Nightmare Apostle

Because of the sensitivity of his profession, Yang Xiao never kept any paper documents that could reveal his identity in his room. After simply packing up his things, he did not leave the door, but directly used the power of the soul-catching mirror to teleport several times and left the apartment far away.

Without hesitation, he went straight back to the patrol station, moved into the director's office, brought a quilt, and slept on the sofa.

The safest place at the moment is the Patrol Station. He doesn't believe that anyone would dare to break into the Patrol Station, especially the director's office and kill people. That would not be a personal vendetta. Regardless of whether the other party succeeds or not, they will face revenge from the entire Patrol Station.

Anyone who is not a fool can tell what is more important than what is less important.

Of course, all of this might be due to his own paranoia, and he was just fighting wits with the air, but Yang Xiao didn't care about the shame or the trouble, safety was his first priority.

It was already early morning when he returned to the patrol station. After such an incident, Yang Xiao lost all desire to sleep. He turned on the light and lay on the sofa, listing suspicious targets one by one. He kept thinking until dawn, but still had no clue.

After dawn, Yang Xiao took a short nap, then got up, washed his face with cold water, went downstairs to the cafeteria to eat, and after eating, started another day's work.

He was going to be promoted to the deputy director level, and he had to learn to share the director's worries. Nalan Shuo treated him well, and Yang Xiao was determined to repay him if he had the chance in the future.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Yang Xiao was concentrating on a document on the table. Just when he had some ideas, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and Ximen Xiu rushed in with a tablet computer in his hand, "Brother Xiao, I have something to ask..."

"Knock on the door before entering next time. Also, refer to your job title when working!" Yang Xiao frowned slightly as his train of thought was interrupted.

"Yes, Captain, no... Acting Director, you asked me to keep an eye on a homeless man before. Do you remember that he disappeared last night?" Ximen Xiu said anxiously.

"tramp....

Yang Xiao's thoughts instantly brought him back to a few days ago, when he had not yet followed the director into the nightmare world. He privately let Brother Sui go. There was indeed a homeless man at the scene, but the director gave him some money and sent him away.

Ximen Xiu brought the tablet computer over, placed it on the table and played a video for Yang Xiao. The video was rather blurry as it was shot at night. Judging from the angle, it should have been taken by a surveillance camera at an alley entrance.

A man in dark clothes walked into the alley stealthily, with his back to the surveillance camera, sticking to the wall.

He looked back from time to time. Ximen Xiu pressed the pause button at the right time and enlarged the picture. Yang Xiao vaguely saw the man's face.

A familiar memory flashed through his mind. Yes, it was the homeless man who was let go by the director. He even ate a few sweet potatoes from him.

"What's going on?" Yang Xiao frowned, smelling a hint of danger.

"This person had been staying in a small hotel nearby and hadn't been out for several days. But somehow, he suddenly slipped out last night and never came back. We checked the nearby surveillance cameras and found him, but there were only people who went in, no one left."

Ximen Xiu was silent for a moment, and then explained in a low voice, "I think this person must have had an accident. The hotel owner reported that

He said that he still had three days' rent for the room he rented, there were instant noodles and sausages on the table, and he hadn't taken a few clothes with him. It was impossible for him, a penniless homeless man, to leave these things behind.

Yang Xiao remembered that the director had warned him before, asking him to take the money and hide it somewhere, and not to come back within a week. However, he did not expect that this man would not listen to the advice. He must have come back after peeking because he was reluctant to part with the things in the broken house.

But who would mess with a homeless person? The result was already obvious. Yang Xiao slowly exhaled, with murderous intent in his eyes.

His premonition last night was correct. Someone was indeed watching him, and... he already knew the origin of the mysterious person last night.

"I know about this matter. Go back and prepare a detailed report and give it to Director Nalan when he returns."

"clear."

After Ximen Xiu left, Yang Xiao thought for a moment, picked up his phone, found a number and dialed it. After a few seconds, the call was connected:

"Is this Captain Qu? I am Yang Xiao."

Yang Xiao was busy in the office all day. There were many complicated things to do in the Patrol Office, and many of them required him, the acting director, to do them personally. Raising his hand and slowly moving his wrist, Yang Xiao couldn't help but sigh. As expected, the higher the position, the greater the responsibility. Nalan Shuo's life was far from as glamorous as he had imagined.

Fortunately, he has Sister Wen and Huang Qiang to assist him, one is in charge of internal affairs and the other is in charge of external affairs. Yang Xiao often feels that he is the redundant one. The work here can be completely handed over to these two people, and they will do a better job than himself.

In comparison, Yang Xiao still missed the time when he was the captain. The investigation team seldom went out unless there was an emergency. Huang Qiang once said frankly that when he was not there, the so-called real emergency would not occur until once in half a year.

In the evening, Yang Xiao finished his work for the day and went to the cafeteria downstairs to have a delicious meal. He also had three chicken legs. After having a full stomach, Yang Xiao did some simple exercises for a while and then went back to the office to rest. He slept until after 9 o'clock in the evening.

After getting up, he was full of energy. He took out his backpack, took off his clothes, and put on his theatrical robe very skillfully. According to the old rules, the theatrical robe was worn innermost, close to the skin, and then he put on a dark coat outside to wrap his whole body.

He then put on a baseball cap and pulled the brim down to cover the upper half of his face. Wearing this outfit, Yang Xiao quietly left the patrol station through the back door.

In a remote place near the back door, Yang Xiao stopped a black car. The driver stepped on the accelerator, and soon he arrived at the entrance of the alley where the homeless man disappeared.

After a quick observation nearby and finding nothing wrong, Yang Xiao pulled the brim of his hat even lower and then walked deeper into the alley. He vaguely remembered that there was an abandoned factory area in front of this place, and there were mostly abandoned low-rise houses in the alley.

Although these bungalows are abandoned, their structures are still intact and many of them still have doors and windows, which has attracted some homeless people to spend the night here.

This is what happened to the missing homeless man. He was eating sweet potatoes and singing in the room, and he met Yang Xiao by chance.

Returning to this place again, Yang Xiao felt a lot of emotions in his heart. If he had not met him last time, Brother Sui would have been in danger. Those people from Yiling Academy would not let him go. He never expected that Brother Sui could have such powerful strength and be a real ghost-level apostle.

As expected, the martial arts world is too vast, with numerous factions and numerous masters. It’s just that I live in a small place like Rongcheng, so I don’t know how vast and deep the martial arts world is.

But he has no plans to leave for the time being. He likes this place and this is home to him.

“Tattattatt…”

The alley was deep and quiet, with almost no windows with lights on. Only occasionally at the intersections were there a few lights that were dimly lit, emitting a half-life light.

According to his memory, Yang Xiao quickly found the place where he had fought with Brother Sui, and the homeless man's home was nearby.

Following the path he remembered, he came to the small house. The doors and windows were closed, the room was dark and silent.

But just as Yang Xiao approached, before he could stretch out his hand to push the door, he heard a "creak" and the door opened by itself in the light of Yang Xiao's surprise, and a figure walked out calmly.

This person was obviously not a homeless person. He was thin, leaning on a twisted wooden cane, and wearing a long black robe that covered most of his face and his entire body, making him look extremely mysterious.

"My intuition was right, it is you." The man in the robe lifted his hat, revealing a gloomy and old face. It was none other than the elder who led the team from Yiling Academy, who had met Yang Xiao once before.

"It's you?!" Yang Xiao frowned and took a step back unconsciously.

“Tell me, where did you hide that person?!” Elder Pu stepped forward, staring at Yang Xiao with a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes, and threatened in a low voice: “Boy, no one can save you today, I advise you to be sensible.”

"How dare you attack the people from the Patrol Office?" Yang Xiao questioned.

Hearing this, Elder Park suddenly laughed, his face twisted in horror, and he let out a hoarse and dull laugh, "No one will know, you are a smart person, I will not let you go out and talk nonsense, you must die today, but the difference is how you die."

"No one knows you're here. I can torture you to death little by little, or I can give you a quick death. It all depends on your choice."

Elder Park had his hands behind his back, as if he was strolling in the garden. Facing a captain of the patrol department, Elder Park did not take him seriously at all. In a one-on-one situation, very few people in Rongcheng could be his opponent. This was not arrogance, but extreme confidence in his own strength.

"Where is that homeless man?" Yang Xiao stepped back and looked towards the room that Elder Pu walked out of.

Seeing this, Elder Park grinned and said with a sinister smile: "You are about to die, and you still have time to care about others. Don't worry, you will see that stinky beggar soon."

Now the situation has become completely clear. The homeless man who sneaked back was caught by Elder Park who was waiting here. As expected, he gave away Yang Xiao. Elder Park also analyzed that Sui Chengguo's escape was most likely related to Yang Xiao, so he followed him late at night. The mysterious man who followed him last night was Elder Park from Yiling Academy.

“Elder Pu, I don’t understand what you are saying. Our Patrol Office has always had a good relationship with your Yiling Academy. You attacked me today. Aren’t you afraid of affecting the relationship between the two sides?” Yang Xiao said loudly, as if he was deliberately spreading the word, or for someone nearby to hear. “Besides, you are an elder. By attacking a junior like me, aren’t you afraid of ruining the reputation of Yiling Academy?”

"Stop talking nonsense. Who do you think your Rongcheng Patrol Office is? A Nalan Shuo dares to show his displeasure to me. Do you really think I'm easy to mess with?" Elder Pu slammed the ground with his cane. It can be seen that he is still brooding over what happened that day, and there is no way he will let it go today.

The next second, in Yang Xiao's field of vision, Elder Park's figure instantly disappeared, and then, a gust of wind blew from behind him. Yang Xiao reacted extremely quickly, and turned around to block the moment he pulled out the human bone stick, but even so, he was knocked away by a force.

After finally stabilizing himself, Yang Xiao raised his head and saw Elder Pu holding a cane and appearing at the place where he once stood. He stared at him with a slightly strange look, "Good boy, you are quite capable. No wonder you can defeat the Venerable-level evil cultivator."

"I will add another achievement to my record today, killing the elder of Yiling Academy." Yang Xiao grabbed the human bone stick,

He hit Elder Park with two sticks.

Elder Park raised his cane to block, but he didn't expect that the invisible attack would penetrate the cane, one stick hitting him on the head and the other hitting him on the chest. He couldn't help but feel dazed in his mind, but only for a moment.

When Elder Pu came to his senses, he saw Yang Xiao running wildly along the alley with his back to him, "Want to run?!"

In the blink of an eye, Yang Xiao had run to an intersection, but he had to slow down because the scene in front of him made him vaguely feel that something was wrong. He had been here before and remembered that the street lights here were on, but now, it was all dark.

It was not completely black, but a chaotic gray, as if it was obscured by something.

"Ming Ming...

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A dirty child wearing tattered clothes, barefoot, and covered in black, limped out from behind the corner, covering his face with his hands, crying as he ran.

The first time he saw the child, Yang Xiao took out the ghost lantern. As the pale green light spread, he also saw the child's true appearance.

Sure enough, it was a ghost. The child's facial skin had been completely peeled off, leaving only a skull face. His entire body was highly rotten, and as he ran, rotten flesh and blood dripped from time to time, leaving a muddy bloody trail on the ground.

This bloody path is invisible to the naked eye and will only become visible with the help of magical tools such as the ghost lantern.

In addition, the child was missing one of his left feet, and he limped when he ran, with yellowed bones exposed under the rotten wound.

The ghost child rushed towards Yang Xiao, but fortunately his speed was not too fast, and Yang Xiao dodged in time, barely avoiding it.

The ghost child, who was covering his face and had no eyes, crashed into a tree not far behind Yang Xiao. The part of the tree trunk that was hit was corroded and riddled with holes in an instant, and foul-smelling sewage flowed out from the honeycomb-like holes.

While being shocked, Yang Xiao also confirmed the ability of this ghost, which is corrosion. Qian Fang must not be touched by it, otherwise the tree would end up like this.

“Elder Pu, this is a magical weapon of an evil cultivator. Aren’t you afraid of being held accountable by Yiling Academy?” Yang Xiao shouted.

"Hehe, the winner is the king. I am not the only one in the courtyard who has such a magical weapon. It's just tacitly known!" Elder Pu attracted Yang Xiao's attention while speaking, and then his figure disappeared. When he appeared again, he was not far from the corroded tree. He grabbed a stick and smashed it hard on Yang Xiao's shoulder.

There was no way to avoid it this time, so Yang Xiao directly used the ability of the Soul Mirror, and the two of them almost swapped positions.

With a "bang" sound, dust and smoke were raised, and the stick fell down and actually smashed a small hole in the ground.

Without waiting for Yang Xiao to catch his breath, the ghost child continued to run towards Yang Xiao barefoot. Its speed was obviously faster than before, and the speed at which its rotting flesh and blood fell off was also increasing. It covered its face and kept crying in pain.

The current situation is extremely unfavorable to Yang Xiao. The space here has been blocked, he cannot escape, the ghost kid is chasing him, and on the other hand, he also has to guard against Elder Park's sneak attack. This man is quite powerful, at least he has one foot in the ghost level. Now the situation is still at a stalemate, largely because Elder Park is afraid of the consequences and has not killed him.

After all, he still had something to ask and hoped to be captured alive. Of course, after finding out the whereabouts of Brother Sui, death was the end that awaited him.

"A magical weapon that can directly attack the spirit, what a great stuff!!" Elder Park's eyes were filled with greed and murderous intent, knowing that he had picked up a treasure today.