Chapter 1 A Hazy Encounter

Hazy figures in the hazy mist,
In the distance, within the fog, swaying figures indeed appeared, no one knew where they came from, nor where they were going;
In any case, the shadows kept flickering, but nothing ever came out.

"Huff..."

Lawyer An gritted his teeth.

"What did you find?" Zhou Ze asked the old An beside him.

"Tsk tsk, nothing."

Lawyer An was very honest and continued:

"But look at this spectacle,
Thunder,
Rain,
Fog,
Ghostly shadows,
All the elements of filming a ghost movie are here. To state the obvious, with such a grand spectacle, there must be something extraordinary at play inside."

What Lawyer An said was indeed a great load of nonsense.

Ordinary lost souls who came to the bookstore were very low-key;
Eating, moving on, leaving a small token.

But this spectacle before them, whether human, demon, or ghost, was no simple matter.

Zhou Ze turned around, walked to the car, opened the door, and got in.

Lawyer An quickly got into the car as well, taking the driver's seat. Seeing this, Bai Yingying and the old Daoist followed suit.

The old Daoist, hugging the monkey, kept looking out the car window. The distant figures were still moving incessantly. Even though he was following the boss and Lawyer An, he still felt a little apprehensive.

Subconsciously, he touched his crotch,
Then he touched the monkey's backpack,
And felt a little more at ease.

"Boss, are we now..." Bai Yingying hesitated for a moment and said, "Driving in, to save Lin Ke?"

It looked very dangerous inside,
But if the boss insisted on going in to save his subordinate,
Yingying would still go along,
She wanted to protect the boss,
Wherever the boss was, she would be.

"Let's drive."

Zhou Ze waved his hand at Lawyer An in the driver's seat,
Appearing very calm and composed,
With an air of 'I shall go forth even if there are ten thousand people against me';
Bai Yingying was mesmerized.

Lawyer An nodded, started the car, then turned the steering wheel all the way to the left and made a U-turn!

"..." Old Daoist.

"..." Bai Yingying.

"..." Little Monkey.

After a precise U-turn, Lawyer An stepped on the gas,
With an indomitable momentum,
Driving straight back.

Zhou Ze remained silent,
Obviously,
The two men were thinking the same thing.

If it didn't happen on their turf,
And had nothing to do with them,
Why bother with this meddlesome affair?
Even if it caused an earth-shattering ruckus, what did it have to do with the Tongcheng Ghost Messenger?

"Boss… Lin Ke, that little b*tch…"

Although Bai Yingying usually hated Lin Ke for squeezing onto the bed and ruining her alone time with the boss, leaving her behind like this,
Something felt wrong?

"Don't worry, Lin Ke can't contact us now. Cell phones definitely won't work in there," Zhou Ze said.

"Huh?"

"So, if Lin Ke could contact us, she would definitely desperately try to stop us from risking our lives to come and save her.
She definitely wouldn't want us to be in danger because of her,
Otherwise, she would feel uneasy and guilty for the rest of her life."

"Oh…"

Bai Yingying thought this made a lot of sense, but something still felt strange?

Lawyer An drove very slowly on the way here, but on the way back, he almost floored the accelerator. Speeding like this on the foggy mountain road was very dangerous.

At least,
The old Daoist was so frightened that his face turned pale,
One hand hugging the monkey, the other gripping the handle.

The old Daoist knew,
That in case of a car accident,
Of everyone in the car,
Everyone else would at most be injured,
He would be the most likely to die.

After driving for twenty minutes,
The little monkey suddenly jumped out of the old Daoist's arms, onto the front window, waving its arms and chattering anxiously, appearing very agitated.

"Ka…"

Lawyer An slammed on the brakes.

"What's wrong?" Lawyer An asked.

He knew that this monkey was a spirit monkey, very intelligent and able to sense things that ordinary people couldn't.

"Chirp chirp chirp!"

The monkey pointed outside.

"What does that mean?" Lawyer An still didn't understand.

"Let's get out and take a look."

As Zhou Ze spoke, he opened the car door. Soon, the monkey also darted out through the door and ran straight to the roadside, pointing at the ground and chirping.

Zhou Ze and Lawyer An walked over and bent down together.
They found two puddles of wetness on the ground,
With a pungent smell.

It was pee!
One big and one small puddle of pee!

The monkey stood on the ground, making a peeing gesture, then pointed at the ground and kept chirping.

Zhou Ze and Lawyer An's expressions immediately became serious.
The car had been driving back for twenty minutes,
Yet they had returned to the place where the monkey and the old Daoist had peed before.

"Is this a maze?" Zhou Ze said.

Lawyer An scratched his head and looked around. It was still a hazy fog.

"I can't break this. The scale is too large. This entire mountain area is shrouded in fog."

There was no need to be forceful at this time.

However, Zhou Ze and Lawyer An weren't too panicked. If they hadn't sensed that something was wrong from the beginning, they wouldn't have turned back without hesitation. It could be said that they had been mentally prepared.

It was just that now,
Everyone seemed to be trapped in a huge "ghost wall,"
Unable to advance or retreat.

If they encountered this kind of situation normally, it would be a piece of cake to solve, but today was different. Such a grand scheme wasn't something that could be solved easily.

Compared to this fog,
Everyone felt that they seemed somewhat insignificant.

"Is this Lin Ke's doing?"

The old Daoist shut his mouth after asking this question,
Because he also felt that the question was idiotic.

The two human traffickers in the junkyard behind the gas station at the foot of the mountain might indeed have been killed by Lin Ke.

But to say that this majestic fog, coupled with this terrifying ghost wall that even Lawyer An couldn't solve, was also created by Lin Ke,
Who were they insulting?

If Lin Ke was that awesome, would she still be an employee of the bookstore?
Their boss would have been slapped to death a long time ago.

"Actually, the safest option right now is to stand here and not move. The fog will eventually dissipate, and I don't think it will last too long. Even a ferocious beast would be drained if it kept playing like this."

"Is there any food in the car?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Yes, Boss." Bai Yingying immediately replied, "I prepared a lot of food."

"Then we..."

Zhou Ze was about to say let's have a picnic,
But before he could finish speaking, a gust of wind suddenly rose!

The wind came strangely, with a strong force,
Making one suspect that the super typhoon Mangkhut didn't make landfall in Guangdong but ran to this mountainous area to make landfall.

Everyone present,
Was blown backward by the wind, but below was a cliff, and below the cliff were steep walls and landslides. Everyone desperately grabbed onto everything they could in front of them.

The old Daoist desperately hugged the stone in front of him, the little monkey hiding in his arms, shivering.

Lawyer An's bone hand directly pierced into the concrete road,

Zhou Ze's nails also pierced into the ground,

But even so,
The two still felt somewhat overwhelmed.

The strong wind and inertia were still desperately pulling at them, as if to send them into the mouth of a giant beast.

Of everyone present,
Only Bai Yingying stood still.

Standing there very calmly,
As steady as Mount Tai!

Faced with this situation,
Bai Yingying's first reaction wasn't to pull anyone,
But to cover her mouth with both hands,
And exclaim in her heart:

Heavens!
Have I become so fat!
So heavy that the wind can't even blow me away!
Too terrible!

Zhou Ze desperately grabbed the ground, watching his nails carve a groove in the ground, yet he still couldn't resist the terrifying power brought by the hurricane.

But Zhou Ze saw Bai Yingying standing motionless in front,
Why was Yingying alright?

"Something's wrong! This isn't an ordinary wind!"

Zhou Ze shouted at Lawyer An, who was being blown down beside him.

"What?" Lawyer An obviously didn't hear clearly.

"There's something wrong with this wind!"

Zhou Ze shouted.

"iPhones are a bit expensive?"

Lawyer An asked in confusion.

"..." Zhou Ze.

Lawyer An followed Zhou Ze's gaze and looked up, only then did he realize that Bai Yingying was standing there motionless.

He was stunned for a moment,
Then immediately reacted and shouted:

"This isn't an ordinary wind, it's yin wind!
It's only effective on souls!"

Yin wind generally appeared in hell. Of course, it also existed in the mortal realm. For example, when describing an environment, people often liked to use "yin wind blowing,"
This was a kind of wind that stimulated people's souls. Of course, the ordinary meaning of yin wind was too weak and couldn't even be considered a strict yin wind.

But here,
It was a hurricane!

Human perception was determined by the soul. When one's soul was blown by the wind, it caused a reaction in the body. It couldn't be considered a hallucination. It was more like the body instinctively moving to maintain coordination and consistency with the soul when the soul was about to be blown away.

"Boss!"

Bai Yingying quickly woke up from the shock of "Sob sob sob, why am I so fat,"
First, she skipped over Lawyer An, who was closest to her,
And directly grabbed her boss's hand.

"..." Lawyer An.

"Boss!"

Bai Yingying pulled Zhou Ze with force,
Zhou Ze's body was indeed pulled forward,
But the pain of the soul being torn immediately appeared.
Originally, he was being blown by the wind as a whole,
But now it had turned into a tug-of-war between the wind and Yingying over his soul.

"Let go!"

Zhou Ze shouted,
He felt like his body was about to be torn in half.

"No, Boss, we'll die together. Yingying won't let go!"

"Let go!!!"

Zhou Ze roared with all his might.

"No, Yingying won't leave you, Boss! Yingying won't let go!!!! Absolutely won't let go!!!!!!"

"..." Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze felt that he and Bai Yingying were clearly on two different channels.

If you don't let go, I'm going to break!

"Let go, quick, let go!"

Zhou Ze felt like his body was about to split apart.

"No, Boss, Yingying isn't afraid of being implicated by you!
Yingying is your zombie in life,
And your zombie in death,
Yingying won't let go!!!"

If the conditions allowed, Zhou Ze really wanted to smack Yingying's head.
What time was it?
Who had time to play a melodramatic Qiong Yao drama with you!

The intense pain became unbearable for Zhou Ze,
His nails immediately grew out,
And scratched Bai Yingying's wrist that was holding him.

Bai Yingying was most afraid of Zhou Ze's nails. She was shocked by the scratch and instinctively let go.

Zhou Ze, who was finally freed, didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief before he was blown back by the yin wind. Zhou Ze could only subconsciously grab Lawyer An's ankle behind him.

"@#￥%*..." Lawyer An.

Next,
Lawyer An and Zhou Ze, who were already struggling, began to retreat uncontrollably together,
Finally, the two of them lost their footing and fell off the cliff.

"Boss… Boss…"

Yingying, who was standing on the road, immediately teared up,
"Boss actually sacrificed himself… rather than implicate me…
Wuwuwu…
Boss…"