Li Zhiyuan turned sideways, responding with a shy smile.
Tan Wenbin asked, "Auntie is all dressed up tonight, even wearing high heels."
"Today is my birthday."
"Oh, why didn’t you tell yesterday? If I had known, I would have prepared a cake for you."
"You cheeky kid, always so sweet-talking."
"Auntie, happy birthday."
"Alright, alright, just rember to return the dishes and utensils."
Aunt Ran walked away in her high heels.
Tan Wenbin closed the door.
"Brother Xiao Yuan, I swear I didn’t chat about your matter with Auntie. She’s the dormitory supervisor, and she knows that the students who move into this dorm aren’t ordinary. She had already found out who you were and was even surprised that your photo wasn’t in the newspaper among the top students this year."
Li Zhiyuan didn’t cooperate with the publicity, and Wu Xinhao didn’t insist. After all, it was enough that the top student was from their own high school.
"Uh-huh, it’s okay to talk about it. Once you’re in university, the high school grades don’t matter anymore."
"Brother Xiao Yuan, want one?"
"I’ve brushed my teeth already, no thanks."
"Then I’ll have it." Just as Tan Wenbin reached for the chopsticks and picked up a sweet rice ball, a sudden noise of a window being opened was heard, followed by the fierce appearance of a woman’s face, scaring him so much that he threw the bowl in his hand, yelling, "What the hell!"
Yin ng climbed in.
Tan Wenbin complained, "Couldn’t you co in through the door?"
"I’m a girl."
Tan Wenbin raised two fingers, making a walking gesture, "There’s just one dorm supervisor, Auntie. You could have just bent down and walked past her window."
"Climbing over the wall is easier."
Li Zhiyuan turned to Yin ng and asked, "Sothing happened at Brother Runsheng’s place?"
"I was in the dance room above the shop and saw a disappearing shadow."
Tan Wenbin bent down, preparing to clean up the sweet rice balls spilled on the floor, "It’s just a small matter. Just like Brother Xiao Yuan said, when the few of us get together, the filthy things distribute themselves over here."
Yin ng continued, "Runsheng said Xiao Hei got spooked."
"F*ck!" Tan Wenbin imdiately stood up straight.
Xiao Hei had been raised on supplents since puppyhood, and moreover, it’s the purest breed of the five-black dog. Usually, upon encountering unclean spirits, such a dog would beco fiercer and more excited instead.
Thus, sothing that could spook it would definitely be no ordinary unclean spirit; it had to be exceptionally formidable.
After leaving Nantong, the four of them wanted to have so fun catching corpses, but that was only under normal circumstances, not against such highly challenging big creatures.
Li Zhiyuan opened the drawer and grabbed a whip, "Is Brother Runsheng trapped?"
"No, he stayed in the shop, sending to notify you."
"Why did you guys split up?"
"Because Aunt Sun ca back on her way, so Runsheng stayed in the shop to accompany her."
In the next mont, Yin ng saw a flicker of detachnt in Li Zhiyuan’s eyes.
Just that look sent a chill down Yin ng’s spine.
It wasn’t disgust or anger, but a sentint even higher than those two.
The boy was instinctively repelled by such a foolish choice.
But soon, the boy closed and reopened his eyes, with his gaze restored, and casually responded with a "Hmm."
The three hurried out of the dormitory building. On their way, they passed the dormitory supervisor’s office, where the window was closed and the light was out.
They ran to the front of the shop in the rain, Li Zhiyuan stopped in his tracks, raising his hand.
Tan Wenbin and Yin ng also imdiately stopped.
The rain continued to fall, and on the shop’s door fra, water kept dripping down.
But the problem was, the door was located inside the building, with a terrace above; impossible for rain to reach there and create a curtain of water like at Shuilian Cave.
Li Zhiyuan especially looked up, but didn’t see any water lines.
Unless the interior walls of these temporary buildings were cracked, allowing the rain to seep in and then conveniently flow out along the cracks above the door fra, but such a coincidence was improbable in the world.
Hence, the water currently dripping from the door wasn’t from the sa source as the outside rain.
Li Zhiyuan: "It’s inside."
Seeing Brother Xiao Yuan did not rush inside, Tan Wenbin didn’t dare act rashly either but shouted loudly toward the inside:
"Run Sheng, Run Sheng!"
Li Zhiyuan: "There’s miasma; he can’t hear inside."
"Oh..." Tan Wenbin drew his neck in.
With miasma, forcing your way in would fall into its trap; you’d either get lost or unconscious. In short, it would cause a considerable delay.
Li Zhiyuan’s gaze sharpened, whip in his right hand, his left hand snapping a finger:
"Snap!"
In the underworld state, the dripping water on the door fra turned into a black, thick substance, flowing to both sides and up as it fell, like a living thing.
Li Zhiyuan raised his whip and struck towards that living black line on the ground!
"Snap! Snap! Snap!"
After three consecutive hits, the process was interrupted.
In reality, from Tan Wenbin and Yin ng’s perspective, Xiao Yuan seed to be whipping the ground, and then the water curtain above the door just stopped by itself.
Li Zhiyuan shouted, "Yin ng, go inside."
Without any hesitation, Yin ng was the first to rush in, followed by Li Zhiyuan, with Tan Wenbin being the third.
In reality, they hadn’t actually practiced any coordination on ordinary days, but when faced with a dangerous situation, they all knew to protect the core person among them.
Ordinarily, Run Sheng would be most suitable to lead the charge, but now he was inside.
Everything inside the shop looked normal, only the lighting was sowhat dim.
By the counter, Aunt Sun was lying there, unconscious.
Li Zhiyuan deeply observed Aunt Sun’s back.
Run Sheng was nowhere to be seen on the first floor, while upstairs "Thud! Thud! Thud!" three consecutive heavy hits sounded.
"Upstairs!"
Following their order of entry, the three quickly ran up the stairs, just as they reached the staircase corner, the surrounding walls and the stairs under their feet began to undulate, as if turning into liquid, and the shaking amplitude continued to increase.
Yin ng could only bend over, barely maintaining her balance.
Tan Wenbin fell to the ground, unable to discern his bearings, completely losing his center of gravity.
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