C19

Chapter 19 - New discoveries

"What did you say!" I found it hard to believe and feared that I might have misheard, so I simply asked Shen Tuo again. On the other hand, Shen Tuo has long since ignored me, walking far away by himself, observing something in the grass.

Shen Ta pushed away the weeds and squatted down as if he was looking for something. He kept rubbing the ground with one hand and occasionally lifted his hand to observe his finger. Although I was at a loss when I saw this, I still felt that Shen Tuo seemed to have discovered something.

But when I walked to his side, Shen Ta had already stood up and prepared to leave.

I didn't give up and asked, "After looking for so long, did you discover something?"

Just as the dark clouds covered the sun, Shen Tuo suddenly made a move without any warning. He pulled out a talisman from somewhere and shouted, "Now!"

I stood where I was without moving as I watched the rune in Shen Tuo's hand fly into the air. Following that, I actually used the power of a piece of paper to cut open Shen Tuo's finger, causing blood to fly out from the wound drop by drop.

I was stunned. It was only now that I realised that the surroundings had already turned pitch black. However, it was still in the middle of the morning. My back felt cold for no reason, and I kept feeling something behind me.

I thought of the red-clothed resentful ghost in the video. No, I should call her Zhao Xue now. I thought of the pale face and blood-red lips under her messy long hair.

Right now, I only have one thought: Run!

However, in this absolute darkness, I suddenly realised that I seemed to have nowhere to escape to. I wasn't familiar with the surroundings, and now I couldn't even see my fingers in front of me. I even wanted to speak, but when I opened my mouth, no sound came out.

Zhao Xue's cry for help once again sounded in my ears. "Save me … Save me …"

I could feel Zhao Xue getting closer and closer to me. Her moist body made me extremely uncomfortable, and my nose was filled with the smell of blood. I felt that my stomach was already beginning to churn.

I think I can't take it anymore. My legs buckled and I fell to the ground.

I tightly hugged my head, afraid that Zhao Xue behind me would really attack me. I couldn't help but mutter, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have participated in this … .I'm sorry."

I never knew that a person's fear could be so intense that they couldn't feel their own heart and could only hear the thump of their temples.

And my last thought was: "Zi Sang Ming, come and save me!"

While I was trembling and dying, something suddenly touched my back! I couldn't help but scream, as though I was about to collapse from exhaustion.

"Hey, what happened to you?"

The voice sounded familiar, but I just stood there, frozen in place, unable to move. Vaguely, I felt my arm being controlled by something, slowly being pulled down from the top of my head.

Only now did I realize that my surroundings weren't completely dark anymore and had returned to how it was before. The one who was squatting beside me as if he was a lunatic looking at me is precisely Shen Tuo.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect to scare you to such an extent!"

Perhaps it was because my face was too pale that Shen Tuo felt sorry for me. After comforting me for a long time, I finally believed that everything that happened just now was just my imagination.

I grabbed onto Shen Tuo's arm and struggled to stand up. I discovered that there was a black colored liquid that was circling around a ring on the stone road.

Perhaps he saw through my doubt, Shen Ta scratched his head in embarrassment and explained: "I got this when I was doing it earlier, this is my blood."

I saw with my own eyes that Shen Tuo's incantation cut open Shen Tuo's wounds, but the blood was clearly red. Even if it fell to the ground and dried up, even if it was oxidized, it shouldn't be this pure black.

"The formation I made just now was used to test the power in the surrounding area. Because there was the power of the Evil Spirit in the surrounding area, my blood became black."

Seeing that I had gradually recovered from my shock, Shen Tuo let go of my arm and lit up a cigarette. He thoughtfully sighed: "Ah, looks like Bai Yating wasn't killed by Zhao Xue. To be exact, Zhao Xue didn't kill her on purpose."

On the way, Shen Ta explained to me why I was hallucinating. It turned out that when Shen Tuo used this array, it more or less had an impact on the minds of the surrounding people. Because it was used to examine the formation of the evil spirit, the memories of humans that it could bring to mind were the most terrifying images that existed in the minds of humans.

Hearing this, I felt guilty. How could I possibly tell him that I was pregnant with a child? Thus, I pretended to be perfunctory and said, "Then why didn't you tell me before the incident happened? I was just scared out of my wits by Zhao Xue recently!"

Shen Tuo, on the other hand, only sneakily laughed and teased me: "Unexpectedly, the little girl who I thought would be able to follow me and investigate this case isn't that timid. I truly didn't expect this. Hehe."

I rolled my eyes at him and didn't say anything else. I just prayed that with his cultivation experience, I wouldn't be able to see anything.

I followed Shen Ta back to the police station.

The first thing Shen Tuo did when he returned was to turn on the computer and find the recording again.

The scene refocused itself on the scene where Zhao Xue was holding the note with the words "Save me" written on it. I didn't know what Shen Tuo was looking at, so I just continued staring at Zhao Xue.

In front of me, Zhao Xue was still the same as she was in my mind. She was staring straight ahead with her evil eyes and her cheeks were covered by her long hair, which was tied up in a knot due to moisture.

I looked at it in a daze, feeling that something was wrong. At this moment, Shen Tuo, who was beside me, suddenly slammed his hand on the table and shouted, "I understand!"