Volume 5: Qingming Chapter 47: Tied
Lin Yu still didn't respond.
He looked into the distance, the mountains in the distance were layered, their edges .
The wind blew the leaves in gusts like waves.
He took out his cell phone to check the time and browsed through some news. Only one-third of the battery was left, so he put the phone back in his pocket.
Chang Lizhang and Shao Lang are still unconscious.
Qiaoqiao sat in mid-air hugging her knees, looking surprisingly well-behaved.
Lin Yu listened to the sound of the wind.
A year ago, he and Duan Rui were working together for the fate of the company, but now, he was sitting on a cliff, with a ghostly-drawn magic circle beside him, and an existence he didn't know how to call was floating above.
A white light flashed not far away.
Lin Yu stood up. The light flashed several times and got closer and closer. He heard footsteps.
"Who?" he asked loudly.
"It's me." A man wearing white sportswear, carrying a backpack and holding a flashlight walked up.
Lin Yu recognized him, it was Jin Cheng.
"I'm a little worried..." Jin Cheng saw Chang Lizhang and Shao Lang lying on the ground. He shone the flashlight on them. His body tensed up and he asked, "What's going on?"
When Qiaoqiao heard Jin Cheng's words, a light flashed in her eyes.
"They're fine, they just fainted," Lin Yu added, looking at Jin Cheng's expression, "The section chief and the others went to look for Zheng Yuantai. I'll be guarding here."
Jin Cheng saw Shao Lang's wrists that had been cut twice, "Is this what you call nothing?"
"Are you questioning me?" Lin Yu took a step forward. He was more than half a head taller than Jin Cheng and had a stronger physique.
Jin Cheng was completely suppressed.
"This is the scene where the Special Operations Department is handling a case," Lin Yu emphasized the word "Special Operations Department". "The Special Operations Department's methods are definitely different from conventional methods of handling cases. Don't you know that? If you are so self-righteous and cause the case to go wrong, can you bear the responsibility?"
"I, I..." Jin Cheng defended himself, "I just saw them lying on the ground when I came over..."
"The chief didn't ask you to come."
"I felt anxious, so I just wanted to come and take a look." Jin Cheng glanced in the direction of the ghost painting and said, "Don't chase me away..."
After Jin Cheng gave in, Lin Yu's expression softened. "Brother Jiang drew a summoning array based on the photos provided by Brother Shao, opened the road on the mountain wall, and they went in." He paused, "Brother Zheng is likely in there too."
Jin Cheng looked forward along Lin Yu's line of sight and pointed the flashlight in his hand toward the mountain wall.
He saw a spider web.
The spider silk glowed with phosphorescent silver light under the white light.
Lin Yu took a few steps and sat back on the stone.
"Since you are here, just wait with me, don't..."
"I promise, I'll stay here and I won't move."
Jin Cheng walked over to Lin Yu and found a rock to sit on. He looked into the distance for a while, then asked, "Have you had dinner?"
"No."
"I ate it."
Lin Yu glanced at him, and Jin Cheng felt a little embarrassed, so he said, "Uncle Zheng is a very good person."
"Can you have precognitive dreams?"
"It's not precognition, but I can see some things in my dreams. Maybe I don't know the people in the dreams, and I haven't been to the places in the dreams, but these things are real. When I was a child, I couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality. I always said some very strange things. Everyone said that I was mentally ill and crazy."
Jin Cheng took off his backpack and placed it in front of his feet. At this time, Qiaoqiao turned her head and her eyes met Jin Cheng's.
"What is this?" Jin Cheng asked.
"What floated out of the beads might be a soul or something like that."
"You don't know either?"
"I don't know," Lin Yu said calmly, "She just kept struggling to escape, so no matter what she says to you, don't respond."
"I see. Then how did you get into the Special Operations Department?"
Lin Yu thought for a moment and said, "My master works part-time in the Special Operations Department, and I followed him here."
"Your master? Section Chief Tang?"
"no……"
"The fat one? The one holding a kid?"
"right……"
“Is he great?”
“Very impressive.”
"So what do you do?" Jin Cheng looked at the muscles on Lin Yu's arms . "Bodyguard?"
“Working in a gym, as a trainer.”
"No wonder, when you scolded me just now, I felt like I was back in high school, when the teacher threw my test paper in my face and scolded me."
"I didn't scold you."
"I'm just using that as a metaphor, it's that kind of momentum."
Lin Yu felt the existence of a generation gap.
Jin Cheng turned to look at Lin Yu and asked, "Do you want to join the Special Operations Department?"
"You want to come in?"
"I did, but Uncle Zheng disagrees. You guys are from Tangjiang, right? Would it be easier to get into the Tangjiang Special Operations Group? I think Chief Tang is very young, and she..."
"When they come out, I'll ask for you."
Jin Cheng sighed, he took out his phone and looked at it, "It's ten o'clock, how long have they been in there?"
"About half an hour."
"It would be better if the mountain spirits were not dispersed."
"I am the mountain spirit, the mountain spirit of Jiujin Mountain," Qiaoqiao raised her head and looked at Jin Cheng, "Ten years ago, sword cultivator Zheng Yuantai rescued me in Jiujin Mountain. Since then, I have been hiding in Tangjiang and working hard to recover my strength, so that I can return to Jiujin Mountain one day and fulfill my promise to him."
Jin Cheng stood up suddenly. Lin Yu wanted to stop him , but he finally remained sitting with his head down, secretly on guard.
When Jin Cheng reached the edge of the ghost painting, he asked, "What agreement? How do you prove that you are the mountain spirit of Jiujin Mountain?"
"Let me out and you will see." Qiaoqiao said.
Jin Cheng thought of what Lin Yu had said to him. He said, "I can't let you go until you prove yourself."
"There is a door at the bottom of Jiujin Mountain. I am guarding this door and will not let it open."
"Door? What door?" Jin Cheng asked.
"If that door is opened," Qiaoqiao's body trembled, and Jin Cheng saw the fear in her eyes, "countless demons will pour in, and the world will be in chaos. Ten years ago, Jinghu was at Jiujin Mountain, offering human flesh and blood as sacrifices in an attempt to open the door, and I was awakened," Qiaoqiao's voice was filled with sorrow, "Brother Zheng and I worked together to break their conspiracy, but at this time, the door had already cracked a little, and I was seriously injured..."
As she spoke, Qiaoqiao's eyes suddenly widened.
Jin Cheng asked: "What's wrong?"
Before he could finish his words, he felt a heavy blow on the back of his neck. His eyes went dark and he passed out.
Qiaoqiao saw Lin Yu standing in front of her holding gravel in one hand and Jin Cheng's collar in the other.
"You..." She pointed at Lin Yu, speechless.
Lin Yu didn't look at her. He dragged Jin Cheng back to his original place and sat down. Then he opened Jin Cheng's backpack, rummaged through it, and found a climbing rope. He tied Jin Cheng up tightly with the rope.
