Author: hoenimochi (Page 41 of 95)

       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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       In addition to the driver, there were also a few passengers sitting in the car.

       When the driver saw Song Jun hesitating to get on the bus, he looked over and asked, “Do you want to get in?”

       Song Jun felt strange and asked the driver, “Sir, why is there still a bus at this time?”

       The driver said, “Oh, the bus broke down just now. It took some time to repair it. Isn’t this the last bus again? We have to make sure to drop off all the passengers at the station.”

       After Song Jun heard what he said, he didn’t doubt anything anymore and got on the bus.

       There were about four or five people in the car, all sitting in the back rows. Song Jun also habitually sat in the empty seat at the back. There was a woman sitting in front of him. Song Jun didn’t pay close attention to her appearance. He felt very tired after working until now, so he closed his eyes.

       After all, he was on the bus, so Song Jun didn’t dare to sleep too deeply and kept paying attention to the bus station announcements.

       But after a long time, the radio in the but never sounded, and it never stopped.

       Song Jun opened his eyes and looked outside, and suddenly found that it was dark outside, and he had no idea where the bus had driven to.

       This was not normal because even late at night, the city was brightly lit, and the street lights everywhere were on, so there would definitely not be a situation of total darkness.

       Song Jun was confused just now, and he wondered if he had slept through it.

       He couldn’t help but turn around and see that there were still those few people on the bus, all sitting in their original positions with indifferent expressions.

       Song Jun began to get nervous at this time. He stood up and walked forward, looking out through the large windshield in front of the bus. With the headlights, he could only see that the bus was still on the same path. Driving on the road, but not much more can be seen.

       “Sir, Sir!” He called the driver twice.

       The driver turned to look at him, “What’s wrong?”

       Song Jun asked, “Where is this place? Have you passed South Road Station?”

       The driver said coldly, “We haven’t arrived yet. What’s the rush?”

       Song Jun didn’t know whether he should believe it or not. He asked again, “Why is it so dark outside?”

       The driver was silent for a moment before answering him, “The power is out.”

       Song Jun asked, “How long will it take to arrive?”

       At this time, the driver turned around and glared at him fiercely. The expression was so ferocious that Song Jun caught his breath, and he dared not ask again.

       Song Jun did not return to his seat. He grabbed the armrest and stood in front for a while. This time, he was sure that more than one stop had passed, but the driver had not stopped at all, and the person sitting on the bus had not gotten off at all. Those people were completely unresponsive.

       He didn’t dare to wait any longer and shouted, “Stop! Stop! I want to get off!”

       Even if it was dark outside, it was better than staying on this eerie bus.

       However, after Song Jun shouted loudly, the driver pulled over. The bus came to a stop, and the rear doors opened promptly.

       He stood in front of the car door. Song Jun saw the darkness outside, and the bus door was like a monster’s mouth that was about to swallow him in the next second.

       Despite his fear, Song Jun got out of the car.

       However, Song Jun was not the only one who got off the bus. The woman who was sitting in front of him also got off the bus after him.

       The door closed, and the bus continued to drive forward.

       Song Jun stood on the side of the road and was stunned for a while. His eyes adjusted to the darkness around him, and he realised that he was not in the city centre at all, but he didn’t know where he was in the wilderness.

       The woman stood not far from him and did not move.

       Song Jun glanced at her and saw that she lowered her head and kept looking at her toes.

       After hesitating for a moment, Song Jun did not speak to the woman but walked in the opposite direction to the bus. The woman actually followed him over.

       Song Jun couldn’t help but pay attention to the woman behind him as if he was afraid that she would pounce on him and strangle him in the next second.

       However, that didn’t happen. The woman just kept following Song Jun.

       Until Song Jun stopped, turned around and asked, “Why are you following me?”

       The woman raised her head to look at him. She was a young and beautiful woman, she looked to be in her early twenties, wearing a beautiful and elegant long dress with a small coat outside.

       She smiled, simple and gentle, and said to Song Jun, “Are you lost?”

       Song Jun looked at the young woman who looked like a rich lady in front of him and felt that she did not look like a monster or a bad person, but he still couldn’t help but be wary and asked, “Who are you?”

       The woman waved her hand and said, “Don’t get me wrong, I felt something strange on that bus just now, but I didn’t dare to speak. When I heard you ask to stop, I immediately followed you.”

       Although he was still sceptical, Song Jun had to admit that he was slightly relieved after hearing the woman say this.

       It was better to know that someone was with him in this unfamiliar environment than to be alone and scared.

       “Where are you going?” Song Jun asked, and he began to think that he might be able to send this woman home first.

       The woman smiled, with a friendly look on her face, and said, “Actually, I live not far from here. I thought you couldn’t find your way back, so I want you to come to my house first.”

       Song Jun suddenly became wary again. He didn’t believe it was such a coincidence. This woman obviously followed him and got off near him, so how could she conveniently live in the vicinity?

       The woman seemed to see that Song Jun didn’t believe it, so she didn’t extend the invitation again. She said, “Then I’ll walk with you for a while and see if you can get a taxi.”

       Song Jun didn’t know how to answer her, so he continued walking forward silently.

       As they walked, the woman introduced herself, “My name is Tu Zhenzhen, and I am a student at University C.”

       Song Jun paused for a moment, “You’re also from University C?”

       “Huh?” Tu Zhenzhen said in a very excited tone, “Are you too?”

       Song Jun nodded.

       Tu Zhenzhen said, “What a coincidence. I am studying fashion design, and I am in my third year of college this year.”

       Song Jun stopped and turned around to see Tu Zhenzhen looking at him strangely. He hesitated and said, “Where is your home? I’d better take you back first.”

       Tu Zhenzhen smiled when she heard this, tilted her head and said, “No, I see you are very scared, so I’d better see you off. There might be a taxi ahead.”

       Song Jun was embarrassed by what she said. He himself was in a daze and a little wary. He also felt that this girl, who was younger than him, should not be a bad person. He thought for a while and felt that it would be better to send Tu Zhenzhen back first.

       Song Jun said, “Let me take you back. Didn’t you say it’s not far?”

       Tu Zhenzhen said, “Hmm…” He hesitated for a moment and said, “Okay, if you’re not afraid, you can go in and sit for a while and then leave after dawn.”

       After saying that, Tu Zhenzhen raised her hand and pointed to a place not far away, “It’s right there.”

       Song Jun looked in the direction she pointed and found that there was a two-story villa along the path. The villa was lit up and was the only lit building nearby.

       Song Jun followed her in that direction and asked curiously, “Are your parents at home?”

       Tu Zhenzhen shook her head, “No.”

       After she said this, she said nothing more, so it was not convenient for Song Jun to continue asking.

       After accompanying Tu Zhenzhen to the door of her house, Song Jun planned to leave.

       Tu Zhenzhen opened the door to the room, and a warm yellow light suddenly shone out from inside, looking very reassuring. Tu Zhenzhen said to Song Jun, “Come in and sit down. Even though you are a guy, it is too dangerous to walk alone at night.”

       Perhaps it was because bright light would make people feel at ease. Song Jun saw the bright and comfortable look inside the living room and instantly did not want to go back to the darkness.

       Tu Zhenzhen didn’t force him. She just stood by the door and invited him.

       Song Jun hesitated.

       Tu Zhenzhen said, “Why don’t you come in and I’ll get you a glass of water, and take a rest.”

       Song Jun finally nodded and followed Tu Zhenzhen into the house.

       Tu Zhenzhen warmly invited him to sit down on the sofa and turned on the TV for him. Song Jun suddenly felt that this kind of warmth and comfort made him feel safe. Maybe he was thinking too much. He could really stay here. For example, maybe he could sleep on a large and soft sofa and wait until dawn before leaving.

       Tu Zhenzhen poured him a cup of tea and asked him if he wanted to call a family member or friend to pick him up.

       Song Jun saw that it was already one-thirty in the morning and almost two o’clock in the morning. He shook his head and said no. The only people he could think of now were Senior Brother Xia and Senior Brother Bu. No matter which one, he was embarrassed to make calls at this time to disturb people’s sleep.

       At this time, Song Jun heard a man’s voice from upstairs, shouting, “Zhenzhen!”

       Song Jun was stunned. The man’s voice did not sound young. He sounded like Tu Zhenzhen’s father, but she had just said that her parents were not at home.

       Then, Song Jun heard a rapid cough coming from upstairs.

       Tu Zhenzhen quickly said to Song Jun, “Sit down for a moment. I’ll go up and take a look first.” After saying that, she hurried upstairs.

       Song Jun picked up the teacup and looked at it, then put it down after a slight hesitation. The presence of a man in the room made him feel a little concerned. He felt that the most basic precautions should be taken.

       The decoration and furnishings in the room looked simple and elegant. There were two large blue and white porcelain vases next to the TV cabinet, which looked expensive.

       Song Jun stood up and couldn’t help but look around the room, noticing a faint fragrance in the air.

       From time to time, the sound of a man coughing and the sound of two people talking in low voices came from the second floor. Song Jun couldn’t hear clearly what they were talking about, and he didn’t have the nerve to get closer to eavesdrop.

       There was a small makeup mirror placed on top of the speaker next to the TV cabinet. Song Jun didn’t notice it at first. When he passed by, he suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that the person in the mirror was not himself but a wrinkled face. old man.

       After being stunned for a moment, Song Jun came closer to take a closer look and found that it was still himself that was reflected in the mirror. There was nothing strange about it. The picture he just saw seemed to be just an illusion.

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