"Eat it." I delivered the order decisively.
Xiaoying hesitated slightly before taking the porcelain bottle and pouring out several small, thumb-tip-sized, purplish-red pills.
The car was soon filled with a faint smell of fishiness, causing Xiaoying to furrow her brows and feeling a slight sensation of nausea.
"Just one is enough," I reminded again.
Xiaoying took back the excess pills and struggled to swallow one.
After that, she immediately handed back the porcelain bottle and opened the car window to breathe in deeply, as if waiting even one second longer would make her vomit.
In an instant, her pale face turned rosy, and the previous appearance of both spirit and blood deficiency vanished.
"What is this medicine?" Xiaoying turned around and blankly asked me.
"It's a unique secret medicine from my master, and I only have these few pills." I replied truthfully.
The pills in the porcelain bottle indeed were the secret elixir for vitality provided by Lao Qin.
The recipe is known to me, but the manufacturing process is complicated and the materials even more so. Lao Qin has said that this medicine is beyond the capability of those who practice in the lowest stratum.
Therefore, even though I've been using the Yang Poison Blood frequently lately, I haven't dared to take it.
Thoughts crossed my mind, and I said to Xiaoying, "First go back to your home. Even if you need to ask for help from the temple keeper, you can't lower your dignity. Tell them that I am considering a talk."
Xiaoying lightly nodded, saying, "That's the only way it can be."
As the car turned around, my phone rang.
After connecting the call, a familiar yet slightly unsettled voice came through.
"Is that Tang Qian?"
I immediately realized that the person contacting me was Zhao Kan's younger sister, Zhao Zui!
What does she want from me?
To be honest, I feel a bit guilty about Zhao Nie.
After all, she and Zhao Kang have a deep bond. She helped me find the vintage shop because she thought that I and Zhao Kang were friends, and wanted to help him rest in peace.
However, in reality, Zhao Kang was eaten by the skinless ghost.
Humans cannot kill ghosts, only suppress them. Ghosts, on the other hand, can kill ghosts, and eating a ghost is also a form of it.
This is almost the same as the so-called soul dispersal.
"I am." I tried to maintain a calm tone.
It's possible that Zhao Nie wants to ask about Zhao Kang's situation?
After all, after the curse of the abandoned building was solved, I didn't find her to follow up.
My thoughts raced, trying to figure out how to explain.
Zhao Nie's uneasy voice became much stronger.
"I've had some trouble at home. Could you come and take a look?"
My pupils shrunk for a moment, but internally, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, she didn't ask about Zhao Kang.
Because I really didn't know how to open my mouth, and I felt a bit guilty in my heart.
So I asked her back, "What kind of trouble have you encountered?"
Zhao Nie's tone became even more fearful, as if she was about to cry, saying, "A few days ago, I found a pile of money... but every night, people keep knocking on the door outside the cat's eye. But there's nothing outside."
"Tang Brother... Can I wait for you at the gate of the community?"
My thoughts were racing, and my brow furrowed.
I replied promptly, "Sure, I'll take a look."
Zhao Nie exclaimed in delight, "Good!"
However, the next second, the phone actually beeped off.
"Who is looking for you? What are you going to see?" Xiaoying's demeanor was slightly awkward.
I gave a brief explanation of the situation Zhao Nie had described.
I also said that we had originally agreed that it would be Zhao Nie who would inform the temple keeper first, and I was considering talking about it.
Now it's convenient, I'll go and check out what's happening with Zhao Nie, and she can go to find the leader and Yang Guan Shi.
By not showing up myself, she can take more initiative instead.
Huā Yíng was silent for a moment, speaking somewhat unnaturally, "The situation is like that, but you could just as easily wait for me anywhere. Is it really necessary to go see Zhao Nie?"
"I answered, "She probably just found the money she's destined to lose. It's a small matter, and her brother is quite pitiable."
As for this matter, what Huā Yíng knows is no more than what I explained to Uncle Huang.
As for Zhao Kang being eaten, she had no knowledge of it.
Huā Yíng's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and suddenly she said, "Have you thought about... What if we run into a plague ghost?"
"After all, according to your description at the time, after you suppressed Zhao Kang and took off his glasses, he became a plague ghost..."
"Very likely, it was the plague ghost that ate Zhao Kang first, and then was suppressed by the glasses, or maybe it deliberately hid itself."
"Is there a second possibility that the plague ghost returned to Zhao Kang's appearance and returned to Zhao Nie's side? Zhao Nie said she picked up dead people's money, but actually, she was just trying to trick you into going over?"
Huā Yíng's words were even more well-reasoned and logical.
The words of Huā Yíng caused me to break into a cold sweat, and I had goosebumps almost everywhere.
I understood this intuitively and didn't think of it on that level. After all, Zhao Kang was "eaten."
But if the plague ghost eats another ghost, and also eats away at the memories...
What Huā Yíng said could indeed happen!
For a moment, my face darkened and brightened alternately, and large beads of sweat trickled down my forehead.
"However... I suddenly had an idea."
Huā Yíng suddenly stepped on the brakes and pulled the car over to the side of the road.
She said she wanted to plan, I could go and see Zhao Nie and see how she is.
If it's just a small matter, I can take care of it on the way. If I can find any trace of the plague ghost, I'll immediately notify the City God Temple!
Once the City God Temple can capture the plague ghost, we will be doing them a great favor. We can even say that we have convinced Uncle Huang to help us once!
Huā Yíng's words made my heart race even faster.
I asked Huā Yíng how to contact the City God Temple.
Huā Yíng, however, asked me to take out the Yuhui jade piece to take a look.
After taking it out, my face turned again.
The jade piece itself was a light grey color, resembling the arm connected to Siye.
However, it has turned into an icy white color now, and the evil ghost connected to Siye's arm has become an abstract figure, like a "person".
"Indeed, that's what it is." Huā Yíng murmured, with a glint of excitement in her eyes.
She just told me that if one were to encounter a plague ghost, calling wouldn't work. If her guess is correct, a plague ghost surrounded by earthy Qi might even not fear sunlight, but that was just her conjecture.
"That's right," Huā Yíng said. "If you break the jade piece in a crucial moment, the daily patrol will immediately find me!"
My pupils shrank again.
At this point, Huā Yíng told me it was safe to get out of the car and to call her back later.
After I got out of the car, Huā Yíng's vehicle immediately left.
The sun was bigger than before, and a beam of sunlight pierced through the foliage on the side of the road, illuminating my face.
I tilted my head slightly, raising the jade piece, and the sunlight pierced through the thin jade, dazzlingly bright for a moment!
Again, some rumors about the City God Temple rose to my mind.
With a firm grip on the jade piece, I carefully put it away. Then I started hailing a taxi.
A few minutes later, I got into a taxi and told the driver "Caoxi Road, Fanghua Community."
When I arrived outside the Fanghua Community, it was almost ten o'clock, with the scorching sun in the sky, even more intense.
I pushed open the car door and saw Zhao Zui, slightly anxious, pacing back and forth a short distance away on the side of the road.
I was about to get out of the car, but Zhao Zui looked up and saw me immediately.
She suddenly raised her hand and made a "shh" noise at me, shook her head slightly, and quickly walked towards me!
Throughout, her lips quivered slightly as if she was saying, "Don't get out of the car!"
For some reason, a string of fine goosebumps immediately popped up on my body.
I felt a sense of alarm and suspicion rising in me.
Something seems a bit off!
