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Chapter 463 Visitors
Tens of minutes later.

Zhou You stared blankly at the two corpses covered with white sheets in the hall for a few seconds, then chuckled.

"Brother Lin, you're really something! You even managed to steal the body from this murder case?"

Lin Chen shook his head with a wry smile.

"Master, please stop teasing me. Although I have some money and connections, I'm not powerful enough to control everything. How could I possibly intercept the law enforcement agencies? It's just two corpses being sent for autopsies, and then..."

"The car had a minor accident along the way and broke down for a while."

"I see."

Zhou You stopped talking and lifted the white cloth to examine the two corpses carefully.

At first glance, they appear to be a very young couple.

He was even a few years younger than Zhou You himself, probably still a sophomore or junior in college, but his face was twisted with terror, as if he had seen something incredibly horrifying before he died.

The white sheet was peeled back, and soon the fatal wound was revealed.

"The man was stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen, eventually bleeding to death; the woman was choked and suffocated. Tsk, it looks like they killed each other?"

Zhou You flipped through the items again, trying not to damage the traces, and then made his final deduction.

"Judging from the marks, it seems the woman stabbed the man first, and then the man used his last bit of strength to kill her in a desperate counterattack."

At this moment, Lin Chen suddenly spoke up.

"Mr. Zhou, are those two people related to my daughter's condition?"

Zhou You glanced up, but didn't say anything, instead speaking to himself.

"It does seem like there's nothing seriously wrong, and it might even lead people to mistakenly believe it's just a simple revenge killing, but..."

He gently pressed down on the female victim's eyelids, then pried them open.

There seemed to be nothing wrong with them; they both had eyes that looked like they had died with their eyes wide open. But Zhou You lit a talisman and casually waved it over the talisman.

An extremely bizarre scene then unfolded.

Then, as if its eyes had come to life, they suddenly twitched a few times, then slowly shifted, finally looking towards the crowd—

Even though Lin Chen had seen countless storms, he was still so shocked that he took a step back.

Fortunately, the corpse did not make any movement; it just stared, and then its pupils seemed to melt and separate, eventually becoming two.

"Master Zhou, what is this?"

Zhou You extinguished the talisman, and the corpse's head naturally turned back and closed again.

Then he spoke.

"As you can see, these two have double pupils."

Lin Chen paused for a moment, then continued.

"Is it the same problem as my daughter's?"

"No, unlike your daughter, they haven't reached the level of 'spiritual connection'—or rather, your daughter has a constitution she was born with, but it just hasn't been triggered yet, while their double pupils can be artificially created."

Zhou You was explaining, but for some reason, Lin Chen seemed a little lost in thought, and only spoke after a while.

"In that case, these two corpses are probably useless. I'll have them sent back first."

Soon, several medical staff in white coats walked in from outside, but just as they were about to carry the body away, Zhou You suddenly spoke up.

"Wait a minute."

Although these people didn't recognize Zhou You, he was, after all, someone who could stand next to the big boss, and they obediently stopped what they were doing.

Zhou You, with his sword slung over his shoulder and a smile on his face, slowly walked into the crowd and tapped each of them with the hilt of his sword.

At first, everyone stood obediently, but as the behavior became increasingly inexplicable, they finally couldn't help but speak up.

"What are you doing? Time is running out; if we delay any longer, we might be held accountable by our superiors."

However, before he could finish speaking, someone suddenly looked up at him.

It was just an ordinary glance, without any anger or intimidation in it, but he only felt a golden light flow through the pupil, and then he felt as if his body was frozen, unable to move even a finger.

It took this person a while to understand what it felt like.

--fear.

Fear stemming from instinct.

Zhou You continued knocking on the sword at a leisurely pace until he reached the last person, at which point the hilt of his sword suddenly trembled.

He immediately broke into a smile.

"Excuse me, sir, could you please help me?"

However, before he could finish speaking, the man suddenly turned around and ran towards the door with an extremely strange movement and speed!

Zhou You didn't rush to chase after him, but just shook his head and smiled.

"You're so rude, you never let people finish speaking."

The next moment, he lightly touched the ground with his toes.

The figure shot out like a gust of wind—just as it came into view.

The guy who ran away had already been pinned down by Zhou You.

Only then did the bodyguards beside him react and hurriedly tried to rush over to help—but Zhou You simply waved his hand, indicating that it wasn't necessary, and then reversed the blade of his sword, flicking it at the back of the man's neck.

A crooked, worm-like or fascia-like thing was pulled out. It looked like it was trying to struggle a few more times, but as the sword aura reversed, the thing was completely devoured by Duan Xie in mid-air.

The moment it turned to ash, the person beneath it stopped struggling and remained motionless.

Lin Chen had just chased after them. He frowned and said...

"Mr. Zhou, you killed this man?"

Although it was a question, the tone was very calm, as if it were just a trivial matter.

Zhou You responded with a big eye roll.

"How could that be? Even if I lack common sense, I know that we live in a society governed by the rule of law, and it's impossible for someone to kill someone just like that."

"Then this is"

"I just fainted, that's all."

Zhou You clapped his hands and casually pressed the button for Duanxie, which he was still enjoying.

"He's been cursed, and if I'm not mistaken, it's probably one of those insect curses—his purpose is probably to come and scout ahead since he knows that the corpse curser failed yesterday."

After saying that, he looked at the stunned medical staff and shook his head again.

"However, it seems this guy has realized something's wrong and is trying to speed things up. But I've also caught a glimpse of something, so I should be able to take advantage of the situation and catch him red-handed."
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Several tens of minutes later, the unrelated people were dismissed, and the group returned to the little girl's bedroom.

It's not that Lin Chen couldn't find a few empty rooms with his wealth, but because of the girl's supernatural abilities, the room was filled with an overwhelming amount of yin energy, which could, to some extent, shield her from prying eyes.

Zhou You, sitting in a chair with his legs crossed, spoke.

"In short, that's it. Two double pupils, one with the ability to see into the underworld, plus the strange and bizarre ways those people died before, I can roughly guess what that sorcerer is trying to do."

Lin Chen was silent for a few seconds, then asked.

"What is the purpose?"

"Using these lives as materials to perform certain spells."

The others looked puzzled, but Zhou You ignored them and continued talking to himself. "I've mentioned before that this thing called 'black magic' is a mixture of many things. In the records of ancient Chinese witchcraft, both 'telepathy' and 'double pupils' are considered excellent materials for communicating with the underworld. So, the black magic master went to such lengths to harm these college students, probably for this purpose."

"—Then may I ask, what kind of spell is this guy trying to cast?"

However, this time someone spread their hands and said directly.

"You're asking me? I don't know anything about black magic, but I'm certain this guy isn't trying to cast any good spells."

Do you need to say that?
Lin Chen pursed his lips and then said.

"But you just said you could find his background."

“It’s simple. If he wants to cast a spell, he has to do it in order. There should be other survivors among these college students. Your daughter was bypassed because of me, so he will definitely attack others. I can just go directly to their door and arrest him.”

—A crude, but clear method.

However, Lin Chen remained silent for a while before speaking.

"If what the Taoist priest said is true, then all we need to do is stay by my daughter's side and wait for him to come to us. Why go through all this trouble?"

After saying that, before Zhou You could respond, he immediately added something else.

"If you feel the fee is insufficient, I, Lin, can write a check right now to pay you your daily service fee, Master. You can name the amount, and I can guarantee that I will never ask for the money back, regardless of whether the matter succeeds or fails."

However, Zhou You dismissed the proposal without a second thought.

"I have no interest and no time. I'm here to earn some extra money and have some fun. Besides, staying by your girl's side means abandoning everyone else. I've spent my life upholding justice and I would never do such a despicable thing."

Seeing Zhou You showing no respect whatsoever, Lin Chen took a deep breath and then spoke slowly and deliberately.

"But Mr. Zhou, if you help others, it's the same as abandoning my daughter. Other people's lives are lives, but my daughter's isn't? Besides, there are so many people in this manor, how can you bear to do that?"

Zhou You simply waved his hand dismissively.

"Don't worry, although I don't have the magic to create clones, I'll find a way to handle things on your end. By the way, do you have any satellite phones or anything like that? My cell phone signal isn't very good, and I need to tell my family something."

A few hours later, a black sedan drove out of the villa.

Originally, Lin Chen wanted to give his car to Zhou You, but he returned it for the reason that it was too conspicuous. So after picking and choosing for a long time, he finally picked out the worst car in the garage—although for the average person, this car would take decades of hard work to afford.

Wen Tianyi was forcibly dragged over to be the driver—but now he's resigned to his fate, just muttering under his breath as he gripped the steering wheel.

"Master Zhou."

Zhou You leaned back in the back seat, seemingly with his eyes closed, but still replied with a single syllable.

"Ok?"

"I have something I'd like to ask you."

"what happened?"

"With your skill level, why bother with this job? Even from my perspective, this is definitely a very troublesome mess—of course, I'm not saying you can't handle it, but money is a valuable thing, it has to be worth it."

Looking at the hesitant, evasive fat man, Zhou You couldn't help but chuckle.

Indeed, this job is a bit troublesome for this guy now.

Just for myself
"I took this job for three reasons: first, the money; second, an old friend asked me to do it, so I had to; and third, well..."

Zhou You shook his head, recalling the two corpses he had just seen.

"I've always loved meddling in other people's business. Besides, as the local tyrant, I can't just stand by and watch an outsider cause trouble on my turf."

Wen Tianyi clearly didn't understand, but he quickly came up with a pretty fitting adjective.

"Mr. Zhou, are you saying that with great power comes great responsibility?"

Zhou You thought of the Black Book, and then of what it had always made him do. He pursed his lips, and finally smiled.

"maybe."

The car drove onto the national highway, entered the city, and wound its way around for a while before finally stopping in front of an apartment building.

Wen Tian carefully got out of the car and then knocked on the window.

"Mr. Zhou, we've arrived."

Zhou You, who was pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes and then yawned.

The apartment building looked very dilapidated, at least fifty or sixty years old, and because it was near the suburbs, there weren't many people living there.

Its only advantage is probably that it's very cheap.

"One of the survivors lives here?"

Wen Tianyi said in a low voice.

“That’s right, Mr. Zhou. According to Mr. Lin’s investigation, this kid’s parents divorced when he was young, and he grew up with his aunt. His family wasn’t well-off, so he tried to save as much as possible. Since the incident, he hasn’t dared to go back to his hometown, so he’s been staying here, never leaving the house.”

"It was a stroke of luck that we avoided the previous waves of attacks."

Zhou You nodded, but said nothing more. Instead, he gripped his sword and took the lead up the stairs.

Perhaps due to years of disrepair, the stairs always make a creaking sound whenever someone steps on them.

It wasn't large, but it was incredibly creepy.

Soon, Zhou You arrived in front of a house. He looked up, checked the house number, and confirmed that it matched the information in the file before gently knocking on the door.

No one answered.

I knocked several more times, but there was still the same silence.

Wen Tian, ​​who already considered himself a lackey, couldn't stand it anymore. He banged on the door a few more times and then shouted.

"Kid, we're here to help you. Don't be afraid, open the door!"

Neither a polite knock nor an impolite banging on the door could elicit a sound from inside.

Wen Tian threw down his hand and angrily pulled on the door.

The result was beyond his expectations.

The door is unlocked.

He raised his head and looked at Zhou You with some uncertainty.

Zhou You shook his head, held his long sword, and went into the house first.

A putrid stench wafted over.

There was a lot of trash piled up at the door of the room, which looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a long time. Now that it was summer, there were already a lot of mosquitoes swarming around it, and it also gave off a smell that kept strangers away.

Wen Tianyi followed closely behind, pinching his nose and muttering complaints under his breath.

"How long has this guy been holed up in this place? The garbage is practically piled up into a mountain—it's a wonder he can still live here. By the way, Mr. Zhou, do you see any problems here?"

However, unlike before, Zhou You did not speak, but continued to move forward.

The room wasn't big, and with the lights off and so much trash, it took the two of them quite a while to stumble their way to the bedroom.

Wen Tianyi fumbled for the light switch and then suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

—The boy was sitting in the room. Although he was pale, he hadn't turned into any kind of ghost.

"No, since you're still alive, at least say something! This is making me..."

But before he could finish speaking, he suddenly stopped.

The kid just stared at him, and then
Its head tilted to the side, and it rolled down to the ground with a gurgling sound.

(End of this chapter)