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Chapter 74: The name of a man is the shadow of a tree

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This is a woman, covered in a white dress, but the body beneath the white dress is covered with scars. It seems that every part of the body has a different kind of injury, which is very shocking.

From Zhou Ze's professional perspective, it is truly a miracle that this woman is still alive.

Generally in gun battle movies, after being shot many times, the tragic character can still summon up the last bit of his energy to reminisce for a long and boring memory and then shout "You go away", "I won't go away", "I won't go away if you don't go away" over and over again, and finally pick up the gun and kill a few enemies. This is basically impossible to happen in reality.

People are actually very fragile.

The reason why the woman in front of him was not dead yet, was still breathing, and her chest was slightly rising and falling was also related to her own special characteristics.

Zhou Ze walked over and tapped his palm with his fingernails, ready to open the gate of hell.

"So direct?" Xu Qinglang asked from behind, "Don't you want to ask?"

"Nothing to ask."

While the other party is still unconscious, grab his soul out of his body and send it to hell. Everything will be perfect.

However, at this moment, the old Taoist who had just been thrown out by Zhou Ze got up again and rushed towards Zhou Ze.

Xu Qinglang took a step forward, stretched out his hand to hold the old Taoist, and then threw the old Taoist to the side. The old Taoist had just been "shocked" by Zhou Ze's nails, and his body was still weak at this time. Naturally, he was no match for Xu Qinglang.

"Don't... don't do this, go around her, please go around her."

The old Taoist lying on the side began to plead for mercy.

But Zhou Ze remained unmoved. A thread similar to black syrup was pulled out and drew a circle.

Then, Zhou Ze stretched out his hand and tried to grab the opponent's soul from his body. Although the soul was very weak now, Zhou Ze could already feel the strength of the opponent's soul level.

This is a big fish, a much fatter and more delicious prey than the small fish and shrimp he had caught before!

“Buzz!”

At this moment, a pen suddenly floated up and stabbed directly at Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze was quick-witted and leaned back slightly to avoid the pen, but the real target of the pen was not Zhou Ze, but Xu Qinglang. The tip of the pen touched Xu Qinglang's throat.

Although Xu Qinglang's Adam's apple was not obvious, at this moment, he stretched out his hands and dared not move.

The woman on the ground still had her eyes closed and was still in a coma, but she was controlling everything.

"Old Zhou, don't be anxious, don't be anxious!"

Xu Qinglang shouted, he was afraid that Zhou Ze would disregard his life. You know, his life was hanging by a thread, no less than someone pointing a gun at his temple.

However, Zhou Ze really didn't care about his life or death and grabbed the other's forehead with his fingers.

At this moment, the tip of the pen pierced into Xu Qinglang's neck, leaving a small cut and blood flowing out.

"Uh..." Xu Qinglang felt the pain coming from his neck, but he didn't dare to reach out to grab the pen. He had a premonition that if he acted rashly, the pen would pierce his neck in an instant.

The woman didn't wake up, but to Zhou Ze, it was a silent threat.

She couldn't do anything to Zhou Ze, but she could threaten him with the lives of people around him.

"Those two people who jumped to their deaths were so pitiful." Zhou Ze suddenly said.

Xu Qinglang was stunned. He didn't know what Zhou Ze meant by suddenly saying this.

"You scolded me during the day for not reminding them last night, and said that I had changed." Zhou Ze continued.

"Hmm?" Xu Qinglang.

"So, I think you are willing to sacrifice yourself to avenge them, right?"

“… …”Xu Qinglang.

Zhou Ze suddenly covered his chest with one hand and pressed the other hand on the ground. Cold sweat began to appear on his face, and he did not make any other movements.

The pen also fell to the ground dejectedly. Xu Qinglang covered the small wound on his neck and kept breathing heavily. He seemed to be cursing something in his mouth, but it was not clear.

The old Taoist hurried to the woman's side and checked her condition. He was a little anxious and confused.

Zhou Ze glanced at Xu Qinglang hatefully. If he had known, he would not have brought him along. Before, he just thought that having one more person could help him find the target faster. Who would have thought that Xu Qinglang would actually become a bargaining chip for the other party to threaten him.

Originally, Zhou Ze should have completed his task regardless of Xu Qinglang's life or death, but he forced himself to change his mind. All of a sudden, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, which made him feel like he was dying.

Oh shit,

This is called a deal, okay

Is this also called having a conscience

This hurts me too

Besides, who will make sour girl juice for me if he dies

I'm just thinking about myself!

The old Taoist touched his crotch again and took out a piece of talisman paper. This guy's talisman paper is really inexhaustible, and he likes to hide it in that place specifically. I don't know if there is any special reason for it.

"Brother, I'm sorry, I have to protect this person. She managed to escape from Rongcheng with great difficulty. I can't let her fall into your hands."

The old Taoist held the talisman paper and said to Zhou Ze, and finally said apologetically:

"I'm sorry."

As he said this, the old Taoist was about to stick the talisman paper towards Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze raised his head suddenly, and a black light flashed in his eyes. However, before Zhou Ze could make a move, two figures appeared directly behind the old Taoist.

Xu Qinglang covered his neck, but the syllables coming out of his mouth began to become clear.

The old Taoist was lifted up. He turned his head and found that a man and a woman had appeared behind him without him noticing. The two empty human skins had strength no less than that of ordinary people.

"Bang!"

"Shit!"

The Taoist priest was thrown out again and hit the tiled floor.

Twisting his body, holding his waist with one hand, the old Taoist said in sorrow:

"My waist..."

Zhou Ze slowly calmed the pain in his chest and raised his hand again. He knew that the woman in front of him was very weak. Her previous resistance and stiffness were the limit of what she could do.

"Brother, please, spare her and let us go."

"Let you go?" Xu Qinglang covered his neck with one hand and controlled two puppet skins with the other hand to slowly walk towards the old Taoist priest. "Then who will settle the accounts for those two people who jumped off the building and died?"

"We didn't kill those two people. We didn't touch them. We wanted to save them. They wanted to die on their own!" explained the old Taoist.

"Do you think we will believe this?" Xu Qinglang snorted coldly.

When the old Taoist saw Xu Qinglang being possessed by the "Messenger of Light", he looked at Zhou Ze instead of him and prayed:

"Brother, she is also from our Mingdian and a friend of our boss. She was injured to help my boss."

The old Taoist remembered that when he first met Zhou Ze, Zhou Ze was actually very interested in his boss's affairs. At this time, he could only try to move his boss out.

Zhou Ze's hand had just been placed on the woman's forehead, and he hadn't exerted any force yet. When he heard the Taoist's words, he stopped immediately.

Is he that man's partner

The man who was sitting behind the counter of the underworld store and drinking porridge with difficulty in the Taoist’s live video

Is he the man who reminded him of the faceless woman's plan by the pond in his dream

I owe him a favor.

“Hiss…”

My chest started to hurt again.

Zhou Ze kept taking deep breaths, then took two steps back and staggered to his feet.

Fortunately, the pain did not last too long, but every time I made any choice that violated the principle of profit first and began to be burdened by personal relationships, it would always remind me.

It was as if there was a poisonous scorpion hiding in his chest.

There is a famous monkey cage electric shock experiment.

Perhaps, this is the price and purpose of having no conscience, which makes you develop a fear reflex and then slowly change your previous "bad" habits.

"You don't really believe it, do you?" Xu Qinglang looked at Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze waved his hand.

"Hey, who would be so stupid as to jump off a building one after another to commit suicide? Didn't you say before..."

"I believe that guy." Zhou Ze glanced at Xu Qinglang, then looked at the old Taoist, "Take him away and don't show up in front of me again."

A person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Zhou Ze did not think that the two lovers who jumped to their deaths one day after the other were caused by this woman. This woman might have participated in the Ouija board game and had taken action in it, but she was definitely not killing people.

The little girl once said that the man in Chengdu went too far and regarded himself as a judge, acting outside the laws of the world and executing his so-called just judgment, which led to him being banned from the underworld.

Therefore, the friend of that kind of person cannot be an evil ghost who kills people at will, otherwise, given that guy's personality, he would be the first one to kill the woman.

This inference is really more credible than any so-called evidence, because even when the little girl talked about that person, she only ridiculed him for being ignorant of the world, but did not say anything about his personal morality.

The old Taoist immediately stood up, holding his waist, and kept thanking her. But when he came to the woman, he said with a bitter face:

"Brother, we have nowhere to go. She asked me to bring her here before because she wanted to be by your side so that she could be in the dark and those who wanted to arrest her would not notice this place.

If I take her away now, wouldn't that be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth?"

"You... are being wanted?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Well, that's what I mean. Anyway, those guys are elusive. They can appear anywhere, in mirrors, in crowds, even in bushes and underground. We are lucky to be able to escape alive."

"That's meaningless. Her injuries have worsened severely. She can't hold on for much longer." Zhou Ze rubbed his fingers. "Once this body is destroyed, she will be left with only her soul. She will either be discovered soon or fall directly into hell."

"We went to the hospital to treat our injuries, but as soon as we entered the ward, the doctor who looked normal took off his clothes and turned into a hideous creature, intending to kill us."

The old Taoist was very puzzled.

"It was only during the two days since we came to live near you that we were able to feel a little more at peace."

"I can't help you." Zhou Ze shrugged.

He admired the man from Rongcheng, and he owed him a favor, so he turned a blind eye this time. He didn't want to create too many complications, otherwise next time it would be the little Lolita who brought a group of ghost officials and came directly to his bookstore.

At this moment, the pen that had fallen on the ground suddenly stood up. Xu Qinglang's expression changed and he looked alert.

But the pen only wrote a few words on the ground:

"Save me and I'll give you my heart."

Seeing these words, Zhou Ze's eyes suddenly focused.

"Shameless little bitch!

How confident is this woman about her appearance? Who would you give your heart to if I saved you?"

Xu Qinglang mocked from the side, "No matter how beautiful you were before, with your current appearance, how could this idiot want your heart!"

"I do."

"What?" Xu Qinglang was stunned and looked at Zhou Ze. It seemed that at this moment, Xu Qinglang saw Zhou Ze clearly. Doctor Lin was so beautiful, but he could pass by her house three times without entering. It turned out that she had this kind of taste.

"Brother, didn't you just say there was no other way?" the old Taoist asked doubtfully.

"Oh, I forgot. I just remembered that I was the best surgeon in Tongcheng in my previous life."