After Xu Le left, our group waited in the room.

Although the sun was shining brightly outside, not a drop of sunlight could get into our room, so we had to keep the lights on for illumination.

The monkey sat on the sofa watching TV, looking at me with a skeptical expression: "Young Master Duan, I've met some fortune tellers before, but they're basically all charlatans who're seven parts deception and three parts charlatanry. Do you think Xu Le is also trying to scare us?"

"Existence is its own justification. The Five Immortals have been passed down for thousands of years, so they must have something real. It's not that Xu Le and the others are incompetent, but there are too many fakes who swindle and deceive, which makes those of us with real skills look like frauds."

I picked up the juice on the table and took a sip: "It doesn't matter if they have real skills or they're just good-for-nothings, as long as they can lead us to the statue."

“That makes sense, but I don’t think we can completely trust what they say.”

Song Laosan chimed in from the side, "That girl named Xu Le said that as long as you have the talisman, no one can see you. She also said that you should stab people whenever you see them. I don't think I'm very sure about that! What if Xu Le's method doesn't work? If we're just wandering around the street with a piece of paper and actually stab someone, going to the police station would be the least of our worries. We might even end up in a mental hospital."

Just as I was about to say something, the phone on the table suddenly rang. Seeing that it was Jiang Man calling, I walked to the side and answered, "Hello?"

Jiang Man's accusing voice quickly rang out: "Duan Shenxing, you're really something! We went through so much together in Sichuan, we all escaped death, and you didn't even say goodbye, you've already forgotten me so quickly?"

"You're making me feel so wronged. I tried calling you before, but your phone was always switched off."

I explained to Jiang Man, and then continued to ask, "Why can you suddenly make phone calls? Did Uncle Tian lift your confinement?"

"How could that be? What happened to me this time really made my dad angry. In the past, when I made him angry, he would soften as long as I acted cute. But this time, nothing I said would work. He insisted that I stay at home and even hired more than a dozen female bodyguards to watch over me in shifts. There are even people next to me when I sleep."

Jiangmen sighed: "My dad won't even see me. He only talks to me by phone. When I asked him how long he would keep me locked up, he wouldn't say. He just told me to wait for notification! I'm really fed up. We're clearly father and daughter, but he acts like I'm his employee."

When I heard that Jiang Tianyi hadn't met with Jiang Man yet, I understood it was because his body hadn't fully recovered. I comforted Jiang Man, saying, "Rather than saying Uncle Tianyi is angry this time, I think he's more worried about you. I think Uncle Tianyi confining you isn't to control you, but rather a stress reaction caused by what you've done these past few times."

“Actually, I understand that my dad just feels that I’m always running around with you guys and experiencing too many dangers. He wants to keep me by his side. It’s precisely because I understand his feelings that I can only choose to endure it.”

After Jiang Manyan finished speaking, she changed the subject and asked, "I heard that after you arrived in Tianjin, you stayed for less than a day before leaving in a hurry. Did something happen to you?"

"No, it's just that the shop in Shenyang hasn't been open for a long time, so I came back to tidy it up."

I made up an excuse without telling Jiang Man that I was working for the Wei family.

"You're a billionaire now, what's the point of keeping that tiny, fly-by-night shop?"

Jiang Man's tone was somewhat resentful: "Duan Shenxing, I'm being kept at home by my dad all day long. I'm going to get sick from all this. Why don't you put down your work and come stay with me for a few days? If I continue to be alone, I'm afraid I'll really go crazy."

I heard Jiang Man's slightly coquettish tone and knew she was genuinely bored. I laughed and said, "I haven't been back to Shenyang for months. There's been so much going on at the shop and the company. Once I'm done with these last few days, I'll come to Tianjin to see you."

"Okay, it's a deal then. You have to come find me as soon as possible!"

"..."

I had just finished chatting with Jiang Man when Song Laosan gestured to me with his phone: "Wei Yatou has arrived in Xing'an League and is heading towards Arxan. Come and meet us."

"Wei Shengnan is here?"

After listening to Song Laosan's words, I frowned: "This time, Qu Ruilin and I acted separately. Wei Shengnan had been waiting in the rear, but now she has suddenly arrived in Arxan. Does this mean that Qu Ruilin's operation has also failed?"

"It's not just Qu Ruilin; the Wei family has also checked out two locations overseas."

Song Laosan picked up the cigarette box on the table and said helplessly, "Of the six teams that the Wei family prepared to attack, except for yours, they have all been wiped out. Qu Ruilin has checked a lot of information and visited many relevant people, but he has not been able to get any useful clues."

The Wei family has dispatched over a dozen teams, all focused on you. If we can't find anything here either, the Wei family will likely be helpless this time. Besides Wei Shengnan, Qu Ruilin is also on his way here. His flight should be at noon, and he should arrive this afternoon. He said he plans to go into the mountains with us tonight.

I nodded: "It's good that Qu Ruilin is here. Since we can't find any information outside, we might as well stick together and look out for each other."

"Wei said that she wanted to go into the mountains with everyone this time. Since everyone was working hard for her, she couldn't just stand by and watch."

Song Laosan chuckled: "I never expected that after the Indian sorcerer's tomb, our four sects' next collaboration wouldn't be tomb raiding, but rather searching for some damn zombie in the mountains! Xiao Duan, didn't you help the Hu family find the zombie's corpse yesterday? What exactly is a zombie like? Is it the same as the ones in Lam Ching-ying's movies?"

"I only helped find the body yesterday. I wasn't there during their zombie-making process, so I don't know what it actually looks like."

I shook my head: "If Wei Shengnan joins tonight's operation, our chances of winning will be much greater. I estimate that among our four families, only the Wei family's methods might be effective against something like zombies."

Song Laosan nodded: "Yes, Wei girl should be able to arrive in Arxan in about three hours. When she gets here, let's sit down and chat together."

"You brought Wei Shengnan here?"

I paused for a moment, then said quickly, "Xu Le said before he left that no one is allowed to enter the house before they return. Contact Wei Shengnan now and tell her to find a place to rest after she arrives here and wait for our news."