Chapter 69: Shutting the Door and Hitting the Dog

  I slept until 5 pm and was dragged out of bed by Hou Shuangshuang. As I expected, dinner was ramen with kimchi. Qian Liguang had recovered quite well and could at least get out of bed to eat. The only thing that annoyed her was the tongue. When drinking noodle soup, it always fell into the bowl, making people look like a piece of bacon.

  After dinner, the two girls huddled on the sofa watching a sad and sorrowful Korean drama. And I, with my eyes closed, was waiting quietly for my opponent's arrival.

  At midnight, the street was deserted with only a few street lamps standing alone on the side of the road emitting light. Hou Shuangshuang and Qian Ligou were leaning against each other asleep on the sofa, while I rummaged through my luggage to find some talismans, adjusted the cinnabar and began to draw them stroke by stroke.

  "Shasa~" With the last stroke of my brush, I picked up the talisman and gently blew off the cinnabar powder on its surface. At this moment, a rustling sound came from the windowsill. I slowly put the talisman into my pocket and stood in the shadow by the door, patiently waiting for the person to arrive.

  A faint "creak" sound was followed by a gust of wind blowing into the room, and I knew that someone had opened the window.

  Hou Shuang suddenly opened her eyes, but she was still lying motionless on the sofa. From her angle, she could see me standing in the shadow by the door. I slowly shook my head, signaling her to wait a little longer.

  "Thud!" A faint sound of footsteps landing on the ground came from outside, apparently someone had climbed in through the window.

  "Let's do it!" I slapped the switch on the wall and shouted, and with a loud shout, the lights in the room lit up. A person wearing black sportswear and a headband was standing in the middle of the room, looking bewildered.

  "I've been waiting for you all day, why are you just arriving now?" I flashed out from behind the door, rubbing my neck with my hand. I greeted the man in black as if he were a friend.

  "Is this thing yours?" I casually picked up the glass bottle containing a gecko from the bookshelf and waved it at the man in black, asking.

  "What a pity, it's almost too late! You guys who play with Gu, if the Gu insect dies, won't you be counter-attacked?" The man in black retreated step by step, while I stepped forward tightly. Then slowly twisted open the lid of the glass bottle and asked him.

  "What do you want?" The man in black finally spoke up as I used my fingers to pull out the gecko. Hmm, a non-standard but understandable dialect.

  "Sit! Let me hear, what's the reason you're doing this!" I gestured to Hou Shuangshuang to close the window, then shielded Qian Ligu who had already woken up. I raised my hand and pointed to the sofa, revealing a hint of a smile as I spoke to the man in black.

  "I don't even know them, someone just paid me to come and teach a lesson to a woman named Hou Shuangshuang!" The man in black said, slightly relaxing since I didn't seem aggressive.

  "Who brought you here?" I asked, fiddling with the gecko in my hand and looking into the eyes of the man in black. From his gaze, I sensed that he was very concerned about the gecko I was holding. Since I had something to hold over him, I might as well take advantage of it.

  "Can't I just not say anything? After all, that person's money was used to bail someone out, and I can only guarantee that I won't take their business again in the future." Seeing that I seemed easy to talk to, the man in black began to haggle with me.

  "What do you think?" I pointed a finger and pinched the gecko to death, looking at the black-clothed man beside me with a cold smile.

  "Stop!" Along with my pinch, the black-clothed man let out a muffled hum and then loudly stopped me. It seems that my previous guess was correct, there is some kind of inevitable connection between the Gu insect and the person who controls it.

  "Tell me who sent you, and I'll let it go!" I said slowly to the black-clad man who was getting anxious, holding that dying gecko in my hand.

  "I can't tell you, in our line of work there are rules to follow. If I break those rules, I won't be able to go back alive!" The man in black was unexpectedly quite tough.

  "What's going on here? It seems you're still a person with connections. If you don't tell me what I want to know, I'll squeeze it out of you right now, and I'm sure you understand the consequences better than I do. If you tell me, I won't breathe a word, heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know. After we leave, no one will bother you about this, so think carefully." Everyone is afraid of death, since you have something to fear, I might as well take advantage of it a little bit.

  "Are you sure you won't talk?" The man in black gritted his teeth and said, looking at the gecko that I had pinched to death in my hand. The gecko was dead, and he wouldn't survive either. But as long as he told me who had instructed him, he still had a glimmer of hope. After some consideration, he decided to surrender to me.

  "I guarantee that no fifth person will know about tonight's events." I nodded at the few people in the house, making a promise to the man in black.

  "You should have guessed, his Achilles tendon was torn and he's done for this lifetime." The man in black hesitated for a moment before saying that. Although he didn't explicitly mention who had sent him, we had already guessed.

  "Alright, take it away. Next time, get a clear understanding of the other person's background before taking on a job. Not everyone is as easy to talk to as we are." I handed the gecko over to the man in black and offered him some well-meaning advice.

  "Thank you, thank you!" The man in black had a flash of madness in his eyes and reached out to take the half-dead gecko.

  As I handed the gecko over to him, I suddenly saw a fierce glint in his eyes. Then, with a flick of his sleeve, a dagger gleaming with a faint light slid out from inside and slashed towards my wrist.

  "It seems that being a good person doesn't pay off." At this moment, I used the Tianyun Jump that I had never used before. My feet tapped lightly on the ground and my body slid backward, avoiding the black-clothed man's knife by several meters. Looking at the small dagger in his palm, I let out a light sigh. Originally, if he had been honest with me, I really intended to let him off like this. But since he only wanted to take my life, it made it impossible for me to persuade myself to spare him.

  "You killed me, you can't escape, all of you will be buried with me! The gods won't let you off!" The man in black waved the dagger in his hand and rushed towards me, shouting loudly.

  "Descend the god? Aren't you playing with voodoo? How did you get involved with descending heads again?" I slapped my palm on the black-clothed person's arm, asking him.

  "You know what, Xiang Shen is an all-powerful person. No, in our hearts he is a god." As soon as Xiang Shen was mentioned, a hint of frenzy flashed in the eyes of the man in black, and the dagger in his hand danced even more fiercely.

  "Pffft~" At this moment, Hou Shuang suddenly appeared behind the black-clothed man with a flash of movement. A backhand elbow strike landed on his lower back, and then the black-clothed man flew out and fell to the ground with a thud. Not only did the dagger in his hand fall to one side, but even the gecko flipped over onto its belly and dropped to the floor.

  "You're given face but you don't want it!" Hou Shuangshuang was furious and kicked the gecko on the floor.

  "Don't!" The man in black let out a mournful cry and stretched out his hand to stop Hou Shuangshuang's foot from stepping on the gecko.

  "Plop!" But it was too late, the little sister's foot had already landed squarely on the gecko. After a stream of foul-smelling green liquid emerged from the sole of her shoe, she lifted her foot to take a look, and the gecko had been flattened into just its skin stuck tightly to the floor.

  "Hmph! The God of Descent won't let you off, the God of Descent won't let you off. Just wait for the wrath of the God of Descent, haha! Pfft!" As the gecko was trampled to death by Hou Shuangshuang, the black-clothed man clutched his chest and rolled around on the floor, shouting at us with a mouthful of dark green **. In less than half a minute, the black-clothed man spat out a mouthful of blood and then fell still on the floor.

  "Looks like we're in big trouble now!" I kicked the black-clad man who had stopped breathing with my foot, and turned to Hou Shuangshuang and Qian Liguang beside me. It's not that I'm afraid of whatever it is that's coming to cause trouble, but rather because we're currently abroad, and if a homicide occurs in our apartment, I'm afraid the trouble we'll be in won't be small.

  "I don't even know if Korea has a concept of justifiable defense." I bent down to search the black-clad man's body, and then pulled down the pants that were on his head. Looking at the face surrounded by green, I muttered to myself in a low voice.

  "I'm going to make a call!" Hou Shuangshuang said, holding Qian Ligu who was already frightened and at a loss, walking towards the bedroom. I don't understand, such a big thing happened, why can the little girl still be so calm and think of making a phone call.

  "It's me, help me pick up my dad!" After a while, Hou Shuangshuang's voice came from the bedroom.

  "Dad, am I really your biological child? I almost got killed." After a while, the little girl started throwing a tantrum on the phone.

  "I don't care, the corpse is still lying in my house. If you don't want your daughter to eat prison food in Korea, you'd better think of a solution quickly. I haven't told a single lie, if you don't believe me, you can send someone to investigate! They've already snuck into our home, are we not allowed to resist?" After muttering to herself for half the day, Little Sister Gao's voice rang out again at 8 degrees.

  "Alright, you hurry up and do it. I know, once this is done, I'll head back. Dad, I'm hanging up! After muttering to herself for half an hour, Hou Shuang finally showed her little face and started acting cute on the phone!"

  "It should be fine now, let's wait for the police to arrive here!" Hou Shuangshuang walked out of the bedroom and patted her hands as she said to me.

  "I asked, what does your old man do? Can his hands reach Korea? Is it possible or not? If not, let's run away first and talk about it later!" I looked at the corpse on the ground and then at my little junior sister in front of me, saying somewhat uncertainly.