Special Security Bureau.
"There are quite a lot of people coming to see you. Is this the treatment for the young master of the Bai family?" A man pushed open the door with a smile.
Bai Ran walked out of the door. He glanced coldly at the person who spoke and ignored him. Instead, he looked at the woman sitting opposite him, who was his mother who had raised him for more than twenty years.
Xu Xiuyun was looking around the environment. The room was covered with talismans, which were obviously to prevent someone from doing anything extraordinary when seeing the suspect. For people like them, extraordinary things were often not violent prisoner rescues, but solutions using ghosts and gods.
Seeing Bai Ran coming out, Xu Xiuyun also withdrew her gaze. She stood up from her seat, took two steps forward, and sat back down at the reminder of the policeman next to her.
"Why are you so thin?" Xu Xiuyun looked at Bai Ran, feeling a little reluctant.
Bai Ran sat on the chair, restrained his expression slightly, and showed a trace of sadness: "It's all my fault. I've caused you trouble."
Xu Xiuyun sighed, she looked at Bai Ran for a while, and then said: "You...you...Actually, I have feelings for you over the years. Even if we are not related by blood, you are still my son."
"I shouldn't have done those things without telling you," Bai Ran looked into Xu Xiuyun's eyes and said word by word, "I have caused you trouble, but I told them that what I did has nothing to do with you. It's just that they have been asking me about the Bai family, but I know nothing about you and your father. I don't know why they asked me."
The faces of several policemen in the room changed. Bai Ran's words seemed to say "If you don't help me, I will tell you everything about my family" written on their faces. They all looked at Bai Ran or Xu Xiuyun with strange eyes.
Xu Xiuyun didn't know if she understood what Bai Ran meant. She lowered her head to wipe away the tears that suddenly welled up in her eyes and said, "Your father and I have thought of many ways. This time..."
Bai Ran listened, and he also shed two tears, and asked softly: "Mom, how long will I live here?"
Xu Xiuyun sighed again and shook her head.
Looking at Xu Xiuyun's performance, Bai Ran's eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of viciousness, and his pitiful expression suddenly relaxed, looking completely indifferent.
Xu Xiuyun didn't look up. She wiped her tears and said, "There are other ways, there are other ways. Look, Chi Shen was able to get out of that hellhole, so you can do it too."
Bai Ran sneered: "After coming out of that place, he became so-called 'friends' with so many ghosts. I don't know if he is still human."
Only then did Xu Xiuyun look up at Bai Ran.
Bai Ran also looked at Xu Xiuyun, and when he saw his adoptive mother's gaze, Bai Ran's sight suddenly stopped. He clenched his hands tightly and looked at Xu Xiuyun with a fierce look.
"Of course," Xu Xiuyun looked at Bai Ran, "Mom has no other choice. I asked about your case, and they said there is only the death penalty, no other chances."
Bai Ran stood up from his chair angrily and spat, "Useless thing."
Xu Xiuyun wiped her tears again, stood up from the chair, looked back at Bai Ran, and then left.
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At this time, Chi Shen was shopping in the mall with Sheng Yulan.
Sheng Yulan saw the milk tea shop nearby, looked at it for several times, and then pulled Chi Shen: "I want to drink that, is it delicious?"
Chi Shen took a look and immediately said with a smile: "Mom, wait for me for a moment, I'll go buy it for you."
"Give me the things, I'll help you look after them."
Chi Shen smiled and nodded, then went into the milk tea shop with Sheng Yulan, put the clothes he bought on the seat, and went to buy milk tea himself. When he turned around and came back, he found that Sheng Yulan was gone, and the clothes on the seat were also gone.
Seeing Chi Shen's appearance, the waiter who was clearing the table just now said, "Your mother said she will be back soon, so she asked you to wait for her here."
Chi Shen nodded and thanked him.
He actually knew where Sheng Yulan was. That was a paper figure he made himself, with his mark and breath on it. He had a sense of connection with the paper figure, so he naturally knew its location.
But Du Jun didn't know, so he could only wait in the milk tea shop.
Sheng Yulan didn't make him wait long. Soon, Sheng Yulan appeared in the milk tea shop again. This time, the two clothing bags in her hands became one.
"Mom?" Chi Shen asked according to Du Jun's appearance.
"I'll go return the clothes," Sheng Yulan said with a smile, "I thought about it and decided it would be a waste to buy me clothes. This isn't how Chi Shen's money should be spent. This set is enough for me. I don't go out often anyway."
"It's okay, Brother Chi Shen said you can spend it as you like." Chi Shen's tone was still very young, but he felt helpless. He could decide where to spend his money! He was happy to buy clothes!
"Then we can use this money to go to the market to buy some vegetables, and I will come back to make you something delicious." Sheng Yulan said.
The waiter beside him smiled and said, "You two have such a good relationship."
Sheng Yulan smiled and said, "It's so hard to have a child, so we should treat him better."
Now the guests nearby all laughed.
After leaving the milk tea shop, Sheng Yulan really took Chi Shen to the supermarket, bought some ingredients, and went back to cook for Chi Shen.
As soon as the two opened the door, Huang Lingling rushed over: "Mom! You are finally back!"
Chi Shen pointed at himself and said, "Call me brother!"
Huang Lingling glanced at him and turned her head away unhappily: "You are my younger brother! And you don't take me out, you are a bad brother! Mom is a good mother!"
Chi Shen: ...I really want to slap her to death.
"Mom, mom! I want to eat delicious food too!" Huang Lingling probably realized that Chi Shen didn't dare to embarrass her in front of Sheng Yulan, so she acted hard, "I want to eat better food than my brother! I haven't even tasted the food you cook! He can eat it every day!"
"Okay, okay," Sheng Yulan agreed with a smile, "Go to the living room with your brother and wait. It will be ready soon. It will be ready soon."
Chi Shen smiled and stretched out his hand to Huang Lingling: "Come on, sister, let's go together."
Huang Lingling took a look, gave a sly smile, and ran to the living room by herself, not giving Chi Shen any chance to take advantage of him.
"That's why I don't like children," Chi Shen covered his forehead with a headache and walked into the living room, "This is too troublesome."
As soon as Huang Lingling arrived in the living room, she pestered Bai Wan to watch TV. Bai Wan also played it for her. Chi Shen looked and saw that Huang Lingling was still watching Journey to the West! Wasn't she afraid of being beaten to death by the righteous golden hoop? Ghosts would be very scared when seeing this!
However, Chi Shen didn't care about Huang Lingling. He walked towards the balcony.
There was a sound of water in the kitchen. Sheng Yulan was cooking. Chi Shen knew that she probably wouldn't come out for a while.
On the balcony, red candles circled a black shadow that looked like a child. It seemed that he was afraid of Bai Wan's evil spirit, so he lay in the circle of red candles and shivered. Chi Shen didn't expect that this child ghost had climbed onto the balcony again. He looked really brave.
Chi Shen squatted down to the child's eye level, and asked, "Is the old ghost that was thrown down that day delicious?"
Hearing his question, the black child slowly raised his head from the circle of red candles.
Chi Shen looked at the child. The child was immersed in black air, even his skin was black, but he had a pair of blood-red eyes. The child opened his mouth but could not utter a word. Chi Shen noticed that the child had no teeth, and the black mouth was empty.
Chi Shen's gaze paused slightly. He felt the breath of the old man who was thrown out on the child. The child should have eaten the ghost. This also explained why the child was a little bigger than when he saw him before. Ghost eating ghosts is equivalent to replenishing Yin Qi. He gave two drops of Ji Xingchen No. 2's blood, which was full of Yin Qi, to Huang Lingling, and Huang Lingling grew legs. So it is normal for a child to grow up by eating ghosts.
Chi Shen had seen a lot of things like this in the death game, so he quickly came to a conclusion, but he was more confused.
The way the child looked at him seemed completely irrational, with only the most primitive anger and fear. Many ghosts dominated by hatred were like this, but they would have more obvious directions for their anger. However, this child seemed to be just angry that he was locked up by Bai Wan's candle.
The black child looked very scared. He wanted to run, but it was not just the candle that stopped him. It seemed that there was something in the house that made him not want to leave. Chi Shen could see the child's dilemma.
He stretched out his hand and picked up the black child. Only then did he see that under the black air, the child was wearing very tattered clothes, which looked like a bed sheet... No, it was a ragged bed sheet. His eyes darkened and he ignored the child's struggle and looked into the child's eyes.
Fear, suffocation, hunger—
Also, there are strange, incomprehensible, and unknown fragments of images.
It was the black child who couldn't understand, not Chi Shen himself.
Chi Shen saw the primitive animality in the black child. He seemed to have grown up in an inhuman primeval forest. He could not understand many things created by humans. He did not even understand the language spoken by humans. Only hunger and fear dominated him.
In the black kid's memory, Chi Shen didn't even see how he died.
"strangeness……"
Chi Shen stroked his chin and thought for a while, when suddenly the phone in his pocket vibrated.
In order to avoid being exposed, Chi Shen set his cell phone to vibrate mode. He carried the phone with him because he was afraid that something might happen at home if he left.
Chi Shen took it out and looked at it. It was Yuan Yiping.
He picked up the phone, and Yuan Yiping's voice immediately rang out: "Chi Shen, did you encounter anything strange?"
Chi Shen's gaze fell on the black child. He felt that this was not what Yuan Yiping was talking about, and that Yuan Yiping's tone of voice was too fast, even skipping the usual polite "hello". This was not in line with Yuan Yiping's style as an old cadre.
He had a premonition that something big must have happened in the Special Security Bureau.
"No, what happened?"
Yuan Yiping said: "Bai Ran committed suicide."
"Oh." Chi Shen's voice immediately became cold. He thought it was some big deal.
Yuan Yiping added: "His soul is gone."
This time Chi Shen was a little more interested: "Oh?"
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