Inside the house.
My aunt looked up at the wall clock, lost in thought.
The table in front of him was full of cold dishes, and they were almost the same as when Lin Qiye left.
After an unknown amount of time, Yang Jin reached out, picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it into his aunt's bowl.
"Mom, let's eat."
"Alas..." Aunt shook her head and sighed, "You said your brother ran out in the middle of the meal. How come he hasn't come back yet? Did something happen to him?"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen to him. Maybe his classmates will see that his eyesight has recovered and insist on taking him out for dinner." Yang Jin comforted him softly.
After hearing what Yang Jin said, my aunt's expression obviously relaxed a little, but then she became worried again.
"But he went out without an umbrella."
"Mom..." Yang Jin stood up, pointed out the window, and spoke calmly.
"The rain has stopped."
…
The rain did stop.
The hazy moonlight penetrated through the clouds and sprinkled on the silent and deserted night, and everything was silent.
In the open space not far away, the broken signboard had been taken away, and the blood and flesh on the ground had been cleaned up. Only the hideous knife marks on the ground remained, silently telling everything that happened last night.
Maybe tomorrow morning, someone will discover this mysterious crack, and they will make many speculations, but they will never know the truth of the matter.
A few drops of rain slid down the eaves and fell into the muddy pond, creating ripples.
Snap!
A foot stepped into the pond, splashing water.
In the dark night, on an open space covered with knife marks, a small black mangy dog was walking leisurely.
There was a small cloth bag hanging around his neck.
It passed through the cracks, walked to a clean open space, and stopped.
Ten minutes ago, a man's body was lying here.
It lowered its head, and a faint light appeared in its dark eyes.
Sudden,
It opened its mouth.
Speak human language,
The voice is deep and loud!
"Soul Returns..."
…
Cangnan City, Peace Bridge.
Heping Bridge is a bridge in the suburbs of Cangnan City. Under the bridge is the Jiangnan Grand Canal that runs through the entire Cangnan City. Countless pedestrians and vehicles pass by this bridge every day. It is considered one of the landmarks of Cangnan City.
At the bridgehead of Heping Bridge, there are numerous small shops on both sides. On one of the seemingly most inconspicuous shops, there is an old big red sign.
—Peace Office.
Like other shops near Heping Bridge, it is not big, only about 200 square meters, which is only slightly larger than the Lanzhou Ramen shops near ordinary schools.
The reason why it is inconspicuous is not only because the name is too common, but most importantly, the stores on both sides of it are too conspicuous.
On the left is a wedding company with extremely festive and popular arrangements, called "Heping Wedding".
On the right is a one-stop funeral service store with white satin hanging everywhere and wreaths placed on display. It is called "Heping Funeral Service".
On the left is a wedding with smiling faces, and on the right is a funeral with sorrowful expressions.
In between these two extremes, the Peace Agency is like a transparent store that cannot attract anyone's attention at all.
If there is a special feature, it may be its name. Generally, different firms have different specialties. There are law firms specializing in litigation, detective firms specializing in solving crimes, and accounting firms specializing in accounting...
But this store has no prefix, only the word "Peace", which makes it impossible to figure out what it does.
At this moment, in the Peace Office, underground.
In the spacious and bright hall, a young man was sitting on the sofa with his head down, staring at the floor tiles under his feet, silent.
There were six people sitting in this hall.
"So, you are the Seraph agent that Lao Zhao is responsible for finding?" Wu Xiangnan sat on the sofa on the other side and asked Lin Qiye.
"That's right."
After a brief silence, Wu Xiangnan slowly spoke:
"My name is Wu Xiangnan, and I am the deputy captain of the Night Watch Squad 136 stationed in Cangnan City. The one in black leaning against the pillar is the captain, Chen Muye."
Lin Qiye followed Wu Xiangnan's gaze and saw a man with his hands in his pockets looking at him silently beside a pillar not far away.
Noticing Lin Qiye's gaze, Chen Muye nodded slightly.
Wu Xiangnan turned around and looked at the remaining four people, "Don't just stand there like an idiot. Introduce yourself."
At this moment, the woman sitting alone on the single sofa, hugging her legs, with wet hair, raised her head slightly, revealing a pair of red eyes.
"Night Watch Squad 136, frontal combat force, Red Tassel."
Lin Qiye knew her. The reason why he appeared here was because Hongying brought her here.
After Hongying finished speaking, the man standing next to her with a towel in his hand smiled and said:
"Night Watch Squad 136, frontal combat force, Wen Qimo."
Then, the crying girl who was huddled together beside him raised her head slightly and said softly, "Night Watch Squad 136, combat assistant and part-time military doctor, Si Xiaonan."
"Night Watch Squad 136, long-range fire support, Leng Xuan." The man sitting next to him holding a sniper rifle said coldly.
After everyone had introduced themselves, Wu Xiangnan spoke again:
"Lin Qiye, right? Do you have anything else to add about Zhao Kongcheng's death in battle?"
"I've made it very clear." Lin Qiye said calmly, "Zhao Kongcheng opened the [Unrestrained Airspace] and fought the Ghost Face King alone, and they both died in the end."
"Were you there when they were fighting?"
"I am here."
"How did you enter the [No Rings Space]?"
"Glaze at it and it opens."
Wu Xiangnan opened his mouth and frowned slightly, "Can you describe to me in detail the scene of their battle? For example, how did Zhao Kongcheng kill the Ghost Face King?"
"He swung his sword, cut out a huge black crescent, and chopped off the Ghost Face King's head." Lin Qiye said.
"Black Crescent..." Wu Xiangnan frowned and thought.
At this moment, Chen Muye, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up: "It was [Destroying Life and Flashing Moon]. Old Zhao used the Ghost and God Induction... to activate his Forbidden Ruins."
Wen Qimo was surprised and said, "Sequence 083's [Destroying Life Flash Moon]? That's a high-risk forbidden ruin!"
"I didn't expect... Uncle Zhao was right. I used to think he was just narcissistic..." Si Xiaonan pursed her lips and spoke weakly.
"No, he is just narcissistic." Chen Muye's mouth curled up slightly, and a trace of reminiscence flashed in his eyes, "I think that guy didn't dare to believe it when he saw his own Forbidden Ruins?"
"If we were there, he would definitely pester us and say that his Jinxu is the most handsome of them all..." Hongying seemed to have thought of some interesting picture, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly, but soon the light in her eyes dimmed.
Wu Xiangnan looked into Lin Qiye's eyes and spoke again: "There is another question. Judging from the corpse of the Ghost Face King, its fatal wound was a series of knife wounds and inexplicable burn marks... But [Destroying the Moon] does not seem to have this characteristic.
How is this going?"
Lin Qiye frowned, looked into Wu Xiangnan's eyes, and spoke word by word:
"I have made it very clear, Zhao Kongcheng will face the Ghost Face King alone, fighting to the death...
Finally, the Ghost Face King was killed alone! "