, then at Fengcheng again, and politely declined Sheng Yunhua's suggestion: "Aunt Yun, don't worry, I'll be fine."

Sheng Yunhua lived next door to her, and she could still hear the phone ringing late at night.

"You can go about your business. If you need any help, I won't hesitate to ask."

"Okay, then go there yourself. If you need anything, have your little bird come to me."

Sheng Yunhua is really busy. The mess left by Ma Rong is huge. Gu Linyuan's idea is to shut it down or integrate it. She has been incredibly busy lately.

After watching the two leave, Huan Ni asked Shi Yuan, "Why were you looking at Fengcheng the whole time?"

Shi Yuan lowered her voice and said, "Maybe it's because of my friend, I can see ghosts."

Huan Ni nodded; she knew about it.

“When I watched Fengcheng before, he was just a better-looking ghost.”

"But just now, I was able to tell that he was very capable."

"I think I can vaguely distinguish the levels of ghosts."

"However, I have absolutely no experience in this area, so I can only learn by trial and error."

"That's good. I guess they have other abilities too, so we're not in a hurry."

When Shi Yuan arrived at the police station, Wu Xingzhou was already there. Obviously, he hadn't gone back to Qinglin Bay and must have been staying at the town's guesthouse.

"Yuanyuan, can we talk?"