Because I was feeling uncomfortable yesterday and did not update, I updated a chapter today for a longer period of time, as an apology.

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The thick clouds made the night darker, without even a trace of moonlight, and the winter rain was still coming.

In a luxurious residential building, the administrator who was staying in the lobby on the first floor suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing, as if something was walking past him, rustling, but he didn't see any real thing, only a slight collision and a woman's murmuring.

Considering the death of the female owner named Gu, the administrator realized that a ghost appeared and was so scared that he didn't dare to move. He saw that the elevator parked on the first floor was closed, and then the indicator lights were on the way to the floor where the murder was located.

"It seems that your skill is higher, and the invisible talisman even hides the shadows together." Wanli said in the elevator without a single 'person', "You don't understand, Xiao Xia. The power of the talisman is related to the mana of the person who draws the talisman. It's like the richer a person, the larger the check he can write, the same amount." Seeing Xiao Xia's face was puzzled, he took the initiative to explain. Others can't see them, but they can see each other.

"I really don't understand why the Americans spend so much money to study invisible technology. Just give Ruan Dashu 100 million and ask him to teach everyone how to practice Taoism, will not be completely solved?" he continued.

"That's just a way to use gossip directions and human visual blind spots, and there can be scientific explanations." Ruan Zhan said as he stepped out of the elevator and found that there was no popularity on this floor. It is estimated that the resident of the household also moved out after the murder. Those who can live here can be considered rich people, and there will definitely be other real estate, and they will not be like working-class people, and they must be patient even if they are afraid.

The place had been blocked by the police for a long time, so he squatted down and pried the door lock. The sound of metal collisions seemed particularly prominent in the quiet night.

"It's a pity that you don't go to be a thief." Wan Li saw Ruan Zhan open the door and keep the seal intact, and said sincerely: "It's a pity that there will be haunted legends here tomorrow. I don't know if you show your skills."

"If you don't speak, no one thinks you are mute." Ruan Zhan replied, reached out and grabbed Xiao Xia's slightly shaking hand and sneaked into the door.

As soon as he entered the center of the Gu family's huge living room, he immediately stopped and started to measure the most appropriate direction with his steps with the help of the flashlight. Wanli helped him arrange some debris, including talismans, the birth dates and horoscopes of all the staff in the Huahui, a little bit of their life supplies, as well as the blood wood sword and the broken ribbon.

These are all homeworks made by Wanli, which were done in advance in order to make Ruan Zhan’s soul-suming efficiency more efficient and labor-saving.

Seeing that they were busy, Xiaoxia could only stand quietly on the side, thinking that since they couldn't help, at least not make things difficult. When she turned her head, she saw a huge picture of flowers on the wall. Even in the faint light of the glow stick, she could see clearly that there were big bright flowers on the picture, which should be beautiful, but it made Xiaoxia feel open and her claws, and the heart of the flower was like a bottomless mouth, and the petals seemed to be waved to her, calling her to enter it.

She felt her scalp numb and had to turn her back and stop looking at the picture. She thought it was caused by her suspicion!

However, she didn't see it. When she turned around, the flowers in the picture opened slightly, as if they were grinning, and they smiled evilly.

"Okay, it's the hour now, let's start." Ruan Zhan said softly, but he still scared Xiao Xia, who was uneasy by the picture, and jumped.

"Stand behind me, don't be too close." Ruan Zhan instructed, "Wanli stands behind you."

"Isn't it just a long snake formation?" Wanli interrupted, "Am I holding the Blood Wood Sword?"

"You take it, but don't sacrifice it unless they want to harm people."

"I fully understand, start quickly, I'm still rushing back to watch the football game." Wanli urged, his tone as relaxed as if he was coming here to buy something.

Ruan Zhan ignored him and started his own operation. He first burned the notes with the birth date and horoscope written on them with the special container he brought, followed by the debris of their life supplies, and then silently recited the spell, slashed his fingers with the sharp edge of the broken flag, and bounced the blood beads into the air, waiting for the metal flag to become one foot in size.

The scattered banner made a buzzing sound, like an echo after flipping the metal product, but the sound rang for a minute and there was no change around it.

"Didn't you come?" Wanli asked.

Ruan Zhan shook his head.

"Poor women!" Wanli sighed, everything was silent.

It was just a mistake, but this step did not only fail to exist, but also not even the soul.

Ruan Zhan was silent for a while, then took out a note with words and repeated the procedure just now. This time he still waited for a long time without any movement. However, just when they thought there would be no gain, a cold wind suddenly blew from the closed room. I couldn't tell which direction it was blowing, so I got in for no reason.

Xiao Xia was excited and subconsciously approached Ruan Zhan, but was caught by Wanli. Ruan Zhan turned off the flashlight, walked slowly towards the long floor-to-ceiling window, and opened the curtains.

There was nothing, only a gust of wind blew his hair, and at the same time a chill soaked into the air in the room, as if something invisible was coming in with the wind, and the window glass had not opened yet. The gust of wind blew into the middle of the hall and suddenly disappeared, and then pieces of things began to appear on the ground, unable to see what it was, but they were moving with trembling ropes.

Xiao Xia only felt soft under her feet. Something was pushing her. When she looked down, she had a broken hand. She was so shocked that she jumped up and covered her mouth before she could scream. Wanli quickly took a step forward, but accidentally kicked one head away, making it moan like a chirp.

"Don't hurt him!" Ruan Zhan stopped Wanli from taking out the bloody wooden sword, "It's just a remnant soul, manifested as a remnant limb."

He walked over as he spoke, drawing talismans in the void, pointing at the fragments, tightening his arms as if he was very hard. The fragments on the ground were trembling, wanting to gather but couldn't get together. It took several minutes until he heard Ruan Zhan's heavy breathing that he slowly gathered like water and turned into a twisted and crooked human form.

"Who is this?" Wanli asked. Although he couldn't see the appearance of "it", he was definitely not a female ghost.

"Is the former boss of Women's Flower Casino."

"Former boss? Isn't it a business act, but a murder?!"

"It's a business act, but this one-" Ruan Zhan pointed to the black shadow, "He accidentally discovered a little secret while he was going through the procedures, and was killed and silenced."

"Dismembered?" Xiao Xia didn't dare to look at the remnant souls connected together, but she couldn't help asking.

"No, it's a very 'normal' death, at least it seems like this." Ruan Zhan said: "But some people guessed that we were going to summon the soul and ask about the Flower Club, so we had to kill the demons and slaughter the ghosts."

"That--he doesn't seem to be--"

"The soul is gone?" Ruan Zhan expressed Wanli's question. "He died two months ago, and was not a newly dead ghost. He had some ghost power. Maybe that person neglected this, so he did not completely succeed in doing it, which made him lucky to leave a little chance."

"But why didn't he speak?" Wanli glanced sideways, "It's not that he is a psychopath who is a ghost. He is completely uncooperative. We have encountered many such things."

"He couldn't speak. The man used evil magic to shock him so that he had only this soul. I tried my best to help him gather his body. Only I can explore it."

As he said that, he walked over, said something, and then went straight into the blurry black shadow in the room, making Xiao Xia frightened. He felt that the black shadow was growing on him, and even he looked like a demon.

"This man was not honest in his business before his life, but he was quite polite to be a ghost." Wanli distracted Xiaoxia and whispered softly, "Azhan said that ordinary ghosts would not enter the houses where living people live for no reason. This is called "No entry". Did he see that he had just now? He was obviously detained by Azhan, but he still didn't enter. He had to wait for Azhan to call him at the door."

"But I just felt that under my feet, his hands were real."

"The supernatural ghosts are just feelings for humans, what's so strange about it."

Xiao Xia nodded and looked at Ruan Zhan again. Under the glimmer of the glow stick on the table, he saw Ruan Zhan’s hard work, his body shivered a little, then slowly bent down, and finally fell to the ground, while the black shadow gushed out of his body like water, and penetrated into the wall and disappeared.

"How are you?" Xiaoxia ran over and asked anxiously, only to feel that he was cold all over, as if he was exhausted.

"Can you still stand up?" Wanli held Ruan Zhan from the other side, not expecting that it would be so difficult for him to enter a remnant soul to explore the secret. "Where has he gone?"

"Go back to his place, hide, slowly gather the energy of heaven and earth, hoping to be reincarnated." Ruan Zhan stood up with the help of the two, "But I already know what's going on, I'll tell you again when I go back. Let's go, it's not advisable to stay here for a long time."

"Before leaving, didn't you say you wanted to check the room and see if there were any clues that the police had not noticed?" Wanli dragged Ruan Zhan to the sofa, "You sit here, I'll search. Hehe, this is where Gu and Fang have sat."

Ruan Zhan raised his hand effortfully, and half of a talisman was drawn. Wanli immediately flashed, "Okay, okay, I don't talk nonsense. I will check the toilet and the kitchen first. Feng Shui says that these two places are water-connected, which is relatively dark. And a lot of evidence is prone to remain in these places, so I will start from here."

"I'll help." Xiao Xia didn't want to do nothing, so she volunteered.

"Okay, then let's check her bedroom first, there should be a toilet there," said Wanli.

Ruan Zhan pondered for a moment, "You have to hold the flashlight and open the door so that I can see you."

"I know, I will call you if I have something to do."

"Come on, why not call me." Wan Li waved the Blood Wood Sword in his hand. "He first spent his energy on splicing the residual soul, and then turned into a detector and was exhausted. He would not be better than me now. Otherwise, you can take this sword."

Xiaoxia firmly refused.

She knew that there were always accidents from beginning to end. Now Wanli is here to find new evidence. Although the police have searched it, they looked at this problem from the perspective of ghost hunting and exorcism, and may have special discoveries. Compared to those two men, she was the weakest link. In fact, they were worried that she brought her here, and she certainly understood that maintaining the strongest posture is the most effective resource allocation.

Wanli is not a mother-in-law, so she no longer argues with her. The two of them entered Gu Yufang's bedroom together.

Her bedroom is very large, with a luxurious classical European style, aristocratic but also dark and complex, especially in the hesitant light of the flashlight, which makes it look a bit ghostly.

"I'll go to the toilet." Wanli said, somehow unconsciously lowering his voice.

Konata watched him enter the toilet at one end of the room, and he used a flashlight to check the room.

It was the first time she entered here and found that there were many large photos of Gu Yufang hanging on the wall, which looked very narcissistic. But at this moment, Xiao Xia always felt that the people in the photo were alive, and no matter where she went, she felt that the people in the photo were staring at her in unison.

She suppressed her palpitations and searched for possible evidence seriously. She found a gouache painting in the drawer, which was a beautiful flower field and a black stone house in the middle. This reminded Xiao Xia that this might be the place Gu Yufang told her, the place where she and Shuoyue met. And it looked a bit like what she had painted herself.

"I'll show it to Ruan Zhan later to see if it's useful." She thought to herself, and slowly walked towards another door and opened it gently.

The scene behind the door surprised her.

Is this the closet of a rich man? It is so huge that it looks like another room, full of clothes hanging in it. At first glance, you will think it is full of people.

Xiaoxia was a little scared and wanted to leave, but by all means she couldn't control herself and walked in.

She kept walking in, and the light from the flashlight was shaking accurately hit a piece of clothing. The clothes were hanging in the opposite direction, which seemed extremely inconsistent with other clothes. This made Xiaoxia stretch out her hand uncontrollably, trying to turn it around, but when she lowered her eyes, she found that there was a pair of white shoes under the clothes that were even more inconsistently.

There was a problem! Such a consciousness flashed through her mind and she hurriedly retracted her hand.

At this time, the dress turned around by itself.

In the darkness, you can also feel it's so bright red, smooth and smooth, with a fine texture. A pungent fishy smell and a faint skin care taste overlap, which is disgusting.

Xiao Xia stared at it in horror - the dress made of bloody human skin.

In other words, it was the clothes that Gu and Fang turned into. Her head was folded back and pressed against the lining of the clothes, smiling at her. Her arms were two sleeves, and she was stretching towards Xiaoxia.
Chapter completed!