"Teacher Xia, how did you end up in such a sorry state?" Gao Ming straightened the wall. The woman painted on it had nails driven through all four limbs and looked utterly wretched.
"If I said I let them capture me on purpose so I could trick them into going to save you, you definitely wouldn't believe me." The smile on Xia Yang's face clashed with the portrait's miserable appearance. "But that's the truth. Everything went exactly as I anticipated. When a good painter makes his first stroke, he already has the entire painting in his mind."
"Then should I thank you?"
"You're me, and I'm you. Saying thank you would be too formal." Trapped inside the wall and unable to use his abilities, Xia Yang was unusually well-behaved.
Gao Ming hadn't expected Xia Yang to be so stubborn about admitting defeat. Even this formidable archvillain had a side like this?
"It's almost dawn. I suggest you let me out as soon as possible. Those Security personnel have extremely strange abilities. They might be able to track this piece of wall." Xia Yang sounded as though he only had Gao Ming's best interests at heart.
"You're right." Gao Ming released the somewhat exhausted Flesh-and-Blood Ghost God and had him hoist the wall.
Xia Yang could clearly sense the changes in the Flesh-and-Blood Ghost God. That power and brutality made his skin crawl, leaving him deeply unsettled. "Where are you taking me?"
"You'll know when we get there."
A ghostly roar rang out at dawn as the Flesh-and-Blood Immortal and Gao Ming headed deeper into Lame Bay Village.
Many strange and terrifying things had happened in this village. It lay in a jurisdictional gray area, and with Situ An deliberately turning a blind eye, Lame Bay Village had gradually become a