Chapter 003: First Adventure Together (Overhaul)

"Are you guys going out?"

The two people who were changing shoes at the door heard the sound and looked back.

Granny Wen stuck her head out of the room. In the darkness as she had turned off the lights in order to go out, even with a monk's eyesight, he could only see the silhouette of her body.

Maybe because she was going to sleep, my mother-in-law had let her hair down and it was draped over her shoulders in a somewhat messy manner, looking like a ball of fur.

"Yes." Ji Weihang, who was standing closer to Granny Wen, said, "We still want to go out and give it a try."

After a pause, he said a little embarrassedly: "By the way, we took two knives from my mother-in-law as weapons."

"Oh... it's okay." Granny Wen obviously didn't care about their behavior of taking things without asking. She responded slowly and handed over a bunch of keys. "Here, the key to the front door."

Fu Xuan could see every detail of the keys clearly, even the top key with a red label saying 201.

However, I couldn't see my mother-in-law's hand clearly. It looked like a black shadow without any details.

She wasn't scared, just confused.

It’s the “Night Road Ghost” downstairs, and there are many details on his body.

"Our room number is 202. When you come back, just open the door." Granny Wen said, "We should be asleep by then."

"Okay." Ji Weihang took the key and her fingertips brushed across her grandmother's palm, feeling the touch was as soft as silk. She took it back immediately and asked calmly, "Grandma, don't you want to persuade us? Aren't you afraid that we won't be able to come back and lose the key?"

"What's there to persuade? Don't you have your own purpose for coming here? You are not children anymore. As for the key... it doesn't matter." Granny Wen waved her hand and said the last words before closing the door, "I wish you have fun."

After the two of them left, they did not discuss the mother-in-law's strange behavior.

On the one hand, there was no urgency in the discussion, and the distance was still so close that if anyone were to hear it, it might stir up unnecessary trouble;

On the one hand, the mothers-in-law themselves might be a little eccentric, but for the moment there is no ill will towards them.

The monks' extraordinary sixth sense is one of the things they rely on to survive crisis after crisis, and they all believe in their intuition.

If there is no malicious intent, then you can temporarily stop investigating the source of this strange feeling.

Ji Weihang looked down at the keys in his hand, picked out the key marked 201, and looked at the door next to it that was covered with yellow talismans.

Fu Xuan's gaze shifted between her and the door, and they kept silent tacitly.

Obviously, Sister Weihang also noticed that when her mother-in-law handed over the keys, she deliberately put the key to 201 on top, which should be a hint for them to open the door of 201.

If that wasn't what she meant, if she didn't want anyone to go to 201, she could have taken the key away, or told them not to open any door other than 202.

Instead of reminding them that the host's room was 202, he deliberately put the key to 201 on top.

Ji Weihang walked to the door covered with yellow talismans, inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it.

Fu Xuan stood by the door, ready to provide support at any time.

The lock core made a series of clicking sounds, but it just wouldn't open.

Whether turning right or left, it just won't open.

"Strange." Ji Weihang frowned and looked at the key, then turned to look at Fu Xuan, "You try it."

Fu Xuan reached out and tried.

Twist left and right.

Apart from the sound the key made, there was no other movement at all.

She felt a little strange. She wasn't paying attention and didn't control her strength well, so she used a little too much.

With a click.

The two looked at the broken key.

Fu Xuan: “…”

Ji Weihang: “…”

"What should I do...?" Fu Xuan held up the half key and said hesitantly.

"It's okay, I can break it open." Ji Weihang comforted her, saying, "But it may be a little dangerous, you better be prepared."

Fu Xuan understood her unspoken meaning - if there was something sinister inside, breaking into the house might violate the so-called rules.

They don't understand Yougui's strength yet, so they have to deal with it with caution.

Fu Xuan put the half key in his pocket, retreated to the door obediently, and nodded at her.

Just as Ji Weihang gathered the dark energy on the tip of the knife and was about to pierce the door lock, the door creaked and opened inward.

It was dark inside the door.

Looking straight inside, the first thing they saw was a figure sitting in front of the window with his back to them.

The door that had been unable to be opened suddenly opened. It was obviously not that it opened on its own accord.

"Thank you for opening the door for us." Ji Weihang, who was standing in front of Fu Xuan, said, "Excuse me, my name is Wei Hang."

Hearing Ji Weihang's words, Fu Xuan was stunned for a moment, feeling a little strange. It was neither completely her real name nor a pseudonym...

Her mind raced, and then she said, "My name is Bixuan."

She guessed that it was because she had called out Sister Weihang's name before, and it would be difficult for Sister Weihang to give a completely fake name.

She was a little annoyed.

The white candles placed everywhere in the room suddenly lit up out of thin air, and the faint green candle flames flickered.

The figure turned around and revealed its true appearance.

The other person was a woman who looked no more than forty years old, dressed in white, with long black hair hanging down to the ground.

The pale, bloodless skin was covered with large, dark blue scars.

Under the illumination of the dim green candlelight, the inhuman feeling is magnified to the maximum.

If anyone was present, they might have been so scared that they ran away, but the two monks present were well-informed, so they didn't think it was a big deal.

"I'm He Yi." The owner of the room gave his name in return.

She looked at Ji Weihang, the leader of the two, and said slowly, "Why did you open my door, and..."

"I want to answer this question later." Ji Weihang interrupted her, took the initiative, and asked, "Are you Yougui?"

Faced with someone who interrupted her, avoided answering, and even asked her a question, He Yi did not get angry, and replied calmly and emotionally: "Yes."

Her voice was a little cold, but not scary.

"I want to reduce the number of ghosts in this city. How about we cooperate?" Ji Weihang said straight to the point, "I will be responsible for destroying the other ghosts, and you will devour the other ghosts. It's a win-win situation."

This had not been her original purpose, but it was now her purpose.

He Yi looked at Ji Weihang in silence.

After a moment, she slowly opened her mouth and said, "How do you prove that you have this ability? Human." She emphasized the word "human", and her cold voice contained some subtle sarcasm and contempt.

Ji Weihang's figure flashed and he appeared in front of He Yi. The knife in his hand was against He Yi's neck, and his hand moved slightly upward to force He Yi to look up.

The green candlelight in the room was still swaying in the wind caused by her movement, and the magnified shadows were swaying on the wall like numerous ghosts.

"Does this prove it?" she whispered.

A thin layer of black light on the blade pierced the scar on He Yi's neck. Dark blue blood flowed out, flowing down the neck and staining the white clothes black.

Fu Xuan, who was standing at the door, noticed that after the blood flowed out, the color of He Yi's scar became lighter.

He Yi didn't care about the injury or Wei Hang's slightly abnormal behavior.

She looked up at the pair of red eyes in front of her, which were sometimes bright and sometimes dim, looking strange and inexplicable under the dim green candlelight.

"You...are not bad." She smiled inexplicably.

Ji Weihang looked down at her ink-black eyes.

After a moment, he put away his knife and stepped back, saying calmly, "Thank you."

The wound on He Yi's neck healed quickly.

She held out her scarred hand and said, "It's a pleasure to work with you."

“It’s been a pleasure working with you.”

Two scarred hands were clasped together and separated as soon as they touched.

"When is convenient for our first cooperation?" Ji Weihang, who had just fought, took the initiative to transfer the initiative, gave the other party a way out, and asked politely.

"Tomorrow morning," He Yi said, "On the way to the Rules and Regulations Bureau, there will be many people we can deal with."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

Ji Weihang said goodbye to her and turned to leave.

Fu Xuan, who was closer to the door, went out first.

"Remember to take the half key stuck in my door." He Yi's voice was cold.

Fu Xuan almost fell when he stepped out of the door. He cleared his throat and stood in the corridor waiting for Ji Weihang.

Ji Weihang walked to the door, used his dark power to push the key that was broken in the door lock, pulled it out neatly and took it away.

After they left, the door of Room 201 closed silently.

Although they had reached an agreement on cooperation for tomorrow, and logically they should have gone back to sleep, Ji Weihang still took Fu Xuan downstairs.

"I want to meet the Night Road Ghost," she explained.

After arriving on the first floor, Fu Xuan suggested waiting inside as she did not want to be a hindrance, but she asked Fu Xuan to stay by her side so that she could take care of her.

The streets were quiet and deserted. Ji Weihang asked Fu Xuan to stand under the street light, while he himself stood in the darkness.

"Here it comes." Fu Xuan said in a low voice.

Ji Weihang directly violated the warning of "never look directly at the other person" and looked straight over. The black shadow suddenly approached and floated in front of her.

The icy breath wrapped around the whole body, making it impossible to move.

Fu Xuan looked nervously at the two figures approaching each other in the dark. Under the streetlight, he couldn't see the expressions of the two people clearly.

Wei Hang grabbed the hand that was reaching for his neck and asked, "Why are you trying to scare me?"

Judging from the opponent's movements and speed, it was obvious that he was not trying to kill people, but more like scaring people.

She has no spiritual power now, and in the eyes of ordinary beings, she is no different from an ordinary person. The other party should not be hiding his weakness because of her strength.

Ye Lugui was unable to pull her hands away, and was a little surprised and discouraged, so she answered honestly: "It's dangerous to walk at night." Her voice was a little hoarse.

Ji Weihang automatically understood this sentence as - "She is scaring people to warn everyone that it is dangerous to walk at night."

"Is this your obsession?" Ji Weihang asked.

Ye Lugui nodded obediently.

Ji Weihang didn't think Granny Wen's talk of skinning was just nonsense. There must be a precedent for such a rumor to exist. "What kind of person walking at night would you kill?"

Ye Lugui said: "A man who didn't meet the standards."

This time, before she asked, Ye Lugui added: "The standard is that you have never hurt a woman, either verbally, online, or physically."

Ji Weihang saw that she was not lying and let go of her hand, "Is there any more ghosts around here?"

Ye Lugui glanced at the building behind them and shook his head in fear.

It seems that there are no ghosts around here except in the building behind me.

"Thank you for your answer. Good night." Ji Weihang pulled Fu Xuan, who was peeking out, back into the building.

"If she doesn't want to kill women, there's no need to scare them." The darkness did not block out the sound. Fu Xuan heard their conversation and couldn't help saying, "Wouldn't it be good to only allow women to travel at night?"

"Because this is her obsession." Ji Weihang said, "She is not strong enough to think too much."

Fu Xuan sighed.

They used the key to open the door of the owner's room in 202, changed their shoes, put the remaining complete key on the dining table where they could see it at a glance, and entered the guest room next to the kitchen.

The room is not big. As you enter the door, there is a set of tables and chairs against the wall on the right, and a double bed of neither too big nor too small on the other side.

Two floral pillows were placed at the head of the bed, and a neatly folded, clean thin quilt was placed at the foot of the bed.

Ji Weihang looked around and turned back to ask Fu Xuan who was closing the door: "Do you want to sleep inside or outside?"

"Let's go inside." Fu Xuan gestured at their heights and said, "Sister, you are tall, it will be more convenient for you to swing your legs if you sleep outside."

Ji Weihang nodded, "Okay."

Fu Xuan climbed onto the bed and moved to the innermost part, squeezing against the wall.

"There's no need to squeeze like this." Ji Weihang smiled and lay down, patting the empty space next to him, "Come closer, if you don't know, you'd think you were on guard against me."

After hearing this, Fu Xuan, who originally wanted to refuse, had to move forward slowly.

She hadn't slept in the same bed with someone for a long time and was a little nervous.

It's not that she doesn't trust Ji Weihang, it's just that being wary of her is her instinctive reaction.

Tilting her head to look at Ji Weihang's profile, she slowly relaxed and her sleeping position gradually became the most comfortable one for her.

Ji Weihang turned his head to look at her and saw her lying straight, holding the knife on her abdomen, her eyes looking straight up. He couldn't help but say with a smile: "You are still the same as when you were a child."

It's neatly arranged when you sleep.

Fu Xuan smiled and said, "Sister, you are not much different from before." He lowered his voice and said, "You fight as soon as you disagree with me."

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but smile.

"It reminds me of the time when we lay by the river and watched the stars." Fu Xuan said softly.

"Hmm..." Ji Weihang was silent for a moment, then said softly, "If you want to come find me when you get back, I'll be at Bai's house."

"Okay." Fu Xuan agreed. Although Sister Weihang didn't explain it too clearly because of the walls, the first person that came to mind when thinking of the Bai family in Guiyu was of course the Bai family in Baiping City.

"Go to sleep." Ji Weihang said softly, "Xiaoxuan, good night."

"good evening."

Fu Xuan closed his eyes.

She thought she would toss and turn and have trouble falling asleep, but unexpectedly, she fell asleep quickly.

After she fell asleep, Ji Weihang moved his gaze away from the ceiling and turned his head to look.

She stared at Fu Xuan's sleeping face, feeling confused and puzzled.

You fell asleep so relieved?

I haven't seen her for fifty years, but aren't you worried that she has changed?

She could see that Xiaoxuan had obviously suffered a lot over the years.

A Xiaoxuan like this shouldn't be so defenseless.

After a moment, she slowly stood up and raised her right hand holding the knife.

The tip of the knife stabbed straight down at Fu Xuan's exposed and fragile neck!

The knife fell as fast as lightning, and the distance was very close, so if you wanted to dodge, you had to react immediately.

With her speed and strength in the out-of-body stage, if she stabbed it, it would definitely easily penetrate the foundation-building stage who had no spiritual power to protect his body.

She stared at Fu Xuan's face.

Fu Xuan seemed to have fallen completely into a sleep, without any reaction at all.

When he was about to stab, Ji Weihang suddenly stopped the knife.

The tip of the knife hovered above Fu Xuan's neck, shaking slightly.

She looked at Fu Xuan who didn't move at all, and a hint of self-mockery flashed in her eyes.

I actually want to test it like this.

After spending so much time with Gui, she became less and less like a human being.

She put away the knife, lay back and closed her eyes to rest.

After a while, Fu Xuan quietly opened his eyes.

Seeing that she closed her eyes, Fu Xuan slowly touched her neck, which was still frightened.

The tip of the knife dangling above the neck and swaying slightly felt like a biting cold wind.

The cold sweat on my body gradually dried up, leaving a slight coolness.

She let out a breath secretly.

She was scared to death.

If she had not been awakened by her defense mechanism in time and realized that it was Sister Weihang, and controlled her body's instinctive reaction, she would definitely react subconsciously.

If that happens, Sister Weihang will definitely be sad.

She knew that Sister Weihang didn't trust her as much as she seemed to. She understood.

After all, the last time they met, she was only eight years old, so young.

Fifty years is enough to change a child beyond recognition.

She doesn't mind.

When she met Sister Weihang, she had already changed her first goal in the game.

It doesn’t matter if I can’t pass the level, as long as Sister Weihang passes it.

She must see Sister Weihang to the end.

Compared to her, Sister Weihang's future is brighter.