Chapter 68: Xu Xin Arrives

  In fact, this is also a manifestation of my own courage, because I'm now so scared that my legs are trembling. Even if everything returns to calm, just the psychological effect alone makes it impossible for me to leave here smoothly.

  Shouted a few times and thought it would be fine, but didn't expect that in front of the last classroom door, a tall black shadow floated out.

  At first, I thought it was just my eyes playing tricks on me. I shook my head and took a closer look, only to see that the dark figure's face was completely obscured, with something in its hand slowly walking towards me.

  My legs are completely disobedient, wanting to run but can't exert any strength, barely holding onto the handrail beside me to prevent myself from falling, staring intently at that dark shadow.

  The black shadow slowly got closer and closer, until I finally saw his appearance clearly, and my heart skipped a beat, breathing became difficult, feeling almost dying.

  What I saw was actually a bald-headed big monk, extremely ugly in appearance, very tall and large in stature, and in his hand, he was holding a bloody human head, the head was not big, it looked like it was a child's.

  Then the black shadow got closer and closer, until it was about to hit me. By then I had already lost all desire to escape, so I simply collapsed on the ground waiting for death.

  I soon felt as if my soul had been sucked out of me, my body was extremely uncomfortable, and suddenly my head went blank, I closed my eyes and fainted.

  ……

  "Wake up, wake up, what's wrong with you? Wake up quickly!" A girl's voice sounded in my ear.

  I immediately opened my eyes wide, and right away I saw a terrified face staring at me, which scared me into letting out a loud "ahh" and I quickly retreated backward with both feet pushing off the ground.

  "Hey, what's wrong with you?" The female voice shouted again.

  I took a few steps back, as if blocked by something. Turning my head to look, I saw an old man with a kind face, bent over and sizing me up in a peculiar way. But this person was completely unfamiliar to me.

  It's still a dream, it must be! I didn't think about it anymore, turned my head, closed my eyes, and gave myself several slaps on the face with a 'slap slap slap'.

  "Big brother, what's wrong with you? It's me, I'm Li Rui'er!"

  Li Dui'er? This name seems somewhat familiar to me. I opened my eyes and saw a young girl with a worried face staring at me, who was actually the Li Dui'er we gave a ride to on our way back to Shenyang with Liangzi.

  Although I still didn't understand, but after all, it was a living person in front of me, so I asked: "What's going on? How did you end up here?"

  Li Dui'er retorted: "I'd like to ask you too, how did you end up here?"

  "I used to live here when I was young, came back to take a look."

  "Oh, is that so? But this place has already been abandoned. What did you come back for? And how could you faint alone here?"

  "This, me, I..."

  For a moment, I didn't know how to explain it to him. Feeling a bit recovered, I stood up and went to take a look. I found myself still on the second floor of the orphanage. It was already daytime now, with some sunlight shining in, making the room fairly bright.

  Besides Li Dui'er and the old man behind me, there were several young men who looked like they weren't very old either. Everyone was staring at me in confusion.

  I was stared at and felt a bit embarrassed, but still didn't understand what was going on. I patted the dust off my body and said, "I have anemia, I easily get dizzy."

  Li Dui'er showed some concern and said: "Then you must pay attention to your body, anemia can be very dangerous at times."

  "Uh-huh, I'll definitely pay attention. By the way, how did you end up here? And who are these people?" I asked, pointing at the others.

  Li Dui'er suddenly looked excited, quickly ran past me and rushed to the old man's side, saying: "Professor, this is one of the brothers I told you about, who gave me a ride back."

  He said that, the old man walked in front of me, holding my hand and said: "I heard Rui'er say that she took your car back to Shenyang, thank you so much."

  "Ah, no need to thank me." I was still confused and continued to ask: "Old man, who are you?"

  The old man hadn't even replied yet when Li Dui'er ran in front of me and explained it to me with great relish.

  This Professor Li is the leader of their archaeological team. It's said that about half a year ago, someone reported to the police that this orphanage was haunted, but after the police came and investigated, they didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

  But just a few days later, when the police came back to investigate again, they found that all the people in this orphanage had disappeared. After investigating for a long time, there was no clue, so they reported it to their superiors. The leaders made an important instruction and must find out the truth of this incident.

  The police had to continue their investigation, and finally in the basement of the orphanage, they found a wall that had collapsed with a large hole, and it seemed very deep inside, so they didn't dare to enter rashly.

  In this case, the police seem unprofessional, so their superiors sent an archaeological team to investigate.

  However, so far, the missing people in the orphanage have not been found. Instead, it was unexpectedly discovered that the underground of this building is an ancient tomb. So today, the archaeological team has officially arrived here to start excavation...

  After listening, I felt that this was endless. Liubao Lao Lu disappeared, followed by Liangzi's disappearance. Now I know that everyone in the orphanage had already disappeared half a year ago...

  "What the heck is going on here? I think all of this must have some kind of connection."

  Just as he was lost in thought, Professor Li said: "Young man, these things are originally confidential. I heard that you grew up here, so I didn't stop Rui'er from telling you. Before the matter is clarified, I hope you won't spread it around and cause panic among the people."

  I quickly nodded repeatedly and said: "Understood, don't worry, I definitely won't speak out of turn."

  I thought to myself: even if you talk nonsense, I won't say anything. All the things in here are probably related to me, you want to investigate, and I'll investigate with you.

  "Listen to me, Professor Li continued: "That's good, that's good, but I think your complexion is not very good. Although I'm an old expert in archaeology, I also understand some of the art of observing words and expressions. I think you, little brother, seem to have encountered something unclean."

  "Huh? I heard him say that, and suddenly remembered what happened last night. I quickly asked: 'Old sir, do you think there's something wrong with me? Can you help me adjust it?'"

  "I can only see the general outline, but I can't do anything else. However, it's a coincidence that we've invited a very powerful Feng Shui master this time, and he's right outside the door. Let me take you to him and have this expert take a look."

  "That's great, sir, please?" As soon as I heard that there was a superior person around, I prepared to rush over and take a look. Maybe this person can really explain it to me.

  A group of people followed Professor Li downstairs and walked out as soon as they pushed open the door.

  At first glance, this scene is really big, with dozens of vehicles parked outside and people busy working everywhere. Moreover, I can see some police officers patrolling in the distance, it seems that this project is not small at all.

  Followed the old professor to a black Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle.

  I was wondering what kind of person this is, driving such a good car to take the ancient exam. Just then, Professor Li lightly tapped on the rear window glass, and the glass slowly opened a slit.

  Professor Li respectfully said: "Mr. Xu, I have a favor to ask of you!"

  I just felt like something was off, and then the rear door of the Mercedes-Benz was pushed open. A well-dressed elderly man with a dignified demeanor stepped out, and when I got a clear look at his face, my jaw dropped in shock - I never could have imagined running into him here.

  This Western suit and leather shoes old man, turned out to be the Maoshan Taoist priest Xu Xin who had saved me twice. After he got off the car, just about to ask Professor Li something, suddenly saw me following behind him, immediately widened his eyes, as if also completely unexpected.

  For a moment everyone was stunned on the spot. Professor Li looked around and saw that I and Xu Xin were staring at each other, but he didn't know what had happened either.

  Xu Xin reacted first and didn't pay attention to Professor Li, he came forward and said to me: "You, how did you end up here?"

  The following dialogue was too dramatic, I repeated the conversation I had with Li Dui'er again after I woke up, saying that I grew up here, my anemia fainted and so on...

  Xu Xin listened to me finish, didn't show much surprise, without Professor Li saying anything, he directly went up and flipped open my eyelids for examination, immediately his face changed, said: "Follow me to the car." After that, he got back into that Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle.

  He looks at Xu Xin, who is really cool now. His outfit is completely different from what he wore before, and he seems to be ignoring Professor Li and his group, looking very arrogant.

  I awkwardly smiled at Professor Li and Li Dui'er, then got on the car and casually closed the door.

  I was especially happy to see Xu Xin again, and since Zhou Huan told me that story, I had been dreaming of seeing him, wondering if he knew about these things or not, and whether he was the successor of Xu Yidao.

  I hastily sorted out my thoughts, just wanting to ask a question, when I saw Xu Xin make a silencing gesture and then reached out to close the car window next to me.

  "Shut up, kid, don't ask anything now, it's not the time for talking."

  As soon as I heard him say that, I felt like he was reliable. This old guy seemed to know what I wanted to ask, and it looked like I had waited for the right opportunity. This time, I must ask clearly, and absolutely cannot let him run away again.

  Xu Xin opened my eyelids again and looked at me for a while, saying: "I said you little guy is really lucky, fortunately this time I met you again, otherwise you would have been miserable."

  "That's that, we have a lot of fate, right? Hehehe." I started smiling foolishly with some incoherent words.

  Xu Xin didn't bother with me either, using both hands to steady my head and saying "Don't move around randomly." Then a loud slap landed on my forehead.

  He exerted himself so much that I was immediately slapped by him and saw stars, just as I wanted to open my mouth to ask, I saw Xu Xin grab my head with both hands, his hard fingers were like pliers, pressing against some places on my head.

  My teeth are aching and my mouth is splitting, I don't know what he wants to do, just feel like my head is being pressed into a daze.

  Finally, after waiting for him to stop, I felt that something had flowed out of my nose. I stretched out my hand to wipe it and looked at it, only to discover that what had flowed out was actually all black blood.