Author: hoenimochi (Page 40 of 95)

       “I will take care of disciplining them when they make mistakes, no need to bother the City God,” Xia Hongshen said, slowly taking two steps in their direction.

       The next moment, Song Jun saw him standing in front of him and Feng Junyuan, but Song Jun didn’t even see how he moved.

       When Night Patrol God saw Xia Hongshen, he became even more angry. He pointed the long blade at Xia Hongshen and said, “What Immortal Lord? You’re just a mere demonic beast! Don’t think we are really afraid of you!”

       Song Jun was stunned when he heard Night Patrol God’s words.

       Xia Hongshen’s expression remained unchanged, but he said coldly, “Then what do you want?”

       The Night Patrol God pointed at Feng Junyuan and Song Jun and said, “Today is the day that the Ghost Gate is opened, and these two boys are here to disrupt the order of Yin and Yang. I will take them to the City God to hold them accountable. Do you dare to stop?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “I am going to stop it.”

       Night Patrol God’s expression changed, and without saying a word, he swung his long blade and struck down towards Xia Hongshen, shouting, “Let’s see if you can stop my blade first!”

       Xia Hongshen raised his hand. Song Jun and Feng Junyuan were immediately pushed away by a gentle wind. All of a sudden, Xia Hongshen’s figure swayed slightly, and he had already dodged the blade of Night Patrol God. With a flick of his slender fingertips, a deep and gentle spiritual power knocked the Night Patrol God’s blade away.

       Song Jun was a little dumbfounded. He didn’t know how things could develop to this point. Even though he had seen many demons and ghosts before, he had never seen such a battle before.

       The guy who wielded the long blade didn’t say anything, but Song Jun listened to his words and guessed that he might be a ghost messenger; but what exactly was Senior Brother Xia?

       Immortal Lord? Demons? Song Jun felt that he couldn’t understand it.

       However, Song Jun immediately became worried about Xia Hongshen. No matter whether Xia Hongshen was a human or a demon, Song Jun would always be on his side. Now, the opponent had a long sword in his hand, while all Xia Hongshen had was empty hands. Although it seemed that he was not at a disadvantage, Song Jun was always frightened every time the Night Patrol God’s long blade swung, bringing up gusts of wind.

       When Song Jun couldn’t contain his worry and took two steps forward, Feng Junyuan already jumped forward and wanted to rush over.

       Song Jun was shocked and stretched out his hand to stop Feng Junyuan, “Hey!”

       However, Feng Junyuan sensed the Yin energy coming from the Night Patrol God’s long blade and involuntarily took a few steps back. He looked somewhat anxious, and yet he couldn’t quite articulate why. He just felt that he couldn’t stand by and watch the two of them fight.

       When Feng Junyuan stepped forward again, he was forced back by the Yin energy of the Night Patrol God, and he looked a little frustrated.

       Unexpectedly, Xia Hongshen suddenly escaped from the fight with Night Patrol God. He stopped next to Feng Junyuan, stretched out a hand to Feng Junyuan and said, “Come here.”

       Feng Junyuan was momentarily stunned as if guided by some unseen force, he reached out and clasped Xia Hongshen’s hand.

       Song Jun didn’t have time to be surprised. The next moment, he saw a golden light appear on Feng Junyuan’s body. Even Feng Junyuan himself looked down at his body in surprise as the golden light turned into a long weapon in Xia Hongshen’s hands.

       The long weapon was shaped like a long fork, with a sharp blade in the middle and crescent-shaped curved edges on both sides, with golden light flowing.

       Song Jun didn’t recognise the name of this weapon, but the Night Patrol God who fought with Xia Hongshen did. He paused slightly and stared at the weapon in Xia Hongshen’s hand, saying, “Gilded Phoenix Wings?”

       Xia Hongshen didn’t say anything. He held the sharp weapon in his hand and stabbed Night Patrol God in the face.

       The Night Patrol God blocked with his long knife, only to feel a tingling numbness in both hands, instantly recalling the rumours he had heard from Bai Wuchang about the person in front of him. The Night Patrol God was originally a fierce deity, and he would definitely not be afraid of any ancient ferocious beast. However, as they clashed in combat at this moment, he suddenly felt that the person before him did indeed possess a certain frightening quality.

       Little did he know Xia Hongshen had not even transformed into his true form but still retained a considerable amount of strength.

       The two long weapons collided fiercely, with constant clanking sounds. The Night Patrol God was the god of the underworld, and the seventh month was the yin moon, where the yin energy was at its peak. All of a sudden, the nether winds are very strong.

The two long weapons clashed fiercely, the resounding clangs echoing incessantly. The Night Wandering God, being a deity from the underworld, coupled with the fact that it was the seventh month, associated with the peak of yin energy. All of a sudden chilling Yin wind suddenly swept through.

       Song Jun was almost unable to stand due to the strong wind and almost fell to the ground.

       Suddenly, he felt a gentle force wrap around him, and a golden halo suddenly appeared around him. It was not a surprised that Xia Hongshen would use his spiritual power to protect him while fighting the Night Patrol God.

       Song Jun’s eyes fell on Xia Hongshen.

       He was seen waving the Gilded Phoenix Wings; his posture was carefree and unrestrained, and his expression was calm and indifferent, but the person who was fighting with him gradually showed signs of decline and began to retreat slowly.

       The Night Patrol God could hardly withstand Xia Hongshen’s attack.

       The Gilded Phoenix Wings was worthy of being a divine weapon known as the Immortal Sword. The peak of its spiritual power was far beyond what the Yin energy of the long blade in the Night Patrol God’s hand could compete with. Perhaps others couldn’t see it, but Night Patrol God could clearly feel that Xia Hongshen was able to handle things with ease.

       He saw Xia Hongshen’s slender fingers twirl the Gilded Phoenix Wing’s long handle effortlessly, swinging it in a circle easily and slashing towards the top of his head. Instinctively, he raised his long knife to block, but in that instant, he felt regret, fearing that the long knife might be powerless against the spiritual energy of the Gilded Phoenix Wing weapon.

       However, the imagined attack did not land on top of his head. At the last moment, Xia Hongshen gently pushed the long handle with his finger, and the Gilded Phoenix Wings flew away from the Night Patrol God.

       Knowing that the other party was showing mercy, Night Patrol God felt a surge of anger in his chest. He wanted to yell to tell Xia Hongshen not to look down on him, but at the last moment, he chose to be patient. He escaped from the battle, pointed at Xia Hongshen and said, “Monster, please don’t be arrogant! The two realms of Yin and Yang have strict order, so we won’t allow you to act recklessly! Sooner or later, we will end our relationship with you after what happened today!”

       Xia Hongshen stood still and responded calmly, “I’ll be waiting for you.”

       Immediately, the Night Patrol God disappeared from the street with a big blade on his shoulder.

       Only Song Jun and Xia Hongshen were left, as well as the long soldiers in Xia Hongshen’s hands.

       However, Song Jun only saw Xia Hongshen’s weapon transforming into the appearance of Feng Junyuan. He stood there in a daze for a moment, then, with a mix of annoyance and anger, he glared at Xia Hongshen and turned to run away.

       Xia Hongshen showed no intention of stopping him but instead said to Song Jun, “Are you okay?”

       Song Jun was in a complicated mood at the moment and couldn’t say a word for a moment. He felt that if there was a tree next to him, he should hold on to the tree and say, “Let me slow down.”

       It was a pity that there was no tree, and he was too embarrassed to hold Xia Hongshen in front of him. The words ‘Are you a human or a monster?’ lingered on his lips, but he didn’t ask.

       Suddenly, Song Jun heard the sound of cicadas chirping on the tree next to him. It was so quiet just now that it was not like a human world. Now, somehow, the lively scene has returned. There were old people squatting by the side of the road to burn paper money, middle-aged people taking a walk, and small children running, jumping, and playing.

       The fog on the river had dispersed, and the big red lantern had disappeared.

       In an instant, Song Jun felt like he was back in the original world.

       He turned his head blankly and saw Zhou Yingchun and the group not far ahead.

       A senior sister turned around and saw him, and waved to him.

       Song Jun was a little dazed at that time. He replied, “Oh,” and then showed Xia Hongshen the cup he had been holding in his hand and said, “I will return the cup to Professor Zhou.”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Go ahead.”

       Song Jun then chased in the direction of the group of people. Returning the cup to Zhou Yingchun, everyone continued to talk and walk towards the school. Song Jun turned around and found that Xia Hongshen had disappeared.

       In that moment just now, it was as if time and space had frozen. Once Song Jun broke free from that place, there were no traces left of what had transpired.

       However, Song Jun had witnessed everything about Xia Hongshen and Feng Junyuan with his own eyes. His mind was a jumble of confusion. It wasn’t until he returned to the dormitory at night and was quiet that he could carefully contemplate all these events.

       Xia Hongshen was probably not a human being, at least not an ordinary person; maybe neither was Feng Junyuan. But Song Jun didn’t feel scared. He just felt a little confused. Since he came to this university to study, he had encountered many strange things that he had never encountered before, and he didn’t understand what happened. And now, even his close and trusted senior brother seemed to be no ordinary human being. Having received education about materialism¹Philosophical Materialism states that everything that truly exists is matter; everything is material, thus all phenomena we see are a result of material interactions since childhood, his cognition had been subverted overnight, which was really hard for him to accept.

       After struggling alone in the room for half an hour, Song Jun opened the door and walked to the opposite side, knocking on Xia Hongshen’s door.

       The door opened quickly. Xia Hongshen was standing in front of the door wearing a dark T-shirt, cotton trousers, and a pair of slippers as he looked at Song Jun.

       Song Jun glanced at him and suddenly became nervous, and then he heard Xia Hongshen ask him, “Do you want to eat small fish?”

       Song Jun didn’t know what happened, but he sat in Xia Hongshen’s room again and ate dried fish. He didn’t like eating dried fish at all, and he was not a cat.

       Xia Hongshen was sitting on a chair with one leg raised. Song Jun’s eyes were unconsciously attracted to his bare feet wearing slippers. Even Xia Hongshen’s feet were beautiful in shape and fair in complexion, and his toenails were round and smooth, just like him. It was perfect, flawless.

       Seemingly noticing that Song Jun was staring at his feet, Xia Hongshen raised them up to show him and asked him, “Does it taste good?”

       When Song Jun was asked, he remembered the purpose of his coming here. He put the dried fish aside and asked, “Senior Brother, are you a human?”

       Xia Hongshen did not answer.

       Song Jun asked tentatively, “Are you a demon?”

       Xia Hongshen still didn’t answer.

       Song Jun suddenly felt a little discouraged. He was not the kind of person who was used to being aggressive. On the contrary, he was actually a bit meek in character. He didn’t like to force others, and he didn’t like to fight for anything. He asked Xia Hongshen two questions in succession but did not get an answer from him. He suddenly lost the confidence to continue asking.

       When he thought of Xia Hongshen holding Feng Junyuan’s hand and Feng Junyuan transforming into Xia Hongshen’s weapon, Song Jun felt even more uncomfortable. He stood up and said, “I’m going back first.”

       Xia Hongshen didn’t ask to stay with him.

       When Song Jun went out, he said angrily, “The dried fish is not delicious at all!” Then he closed the door of Xia Hongshen’s room.

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       After he hurriedly took a shower and changed into a set of clean clothes, Song Jun didn’t forget to greet Xia Hongshen before leaving the dormitory.

       “En.” Xia Hongshen stood at the door of the room with an indifferent attitude.

       Song Jun scratched his hair and said, “Then I’ll leave first.”

       In fact, Song Jun was always a little troubled when he thought of Xia Hongshen. He felt that Xia Hongshen’s attitude towards him was a bit erratic. Sometimes he felt that Xia Hongshen was very good to him, but sometimes, he felt that Xia Hongshen was quite cold to him and that there was no difference between treating him and other people.

       As he thought about this, Song Jun reached into his pocket and touched the crystal leaf hanging on his mobile phone. It was given to him by Xia Hongshen. He didn’t know if he was imagining things or not, but he always felt that Xia Hongshen wouldn’t give any small gifts to other juniors casually.

       Just when Song Jun touched the leaf, Xia Hongshen felt a flash of light from another leaf in the room.

       He also sealed some spiritual energy in the leaf, and it was made into a small mobile phone chain and lay in the drawer of the desk. Xia Hongshen took it out, held it with his fingers and shook it slightly, thinking that although this thing was a treasure from the immortal realm, it still paled in comparison to his own possessions.

       Song Jun rushed to the teaching and research office and everyone was getting ready to leave.

       This was the most crowded time since Song Jun reported to this school. There was a girl who had just come from home. When she saw Song Jun, she introduced herself again.

       The head of the faculty was a middle-aged man with a very kind personality. He said that he had booked a place to eat and that it was near the school, so everyone could just walk there together.

       There were so many people that Song Jun was inevitably a little cautious, and there were more girls than boys in the teaching and research section. He was even more embarrassed to join the crowd of girls, so he walked silently at the end alone.

       During dinner, he inevitably drank a little wine.

       Song Jun was Zhou Yingchun’s only student at the moment. The others were accompanied by their seniors, but he was alone. Zhou Yingchun clearly had high expectations of him, instructing him to present a toast to several teachers in the academic research office, leaving no one out.

       Thanks to the teacher and all the senior brothers and sisters, in the end, Song Jun couldn’t bear it anymore.

       After dinner, a group of people took a walk back to school. Because everyone had eaten a lot, someone suggested taking a walk along the river outside the campus, and everyone readily agreed.

       This river was a large river that runs through the city centre, not far from the school. Across the road from the river was the campus wall. In summer, when the river water rose, a cool breeze would naturally blow when they walked along the river, which was perfect for evening walks.

       Unfortunately, Song Jun didn’t go far when he was called over by Zhou Yingchun. Zhou Yingchun said that she had forgotten her cup at the restaurant and asked Song Jun to run over and get it for her.

       Of course, Song Jun didn’t refuse. He nodded and returned to the restaurant alone. He found the waiter who had cleared the table and helped Zhou Yingchun find her cup.

       When he came out of the restaurant again, it was completely dark.

       Song Jun still walked along the road by the river, trying to catch up with Zhou Yingchun and the group. However, halfway through, Song Jun saw someone burning paper money by the river.

       Suddenly Song Jun remembered that today was the 15th of the 7th month.

       The legendary Ghost Festival, the day when the gate of hell opened. It was also the day when Song Jun was picked up by his grandmother and made it his birthday.

       Today, Song Jun turned twenty-two years old.

       He was in a daze, and when he suddenly came to his senses, he found that he was still holding Zhou Yingchun’s cup in his hand, so he chased ahead but still didn’t see the group of people in the teaching and research department.

       Song Jun stood on the roadside, panting slightly. He looked around and suddenly realised that not only was there no trace of his teacher or classmates on the road but there was no trace of anyone else at all.

       A gust of cool wind blew over, and his clothes were blown tightly to the body. Ashes from a pile of burning money and paper not far away flew up and scattered all over the sky. However, the old woman who burned the money and paper had disappeared.

       The surroundings were very quiet, and the only sound that could be heard was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

       Song Jun stood by the road in a daze and suddenly noticed a dark red light shining on the dark river. He looked up and saw a thick layer of fog rising from the river. In the thick fog, there were two big red lanterns were hung in the sky. Through the light of the lanterns, many pedestrians were vaguely visible on the river, walking forward.

       It was like a mirage.

       Song Jun subconsciously took a few steps back and felt someone grabbing his ankle.

       He lowered his head and saw the pale face of a child looking up at him. Seeing that he saw him, the child let go of Song Jun’s hand and ran away quickly.

       Only then did Song Jun realise that many people had appeared in the originally empty streets. However, most of these people had indifferent expressions and were walking aimlessly. There were also many people gathered around piles of burning money and paper, wanting to grab something.

       And there was no trace of shadows in any of these people.

       In the middle of the 7th month, the gate of ghosts opened and hundreds of ghosts roamed.

       Song Jun’s face turned a little pale. He didn’t know if these people could see him, and he didn’t know whether it would be safer for him to run away from here or stay quietly.

       At this moment, Song Jun saw a strange person appearing among the ghosts. He was also a young man, and Song Jun knew him. That person was Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan walked along this road while looking left and right.

       Song Jun didn’t know if he could see these things at first until he saw Feng Junyuan’s eyes falling on a woman by the road.

       The woman was wearing a winter down jacket, and if it weren’t for her well-proportioned figure, Song Jun might not have dared to confirm that she was a woman because she had no head.

       She had been groping around carefully as if she wanted to find her head, but unfortunately, there was no woman’s head nearby.

       When he saw Feng Junyuan looking at the woman, Song Jun was sure that he could see these things.

       Feng Junyuan’s expression did not show fear or panic. He just looked at these people silently, and then suddenly pulled out a short sword from his waist.

       The short sword was made of tortoiseshell and had the ability to exorcise evil spirits and ghosts, but Song Jun didn’t know it at first. He just saw Feng Junyuan suddenly raise the small sword and stab a man passing by.

       The man let out a scream of terror. There was no blood where the sword stabbed him, but his body became transparent and weak, and then turned into a mist and floated towards the centre of the river.

       All the ghosts on the road were startled by the scream, and everyone looked in this direction, including the female ghost whose head was not found.

       The wind stopped at some point, and Song Jun felt that the whole street was so quiet that he could hear his rapid breathing.

       Although the commotion just now was caused by Feng Junyuan, as a fellow human being, Song Jun was obviously isolated by the group of ghosts together with Feng Junyuan.

       Feng Junyuan also noticed Song Jun’s presence at this time. He glanced at Song Jun and said nothing. He raised the small tortoiseshell sword in his hand and stabbed the middle-aged female ghost next to him again.

       The whole street suddenly became chaotic. Song Jun’s ears were filled with all kinds of terrible screams. Some people were howling and others were running. He saw a middle-aged man running with a split stomach. When he got there, his intestines leaked all over the floor, so he went to pick it up again.

       Song Jun felt like he was in a hell execution ground, surrounded by chaotic and terrifying scenes.

       But Feng Junyuan, who caused the commotion, obviously had no intention of giving up. Song Jun saw him reaching out and grabbing the kid who grabbed his feet just now. The kid was twitching and his face had turned blue.

       Song Jun ran over and hugged Feng Junyuan, and the kid took the opportunity to slip away from Feng Junyuan’s hands.

       Feng Junyuan wanted to push Song Jun away, “What are you doing?”

       “What are you doing?” Song Jun was simply confused. He couldn’t care less about being afraid and hugged Feng Junyuan tightly and wouldn’t let go.

       Feng Junyuan said, “None of your business!”

       Song Jun was not as strong as him, so he gritted his teeth, raised his knee to bump him, and then said, “Are you crazy?”

       He didn’t understand why Feng Junyuan would do such things. Although he knew that they were all ghosts, even as ghosts, he could tell that they were not malicious spirits. Life was predetermined, perhaps only lasting a few decades. There were those who, like children lost their lives before they became an adult. Even the souls that had lost their physical bodies still had emotions. They came from the underworld, and many of them were just attached to the mortal world, wanting to see their loved ones or partners. They were not inherently evil, perhaps even incapable of doing harm. Otherwise, why would they allow Feng Junyuan to slaughter them without resistance?

       Song Jun was also afraid and didn’t want to see ghosts, but he didn’t hate them without reason.

       Just like his grandma, she waited so hard in that house just to hand over the little inheritance she had worked so hard to save to Song Jun.

       So no matter what, Song Jun did not want to see Feng Junyuan hurt these ghosts so recklessly.

       Just as the two were struggling, they suddenly heard a loud shout from the air, “Who is it?!”

       Song Jun and Feng Junyuan stopped arguing and looked at the man who appeared out of thin air in front of them. The man had small cheeks, bare shoulders, a black robe and long boots. He was none other than Night Patrol God under the City God.

       The Night Patrol God noticed the strange phenomenon nearby and hurried over. When he saw the small tortoiseshell sword in Feng Junyuan’s hand, he was furious, “A hundred ghosts are walking at night today. Who are you? How dare you wildly interfere with the order of the underworld?”

       Song Jun was a little stunned. He looked at the man in front of him, wondering what kind of monster he was.

       Feng Junyuan, on the other hand, wore a cold expression and remained silent.

       The Night Patrol God had always been irritable. He slammed his long knife forcefully into the ground, then flipped it up in front of his chest, shouting, “You ignorant fool! Follow me to confess your sins in front of the City God’s Seat!”

       Song Jun let out a muffled scream, and Feng Junyuan was also forced to take two steps back by the Yin energy of the long sword.

       Suddenly, Song Jun heard a voice behind him, “I’ll take care of their mistakes; there’s no need to trouble the City God.”

       Song Jun and Feng Junyuan turned around at the same time and saw Xia Hongshen standing under the street light, slowly walking to their direction.

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       When Song Jun woke up, it was already bright.

       He sat up from the sofa, drifting off for a moment to recall the events of last night, and the first thing he did was to take out his mobile phone to call the police.

       Song Jun worked hard to unlock the security door. After leaving the villa, he felt relieved. He didn’t move too far away, waiting for the police to arrive.

       It was only after dawn that Song Jun realised that the neighbourhood was a villa area surrounded by single-family villas. However, due to the remote location, no one lived in these villas, and the iron doors were locked tightly.

       Not long after, a police car drove in this direction.

       Song Jun waved to them, and the police car stopped next to him. The person inside pressed down the window, revealing a baby face with delicate features.

       It turned out to be Long Xing, a young policeman whom Song Jun had met once.

       Long Xing also remembered Song Jun, and he asked strangely, ”Huh, why are you here? Aren’t you a student at University C?”

       Song Jun didn’t have time to explain the reason to him in detail. He hurriedly asked Long Xing and the others to go into the house to take a look. He said that there was a female corpse in the room at the end of the corridor on the first floor, while he himself didn’t dare to go in any further when he reached the door.

       After Long Xing and another police officer went in for a while, they quickly came out and called the command centre to request additional manpower. They also called the emergency number.

       Song Jun heard them say that there were two people unconscious upstairs.

       Only now did Song Jun finally relax. He sat on the doorstep, recalling what happened last night. His memory stopped at how he had fainted after the black monster had broken in and what had happened. How he got downstairs, he had no idea.

       Long Xing offered to record a statement for him, and he nodded in agreement.

       What happened last night was still very strange to talk about now. Regarding the late-night bus mentioned by Song Jun, Long Xing called the bus company to ask. The other party said that there was indeed a bus due to a breakdown, so the return to the bus terminal was delayed, exactly the one Song Jun mentioned. However, for the specifics, they still needed to go to the bus company to find the driver and obtain evidence.

       In addition, when Song Jun said that the woman suddenly changed from her twenties to her fifties, Long Xing bit his pen and looked at him suspiciously.

       Song Jun noticed Long Xing’s eyes and was embarrassed to continue talking.

       However, Long Xing still wrote down what he said and just said, “Were you too sleepy at that time, so your eyes were blurry?”

       Song Jun wanted to say no, but he hesitated and didn’t say anything, so he acquiesced.

       Generally speaking, what Song Jun said was consistent with the case scene. This villa was the home of the couple upstairs, and the police also extracted something suspected of human skin gelatin in their kitchen.

       After recording the confession, Long Xing said to Song Jun, “I’ll take you back to school.”

       Song Jun nodded, “Thank you, officer.”

       Long Xing drove Song Jun back to campus in a police car.

       On the way, Long Xing asked him, “Are you a student majoring in Forensic Medicine?”

       Song Jun responded, “Yeah, but I’m in the field of physical evidence.”

       “Oh—” Long Xing dragged his voice and then asked, “Is there any difference?”

       Song Jun said, “It is to extract DNA for personal identification…”

       When he said this, Long Xing understood.

       Long Xing reached out and scratched his head, saying that he went to vocational high school after leaving junior high school. He just started working this year and was still less than twenty years old.

       Long Xing looked very young, but Song Jun didn’t expect him to be younger than himself. He had been studying until now, and it seemed natural that the people working were older than him.

       Along the way, Song Jun’s emotions slowly calmed down. Although this experience was a little scary when he thought about it, it did not leave much of a psychological trauma compared to what he had encountered before. After all, Tu Zhenzhen was a real person. No matter how cruel and terrifying she was, she had already been caught by the police and would not have the chance to haunt him again.

       Long Xing drove the car to the school gate and stopped.

       Song Jun said to him, “Thank you, Officer Long.”

       Long Xing waved his hand, “You don’t have to be so polite. You were frightened too. Go back and have a good rest.”

       Song Jun opened the car door and was about to get out of the car when he saw Xia Hongshen walking out of a small supermarket not far from the school gate.

       It was almost noon now, and the sun outside was a bit strong. Song Jun hadn’t had a good rest all night, and he had experienced so many things in the morning. Now, when he saw Xia Hongshen walking out of the supermarket with a bottle of mineral water, he suddenly felt thirsty, and his tongue became dry.

       Xia Hongshen also saw Song Jun and the others, and he walked towards them.

       “Teacher Xia!” When Long Xing saw Xia Hongshen, he stuck his head out of the car and greeted him enthusiastically.

       Xia Hongshen nodded at him.

       Because he had a lot of contact with Xia Hongshen at work, Long Xing opened the car door and got out, walked around to this side of the car and exchanged pleasantries with Xia Hongshen.

       Xia Hongshen glanced at Song Jun while listening to him.

       Song Jun raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

       Xia Hongshen then handed over the mineral water in his hand, “Here you go.”

       Song Jun was stunned for a moment, took it, and said, “Thank you.”

       Long Xing was like an energetic child. He told Xia Hongshen about receiving the call from Song Jun today. Since Xia Hongshen knew the details of the previous face-peeling case, he asked, “Has the criminal been caught?”

       Long Xing nodded, “I caught it, thanks to Teacher Song.”

       Because he was standing under the noon sun, a layer of sweat soon appeared on Long Xing’s forehead. Xia Hongshen looked at him and suddenly said, “Wait a moment.”

       After saying that, Xia Hongshen turned around and went back to the small supermarket. He bought another bottle of mineral water and this time grabbed a box of potato chips.

       He handed the mineral water and potato chips to Long Xing.

       Long Xing asked strangely, “How do you know I like to eat potato chips?” But he happily accepted it.

       Xia Hongshen raised his hand and touched Long Xing’s head.

       After making this move, neither Xia Hongshen nor Long Xing seemed to feel anything was wrong, but Song Jun felt strange. He didn’t feel that Xia Hongshen and Long Xing were that close.

       Long Xing said he was leaving and said goodbye to them.

       Xia Hongshen said, “Be careful on the road.”

       Song Jun thanked him again, “Thank you, Officer Long.”

       Long Xing got into the car, stretched out his hand and waved, then turned around and left.

       Song Jun and Xia Hongshen stood there and watched him drive away.

       Then, Song Jun sighed deeply.

       Xia Hongshen turned to look at him.

       Song Jun said, “I feel so tired.”

       “Go back and rest,” Xia Hongshen said to him.

       Song Jun looked at the time. He hadn’t touched the experiment today, and he still had to go to work in the evening, but he suddenly didn’t want to do anything. He was so exhausted that he was afraid that if he tensed up any more, he would break.

       Without going to the lab, Song Jun went directly back to the dormitory. After taking a cold shower, he lay on the bed and turned on the fan.

       He took out his mobile phone and called the manager of the fast food restaurant where he worked, saying that he would ask for leave today.

       In fact, this was his second day at work, and he had to ask for leave. It was hard to explain, but he couldn’t bear it, and his bicycle was stolen. He didn’t know how he was going to get back from work tonight.

       The store manager was very unhappy when he heard about his request for leave and did not agree to it.

       While Song Jun was talking, fatigue came over him, and he fell asleep holding the phone to his ear. Later, the store manager said that if he didn’t come tonight, he wouldn’t have to come again in the future, but Song Jun didn’t have a chance to hear it.

       Lying on the bed with the fan blowing on, Song Jun slept until the phone rang in the afternoon.

       He opened his eyes drowsily and found that the phone was still in his hand. The caller ID was his mentor, Zhou Yingchun.

       Song Jun suddenly woke up. He answered the phone and tried not to sound like he was waking up, “Professor Zhou?”

       Zhou Yingchun didn’t notice that Song Jun slept in the dormitory all afternoon. She called to ask Song Jun to have dinner with her.

       “Dinner?” Song Jun was a little surprised.

       Zhou Yingchun said, “Yes, all the new students of your class are here. The teaching and research office will organise a dinner together tonight, and we will set off from the Forensic Medicine building later.”

       Song Jun said quickly, “Oh, okay.”

       After hanging up the phone, Song Jun hurriedly climbed out of bed, wearing only underwear, intending to go to the water room to fetch water and wipe away the sweat accumulated on his body during sleep.

       As a result, as soon as he went out, he met Bu Hui and Cheng Ruijing coming back from outside.

       When Cheng Ruijing saw Song Jun, she first screamed in surprise, then pointed at Song Jun and shouted, “Little junior brother is running naked!”

       Song Jun’s face turned red, and he quickly hid back, only sticking his head out to say hello, “Senior Brother Bu, Senior Sister Cheng.”

       Bu Hui said, “What are you doing? Don’t be a hooligan!”

       Song Jun was a little depressed, “That’s not it.”

       He wanted to wait until Bu Hui and Cheng Ruijing went back to the room before coming out. He was sweaty and didn’t want to put on clean clothes directly.

       Unexpectedly, Cheng Ruijing walked towards him and said with a smile, “Hurry up and go naked for Sister to see.”

       At this time, the door to Xia Hongshen’s room on the opposite suddenly opened.

       No one expected that Xia Hongshen would be here at this time. Cheng Ruijing was startled and leaned against the wall and patted her chest, “Senior Brother Xia, you are going to scare me to death.”

       Xia Hongshen looked at her, then looked at Song Jun across from him and asked, “What are you doing?”

       Song Jun stuck his head out from the crack in the door and said pitifully, “I want to go to the water room to get some water and wipe my body.”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Wait a minute.” Then, he went to the water room to help Song Jun get a basin of water.

       Cheng Ruijing was originally just teasing Song Jun, but she gave up when there was no fun to watch. She turned and walked towards Bu Hui’s room and said, “Junior Brother’s figure isn’t good enough. He needs to exercise more.”

       Song Jun took the basin and said, “Thank you, Senior Brother Xia.” Then, he hurriedly closed the door.

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Little information about Long Xing: Height 172cm, zodiac sign Sagittarius, blood type B

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       Although it was probably just a hallucination, it still made Song Jun feel very uneasy. He sat down on the sofa, took the remote control and changed the channels several times but still couldn’t pay attention to it.

       Tu Zhenzhen didn’t come down for a long time. Song Jun heard the coughing from upstairs and was too embarrassed to call her. He stood up and walked to the door, reaching out and twisting the door lock.

       But the heavy security door lock was very complicated. Song Jun couldn’t unscrew it for a long time. He looked up again and had no choice but to give up for now.

       He didn’t know why, but the feeling of panic was becoming more and more clear. He was even more panicked than when he first started to find his way in the darkness outside. Song Jun couldn’t sit down and walked around the first floor, looking for a bathroom.

       There was a small door at the end of the corridor on the first floor. Song Jun walked over and reached out to open the door.

       The door lock was opened with a slight twist. Song Jun pushed the door open, and the light from the corridor shone in. His vision was a little blurry at first, but after quickly adapting to the darkness, he was shocked to realise that there was someone in the room.

       Song Jun first saw a pair of feet, wearing high heels, and then looked up and saw a woman sitting on a chair facing the door. Her limbs were fully clothed, but only one face was covered in blood and flesh. His face was completely peeled off.

       Song Jun’s breath caught, and the fear came too suddenly for him to react. The next second, he felt a hand tap on his shoulder.

       There had always been a vague fragrance permeating the house. Song Jun thought it was probably a kind of incense, and now the incense was getting stronger and stronger. The moment he was suddenly frightened and then tapped on the shoulder, a string in Song Jun’s mind seemed to snap. He could see, hear and act, but he stopped thinking for a moment.

       He turned around and saw Tu Zhenzhen. Tu Zhenzhen waved to him and asked him to come over. He followed Tu Zhenzhen in a daze, no longer knowing that he should be afraid.

       Tu Zhenzhen said, “Come on, come up with me.” Then she led Song Jun upstairs, not forgetting to remind him to be careful of the stairs.

       Song Jun followed Tu Zhenzhen towards the second floor.

       He didn’t know what he was thinking. He could clearly feel himself stepping over the stairs and even saw the pattern of the floor in the corridor on the second floor clearly, but he didn’t know that he should run away.

       Tu Zhenzhen took Song Jun into the second room on the left side of the corridor on the second floor. It was a bedroom with a large bed. There was a man lying on the bed. He was already in his forties or fifties and seemed to be in poor health. Well, the whole face was already loose and wrinkled, and maybe he looked older than his actual age.

       Tu Zhenzhen held Song Jun’s hand at the door, pulled him to the edge of the bed, pressed his shoulders to make him sit down, and then said to the man, “Husband, do you think this boy is good-looking?”

       The man looked at Song Jun and coughed hard before he could speak.

       Tu Zhenzhen lowered her face from Song Jun’s head and looked at Song Jun while humming, then she said, “Although he is not perfect, he is still a handsome and beautiful boy. I think he is pretty good. What do you think?”

       The man stopped coughing at this time, shook his head, sighed and said, “Not good, change it.”

       “Still not good?” Tu Zhenzhen was a little surprised, “I think it’s much better than the last one. Don’t compare yourself to girls. Boys who look too delicate aren’t attractive.”

       But the man still shook his head, “I don’t like it.”

       Tu Zhenzhen’s face suddenly turned cold. She walked around Song Jun and stood in front of the man, “Hubby, are you dissatisfied with what I did?”

       The man didn’t speak, but his expression was obviously gloomy.

       Tu Zhenzhen suddenly approached the man and said, “Hubby, look at my face. Is it exactly the same as when I first met you?”

       The man’s pupils reflected Tu Zhenzhen’s face. It was indeed a youthful and beautiful face. She didn’t even need makeup; due to her youth, not a single pore was visible, let alone wrinkles.

       However, the man slowly turned away his eyes at this moment. His eyes fell on a photo of a man and a woman on the bedside table next to him. There was a man and a woman in the photo. The woman was clearly what Tu Zhenzhen looked like now, and the man had a hearty smile. He was tall and handsome. But if you look closely, the facial features were clearly the same as the man on the bed, but now this man was old, shrivelled, and dying of illness.

       Seeing that the man refused to look at her, Tu Zhenzhen got angry. She stood up and ran downstairs in a hurry. After a while, she came up with the makeup mirror in the living room, put it in front of the man and insisted that he look in the mirror, “Look at you! Look at how you look now! What’s wrong with regaining youth, just like me?”

       The man was also a little unhappy and said, “Go away!”

       Tu Zhenzhen didn’t listen and just said, “Look at what you look like!”

       The man raised his hand to push her away, but she insisted on bringing the mirror in front of the man. After a few push and pull, the man began to cough violently.

       Tu Zhenzhen stopped immediately. She threw the mirror aside and reached out to gently pat the man’s chest, “Hubby, don’t get worked up. If you don’t want to look, then don’t. Don’t be angry.”

       After appeasing her husband, Tu Zhenzhen stood up and walked to Song Jun. She pinched Song Jun’s chin with her hands to make him raise his face. She said, “This is a divine skill bestowed upon me by the heavens. All I need to do is cut off his face, boil it into a potion, drink it, and gradually, you’ll revert to your twenties just like me. It won’t only be your face; your entire body will become like that of a twenty-year-old, just like mine now.”

       After saying that, Tu Zhenzhen let go of Song Jun and spun around in a circle, her dress fluttering. She was obviously very satisfied with how she looked now.

       “Hubby,” she said, “if this one person is not enough, I will go out and find young and beautiful boys for you until you return to what you look like in the photo, okay?”

       “This is not divine skill at all,” the man on the bed closed his eyes and said slowly, “Divine skill will not kill so many people. Look how many people you have killed. This is simply witchcraft, and one day, it will cost you your life.”

       “No!” Tu Zhenzhen suddenly raised her voice. She was very angry at her husband’s rebuttal, but then she suppressed her emotions and said, “Hubby, don’t make me angry all the time. Just wait a moment. I’ll soon cut off his face and go to the kitchen to boil it so you’ll be able to drink it tomorrow.”

       With that said, Tu Zhenzhen picked up a small knife from the bedside table, walked up to Song Jun, reached out and touched his forehead, intending to peel it off from there.

       The man suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs, “Stop!”

       Tu Zhenzhen seemed startled, and the knife almost fell from her hand.

       Suddenly, a strong wind blew outside the house without warning, and the window glass was blown violently, making a loud noise.

       Tu Zhenzhen and her husband both turned their heads and looked outside at the same time.

       Only a trace of black mist slowly seeped in from the gap between the two closed windows. When a large piece of black mist rushed in, it gradually condensed and transformed into a huge black beast.

       Tu Zhenzhen was startled, held the knife towards the giant beast, and shouted, “What is that!”

       The giant beast roared and suddenly rushed towards Tu Zhenzhen, pressing her whole body under its claws.

       The man on the bed struggled to get up in fear and fell off the bed. He shouted, “Zhenzhen!” As he tried to come and save his wife.

       However, the giant beast suppressed Tu Zhenzhen’s body and bit her neck.

       There was no blood splattering as expected. The beast’s fangs bit Tu Zhenzhen’s neck, leaving bloody marks, but they were not too deep. It picked up a black shadow with its sharp fangs, suddenly pulled it out of Tu Zhenzhen’s body, then held it in one mouthful and swallowed it into its belly.

       Tu Zhenzhen fainted on the ground. After the black shadow was pulled out of the body, her appearance instantly became older, and even her body became loose and no longer youthful.

       The giant beast used its front paws to pull Tu Zhenzhen and slammed her towards her husband, who was rolling to the ground. They both lost consciousness at the same time.

       At this time, the dark beast pulled Song Jun with its front paws.

       Song Jun looked stunned. He was not unconscious. He saw everything happening in the house with his own eyes. His mind was just frozen.

       Song Jun’s body shook slightly after being pulled, but he did not fall down.

       The beast now raised its sharp claws and only used the pads of its front paws to slap Song Jun’s face.

       Song Jun looked at it in a daze.

       Next, the beast slapped him on the head. This time, Song Jun tilted his head and fainted completely.

       When Song Jun fell down, the giant beast caught him with its big cat-like body, letting him fall to the ground unharmed, and then gently stepped on his chest with the soft fleshy pads of its soles as if it was having fun.

       Then the black shadow fled, and its shape instantly stretched into a slender human figure, appearing in the corridor outside the house.

       Wearing a shirt and long jeans, Xia Hongshen walked towards the stairs with bare feet. He went down to the first floor and came to the room at the end of the corridor and reached out to open the door. When he opened the door, a thin layer of mist gathered on his palm, blocking the contact between his palm and the doorknob preventing him from leaving a fingerprint.

       Inside the room, the deceased woman was still sitting miserably on the chair. Xia Hongshen did not look at her. He walked to the corner and picked up an incense stick. The incense kept burning, and the faint fragrance spread and could be smelled throughout the first floor.

       Xia Hongshen brought the incense to the pen and smelled it, then pinched it out with his fingers. This kind of incense had a strong effect of confusing people’s minds. It could block the transmission of several specific neurons and make people lose their consciousness of resistance when they are awake.

       Afterwards, Xia Hongshen returned to the room on the second floor. He picked up the makeup mirror that Tu Zhenzhen had thrown away from the corner. He snorted coldly, and his palms glowed with gleaming light. The entire mirror collapsed in his palms and became a piece the size of a leaf fragments of glass.

       He put the fragments back on his body, and Xia Hongshen brushed his palms over the heads of Tu Zhenzhen and her husband, confirming that they would not be able to wake up before dawn. Then he walked over and picked up the unconscious Song Jun, carried him down to the first floor, and placed him on the soft sofa.

       Xia Hongshen’s body then turned into black mist and floated out from the window of the room.

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