At the same time, I traveled through time and space, I dominated the heavens and the worlds

Lin Bei's words stunned the four people in the salt circle.

The villa fell silent once again.

Outside the salt circle, the five ghosts remained in the same position as before, craning their necks towards the salt circle, as if they wanted to rush in.

Hao was the first to react, cold sweat trickling down his forehead. He chuckled awkwardly, "What nonsense are you spouting? Don't think you can scare us students just because you're a policeman!"

When Hao finished speaking, Yu stared intently at Lin Bei, a belated look of surprise appearing on her face.

He tugged at Hao and pointed at Lin Bei, exclaiming, "Hao, you're right! This policeman is definitely trying to scare us. If something really was going to happen, why was he fine outside the salt circle?"
So we don't need to send the departed souls away at all; we can just step out of the salt circle. If something really happened, wouldn't that policeman be dead already?

Yu's words seemed to finally pinpoint the only sense of unease among the four of them.

Yes, if the spirits of the dead really bring danger to people, then why is Lin Bei, who was not in the salt circle in the first place, safe and sound?
The fear and panic on Lana and Lynn's faces gradually faded, and they showed joy, instinctively wanting to put down the candles in their hands and step out of the salt circle.

Just as Lana was about to take the step, Lin Bei's laughter rang out again.

“If I were you, I wouldn’t do such a stupid thing. How dare you compare yourselves to me? You may be a bit young, but you should be able to see the difference between us.”

A detached, slightly mocking voice echoed through the villa, causing Lana to slowly retract her foot, which had already taken a half-step.

From the moment they met until now, Lin Bei has always shown a gentle and kind side. This is the first time he has spoken with such arrogance and sarcasm.

Lana felt uneasy; she sensed that Officer Lin, who called himself a policeman, seemed somewhat different.

Lana raised the candle high in her hand, and the light shone directly on Lin Bei. Only then did Lana notice that Lin Bei's gaze towards them had indeed changed.

The gaze that was once gentle now seems to be scrutinizing a plaything for courting its own demise.

Lana felt a chill in her heart. Just as she was about to ask something, Yu, who was already unable to stand Lin Bei, sneered after hearing Lin Bei's words.

"Oh, so you're not pretending anymore, are you? Just a lowly policeman, thinking you're something special? Do you know who my father is? My father is the police chief, your superior! With your status, you probably rarely even see my father. You're just using your police identity to scare us students."

I won't be intimidated by you. I'll do what I want, and it's none of your business to tell me what to do!

With that, Yu stepped out of the salt circle without hesitation.

Lana and the other two were startled by Yu's actions and tried to pull him back, but as soon as they reached the edge of the salt circle, they timidly withdrew.

No one's life is more important than one's own.

Just as Yu stepped out of the salt circle, a faint, eerie breeze swept by, causing the candle in Yu's hand to sway slightly.

As the firelight flickered, Yu felt the temperature around him drop a bit, and he felt a little uneasy, so he quickly reached out to cover the candle in his hand.

He had heard a few words about the soul-summoning ritual, which was nothing more than not stepping out of the salt circle and protecting the candle in his hand from going out.

But in fact, Yu Bihao knew a little more.

That is, compared to the salt circle, the candle in my hand is more important.

The candles in their hands are like talismans; as long as the candles don't go out, evil spirits and demons can't harm them.

Unless, of course, they blew out the candles themselves.

Yu thought to himself, completely unconcerned, "How could they possibly be so foolish as to blow out the candles themselves? That would be a joke."

When the faint night breeze blew by, Yu calmed his somewhat flustered mind.

He looked around and, seeing nothing amiss, grinned arrogantly at Lin Bei on the sofa.

"See? I told you so. Stepping out of the salt circle is perfectly fine. These ghosts and such can't pose any danger to us at all. Now we just need to wait for dawn. You guys come out too, sit on the sofa. It's too tiring to stay in the salt circle all the time."

As he spoke, he turned to look at the three people in the salt circle.

However, the scene that Yu had imagined—the three people looking at him with expressions of admiration—did not occur.

The three men were deathly pale, looking at him with terrified eyes. They were huddled together, trembling with fear.

Yu was somewhat puzzled, but at the same time, a strange unease welled up from the bottom of his heart.

He suppressed his unease and forced a relaxed smile as he looked at his three companions: "Why are you all making those faces? Are you ganging up on me to scare me? I'm really fine, I'm perfectly alright, you guys..."

"Are you really alright?"

A deep, dark voice came from behind Yu. Although it was Lin Bei who made the voice, for some reason, it sounded to Yu as if it came from deep within his body.

Yu's whole body stiffened.

He sensed something was amiss after hearing Lin Bei's voice.

The surrounding temperature dropped again. Although it was a sweltering summer night, Yu felt as if he were in an ice cave, and his breath was filled with white mist.

There seemed to be something behind him.

A cool breath sprayed onto the back of his neck, and the chill seeped into his skin from the back of his neck, instantly spreading to his limbs and bones. He felt goosebumps all over his body, and this feeling of tension almost made him suffocate.

What's behind us?
Isn't that the policeman?

Was the policeman trying to scare him?
Can humans really emit such a cold aura?
Yu became increasingly frightened as he thought about it. Gradually, his body began to tremble uncontrollably. What was behind him?
Yu felt his sanity was about to collapse. He glared at the three terrified and uneasy people in front of him: "What's wrong with you? What did you see? Tell me!"

But the three of them seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying, and they couldn't utter a single word. They just looked at Yu with fear and unease.

No, that's not right, it's not about looking at Yu.

He was looking behind Yu.

Yu swallowed hard; it seemed he couldn't count on these three people.

He couldn't bear the suffocating, oppressive, and fearful feeling, so he took a deep breath and slowly turned around.

When Yu turned around completely to look behind him, the terrifying scene before him left his mind blank.

Behind Yu was a sofa set, and Lin Bei was sitting in a single sofa.

Behind the sofa is a floor-to-ceiling window, a smooth and bright pane of glass offering a view of the beautiful scenery outside.

But things are completely different now.

Without him noticing, the sofa behind him was now surrounded by a dense swarm of all sorts of malevolent spirits and demons, their bodies emanating black mist. Each of these spirits was incredibly terrifying and grotesque, but all had wide, bloodshot eyes that stared intently at him.

That's not all. Beyond the densely packed, countless fierce spirits and evil ghosts, the open space outside the French windows was also teeming with them.

It seemed the villa was overflowing, so they all crowded in front of the glass, pressing their faces against it, staring intently at Yu, all swallowing hard.

Yu stood frozen in place, his body stiff. He could gradually hear some rustling sounds, like laughter and crying at the same time.

"Eat him...eat him..."

Amidst the incessant murmurs of the evil spirits, Yu suddenly shuddered and came to his senses.

"what!"

He finally found his voice and screamed in fright. He instinctively wanted to step back into the salt circle, but when he turned around, a fierce spirit suddenly appeared between him and the salt circle, grinning with excitement and staring intently at Yu.

Yu was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground, but luckily he remembered that the candle in his hand could protect him. He quickly used his hand to protect the candle and rekindled the flame that was about to go out.

Yu Qiang managed to stay upright and didn't faint. He stood there, panting heavily, not knowing what to do or how to save himself.

Just as Yu was sweating profusely and looking completely lost, his gaze fell on Lin Bei once again.

The last vestiges of reason instantly shattered Yu's mind.

He finally noticed the anomaly in front of him.

Even though the entire living room of the villa was teeming with evil spirits and ghosts, why was there a vacuum zone around the single sofa where Lin Bei was sitting, with not a single evil spirit or ghost daring to set foot there?
Even though Lin Bei was just sitting on the sofa and doing nothing, those fierce spirits and evil ghosts dared not approach him at all.

Looking at Lin Bei, who was still sitting on the sofa, looking at him with that indifferent and relaxed demeanor, and looking at him without any fear of the fierce spirits and evil ghosts around him, Yu was instantly drenched in cold sweat.

Is Lin Bei really human? Is he really one of them?

Yu became increasingly alarmed. He felt as if he had sensed something and immediately shouted, trembling, "Hey, Hao, Lin, Lana, don't you find it strange? Why isn't Officer Lin afraid of these terrifying evil spirits? He's even surrounded and nothing has happened to him. He doesn't have any candles. Don't you... don't you suspect what he really is?"

When these words reached the ears of the three people in the salt circle, they looked somewhat bewildered. But before they could think about it, a clapping sound came from the villa's living room, which was filled with rustling noises.

Yu looked over suddenly and found that it was Lin Bei who was clapping.

Lin Bei smiled again, clapping his hands as he spoke casually.

"As expected of the police chief's son, he finally discovered the problem, but unfortunately, it's too late."

An unnamed rage instantly filled Yu's heart: "Fine, you really are no good person. I don't think you're a policeman at all. Are you in cahoots with the owner of this island? Did you lure us here to kill us and feed us to the evil god?"

Lin Bei shrugged and stood up calmly. He slowly approached Yu, and wherever he went, the evil spirits and ghosts automatically gave way, clearly somewhat afraid of him.

"When did I ever say I was a good person? Besides, you brought this on yourselves, and you want to blame me? Did I force you to chant the incantation? Did I force you to perform the soul-summoning ritual? Even if you die, it's because you asked for it."

I have no intention of saving you, but there is one thing I must thank you for. If you hadn't gathered all the evil spirits and demons of this island here, I would have had to spend more time searching for them who were trying to hide from me.

At this point, Lin Bei calmly looked at Lana in the salt circle: "As for the reward for this matter, I have already given it to one of you. The person who possesses that item has a chance to leave this island alive. As for the others, good luck to them."

As Lin Bei finished speaking, the surrounding evil spirits suddenly pounced on Yu. In an instant, the evil spirits almost turned into darkness, trying to cover Yu up.

Lin Bei watched all this with a cold eye, without making a move to stop it. He wanted to wait until all four students were bewitched by the evil spirits before he could clean up the entire island.

In an instant, darkness engulfed Yu, leaving only her hands outside the darkness, still tightly clutching the candle.

The three people in the salt circle were almost stunned by what they saw. Hao even felt a sense of relief, thinking that he was lucky he hadn't stepped out.

But this stroke of luck didn't last long.

Because the villa's floor-to-ceiling windows were opened.

A night breeze blew by, and the three hurriedly protected the candles in their hands, but they couldn't protect the salt rings on the ground.

The wind is too strong.

They scraped the salt ring so thoroughly that almost nothing was left, and it couldn't even maintain a complete circle.

Hao, Lin, and Lana could no longer maintain their composure and were all gripped by terror as they watched helplessly as countless fierce spirits and evil ghosts swept towards them.

The screams stopped abruptly, and the villa fell silent again.

All that remained were four pairs of hands suspended in the darkness, and the candles they held, glowing with a faint light.

Watching these four people act recklessly, Lin Bei found it quite amusing. He glanced around and saw that the fierce spirits and evil ghosts were eager to attack him, yet afraid of the wisps of power emanating from him. He couldn't help but laugh.

Lin Bei lifted his foot, preparing to leave the villa and go to the open space outside.

As soon as he took a step out, Lin Bei felt something strange coming from behind him.

He slowly turned his head and saw Yu, who had been shrouded in evil spirits at the beginning, reappear in front of him.

However, judging from Yu's vacant eyes, he was probably still immersed in the world woven for him by evil spirits and demons.

The next second, Yu shuddered, quickly brought the candle close to herself, and blew on it without hesitation.

As the candle went out, Yu blinked and returned to reality.

He first looked around blankly, then his gaze fell on Lin Bei. He was startled, as if he realized that he had returned to reality. He looked down at the candle in his hand again, his face filled with despair.

He personally extinguished the last thing that could save his life.

In an instant, countless shrill screams erupted from all directions, and countless dark hands surged out of the darkness, all reaching out to grab Yu and quickly seizing his limbs.

Yu screamed and struggled, trying to break free from the dark hands in the void, but the more he struggled, the more hands entangled him.

Yu cried out and reached out to Lin Bei for help, but Lin Bei stood with his hands behind his back, watching the scene indifferently without moving.

Once Yu was completely pulled into the darkness and her cries stopped abruptly, Lin Bei turned around and walked lightly to the open space.

It was only after leaving the villa that Lin Bei discovered that there were more malevolent spirits and evil ghosts on the island than he had anticipated.

The villa was surrounded by a dense crowd of terrifying figures emitting black smoke. If they weren't afraid of Lin Bei and made way for him wherever he went, Lin Bei might have been entangled by these annoying and frightening things by now.

Lin Bei leaped and landed atop the villa. (End of Chapter)