In the villa surrounded by grass and trees, Mrs. Tang did not go to bed to rest after being pushed upstairs by the nanny.
Just like a mother who truly loves her children, she anxiously waited in the living room, wanting to see her husband and children as soon as possible.
Li Hongyu was carrying a copper coin sword on his back, and seemed to be oblivious to the woman's sincere acting. He slightly parted his legs, placed his hands on his knees, and stared solemnly at Mrs. Tang's feet covered by a thin blanket.
Mrs. Tang sighed, tapping her fingertips on the wheelchair armrests, and said with some worry, "Master, do you know how long it will take Master Chen to cure my son? I think it's been almost twenty minutes."
"Mrs. Tang, please be patient. Tongtong has been ill for more than two years. Even if the talisman water is a miracle drug, it will take time for him to recover." Li Hongyu raised his eyelids, alert because Mrs. Tang's frequency of knocking on the armrest suddenly increased.
He knew that Xiaoyang could no longer hold back.
Mrs. Tang supported her forehead with one hand and rubbed her eyebrows. "Although Tongtong is not our biological child, my husband and I have always treated him as our own. He has become like this today, and I, as a mother, am really heartbroken. If Tongtong's condition can really get better, Master, don't worry, Siping and I will keep it in mind, and we will definitely reward you handsomely after this matter is resolved."
The usually quiet and peaceful woman became a chatterbox. She whispered, "Si Ping was rude to Qingxuan Temple before because of the recent bad things at the company and at home. That was definitely not his intention. After the matter is resolved, I will let him build a golden statue for the gods in the temple and repair the temple. What do you think?"
"Mrs. Tang, please don't worry about what happens next." Li Hongyu drew out the copper coin sword with his backhand, grasped the hilt, and clamped the sword body with two fingers of his other hand. With a little force, the copper coin sword disintegrated and turned into a string of copper coins connected by a red line.
The copper coins collided with each other, making a clanging sound.
Mrs. Tang smiled, her eyes narrowed into slits, "That's right, after all, no one who ruins my good deeds will survive!"
She threw away the blanket and stood up from the wheelchair, her feet came out of the white slippers and gently landed on the floor. Her toes moved twice, because of habit, even if she had a pair of human feet, she still couldn't adapt to the normal walking posture.
Twist the ankle joint and turn the foot 180 degrees to the back.
Mrs. Tang stretched her legs a few times, stood up with satisfaction, and said softly while playing with her hair, "Sifang Mountain is a good place with pure energy. It takes hundreds of years to find such a place. I really don't want to leave." Her voice suddenly rose, almost breaking, "But you keep forcing me again and again!"
Li Hongyu probably had never encountered such a severe accusation from a woman. He was stunned for a moment and disagreed: "If you didn't kill anyone, we wouldn't be able to find you. In the final analysis, this is the retribution for your own evil deeds."
"It's too early to talk about retribution." Mrs. Tang's face was distorted, her eyelids opened, her eyeballs almost bulged out, and her mouth opened even wider. The lipstick was set off by the bloody red of her mouth, making it look like blood.
Since the other party had revealed her true face, Li Hongyu thought there was no need to waste any more words with her. He shot out with the red thread carrying the copper coin, heading straight for Mrs. Tang's face, but missed.
Mrs. Tang's figure quickly retreated and leaned against the French window. She gave Li Hongyu a strange smile and hooked her slender jade fingers around the drooping Phalaenopsis orchid at her feet.
The fragile flower was uprooted, but its thin roots were still connected to the soil. As Mrs. Tang's hands moved, the soil where the roots were rooted began to loosen up and down.
The compact soil became loose, and a grayish-white hemisphere was brought out by the thin roots of the Phalaenopsis.
As the spherical shape was completely exposed, Li Hongyu discovered that it was actually a skull!
The Phalaenopsis was manipulated to wrap around the skeleton, drill into the skull, and trembled as it stretched the flower out of the skeleton's mouth. The petals moved, and the skeleton's stiff bones began to creak.
The movements went from slow to smooth, and the skeleton raised its five open fingers and grabbed towards Li Hongyu.
He kicked it, picked up the string of copper coins and threw it forward.
The skeleton's body just shook slightly and the impact was minimal.
Li Hongyu had been out on field duty for at least eight out of ten times, and this was the first time he had encountered such a tough opponent. Mrs. Tang had no intention of sitting down and watching the show. She left the villa, walked through the woods, and went around to the butterfly flower field.
In the flower field, pale butterfly flowers stretched out their petals towards the moonlight, and the purple at the base of the petals was dark black.
She squatted down, inserted her five fingers into the soil, grabbed a handful of roots, and pulled them up with force.
The quiet soil began to boil and the entire planting area was shaken. The dark clouds in the sky grew darker and darker, weighing heavily on the Sifang Mountain, as if they would collapse at any time.
Chen Ling retracted his gaze from Heiyun and pushed an employee into the corridor, "Don't just stand there, hurry up!"
At the farewell party tonight, everyone had a great time, drinking, dancing, and after being extremely excited, they needed a good rest. Almost everyone fell asleep as soon as they returned to the dormitory.
We were awakened by shouting in the middle of the night and were stunned and confused, not knowing what had happened.
It was not until I heard the security captain shouting that there was a ghost that I finally woke up. I put on my slippers, picked up my important belongings and ran out.
There were more than 50 rooms in the dormitory building. Chen Ling and Jiang Yu were in one group, the security guard and Tang Siping were in one group, and the fat and thin seniors were in one group. They went to knock on the doors one by one. Wu Weiwei was in charge of standing in the corridor on the third floor to circulate information. The weasel that had been hiding in the schoolbag was also not idle. It was responsible for keeping watch.
It tilted its head, blinked, pushed hard with its hind legs, and jumped directly from the fifth floor, landing safely.
Chen Ling ran to the window and found that the weasel was running towards the planting area behind the villa. He guessed something and shouted at the top of his voice: "Everyone, hurry up, go!"
Even Tang Siping on the fifth floor heard the young man's urging. He protected his son's head tightly and kicked the young man who was concentrating on picking up things.
"Don't f*cking pick it up! If you delay any longer you'll almost die!"
The young man staggered and ran forward without looking back. After a few steps, he heard Tang Siping, who was following closely behind him, making a phone call.
The call was from Chen Ling. "Mr. Tang, does your company have a staff bus or large truck? If so, get everyone on board and drive away. The farther the better."
The company engaged in urban greening does not have buses, but it definitely has large trucks for transporting trees.
Tang Siping found the truck driver from the crowd and ordered him to drive the truck over. Then he stood on the large stone pillar with the words "Sifang Greening" engraved on it in front of the building and shouted, "Wait for the truck to come over. Everyone get on the truck in an orderly manner. Don't push or crowd!"
"Boss Tang, what happened?" someone asked.
It was said to be haunted, but they didn't see a single ghost along the way.
Besides, if there really was a ghost, with so many of them, and all young and middle-aged, their yang energy would surely scare the ghost to death. Why would they be so panicked
Tang Siping had only a vague understanding of the situation and had no way to explain it, so he ignored the question and continued to remind everyone to be careful.
The truck drove over quickly and the employees got on in an orderly manner with doubts. In the end, only Tang Siping and Tongtong were left.
The security captain reached out his hand and said, "Boss, hold my hand and I'll pull you up."
Tang Siping handed the child over. Although Chen Ling and the others vaguely mentioned that this incident was related to his wife, he still wanted to go back and take a look. "You go first. I'll go back and find my wife and go together."
In addition, there was a golden retriever at home that was not taken away.
The boss and his wife had a deep affection for each other, and the security guard did not try to persuade them. He just hugged the sleeping child tightly and pulled up the fender on the back of the truck and tied it up.
"Mr. Tang, don't you want to get in the car?" Behind Tang Siping were his fat and thin senior brothers who had just arrived.
Tang Siping avoided answering and asked, "Excuse me, where are Master Chen and his men? Have they gone to the villa to look for my wife?"
When the fat senior brother heard him ask this, he thought Tang Siping already knew the truth, so he nodded and said, "It's too late to count the number of people one by one now. After you get in the car, tell the driver to drive away immediately. My junior brother and I will go back upstairs to see if there are any people we missed."
"Sorry to trouble you two masters, I'll leave now." Having said that, after the two brothers turned around and went upstairs and the truck drove away, Tang Siping ran towards the villa.
Not far from the villa, he felt something strange under his feet. Something was constantly drilling deep into the ground, causing the entire ground to vibrate and shake slightly, as if it would collapse at any time.
"Mr. Chen!" The familiar figures in front gave Tang Siping a sense of security. He quickened his pace and caught up with the three people in front.
Chen Ling was stunned when he saw him fall back. "Why are you back again? It's dangerous here."
Tang Siping said anxiously, "My wife is still in the villa and hasn't come out yet. And the golden retriever must still be hiding in the kennel. I promise that I will leave as soon as I find them and will never stay to cause trouble for everyone."
"Mr. Tang, your wife died a long time ago." Jiang Yu's voice was emotionless. "Mrs. Tang today is Xiao Yang in human skin."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Tang Siping took a step back in fear and pushed away Chen Ling and Wu Weiwei who were blocking his way.
Chen Ling grabbed his arm and pulled him back. "Mr. Tang, you have heard the conversation between Jiang Yu and me. The reason why Tongtong's soul is not attached to his body is because he may have witnessed his mother's death. The reason why he hides at night is because he knows that once night falls, danger will come."
Tang Siping threw off the young man's shackles and rushed forward stubbornly.
"Do you know why your dog refuses to leave its kennel at night? It's because it knows that Xiaoyang will go out to look for food at night." Chen Ling's voice was loud and clear, "Mr. Tang, it's afraid. It's scared."
"You are lying! It loves to follow my wife during the day. If it really has a new core, why didn't it notice?!"
Chen Ling reminded calmly: "Didn't you notice it too?"
“I, I…” Tang Siping was speechless, his face pale and blue, showing anger, shock, as well as resistance and escape from the truth.
His wife was born into a scholarly family with a wealthy background. It was a blessing for him, a peasant from the countryside, to marry such a gentle girl.
When Tang Siping started his business, his family was in a very bad condition. In order to supplement the family income, his wife secretly worked two jobs without his knowledge.
Maybe they were not meant to have children, or maybe it was because they overworked in their early years and exhausted their bodies, but they never had children... In this regard, they were very open-minded. If they were pregnant, they would have the baby, but if they were not, they would not force it.
Later, Tang Siping's business became more and more prosperous. He changed from a small flower and plant retailer to a supplier, and then from a supplier to a planting tycoon. Outsiders did not know the bitterness and tears behind this. Only his wife, who had been silently supporting him with her delicate body, supported his occasional fatigue, and drove away the many unsatisfactory things he had kept in his heart.
Tang Siping always felt that his feelings towards his wife were complicated.
The love of mutual support, the family affection of mutual support, the friendship of mutual trust, that woman is an inseparable part of his heart. He thought that they could grow old together, lie in the grave together, and walk into the next life hand in hand.
Now, the beautiful vision has been shattered.
The fragments reflected his depressed and frightened face, constantly reminding him that the person he loved most was dead, she was dead.
"What I just said is true..." Tang Siping raised his sad face, his body shaking uncontrollably, "If it's true, then what about my wife... Is she still alive?"
The skin has been pierced into Xiaoyang's body, how could he still be alive? Chen Ling didn't know how to tell him the truth.
The Tang Siping in front of him was too fragile, and any disturbance could easily defeat him.
"Brother Chen, we can't delay any longer. Li Hongyu is still alone in the villa." Wu Weiwei reminded.
The situation was urgent and Chen Ling had no time to comfort anyone. He left a message "Leave quickly" and rushed into the villa.
In the living room of the villa, Li Hongyu was still fighting with the skeleton. This thing was not controlled by yin energy and ghost energy, but was active by the essence released by Xiaoyang on the butterfly flower. Ordinary talismans could not do anything to it.
Chen Ling quickly passed the living room and went to the kitchen, opened the drawer and took out a set of knives.
He took out a sashimi knife and held it in his hand, and took out three others and took them out. While handing the kitchen knife to Li Hongyu, he took a deep breath and chopped hard at the skull.
The skull split in the middle, and the delicate butterfly flower was cut in half by the sashimi knife.
The skeleton lost its source of power, its bones broke and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
Li Hongyu was using a kitchen knife for the first time, and he was not very comfortable with it. He adjusted the position of his fingers a few times and said, "Mrs. Tang left from the garden. I suspect she went to the flower planting area in the back."
Chen Ling half-knelt down and used the tip of the knife to push aside the bones. Just like the remains that were originally dug out from Sifang Mountain, there was no flesh on each bone and there were tiny teeth marks on them.
The previous guess was correct, this is indeed Xiaoyang’s base camp.
During the day, Xiao Yang was Mrs. Tang, who took care of her husband and children. At night, she went out to hunt for food and became a bloodthirsty monster that ate people. In addition to this one, there might be more corpses hidden somewhere else.
No wonder she had been refraining from touching the staff of Sifang Greening. Once an employee went missing, Sifang Mountain would attract the attention of the outside world.
If the police came with police dogs to search, they would probably bring the body out from deep in the ground like the golden retriever did. At that time, Xiaoyang could not stay in Sifang Mountain and had to find a new place to stay.
Hundred-year-old sacred mountains are not uncommon, but most of them are guarded by mountain gods and temples and Taoist temples. If a mountain spirit dares to occupy the mountain and become the king, he will undoubtedly be seeking his own death.
It seems that Sifang Mountain is the place with the most spiritual energy that Xiaoyang can find so far.
Chen Ling stood up and took out the Sanqing Bell. The bell body vibrated at a very high frequency. As he moved his wrist, the bell tongue inside began to swing to both sides and hit the inner wall of the copper bell.
Li Hongyu took out his Sanqing Bell in confusion, but there was no sound at all.
Wu Weiwei, who was holding a bone-chopping knife, couldn't help but say, "Our brother Chen's Sanqing Bell has been passed down for who knows how many generations. It's different from ordinary ones."
Li Hongyu put the Sanqing Bell back and asked, "Does Chen Ling really not have a sect?"
Being friends for a while doesn't mean you will be friends forever.
Zhao Xunchang usually took good care of Wu Weiwei and didn't shy away from talking to him. Wu Weiwei had long known that Mr. Zhao came from Longhu Mountain, but he was cautious and didn't say anything. "Really not."
He paused, then said in a dragging voice: "Maybe my brother Chen is very talented. You didn't see that the thunder talisman he drew was extremely powerful, the kind that could shatter the heaven and earth. Tsk."
Li Hongyu said seriously, "I will definitely ask for your advice if I have the chance."
Chen Ling's scalp was tightened by the awkward praise from behind, and he turned around and glared at Wu Weiwei, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up."
The Phalaenopsis orchid field in the woods is now empty. There are deep pits the size of a human figure in the soil, with indentations of foot and finger bones next to them.
Looking at those densely packed holes, Chen Ling felt overwhelmed and filled with anger. How many people must have been eaten by these holes!
"Be careful." Jiang Yu's voice came closer, "Those things are nearby."
Everything in the woods is Xiaoyang's eyes and ears. Their every move is closely monitored. You never know where a skeleton might suddenly jump out and launch a sneak attack.
Chen Ling took a deep breath, tightened his grip on the sashimi knife, and said without turning his head: "Everyone be careful."
The dark clouds in the sky became thicker, as if they were tightly covering the top of the head and could be touched by standing on tiptoe.
The wind blew, carrying away the flying leaves.
This scene looked familiar. Chen Ling reacted and shouted, "Here it comes!"
Wu Weiwei was once very close to those leaves that were as sharp as blades. He immediately understood what was happening and reflexively raised the boning knife to cover his face.
The next second, leaves flew from all directions. The thin leaves were as fast as sharp blades. Chen Ling was only lightly touched, leaving a long cut on his arm.
Jiang Yu's eyes were deep, his emotions were surging, and a dark red appeared in his black pupils.
He pursed his thin lips, protected the person in his arms with one hand, drew a talisman with his bare hands, and a dark red talisman appeared in the air.
The leaves controlled by the monster stopped moving and fell to the ground.
He lowered his head, his nose close to the young man's hair, "Go find the source of the leaves."
Xiaoyang is not a plant spirit, so these leaves naturally do not come from her, but from one or several of the thousands of trees in the forest.
Chen Ling understood and rushed into the woods under Jiang Yu's cover.
At first, the evil-repelling talisman was lit, and the smoke was floating, pointing to the southeast. He ran away, while holding the sashimi knife tightly, ready for the next battle.
After passing through a small coniferous forest, Chen Ling finally saw the camphor tree that was constantly releasing flying leaf blades.
The camphor tree was not very old. Chen Ling attacked from the side and rear, inserting the sashimi knife into the trunk. While exerting force with his feet, he stretched out his arm to hook a horizontal branch.
He lowered his head and bit the handle of the knife, then grabbed the branch with both hands and swayed his body back and forth.
When he reached the same height, he suddenly let go, and his legs just happened to hook onto the opposite branch. He sat up with his abdomen curled up, and on the branch not far above his head, a Phalaenopsis was embedded in the bark.
Chen Ling chanted a spell to ward off evil spirits and took apart the telescopic stick.
The cursed whip was clenched tightly in his hand, and as the spell was finished, the whip head with the red tassel flew out, and the Phalaenopsis was crushed into mud.
Fearing the influence of the cursed whip, Chen Ling did not dare to use it too much. He quickly rolled it up, stuffed it back into the telescopic stick, and put it back into his schoolbag.
His legs were dangling in the air, he looked down, then turned his head to look at the horizontal branches in front of him, a trace of distress revealed on his calm face.
He moved his hips little by little, twisting his waist backwards, trying to grab the tree trunk first and then slide his body down, swinging back to the previous branch using the same swinging method, and then stepping on the sashimi knife that was inserted into the tree trunk to return to the ground.
However, the branch in his hand was not strong enough and was too thick. As soon as his body fell down, Chen Ling regretted it and could not swing at all!
This matter is so embarrassing, it's neither here nor there.
Not long after hanging on the tree, Li Hongyu and his friends arrived.
Wu Weiwei didn't know what was going on, so he opened his mouth and yelled, "Brother Chen, what are you doing hanging there?"
Chen Ling said with a stiff face: "I'm not dead! I just came down from the branch above and was about to jump down!"
His feet were at least two or three meters above the ground. He wouldn't die if he fell, but his ankles would be easily injured. He gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and stepped on the air with his toes twice. Just as he was about to let go, he heard the crisp sound of leaves being stepped on from below.
He opened one eye and looked down. Jiang Yu was looking up at him, with his two slender arms stretched upwards. "Let go, I'll catch you."
Chen Ling suddenly stopped worrying about anything, closed his eyes, let go, and did it in one go.
Jiang Yu's hands were steady. He grasped the young man's armpits squarely and gently placed him on the ground.
Wu Weiwei exclaimed, the impact force of a person falling from a height is very huge, if the last time he saw Brother Jiang hugging someone with one hand showed his strong arm strength, today's scene was enough to show that it was not just his arm strength that was strong, Brother Jiang's lower body was also quite stable.
How many horse stances does one have to do to master this
Chen Ling felt a little embarrassed. His majestic image was about to be lost. He quickly put on a serious expression and asked, "Well, have you found any trace of Xiao Yang?"
"No." said Li Hongyu.
"She must be trying to sneak attack us." Wu Weiwei's mind jumped quickly, and he forgot about what happened before. "Brother Chen, should we go separately?"
"No, Xiaoyang's whereabouts are secretive and his actions are brutal. It's obvious that he wants to kill us all here today. It will be safer for us to stay together than to act separately." Chen Ling moved his wrists and ankles a few times, took out the talisman to ward off evil spirits again, and looked for the location of the evil spirit's aura.
Jiang Yu followed behind Chen Ling, a rare trace of regret showing on his calm face.
After savoring the touch of his fingertips for a while, he slid his eyes around and looked at the young man from head to toe.
Everything is good except that she is a little thin. She needs to gain some weight.
Chen Ling had sharp perceptions, and the sight of the exposed bone nailed to his back made him nervous. He almost lost control of his hands and feet. Just as he was about to turn around and ask the ancestor to restrain himself, the trees around him suddenly rustled.
One after another, white skeletons appeared from between the obstructing leaves, clinging to the trees like geckos, staring at the living people trapped in the middle with their black "eyes".