Chapter 22#
Luo Xingyan#
The number of ghost children in this building was unimaginably large. Every wall, every crack, every corner seemed to have black shadows flowing and surging continuously.
When Ye Sheng went downstairs, he felt like he was stepping in a swamp. Something tried to grab his ankle, but was scared away by his voice in panic.
Ye Sheng’s throat was uncomfortable, his mood was also very irritable, and his voice was low and cold.
“Get lost.”
The phone didn’t have much battery left, so he simply turned it off and put it directly in his pocket.
No matter how good Ye Sheng’s night vision was, he couldn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t take a wrong step in this environment. To be safe, he held onto the railing next to him, taking several steps at a time, and went downstairs quickly.
In the dark place he didn’t notice, the screams and despair in the bedroom stopped. The two bodyguards were scared into fainting, and those densely packed ghost children lying on the walls and ceiling, as if smelling some fatally attractive scent, became restless for a moment, then ran out in the direction Ye Sheng left.
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Ning Weichen agreed to separate from Ye Sheng, of course not because of reasons like “separating is more efficient”.
As soon as he arrived at the opposite side of the lake, he sensed an aura in the air, a unique ability fluctuation exclusive to executors, and the level was very high.
An old acquaintance.
After all, he had been dealing with the Unnatural Bureau since he was born.
Ning Weichen didn’t take out his phone for lighting. After his gaze left the Guanyin Sending Children picture on the wall, he looked for things in the room.
Old Master Qin hung a Guanyin picture on the wall of the main hall, so there must be a Guanyin statue in the house. He didn’t spend much time finding a mahogany Buddhist niche nearby, and found candles and a lighter in the cabinet below. After lighting the candle, he walked towards the long corridor on the right side of the stairs by the faint light of the candle.
Both sides of this corridor on the right side of the first floor were locked rooms.
Only the door at the end was forcibly opened, smashed through by a huge black iron chain.
Great strength; explosion; metal.
S-level executor [Shackles].
Ning Weichen looked casually at the drag marks of the iron chain on the ground, and curled his lips slightly sarcastically.
However, his persona in the eyes of the Unnatural Bureau was an unenterprising young master.
When Ning Weichen walked in holding the red candle, Luo Xingyan was squatting on a long-abandoned bed, groping with both hands, studying something.
Luo Xingyan’s code name is Shackles, his weapon is an iron chain, his talent is outstanding and his temperament is irritable, but he is a shorty only 1.7 meters tall. Wearing a loose large T-shirt and overalls, his hair dyed red, a black collar on his neck, holding a pitch-black iron chain about the thickness of a human wrist in his hand.
Lying on that old bed, his nose twitching, sniffing some scent lightly.
When footsteps and the faint light of the red candle came from the door, Luo Xingyan instantly froze, his eyes sharp like a fierce leopard, looking viciously at the door.
—No ordinary person could get so close to him before being discovered?
Ning Weichen met that extremely fierce gaze without any expression. He held the candle, a good-looking face smiling in the light, red lips hooked up, and even waved enthusiastically to say hello: “Hi.”
“…”
Luo Xingyan’s expression was like being beaten.
After seeing it was Ning Weichen, the guard against heresy was dropped. Replaced by deeper vigilance and wariness.
Ning Weichen was elegant, his tone smiling. “Sorry, I thought a mouse entered here, didn’t expect it to be someone from the Unnatural Bureau.”
“Officer Luo, does this count as trespassing on a private house?” He raised his eyebrows in confusion, then sighed: “Didn’t expect your power to increase after returning to the country.”
Luo Xingyan glared at him viciously and jumped off the bed.
“Ning Weichen, stop pretending here. Don’t you know what happened in this building?”
No one in the Unnatural Bureau didn’t know Ning Weichen.
No high-level executor hadn’t dealt with Ning Weichen.
This heir of the Ning family who was sent abroad to grow up since childhood had a nearly 5-year blank growth period from 1 to 6 years old. The news about what happened during this period was completely blocked. Ning Weichen’s childhood experience was perfect, but that was all for others to see.
Just knowing that he lived on Butterfly Island when he was a child was enough for the Unnatural Bureau to be heavily guarded.
The investigation about Ning Weichen has been an [S-level event] in the Unnatural Bureau for a long time.
Because Luo Xingyan was short, in order not to appear weak, he always kept a straight face and pretended to be mature. He pointed to this bed and said in a deep voice: “Ning Weichen, I sensed at least an A-level heresy aura on this bed.”
“There are binding straps on the four corners of the bed. Something was once tied to this bed.”
“This building is full of heresies, but they are weird everywhere, unlike ordinary low-level heresies—what exactly did the Qin family do here?”
He looked up and questioned, his eyes sharp and angry!
Ning Weichen sneered, shrugged and spread his hands.
Just like the impression he left on countless executors, loose and frivolous, full of extravagant, lazy and unserious feelings, his tone innocent and perfunctory: “Officer Luo, do you want me to remind you. I just returned to the country, just came to Huaicheng, I’m not familiar with the Qin family, and I don’t know this building at all. I’m just an ordinary person who happened to pass by and heard a noise and came in.”
Luo Xingyan would be damned if he believed him, and questioned again: “You would happen to pass by here?”
Ning Weichen didn’t explain any more. He curved his lips and smiled, holding the red candle with his slender cold white hand, the firelight shining into those smiling but cold peach blossom eyes.
His voice also became lighter.
“So many questions, Officer Luo. Guess why I have the patience to talk to you this time?”
Luo Xingyan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and also noticed that Ning Weichen was not right today. It was not his first time contacting Ning Weichen. He had seen him in London and New York, but every time it was a hasty meeting.
In the perennial wet and rainy days of London, his deepest impression was the indifferent profile of this crown prince sitting in a black sedan surrounded by bodyguards, and the weary and playful look when looking at people from the Unnatural Bureau.
Ning Weichen was not a person who would accept questioning kindly and patiently.
Luo Xingyan sneered, with hostility faintly in his eyes: “Who knows what you are thinking. A high-level heresy was found here, I…”
Ning Weichen answered lightly: “Because I’m on a date, I don’t want my lover to be scared by you, understand?”
Luo Xingyan: “…”
Luo Xingyan: “…………”
The voice stopped abruptly. Luo Xingyan’s anger and fighting spirit were all blocked back by this sentence, raising his voice in disbelief: “You are on a date?!”
Ning Weichen’s love life has always been the focus of the Unnatural Bureau.
It’s just that for so many years, Ning Weichen wandered around various celebrity banquets, and didn’t let any man or woman get close.
He was surprised not because Ning Weichen had a lover, but surprised that the Unnatural Bureau didn’t discover this matter?!
Ning Weichen smiled implicitly: “Mn, so I hope you are sensible and don’t disturb me.” He looked like a pure boy who had just opened his heart to love, his eyes full of stars when thinking of his lover.
But when his gaze fell on this abandoned house, he sighed faintly: “If a high-level heresy appears, Tianshu will naturally issue an order. Are you planning to rely on intuition to assign tasks to yourself now?”
Luo Xingyan said firmly: “My intuition won’t be wrong.”
Ning Weichen smiled thoughtfully: “Is there a possibility that you just returned from Jerusalem and got Jerusalem Syndrome, having hallucinations?”
Jerusalem Syndrome is a mental abnormality triggered by visiting the city of Jerusalem, and is also one of the strange diseases that the world cannot explain.
Luo Xingyan had long been immune to this kind of provocation, and stubbornly stuck to his own opinion: “Whether it is an illusion or not, I will investigate this building tonight.”
Ning Weichen chuckled lightly and put the candle on the cabinet next to him: “Okay. Rather tear down ten temples than destroy a marriage. You Unnatural Bureau people are really wicked enough.”
He said lightly.
“Why did I meet you on my first date.”
Wicked my ass! Luo Xingyan was stimulated enough by his words, feeling that he was full of lies, and sarcastically said: “Come on, would normal people come to this kind of ghostly place for a date?”
Ning Weichen smiled faintly: “Have you never been in love?”
Luo Xingyan: “…”
Luo Xingyan forced himself to swallow the blood in his throat.
In the information about Ning Weichen, a very important piece of information they obtained was that Ning Weichen could easily mobilize other people’s emotions.
He can very easily gain the favor and love of strangers, and can also very easily arouse a person’s anger and jealousy towards him.
He needs to be calm.
Ning Weichen said regretfully: “Then you investigate well here. He and I will find another place.”
Luo Xingyan rolled his eyes and decided not to leave here tonight.
Just before Ning Weichen turned around, Ye Sheng’s cold and hoarse voice suddenly came from the empty and silent corridor.
“Ning Weichen.”
After Ye Sheng arrived on the first floor, he thought about pulling Ning Weichen away from here. The faint light came from the right side of the stairs, allowing him to find it almost effortlessly.
Ning Weichen stood at the door at the end of the corridor and turned his head when he heard the sound. The black suit shirt outlined the young man’s waist and legs perfectly. The light and shadow fell on his face, half bright and half dark. For a moment, Ye Sheng couldn’t see clearly what expression Ning Weichen had.
But he felt that Ning Weichen’s mood should not be happy now. His gaze was as obscure and cold as when he kissed the ticket under the cold moon and cold stars when saying goodbye, looking at him across the corridor.
However, Ye Sheng was too lazy to care whether he was happy or not, and only said what he wanted to say: “Let’s go, no need to search anymore.”
Before he got close, Ning Weichen had already lifted his feet and walked towards him.
Ye Sheng’s throat was uncomfortable, and he spoke as concisely as possible: “Leave here first.”
Ning Weichen stood quietly in front of him, silent for a long time, and smiled gently.
The light from the room shone on the lower half of Ye Sheng’s face, where there was a spot splashed with black liquid.
He leaned over, ambiguously wiped away the dirt for Ye Sheng, and then whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear: “Brother, did you do it on purpose?”
Ye Sheng: “What?”
He could never understand Ning Weichen’s brain circuit.
Ning Weichen’s lips curved up: “You say you don’t want to be involved with heresies, don’t want to be involved with the Unnatural Bureau, don’t want to be involved with me, but every time you get involved in the game as if it were destined. Are you unlucky, or did you do it on purpose?”
“??” Ye Sheng said hoarsely and irritably: “Are we leaving or not?”
Ning Weichen said: “Can’t leave, baby. You’ve been discovered.”
Discovered
Ye Sheng was stunned.
Luo Xingyan walked out of the room as soon as he heard Ye Sheng’s voice. The chain in his hand dragged and made a heavy sound. It was hard for Ye Sheng to ignore it. Looking up, he met the burning eyes of a red-haired young man with unclear meaning.
In front of him was a person whose whole body revealed “I am not to be trifled with”, wearing a T-shirt one size larger, brown overalls, and eyes a bit like a feline. His skin was wheat-colored, and the look in his eyes was definitely not friendly.
Luo Xingyan’s interest in Ning Weichen’s lover was even higher than high-level heresies!
Ning Weichen had the ability to make everything he said seem true and false, so Luo Xingyan always remained vigilant and only believed one point of his words. About dates and lovers, he thought it was bullshit made up to disgust him.
Never expected!
There really was another person in this building!
And this person called out Ning Weichen’s name so familiarly!
The frustration he suffered from Ning Weichen was all relieved at this moment, all vanished.
The black shackles in his hand became smaller and thinner, and hung around his neck. The black chain hung in front of the white clothes, like a simple decoration to look cool.
Luo Xingyan stepped forward, suppressing the urge to laugh in his heart, his tone not without joy and malice: “Young Master Ning, is this your date?”
The moment Ye Sheng saw the red-haired boy, he frowned intuitively. After hearing his words, his frown deepened.
Ning Weichen ignored Luo Xingyan, but asked Ye Sheng gently: “Were you scared just now?”
Ye Sheng: “What?”
Ning Weichen smiled: “If you weren’t scared, why did you come to find me so urgently?”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ning Weichen noticed something and asked: “What happened to your voice?”
Ye Sheng didn’t want to expose his matter about the fetus girl, and said coldly: “Nothing, old problem.”
Ning Weichen sighed at his lover’s duplicity like a meticulous perfect lover. Reached out to hold Ye Sheng’s face, his tone very light but irresistible: “Let me see.”
Luo Xingyan who was ignored by them on the side: “…”
Damn, fuck, are you pair of dog men deaf or blind!!
Ye Sheng couldn’t bear it anymore and wanted to say: “Are you sick?” But just as he started the first two words, Ning Weichen’s eyes were already smiling, and his fingers pressed forcefully on his thin lips.
The other hand held his face, his eyes affectionate and cold.
Ning Weichen was doing it for Luo Xingyan to see—
He didn’t want Luo Xingyan to discover Ye Sheng’s abnormality.
In fact, he should be the person in the world who most hopes Ye Sheng’s wish comes true—to follow his own plan, follow his own goals, live a stable life and a peaceful university life, and no longer have any involvement with them.
From the first glance on the train, he was counting down in his heart.
Counting down the end of this “romantic encounter”.
Ye Sheng didn’t want to get entangled with these things, and he didn’t give real contact information.
There is no need to reunite a broken mirror.
There is no need to do the long withdrawal treatment again.
He finally stopped taking medicine and could control his emotions.
All indulgence and closeness were just because there was a clear and calm line in his heart.
Knowing that the train arrived at the station in three days and three nights.
Knowing that he would leave Huaicheng in half a month.
Knowing that Ye Sheng would not be disturbed by these superficial ambiguities.
My hard-hearted ex-boyfriend…
Ning Weichen passed this sentence silently and sarcastically in his heart, but the expression on his face was sincere and brilliant. He leaned over, blinked his peach blossom eyes, and whispered coquettishly: “Be good, don’t move, let me see you…”
But looking up, he met Ye Sheng’s slightly red and tearful eyes.
All words stopped at his lips.
The “light” temperament on Ning Weichen disappeared completely. The corners of his lips slowly sank into a straight line, and his emotionless peach blossom eyes met Ye Sheng’s eyes.
After a long time, Ning Weichen’s thumb gently touched the corner of Ye Sheng’s slightly red eye.