Chapter 105 He had come

“What does your room being very safe have to do with me…” Ning Meng’s words came to an abrupt stop in the middle.

She reacted, and when she looked at Shi Qi, he had a faint expression, as if what he was talking about was just an ordinary thing.

“He’s right, your husband’s room is the safest.” The system popped out again.

Ning Meng threatened it, “If you continue speaking, I’m going to lodge a complaint against you.”

The host’s complaint was the most terrifying thing for the system. Hearing it, it disappeared immediately and no longer gave any input.

Shi Qi’s fingers moved, “I’m being serious.”

The corner of Ning Meng’s mouth twitched. She also knew that he wasn’t joking around, and hesitantly asked, “How many beds do you have in your room?”

If she recalled it correctly, he only had one right?

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Not only did she become a married woman, she also had to have children as soon as possible?

Ning Meng secretly glanced at Shi Qi. Upon catching his eyes, she quickly withdrew her gaze diffidently…..Even though she felt like she liked him, they couldn’t progress this quickly right?

“You don’t need to—”

Before she could even finish her words, Shi Qi, who was across from her, stood up abruptly, and with a cold face, pulled her up, and pushed her towards Li Chun, “Go inside, and don’t go out.”

Li Chun reacted quickly, “Madam, please come with me.”

Shi Qi had already strode out of the living room, standing in the courtyard. Half of his tall back was shrouded in darkness and half was in the light.

Ning Meng asked, “Is there something coming?”

The weasel who had been following along all this time, suddenly sprinted out and crouched by the door of the living room, forming a line of defense with Shi Qi.

Li Chun turned off the lights, and Ning Meng was plunged further into darkness, simply hiding behind the sofa.

After adapting to the darkness, she saw someone approaching from a distance.

It’s probably the culprit behind all these right?

Had he now finally come for them after his plans had been foiled?

Ning Meng only guessed that the culprit was human when in truth, she really couldn’t see the figure on the other side. In any case, it looked like a black mass that was gradually coming closer to them.

She inexplicably couldn’t help but recall the time when she was Grandma Shi’s body, she saw a person wearing black clothes in her last moments, but she was unable to catch a clear

This time, it was also a figure shrouded in black. Had the person himself really come?

Ning Meng couldn’t figure out why he was insistent on pursuing immortality. Wasn’t death a very common thing? Killing so many people, making preparations for so many years, was all just to live a long life?

Didn’t he know how that immortality was such an unreasonable thing in this world?

Ning Meng couldn’t help sighing, “Sigh. For the sake of immortality, he threw away all logic and would do anything to obtain his wish. Now, who knows how many people he’s killed? Is he really certain that he can live forever after everything he’s done?”

The system also seemed to have heaved a sigh, “Think about it, haven’t so many emperors in the ancient times learnt that people can’t live forever? Every one of them thought they could be the first to achieve immortality and sought every method that they could, to become the first man to achieve immortality, pills being the most common form.”

This was something Ning Meng knew well.

Everyone knew that the first emperor, Qin Shihuang, sought for an immortality pill. His goal was to live forever, never to die out….Confirming the phrase Shi Qi had told her before, that the culprit was imitating the emperor.

The system continued, “In some of the more special places, they don’t seek for an elixir, but they would attempt to achieve their goal of immortality through conducting various sacrifices.”

Some small clans hidden in the city did not appear in the sight of the world at all. And their clans had very ancient traditions, most of them with sacrifices and wizardry.

It was completely different from today’s usage of modern technology.

“Then what is it? Is it human?” Ning Meng squinted, but didn’t dare to go out. It would be no good if she became a burden to Shi Qi.

Why did she feel more and more assured that it was human the more she looked?

The system said, “You aren’t mistaken, the culprit is human. Don’t worry, your husband is more than enough to deal with him, let’s just cheer him on!”

By now, Ning Meng had learnt to ignore the words “your husband” and captured the essence of the system’s words.

After experiencing the Gu Infant incident just now, she was now able to maintain a calm expression.

The sky outside had already turned dark at some point in time.

Ning Meng laid down on the sofa and looked out. As she adjusted to the darkness, she gradually started to see more. The hair of the person opposite Shi Qi was messy, and grease could be seen on their face, appearing very disgusting.

There seemed to be something painted on his face, but she couldn’t see his original appearance. Strange lines were shining before him, making him look like a demon from hell.

He looked much stranger than the masked men she saw long ago.

The clothes that the man wore were also extremely odd. Although Ning Meng didn’t know what they were made of, it seemed to give people a very gloomy feeling.

The sky was dark, concealing him within and making him appear inconspicuous.

Shi Qi also stepped into the darkness, and Ning Meng couldn’t see everything that followed. Shi Qi’s speed and movements were very fast, leaving only shadows behind. Occasionally, talisman papers would light up in fire and in that instant, it would illuminate the black-clothed person’s appearance.

He had worn a mask, concealing his face.

Ning Meng guessed that Shi Qi had the upper hand, because the sound of the man falling to the ground was very clear, accompanied by a strange sound.

After the person who had fallen down staggered to his feet, they moved forward with uneven steps, allowing Ning Meng to finally see his current appearance clearly.

He was completely covered in blood, and his face was also splattered with red. His facial features were completely unclear and even sported a few holes, appearing very terrifying.

His original weird-looking mask had fallen off not too far away from him.

Seeing this face, Ning Meng got goosebumps, and cold sweat broke out from her behind, “Is he a human or a ghost?”

The system responded, “It’s probably not human or ghost.”

The weasel who had been silent by her side, also gazed at the same scene and couldn’t help but start barking, but didn’t dare to make too much noise.

The person who couldn’t be considered human, quickly got off the ground and rushed towards Shi Qi.

Ning Meng couldn’t see what Shi Qi was using, but every time he raised his hand, the unknown thing screamed. Then, the dull sound of something piercing into flesh sounded.

Occasionally, when the dark clouds in front of the moon left, she could see dark blood stains on the ground. It covered a large area, and even seeped into the waters.

The man on the ground finally stopped moving.

Shi Qi waited for a while, and in the end, he kicked the black clothes away from his body, moving quickly and cleanly.

After tearing open his clothes, Ning Meng nearly screamed.

How could something like that be considered human? There was nothing supporting him at all? He was just a bag of bones wearing a set of clothes, his skeleton extremely frail.

Some of the TV shows about archaeology showed the exact same skeleton. After the coffin was opened, the corpse that had rotted inside for many years, left only a skeleton behind.

Ning Meng couldn’t help asking, “How was this man able to live on for so many years?”

If a person were to lack flesh, only having bones, could they still live like normal people in this world?

Even though this was a supernatural world, seeing such a scene really opened her eyes.

Just when she thought everything was over, something happened all of a sudden.

The skeleton that had just been lying still on the ground, seemed to have come alive. It slowly climbed up from the ground and though he clearly had no flesh, he didn’t fall apart, appearing like a person standing there. Without anything covering him, he appeared clearer to the eye.

There were still two eyeballs in his eyes. After turning around, he tilted his head and turned to look in Ning Meng’s direction, his bones emitting strange sounds upon moving.

Ning Meng didn’t pay attention at first, but looking at it from the front, the size of his head relative to his whole body was quite normal, it was just that this head of his, paired with his skeleton frame, appeared more ghastly.

The system couldn’t help but scream, “Oh my God, run. Run for your life!”

Ning Meng was speechless, “He walks so slowly, he won’t be able to reach me.”

She could see clearly that the bony man walked in slow-motion. It had taken him a long time to close half a meter and the distance between them was still very far.

Shi Qi also hadn’t encountered such a situation before either. He stood on the spot and furrowed his eyebrows, but seeing the direction the bone man was headed to, a cold glint promptly appeared in his green eyes.

Sure enough, he was headed for her.

Shi Qi looked at Ning Meng who was in the cottage and found that she was hiding behind the sofa, revealing only a small portion of her head. Catching his gaze, there was no trace of doubt in Ning Meng’s shiny eyes, instead, she mouthed something to him.

Shi Qi withdrew his sight.

“Say, do you think he saw it?” Ning Meng and the system murmured surreptitiously.

The system thought for a while, and said, “He probably did. Your husband has an amazing sight. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been seen through so easily.”

As soon as this was brought up, Ning Meng wanted to beat the system, “You still have the guts to mention this? You rubbish system, you don’t have the least bit of sensitivity at all.”

The weasel crouched at the side of the coffee table turned. It then used its head to nudge against her calf and continued to bark towards the outside. Even though its voice was small, it was filled with spirit.

Ning Meng took the time to stroke its head, “Don’t run around. Shi Qi’s busy outside.”

Unexpectedly, the weasel just broke away from her hand after being stroked, and ran outside in a flash. It disappeared so quickly from the door that she was unable to react in time at all.

The boney man outside had been broken apart by Shi Qi before he could even reach the door.

But soon enough, he assembled himself again and got up. After going back and forth like this several times, Ning Meng clearly saw Shi Qi’s patience run out.

It made sense. Who wouldn’t be angry after trying to put an end to a skeleton who couldn’t seem to be killed after several times?

Ning Meng didn’t know how the person managed to have his current appearance and why he was so insistent on continuing to live on despite his current form. She deeply suspected that the reason why he had taken so many lives was to create a body for himself.

Immortality and a new body were definitely what he wanted most.

Each one of these sounded unbelievable. Ning Meng herself had a body because of the system. Furthermore, there was also the reason of having accumulated merits because of her virtue and benevolence in her previous life that she was able to have this body.

On the other hand, this man had committed so much evil, and many of the people he killed could not reincarnate. It could be said that the sins he carried were deeply heavy, and to achieve immortality, would be really too unfair.

Shi Qi once again restrained the bony man. After some time, the bony man did not gather himself again, but a blue flame appeared in his eyes.

The weasel had been at the gate of the courtyard all this time. Seeing this, it rushed up and held a bone in its mouth, biting it fiercely. Soon, the bone broke into several pieces.

Ning Meng’s mouth dropped open and she stared at the scene in a daze for quite a while.

The next moment, the weasel directly bit the bony man’s neck with one bite, and its feet also crushed the other bones, producing endless crunching sounds.

It used a lot of strength, biting a hole out and even tearing the man up. In the end, the man’s head got separated from the neck, and the blue flame in its eyes gradually weakened.

The bones that hadn’t been damaged on the ground rushed together, trying hard to piece together a person, but when the sharp-eyed weasel caught this, it raised its foot and stepped directly on it, breaking a few more bones.

After doing this, the weasel finally stopped, and ran to Shi Qi. It wagged its tail at him, and barked softly.

Shi Qi bent over and stroked its head.

The weasel swished its tail happily before running back into the living room quickly and returning to Ning Meng’s side, rubbing itself against her.

Ning Meng was caught off guard and fell backwards from being pounced on.

“Big Yellow, be careful, you should take a shower first…” Ning Meng got up, “You are a weasel, not a dog, don’t lick me.”

The weasel crouched in place angrily.

Ning Meng turned to the yard, and was so frightened by the scene that happened next that she couldn’t speak for a long time.

Shi Qi squatted gracefully, wearing gloves on his hand. Holding the head in his hand, he parted his index and middle finger, and moved it around the scalp. Then, under her shocked gaze, he tore a new hole in the head.

The head immediately made a sharp, piercing noise.

Shi Qi’s fingers moved inside, stirring for a while, and after a short while, he picked out something that seemed to move.

Ning Meng couldn’t see it, so she could only ask the system for answers, “It’s a Gu worm. As you know, Gu worms can do a lot of things and can even control people.”

She nearly felt her insides turn, “That’s disgusting.”

“The method of obtaining immortality is different in each place. This person must’ve thought that Gu worms could live forever. It’s a pity that in the end, he ended up as something that was neither human nor ghost. Gu worms leech on the body for nutrients so in reality, he had only become a vessel for it.”

Ning Meng wrinkled her face, “He really committed such unscrupulous acts for the sake of immortality.”

Shi Qi picked up several insects in succession, and stepped on it after throwing it to the ground, wringing them to death.

He took a vial from his pocket, and poured a bit of powder on them. The squished worms initially started to struggle again, but after a few minutes, there were no longer any movements.

Ning Meng couldn’t see the worms’ appearances.

But not being able to see it only fueled her imagination, especially after the system’s description. The usage of those worms only gave her a very disgusting image.

Contrary to her, the weasel was happily spinning around the coffee table.