The courtyard house prepared for me by Ling Xinyue is in an excellent location, and it has only been renovated and renovated for a short time, maintaining its antique charm.

It's just that the courtyard of Nuoda is empty.

I took a spin around the quadrangle and drove a car in the garage outside to the ninth inning.

In Zhou Lao Fox's office, I sat in his swivel chair with my feet resting on his desk.

"Master Qin, have a cup of coffee." A young woman in a white business dress walked in and placed a cup of fragrant coffee in front of me.

"When will Zhou Ju come back?" I asked.

"This ...... The phone didn't go through, and I couldn't tell. The young woman said.

"Then I'll wait here, I won't leave if he doesn't come back." I said lightly.

The young woman smiled and turned to go out.

I took a sip of coffee and lit a cigarette.

Before he finished smoking a cigarette, the door opened again, and the white-haired and white-bearded Zhou Lao fox appeared at the door.

Old Fox Zhou looked at my posture day by day, didn't say anything, but sat on the chair opposite.

"I know you're upset, I'll come if there's any anger at the old man." Old Fox Zhou said.

"Hehe, if I hadn't beaten you, I would have ripped off your hair and beard." I sneered.

After speaking, I stood up, threw the cigarette butt directly into the coffee, and asked with a solemn expression: "Director Zhou, you made the plan to sacrifice our secret group?" ”

"Not me." Old Zhou said heavily.

"If it's not you, who else?" I gritted my teeth.

"I am the director of the Ninth Bureau, but there is another director of the Ninth Bureau, and even I don't know who it is, he and I are not subordinate to each other, and we also have another set of people." Old Zhou Fox said.

I was stunned for a moment, is there such a thing?

However, I quickly reacted and said, "Since we don't belong to each other, why can he be the master and sacrifice us?" ”

Old Fox Zhou sighed lightly and said, "According to the level of the task, the high-level has the right to make trade-offs under special circumstances. ”

"Smack"

I slammed the table and snapped, "Trade-offs? To make special trade-offs, we can sacrifice for the sake of the task, but this is not a sacrifice, this is a betrayal, don't think that packaging becomes a task can be characterized as a trade-off. ”

"I have protested to the top, and I will definitely give you an explanation." Old Zhou Fox said.

"Give me an explanation, how do you explain to Gao Pingping? How to explain to Yu Hai? How to explain to the nightingale and the ghost who don't know life and death? I roared.

Old Fox Zhou's face was not very good-looking, and he said in a hoarse voice: "It's me who owes them as the director." ”

I closed my eyes, and after a while, I opened them, and I said lightly, "I'm going to withdraw from the ninth game." ”

Old Fox Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "I was really said by Lao Li, he said that if you come back, you will definitely mention the matter of withdrawing from the ninth game." ”

"That's, I think I understand why Old Man Li is disappointed in the Ninth Bureau, it's because you are a group of bureaucrats." As I spoke, I was going to walk out.

"I'll keep the identity of the Nine Bureaus for you, you can do what you want, no matter when, the Nine Bureaus welcome you back." Old Zhou Fox said.

I paused slightly, then walked out quickly.

……

On this night, I spent the night entangled with Chi Yun in the courtyard arranged by Ling Xinyue.

"Wouldn't it be nice for us to be like this?" Chi Yun nestled in my arms and asked in a low voice.

"Can't say it now? When I asked you to come before, you didn't say anything bad. I smiled lowly.

Chi Yun bit her lower lip and gave me a blank look.

Before, she did have some different thoughts, but isn't it back to normal now?

Besides, she also knew that Ling Xinyue and I didn't have any relationship between men and women.

At this moment, a cold voice came from outside: "Are you tired enough?" ”

Chi Yun was stunned for a moment, buried her head in my chest, and said in a low voice: "How can I have the feeling of being caught and raped by my original partner?" ”

I patted her on the back and smiled, "If you want to count the original match, you must have a higher priority than her." ”

"She is your last wife, but she has summoned the world, do you dare to deny it?" Ji Yun glared at me.

"I ......" I was just about to deny it, and my soul felt torn apart again.

I smiled wryly and said, "I have to admit that she is." ”

Ji Yun snorted and began to dress.

She also knew that I must have had a last resort, and she also knew very well that my relationship with Ling Xinyue was in name only.

It's just that there is still some unhappiness in my heart, which is normal.

Chi Yun and I walked out of the house and into the courtyard outside.

Ling Xinyue sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, holding a thread-bound ancient book in her hand and looking at it.

"I ...... Let's go. Chi Yun was a little embarrassed, whispered to me, and then went out.

Ling Xinyue put down the book in her hand and raised her head to look at me.

When I saw the scars on my face, I couldn't help but lose my mind slightly.

I sat down opposite Ling Xinyue and said, "If you have something, just talk about it." ”

"The day after tomorrow is my grandfather's 80th birthday, you are my last brother-in-law, you must show up, this is not specially to inform you." Ling Xinyue said.

I raised an eyebrow, this is to meet the parents? It's a bit sudden.

"Got it, is there anything else?" I asked.

"Nope." Ling Xinyue said.

Immediately, there was a long silence.

Ling Xinyue got up and said, "I'm leaving, I'll send someone to pick you up then." ”

"Wait." I spoke.

Ling Xinyue stopped and turned to look at me.

"I know you know a lot about the Netherworld, and I want you to tell me." I spoke.

"What I can say, you already know, I can't say it, that's no way." After Ling Xinyue finished speaking, her figure floated out of the door.

"Damn it, the last wife of shit." I scolded in a low voice, always feeling that Ling Xinyue had some secret.

……

In the back mountain, the dense tombstones are endless.

There are so many more headstones than the last time I visited.

I stood in front of two new headstones and put down two bouquets of flowers.

On these two monuments, the names of Gao Pingping and Yu Hai are written, and the two are determined to die, so they want to erect a monument, but their bones have not been found, just empty graves.

"Sister Gao, Brother Yu, if you don't smoke, then have a drink." I, open a bottle of wine and sprinkle it in front of the monument.

I sat down in silence and smoked one cigarette after another.

At that moment, an old hand pressed on my shoulder.

"Old man Li, you're right, this is purgatory." I whispered.

"After purgatory, it will be heaven." Old man Li said in an old voice.

"But these people are left in purgatory." I said.

"Want to back off?" Old man Li asked.

"I'm not going to back down, that's the path I chose, but I feel like I've chosen the wrong person to lead the way." I said in a deep voice, I believe that Old Man Li understands it very well.

"Everything is in the heart." Old man Li left this sentence, and his figure disappeared.

Everything is in the heart?

In this world, how can everything be done by heart?

However, Old Man Li's words echoed in his mind over and over again like a magic sound.

At this point, I stumbled on my feet and simply sat down.

My soul trembled, and I appeared outside the Dark Dragon Temple, the door of the temple was open, and I stepped in, still the same way.

At the end, I saw the dragon tablet and the trial light gate on the left and right.

I have once again entered the door of the trial of the afterlife, and the last time I was destroyed before I could go far on the path of this trial, this time I need to be more careful.

I was in the same position, and a hand came out of the ground and grabbed my ankle.

I reflexively swung my knife and slashed it.

The yin wind is calling, and the ghosts are heavy.

I soon came to the place where I last encountered the ghost, and because I had been prepared, I got rid of the ghost in three or two clicks.

However, it did not drop any more high-grade Stygian Crystals.

I didn't stop long, and immediately dodged away.

As soon as I left, more than a dozen ghosts appeared where I had been standing.

It's just that this is the end of my understanding of the path of trial, because last time I was careless, I just broke into it and hung up.

I bred up my spirits and walked towards the end of the day.

In this wasteland of death, groups of ghosts roam.

There seemed to be something on my body that attracted them, and they pounced on me one after another, trying to devour me.

With the bloody knife in my hand, I ruthlessly harvest this group of Yin Souls, these Yin Souls are not comparable to the powerful ghosts I killed before, and I can harvest a piece with a single sword.

The Yin Soul Energy was absorbed by me, and I felt that my soul was slowly getting stronger.

"Haha, cool!" I destroyed all the ghosts in this large area like a chicken.

I didn't take it lightly, I had met a group of ghosts before, and I still had a group, and the ghosts knew if there would be another group.

I walked forward, but I never met the ghost again.

At this moment, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart and fell violently.

......There was a sharp whistle in the air, and a huge black bird circled in the sky, staring at me fiercely, apparently taking me as its prey.

My heart twitched, this giant bird, it felt like those high-level meditation cultivators, there was a sense of crisis when encountering natural enemies.

At this moment, I naturally got the information of the giant bird.

"Soul Eater!" I said to myself, but in my heart, I was now on the path of soul body trials, and naturally on the recipe of the soul eating bird.

This soul-eating bird is not simple, it eats yin souls, is extremely ferocious, and even ordinary ghosts can't escape.

I held the blade of my soul power, calmed down, and was on guard, there was nowhere to hide here, and it seemed that I could only fight hard.

The huge form of the soul eater circled around me a few times, and suddenly, with a chirp, it swooped down with lightning speed.

I carried the ghost step, my body turned into a ghostly light, and the soul knife in my hand brought a storm of soul power, and slashed towards the head of the soul eating bird.

The Soul Eater Bird screamed and a wound appeared on its head, but the Soul Knife in my hand shattered in an instant and disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, the soul-eating bird's wings swept towards me like sharp blades.