"It's still early. I'll sneak in and take a look. You wait for me here. I'll come out right away as soon as I find Wei Fan."
"No way. I have to go with you."
The teaching complex was already dark enough during the day, but unexpectedly, it was pitch - black at night.
After I climbed in, He Bi also crawled in with a flashlight.
"Let's go straight to the rooftop," I said to He Bi.
He Bi responded and followed me towards the rooftop.
The inside of the teaching complex was deathly silent. The thick fog that refused to disperse was still there, like a veil covering my eyes. I couldn't see through it, nor could I touch it.
I climbed up the stairs step by step, and He Bi followed closely behind. Even though my back was to him, I could still hear his footsteps.
Quietly reaching the rooftop, I didn't open the door immediately. Instead, I warily pressed my ear against the rooftop door to listen for any sounds inside.
"He Bi, dim the flashlight a bit. I'm going to open the door."
He Bi didn't answer. I turned my head slightly and looked behind me. The person standing behind me at this moment was not He Bi.
It was Wei Fan. No, it was Wei Liang.
A shiver ran down my spine, and I let out a scream.
I shoulder - charged the door hard. The door wasn't locked, and I staggered forward, almost falling to the ground.
On the rooftop, the full moon hung high in the sky. The silver moonlight cast over the empty rooftop, adding an even darker atmosphere.
I had no idea when he had quietly followed me. Just thinking about it made my hair stand on end.
"Where's my companion? What did you do to him?"
I was extremely uneasy. Thinking about their intention to kill someone today, I even regretted bringing He Bi here.
"As soon as you climbed in through the window, you entered the maze. He was lured into it," Wei Liang said in a low voice.
"Wei Liang, stop this. Doing such immoral things will bring you retribution from heaven," I said as I took step after step backward.
But Wei Liang took step after step forward: "It seems you know everything. I don't want to do this either. I'm only twenty - three. I haven't lived enough. Why should it be me?"
I had always had a good impression of Wei Liang. Because of the matter of the peach blossom curse last time, I had felt guilty for a long time.
But I never expected that he could be so selfish and do such evil things.
"You were classmates with Wei Fan and teammates on the basketball team. How could you do this?"
"Isn't this great? You've always liked Wei Fan, but he has a girlfriend. Now that I've become him, aren't we a perfect match?"
"Don't you know I have the peach blossom curse? One lesson isn't enough? Are you still going to get deeper into this?"
I kept backing away. At this moment, another person appeared beside Wei Liang.
He looked in his sixties, wearing a yellow robe. He held a roulette wheel in one hand and a copper coin sword in the other. He was fat - faced, with a head shaped like an inverted triangle. He was clearly an evil Taoist.
"Xiaolan, don't worry. As long as you don't tell anyone, the master can lift the peach blossom curse for you. Then we can be together openly," Wei Liang said.
My expression was solemn. I despised Wei Liang's despicable behavior. Staring at the Taoist, I said, "Trading lives will bring retribution from heaven. I advise you to switch back obediently, or the spirits in my spiritual lineage won't spare you."
"Boasting. The spirits in your spiritual lineage are nothing but demons in my eyes. I'll capture every one of them when they show up," the evil Taoist said as he stepped forward.
It was true. Taoists were different from spiritual mediums. Taoist magic was used to exterminate ghosts and demons. They were "humans" who invited the celestial beings above to capture demons.
Spiritual mediums were all spirits of animals that had gained spiritual powers. Whether the animal spirits were good or evil, they were all considered demons in the eyes of Taoists.
If they encountered a Taoist with high cultivation, most spiritual mediums would probably lose their lives. Maybe this was why He Bi's spiritual beings didn't come.
Just as I was still trying to persuade Wei Liang to be kind, Wei Fan's soul had been captured, and the person who captured him was the black - clothed man who had tried to kill me today.
"Senior, are you okay?" I asked anxiously.
At this moment, Senior Wei Fan was in a daze. He must have been injured just now.
"Cover him with a red cloth," the evil Taoist said.
"No!"
Just as they were about to cover Wei Fan's soul, I started chanting the incantation of the assistant.
Suddenly, I felt my body grow heavy, and a gust of wind blew under my feet. I gently spun around and pulled Wei Fan's soul over.
"So you're really a spiritual medium," the evil Taoist said.
"Of course!"
I originally thought it was Gu Yuan who had come, and I was a little delighted.
But when I opened my mouth to speak, I was stunned for two seconds. Why did this voice sound so annoying? It wasn't Gu Yuan at all.
"Do the celestial beings above know you're doing such immoral things? Do you want me to write a memorial to them and report you?"
As I was speaking, this spiritual being had separated from my body.
That short and stocky figure was so familiar.
"Jixiang? Why is it you?"
"Little medium! Long time no see. Do you miss me?" That annoying look was definitely Jixiang.
Jixiang was the gray spirit who had helped me retrieve my soul in the temple.
Before I could answer, the evil Taoist and the black - clothed man on the other side rushed forward. Jixiang put away Wei Fan's soul, spun around, and possessed my body again.
"Two old men beating up a little girl. How shameless."
As he spoke, Jixiang controlled my body and fought with them.
Jixiang's cultivation was a bit shallow, but his mouth was very sharp. While fighting, he kept scolding the stinky Taoist.
"Bullying me. Boo - hoo."
"Hey, you touched my butt. You pervert."
"Watch out, I'll sue you..."
After several rounds of fighting with those two bad guys,
he was already at a disadvantage.
I saw the evil Taoist shine the tray in his hand. My vision went black, and I couldn't see anything. Then his copper coin sword hit my body hard, and the copper coins scattered all over the ground.
I felt a sharp pain in my back. The evil Taoist directly pulled Jixiang out of my body, and he was beaten back to his original form.
Seeing that things were going badly, Jixiang bit the evil Taoist's hand hard with his four big front teeth.
The evil Taoist winced in pain and flung him away.
"Little medium, I'm leaving..."
After saying that, Jixiang really scurried away like a rat on the street.
I was left there, feeling completely lost. I looked in the direction where Jixiang had fled, feeling truly desperate.
Did he just abandon me like this?
I was just a weak girl. Without the protection of a spiritual being, a single man would be enough to subdue me.
Not to mention there were three of them.
"Hand over Wei Fan's soul," the evil Taoist stepped forward. There was not a trace of kindness on his wrinkled face.
I took a step back and summoned up my courage to say, "Don't come any closer. If you do, I'll shout. There are security guards downstairs."
"Master, she..." Wei Liang seemed to want to plead for me.
"If you don't want to die, stop talking," the evil Taoist said, which silenced him.
He slowly stepped forward, and my heels were already against the edge of the parapet.
"Hand it over!" His raucous voice suddenly roared, which startled me.
But I had to stay calm at this moment.
"If I hand it over, will you let me go?" My hand was on the edge of the parapet, and I glanced down.
The teaching complex wasn't very tall, but it was still on the ninth floor. Looking down from the rooftop, I felt a bit dizzy.
"If you weren't a spiritual medium, I might have spared you. You know too much. If you really report me to the celestial beings above, I'll lose my life. So rather than me dying, it's better for you to die," the evil Taoist said as he got closer and closer.
"Great master, are you going to kill her?" Wei Liang asked anxiously when he saw the killing intent in the evil Taoist's eyes.
"Don't worry. I won't kill her. I'll just make her lose something," the evil Taoist said.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Taoist waved the Five - Thunder Talisman in his hand and slapped it towards my crown.