Chapter 48
"You have a point." Xie put the jade pendant away and walked around the house a few more times. In the end, he even searched the toilet thoroughly, but he really couldn't find anything else.
"Where do you think he hid?"
Jing Xiebai looked up at Xie Que and thought, "He probably doesn't have much money. He can't rent a good house in such a short time. He's probably hiding in some old neighborhood."
Xie nodded, thinking the same thing. It was just that the old neighborhood had poor security and no surveillance, so finding him would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Jing Xiebai saw Xie Que's worry and comforted him, "He's so seriously injured that even his body can't afford to replace it. Don't worry too much. We're not far from success."
"Yeah." Xie glanced at the people guarding the door, turned sideways and asked in a low voice: "Are you really fully recovered?"
"Hmm?" Jing Xiebai raised his eyebrows, lowered his head following Xie Que's movements, with a look of doubt on his face.
Xie Quewei raised his head slightly, a trace of concern flashing in his ink-black eyes: "You haven't fully recovered from your last injury, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be so defeated by those blood puppets, let alone you..."
Xie didn't say anything more. He wasn't sure if Jing Xiebai wanted to mention the fact that he had released the Taotie, but he didn't want to. The conversation with Lu Jueqiu was like a huge rock weighing on his heart, making it hard for him to breathe.
"You want to ask me about the incident of releasing Taotie?" Jing Xiebai raised his lips slightly, looking nonchalant. "Don't worry, at worst I can just go to the underworld again to pay my respects to the King of Hell and ask him to let me go this time."
"Really?" Xie frowned, obviously not believing what he said.
"Really." Jing Xiebai put his hand on Xie Que's shoulder, closing the distance between them. He leaned his head against Xie Que's head and said in an ambiguous tone, "You care about me so much? You really don't like me?"
Xie Que: "..."
His face turned dark and he turned and walked out, leaving Jing Xiebai behind.
In the next few days, Jing Xiebai was busy looking for Chen Shan all over the world, but Xie stayed at home to study the relationship between Li Mohan and Xie Lingsong.
"Have you found any clues?" Jing Xiebai handed the amulet he had obtained from the Taoist temple yesterday to Xie Que, and sank into the sofa, with only a pair of long legs exposed.
Xie took the amulet and asked curiously, "Why are you still going to the Taoist temple to ask for it?"
"It's more effective." He suffered a lot for this talisman and begged the Taoist priest for a long time before he drew one for him. But when he thought about how it could protect people, he didn't say anything else.
Xie Que glanced at Jing Xiebai and poured him a glass of water.
"I find Li Mohan's life story very strange."
"What's so strange about that?"
"Look." Xie Que moved the computer towards Jing Xiebai. "He also participated in several large ghost-exorcism projects at the time. Although there's not much description of him in the records, the fact that he dared to participate in such a project shows that he was quite capable."
"He has no father or mother, so he must have learned all his skills from his master, but there's no record of his master at all, not even his name?!"
The time was too long, and even though Xie Que had almost gone through all the records of the four major families in the past few days, he had not found much useful information.
"Let me see." Jing Xiebai quickly put his hand on top of Xie Que's while Xie Que was not paying attention, staring directly at the computer and dragging his hand to move the mouse.
Xie was silent for a few seconds and didn't say anything. He just felt that the air conditioner temperature was a bit high. He looked up and saw that it was 16 degrees.
"Is Li Mohan's master some kind of hidden master?" Jing Xiebai turned his head to look at Xie Que, seemingly completely unaware of the other's embarrassment.
"It's normal to have people like that in that era, right?" Jing Xiebai moved his body forward a little, almost sticking to Xie Que. "But the timing of his master's illness is a bit strange. It's also strange that Li Mohan disappeared without a trace after this incident."
Xie Que quietly distanced himself from Jing Xiebai, and waited until the heat on his face subsided before speaking: "Do you suspect he's deliberately distancing himself from the evil arts?"
"Right." Jing Xiebai released his hand and leaned back on the sofa. "He also has a book on witchcraft hidden at home. It's impossible that he really wasn't involved in that incident back then. Maybe he even stole the book."
"Then how did he pass down his evil magic? On which stone did he carve the magic?" Xie frowned. He had only seen such things in martial arts novels. If words were really carved on a stone in real life, it would not be preserved for so long, right?
"Is there a possibility that he didn't drink Meng Po soup?"
"Is it possible to be like this?" Xie was a little surprised, "Are people in the underworld so careless when working?" After he said that, he felt a chill on his back. He turned around and found that the air conditioner was blowing towards him.
"It's not impossible, right?" Jing Xiebai sent a message to Lu Jueqiu, asking him to ask the Yin family to check the dates of Li Mohan and Xie Lingsong's deaths. He explained to Xie Que, "Logically speaking, although this kind of thing is possible, the probability is very small, but it can't be completely ruled out."
Just wanting to escape Mengpo soup is no different from cheating by flipping through a book under the nose of the invigilator. If you are caught, you will be severely punished. Isn't Li Mohan too brave?
"And he happened to be reborn as a ghost, so he didn't even need to practice cultivation. He is really a genius." After meeting two divine fortune tellers in succession, Xie suddenly felt a sense of resentment of being teased.
But from this point of view, it is not surprising that Li Mohan and Xie Lingsong can become sworn brothers. Both of them are equally scheming.
"Then how did they become enemies?" Xie recalled the last time he fought with Chen Shan and how the other party was shocked when he heard the name "Li Mohan". He wondered if he knew that he was the reincarnation of Xie Lingsong.
"If he really knew you were the reincarnation of Xie Lingsong, he should have killed you the last time he kidnapped you. How could he still be interested in investigating how you managed to escape certain death?"
Xie Lingsong thought about it and agreed. Judging from their last encounter, no matter how close Xie Lingsong and Li Mohan had been, that was all in the past. If they could meet now, they'd probably start fighting before they even opened their mouths.
"Hey, do you think they broke up because of the sorcery?"
Jing Xiebai raised his eyebrows and motioned Xie Que to continue.
"Look, from the moment we were dragged into this plot until now, Xie Lingsong has always been on our side. No matter how you look at it, he doesn't want Chen Shan to succeed in refining the ghost, right? If he wants to monopolize the evil arts, then at least he should be like Li Mohan and retain his memories and reincarnate, right?"
At the beginning, they were skeptical about Xie Lingsong, but now after going through so many things, Xie has begun to trust him.
Jing Xiebai didn't refute Xie Que. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Then it's possible that they really broke up because of the evil magic. Xie Lingsong noticed Li Mohan's plan, so he set up this chess game."
But the game is now in the hands of him and Xie Que, and the outcome will be decided by them.
Xie wanted to continue guessing, but the ringing of the phone interrupted him.
Jing Xiebai glanced at Xie Queyi, motioned him to wait, and picked up the phone: "Hello?"
"Found out." It was Lu Jueqiu's voice.
Jing Xiebai turned on the speaker: "Tell me about it."
"Li Mohan died a month before that incident was resolved. The cause of death was poisoning. Xie Lingsong lived to the end of his life, but his life was short. He only lived for thirty-eight years."
Xie Que suddenly said, "Where is Li Mohan's master? When did he die?"
"Xie Que?" Lu Jueqiu obviously didn't expect Xie Que to be with Jing Xiebai. "You're still with him so late?"
Jing Xiebai frowned and reminded Lu Jueqiu: "Let's talk business."
"...I haven't found out. I only know that he has a master."
Xie sighed. Although he had guessed it would be like this, he still felt a little regretful when he actually heard it.
"No more?"
“No more.”
"Then I'm hanging up." Jing Xiebai hung up the phone, threw it aside, and brought the subject back to the topic, "What role do you think Master Li Mohan played in this matter?"
"I don't know." There were too few clues, but Xie always felt like he was walking in the fog. He took every step carefully, and if he took a wrong step, he might fall into the abyss.
"Don't think about it, go to bed early." Jing Xiebai stood up and rubbed Xie Que's head. They had been so busy these past few days that their bodies were almost unable to bear it.
"I'm going to take a shower." Xie sighed and stopped thinking about it.
Before going to bed that night, Xie looked at the jade pendant beside him and remembered that he had taken off the amulet Jing Xie had given him while taking a shower and forgot to take it back. Thinking that no one would steal it, he did not get up to go back and get it.
Xie Que's sleep quality has always been very good, and he rarely even dreams. But tonight he had a very strange dream.
In his dream, he was in a very strange perspective. He could see a young man in black standing in front of him, but he could not see his face, only half of his body.
"If you really want to... do you know... I can't control you..." The voice sounded like it came from an old radio, intermittent and completely unclear.
"I simply... you... your sorcery... your chance." The man in black's voice was hoarse, with a hint of despair and hysteria. Even in his dream, Xie could sense the man's helplessness and grievance.
"I won't...never again..." The man in black suddenly disappeared after he said this. Just as Xie was about to follow him, a sharp cry suddenly rang in his ears. He opened his eyes suddenly and saw a dark figure in his room.
"Who!" Xie turned on the light of his cell phone and found that it was Jing Xiebai in his room.
Xie breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed completely.
"Why are you here?"
"I got up to go to the bathroom, and I heard you talking in your sleep, so I wanted to come in and see." Jing Xiebai turned on the desk lamp, and the warm yellow light dispelled the darkness. Only then did Xie notice that Jing Xiebai was holding the amulet he had given him not long ago.
"What did I say?"
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