“Ah!”
Lin Xiao let out a scream as the woman in red extended her hand. Her hand was very long, and she grabbed the steering wheel.
“Brother Xiao, now we can be together forever.”
“Bang!”
With a loud crash, the car hit the guardrail, causing it to flip over.
Zhao Yan picked up the peach wood sword and put it into her backpack.
She patted Lin Xihang on the shoulder and said, “Let’s go!”
Lin Xihang was a bit stunned. “Go where?”
“See if there are any survivors. If there are, we need to finish them off.”
“Finish them off?” By the time Lin Xihang understood, Zhao Yan had already walked out the door.
He quickened his pace to follow behind Zhao Yan.
“Master Zhao, are we done?”
Lin Xihang got into the car, still a bit dazed.
He saw Zhao Yan holding the peach wood sword and another talisman, which she stuck onto the yin urn. Without reciting any incantations, she just stood there quietly for over half an hour, and it was over?
“What else? Did you expect me to dance for you?” Zhao Yan said.
“I’m just curious, where are we going then?” Lin Xihang asked.
Zhao Yan sniffed and pointed ahead. “Keep driving straight, then turn right. Wherever I say to drive, you drive there.”
“Understood.” Lin Xihang nodded.
After driving for half an hour, they arrived at the outskirts.
Lin Xihang looked ahead. “Master Zhao, the road ahead is blocked.”
“The scent disappeared here,” Zhao Yan sniffed and told Lin Xihang to stop the car.
After Lin Xihang parked the car, Zhao Yan opened the door and walked forward.
Lin Xihang imitated Zhao Yan and sniffed hard, but he couldn’t smell anything. He quickly got out of the car and jogged to follow her.
Seeing many people gathered by the roadside, he went to take a look and saw a BMW car had flipped over.
A crane was lifting the car.
The front of the car was dented, and the airbags had deployed. The airbags were covered in shattered glass.
Lin Xihang recognized it as Lin Xiao’s BMW.
The Bodhisattva pendant on the car was a gift from Lin Xiao’s former girlfriend, Luo Qin.
Unfortunately, she had committed suicide by jumping off a building at the age of twenty-one.
“Uncle, where are the people in the car?” Lin Xihang asked a bystander.
“Just taken into the ambulance.”
“Still alive?” Lin Xihang said with regret.
He looked back and saw that Zhao Yan wasn’t watching. He observed carefully and found she had walked to the ambulance by the roadside.
Lin Xihang turned and walked over, hearing Zhao Yan speaking anxiously to the medical staff: “I’m his sister, I want to say a word to my brother, please.”
“Sister?” Lin Xihang was bewildered. He walked to the ambulance, and Zhao Yan had already gotten in with permission.
Zhao Yan went to Lin Xiao’s side and whispered into his ear, “Just because Zhang Ciyu said out of jealousy, ‘Either me or her,’ you killed her.”
“I originally wanted to get rid of you for her, but now it seems she’ll be happier if you’re alive.”
“This way, you can be together all the time.”
“This talisman is a gift for you, so you can see her every day.”
Zhao Yan grabbed Lin Xiao’s arm, and a talisman was placed on his arm. When she removed her hand, a talisman mark appeared on his arm.
“Thank you, please save my brother.”
Zhao Yan got out of the car and bowed to the medical staff.
“The sibling bond between them is truly touching.”
“Yes.”
The medical staff were moved by Zhao Yan’s genuine emotions.
Inside the car, the woman in red sat where Zhao Yan had been squatting. She stared blankly at Lin Xiao, then let out a cackling laugh.
The medical staff couldn’t help but shiver.
“Why did it suddenly get so cold?”
Lin Xihang came to Zhao Yan’s side and looked in the direction she was looking.
“Master Zhao, did you finish them off?”
“No, but I think this method is more suitable for him. Luo Qin also asked me to do this,” Zhao Yan said softly.
“Luo Qin? You know Luo Qin? Did you see her?” Lin Xihang exclaimed.
Zhao Yan nodded and pointed at the departing ambulance. “She’s inside.”
“Luo Qin was killed by them, it wasn’t suicide.”
“Twenty-one years ago, the day she died was her birthday.”
“Just because Zhang Ciyu said, ‘Either me or her, choose!’”
“Also, Luo Qin asked me to tell you, thank you for fulfilling her small dream.”
Lin Xihang was stunned. His thoughts drifted back to six years ago when they were in college, and the four of them formed a small circle.
Luo Qin came from a poor family. Lin Xihang remembered Luo Qin saying that the money for her studies was compensation for her father’s engineering accident.
Her father lost a leg in the accident.
What he remembered most vividly was that Luo Qin always thought of others in everything she did, never herself.
He recalled Luo Qin smiling and saying she had a small dream: to get her father a smart prosthetic leg.
“Slap!” Lin Xihang slapped himself.
Zhao Yan was startled by the sound. “What are you doing?”
Lin Xihang gritted his teeth. “I shouldn’t have let Luo Qin get involved with Lin Xiao back then.”
“Not only did I not stop it, but I also incited her to agree to him. I’m not human! I’m sorry for her!”
“She doesn’t hate me, and she even said thank you!”
Lin Xihang felt his heart shatter. What a good girl.
“Alright, alright, don’t cry. We can only say that Lin Xiao hid himself too well.”
“If it weren’t for Grandpa Erxi, you would still think he was your good friend,” Zhao Yan took out a piece of paper.
Lin Xihang raised his head and took the paper to wipe his tears.
Seeing Zhao Yan walk ahead, Lin Xihang followed and asked, “Master Zhao, what else did Luo Qin say?”
“She said she wants to be with Lin Xiao every second,” Zhao Yan replied.
Lin Xihang remembered Lin Xiao shouting when he was pursuing Luo Qin: “Luo Qin, I love you! There are 86,400 seconds in a day, and I want to be with you every second.”
Now, it seemed that had truly come true.
He then asked Zhao Yan for more details and learned that Zhao Yan had used a talisman to increase Lin Xiao’s yin energy, so Lin Xiao could see Luo Qin every day.
Zhao Yan arrived at Master Qin’s house. A police car and an ambulance were parked in front of the house.
Two medical staff were carrying a stretcher, which was covered with a white sheet.
There was a large bloodstain in the center of the sheet.
Xiao Qin, who had been a police officer for about three years, saw such a situation for the first time.
A neighbor had called the police, reporting that a woman next door was screaming.
When he and the captain arrived, the person was already dead.
He asked an elderly neighbor, who picked up a branch and pointed it at his own stomach.
“That woman just kept stabbing herself in the stomach with chopsticks, her insides were all coming out, and she kept laughing while doing it, telling me to call out, to call out!”
“It was so gruesome, I felt so sick!”