A few days later …
The Fei Family.
The crescent moon was covered by dark clouds from time to time, and faint rumbling sounds came from the sky.
Crack.
A bolt of deep blue lightning flashed across the pitch-black room. The blue and white light dyed everything in the room a deathly white.
Fei Bailing hugged her blanket and curled up on the bed. Her whole body was trembling.
Ever since her little sister Qing Qing went missing, she had found her father and told him about it. Soon, Fei Qingqing appeared again the next day as if nothing had happened and continued to play with her.
Fei Bailing asked her what happened, but Qing Qing also acted like she didn't know anything. This made her feel a chill in her heart.
At some point in time, his father also started to wear a smiling expression, as if his entire face had stiffened and solidified into a smiling face.
It wasn't just him. Everyone else in the Fei Family was the same. They always had a faint, chilling smile.
Fei Bailing tried to leave the family residence, but her little sister would always appear out of nowhere and stop her.
Qing Qing would suddenly appear behind her and ask her to play with her with a smile.
Fei Bailing would unknowingly become absent-minded for a while, then give up on the idea of leaving and return to the residence. After playing with her little sister for a while, Qing Qing would disappear again. She didn't know where she went.
What scared her the most was that the Fei Family Residence would fall into a deathly silence every night. Everyone was gathered in the banquet hall, having a banquet. It was very lively.
However, when Fei Bailing sneaked a peek, she found that everyone had a stiff smile on their faces and was mumbling something she couldn't understand.
The voices seemed to come from far away. Even though they weren't far, she couldn't hear or understand them.
"Qing Qing … Qing Qing …" Fei Bailing hugged her knees and cried out her little sister's name.
"Big sister … are you calling me again?" A petite figure in green and white slowly walked out of the darkness behind Fei Bailing.
"Do you want to play with me?" Qing Qing's voice came from behind Fei Bailing.
Fei Bailing's body immediately froze and she slowly turned her head stiffly.
Whoosh …!!!
There was nothing behind him, nothing at all. After letting out a long sigh, she couldn't help but bury her face in her blanket and cry. But she did not dare to cry out loud, nor did she dare to call out anyone's name.
During this period of time, the auditory and visual hallucinations had already exhausted her mentally and physically, and she was unable to cope with them.
She just wanted to have a good rest and sleep. She hoped that everything would return to normal the next morning.
After crying for a while, Fei Bailing lay down slowly, covered her head with the blanket, and curled up into a ball. She didn't dare to get close to the wall, nor did she dare to go near the head or the end of the bed. She was afraid that something would suddenly stretch out from all directions.
Very quickly, she changed her position and tried to lie as flat as possible in the middle of the bed, making the blanket bulge up. This way, from the outside, it looked like there was only a pile of unfolded blankets on the bed, and no one could tell that someone was sleeping on it.
She did not want anyone to know that she slept here, in this room. It would feel much safer that way.
Time passed slowly as she lay there. Before she knew it, Fei Bailing started to feel a little sleepy. Her consciousness started to blur, and she was about to fall asleep.
Dong, dong, dong.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.
Fei Bailing's body trembled, and most of her drowsiness disappeared. She didn't dare to move.
Dong, dong, dong.
There was another knock on the door. The sound was urgent and loud, as if there really was an emergency.
Fei Bailing closed her eyes and trembled, trying to pretend that there was no one in the room.
However, the knocking kept repeating, as if it had no intention of stopping.
"Maybe Mom and the others are here to save me …" A strange thought popped up in her mind.
Finally, Fei Bailing grew a little braver and slowly lifted the blanket.
She took a deep breath, got off the bed, walked behind the door, and peeked through the keyhole.
The keyhole was about the size of a grain of rice, and there was a hidden hole for peeking through. Fei Bailing carefully peeked through the dark hole.
There were people outside, and not just one. There were at least five or six of them. They were all wearing clothes of different colors and styles. The only thing they had in common was that their clothes were all a little old.
Fei Bailing let out a sigh of relief. Finally, this encounter was normal. Encountering people was better than encountering those strange things from before. She had been knocked on the door a few times before, but there was no one outside.
Dong, dong, dong.
There was another knock on the door.
Fei Bailing looked up and took a deep breath. She was about to ask about the identity of the person outside.
Suddenly, she felt something was wrong.
It was one thing for these people to knock on the door so late at night, but why weren't they talking to each other at all? They weren't talking to each other, and they were all looking at the door in unison.
Most importantly, their postures … were all very stiff.
She lowered her head and peeked through the hole again.
Whoosh!!
Outside the hole, the five people all bent down and peeked through the hole, staring closely at Fei Bailing's eyes.
"Ah!!"
She was so scared that she suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, her body drenched in cold sweat.
The room was empty, and no sound came out.
Fei Bailing rested for a long while before propping herself up again. She carefully moved closer and peeked through the hole.
There was no one outside.
She let out a long sigh of relief.
Dong, dong, dong!!
Suddenly, rapid knocking sounds came from the window on the right.
Her hair stood on end, and she almost screamed. She turned her head to look.
Outside the window, the five figures from before stood neatly. Their shadows were cast by the moonlight and fell on the paper window, clearly visible.
Dong, dong, dong!
Dong, dong, dong!
Dong, dong, dong!
Dong, dong, dong!!!
The knocking sounds grew louder and more frequent.
"Ah!!"
Fei Bailing suddenly screamed and jumped up from the bed.
Her body was drenched in sweat, and even her underwear was soaked.
"I … I …!!?" Fei Bailing's breathing quickened, and she felt like she couldn't breathe. She looked around the bedroom. There was no one else but her.
"Another dream?" She couldn't tell which was dream and which was reality anymore.
She sat up from the bed and subconsciously looked at the window. The moonlight reflected off the tree branches outside, and the shadows on the window swayed gently. It was exceptionally quiet.
"I can't go on like this …" Fei Bailing knew that something had definitely happened to the Fei Family. She couldn't keep lying to herself. She had to ask for help!
After a long time, she finally got up and walked to the door. Just as she was about to open it, she heard soft footsteps outside.
"Someone's here??" Fei Bailing froze. It was already so late. She looked at the clock on the table. It was already one o 'clock in the morning, the time when everyone was fast asleep. Even the maids and guards should be asleep by now. Why were there footsteps outside?
She thought for a moment, held her breath, and quietly bent down to look through the dark hole next to the keyhole.
Five people in old clothes immediately appeared in front of her. Fei Bailing's breathing almost stopped. Her expression was twisted in fear as she immediately remembered the scene in her dream.
"What do I do? What do I do?!" She was panicking, but she didn't know what to do.
Bang!
The courtyard door was suddenly pushed open.
Sima Xiu's expression was solemn. He held a short knife in one hand and looked around the house.
He discovered the abnormality of the Fei Family after receiving a strange blood letter asking for help. But what surprised him was that the blood letter mysteriously disappeared just as he was about to record it in the Yin Yang Department's archives.
The person asking for help was a woman named Fei Bailing. According to the information he had obtained, Fei Bailing was the third daughter of the Fei Family's main branch. She had no bloodline talent since she was young, and was just an ordinary person. She didn't stand out in any way.
But the blood letter written by this third daughter had disappeared right under his nose, an inspector of the Yin Yang Department.
As a large security organization in the county capital that controlled tens of millions of people, the Yin Yang Department had more than a hundred inspectors, and they were all divided into nine ranks. Logically speaking, Sima Xiu was just an ordinary inspector in a nearby area. That blood letter shouldn't have fallen into his hands, but into the hands of the inspector in charge of the Fei Family's area.
But what surprised Sima Xiu was that the blood letter had indeed fallen into his hands. But what was strange was that he had immediately reported it to the director, and the director had placed great importance on it and was about to send people to the Fei Family to investigate. But in the blink of an eye, he had only left for an hour.
When he went to see the director again, he couldn't remember anything, as if he had amnesia.
Sima Xiu felt a chill every time he thought of this. What kind of person was the director? He was an Earth Prime expert, a peak expert who stood at the peak of countless people.
Even such an expert was affected in such a strange way. It was clear how strange the blood letter was.
Thinking of this, he turned around and looked behind him.
"As expected, no one is here."
He was the only one standing outside the Fei Family's side courtyard. None of the subordinates of the Si Zhong who were supposed to investigate the truth were here.
Even those most loyal to him didn't come. They probably forgot about it in the blink of an eye, just like the director.
The strangeness of this matter had exceeded Sima Xiu's expectations. On the one hand, he tried to send a message and a warning to the higher-ups he could reach, hoping to attract the attention of important people. On the other hand, he could hear Fei Bailing's pitiful cries in his dreams.
After a few days, he finally couldn't help but come to the Fei Family alone.
Standing at the entrance of the Fei Family's courtyard, he could see the silhouette of the buildings faintly discernible in the darkness. It was completely silent. It was so quiet that it made one's hair stand on end.
Sima Xiu took a deep breath and gave up on the idea of reinforcements. He had joined the Yin Yang Department in the first place to prevent the tragedy from happening again.
"So … why am I still hesitating?" He thought of his sister. If he had arrived at the scene immediately and rushed in without hesitation, he might have been able to prevent the tragedy from happening.
Unfortunately, he hesitated. He was afraid …
"I've already hesitated once." Sima Xiu thought back to the oath he made when he joined the Yin Yang Department. A trace of unswerving determination appeared on his face that was as beautiful as a woman's.
He lifted his foot and stepped through the door with his blade.
Thud. His black leather boots stepped on the ground, sending tiny white dust flying to the sides.
His tall and thin figure slowly disappeared from the Fei Family's courtyard.
Creak …
A gust of wind blew past, and the courtyard door slowly closed as if it had been blown shut by the wind.
… …
"Whoosh!"
In the middle of the courtyard, Lu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and a hint of gold flashed through his pupils.
"There are impurities in the Essence Qi." He frowned.
A normal expert might not have noticed the change in the Essence Qi in the city, but he was different. On the surface, he was a Bind level direct disciple, but his true body was a peak Devil King who had mastered Devil Arts. He was extremely sensitive to changes in Essence Qi.
"The impurities are coming from a large courtyard in the back." He quickly found the source.
The large courtyard in the back seemed to belong to a large Fei family.
Lu Sheng closed his eyes again. "Forget it. I don't really care about the environment anyway."
He took another deep breath and poured another mouthful of Essence Qi into the courtyard. It carried with it a foul smell and grit.
Lu Sheng instantly froze.
He opened his eyes again and stood up.
"Tomorrow, I'll clear out all the surrounding households. I'll kill anyone who dares to live within a two-hundred-meter radius! "
Bam!
He turned and went into his bedroom to sleep.
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