Chapter 13: He Ran Away

A tall building in Cangnan City…

Creak…

The door was slowly pushed open. Zhao Kongcheng walked in wearily, sighing from time to time.

“Old Zhao, what’s wrong with you?”

Seeing Zhao Kongcheng’s appearance, the five people sitting in the room asked in surprise.

“Did you get hurt last night?”

“Judging by his expression, the possibility of him having a heartbreak is relatively high.”

“Damn it, Old Zhao, is your wife going to divorce you?”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

The five of them guessed along. After a long while, the silent Zhao Kongcheng sighed.

“Am I really so unattractive?”

“…”

The five rolled their eyes at the same time, pretending that they did not hear this sentence. They continued to work on the things at hand. Some sharpened their knives, cleaned their guns, played with their phones, and fell asleep.

“No, I’m asking you seriously!” Zhao Kongcheng was anxious.

Seeing that Zhao Kongcheng was ignored for a long time, Hong Ying, who was cleaning his gun, sighed, “Brother Kongcheng, did someone piss you off?”

“Probably.” Zhao Kongcheng paused, “I met the owner of the Golden Forbidden Ruin last night.”

Hearing the latter sentence, everyone suddenly raised their heads, stopped what they were doing, and their eyes began to shine.

“The guy who seems to be the agent of seraph?”

“Um.“

“Is he strong? Who is he?”

“You guys are overthinking it.” Zhao Kongcheng shook his head, “He’s just an ordinary high school student, and the power fluctuations at the ‘Klein’ level should be just the remnants of the power left by seraph on him. Currently, he is a newcomer who just attained the ‘Cup’ Realm.”

Hearing this, a slight disappointment appeared in the eyes of several people.

“I thought Cangnan City had a ‘Klein’ level powerhouse…”

“However, if that extremely dangerous god really chooses an agent, who has grown to the ‘Klein’ Realm, the higher-ups would know about it.”

The man sitting on the sofa narrowed his eyes slightly, “Anyway, seraph chose an agent and bestowed the Holy Ruins. This is a big deal; we must report it to the higher-ups.”

“By the way, Old Zhao, since you met him, where is he? Why didn’t you bring such an important person back?”

“He ran away.” Zhao Kongcheng said quietly, “He told me he would be getting his schoolbag and then ran away while I was in a daze.”

“…” Everyone was speechless.

Just when a few people were about to complain, the room door opened again.

A man wearing a dark red cloak walked in, blood was still on his face, and his steps were heavy as if they had been filled with lead.

Seeing this man, everyone, including Zhao Kongcheng, immediately stood up.

“Team leader!”

“Captain, are you alright?”

The captain waved his hand, took off the blood-stained cloak, and sat down on the small stool by the door with indescribable fatigue on his brows.

“I’m fine, but… the Ghost-faced King has fled.”

The faces of several people suddenly became serious.

The captain continued, “Last night, I chased the Ghost-faced King to the suburbs outside the northern city and fought with it. It was seriously injured, and then it was forced to escape.”

“So the Ghost-faced King may have escaped Cangnan City by now?”

“No, not necessarily.” The man sitting on the sofa said suddenly.

Everyone looked at him, and the captain raised his eyebrows slightly, “Tell me more about it, Xiangnan.”

Wu Xiangnan stood up slowly, took a map that encompassed the Cangnan City and its surrounding from under the sofa, and unfolded it on the ground.

“Cangnan City is relatively remote, and the distance to the nearby cities is relatively far. The captain fought the Ghost-faced King in the northern suburbs last night. Apart from Cangnan City, the nearest city is tens of kilometers away.” Wu Xiangnan drew a circle on the map.

“Then, what’s the matter?” Hong Ying’s eyes were full of doubts.

At this time, the captain’s eyes gradually lit up, “Ghost-faced King was seriously injured, and it would not be able to cross such a long distance before recovering his strength.”

Wu Xiangnan continued the captain’s words, saying, “If the Ghost-faced King wants to regain strength, he can only rely on feasting on humans. Thus…”

“It will definitely return to Cangnan City.”

“That’s right.”

Zhao Kongcheng frowned slightly, “But Cangnan City is so big. We don’t even know where it will appear.”

“Sewer.” Wu Xiangnan pushed his glasses and drew a curve on the map with a red pen, “The Ghost-faced Creatures like to lurk in the sewer, and the Ghost-faced King escaped through the sewer previously. There is only one sewer, which means that the place where the Ghost-faced King will appear is probably somewhere where this sewer passes.”

“Immediately send someone to search along this sewer. We must not let it escape this time!” A cold light flashed in the captain’s eyes, and he ordered immediately.

“Got it!”

“By the way, there is one more matter.” Wu Xiangnan turned to look at Zhao Kongcheng, “We must bring back the seraph’s agent. His talent is superb, and he must not fall into the hands of the Church of the Ancient Gods! In a sense, this matter has a higher priority than eliminating the Ghost-faced King!”

Zhao Kongcheng immediately puffed up his chest, “Leave this matter to me, and I will catch this kid back with my own hands!”

“Didn’t he run away? Can you still find him?” Hong Ying whispered.

“He’s wearing the school uniform. I’m going to hunt him down at the school gate today. I don’t believe I will fail this time!”

A confident smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Kongcheng’s mouth.

…

“Brother, why don’t you go to school today?”

Yang Jin looked at Lin Qiye, who was not wearing a school uniform or schoolbag and asked curiously.

“I have something to do today, so I am not going.” Lin Qiye opened the door while putting on his shoes, “Is aunty still sleeping?”

“She just came back an hour ago.”

“Got it. Go to school earlier, and don’t follow me.”

“Okay.”

Lin Qiye closed the door, silently removed the black satin from his eyes, and put it in his pocket.

His eyesight had recovered, but he had not told aunty and Yang Jin yet. Firstly, it was because aunty was on the night shift last night, and they did not see each other.

As for the second point, Lin Qiye had just acquired these eyes, and he still could not control the power in the eyes well. Sometimes the golden light would suddenly emerge from the bottom of the eyes. Although it was not obvious, aunty and Yang Jin would bring him to check on those eyes and waste the money if they noticed it.

He wanted to wait until he had complete control over his eyes before announcing it.

However, Lin Qiye did not need to wrap his eyes in the black satin since he had left the house. It was too conspicuous.

Lin Qiye took out the sunglasses that Yang Jin had bought from his pocket, put them on, and walked toward the bus stop.

After more than an hour of bumpy rides, Lin Qiye finally arrived at his destination.

Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital…

The last time Lin Qiye came here was ten years ago.

In the past ten years, Lin Qiye had changed a lot. At the same time, the psychiatric hospital had also changed a lot.

All the old walls had been renovated. The gate was twice as spacious as before. Two modern high-rise buildings replaced the original three-story ones, and even the three words of “Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital” had been changed to gilded ones!

Standing at the gate, Lin Qiye could no longer connect the modern hospital in front of him with the small building in his memory.

The old man guarding the gate was the only thing that had not changed.

Just that his body had become more hunched, and his hair had turned much grayer.

The old man seemed to have seen Lin Qiye, squinted his eyes, and raised his right hand to point to Lin Qiye.

Just when Lin Qiye thought the old man still remembered him and was about to greet him,

The uncle shouted, “You silly boy over there! You’re blocking the car behind you!”