When I turned around slowly with my hands behind my back, Guan Qingyan's face was already covered with a layer of darkness. Her eyes, which originally had a sad look in them, had lost most of their luster, but those pupils that were about to become blurred were still looking in my direction.
I said nonchalantly, "Just die! You'll die sooner or later anyway, leaving your body intact is better than having your head chopped off by me."
Miaokong said: "I still need Miss Guan's beautiful head, so please help me chop it off, Mr. Wu!"
"With pleasure!" As I reached out to hold the hilt of the knife at my waist, Nangong Ling struggled and shouted, "Wu Zhao, you bastard! Qingyan..."
Guan Qingyan slowly closed her eyes in front of me and stretched out a hand to tightly grasp the clothes on her chest.
I don't know what she held on to at the moment of life and death, but I saw a smile of reminiscence on her face.
"Kill—" I roared, and slapped the hilt of the knife at my waist. The three-foot Rakshasa flew from my waist into the air with the knife and sheath. After flying in the air for a few circles, the long knife came out of the sheath.
When the handle of the knife rolled in the air and fell to the palm of my hand behind my back, I suddenly turned around, grabbed the handle of the knife with both hands at the same time, and slashed at Miaokong head-on. The blade light that had grown two meters in length hit the inner wall of the carriage and fell straight down, leaving a knife mark on the pure steel carriage. Miaokong, who was sitting on the ground, was also split in half by my knife.
When the corpse split into two from the top of the head flew to the left and right of the carriage, a demonic aura gushed out from the broken corpse and suddenly condensed into Miaokong's face in the air.
I struck with my first knife, and before I could strike with my second knife, I had already shouted urgently, "Detoxify Guan Qingyan!"
"Kill—" Monk Shi roared as he turned his long stick, using it as a spear, and fiercely stabbed me from behind. The spinning long stick pressed on my shoulders and advanced several feet, twisting open Miaokong's face, and then drilled into the inner wall of the carriage like an electric drill.
According to common sense, the evil spirit that spewed out of Miaokong's body should be dispersed in the air by the spinning iron rod. What I never expected was that the evil spirit in the air actually coiled around the tip of the iron rod like a tangled thread.
"Get out of the way!" Monk Shi roared and pushed me aside with one hand. He still held the long stick and exerted force again. The iron stick covered with runes suddenly burst out with a layer of red light and drilled towards the carriage with a buzzing sound.
"Stop!" Although I shouted urgently, it was already a step too late. The iron rod with innate true energy drilled a hole in the carriage in just a moment and protruded half a foot out of the car. The evil spirit coiled on the stick slipped out of the car along the runes on the stick.
"Oh no!" I clenched my fists tightly when Miaokong's voice suddenly rang out outside: "Hahaha... It is said that ruthlessness is better than affection! Guan Qingyan has feelings for you, and you can't let her go either. If it wasn't for that idiot Nangong Ling who poisoned you, I would have almost believed you."
"You deliberately said you wanted to cooperate with me because you had your own plans, right? If it weren't for Nangong Ling disrupting your plans, there might have been a life-and-death battle between us. Now, hehe... I want to see what Ning Nitian's descendants will look like when they enter Shenmu Temple!"
Miaokong's voice seemed to be getting farther and farther away. He was retreating while speaking, but the sound of wooden sticks hitting the ground outside was like a tide approaching the car. I didn't need to look outside to know that I was surrounded by puppets.
Cold sweat oozed from Shi Heshang's forehead: "Old Wu, what should we do?"
I reached out and pulled out his iron rod, and looked outside through the hole in the carriage. There was no trace of the puppet outside yet, but I could see the cars near us slowly moving outwards - when we rushed down the hillside, we were entangled with three trucks, and after we stopped, we were also sandwiched between two cars. If we didn't move the cars on the left and right, the wooden puppet couldn't touch us, so the first thing they had to do was to move the cars.
Nangong Ling then whispered: "Brother Shi, Wu Zhao, I'm sorry..."
Monk Shi said in a deep voice: "After a while, you take Guan Qingyan and run as fast as you can. We will stay behind to cover your retreat."
“No…” Nangong Ling shook her head desperately.
Monk Shi said calmly: "Don't think too much, I just want to leave an explanation for you and myself!"
When Nangong Ling wanted to speak, I looked at Ji Liping and said, "Assistant Ji, let's just call you Assistant Ji! Don't you want to say something in this situation?"
Ji Liping asked in surprise: "Mr. Wu, what are you talking about?"
I looked at the other person and said, "You are not Ji Liping, nor are you from Hell Gate. You are from the Xuanjing Division, right?"
Ji Liping said in confusion: "I really don't know what you are talking about!"
I said calmly, "Duan Yunfei is plotting against me, and you are also plotting against Duan Yunfei. However, Duan Yunfei obviously knows your identity, which is why he kept you alone after exhausting all the employees of Guan's company."
Ji Liping said: "Mr. Wu...Mr. Wu, are you telling a story? Why can't I understand anything?"
I looked at Ji Liping and said, "There may be a Ji Liping in this world, but it is definitely not you."
"When you suddenly showed up that day to send me a message, you actually made a mistake that you didn't even realize. When you knocked on the rooftop door, you used the codeword of the art of martial arts: a visitor is coming."
Ji Liping lowered her head and thought for a moment: "I still don't understand what you are talking about."
I continued, "Then I'll remind you again. Before I went to Old Man Guan's house, you had already controlled the Guan family, right? At that time, although Old Man Guan and I were at loggerheads, he still gave me a reminder."
"Old Guan said that the hermit who gave him advice told him to move all the graves of his ancestors into the temple in order to dispel the evil spell. In fact, he was telling me that he had been controlled by someone. It is common sense in Feng Shui not to bury graves in front of or behind a temple. Old Guan is not a Feng Shui master, but he would understand such simple common sense. He said this deliberately just to tell me that someone is playing tricks on me."
Ji Liping still shook her head and said, "I really don't know what you are talking about!"
"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. I'm going to throw you out of the car in a moment. By then, if you haven't used your backup plan, you'll be dead."
After I finished speaking, I stood face to face with Ji Liping about two meters away. Ji Liping said nothing and I did not move either. This silent contest was a test of psychological endurance. Whoever gave up first would be at a disadvantage.
Ji Liping was patient because she thought I was cheating. What I just said was not enough to explain why I doubted her. It can even be said that every sentence was far-fetched.
Especially when I said that she knocked on the door to say "there is a visitor", it was completely fabricated. It was not only a bet on the other party's memory error, but also a bet on the other party's guilty conscience. As an old hand, as long as she thinks calmly, she can recall the scene at that time. This is why she has always refused to admit her identity.
I dare to conclude that Ji Liping is from Xuan Jingsi. The one who really gave me the clue was not old man Guan, but Chen Hanxing.
When I first met Chen Hanxing, he told me that he liked pure warlocks and liked to work with pure warlocks. At that time, I just thought that he was lamenting about his identity as a Jiangshan Iron Guard and didn't think much about it.
However, when Chen Hanxing wanted to attack the police, I suddenly came to my senses.
Chen Hanxing is a heroic spirit and cannot kill people at will, but he repeatedly showed signs of wanting to kill people at that time, which in itself is a huge loophole.
Besides, Chen Hanxing himself was born in the Jiangshan Iron Guard, so he couldn't have been unaware of the consequences if the sorcerer killed the official. His action immediately alerted me.
Chen Hanxing was telling me to do the same thing as Guan's group, that is, to keep me in the police station. He was actually a hidden arrow planted by someone next to me.
I mentioned the rules deliberately at that time, not to remind Chen Hanxing, because he understood the rules better than me. At that time, I was just telling him that I had understood his hint.
I said nothing in the interrogation room, actually I was guessing what Chen Hanxing wanted to tell me.
After much thought, I came to only one conclusion, that is, Chen Hanxing had cooperated with someone before me. Moreover, his partner was in Guan's Group, otherwise, he would not do the same thing as Guan's.
The first person I thought of was Duan Yunfei. However, I quickly denied my own judgment.
Duan Yunfei likes to kill people by borrowing a knife, but he will not borrow Chen Hanxing's knife. The consequences of doing so are too obvious. Besides, Chen Hanxing also mentioned that he is unwilling to cooperate with Duan Yunfei.
Only then did I go through all the people in the Guan family from the beginning.
Guan Qingyan was the first one I rejected. She was not a sorcerer and Chen Hanxing would not cooperate with her.
Nangong Ling is the second person I exclude. Nangong Ling seems to be on Duan Yunfei's side, but in fact, from her several changes in expression, I can see that she really has Shi Heshang in her heart. She may make Shi Heshang lose the battle, but she will not let him die. That person is definitely not Nangong Ling.
Finally, I set my sights on the most unlikely person, and that person was Ji Liping.
According to the information Shen Fengyin gave me, Chen Lei is a man who often commits domestic violence. Since she chose to send Chen Lei to a mental hospital, why did she say on the rooftop that the designer refused to answer the phone? Didn't she know that as long as Guan Qingyan sent someone to find Chen Lei, her lies would be exposed
At that time, I had already begun to doubt Chen Lei's identity. As long as I thought about it in reverse, it was not difficult to come to a conclusion.
Chen Lei is not the real Chen Lei, and Ji Liping is not the original Ji Liping. They both got the memories of the original characters, but they never met each other, which made the stories they made up full of loopholes.
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