The slender and pale limbs flicked across the shadows in the corner without making a sound. Invisible silk threads outlined a web, and the thick Yin and resentment on the spider thread obscured the monitoring, making the alarm not sound, and the fully armed Zhou family guards who were patrolling were unaware as the human-faced spider sneaked into Zhou Xinhong’s study.
It became very small, as small as a sesame seed. The grimace patterns formed by resentment on its back condensed and became the same color and shape as the study’s wallpaper pattern, it was extremely camouflaged. Under Wu Rong’s order, the human-faced spider climbed onto the wall behind the desk.
Just as Wu Rong speculated, there was a subtle difference between the Yin Qi behind the wall and in other places. The human-faced spider was extremely sensitive to Yin Qi, being able to detect this small surprise. It quietly spun silk, using the transparent silk threads to quietly outline different areas with Yin Qi. In a very inconspicuous hotel diagonally opposite the Zhou’s Family Building, Wu Rong glanced at the time.
There were still ten minutes till seven o’clock, Zhou Xinhong should be almost at the Seven Treasures Buddhist Hall.
“Brother Rong, there are a few people from the northeast who have been watching the Zhou Family Mansion for a long time.”
Huang Mao’s voice came from the blood contract, he tamed more than a dozen mosquitoes, and released nearly twenty mosquitoes, like a plainclothesman hidden in the crowd.
“It is estimated that other forces will also attack the Zhou family tonight.”
Bai Gu’s tone was solemn, this was the last thing they wanted to see. It was rare for Zhou Xinhong to leave the Zhou Family Mansion and go to the Seven Treasures Buddhist Hall. Those forces that were secretly ready to move would not miss this opportunity. This situation must have been expected by Zhou Xinhong, and he definitely left a lot of support in the Zhou family mansion.
But this time was also Wu Rong’s best chance to capture the Jade Beetle, so they couldn’t let it go.
Up till now, they could only act according to the situation, and take it one step at a time.
“My brother…”
“Hush.”
Just as Su Xiaomi was about to speak, Wu Rong hushed him to stop him. He suddenly closed his eyes and concentrated his attention on feeling the prickles on the human-faced spider.
There was a situation!
After the human-faced spider was collected by Wu Rong as a Gu, Wu Rong could completely judge the surrounding environment through its five senses. The string of his sense of crisis suddenly pulsed, and he immediately controlled the human faced spider, substituting for its perception. Developed from a completely different perspective to human beings, the world in the eyes of the human-faced spider was only in different shades of black and gray, which was the color of the Yin Qi.
Through the eyes of the spider, Wu Rong looked at the wall. They were covered with wood-colored wallpaper, with luxurious yet low-key dark patterns spread on it. In the middle of the wall hung a framed photo of Zhou Xinhong and Bai Mei’s wedding photo. In the photo, Zhou Xinhong was in a suit and wore leather shoes, with a tall and straight figure, and Bai Mei was as beautiful as a flower, with a happy smile on her face. But the fact that the spider could see the picture of this wedding photo showed that it wasn’t just an ordinary photo, but a very heavy and suppressive Yin Qi object!
In the photo, the faces of Zhou Xinhong and Bai Mei were all deeply outlined by Yin Qi, forming an aura pulling and suppressing itself. There was indeed another mystery behind this wall. The dark gray Qi adhered to the wall, making it appear as dark as a rainy day. Surrounding the photo frame, the outline of a shape could vaguely be seen from the spider’s silk.
It was a standing figure.
Where did this sense of crisis come from?
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Zhou Xinhong’s study room was very large but there weren’t many decorations so it looked very simple. There was no place to rest like a sofa, and the only place that could be counted as leisure was directly opposite the desk, a bogu shelf with various kinds of jades placed on it. It could be seen that he wasn’t a fun-loving person but a very well-adjusted person.
After looking around, Wu Rong still didn’t find anything unusual, nor did he find the source of the fleeting sense of crisis. Controlling the human-faced spider, he left along the original path in a low-key manner, and Wu Rong prepared to let it evacuate first.
Drip drop.
The sound of water droplets falling was particularly abrupt in the silent study room. Wu Rong immediately realized that it wasn’t the sound of rain outside the window, it was coming from the study! Zhou Xinhong’s study room was far away from the washroom, and there was no water dispenser or anything of the sort, so it was unlikely to be leaking water.
Where is this dripping sound coming from?
Drip drop
Another drop of water fell, and the human-faced spider had already fallen vertically from the wall to the ground, but the water drop fell right next to it! It didn’t even splash a bit, and was quickly absorbed by the carpet, leaving dark circular marks. At the same time, a gloomy and powerful resentment locked the human-faced spider.
It was too late to dodge, Wu Rong controlled its face and looked up. Directly above the photo frame, on the roof, dark Qi like water marks outlined a woman’s face vaguely. The woman’s indifferent and cold gaze looked down, and a drop of scarlet Yin Qi fell from the corner of her eye like tears. Wu Rong, whose consciousness was in the human-faced spider, could clearly feel that her huge and heavy resentment was as terrifying as Mount Tai’s top, and it was impossible to dodge at all!
Crack
With a soft sound, the human-faced spider shattered like a ripe watermelon, and was completely dispersed into powder by the Yin Qi.
“Hiss, hiss, hiss!”
Wu Rong came back to his senses suddenly, his whole body was drenched in water. Just now he experienced the same death as the human-faced spider. A sense of horror and fear poured over his brain like boiling water, and his thinking and consciousness fell into a blank. Then he was awakened with the same frightened hiss.
“Hiss, hiss!”
The shrunken human-faced spider was lying on the back of Wu Rong’s hand and trembling, as if paralyzed by fright. An orange halo flashed across it. When Fu Qing sucked Wu Rong’s blood the night before, the Zhong Gu also secretly took a few mouthfuls of the Zhengyang Fire. Although this was not enough to be refined into a pure fire element, it also enhanced its ability. Wu Rong could use the Zhong Gu to mark one of his subordinate Gu, and split it into a child Gu and a mother Gu.
The one sent by Wu Rong to Zhou Xinhong’s study just now was the child Gu of the human-faced spider, and the mother Gu would not perish unless it was injured.
Sure enough, the Zhou family was indeed abnormal.
Wu Rong came back to his senses with a dignified expression. Fortunately, he let the human-faced spider with the most keen sense of Yin Qi go to explore the path first. Judging from the outline of Yin Qi, there was a high possibility that the body embedded in the wall of Zhou Xinhong’s study may be the Daytime Empress’s remains. However, if there were photo frames and other things to suppress it, the Daytime Empress’s resentment shouldn’t appear, let alone form resentment like water marks. Zhou Xinhong often worked in his study, so he wouldn’t put himself in danger all the time.
Time, it should be a relationship with time.
Zhou Jin went to the cemetery to respect his mother yesterday, and the death day of the Daytime Empress should be around these two days.
Wu Rong had a flash of inspiration.
Could it be that Zhou Xinhong’s study would show such a strange appearance on the anniversary of the Daytime Empress’s death? After being dead for so many years, Zhou Xinhong has been imprisoning her soul. The pain, torment and resentment are enough to turn her into a ghost. The special wedding photos were not only for suppressing her, but also for constantly arousing the Daytime Empress’s resentment, making her more fierce and terrifying?
It was now less than two days before Zhou Jin’s death, and if the Daytime Empress knew something about it, her resentment would definitely reach its peak. Just by looking at her ability to imprison the Jade Beetle and absorb its energy, it was clear that the power of this resentful soul had reached a terrifying level.
Wu Rong’s face darkened.
“There’s an error in our prediction.”
Zhou Xinhong estimated that he would not come back. He guessed that someone would take advantage of this time to explore his secrets, so he simply opened the Zhou Family Mansion as a bait to attract those people to search and explore, letting them become a fresh source of flesh and blood to nourish the Daytime Empress’s resentful soul.
In order for Wu Rong to capture the Jade Beetle, it was highly likely that he would face the Daytime Empress’s corpse. His greatest advantage now was that Zhou Jin was by his side.
At 7:25 in the evening, Zhou Jin was stopped by the guard at the entrance of the Zhou Family Building.
“Young Master, you can’t—”
“Go away!”
Zhou Jin snarled, and the two black-clothed bodyguards who followed him immediately struck out, and the guards blocking him were thrown out. Standing on the steps, the particularly thin Zhou Jin straightened his back, took off his sunglasses and condescendingly glanced at the surrounding guards, his thin lips curved in disgust: “I’m going back to my home, and I still need to talk to you trashy guys and report?!”
“Young Master，Young Master——”
“Go away!”
“Young Master, Young Master—”
The scene that happened at the entrance of the Zhou Family Building was noticed by the attentive people monitoring from the side, and they immediately reported using the walkie-talkie: “The situation has changed. Zhou Jin broke into the target building, and Zhou Jin led someone into the target building.”
“Received.”
The Ministry of Public Security in Jieyang was under martial law, and the special police officers with unfamiliar faces were fully armed, with pools of blood on the ground. The corpses were piled up in a corner, and a talisman to prevent the recovery of the spirit was pasted on it. The Ministry of Public Security, which had been corrupted by the Zhou family for more than ten years, was wiped out by Operation Thunder. The door of the interrogation room opened, and a middle-aged man with a stern face and a vertical slit between his eyebrows came out and took off his blood-stained gloves.
Wearing a police uniform, he was as imposing as a mountain and the sea. He put away the walkie-talkie and strode out, acting resolutely. When walking halfway, the middle-aged man paused slightly and frowned: “Superintendent Angus.”
The man he called superintendent was a foreign man with profound and handsome features. His hair color was extremely light, close to platinum, and his pupils were of an extremely light ice blue. There was a faint white-gold halo around him, like the twinkling light of a morning star, or diluted sunlight, but it wasn’t warm, instead it was extremely cold, just like the pupils of this man’s eyes.
The experienced special police officers were afraid to walk around him, especially avoiding the half-person-tall silver cross still dripping with blood in his hand. The middle-aged man looked at him with serious eyes. Not only was it respect for the strength of this famous police inspector, code-named Dawn Star Saint, who was born in St. Joelman’s Cathedral in the European Union, but also the fear of his indifferent killing intent.
The Asian Federation had investigated the case of the Daytime Empress for a long time. Many people who had been favored by the Daytime Empress were now in high positions, and they had never stopped for more than ten years to repay the favor. But Zhou Xinhong was extremely cunning, like a slippery loach. He has been operating the top-grade jade mine for many years, and his relationship network was also dense. The Ministry of Public Security had been under a lot of pressure during the secret investigation. Until now, at the critical moment when Zhou Jin was about to die, the Federation finally decided to take action.
Zhou Ju was ordered in the face of danger, sneaked into Jieyang City as early as three months ago, and secretly took over the Jieyang Public Security Department. But this Superintendent Angus suddenly took the initiative to come to the Asian League to jointly supervise the case in the name of the Daytime Empress’s church in the European Union. This was an order from above, and Zhou Ju could not refuse, and could only accept it. Now that the operation was about to start, Zhou Ju surveyed the Zhou Family Mansion through the window of the Ministry of Public Security.
As the tallest building in the Jieyang Safety Zone, the Zhou Family Building looked like a sharp knife piercing the sky from this angle, with an unknown meaning.
“According to the original plan,”
Zhou Ju hid the heavy haze in his heart and gave an order through the walkie-talkie.
“Start at eight o’clock.”
At 7:30 in the evening, Wu Rong and Bai Gu, disguised as bodyguards, followed Zhou Jin into the Zhou Family Building.
M1zushi: this chapter is so cool jhlslfsdjfhsdjfhsdfsjh we’re finally reaching a new arc where we meet the people from the European union, I was already dead from the Buddhism arc orz
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Feeling very sorry for Mom, cruel man.
this Zhao – whatever his name is – deserves to live like a cockroach for the rest of his life! Always running away like a pest but never dying and have to suffer the cruelty of life! How dare he!!!!