Chapter 144
It rained heavily all night and stopped at around eight or nine o'clock. The sun emerged from the clouds and shone on the earth. Le Ziyou returned to his residence with his clothes dripping with water.
After searching all night and being drenched all night, his face looked pale, but he still found nothing.
I didn't even see a ghost.
Le Ziyou sat down on the chair with his head drooped. The scene before Chen Zui left kept appearing in his mind. He remembered the hand that fell on his head and the last words Chen Zui said.
Gentleness made his actions seem shameless and excessive.
Le Ziyou covered his face with his hands in annoyance, water dripping down his hair. After a while, he stood up, ran out the door again, and took a taxi straight to the mall where he met the man.
He wandered around the mall like a headless fly, regretting not leaving his contact information with the other party. A day passed, and Le Ziyou squatted at the door of the mall like a beggar.
My stomach growled.
Le Ziyou was very confused. Before he really hurt Chen Zui, he really hoped that Chen Zui would disappear and that he could get rid of his entanglement. There was a ghost always staring at him and could hurt him. He was really scared when he thought about it.
Nothing can happen to him, he has to make money, only when he is alive can his grandma be alive.
But after hurting Chen Zui and Chen Zui leaving like that, he began to recall his interactions with Chen Zui over and over again. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that although Chen Zui always scared him and said cruel words like "If you don't love me, you can die", he seemed to have only spanked him a few times, and this behavior was more humiliating and flirtatious.
It's just that he was always in fear of ghosts around him, and the only thing in his mind was to escape. He never thought about these things carefully. He only remembered that he was always caught and beaten.
Le Ziyou stood up with his legs numb from squatting and left the mall with nothing.
He opened the door, looked around, and asked tentatively: "Chen Zui? Are you back?"
The room was very hot, silently telling him that Chen Zui was not there.
For five consecutive days, Leziyu would run to the mall during the day to see if she could run into the man again, and then come back at night to continue looking for him nearby.
When Mi Jin came to his house to look for him, she was shocked: "Damn! Did that ghost suck your energy away that night?"
He sighed at Le Ziyou, whose cheeks were sunken, dark circles under his eyes were about to fall to the ground, and who looked like a homeless person.
Le Ziyou was in no mood to joke around with him. He was almost suffocating. He didn't know what happened to Chen Zui after he left that night. He didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
He knows nothing.
If Chen Zui had completely vanished because of the Heavenly Thunder Pestle, was he really so guilty that he deserved death? He laughed at himself. Perhaps the more heinous crime was that he, the swindler, hadn't received any punishment, so why should Chen Zui die?
"Are you sick?" Mi Jin touched Le Ziyou's forehead, which was a little hot.
Le Ziyou pushed his hand away and said weakly: "I'm fine."
Mi Jin looked at him and he didn't seem to be alright, so she thought to herself, "Did you have a broken heart?"
Le Ziyou raised his eyes and looked at him. Mi Jin shrugged his shoulders and said, "Since you're fine, tell me what happened that night. Was there really a ghost? How did you solve it?"
"Tell me, among the houses we visited in the past, is it possible that some of them were really haunted?"
Le Ziyou remained silent.
Mi Jin looked at him seriously: "Do you think we've suffered retribution?"
Le Ziyou pondered, was Chen Zui his karma? But judging by the current results, it seemed as if he was Chen Zui's karma.
He has been a fake Taoist priest for so many years, and the first ghost he might actually kill is Chen Zui.
My heart feels so bad.
"Fun? You...you..." Mi Jin said in disbelief, "Are you scared and crying?"
Le Ziyou looked at him in confusion, and reacted a little slowly by raising his hand to touch his face, where he felt something wet.
Mi Jin thought he was weird. It was the first time she saw Le Ziyou cry. "What's wrong with you?"
Le Ziyou looked at his tear-stained hands and murmured to himself, "My heart aches."
Mi Jin: "Heart disease?"
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The next day, Le Ziyou dressed up, bought some fruits and went to the hospital to visit his grandmother. When he arrived at the inpatient department, an elevator was about to close. He ran two steps anxiously, but still couldn't catch up. He looked into the elevator door that was almost closing, and his pupils suddenly dilated.
At the innermost part of the elevator was the man who gave him the Heavenly Thunder Pestle!
Le Ziyou pressed the elevator button twice, but still couldn't stop the elevator from going up. He ran into the corridor in a hurry. This elevator only stopped at odd-numbered floors, so Le Ziyou went straight to the third floor. Since he hadn't rested or eaten well these days, he felt a little dizzy from running.
When he reached the third floor, the elevator had already continued to go up. He glanced at the person walking towards the ward, but didn't see the man. He returned to the corridor and continued running to the fifth floor. This time, he threw away the fruit in his hand.
When he ran to the fifth floor panting, the elevator had not yet closed when he saw the man inside.
"Wait a moment!"
He shouted as he ran towards the elevator, even getting pinched by the elevator door. However, he finally caught up with him. Le Ziyou stared at the man and grabbed him. "The Heavenly Thunder Pestle you gave me, it... it... can you find it?"
The man looked at him.
Le Ziyou was anxious: "Speak up, that day in the mall you said I saw a ghost, and then you gave me..."
Man: "The person you are talking about should be my younger brother."
Leziyou:?
Le Ziyou followed Liao Xingqi out of the elevator on the 11th floor. They turned out to be twins. He was relieved that they were identical twins. "You said your brother was injured? How did he get hurt?"
Liao Xingqi: "It should be related to you."
Le Ziyou fell silent. If it was related to him, it was also related to Chen Zui.
Le Ziyou: "Sorry."
Liao Xingqi took him to the ward. When Le Ziyou saw Liao Ziqi lying on the bed, he gasped. Liao Ziqi's legs were tied and hung up, and his upper body and shoulders were also wrapped in bandages.
"Both his legs were broken and his shoulder was pierced. Judging from the injuries, the other party could have killed him, but for some reason they didn't."
Liao Xingqi said this calmly, put the breakfast in his hand on the table, and woke up Liao Ziqi.
Le Ziyou's gaze moved to the place where Liao Ziqi was injured. When he saw him, Le Ziyou truly realized that Chen Zui had never fought him seriously, and it could even be said that it was not even a small fight.
And he himself took the fatal step.
She said she loved him but she killed him.
After waking up, Liao Ziqi recognized Le Ziyou and was a little surprised how he found him.
Le Ziyou cautiously went to the bedside and said, "Sorry to bother you. Is it that ghost that's been haunting me that made you like this?"
Liao Ziqi: "Is he still bothering you? You don't look well."
Le Ziyou shook his head in denial: "No, I'm just a little worried. I stabbed him with the Heavenly Thunder Pestle you gave me, and he left. I don't know what's going on with him these days. I've been worried that he'll come back to seek revenge on me, so I haven't had a good rest."
Le Ziyou's heart, which had been aching for the past few days, tensed up and asked nervously, "Is he dead?"
He was like a prisoner awaiting sentencing, suffering every minute and every second.
Liao Ziqi took the cup of water handed to him by Liao Xingqi and said, "Unfortunately, he is not dead yet."
Le Ziyou's fingers hanging by his legs twitched, and the sword hanging over his head finally disappeared. His eyes instantly turned red and he even felt a little unsteady.
Chen Zui is not dead!
Fortunately...it's still not too late to save it...
The Liao brothers thought he was scared.
Liao Ziqi: "Don't worry, I will definitely deal with him when I am discharged from the hospital. A ghost like him should not be allowed to stay in this world."
Le Ziyou suppressed his inner excitement and joy, and acted distressed and worried: "He should have run to a safe place by then. It seems there is no way to deal with him."
Liao Ziqi put down his water cup. "He can't take the Heavenly Thunder Pestle. I can track it and find him. By then, he'll be even weaker because of it. Maybe he'll be destroyed by it before that happens, or maybe he can't bear the pain and choose to end his life. But no matter which way it goes, he'll have only one ending."
When Le Ziyou heard him say that, all his excitement and joy disappeared. He couldn't bear the pain and ended his life by himself. How painful must that be. How much pain Chen must have felt these past few days...
I felt more and more guilty.
"Maybe he can get someone else to help him get it. I've been entangled with him for a long time. He's very smart."
Liao Ziqi shook his head: "You can rest assured about this. Only you and I, the one who stabbed the Heavenly Thunder Pestle into his body, can remove it."
Such a treasure cannot be used by just anyone. He is the contractor of the treasure. When he gave the Heavenly Thunder Pestle to Le Ziyou, Le Ziyou became the agent of the contractor.
This takes effect when he pierces the Heavenly Thunder Pestle into the ghost's body, and becomes ineffective after the ghost completely disappears.
"Is that so..." Le Ziyou lowered his eyes and thought in his mind, "I'm so sorry I didn't expect to meet you here. I came here empty-handed. I'm really embarrassed."
Liao Ziqi: "It's okay, catching ghosts is my job."
Liao Xingqi: "The porridge is cold, you can eat it now."
Normally, Le Ziyou would have left tactfully at this point, but he hadn't achieved his goal yet, so he remained dejected. "Eh... I just wonder if he'll seek revenge on me during this time, Master."
He looked at Liao Ziqi with a pleading look in his eyes: "Master, do you have something that can sense him? That way I can escape in advance and avoid him."
Liao Ziqi had previously said that he could track the Heavenly Thunder Pestle, but Le Ziyou seemed to have forgotten about it.
Le Ziyou: "Please help others to the end, please save me."
It would indeed take some time for Liao Ziqi to be discharged from the hospital. The ghost was powerful and ferocious, and Le Ziyou's life was indeed in danger. He said to Liao Xingqi, "Brother, please come to my place and help me get the things from the third drawer on the left of the second row of the study cabinet."
Before leaving, Liao Xingqi said, "Let's eat first."
Seeing this, Le Ziyou said: "Do you need me to feed you? You're welcome. This is what I should do."
Liao Ziqi smiled and refused: "It's okay, this arm can still move."
Le Ziyou didn't say anything else to delay his meal. He just hoped that Liao Xingqi could come back with the things quickly. Judging from what Liao Ziqi said, Chen Zui could be destroyed by the Heavenly Thunder Pestle at any time.
He has to find Chen Zui quickly.
Liao Xingqi came back 40 minutes later. He handed Le Ziyou something similar to a Bagua plate and pointed in the direction of the pointer: "He is here now."
Le Ziyou tightened his grip on the Bagua plate.
Liao Ziqi explained to him how to use it: "You are in this position now. When he gets near here, you must hide away. I also gave you these things. If you don't hide away from him, you can protect yourself."
"I understand. Thank you. I won't disturb your rest. I'll come to see you later." Le Ziyou couldn't wait to take his things and leave. He ran out of the hospital and got into a taxi.
"Master, drive forward."
The master was stunned: "Where are you going?"
Le Ziyou stared at the Bagua plate and said, "Just do as I say."
The master didn't ask any more questions: "Then you can tell me in advance where you want to turn."
Along the way, Le Ziyou followed the instructions of the Bagua plate and gradually left the city. Le Ziyou noticed that Chen Zui had not moved. No wonder he couldn't find him. He ran too far.
"Turn left ahead."
The driver glanced at Le Ziyou and the Bagua plate in his hand through the rearview mirror. He knew that the place in front was originally a factory, but it went bankrupt a few years ago and has not been rented out yet.
Le Ziyou stared at the small dot on the Bagua plate that was getting closer and closer, and just hoped that the car could go faster.
Finally arrived near the factory.
Le Ziyou: "Stop!"
Driver: "Do you want to rent this factory?"
Le Ziyou looked at the desolate factory building, paid the fare and got out of the car: "Master, can you wait for me? I'll be back soon."
This place is remote, and if we don't take him, we'll probably have to go back with an empty car.
Driver: "Okay, then hurry up."
When the driver saw Le Ziyou climbing over the wall, he felt a little regretful. Could this guy be a thief? Even a thief couldn't be so brazen, right? Let's see if he comes out with anything.
Le Ziyou twisted his ankle when he landed, but he ignored the pain and limped towards the motionless dot. He came to a warehouse with the door ajar.
He pushed open the door, and a cold, damp air mixed with a musty smell rushed over, choking him and making him cough a few times. As he walked in, he looked around for Chen Zui.
There were a lot of wooden pallets piled up in the warehouse, some of which had things on them, covered in dust. The further in, the darker it got because the light from the door could not come in.
Le Ziyou turned his head to look behind the pallets, and suddenly a dark shadow scurried across the ground in front of him. It was a little mouse. The environment was very bad. The thought of Chen Zui staying here...
I went all the way to the innermost part and finally saw Chen Zui behind the last stack of pallets.
Le Ziyou stopped and saw the person in his sight sitting in the open space between the wall and the pallet. A black umbrella blocked his upper body, and his body still appeared and disappeared from time to time. Every time it appeared, he could see the thunder wandering in Chen Zui's body.
Chen Zui didn't react at all to his arrival. Le Ziyou tiptoed forward, squatted beside Chen Zui, and took away the black umbrella that was covering him.
What came into view was a Chen Zui who looked so faint that it seemed like he would disappear in the next second. His brows were furrowed, as if he had fallen into a painful sleep.
Le Ziyou's heart was in a knot. After almost killing Chen, he realized that he didn't want Chen to die.
This feeling was particularly strong when he saw Chen's last moments. Not only did he not want him to die, he didn't even want to see him so weak and pitiful in such a place.
He looked at the Heavenly Thunder Pestle on Chen Zui's abdomen and reached out his hand. Before he could pull out the Heavenly Thunder Pestle, his neck was suddenly grabbed.
Le Ziyou's eyes turned and met Chen Zui's gaze.
There was no emotion in those dark eyes, they looked at him as if he were a stranger, and the hand that was pinching him was clearly tightening but had no strength left.
Le Ziyou did not act conceitedly and think that Chen Zui was reluctant to let go. He was more aware of how weak Chen Zui was now.
"I'll pull out the Heavenly Thunder Pestle, and you'll be fine once I pull it out."
The voice was a little choked.
Chen Zui did not stop him. He began to pull the Tianlei Pestle outwards. Soon, the hand that was pinching his neck was released.
Chen Zui couldn't even hold on to raise his hand. Pulling this thing out was even more painful. His current state could only be described as excruciating pain.
He glanced at Le Ziyou.
Pulling out the Heavenly Thunder Pestle was not as simple and easy as Le Ziyou thought. He gritted his teeth and used all his strength. As the Heavenly Thunder Pestle was pulled out bit by bit, he could see the thunder in Chen Zui's body being carried towards his abdomen. He kept staring at Chen Zui, with no expression changing on his face, only his jaw line became increasingly tense and his brows were furrowed tighter.
He looked like he was in pain, very much pain.
But he didn't say a word.
Le Ziyou let out a low roar, and the moment he pulled out the Heavenly Thunder Pestle, he flipped backwards because of excessive force. At the same time, Chen Zui's body was pulled upwards, but his head tilted back weakly. His eyes closed again, and his body fell back.
Aotian hurriedly checked Chen Zui's data. Fortunately, he was still alive.
These days, the higher-ups are patching Chen Zui’s data so hard that it’s almost causing sparks to fly.
Le Ziyou climbed up: "Chen Zui?"
Chen Zui was gone from his sight, but he could still touch him. However, Chen Zui didn't respond to his calls. Le Ziyou carefully pushed him twice: "Chen Zui, how are you?"
Le Ziyou was getting anxious to death because he couldn't get an answer.
He was a little at a loss, and suddenly thought of Yang Qi, which should be a great tonic for ghosts, but Chen Zui could only absorb his Yang Qi, and he didn't know how to give this thing to Chen Zui on his own initiative.
I was so anxious that my head was a little confused.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind. Le Ziyou looked at the tip of the vajra in his hand, touched Chen Zui's mouth, confirmed the position, and cut his wrist with the vajra. Blood oozed out instantly.
He raised his bleeding wrist to Chen Zui's mouth, pinched Chen Zui's mouth open, and drops of blood fell out, then disappeared from his sight.
There should be some yang energy in the blood.
Le Ziyou pinched the wound on his wrist to make the blood flow more and faster.
Aotian: ...
For a moment, Aotian didn't know what to say.
After a long while, Le Ziyou's vision became a little dark, and he stopped.
Take off your short-sleeved shirt and wrap it around your wrists.
Looking at the blind Chen Zui, she prayed that nothing happened to him and hoped that they could have a good talk after he woke up.
When Le Ziyou stood up, he felt dizzy and had to put his hands on the tray next to him to calm down for a while.
He looked at the Heavenly Thunder Pestle in his hand. Liao Ziqi was able to track this thing, and he hid the Heavenly Thunder Pestle in a tray.
He squatted down and groped towards Chen Zui, then picked him up. Since he was a ghost, he could be said to be completely weightless.
It feels so light and fluttery, it makes people feel very sad.
The driver saw Le Ziyou jumping down from the wall. He didn't take anything, but why did he seem to be carrying something as he walked over?
Especially when they arrived at the car, Le Ziyou opened the door and carried Chen Zui from his back back to him, but the driver couldn't see Chen Zui and felt it was strange and weird.
Driver: “Um…”
Le Ziyou carried Chen Zui into the car and told him his home address.
The driver glanced at him and thought that this trip would cost more than 100 yuan, so he still wanted to make some money.
He didn't say anything else, just drove faster.
Le Ziyou hugged Chen Zui and looked down at the person he couldn't see.
I feel complicated.
He didn't have time to think about too many things. He was entangled by the sudden appearance of Chen Zui, was scared, threatened, and moved continuously. Then he was forced step by step to think that only if Chen Zui died could he live, and then he did so under the control of this idea.
Only after I did it did I realize that I didn't want him to die. I was so overwhelmed by regret that I wanted to find him desperately.
Now that Chen Zui has been found, he has no idea what to do next.
His hand touched Chen Zui's cheek.
I really don't know what to do with you...
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When they got home safely, the driver saw Le Ziyou get out of the car holding something. After taking the money, he stepped on the accelerator and drove away quickly.
Le Ziyou put Chen Zui on the bed, untied the T-shirt wrapped around his wrist with some concern, threw the blood-stained T-shirt into the trash can, and fed Chen Zui some of his own blood.
Then he took out a plastic bag containing some common medicines from the TV cabinet and found some gauze to wrap around his wrist.
He sat down on the edge of the bed, touched Chen Zui's hand and held it, which made him feel more at ease.
"Chen Zui?"
No response.
Le Ziyou lowered his head and said, "Wake up, even if it's just to threaten me."
In the second half of the night, Chen Zui woke up and his right hand was very warm. He looked over and saw Le Ziyou holding his hand, sitting on the ground, and fell asleep on the edge of the bed.
In the moonlight, the face was so thin that the cheeks were sunken and looked very haggard.
Chen Zui pulled his hand out and looked at his abdomen. The Heavenly Thunder Pestle was gone and the pain in his body completely disappeared.
Aotian: [Woo woo woo X﹏X]
Aotian: [How do you feel? ]
Chen Zui: [Not bad.]
He got off the bed and walked towards the door.
Aotian: [Are you leaving? Then Leziyou?]
Chen Zui: [I don’t want to see him now.]
He left the house. Aotian was a little confused: [Didn’t you say you weren’t sad?]
Chen Zui: [When I was a mercenary, I wouldn't be sad if my opponent hurt me, because we were on different sides. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't be angry if they hurt me.]
Aotian tried to understand, it didn't mention the mission, so let Chen Zui choose.
"Chen Zui...Chen Zui..."
"Chen Zui!"
Le Ziyou woke up from his dream mumbling, breathing rapidly, and frantically reached for the bed.
I didn't touch anything.
His expression changed: "Chen Zui?"
Le Ziyou groped around the room: "Chen Zui, are you there?"
No response.
As if he had not found Chen Zui, Le Ziyou stopped in the middle of the house and looked around blankly.
Chen Zui is gone.
Didn't wake him up, didn't say a word to him...
Unspeakable loss and sadness consumed him. He walked to the bed with shaky steps and sat down. The bed was still a little cold, which was the proof of Chen Zui's existence.
His foot touched the peach wood sword he had hidden under the bed, and he bent down to take it out.
He gave a sour smile to the peach wood sword.
"Even if I asked him to hit me a hundred times this time, it would be useless..."
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