I had never imagined that someone Greenleaf had come into contact with, someone connected to a supernatural incident, lived right above me—and had for years.
Even less had I imagined that this person was connected by countless ties to the other two people involved in Greenleaf's commission.
They had appeared so suddenly, and at a moment when I was dissatisfied with Ye Qing and my resolve was wavering. I couldn't help letting my thoughts run wild.
I couldn't control my emotions.
The three of them weren't fools, either. They could tell something was up.
"Young friend, if you have something weighing on your mind, why not go take a look? We'll stay here. It's not as if we can run away," Ye Zhengyi said suddenly, his smile looking quite friendly.
I couldn't sense any hostility from them. Xu Tiancheng and that Yao Nie were in bad moods, but they weren't upset with me. Ye Zhengyi was even more at ease. He was a little like Master Xuanqing, a cultivator who had seen through the ways of the world and didn't care about anything happening before him.
I shouldn't leave. And I especially shouldn't expose my weakness.
But sitting there, worrying about my parents, I couldn't calm down and keep dealing with the three of them as though I could fool myself into thinking everything was fine.
I stood up, nodded to them, and hurried out of the room and downstairs.
I was tense as I opened the door.
I had already confirmed that the ghosts no longer had yin energy and had lost the traits they'd originally possessed as ghosts. But they could still kill people, and they still had incredible powers.
That young man must have done something to them.
He had absorbed the video man's ability. Not only