Chapter 50: Is it fun to earn money with blood? (28) “The evil ones…
As far as his eyes could see, Elizabeth and Fredis were obviously silent for a moment, and then Fredis bared her teeth at Si Ling. The row of white teeth on her charred body was very conspicuous in the night.
Si Ling was speechless and about to roll his eyes when Elizabeth stepped forward and said, "Together."
Si Ling's eyebrows twitched slightly.
Although Elizabeth was rejecting her request, it was refreshing to hear her express it in such a calm manner.
She then calmly said, "If we run into someone like Ah Ji who's possessed by a demon again, we might not be lucky enough to win by just talking. Now's not the time to fight for kills."
Elizabeth said, "It's all yours."
Si Ling looked at her without saying a word. She looked up at the runes flashing in the sky. The runes became clearer and clearer, like golden dye being ironed onto black cloth.
Elizabeth pondered for a moment. "Gongbu has many disciples. I wonder how many are left now. If you go alone and run into trouble without help, the two of us can at least help you clear some of the obstacles."
Si Ling sensed sincerity in Elizabeth's tone and after a brief hesitation, he nodded in agreement: "Okay."
She responded briefly, then turned and headed towards the direction of the darkest rune, searching for her target. Elizabeth wanted to say something, but when she saw she was gone, she opened her mouth and swallowed it back.
Not long after walking out, they entered the area where the fighting had just taken place.
The spacious road was littered with corpses and bloodstains. There were even a few corpses with smashed skulls, and the tofu-like brain matter and bright red blood plasma mixed together, looking particularly creepy in the moonlight.
Amidst the thick smell of blood, a few faint groans could be heard. These were the people who were still breathing, but their SAN values had fallen below 20%, and most of them were only at 10%. The ghosts could kill them with one blow.
Si Ling found a monk he'd marked as his primary target, strode forward, and grabbed him by the collar. The gaunt old monk, who looked to be in his sixties or seventies, had a vacant gaze, but upon seeing him, it suddenly focused, a surge of fear.
"Let me, let me go..." He begged with sobs.
It would be easy to feel sympathetic to see an old man in his sixties or seventies begging for mercy like this, but when Si Ling lowered his gaze two inches, he saw that the magic weapon hanging on his chest was a complete skull the size of a fist.
It's a baby's skull.
She sneered coldly, "Evil people don't deserve sympathy just because they are old."
As she spoke, she pulled out a silver stick. In her hand, the stick instantly turned into a sword and stabbed the monk's throat.
Blood gushed out from the old monk's neck, and as Si Ling let go, he fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.
The blood continued to flow rapidly, soaking the monk's robes and spreading to the baby's skull. The moment the blood soaked the magic weapon, it seemed to sense something and let out a sharp, crazy laugh.
Elizabeth and Fredis were horrified when they heard this. Seeing Si Ling step over the monk's body and continue on his way, Elizabeth followed him uneasily: "That bone...don't care?"
"There should be messengers from the underworld coming to coordinate. If we interfere, it will cause trouble." Si Ling said earnestly.
She didn't want to listen to Xie Bian, the hellish office worker, complaining to her about work process problems anymore.
Elizabeth and Fredis stopped talking after hearing her words, and the three of them continued to walk through the bloody scene. The previous conflict had left them in no mood or topic for small talk, but they had still formed a tacit understanding: when encountering a primary target who was still breathing, Fredis and Elizabeth would not take action, and Si Ling would take the kill. During this time, there was a survivor hidden in the bushes that Si Ling had not noticed, and Fredis even touched her arm to remind her that there was another person there.
When encountering non-primary targets who were still breathing, Si Ling would ignore them and let Fredis and Elizabeth take the kills. Although taking these kills had no practical significance, everyone was always counting them in the group, so taking more heads would still save face.
The golden runes in the night sky grew darker and darker. Si Ling knew that the monks with the strongest magic power were nearby, most likely including Gongbu himself.
She turned a corner, following the rune's direction. The road suddenly narrowed, revealing a cobblestone path paved with trees. After walking a dozen meters, the three of them heard hurried footsteps in the woods to their left. They all stopped, looking warily toward the forest. In the gloom, they first spotted the swaying grass diagonally ahead. Then, though Elizabeth and Fredis saw no one, they did see the SAN bar indicating their primary target.
The two of them looked stern and immediately prepared for battle. Si Ling felt relieved when she saw who was coming. "Don't move..." She raised her hand, signaling Elizabeth and Fredis to calm down, and stepped forward to meet them. "Bai Ma, what's wrong?"
The moment Bai Ma saw Si Ling, she almost collapsed. She didn't care about her expensive haute couture evening gown at all, and sat down on the ground: "I finally found you..."
Elizabeth and Fredis were both stunned. Si Ling was speechless: "Sorry."
——She was really sorry, she had completely forgotten about Bai Ma just now.
Earlier in the clubhouse, she had gone to the lounge on the 22nd floor to set a trap for Gongbu, leaving the invisible Bai Ma in the bathroom on the 21st floor for safety reasons. But then a fire suddenly broke out in the temple, catching everyone off guard and throwing them into chaos. Si Ling, sensing a backlash from her magical powers, had to rush to the temple to deal with the Rule Ghost Story, and for a moment, she had forgotten that Bai Ma was in the bathroom.
Now seeing Bai Ma coming over, Si Ling felt a little embarrassed and guilty.
...Because although Bai Ma was using a sleight of hand to hide her from sight, not only humans but even physical ghosts like Elizabeth could not see her, in other respects she was still a normal person, and she couldn't float around like Si Ling. So she had to run to find Si Ling, and not to mention the countless detours she had to take in the vast manor, there was also the possibility that if she encountered a powerful monk who became suspicious of the swaying grass and used magic to injure Bai Ma.
"I'm so sorry." Si Ling reached out to help Bai Ma. Bai Ma stood up and without taking any time to slow down, she tightly grasped Si Ling's wrist and told her: "You can't go any further. Gongbu... Gongbu is right in front! He's casting a spell!"
Si Ling said: "I just went to find him."
"No..." Bai Ma shook her head repeatedly, "You can't just leave like this." She pointed to the runes on the horizon, "This is the Tumba family's unique secret manual, specially used to scare away demons and ghosts. Once the seal is completely cast, even if you have thousands of years of cultivation, it will still be completely wiped out. Even if you kill Gongbu, you can't escape."
But I have tens of thousands of years of cultivation. Si Ling subconsciously wanted to refute this, but finally swallowed it back. Because besides her, there were also Elizabeth and Fredis here, and they would really be killed by the refining.
She asked Baima thoughtfully: "What should we do then?"
"Kill others first." Bai Ma gave a concise answer. "Constructing this seal will directly consume your cultivation. Although having more participants means that the consumption for each person will not be too great, based on my understanding of Gongbu, he would not do such a thing personally."
"So, he should be having his disciples construct the barrier, while he himself only controls it. If you kill the others, the barrier he controls will be weakened, and that will make things much easier."
"I see." Si Ling nodded thoughtfully. Elizabeth, who couldn't see the figure but heard most of it, couldn't help but ask anxiously in English: "Who is this person? Why do you trust her?!"
Si Ling turned his head and saw her staring at the SAN value bar above Bai Ma's head: "She is the target!"
"It's a long story. I'll explain it later." Si Ling glanced at the runes above his head. "Time is running out. Where are the others? Take us there!"
"This way!" Bai Ma ran in the opposite direction of the three people. "Let's start from the farthest point, so we won't be easily discovered!"
Si Ling followed Bai Ma without hesitation. Elizabeth and Fredis were obviously suspicious of Bai Ma's intentions, but they followed him anyway.
They once again passed through the battlefield filled with dead bodies and broken limbs. Some of the people among them were familiar to Bai Ma. She silently avoided their gazes and recited a Zen saying.
After walking a similar distance, Si Lingyao saw a monk meditating in the shade of the trees, which was similar to the one where he had seen Bai Ma.
"That's it, right?" she stopped and asked Bai Ma.
Bai Ma nodded, "Yes." After saying this, he thought for a moment and smiled, "Please help me reveal myself. I'll go meet them first."
"Break the barrier and reveal the soul." Si Ling broke the illusion, and Bai Ma's figure appeared in a second. He nodded to Si Ling and said, "I'm going. Wait for my news."
Bai Ma said this and turned to leave, leaving Elizabeth and Fredis stunned.
"Sling..." Elizabeth pointed at Baima's back and said dumbly, "Don't you know who she is? She is Gongbu's biological daughter!"
"I know." Si Ling nodded, "But there's an old saying in China..."
Fredis answered in a hoarse voice: "A man who knows the current situation is a hero."
"...No." Si Ling laughed dryly, "There is more than just that old saying in China. What I meant was 'Good bamboo shoots come from bad bamboo'. Gongbu is the bad bamboo, and Baima is the good bamboo shoot." She patiently gave a simple explanation in English.
"And what if she isn't?" Elizabeth pressed anxiously. "What if she's lying to you?"
Si Ling said without hesitation: "Then kill him."
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A few meters away, the sound of Bai Ma walking out of the woods attracted the attention of the monks.
There were seven or eight monks sitting on the sidewalk, all with their eyes closed, chanting mantras and concentrating on setting up the barrier. Hearing the noise, two or three of them opened their eyes. Seeing it was Bai Ma, they were all startled: "Miss Bai Ma."
"Thank you for your hard work." Bai Ma walked up to them and nodded. He looked around and secretly selected the three monks with the highest cultivation. "Master Gongbu needs help. The three of you come with me."
——Master Gongbu, this is what she called Gongbu in front of outsiders for many years. Even though everyone knew their relationship, she still had to call him like this.
But this was not a bad thing for her. After all, to her, calling Gongbu "Dad" or "Father" was much more disgusting than "Master".
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