Chapter 42
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In the bushes of Laixing Community, the rustling sounds of insects were particularly loud at night. At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound in the bushes, and the rustling sounds of insects stopped abruptly.
Luo Yu stumbled to his feet, brushed off the broken leaves on his body, looked up at the familiar floor, then lowered his head to Luo Zhi, who was still lying on the lawn, and said, "Master Luo Zhi, why did you choose to be in the bushes?"
Luo Zhi looked at the waning moon in the sky and said, "My spiritual power hasn't fully recovered yet, so I can't appear in one place so accurately right now."
Luo Yu lay down again, looked at the moon with him, and nodded.
Luo Yu turned sideways and stroked the tall nose with his fingertips. "It's all because of me that your spiritual power has been depleted so much. In this case, will it have any effect on your body in the human world?"
Luo Zhi held the naughty hand and said, "No, we ghosts cannot use our spiritual power casually in the human world."
Luo Yu asked, "What about those techniques before?" At this point, he suddenly remembered something, "You haven't taught me the Art of Moving Objects yet!"
Luo Zhi looked at his pouty face and smiled. He placed his palm on his chest and said, "Don't be angry. I will definitely teach you a lesson this time."
Luo Yu was satisfied. "Oh, then what did you mean by not being able to use spiritual power casually?"
Luo Zhi said, "There are rules in the underworld. Ghosts can only use non-lethal spells in the human world. Things like the Moving Object Technique are fine as long as they don't harm people. But if you force your spiritual power to do something else, you will be retaliated. So us ghosts are very weak in the human world."
Luo Yu felt that the last two words of Luo Zhi's name were very uncomfortable, as if he wanted to do something but could not do it due to his own conditions. But then he thought he was overthinking it, so he asked: "What about the ID card? This one is also..."
Luo Zhi: "That's an illusion I created with my spiritual power. It won't hurt anyone, so it's okay."
Luo Yu's brows slightly furrowed, and Luo Zhi said, "Look at me, am I not fine now?"
Luo Yu stepped forward and said, "The moon is a little bright tonight. You have to bite me quickly now. I'm afraid that I'll be blinded by the sunlight later."
Luo Zhi chuckled and was about to hug the person in his arms when he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from a distance.
"Who's there?!"
Luo Zhi and Luo Yu were both paused, suddenly remembering the owner of the voice. They looked at each other, and Luo Yu said, "It's the security guard. Should we scare him?"
Luo Zhi nodded: "What do you want to do?"
Luo Yu smirked, "How about pretending to be half-dead and crawling out of the bushes to grab his legs when he gets close?"
Luo Zhi shook his head, "Try another way. This is something only Wang Sanpao would do."
"..." Luo Yu said, "It's indeed a bit too immoral. Let me think about it."
Suddenly, a beam of light hit them, and Luo Zhi quickly took Luo Yu away.
The security guard took a shortcut and was now outside the bushes. He shouted again with a flashlight, "Who's there? Come out!"
There was complete silence.
The security guard murmured in confusion, "Could it be a wild cat? Why does it sound like someone is talking?"
Luo Yu was holding back his laughter behind a bush, while Luo Zhi was looking at him and laughing from behind another bush.
Just when the security guard was about to turn back, Luo Yuhuo stood up, and the branches and leaves rustled with his movement.
The security guard turned around suddenly, but at the moment he turned his head, the flashlight fell to the ground with a clang. His whole body froze, and his face suddenly turned pale as if he had seen a ghost, and his eyes were full of shock.
Luo Yu felt that his reaction did not seem like he was frightened, but rather like he had seen someone who had been dead for several years suddenly appear.
He smiled and waved: "Uncle, I haven't seen you for a few days. Don't you recognize me?"
The security guard seemed to be unable to believe what he saw. He pointed at Luo Yu, his voice trembling a little: "You...you're still...still laughing. Do you know that your parents...are crazy?"
Luo Yu's smile froze suddenly, and he rushed forward, "What do you mean by my parents are crazy? Uncle?"
Every time Luo Yu got closer, the security guard took a step back, as if the man in front of him was not a human but a ghost. The security guard lowered his head again, and when he found his shadow, he breathed a sigh of relief and shouted angrily: "Where have you been for the past five days? Now the news is all about you missing. Go home and tell your parents you are safe!"
Luo Yu was completely confused. Why did the news report him missing? What had happened in the past five days?
Suddenly, an image of a raging fire flashed through his mind.
There was a body buried under a tree in the next city, and the police dug it up after he went to the underworld?
"Oh my god!" The security guard suddenly screamed, his eyes fixed on Luo Yu and his back, "Why is there another person here? What the hell are you doing here?!"
Luo Yu was so frightened by this incident that he was out of his mind. His mind was full of thoughts about how to solve this problem.
Luo Zhi walked out of the bushes. He first came behind Luo Yu, put his hand on his shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't worry, I have a way."
Luo Yu looked at him, full of panic.
Luo Zhi nodded to him, then walked up to the security guard, raised his hand, and in front of the security guard's wide-open eyes, snapped the back of his neck, causing the security guard to faint.
Luo Zhi supported the security guard and dragged him into the bushes. He took the phone out of his pocket and opened the news app.
Luo Yu came over and saw the hot search terms on the mobile phone page. He felt as if he was poured with ten basins of ice water. He froze instantly and couldn't move.
"A 22-year-old named Luo from Lingcheng has been missing for five days now, and there's been no news so far..."
"The unidentified body in Huangbei City died in a manner almost identical to the man found dead in the abandoned factory in Jiangkou District last month..."
"A serial killer is suspected to have appeared in the city..."
"Luo disappeared after discovering an unidentified corpse..."
Luo Yu looked at these news items that were all related to himself. All kinds of ominous news came to him, and he felt like his brain was about to explode.
After Luo Zhi finished reading all the news, he roughly understood what had happened in the past five days. He put down his phone, looked at Luo Yu, and said, "Don't be afraid. Have you noticed anything missing from these news reports?"
Luo Yu was stunned, looked at him, and suddenly exclaimed: "You!"
"You have always been with me, but your name has never been mentioned in the news..." He stopped talking abruptly, and his hair stood on end as if he had been electrocuted. He took two steps back unconsciously.
Luo Zhi couldn't help laughing when he saw his action. He said helplessly, "What are you thinking about?"
Luo Yu felt a little dizzy. "This, this isn't right. Don't you already have an identity in the human world? Then why isn't there anything about you in the news?"
Luo Zhi saw that he was really doubting her, and suddenly bitterness rose in his heart. He said softly: "Luo Yu, I am not what you think."
Luo Yu suddenly stepped forward and shook his hand. "I didn't doubt you. It was just a momentary reaction, but now I understand. They must have noticed something strange about you, and this strangeness must be difficult for them to explain, so they didn't report it."
Luo Zhi was flustered by Luo Yu's alternating hot and cold attitude. After he calmed down, he explained, "Yes, that's my guess. I rely on my spiritual power to maintain my well-known identity in the human world. But now that my spiritual power has depleted, my identity will naturally be affected."
"If my guess is correct, I think they can find out my identity, but suddenly there is a blank and I can't explain it, so I have been investigating secretly."
Luo Yu was also thinking the same thing. He nodded and said, "Then what should we do now? If I show up unharmed, I'll probably be treated as a suspect."
Luo Zhi looked at him and said calmly, "So you are going to be a victim now."
Luo Yu was stunned for a long while before he said, "...becoming a victim?"
Luo Zhi said, "Yes, just like them, become a victim and let the police remove your suspicion."
Luo Yu didn't quite understand, "But if that's the case, who should I say is the one who harmed me? I can't..."
Luo Zhi smiled at him and said, "Yes, just say that I was the one who hurt you."
Luo Yu was stunned and couldn't utter a word.
Luo Zhi continued, "You and the police explained the body buried under the tree as a dream. This is already related to metaphysics. Then continue to use it to explain your disappearance. The more they investigate, the more bizarre it will become, because my identity in the human world can be erased at any time."
Luo Zhi was right. At the moment, this was the only solution. After hearing this, Luo Yu felt as if a huge bubble was stuck in his throat. After a while, he finally popped the bubble. "Then should I go... bang my head against the wall?"
Luo Zhi laughed again. He patted Luo Yu's head and said, "Why are you so stupid when you panic? Give me your hand."
Luo Yu: "What to do?"
Luo Zhi: "Hit you."
Luo Yu was confused again, "Why the thugs? And..." He glanced at the unconscious security guard on the ground, "What should we do here, uncle? He has already seen us."
Luo Zhi said, "I'll make him lose his memory for one night. When he wakes up tomorrow and knows your situation, he will naturally not believe what he saw last night."
Luo Yu nodded, "Okay, then..." Before he could finish the rest of the words, his hand was grabbed, and then all the blood in his body seemed to be drained in that instant. His body began to suffer from severe hypoxia, his heart beat violently, his head felt dizzy, and three seconds later, he collapsed.
Luo Zhi gently placed the person on the ground, took a few steps, and cast a spell on the security guard to cause him temporary amnesia.
After casting the spell, he walked out of the bushes and picked up the flashlight. He looked around again and went back after making sure there was no surveillance in the bushes.
After picking up the security guard, he knocked him twice on the top of the head. The security guard opened his eyes immediately as if a switch was pressed, but his eyes were unfocused, as if he was a dead body.
Luo Zhi put the flashlight into the security guard's trouser pocket, hid his body, and took the security guard to the security room.
It took Luo Zhi more than ten minutes to go back and forth before he returned to Luo Yu. He picked up Luo Yu and placed him in the most secluded place in the bushes. He disappeared in it almost as soon as he entered.
Before he was about to take action, Luo Zhi looked at all the floors around him again. After making sure that no eyes were watching him, he took a deep breath, and his hands holding various sharp weapons were shaking more and more.
Swish, a sharp silver light cut through the darkness, and an unpleasant smell of rust filled the air. Swish, swish, swish, countless silver lights flashed, and the sound of skin being cut echoed in the bushes. But the strange thing was that it was Luo Yu who was bleeding, but the one with pain on his face was the executor.
The smell of blood in the bushes became stronger and stronger, so strong that it seemed as if the landscaping workers who were watering the bushes today were not watering them, but blood.
As Luo Yu's body was covered with one horrible wound after another, Luo Zhi clenched his teeth tighter and tighter. His face was already soaked with cold sweat, and the heart-wrenching pain swept through every inch of his skin and every nerve, as if his skin would be peeled off and his tendons would be severed in the next second, making him live a life worse than death.
But what does that matter?
As long as Luo and his family can live safely, none of this will matter.
Two hours later, Luo Zhi could no longer hold the various sharp weapons in his hands. The sound of metal objects colliding could be heard in the bushes. Luo Zhi sat down tiredly, looking numbly at Luo Yu who was covered in blood. He looked extremely embarrassed.
After resting for a few minutes, he raised his hand with difficulty and stroked Luo Yu's face a few times.
The night was quiet, and the smell of blood in the bushes was strong and choking.
Luo Yu slowly raised his eyelids, and the first thing he saw was darkness. The moon had been covered by dark clouds without him noticing.
The next second, his eyes suddenly widened, and the strong smell of blood in his nose woke him up immediately. Just when he was about to jump up in fright, his shoulder was pressed back hard, and Luo Zhi's low voice sounded.
"Don't move. Your body can't move at all right now."
Luo Yu looked down at himself and almost shouted out loud, but Luo Zhi covered his mouth again.
Luo Yu's nostrils were filled with a faint salty and fishy smell. He looked at Luo Zhi's pale face and was immediately frightened again. He whimpered and wanted to speak, but Luo Zhi shook his head to signal him not to move.
Luo Yuguai calmed down. He looked at his colorful and hideous wounds, and realized that the most abnormal thing about him was that he could not feel any pain at the moment!
Suddenly, the memories before he fell into a coma came back to his mind. Thinking of the forbearance on Luo Zhi's face at that moment, an answer emerged from the wounds all over his body and emerged in his mind. His heart felt as if it was being squeezed by a poisonous hand and began to ache.
"...Luo Zhi, you are... transferring all my pain...to you..." Luo Yu's throat felt like it was being strangled, and every word he spoke felt like it was being cut. Tears instantly filled his eyes, dripping down, "...Are you...are you crazy...you must be in so much pain..."
A smile appeared on Luo Zhi's haggard face. He raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears on Luo Zhi's face, but no matter how hard he wiped, they would not be wiped away, just like a faucet that could not be turned off.
Luo Zhi said, "I'm fine. Have you forgotten that I'm a ghost? This doesn't matter to me."
Luo Yu said: "Ghosts don't feel pain? Are ghosts omnipotent? Can ghosts do whatever they want? Why do you do this without my consent..."
Luo Zhi swallowed his saliva, "Luo Yu, now is not the time to talk about this, remember..."
"What do you mean it's not the right time to talk about this?!" Luo Yu's eyes were sore and he felt uncomfortable. He spoke in an angry tone while tears rolled down his face. "We are in a relationship now. You can't make decisions on your own. You should discuss it with me, instead of knocking me out and then telling me. Do you understand..." The sobs and sobs made his voice become increasingly vague and smaller. "It makes me feel so uncomfortable when you do this. I feel sorry. I..."
Luo Zhi's lips trembled slightly. He hugged Luo Yu and said, "I know I was wrong, but now, there are really more important things to do."
Luo Zhi held up the tearful face and said, "Remember, when you get out later, if someone sees you, they'll definitely call an ambulance. So, you must pretend to be in pain. You'll probably have to stay in the hospital for a long time. You can put the idea of running a small shop aside for now. Remember, when the police come, no matter what they ask, they'll have to talk about metaphysics."
Luo Yu nodded while crying.
Luo Zhi wiped the corner of his eyes again, "Okay, I'm fine, right? Why are you still crying?"
The more Luo Zhi spoke, the more tears Luo Yu shed.
Luo Zhi helped Luo Yu up and coaxed him, "Don't cry, you have to get out now..." Suddenly, his whole body trembled violently, and he couldn't help shivering. A chill invaded him from the inside out.
He had never felt this way before, and it was definitely not caused by the pain from Jiang Luoyu.
This is from the underworld.
"What's wrong with you? Is it too painful?" Luo Yu was frightened when he saw him speak suddenly.
Luo Zhi shook his head. He immediately went back to the underworld to see what was going on. He said, "I'm fine. Get out now. Act like you're in pain and stay in the hospital for treatment."
After saying that, Luo Zhi pulled Luo Yu, who was covered in wounds and blood, out of the bushes, then returned to the bushes and began to clean up the bloodstains on the lawn.
On the tree-lined avenue, Luo Yu staggered towards the street lights ahead, looking back at the bushes that were getting farther and farther away from him.
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