Chapter 5: Chasing the soul

The lobby seemed to have been paused.

The girl who had inexplicably entered and caused a commotion was now lying on the ground with her eyes wide open.

There was a big hole in her stomach, and her bloody internal organs could no longer be seen in their original form.

They flowed out mixed with blood and splashed all over the ground.

After a long while, a scream pressed the play button again.

“Ah——”

Dead… dead!

Who did it?! What happened!

The crowd gathered together and scattered. Their expressions of eating melons instantly turned into horror.

They wished they could stay eight feet away from the corpse on the ground.

Cao Jing originally had his back to the girl, in a heroic posture to save the beauty.

He turned around just when the girl’s last cry came out. It was one of the people whose face was covered with blood.

He was frightened and confused at this time, as if he didn’t know what happened.

He trembled all over and looked at the crowd that was gradually moving away.

What are you still standing there for? Call the police!”

Fang Wenrui shouted, and at the same time took out his mobile phone to make a call, but he couldn’t dial it out.

No signal? How could there be no signal!

No! The emergency call can’t get through!

I… I have to go back first!”

The lobby was in chaos, and only two people stood still.

Fang Qi stared at the place where the girl’s stomach was torn, where a black gas was lingering and gradually condensed.

Yin Chi stood there with his arms around her shoulders, indifferent to the screams and escapes of others.

At this time, the black gas on the girl’s stomach suddenly took shape and rushed out of the hotel door at lightning speed.

Fang Qi was about to chase her, but there was an extra resistance on his shoulders.

He looked sideways and said in a deep voice: “Let go!”

Huh? Yin Chi was watching the “farce” in the lobby leisurely. When he heard him speak, he was puzzled for a moment, then looked at someone’s expressionless but suggestive face, and said: “Oh, okay.”

As soon as he withdrew his hand, Fang Qi chased after her like an arrow from a bow.

Yin Chi watched him chase out the door. The warmth in his palms was still there.

He couldn’t help but clench his palms and smiled meaningfully, “You run really fast.”

Outside the hotel, Fang Qi contacted Xie Ci as soon as he came out. He failed to get through, so he changed the contact information of the underworld, but it still didn’t work. After trying twice, he decisively gave up.

The black gas that rushed out of the hotel disappeared as soon as he went out. It was not that Fang Qi didn’t chase fast enough, but after he came out, things similar to the black gas that killed people were almost everywhere outside.

The entire Changning Street, except for the Phoenix Hotel behind him, all other buildings seemed to have been collectively cut off from power and were shrouded in thick fog. Not a single light could be seen.

Xie Ci was probably offline because of this.

When did it become like this?

Fuck! Is there a power outage?”

A voice came from behind, as if startled by the pitch-black street.

Fang Qi turned around and saw that the man frowned slightly: “What are you doing out here?”

Chasing you,” Fang Wenrui said as a matter of course. “Aren’t you here to pick me up? You came by car, right? Where’s the car?”

Come to pick him up? Where did this misunderstanding come from?

Fang Qi stepped into the thick fog: “No car.”

No car? Why did you rush out without a car? Are you running back?” Fang Wenrui said: “I didn’t agree to go back with you. I’m afraid that if I encounter a murder case, my parents will worry.”

Someone died in the hotel in public, it would definitely be on the news!

While he was explaining, Fang Qi’s figure had disappeared into the fog.

Fang Wenrui hurried to catch up.

The young master was obviously still in a state of confusion. He followed Fang Qi and kept chattering, “I’m so unlucky today.

I came to eat and encountered a murder scene. The police phone couldn’t get through. How did the girl’s belly burst?

Did someone put a time bomb in her belly? Why did they kill her? Did the person who hired her kill her to silence her?

Is this targeting her or you? This is too cruel… Hey, where are you going!”

Fang Wenrui felt something was wrong as he followed. Why was the fog getting thicker where they were walking?

He couldn’t help but look back, and this look scared him. He saw that the road they had just walked was covered by fog, and dense figures appeared on the side of the road.

Those people didn’t say a word and walked back and forth like zombies.

When they came over… were there so many people on the road?

At this time, Fang Qi finally stopped and verified someone’s previous words – he couldn’t get out.

This thick fog had no end at all.

What are you doing? Looking for a way?” Fang Wenrui walked up to him.

Fang Qi ignored him.

But there were other sounds coming faintly from the thick fog, probably someone else ran out of the hotel.

Those voices sounded panicked and helpless.

Again…back again, why can’t we get out?

I remember the road is right here, is it a ghost wall?

I don’t want to die…I want to go back! I want to go back!

Fang Wenrui was puzzled, “Huh, ghost wall? What era is it still having this kind of feudal superstition? But what does it mean to not be able to get out?

What’s going on with this fog? Did the weather forecast say there would be heavy fog today?”

This guy must have had a hundred thousand questions when he was young.

Fang Qi looked back at the person who had been following him.

Ever since he woke up from the car accident, he had never felt anything for Fang’s family, and Fang Wenrui had an attitude of not being able to see him, not being bothered by him.

However, Fang Qi’s mind flashed with the scene of this person just standing up to speak for him.

Don’t you hate him very much? Why are you following him now?

He has always been curious about why his fate line appeared on things related to Fang Wenrui.

You’re not afraid?” Fang Qi asked.

What?” Fang Wenrui was stunned for a moment, then said: “What are you afraid of? Afraid of ghosts?

How is that possible? I have watched countless movies since I was a child, and 90% of them are suspense and horror movies.

Would I be afraid of ghosts? What a joke?”

He unconsciously raised his voice at the end.

He didn’t even blink when someone died just now!

This person was timid and ran out, but he actually dared to look down on him?

He looked offended.

Fang Qi said “Oh” and started to turn around and walk back.

Since he couldn’t get out, he could only solve the problem first.

The same way of shuttling through the thick fog, the way back was much more terrifying than the way here.

Although he couldn’t see anything clearly through the fog, Fang Wenrui always felt that those figures were facing them and were peeping at them through the thick fog.

He involuntarily moved closer to Fang Qi and lowered his voice, “Who are these people?

Are they the residents who ran out because of the power outage? Why aren’t they talking?”

Fang Qi: “You can ask them.”

He said casually, but Fang Wenrui paused for a moment and nodded, “That makes sense. I’ll go ask them where I can get a taxi.”

Before he could stop him, Fang Wenrui had already walked towards the figure closest to them enthusiastically, “Big brother, may I ask, where is the nearest…”

The voice stopped abruptly.

The thick fog peeled away, and the originally blurred figure was close at hand. It felt that the face facing them also became clear, but it was not what Fang Wenrui imagined at all.

The person in front of him had short wet hair and a face that was festering.

He stared at the person who greeted him, and his eyeballs were missing from his dark eye sockets. Soon red liquid oozed out.

Fang Wenrui: “…”

Fang Qi looked at him from behind, and was relieved when he saw that he didn’t react much.

The figures that appeared in the thick fog were all wandering souls. If their obsessions were not eliminated or their earthly ties were not resolved, the ghosts that could not be reincarnated would keep wandering in the world.

Over time, their memories would gradually be lost, and they would become wandering souls without knowing anything and wandering aimlessly.

If Fang Qi had not made a choice or had not passed the civil service exam in the underworld, he would probably have become such a thing many years later.

These wandering souls do not cause any harm to humans except for looking scary, so just pretend you didn’t see them.

Fang Wenrui was so calm that he looked at him with a new eye.

Fang Qi continued to walk towards the dim light. As soon as he turned around, he heard a “thump” behind him.

He turned his head sharply and saw that the person who had just greeted the ghost was now lying straight on the ground.

Fang Qi: “…”

Fang Qi: “?”

The ghost and the wandering soul looked at each other, and there was even a bit of innocence in the wandering soul’s empty eyes.

Fang Qi was stunned for a long time before he realized that the person had fainted from fear.

He was speechless.

Who was the one who was talking nonsense just now?

After hesitating for a long time, Fang Qi walked forward, thinking about where to start, and finally lifted the collar of Fang Wenrui’s clothes with disdain.

He half dragged Fang Wenrui forward with one hand. Seeing that the light was getting brighter and brighter, they were about to return to the hotel.

However, a dark shadow appeared in the thick fog in front of them. A huge thing suddenly rushed out of the fog, opening its bloody mouth and running straight towards the brothers.

Fang Qi was slightly startled, and reacted quickly to take Fang Wenrui to dodge. In the thick fog, they could barely distinguish what was attacking them.

It was a four-legged animal, which looked like a lizard, but had a big head. It was dripping with mucus and was shrouded in black air, like an animal ghost corroded by resentment.

Animal ghost?

Before he could think about it, the monster had already pounced on them again. Fang Qi frowned, hesitating whether to fight back or kick back.

The moment he raised his eyes, his eyes paused, and he saw a familiar face on the head of the disgusting thing.

He suddenly had an idea and was about to throw Fang Wenrui out. The monster turned his eyes and rushed over.

Coming for Fang Wenrui?

Fang Qi thought of something and lowered his head. Sure enough, he saw the black mark on Fang Wenrui’s neck that had disappeared before reappeared.

In the hotel lobby, guests were coming in and out in panic.

Cao Jing and his group were so scared that their legs were weak and they dared not move.

Where did Fang Wenrui go?”

He went out with Fang Qi and drove away!”

Gone? Then can’t we leave? Cao Jing, isn’t this your hotel? Think of a way!”

Cao Jing was pushed hard by someone, and his shrunken neck was exposed. The person who pushed him suddenly had a shrinking pupil.

Cao Jing, you…what’s on your neck?”

No, you have it on your neck too!”

Fuck! What is this?!” The same black mark appeared on their necks one after another, and they looked at each other in panic.

Yin Chi sat at the same table as if nothing had happened to him. When he heard the noise, he turned his head to look at it and raised his eyebrows slightly, saying, “Oh, the Soul-Chasing Seal.”

What…what seal?” Cao Jing was closest to him and heard it most clearly, and his face turned pale.

People who are targeted by ghosts will have a mark on their souls. They will come to you to take your life and never stop until you die.

This is called the Soul-Chasing Seal.” Yin Chi lazily propped up his face and smiled leisurely, Congratulations, you will die soon.”

Cao Jing: “???!”