"Your master?"

Zhou Ze still remembered Xu Qinglang's master. He had appeared suddenly, and if Zhou Ze hadn't summoned Ying Gou at the end, he might have slaughtered the entire bookstore that night.

And after being beaten up by Ying Gou,

his master, before "dying," had shouted out like Team Rocket from Pokémon:

"I'll be back!"

Of course, Zhou Ze never doubted that he wouldn't return. Before his death, he had shown Zhou Ze a series of images, entering scenes one after another, as if explaining his way of existence to Zhou Ze.

If it really was as he said, then this person was really hard to kill.

The reason why Xu Qinglang had worked so hard before, striving for improvement,

Zhou Ze felt that his exemplary leadership was one reason,

and another reason was that Xu Qinglang was waiting for his master's next appearance, preparing to greet him properly.

After all,

that master was still the enemy who had killed his parents.

"Yes, I can sense it."

Xu Qinglang replied.

"Not bad, looks like you've improved quite a bit. Last time he appeared, you didn't feel anything at all. Oh right, weren't you washing your feet back then?"

Xu Qinglang took a deep breath and corrected him:

"It was a bath,

no, I was poisoned by a corpse..."

"Just bear with it this time, don't take a bath recently. What if the enemy comes and you're still naked? You'll lose in terms of momentum.

The same words, said while wearing clothes and said while naked, are completely different feelings, you understand?"

Xu Qinglang wanted to ask Zhou Ze why the topic had shifted to whether or not he was bathing,

but he didn't dwell on it too much. Instead, he looked at Zhou Ze with some concern and said:

"You guys should go back to Tong City. I'll stay here for a while."

Zhou Ze reached out and patted Xu Qinglang on the shoulder.

Xu Qinglang frowned, looking at Zhou Ze with some disgust, "That hurts."

How could it be comfortable to have a hand made of pure bones grab your shoulder?

It was really bony.

"That's no fun. Should we go through the melodramatic routine again?

You shout 'No,' and I shout 'Yes'?

'No, ah, yes, ah!'

'No, ah, yes, ah?'

Is that interesting?"

"But..."

Xu Qinglang didn't say the rest of the sentence, but Zhou Ze could understand that he wanted to say,

Ying Gou isn't here!

If it were like last time,

if that master came,

it would be fine to have Ying Gou come out and beat him up again.

But now,

clearly, it wouldn't work.

"It's not a matter of whether we want to hide or not. I killed him back then. If he comes back, do you think he'll want to find you or me?"

Xu Qinglang nodded, seeming to agree that that was indeed the case.

"Don't think so much. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. You should take care of your body first, go back and see if you can find a way to lock down your master's identity in advance.

Even if he comes back, he'll have to find a place to build up his strength again. He can't come out at his peak."

If Xu Qinglang hadn't been able to sense his master's return, then the bookstore would, of course, be very dangerous, with a wolf ready to come to the door at any time. Now that Old Xu had improved to the point where he could sense it, then everyone should prepare to close the door and beat the dog.

"Then I won't be pretentious."

"There's no need to be pretentious in the first place."

Zhou Ze squeezed Xu Qinglang's shoulder again.

It was very soft, with a great feel, especially when your hand was still a skeleton, you would have the urge to touch something soft yet still a little elastic and chewy.

"Take it away."

Xu Qinglang slapped Zhou Ze's hand away.

Zhou Ze sighed in relief

and said:

"We'll go back tomorrow, we've been out for so long."

…………

The next day,

at the sanatorium, only Lawyer An was left behind. His task was very complex, but also very simple, which was to spend money.

Spend money to redecorate the villa, turning it into a truly high-end sanatorium model. At the same time, security and the surrounding defense work also needed to be re-planned and laid out. Anyway, those "patients" had a lot of money, so Lawyer An could "waste" as much as he wanted.

The rest of the people

all boarded the plane.

Zheng Qiang, Yue Ya, and Liu Chuyu didn't fly directly back to their own cities, but instead flew to Tong City with Zhou Ze and the others.

The Donghai Airlines plane landed at Tong City Xingdong Airport.

Because the airport was very small, not to mention directly walking the connecting bridge, even shuttle buses were rarely used. After getting off the plane, everyone walked directly towards the exit.

It was snowing in Tong City today,

and the temperature had reached below zero.

Rong City was cold, but it was relatively dry there. Tong City was located at the Yangtze River estuary and adjacent to the sea, so the damp and cold taste was truly to die for.

Zhou Ze and the two zombies in the group didn't seem to be affected, but everyone else started shivering.

After leaving the terminal,

Yingying started calling for a car.

Zhou Ze turned to look at the new airport terminal in front of him, which had been under construction for quite some time but was still not in use.

He remembered that when he left Tong City for Yunnan,

he had met the spirits of several construction workers here.

In fact, he hadn't been gone for long, but because he had experienced so many things, it gave him a sense of a very long time.

After the boss finished reminiscing,

everyone got into taxis separately.

Half an hour later,

the taxi stopped on South Street.

The bookstore's facade had been redecorated and designed, giving it the feel of a coffee shop. From the outside, it looked very high-end.

After all, the old Taoist was also a very trendy person. Except for his taste in women, which everyone didn't quite agree with, his aesthetics in other areas were fine.

However,

what was very embarrassing was that

the old Taoist was a bit too trendy.

He had actually installed a fingerprint lock on the bookstore door!

Then,

a very desolate scene appeared.

The boss came home,

followed by a group of younger followers,

but couldn't get into his own door,

and was left in disarray in the cold wind and snow.

There was no one in the store. Yingying took out her phone to call the old Taoist, but no one answered.

Yingying then called Little Monkey,

but no one answered.

Zhou Ze really wanted to smash the fingerprint lock,

but after thinking about it carefully,

he rejected the idea,

because the lock was probably quite expensive.

The renovation cost this time had all come from the public account.

Yingying seemed to have figured something out and asked curiously, "Boss, the Qingcheng Mountain sanatorium should have a lot of money."

"That's the patients' money." Zhou Ze reached out and touched Yingying's head. "They're spending money to renovate the villa, which is also for their own good and for their own safety."

This was probably why Lawyer An had told Zhou Ze about this matter as if he were trying to show off, but Zhou Ze had remained calm at the time. Out of professional habit from his previous life, taking money from patients always felt uncomfortable.

As for the three he had killed, they had brought it upon themselves, one thing at a time.

People living in the world always had to pay attention to something.

Since he couldn't get into the bookstore, Zhou Ze could only go next door to the pharmacy to sit and wait for the old Taoist and Monkey to come back.

Fangfang was very happy to see Zhou Ze and served tea and water, greeting Zhou Ze and the people he had brought.

To Zhou Ze's surprise, he found that the operating room and ward inside were not empty.

Pushing open the door and walking in,

Zhou Ze saw three charred people lying inside.

"This is?"

Zhou Ze pointed at the people on the bed and asked Fangfang.

"Boss, it's the few people you brought last time."

Gou Xin and the others?

That Child of Destiny?

That's not right.

So much time had passed since those injuries, they should have recovered by now.

Moreover,

what was going on with the charring on their bodies?

"Um, Boss, they were all recovering well. They woke up one after another a few days after you left, and they even paid the fees very politely.

They were planning to leave,

and the Taoist priest next door prepared to send them off

and even held a farewell dinner for them.

It happened to be Christmas Eve that day, and the Taoist priest bought a lot of balloons to decorate, and then somehow, it seemed that the balloons were ignited while they were eating, and these people's bodies were not completely healed, they were just awake and barely able to move.

The Taoist priest himself was fine, but these three people were severely burned.

We followed your instructions before you left and didn't send them to a major hospital, but instead continued to keep them in our pharmacy. Our two doctors have already performed debridement on them.

They're also very lucky,

they've actually managed to hold on until now.

This is probably the toughest patient I've ever seen in my career."

Zhou Ze couldn't help but laugh a little after hearing Fangfang's words.

Zhou Ze didn't plan to take any further action regarding Gou Xin's matter. He didn't want to kill them, and he didn't want to keep them. He had originally planned to let nature take its course, and let them go when their injuries had healed.

Who would have thought that an accident would happen at the farewell dinner organized by the old Taoist on the day they were leaving.

It seemed that they would have to continue lying down for a while.

"Boss, the call went through."

Yingying handed the phone to Zhou Ze.

"Hey, Old Taoist, where are you? Come back and open the door!"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!!!!!!!"

The sound of a monkey came from the other end of the phone.

The flower fox sable that had been sleeping on Zhou Ze's shoulder suddenly perked up and faced the phone:

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!!!!!!!"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!!!!!!!"

The two animals were chirping and squeaking louder and louder.

Zhou Ze reached out and patted the flower fox sable on the butt.

The flower fox sable trembled and immediately lowered its head in grievance, no longer chirping.

"Let's eat monkey brains tonight."

The monkey immediately stopped squeaking as well.

"Hello, Boss, it's me, what's wrong?"

"Come back and open the door."

"Oh, ah, ya!

Boss, you guys are back!

I'll be right back, right back. I'm taking the monkey to admire the snow scene and recite poetry."

"Oh my god, why did you bring a monkey over, you old geezer? Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!"

A woman's scream came from the other end of the phone, and it was obviously an older voice, rough and bold.

"Boss, a big sister fell to the ground."

"Get back here."

"Okay, right away..."

"Where's the money? You haven't paid yet. You've used five condoms. Pay up!"

There was the sound of rummaging in pockets, it should be the old Taoist paying:

"Boss, this big sister is staging an accident, trying to scam me out of money."