(3) Turning point

  Zhang Haiyang wandered around the building for a long time and couldn't find an opportunity to enter until he stepped on a well cover.

  He had repeatedly plotted to assassinate Wang Nan in his mind, including sneaking into the Qipeng Building to commit murder. He even found the design drawings of the Qipeng Building and planned to enter through the communication cable well. The passage was narrow, but enough for an adult to pass through.

  Zhang Haiyang quickly recalled the route, then squeezed out of the crowd and found that secluded manhole cover. He didn't notice that there was still a figure following behind him, inseparable.

  Zhang Haiyang did not take the elevator, but instead took the emergency staircase. Every time he reached a floor, he quietly pushed open the door and listened carefully to make sure no one was there before continuing up. As soon as he arrived at the ninth floor, he heard gunshots coming from above, and immediately sprinted upwards, rushing towards the sound. He vaguely sensed that Wang Nian was right there.

  When Tang Hongming and Li Kechang arrived with their men, the thirteenth floor was littered with corpses, blood flowing everywhere like a small river. Yang Ming was still alive, a club member standing in front of him, futilely firing at the empty skeleton.

  Wang Nian had a smile all over his face, holding two knives in one hand and pinching a cigarette with the other, leaning against the wall watching Yang Ming's terrified expression as he struggled to die.

  "I am the police! Put down your weapon! You are under arrest!"

  Li Kezhang rushed in front of Tang Hong, shouting loudly at Wang Nian. Tang Hong then ordered the team members to immediately activate the equipment and capture the evil spirits floating in mid-air.

  "Captain Li! Save me! I don't want to die!"

  Yang Ming called out to Li Ke, his face covered in tears and looking helpless like a child, just like that night in prison over ten years ago. Li Ke let out a cold, disdainful laugh and ignored him.

  "Hum! You think you can just rely on these old men and women?"

  Wang Nian's words severely irritated the hearts of the six department members. Although they were no longer young, they still had a distance from being old ladies.

  It's okay to say an old woman will get a cold shoulder, but if you say that about a group of old women, the consequences won't be pleasant.

  The six old women quickly assembled the instruments, and three electric lights shot out into the air, striking the skeleton. Suddenly, a loud crash of thunder boomed, and all the lights in the hallway went out. In the darkness, there were Wang Nian's panicked shouts, someone else's mournful cries, and the sound of people running back and forth through the blood-soaked water.

  "Nobody move! Turn on emergency lights!"

  Tang Hongming gave the order, and the six members of the department unfolded in an orderly manner. In the dimly lit corridor filled with a bloody glow, only Li Kechang, Tang Hongming, and the six members of the department were left. Wang Nian and Yang Ming had disappeared.

  "Report on recovery situation!"

  "Everything is normal! You can start entering!"

  "Let's get started!"

  Li Kezhang was taken aback and pulled Tang Hongming back to ask what he wanted to input.

  "I've done the test and at present, High Chi is far from being a match for Corpse Demon, still needs to increase his strength."

  "Didn't you say we need to purify it before putting it in?"

  "It's too late."

  Zhang Haiyang had just arrived at the 13th floor when he heard footsteps, and then the door was slammed open. A bloody figure rushed out in front of him. Before he could see who it was, the person had already run past him.

  "Stop you coward!"

  Another person rushed out of the gate, and this person Zhang Haiyang saw clearly was Wang Nian!

  Enemies meet, eyes turn red, Zhang Haiyang also forgets that he will leave tomorrow, draws his sword and chops. He thought those hatred had faded, but when it comes to the fore, he finds out, hatred is still hatred, not reduced by half.

  Wang Nian didn't expect anyone outside the door, and as he burst in, a cold light flashed towards him. He hastily dodged to the side, but was still a step too late. The knife grazed his arm, and Tang's dagger fell to the ground.

  Yang Ming's footsteps rushed downstairs and suddenly stopped, followed by a woman's shrill cry.

  Wang Nian was both angry and anxious, waving his short knife to block the opponent's blade, waiting for an opportunity to get close and use his "Shan Yi Shi Ba" technique. However, he didn't expect that the person was a Muay Thai master, who grabbed Wang Nian's waist and struck his head with his elbow.

  In a flash of life and death, Wang Nian let out a loud roar and sacrificed himself by charging forward with his head, while simultaneously stabbing the short knife towards the person's ribs.

  That man's elbow strike missed, and Wang Nian's knife also stabbed empty air. The two of them stumbled backward two steps, only then did they reassess their opponent.

  "Is it you?"

  Wang Nian suddenly remembered this person, and on the Da Mu Shan he had thought of throwing himself to death, but in his memory there was no impression of this person. Later it was still Wang Ge who mentioned him, that he felt it might have something to do with him. But for that prostitute named Lily, it didn't seem worth fighting so desperately.

  "It's me! You killed my wife and child, today I've come to settle the score with you!"

  "Kill your wife and children? My king has never killed women and children!"

  "It's the Thirteenth Evil Spirit!"

  "Oh? Are you that foreigner?"

  Zhang Haiyang's nasal bridge was hit by Wang Nian, and blood kept pouring into his throat. His breathing was a bit confused, but his eyes never left Wang Nian for half a moment.

  He saw Wang Nian and suddenly remembered, seemingly still with an innocent face, which made him even more furious. His wife and children were not even counted as anything in this person's eyes, not even leaving a slight impression, which was unforgivable.

  But just then, the blood man who had just escaped downstairs came running up again, as if he was being chased by a devil.

  Wang Nian wanted to intercept that person, but his eyes were also on guard against Zhang Haiyang, so he could only watch as Yang Ming escaped.

  But for some reason, Yang Ming was originally fleeing downstairs, how did he run back? What could make him so terrified?

  "Corpse demon!"

  Wang Nianyi also fled upstairs in a hurry, no longer guarding against Zhang Haiyang's sneak attack.

  Just as Zhang Haiyang was about to chase after Wang Nian, another woman's scream suddenly came from downstairs. This time, Zhang Haiyang heard it clearly - it was Lily!

  Zhang Haiyang hesitated for a moment and immediately turned back downstairs. He felt extremely worried, how could Lily appear in the Qifeng Building?

  In the safety passage on the tenth floor, Zhang Haiyang saw a strange scene. Lily was being held in the arms of a tall and large man whose entire body was covered with black striped muscles. The man seemed to be very excited and wanted to kiss Lily.

  "Let her go!"

  At the moment Zhang Haiyang was stunned, an old man rushed out from behind him, running and shooting at the same time. Every shot hit the monster's head, but it seemed to have no effect on it.

  "Let me kill you!"

  The monster hid Lily behind him and strode towards the old man.

  "What's wrong with you? Run!"

  The old man shouted loudly, Zhang Haiyang reacted and came to his senses, but he didn't run upstairs, instead he ran downstairs, he wanted to save Lily.

  Just as Zhang Haiyang grabbed Lily's hand, a strong gust of wind suddenly came from behind, and Lily's pupils instantly enlarged. She violently bounced up from the ground and pushed Zhang Haiyang away. Zhang Haiyang didn't understand what she was doing, but in the next moment, he froze. The ugly monster's arm had penetrated Lily's body, and the monster also seemed to be frozen, standing still on the spot.

  Zhang Haiyang snapped out of his shock, yelling as he charged forward. The creature seemed to have been startled awake as well, flailing its arms non-stop, and Lili's body was tossed back and forth by it, with blood splattering everywhere on the snow-white walls.

  Zhang Haiyang finally pulled Lily off the monster's arm, but she had already stopped breathing forever. Her eyes were still wide open, as if she wanted to imprint Zhang Haiyang's face in her heart and take it to heaven. Zhang Haiyang sat on the ground with Lily's body in his arms, tears streaming down his face.

  Zhang Haiyang thought back to the time they first met and remembered Lily's question.

  "Why did you bring me away?"

  "Because I need to store some things at your place."

  "What's that?"

  Zhang Haiyang held Lily's body tightly and said in her ear.

  "It's love, what I've always wanted to tell you."

  Li Kezhang was knocked down by the frenzied corpse, his arm seemingly broken. He struggled to get up, looked back at Zhang Haiyang who was in agony, sighed inwardly, and then chased after the corpse upstairs without stopping.

  On the 14th floor, Li Kezhang met Tang Hongming, who was stopped there with six people from the Science Department.

  "Gaoyi and Shimu are going at it!"

  Tang Hongming's face was filled with excitement, although the result is still unknown, but it seems that Gao Xuan has a great chance of winning.

  Just as the six departments' members were doing a simple bandaging for Li Ke's arm, all the lights in the safety passage went out, and an uneasy atmosphere surged through the air, with everyone feeling that strong electric current-like pressure. There was no sound, and nobody knew whether Gao Yun had won or the Corpse Demon had won.

  Li Kezhang gritted his teeth and crept upstairs, catching a glimpse of a figure flashing by, running towards the rooftop.

  "Let me kill you!"

  The voice of the corpse demon sounded from a higher place, apparently what was seen just now was not the corpse demon, and it was impossible to be Gao Yun. Li Ke's heart sank, Gao Yun had lost.

  Wang Nian wrapped the black jade yin symbol, which was faintly emitting a red glow, in cloth and rushed to the rooftop. He didn't understand what had happened, earlier Yang Ming had mentioned that corpse demon was dueling with Gao Xuan, but suddenly his own black jade yin symbol became scorching hot, he had no choice but to take it out, immediately after Gao Xuan disappeared, the corpse demon continued chasing Yang Ming.

  Wang Nian didn't want to take the black jade yin fu again, but it was clear that the current state of the black jade yin fu met the conditions for the thirteenth ghost to appear in the world as described in "Miscellaneous Talks on Driving Ghosts". Perhaps the thirteenth ghost was about to appear. Therefore, Wang Nian couldn't take this black jade yin fu.

  Below are all police, can only escape upwards, there is a secret passage on the rooftop.

  Yang Ming ran until he was out of breath and almost suffocated.

  He had never felt so unlucky before, easily escaping Wang Nian's palm only to encounter the Corpse Demon in the corridor, and Lily was actually in the Corpse Demon's hands. He turned around and ran upwards, seeing Wang Nian and Zhang Haiyang again. After running past them with a glimmer of hope, he thought he could finally catch his breath, but then he heard the Corpse Demon's roar, scaring him out of his wits, and continued to flee towards the rooftop.

  It's getting harder to hear the sounds below, found a place to hide, but then the phone rang, and the voices outside indicated that something was attracted. Yang Ming hastily pressed the mute button, but the ringtone stubbornly rang again. The door was knocked open, and it wasn't the Corpse Demon who came in, but rather the Ghost Tooth, Gao Juan.

  "I'm going to kill you!"

  Yang Ming was like a bereaved orphan, and his new escape began with farting and urinating.

  Fortunately, Gao Qian did not catch up, Yang Ming heard the voice of the Corpse Demon, and the two monsters confronted each other.

  At this time, Yang Ming suddenly remembered to answer the phone, it was a call from Pi Guang. He had arrived at the building with people from the Lingyi Association, but they couldn't get in. Yang Ming grasped at this lifeline and immediately told him that there was a secret passage leading directly into the building. Yang Ming had already run to the rooftop, unaware that Wang Nian had also designed a secret passage here, and he didn't dare go downstairs again, so he could only wait helplessly.

  The door of the attic was knocked open and the corpse demon walked out.

  "Let me kill you!"

  Yang Ming's legs trembled and urine flowed down his pants leg.