Chapter 39: Separation Technique

  Still in shock, Ge Fei and I had already walked to the outside of a small restaurant. Ge Fei hastily covered my mouth, his face tense: "Don't be so shocked, or people will think you're sick."

  "You're the one who's sick! Look, restaurant, I'm hungry, I want to eat!" I gave him a sideways glance, thinking of taking advantage of him, so my words were also spoken fiercely, as if I wasn't going to eat food but was going to devour Ge Fei instead.

  Ge Fei looked me up and down for a long time, with a puzzled face: "Didn't you say you couldn't eat anymore?"

  "Just saying, you also believe." I said disdainfully, glancing at him.

  Why don't I just not eat meat then? Do you think I'm stupid, why would I be slaughtered if I have something to gain? Besides, when I'm really hungry, I'm now poor and destitute, without even a job, can save a little is a little, but also can't starve to death. There's a wallet next to me, why wouldn't I use it. Indeed, I'm not a good person after all.

  Ge Fei nodded, her eyes filled with "I understand you", and softly said: "Hmph, you're still so like a man."

  "You..." I was about to say he had a pretty boy face, but the words stopped at my lips. As the saying goes, "beware of biting the hand that feeds you", this is not something that can be said too absolutely.

  We ate at a fly restaurant, which looked a bit small, but the taste was still very good. It made me forget what I saw earlier and I had a big appetite for several pork brain flowers.

  After eating, we went back home with a full stomach... uh... no, it was to Ge Fei's house. We took a taxi back and then walked into their seemingly luxurious community.

  In the afternoon, around two or three o'clock, it was scorching hot and I had big drops of sweat on my forehead. I wondered, isn't his Lingkong ring very powerful? Why did he still walk back, find a quiet place, and whoosh! He went back in an instant, how convenient is that? Even the transportation fee was saved.

  I followed behind him, panting and asking: "Hey, hey, Ge Dage, isn't that ring of yours very powerful? Why are we walking back so quickly?"

  Ge Fei stopped in his tracks at the door, turned around and gave me a faint glance, his eyes seemed to be looking at an idiot, and he said with disdain: "Lin Sijia, you are indeed a freak among freaks. If you suddenly disappeared on the street, what would others think?"

  "Cut it out, are you out of your mind? Can't you find a place with no people?" I returned his contemptuous gaze and deeply despised him.

  Ge Fei's face was full of discontent: "No one doesn't mean no ghosts, you know? If we're not careful and provoke those things on the road that have been pressed to half their size to come home, it'll be scary to death or nauseating to death. Do you understand? One should be low-key when being a human."

  "You know, you know everything." I muttered discontentedly. Looking at him like that, he must have accidentally brought back one of those things home.

  After finishing speaking, Ge Fei had already opened the door and stepped into that somewhat chilly villa. I also followed him in, earlier it was still hot to the point of sweating all over, but as soon as we entered, it got a bit cold, truly an icy and fiery two extremes. I couldn't help but suspect that there was something like that in Ge Fei's house, uh...I forgot, he himself said it, he is half-human and half-ghost. He himself is half-human and half-ghost, yet he's afraid of inviting that kind of thing back home, isn't he racist?

  As soon as I entered the door, Ge Fei sat down on the sofa with a plop, picked up the cup of water that had been placed on the tea table for who knows how long and gulped it down in one go. I also sat down, staring at Ge Fei who was drinking water across from me, and asked the question that I had wanted to ask since we were at the restaurant: "Ge Fei... you said earlier that if it wasn't He Mengyan's eyes and ears, then it must be Fang Zhili's. How did you know?"

  Ge Fei put down the water cup and turned serious: "Do you still remember that day at the supermarket? That day I felt that He Mengyan was not quite right, but I couldn't say where she was wrong. Today I finally figured it out - she's also a ghostly aura like you. Only... her ghostly aura is extremely heavy, and although she's trying to hide it, it still shows. She might be using the Separation Technique, an evil technique that can separate limbs, ears, and some organs."

  "You mean she's a ghost?" My heart skipped a beat, that He Mengyan obviously had a crush on Ge Fei, and competing with a fierce female ghost for a man usually ended in tragedy.

  Just as I was feeling a lingering fear that He Mengyan was a ghost, Ge Fei shook his head: "She's not a ghost, she's human, but someone who practices evil arts. Some merchants would stop at nothing to steal business secrets and practice the art of separation in order to do so. If...He Mengyan is really Fang Zhihuan's daughter, it's possible that Fang Zhihuan was also practicing evil arts back then and taught He Mengyan how to do it."

  "Could it be that Fang Zhi Ling was killed by evil magic?" I couldn't help but wonder. Based on what Fang Zhi Ling described, her death was very likely caused by someone using evil magic to harm her. Thinking about that separation technique that can infiltrate people, just now Ge Fei had his eyes and ears trampled into a pulp, I don't know if he needs to be remade or not, this evil magic is really too terrifying.

  I've only heard of using evil magic to harm people in rumors or hearsay before, but now it might be happening around me, and just thinking about it is terrifying.

  Ge Fei's eyes slowly filled with confusion: "I also can't be certain, but from what I see now, it's very likely."

  "So...... if it's really like that, then Xiaofangzi might have been caught by He Mengyan. What did she catch Xiaofangzi for? To cover up the fact that she was practicing evil techniques, or... to practice." The last two words were spoken with deep meaning, and I thought of the scene in A Chinese Ghost Story where Granny Ji practiced her skills by sucking out men's souls. Come to think of it, maybe even boys' souls would be sucked out too.

  Ge Fei shook his head heavily: "I'm not sure about this either, maybe... there's another purpose, perhaps it has something to do with Fang Zhiteng."

  "Aren't you and she university classmates? How can you not know?" I was puzzled, didn't they say they knew each other for several years, how could Ge Fei be like he didn't recognize her.

  Ge Fei's face turned even uglier, his tone filled with deep guilt and a hint of bitter smile: "I didn't even finish high school, how could I be her university classmate? Her university classmate is Xu Shiwei, not me."

  "What? What did he say? I was utterly bewildered: "Isn't Xu Shiwei you, aren't you Xu Shiwei? Could it be..."

  "Xu Shiwei... was my twin brother, he died and I replaced him." Before I could finish asking, Ge Fei said what I was thinking. His eyes grew increasingly dim, his words filled with sorrow and guilt.

  I suddenly remembered that day, the leather jacket man said that if you get something you shouldn't have, you must pay the price. Now hearing Ge Fei say this, I completely understand. Damn it, this kind of plot that only happens in TV dramas actually happened around me.

  But I clearly remember Ge Fei saying that Xu Shiwei didn't die, so his soul is a living soul.

  I raised an eyebrow and looked at Ge Fei, pausing for a moment before asking: "You... didn't say he was dead, did you? How is he dead again?"