Day and night tour

Chapter 99 Night of Revenge
Yuan Buyu was dressed handsomely and sat in front of Zhou Xuan's coffin waiting for Zhou Lingyi's roster.

……

Pingshuifu Railway Station is still busy at night.

Two gray-haired old men, dressed in expensive suits, supported each other as they got out of a Met car and walked towards the waiting room of the train station.

"Cousin, the people from the Zhou family won't come looking for us, right?" Li Lisheng asked Li Jintang in a low voice.

Li Lisheng is the white paper fan of the opera branch, and Li Jintang is the incense master of the opera branch.

The two are cousins.

"We actors can't fight head-on. Our disguises are top-notch. How could Zhou Lingyi find us?"

Li Jintang told his cousin to relax and that as long as he entered the train station and boarded the train to Mingjiang Prefecture, he would be free as long as he could.

The two walked forward, but they didn't notice a shadow appearing on the wall not far away.

"Old man, do you need a ride?" A rickshaw driver with his hat brim pulled down very low stopped the two men.

"No." Li Lisheng waved his hand and walked to the side. The rickshaw driver stopped him again and asked, "Do you want a ride?"

"I said no." Li Lisheng was about to get angry, but his eyes caught a glimpse of cold light.

A small knife shaped like a bamboo leaf was inserted into Li Lisheng's eyelid and then stabbed upward at an angle, with the tip of the knife just piercing behind the center of his eyebrows.

If this area is damaged, the human body will lose consciousness in an instant, resulting in immediate death.

This is what happened to Li Lisheng. He was stabbed and his body went limp. He lay on the rickshaw and there was no movement.

The shadow quickly attacked from behind and wrapped around Li Jintang.

Li Jintang sensed the danger and wanted to open his mouth to sing a ghost play, but Lv Mingkun still had a knife in his hand, which was already against his throat. He held all his lyrics in his throat, not daring to utter a single sound, and let the shadow wrap him up.

"Master Li, do you need a car?"

Lu Mingkun lowered the brim of his hat a little more.

"You've... found the wrong person." Li Jintang was still making his last struggle, denying his identity.

"You're pretending to be an old man...get in the car if you want to live."

Li Jintang knew he could no longer escape and had no other choice but to get in the car and sit on his cousin's body.

Lu Mingkun pulled the cart and ran towards Xijiamu District.

Li Jintang, who was tightly wrapped by the shadow, didn't understand why he was found so easily even though he had clearly changed his face.

He lay on his back in the rickshaw and sighed, and inadvertently saw a red lantern hanging in the sky with a bleeding eye on it - the lantern was the eye of the patrolling god at night.

If Li Jintang had received the news of Ren Ao and Zhou Xuan's death earlier, he and his cousin would have been able to change their minds and escape earlier.

But it was past dusk when he received the message.

After dusk, it was time to hang red lanterns in the sky. Before the Li brothers went out, the red lanterns stared at them.

Even if they changed several hotels and faces along the way, nothing could escape their detection under the lanterns.

……

No. 91, Guifang Road, Xijiamu District, is an independent two-story house.

Li Jintang was very familiar with this place. Whether it was the living room, bedroom, or spiral wooden staircase, he knew every inch of the wall very well.

This is his home.

Lu Mingkun took Li Jintang to the second floor.

There was no light on the second floor, and there was only a little light in the darkness.

The light gradually dimmed and then turned red again with the rhythm of her breathing.

Lu Kunming turned on the light.

Li Jintang saw a young woman sitting on the sofa, smoking a cigar.

"Zhou...Zhou...Lingyi, your brother's death..."

"Why did you take my brother's soul away?" Zhou Lingyi stared at Li Jintang.

Li Jintang shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

"Not very honest."

Zhou Lingyi slowly walked up to Li Jintang, scratched his face with her fingertips, and blood flowed from the wound.

She dipped some blood and drew a Wu family Gu talisman on Li Jintang's throat.

The rune was quickly absorbed by Li Jintang's skin, and then a finger-sized lump appeared in his throat, with rustling sounds coming from inside the lump.

After Zhou Lingyi snapped her fingers, the lump began to move rapidly in Li Jintang's body, causing him to break out in cold sweats due to the pain. He wanted to scream but couldn't, and his expression was distorted and hideous.

For the first time, he felt what it meant to be "unable to live, unable to die".

"Snapped."

Zhou Lingyi snapped her fingers again.
Li Jintang's pain was instantly reduced. He didn't want to experience that kind of inhuman pain again, so he immediately said, "Zhou Xuan has something in his hand! It's what the human Ao wants."

"What does the thing look like?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. Even humans don't know. I just know that thing can help humans say goodbye to their days of hiding."

"Where is the stuff now?"

"Only Zhou Xuan knows. I really don't know."

"Why do you want to control my third senior brother?" Zhou Lingyi snapped her fingers again, and the lump moved faster in Li Jintang's body.

As the pain intensified, Li Jintang spoke at a much faster pace, almost growling,
"It was Ren'ao's plan. He wanted Zhou Xuan to go find that thing. When he found it, he would kill Zhou Xuan and then take the thing back. Li Shuangyi was a hidden hand that Ren'ao had laid out several years in advance to ensure that killing Zhou Xuan would be foolproof..."

Li Jintang told everything he knew.

Zhou Lingyi already knew what he wanted to know, so he asked, "Hand over the roster of the opera hall."

"It's under the floor tiles of the desk." Li Jintang was tortured to the point of being unable to speak. Lu Mingkun found the roster and handed it to Zhou Lingyi.

"Put a dog chain on Li Jintang and let him be a good dog before he dies."

Zhou Lingyi took the roster and left the room.

"Master Li Xiang, I'll take you to another place!"

Lu Mingkun walked up to Li Jintang and knocked him unconscious with his elbow.

……

Li Jintang was awakened by bursts of dog barking. He opened his eyes and saw vicious dogs with their front paws on the ground and growling non-stop.

He himself was sitting in a dog house made of stone bricks.

"Where is this? Where is this?"

Li Jintang wanted to stand up, but his neck was pulled. He looked down and found that there was a dog chain around his neck.

"bite!"

Outside the dog house, an old man shouted, and the vicious dog followed his command and pounced on Li Jintang, biting him madly...

The sounds of iron chains, dogs barking, flesh being torn apart, and screams were heard incessantly.

When the sound died down, Lv Mingkun handed the old man a red envelope: "Uncle, good luck, good luck."

……

Zhou Lingyi returned to the Zhou family class and handed the roster to Yuan Buyu.

Yuan Buyu took the list and walked out the door.

The vast majority of people on this list are actors, but there are also masters from other gangs.

As a branch hall, it is not uncommon for it to lack strength and hire experts from other halls.

The first person who came to Yuan Buyu's door was an actor named Sun Mingyan.

He is at the level of five incense sticks, which is rare in this branch.

Sun Mingyan was addicted to opium. He was smoking it at home and enjoying it very much when there was a knock on the door.

He looked outside vigilantly. What good could come from someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night?
He wanted to sing puppet show immediately, but he heard a wooden sound in his ears and could not open his mouth. He only saw a huge golden Buddha. The imposing aura alone was enough to prevent him from getting up and he fell to his knees.

The golden Buddha didn't even lower his head, but just put his palm downward, and powerful pressure fell down quickly. Sun Mingyan could hardly put up any resistance, and his body was crushed by the palm force.

The storyteller's incense has reached the seventh floor, and the scope of the dream is extremely large. Yuan Buyu can cover Sun Mingyan with the dream without entering the door.

In Sun Mingyan's dream, his body was crushed by the giant Buddha, but in reality, he was holding a pipe and smashing his head again and again.

Yuan Buyu continued to look for the next actor.

The storyteller of Seven Incense Sticks, who takes the initiative to seek revenge, is no less than the King of Hell calling his name.

Once it is found, whether inside or outside the house, no matter whether or not there are any evil magical weapons with you, the dream will become a final nightmare.

When Yuan Buyu returned to Zhou's troupe, his gown was not stained with blood, and almost all the names on the roster were removed, except for a few actors who were lucky enough not to be in Pingshui Mansion that night and escaped the disaster.

The level of cultivation of these people is not very high, so it is most appropriate to leave them to Shadow to do the final cleaning in the next few days.

……

That night, there was no more branch of the theater in Pingshui Prefecture, and even their own property, the Mingjiang Grand Theater, was taken away by Liu Jiaotian.

Liu Jiaotian set up a stage in front of the Mingjiang Grand Theater to perform. Her steps, voice and looks were unique. Her singing made the pear blossoms fall and the sky filled with resentment. The audience cheered and applauded with all their might even as they shed tears.

There were almost no customers in Mingjiang Grand Theater, as everyone went outside to listen to Liu Jiaotian's play, so the theater had to close early.

……

The day after Zhou Xuan's funeral, the Zhou family was a little quieter, with fewer guests coming to pay their respects.
The fire of revenge was ignited last night, and now only a few sparks remain. Zhou Lingyi sat on the armchair with his clothes tucked into his sleeves, closing his eyes to rest. Occasionally, he would wake up and stare at Zhou Xuan's face.

Feeling at ease just by looking at him was a habit Zhou Lingyi had developed after accepting Zhou Xuan. However, she was afraid that she would never feel at ease again for even a day.

Yuan Buyu seemed drowsy. Ever since he returned to Zhou's team, his energy and spirit seemed to have dissipated. He dozed off most of the day. When he woke up occasionally, he was incoherent when talking to people around him.

Zhou Lingyi asked the people around him not to disturb him too much. She understood that Yuan Buyu had realized a new truth.

Because his incense had been completely extinguished ten years ago, and now he had been promoted to a new level, which was too high for his spirit to bear, so he became drowsy, and it took a long time to stabilize the new incense.

"The sun is lazy. It would be nice if my brother could bask in the sun with me."

Zhou Lingyi squinted her eyes, raised her head and looked at the sun which was now obscured by clouds, and said absentmindedly.

……

When Li Younuo went up the mountain, it was almost dawn.

In the second half of the night, the masters of the Zhou family troupe were making final preparations, calculating whether there were any errors in the number of paper figures and paper horses, counting the number of people participating in the Nuo parade, and asking whether the Nuo masks and costumes had been distributed.

The most important thing is to fight the "Old Dragon Bed".

The old dragon bed is a wooden frame for carrying coffins. It looks more like the keel of a wooden boat than a bed, with more than ten wooden arms extending to the left and right.

The dragon bed was built at the beginning of the funeral and has now been completed, but Yu Zhengyuan is still worried. He holds a kerosene lantern, bends over, and carefully checks whether each nail is firmly fastened. There are some places that he feels are not stable enough, so he asks the master to reinforce them!
The Zhou family was making final preparations for the Nuo performance, and Zhou Xuan was not idle either.

In the secret realm,
The black gas transformed from the boatman was completely absorbed by Zhou Xuan.

The fusion of dual consciousness is complete.

The new soul, Zhou Xuan, was guided, stood in the cabin, and walked into the black water.

He walked on the black water, on the crimson moon, all the way to the center of the crimson moon. A bright red enveloped his soul.

at the same time,

Inside the coffin, Zhou Xuan's body's wounds healed slowly. The broken flesh swallowed up the thin threads that sutured the wounds, and then closed up silently.

The soul and the flesh gradually become one...

(End of this chapter)