Chapter 25

Never-night Marquis.

Meng Ziqiu quickly recalled the world-famous hermit predecessors in his mind, but found this title particularly unfamiliar.

But such a powerful person cannot be unknown.

The title might be true or false, but no matter whether it was true or false, the deep meaning behind it was not something he could explore or dig out. Meng Ziqiu just needed to know that the senior in front of him had no ill intentions towards them and helped them solve the difficult task. As for the rest - wait for him to report it, and let others worry about it.

"Senior Buyehou." Meng Ziqiu stood in the green sky and considered his words, "Are you here to take care of something important?"

He remembered what Lu Yayin had said before about Leopard defeating Tiger, and also remembered the high-definition dark history of the younger generation of the White Snake tribe sent by the elder of their tribe, and he felt overwhelmed.

"I live here." The senior who was questioned did not answer his question. His voice was slow and peaceful. A thin green vine rolled up the bride who was sleeping in the corner and brought her to Meng Ziqiu, "It was just a coincidence."

Just happened to meet?

Meng Ziqiu was skeptical about this statement.

If a more tactful person were here, more information might be obtained during the conversation, but Meng Ziqiu was not someone who could learn to be tactful, so he asked directly:

"If I want to visit my senior, where should I go?"

"Visit me?" Meng Ziqiu heard the mysterious senior who called himself the Marquis of Buye say, "If we are destined to meet, we will meet."

This answer evaded the main point. Meng Ziqiu wanted to ask more, but he felt dazed and confused. He saw the leaves of the green vines on the wall swaying rhythmically. His eyes blurred and the mysterious senior disappeared.

The Marquis of Buye disappeared, and the green vines turned into light green dots all over the sky. Meng Ziqiu stood in the old building which looked a bit eerie with ghost candles lit on the walls. He felt that everything that had just happened seemed to be an illusion.

With unspeakable shock, he turned his head. Lu Yayin and Qin Fei standing behind him also had dazed expressions, as if in a dream.

"Boss..." Lu Yayin's voice was floating, "Was there someone here just now? Was there any green vines on the pillars, walls, and beams?"

"There's no sign of the teleportation talisman being used..." Lu Yayin's face was filled with confusion, as if her worldview had been completely changed. "How could such a big person just disappear out of thin air? Disappeared?!"

"I just secretly pinched the leaves of the green vine... they were real leaves." Qin Fei was even more shocked than Lu Yayin, "Why did they disappear now without leaving any trace?"

Plants cannot appear out of thin air, and it is even less likely that they will disappear out of thin air. If plants want to fill the space of an entire building, they must have growth points, and they will definitely cause damage to the interior of the building. The only difference is that the degree of damage will depend on the strength of the plants. The higher the strength, the smaller the growth points and the lower the degree of damage, and vice versa.

But it came and went without a trace, had no growth points at all, could not be traced back to any trace of talismans or magic, and it was not an illusion - they had truly never seen anything like it!

The three members of the special team, who had experienced many ups and downs, looked at each other, feeling as if they were dreaming.

"Team Meng!! Here I come———" A familiar young voice sounded outside the door of the old building. After the night mist disappeared, Gu Hongying, who had lost his way somewhere else, finally found the old building. The special team's car was parked outside the old building. Gu Hongying stepped over the threshold breathlessly, but found it was quieter than he had imagined.

The bride in a red wedding dress with white cloth wrapped around her eyes was lying on the ground. Meng Zu, Lu Jie and Qin Ge were standing quietly on the side, without any signs of fighting on their bodies.

The worry on Gu Hongying's face turned into visible shock: "Ah? It's all over?"

He felt that his current mood could be expressed with a concrete emoticon package—

Everything has happened, and xx is still on his way on horseback.

Being stared at with such frank and shocked eyes, the three members of the special team felt guilty that they had taken the credit for someone else's work. Lu Yayin's shoulders slumped: "Everything was over when we came. Here—"

She gestured to the bride sleeping on the ground and said, "The senior you met on the deserted mountain has been dealt with."

Gu Hongying asked subconsciously: "What about the seniors?"

"Gone." Qin Fei looked sad. "We didn't even see why he left. Don't ask. It's embarrassing."

Gu Hongying: “…”

You could have been more tactful in trying to fool me, really.

The three people looked at each other in confusion, and then four people looked at each other in confusion.

After a while, Meng Ziqiu spoke up first: "Let's search the old building first, otherwise the work flow report of the different places will not be passed."

The D-class mission that had mutated after intersecting with the E-class mission was successfully completed without any effort. The B-class mission that was suspected to have been activated was inexplicably terminated. The mysterious senior who took action only asked a name that he didn't know whether it was true or false. The senior manipulated the plants but they couldn't find the growth points of the plants, and couldn't judge what was going on... If these things were written into the work process report, they would be caught and laughed at by the group of people in the anomaly return for a year!

I felt a sense of pain as if a top student gave me the answer directly but the teacher kept asking me to solve the problem.

Among the four people, Lu Yayin stayed behind to stick a talisman on the bride to prevent her from suddenly waking up and going crazy in the last few hours of the seventh day. Qin Fei went directly to study the tower-shaped load-bearing column that made him particularly uncomfortable when he first noticed it after the green vine disappeared. Gu Hongying followed Meng Ziqiu and walked inside to search the old building.

After passing the tower-shaped load-bearing column, Gu Hongying saw the person lying on the ground at a glance: "Yu Tu!"

Yu Tu was lying on the ground unconscious, with blood all over his chest, neck, and cheeks. Looking over there suddenly, it was as if he was seeing a murder scene, which was extremely horrifying.

His voice caught Meng Ziqiu's attention. As soon as Meng Ziqiu's eyes fell over, his brows wrinkled subconsciously. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed Yu Tu's wrist. The pulse under his hand was beating, strong and powerful.

Meng Ziqiu felt relieved: "Nothing happened to him."

He took out a metal disc from the pocket at his left heart and put it on Yu Tu's forehead. A light golden light flowed on the disc, spreading from the forehead to Yu Tu's limbs. After the golden light covered his whole body, it began to change color. Yu Tu's shoulders, arms and ankles were covered with a layer of gray, and the gray at his heart was so dark that it was almost black.

Gu Hongying squatted on the side, worried: "Why is there such a strong ghost energy in this place?"

He had learned a lot of knowledge about ghost-related missions on the road these days. On Yu Tu's forehead was a simple version of a ghost energy tester, which was specifically used to determine where on a person attacked by ghosts was most severely eroded by the ghost energy, so as to provide precise first aid.

Gu Hongying had only seen this gray, almost black color in one type of report—a death report.

Although Yu Tu had blood on his body, his face was rosy. Gu Hongying tried and found that his breathing was normal. Just looking at his appearance, one could not tell that his current condition was so bad.

Meng Ziqiu performed other simple examinations on Yu Tu and finally concluded: "The ghost energy near his heart is not attached, but residual, and will not endanger his life safety."

Meng Ziqiu looked at the hole in the center of Yu Tu's pajamas and the bloodstains nearby, and suspected that the child had suffered a life-threatening crisis before, but was lucky enough that the mysterious senior saved him while comforting the ghost bride.

Meng Ziqiu took back the metal disc on Yu Tu's forehead and said to Gu Hongying, "Please move him back to the car first. After things here are over, we will send him to the hospital at the Foreign Affairs Bureau."

"As for these few people——" Meng Ziqiu's eyes fell on the three men and two women who were tied to one side of the tower-shaped load-bearing column and unconscious. People who have turned into ghosts due to resentment will have fixed targets for revenge on the seventh day. Three of the five people are the three members of the Feng family in the file. Although the other man and woman look a little unfamiliar, they must be related. "There is not enough space in the car, so let's tie them up here first. We don't need to send extra people to watch them. It's good."

With more missions to complete, their tolerance for scumbags has not increased, but decreased. As long as these scumbags who have done heinous things do not die before being tried, as for their treatment...ha, no one cares.

Gu Hongying took Yu Tu to the car outside the old building, while Meng Ziqiu looked around the old building for suspected growth points. After Gu Hongying settled Yu Tu, he went back to the old building to help.

What he didn't notice was that the moment he closed the car door, Yu Tu quietly opened his eyes a little.

It’s great that no one discovered his connection with the vest!

When he heard the question "Who is there?", his mind went blank. Those three people wearing protective clothing that looked expensive at first glance and filled with murderous aura, it was obvious at first glance that they were not to be trifled with!

It is no exaggeration to say that when Yu Tu walked forward, he felt his legs were stiff. Fortunately, the green vines beside him seemed to understand his fear and supported him inconspicuously from behind. The man who called himself "Meng Ziqiu" had a sharp gaze, just like the iron-faced and fear-inspiring head teacher in their senior year of high school!

Fortunately, he was in a state of half-consciousness, half-asleep, and his emotional fluctuations could not affect his voice at all. The name "Marquis of Nevernight" was also a sudden inspiration for him - anyway, he could just fool around first!

Yu Tu forced himself to talk to him for a few sentences, and then he had a vague premonition that his energy was about to dissipate.

Meng Ziqiu also said he wanted to visit him.

Yu Tu: “……?”

Wouldn't it be revealed in no time in front of professionals?

After saying "If we are destined to be together, we will meet each other", Yu Tu ran away decisively. If he didn't run away now, when would he run away?

Thanks to those strange ancient books in the teahouse, there is a record of a method of using the movement of plants to hypnotize people temporarily. Although I know that with their powerful strength, Yu Tu cannot hypnotize them completely, but as long as they are in a trance for a few seconds, it will be enough!

As the energy dissipated, the vest of Buyehou disappeared. The boss was calm and composed, waving his sleeves without taking away a trace of cloud. What does it have to do with Yu Tu who was lying on the ground in a daze and unconscious?

Anyway, Yu Tu is just a poor little bastard who fell into coma after being attacked. He will definitely not get up to clean up these things!

Even if you are not right, you are still strong.JPG

He didn't know if it was because the bead had merged into his body during the previous life-and-death crisis, and the energy leaked out and formed green vines all over the old building. Even though he recovered all the green vines, he could still vaguely sense what happened in the old building and even hear their conversation.

"Team Meng, there are no growth points on the second floor."

“Neither are there any on the tower’s load-bearing columns.”

"It was not found in the rafters."

“There are no signs of damage by plants at the corners.”

The four of them were all looking for the growth points of the green vines to determine the expertise of the Lord of Buye, and to infer his identity. They even looked at the beams and the shattered runes on the ground.

Yu Tu concentrated, listening to their conversation in the old building, and slowly let go of his worries. If they were looking for the growth point of the green vine, then they probably couldn't find it.

He touched his chest and felt his heart beating regularly and powerfully under his fingertips.

Yu Tu's eyes drifted for a moment.

They can't find the growth point not because of what they say, "The boss is so scary" or "The senior has perfect control over energy", but because... the growth point is his heart.

If the green vines spreading out from the heart are retracted, it is naturally impossible for them to cause any damage to the building!

The growth point is alive and is lying in your car.