Chapter 62
"Hello, may I ask——"
Lu Ze opened the security door. Logically, the address of each CPA should be kept confidential, and no CPA colleagues would disturb each other during non-working hours unless they had a very good relationship.
He opened the door, but it was empty, with no one in sight.
Is it a mystery?
Lu Ze frowned slightly, and just as he was about to turn the silver light in his hand around, he saw a dark card with an ominous, splashing red color lying quietly under his feet.
Those were the traces left by the Ceope member Sophism at the destruction site.
And at the door of the unit downstairs, a faint scent of en factor was disappearing.
"Xiao Qingming, I have something to take care of. It's okay. You eat first."
While explaining to Gu Qingming in the restaurant, Lu Ze changed his shoes and ran downstairs. A silver hourglass shadow flashed by the door. It was a mark of time. If someone came during the time he was away, the hourglass would instantly reverse his time back to the position where he was still at the door.
"OK!"
Gu Qingming responded quickly, wondering: Does Uncle Lu Ze have work to do at the Municipal Bureau again?
"Alas, there is no other way. For the sake of the lights of thousands of families——"
Gu Qingming served himself another bowl of delicious soup. When he looked up, his expression almost distorted.
A slender black shadow was leaning over the window of his room opposite the restaurant. After noticing his gaze, it knocked on his window.
Gu Qingming felt that a fear rooted deep in his heart had gripped his heart.
Gu Qingming, the physical warrior who was in charge of the supernatural society who could kill heaven, earth and Keobo with a bronze spear, felt the fear bursting out from the deepest part of his heart for the first time.
As long as it is mysterious, he dares to fight it, such as paper people, puppets, cheongsam girls, and wandering people with special abilities.
But the monster in front of him actually brought him uncontrollable fear.
It was as if a pale hand was holding his heart inside his body, exerting a little force.
Gu Qingming felt creepy just thinking about it.
This fear seems to be unfounded, but it also seems to have some logic to explain it.
How could... there be such a big reaction?
Gu Qingming thought.
He looked at the shadow on the window, and felt as miserable as a PTSD patient.
The shadow seemed to be more than just a shadow. It was as if someone's hideous smile was hidden in the shadow and was transmitted to him through the squirming back.
Gu Qingming stood up with shaking hands. Reason told him that there was nothing to be afraid of, but that abnormal fear was rooted in his heart.
It seemed... this translucent existence had once brought him extreme pain.
"What if, what if it's someone's en factor?"
Gu Qingming tried to convince himself in this way.
But the body's uncontrollable reactions cannot deceive people at all.
"Knock knock - classmate Xiao Ming, are you there?"
A familiar voice came from the door. Gu Qingming seemed to be pardoned. He pushed the doorknob open with shaking hands. Chu Zhongyuan was happily admiring himself for being a genius because he found a perfect excuse to meet Xiao Ming in advance, "check whether you have finished all your winter vacation homework." But when he opened the door, he was shocked by Gu Qingming's condition.
The black-haired boy had a pale face, and his shattered hair listlessly stuck to his cheeks, outlining black shadows.
The young man who always stood steadily, becoming a support and warmth for others in the Supernatural Society, was now staggering. His two beautiful brown eyes hidden behind the lenses were misty as he stared at him blankly.
The green wind appeared uncontrollably around the boy. Chu Zhongyuan didn't care about anything for a moment. He hurriedly supported his little classmate who was in a bad state, half-hugged him in his arms and sat him down. He closed the security door with his other hand to prevent the en factor from being seen by ordinary people passing by in the corridor.
A green wind snake bit Chu Zhongyuan's clothes, preventing him from leaving, but Chu Zhongyuan had no intention of leaving now.
What is it?
Who is it?
Why did Xiao Ming become like this? He was just chatting and laughing in the group just now...
Unspeakable emotions burst out in his heart, and he almost wanted to turn back time and tear that guy to pieces.
He was so cautious when holding hands that he only dared to speak in a joking manner...Who was it?
A kind of brutality that he himself couldn't even detect rose up from the bottom of his heart. Chu Zhongyuan forced himself to suppress those uneasy feelings and hugged Gu Qingming's somewhat cold body.
"It's okay. Wait until you recover, then we'll talk..."
He tried to calm Gu Qingming's abnormal emotions with his usual voice, but the boy was just trembling.
Gu Qingming didn't like close physical contact with others, but he could endure it for politeness or other reasons. However, when he fell into a certain unconscious state, Gu Qingming thought that he would beat up anyone around him who tried to get close to him.
This is normal.
But he didn't, and even felt that Chu Zhongyuan's embrace was warmer or safer, so he just stood there stiffly.
With black hair falling to his shoulders, Chu Zhongyuan's eyes were terrifyingly cold, with sharp arcs at the corners of his eyes.
He looked in the direction of Gu Qingming's field of vision just now. The fluorescent water tide almost distorted the glass in an instant, but there was nothing outside.
“Click.”
The sound of the telescope being retracted was heard, and on a distant high-rise rooftop, a black shadow snapped his fingers early, and the strange shadow on Gu Qingming's window instantly disappeared before Chu Zhongyuan could make a move.
A figure entangled in black fog stood there. Under the fog that was slightly dispersed by the night wind, there was a black windbreaker and strangely thick bandages.
Through the night fog, nothing about it could be seen clearly, except for its waist-length silver hair.
"It's really him, no, them."
The voice of the figure could not be distinguished by gender, and its figure, along with its shape, had a hazy neutral beauty.
"You asked Guibian to lead Lu Ze away just to confirm his identity... How about this young man, is he an old acquaintance of yours, Boss?"
A soft female voice sounded, and even the ending seemed to have a hint of alluring hook.
A woman with black hand-pushed wavy hair walked out of the shadows, wearing a black tight cheongsam, but her smile was like a poisonous snake eager to try in the Garden of Eden.
It is a beauty that is lethal enough.
"Yes, an old acquaintance."
The figure shrouded in black mist sighed in a nostalgic tone.
"It's been a very long time. Maybe a thousand years."
"So... do you want to kill him now?"
The woman in black raised her lips and showed an expectant look. Such a pure soul must taste delicious.
"No, no, no, he can't die yet. I want him to witness my victory with his own eyes in the end."
The figure in the black fog seemed to be laughing, but also seemed to be cursing each other viciously.
It fell down, and the whole person flipped over the railing of the rooftop, dissolving into the air along with the black fog and the cheongsam woman.
"Only this way can we get the best revenge on him, no, on them."
A faint voice, whose gender could not be determined, dissipated in the sky and solidified with the approaching night, as if the rooftop was as quiet as before and no one had ever been there.
Lu Ze’s home in a community near Lantai No. 1 Middle School.
Gu Qingming's consciousness gradually regained consciousness. He didn't know why the shadow he had just seen caused such an outrageous reaction in him.
"Uh... sorry."
After Gu Qingming realized that he was in Chu Zhongyuan's arms, he stood up quickly and looked like he was about to bow to Chu Zhongyuan to apologize.
How could it turn out like this, Gu Qingming wondered.
Even though we are good friends, isn't it a bit weird to just casually crawl into someone else's arms?
The socially anxious self groaned in his heart, and Gu Qingming felt that he could now awkwardly deduct two CPA headquarters out of thin air.
"What's wrong? You just called me Sweetie, but now you're pretending you don't know me - wuwuwu, I'm so sad -"
Chu Zhongyuan covered her chest in an exaggerated manner, pretending to be Xi Shi holding her heart, looking like an innocent girl who was hurt by a scumbag.
Gu Qingming: Uh... don’t think that I won’t beat you just because you comforted me just now.
"I just—"
He was about to speak, but he found that the strange behavior just now seemed to cause him great mental pressure and he couldn't say anything.
"It's okay, no need to tell me."
Chu Zhongyuan patted Gu Qingming on the shoulder. He deliberately showed a nonchalant smile, trying to tell the other party with body language that it was not a big deal.
"I saw that black shadow. If you feel uncomfortable, don't let yourself recall it anymore."
Chu Zhongyuan lowered his eyes slightly. He seemed to be smiling all the time, as if nothing in the world could shake his emotions except the people he cared about.
After Lu Ze chased the strange shadow to no avail, he hurried back home. As soon as he entered the door, he was startled to see Chu Zhongyuan smiling and greeting him.
"Student Chu?"
Lu Ze remembered that he had not yet developed Alzheimer's disease and had lost his memory because of his supernatural powers. When he went out, it seemed that Gu Qingming was the only one at home.
"Ah, school starts tomorrow, right? I came here early to check Xiao Ming's homework and see if there's anything left to do..."
Chu Zhongyuan finally got his wish and came up with his genius excuse, then he continued the conversation and told Lu Ze about Gu Qingming's just now strange behavior, but he deliberately concealed the severity of the situation.
"You saw a black creeping shadow, so you feel uncomfortable?"
Lu Ze touched his chin, as if he was in deep thought. Only he knew the existence of the "black creeping shadow". When he heard about it for the first time, he almost jumped up.
The records from a thousand years ago have become blurred, but in the current Jiuyuan Flower Sea, under the black mandala, there are still wriggling black shadows secretly peeping, and even Cao Sheng and other CPA specialists have to release most of their strength to suppress it in order to maintain the surface balance.
Could it be that Xiao Qingming used the bronze spear too many times and thus had the hallucination of its previous owner?
No, this has never happened before... Lu Ze turned his back and looked at the ominous card, which obviously contained some kind of en factor.
Could it be... that he was deliberately aroused?
Lu Ze tore up the card that contained no information and no value and threw it into the trash can in the kitchen. His face was terribly gloomy, like the precursor of a thunderstorm.
Who has the leisure time to do this?
There is only one answer.
Ceope, who only fears chaos in the world.
Lu Ze took a deep breath. Bai Kelan and Jiuyoujing chose Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan. This was an unchangeable fact. Although they would have to face the tragic truth of sleeping in the underworld sooner or later, now was not the time.
For 17-year-olds, the "anchor" that can stabilize their self-cognition has not yet been born. If they are exposed to that period of history too quickly, they will only fall into confusion about their self-identity more quickly.
Ceob...
If you dare to take action, you will definitely pay a huge price.
Lu Ze took a deep breath, took out several kinds of fruits from the fruit cupboard, and began to cut and peel them, preparing after-meal fruits for Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan who were working on their winter vacation homework.
Tomorrow, after a few students have entered the school, he will search for those guys who are doing these tricks, even if he has to turn Lantai City upside down.
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