"Ye Jiu! Have you finished your report? Let's go see a movie together!" Lin Jin'an burst through the door and immediately saw Ye Jiu and Li Jingxing holding hands tightly.
"I bought a projector..." Lin Jin'an stood there, deeply hurt. "You two were secretly...holding hands?!"
Lin Jin'an rushed to Ye Jiu's side, separated their hands, and then grabbed Ye Jiu's hand herself, saying, "Hold my hand, don't hold his."
"It was purely an accident, do you believe me?" Ye Jiu explained weakly. Although she was the one who initiated it, she hadn't originally intended to...
"I believe you!" Lin Jin'an nodded emphatically, then turned to Li Jingxing and said righteously, "Did you hear that? Ye Jiu said it was an accident. Don't be so narcissistic as to think she has feelings for you!"
Li Jingxing said helplessly, "I know."
"Very well, you know your place. You can sleep at my place tonight. I'll have to ask Ye Jiu to take me in."
After Lin Jin'an finished speaking, she looked at Ye Jiu pitifully, "You won't refuse, right?"
“I will refuse, why can’t I refuse?” Ye Jiu took two steps back. “I didn’t agree to that. You can sleep wherever you want, I don’t mind if you stay in a hotel.”
Lin Jin'an grinned, "You may not have any objections, but the Special Administration Bureau does. You know, my superpower is pretty crazy."
Ye Jiu fell silent, almost forgetting about this matter.
“I don’t need to sleep, so you don’t need to give up your room for me.” Li Jingxing shattered Lin Jin’an’s illusions. “Just let me stay in the living room. If you mind, I can go out for a walk all night.”
"Isn't this just... homelessness?" Ye Jiu frowned. She promised to bring him back, but she ended up letting him wander the streets. That was too much!
Lin Jin'an rarely agreed, "That's right, that's right, so you can go to my room, I can sleep in Ye Jiu's living room."
Ye Jiu grabbed Lin Jin'an's ear and said, "That's enough. If you say that again, I'll kick you out."
Lin Jin'an immediately wilted. "Fine, I won't say. I have plenty of ways to talk to you about it."
"And you're not allowed to sneak in either," Ye Jiu added.
“It’s okay, I can take the unconventional path.”
Ye Jiu: ...
Fine... she'll lock all the doors and windows tonight. Go ahead and try crawling down the sewers if you dare.
——
The result that night was that Lin Jin'an, who couldn't get into Ye Jiu's room, and Li Jingxing, who didn't want to disturb Ye Jiu, watched movies all night using Lin Jin'an's newly bought projector.
Unfortunately, Ye Jiu and his team were assigned a mission the next day, and Lin Jin'an, with his dark circles under his eyes, made their unreliability even more serious.
Li Jingxing explained for Lin Jin'an, "He didn't stay up late on purpose last night; it was because I disturbed his rest."
Ye Jiu made a "stop" gesture, "No need to defend him, I know him."
"Insomnia is very common among adults. Anyway, he's been having insomnia for more than just a day or two."
This left Li Jingxing speechless. "Oh, is that so?"
"Come on, come with us on this mission. We probably won't need your help, but it's not good to leave you alone at home." Ye Jiu strode forward, gesturing for Li Jingxing to follow her.
Lin Jin'an, who had been energized the night before, was now standing next to Ye Jiu, feeling incredibly sleepy. He rubbed his eyes and said, "I can't sleep at all without you by my side."
Ye Jiu patted his shoulder, "People have to grow up, you know. You're always clinging to me at night, and I can't enjoy the nightlife anymore."
"Oh? If you want to enjoy the nightlife, go ahead. I'll go with you."
Ye Jiu's eyes were subtle. "Perhaps I'm referring to a different kind of nightlife."
Lin Jin'an leaned her head on Ye Jiu's shoulder and said, "Why don't you just use me? I'm definitely better than the little toy."
Ye Jiu whispered, "But small toys can be used and then thrown away."
Lin Jin'an didn't hear her clearly, so she put her ear close to her mouth and asked, "Huh? What did you just say?"
"He didn't say anything, just hurry up and get it done so we can call it a day."
Lin Jin'an didn't hear it, but Li Jingxing did.
He began to think about the advantages of the toy and his own advantages, and finally nodded in satisfaction, concluding that it was a good thing he wasn't human.
...
The ghost we're dealing with this time is a bit complicated.
"He likes to hypnotize people and then eat them in his dreams." Ye Jiu read the words from the document aloud.
"The last place he was seen was in Shengli Residential Area."
Victory Community is an old, dilapidated apartment in the suburbs. At the beginning of the year, I heard rumors that it was going to be demolished, but for some reason, nothing has happened yet.
Strange things started happening frequently afterward. People would die in their sleep at night. If it was an elderly person, one could say they had reached the end of their lifespan, but it was always young people who died. The autopsies showed no problems, and the cause of death could not be found at all. They died inexplicably.
After getting a general idea of the situation, Ye Jiu walked into the community. The buildings in the community were only six stories high, and the exterior walls were covered with large patches of peeling paint. Moreover, the buildings in the community were very close together in the early years, and the thick trees blocked out a lot of sunlight, making the community feel gloomy as soon as you entered.
Ye Jiu took out an instrument to test the fluctuations of ghosts' abilities. The pointer on the dial was spinning wildly, indicating that this neighborhood was the ghost's stronghold, and its presence could be felt everywhere.
Ye Jiu had no clue how to find it. She sat on a bench by the roadside and asked, "Do you think we can fish this out with blood?"
"I don't know, but how about we give it a try?" Lin Jin'an rolled up her sleeves and took out a small knife. "Anyway, Li Jingxing can help me recover, so it won't have any impact if it doesn't work."
Ye Jiu looked at the faded marks on Lin Jin'an's arm and thought it made sense; with Li Jingxing around, there was no loss in using blood anymore.
Lin Jin'an's blood slid down his wrist. Li Jingxing sniffed. "It smells so sweet. Strange, why does your blood smell like this?"
"But it smells like normal blood. Does it smell strange to you?"
Li Jingxing shook his head. "It's not strange. On the contrary, it's very attractive to me. This is probably why his blood attracts ghosts and monsters."
Unfortunately, even after Lin Jin'an's blood dripped for a long time, there was no sign of the ghosts showing up.
Lin Jin'an wiped the blood off his arm with regret. "Looks like it's no use. I'll have to think of something else."
After Li Jingxing helped Lin Jin'an heal her wounds, he closed his eyes to sense the energy fluctuations here. "Perhaps I can be of help to you."
Ye Jiu leaned back on the bench. "Ah? You found it?"
Li Jingxing nodded, "It should be considered found."
Lin Jin'an: "If you find it, you find it; if you don't find it, you don't find it. Why add 'should'? Are you just putting on a brave face?"
Ye Jiu covered Lin Jin'an's mouth, "Don't talk. Li Jingxing, you try to find it, then we'll surround it, close the door, and release Lin Jin'an."
Lin Jin'an couldn't break free from Ye Jiu's hand and mumbled, "Why do you make me sound like a dog?"
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