Chapter 025 Shadow of the Movie King (25)
It was quite a coincidence that a Taoist priest had gone down the mountain these days and happened to be in this city. After answering the phone, he said he would come over later.
Ah Ying didn't quite understand the whole story, he only heard that Jiang Lin made a date with Tao Xing alone.
It said nothing, just stroked its chest, lowered its eyes slightly, walked to the sofa and sat quietly.
It's out of instinct, it can't help itself, but... after all, it's not human.
I couldn't even kiss him.
What else can it do?
Tao Xing was a little confused. Aying seemed to be acting strangely lately, as if she was worried about something.
Tao's father knew it very well. Just at this time, Taoist Priest Ru called and said it. The two of them went out to pick him up. When they went downstairs, Tao's father said, "Have you ever thought that Little Shadow likes you very much?"
"I know, I like it too." Tao Xing said, otherwise why would he stay here, the mission has been completed.
"I mean, it's like us humans falling in love."
Tao Xing paused.
"Hi." A long voice interrupted his thoughts.
He came back to his senses and raised his eyes: "Master, you are here so fast."
"We happened to be close. What happened?"
The two led the master upstairs and told him their guess about Jiang Lin. When the Taoist heard this, he was furious: "I will go with you. I must deal with this Xuanmen scum."
"Okay." Tao Xing said, "Dad, stay home with Aying for a while, don't go."
"Well, contact me if you have anything."
Tao Xing nodded, looked at Ah Ying, and suddenly didn't know what to say. After a while, he just said, "I'll go first."
Ah Ying tilted his head, took a step forward, and then stopped.
Tao Xing has turned around and walked out.
The meeting place was at an unfinished villa on the outskirts of the city, which was Jiang Lin's property. Previously, an employee in the studio introduced a relative to contract the renovation, but halfway through the renovation, the relative committed a crime and was arrested, and the employee resigned, so the progress came to a halt. Jiang Lin had many houses and had forgotten about this place, and no one had come to clean it up for more than a year.
Today I wanted to find a remote and private place, and suddenly I remembered that there was such a villa.
The courtyard at the entrance and the hall on the first floor are all decorated with gold and splendor, and are fully furnished. They have been cleaned in advance, and just looking at this place, you can see the luxury and wealth.
Walking past the hall, there is a yard at the back. It was originally well-maintained, with stone paved roads, flower beds, and fine pebbles beside the pool. However, no one has taken care of it for more than a year, and it has long been overgrown with weeds.
It's raining today. Looking through the glass in the hall, I can see the dark and damp courtyard, and the weeds and trees of varying heights, casting mottled shadows on the wall.
Tao Xing and Taoist Ruyi walked into the hall, and the two people inside also stood up.
There were only four people standing in the huge hall, making it seem extremely empty.
Although they had just met two days ago, Yu Jianglin had gone through a lot of emotional experiences and his opinion of Tao Xing had changed again and again. His hidden feelings had become deeper and deeper in the ups and downs. His self-esteem did not allow him to say that he liked her, but when he saw this person, his eyes still turned red and he did not speak for a while.
When Taoist Ru Yi and Taoist Cheng Shuang met, their faces changed slightly and they took a breath of cold air.
Seeing this, Tao Xing tilted her head and asked quietly, "Do you know him?"
"They are all well-known figures in the Xuanmen, so of course I know them. Alas, I should have thought that he did it earlier." A Taoist said in a low voice.
"He sounds very capable. Who of you two is better?"
"I'm not exaggerating, we two are the best among the Xuanmen."
"Who's one and who's two?"
"You can tell who I am just by listening to my name," the master said confidently.
"So you can beat him, right?"
"This... can be defeated." The people around him began to hesitate.
Tao Xing: “…”
Why does it look unreliable?
He walked forward and said to Jiang Lin, "I wonder what Teacher Jiang wants me to do?"
Jiang Lin took a deep breath and concealed his feelings: "I came to ask you for something." Then he grabbed Tao Xing's arm.
This action came so suddenly that the Taoist Chengshuang beside him had no time to say anything and could only secretly pull him a few times.
Jiang Lin glared back and said: Why are you pulling me? Why don’t you act quickly?
Cheng Shuang didn't move and coughed a few more times.
Hearing a sneer in his ear, Tao Xing glanced at Jiang Lin's hand and asked, "Teacher Jiang, what do you mean by this?"
Jiang Lin came back to his senses: "Let's not beat around the bush. The shadow in your sleeve belongs to me. We want to take it back. Master, why don't you do it now!"
The master was silent.
Jiang Lin frowned, looking puzzled.
Chengshuang whispered, "Shadow didn't come."
"What?" Jiang Lin was shocked.
If it doesn't come, then all this plan tonight would be in vain, right?
Not only was his plan in vain, he also made a fool of himself.
His face flushed for a while, and he calmed down for a while before saying to Tao Xing: "You don't have to play dumb. You know why I came to you, and I deliberately didn't bring it with me. Then why did you come here yourself? To cover up and give it a chance to escape?"
Why is he so nice to a shadow!
Tao Xing shook his hand away and said with a faint smile: "I don't understand what you are talking about at all."
At the side, Cheng Shuang Daoist saw that the other party also brought people from the same sect with them, and he knew that they were not simple. He hurriedly pulled Jiang Lin over and said to himself, "It's impossible to take it back, so forget it."
Then, he looked up at Tao Xing and the others and said, "Since you have taken it away, I will not care about it anymore. Just don't let it cause trouble. You can go now."
As soon as these words came out, Ru Yidao sneered and said, "I don't care about it anymore. You are so clean. Performing such evil magic is not tolerated by Xuanmen. Today, I want to teach you a lesson on behalf of all the people in Xuanmen."
The Taoist priest was stunned: "I didn't provoke you, just go your own way and mind your own business."
"I will take care of this trivial matter. Keeping you in Xuanmen is a disaster. I will definitely cripple your hands today so that you will never be able to lift any magic weapon again." Ruyi said and walked forward.
Chengshuang took a few steps back and stood at the corner of the table: "Okay, if you want to pick a fight, I'll keep you company."
Suddenly, wind blew in from outside the door, and the two Taoists performed magic to fight each other. For a while, bells rang loudly, and the chandeliers jingled in the impact of the strong airflow. The light and shadow in the room swayed, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.
These air currents do not affect ordinary people. Tao Xing stood behind Ruyi. When he swept his whisk, a visible white air current surged forward. The other party dodged and pulled out a gray embroidered cloth bag from under the table. When he tied the bag, the air current was sucked in.
Ruyi's face changed, and he swept the airflow again. The opponent was quick-witted and pulled out an eight-diagram mirror from under the table. He shone it at him, and the airflow rebounded. Ruyi was hit by his own attack and staggered. He was not willing to be outdone, and sent out several airflows in succession. The opponent took out banners, talismans, and tripods from under the table one by one...
Rudao was hit again and staggered back.
Tao Xing caught him from behind: "Didn't you say you could beat him?"
"How would I know that he has prepared so many magical weapons, and all of them are top-grade!" Ruyi said angrily, "Don't stop me, I must fight him to the death today." He rushed forward again, waving another stream of air, and the other side continued to light magical weapons to block. In the flickering light and the vortex of air flow, the two men fought fiercely.
Tao Xing folded his arms and walked around their formation twice.
Then, he walked to the center of the formation, raised his foot and kicked Taoist Cheng Shuang.
Cheng Shuang was suddenly kicked down, his breath instantly dissipated, and he was hit by Ruyi's airflow in one fell swoop, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood.
He could no longer resist and quickly raised his hands to beg for mercy.
Ruyi looked at Tao Xing and opened her mouth wide: "It's possible to do this."
Since he was begging for mercy, he put away the magic circle and walked forward: "Then you can cripple your hands."
"Okay, okay." Cheng Shuang fell to the ground, clenched his hands, rolled his eyes, and suddenly pulled out a red iron sword from under the table, turned around and stabbed him.
The sword tip brought a gust of wind, like a shrinking pupil. Before he could react, he saw the hand holding the sword being stepped on by someone. The person on the ground screamed in pain. He looked at Tao Xing in surprise, and saw that he stepped on the tiptoes, and the person on the ground screamed again.
The sword had already flown out and landed in the distance with a "ding dong" sound.
Cheng Shuang Daoist no longer dared to use his dirty tricks: "I really don't dare anymore, please forgive me."
Tao Xing's phone rang. It was his father calling. He kicked the person under his feet forward and answered the phone.
They asked him if he was in danger.
"It's not dangerous, it's done." he replied.
"So when will you come back? What did they say? How are you guys..."
Mr. Tao kept talking, and Tao Xing answered him one by one.
During this interval, Ruyi had picked up Chengshuang and was ready to take him back to the Xuanmen League, which was the headquarters where all the Xuanmen members discussed and made decisions.
Jiang Lin was just startled by the fight, and when he saw them about to leave, he came to his senses in shock and stepped forward to stop them: "Don't leave."
Cheng Shuang raised his eyes in dismay, smiled bitterly and said, "My magic weapon is useless, I have failed, I am going to suffer, I think you should just forget it, just let it go, it has already separated from you, it has nothing to do with you, why do you have to interfere?"
Jiang Lin's red eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty, and he said sternly: "Who said we lost?" He clapped his hands, "No one can leave today."
After the applause, dozens of people suddenly rushed in from outside the door. They were all tall and strong, and they were obviously trained thugs.
Cheng Shuang exclaimed: "So you called so many people?"
Tao Xing was still on the phone. She turned around and looked at the scene: "I have something to do. Let's talk later."
When he hung up the phone, Jiang Lin was glancing at Cheng Shuang Taoist and replied, "Who told you to be useless?" Then, he moved his gaze to Tao Xing, "Call my shadow over and leave it to me. I will let you go, otherwise, you won't be able to leave today."
"So what if I call him over?" Tao Xing smiled contemptuously and glanced at Cheng Shuang. "Does he dare to accept it? Does he have the ability to accept it?"
Cheng Shuang lowered his head quickly. Yes, he had been subdued and his magic weapon was destroyed. How could he have the ability to capture that evil object?
Jiang Lin forgot about this. His expression changed slightly. After a short silence, he stiffened his neck and said, "I don't care. Anyway, it's my shadow. I won't allow it to be around you. You have to give it to me!"
Tao Xing raised her eyebrows: "I definitely won't hand it over, and I'm definitely going to leave."
"You... aren't you afraid of people like me?"
Tao Xing slowly raised his eyes: "You can just... let them come together."
In the inner-city community, inside the house, Tao's father, who had just hung up the phone, was shocked and broke into a cold sweat: "Oh no, oh no, it seems like a lot of people have been called over there, I have to go check it out." He immediately made arrangements and summoned more than a hundred bodyguards and security personnel from the group. When they were ready to leave, Ah Ying walked to the door: "I'm worried, I want to go too."
"They are coming for you, you can't go." Father Tao refused, but when he saw the black group in front of him lowered his eyes, he sighed and thought for a while, "But I just heard that Taoist priest say that his magic weapon is no longer usable, so it's probably okay. The main thing now is that my son is surrounded. Okay, okay, let's go together, maybe you can scare them."
Aying's body moved and shrank into a small ball. After staying on Tao's father's wrist for a while, he continued to move up and crawled into his coat pocket.
"Hey, you're still picking the place, what's wrong with my wrist?" Father Tao held Aying in his arms and led everyone forward.
The weather is not good and the rain is getting heavier.
A group of people broke into the abandoned villa in the rain.
As soon as he entered the door, Tao's father was dumbfounded.
A group of thugs were lying on the ground, screaming in pain, unable to stand up.
Before he could react, he heard a "bang". He looked in the direction of the sound and saw two thugs rushing in from the backyard, smashing the glass and sending the shards covering them.
Tao Xing looked over from the courtyard and smiled: "Why are you here?"
"I'm worried about you. I'm here to help you." Father Tao stepped forward quickly. "Are you okay?"
"It's okay. If you need help, just throw these people out." Tao Xing raised his eyes and saw movement on the second floor.
"Okay." Father Tao ordered the people to pull out the scattered people on the ground one by one.
Over there, Ruyi grabbed Chengshuang and said, "Let's go too."
A slanting wind blew, and rain came into the corridor. Tao Xing raised his hand to block it.
A dark shadow crawled out from the hall, covering his eyes, and then moved away in an instant. A cold feeling appeared above his head, but the raindrops never fell on him again.
Tao Xing couldn't help but look up.
On one side was a bright and messy hall, and on the other side was a dark and damp backyard. He stood at the intersection of light and darkness, with a sticky and cold black mass, straightening its body and standing above his head, like a small umbrella, blocking the rain outside the corridor.
Tao Xing was slightly startled: "Aying, you are here too?"
"Well, don't get wet in the rain." A clear voice sounded above my head.
Tao Xing was lost in thought for a moment, inexplicably recalling what his father had said.
Have you ever thought that the little shadow likes you very much, like the kind of love that humans have for each other?
It came, and before he had time to say hello, it saw that he was getting wet in the rain, so it used itself to block it without thinking.
A creaking sound interrupted Tao Xing's thoughts. He frowned and pulled Ah Ying, "It's dangerous. Come down."
With a little force, he pulled the shadows behind him: "Don't move here." He instructed, leaped up, pulled the two men down, and kicked them with his back foot. With a bang, the two men were kicked into the hall and staggered to their feet.
"You're pretty tough." Tao Xing chased him into the hall and kicked him a few more times.
The noise caused the people at the door to turn around inadvertently. The Taoist priest Cheng Shuang just took a glance and suddenly was startled: "It's coming, it's coming!"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Ruyi pushed him out of the door.
Jiang Lin, who was huddled against the wall, heard this and suddenly looked down the corridor.
The broken glass on the ground reflected tiny rays of light, and the raindrops as big as beans knocked down the barren leaves. The black shadow was still flat, lying under the corridor. It was vague and unclear at first, but it could not withstand the unblinking gaze of humans, and finally it was seen.
It was completely black, without even any facial features.
That's what it is!
Something that should have been trampled under his feet was loved by that person.
Jiang Lin's horror was completely suppressed by anger and humiliation. He didn't care that all his people were defeated by Tao Xing, didn't care that he was a star that everyone was paying attention to, didn't care about his situation, he didn't care about anything.
In the corner of his sight, he saw a red iron sword that was kicked down. It was Chengshuang's magic weapon.
Magical weapons can definitely deal with evil things!
His eyes were red, his hands were clenched, and a hint of ferocity flashed across his face. He didn't even know what he wanted now, what his purpose was, and what the consequences would be. He only knew that his blood was boiling and he was filled with grief and anger.
He suddenly picked up the sword and rushed forward.
At this moment, Tao Xing had just thrown the two men out and was still at the door.
Mr. Tao was the only one left in the room. The sudden change made him unable to react and he could only scream.
Tao Xing turned around suddenly, his pupils suddenly shrank, and without time to run back, he kicked the stool next to him.
The stool flew forward and landed squarely on Jiang Lin's back.
Jiang Lin was hit unexpectedly and fell forward. The iron sword fell again with a clang in the distance, and he lay prone at the junction of the corridor and the hall which was full of broken glass. When he raised his eyes, the black shadow was very close to him.
When he ran over, Aying had recovered from being flat to three-dimensional, with bright red eyes and a long "skirt" with feet so long that they could not be seen.
It has been standing here because Tao Xing told it not to move.
Jiang Lin fell beside its "skirt" and raised her head with difficulty. Her eyes were bloodshot and extremely red.
He stretched his hand forward angrily, not knowing what to do.
He reached out and touched Ah Ying, and was startled by the cold touch.
The red eyes on the black shadow suddenly shrank and looked down.
There was a heavy storm, thunder rumbled, the chandelier in the hall creaked, the shadows of the trees in the yard shook violently, and the black shadow with scarlet eyes grew larger at a lightning speed, covering Jiang Lin's head and instantly blocking out the light coming into the hall.
Tao Xing took a step forward and rushed forward.
However, amidst the thunder, human screams were heard.
Unlike the scene of being swallowed, the person lying on the ground, his flesh, bones, and textures were struggling to leave, like a painting floating in the air, flowing clouds, rushing from the human body towards the black shadow.
Screams echoed in the night rain, and colorful clouds made of flesh and blood continued to pour into the dark shadows.
Tao Xing saw that the body on the ground had lost its red blood, its white bones, and all colors, leaving only a piece of black, a piece of black without any thickness, just a flat surface.
It looked exactly like the shadow I had seen when I first saw it, a shadow crawling on the ground, without eyes, nose, hands or feet...
What I saw at that time was that Aying was a shadow and Jiang Lin was a person.
Now, the situation is reversed.
Jiang Lin's screams have not stopped yet. I don't know if he is dead or not. Maybe his body is dead but he is still conscious.
As for Ah Ying, it retracted the huge black shadow behind it and returned to a standing posture. Without the dark "skirt" that dragged on the ground, it was standing on its two feet.
It has color.
White bones, red blood, human body.
It also has human hands and feet, eyes, nose...it is a person exactly like Jiang Lin.
But it is definitely not Jiang Lin.
It stood at the intersection of light and darkness, the colorful clouds disappeared, and at this time there was a black shadow at its hand, which was transformed by Jiang Lin whose flesh and blood was sucked.
Screams continued to be heard in the darkness. Ah Ying, who had just acquired human arms, pushed the shadow forward. Amid the roar of thunder, the darkness mixed with screams suddenly smashed into the wall in the yard.
The overgrown weeds were knocked down by the rain, and layers of wet leaves were scattered in the corners of the wall. No loud bang of anything hitting the wall was heard. The black shadow was pushed against the wall, as if it had invaded it and merged with the wall.
The screams gradually disappeared, leaving only a little groan. On the mottled and paint-chipped wall, there appeared a black mark, like a trace of flowing water.
The courtyard was pitch black, but if one looked carefully through the light in the hall, one could see that the black water stain looked like a human figure.
A human figure with bared fangs and claws tried to escape, but no matter how hard he struggled, he could not break through the wall.
The movie star who has been popular for seven years was trapped in this abandoned wall.
The groaning sound finally disappeared, leaving only the sound of rain. The body that had just taken human form turned around and looked into the hall from the corridor.
There was rain and wind in the yard, and a dark shadow was visible in the corridor. It was eager to turn around, and saw a clear face of a person under the lamp in the bright hall.
It was no longer a black and white shadow, it could clearly see the person's appearance.
It was shocked.
It had just absorbed flesh and blood and had just transformed. Its breath was still unstable and it was gasping for breath. The rain hitting its body was still cold, but it was unaware of it.
Finally, finally, it saw his face clearly, the first human face it had ever seen clearly, the face of its beloved.
This is enough to make it willingly fall into the abyss and never recover.
It didn't know what humans looked like and had no concept of beauty or ugliness, but after just one look, it was sure that this would be the most beautiful face it had ever seen in the human world.
The chandelier in the hall was decorated in an elegant and luxurious style, with layers of crystal pendants hanging down, reflecting bright and colorful light. These beautiful halos all enveloped him, making his face look dazzling.
It stared at it closely, unwilling to move away.
The person being stared at was walking towards it, and until he was in front of it, the shadow that had just transformed into a human form came to its senses and suddenly became uneasy.
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