Chapter 7: The Truth of Qinan

  Ge Yufeng was busy with the case of the amusement park, what gave him a headache was that Hu Fei, Blue Jade Gemstone Crystal had gone missing, and Xia Li's three cases, he hadn't solved any of them, not even a single clue! Following Mu Shuqin for so long, there was no progress except for suspicion, his brow furrowed.

  After that day, she didn't show any expression or say a word. Was it his own behavior that hurt her? And yet, she was just an 18-year-old girl after all. He hoped this whole series of events had nothing to do with her, but deep down he thought she must have some great connection to these things. Who was the woman who stole the blue sapphire crystal? Why did they say the crystal couldn't fall into their hands? And who were they? This whole series of questions gave him a headache.

  Picked up a blue bookmark on the table, which recorded information about Mushu.

  Mushu Ke, born on October 24, 1996 in Chengdu. In 2001, she got lost and was sent to the police station, where she was found by her family after 5 hours. At the end of that year, her parents took her back to their hometown, but they themselves went to work in Qinan. In 2005, Mushu Ke's parents brought her to Qinan, where she attended school until 2015, when she returned to Sichuan for high school due to household registration issues...

  "Xu Fan, check it out, there are records about the Blue Jade Crystal."

  "Uncle Ma, I have something I'd like to ask for your help..."

  Time flies, tomorrow I have to go back to school, since then, Ge Yufeng and Mu Shuqin haven't seen each other a few times, let alone talk. She doesn't care, they're not familiar with each other, everything will end after this and there won't be any more intersections!

  The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty tunnel, giving off an extremely mysterious and eerie atmosphere. "Ye Qi Xue, I didn't expect to see you again so soon. I heard from a dark alley that a mysterious woman had stolen the Blue Jade Crystal, and I guessed it was you."

  The woman looked at him coldly and sneered: "So, it's just you who came alone."

  "Hah, my prey, how could I let someone else take action?" The evil voice made the woman's eyes slightly frosty. The man slowly walked out of the shadows, revealing his face. He had fine facial features and looked very feminine, but his expression was cold and sinister. His mouth corners were raised with a bloodthirsty smile, making one feel chilled to the bone. His sunken eyes were filled with a desire to taste her delicious fresh blood.

  "Night, I'm no longer the me of old, nor do I want to go back to who I used to be. But you, you're still the same as ever, stuck in the past, obsessed with slaughter... You can't beat me."

  "Heh heh." Accompanied by the eerie laughter that echoed through the night, the man's figure suddenly appeared in front of the woman. His hands swung forward, each movement producing a sharp "whooshing" sound as they sliced through the air. His ten fingers were razor-sharp cones, their tips black and gleaming with a deadly poison. His movements were so swift that ordinary human eyes couldn't keep up with his actions, precisely targeting the woman's throat.

  The woman suddenly pulled out a dagger from somewhere to block his attack, her eyes still calm and serene, with the dark and sinister face reflected in her clear pupils, her venomous expression looked very eerie.

  "It's always been this way, everything is prioritized for you, but I'm actually the stronger one! Why do you have so many people around you?! Why does he always choose you?! Why?! If I just kill you, I'll be the first, I want to make everyone know that my abilities are the strongest!"

  The night air was filled with the sound of his loud, sharp movements, each step closing in on her fatal weakness. The woman still showed no signs of panic, only a pitiful gaze at him, "You are truly pathetic, being the strongest and gaining his favor, what does it matter? You still have no freedom, and besides, you can't win against me."

  His pupils suddenly constricted, his toes tapped against the wall and he leaped up, with a sharp knife thrusting towards the woman's brain from top to bottom. The woman slightly closed her eyes, and the only pity in her eyes disappeared. Her body quickly rotated, flipping over in mid-air to reach his side. The clothes on the woman's left arm suddenly shattered, and a colorless transparent tentacle appeared from her shoulder, like a bullet, it pierced through his heart in an instant. The tentacle slightly rotated, and his body began to twist, Ye Gu let out a miserable cry.

  The woman slowly fell to the ground, coldly staring at the person convulsing on the ground. "I can't stay with you. If I had a choice, I'd rather be an ordinary person, but I also feel fortunate to have power, so I can protect the people who matter to me."

  "Jie jie, you can't protect her, just like her, Jie jie, you didn't save her but chose to abandon her and escape yourself. Jie jie, you..." Before she could finish speaking, Ye Gui's eyes widened, and the blood flowing out of his body splattered everywhere. A hint of pain flashed across the woman's eyes. With a "bang", the hand pierced through the man's body again, and Ye Gui's body suddenly burst open. The woman stood in the bloody water, allowing the disgusting dark red blood to stain her white dress. Her expression was unclear, but her heart grew colder, as if there was a thick layer of ice. The sorrow made her unable to let it out, she just stood there stupidly, her slender body supporting her.

  Her head slightly tilted to the right, a flurry of hurried footsteps approached her, she didn't move or respond until that person appeared in her line of sight, it was him, Ge Yu Feng!

  Ge Yu Feng ran all the way, not knowing how long he had run before stopping and bending down to catch his breath. After stabilizing his breathing, he finally sensed a strong smell of blood. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and stood up straight.

  It was a woman, standing in the pool of blood wearing a white gauze skirt, the hem stained with a layer of dark red blood. Her hair cascaded down her back like snow to her waist. Looking at her pale but bloodless profile, the scattered hair on her forehead covered her eyes. She just stood quietly, as if she hadn't noticed him. The blood slowly flowed to his feet. Ge Yu Feng stared at her without blinking, taking a step closer with each passing moment.

  His heart was racing so fast it felt like it was going to jump out, and as he walked up to her, he saw the mangled remains of a body on the ground that were no longer human in shape. A chill ran down his spine as he took in her appearance, and his mind went blank. Those eyes hidden under her hair seemed to pierce through him, causing his heart to ache with a sharp pain that felt like it was going to tear apart.

  Ge Yu Feng's hand was tightly clasped over his chest, the other grasping at his head as if it were about to split open. His eyes, a pale blue like sapphires, should have been clear and beautiful, but now seemed icy and gloomy. Ge Yu Feng tried to suppress the strange emotions in his heart, a mix of heartache and sorrow.

  The woman didn't dodge or escape, she stood quietly, watching him clutch his chest in pain, watching him bite his lip hard to prevent the pain from showing, watching him struggle until his eyes became clear and determined, watching him look disheveled, with a cold gaze that seemed to emanate indifference.

  Ge Yufeng calmed down, looking at those transparent eyes and said word by word: "I happened to see you coming out of the building where I live on my way back, but I've never seen you before. It's unlikely that I would have ignored you." As he spoke, he glanced at that smooth white hair.

  "I saw you leave the neighborhood and walk to a corner, then suddenly disappear. I used special methods to investigate Mu Shu's experiences between 5-8 years old, it was very strange, there were many blanks in between, and you would often go to a forest. The plants in Qinan didn't start blooming overnight, but rather after a bloody event that happened 11 years ago, which made people tremble with fear. What's strange is that many people died in that event, and those who knew about it suddenly disappeared overnight, but the rest of the people seemed like nothing had happened, so such a big event didn't even have police investigating, until May 5th, 2004, when today's Qinan began to take shape. However, not everyone disappeared, and not everyone forgot what happened that day. There was one person, she told me about that night, what happened."

  It was a terrible nightmare that she would never forget for the rest of her life. That night, a shrill and terrifying scream came from somewhere, which was a girl's voice, sounding extremely painful and miserable. The locals gathered to check the source of the sound and saw a girl on the street corner, who was a white-haired girl with eerie white hair wrapped around her curled up body. When she found them, she escaped in fear and ran to Kabul Lake. The girl turned around, and what made people's hearts tremble with fear was that her eyes were an eerie blood-red color. Many transparent things emerged from her body and squirmed in mid-air. At that time, people who saw this scene shouted that it was a monster. The girl looked very painful, with her face scrunched up, and let out a scream that shook people's eardrums like a sonic wave, causing their ears to bleed. The things on the girl's body attacked them, and in just an instant, the place became a sea of blood.

  And she was so scared that she hid behind a tree and barely escaped, afterwards many people came and saw the scene were very frightened, the person with the tool waved to kill her, the girl seemed to have regained consciousness and did not harm them, just kept running away.

  After that, they didn't run for a few steps before their bodies seemed to be frozen in place, including hers. Although she couldn't move, she could still see what was happening. A group of black-clad men appeared, and the man in charge laughed and clapped his hands, praising, "Not bad, not bad, you're indeed the person I've been looking for. This ability is really great, but... being too kind-hearted isn't suitable for you. You're a first-time eruption, huh? You did pretty well, though. The rest will be taken care of by us." Then, the man made a hand gesture, and the black-clad men behind him began to slaughter innocent people. The girl shrank to one side, trembling with fear, her eyes brimming with tears in a helpless expression.