Chapter 4 Two People

  "Do you live alone?" Tian Qi had now entered the old policeman's house, a simple living room and bedroom, he was here by himself this time, Chou Shen continued to search for information, Pang Zi looked at the storefront.

  "I've been living alone for many years. My child went abroad to study and stayed there. My wife passed away ten years ago." The old policeman poured a glass of water for Tian Qi.

  Tian Qi saw his loneliness and sadness from the tone of the police officer's speech, thought of his own parents, wondering if they also felt lonely because he was often abroad, it seemed that there was time to accompany his parents more.

  "That friend of yours in black clothes is not simple." The two were chatting when the old policeman suddenly came out with this sentence.

  "Occasionally, what do you see?" If it weren't for the clothes blocking his view, Tian Qi would have definitely noticed that the bloody handprint on the policeman's back was emitting a faint red glow. However, he still detected a hint of abnormality in the policeman's eyes, as if they didn't belong to the same person he had just spoken with, but rather someone else, too deep to see through.

  "To be honest, I'm not very clear about the details either... Ah, sorry, as people get older, they tend to doze off easily. Don't mind me, where were we just now?" The police officer thought he might have just dozed off for a moment.

  But Tian Qi knew that he wasn't sleepy at all, and was just chatting a moment ago. The policeman's eyes had returned to normal now, and Tian Qi didn't tell him about the strange occurrence. It wouldn't be good for him to speak out before the matter was investigated clearly.

  Tian Qi deliberately stayed a little longer at the police officer's home, wanting to observe if anything unusual would happen again. However, that situation did not occur again, and in the end, he could only bid farewell and leave first.

  "Kid, if you knew what was going to happen to you later, you wouldn't be able to accept it now. I hope when the time comes, you'll make the choice you think is right." At this moment, the bloody handprint on the old policeman's back emitted a faint red glow again, and Tianqi had already walked out of the compound gate.

  On the way back, Tian Qi thought about his conversation with Lao Jingcha again, as well as the abnormal situation that had occurred. He was almost certain that this was a case of "shen jiang", where another being, different from ordinary humans, had taken up residence in Lao Jingcha's body. However, he currently had no way of determining what kind of being it was, whether human or something else. There was just too little information available on this aspect.

  But there is one thing that can be proved, it's not an evil thing. Otherwise, knowing someone is investigating him and still hasn't made a move doesn't make sense. In those abnormal eyes, Tian Qi also didn't see any murderous intent.

  "What's the purpose after all? I hope Qi Shen can find some useful information." The doubts grew bigger, Tian Qi looked out of the car and saw people coming and going, he suddenly had an idea, among these people, would there be many more like the old policeman, with another creature living inside their bodies, coexisting, what's the purpose after all?

  Maybe after this matter is investigated clearly, the truth will be revealed.

  Although he was eccentric, his ability was not much worse than Tian Qi's. He was just too low-key in his daily life. Through searching for information, he indeed found some clues.

  "Longevity clan? Transcending life and death?" Fatso's eyes widened in shock after hearing Chou Shen's brief introduction, once again exceeding his cognitive range.

  "I once read in a book that they are said to be a special kind of human with an extremely long lifespan."

  The information currently available is limited to this, and Qiu Shen's investigation only provided a brief introduction to people of this type. Whether they really exist or not cannot be verified. Tian Qi met with the policeman alone, although he recovered quickly, his eyes and tone were definitely those of another person.

  He decided to go live with the police for a few days.

  "How can that be? Now things are not clear, what if something unexpected happens? Besides, who will cook when you leave?" The fatty refused.

  "I won't be staying for long, at most it'll just be a day or two," Tian Qi thought to himself, more worried about who would cook his meals than his own safety.

  Chou Shen didn't say anything, which was equivalent to having no opinion. Tian Qi called the police officer Zhang Xin, who agreed very readily.

  Actually, Tian Qi had always had a question in his mind. Although Zhang Xin said that the handprint seemed to have no effect on the body, it was so simple that he might find some clues if he stayed at his home.

  But two days have passed since moving in, nothing has been found, and Tian Qi is a bit depressed.

  "Zhang Ge, does your home have a folding bed? I want to sleep in the same room as you tonight." Actually, Tian Qi initially called him Zhang Shu, but Zhang Xin said that made himself seem too old and asked to be called Zhang Ge instead.

  "Huh?" Zhang Xin was eating the dinner Tian Qi made, looking very satisfied.

  "Look, we've been together all day for the past few days, I haven't noticed anything unusual, it's just that at night we're not in the same room, so I want to observe," although Fatso and Qiu Shen weren't by his side these days, they still kept in touch over the phone, this was a suggestion proposed by Fatso, of course, what he said wasn't put like that.

  "You guys weren't together at night, you should have slept in the same bed together, who knows if the one living in the police officer's body is a woman? Then you wouldn't have picked her up!"

  Tian Qi was speechless when he remembered what Pangzi said, although he studied abroad, but after all, his social experience was insufficient, and he couldn't compare with the old Jianghu like Pangzi.

  Officer Zhang Xin's home didn't have a folding bed, but he quickly bought one back from the market. After dinner, the two chatted for a while longer. Having been in the habit of going to bed early and getting up early for many years, Zhang Xin prepared to wash up and sleep. Tian Qi wasn't sleepy, but in order to observe, he also washed up and went to bed.

  Soon, Zhang Xin, who was sleeping on the side, started to snore softly. Tian Qi lay on his side with his eyes open, staring in Zhang Xin's direction. He had decided not to sleep for the rest of the night.

  Time slowly passed, and outside there were no more car sounds or bird calls, only the ticking sound of the clock in the living room. Zhang Xin had been insisting on not letting himself fall asleep, but at this moment he also started to doze off.

  Just as he was about to give up and sit up to clear his head, Zhang Xin's back on the opposite bed suddenly emitted a dazzling blood red light!

  The color of blood, bright red and dazzling!

  Tian Qi Qiang was taken aback without making a sound of surprise, but the shock in his heart could not be concealed, it was still his first time seeing such a situation.

  "I have no ill intentions, perhaps we can talk."

  "Ah!" Tian Qi suddenly sat up with a start, because a pair of blood-red eyes had suddenly appeared in front of him.

  Tian Qi was certain that he hadn't blinked, and Zhang Xin had just been lying there, so how could he suddenly be standing in front of his bed? How could he possibly calm down and have a good talk in this situation?

  Zhang Xin stood there, his back still emitting a faint red glow, the color much lighter than before. He was waiting for Tian Qi to calm down.

  It's clear that the Zhang Xin standing in front of me now is not the real Zhang Xin. Since he wants to talk to me, he won't harm me immediately, or maybe he plans to kill me after we're done talking...

  Tian Qi's mind was in a mess and he didn't dare take out his phone to contact Chou Shen and Pang Zi, fearing that it would provoke this person.

  The next morning at 9 o'clock, after a brief conversation with Zhang Xin, Tian Qi left. He didn't say much to Zhang Xin, mainly just one sentence: the palm print on his back was not meant to harm him, but to save him.

  On his way back, Tian Qi's mood was somewhat complicated. He wasn't sure if saving him was really a good thing.

  Last night he had a conversation with another person in Zhang Xin's body for more than three hours and learned many things.

  "Long-lived clan", with heaven's equal longevity, does not enter the cycle of life and death, through continuous residence in ordinary human bodies, life is extended.

  However, they will not harm people. The humans who are inhabited are those who would have died anyway. After inhabiting them, they can continuously extend the life of the person being inhabited through the blood handprint on their back. The person being inhabited can live normally and it does not affect brain thinking.

  However, the only drawback is that the person who is accommodated will be endlessly lonely. Life can be prolonged, but human relationships cannot be regained because his life journey has already come to an end.

  If Tian Qi tells the truth to Zhang Xin, Zhang Xin's life will rapidly decline and truly die, while the Longevity Clan that has taken residence in his body will enter the next person who is about to die.

  Tian Qi ultimately did not do so, as he felt that he was not qualified to deprive someone of their rights, even if his life might not be happy.

  Tian Qi returned to the store, saw Pangzi and Qiu Shen, and briefly told them what had happened. Pangzi was so envious of Zhang Xin that he almost drooled, hoping that when he died, he could also be taken in by the Longevity Clan, so that he could live forever.

  "If living is just for loneliness, then that in itself is a kind of murder," said Chou Shen with a frown after hearing Tian Qi's words.

  Tian Qi looked at Qiu Shen, his heart also filled with contradictions. Although he had long felt that Qiu Shen was not an ordinary person, he did not expect the Longevity Clan to tell him.

  Deep hatred, not of this world.

  Forget it, might as well not say anything now, even if I do, what's the use? Just go with the flow. Once he figured it out, Tian Qi was no longer entangled in his thoughts. He was born an optimist, otherwise he would have been scared to death by ghosts countless times.

  Take a rest for one day. Tomorrow, three people will go to the suburbs. Fat boy received an order these two days, a mysterious villa.

  However, what Tian Qi did not expect was that this mansion almost cost Bao Zi his life.