Thousands Of People Thought Of Him - Chapter 11
“Ki-Ki…!”
When danger is imminent, the human body often triggers a freeze response, just as Ying Fu Sang’s did in this moment.
In that instant, all he could do was watch, seemingly unable to react.
The swift wind stirred the hair on Ying Fu Sang’s forehead, and the scene in his eyes seemed to shift into slow motion, with colors becoming exceptionally vivid: a fleshy, pink, tentacle-like thing, secreting a green goo, was being wrapped by a crimson, thread-like ribbon… Wait.
A crimson, thread-like ribbon?
The red ribbon, which appeared out of nowhere, looked soft and light, but the moment it wrapped around the tentacle, it instantly transformed into a sharp blade, slicing it into countless pieces in an instant, creating a bloody mist in the air.
Ying Fu Sang blinked.
Perfectly-sized, brightly-colored. If the hungry ghost were even hungrier, would he eat it? He thought to himself in a somewhat silly manner, looking at the minced meat on the ground.
The slow-motion was manually canceled, and the scene returned to normal.
The hungry ghost’s infinitely-stretching limbs retracted in an instant, and at this moment, he was clutching his cleanly-severed left arm, wailing in pain. The culprit, the red ribbon, regained its softness, gently floating toward the window.
Ying Fu Sang and the resentful hungry ghost both looked in the same direction.
The person who had appeared in the room at some point reached out. The red ribbon constantly shifted in mid-air, and when it returned to its owner’s wrist, it had already turned into a simple, ordinary red thread.
Qi Xing Wen looked up, his gaze first falling on Ying Fu Sang. After a careful scan and seeing that the other person was unharmed, he shifted his focus to the third party present.
His face instantly turned cold, and he let out a mocking laugh, “Idiot.”
The hungry ghost seemed to understand the mockery. His eyes, which were only whites, suddenly widened, and he let out a beast-like roar. He quickly moved toward Qi Xing Wen, his target of attack instantly changing.
The moment he attacked, his severed limb grew back!
During their fight, no matter if his limbs were severed or if he was struck in his vital spot, he would recover in the next second, as if no attack had any effect on him.
This was so annoying that even Qi Xing Wen felt a bit impatient.
He tutted lightly, raised his hand to control the red ribbon to bind the hungry ghost’s entire body, and then diverted his attention to Ying Fu Sang, who was not far away. He said slowly, “Sang Sang, stand back.”
After he said that, he moved his finger, preparing to twist the still-struggling hungry ghost into a bloody pulp.
“Wait,” just then, Ying Fu Sang suddenly noticed something stuck to the hungry ghost’s back and instinctively shouted out a way to break the situation, “Tear off the talisman on his back—!”
Qi Xing Wen didn’t ask anything and simply loosened the red ribbon as he was told. Before the hungry ghost could react, he quickly tore off the yellow talisman.
“…”
The hungry ghost, who was just baring his fangs a second ago, was like he was put on pause. He suddenly became calm and stopped moving.
He looked around, and his gaze finally settled on the person watching by the door.
With the trouble finally solved, Qi Xing Wen turned the red ribbon into a hemp rope and casually tied the hungry ghost up.
And Ying Fu Sang could see a hint of confusion and… innocence in the hungry ghost’s white eyes?
Before he could go over, Qi Xing Wen had already reached his side.
“Are you feeling unwell anywhere?” Since he couldn’t touch him, he could only circle Ying Fu Sang, scanning him up, down, left, and right like an X-ray.
Ying Fu Sang grabbed the other’s shirt sleeve and shook his head. Noticing the yellow talisman he had just taken, he asked, “So this is…?”
“A ghost summoning talisman. The person who uses it can control the evil spirits they summon,” Qi Xing Wen said.
He handed the yellow talisman to Ying Fu Sang, and it seemed that the broken clues could be connected.
…
Half an hour ago
“‘That person’ has made a move. The direction is to your southwest,” was a message from Jiang Tan.
Although he already had a suspected target in mind, Qi Xing Wen still needed to find solid evidence, or rather, he needed to find the flaw the other person would show.
So he didn’t hesitate and prepared to go meet the other person.
But…
“I’ll go with you?” Ying Fu Sang’s eyes were bright, and his tone was very serious.
So Qi Xing Wen changed his plan.
He used his spiritual sense to scout all the way, but it wasn’t easy to track the person, probably because there were many people.
Suddenly, when he passed a certain place, the sensation was particularly strong. At the same time, he sensed a strong ominous aura.
His face tightened. In his panic, he didn’t even have time to say hello to Ying Fu Sang.
The other person seemed to have been prepared as well and set up countless illusions along the way.
It wasn’t difficult to break through, but it was very time-consuming.
At a critical moment, Qi Xing Wen sensed that the other person had made a mistake. In order to fix the result, they spent a lot of effort. And it was at that very moment that he successfully tracked down their location.
As he moved quickly through the bamboo forest behind the school, the moon above his head passed through the treetops, as if it was being sliced by the gaps. The light was dim and not very clear.
Spiritual movements would not leave any traces on the forest floor. Only the leaves that spun and fell in the air could be considered a mark.
“Bang—”
He pushed open the door of the abandoned red-brick house, and just as Qi Xing Wen had expected, it was empty.
He walked to the center of the room and keenly found something in the dust on the floor.
Qi Xing Wen bent down and picked up a…
Scented bead.
…
“As for these two idiots, they are innocent pawns.”
Qi Xing Wen didn’t tell Ying Fu Sang everything, only roughly explaining that someone wanted to harm him.
After listening, Ying Fu Sang didn’t feel very surprised or scared. He tilted his head slightly. “Two idiots?”
Just as he asked the question, Qi Xing Wen had already walked to the window and threw the two people from outside the window in with his red ribbon, as if he were throwing away garbage.
With a “bang,” Sun Wenhao and Zhu Rui lay on the ground like two piles of mud, snoring soundly.
“Erasing memories is a bit troublesome, so I invaded their sea of consciousness. As for the unconsciousness, it’s probably a side effect.” Qi Xing Wen leaned against the window frame with his arms crossed. The look in his eyes when he scanned the two people on the ground was like he was looking at ants.
From the information he had received, Ying Fu Sang quickly figured out the whole thing. “So, someone deliberately gave them this talisman, and this hungry ghost was summoned by them?”
Qi Xing Wen nodded in agreement.
“Uh-huh.”
A muffled groan attracted the attention of both of them. They looked over and saw that the hungry ghost was uncomfortable from being tied up for so long and was struggling to move his body.
“…But what should we do with him now?” Ying Fu Sang asked.
The hungry ghost was probably also a part of being used. After the yellow talisman was torn off, he woke up.
Outside the window, students were still immersed in the festive atmosphere of the school anniversary. Laughter and chatter could be heard endlessly. The lights inside the room were dim, and the bl00d splattered on the floor and walls was mixed with the original decorations of the haunted house, making it hard to distinguish between real and fake. The atmosphere was quiet.
Qi Xing Wen waited silently for three seconds and then looked up and said, “He’s here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a light sound suddenly came from the windowsill, and a hand slapped onto it. The other person used a little force and gracefully climbed in from outside the window. His movements were quite agile.
“Hahahahaha, no matter how hidden the big door is, I still found it!”
The person who came in also had short white hair, but it was different from Ying Fu Sang’s silver-white. His was more of a pure white, with a little black at the roots, as if it had been dyed. He looked gentle and handsome, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts, standing there with his hands on his hips, laughing.
Mental state unknown.
The human, the deity, and the ghost present: “…”
But Ying Fu Sang seriously considered for two seconds whether the window was a big door.
After laughing for a while, the person seemed to finally notice the three gazes on him.
His laughter came to an abrupt halt. He ignored the other two for now, pointed at the hungry ghost opposite him, and his face changed. He shouted loudly, “Oh, you little ghost, I’ve been looking for you for a long time!”
The tied-up hungry ghost was whimpering and couldn’t speak, but he actually shed two streams of tears. His face was full of: Please save me!!
The young man with white hair: ? Something doesn’t seem right.
Qi Xing Wen looked at the hungry ghost and smiled. “I didn’t gag you, you know.”
The implication: Why are you pretending you can’t speak and making a scene?
A somewhat familiar voice entered his ears. The young man with white hair finally noticed that there were more people here than just a trespassing human. “My goodness, Lord Qi Shen, why are you here?!!”
Confirming that he wasn’t mistaken, he took a big step back in shock, his eyes wide, his jaw almost dropping to the ground, and his brain’s CPU overloaded.
Not knowing what was going on, he quickly bent down and bowed.
Qi Xing Wen’s face was calm, as if he didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with him being here.
He quickly gave a brief summary of what had happened and said directly, “This hungry ghost came out of your Underworld. Since that’s the case, you clean up the mess.”
The young man with white hair quickly nodded and said, “Yes, yes, yes, good, good, good. I’m sorry that this hungry ghost was used by someone and almost caused a huge disaster. I’m truly sorry.”
“But Lord Qi Shen, you don’t know this, but we’ve been strictly managing the diet of our staff in the Underworld recently. This hungry ghost was secretly sneaking up because of his gluttony and disappeared without a trace. I’ve been looking for him for days.”
“Who is he…?” Ying Fu Sang couldn’t guess the other’s identity, but he felt a strange sense of familiarity. After silently trying to figure it out for a minute with no result, he simply asked Qi Xing Wen directly.
Qi Xing Wen didn’t shy away from anything and answered directly, “He’s a newly-promoted ghost messenger from the Underworld. His name is Bai Wu Chang.”
What’s the difference between this name and his position?
Ying Fu Sang felt that there must be a reason for this and didn’t dwell on it. He asked again, “But why do you have to manage the diet of your staff?” He had a feeling that this didn’t make much sense.
The hungry ghost not far away heard this and his eyes filled with tears, and he nodded madly.
Because he was still in a bowing position, Bai Wu Chang could only hear the conversation but couldn’t see the people.
It was fine when they asked his name, but to question the management of their Underworld was very impolite!
“Do you live by the sea to be so nosy!”
Bai Wu Chang immediately looked up, ready to see who was spouting nonsense. “Hey, you human, you’re not our King Y…”
The unfinished words were completely forgotten the moment he made eye contact with Ying Fu Sang. The last syllable of his words trembled and changed pitch involuntarily, drifting away with his soul.
“King, King—?!?”