CH 109.2

After subduing the corpse, Bai Lixin took out a talisman from his backpack.

He found it in the study of Taoist Qing when they were at Qinglian Temple.

The fixation talisman was placed on the corpse’s forehead, and the restless corpse immediately quieted down.

A pair of frightened shrivelled eyes wavered as they looked at the teary-eyed young man before them. “….”

Why are you crying? I’m the one who wants to cry the most.

Bai Lixin looked at Madam Li and held fox fur before her, “You look like you still have some sense, do you?”

The corpse was completely immobilized, and only the pair of eyes turned with the movement of the fur.

“Nod your head if you can understand what I’m saying.” Bai Lixin continued, “If you answer me properly, I’ll give you back the fur, okay?”

The soldiers came over curiously and saw the corpse blink its eyelids so hard that the tendons attached to his eyeballs were almost cut off by the eyelids.

They gasped and watched with trepidation.

Bai Lixin stared at Madam Li’s face and murmured, “Looks like you have some sense.”

The crowd: “?”

So you didn’t know if she could understand?!

Why did they suddenly feel that this corpse was more pitiful compared to Madame?

Ghosts and monsters can cheat, but why can’t people also do the same?

The corpse looked like it really wants to cry.

Bai Lixin: “Are you Li Mingyuan’s wife?”

The eyes blinked for a moment.

Bai Lixin asked again, “Weren’t you trapped in this corpse because Lord Li imprisoned you in it?”

The corpse didn’t blink this time.

“No? Then your soul stayed voluntarily? Was it because you wanted to guard the fur?”

The corpse blinked hard and blinked twice, to answer both questions.

Bai Lixin: “To atone for your sins to the foxes?”

The corpse blinked again.

“Who glued this to your head? Was it Taoist Qing? Did he suggest putting the fox fur as well?”

The corpse paused for a moment, then blinked.

“He only suggested that because of Lord Li, so you were sad.”

The corpse blinked without being asked a question this time.

Bai Lixin: “Did you see it when they buried Lord Li?”

The corpse blinked again.

Bai Lixin: “Taoist Qing was the one who nailed the coffin, right? Li Mingyuan’s soul wasn’t weak; that coffin was to create vicious ghosts, vicious ghosts just like you, right?”

The corpse’s small eyeballs twitched before blinking twice in quick succession.

Bai Lixin pondered for a moment, “Okay, I get it, thanks a lot.”

“Right, one more thing,” Bai Lixin said, pulling his sleeve back to reveal the beast mark on his wrist. “See this? I made a pact with those fox cubs, and I’ve come to take this for them. Your mission is over. No need to be stuck here. Leave this place and reincarnate. ”

This time, the corpse paused for a long time.

She stared at Bai Lixin’s wrist for a long time, and it was uncertain whether she was a bit indecisive about leaving right away, or whether she was confirming that the mark on Bai Lixin’s wrist was real.

The crowd stared at the corpse’s face with fixed eyes. They held their breath, waiting for the corpse’s answer.

Bai Lixin still had tears in the corner of his eyes. He was holding a dagger in one hand and the fox fur in the other as he spoke in a very gentle voice. “You can figure out whether what I say is true or not.”

Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes as he casually plunged the dagger into the ground in front of the corpse. “You have no choice here. I want an affirmative answer because I don’t like to force people, understand?”

The corpse lifted its eyes in grievance and looked at Bai Lixin sadly.

Then she blinked reluctantly.

The next moment, a faint mist came out of the corpse’s body and flew into the air.

It hovered above Bai Lixin’s head for a while, and then took advantage of the night to make its way upwards, disappearing into the clouds.

The corpse, which was alive and jumping around a moment ago, slumped to the ground like a limp dead fish.

The crowd: “……”

The Madam is very powerful.

He first used the fur as an incentive, then he didn’t give it as promised, and he even fooled the ghost into leaving.

Even the iron rooster is not as tough as he is.

Who said that Madam was a crying vase of tears?

Where is the vase of tears? It’s a mudslide!

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In the live broadcast room

[“Calculations”]

[God Xin: That’s my turf, and I have the final say.]

[God Xin: Even if this young master is crying, he is 100% dangerous.]

[Are you thinking about the fur? Blink your eyes. Do you want to get the fur back? Get out of here.]

[“Bring it on”.]

[At least Madam Li’s soul was liberated. It was a pleasant experience, there was no pain at all. Give me some time to think, I can make up something for God Xin.]

[I’ll help you; look at that mist. It’s so translucent, it must be so happy.]

[Hahaha. It’s like saving a beautiful boy from a collapsing house.]

[Nonsense! God Xin didn’t collapse the house, he couldn’t have! He’s as steady as Mjolnir.]

[Just, he’s not in the entertainment industry, let alone the live webcam industry.]

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After sending away Madam Li’s soul, the corpse was carried back into the coffin, and then the yellow talisman on the forehead was torn off.

The coffin was re-covered and the grave was filled with a thick layer of soil.

Of course, the other empty coffins were also re-buried.

All this was done through the night, and the sky had begun to reveal some light.

Bai Lixin opened the taskbar. The time in the top right corner showed it was just after four in the morning.

[Task 1: Survive for five days and five nights (Progress: three days and three nights out of five)]

[Task 2, Find Lord Li’s murderer and the cause of his death. (Progress: 100%, completed)]

[Hidden Task: Help cultivator Qinglian to kill the evil immortal fox. (This is a hidden task, and there is no penalty for failure.)]

After reading this, Bai Lixin closed the taskbar and turned his head to look at the sluggish soldiers.

What seemed like a day and a night of events was nearly twenty hours in the painted world. This added up to a total of forty hours of no sleep. If you add the life-and-death experiences in between, even soldiers with extremely strong qualities would reach their limit.

“It’s been hard work,” Bai Lixin said warmly, “you guys may go back first.”

The soldiers had been through both physical and mental torture, and now that the fear and shock had faded, fatigue immediately swept over them.

They too had no strength left at all, and each nodded as they dragged their weary bodies towards the bottom of the mountain as they supported each other.

They could see that the soft-looking madam was not soft at all, that he was not a flower in a greenhouse, but a rafflesia with a big bloody mouth to swallow prey.

So caring for him was completely superfluous.

Instead of caring for the madam, they should care more about themselves.

“Brother, your pants are so wet. Did you pee yourself from fear?”

“Shut up, I’m lucky that I didn’t faint, I don’t know how you’d react if you were in my situation.”

“Eh, I’ll sleep through the night this time. I’m so exhausted from this mission, I thought I wouldn’t survive. ”

“Thank God that it will all be over after catching that black fox. We should hurry up and get it over with. I don’t want to ever come back to this hellhole of Fengcheng. I want to go back to the capital. ”

As the soldiers left, their voices faded and became more and more indistinct.

Only Bai Lixin and Dijia were left in front of the empty and silent graves.

Dijia looked at Bai Lixin and put away his earlier cynicism: “Is it as simple as that?”

Bai Lixin shook his head decisively, “I don’t think so.”

“There’s someone else in this whole story that I haven’t figured out.”

“Who was the figure that appeared that night on that rainy night?”

“Also, there’s someone else we’ve overlooked.”

“Do you remember the person Boss Huang said bought the red fox’s fur?”

“According to the logic of this world, the soul follows the body. So these four fox cubs had been trapped in the Li residence before they were imprisoned in the painting. ”

“The black and white fox said he would look for his wife, so he wasn’t the one who took away the fox fur. But who could make even the immortal Black and white fox, that is so powerful, unable to find the whereabouts of the fox fur?”

“There is also the way Lord Li’s coffin was nailed. At the very beginning, I assumed that it was to make vicious ghosts, only for the Taoist Master to refute it. ” Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on Lord Li’s tombstone. The black and white photo was facing him slightly, and it looked eerie and terrifying.

Dijia: “Why did so many bodies disappear?”

Bai Lixin: “I think I know. Let’s go.”

……

Outside, the sun was shining brightly.

However, the atmosphere inside the hall was extraordinarily gloomy.

There were a few individuals in the hall, with Feng Gu sitting at the top, still wearing that black cheongsam.

On the other seats in the hall were two men, sitting side by side.

The long-haired young man was dressed in a long lake-green men’s cheongsam. His demeanor was poised and graceful, a far cry from his usual pretentiousness.

The other was still in military uniform, with a heavy cloak spread out on a chair. His aura from just sitting there was enough to crush a crowd.

Feng Gu looked at the fox fur in Bai Lixin’s hand and frowned, “Where did you get that fur from?”

“I suppose you’ve been looking for this item in the house for all these years?” Bai Lixin sat steadily in a chair made of golden heather, gently stroking the soft fluff on it. “Because the black and white fox wanted it, and you wanted to help it out.”

Feng Gu’s face became slightly pale. In the end, she had experienced the world, and she quickly calmed down. She picked up the cup of tea, took a sip, and said coldly: “ridiculous, what fox? Brother Xin doesn’t read books that much, is your brain okay? Should I ask a doctor to take a look?”

“Oh,” Bai Lixin chuckled. “Why look for an ordinary doctor when Sister’s medical skills are so great? Feng …… Oh, no, I should address you as, “Miss Liu.”

Feng Gu’s calm face finally changed. Her sharp gaze fell on Bai Lixin’s face like a knife, and she asked in a stern voice, “Who are you?”

“I ……” Bai Lixin was just about to speak when the system prompt ran out.

[Ding! Warning, how could Brother Xin, the good little rabbit, be indifferent to such a fierce question? Cry it out, or the system will judge it as deviating from the character settings. You already have one yellow card warning, if ……]

Before the system could finish, Bai Lixin’s eyes dimmed and tears fell in large beads, “Why are you being mean? I just want to talk to you for a few minutes.”

“……” Feng Gu panicked, “Oh, it’s fine, why are you crying?”

Bai Lixin: “Why wouldn’t I after being yelled at?”

He wiped his tears as she continued, “Don’t worry about that for now. Let’s get back to the point. The black and white fox told me everything he could. You’re Liu Changfeng’s son.”