Incident

Mistake...

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Although Yi Qing's words seemed strange, Yu Xing inexplicably understood their meaning and became even more aware of the eeriness of Yin Yang City.

Some things, especially those involving time, are fraught with danger, hidden in places unseen.

Chaotic time might allow the same person to exist in two places simultaneously, or it might bring people from different times together at one point.

Yu Xing had already experienced this in the tomb palace.

If that's the case, and the rules stipulate that no two identical people can exist in the same space-time, then once they meet, the result will be devastating, leaving no room for reversal, and they will simply disappear completely.

Of course, this is just one type of time fallacy.

Although Yu Xing didn't think it was himself in the well, the fact that Yi Qing had spoken up to warn him meant that he probably really couldn't turn over the three ghostly corpses to see what kind of "person" was down there.

But Yu Xing needed to find out what happened last night.

Why would he suddenly attack the ghosts in the abandoned house? Did the ghosts do something to anger him last night, or did he discover some reason why they had to be killed?

"That's all for now. I'm going to check out the biggest Bronze statue." Yu Xing left the well and wiped the blood from her hands.

He had previously visited a side hall, which contained only small Bronze statue.

"Together." Zhao Yijiu said succinctly. He noticed that Yu Xing seemed to be acting strangely, so he wanted to find an opportunity to ask her away from the Lingren.

"No need," the Lingren said. "The Bronze statue is already broken; I did it."

Seeing that both of them were looking at him, the Lingren skillfully tied up his loose hair in a low bun, and smiled, saying, "The information and secrets about the Bronze statue... naturally, are now in my hands as well."

"If you want to know, let's make a deal. I'll consider giving you some information—this secret is very important, and it's related to Yin Yang City!"

Zhao Yijiu glanced at Yu Xing, who was deep in thought, then looked away and asked coldly, "What are the conditions?"

Yu Xing did not stop him. His intuition told him that the most important and dangerous person in the entire abandoned house was indeed the woman with a human body and a snake tail, represented by the Bronze statue.

If you don't get any information about this thing, it's like you came for nothing.

"Hmm... let me think." The Lingren crossed his arms, tapping his fingers lightly on his arm with a natural rhythm, and finally his gaze fell on Yi Qing. "How about this Sheqing Ghost does me a favor?"

"And what about my business?" Yi Qing narrowed his eyes upon hearing this, smiling as he waved his fan. "You've misunderstood, sir. Although I'm by Yu Xing's side, I'm not under his command. Your deal... I'm afraid I won't participate."

Yu Xing's face also turned cold. He didn't want to involve others or work for Lingren. Lingren dreamed.

"I'll go take a look." Yu Xing turned and left, and Zhao Yijiu immediately followed.

The Lingren watched their retreating figures, his eyes unfathomable. Yet, precisely because he was so certain of the importance of the information he possessed, he calmly turned and went back into the house, waiting for the two to return in dismay.

Ultimately, we still have to ask him.

Unlike at night, now that they knew the ghost in the abandoned house had been eliminated, Yu Xing no longer needed to be careful when pushing open the door to the shrine.

The main hall of the offering room is made up of two rooms joined together, and it is the largest in area. However, as soon as the door is opened, the fragments on the ground are pushed aside by the door panel, making some soft noises.

The Lingren wasn't lying; the bronze serpent-tailed Bronze statue, which was as wide as several people, had indeed shattered, and the cracks were quite thorough.

At this moment, only a circular base remained in place, and the metal fragments, gleaming with an ancient bronze light, were evenly distributed on the ground, each no larger than a finger. It was reasonable to suspect that some special means were used to smash it.

"This scene is quite tragic," Yi Qing laughed. "As a kind of embodiment of the offering, the Bronze statue usually inherits a portion of the offering's power. If it is not completely destroyed, it can easily be ambushed. Some offerings can even control the Bronze statue to regenerate itself, making it appear as if it is indestructible."

"You mean those stuffed animals in foreign movies, no matter how much you smash them up and throw them far away, they always end up back home intact?" Zhao Yijiu thought of a similar concept that fits the bill.

"What movie did you watch? Was it good? The kind of premise you're talking about seems pretty old-fashioned. Maybe I've seen it before..." Yu Xing naturally chimed in, though her focus was a little off.

Yi Qing: "..."

"Zhao Mou watches them, and sometimes he uses movies as examples when discussing them with me." Zhao Yijiu lowered her head slightly. "You forgot? I haven't seen the movies."

I've never been to a movie theater.

During the apocalyptic scenario, Yu Xing clearly already knew, but now he failed to react to such a small detail, which means that something must be on his mind.

Zhao Yijiu kicked at the shattered fragments, her expression serious. "Don't you remember what happened last night?"

It wasn't difficult to see this; Yu Xing didn't even try to hide it much.

"Yes, my perception was distorted. Neither Yiqing nor I remember anything." Yu Xing recounted her feelings to Zhao Yijiu, and finally said, "Now, repeat to me your entire perspective of last night."

Zhao Yijiu gave a brief description.

Last night, he was overcome by sleepiness and fell asleep quickly. In his dream, the scholar surnamed Song came to his door. First, he was enveloped in a feeling of drowning and not being able to breathe. Then, his perspective seemed to be at the bottom of a well, and he could see the Song the Scholar smiling sinisterly at him through the water.

However, Zhao Yijiu was not afraid of water. He had already cooperated with the siren and found what the vengeful spirit's consciousness needed in an underwater dungeon, thus gaining the ability to breathe underwater.

To Song the Scholar's horrified expression, he leaped out of the water, about to retaliate, when Song the Scholar ended the nightmare, and Zhao Yijiu woke up on the wet bed.

As he had anticipated, the next scene would be psychological horror, which he would need to experience by hiding under the bed. However, when the doorbell rang, it wasn't any ghostly creatures from an abandoned house outside, but rather several strangers.

The stranger, whose identity was unknown, was dressed in classic cloth clothes and was frantically banging on the door, as if he wanted to break it down.

Zhao Yijiu prepared for battle, but when he opened the door, he found that these people were covered in blood. Their screams were inexplicably blocked by the door until he opened it himself. It turned out that they were all calling for help.

When the strangers saw Zhao Yijiu, their eyes lit up. Although he was still pleading for help, one of them had already reached for a weapon and was about to stab Zhao Yijiu. He heard what they were saying...

"Kill him! Kill him and we'll complete our mission!"

"Take his life! Kill him!"

Someone was crying, "Waaaaah, I don't want to die... The person behind me is catching up! I didn't mean to, I was wrong, please don't kill me, waaaaah..."

The scene was chaotic.

The strangers who shouldn't have been there in the first place caught Zhao Yijiu off guard. However, these people were really incompetent in combat. He quickly subdued two of them, and the others tried to run away when they saw that things were not going well.

Just then, he saw Yu Xing, also dressed in plain clothes, walk in from outside the abandoned house in an outfit he had never seen before, carrying a large machete.

Blood was still dripping from the large cleaver.

"You ignored those people and went straight to the ghost's room. Only the child managed to escape; you threw the bodies of the other three into the well," Zhao Yijiu said to Yu Xing, who was listening intently. "Afterward, you came to me and told me to go up to the roof and keep watch, and not to sleep at all that night."

"I did it, but you didn't come back all night."

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