Tang Xi couldn't help with the investigation, but Chu Li and the entire crime team were too busy.
Burn the victims into ashes, mix them into cement, and put them directly into construction—it has been many years since Jiangnan City has seen such a bad case. Once the case was filed, it immediately received great attention from the higher authorities. The director even issued a death order, within a month Inside, the case must be solved!
But these have nothing to do with Tang Xi for the time being. On Monday morning, she went back to school for class.
"Your second uncle?" Tang Xi looked at the young man in front of him suspiciously.
"Well, my second uncle is back." Cheng Yihang nodded, "He said he wanted to see you, what do you think?"
"I'm fine, just make an appointment." Tang Xi said immediately.
With the current friendship between her and Cheng Yihang, and the things they have done, it is no longer normal for the Cheng family to want to see her. It's just that she didn't expect that it was not Mr. Cheng who made the request, but the mysterious second uncle.
Coincidentally, she was also a little curious about the celestial master who was said to be very powerful.
"Second Uncle said, if you don't mind, he can come to visit." Cheng Yihang said.
"He is an elder, is it suitable for him to visit me?" Tang Xi froze for a moment.
"Second Uncle is always casual and doesn't care much about rules or anything." Cheng Yihang said helplessly.
"Okay, I should be free recently, how about Saturday?" Tang Xi agreed without thinking too much.
In the past, she had an uncle who was an old naughty boy, and even at a young age, she still hooked up with her disciples and grandchildren.
"..." Cheng Yihang looked at her, the expression on his face was a little... lifeless.
"What else, finish it at once." Tang Xi sighed.
"Second Uncle said that a friend invited him to go to Qing Province to see Feng Shui. He will take a plane tomorrow morning and will not come back until the Chinese New Year." Cheng Yihang said.
Tang Xi was speechless.
After a long while, she tentatively asked, "Tonight?"
Cheng Yihang nodded bitterly.
Although the second uncle is often unreliable, but this time it is too unreliable! It's the first time to visit a girl who lives alone. Although she is a junior, but she will come to the door that night, isn't it too fastidious!
Tang Xi couldn't help but rubbed the center of her brows. What happened to the sudden feeling that the visitor was not kind? Could it be that Second Uncle Cheng blamed her for abducting the Cheng family's only son into crisis
"Otherwise... I'll tell him to come back after a year?" Cheng Yihang asked.
"Forget it, let's do it tonight, so we won't worry about it when we meet early," Tang Xi said.
She always likes to solve things immediately, and has been dragging the influence to think.
"Okay. That... I'm really sorry." Cheng Yihang breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's not your fault." Tang Xi waved his hand, and raised the corners of his lips again, "Just in time, I've seen too many liars, and I want to see the level of other celestial masters."
When Cheng Yihang heard this, a drop of cold sweat dripped down the back of his head, and silently mourned for his second uncle.
However, the visitor was a guest after all. After school, Tang Xi returned home and asked Aunt Zhang to clean up the house, especially the toys on the floor in the living room and the various teaching aids and test papers that almost covered the sofa and coffee table.
By the way, I found another set of beautiful glass tea sets. The previous set... She said that she was a little allergic to "bone china" recently.
At ten minutes to seven, Tang Xi checked that the time was almost up, called the property management, reported the license plate number sent by Cheng Yihang, and asked the guard to let him through.
After she finished making tea, exactly seven o'clock, the doorbell rang exactly.
"Xiaoxi, do we want to avoid it?" Aunt Zhang asked a little uneasy.
After all, unlike the previous guests, I heard that the one who is coming today is a celestial master.
Tang Xi thought for a while, opened the notebook, temporarily collected all the ghosts in the room, and then put the notebook under the coffee table.
"Here we come." She put a decent smile on her face, got up and opened the door.
Outside the door was a man in his thirties, wearing a shirt and trousers, a knitted vest, and a long off-white windbreaker. His appearance was very similar to Cheng Yihang's, with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. , but more like a professor in a university.
"Mr. Cheng?" Tang Xi didn't see Cheng Yihang, so he called out in doubt.
"Cheng Huaying." The man nodded, as if he understood what she hadn't said, and said, "Yihang is below, I have something to talk to Miss Tang alone."
"Come in first." Tang Xi frowned slightly and stepped aside to open the door.
Cheng Huaying walked in, paused slightly, and stopped directly in the middle of the living room.
Tang Xi closed the door, walked over, and smiled lightly: "Mr. Cheng, please sit down. I'm the only one living in such a big place. You can do whatever you want."
"Is there only one person?" Cheng Huaying raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Of course." Tang Xi said confidently.
People, there really is only one.
Cheng Huaying chose a single sofa to sit down, took off the windbreaker and put it on the armrest.
"Tea, please." Tang Xi poured two cups of tea and shared one in front of him. Because it is a glass pot, it is made of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea.
"Thank you." Cheng Huaying nodded, instead of drinking tea, she scanned the room.
"I heard that Mr. Cheng will give people a look at Feng Shui, what do you think of my house's Feng Shui?" Tang Xi asked.
"The yin energy is extremely heavy, which is not good for living people." Cheng Huaying blurted out eight words, so direct that there was not even a hint of tact.
Tang Xi was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly laughed "poof".
"Humans and ghosts have different paths. Ms. Tang should also understand that it is not good for a living person to be with ghosts all year round. At the least, the body is cold and weak, and at the worst..." Cheng Huaying paused before saying the last word, "Death!"
Tang Xi gradually restrained her smile and did not speak.
The air in the room was cold, and there was a faint sound of papers being flipped.
"Thank you Mr. Cheng for your advice." Tang Xi finally said.
Cheng Huaying's eyes fell on her left wrist, and she raised her eyebrows slightly: "Soul-cultivating wood?"
"Could Mr. Cheng come here for this thing?" Tang Xi shook her wrist and said with a smile, "I thought that Cheng Yihang was the heir to the Cheng family, and even if his promise didn't count, it was Cheng who opposed it." Anyway, it seems... there is nothing wrong with Mr. Cheng."
"Miss Tang was joking. The Cheng family belongs to Yihang. Since what he sent out, it represents the Cheng family." Cheng Huaying shook his head, pondered for a while, and said, "We all know the usefulness of lightning strikes locust trees. .Maybe you are young and energetic now, and feel that everything is under control, but living people will not end well in controlling ghosts. Humans and ghosts, the opposite sex is the extreme of opposites. If you want ghosts not to disappear and dissipate because of obsession, It needs to be fed with resentment. And if the ghost is infected by resentment, it will gradually lose its sanity and eat back at its master. You may not know this."
"I know." Tang Xi nodded, "But Mr. Cheng seems to have made a mistake."
"Huh?" Cheng Huaying was puzzled.
"I've never been the master of Li Gui." Tang Xi leaned back on the sofa and said leisurely, "I don't know what Mr. Cheng thinks of Li Gui, but to me, they are my family, we live and die together, share weal and woe The way to control ghosts is difficult. Since ancient times, people with great perseverance have not been able to do it. The world is prosperous and there are too many distracting things. It is difficult for someone to insist on not being tempted—but, Mr. Cheng can’t do it himself, please don’t think Can no one else do it?"
"You're still young..."
"Because you're young, so you can't stand the temptation?" Tang Xi tilted her head and asked curiously, "Mr. Cheng has been alone for so many years. I'm a little curious about what you have experienced before to become so unconfident."
"I - not confident?" Cheng Huaying was stunned.
For so many years, he has only heard people scold him for being arrogant and conceited, but no one has ever said that he... is not confident enough!
"Because I'm not confident, I don't trust people." Tang Xi looked back without showing any weakness.
"..." Cheng Huaying was dumbfounded.
"At the end of the day, what happens to us is none of your business." Yun Qi suddenly appeared behind the sofa where Tang Xi was sitting, leaning against the back of the sofa, his eyebrows raised slightly, his face full of disdain.
"A thousand-year-old ghost!" Cheng Huaying's pupils constricted suddenly.
"Don't move, I'll tear you apart if you dare to take the spell." With Yun Qi's cover, Su Huang appeared directly behind him, her sharp nails touching the aorta near his neck.
Cheng Huaying's whole body was stiff, and fine cold sweat faintly oozes from her back.
"Sister Su Huang, don't be so fierce." Tang Xi waved her hand to signal Su Huang to let go.
She could see that Cheng Huaying didn't care much about Su Huang who was directly threatening him. That person's attention was all on Yun Qi, which meant that he was sure of dealing with Su Huang.
This is also the highest celestial master she has ever seen in the world. Compared with it, Fang Tianyun is just a child's play house.
Su Huang made a "cut", and gracefully walked to the side, or rather... swam to the side.
Cheng Huaying glanced at the snake's tail exposed under her red dress, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes.
"What are you looking at! Look at my old lady digging out your eyeballs!" Su Huang glared at him.
"Sorry." Cheng Huaying sighed, and looked at Tang Xi with more serious eyes, "You are very powerful, not only your spiritual power."
"Thank you for the compliment?" Tang Xi said.
"But, even if I believe you can control your ghosts, so what?" Cheng Huaying pushed his glasses and said calmly, "You are a human, they are ghosts, your time is not equal. After a hundred years, you will leave, And they will always exist. If you are gone, why are you talking about being out of control?"
Tang Xi was taken aback.
"I really didn't think about it." Cheng Huaying almost laughed angrily, "Don't you want to say, 'After I die, let him be flooded'?"
Tang Xi's expression became serious.
Indeed, she hadn't thought about it. But even in her last life, she was still in her early twenties, at the prime of her life. As for her status as the leader of the Taoist sect, and her fierce means of sealing ghosts, eliminating demons and suppressing souls, everyone blindly trusts her. No one has ever thought that if Tang Xi is gone, those ghosts who have lost control how.
In fact, she just came to this world so suddenly, except for Yun Qi who accompanied him through time and space, where are the other ghosts? Will he guard the mountain gate and wait for her to come home, or...
"Sorry." Tang Xi nodded, and looked at Cheng Huaying's eyes with more respect.
Since the master was gone, no one has spoken to her in an admonishing tone, and she is not used to it. But if it makes sense, she will still listen.
She never felt that being strong could do whatever she wanted.
"you… "
At this moment, the phone rang quickly, interrupting what Cheng Huaying was about to say.
"Wait a minute." Tang Xi's expression changed.
This is Chu Li's ringtone. If it's not an urgent matter, Captain Chu won't call her at night.
"Hello? Chu..."
"Tang Xi, where are you? Hurry up and help!" Chu Li shouted angrily as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Hello?" Tang Xi suddenly stood up and said sharply, "Where are you?"
"Boom!" There was a huge roar from the microphone, even Cheng Huaying who was opposite could hear it clearly.
"Hey! Chu Li!" Tang Xi shouted.
"...cough, cough, cough." It took a while to hear Chu Li's cough, and then it was obvious that he was talking while running, "I'm fine for now, I'm at the funeral home in Jiangnan City."
"Okay, I'll come right away." Tang Xi put the phone between her cheeks and shoulders, and hurriedly put on her coat, "What attacked you? Can you hold it?"
"Dead man!" Chu Li's voice couldn't tell whether it was out of anger or something, "The corpse in the freezer is alive! Damn it, I thought I was playing a real-life Resident Evil!"
"You should be thankful that you can beat the corpse anyway. If it's a ghost, why wait until you call for help?" Tang Xi sneered.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get over here!" Before Chu Li could finish his sentence, there was another loud noise of things falling to the ground.
"Where is the Jiangnan funeral home?" Tang Xi picked up her handbag, changed her shoes, and finally asked.
"..." Chu Li didn't make a sound for a long time, and then roared furiously, "Take a taxi or look at the navigation!"
Tang Xi wanted to say that she was afraid that you wouldn't be able to persist until then—but she had never been to an unfamiliar place, and it was not easy to shrink to an inch.
The phone has been hung up.
"It's Chu Li?" Cheng Huaying asked in surprise.
"Well, I understand what Mr. Cheng means, and I will think about it, but now I have to go out first, you can do it yourself." Tang Xi said hurriedly.
"Jiangnan City Funeral Home? I know the way well, let's go together." Cheng Huaying grabbed her windbreaker and walked in front.
Tang Xi was taken aback for a moment, and quickly followed.
Save the time of taking a taxi, don't have to embarrass yourself to look at the navigation, one more thug, kill three birds with one stone!
It would be foolish to say no.
Downstairs, Cheng Yihang, who was bored in the car, couldn't help being stunned when he saw that the two of them actually ran down.
"Get out of the car." Cheng Huaying got into the car and said while fastening her seat belt.
"Ah?" Cheng Yihang got out of the car in a daze, and looked at Tang Xi who came after him.
However, before he could ask, Tang Xi passed him, jumped onto the co-pilot, and slammed the car door shut. Before she could sit still, Cheng Huaying kicked the accelerator and walked away.
"Hello!" Cheng Yihang, who was left in place, was dumbfounded.
In the car, Tang Xi put on her seat belt and asked, "How long?"
"Normal half an hour—" Cheng Huaying glanced at her, "Sit still and hold on tight."
Tang Xi sighed, raised his hand and grabbed the handle of the roof.
The next moment, the car accelerated, stepped on the tail of the flashing yellow light, rushed through the intersection, and made a big turn.
Tang Xi didn't expect that Cheng Huaying, who looked so gentle, would be so ruthless in a drag racing car. He was pressed down on the seat by the inertia, and finally switched to going straight. Then he let out a sigh of relief and cursed: "You are a road killer! What if you hit someone!"
"Don't worry, I'm a club-registered road racer, and my skills are guaranteed to be fine, but I have to ask Xiao Chu to help clear up the series of fines." Cheng Huaying said calmly.
"It's not a technical problem, okay..." Tang Xi couldn't complain.
However, thanks to Cheng Huaying, the original half-hour journey was shortened by half.
The car drifted and stopped just below the steps of the funeral parlor. The two jumped out of the car in a tacit understanding and ran up the steps in a few steps, before even closing the door.
Of course, if the car is thrown here, it will be towed away by the traffic police at most, so I don't worry about thieves.
This kind of luxury car can't be carried away in your pocket. Who would dare to drive it away in a city full of surveillance, unless it's a poor man with a head full of water.
At night, there shouldn't be anyone in the funeral home, but today the serious crime team has been checking the cremation information at the funeral home, and a manager stayed behind to receive it. However, although the lights inside were bright, the door was locked.
"Yunqi opens the door," Tang Xi said.
Yunqi still used the old method, through the glass door, and opened the safe from the inside.
Tang Xi stepped into the farewell hall, not caring if something would be disturbed, and shouted directly: "Chu Li! Are you dead? Make a sound if you are not dead!"
"Tang, Consultant Tang?" A head popped out from behind a wreath.
"Xiao Liu? Are you okay? Where's your team Chu?" Tang Xi asked.
"Team Chu went inside and asked me to lock the door of the funeral home." Xiao Liu turned pale, and dragged another unconscious girl out, "Consultant, this is Manager Qiu of the funeral home..."
"Let me see." Cheng Huaying took a step forward, put two fingers on the side of her neck, and said quickly, "It's okay, I'm so scared, I'll deal with her memory later, so I don't make any shadows."
"That's troublesome." Tang Xi also heaved a sigh of relief.
She herself is a serious biased student, and she never confuses anyone or evil spirits in terms of force. However, she is really not good at this kind of delicate work. Let her do it, and it is very likely that one mistake will turn people into idiots.
"Consultant, who is this gentleman?" Xiao Liu asked.
"Friends of your Chu team." Tang Xi said casually, and then said, "Mr. Cheng, I will leave them to you. I will go find Chu Li."
"It's okay." Cheng Huaying took out two charms, one for Xiao Liu and one for the girl's pocket, and ordered "Wait here and don't run around", followed Tang Xi, and explained, "The situation is unknown, I will go in with you."
Tang Xi glanced at him and didn't object.
Seeing that Xiao Liu hid with the unconscious female manager for so long, he knew that they were not the target.
"Behind." Yun Qi's jade flute nodded and pointed her in the direction.
"That's the Mortuary Hall." Cheng Huaying said.
"Mr. Cheng is familiar with funeral parlors." Tang Xi's expression was a little strange.
"Anyway, I'm also a Feng Shui master." Cheng Huaying said helplessly.
Passing through the courtyard in the middle, the two quickly ran into the building at the back. The journey was quiet and they didn't see any walking corpses.
"Bang! Bang!" There was a crashing sound from the depths of the building.
"In front." Tang Xi said in a deep voice.
However, after turning a corner, the scene at the end of the corridor really broke people's psychological endurance.
I saw seven or eight "people" staggering, unconsciously hitting a closed door.
"It really is Resident Evil." Tang Xi's eyes twitched.
Of course, this is definitely not a zombie, it's just that someone manipulated these corpses that were about to be cremated to crawl out of the freezer.
manipulation. Tsk, what a familiar method!
Originally, after getting rid of Anna, that perverted "Aqiang" seemed to have disappeared. However, it's fine to hide, since he appeared in front of her eyes, don't blame her for being rude!
"Wait." Cheng Huaying grabbed her wrist.
"What... trouble!" Tang Xi quickly realized.
Chu Li may not be forced to hide by a few corpses that only have instincts and slow movements, but first, he wants to keep the matter in the funeral parlor to avoid causing panic among the public, and second, these are not corpses made by evil cultivators , but ordinary people in Jiangnan City. If the corpse stored in the funeral parlor is broken, there will be big news tomorrow. The title of police brutality is not surprising.
However, just like the villagers who faced rape on the barren hill, Tang Xi... was never good at saving people.
"If you can cut off the control of the people behind the scenes, I can draw out the resentment in their bodies." Cheng Huaying said.
"Okay!" Tang Xi replied without hesitation for a second, and the spiritual power was wiped in front of her eyes.
Suddenly, the foreground is replaced.
Under her silver pupils, it was clearly visible that there was a thin black thread on the corpses, controlling their actions like a puppet show.
"Get ready." Tang Xi appeared with a spiritual power knife in his hand, rushed up quickly, kicked on the wall with one foot, jumped more than two meters high with his strength, and slashed down with the knife.
When the Lingli knife touched the line of resentment, it felt like a red-hot knife cutting through butter, instantly melting the resentment.
"Definitely!" Cheng Huaying threw out a spell, which floated over the heads of the group of corpses, spinning around, and then a few golden rays of light came out from the spell, which happened to be one for each of them, sinking into the Baihui acupoint on the top of their heads.
Tang Xi saw the resentment quickly retracted, and chased after him without saying a word.
"Xiao Xi, it's that fragrance." Su Huang said suddenly.
"Is it really that woman on the barren hill?" Tang Xi's eyes lit up.
Living people can't always compare their speed with resentment, and they lose track after three or two turns.
"This way." Su Huang led the way without hesitation.
"Good job!" Tang Xi praised happily.
In a blink of an eye, she ran out of the building through the back door. There was a small garden behind, the street lights were off, it was pitch black, and even the swaying shadows of the trees looked like ghosts.
With sharp eyes, Tang Xi noticed a light-colored skirt flashing past in the darkness.
"You still want to run?" Su Huang shouted.
Tang Xi frowned.
For the sake of beauty, the small garden has built small bridges, flowing water, and covered bridges with flowers and vines. However, the reality is that no matter how good her physical skills are, she is not as described in martial arts novels. If she goes around, it will be too late.
"Yun Qi, stop her!" Tang Xi said.
Yun Qi and her have fought side by side for many years, and they have a perfect understanding. When she opened her mouth, she had already blocked the only way to pass. The terrain can block living people, but it cannot stop ghosts.
"Get out of the way." The woman's voice was a little hoarse, and the baseball cap on her head was pressed down extremely low. Even if there was a thousand-year-old ghost in front of her, there was no fluctuation, and when she raised her hand, there was a cloud of blood smoke.
"You..." A look of shock flashed across Yun Qi's face, and the hand holding the flute trembled, unexpectedly slowing down a beat.
With just such a gap, the woman has climbed over the wall neatly.
Across the wall is the streets of Jiangnan City. It is almost impossible to find someone from the vast crowd when there is no one after nine o'clock.
Tang Xi waved away the soul-corroding blood smoke, and wondered, "Yun Qi, what's wrong with you? This is not like your character."
Not to mention the huge mistake of letting someone go, if she hadn't made a timely move, she would have even been injured by blood smoke.
It's not a big deal for a living person to be stained with blood smoke, but when a ghost encounters this, it will immediately feel the pain of burning the soul, the kind that will not stop until it is completely burned!
"I..." Yun Qi was silent for a while, but didn't say anything.
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