However, when I put down the phone, the woman had vanished.
She did not follow me down.
Even, as if trying to avoid my camera?
I did not linger on this street but quickly left in another direction.
During this period, I was extremely careful, afraid that there might be a tail.
After walking out two streets, I stopped a car on the side of the road. Once I got in, I gave the driver my destination address.
I didn't choose to return to the city village; this address was the location where I had discarded the magpie bird carcass earlier.
There, I had met Huayan twice before.
On the way, I sent Huayan a message, admitting my mistake and disclosing my current whereabouts, along with photos attached.
Huayan did not reply to me.
I took a deep breath, feeling a sense of indescribable gloom in my heart.
Since Sun Haishan asked Huayan for her WeChat after that, I have inferred that Huayan has an older sister or a younger sister who is familiar with Sun Zhuo.
At that time, Huayan seemed very bitter and vengeful, saying she would tell me.
Later, when I questioned her in the suburbs, she still didn't say……
Approximately half an hour later, the car arrived at its destination.
Not long after I arrived, Huayan's white sports car also arrived, but she didn't get out.
I got on the passenger side.
Huayan's eyes were red, clearly having just cried.
She held the steering wheel with one hand and her phone in the other.
I briefly recounted my experience at Sun's home.
Huayan's lips were clenched even tighter, almost bleeding.
"Don't you suspect me?" She turned her head, her eyes brimming with tears, exuding a delicate aura of willow blossoms shedding rain, a look that was heart-wrenching.
"Suspect? Why should I suspect you?" I counter: "Are you suspected of not personally delivering me to Sun's family, or what?"
Huayan remained silent once again.
After a long moment, she managed to say with difficulty, "That was not Huayan, it was Hua Ying."
Huayan opened her mouth and I finally understood the whole situation.
She indeed had an older sister, about three years her senior.
Her older sister was much stronger in terms of talent and ability.
However, she somehow got involved with a Taoist, who happened to be Sun Zhuo.
She didn't know how her sister met Sun Zhuo, but regardless, she was dead set on him.
Her family believed that the Taoist was from a prestigious background, while their own family was considered a side branch of Taoism, and there wouldn't be a good outcome.
Nevertheless, her sister went against the family's opposition and continued to follow Sun Zhuo to Jinyang.
Soon after, her sister contacted the family, sobbing uncontrollably, saying that Sun Zhuo's father opposed their relationship and said that her sister wasn't good enough for Sun Zhuo.
In fact, her family had been mentally prepared for such a situation, so they scolded her and ordered her to return immediately.
After that, her sister went missing.
The star chart for her sister split and a blood xing emerged.
At this point, Huayan's lips oozed a trace of blood.
She tightly held onto her phone, with her knuckles as white as snow.
"Blood Xing is a type of insect. This concerns the secret of our family. If a person dies in a special way, their blood will transform into a firefly. When aggregated, it becomes a ghost, and when dispersed, it is blood Xing. Blood Xing will devour the soul of a person. Once afflicted, the outcome is usually tragic."
"This secret is known only to members of our family, no one else."
"However, I suspect that my sister told Sun Zhuo, which is why she died... Sun Zhuo must have taken advantage of her!"
Huayan was initially recounting the story quietly, but now her voice was filled with bitterness and resentment.
She mockingly said, "Indeed, strength is more seductive than beauty."
My pupils shrank slightly.
Vaguely, I speculated on a possibility.
Sun Haishan said that Huayan's sister was not worthy of Sun Zhuo, could it be that her sister revealed the secret and was then killed by Sun Zhuo?
Or, was it Huayan's sister who committed suicide?
But either way, it is too pitiful and pathetic. She has become a card in Sun Zhuo's hand……
"Sun Haishan is too cunning. He might have already been calculating and guessing when he saw me, after all, family members say we look alike. I don't know if he recognized you back then," Huayan whispered again.
I didn't say anything.
Whether it was the parrot that exposed me, or Sun Haishan who recognized me, it no longer matters.
The outcome has been determined; it's certain that we have lost the chance to take action against the Sun family!
"We cannot go after Sun Haishan now. I don't know why, but Sun Zhuo is not here. They have used your sister, and if they add Sun Zhuo, you are definitely in trouble."
Huayan took a moment to calm down, then asked me with confusion.
I squinted my eyes and remembered the strange Miao You San.
Without hesitation, I told her about Miao You San and that the regulators were pursuing him, including Sun Zhuo.
"That means... This Miao You San also has secrets. He is indeed suspicious. He is supposed to be a fortune teller, but he actually collects bodies in the underworld……"
"That was indeed strange. When he first appeared in the underworld, collecting the bodies of living people, it was very peculiar. Over the years, he has not had many transactions, but I've heard that he indeed has completed each task."
"Fortunately, because of misfortune, if Sun Zhuo was not ordered to capture him, you would have really been in trouble today."
Huayan appeared visibly shaken.
"However, there is still something strange. Miao You San wouldn't want dead bodies. I also remembered something else. There was a very capable person in the underworld who wanted to sell a body to Miao You San to do something for him, but Miao You San refused, saying he would only take live ones, not dead ones. He actually wanted the dead body of your master; that's really strange," Huayan murmured again.
I furrowed my brow, also thinking deeply.
For some reason, I kept thinking about the scene where Miao You San was picking up sticks on the ground and muttering to himself that my master had died, but he wasn't dead.
He is a fortune teller.
Is it because of him, or is there something strange about Lao Qin's death?
I shook my head and said, "After all, he had no good intentions."
Lao Qin couldn't still be alive. I personally collected the body, and it was incontinent of urine and feces.
Only when a person dies will it be like that.
"It's not that he has no good intentions. If he didn't want your body, but instead wanted to bother you and sell your master's dead body, that would be fine. Miao You San's strength is not weak; he probably just didn't want to get into bigger trouble, which is why he didn't take action against the three men who were chasing him." Huayan suddenly said.
My expression turned cold instantly.
Huayan immediately realized something was off and said she was just joking, not to take it seriously.
I didn't respond. I looked out the window.
The Sun family is out of reach for now, so there's no need to worry too much about the regulators.
It's just that Sun Haishan set a trap for me, which makes me feel uncomfortable in my heart.
The Yuan Si is also trouble.
The head of the guard, Yang Guanshi, is two-faced. He not only took advantage of me, but I didn't get anything out of it either.
Letting Huayan take away Tang Shu, is a contingency plan for us after we pull it off. Now there's no need for that.
We can't put it off any longer; we need to go to Yuan Si early.
Looking at Huayan, I was thinking of having her drive me.
Huayan's phone began to vibrate.
She glanced at the screen and made a soft "hmph" sound.
"Something is not right. The Huang Si is not supposed to be accessible; there should be no way to make calls from the third underground floor with such heavy negative energy."
She looked back at me.
"Answer," I said, only one word.
Huayan answered the phone and pressed the speaker.
The ominous voice of Yang Guanshi came out.
"Mu Yan, are you with Luo Xian Shen?"
"He really does have skills. I sealed the door, and that ghost still managed to escape."
"Tell him that Huang Si has accepted defeat and shouldn't have plotted against him."
"His ghost killed eight of us, so he's somewhat avenged himself."
"Please let him come again, I'll hand over the necessary materials to him."
Huayan's eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered back, "Yang Guanshi, I'm not with Luo Xian Shen. What you're saying doesn't make sense to me."
