There was a scene full of suggestive horror all around, and strange footsteps suddenly came from the stairs that were empty when I just passed by. An ordinary person who is not mentally prepared for this scene would probably be scared to tears.
Fortunately, Yu had time to look back, and Xu Shu happened to stop behind him. His slightly shorter stature did not affect this man's temperament and sense of calmness at all. The half-mask and the dim light made this man look slightly gloomy, and his body was slightly shadowy.
Thin shape.
The mask was put on Xu Shu's face as he walked over. Yu Xing glanced at the Eight Immortals table again. The mask on the table just now had turned into a very real human head. The black hair was sticky, just like the knot under the wind chime.
Those black patches covered most of the person's terrifyingly swollen face.
If he had just been bewitched by that mysterious force and reached out to pick up this thing... Yu Xing had a hunch that he would be haunted by it for a long time.
"Your little jumping frog is dirty." Xu Shu's first words when he stood still were not a greeting or an explanation, but a glance over Yu Xing's side at the table, looking at the little jumping frog soaked with blood.
Here comes a comment.
Yu Xing didn’t feel pity at all: “No, it’s your little jumping frog.”
Xu Shu glanced at him and reached out to put away the head on the table. Judging from the way the head disappeared after his hand touched it, Yu Xing knew that the head was Xu Shu's sacrifice.
At the same time as the head disappeared, the surrounding blood springs, bloody handprints, crazy bells, cobweb dust and cries hidden in the wind all disappeared. The air suddenly became clear, restoring the small space that Fengyu Pavilion should have.
Lou Qingfeng.
“Are you not afraid of this scene, or have you guessed that this is an illusion?” Xu Shu’s dark brown eyes stared at the tip of Yu Xing’s nose. He didn’t seem to like looking at others.
Yu Xing looked at the other person with a smile but not a smile, and put his hands in the pockets of his down jacket: "You asked me to come over, and you greeted me with such a scary scene, and you didn't plan to explain it first? Why don't you think you are the one who should ask the question now?
It’s me who is mentally wounded.”
Hearing his words, Xu Shu raised his eyes, barely observed his face, and had undisguised doubts about the "injury of the soul" in his heart.
However, he felt that what Yu Xing said made sense, so he said: "Excuse me, I asked you to come here to confirm something."
Yu Xing didn’t ask what it was about: “Have you confirmed it now?”
“No, so further confirmation is needed.”
Xu Shu always seems to be like this when he talks to everyone. It makes people feel that his attitude is serious, but neither salty nor salty, a bit cold and formulaic, as if his emotions have been taken away by someone.
Just like this sentence, anyone who hears it will subconsciously think along his non-threatening tone. How to confirm it?
But the fact is that before Xu Shu finished speaking, Yu Xing heard a slight sound of wind coming from behind his head. With a smile in his eyes, he turned to one side and barely dodged the incoming arrow.
It flew past while wiping my hair, and my face hurt from the wind.
With a quick glance, Yu Xing felt that the arrow was filled with black air, as if there was a ghostly face lingering on it. The next moment, the arrow was nailed to the wooden column with a "buzz" sound, and the tail of the arrow trembled and buzzed.
At the same time, the arrow missed its target, and the ghost face on the arrow screamed and disappeared into the air.
"It's too fierce." Yu Xing rubbed his face, not knowing whether he was talking about arrows or people. His eyes were raised slightly, and others couldn't tell whether he was angry or not. "As expected of a boss, the attack power of the sacrifice is very strong. But the boss
Do you want to bully me, a newbie, like this?"
"..." Xu Shu did not answer, but frowned, and then quickly relaxed, "Your reaction speed is indeed not like that of a human being. The moment you dodge just now, the ghost energy in your body was very obvious. You should be
An evil spirit among humans."
“Oh?” Yu Xing’s expression did not change, he looked at this person with the corner of his mouth slightly raised.
Why does someone always have to remind him that he is not a normal human being?
Immortality, automatic healing after injury, these monster-like characteristics have indeed helped him a lot in the past many years, but the resulting alienation of thinking, negative emotions, and loss of personality have also made him do many things that he regrets.
Especially when he first came out of the glassware, all he could think about was the people in white coats pointing at him, and they didn't treat him as a human being at all in their words, just treating him as something that could be experimented at will.
His eyes were like those of other species, which once caused him to fall into serious self-doubt.
He will think that he has become a dirty thing and is lower than human beings.
Even though he has become much calmer about this matter now, he was still a little unhappy when he was attacked twice by sacrifices and said "You don't look like a human being" when they met.
Yu Xing thought to himself, this Xu Shu has really strong sense of perception, and he is especially good at stepping on thunder, and he can hit it accurately every time he steps on it.
So he smiled: "What did I do to make you have this illusion?"
Xu Shu realized the darkness in his tone. He turned around and pulled out the arrow from the wall. His pale fingers had clear joints. After putting the arrow back into the mask, he said seriously:
"I noticed you last night. The aura of death on your body is so strong that it is impossible to appear on a living person. Even Xu Xianfeng can't compare with you. But... it's also very subtle, so subtle that no one else can see it.
The bone-finding ruler made by Luo Yan has no response to you at all."
"But I can see, with my eyes," he pointed to himself, "in my eyes, you are like an evil spirit from hell."
Special ability... Yu Xing glanced at Xu Shu's eyes. The empty dark brown eyes were like a pair of strange-colored black holes. It was not a pool of stagnant water, but some kind of misfortune was rolling inside.
After staring for a long time, he even felt that the color of Xu Shu's eyes was not a natural formation, but the traces left after the blood coagulated and dried.
"You can't look at your eyes for a long time, as they can easily be haunted." Yu Xing expressed his feelings directly, then looked away and picked up the topic, "You think I'm an evil ghost, and then what? You're here to deal with me.
of?"
"The fact that an evil ghost can sneak into the gathering of the three major families shows that it is strong enough to blend in among humans without any mistakes." Xu Shu looked at him, "There are indeed no flaws in your expressions and movements.
,can I touch your hand?"
Yu Xing: “Excuse me?”
So Xu Shu put his hand into Yu Xing's pocket without any politeness, squeezed Yu Xing's palm, then immediately pulled it out, and said: "The skin feels the same as that of a living person, and even the temperature... you are probably better than I thought.
It’s still strong.”
Evil ghosts are mostly transformed from corpses. The weakest evil ghosts have deformed bodies and are hideous and terrifying. The stronger the evil ghosts are, the closer they are to the appearance of a living person.
It only shows its ferocious side when attacking.
Many powerful evil spirits can be indistinguishable from ordinary people, but there are always flaws in details, such as body temperature, pupils, expressions, hair, and nails.
As for Yu Xing, in Xu Shu’s eyes, he is probably a super terrifying evil ghost with no flaws in all the above aspects.
Xu Shu's gaze paused on Yu Xing's too-pale complexion: "Human beings are always at a disadvantage in front of ghosts. Even with the help of deduction rules, they can only escape and survive from ghosts under certain specific conditions. There are very few rules.
You can kill ghosts. But if you are in the real world, even if you are bound by the rules, I can't deal with you."
Yu Xing: Tsk, then you still dare to come up and make me angry? Test it in an illusion?
He became curious about this young man who could see that the strong curse aura on his body was a kind of ghost, so the curse aura was also a kind of ghost aura, and reminded him: "I came with the Zhao family."
The implication is that if he was determined to be a ghost, how would the Zhao family explain it? Under the clear rules that ghosts cannot be brought to parties, they blatantly violated the contract and brought him in?
Or does Xu Shu think that no one in the entire Zhao family can figure out his ghost identity?
After Xu Shu "revealed" Yu Xing's identity, not only did he not show any hostility, but he looked vaguely happy: "I saw it. You came with Zhao Mou. I have heard of him and been in contact with him. He gave me
It feels like my ambition is not small and my sense of belonging to the family is not strong. Maybe I will break the rules and bring you in for my own benefit."
“Continue?” Yu Xing simply leaned back, leaned his waist on the corner of the table, and rested lazily.
"...I won't say anything anymore." Xu Shu did not analyze it any further. His empty eyes seemed to solidify for a moment, and then he was confused for a while, "I heard that your name is Yu Xing. I have no ill intentions and don't want to offend you.
If you're not happy, you won't tell anyone else about it. I just want to get in touch with you. I have a proposal."
Yu Xing raised his eyebrows, feeling that what Xu Shu said next was probably one of the other party's real reasons for inviting him over.
"I am one of the few deducers whose abilities are similar to those of ghosts, and I am the leader among them." Xu Shuxian praised himself, but it was not a proud and complacent kind of praise.
With a serious tone, he said, "I am about to be promoted to the Despair Level, and there is still one more...contracted ghost."
“I can do whatever Zhao Mou gives you. I am stronger than him, and so are my connections.”
The wind blew over without warning, and the wind chimes outside the wall swayed, mixed with these words into Yu Xing's ears.
The concept of contracted ghosts is very familiar to Yu Xing, because it is exactly the same.
But now, it seems that he was invited by this young man who mistakenly thought he was a powerful evil ghost?
Children, I suddenly feel that you are a bit silly.
Yu Xing wanted to get some information from Xu Shu, but the current situation was obviously not suitable for continuing the conversation. Although this person was very stupid and cute, he was also really strong. If there was a real conflict, he was equivalent to offending the Midnight Guild and the Xu family at the same time.
, it will always bring a lot of unnecessary trouble.
What's more, what Xu Shu said... just listen to half and throw away half. Unless his brain is short-circuited, it is impossible to believe it all.
He looked at Xu Shu, who was sincerely promoting himself, and tilted his head: "You guessed wrong, I'm really just a newbie, boss, please let me go."
Xu Shu was silent, seemed to think for a moment, and then shook his head: "I haven't missed a beat in distinguishing between humans and ghosts."
Yu Xing: “…” Quite confident.
He reminded: "I am also a dedulator. Have you ever seen an evil ghost become a dedulator?"
This time, Xu Shu was silent for a little longer. After a while, he reached out and pressed his mask: "I haven't seen it before, but I have seen it now. You are right, it was my lack of consideration. If you
If you are a deducer, ordinary contracts may not have any effect on you."
Yu Xing almost wanted to applaud him.
If it's acting, it can be said that Xu Shu's acting skills are good and he is very dedicated.
If it is not an act, it can only mean that Xu Shu is really confident in his own abilities. He would rather believe that Yu Xing rejected him because he did not want to be his contracted ghost, rather than believe that he made a mistake in judgment.
In his concept, it seems that he really never thought about the possibility of admitting his mistake.
Xu Shu took a few steps back and tilted his head slightly: "Sorry, I will fight for you when I find a contract format that can accommodate this kind of rules. I offended you today, but I finally met a ghost that perfectly blends into humans. I don't want to
give up."
At this point, although Yu Xing still doesn't know why he is looking for the contract format, he can guess that this should be something that only the mourning level can access. However, no matter what, he feels that it is impossible for Xu Shu to find someone who can take him.
This "evil ghost" changes from a deducer to a contracted ghost.
Then just let him go. You can't find it anyway. What the other party's purpose is will eventually surface as time goes by.
"If the boss insists on thinking so, I can't help it." Yu Xing sighed, "Can I leave now?"
He waved his hand and was about to leave. Xu Shu did not stop him, but picked up the little jumping frog that was not contaminated by anything on the table and sat there thinking to himself.
Yu Xing left the Fengyu Pavilion and walked into the Plum Garden, feeling the cold wind on his face, and the trace of surprise in his heart faded away.
While walking towards the winery where there were more people, he took out [Photography Dreamland] from the panel.
Before he came, he guessed that the person who asked him out might be Xu Shu, who had looked at him inexplicably for a while at the exchange meeting last night. Xu Shu had been dealing with ghosts all year round and was said to be extremely sensitive. He was worried that close contact would make him also...
Qing was discovered, so he put the dagger in before setting foot near the plum garden.
"How is it?" He couldn't even hear it, and a voice that only Yu Xing could hear came from inside the dagger.
“There are a lot of doubts and the motives are suspicious.” Yu Xing said leisurely, “It’s quite interesting.”
Yiqing Wenrun said: "Interesting? Let me listen to it too."
Yu Xing summarized what just happened in a few words, and then said with a smile: "I can't understand it... He needs a powerful evil ghost, wouldn't it be better to find one in the deduction?"
“I live in the real world and have more involvements. As for him, he didn’t check my background, let alone my exact relationship with the Zhao family. He came to me rashly, and in the end he couldn’t give me a usable contract.”
Several Luo family members dressed strangely came towards me. They seemed to be talking about something happy and their voices were quite loud.
Yu Xing politely avoided it and waited until the person was far away before he continued: "Oh, a dedulator, especially an experienced dedulator who has experienced many games, should always be fully prepared, not to mention that his actions are impeccable."
“I feel like Xu Shu made up such an excuse just to see me. Maybe what he said is not completely false, but it is definitely not the whole reason why he asked me over.”
He climbed a few steps and turned around a place planted with thin bamboos: "Obviously, there are more important factors, which he concealed under the appearance that he didn't like to play tricks."
“What makes me curious now is, what drives him to do this and act so stupid to make me believe him?”
Yiqing responded so that the dagger hanging on Yu Xing's waist trembled slightly: "It turns out that his arrangement didn't work at all. You still thought of what you should have thought of."
Yu Xing had already seen the winery, and there were quite a lot of people there. No matter what age group, people always have little resistance to good wine: "No, it's not completely useless. At least if he wants me to be curious about him, then
He was successful in this."
He also kept quiet for two seconds: "Don't have too much contact with this person."
"Indeed, he didn't show any malice, and even wanted to befriend me because I was an 'evil ghost', but these were all superficial things, and even his motives were covered up. What his true attitude was is unknown.
Maybe he is full of ill intentions toward me." Yu Xing's tone was relaxed, but the words he spoke were not so relaxed.
He had already approached the winery. If he read correctly, many members of the Zhao family were here, including Zhao Jiaming, who had played cards with Zhao Yingying before.