Twenty minutes ago.
Zhang Yao on the roof suddenly looked up at the sky and said, "It's almost time."
Zhong Yi looked over. At this moment, he already understood that he didn't need to ask why. If he asked, he would have known. So he asked, "What do you need me to do?"
Zhang Yao stood up from her wheelchair. She looked down at the brightly lit streets from the highest point in the port city. On the eve of this festival, the streets in the most prosperous part of the port city seemed to be flowing with molten gold, forming a golden river, and illuminating the clouds in the night sky into crimson.
The light on the rooftop was dim, and Zhang Yao's thin and small body looked very small against the backdrop of the Hong Kong city. The silver in her pupils flowed slowly, and a faint light seemed to be lit in the depths, making her eyes beautiful and strange in the night. She looked down at the entire Hong Kong city, just like a god looking down at the world.
Brilliant beams of light swept past the building where they were standing. Some huge, dark ghosts appeared and disappeared in the light. They were ugly, with strange limbs, and looked exactly like the ghosts that had killed Yuan Yiping before. These ghosts crawled all over the building like spiders and quickly headed for the roof.
Zhang Yao seemed not to notice those shadows and said:
"You and Bai Wan are going to look for a man named Li Xu, who is Chi Shen's boss. I sent his location to your phone. After you find him, tell him that you have seen his girlfriend and take him to Gangcheng Bridge."
The wind on the rooftop also carried the smell of blood. Zhong Yi noticed it. He took a step towards the side of the building but was stopped by Zhang Yao.
"Wenqin has always known about my existence. He also knows that I will not help him. This is inevitable. This is my choice." The silver in Zhang Yao's eyes became more obvious when she looked at Zhong Yi, as if there was a shining galaxy in her eyes. "I think you know what to do."
Zhong Yi hesitated for a moment.
"Get down from the elevator. It's safe."
A hand with a foul smell climbed up to the edge of the roof.
Zhong Yi did not question it any further and just said, "Take care."
After saying that, he walked towards the stairs. Just as he was about to step into the staircase, he looked back and saw the man who had been standing silently behind Zhang Yao holding Zhang Yao in one hand and holding a sword wrapped in ghostly aura in the other.
In front of the man was a strange-looking multi-headed monster.
The man just chopped off all the heads of the ghosts with one sword, but immediately, more ghosts crawled up from outside the building.
Zhong Yi withdrew his gaze. He knew that he could not help much here. He had to do what he should do.
The address Zhang Yao sent him was not far away, and Zhong Yi quickly found Li Xu. After Chi Shen and Ma Caijin left, Li Xu did not go home. He found a place to have a second round of drinks. At this moment, he was drunk and was in a daze holding the bottle of wine.
Zhong Yi went over and explained his purpose. He originally thought that the drunkard in front of him would question him, but he didn't expect that after listening, the drunkard's eyes fell behind him for a moment, then he nodded, stood up and left with him.
"What will happen?" On the way, Zhong Yi asked Bai Wan behind him.
Bai Wan shook her head and said nothing, but her expression was a little solemn.
They were not far from the Gangcheng Bridge. Zhong Yi took a taxi and arrived in about ten minutes. The driver asked them curiously, "Is this place haunted? What are you doing here?"
Zhong Yi: "Looking for someone——"
"Haunted? What's haunted? Where is it haunted?" Li Xu sat up from his chair, sobering up from the alcohol. "Master, where is the haunted bridge? I'll go check it out."
Zhong Yi: “?”
The driver casually pointed them in a direction: "It's that bridge head."
"Thank you." Li Xu quickly took out his mobile phone and scanned the code to pay. Without asking Zhong Yi, he walked towards the bridge.
The driver looked at Li Xu's back, shook his head, and drove away. Zhong Yi looked at Li Xu's back, slightly worried: "Are you okay?"
Bai Wan stopped him and said, "Zhang Yao said just bring him here."
Zhong Yi stopped, but he did not leave. Instead, he sat down on the fence beside the bridge.
At this point, the number of vehicles passing through Gangcheng Bridge had decreased, with only a few cars here and there. Under the illumination of the yellow street lights, the road looked quite empty. Li Xu was walking slowly at first, but suddenly, as if he saw something, he quickened his pace, and after only two steps, he started running.
A woman wearing red high heels was standing on the bridge. Her body was swollen and water was dripping from her skirt. When she saw Li Xu coming, she turned her head and stared at Li Xu with her eyes wide open.
Li Xu stopped in front of her, feeling somewhat at a loss. He raised his hand as if wanting to hug the woman, but when he saw the woman's resentful look, he withdrew his hand.
"I……"
"Why did you come to pick me up now?" The woman looked at him, tears of blood streaming down her face. She stretched out her swollen hands and fiercely pinched Li Xu's neck, interrupting him, "Why didn't you come to pick me up? Why didn't you come to pick me up?!"
Li Xu did not resist. He was strangled to the point of being unable to speak, but he felt more relieved and even tried to smile despite the pain.
Zhong Yi was also looking in the direction of Li Xu. Just as Li Xu started running, he saw a woman standing on the bridge. It was obviously a female ghost. Although it was not very clear at night, Zhong Yi had seen many ghosts, so he could still recognize her at a glance.
The moment he saw the female ghost appear, Zhong Yi stood up. Bai Wan wanted to pull him, but failed. Her ghost power was very weak now, and Zhong Yi's clothes went directly through her hands. She looked at her hands in a daze, and then followed Zhong Yi.
"That's Li Xu's girlfriend." Bai Wan reminded Zhong Yi.
"No matter how bad his life is." Zhong Yi said as he quickly took out a small peach wood sword and swung it towards Li Xu.
Although Zhong Yi was weak and his yang energy was damaged, he was the first successor of a ghost-exorcist family after all. He slashed with his sword, and the female ghost suddenly let go of Li Xu and howled in pain.
Li Xu, who was suddenly released, gasped and started coughing loudly. Physiological tears hung on his face, but he didn't care about himself at all. He went to look at the female ghost while coughing wildly.
A bloody crack appeared on the ghost girl's body, from her left shoulder to her right abdomen. Seeing Li Xu coming to care for her, the ghost girl's resentment became even stronger. She ignored the pain of her body being torn apart and suddenly grabbed Li Xu's hand: "I'm leaving, and I'm going to take you with me--"
Zhong Yi was not far away from them to begin with, and now he had rushed over. He slapped a talisman on the female ghost's head. The female ghost howled and turned into ashes in front of Li Xu.
"Cough cough - no - cough cough cough -" Li Xu reached out to the female ghost's original position, but he reached nothing. He only grabbed a falling talisman in his hand.
"No--"
Li Xu knelt on the ground, holding the talisman in his hand and crying: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm here to pick you up, I'm sorry - cough cough -"
Amid Li Xu's howling accompanied by coughing, Zhong Yi suddenly took a step back. He felt a powerful force rushing out of Li Xu's body and separating him. Along with the crying of ghosts, the force soared up and seemed to sink into the sky.
"Li Xu?" Zhong Yi shouted, but Li Xu did not respond at all. The power formed a node and surrounded Li Xu inside. Even the sound of his crying began to become distorted.
"Li Xu!"
"It's raining," Bai Wan suddenly glanced at the sky, "This rain... isn't right."
——
Chi Shen's home.
Wen Qin's body died under the impact of the extremely strong Yin Qi. When Wen Qin died, a ghost floated out of his body. He looked at his hands, which were still frostbitten. Then he sighed: "Ghosts are really so magical, but I am not a frozen ghost."
As soon as he finished speaking, the frostbitten skin slowly recovered and turned into intact skin, and he gradually looked no different from the living Wen Qin.
"Since changing cognition is enough, then I should look like when I was young now." Wen Qin said again, and then his body slowly changed, the traces of time on his face gradually faded, he became younger, and his face became more similar to Ji Xingchen.
"Unfortunately, my death was within my expectations. I don't have enough resentment and I don't have much power."
With a casual sigh, Wen Qin looked at the sky outside the window again, as if expecting something.
"Dad." Ji Xingchen's voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Wen Qin was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand where the shout came from, and turned around to look.
Ji Xingchen's figure looked extremely unstable. The edge of his shadow kept jumping, as if it would collapse at any time. His eyes were also blood red, but his tone of voice was as calm and composed as always: "Actually, I remembered a lot of things."
Ji Xingchen closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, the blood in his eyes was even darker, and his figure began to disintegrate at this moment: "I have received all his memories now, and I am sure that it was you who killed Mom."
Wen Qin suddenly smiled: "Do you want to avenge your mother?"
Ji Xingchen shook his head. "You want to open that door. Your calculation is that when I collapse and release all my ghost energy, the door will open for me, and then you can pass through. In this case, you must have prepared a way to escape unscathed from my attack, so I won't do as you wish."
"I'm not opening that door."
With every word Ji Xingchen spoke, Wen Qin's expression became gloomier. By the time he finished speaking, Wen Qin's expression could be described as terrifying.
"But here, besides me, there is another person." Ji Xingchen calmly pushed his glasses with his hand that was beginning to break down.
There was a sudden knock on the door, and Zhou Xun poked his head out of the door: "You seem to need my help?"
The light outside the window suddenly dimmed, transparent water drops fell down, and it suddenly started to rain. All the ghosts noticed that something was wrong with the rain, and they looked out together.
Above the sky, the clouds gathered into a crying face, a face that made people feel sad at a glance. Heavy rain fell from that crying face, and great sadness enveloped the entire port city.
And in the middle of the rain, a white door appeared that was invisible to ordinary people.
"Door!" Wen Qin looked at the sky and suddenly shouted, "Door, the door is open!"
He floated up.
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