The group of people in front were still enthusiastically discussing ace's heroic deeds.
The conversation quickly shifted from "what ace might be doing now" to "how to lure him into the combat section".
Ye Jia expressed that he was very tired and refused to continue listening.
He quietly left the central cave, took a careful turn in the spider nest again, and after killing a few slippery fish that had been hidden before, he turned and left the empty worm nest.
Ami is waiting for him at the entrance of the cave: "How is it?"
Ye Jia: "It has been dealt with."
"What about the humans?"
"I didn't find anything." Ye Jia said without changing his face: "It's not enough to be afraid of."
Ami patted him on the shoulder and praised without reservation: "It's so beautiful, I will definitely have a good word with Wang when I go back!"
Ye Jia hesitated for a while: "That..."
Ami: "Huh? Is there any problem?"
Although there was a layer of yin and mist like gunpowder smoke, but for some reason, Ami just saw a hint of shyness from the other side:
"Do we get paid in this industry?"
"Of course!" Ami raised her chest and said proudly, "The king's treatment here is the highest among all the lords of mythical creatures!"
"Cough, but..." Ye Jia coughed: "The job the king is giving me now is to enter the human institution to lurch, in order to ensure my life in human society, shouldn't it be..."
His tail was slightly elongated, as if to imply something.
Ami: "…"
It thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Oh! You are talking about human currency!"
Ye Jia was excited: "Yes, yes!"
"No." Ami answered decisively.
Ye Jia: "..."
"However, I will mention your request to Wang, maybe I can discount your salary to you." Seemingly aware of Ye Jia's murderous aura, Ami's words changed: "You don't have to worry about the treatment. "
Hearing this, Ye Jia was very moved: "Thank you, good brother!"
Just when they were about to separate, Ami seemed to suddenly feel something, and he moved and took out the strangely shaped compass.
The surface that had become blank was transformed again
"Ri," Ami cursed in a low voice, "there is one left."
Ye Jia went over: "Huh?"
"It's also a shadow ghost." Ami said coldly: "It was estimated that it had been hidden in the shadow before, and the compass could not find its position."
Ye Jia asked, "Is it far?"
Ami put the compass away and said in a gloomy tone, "It's nearby."
Ye Jia sighed silently.
- It seems that I can't get off work for the time being.
They left the abandoned construction site and ran towards the nearby residential area under the cover of night.
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It is close to the suburbs and not very populated.
Just two blocks from the construction site is an old-fashioned neighborhood.
The buildings are low and cluttered, like an abandoned corner of a fast-growing city.
Behind the community is a dead and desolate road, and the aging street lamps flicker irregularly, making a harsh electric sound.
Under the street lamp, a dim yellow light fell on the rough road, barely dispelling the darkness of the night.
Pedestrians hurried forward, wincing involuntarily as they passed by.
It was obviously a summer night, but the cold wind just now seemed to blow into my bones.
The man tightened his collar subconsciously, and instinctively looked up into the darkness beside him.
The night made the road in the distance and the surrounding buildings seem distant and blurred.
He stopped instinctively and looked in panic at the path ahead that he had walked a thousand times.
For some reason, there was something in the darkness around him that made him uneasy, like... something was waiting for him.
A sense of fear that seemed to originate from instinct was screaming wildly in his mind, making him dare not take another step forward.
Yes, is it an illusion
Just when the man hesitated, suddenly! The shadow outside the street lamp expanded at a strange speed, and in the next second, several hands suddenly poked out of the darkness and grabbed his ankle.
"Ahhhh!!" The man screamed in horror, and the whole person was dragged to the ground.
He struggled frantically, his fingernails made messy white scratches on the ground, but he couldn't get rid of the vaguely contoured hand on his ankle: "Help!"
One second before the man was desperately dragged into the darkness—
Suddenly, there was a sound of a sharp blade breaking through the air from the front.
Light, fleeting, almost doubtful of his own imagination.
However, in the next second, an extremely terrifying scream came from the darkness ahead, as sharp and sharp as scratching on glass with a blade, piercing the eardrum of the listener like an awl.
The fuzzy black hand gripping the man's ankle seemed to be in pain, and it stepped back like a snake against the ground.
In extreme panic, the man raised his head and looked towards the darkness in front of him.
In the place where the street lights can't shine, there seems to be a tall and straight figure standing silently in the shadow, like a black silhouette, silently watching this direction.
The man's hair stood up instantly.
He didn't dare to look anymore, turned around with a pale face, and stumbled in the opposite direction.
in the dark.
Ye Jia retracted his gaze and turned to look at the shadow ghost in front of him.
The shadow ghost that was injured by Ye Jia on the opposite side made a hissing sound of resentment, and the rich yin gushed out from its wound, the blurred facial features changed in the dark, and the hungry and malicious eyes were glued tightly. On Ye Jia, he seemed to be examining the strength of his opponent.
"I know what you're thinking," Ye Jia chuckled, "but I'm sorry."
He took a step back sideways, his voice soft and lazy: "... Your opponent is not me this time."
Behind Ye Jia, Ami's figure slowly solidified.
The shadow ghost on the opposite side froze: "...is that you?"
It seemed to finally realize what the ghost in front of it was doing, and quickly turned around and fled in the direction it came from, as if trying to escape.
-Unfortunately it's too late.
The twisted black shadow swelled in Ami's body, splitting into terrifying and twisted huge limbs, pounced on the fleeing shadow ghost, and stubbornly pulled it out of the shadow he was trying to hide.
The shadow ghost had to turn to face it.
They scrambled quickly and fiercely over everything.
The intense yin qi rushed towards the surrounding frantically, almost shrouding the entire block in a cold and evil atmosphere. The darkness spread, and the already dim street lights were drowned like fluorescent light, and the screams of shrill and anger were mixed with it, causing the crowd to drown. Human scalp tingling.
In just a few minutes before and after, the outcome was already decided.
The darkness retracted little by little, and the street light flickered twice, then turned on again.
The shadow ghost was pulled under the street lamp by Ami. It had lost its obvious human form and was sticking tightly to the ground like some kind of sticky mollusk. It wriggled its body and shrunk back with difficulty.
"I, I will not betray the king..." The shadow ghost's voice was trembling and frightened: "You, you have to believe me, I am just confused for a while..."
"Of course I believe you." Ami slowly approached the other party and said coldly:
"However, a momentary betrayal is also a betrayal, and there is a price to pay."
Its body shape is spread out like some kind of plane, like a huge mouth, silently biting down towards the opponent!
"Wait! Wait!" The voice of the shadow ghost on the opposite side became sharp and high-pitched: "I can exchange! I have information here, the information you want! Exchange my life!"
"What do you know?" Ami's predatory figure stopped, and she sneered without any scruples: "Could it be that with your status, you can know what power is hidden behind the mother of insects?"
"You don't have the information we want at all," Ami sneered.
"Hehe, hehe hehe..." The shadow ghost's body was clinging to the ground, flowing slowly like a fluid, with a miserable laughter: "No, I have it, I have it, and it's your king most. want… "
It raised its fuzzy head and said slowly:
"—I know where ace is."
This time, Ami really stopped, and it narrowed its eyes: "What?"
"I saw him..." Shadow Ghost hissed, "He's in City M."
"That iconic scythe, yes..."
Its figure slowly solidified, and its deliberately lowered voice was like the whisper of a demon: "I saw it when I was foraging... That school..."
Without warning, a ray of snowy cold light flashed on Ye Jia's fingertips for a moment, and then was quickly engulfed by the thick and dark forest cold ghost.
The ghost ghost didn't even have time to make a sound, its body collapsed and fell softly like a deflated balloon.
"Hey!" Ami became anxious: "What are you doing!"
Ye Jia's voice did not have the slightest emotional fluctuation: "Look at its feet."
Ami looked at the place pointed out by Ye Jia, and saw that the foot of the shadow ghost, which had not completely melted, had quietly penetrated into the darkness beside him, and could use that shadow to slip away in the next second. .
"It's stalling time," Ye Jia said.
Ami was a little annoyed: "I'm sorry, because Wang really attaches great importance to this aspect, so I relaxed my vigilance when it was mentioned."
It bent down and recovered the ghost's body into its body.
Ye Jia let out a sigh of relief.
After Ami recovered its body, she walked forward with Ye Jia.
It sighed with some regret: "Oh, but you are still too quick to start, shadow ghosts are a race that is not very good at lying, although it is indeed estimated that it is preparing to take the opportunity to slip away, but maybe it really knows something. Woolen cloth."
Yes.
According to the keywords it just leaked out, it is estimated that it knows better than all the other Specters.
Ye Jia silently looked away.
"However, I can understand." Ami patted Ye Jia on the shoulder with understanding: "After all, you admire the king so much, and you definitely don't want him to find ace."
Ye Jia: "..."
ah
Ami continued without noticing: "But I assure you, few of those rumors are true. How could Wang be influenced by a human being so wise and talented? The reason why he needs to find that human is because For another reason."
Ye Jia's curiosity was hooked: "What's the reason?"
Ami seemed a little hesitant.
Ye Jia took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth, and said with some difficulty: "After all, after all, the king is my... I admire him, so I want to know more about him—"
"Then why don't you come and ask me?"
A deep voice sounded from behind, and it seemed abrupt and clear in the deadly dark night.