Chapter 180

Lin Shuyou held a map in his left hand and a compass in his right, circling around until he finally found his destination.

Each of them was equipped with a compass, but aside from Tan Wenbin, who could use his compass to some extent for feng shui purposes, the compasses in the hands of Ayou, Mengmeng, and Runsheng could only be used as oversized magnets.

The coordinate point was in a village within a township. Lin Shuyou took off his backpack, held it in his arms, and sat down by the roadside.

Next to him was a private house, and beside the main building of the private house was a separate small brick house, which was the toilet.

Lin Shuyou hadn’t been sitting for long when an auntie came out of the house to go to the toilet.

Without pulling a curtain, she turned around, facing outwards, her buttocks puckered. She half-squatted, pulled down her cotton pants, and directly sat on the wooden seat with two armrests.

Lin Shuyou only felt a large patch of white flash before his eyes, then he immediately turned his head away, his face red.

“Which family’s boy are you?”

The auntie, who was in the process of relieving herself, also had nothing better to do, so she asked Lin Shuyou.

“I’m not from around here.”

“Oh, you speak Mandarin, hehe, then where’s your hometown?”

“Fujian.”

“Fujian, ah, are the people over there all doing business, very rich?”

“No.”

“I heard people from Fujian are all very rich, the houses they build are all many floors.”

At this moment, the auntie was like an empress dowager sitting on a dragon throne, and Lin Shuyou was like a tender eunuch being questioned in front of the seat.

Lin Shuyou originally thought about continuing to sit here, and it would be quiet after people finished relieving themselves.

After all, the coordinate point he found was right here. It was now afternoon, and it was estimated that the evil spirits would come out in the evening.

But the auntie’s speaking voice attracted several aunties from nearby private houses. Several aunties walked out of their homes and came over to chat.

As they chatted, two of them also started to urge, seemingly wanting to relieve themselves as well.

From time to time, they would deliberately shout at Lin Shuyou, asking about his situation.

A handsome young outsider, hugging a bag, sitting by the roadside for so long, indeed made people very curious.

Finally, Lin Shuyou gave up. He left the most accurate position and stood up, walking to a slightly farther flat-roofed house.

The flat-roofed house was surrounded by farmland. There was a small stream in front of the door, and a persimmon tree beside the stream.

Lin Shuyou sat down with his back against the tree root. Although the distance was a bit far, the terrain was open and flat, and he could still clearly see the previous coordinate point.

Just like this, he sat quietly until dusk.

Cooking smoke billowed from the chimney of the flat-roofed house. An old grandpa carrying a toolbox and holding a saw walked back from the small road outside.

He was a carpenter and would take some scattered jobs in nearby villages.

His children had all started their own families and lived separately. He wasn’t willing to follow them, feeling that his own life was free. Only he and his old partner lived in the old house.

The old grandpa was very enthusiastic and proactively came over to talk to Lin Shuyou.

But the old grandpa didn’t speak Mandarin, and even listening was a bit difficult.

Lin Shuyou was aware that he had learned a bit of Nantong dialect during his stay at Li Dazye’s house, but he didn’t expect that just going from one county to another, he actually completely couldn’t understand this old grandpa’s dialect.

One old and one young, they just talked for a long time under this persimmon tree like chickens talking to ducks.

Subsequently, the old grandpa shouted twice towards the house, and the old grandma came out from the kitchen’s small door, smiling and looking at Lin Shuyou before going back in.

The old grandpa reached out and patted Lin Shuyou’s shoulder, then used force to help him up.

Lin Shuyou understood; this was an invitation to eat.

He had supplies in his backpack and quickly refused, saying there was no need. But the more Ayou refused, the more enthusiastically the old grandpa invited him, gradually developing into a mutual pulling.

Language barriers existed, but enthusiasm was understood.

Finally, Lin Shuyou truly had no choice and could only bow and thank him, agreeing.

The evening meal wasn’t eaten inside the house, but outside. Two square stools were set up as a table, and three small stools were added.

This eating habit was similar to that at Li Dazye’s house.

Except for rainy days, Li Dazye’s house also basically set up a table on the threshing ground to eat. During the meal, people passing by on the village road could still conveniently chat.

The dishes were very simple: one bowl of red braised potatoes and one bowl of stewed vegetables with vermicelli.

Perhaps to entertain guests, the old grandma also specially peeled three century eggs and put them into a vinegar bowl, then cut a plate of homemade sausage.

The old grandpa wanted to pour wine for Lin Shuyou, but Lin Shuyou quickly refused.

He explained that he still needed to catch ghosts in the evening and was afraid of drinking wine and delaying things.

The old grandpa didn’t understand, but seeing Lin Shuyou pick up the rice bowl and start eating, he thought this young boy truly didn’t drink wine, so he poured himself a bowl of yellow wine.

The old grandma used chopsticks to break the century egg, picked up half a piece, dipped a bit of vinegar, and put it into Lin Shuyou’s bowl.

Lin Shuyou proactively extended his bowl to receive it and said thank you.

The potatoes were stewed until soft and mushy, and the sausage was very fragrant, both very suitable for eating with rice.

As a martial arts practitioner, Lin Shuyou originally ate a large amount of rice. Without realizing it, he had already eaten two large bowls.

By the time the old grandma served him the third bowl, the old grandpa, who was drinking wine and preparing to eat, came out of the kitchen with his rice bowl, which only had leftover pot crust.

Lin Shuyou knew he had eaten too much.

By now, the sky was already dark.

At the previous coordinate point, a stage had been set up without him knowing when.

Banners hung on both sides of the stage, and a large speaker was placed at the top.

Although the dishes were very fragrant, Lin Shuyou was sure he wasn’t distracted. That stage just suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Someone started performing on the stage.

“Keng keng qiang! Keng keng qiang!”

From the speaker, the sound of local opera was transmitted.

Lin Shuyou heard Tan Wenbin say that this local opera’s official name was also called Tongju.

Bingbing bro said it was very unpleasant and only old people liked it.

But only listening to this opening segment, Lin Shuyou unexpectedly found it not bad, full of emotion and flavor.

Art is originally subjective; it’s a thousand people, a thousand faces, depending on individual taste.

If he hadn’t known that it was an evil spirit setting up the stage, Lin Shuyou would have really wanted to move the small stool he was sitting on to the stage and properly appreciate it.

At this time, the old grandpa and old grandma, who were originally eating, sat stiffly there, a stock of turbidness revealed in their eyes.

Lin Shuyou closed and opened his eyes, his pupils changing slightly, dispelling this influence.

He knew this was ghost singing opera.

Folk opera generally has two forms of performance: one is singing for people to watch, and the other is singing for ghosts to watch.

In his hometown, on some fixed days, people would be specially invited to the ancestral hall to sing opera at night, singing all night, with no one under the stage.

Besides these two mainstream forms, there is also a special form: ghosts singing for people to watch.

This act reverses yin and yang. When watching the opera and collecting rewards, what the ghosts want is the yang life of the living people under the stage.

By now, there must be many people in nearby private houses, all in a state of stupor like the old grandma and old grandpa in front of him. It wouldn’t be long before they would bring their own stools from home and go to the edge of that opera stage to appreciate the ghost opera.

It was indeed a bit fierce; he was afraid of lingering here for a long time.

Lin Shuyou opened his backpack and started to change clothes, then did his makeup.

Since the stage was already set up, if you sing, can I not sing?

After finishing his makeup, he stood up in his Official General Head costume.

Since following Xiao Yuange, Ayou’s changes were not just as simple as extending the time for descending.

Under Xiao Yuange’s threat, each time the child descended, the support given also increased step by step.

It could be said that it achieved a double upgrade in terms of time and quality.

The old grandpa and old grandma had already picked up their stools, looking like they wanted to move towards the stage.

Lin Shuyou took the first step, his feet taking three steps of praise.

In the eyes of ordinary people, he was clearly walking very slowly, but his figure, however, inadvertently strode out very far.

He arrived under the stage.

At this time, the area was still in a state of no one around. There was a group of performers on the stage, but only the “Tang Wang” clustered in the middle was relatively complete.

Other “actors” were all just moving costumes; their heads, hands, and feet couldn’t be seen, and they were all floating.

This play was called “Tang Wang You Di Fu”.

Tang Wang blankly looked at Lin Shuyou standing under the stage and actually forgot his lines for a while.

It completely didn’t expect that the opera stage had just been set up, the good play had just begun, and it would immediately encounter such an existence.

Lin Shuyou leaped up, jumped onto the stage, and swung his trident. A series of screams emanated from the surrounding costumes, all avoiding him.

Tang Wang raised his hand, and a group of black fog scattered from his body. Soon, a group of black shadows like small ghosts appeared on the opera stage.

According to the play’s content, these small ghosts should have come to capture Tang Wang, but at this moment, they were all commanded by Tang Wang.

Lin Shuyou’s gaze condensed, scanning the surroundings.

These small ghosts continuously clamored, but always dared not approach him.

It should be known that at this time, Lin Shuyou had not yet descended.

Tang Wang was angry and ashamed, continuously muttering angry curses in his mouth, but Lin Shuyou completely didn’t understand.

Subsequently, Tang Wang drew out his waist belt and started beating these small ghosts. The small ghosts emitted screams and were driven to attack Lin Shuyou.

Lin Shuyou held the trident in his hand, his figure flipping on the stage, entangled with these small ghosts. He blocked two times, then waited for an opportunity to attack. The trident was originally a mortal weapon, but after being used multiple times by the descending White Crane Child, it was already stained with yin god aura. To these small ghosts, who didn’t even count as specters, it was simply a sharp weapon.

“Ah.”

“Ah!”

A series of screams were emitted. One by one, the small ghosts were pierced by the trident, struggled on the ground after falling, and then began to turn into black ash.

Pity, the villagers in the nearby private houses were still in the stage of holding stools and marching towards here. There was no one under the stage to appreciate it.

Otherwise, this extremely wonderful martial play alone could make people slap the table and applaud, not wasting tonight.

Moreover, such a play code is ordinarily really very hard to see.

The White Crane Child within the Official General Head of the child opera battling Tang Wang.

Comparable to Guan Gong warring Qin Qiong in the new era.

Seeing that these small ghosts couldn’t take down Lin Shuyou, Tang Wang finally couldn’t hold back. He drew out his waist sword and stabbed towards Lin Shuyou.

Lin Shuyou was waiting for this opportunity.

This evil spirit that set up a stage and sang opera was not considered very powerful, but Xiao Yuange said that it needed to be done cleanly, not only defeating it but also thoroughly killing it.

Afraid it would turn and run and be difficult to chase, Lin Shuyou had not yet descended.

At this point, Tang Wang actively attacked. Lin Shuyou first used the trident to block the opponent’s sword.

The evil spirit’s strength was very strong. After a short stalemate, Tang Wang began to suppress Lin Shuyou downwards. Both sides’ weapons continuously shifted towards Ayou’s side, and Ayou himself was suppressed to the point of kneeling on one knee.

Just at this moment, Lin Shuyou’s eyes glared, and his vertical pupils opened!

His entire body’s momentum suddenly changed, and the White Crane Child descended.

The Official General Head was most skilled at dealing with these ghosts and evil spirits. After all, they were once ghost king level existences, but they were recruited by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Tang Wang was greatly shocked. He even threw his sword and just wanted to run.

How could the White Crane Child let it have its way? He stretched out one arm, directly piercing Tang Wang’s chest, then pulled back, forcibly pulling Tang Wang back in front of him.

Flipping his palm, he released a technique. White rope shadows bound Tang Wang’s entire body, making it impossible for it to escape no matter how it struggled. It couldn’t even cast techniques if it wanted to escape.

The White Crane Child held the trident in his other hand and stabbed down towards Tang Wang’s head.

“Ah!!!”

Tang Wang emitted screams, and black fog boiled from his body.

In the White Crane Child’s vertical pupils, a wisp of comfort and excitement was revealed.

Ever since this child, who had descended for himself, followed that youth walking the river, he had faced strong enemies almost every time he descended. And on that youth’s side, terrifying big guys that even He couldn’t look at directly would often appear.

Finally, after much difficulty, he encountered some normal small minions that he could easily crush and suppress.

After doing such high-difficulty work for a long time, suddenly encountering a low-difficulty one truly made the child enjoy himself.

Tang Wang’s miserable screams continuously spread outwards along the large speaker above the stage.

“Bang!”

The large speaker couldn’t support it and turned into broken electronic sounds, spreading to the surroundings.

The residents holding stools around, one by one, their gazes regained clarity, as if they had been walking in a dream.

The White Crane Child stirred his trident, and Tang Wang’s head shattered.

The costumes floated down, and the stage disappeared.

The original place was still that piece of farmland.

In front, there was a mouse with a body the size of a cat, its head already shattered, and the trident stood at that end.

Besides, next to the mouse was also a broken speaker and two or three pieces of old costumes.

The White Crane Child drew out his trident, lifted his foot, and stepped towards the mouse corpse.

“Squeak squeak squeak!”

The headless mouse corpse could unexpectedly still emit screams.

This guy actually wanted to use fake death to escape, but how could this trick possibly deceive the child’s vertical pupils?

In its last screams, the child lifted his neck, his face revealing enjoyment.

This sound was the true good singing voice.

“Bang!”

Finally, the mouse’s body thoroughly exploded.

The child lowered his head to look, it was still not enough.

Compared to this time, not walking the river, and cleaning up this role that hadn’t entered the mainstream, the merit was therefore not high.

However, after the child lifted his head and looked at the air, he discovered a new weather, or rather, a trend.

That youth wanted to establish a dojo here and set up a courtyard.

Folk custom inheritance has extremely strong regionality. Each region has its respective traditional characteristics. People have their territory, and gods have their incense fire range.

The child began to think in his heart: It would be great if a temple for the Official General Head could be built here.

But soon, this idea was abandoned by the child.

One reason was that He didn’t dare to open his mouth to that youth.

Another was that even if a temple for the Official General Head was set up and those invited over were put there, he would still rank last. Wouldn’t he be working hard and making wedding dresses for others again?

Suddenly, another idea was born in the child’s heart.

If not setting up a temple for the Official General Head, then can he set one up separately within that youth’s dojo?

It was better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

At most, he would come out and fight alone!

The vertical pupils disappeared, and the child left.

Lin Shuyou stood in his original place. He could “hear” the child’s previous ideas as a possessed child, or rather, the child was deliberately telling him in this way.

“This…”

For a moment, Lin Shuyou didn’t know what to say.

How would he explain this to Grandpa and the masters when he went back next time?

Could he not directly tell them,

Lord White Crane Child wants to change jobs?

…

“Crash! Crash! Crash!”

Late at night, in this high school teaching building, the water faucets in the restrooms on every floor all turned on by themselves.

Yin Meng sat on the rooftop, a pack of salted peanuts in her hand, throwing them into her mouth one by one.

Li Dazye would proactively buy a lot of snacks for Xiao Yuange, but Xiao Yuange usually basically didn’t eat them.

Runsheng and Tan Wenbin also usually didn’t have the habit of eating snacks.

Afraid they would expire, these were all eventually consumed by Yin Meng.

Before, at the store at Haihe University, her mouth was also never idle.

To be accountable to Lu Yi, every time he stocked up, he had to separate out an extra portion in advance for Yin Meng’s snack consumption.

As a person from Sichuan-Chongqing, the love for life is engraved in the bones. While able to endure hardship, they are also more willing to eat.

In most construction sites and factories, during meal times after work, the best food often comes from Sichuan-Chongqing workers.

So, after Yin Meng came to Nantong, she always felt that life here had little meaning, it was rigid and not lively.

After nightfall, except for schools and factories that still had lights on, it was very difficult to find a decent night snack street in the urban area.

Therefore, suppressing it for a long time would also lead to problems.

Yin Meng came to this school early to wait. It was now eleven o’clock at night. The students had just left the teaching building after evening self-study. The lights in the classrooms and street lights were all off, and the area fell into a cold state.

And the dirty things had already impatiently started absorbing this fresh resentment.

Not long ago, several more people should have jumped off the building, making the feng shui pattern here very strange and tight.

Hurry up, hurry up.

Yin Meng was getting a bit impatient waiting because the snacks in her bag were almost finished. Could she not use compressed biscuits to sacrifice her teeth?

Finally, under the restroom on this floor, the light bulb started flickering, and a dark shadow was gradually forming.

A male student, at this time, ran back to the teaching building again. He had a love letter tucked in his chest and planned to take advantage of this time when there was no one to stuff it into the desk of the female classmate he admired.

No matter how suppressed the teaching atmosphere was, it was still very hard to completely suppress the restless heart of youth.

After stuffing the love letter, the male student prepared to conveniently go to the restroom to relieve himself.

As he approached the restroom, he saw a wet shadow wearing a school uniform walk out of the restroom, looking at him with a ferocious smile.

“Come down and accompany me… Come down and accompany me… Come down and accompany me…”

“Ah!!!”

The male student was scared and screamed, then his body stiffened, and with a “thud,” he fell to the ground, fainting.

“Pfft…”

Yin Meng couldn’t help spitting out the peanuts in her mouth.

You could at least scream or run away again. Just fainting with one face, this psychological endurance was still too early to fall in love!

But no matter what, she couldn’t watch that male student become the first sacrifice of that resentment ghost.

Xiao Yuange had calculated the coordinate position early just to let these evil spirits that came in not do any evil yet.

With a flick of her whip, her figure swung down. Midway, she drew out the whip and re-tied it. Yin Meng landed in front of the male student in an extremely agile manner.

Having experienced two severe poisonings and not dying, her body strength hadn’t changed much, but her agility and lightness had made very clear progress.

The resentment ghost wearing a school uniform saw Yin Meng, raised both hands, and moved towards her.

The resentment ghost’s feet didn’t move, but liquid continuously flowed from its body, as if it was sliding.

“You finally came out. I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”

Yin Meng raised her hand, imitating Xiao Yuange’s habit, and snapped her fingers.

“Pa!”

No reaction.

She snapped her fingers again, still no reaction.

Yin Meng frowned; she was very unhappy.

The resentment ghost continued to approach, less than three meters away from Yin Meng. Yin Meng could already feel the chilling cold air.

Yin Meng gave up snapping her fingers, raised her head, and looked up the corridor.

The resentment ghost continued to advance. It didn’t even need to look; it could feel that there was no one above.

Indeed there was no one, but there was an insect.

Yin Meng shouted: “Release poison!”

The Gu insect’s mouthparts quickly collided, secreting corrosive toxin. This amount of toxin was very small, almost having no effect.

But it quickly crawled along the bottles and cans pasted above.

There was sealing film pasted on the tops of the cans. After the corrosive Gu poison broke it, the poison cans that had been arranged in advance near the restroom door all opened one by one, falling onto the resentment ghost below like a rain curtain.

Instantly, ear-piercing screams were transmitted.

The resentment ghost raised both arms, in extreme pain. Pustules continuously bulged out of its body, and after the pustules grew to a certain extent, they burst by themselves.

Originally, its image was very terrifying, but at least it wore a school uniform and had a human shape. Now it had thoroughly become a lump of tumors.

Yin Meng dragged the fainted male student away and went to the corner.

The Gu insect quickly crawled along above, followed up, spread its tentacles, and landed on Yin Meng’s shoulder.

“Pa!”

A tumor exploded, splashing out a large pool of pus.

Seeing that the reaction was about enough, Yin Meng walked out, took out a can of highly toxic and at the same time very volatile poison liquid, and sprinkled it around.

Using poison to attack poison, thoroughly neutralizing the remaining toxins here.

After doing these, Yin Meng clapped her hands.

She raised her head again and looked at the dense small cans pasted above.

She was thinking, is there a way to gather a lot of different toxins together and ensure their stable state?

If she could manage it, the utilization rate of her backpack could be greatly improved when she went out in the future. At least she could pack more snacks.

This was worth a try.

But Yin Meng suspected that they probably wouldn’t agree to her testing this at home.

…

A dead body crawled out of the well.

This was a female dead body, still wearing clothes from the Republican period, like a cheongsam.

This well was located inside a nursing home. Many old people lived in the surrounding buildings and rooms.

Evil spirits have different grades, and the objects they choose to harm are also different.

The blood energy of old people declines and is far less than that of young people, but people dying successively in a nursing home is originally a very normal thing.

She could flow like fine water and not excessively alarm the above in the dark.

She continued to advance, leaving a path of wet, sticky footprints behind her.

Her gaze was continuously patrolling, looking for tonight’s target.

“Cough cough… Cough cough…”

In a room on the second floor, an old person started coughing.

She walked to the stairs, preparing to go upstairs. She thought this was the meal calling out to her in response.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of her.

Young, strong, with surging blood energy!

Greed appeared in her eyes. In the face of the strong temptation, she originally planned to directly ignore it.

She wanted him. She wanted to suck him dry!

She pounced up.

Pouncing up with her was also her shadow.

Her shadow went first, controlling the man. She opened her mouth, aiming directly at the man’s chest.

At this time, she was already anticipating the feeling of that mouthful of hot blood rolling into her throat.

But just at this moment, the man stretched out his hand and pinched her throat.

Shock appeared in her eyes. Why, why couldn’t her shadow bind him!

Runsheng lifted her up and carefully observed her.

When he and Grandpa dealt with this kind of dead body initially, it would be very troublesome and difficult, requiring risking the possibility of not returning.

But now, looking at her was like looking at a broken doll.

Almost instinctively, Runsheng stretched out his tongue and licked his lips.

He was alone; Xiao Yuan and Mengmeng weren’t by his side.

He didn’t need to hide the desire deep in his heart.

What Xiao Yuan helped him suppress was the evil spirit energy in his body, but the original source was from his soul and couldn’t be peeled off.

He still needed to light incense when he ate.

If he could eat her every meal, it would be great.

Fear appeared on the woman’s face because she felt that while she was treating him as food, he was also treating her as food.

Runsheng carried her back to the edge of the well and didn’t hurry to eat.

Because Xiao Yuan had drawn two circles on his map.

The woman continuously struggled, trying to break free, but Runsheng’s hand was like refined iron pliers, holding her dead.

Seeing that another dead body still hadn’t come out, Runsheng could only turn his body, leaving his back to the well mouth.

At this time, a new figure emerged from the well mouth. It was a man wearing a brown suit, but like the woman, his clothes were already tattered.

The man opened his mouth and pounced towards Runsheng’s back.

Runsheng’s back air gate opened, preventing the man from approaching.

The next moment, Runsheng drew out the Yellow River shovel that he had sharpened this morning. With a horizontal cut, the man’s head separated from his neck and rolled on the ground.

“Crack!”

Following that, Runsheng pinched and broke the woman’s neck.

The two dead bodies began to dissipate. Before long, they would turn into a pool of liquid.

Runsheng swallowed, walked in front of these two corpses, and squatted down.

This time, he needed to take advantage of the coolness.

Runsheng lowered his head, opened his mouth, but just as he was about to bite down, a strong repulsion emanated from the bottom of his heart.

“What’s wrong…”

Runsheng couldn’t understand.

He lowered his head again, wanting to open his mouth. In the past, at this moment, he would have felt extremely satisfied and pleased, but the result that came again was still extremely strong nausea.

Just like when he usually ate without lighting incense, he was clearly very hungry and wanted to eat very much, but just as he was about to put it in his mouth, he would be extremely repelled.

Runsheng had no choice but to drag these two dissipating dead bodies up, leave this nursing home, find a desolate location, and throw them there.

The two were still dissipating, and the continuously rising black gas, in the past, was the hot, steaming fragrance of rice and meat.

Runsheng could still feel hungry; he still wanted to eat.

He decided to try again, squatted down, leaned over, and opened his mouth.

No, still no!

Runsheng stood up, faint red floating under his eyes.

According to some situations Xiao Yuan had told him, plus his previous attempts, Runsheng finally confirmed one thing.

That was that he still wanted to eat dirty meat, and this desire was not because the evil spirit in his body was suppressed, but instead it became stronger.

But, ordinary dead bodies, he already couldn’t eat.

He was very self-reproachful and also very guilty. There was an evaluation that, for children from families with poor conditions since childhood, was a grave sin.

That was,

He was a picky eater.

…

“Ding ling ling!”

The telephone in Tan Yunlong’s office rang, and he reached out to pick it up.

“Hello, I’m Tan Yunlong.”

“Dad, I just knew you were still in the office.”

“Smelly boy.”

Tan Yunlong recognized his son’s voice.

“Dad, it’s not what I’m saying, ah. Look what time it is now. You’re still working and not going home, ne?”

“Did the sun rise from the west? You specially called to urge me to rest?”

“My meaning is, if you keep being like this, only caring about work and not home, and Mom divorces you because of it, I’ll be embarrassed to stand by your side and speak up for you.”

Tan Yunlong’s fingers wound the telephone line. He wished more that at this moment, this line was wound around the neck of the person on the other end of the telephone.

Pity, it was very hard for him to see his son now.

Besides working, he would take time to go to the school to see his son. After not seeing him for a period of time, he would indeed miss him.

It was just that after the new year, his son didn’t return to school.

If he was just playing around and neglecting his studies, that would be fine. There would be a suitable reason to loosen his belt.

But when he went to the school to ask, his son’s procedures were complete; this was an early internship.

Is the construction of the motherland so vigorous that even freshman students have to participate in work so quickly?

However, as an old criminal investigator and someone who had been in the unit for half his life, he could see from these procedures that his son had obtained a good opportunity that was very hard for others to imagine. As long as this road could be walked well, he would definitely make a name for himself in this industry later.

The same is graduating, but you just have four more years of work experience than others, and you are following a famous teacher in the industry.

Anyway, no matter what his father and father-in-law thought, Tan Yunlong had already extinguished the idea of letting his son take the police exam after graduation.

Because, even if his private heart was extremely heavy, it was impossible for him to pave the road for his son to such an extent.

“Dad, honestly, you must care more about Mom. Mom has been entangled with you all these years; it might really not be easy.”

“I also haven’t seen you take time to spend more time with your object.”

“This is not me having no choice, ah. I inherited your bad habit, still blaming you.”

“Spit out the fart quickly.”

“I want to report a case.”

Tan Yunlong loosened the hand pulling the line, sat up straight, and said seriously: “Speak, what’s the matter?”

“I’ll tell you first, see how to handle it.”

Tan Wenbin told him about the Wu family’s matter.

Tan Yunlong lit a cigarette, fell silent, and after a while said: “This case, if true, is very difficult to handle.”

“I know.”

Tan Wenbin on the other end of the phone had a very calm tone. Of course, he knew this case was not easy to handle, but the necessary procedures still needed to be followed.

“I’ll call my previous colleagues and have them investigate.”

“Good.”

“Anything else?”

“No.”

“It’s so late, why aren’t you resting?” Tan Yunlong heard a car horn outside. “Are you outside?”

“No, the TV is playing a Hong Kong film.”

“People in Hong Kong films speak Nantong dialect?”

“Nantong dialect dubbed version.”

“You…”

“Dad, it’s almost a full minute. I’m hanging up, ah.”

“Beep…”

Tan Yunlong pressed the phone once and redialed.

On Tan Wenbin’s side, he asked the small shop boss for a bottle of drink and settled the bill.

Then he drank it while walking to the roadside and stopped a taxi that was just passing by.

The taxi had the “Available” red light on, but there was no one sitting inside.

The driver slowed down, pulled over, stopped, rolled down the window, and asked: “Where are you going, ah?”

Tan Wenbin told him the destination.

“Get in. My home is right there.”

“Isn’t this just right, ah, hehe.”

“Special love gives special you, my lonely escape cannot get past your eyes!”

In the passenger seat of the taxi, Tan Wenbin hummed along with the music on the car radio.

His investment caused the driver to also sing along with him.

The journey was a bit far. After the two people finished singing, the driver handed his water cup to Tan Wenbin, and the two started chatting.

The destination was by the riverbank.

As they were nearing the place, the driver opened his mouth and said:

“I’ve pulled a person here several times before. I’ve always been curious. There’s no village or shop in front or back here. Why does that young man always like to come to this place?”

Tan Wenbin glanced at the map, then looked at the river surface outside at night, and laughed:

“Maybe he’s here to jump in the river, ne.”

“Ha ha, even if he’s jumping in the river, how can he jump so many times? How many lives does he have enough to jump?”

“Who knows, ne? Young people nowadays have relatively special interests and hobbies, can’t understand.”

“I see you’re also quite young. Aren’t you quite normal, ne?”

“Am I? Hehe.”

“We’ve arrived.”

“Um.”

Tan Wenbin took out the money and handed it to the driver.

The driver asked while making change: “Are you still going to walk later, ne?”

“Why, listening to the meaning of these words, do you want to stay here and wait for me?”

“It might not be easy to hail a car here.”

“Aren’t you rushing home, ne?”

“It’s time to get off work and go back, but my wife and children are definitely already asleep. Before, only my mom would turn on the light at home and wait for me to get off work and come back, and she would also leave food for me.

I told her not to wait for me and go to bed early, but she said she was worried that I wasn’t safe driving at night. If I didn’t come back, she couldn’t sleep either.”

Tan Wenbin turned his body and looked at the back seat, saying: “Auntie has gone, ah.”

“Um, how did you know?”

“You just said it earlier.”

“She just left a while ago from a cerebral infarction. She went in her dream and didn’t suffer any pain. Tomorrow is her fifth seven.

I won’t drive tomorrow. If you don’t delay too long, I’ll just wait for you here and take you back again. Chatting with you is quite relaxing.”

“Do you want to chat with Auntie, ne?”

“What?”

Tan Wenbin took out a Heart Clearing Talisman and pasted it on the driver’s forehead.

The driver’s face was originally full of doubt, but as soon as the talisman was pasted, his whole person calmed down, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier.

He had accumulated a day’s fatigue. At this moment, with his heart calmed down, the thing he most wanted to do was sleep.

Tan Wenbin reached out and grabbed the driver’s wrist, starting to walk yin.

The driver opened his eyes in a daze, as if in a dream. He also felt like he was in a dream.

Tan Wenbin signaled him to look back, and the driver turned his head, seeing his mother sitting in the back seat.

His mother always sat in the back, worrying about her son.

This wasn’t a ghost, and there was no resentment, but because of the obsession formed by missing, it wouldn’t harm people.

Tan Wenbin opened his mouth and said: “If you want to chat, I’ll give you a chance to see each other again. For his good, you don’t continue to follow the car. It’s not good for his fortune.”

The old woman nodded to Tan Wenbin, casting a grateful gaze.

“Mom…”

Tan Wenbin got off the car and walked to the riverbank alone.

That was just a small episode. That taxi wasn’t his target today.

Or rather, this kind of normal obsession illusion was not yet enough to make Xiao Yuange designate him to solve it.

Many people, after their relatives leave, will dream of them. Actually, many times, this is not a dream.

Tan Wenbin dug his ears. He felt that since the two godchildren had eaten their fill, his whole person had also become very different.

Some matters were done more at ease than before.

Going down the slope, Tan Wenbin continued towards the riverbank.

When assigning tasks, Xiao Yuange specially emphasized one point, saying that the evil spirit energy at the position assigned to him was the heaviest, and the compass induction was also the strongest.

The faces of the other partners clearly revealed their lack of understanding. Everyone admitted that Tan Wenbin could play a role in the team, but in terms of single-soldier strength, the fiercest evil spirits should be given to Runsheng to solve, or at least Lin Shuyou.

It wasn’t that Tan Wenbin’s ghost control technique wasn’t strong, and moreover, after sleeping, Tan Wenbin’s ghost control technique would only be stronger, but that would require paying the price of damaging his yang life.

Tan Wenbin took the map, glanced at it, and just smiled: “Small problem, it’s a piece of cake.”

Walking to the riverbank, the sound of river water hitting the shore continuously echoed.

No mistake, it was this position.

Looking around, it was also almost time.

Tan Wenbin stood on the riverbank, waiting patiently.

Not long after, on the distant river surface, a red-clothed figure floated over.

In general situations, evil spirits wearing red clothes are often more fierce.

And when you look at her, there is a feeling of vision being distorted, and your brain will also feel dizzy and uncomfortable.

However, Tan Wenbin not only didn’t avert his gaze but continued to stare at her, a smile still floating on his face.

By his ear, a gust of yin wind howled.

“Hu~~~”

Tan Wenbin blew a frivolous whistle.

On the river surface, the red-clothed figure stood up. She felt the provocation from Tan Wenbin, and she was angry.

That rich resentment was like substance.

Xiao Yuange was not wrong; this was indeed a big evil spirit.

Even if Runsheng or Ayou came, it would be very difficult and very dangerous to solve her alone.

Because this evil spirit had a lot of methods, she would probably not choose to engage in close combat with you.

In Tan Wenbin’s ears, the woman’s whispers had already appeared.

Fortunately, he had two godchildren beside him. Otherwise, he would probably have gone crazy by now.

But even so, he still felt an extremely strong headache, as if his brain was about to tear apart.

This was still without fighting, just looking at each other from so far away. If he didn’t use his ghost control technique again, he would have already almost couldn’t hold on.

Tan Wenbin took out his cigarette case and took out one, clipping it in his mouth.

He tried to rub the lighter several times, but the flame was quickly blown out by the river wind.

Tan Wenbin simply took out a yellow paper, folded it into a concave shape, and then put the lighter inside to rub it. Soon, the yellow paper burned up.

Holding the burning yellow paper in his hand, he leaned it towards his mouth, borrowed this fire, and finally successfully lit the cigarette in his mouth.

The red-clothed figure flickered on the river surface. Each time it brightened, it greatly narrowed the distance between her and Tan Wenbin, bringing more chilling and terrifying pressure.

Tan Wenbin exhaled a smoke ring, casually throwing the half-burned yellow paper towards the river surface in front, then put one hand behind his back,

And said loudly:

“Obey the order of my Dragon King, listen to the Bai family town’s proclamation: Suppress evil spirits!”

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