Ye Jiu arrived at the South City Diocese and met up with Ming Youyi. Ming Youyi skillfully took out the basic information she had prepared and read it to Ye Jiu.
After explaining the whole situation, Ming Youyi sighed, "I clearly asked you guys to come as outside helpers, but this situation seems more like I'm the one playing support for you..."
Ye Jiu chuckled, "It's great that you're our support. You don't have to do anything then."
Lin Jin'an rested his chin on Ye Jiu's shoulder. "If we can't solve this, then the problem will be huge." He glanced at Li Jingxing, who was wandering behind Ye Jiu, and added, "Oh, now there's Li Jingxing too. If we can't solve this, then we're doomed. We can start looking after our own graves."
"Alright, stop talking." Ming Youyi interrupted him, sweating profusely from listening. She hoped they could resolve the issue smoothly, as cemetery plot prices had been driven up so high that she couldn't afford one now.
"Shall we go in?" Ye Jiu walked towards the entrance to the basement.
"Without the slightest hesitation? I have a feeling there's something huge inside, and some parts of it are pretty disgusting."
"What are you hesitating for? If you can solve it, then solve it. If you can't, then die sooner so I can be reincarnated quickly," Ye Jiu said as she pushed open the door and looked around the passageway.
Lin Jin'an nodded in agreement, "I hope that if we die together, we can be reincarnated together."
Li Jingxing scoffed, "Don't let him be a brother or sister."
These words left Lin Jin'an speechless. After a long while, she didn't know how to retort. She walked angrily to Ye Jiu's side and said, "Let's go quickly and ignore Li Jingxing."
Ye Jiu chuckled and ruffled Lin Jin'an's hair, "You childish brat!"
"The thought of having to spend time with him makes me feel like ants are crawling all over me." Lin Jin'an almost ground her teeth to powder.
Ye Jiu replied dismissively, "Stop fooling around, let's go, Li Jingxing, you come along too."
Upon entering the basement, they quickly came to the "disgusting place" that Ming Youyi had described. The stench of corpses mixed with the smell of formaldehyde was so nauseating that it almost killed Ye Jiu.
Ye Jiu covered her mouth and nose, "I almost died. Ming Youyi only said it was disgusting, but she didn't mention the smell was disgusting too. I should have brought a gas mask..."
Li Jingxing was in a soul state and not sensitive to smells. Seeing Ye Jiu like this, he also wanted to experience what it smelled like. So he solidified his body, his sense of smell returned, and the overwhelming stench made him subconsciously cover his mouth and nose.
"It really is... disgusting..."
It felt like all my energy was being drained away by this smell...
Enduring the stench, Ye Jiu began searching for useful information in the laboratory. Among the organs preserved in formaldehyde were numbers, and Ye Jiu also found a tattered experimental notebook.
She opened the old and fragile notebook, squatted down and carefully turned the pages. Lin Jin'an and Li Jingxing also came over and looked at the notebook with Ye Jiu, head to head.
The experimental records in the notebook were very rough and the handwriting was messy. The last experiment was two years ago.
After reading through the entire experimental record, Ye Jiu roughly gleaned some useful information.
"This person's experiments seem to be aimed at creating something; he's constantly testing the limits of the human body..."
Lin Jinan added, "It seems they want to free humanity from the constraints of the physical body?"
"And it seems to be related to ghosts and monsters..."
Li Jingxing didn't speak. Ye Jiu looked up at him, and he smiled at her, "What's wrong?"
Although it's not a good idea to make such a connection, isn't Li Jingxing an example of a human being freeing himself from the constraints of the physical body?
He used to be a living, breathing person, but now he's become something neither human nor ghost.
Ye Jiu asked him softly, "Did you notice anything?"
"It feels like he's planning to destroy the world."
Lin Jin'an: ...
"Uh, how did you figure that out?" Lin Jin'an looked down and flipped through the notebook. "How could we figure it out? If you haven't found any useful information, don't just spout nonsense and influence our judgment."
Li Jingxing kicked at the bones on the ground. "He captured so many people for experiments. Wasn't that to exterminate humanity?"
"...I didn't realize that you didn't see the purpose of exterminating humanity, but instead you realized that you're not quite right in the head."
Lin Jin'an was sharp-tongued, but Li Jingxing, instead of getting angry, patiently flipped through the notebook. "On October 21st, he wrote, 'The experiment failed again; humanity might as well all die.'"
Ye Jiu carefully examined the sentence. "Although it's written like that, don't you think it's just a rant from someone who's had a breakdown while doing experiments?"
"Oh, I see. Actually, I didn't see anything." Li Jingxing blinked. Once he got close to Ye Jiu, his mind couldn't hold anything else. This notebook was insignificant; he had only glanced at it casually.
"Haha," Lin Jin'an laughed twice without any emotion, "You really don't seem to be very smart."
Ye Jiu patted Lin Jin'an's hand, "That's enough, let's look for any other useful information."
Li Jingxing suggested, "Let's split up; that will be more efficient."
Ye Jiu looked around. The laboratory wasn't very big, so if something happened, others could rush over immediately to check the situation. "Then let's split up and search. Call someone if anything happens."
The three parted ways. Perhaps because she had been there for too long, Ye Jiu strangely felt that the nauseating smell she had previously experienced had faded considerably, and she even smelled a faint fragrance.
Wait, a fragrance? What fragrance?! How could it possibly have a fragrance?!
Ye Jiu's head began to spin, and she eventually lost her balance and collapsed to the ground. Before her eyes closed, her only thought was: This ghost has no sportsmanship! Why did he use a sleeping potion? Let's fight one-on-one if you dare…
...
It felt like a long time had passed, yet it also felt like only a moment. Ye Jiu opened her eyes and met Lin Jin'an's gaze.
Seeing Ye Jiu open her eyes, Lin Jin'an breathed a sigh of relief, "You're finally awake! You scared me to death. I was about to call 120."
Ye Jiu stood up and looked around. She was by the roadside, and all kinds of cars passed by her, creating a gust of wind that lifted her skirt.
Hmm? The hem of the skirt?
Ye Jiu looked down; she was wearing a white floral dress, a very fresh and simple style.
She's certain she doesn't own a dress like that in her wardrobe!
So... is this a dream? Or an illusion?
Was it her dream?
Lin Jin'an hugged her with concern, "You suddenly fainted while you were walking, it scared me to death! How are you feeling now? Does anything hurt?"
After he finished speaking, he began to check Ye Jiu's body for any wounds or similar injuries.
Ye Jiu waved her hand, "It's nothing, just low blood sugar. I'm much better now."
Lin Jin'an took out a piece of chocolate from her pocket. "Then you should eat some quickly. Luckily, I had some chocolate in my pocket today."
Ye Jiu took the package, opened it, and put one half in her own mouth. Then she put the other half in Lin Jin'an's mouth. "It tastes good. You should try it too."
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