Bai Lixin turned his head, only to find Mrs. Shen standing quietly by the bedroom door near the entrance.
She completely ignored Xiao Xin’s call and just stared blankly at the door.
“Dad!”
Just then, Xiao Xin called out again.
Mrs. Shen’s body trembled visibly and she turned to Xiao Xin helplessly, “Don’t shout randomly, Dad is not here at all.”
Xiao Xin pointed to where Mrs. Shen was standing, “Dad is right next to Mom, but his posture is so strange.”
The little girl tilted her head, “Dad, why are you hanging onto Mom?”
“Ah!!!” Mrs. Shen suddenly screamed with a ferocious face and rushed towards the door in panic.
The moment Mrs. Shen’s hand touched the door, Bai Lixin, who had been standing quietly nearby, suddenly felt an inexplicable fear.
It was the instinctive fear of the bottom of the food chain towards the top predator, like a mouse sensing the presence of a cat and instinctively cowering away.
Before he could realize where this fear came from, the tightly closed door was forcefully pushed open.
Outside the door stood a man with a demon mask on his face.
The man was wearing a blue robe. Qi was swirling around his body, and he exuded a menacing aura. He looked tall and imposing. One hand was hidden in his robe, while the other held several talismans, his murderous intent evident. “It’s you again?”
Bai Lixin thought to himself that this was not good, and instinctively ran towards the window.
He was fast, but someone was faster.
There was a clap, and the previously unremarkable hall was immediately covered by countless yellow talismans.
The talismans were neatly arranged, like the fierce tongues of a giant beast, chasing after Bai Lixin as he fled.
Just as Bai Lixin’s hand was about to touch the window, the talismans chased after him from all directions, closing in at the last moment and sealing off Bai Lixin’s escape route completely.
The man with the masked face walked into the room. Bai Lixin couldn’t see the man’s face clearly, but he knew that the man was staring at him, like a predator eyeing its prey.
The neatly arranged talismans shimmered with dazzling yellow light. Mrs. Shen screamed, pointing at Bai Lixin with a trembling voice, “Hus… Husband?”
Bai Lixin glanced at Mrs. Shen innocently, then looked at the man with the masked face.
‘Husband?
Could it be that she couldn’t recognize her husband?’
So in Mrs. Shen’s eyes, what she saw should be the same as those people before, just a mass of black mist.
Mrs. Shen half knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face, “Husband, no wonder Xiao Xin said she could see you, you’ve been here all along.”
“Husband, you died so unjustly. Were you worried about us, so you came back?”
“Husband, who harmed you?”
The man with the demon mask remained silent, just looking at Bai Lixin with his scrutinizing gaze.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘This misunderstanding is a bit too big. Should I accept it or not?’
Mrs. Shen looked at the man, “Master, I want to talk to my husband, can you help me?”
The man with the demon mask turned to Mrs. Shen, then turned to Bai Lixin, “Ordinary human perception is limited. What you see now is the most you can see. If you have something to say, say it now. If he wants to respond to you, he will naturally react.”
Mrs. Shen hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Bai Lixin, “Husband, tell me, who is the person who killed you?”
After a moment of thought, Bai Lixin shook his head.
Mrs. Shen: “You don’t know?”
“You idiot!” she growled softly, “You’re killed, and you don’t even know who did it. What am I and Xiao Xin supposed to do? What if the person who killed you had a grudge against you and wants to retaliate against me and Xiao Xin after killing you? You’re so irresponsible!”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Sister, it’s not that I don’t want to tell you, but I really don’t know who the killer is now.’
Mrs. Shen wiped her tears, “I checked your bank card, there’s only seven hundred thousand in it. I remember you said you invested some money, where did you invest it?”
Bai Lixin: ???
‘Is there such a thing?’
Seeing Bai Lixin’s lack of reaction, Mrs. Shen asked again, “Husband, tell me quickly. You don’t care about me, but you must care about Xiao Xin, right? I’m a housewife, Xiao Xin is still so young, what should an orphan and a widow like us do?”
Bai Lixin: [S419M, where did Shen Shukuang invest the money?]
S419M: [Shen Shukuang divided his salary in half, with one part stored in the bank card for household expenses for Mrs. Shen, and the other part invested in a foundation called “Angel’s Home.”]
S419M: [This foundation is for public welfare. Shen Shukuang did not invest this money in his own name, but in the name of his daughter.]
Bai Lixin: [What aspects is this public welfare qualification mainly used for when it comes to assistance?]
S419M: [It’s mainly for childcare, education, human rights, domestic violence, humanitarian care, among others, all are within the scope of this organization’s assistance.]
[Shen Shukuang probably deceived Mrs. Shen and falsely called the donation money investment money. In fact, the money was a charity donation and could only go in but not out. 】
Escape system:【It seems that Shen Shukuang was not a bad person. Even after being drugged and photographed, and even threatened into marriage, he still fulfilled his duties to his wife after marriage. He was very caring towards his daughter and was a qualified father. Not only that, but he also secretly made donations.】
S419M: [What about the two college students’ harassment allegations?]
It was very disdainful: [During my time doing quick transmigration with my host, I have seen many hypocrites. They appear to be polite gentlemen, good fathers, good husbands, and good teachers on the surface, but the dirty things they do behind the scenes are more exciting than novels.]
The two systems brainstormed in Bai Lixin’s mind, while in reality, Mrs. Shen continued her aggressive questioning.
Seeing that Bai Lixin didn’t answer about the money’s whereabouts, Mrs. Shen grew somewhat hysterical, “You still won’t tell me at this time? Are you really keeping a woman outside?”
“Shen Shukuang, you heartless thing!”
“If I hadn’t wiped your ass back then, how could you have escaped unscathed? Now you’re still being blackmailed by that gangster Su Hong and being used like a dog!”
“I am the one who fought alongside you! I even bore you a child!”
“And you, you slept with female students! Bah, if it wasn’t for me cleaning up after you, you’d have been in jail long ago!”
S419M: [!!! So Shen Shukuang really slept with female students?]
Escape System: [The academic transactions are true too?!]
Mrs. Shen didn’t care that Xiao Xin and the masked man were still in the living room, and she continued to point at Bai Lixin’s face and cursed angrily, “Fine, very well, you won’t tell me? Then you won’t have a good time either.”
A bad premonition flashed through Bai Lixin’s mind, and he saw Mrs. Shen turned to the masked man decisively, “Master! Even though he is my husband, there is a vast difference between the living and the dead, yet he keeps haunting us and scaring us. He’s driven my daughter and me to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Please, capture him.”
She shook her phone, “The price is negotiable.”
The masked man didn’t say anything. He only held the talismans and looked at Bai Lixin, but the terrifying aura around him did not diminish in the slightest.
Bai Lixin knew that while the masked man had spared him once, he wouldn’t do so a second time.
He closed his eyes and tried to regulate his breath.
He had been in this copy for a week. During this time, he had basically adapted to switching between three forms, and he could vaguely sense the changes in his aura in different states.
In his spirit state, his body felt as light as the wind, the blood in his body was stagnant, and only his consciousness remained active.
In his half-human, half-spirit form, his body felt like drifting air currents through a forest, free but hindered by the trees. His blood flowed slowly, like a gentle stream, and his consciousness was wrapped within the stream.
In his human form, his body was steady like a pine, as solid as a massive boulder on a cliff, full of strength.
Over these days, not only had he adapted to the physical changes, but he had also developed a sense for when his form was about to shift.
At this moment, Bai Lixin recalled the state of being half-human and half-spirit, injecting grains of sand into the light breeze.
As he tried to forcibly transform his spirit state, he kept reaching for props in his backpack.
The system’s alarm kept repeating in his mind.
[Ding! Warning, you cannot retrieve props in your current state.]
[Ding! Warning, you cannot retrieve props in your current state.]
[Ding! Warning, you cannot retrieve props in your current state.]
“I told you before.” The man’s cold and emotionless voice reached Bai Lixin’s ears, “I spared you once. Do not appear before me again, or you won’t get a second chance.”
[Ding! Congratulations, player, you have obtained a prop: White Scythe X1!]
Bai Lixin’s eyes snapped open!
At that moment, as the masked man was about to reach Bai Lixin, Bai Lixin pushed off the ground with his toes and leaped backward, heading straight for the window.
With a slash of the scythe at the yellow talismans sealing the window, yellow flakes filled the air, and the previously intact window shattered instantly.
Mrs. Shen couldn’t see the actions of the black mist, nor the tension that had just unfolded.
All she saw was the black mist flying towards the window, followed by the shattering of the window.
In the next second, the black mist rushed out of the window and escaped.
She was horrified, “Don’t let him get away!”
‘He must not escape, or he will definitely come back to take revenge on me! For betraying him, and trying to have him captured and dissipated.’
Imagining the future where a ghost she couldn’t see would be clinging to her every day, watching her sleep, hanging onto her, sitting opposite her at the dining table, Mrs. Shen felt as if the world had gone dark.
The masked man glanced at Mrs. Shen, then charged straight towards the window.
In the next moment, Mrs. Shen covered her mouth and screamed again.
‘He went out!
The master actually chased after Shen Shukuang’s ghost?! ‘
‘This is the seventh floor!
He’ll fall to his death!’
Bai Lixin narrowly escaped death and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly felt a sense of pressure behind him.
He turned around and saw that the man with the demon mask was still relentless and had actually chased him out.
The height of the seventh floor was a full twenty meters. Bai Lixin spun mid-air using the scythe as leverage, barely dodging a few yellow talismans.
As for the masked man, he floated lightly in mid-air.
Comparing the two, it was the masked man who seemed less human.
Seeing the masked man forming a seal, with no intention of letting him go, Bai Lixin glanced down and dived into the dense woods below.
As soon as he hit the ground, he quickly adjusted his internal breath, switching fully to his human form, and immediately used an invisibility prop card, disappearing completely into the woods.
Just as he finished, there was a dull thud.
The masked man landed steadily on the grass, less than three meters away from Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin turned his head, only to find Mrs. Shen standing quietly by the bedroom door near the entrance.
She completely ignored Xiao Xin’s call and just stared blankly at the door.
“Dad!”
Just then, Xiao Xin called out again.
Mrs. Shen’s body trembled visibly and she turned to Xiao Xin helplessly, “Don’t shout randomly, Dad is not here at all.”
Xiao Xin pointed to where Mrs. Shen was standing, “Dad is right next to Mom, but his posture is so strange.”
The little girl tilted her head, “Dad, why are you hanging onto Mom?”
“Ah!!!” Mrs. Shen suddenly screamed with a ferocious face and rushed towards the door in panic.
The moment Mrs. Shen’s hand touched the door, Bai Lixin, who had been standing quietly nearby, suddenly felt an inexplicable fear.
It was the instinctive fear of the bottom of the food chain towards the top predator, like a mouse sensing the presence of a cat and instinctively cowering away.
Before he could realize where this fear came from, the tightly closed door was forcefully pushed open.
Outside the door stood a man with a demon mask on his face.
The man was wearing a blue robe. Qi was swirling around his body, and he exuded a menacing aura. He looked tall and imposing. One hand was hidden in his robe, while the other held several talismans, his murderous intent evident. “It’s you again?”
Bai Lixin thought to himself that this was not good, and instinctively ran towards the window.
He was fast, but someone was faster.
There was a clap, and the previously unremarkable hall was immediately covered by countless yellow talismans.
The talismans were neatly arranged, like the fierce tongues of a giant beast, chasing after Bai Lixin as he fled.
Just as Bai Lixin’s hand was about to touch the window, the talismans chased after him from all directions, closing in at the last moment and sealing off Bai Lixin’s escape route completely.
The man with the masked face walked into the room. Bai Lixin couldn’t see the man’s face clearly, but he knew that the man was staring at him, like a predator eyeing its prey.
The neatly arranged talismans shimmered with dazzling yellow light. Mrs. Shen screamed, pointing at Bai Lixin with a trembling voice, “Hus… Husband?”
Bai Lixin glanced at Mrs. Shen innocently, then looked at the man with the masked face.
‘Husband?
Could it be that she couldn’t recognize her husband?’
So in Mrs. Shen’s eyes, what she saw should be the same as those people before, just a mass of black mist.
Mrs. Shen half knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face, “Husband, no wonder Xiao Xin said she could see you, you’ve been here all along.”
“Husband, you died so unjustly. Were you worried about us, so you came back?”
“Husband, who harmed you?”
The man with the demon mask remained silent, just looking at Bai Lixin with his scrutinizing gaze.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘This misunderstanding is a bit too big. Should I accept it or not?’
Mrs. Shen looked at the man, “Master, I want to talk to my husband, can you help me?”
The man with the demon mask turned to Mrs. Shen, then turned to Bai Lixin, “Ordinary human perception is limited. What you see now is the most you can see. If you have something to say, say it now. If he wants to respond to you, he will naturally react.”
Mrs. Shen hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Bai Lixin, “Husband, tell me, who is the person who killed you?”
After a moment of thought, Bai Lixin shook his head.
Mrs. Shen: “You don’t know?”
“You idiot!” she growled softly, “You’re killed, and you don’t even know who did it. What am I and Xiao Xin supposed to do? What if the person who killed you had a grudge against you and wants to retaliate against me and Xiao Xin after killing you? You’re so irresponsible!”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Sister, it’s not that I don’t want to tell you, but I really don’t know who the killer is now.’
Mrs. Shen wiped her tears, “I checked your bank card, there’s only seven hundred thousand in it. I remember you said you invested some money, where did you invest it?”
Bai Lixin: ???
‘Is there such a thing?’
Seeing Bai Lixin’s lack of reaction, Mrs. Shen asked again, “Husband, tell me quickly. You don’t care about me, but you must care about Xiao Xin, right? I’m a housewife, Xiao Xin is still so young, what should an orphan and a widow like us do?”
Bai Lixin: [S419M, where did Shen Shukuang invest the money?]
S419M: [Shen Shukuang divided his salary in half, with one part stored in the bank card for household expenses for Mrs. Shen, and the other part invested in a foundation called “Angel’s Home.”]
S419M: [This foundation is for public welfare. Shen Shukuang did not invest this money in his own name, but in the name of his daughter.]
Bai Lixin: [What aspects is this public welfare qualification mainly used for when it comes to assistance?]
S419M: [It’s mainly for childcare, education, human rights, domestic violence, humanitarian care, among others, all are within the scope of this organization’s assistance.]
[Shen Shukuang probably deceived Mrs. Shen and falsely called the donation money investment money. In fact, the money was a charity donation and could only go in but not out. 】
Escape system:【It seems that Shen Shukuang was not a bad person. Even after being drugged and photographed, and even threatened into marriage, he still fulfilled his duties to his wife after marriage. He was very caring towards his daughter and was a qualified father. Not only that, but he also secretly made donations.】
S419M: [What about the two college students’ harassment allegations?]
It was very disdainful: [During my time doing quick transmigration with my host, I have seen many hypocrites. They appear to be polite gentlemen, good fathers, good husbands, and good teachers on the surface, but the dirty things they do behind the scenes are more exciting than novels.]
The two systems brainstormed in Bai Lixin’s mind, while in reality, Mrs. Shen continued her aggressive questioning.
Seeing that Bai Lixin didn’t answer about the money’s whereabouts, Mrs. Shen grew somewhat hysterical, “You still won’t tell me at this time? Are you really keeping a woman outside?”
“Shen Shukuang, you heartless thing!”
“If I hadn’t wiped your ass back then, how could you have escaped unscathed? Now you’re still being blackmailed by that gangster Su Hong and being used like a dog!”
“I am the one who fought alongside you! I even bore you a child!”
“And you, you slept with female students! Bah, if it wasn’t for me cleaning up after you, you’d have been in jail long ago!”
S419M: [!!! So Shen Shukuang really slept with female students?]
Escape System: [The academic transactions are true too?!]
Mrs. Shen didn’t care that Xiao Xin and the masked man were still in the living room, and she continued to point at Bai Lixin’s face and cursed angrily, “Fine, very well, you won’t tell me? Then you won’t have a good time either.”
A bad premonition flashed through Bai Lixin’s mind, and he saw Mrs. Shen turned to the masked man decisively, “Master! Even though he is my husband, there is a vast difference between the living and the dead, yet he keeps haunting us and scaring us. He’s driven my daughter and me to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Please, capture him.”
She shook her phone, “The price is negotiable.”
The masked man didn’t say anything. He only held the talismans and looked at Bai Lixin, but the terrifying aura around him did not diminish in the slightest.
Bai Lixin knew that while the masked man had spared him once, he wouldn’t do so a second time.
He closed his eyes and tried to regulate his breath.
He had been in this copy for a week. During this time, he had basically adapted to switching between three forms, and he could vaguely sense the changes in his aura in different states.
In his spirit state, his body felt as light as the wind, the blood in his body was stagnant, and only his consciousness remained active.
In his half-human, half-spirit form, his body felt like drifting air currents through a forest, free but hindered by the trees. His blood flowed slowly, like a gentle stream, and his consciousness was wrapped within the stream.
In his human form, his body was steady like a pine, as solid as a massive boulder on a cliff, full of strength.
Over these days, not only had he adapted to the physical changes, but he had also developed a sense for when his form was about to shift.
At this moment, Bai Lixin recalled the state of being half-human and half-spirit, injecting grains of sand into the light breeze.
As he tried to forcibly transform his spirit state, he kept reaching for props in his backpack.
The system’s alarm kept repeating in his mind.
[Ding! Warning, you cannot retrieve props in your current state.]
[Ding! Warning, you cannot retrieve props in your current state.]
[Ding! Warning, you cannot retrieve props in your current state.]
“I told you before.” The man’s cold and emotionless voice reached Bai Lixin’s ears, “I spared you once. Do not appear before me again, or you won’t get a second chance.”
[Ding! Congratulations, player, you have obtained a prop: White Scythe X1!]
Bai Lixin’s eyes snapped open!
At that moment, as the masked man was about to reach Bai Lixin, Bai Lixin pushed off the ground with his toes and leaped backward, heading straight for the window.
With a slash of the scythe at the yellow talismans sealing the window, yellow flakes filled the air, and the previously intact window shattered instantly.
Mrs. Shen couldn’t see the actions of the black mist, nor the tension that had just unfolded.
All she saw was the black mist flying towards the window, followed by the shattering of the window.
In the next second, the black mist rushed out of the window and escaped.
She was horrified, “Don’t let him get away!”
‘He must not escape, or he will definitely come back to take revenge on me! For betraying him, and trying to have him captured and dissipated.’
Imagining the future where a ghost she couldn’t see would be clinging to her every day, watching her sleep, hanging onto her, sitting opposite her at the dining table, Mrs. Shen felt as if the world had gone dark.
The masked man glanced at Mrs. Shen, then charged straight towards the window.
In the next moment, Mrs. Shen covered her mouth and screamed again.
‘He went out!
The master actually chased after Shen Shukuang’s ghost?! ‘
‘This is the seventh floor!
He’ll fall to his death!’
Bai Lixin narrowly escaped death and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly felt a sense of pressure behind him.
He turned around and saw that the man with the demon mask was still relentless and had actually chased him out.
The height of the seventh floor was a full twenty meters. Bai Lixin spun mid-air using the scythe as leverage, barely dodging a few yellow talismans.
As for the masked man, he floated lightly in mid-air.
Comparing the two, it was the masked man who seemed less human.
Seeing the masked man forming a seal, with no intention of letting him go, Bai Lixin glanced down and dived into the dense woods below.
As soon as he hit the ground, he quickly adjusted his internal breath, switching fully to his human form, and immediately used an invisibility prop card, disappearing completely into the woods.
Just as he finished, there was a dull thud.
The masked man landed steadily on the grass, less than three meters away from Bai Lixin.
