With the appearance of Chi Shen, the ghostly energy that had originally only squeezed in through the window gaps instantly filled the entire office. The office's Yin energy detection alarm immediately sounded, but it only sounded once before exploding.
"Chi Shen?!" A senior who had previously worked with Chi Shen to solve an incident immediately exclaimed in shock.
“What are you doing…”
"Are you really Chi Shen?"
Some people had already started to grab weapons, but Uncle Zhang suddenly said, "Wait a minute, I'll call the clan leader."
Everyone else looked over, even Li Shuan had an expression that said "Are you serious? Are you okay?"
"Don't move. I told you that you are my hostages, so I am confident that I can tie you all up at once."
Chi Shen walked down from the windowsill and looked at the man closest to him. He gently pushed back the knife that the man was about to pull out. He smiled friendly and said, "Brother Wang, using this knife for a long time is not good for your health. I told you, you can rest today."
The knife was sheathed with a clang. The man whom Chi Shen called Brother Wang wanted to pull it out again, but found that the knife did not move at all and he could not pull it out no matter what. At the same time, a cold and gloomy air came from the scabbard. He knew without looking back that it was the yin energy that blocked this family heirloom knife.
Brother Wang was silent.
Chi Shen walked over with a warm smile. Next to Brother Wang sat a pale-faced middle-aged man. Hearing this, his expression changed and he wanted to reach into his pocket to take something out. Chi Shen smiled and said, "Uncle Ge, your spells are all drawn with your blood. Don't waste it on a place like this."
Clang——
A compass fell to the ground, breaking the silence when Chi Shen finished speaking.
Chi Shen looked over and saw a younger man who looked a little older than him, but not much older. Chi Shen also knew this man. He was Xiao Yuan, the new man transferred here to replace Brother Yuan.
At that moment, Chi Shen's eyes were full of kindness. He looked at the young man's shaking hands like a person who had experienced it before, and slowly helped him pick up the compass: "Although this is an assembly line product, it will still cost a lot of money to buy another one if it breaks. Be careful."
The young man took it in panic, his face full of disbelief.
Chi Shen was right. This compass could indeed be bought in any souvenir shop, but what he had learned did not require a special compass to be effective. Any compass... or magnetic compass would do. He used the compass only because it had the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches engraved on it, which made it convenient for him to make calculations.
But when Chi Shen came in just now, the compass was all messed up. After spinning wildly for a few times, it pointed directly at Chi Shen. Even when Chi Shen was speaking, the compass needle was shaking.
Except for encountering an evil ghost and the one time when he worked with Chi Shen, the compass had never made a mistake. At that time, he just thought that there were evil ghosts around them and never suspected that it was Chi Shen's problem. Now he understood that the compass was messed up because of Chi Shen!
"Who are you and why are you pretending to be Chi Shen?" A middle-aged man sitting further away couldn't help but asked.
Xiao Yuan took another look at the compass. After Chi Shen touched it, it returned to normal, just like when he worked with Chi Shen before. He said, "He is Chi Shen."
"impossible--"
Li Shuan closed his eyes and then said, "He is Chi Shen."
Although his voice was not loud and even had no tone, just one sentence made the entire ghost-filled room quiet down.
"Patriarch Li is the one who sees things clearly." Chi Shen said with a smile.
Li Shuan's expression was slightly shocked, but he did not show any overly surprised expression. He just looked at Chi Shen. He had never revealed that he was the patriarch of the Li family. In the Special Security Bureau, these things would be deliberately not mentioned. Everyone was a colleague, but Chi Shen still saw it himself.
Chi Shen walked to Li Shuan's side in two steps, pulled a chair over, sat down calmly, and looked at Uncle Zhang: "How is it, what did Zhang Yao say?"
Uncle Zhang put down his phone and said, "She said... the position of clan leader is up to you."
When he said this, he didn't seem surprised at all, but he looked a little confused afterwards, looking at his pockets: "She also said that the tribe leader's token is in the right pocket of my coat, but I'm going out today-"
He reached out and touched it, and suddenly fell silent. After a moment, he took out a pair of ancient jade-carved yin-yang fish.
When he really found it, his expression became normal again, as if this was the most normal thing. He said seriously: "Okay, from now on, you are the patriarch of our Zhang family."
The others looked at this scene with different expressions. Some looked at Uncle Zhang with contempt and said bluntly, "Are all the Zhang family members so spineless?"
The middle-aged man who had looked pale before thought for a moment and asked, "Is this also considered good by Zhang Yao?"
Uncle Zhang did not answer, but handed the pair of yin and yang fish to Chi Shen, who also reached out to take them.
"Thank Zhang Yao for me—"
Chi Shen's voice stopped abruptly, and a knife pierced into Chi Shen's throat. Blood gushed out, dyeing half of Chi Shen's face red, and also dyeing the hands holding the knife red.
Everyone was looking at Chi Shen. Someone gasped and Li Shuan stood up with a strange look on his face.
Chi Shen's expression was too calm. He didn't look like a man whose throat was stabbed. His beautiful eyes, those dark pupils moved slightly, and his gaze moved away from the Yin-Yang fish and turned to the man holding the knife.
The one holding the knife was Xiao Yuan, who couldn't even hold the compass steadily. Although he couldn't hold the compass steadily, his hand holding the knife was very steady. He looked at Chi Shen with complicated eyes: "I'm sorry, but you are an evil ghost——"
Chi Shen's throat was still bleeding, but he naturally took back the Yin-Yang fish. He raised his other hand, held Xiao Yuan's hand, and pushed his hand away inch by inch.
Clang——
This time, it was the dagger that pierced Chi Shen's throat that fell to the ground.
Chi Shen wiped his neck with his blood-stained hand, and the hideous wound healed as before. A pale and bluish hand handed over a wet tissue.
"Your clothes are dirty," Ji Xingchen came out from the shadows and handed the wet tissue to Chi Shen, "You can't go back like this later."
Chi Shen seemed to want to say something, but at this moment he paused and said, "Well, okay."
Xiao Yuan's hands finally began to tremble: "This is, this is..."
"I know, this is an enchanted sword. Brother Yuan told me that it can kill evil spirits. Well, to put it simply, it is a special attack on evil spirits." Chi Shen wiped the blood from his neck bit by bit and said slowly, "But it's useless to me. Part of me is still human. You can kill the human part of me, and then I will use the ghost part to make up for it. I am not an evil ghost - at least not now."
As he spoke, the corners of his mouth slowly rose, and he tilted his head and smiled, his eyes sweeping across the faces of everyone present: "I asked you to stab me, and I also want to tell you that you can't kill me. As long as you do what I say, you will be fine. I assure you that I am an honest person."
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