Chapter 24
Lu Yayin expressed what other people were thinking, and the car was instantly filled with a happy atmosphere. But the happiness didn't last long, as Meng Ziqiu's phone rang.
"Shut up." Meng Ziqiu said, "It's a phone call from the unknown place."
When Meng Ziqiu answered the phone, Lu Yayin crumpled up the abandoned talisman on the table and threw it into the small paper basket in the car, then took out a new piece of paper, dipped the brush in cinnabar and started drawing.
Gu Hongying was obediently reading the thick book in his hand—a collection of paper files on ghost-related missions that the special forces had handled over the years.
Qin Fei straightened his back and concentrated on driving.
After Meng Ziqiu hung up the phone, Lu Yayin put her pen aside, Gu Hongying stopped flipping through the book, and Qin Fei sat back in his chair. The serious atmosphere suddenly changed.
Although the Special Unit and the Special Return Office belong to the same Special Office Bureau and have an inseparable cooperative relationship, where there are people there is competition. Both sides put on airs and no one is willing to show their casual side in front of the other, commonly known as saving face.
The people in the Special Office have to deal with a huge amount of things every day and have particularly sharp ears. They just want to let the people in the Special Office know that their special group is working hard all the time and is the well-deserved model worker of the Special Office.
Gu Hongying didn't know this kind of "inside story" at first, but after following them for a few days, he gradually understood it.
Meng Ziqiu: "One good news, one bad news, which one should I hear first?"
Lu Yayin: “Good news!”
Qin Fei: "Bad news."
Gu Hongying, who was a beat slower, said: "...anything is fine."
"Then let me tell you the good news first." Meng Ziqiu pushed his glasses, "Because our mission seems to be upgraded, the next five groups will bring equipment that can restrain C-level missions to join us. They will be seven to nine hours later than us, so during this period our mission is to protect ordinary people involved in the mission. Of course, everyone should also pay attention to their own safety."
"The bad news is that the data of the five girls who were missing near Huailin Town has been updated. Two of them have been found, two died, and the remains have been confirmed to be hers. As for the last one..." Meng Ziqiu sighed, "She should be the core of the D-rank mission [Blood Wedding Dress]."
"The girl's name was An Jiajia. The cause of death was 'falling into the water'. Her family didn't find her at first, so they reported her as missing. Because of her death, her grandparents all fell ill. Her parents were busy taking care of the patient and organizing her funeral. They were so busy that they had no time to go to the police station to change the missing status to death."
"If he really fell into the water accidentally and then his body was dug up for a ghost marriage..." Lu Yayin said, "We have dealt with a few similar incidents. It won't lead to a D-level grudge, unless even the 'fall into the water accidentally' was man-made."
"Although I've dealt with a lot of them, every time I hear about something like this, I still want to give them a beating." Qin Fei kept an eye on all directions and listened carefully. He froze the moment he finished scolding, "Boss, don't remind me! I know how to be civilized, be civilized!"
Meng Ziqiu didn't remind him this time. His eyebrows wrinkled again: "A Fei, can you go faster?"
Meng Ziqiu turned a page of information from his subordinates, and the frown between his brows deepened: "If the time of signing a marriage contract is taken as the time when the resentment turns into a ghost——"
He said: "Today is the seventh day after An Jiajia's death."
*
“Gu—”
Yu Tu heard his stomach rumbling from small to large. He changed from lying on the cat to sitting cross-legged on the ground, fiddling with his cell phone which had no signal, and heaved a long sigh.
Last night, we went from his house to the old building, then from the old building to Feng's house, and then from Feng's house back to the old building. In between, we also did a series of physically demanding activities, including but not limited to flattening two paper dolls, burning red silk, burning the marriage certificate, and tying Feng Cong rice dumplings. The dinner we had yesterday had already been completely consumed in our stomachs.
Yu Tu recalled what Gu Hongying had told him before about the fastest arrival time of the special team, and realized that he would most likely be hungry until ten o'clock tonight.
Yu Tu: “…”
Despair.
Can you let him go home and have a meal before locking him up?
He stared blankly at the thick mist outside the threshold. It looked like cotton candy, vaporized milk, or steaming fish soup. He was really hungry!
"Yeah", "Jigu", "Wow"
Just as Yu Tu was looking at the thick fog and thinking about similar foods, he heard the panicked voices of the baby spirits.
The black balls that were sliding down the slide by An Jiajia's hair and bouncing on her shoulders were suddenly shaken down inexplicably and turned into bouncy black pearls bouncing all over the ground.
"What's wrong?" Yu Tu turned his head to look at An Jiajia.
An Jiajia, who had been acting like a cat, shook her head very slowly: "I feel upset, irritated, and uncomfortable."
Yu Tu's heart skipped a beat: "Besides these, do you have any other feelings?"
An Jiajia: "I don't know."
Yu Tu: "...Don't scare me, I'm a little panicked."
He thought for a moment and asked, "Is there anything else [shackles] that we missed?"
An Jiajia looked at him with bloodshot eyes.
Yu Tu realized belatedly that he had asked a stupid question—what kind of [shackles] were on An Jiajia, could it be that she herself didn't know?
"Let's skip the previous question." Yu Tu coughed lightly, "But... your eyes seem to have become even redder."
An Jiajia continued to look at him with bloodshot eyes.
The two of them were silent for three seconds, and then they said in unison—
"Can't today be the seventh day of the lunar calendar?"
"First, seventh?"
The man and the ghost looked at each other.
"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Yu Tu didn't dare to think too deeply, "You yourself are not sure about the time of your seventh day?"
"After becoming a ghost, I know the difference between day and night," An Jiajia replied, "I don't have much concept of time."
Yu Tu: Silence.
An Jiajia: Silence.
Silence is now the main theme of the old building.
"Ah" the little black pearls on the ground stretched out their tiny claws, some grabbed the hem of An Jiajia's clothes that were rolled into tassels, and some grabbed the hems of Yu Tu's pajamas, and then rubbed and hung on them.
"Why don't you tie me up?" An Jiajia suggested, "I feel even more annoyed now."
Yu Tu only felt that his eyes went dark.
He looked at An Jiajia expressionlessly, and An Jiajia looked back at him with a pair of eyes that were getting redder and redder.
"Help!!!" Yu Tu wailed, wishing he could grab the ground with his head, "Please don't let today be the seventh day! I'm just an ordinary person, I can't beat you after you go berserk!!!"
An Jiajia: …
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Yu Tu looked at An Jiajia’s eyes which had turned abnormally red:
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"Baby, come and help me pull the ropes!" Yu Tu turned his head and asked for help from the black ball hanging on his shoulder, "Please pull a few more!!"
"Ah!" The black balls, who had no idea what was going on, waved their tiny little claws and ran to the beam to get the rope for Yu Tu.
After getting the rope, Yu Tu decisively tied An Jiajia's hands and feet first, and then started from her ankles and wrapped it up in circles like tying up a mummy.
An Jiajia: "Is it necessary?"
Yu Tu stopped what he was doing, took out his cell phone, turned on the front camera and put it in front of An Jiajia. An Jiajia saw a pair of eyes that were red enough to be shining on the screen.
An Jiajia: …
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Yu Tu tied An Jiajia up to her neck, leaving only her face exposed. Then he carried An Jiajia to a place in the old building where she could not see the scum behind the tower-shaped load-bearing column and put her down: "For the safety of both of us, I'm sorry to have to put you in this situation."
An Jiajia: “…”
She was now tied up like a human gammon cat scratching post, and the black gang had continued to have fun with her.
*
Because the mission level was upgraded, Meng Ziqiu and his team were given the green light all the way. They originally estimated that they would reach Huailin Town at 10 o'clock tonight, but they arrived outside the town at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The town of Huailin, which inexplicably disappeared from the map, was shrouded in thick fog, to the point of being almost sticky.
Lu Yayin took out a talisman paper painted with cinnabar from her shoulder bag, lit it with a lighter and threw it into the mist. The talisman paper burned violently in the air, then turned into a small ball of ash and fell to the ground.
Lu Yayin took a few steps forward and bent down to look at the ashes: "The ashes are white, and the mist is non-toxic and harmless."
What she threw out was a simple detection charm. If it turned into white ash after burning, it meant that there were no substances harmful to the human body in the current environment. If it turned into black ash, it meant that there were some bad things in the current environment. If it turned into green ash...if it could burn out green, it meant that the person would die on the spot in a short while, because it was a poisonous space where humans could not survive.
After detecting that the mist was non-toxic, Meng Ziqiu's frown relaxed a little. This meant that at least ordinary people in Huailin Town would not be in any danger of life because of this large area of mist.
"It looks familiar." Gu Hongying, who was standing nearby and observing, said, "It looks very similar to the white fog I encountered on the barren mountain, but not as thick."
The expressions of the other three people became more solemn. There were two missions that had been detected in Huailin Town, the C-level [Huaimu] and the B-level [Wild Mountain]. If it was a C-level mission, then their team plus the five groups that were about to arrive might be able to control the situation within a certain range, and even if it could not be solved, it would not spread to the surrounding areas. But if it was a B-level Wild Mountain, the Abnormal Bureau had only handled eight cases since its establishment, and each of them had cost a lot of manpower and material resources, which was a heavy loss. Two of them could not be solved until now, and they were just controlled.
"How is it possible that there is no sign of a B-level mission?" Lu Yayin muttered to herself, "This is not scientific."
"After the Phoenix left, the barrier has been unstable for a while, and the concentration of spiritual energy in the surface world has increased." Qin Fei said, "The fluctuation of spiritual energy has affected the weather. Isn't everyone in the Meteorological Bureau so anxious that they are covered in bubbles?"
普通人不知道裏世界的存在，所以氣象局最近因為靈氣波動頻頻失誤，就被網友們嘲上了熱搜，想想就是個大寫的慘字。
秦斐從車裏拿出一套裝備穿在身上：“大家不能一起進去，萬一全陷在裏面那就糟了。我先進去探路，定時用符咒和你們聯絡。”
孟自秋沒有阻止，只說：“一切小心。”
秦斐走入了濃霧中，五分鐘後，又從霧氣裏走了出來。
秦斐：“……？”
他莫名其妙：“我一直走的直線啊！”
他沒有遇到什麽危險，沒有遇到什麽詭異，就是走直線，但走着走着竟然走回來了！
這一點都不合理！
路雅音：“霧氣版鬼打牆？”
她點燃一張符咒，符咒在空中化成一只半透明的小鳥，她換了一身裝備：“我進去試試。”
十分鐘後，路雅音原地返回。
接着，孟自秋換上裝備去試了試，半個小時後，原地返回。
最後只剩下了顧鴻影。
顧鴻影：“雖然我也不知道我能堅持多久，但我還是試試吧，萬一呢？”
抱着僥幸的顧鴻影走入了霧氣中，一個小時了，顧鴻影人沒出來，出來了一只傳音紙鶴———
“孟組，我迷路了！有沒有槐林鎮的地圖？！”
*
虞荼抱着膝蓋坐在牆角打瞌睡，上午把安佳佳綁成了木乃伊，安佳佳除了眼睛越來越紅外，還沒有太多不良反應。虞荼又餓又困，在囑托了嬰靈們幫着盯情況的前提下，他漸漸進入了淺眠中。
忽然，虞荼感覺臉頰一冰，一個黑團團跳到了他的臉上，正對着他的脖頸撓癢癢。
虞荼閉着眼精準地捏到那個調皮的黑團團：“怎麽啦，寶寶？”
“呀嗚”黑團團發出有點焦急的聲音。
虞荼剛剛還殘留的一點睡意瞬間消失，他立刻睜開眼睛，第一反應就是去看安佳佳所在的位置，安佳佳仍舊像個木乃伊一樣坐在原地，只是之前在她身上嬉鬧的黑團團們全都消失了，它們在離安佳佳好幾米遠的地方圍成了一圈，想接近卻又不敢。
虞荼心下一沉，他腳步輕輕地走上前去，停在黑團團們旁邊：“佳佳？安佳佳？”
安佳佳血紅的眼睛直愣愣的，對他的話沒有半點反應。
虞荼拿出手機看了看時間，快七點了，還有差不多五個小時，今天就結束了。
門外濃稠的白霧也隐隐有要轉成深色的跡象，天快要黑了。
安佳佳這個反應明顯有些不對，虞荼讓嬰靈們都退遠了些，随時小心。
就這樣平安無事地過了半個小時，塔形承重柱後忽然傳來窸窸窣窣的聲音，一陣接着一陣。
眼神直愣愣的安佳佳忽然将頭緩慢地轉向聲音的方向。
虞荼下意識地擋住她的視線，但那窸窸窣窣的聲音越來越大，伴随的還有痛苦的哼哼聲。
安佳佳眨眼的頻率變高了，她的身體開始有了輕微的動作。
虞荼只能擡腿快速跑向塔形承重柱之後，那裏綁着五個人渣，見他過來後紛紛對他投以希冀的目光。
“唔唔唔———”五人裏有三個人都在不斷發出聲音，他們被繩子綁了差不多一天一夜，又餓又難受。
虞荼之前用舊樓裏的白布條堵了他們的嘴，他們只能不斷地仰頭，示意虞荼将他們嘴裏的白布條取出來。
虞荼理都沒理，他只是壓低了聲音：“我不管你們是餓了累了難受了，還是想要上廁所，現在都不要發出任何聲音！不然你們全都得死！”
放完狠話後，虞荼感覺腳邊有什麽東西在撓他的褲腿，他低頭，看到了幾個不斷蹦噠的黑團團。
“怎麽了寶寶？”
“呀”“呀”“嗚嗚”
黑團團們發出細細的聲音，虞荼竟然從它們的聲音裏聽到了幾分擔憂和恐懼。
但虞荼轉頭的時候，沒有看到那五個人渣看他的眼神，如同看到了什麽精神病。
昨夜恐吓他們女鬼沒看到蹤影，眼前這個少年又疑似有神經病，他們又被捆了一天一夜……人在極度的恐懼中，總是會爆發極強的求生欲，他們喉嚨裏發出的聲音更劇烈了，身體更是一拱一拱地想要柱子上掙脫下來，他們這裏鬧出的動靜越大，看不見的角落裏，安佳佳傳過來的聲音就越響，虞荼甚至幻聽到了安佳佳那邊繩子崩斷的聲音。
危急時刻，虞荼抄起立在旁邊的“披薩板”，一人照着腦袋狠狠給了一下，一下沒打暈就再補一下，等五個人都不吱聲了，他才松了一口氣，手裏那塊淨化符文的“披薩板”都敲裂了好大一條縫。
虞荼拎着那塊半殘的淨化符文，從塔形柱子後轉出來，差一點心跳驟停———
在離他三步遠的地方，安佳佳站在原地，身上還挂着幾節麻繩，但已經無法阻礙她的動作了，她的腳下，害怕得一直發出“呀”聲的小黑珍珠們聚成了一大團，正在努力拉住她的腳步。
但凡再慢一點點……虞荼簡直不敢想象那個畫面。
他看了看手裏半殘的淨化符文，然後“啪”地一下将那個符文迎面怼安佳佳臉上，宛如盛開花朵的符文一下下發着微光，安佳佳眼裏的血紅好像淡了點，虞荼這個機會趕緊将她往後推，一直推到之前那個安全點的角落。
安佳佳現在的狀态太異常了，虞荼擡頭看了看塔形承重柱，讓嬰靈們幫着取下了鎮壓和詛咒的符文，然後将這兩塊符文用繩子一前一後地綁在了安佳佳身上。
這兩塊符文一接觸到安佳佳的身體就開始頻繁閃光，安佳佳眼裏的血紅消退了不少，看樣子恢複了幾分理智。
虞荼長長地舒了口氣，這時候是八點，距離十二點，還有四小時。
*
顧鴻影深入槐林鎮後幾經周折，外面特異組的符文小鳥終于聯系上了他，根據符文小鳥帶進來的簡陋地圖，顧鴻影磕磕絆絆地找到了虞荼住的小樓。
“虞荼！”顧鴻影砰砰砰敲門，“開門！我是顧鴻影！”
敲門敲了半天，沒人響應，顧鴻影手都敲痛了，他站在門口不解地嘆了口氣，這種危險的情況下，虞荼能去哪兒？
他找到虞荼家大門口的時候天都黑了，濃稠的白霧轉成了黑色，如果說之前的能見度還有個兩三公分，現在就是盲人出行。
“不在家———”顧鴻影自言自語，“那還能去哪兒呢……難不成是舊樓？”
交集産生異變的E級任務[舊樓]和D級任務[血嫁衣]，再加上有開啓前兆的B級任務[荒山]，這裏的情況已經是相當複雜了。
“我記得舊樓是在南邊———”顧鴻影按了按自己的右肩膀，防護服上射出一小簇燈光，他将簡陋的地圖湊到燈光下，“但是……南邊是哪邊啊？”
他哀嚎：“還不如和我說前後左右呢！”
“上北下南，左西右東。”
顧鴻影按這個方向選出了南邊的路，然後———義無反顧地走錯了。
*
“咔嚓———”
九點多的時候，虞荼聽到了清脆的碎裂聲，捆在安佳佳身上的兩塊“披薩板”出現了越來越大的裂縫。符文閃爍的微光已經停了，安佳佳停止變紅的眼睛以一種肉眼可見的速度越來越可怖，她起身，碎掉的符文和麻繩一起從她身上脫落，血紅的眼睛裏滿是漠然，她盤起來的丸子頭也散開，黑發無風自動。
———安佳佳徹底失控了。
虞荼放在口袋裏的靈頁自動從他胸前的口袋裏飛出來，浮在半空中急促地閃爍，一道淡淡的光落在虞荼身上。
黑團團們已經大量擠到了牆角，同為鬼物，它們自然能感知到另一方的變化———那是一種往不好方向的轉化。
“安佳佳！”虞荼大聲喊她的名字，“安佳佳！不要被頭七影響！”
白天安佳佳還清醒的時候，盡管講話很艱難，但她還是和虞荼有一搭沒一搭地聊着天，說着以後的規劃———那是她對第二次人生的期許。
“只有不到三個小時了，我們不能前功盡棄！”
———可安佳佳聽不到了。
她只是睜着一雙血紅的眼睛，漠然地向前走，行走的方向，就是塔形承重柱之後。
虞荼想要攔住她，卻被她掀翻，安佳佳越來越接近那些人所在的位置，有一個人甚至已經露出了半邊手臂。
在這千鈞一發之際，一塊白布條忽然蒙住了她的眼睛，虞荼抓着白布條眼疾手快地在安佳佳眼睛上纏了三四圈，然後在她腦後打了個蝴蝶結。安佳佳的腳步停滞在了原地，她的腦袋四處擺動着，似乎在尋找目标。
虞荼一屁股坐在地上，心裏滿是慶幸，還好還好，趕上了。
但福無雙至，禍不單行。
被虞荼用“披薩板”敲暈的五個人裏，有一個人醒了。他迷迷糊糊地睜開眼，便看到了離他不遠處，被白布蒙着眼睛穿着紅嫁衣的安佳佳。即使被堵着喉嚨，他也發出了尖銳的嘶鳴。
The sound was particularly harsh in the quiet old building. An Jiajia turned her head and quickly locked onto the target based on the sound. She curled her hands into claws and grabbed directly at the man's heart!
Yu Tu, who was sitting on the ground, was dumbfounded. He grabbed the spiritual page floating in front of him and quickly threw it in that direction - it didn't matter if the scum died, but An Jiajia couldn't bear the blood debt!
The spirit page flew over, emitting a layer of faint light, blocking An Jiajia's attack, but the man was already frightened and his struggle became more violent.
An Jiajia became visibly angry and began to attack indiscriminately. The Spirit Page originally belonged to one person and there was no way it was possible for it to protect so many people. Yu Tu could only keep throwing out the Spirit Page in the gaps between her attacks, or try to deflect her hands to prevent An Jiajia from taking these people's lives directly.
The situation became more and more chaotic. Yu Tu suddenly felt a pain in his chest. He lowered his head and saw An Jiajia's hand piercing his heart. In order to block An Jiajia's attack on Feng Wei, he subconsciously blocked it, but he forgot that Ling Ye had already flown in front of Lin Cui and was no longer in front of him.
With his heart pierced, his vitality naturally drained away quickly. All of Yu Tu's strength was drained away in an instant, and he fell limply to the ground. The bead with green patterns on his chest was immediately soaked in a large amount of blood. The more blood there was, the clearer the green patterns in the bead became, and the brighter the light emitted became.
When the light became strong enough, the beads suddenly melted, and green lines surged out and turned into thin lines. These lines surged to Yu Tu's heart, as if a doctor was performing the most delicate operation - all the injuries were being healed bit by bit. Soon, Yu Tu's pierced heart returned to its original state, and except for the hole in his pajamas, there was no trace left.
But it's far from over.
The green thread mended Yu Tu's heart, and then gradually spread from his heart to his limbs. In the space illuminated by the light, a large number of green vines began to grow wildly, gradually covering every brick and tile and every beam in the old building.
From the moment the beads started glowing, the one who woke up among the five people fell into coma, An Jiajia was fixed in place with white cloth wrapped around her eyes, and the baby spirits were forced directly back to their original positions.
After occupying all the space in the old building, the green vine gently separated several strands and wrapped around Yu Tu's body, wrapping him into a green vine cocoon. After the green vine dispersed, Yu Tu's appearance, height, and body shape had changed - he turned into the appearance of a vest.
From having his heart pierced to having his heart repaired and then to being cut into a vest, Yu Tu was in a state of being both lucid and hazy the whole time.
He could sense the changes, but he couldn't completely control them, but he vaguely knew what he should do.
Yu Tu raised his hand and the green vine dropped him from the air. At the same time, the thick night fog surrounding Huailin Town disappeared without a trace in an instant.
*
The anomaly of the night mist disappearing was immediately detected by the special forces waiting outside the town.
"Boss, the fog has disappeared!" Qin Fei quickly opened the car door, "Should we go look for Hongying?"
Previously, they had asked Gu Hongying to try to walk into the mist, but no one thought that he could actually get in. They were worried about a child who had just reached adulthood and had not received any formal systematic training being in there.
Meng Ziqiu was holding a palm-sized black rectangular instrument in his hand. At this moment, a red dot on the instrument was flashing wildly, and the green value next to it was rising at an extremely fast speed. The color of the value first turned yellow, then orange, and then turned red, and then a loud and sharp alarm was issued.
"What on earth did the Aura Wave Detector detect?" Lu Yayin covered her ears tightly with her hands. "Help! I've never heard it scream so loudly!"
Amid the alarm of the spiritual energy fluctuation detector, Meng Ziqiu said: "Don't look for Hongying, go to the place where the spiritual energy fluctuation is detected."
If we cannot determine what happened at the location where the spiritual power is fluctuating, then finding Gu Hongying would be nothing more than taking him to death.
…
Qin Fei drove the car very fast, almost using a drifting and racing mode to rush to the location indicated by the spiritual power fluctuation detector.
An old building decorated with wooden boards and carved with various patterns.
No, perhaps it cannot be called an old building now, because standing at the door, you can see that the door is covered with dense green vines, as if inside is not a wooden lobby, but the deepest and densest forest in the suburbs.
The spiritual power fluctuation detector emitted the sharpest roar it had ever emitted, and then... it short-circuited and stalled.
This unprecedented situation made the three members of the special team more vigilant.
Meng Ziqiu was the first to carefully cross the threshold.
He smelled a very delicate fragrance.
Meng Ziqiu's mind, which had been rushing for a long time and worried for several hours, suddenly became clear.
He raised his head and looked at the top of the beam in shock—green vines occupied every corner as far as the eye could see, but it did not seem terrifying or depressing. Instead, it made people feel peaceful. All the vigilance in his body melted away unconsciously in such an atmosphere.
Lu Yayin came in second: "Oh my God! Am I really in the outer world, not the inner world?"
She noticed with her sharp eyes that in a corner there was a bride lying there, wearing a red wedding dress and white cloth around her eyes. She was sleeping peacefully among the green vines and did not look aggressive at all.
Lu Yayin was so shocked that she was speechless.
Resentment turns into a ghost, and it will lose its mind on the seventh day after death. Even if all the [shackles] are removed, it will only delay the time of losing its mind. This iron law is bound to happen.
It is tens of times more difficult to calm down a fierce ghost that has lost its mind than to kill it directly! Not to mention calming it without any damage! Even the top sound cultivators in the inner world can hardly do it, let alone in the outer world where spiritual energy is scarce!
Qin Fei, who was the last to come in after parking his car, was also quite frightened. His best feature was his intuition, so as soon as he entered the door, he fixed his eyes in one direction -
"Who's there?"
His voice attracted the attention of the other two, and then they saw a person.
Black hair, phoenix eyes, monocle, black gown.
Green vines wrapped around him, gentle and intimate.
As he walked forward, the leaves of the green vines on the walls of the old building were swaying gently, conveying their emotions. On the ground, the green vines stretched out under his feet, paving a path forward for him.
Meng Ziqiu took a step back unconsciously, but soon he calmed himself down.
Facing this senior who he had only heard a few words from, but from the little he had seen, he could already glimpse his powerfulness, he lowered his attitude very low: "My boy Meng Ziqiu, may I ask your name, senior?"
———A gaze fell on him, without curiosity or blame, without anger or displeasure.
He didn't seem to care about their initial wariness, their subsequent surprise, their recent offense, and their current respect.
The voice of this mysterious elder with a handsome face is as natural and pleasant as the sound of running water hitting rocks.
He said—
"You can call me the Lord of Nevernight."