Tooth Ogre

  Before me is a familiar face with delicate features and deep emotions between her eyebrows and eyes.

  "Really... really Gao? Is it really you?"

  Wang Nian stretched out his hand to hug her, but grabbed nothing. Gao Juan walked away with three steps and two turns, standing far away, as if she couldn't bear to leave. Her eyes had a thousand words, but she didn't say a word.

  "What about me? Where have you placed me? Do you know that I gave up everything for you, even betrayed my own sister, but did you ever love me?"

  Gao Qin suddenly appeared in front of Wang Nian with a scowl on her face, her expression no longer as lovely as before. The hatred in her eyes made Wang Nian feel like a cicada in winter. This emotional entanglement, who wronged whom, and who loved whom, was unclear and inexplicable. Wang Nian had thought that he only saw Gao Xuan's shadow in Gao Qin, and his pursuit of Gao Qin was just to make up for his guilt towards Gao Xuan. But after Gao Qin's death, he discovered that he had truly fallen in love with this woman who shared no similarities with Gao Xuan, despite her not being beautiful and even a bit unruly. The happiness they experienced together and the memories they created were real.

  "I..."

  Wang Nian was speechless in response, and Gao Xuan's figure gradually disappeared amidst a sigh.

  "Do you know how heartbroken I was when I lied to you that the child wasn't yours? You didn't even stop me, just let me leave like that. Now I'm telling you, the child in my belly is indeed your son! In two months, I'll be giving birth, and you're actually willing to let someone beat us mother and child to death, you're completely devoid of conscience!"

  "No, I didn't know they would lay such a heavy hand..."

  Wang Nian weakly defended himself, but was slapped hard on the face by Gao Qin.

  "You can say whatever you want now, but can you save our child's life? Can you?"

  Gao Qin was crying hysterically, her fists pounding against Wang Nian's chest nonstop. Her tear-filled eyes stared tightly at Wang Nian, as if she wanted to drag this man down into hell with her.

  Tears kept streaming down and flowed into my ears, making me feel itchy and uncomfortable.

  Wang Nian opened his eyes, he knew it was a dream, but he didn't want it to be a dream. Those two women who had haunted him were dead, and only in dreams could he hear their voices, even if they were scolding him.

  The sunlight is a few meters away, the eaves of the elm tree are outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the road is hidden in the distant woods, and all around is quiet enough to hear no noise.

  This was the second floor of the villa, Wang Nian distinguished it, and then suddenly sat up. He remembered that he had fainted in the courtyard yesterday, how could he come to the second floor of the villa? Wang Nian endured the pain and got up to look around, the room was empty with nothing inside, the ground was covered with a layer of dust, and there were messy footprints. Listening carefully, it seemed that there was a faint sound of a woman's voice next door. Wang Nian's mind was full of doubts, he struggled to stand up and check his injuries, someone had done simple bandages for him. After moving around, he found that apart from the knife wound and the bullet wound on his shoulder, he might have broken two ribs, but other places were not seriously injured.

  "What's going on?"

  Wang Nian cautiously put his ear against the wall, and the woman next door's cry was not fake, but real pain.

  Wang Nian's heart softened again, and he thought of the Gao sisters once more.

  Footsteps sounded outside, and someone walked up with a brisk pace. Wang Nian quickly scanned the room again, where to ambush and where to escape had already been planned in his mind, while the person outside also reached the door. Wang Nian tensed his muscles, and at the moment the door was pushed open, he took aim at the opponent's figure, stepped forward, and slammed him onto his shoulder with a series of smooth movements.

  "Brother Wang, stop hitting, it's me!"

  Wang Nian suppressed the person on the ground, turning that face over and examining it carefully, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

  "Who are you?"

  "I'm Big Brother Wang, in charge of collecting protection fees and managing that area around the train station... Yeah, that's me!"

  Wang Nian finally remembered the little person in this community under the hint of his older brother Wang, but immediately sank his face and didn't reduce a bit of strength in his hand. Older brother Wang was in so much pain that tears and snot flowed together, wailing incessantly.

  "I remember now, you're one of Gao Tian's men. That traitor Gao Tian is in charge of security for all my villas, he wants to kill me. People who want to kill me, I'm used to killing them first."

  Wang Nian said coldly.

  "Thirteen evil spirits, I really didn't expect that Zhang Haiyang's case was still unsettled, and now these thirteen evil spirits might appear again."

  In Director Li's office, Professor Yu casually pulled out a pack of Great Wall brand cigarettes from Director Li's drawer, lit one and took two puffs before turning around to smile at the furious Director Li.

  "Come on, have one too? Don't be such a woman."

  The professor's long hair was black and shiny, with a few wisps of elegance in the sunlight. But paired with a donkey face and big yellow teeth, as well as choking smoke, it didn't look so elegant anymore.

  "Can't you two be serious for once? As soon as you meet, it's like two fighting cocks, and yet you're both in your twenties and still acting like young punks!"

  Li Kezhang and Professor Yu both hung their heads in shame, just like a defeated fighting cock.

  Twenty years ago, Li Kezhang and Professor Yu were still young when they met Tang Hongming at the same time. The three people were all young talents in their respective fields, naturally attracted to each other. With Lang's talent and beauty, it was inevitable that romantic feelings would arise, but it was unclear who loved whom and who owed what to whom. In the end, Li Kezhang withdrew and got married suddenly, while Tang Hongming and Professor Yu also failed to be together. One entered the so-called "Nunnery" of Liu Ke, while the other became a Taoist priest. The grievances and loves of these twenty years are really unclear.

  Both men felt deeply indebted to Tang Hong's name, so as long as she was present, they would obediently listen to her words.

  "Seriously, although there is no evidence yet that the Thirteen Evil Spirits have reappeared in Tiān Nán, Zhang Haiyang has made a poisonous vow: if the Thirteen Evil Spirits appear again, he will come to take revenge even if it means sneaking back."

  Tang Hong let out a deep sigh.

  "Now that Zhang Haiyang has appeared, it's only a matter of time before the Thirteen Evil Spirits appear."

  Thinking of last year's case of thirteen evil spirits in Tiān Nán City, three people fell into reminiscence at the same time.

  Last year's case was committed by a Korean couple who unknowingly picked up thirteen evil spirit tooth carvings somewhere and worshipped them day and night, begging the evil spirits to grant them wealth and fame. However, what they begged for was not what they wanted, but an evil force that made them greedy and brutal. This evil force spread like a plague, quickly spreading in the community where foreigners lived. Zhang Haiyang's family was the only victim, with his Korean wife, two daughters, parents, and a Korean nanny who had been hired at a high price suddenly going crazy and killing everyone, leaving Zhang Haiyang seriously injured. After the case was reported, it was first handled by the foreign affairs department before being transferred to the sixth department for processing.

  After that case, Zhang Haiyang became disheartened and sold his property to leave China, it is said that he became a hitman.

  "How did he get in touch with Shili? I just can't figure it out, what's going on in the minds of young people these days, always fighting and killing, aren't they tired?"

  Li Kezhang shook his head and sighed.

  "With the tooth demon, we don't have to be afraid of anything!"

  Gao Tian was walking back and forth excitedly, while Xiao Si's body had completely disappeared, leaving only a pile of clothes on the ground that looked like a snake shed.

  Yang Ming made a great effort to swallow his saliva, wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead, wanting to speak, but his throat was so dry that he couldn't make a sound. What he had just seen was too terrifying, and it even made this man who lived on the edge of a knife tremble with fear.

  "What's next?"

  This time Yang Ming was at a loss, Gao Tian rubbed his hands together with an eager expression. Yang Ming felt that something was off, although he had obtained the Tooth Ghost, it was still not enough to challenge that thing, and if things went wrong, the entire club would be destroyed along with him.

  However, the only one who can communicate with the Tooth Fairy is Gao Tian, and at this time, he cannot be provoked.

  "We've been waiting for this day for a long time. Last year, that stupid couple raised a ghost for more than three months before it took shape, but in the end, they let the six departments disperse its primordial spirit and now it's become a useless waste, can't even deal with a small thief. But Tooth Ghost is different, invincible! Hahaha, what's left in this world that we're afraid of?"

  Gao Tian was laughing maniacally, when suddenly a faint sound came from the fragments of the evil god statue at the entrance. Yang Ming turned his head to look, and among those ceramic pieces, there was a blood-colored tooth with a long strand of hair tied around its root.

  "What is this?"

  Yang Ming suddenly felt his body uncontrollably wanting to pick up the tooth, but instinctively knew that picking it up would not lead to anything good, and if things went wrong, he might end up like Little Four, leaving nothing behind. The temperature in the room plummeted, and a chill ran down to his bones. Yang Ming was shocked to discover that he could see his own breath, a white mist lingering in the air for a long time.

  "Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Haha, quick, call the master!"

  This is what Gao Tian said about the evil spirit opening its eyes, an important step in recognizing one's master.

  But Gao Tian's laughter suddenly stopped, and when Yang Ming turned his head, he saw a black shadow flying by from beside him, which was Gao Tian.

  "This kid runs faster than anyone else when there's danger!"

  As Yang Ming thought this, a stunningly beautiful face suddenly appeared in front of him, with delicate features that exuded an eerie aura, and what was most inexplicable was that the face was actually transparent.

  "It's you! I've succeeded after all!"

  Yang Ming was suddenly extremely agitated, because this face was not unfamiliar to him, but very familiar. It was the person who made him love and hate intertwined, it was the person he personally drove to repeatedly hit and crush, it was the person he wanted to get rid of quickly but still visited every week, it was the source of all his nightmares, Gao Qian.

  "Give me one reason not to kill you."

  In the idle villa in the western suburbs, Wang Nian's hand was still clamped on his brother Wang's neck. If his answer didn't satisfy Wang Nian, Brother Wang would become a corpse the next moment.

  "I... I'm also being hunted by the organization, it's true!"

  "Oh, I haven't heard about it?"

  "The night before last, I overheard Old Man Gao and a man with the surname Yang plotting against you. I scolded them righteously, but as a result, they chased me down."

  Wang Nian's mouth curled up in a cold smile, and Wang Li immediately sensed it, hastily changing his words.

  "It wasn't me who was eavesdropping, it was just an accident, but as a result, they chased and killed me."

  "Why did you go eavesdrop then?"

  "It all started from the night before last, I brought two brothers to pretend to be plainclothes police and extort money from clients, but we ran into a tough nut..."

  Big Brother Wang began to recount his misadventures over the past two days, and Wang Nian let go of his hand and sat down beside him, panting. The things Big Brother Wang talked about were all trivial matters that only small-time people in the club would experience. At some point in time, he too had been unlucky and struggled, so he knew why Big Brother Wang wanted to save himself - he was betting on luck. But come to think of it, who isn't taking a gamble? Wang Nian becoming a successful entrepreneur was just a matter of guessing the right direction, while ending up where they were now was simply a matter of misjudging people and missing opportunities.

  "This client has some potential. So from now on, you'll be following me?"

  Wang Nian Zheng was about to sneer, but his heart suddenly trembled inexplicably, a severe and piercing pain came without warning, causing him to fall to the ground in convulsions.

  Tears fell from her eyes and streamed down her cheeks.

  "What's going on?"

  Wang Nian leaned against the wall and struggled to sit up, a face flashing in his mind, Gao Xuan.