Chapter 285 Sleeping Master 24

x University Libraries.

As he passed through the gate and entered the hall, he saw the school's celebrity list hanging on the wall.

At the top is a row of vintage black and white photos.

The second row is also of elderly people, but already in color. In a position in the middle of this row, there is an extra color landscape map in violation.

A single landscape picture is inlaid on the photo wall, which is not very serious.

s419m: [The grandfather hangs before the landscape picture. The police are very efficient in handling things. Coupled with the evidence and testimony, the suspect was quickly identified. Although the news was not reported on a social level, the school should have gotten the news, so his photo was taken down. 】

Escape system: [Originally, the students didn't know about this, but now the school suddenly took down the photos, wouldn't the students be curious? 】

s419m: [I must be curious, it has gone viral in private, and all the achievements in the life of that grandfather have been wiped out in school. This is called the more you don't want to lose something, the more you lose something. In order to maintain his image, he has been imprisoning his hair-bearing wife, and he will not let her go even after his death. If you want to learn to do things, you must first learn to be people. No matter how talented he is, if his character is not good, he is a criminal with high IQ. The honor he has spent his entire life upholding is vulnerable to a single blow. 】

The eyes of the escape system are shining with stars: [Brother m, well said! You are so tough today. 】

The two systems were fighting, but Bai Lixin's eyes fell on a very black and white photo.

The photo shows a gentle and elegant woman, wearing a charming cheongsam, holding an umbrella and leaning slightly against the granite stone gate. Because it is an old photo, the facial features of the woman in the photo can no longer be seen clearly, but this does not affect her blurred eyes.

Even if the years have blurred the photos, it cannot stop the peculiar temperament of women looking forward to brilliance.

s419m: [Is there any problem with this woman, Master Host. 】

Bai Lixin: [Do you think that this woman is a bit similar to the Luo Mei we saw before? 】

s419m: [It doesn't look like it, although the facial features of the woman in the photo are blurred, but the details can still be identified, they don't look alike. 】

Bai Lixin: [I'm not talking about looks, I'm talking about the feeling from the inside out, but it's also possible that I'm too sensitive. 】

His eyes slowly moved down from the photo wall, and as expected, Bai Lixin found a few performances on the back photo wall.

Shen Mo, Lin Mu, Luo Ran.

Because Lin Mu has passed away, the photo was changed to black and white.

Looking at the baby-faced youth in the photo for a moment, Bai Lixin turned and walked into the library.

In a well-known institution like X University, it stands to reason that there should be many students in the library preparing for exams day and night. But here is just the opposite. In the huge library, there are only a few scattered people and students reading books, and there are rows of desks next to the bookshelves, and only three or five students are reading books.

Empty, deserted, lonely.

This is Blissing's first impression of this library.

"Blissin?"

A tentative question came from behind, and the voice was very low, as if he was afraid of disturbing the students in the library.

Hearing the voice and turning his head, Bai Lixin saw a man in a Taoist robe walking two quick steps towards here on tiptoe.

"Ah, it's you, hello, why are you here?" The person who came was a Taoist priest among the seven people who were tricked into participating in the exorcism live broadcast on the TV station.

The Taoist priest stroked his beard and said quietly: "I heard that this place is haunted, and someone asked me to exorcise the ghosts, are you too?"

Bai Lixin scrutinized the Taoist priest secretly. Unlike the previous two days when he went into battle lightly, today's Taoist priest carried a heavy burden on his back, obviously he came prepared.

"Hey, this is me," the Taoist shook the burden behind him, "all the treasures left by our ancestors. I didn't know what happened to the TV station until I went back last time. The video of us catching ghosts was secretly broadcast live. I don’t know if they found out in their conscience later, and they stopped broadcasting halfway through the broadcast. By the way, did you see anything in the exam in Studio No. 8?”

"There is nothing, I should have escaped." Bai Lixin shook his neck and did not tell the Taoist priest that Luo Ran was a wolf demon.

The Taoist priest regretfully restrained the light in his eyes: "So, then you must not have received the money, what a pity."

Bai Lixin: "."

What happened to this priest? Aren't all cultivators indifferent to fame and fortune, pure-hearted and few desires?

Taoist priest: "Meeting is fate. Since we meet here, it is also a kind of fate. How about going together? It's better to have someone to take care of."

This suggestion is good or bad for Bai Lixin, and he has no reason to refuse.

In this way, the temporary two-person team was formed.

I don’t know if it’s because the air conditioner in the library is too turned on, or it’s caused by geographical reasons. The temperature in the book is much lower than that outside. People like Bai Lixin who are not very sensitive to temperature feel that there are bursts from time to time. The cool breeze pierced into the body from the cuffs.

He went to the window and looked outside.

There is a circle of willow trees planted outside the library. These willow trees seem to be a little old. Each tree needs the embrace of two young people to hug them. The soft and slender willow branches have long pulled out soft green shoots. Now all the wickers are swaying at will with the May breeze,

From a distance, it looks like waves crashing on the coast, and it looks like an endless grassland under the dome of white clouds.

The Taoist priest frowned and looked at the willow tree outside, with a very serious expression on his face: "No wonder there are ghosts here, since I came in, I felt that the place was overcast. The willow tree is the shade, and we usually use it when making coffins Willow. Willow attracts ghosts to nourish the soul, but this library is full of willow trees. If it doesn’t attract ghosts, who will attract ghosts?”

"The people who built this library back then probably didn't believe in any feng shui theory, so they planted so many willow trees around, and abruptly turned this feng shui treasure land into a ghost's nest."

Bai Lixin clasped his hand on the glass, and the blue veins on the back of his hand bulged slightly, like a breakwater on the beach.

"Is this a treasure land of feng shui?" He stared at the willow trees fluttering in the wind outside, his tone was flat, he couldn't hear any fluctuations, and he couldn't decipher any emotions.

"When I came here, I saw the feng shui here. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers. Behind this school is a mountain shaped like a entrenched dragon. This is the land of dragon veins. Buildings are built here, and what kind of fire is there. You see Since its establishment, this school has been going smoothly, developing steadily and flying all the way, and there are so many famous people in the school. Don’t believe in Feng Shui, this is the additional advantage of dragon veins.”

"However, the fly in the ointment is this library. This library is dragged by the willow tree, which is equivalent to a haunted cave in this prosperous area. At the expense of this library, it attracts all the negative things here like a black hole."

"Ghosts can be nourished here. If people stay here for a long time, they will only consume yang energy. After a long time, they will suffer from evil diseases, and if they are serious, they will die."

"I guess the teachers on duty in this library are not very well."

While speaking, a loud cough came from a distance.

The two looked back and saw a middle-aged man in his thirties walking out of the duty room with a pale face.

When he walked, his footsteps were sluggish, his whole body was weak, and his whole person looked sick.

The Taoist snorted, pointed at the man and said, "You see, he is the kind of person I just said, now you should believe what I said?"

"..." Bai Lixin, "It seems that I never said that I don't believe what you said, right? I believed it from the beginning."

Taoist priest:"."

The sun was gradually sinking outside, and because the outside of the library was blocked by tall willow trees, the night in the library seemed to come longer than the sky outside.

The sun has not yet completely set, and the library has gradually dimmed.

The few students who were picking and reading books left the library one after another. Their steps were messy and they walked in a hurry.

That is, within five minutes before and after, the library was completely shrouded in darkness, and there were only the two of them left.

Leaving the library at night is like an unwritten tacit understanding between all teachers and students.

As night fell, the wind outside gradually picked up, and a faint scent of earth blew into Bai Lixin's nose along the gaps in the glass.

It smells like it's going to rain.

Just thinking about it, a small lightning bolt suddenly fell from the top of the head. About two seconds after the lightning, a muffled thunder sounded not too loud.

The wind outside the window was a little stronger, and the rain had not fallen for the time being.

"Last time I suffered a loss on the TV station, and today I have to find my way back," the Taoist said to himself, taking out a compass from his backpack, "Let me see how many little ghosts there are here."

The compass has its own fluorescent light, which emits a faint green light in a dim environment.

The Taoist priest held the compass in both hands and said something in his mouth.

At the same time, the compass that had been stationary suddenly swayed.

Immediately afterwards, the red and blue hands on the compass began to turn.

When turning to the direction of twelve o'clock, the compass stopped.

Bai Lixin subconsciously looked in the direction pointed by the compass. The direction pointed by the compass just happened to be the entrance of the stairs. The dark entrance of the stairs was obviously darker and darker than the other surrounding spaces. The yellow door of the stairwell was open, and if you looked inside, you could only see the endless darkness.

In the secret darkness, there seems to be an invisible gaze spying here.

The priest took a deep breath.

The surroundings were silent, except for the sound of their breathing.

Suddenly, there was a metal rubbing sound of "Shuh".

The Taoist priest visibly shook his shoulders, and the two of them lowered their heads subconsciously.

A stationary compass starts turning again.

This time, after the compass made two revolutions, it finally stopped at the direction of three o'clock.

Bai Lixin looked along the pointer. The direction the compass pointed this time was in the bookshelf area. Looking in the direction of the compass, it happened to be facing a table.

There are books on the table that have not been taken away in time, and the compass is quietly pointing there, as if there is an invisible soul looking down at the book at this time.

The Taoist laughed dryly: "It's just two ghosts, a trifle."

After the words fell, the metal friction sound of "Shuhuhu" sounded again.

Not only did the compass turn faster than before, it also took a lot longer.

The Taoist priest held the compass and explained: "My compass can not only perceive the location of these supernatural things, but also their distance from us. The faster it turns, the closer it is to us."

The compass suddenly stopped, and it ticked straightly.

Pointed to Blissing.

To be more precise, it should be in the direction of thyme.

And behind Bai Lixin, there is only a closed window next to it.

The Taoist priest's dry smile suddenly disappeared, and he stiffened his neck to look behind Bai Lixin.

Suddenly, his expression changed suddenly, and the speed visible to the naked eye pupil shrank into two small dots.

The corners of the Taoist priest's eyes twitched uncontrollably, as if he saw something terrible.

Bai Lixin turned his head vigilantly, and a huge face came into his eyes.

It was a face as old as mottled tree bark, the face was crisscrossed with the traces of the years, the skin was black, and the cheeks were sunken like dry bones.

There was no expression on the old face. It was tightly separated from the glass, and the black skin was glued to the glass like a deformed gummy.

A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and a dim blue light briefly illuminated the room.

Under the blue light, the two of them could see the faces outside the window more and more clearly.

The face was attached to the glass without any gap, and the eyelids were drooping, almost covering the almost black eyes.

Suddenly, a pair of withered hands stretched out from under the window and slapped heavily on the glass.

There was a loud "ping" sound, and the glass made a loud noise in the silent darkness.

The priest's shoulders shook again.

"Hey, who are you two?!"

The old face was wrinkled and full of wrinkles and asked, "Leave the library quickly, don't you know that the library won't let people stay at night?!"

It was the voice of an old man. Although old and hoarse, it was a voice they could hear.

The Taoist priest finally calmed down. He boldly glanced out the window before asking half-doubtfully, "Are you a human?"

The old man's dark eyes suddenly widened, and his face was full of anger. He slammed the window several times to vent his anger, "Of course you are human! You are not human, who are you?!"

After confirming that the old man outside the window was a man, the Taoist finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He boldly went to the window, put his hand on the switch of the window and hesitated for a long time, but finally put his hand down and did not open the window.

Across the window, the Taoist priest explained his purpose.

Hearing this, the old man shook his head, and scolded brokenly as he shook: "A sin, a sin. A group of full-fledged dogs, if you have this time, you might as well think about how to educate a few more students. Guys, this is going to destroy the things of the ancestors. This group of idiots, have their brains been squeezed out by the door. A group of mentally retarded, sooner or later, you will regret one day. You son of a bitch, wait for retribution! Fuck them!  …”

Bai Lixin: "..."

Taoist priest:"……"

Good guy, after scolding for so long, I didn't repeat a word.

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Studio.

[Scolding slowly, scolding slowly, remembering and remembering. 】

[When copying homework, idlers do not disturb. 】

[Good guy, is this old man's mouth made of a machine/gun? Tu Tu Tu, Tu Tu Tu, this little old man full of energy, doesn't he need to take a breath? 】

【"Older gingers are more spicy"】

【? ? ? It's hot, bro. 】

【"An old house where a treasure"】

[Hahaha, I'll give you this old baby, I don't care. 】

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It sounds like the old man should be scolding the top leaders of the school.

After scolding the group of people, the old man's eyes suddenly turned, aimed at Bai Lixin and the Taoist priest, and said coldly: "Hey, you two."

The Taoist was a little flustered by this little old man who played cards unreasonably: "What...what?"

"Warning you, be careful, there lives a great power guarding the school. If you hurt it, you will be punished."

"While it's not completely dark yet, I advise you to leave quickly and don't wade in here, or you won't even know how you died."

"I've already said this for the sake of it. You can listen to it if you can, and it's up to you if you don't listen to it."

Originally thought the old man would insist on letting them leave, but he didn't expect the old man to just leave such a sentence in the end, he turned and left with his hands behind his back and merged into the willow tree, leaving the Taoist priest and Bai Lixin looking at each other with blank faces.

"Shh!"

The compass was completely unaware of the episodes that happened outside, and still turned the pointer professionally and professionally.

After a few turns, the compass stopped at five o'clock.

Bai Lixin and the Taoist priest just looked up when the compass suddenly moved again.

Soon, it stopped in the direction of 12 o'clock again.

Without even giving them a chance to look this time, the compass turned again.

The compass after that was like a small electric motor, it stopped at a high frequency and turned at a high frequency, until finally the compass simply gave up and stopped, and just went crazy.

The non-speaking compass seemed to want to tell the two that they were surrounded by invisible giaogiao.

Bai Lixin glanced at the crazy compass and looked at the Taoist priest with questioning eyes.

I saw the Taoist laughed dryly, put his hand under the compass silently, and lightly pressed the pulp of his index finger somewhere.

A crisp switch "pop"

” sounded, and the compass suddenly stopped turning like a resting angry bird.

The Taoist priest put the compass back into the backpack: "Oh, don't worry, this thing uses electricity. Occasionally, the power will be short-circuited, and a bug will appear. This should also be a bug."

Bai Lixin: "..."

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Studio.

【? ? ? I took off my socks, you told me this thing is a battery toy? Is this priest joking? 】

[Isn't it better to use electricity? Electric small motor. 】

[Electric ass, I'm talking about the compass, what are you talking about? 】

[I'm talking about the compass too. 】

[This Taoist priest is not here to show off. 】

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The Taoist opened his backpack, went to the compass room, and pulled out a mahogany sword from it.

In a place where he could not see, the compass turned several times without the electric light, and the needle once again froze to the dark stairwell.

"Although some of my props occasionally fail, in addition to high-tech ghost-catching tools, I also have the most primitive ghost-catching weapons."

"Then the question is, how are you going to catch the ghost?" The library was already dark, and Bai Lixin walked to the light switch to turn on the light, but he pressed his finger on the switch, and the lights above his head immediately turned on. stand up.

The dark library suddenly ushered in light.

The Taoist patted his package: "Open the altar, but before that, you must find the ghost."

"This library has three floors. I heard that the place where ghosts are commonly seen is on the third floor. Let's go to the third floor to see."

The Taoist priest looked around, his eyes fell on the elevator, then he hesitated for a moment, and his eyes fell on the stairs again.

Take the elevator, or take the stairs?

Thinking of the compass pointing to the stairs twice, the Taoist finally looked at the elevator again: "Let's take the elevator up."

Bai Lixin also had no clue, and chose to follow the Taoist priest according to the situation.

The elevator button has only one up button. The Taoist priest didn't think much about it at first. After all, this is the first floor, and there is no lower floor.

But when they came to the third floor in the elevator, when they came out of the elevator, the Taoist priest inadvertently swept the wall next to the elevator, and his footsteps stopped instantly.

The library has a total of five floors, and the accident happened on the third floor.

It stands to reason that the third floor is the middle floor, and the elevator will not only go up, but also go down.

But now there is only one up button on the wall, and there is no down button.

It's not just the Taoist priest who discovered this situation, Bai Lixin also noticed it.

In other words, this elevator is likely to be a one-way elevator.

Can only go up, not down.

Bai Lixin glanced at the Taoist priest and found that the Taoist priest's face was a little ugly now.

Bai Lixin: "What's the matter? Are you okay?"

The Taoist curled the corners of his lips forcefully: "It's okay, I just haven't seen this kind of elevator before, I'm just a little surprised, let's go."

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Studio.

[Don't say that this is the first time the priest has seen this kind of elevator, and it is also the first time I have seen it. 】

[Wait, did the compass point to the stairs twice just now? If the elevator can only go up and down, then when they get off, can they only take the stairs? You said, will the two of them encounter Hundred Ghosts Night Walk? 】

【? ? ? Holy crap, good brother, spare me, are you trying to scare me to death so that I can inherit my points? 】

[High-energy warning ahead! 】

[There is already a picture, and the mussels are slammed hard. 】

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It is frequently found that giaogiao's room is a special historical library, which displays many books left over from the past, and many ancient books have long been yellowed.

Perhaps because of the book's age, the room had a distinct musty smell.

Not only is the room a musty smell, but even the lights in this library are old-fashioned kerosene lamps.

The decoration is also in the old-fashioned decoration style. When you step into this room, you will even feel a sense of time travel.

However, the room was quiet, and there was no giaogiao. The so-called A Piao seemed to be just another rumor.

At seven o'clock in the evening, a private chat tone sounded on time in Bailishin's system.

Bai Lixin opened the group chat window and found that someone had begun to report today's findings in the group.

Burr: [I seem to have discovered something today. I delivered food to X University today, and I listened to them chatting when I delivered food to those college students. It seems that a very good teacher in the school has an eye problem. I listened to it at the time, and the students felt very sorry when they chatted. I heard that they were found out several months ago, and they asked for leave for treatment after they were found out. At first, I also met with students, but later disappeared behind closed doors. In the past week or so, I even lost news, and I don't know if it is dead or alive. 】

Burr: [Didn't you say that the eyes of the deceased might have diseases? This fits right? 】

Man in suit: [X University? I also pitched today to a retired teacher at x University. I heard him say that X University has a picture

Libraries are weird. Is X University's appearance frequency so high? 】

Qi Liuhai: [Help, I also got in touch with X University. 】

[There is a parent in our class who is a teacher at X University. However, I didn't pay attention to this clue, and I didn't chat with this parent. I'll check his tone tomorrow. 】

Man in suit: [! On the fourth day, finally, we finally saw the light of day. Who among you have come into contact with X University? 】

Xia Chi: [I'm in the supermarket now. 】

Bai Lixin: [...I'm in the library of X University right now. 】

Then he added: [Professional tasks issued by the system. 】

Man in suit: [! ! ! 】

glitch:【! ! Did you find anything? ! 】

Bai Lixin: [Just here, I haven't found it yet. I'm more concerned about the teacher with eyesight you mentioned just now. Do you know his name? 】

Glitch: [Don't know the name, but I know he's the school librarian. The reason why the students liked him was that in the past, the students would tell him what books they wanted to find directly, and the teacher would find them for them and put them in the designated place without the students' effort to find them. Now that the teacher is gone, the new librarian is not so used to them, so they remember the goodness of the former teacher. 】

Qi Liuhai: [Oh, after a long time, it was because of this that I missed my former teacher. People sometimes say that when you live in happiness, you don't know happiness. Only after you lose your child will you miss the past. But this is not because of missing or love, but just getting used to a more comfortable environment. 】

[To put it bluntly, they didn't miss that teacher at all, they just missed the moment when someone helped them prepare the book. If the teacher who replaced him did the same as him and got all the books, guess they would miss the teacher. 】

[Exquisite egoistic selfishness. 】

Plaid shirt: [What a painful realization. 】

Man in suit: [Then, Bai Lixin, if you find anything, tell us in the group in time, and we communicate with each other. 】

Bai Lixin: [Okay. 】

Glitch: [Babyface has not sent a message today. 】

Qi Liuhai: [...Hey. 】

The seven o'clock group chat communication ended, and Bai Lixin closed the group chat window.

The game time is halfway through, and now the clues provided to the players point to X University one after another.

Judging from the current clues, X University is indeed the biggest suspect.

It had already started to rain lightly outside the window, and the patter of rain slapped on the window, pattering down the winding rainline window to the bottom.

The two walked around the third floor, but still found nothing.

"Let's wait for a while," the Taoist took out a yellow square cloth from his backpack and spread it on a blank table.

A bag of millet, a bag of flour, a bottle of purified water, and a black bag with a strong bloody smell.

Bai Lixin came over curiously, "This is how to open an altar? What is the use of this pure water?"

Taoist priest: "This is not pure water, this is the rain I received when it rained, commonly known as rootless water."

"Now that the sun has just set, it should be that the yang qi has not yet dissipated. Let's wait a moment. The piao should appear at twelve o'clock in the evening."

Bai Lixin: "What will happen if you catch A Piao?"

The Taoist priest skillfully took out several wooden bowls from his backpack, and poured the first things into the bowls one by one: "According to the rules, the soul will be scattered."

Bai Lixin: "So ruthless? If it doesn't do anything bad, is it too ruthless?"

Taoist priest: "The ancestors once said that ghosts are not good or bad, but everything that appears to disturb the souls of the earth is definitely not a good kind."

"Our Daomen follow the ruthless Dao. We would rather kill a hundred by mistake than let go of a dangerous existence that may disturb human beings."

"Although our practice is very domineering, it will be backlash and retribution if we do it for a long time, so our ancestors also set a rule that at the age of 30, we must wash our hands with gold and concentrate on retreat."

Bai Lixin swept the Taoist priest's face: "Are you less than thirty now?"

"Ahem," the Taoist coughed dryly, "Although I look young, I'm already thirty-three years old this year. Hey, I also want to wash my hands in a golden basin, but now I can't find any descendants to inherit the mantle. I can still What should I do? I can only continue."

Bai Lixin: "Aren't you afraid of retribution?"

"Hey," the Taoist smiled slyly, "I made a little cheat, I should have made A Piao's soul fly away in the past. But my magic power is not very strong, and most of the ghosts are not very strong now, so I usually Leave them alive. In this way, my backlash will be much smaller. There is a saying to say that we must keep pace with the times and learn to innovate. Isn't this just innovation?"

"In fact, most ghosts remain in this world for a reason, or obsession, or greed, or revenge. I don't kill people like this."

"But I have also killed people, those who are evil by nature. They have killed countless people while they are alive, and they want to continue to harm people after they die."

"The more evil ghosts, the more difficult it is to deal with. It's ironic, isn't it? The power of good ghosts is weak, and the power of evil ghosts is powerful. Just like this world, some people do their own things peacefully. He didn't do anything bad, lived meekly, but he had no power to fight back when he was treated unfairly, and some wicked people were able to be violent."

Bai Lixin: "..."

As the Taoist spoke, he had already placed everything on the table one by one.

The rain cracked on the glass, the Taoist found a chair and sat down, and chatted aimlessly with Bai Lixin: "Hey, Bai Lixin, how did you think of becoming a haunted house sleeper? This job is not good. do?"

Bai Lixin: "...I don't want to be either."

But the system won't let it.

The Taoist sighed: "Actually, I'm just like you, and I don't want to be a Taoist, but I don't have a choice."

"When I was very young, my parents died of illness. The old people in the family said that I was against my parents and my mother, and handed me over to my master. Otherwise, my master has treated me as his own over the years. He died. I swore at that time that in the future, I must honor his old man and let him spend his old age in peace."

"Heh, how can there be a way of conquering parents and mothers? My master gave me a life and said that my fate is good, it is Ziwei Xing's fate, and it will definitely show great success in the future."

"My grandmother and grandfather are unwilling to raise me, but my master, who has no blood relationship with me, can teach me so carefully. This is the bond, which is not weaker than blood relationship, or even stronger than blood relationship."

"Do you have such a bond, Bailishin?" The Taoist seemed to be a social cow, and they chatted a lot without any embarrassment, and finally threw the question to Bailishin.

Bailishin put one hand against his temple, fixed his eyes on his fingernails, and said lightly, "Yes."

"Really? What's your bond like?" The Taoist continued to ask, "Is it a family relationship like mine? Or friendship? Love?"

Bai Lixin: "...Actually, I can't use a single term to describe our bondage. He is my lover, and he is also my father and brother's comrade-in-arms. In many cases, we only have each other. Although we are often separated, We haven't been together for a long time, but even if we haven't seen each other for a long, long time, when we meet again, we will still smile at each other frankly and have no grudges."

The Taoist priest was silent for a few seconds, his eyes swept to Bailishin silently, and after a while he said slowly, "It sounds like a good relationship."

Bai Lixin: "Yeah, he is the person I can fully entrust my back to."

Taoist priest: "I'm so envious."

The two didn't go out again in the time after that, and the two chatted with each other for a long time.

Unconsciously, twelve o'clock came quietly.

Suddenly there was a "bang" sound outside.

The next moment, the dim kerosene lamp overhead made a "stinging, stinging" sound.