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 slower beat, 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 expresslessly, 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?"
Ordinary people don’t know about the existence of the inner world, so the Meteorological Bureau has recently been mocked by netizens and has become a hot topic because of the frequent errors in spiritual energy fluctuations. Just think about it, it’s a big tragedy.
Qin Fei took out a set of equipment from the car and put it on: "You can't go in together. It would be terrible if we all get stuck in there. I will go in first to explore the way and contact you regularly with talismans."
Meng Ziqiu did not stop him, but only said, "Be careful."
Qin Fei walked into the thick fog, and five minutes later, he walked out of the fog.
Qin Fei: “……?”
He was puzzled: "I was walking in a straight line all the time!"
He didn't encounter any danger or strange things. He just walked in a straight line, but as he walked, he actually walked back!
This doesn't make sense!
Lu Yayin: "A foggy version of a ghost wall?"
She lit a talisman, which turned into a translucent bird in the air. She changed her equipment and said, "I'll go in and try it out."
Ten minutes later, Lu Yayin returned to the same place.
Then, Meng Ziqiu put on his equipment and tried it out. Half an hour later, he returned to the original place.
Finally, only Gu Hongying was left.
Gu Hongying: "Although I don't know how long I can hold on, I'll still give it a try. What if?"
Gu Hongying walked into the mist with a sense of luck. After an hour, Gu Hongying did not come out, but a paper crane came out with a message.
"Meng Zu, I'm lost! Do you have a map of Huailin Town?!"
*
Yu Tu dozed off in the corner with his knees hugged. He had tied An Jiajia up like a mummy in the morning, but An Jiajia didn't have many adverse reactions except that her eyes were getting redder. Yu Tu was hungry and sleepy, and after asking the baby spirits to help keep an eye on the situation, he gradually fell into a light sleep.
Suddenly, Yu Tu felt his cheeks become cold, and a black ball jumped onto his face, tickling his neck.
Yu Tu closed her eyes and pinched the naughty black ball accurately: "What's wrong, baby?"
"Ah Wu" Hei Tuan Tuan made a slightly anxious sound.
The little sleepiness that was left in Yu Tu disappeared in an instant. He opened his eyes immediately, and his first reaction was to look at where An Jiajia was. An Jiajia was still sitting there like a mummy, but the black balls that had been playing on her body before had all disappeared. They formed a circle several meters away from An Jiajia, and they didn't dare to approach her.
Yu Tu's heart sank. He walked forward lightly and stopped beside the black group: "Jia Jia? An Jia Jia?"
An Jiajia's bloodshot eyes were staring blankly, and she didn't react at all to his words.
Yu Tu took out his cell phone to check the time. It was almost seven o'clock. There were still about five hours left before the day would be over.
The thick white fog outside the door was showing signs of turning dark, and it was almost dark.
There was obviously something wrong with An Jiajia's reaction, so Yu Tu asked the baby spirits to move away and be careful at all times.
Half an hour passed peacefully like this, when suddenly there came a series of rustling sounds from behind the tower's load-bearing columns.
An Jiajia, with a dazed look in her eyes, suddenly turned her head slowly towards the direction of the sound.
Yu Tu subconsciously blocked her sight, but the rustling sound became louder and louder, accompanied by painful groans.
An Jiajia's blinking frequency increased and her body began to move slightly.
Yu Tu could only lift his legs and run quickly to the back of the tower-shaped load-bearing column, where five scumbags were tied up. When they saw him coming, they all cast hopeful glances at him.
"Mmmm---" Three of the five people were making noises continuously. They had been tied up with ropes for almost a whole day and night and were feeling hungry and uncomfortable.
Yu Tu had previously blocked their mouths with white cloth strips from the old building, so they could only raise their heads repeatedly, signaling Yu Tu to take the white cloth strips out of their mouths.
Yu Tuli ignored him and just lowered his voice: "I don't care whether you are hungry, tired, uncomfortable, or want to go to the toilet, don't make any sound now! Otherwise you will all die!"
After saying those harsh words, Yu Tu felt something pulling at his legs. He looked down and saw several black balls jumping around.
"What's wrong, baby?"
"Yeah", "Yeah", "Woo woo"
The black groups made tiny noises, and Yu Tu actually heard some worry and fear in their voices.
But when Yu Tu turned around, he didn't see the way those five scumbags looked at him, as if they saw some mental patient.
There was no trace of the female ghost who threatened them last night, and the young man in front of them was suspected to be mentally ill. They were tied up for another day and night... When people are extremely scared, they will always have a strong desire to survive. The sounds in their throats became more intense, and their bodies were arching to try to get off the pillar. The louder the noise they made here, the louder the sound coming from An Jiajia in the invisible corner. Yu Tu even hallucinated the sound of the rope breaking on An Jiajia's side.
At the critical moment, Yu Tu picked up the "pizza board" standing next to him and hit one of them hard on the head. If he didn't faint, he hit him again. When all five people were silent, he breathed a sigh of relief. The "pizza board" with the purification rune in his hand was cracked with a big crack.
Yu Tu came out from behind the tower-shaped pillar, holding the half-broken purification rune, his heart almost stopped beating———
Three steps away from him, An Jiajia stood in place with several hemp ropes hanging on her body, but it could no longer hinder her movements. Under her feet, the little black pearls, who were so scared that they kept making "ah" sounds, gathered into a big group and were trying to hold her feet.
If it had been a little slower...Yu Tu simply couldn't imagine what that scene would look like.
He looked at the half-broken purification rune in his hand, and then "slapped" the rune against An Jiajia's face. The rune glowed like a blooming flower, and the blood red in An Jiajia's eyes seemed to fade a little. Yu Tu took this opportunity to push her back, all the way to the safe corner.
An Jiajia's current condition was too abnormal. Yu Tu looked up at the tower-shaped load-bearing columns and asked the baby spirits to help remove the runes of suppression and curse. Then he tied the two runes to An Jiajia one after the other with ropes.
As soon as the two runes touched An Jiajia's body, they began to flash frequently. The blood red in An Jiajia's eyes faded a lot, and it seemed that she had regained some sanity.
Yu Tu let out a long sigh. It was eight o'clock now, and there were still four hours until twelve o'clock.
*
After several twists and turns when Gu Hongying went deep into Huailin Town, the special group of Rune Birds outside finally contacted him. According to the simple map brought in by the Rune Birds, Gu Hongying stumbled and found the small building where Yu Tu lived.
"Yu Tu!" Gu Hongying knocked on the door. "Open the door! I'm Gu Hongying!"
After knocking on the door for a long time, no one answered. Gu Hongying's hands were sore from knocking. He stood at the door and sighed in confusion. Where could Yu Tu go in such a dangerous situation?
It was dark when he found the gate of Yu Tu's house. The thick white fog turned into black. If the visibility was still two or three centimeters before, now it was like a blind person traveling.
"Not at home———" Gu Hongying muttered to himself, "Then where else can he go... Could it be the old building?"
The intersection of the E-class mission [Old Building] and the D-class mission [Bloody Wedding Dress] has caused anomalies, plus the B-class mission [Desolate Mountain] which has the sign of being opened, the situation here is already quite complicated.
"I remember the old building was in the south—" Gu Hongying pressed his right shoulder. A small light shone from his protective suit. He put the crude map under the light. "But... where is the south?"
He wailed, "You might as well tell me the whole story!"
"Up north, down south, left west, right east."
Gu Hongying chose the southern road in this direction, and then—he went in the wrong direction without looking back.
*
“Kacha——”
At around nine o'clock, Yu Tu heard a crisp cracking sound, and the two "pizza boards" tied to An Jiajia's body had cracks that were getting bigger and bigger. The rune's glimmering light had stopped, and An Jiajia's eyes, which had stopped turning red, became more and more terrifying at a speed visible to the naked eye. She stood up, and the broken runes and the hemp rope fell off her body. Her blood-red eyes were full of indifference, and her bun was also untied, and her black hair moved automatically without wind.
———An Jiajia was completely out of control.
The spiritual page that Yu Tu placed in his pocket automatically flew out from his chest pocket, floating in the air and flashing rapidly, and a faint light fell on Yu Tu.
The black groups have already crowded into the corner. As ghosts themselves, they can naturally sense the changes in the other party—a change that is not good.
"An Jiajia!" Yu Tu shouted her name, "An Jiajia! Don't be affected by the seventh day!"
During the day, when An Jiajia was still conscious, although it was difficult for her to speak, she still chatted with Yu Tu and talked about her future plans - that was her expectation for her second life.
"There are less than three hours left. We can't waste our time!"
———But An Jiajia couldn’t hear it.
She just stared with a pair of bloodshot eyes and walked forward indifferently, walking in the direction behind the tower-shaped load-bearing column.
Yu Tu wanted to stop her, but was knocked over by her. An Jiajia was getting closer and closer to where those people were, and one of them even had half of his arm exposed.
At this critical moment, a piece of white cloth suddenly covered her eyes. Yu Tu quickly grabbed the white cloth and wrapped it around An Jiajia's eyes three or four times, and then tied a bow behind her head. An Jiajia's footsteps stopped in place, and her head swayed around, as if looking for a target.
Yu Tu sat down on the ground, feeling relieved. Fortunately, he caught up.
But good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone.
Among the five people knocked unconscious by Yu Tu's "pizza board", one woke up. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw An Jiajia, who was blindfolded with a white cloth and wearing a red wedding dress, not far from him. Even though his throat was blocked, he still made a sharp cry.
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."
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