Having devoted myself to guiding souls, I was surrounded by them after my death.

At the same time, Chen Shi looked at the convulsing, screaming evil spirit in front of him and gripped the lifeline in his hand even tighter.

Both of their gazes were focused on the struggling evil spirit, completely unaware that in the pool behind them, a figure slowly rose from the bottom of the water, its deathly pale body emerging from the surface.

Silently, without splashing a single drop of water, it began to crawl out of the pool...

Chapter 8 Where Did We Come From, Where Are We Going?

Ten minutes ago...

"The talisman is indeed a bit loose, but it can still be reinforced."

In the underground parking lot of Nanjing University, Jiang Liu was in a dark room. There was a huge talisman drawn on the ground, and yellow talisman paper was pasted all around.

"There's actually a top-tier evil spirit trapped beneath Nanhai University... If it were to revive, the consequences would be unimaginable."

Jiang Liu bit her index finger, and blood flowed out.

"drop……"

Blood droplets dripped straight down, landing on the rune patterns on the ground.

In an instant, all noise disappeared, and blood began to flow along the runes. Wherever it flowed, the red of the runes became bright again, and the surrounding talismans moved without wind.

After doing all this, Jiang Liu put her index finger in her mouth and licked the wound on the tip of her finger with her tongue.

"okay."

She picked up the violin case and walked out of the dark room:

"First, a top-tier evil spirit revived, and now a new three-faced evil spirit... Nanhai City has been quite unsettled lately."

Jiang Liu sighed: "We have to work overtime."

She strode forward, her boot heels clicking on the ground.

I wonder how that kid is doing. Surely no one would be stupid enough to provoke a malevolent spirit?

Chen Shi's face flashed through her mind. Jiang Liu pouted and went back downstairs.

Life is more important, and she still hoped that the handsome young man could escape. The youthful passion is an indelible thing, but also its most deadly.

In the end, all that may remain after the initial passion fades is regret and a body full of wounds.

This is her perspective as someone who has been through it all.

Jiang Liu found a bench and sat down, holding the violin case in one hand and resting the other on the back of the chair.

Her work is finished, and she can simply leave.

However, to make sure that no one else would suddenly die, she decided to wait there for a while.

Every life is precious.

She came to realize this deeply five years ago during a sudden change in events.

At that time, she lost control and jumped into the river due to a major incident, but was rescued by a passionate young man.

The incident happened suddenly, and the icy water splashed on her face. She fainted after getting ashore and didn't see who saved her. She only remembered that the person had a birthmark on their back.

In her panic, she accidentally scratched the other person's back, leaving a mark on the birthmark. She doesn't know if it left a scar.

"Sigh, it's true that people do good deeds anonymously, and now I can't even find anyone to thank."

Jiang Liu crossed her white legs and muttered to herself.

The phrase "Every life is precious" was what that passionate young man told himself.

So now, even if the work is finished, she will still wait a little longer in case of any unexpected events.

Suddenly, Jiang Liu looked up and saw a dotted line coming from the swimming pool and passing in front of her.

"That kid actually went and tried it?"

Jiang Liu was taken aback, unsure whether to praise Chen Shi for his courage or acknowledge his own lack of self-awareness.

The cage is set; the prey cannot escape. Similarly, the hunter cannot leave the cage.

She strode quickly to the entrance of the swimming pool, carrying her violin case, and saw a student scratching his head in front of the locked pool.

"Chen Shi? What's going on? Why did you lock the door? You don't have to be lonely at the swimming pool, do you?"

"Hey classmate, is that Chen Shi in here?" Jiang Liu asked, stepping in front of the door to block the way.

"Um……"

The senior student glanced at Jiang Liu, and his eyes lit up.

He suddenly realized that his youth hadn't actually passed away.

"Okay, I'll go call him. You go do your own thing. You know, he's a teenage boy."

Jiang Liu smiled faintly, her beautiful eyes exuding charm.

"Uh, sister, do you know Chen Shi?"

"uh-huh."

The senior student was somewhat incredulous. In his memory, Chen Shi was like a rare Pokémon, always spawning alone in every corner of the campus.

How could he know such a stunning beauty?

This kid is even more unassuming than I imagined. I'll have to ask him for advice later... The senior thought to himself as he left.

After he left, Jiang Liu's eyes immediately sharpened.

She extended her index finger, then thought for a moment and switched to her middle finger, biting it hard until blood flowed out.

Jiang Liu didn't even flinch; she simply slid her middle finger across the door, leaving a bloody mark.

"Click".

In an instant, the door opened.

Jiang Liu didn't hesitate; she raised her long leg and kicked the door open.

"Oh!"

However, the scene before her eyes was completely different from what she had imagined.

Inside the chilly swimming pool, Chen Shi gripped the lifeline, his face calm.

In front of him, a strange-looking red-haired girl was crouching, holding a rope tightly around the neck of the evil spirit.

At that moment, smoke was rising from the neck of the evil spirit, and its shrill screams echoed throughout the swimming pool.

"Resolved?"

Jiang Liu was stunned, unable to believe what she was seeing.

The evil spirit has been caught? And it's being exorcised?

No, something's strange.

Her eyes narrowed, and she saw a pale, bluish-white figure emerge from the pool, silently climb ashore, and leave scratch marks on the ground with its sharp fingers.

The evil spirit moved quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the distance between it and Chen Shi was reduced to only a few feet.

"not good!"

Jiang Liu moved swiftly, flicking open the violin case with her fingers and pulling out a small knife.

At the same time, Su Yining also sensed something was wrong. She raised her beautiful eyes and saw a blurry, distorted figure crawling behind Chen Shi.

The two women shouted almost simultaneously:

"Junior, behind you..."

"Chen Shi, get out of the way..."

At the same time, the figure stood up, and a long, thin, white hand stabbed towards Chen Shi's back!

"Finally, I've decided to come out."

To the two's surprise, Chen Shi remained completely calm, dodging to the side while deftly swinging out the safety rope in his hand!

"caught you!"

The safety rope precisely tightened around the figure's neck. Chen Shi then moved behind it, bracing one hand against its almost fleshless back while using the other to pull the safety rope taut.

"babble--!"

The figure screamed in agony, its blurry human form convulsing as if electrocuted, and even thicker plumes of scorching smoke rose from the bindings.

"What?" Su Yining exclaimed in surprise.

Everything happened too suddenly. In her hand, the bluish-white evil spirit stopped convulsing and turned into a puddle of stagnant water.

This is fake!?

Su Yining looked at Chen Shi in disbelief, only to see the latter tightly gripping the evil spirit's neck, his eyes filled with ruthlessness.

That was the true form, and Chen Shi knew that from the very beginning.

"How did you guess? You've only been here a short time." Su Yining couldn't figure it out at all.

At the doorway, Jiang Liu's gaze shifted from worry to appreciation, and then from appreciation to astonishment.

Her senses couldn't be wrong; as soon as the Spirit Cage was created, she rushed over.

On the road, on the scene, breaking down the goal... at most 5 minutes.

In those five minutes, Chen Shi not only understood the "rules," but also saw through the evil spirit's illusions, found its true form, deduced the cause of death, and took appropriate action.

"how is this possible?"

Jiang Liu remained in the throwing posture, her body twisting in a curve, but the knife did not fly out.

All ferrymen possess the ability to see spirits, and their strength varies. But no matter how skilled a ferryman is, the task they must perform when facing a malevolent spirit is the same: to understand "where it came from and where it is going," to find out the cause of the spirit's death, and to exorcise it using the same method.

Chen Shi found it in 5 minutes?

How could this be? Wasn't this kid asking me about spirits just half an hour ago?

Jiang Liu believed she had a good understanding of psychology and that Chen Shi hadn't lied; he was a complete novice when it came to exorcism.

Successfully resolving the situation isn't the scariest part; the scariest part is that this was a malevolent spirit that possessed both a spirit cage and the ability to hide, and this kid resolved it in 5 minutes?

Under their watchful eyes, Chen Shi continued to tighten the rope, round and round...

"babble--!"

The creature began to roar, its hands flailing wildly as it tried to struggle. Jiang Liu threw a small knife, its cold light flashing, and precisely pierced the creature's hands into a gourd shape.

Jiang Liu strode forward, raised her slender hand, waved it in front of Le Ling, and softly recited:

"Where do we come from, and where do we go?"

Le Ling's struggles gradually weakened, and as Chen Shi tightened his grip on the rope, its blurry outline completely disintegrated, turning into a pile of ashes.

Chapter 9: Beginning as a Ferryman

"Phew...it worked?"

Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Le Ling had completely disappeared.

As the evil spirit was completely exorcised, the cage formed by the spirit began to collapse, the cold light disappeared, the pool dried up, and the cold swimming pool once again became "Nanjing University's temporary warehouse".

"That's amazing."

Su Yining sighed in a daze.

Coming to her senses, she put one hand on her hip, tossed her long hair with the other, and smiled, revealing her teeth:

"Wow, junior, I thought you were just bluffing me, but I didn't expect you to actually have some tricks up your sleeve."

Jiang Liu breathed a sigh of relief—not because the evil spirit had been exorcised, but because Chen Shi hadn't killed himself out of impulsiveness.