"How do you know I can't kill it?! With you there and my ability, I can act as bait and catch it! Just like that ghost! That ghost uncle!" I fought back, bouncing on the sofa a couple of times before being pinned down again.
That sinister energy pressed down on me like an iron plate, making it hard to breathe.
Ye Qing had no intention of letting me go.
Even speaking became difficult. My face and neck flushed red as I glared at the empty space in front of me.
Ye Qing didn't even show himself.
Now that he was the Ghost King, he could control sinister energy like this. He no longer had to appear and disappear like before—he could simply not appear at all.
At that thought, I froze.
After each member of Greenleaf died or went missing, Ye Qing erased all traces of their existence. He had done it to give them a chance to come back to life, and to keep something in the future world from finding them.
Ye Qing had already become the Ghost King. What was the point of still hiding his identity?
Wouldn't becoming the Ghost King mean that thing would find him?
The Ghost Kings weren't all on the same side... That ghost in ancient clothes had even made a deal with Ye Qing.
The delivery ghost was one of its people, and the black cat probably was too. And the others...
The door opened.
Chen Xiaoqiu came in with her phone in hand, apparently not noticing that I was being held down.
The pressure lifted from me, and the sinister energy vanished.
"I have a list, but it's definitely incomplete," Chen Xiaoqiu said. She took my phone out of her pocket and set it on the coffee table.
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