The old house of the Bai family.

When the sun was about to set, suddenly many people came in and out, moving the things prepared for the ritual in the old house.

Although the old house is extremely dangerous, many of the things Bai Hengqing brought in are Bai family antiques and are very valuable, so they still have to be taken out.

As for why they came just now, it was because they had a meeting for a long time about who would move the things. After seeing Bai Hengqing and Bai Ran coming out of the old house in such a mess, and with Old He running away, no one wanted to come to the old house anymore.

In the end, Bai Hengqing personally selected a few people, and the meeting on who should go to die finally came to a conclusion.

The person who is in charge of recycling the ritual items this time is from Bai Ximing's generation, that is, Uncle Chi Shen's generation. Although he also has the surname Bai, he is a marginal figure in the Bai family and is far away from the main family. He just has no ability, so he follows the main family to make a living.

In his opinion, recycling ritual items was a tough job, with no benefits to be gained and the possibility of being attacked by ghosts in the old house at any time. In order to ensure his own safety, he directed people to move things away quickly and make sure it was completed before sunset.

The others thought so too. Most of them were disciples from other families, and they were also assigned to do the hard and tiring work. Everyone was very efficient, for fear that if they stayed in the old house for too long, they would trigger some serious restriction that would cause them all to die here.

The person in charge was directing at the door, and when most of the things had been moved, he suddenly stepped on something and almost slipped.

He looked down and saw that the thing had been crushed by him and turned into a pile of white powder.

It was very strange that such a thing appeared here. He squatted down, picked up some powder with his thumb and index finger, and rubbed it on his fingertips. He soon realized what it was. It was wax powder. There was something else in the pile of white powder. He pushed away the powder and saw that it was a small white bone.

At this time, in the main house of the old house that none of them had entered, although there was no wind, the chains hung with talismans moved slightly, colliding with each other and making a slight sound. The red-clothed female ghost who was sleeping under the bed also woke up slowly and turned her head to look in the direction of the door. In Bai Wan's side courtyard and the dilapidated room, candlelight also lit up, and a pair of pale hands wearing golden gloves were faintly visible, holding the tablet.

Not only them, the old house seemed to come alive. When there was only a ray of sunlight left, there seemed to be countless eyes in the darkness looking towards this side, ready to make a move.

Looking at the small bone fragments, the person in charge immediately became serious. Although he was marginalized in the Bai family, he also knew what this was.

He sniffed and found a foul odor on the bones, as well as a medicinal fragrance. He soon realized that this was the skeleton of an evil spirit, soaked in medicine. The smell it emitted could attract evil spirits, and then it was sealed in wax beads to isolate the smell. As long as the wax beads melted, they would attract evil spirits to eat, and would have a more special effect on the evil spirit that provided the bones.

The wax beads have opened and the attraction of this bone has begun!

The person in charge realized this and immediately raised his hand and hurriedly threw the bone fragments into the old house. The bone fragments bounced on the ground and rolled into a gap. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that the floor tile moved, as if it opened a mouth and swallowed the bone fragments into the gap.

The person in charge immediately took a few steps back. He stepped on something again. This time he was prepared. When he felt something foreign under his feet, he immediately lifted his foot up and did not crush it.

He searched at the door and found a few wax beads. Looking at the light red wax beads sealing the bones in his hand, he suddenly laughed.

The accident at the old house and the deaths of He Chao and Lu Xiangyang seemed to have an explanation.

Both of them were eaten by evil spirits, and Bai Ran was also harassed by evil spirits. Perhaps it was because of this thing that he found it. This must be the thing of the man named Chi who lives here. When he catches the man named Chi and hands him over to the master, he will definitely get a lot of rewards.

The person in charge did not report the matter to Bai Ximing immediately, because just reporting it would definitely not be as rewarding as directly catching the main culprit. He decided to wait outside the door. Nothing happened to the younger generation who had been watching over the old house in the past few days, so he thought he could take a risk and wait for Chi Shen to come back and take him back to the Bai family for interrogation.

In Bai Hengqing's mansion, several elderly people were also talking about this matter.

They had previously asked people to investigate He Chao's death, Lu Xiangyang's death, and Bai Ran's haunting by ghosts.

Because He Chao is the grandson of He Lao, and He Lao had some say in the Bai family before, so they had to investigate. They investigated Lu Xiangyang's death because his death seemed to be related to He Chao's. However, their clues were cut off with Lu Xiangyang's death. When they asked Bai Ran, Bai Ran also said that he didn't know about it. He just saw Lu Xiangyang that day, and didn't expect that Lu Xiangyang would get into trouble.

Bai Ran seemed to have nothing to do with the incident, and was even a victim, but he survived because he was a little more capable.

Bai Ran also packaged himself as a victim and did not tell others that He Chao and Lu Xiangyang entered the old house at his instruction. Now that the two were dead, even if someone had suspicions, there would be no evidence.

Now that Mr. He has run away, the issue of whether or not to continue investigating Lu Xiangyang’s death has been brought up again.

Lu Xiangyang's parents had no say in the Bai family. In their opinion, if someone died, he was dead. The Bai family's biggest crisis now was to solve the problem of the old house. If an apprentice from another family died, he was dead. There was nothing to investigate.

Almost no one objected, and everyone unanimously decided to put the matter aside for the time being and deal with it later.

Bai Ran was the only one who insisted on investigating the matter, so everyone thought he was just scared, because he almost died at the hands of the ghost, but he was no longer a member of the Bai family, so there was nothing to investigate. Everyone just gave him a few symbolic words of comfort and adjourned the meeting.

Bai Ran gritted his teeth as he watched everyone leave. It was getting dark outside the window, and he looked anxious. Hasn't anyone found the things he had people put in the old house? Why didn't they bring them here? Why didn't they let everyone see who caused Lu Xiangyang's death?

As long as they find those beads, he can prove that it was Chi Shen who killed those two people!

Bai Hengqing frowned at the distorted expression on Bai Ran's face. Bai Ximing took Bai Ran out immediately and comforted him, "Don't worry, we are not ignoring it. When the matter of the old house is over, I will help you get to the bottom of it."

Seeing Bai Ximing's worried expression, Bai Ran slowly loosened his clenched hands and nodded woodenly: "Okay, thank you, father."

Bai Ximing laughed: "That's good, go and have a rest."

Bai Ran left, and outside Bai Hengqing's mansion, a monster covered with tumors and abscesses stood on a tree, quietly looking at Bai Ran's bedroom. There seemed to be confusion and resentment in his eyes.

He tried to take a step forward, but an invisible aura pressed down on him, causing him to retract his step.

On the other side, outside the public toilet, Chi Shen had finished questioning the black shadow with the severed hand. Xu Jiayuan stood there in shock, still touching the handlebars of his bicycle, but he had forgotten that he still had to run away.

"Why...Bai Ran?"

The black shadow with the broken hand did not directly say Bai Ran's name, because Bai Ran called him out and did not introduce himself. However, from the description of the black shadow with the broken hand, and the fact that the people who followed that person called him "Master Ran" and pointed out that the person's surname was Bai, there is no need to guess who did this.

"Because you are the real young master of the Bai family?" Xu Jiayuan murmured.

Chi Shen nodded, expressionless: "Maybe."

Xu Jiayuan still didn't believe it: "Master Bai... he is such a good person, why would he do such a thing!"

"I'm curious, too," Chi Shen said, "so let me borrow your bike. I'll use it for a while and return it to you tomorrow."

"What are you going to do?" Xu Jiayuan asked him with blank eyes, still in shock.

Chi Shen took out his phone and turned on the navigation: "I'll go ask him."

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