"Perhaps it doesn't have to be so complicated." Li Jingxing closed his eyes and softly commanded, "Come out."
Lin Jin'an scoffed, "Come out? What are you talking about? Do you think this ghost will listen to you?"
Then, a white figure rushed hurriedly to Li Jingxing's side; the ghost had actually appeared...
The ghost smiled obsequiously, "My lord, what are your orders?"
Lin Jin'an covered up his embarrassment with a cough. Oh no, this ghost really listens to him.
Li Jingxing ignored Lin Jin'an and looked at Ye Jiu, "What's next?"
"Hmm." Ye Jiu rubbed her nose. Things had gone too smoothly, and she didn't know what to do next. "Then, did you kill the people who died in this neighborhood?"
The ghost knelt down with a thud, "I'm innocent, sir! I just happened to be passing by, I'm really not a native of this place."
Ye Jiu looked at Li Jingxing and asked, "What's going on?"
Li Jingxing asked it, "Do you know if there are any other ghosts or monsters in this neighborhood?"
The ghost shook its head frantically, "I don't know, I just happened to be passing by."
Ye Jiu: "Have you ever hurt anyone?"
"No, no, I'm honest and law-abiding, just living a life of leisure."
Ye Jiu and Lin Jin'an exchanged a glance; indeed, it didn't seem like it was carrying the weight of human lives.
"Then let it go."
The ghost's eyes lit up. "Can I go now?"
Ye Jiu nodded coldly.
It was afraid that Ye Jiu would change his mind, so it scrambled away and disappeared in no time.
Things have come full circle.
Li Jingxing carefully sensed, "I can feel that there is an even bigger ghost in this community, but I can't find its exact location. It's like something is blocking my senses."
"Is that so? Then tell me a general direction, and we'll go there and look for it slowly."
"The southeast corner appears to be a basement."
"Let's go, hopefully we can find it smoothly."
...
After a careful search, the group finally found the basement.
"It's so dark." Lin Jin'an was glad that she had the foresight to turn on her phone's flashlight early.
The light illuminated the path ahead. This basement had probably been abandoned long ago, and the air was filled with the smell of damp mold.
Lin Jin'an moved her phone to the walls on either side. "Strange, why is this road so long? Who still uses this kind of secret passage design in their basement these days..."
Li Jingxing appeared silently behind him. "If anyone still uses it, this ghost wouldn't be hiding here."
"It looks like an antique from decades ago." Ye Jiu tapped the wall with her knuckles. The sound was muffled, but thankfully the wall wasn't hollow.
After walking for about three minutes, the two people and the ghost finally saw a wooden door.
Ye Jiu laughed out loud, "It feels like the kind of plot where you find a treasure in a novel, or the place where the protagonist obtains a mysterious inheritance."
“But what’s behind that door is probably not good,” Li Jingxing chuckled and shook his head. “However, I can give you something good.”
Lin Jin'an interrupted Li Jingxing, "This wooden door looks rather old."
Ye Jiu's attention was immediately drawn back. "Indeed, you all step back, I'm going to kick the door down."
Lin Jin'an stopped Ye Jiu, "No, let me try first, and we'll see if it opens." As she spoke, she took out a wire from somewhere and began to pry open the door.
Li Jingxing looked down at his feet, "I can just slip them on..."
Ye Jiu leaned closer to watch Lin Jin'an pick the lock, and upon hearing Li Jingxing's words, casually remarked, "Do you think we'd let you go in and get the key for us? What if that ghost is inside? That would be troublesome."
Lin Jin'an gritted her teeth and pried hard, taking a moment to reply, "It's okay, you don't need to help, I can handle it."
With a click, the lock opened, and Ye Jiu carefully pushed the door open, trying not to make too much noise.
The room grew even darker, so Ye Jiu used her phone to illuminate it, and then discovered...
A ghost was standing right in front of her!
With a "bang," the basement light switched on, illuminating the ghost's face in a dim yellow glow.
It has a relatively complete human shape, with eyes that bulge out like a frog's, as if they're about to burst out.
Those eyes slowly moved. "You...came here to see me?"
It grinned, "A delicious meal delivered to your door."
Ye Jiu silently took two steps back; this close-up attack almost scared her out of her wits.
Ye Jiu applied her superpower to the ghost, rendering all the fancy tricks ineffective. Then, she watched as the ghost's body grew larger and larger after the superpower failed, almost filling the entire room.
A massive body and a distorted face—thanks, the Happy Valley effect.
Ye Jiu couldn't help but gag, "yue"
“I should get some compensation for emotional distress every month for doing this job.” She sighed and rubbed her forehead. “I’ll go ask Ming Youyi for it when I get back.” After saying that, she took a picture of the ghost with her phone. “No, I can’t be the only one who’s disgusted.”
Ye Jiu's comment made the scene feel less scary.
Lin Jin'an took off his gloves. "It'll be resolved soon. Why don't you postpone it a bit longer? That way we can leave earlier."
Ye Jiu covered her nose, "Let's finish this quickly."
Li Jingxing showed no intention of helping, and Lin Jin'an was more than happy that Li Jingxing wouldn't come forward.
Relieved that Li Jingxing wasn't going to intervene, the ghost raised his hand to crush the "little bugs" in front of him.
The basement was too cluttered by its body, making it difficult for Lin Jin'an to hide. So he simply jumped up and climbed up, stepping on the monster's body. Before his hand even touched its body, it would instantly break open and create a hole.
Perhaps because its body was too large, the decomposition speed was not as fast as Lin Jin'an had in the past, but it didn't matter, the decomposition would not stop.
Lin Jin'an felt it was about time, so he retreated to Ye Jiu's side and watched it slowly die out.
This was the first time Li Jingxing had witnessed Lin Jin'an's ability. After the ghosts were completely disintegrated, he whispered, "Your ability is disintegration?"
“Yes, whoever I touch dies. But…” Lin Jin’an’s tone changed as she hugged Ye Jiu beside her, “Ye Jiu is my only exception.”
Li Jingxing reached out and touched the chair next to him. The chair instantly turned to dust and disappeared on the spot. "Like this?"
Ye Jiu was stunned. "This is your ability? Copying?"
Li Jingxing looked down at his hands, his face filled with confusion. "I don't know, it's just that my memory tells me I can do it, and I can do it."
Lin Jin'an's expression was as if she had swallowed a fly; she couldn't quite describe the feeling, but it was just nauseating.
Lin Jin'an put her gloves back on, and even took out her spare gloves from her pocket and threw them to Li Jingxing, saying, "You can wear these too."
Ye Jiu was extremely curious about this. "My ability is nullification. Will it work on you? In the end, will you copy my ability, or will I nullify your ability first?"
Li Jingxing threw the gloves Lin Jin'an had given him back. "Thank you, but I can freely control the use of this ability."
Lin Jin'an: ...
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