Chapter 83: Lost
Old Qiu was referring to the route Wang Dongxue took after her death, and the direction he was pointing to was exactly the direction of the dormitory where Jiang Yingyue and Wang Dongxue used to live. Tan Xuan and Xiao Di had been there more than once, and they had been there after Wang Dongxue's death. They had also met Wang Dongxue's ghost there, and they had almost caused Jiang Yingyue to get into trouble. But Wang Dongxue didn't expect that she would go straight back to the dormitory after leaving the place where the accident happened. It was hard to understand how much she wanted Jiang Yingyue to go over and accompany her.
As a human being, she is pathetic, as a ghost, she is hateful. This is how Tan Xiao and Xiao Di evaluated Wang Dongxue. As expected, the result obtained from Old Qiutou also confirmed the low estimate, and Wang Dongxue's ghost really returned to the dormitory.
Tan Xuan did not enter the community, but asked Old Qiu to speed up. He knew the whereabouts of this place, and he wanted to see where Wang Dongxue's ghost went after leaving here.
Old Qiu nodded, held up the compass in his hand, and pointed to the Taiji pattern on the compass's Tianchi with his right hand. When the compass was flat again, the needle in the Tianchi had already started to spin rapidly again, and there was no sign of stopping for a long time. Old Qiu pinched his fingers and chanted spells, and used the Lu Ban ruler to determine the direction with the compass, and finally took out a new talisman to replace the talisman paper on the compass.
"What is he doing?" Looking at Old Qiu who was muttering in a weird and busy manner, Xiao Di asked Tan Xuan in confusion.
"He's fast moving in there." Tan Xuan said casually.
"Fast forward?" Xiao Di was even more confused.
"We know that Wang Dongxue came here after his death. Now we need Old Qiu to find out where Wang Dongxue went after he left here. Normally, we should do it step by step according to the normal progress, but we can't keep doing this. We can skip the places we know, but the changes in the time span need to be calculated by him so that it can be connected with the previous ones..."
Tan Xuan's explanation was worse than no explanation. The more he explained, the more confusing it became. Xiao Di frowned as she listened. These things were completely beyond her cognition and she couldn't understand them at all.
"Okay, let's go, southwest, it's very fast."
Just when Xiao Di was getting more and more confused and was about to go berserk, Old Qiutou spoke. Xiao Di turned her head to look at Old Qiutou's hand, and saw that the needle of the compass in Old Qiutou's hand finally calmed down and pointed firmly in one direction. As for which direction it was pointing, she had no idea.
"okay!"
After turning around, Tan Xuan continued to move forward in the direction indicated by Old Qiu. The purpose today was to see where Wang Dongxue had been after her death, so as to find out where her master behind the scenes was hiding. The specific process was to follow the direction indicated by Old Qiu. Wherever his talisman bird that had turned into ashes flew, they would follow. For this purpose, Tan Xuan had already filled the car with gas, so he could keep up even if they had to drive around all night.
Following Lao Niu's guidance, Tan Xuan drove to the next place. Looking at the dark office building, Tan Xuan couldn't help but smile bitterly, because they came to the downstairs of the company where Jiang Yingyue had just resigned. It was obvious that Wang Dongxue's ghost hurriedly left the dormitory and ran to her company.
"It went upstairs and stopped inside." Old Qiu looked at the compass and reported his current discovery as soon as possible.
Tan Xuan sighed, "This is where she worked before she died, and this is where I am revisiting."
Tan Xuan has also been to these two places, but his current discoveries are still equivalent to no discoveries.
"Haha, I didn't realize that Wang Dongxue first went back to the dormitory and now comes to work. She is still a workaholic."
"Fortunately, no one in their company worked overtime at night, otherwise they would have been harmed by her." Thinking of the situation that night when Jiang Yingyue almost jumped off the building, Xiao Di couldn't help but complain. She didn't have a good impression of Wang Dongxue. Although she had never seen Wang Dongxue alive, she didn't have any good impression of her just from hearing about her.
Tan Xuan looked at the office building and snorted coldly. There were no ghosts wandering there for a long time, and the ghost was still shattered in his hands. He sighed and said, "There must be a hateful side to pitiful people, and similarly, a hateful person also has a pitiful side. I guess she didn't have many friends when she was alive, and had nowhere else to go, so she wandered around these two places after she died. Alas! They are all pitiful people, but why should pitiful people make things difficult for pitiful people? Human nature..."
"Shut up, don't be so sympathetic after the fact." Xiao Di interrupted Tan Xuan's sigh with dissatisfaction, and said bluntly: "She is gone now , and you are saying these things. It was you who got rid of him in the first place, so why weren't you so sentimental at that time? If it doesn't bother you, you can say anything. For someone like her, whether she is alive or dead, the blisters on her feet are caused by her own actions. There is nothing to sympathize with."
Tan Xuan stopped talking. Xiao Di was right. Everyone has their own opinion on what is good and what is bad. It cannot be changed by just a few words. If he said anything more, it would seem too deliberate.
Wang Dongxue stayed in the office for a long time without any movement. Tan Xuan urged Old Qiu to hurry up again. He didn't want to waste any more time like this.
"OK."
Old Qiu repeated the same movements he had just used, but just halfway through, the compass in his hand suddenly vibrated, a white light flashed at the top of the pool, and then the needle on it began to spin randomly, left and right, with no regular pattern at all.
"What's going on here?"
Xiao Di immediately sat up straight in the passenger seat, looked at the strange phenomenon in the back seat, and asked in a panic: "What's going on? Is there an evil ghost coming?"
"Don't talk nonsense. I told you the same thing when I came here." Xiao Di glared at Xiao Di fiercely, and then explained to her unhappily : "There is no evil ghost. This is a reminder that the spiritual energy on the talisman bird is about to run out."
Seeing Old Qiu put down the compass and took out a piece of talisman paper to fold a bird, Xiao Di stuck out her tongue awkwardly, "Oh, so that's it. I saw in the movie that the faster and more chaotic the needle of the compass turned, the closer the ghost was. I thought there was a ghost."
Tan Xuan glared at Xiao Di again, "Don't believe those things in the movies in the future. How many of them are true? Do you think you are just spinning around with a spoon? If those things in the movies were believable, the world would have been in chaos long ago."
"You..." Xiao Di glared at Tan Xuan, his eyes revealing grievance through his glasses. That's how it's played in movies and TV, it's normal for him to think that way, but now he couldn't stand it after being criticized, so he quietly left a two-finger mark on Tan Xuan's arm.
"Ah!" Tan Xuan couldn't help but grin and yell, and Xiao Di let him go with satisfaction.
Looking back, he saw that Old Qiu had tied Wang Dongxue's hair around the neck of the talisman bird and let it fly again. He didn't even look at them. Tan Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately his image was more or less preserved.
"Okay, Mr. Tan, I calculated that this ghost wandered here until the end of the year of the ox and the beginning of the year of the tiger before leaving. Now let's go, it's moving forward along this road again."
Old Qiu finally completed the re-positioning and directed Tan Xuan to continue to follow. However, this time the speed was much faster than the previous two times. Fortunately, there were not many cars on the road at night, and Tan Xuan inadvertently increased the speed. In the words of Old Qiu, Wang Dongxue suddenly left after sitting quietly upstairs for a long time, as if she had been summoned by something, so that the speed when she left was also outrageous, and the car following her almost exceeded the speed limit.
"She was summoned? Does that mean Wang Dongxue is going to report to the person behind it? Are we heading to their lair?"
Xiao Di immediately became alert and reached out to touch the bead on her chest. A chill came into her palm and she regained some composure. She had seen the horror of evil spirits before. Although she had Tan Xuan and Old Qiu to protect her, she was now facing the mastermind behind the evil spirits, who was not an ordinary evil spirit. She was inevitably a little nervous, but more excited. Seeing something that had never been seen before was the most valuable and the easiest to cause a sensation.
"Then you must be prepared. If Wang Dongxue goes to the lair of those evil spirits, there is no telling what dangers are inside. You must be fully prepared and try to catch them all in one fell swoop."
Tan Xuan didn't say anything and continued to drive with an expressionless face. Old Qiu in the back laughed and said nonchalantly, "You don't have to worry about this. What can these little ghosts do? Do you think they are called the number one killer in the Good Man Bureau for nothing? They are just unlucky. They probably didn't choose the right time when they became ghosts. They actually offended Mr. Tan. It must be because their ghost lives are too long."
"The best killer in the Good Man Bureau..." Xiao Di looked at Old Qiu, then at Tan Xuan who was driving, and asked in disbelief, "Are you talking about him?"
Xiao Di had heard of Mu Ye Liang Ren, and had also heard from Tan Xuan that the people in the Liang Ren Bureau were specialized in dealing with ghosts and monsters, but this was the first time she had heard of the title of the No. 1 Killer God. She really couldn't equate Tan Xuan with this awesome and powerful title, but she would agree if Tan Xuan was the No. 1 gangster in the Liang Ren Bureau. Looking at Tan Xuan again, Xiao Di was more certain of her thoughts. From the first time they met until now, he had been constantly confirming the fact that he was a gangster .
Old Qiu laughed, "Of course, Mr. Tan will eradicate all evil. Everyone in the same industry knows this. Countless mountain spirits and ghosts have fallen into his hands. Even some big monsters that endanger the world were dealt with by Mr. Tan. What's the big deal about a few little ghosts..."
While Old Qiu was talking nonsense and Xiao Di was dumbfounded, Tan Xuan suddenly said coldly: "Old Qiu, keep an eye on your compass. If something goes wrong, I will blind your eye too."
"Okay, okay."
Old Qiu knew that he had said too much, so he immediately shut up and put all his energy on the compass in his hand. Tan Xuan could be humiliated by Xiao Di, but he was not the only one who was humiliated by Tan Xuan, and most of them were deeply engraved in his heart.
The speed of the talisman bird's guidance was very fast, but the direction was very single. It only guided the three people along the road by the river, leaving the city center, passing the outer city, and heading towards the suburbs.
The road became darker and darker, and the distance between the street lamps became longer and longer, until the lights of the city disappeared completely. Xiao Di couldn't help but ask, "We've already left the city. Where are they hiding? Are they hiding in the wilderness?"
"There are many people in the city with strong Yang energy, which makes it difficult to hide. They are organized like this, and they should have occupied a Yin Sha place."
As soon as Tan Xuan finished speaking, Old Qiu exclaimed from behind: "Not good!"
"What's wrong?"
Not only did Xiao Di turn around to ask, but even Tan Xuan, who was driving, quickly stepped on the brakes and looked back at Old Qiu.
"I suddenly can't sense the trace of the talisman bird." Old Qiu said with a frown. The two looked down at the compass in his hand, only to see that the pointer on it was spinning in circles without a fixed direction.
"What happened? Did it fly too fast and we lost it?" Xiao Di asked in a low voice. Although she knew her question might sound amateurish, she just couldn't control her mouth.
“No!” Old Qiu shook his head. “My Lingxi Flying Bird Talisman and the other Talismans are in sync. There’s no way they can fly away.”
"Did it fly into the evil ghost's lair and be discovered and shot down by the evil ghost?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Tan Xuan stopped Xiao Di from making random comments with his eyes. He looked at the dark night in the distance for a while, then turned to Old Qiu and said, "It is estimated that the Talisman Bird has entered the Yinsha Land, and its own breath is obscured by the Yin and filthy air there, so you can't sense it . It is estimated that it is not far from the evil ghost's lair. Don't hide it, show some real ability."
