"Is the evil spirit in your body about to get out of control again?"
In the silence, Gu Zhisang suddenly spoke and asked with concern.
Perhaps she did not hear clearly the content of the voice, or did not realize the meaning. The pair of dark pupils looking at Yan Cheng were clear and bright, highlighting his tall and thin figure.
Seeing that she looked normal, Yan Cheng's tense heartstrings relaxed a little, and he pursed his lips and replied:
"It's been a bit chaotic lately..."
The indescribable feelings were barely contained and not exposed abruptly, which made him feel relieved but also a little disappointed.
He said that he was fine, but Gu Zhisang could see at a glance that the young man's body was at its limit.
"Since it's out of control, why don't you contact me to help you clear it up?" Gu Zhisang frowned and suddenly took two steps forward:
"Sit down first. I will detect the remaining evil spirit in your body."
As soon as they met, she realized something was wrong.
Gu Zhisang extended his spiritual power, immersed it into Yan Cheng's spiritual platform, and explored every inch of his meridians and muscles along the flow of his blood.
It was discovered that Yan Cheng's physical condition had not improved but had worsened after two purifications and treatments.
Wisps of thick black gas were hidden in the Yin Sha, lingering in his body and constantly corroding his body.
Gu Zhisang was too familiar with that evil, violent and gloomy feeling.
Black fog!
This lingering thing actually invaded Yan Cheng's body at some point!
No wonder his health deteriorated so quickly.
Gu Zhisang's expression froze, and he irresistibly grasped the young man's not-so-thin arm with slightly bulging veins. His immense power flowed directly along the wrist he was holding and invaded the other's body.
Her soul power is white with flowing golden threads, which is the power of merit hidden in it, and it can naturally restrain all kinds of evil things.
Compared to the last time he helped Yan Cheng clear out the evil spirits, in less than half a month, Gu Zhisang's soul power became stronger again, and he was able to devour those evil spirits with greater ease.
The stubborn evil spirit that had troubled Yan Cheng for many years was gradually swallowed up by the flowing soul power.
Soon, the gray fog around Yan Cheng became thinner and thinner, and its range began to shrink, until it almost disappeared.
After the evil spirit was swallowed up and absorbed, the thick black mist lingering in the veins became more obvious.
There was a tiny golden glow in Gu Zhisang's pupils. She placed her fingertips on the inside of Yan Cheng's thin and hot wrist and gently exerted force, probing into the soul power in the young man's veins. As if with guidance, she pounced fiercely on the thick fog that penetrated deep into his internal organs.
The collision of the two forces caused Yan Cheng to let out a muffled groan.
The sharp pain, accompanied by a numb discomfort that made the blood vessels tingle, continued to rise as the thick fog gradually dissipated.
It is not extreme pain, and even after the pain and numbness, there will be a sense of extra relaxation, as if some old and stubborn disease has been cleared;
But this process is really hard and a long torture.
Yan Cheng couldn't help but clench his fists, and the winding blood vessels crawled from the pale and slender fingertips to the sleeves of his arms.
"It hurts? Just bear with it." Gu Zhisang glanced at the young man who was still enduring, frowned and asked:
"You haven't felt your body, and possibly your brain, for some time. Is there something wrong?"
Yan Cheng was not slow-witted, and some recent discoveries emerged in his mind.
His lips turned red as he pursed them, and he said slowly:
"It seems... there are some problems."
"My physical condition is deteriorating faster, but it's different from before. Some parts of my skin are inexplicably bruised. They are the kind that come from the muscles, as if my body is gradually festering and dying..."
He smiled bitterly. Although he tried his best to endure the pain while describing it, one could still hear the restraint in his tiny breathing.
From childhood to adulthood, Yan Cheng has been fully prepared to face death at any time, so when he discovered the changes in his body, he was only silent and stiff for a short time, and did not even feel fear or terror.
"Also... I am becoming more and more depressed. Whether I am alone or with others, some bad thoughts always pop up in my mind."
"But I know that these are probably the side effects of the evil spirit entering the body."
Yan Cheng said this with his brows furrowed.
Compared with the physical torture, the mental torture was unbearable for him.
"In fact, they don't consider you as a relative at all. They just don't dare to say it out loud because they are afraid of your fierce identity. You haven't forgotten how Yan Xugui avoided you when you were a child, right?"
'Why don't you pay back the humiliation and torture brought to you by those hypocritical people from Xuanmen? We have the ability to do so. Your body contains a powerful energy that you don't even know about.
If you want revenge, I can teach you how to use it.'
"You like Gu Zhisang, right? She is so high and mighty that she regards you as nothing more than an ant, just like those people in the Xuanmen Sect. Why don't you pull her down from the altar?"
"……"
Those evil thoughts that popped up from time to time were like Yan Cheng’s darkest side, luring him into the abyss.
This was especially true when she was talking to her parents and younger brother. She even had all kinds of unspeakable thoughts about Gu Zhisang...
Yan Cheng couldn't get rid of it, but he also didn't fall into it.
He knew clearly that it was not him.
It is a kind of inner demon, the result of unrestrained desire leading to destruction.
If you really indulge in those desires, you will gradually lose your morals and bottom line as a human being.
Gu Zhisang snorted: "Pretty smart."
Knowing it is a trap and not falling for it, being able to soberly endure the pain and maintain the bottom line of being a good person——
There are very few people who can do this.
Most human beings choose to indulge in desires the moment they arise, not to mention that the "black fog" can infinitely magnify the black holes and bad qualities in people's hearts.
That's right, it's the 'black fog'.
It invaded Yan Cheng unknowingly.
The bruises on Yan Cheng's body and the endless demonic sounds in his mind were all the aftereffects of this thing corroding ordinary people.
Gu Zhisang put himself into the mindset of the "Black Mist". From its perspective, Yan Cheng was just an ordinary human being, a poor man who had been tortured by evil spirits entering his body for years, bullied by the Xuanmen, and had little family love and care.
Yan Cheng lives alone and is withdrawn, and it is obvious that he has psychological problems.
For such a person, you only need to add fuel to the fire to arouse the "evil" in his heart and make him fall deeply into distortion.
But Black Mist could never have imagined that although Yan Cheng was tortured, his willpower was incredibly strong;
He has deep wounds in his heart, but his bottom line is ridiculously high.
Lacking family affection, Yan Cheng quietly stayed away from the Yan family so as not to make his relatives feel uncomfortable.
The Xuanmen has been holding him for so many years, and he despises the behavior of some Xuan masters, but he can understand the concerns and fears of most people.
He doesn't care about other people's fear, and he doesn't have the desire to possess the person he likes...
All in all, this is a 'good guy' who is speechless in every aspect.
An impeccably good man.
Obviously, the erosion and brainwashing of him by the 'black fog' failed, and it only left many corrosive wounds on his ordinary body.
In addition to being surprised at Yan Cheng's strong mind, Gu Zhisang became more alert and suspicious.
She had a vague feeling:
The black fog came to Yan Cheng because it was targeting him.
For a long time, the "black fog" would avoid himself and hide among the crowd, stirring up the desires in the hearts of ordinary people and causing cholera, and it had never confronted himself directly.
But now it attacked Yan Cheng who was beside it.
Why would this thing invade Yan Cheng even though it knew it would have another encounter with Yan Cheng and even though it might fail?
If it succeeds, what is the purpose of lurking around me?
Gu Zhisang narrowed his eyes slightly.
Whatever the reason, from the moment the other party gave up the foolproof option of "gambling", her chances of winning increased.
Something must have happened that made Black Mist unable to sit still.
It could no longer plot and strategize, and began to rush to "attack" itself...
At this time, it is no longer important to find the cause, but to strike it while it is sick, and it would be best to eradicate it completely!
The thoughts in his mind gradually became clearer, and Gu Zhisang put down the hand on Yan Cheng's wrist:
"Okay, how do you feel now?"
The pain and numbness became less and less, and Yan Cheng felt relaxed all over: "I feel good, the evil spirit is gone."
Gu Zhisang nodded: "That's good. Actually, I came here suddenly this time because I wanted to ask you about the design of the program that you mentioned last time to integrate into the array programming.
I have encountered a few problematic prisoners here. There must be a sorcerer behind them. However, their communication is all on the Internet, and all the information has been covered up by the ghost who is good at hiding his tracks on the Internet. It is difficult to detect, so I thought of asking you. "
After being interrogated by the spiritual team and the police, Sun Yue confessed the "master" who was behind her planning.
At the same time, she confessed that with the help of the master, the internet celebrity Xiao Wu's mobile phone and other electronic devices hid the call records between him and herself before he jumped off the building, which made the police find nothing during the investigation.
I just checked the account Sun Yue mentioned, and it was another empty account.
Gu Zhisang was basically certain that it was He Zhaosheng who had turned into a ghost who was behind the plot, but the illusory things on the Internet greatly limited her ability.
"Sorry..." Yan Cheng said apologetically, "The program and system have been developed, but they still need to be tested for large-scale operation, otherwise it will be easy to get stuck with bugs."
"If it's just a single device running, there shouldn't be a problem."
顾之桑说：“已经很好了，暂时只作用在个别有问题的设备上即可。”
“你耗时耗力、花费大量金钱帮我开发应用，应当是我感激你才对，辛苦你了。”
真诚道谢的顾之桑，敏锐捕捉到了晏承隐藏在强大、沉稳之下的……微小自卑。
或者说胆怯踌躇。
她心中泛起浅淡的涟漪。
顾之桑知道自己缺少对情感的共情，却并非心如石铁。
晏承的喜欢太过炽热，看向自己的眼眸中有太浓烈的情绪。
他烧到绯红的耳根，被自己直视时的无措和下意识的闪避，默默为自己做的一切事情……
是他想要藏，却根本藏不住的。
符轻岸都察觉到了，如此敏锐的她怎么可能一无所感。
但顾之桑仍怀有疑惑。
她在现世收获到了一些友谊，逐渐明白了羁绊和亲情，唯独对于人与人之间产生的爱情，而感到疑惑。
这种情感太复杂、太多变，有时也很盲目；
来得没有规律，也容易消磨殆尽，是向来摸索收集规律的顾之桑难以理解的。
她在观察晏承，也在观察自己。
她确定现在的自己没有爱，还远远无法反馈这样的感情，但奇怪的是她并不反感这种浓烈的情绪。
也并不讨厌晏承。
思虑良久，顾之桑稍稍偏头，直言询问：
“晏承，‘成恩娱乐’那个垃圾公司的新东家是你吧。我助理前两天给了发了一份分成非常良心的新合同，按照上面的条例，公司不留余力地力捧我，还不赚钱……”顿了片刻，她无奈说道：
“这种东家除了你，我想不到别人。”
“是我，我盘下了‘成恩娱乐’。”短暂怔忪后，晏承直接承认了。
似是怕顾之桑误会，他忙解释道：
“我没有别的意思，那份合同也只是让周助理拿给桑桑你看一下，愿不愿签、是否离开‘成恩娱乐’，完全凭你自己的心意。”
买下‘成恩娱乐’这事儿他根本没声张，连集团里的亲信都不知道。
他根本没想到，顾之桑直接猜到了自己身上。
晏承调查过‘成恩娱乐’，知道这经纪公司内部有多烂。
上有贪腐的领导，下有欺压耍弄艺人的经纪人，顾之桑前两年之所以被网上黑成这样，八成原因都是这狗公司不顾她的死活、压榨她的流量，用各种恶心人的手段把‘顾之桑’推向了深渊。
现如今顾之桑火了。
火得一塌糊涂，圈内无人能比。
而她与‘成恩娱乐’的合同也即将到期。
晏承知道‘成恩娱乐’定然不会让她离开，他不用想都知道，那些烂人会使出多么令人作呕的手段，摇尾乞怜是轻，威逼利诱是真。
一旦各种手段频出后无计可施，就会恼羞成怒泼脏水，恨不得毁掉不受控制的艺人。
他也清楚，那些手段对于现在的顾之桑来说，构不成威胁。
可一想到顾之桑会因为这些烂人烂事而烦心，晏承便不愉。
所以他入行以来第一次‘仗势欺人’，以晏式的名义，逼着‘成恩娱乐’的老总以扒皮价把公司卖给了自己，又重新制定了一份合同。
顾之桑签与不签并不在他的考虑中。
继续签，他会尽好老板的职责拿下最好的资源，哪怕顾之桑并不需要。
如若不签，他也只是想让顾之桑免于这些人的打扰。
只是那份合同在他的私心下改得太离谱、太良心，怎么都显得不真实。
顾之桑微微挑眉：“你是为了帮我？”
“是，但也不全是。”
晏承一本正经地编撰，语气沉稳：“桑桑你救了我很多次，要是没有你，我可能在煞气第一次失控的时候，就被玄门的几位长老除去了，如果花些钱就帮到你，也是我唯一能答谢你恩情的方式。”
“更何况我是个商人。
商人逐利，娱乐圈更是暴利行业，我投资已成为顶流艺人的你，稳赚不亏。”
顾之桑盯了他良久，而后挪开视线，也不知对这话信没信。
看了眼窗外昏沉的天色，她懒洋洋舒展了下筋骨，柔软的白毛衣袖子顺势落下，露出一截莹白如玉的纤细手臂：
“天晚了，该走了。”
晏承视线顿住，停留在她的小臂处。
他这才后知后觉发现，顾之桑穿着一袭毛茸茸的奶白的毛衣，是少有的随性慵懒。
“你同我一起去吧，去x市，把那犯人手机里的东西查出来，这案子应该就了结了。”顾之桑说。
晏承点头：“好。”
“对了。”顾之桑又想到了什么，看向晏承：“之前侵入你体内的煞气有些特殊，你可以理解为，我的敌人为了埋伏我向你投了毒，想通过你来对付我。”
“所以你之前吃得那些苦头，准确来说还是被我牵连了。”
晏承猛然抬头：“有人想害你？需要我帮忙吗？”
顾之桑：？
对上青年含着紧张的视线，她莫名失笑。
“这倒不用……你注意一下自己的身心状况，有其他后遗症立即找我。”顾之桑说：
“如果那玩意儿二次侵袭，你也直接联系我。”
想到‘黑雾’那东西神出鬼没，又毒计频出，这次入侵晏承失败，下一次指不定要搞些什么歪点子。
更何况晏承体质特殊，阴煞‘收容器’的存在本身就有一定失控的危险；
她还怀疑晏承这个人的身份，或者说他隐于表面之下的、连他自己都不知道的身份，藏着更深的隐秘。
思索良久，顾之桑迟疑说道：
“实在不行，办完事了你跟我走？
我公寓蛮大的也有客房，安置一个人绰绰有余，以后定期清除煞气也比较方便。”
她有预感，《灵事》虽结束了，但以后的灵异事件只会多不会少。
这个世界要乱起来了，她停不下来。
一旦被灵组安排到各地轮番转、去解决那些奇诡的问题，她不一定有精力和时间去关注晏承。
想了想她又摇摇头：“算了，我开玩笑的。有问题你联系我……”
晏承好歹是个集团大老板。
世界前十强；
首富。
脚下的半山别墅几百平，有专人给他打理杂物。
这样的人和她挤一个公寓，还得委委屈屈住客房，不合适。
“我可以。”
晏承出声，语气笃定。
他视线缓缓挪开，状似平静道：
“现在我这住宅根本谈不上安全，玄门的长老们想闯进来带走我，便进来了；
未知的人想谋害我，便可以在我毫无察觉时对我下手，仔细想想确实可怕。”
顾之桑：……
十分钟后，晏承只收拾了一下重要的文件，便下了楼。
他清洗过的发梢略显柔软，衬得他深邃得有些夺目的五官添了些温和。
走近直至到达自己身边时，顾之桑才头一次认真打量他似得，意识到原来他的个头那么高，肩膀也很阔。
晏承眉眼微垂，显出些许乖顺：
“叨扰桑桑了。”
像只沉默的，只会睁着眼睛一瞬不瞬盯着人看的大型犬类。
被这样的眼睛看着，顾之桑也不好出尔反尔。
仿佛她回绝的下一秒，对方周身还算平缓的气息，就会骤然低迷沉寂。
“先去x市。”
她手臂抬起，一扇墨釉鬼门缓缓浮现，逐渐将一高一矮的身影吞没其中。
——
晚10点
x市灵组分部灯火通明。
原本只需六至八人值班、看守今天晚上运送而来的犯人孙刖，并保证三名来到灵组的年轻女孩儿的安全，可一听说传说中的顾之桑总指导今夜会来，整个分部的组员都不愿意下班了。
已经下了班的人又开车从家赶回来。
等了一段时间，有人生出困意打了个哈欠。
刚想开口说点什么，一股浓郁的鬼气忽然在大厅内弥漫、萦绕，气息之浓令所有组员瞬间清醒，提起十二分的警觉。
“谁？！”
“有东西闯入！”
要知道灵组分部内外有高阶符箓和阵法，寻常阴魂和邪祟根本靠近不得。
鬼气如此深重、又闯入得悄无声息的东西，得是多么可怖的邪祟？！
然而当滚滚灰雾被拨开，露出其中无法忽视的雕花巨门，所有严阵以待的组员都愣住了。
视线中，两个身影从鬼雾中踏出。
一对身着黑与白的青年男女，容貌逐渐清晰，过人姿容更显的两人不像活人。
一方是极致的清冷和姝丽，凤眼琼鼻；
稍稍落后些的男人身形高大，眉眼深邃，乍一看笼着一层看不透的阴鸷。
“顾、顾指导？！”
“是顾指导来了吗？卧槽她身后的就是传说中的鬼门了吧？！”
原本气氛紧绷的大厅，被此起彼伏的惊诧和激动声占据。
一时间介绍自己表达憧憬的、想摸摸鬼门或者伸头进去看看的、还有好奇晏承身份与固执的关系的组员闹哄哄。
待声嚣平息，晚上出动配合赵警官捉人的组员，带着激动道：
“顾指导您来了，人已经按照您的吩咐，该安顿的安顿该关押的关押了，您要审孙刖吗？”
顾之桑摇摇头，说道：
“没必要，她的手机在哪儿？”
"Here." The team member handed her an evidence bag containing a mobile phone.
Gu Zhisang pointed at Yan Cheng, but did not reveal his identity:
"This guy knows more about electronic products than I do. I invited him as an external aid. It depends on him whether he can crack the tricks used to cover up the evidence."
"Take me to see Yuan Yunfang and the others."
After a pause, she said in a serious tone, "By the way, prepare a few storage bags engraved with Sanskrit symbols and the highest security isolation room. I want to take out the contents of their stomachs."
"Remember to activate the confinement formation. If those things escape, the threat will be extremely great."
The team member nodded solemnly: "I understand, Coach Gu. I will arrange it now."
In addition to Sun Yue's mobile phone, the Spirit Group Headquarters also sent several devices with abnormal contents that had been seized before, such as Guan Qihong's computer, to Gu Zhisang for her to study.
This time she brought them all and gave them to Yan Cheng who stayed in the office, asking him to tinker with them together with Sun Yue's cell phone.
As for Gu Zhisang, he first went into the lounge and met with the three anxious girls to calm them down.
"I will take out the ghost fetuses for you one by one later. No matter what you see or hear, don't panic, otherwise you will only hurt yourself. Can you do it?"
Yuan Yunfang and the other two were already getting nervous, but they kept nodding.
After the team members had arranged everything, Gu Zhisang asked them to follow him into the isolation room one by one.
Let’s start with Yuan Fanfang, who has the shortest time and whose baby is the most vulnerable.
Next up is Xiao He.
The things in their stomachs had just taken shape and were still dormant. They gradually woke up when Gu Zhisang used the power of his condensed souls to pull them out of their bodies bit by bit.
The black and purple human-shaped fetus, which was less than the size of a palm, opened its dark eyes. Every limb and facial feature was almost the same as a miniature version of a human, but its temper was terrible.
When he was firmly grasped by Gu Zhisang's soul power, he still gritted his teeth and tried to struggle and attack.
Seeing such a horrific thing being pulled out of their stomachs with their own eyes, Yuan Yunfang and Xiao He were so scared that they almost fainted.
The two of them kept Gu Zhisang's instructions in mind and covered their mouths tightly when they were frightened and dared not scream.
In the end, the two incompletely developed ghost fetuses were stuffed into the storage bag and could not get out no matter what they did.
However, when they arrived at Xiaogao, something unexpected happened.
The fetus in Xiao Gao's belly has been formed for more than three months and is basically mature, just waiting to wake up.
As soon as Gu Zhisang's soul power penetrated into its abdomen and touched it, it began to squirm and struggle wildly.
Looking at her slightly protruding belly bulging constantly, she even felt a dull pain as if her skin, flesh and organs were being stretched, as if something in her stomach was going to tear through her belly and come out in the next second. She was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat and cried out.
In fact, if Gu Zhisang's soul had not tightly wrapped around the ghost fetus, preventing it from coming into contact with Xiao Gao's flesh and blood, Xiao Gao would have been ripped open the moment it started to run around.
As if it realized that it was being suppressed, the ghost fetus that had awakened in Xiao Gao's belly let out a series of sharp and piercing hisses, which made people's scalps numb.
Gu Zhisang tightened his fingers, and a black and purple head the size of a ping-pong ball was squeezed out from Xiao Gao's flesh.
There was already some cloudy white in the ghost fetus's dark eye sockets, a mouth full of fine and sharp steel teeth, and a shrill scream squeezed out of its throat.
Facing Xiao Gao's face that was looking down, full of tears, sweat and fear, the black and purple ghost child grinned, suddenly pulled out its body, and pounced on Xiao Gao's face...
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The crazy internship was temporarily stopped due to "reasons known to everyone". We were forced to live in the dormitory and were like drowned dogs. We packed our bags and were expelled back to school and locked up (forced smile). This internship was the worst experience. Fortunately, it is over for the time being...
I will be free before resuming my internship. I will update 7k today and add more starting from tomorrow's update.