Tie Ningxiang's body was a little stiff, her head hung slightly, and she stood there silently.
I circled around her.
"Tie Ningxiang, do you hate me in your heart? Do you hate me for killing your grandfather and your brother?"
Tie Ningxiang shook her head without thinking.
"No, I don't hate it."
My eyes narrowed.
"You really don't hate it?"
She shook her head again.
I stared at her for a few seconds, then reached out and pinched her chin, forcing her to raise her head to look at me.
"Are you telling the truth? Why do I think you don't mean what you say?"
Tie Ningxiang's eyes were obviously panicked.
"My grandfather brought it upon himself. As for my brother, I have long advised him not to go against you, but he didn't listen. Besides, even if you didn't kill him, he would be struck to death by lightning."
"So I don't blame you."
"You really think so?" I was still a little doubtful.
After all, I don't believe that a person can change so much.
Think about how arrogant and domineering Tie Ningxiang was at the beginning, holding a whip in her hand and hitting whomever she wanted.
But now she has become so obedient in a short period of time. Even if I killed her grandfather and her brother, she didn't hate me.
Why do I feel so wrong?
And he looked like he was afraid of me.
"Tie Ningxiang, are you afraid of me?"
"me……"
"Why are you afraid of me? I'm not a tiger, so why are you so afraid?"
"Although you are not a tiger, you are more terrifying than a tiger."
"Uh? Why do you say that?"
"Because you are a soul stabbing master and you are the grandson of Old Ghost Li. I didn't know what soul stabbing master and Old Ghost Li meant before, but now I know."
My hand released her chin.
Tears actually flowed from her eyes, and she looked at me pleadingly.
"Li Yang, please let our Tie family go. My grandfather and my brother are dead, and no one will fight against you anymore."
Seeing her pear blossoms with rain, I actually felt a little pity.
"Okay, from now on, I, Li Yang, have nothing to do with your Tie family. You can go."
Tie Ningxiang glanced at me, turned around and left.
Looking at her disappearing back, I felt inexplicably melancholy, but I didn’t know where this melancholy came from.
I lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly.
After a while, Lao Hu came in.
"They are all gone." Old Hu said.
I asked him where were Shu Wen and Long Xin?
"I have something to say with you, so I asked those two girls to wait below."
"By the way, hurry up and see if your three bells are still there?"
I was stunned and quickly reached out to touch my waist.
Fortunately, it's intact.
"Wait, no, Lao Hu, there are not fewer bells, but one more."
Lao Hu was stunned.
I have taken out all the bells from my waist and put them on the coffee table in the living room.
In addition to the three I had before, there is another red bell.
Four bells are placed side by side on the coffee table, which is particularly eye-catching.
"The red fire bell was left by Lady Liu."
I suddenly realized that the spirit of Lady Liu not only came to say goodbye to me, but also wanted to leave this bell behind.
She is a ghost who has been practicing for many years and has reached the stage of transcending tribulation, so it is not difficult for her to quietly leave the bell on my body.
"It seems that A'nu Liu is using this method to repay you. After all, it was you who resolved her obsession and freed her."
I picked up the red bell and looked at it carefully, and suddenly I found a note stuffed inside one of the small bells.
I quickly took out the note and unfolded it. There were two big words written on it - memory.
Neither Lao Hu nor I understand what this means.
"Are Liu A'nv trying to remind you of something in this way?"
"But what does the word memory mean?"
In the end, Lao Hu and I both came to a conclusion.
There must be a mystery behind this red bell. Don’t forget that this bell was given to Aunt Liu by my grandfather at that time.
"Five-color bells, five bells. I have collected four now. I won't talk about the other three. Don't you think this fourth one is strange? Why did your grandfather give it to Liu A'nu in the first place? It was just because of fate.
?”
I'm also puzzled.
"Your grandfather must have calculated that many years later, this bell will definitely fall from A'nv Liu's hands to yours, so this note may not be written by A'nv Liu, it may be left by your grandfather.
What is he hinting to you?"
Then Lao Hu asked me to put the bell away and find an opportunity to study it carefully and try to figure out the mystery in a short time.
"I have a hunch that this bell may contain the truth I want to know."
"About the two evil spirits, about my grandfather's relationship with them, and about the human face of Bai Xiaoxue on my body, all the truth may be hidden in this bell."
I put the four bells away again.
Lao Hu asked me what to do next?
I decided to go to Zhang Chi's office first and meet him, because currently he is the only one who can help me break the barrier of the Long family and bring Xu Jing back.
And I have to ask him again about Lady Liu and the bell.
So Lao Hu and I immediately went straight to the relaxing office on the top floor.
Such a big thing happened, but no other guests or staff at the Malton Hotel knew about it, and the entire hotel was still operating normally.
No one knows that we have solved the problem of the female ghost in red.
Since I had been here once, I quickly opened the door of Zhang Chi's office as I was familiar with the routine.
Sure enough, as Hei Leyi said, this guy had been beaten to death by those sinister people and fell to the ground like a dead dog.
The phone line in the office was cut off, and Zhang Chi's cell phone was taken away. Therefore, after being beaten, he couldn't even call for help.
As for the evil spirit who colluded with him, we didn't see it.
Hearing the footsteps, Zhang Chi opened his eyes slightly.
I motioned to Lao Hu to lock the office door, then walked to Zhang Chi and looked at him condescendingly.
When he saw it was me, panic suddenly appeared on his face.
"Don't be nervous, I won't kill you." I said.
Lao Hu directly lifted him up and threw him roughly on the sofa.
Zhang Chi struggled to straighten up half of his body and leaned on the sofa, still looking at me in panic.
"Boss Zhang, do we still have to count our previous transactions? Although you are plotting against me, at least I helped you solve the matter of the ghost in red. Shouldn't you fulfill your promise and tell me how to break the knot of the Long family?
boundary?"
Zhang Chi took a few breaths and spoke with some difficulty.
"I was indeed plotting against you, but I didn't expect you to escape from the Jialan Sumeru Jade, destroy the artifact, and let other people escape as well."
"You can actually resolve A'nv Liu's obsession?"
I smiled.
"Yeah, I really didn't expect it. I thought Liu A'nv had been completely controlled by the demon, but in fact she still had her own consciousness and power. It was just the obsession in her heart that blinded her eyes, and she was
Become a tool of that demon."
"And after I resolved her obsession, naturally, all these conspiracies came to an end."
"Tell me, who is that demon? What is your relationship with him? Why does he force A'nv Liu to practice tribulation? What is your purpose?"
"The demon you are talking about is our ancestor, and we belong to the Death Cult."
Old Hu's face suddenly changed color, he was indeed a member of the Death Cult.
Lao Hu knows how scary and perverted the people of the death cult are, but I don't.
I don’t care if it’s a dead cult or a living cult, I just know it’s a harmful cult.
Zhang Chi said that the demon was the founder of the Death Cult and the first of the three leaders, so he was called the Patriarch.
And at the beginning, he was just a little guy in the personal training. Because of Liu A'nu's incident, he was promoted by the Demon Dao to become one of the deputy leaders, and his status skyrocketed.
I don't know anything about death cults, and I have no interest in learning about them.
But I have to admit that the demon's ability is not small, and he can actually force Liu A'nv to practice, and in a short period of time, he can reach the point of overcoming the tribulation and becoming an immortal.
You must know that the cultivation of all things in the world, including the cultivation of humans, is very difficult. Some animals may not be able to reach the point of overcoming tribulations after practicing for thousands of years.
Of course, the evil way forced Lady Liu to practice the forbidden art of heaven and earth. She probably took a shortcut, but it also had great side effects.
Sure enough, Zhang Chi said: "The Patriarch is a Taoist genius who only happens once in a century, so he was discovered by Taoist Master Wu Lei of Maoshan very early and was brought to Maoshan because he was too obsessed with the art of cultivation and went crazy.
He injured many Maoshan disciples, stole a sacred artifact, the Jialan Sumeru Jade, fled down the mountain, and became a traitor to Maoshan."
"While evading Maoshan's arrest, the Patriarch searched everywhere for cultivation techniques from various sects, trying to fuse them together to create a new technique."
"The Grandmaster became more and more ambitious in cultivation. He actually wanted to become an immortal, and later founded the Death Cult. The purpose of the Death Cult is to cultivate and become an immortal."
Lao Hu interjected: "The purpose of the death cult is indeed to cultivate immortality, so it has attracted many people from all over the country to join, including celebrities, entrepreneurs and other celebrities in various fields."
I was surprised. Is a cult organization so huge?
But when I think about it again, the gimmick of cultivating immortals is indeed very attractive. Even celebrities and entrepreneurs in the upper class want to become immortals.
Everyone wants to become an immortal.
Therefore, everyone from celebrities to country folk are tempted to join the death cult.
Zhang Chi is also one of them. The Zhang family can be considered a second-rate family in Yanjing. The Morton Hotel is just one of the many properties in their family.