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Chapter 400 Not the Same Ghost
During this investigation, Chen Xin discovered a limitation in the use of the Yama-level mesh screen.

That is, when tracing back, he cannot enter the Netherworld and move quickly.

Once you enter the Netherworld, the tracing of your path will be interrupted. The net sieve cannot trace the vital energy of the mortal world through the Netherworld unless that vital energy also exists in the Netherworld.

In reality, in the wild, Chen Xin could run with all his might without restraint, leaving afterimages, but how could he possibly run with all his might in the city?

Taking a taxi was too much trouble, so in the end, the mode of transportation that Chen Xin traced was... a shared bicycle.

Although I rode very fast, it still felt like something was missing.

So when Chen Xin passed by an electric vehicle store, he bought an electric scooter in full.

The shop owner thoughtfully gave Chen Xin a helmet and told him to be careful on the road.

At first, Chen Xin didn't understand what this point of attention meant.

He didn't realize what was happening until he was stopped by the traffic police.

It was learned that Chen Xin did not have a motorcycle license, his vehicle was not registered, and he had not purchased compulsory traffic accident insurance.

The traffic police officer was about to tow the car away.

Chen Xin was only allowed to leave after he produced his Bureau of Investigation credentials and said he was on a special mission.

And this is not the end.

Chen Xin was stopped at several intersections afterward.

It always takes a lot of talking.

It didn't end until they left the city.

As a result of this delay, it was three hours later when Chen Xin finally arrived in the neighboring city following the trail.

Before entering the city, Chen Xin did not take out the electric car that he had already left at the Sanshan residence, but instead switched to a shared bicycle.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Chen Xin finally arrived at a residential area, guided by the line.

Looking at the neighborhood, Chen Xin felt a sense of familiarity.

He soon realized where this familiarity came from.

Ke Ting!

The apartment complex where she jumped to her death!

At that moment, Bai Xue was in a room in one of the buildings.

Looking at the direction of that trajectory, Chen Xin seemed to understand something.

He locked the shared bike, walked around a corner, and disappeared.

A stray cat on the roadside stared wide-eyed at the spot where Chen Xin had disappeared, then strolled over and paced back and forth around the corner.

It seems that it wants to disappear like that two-legged creature.

……

Sitting in the living room, Bai Xue kept scrolling through short videos.

The content we're watching is all of the same type.

Jump off a building!

During the time she used herself as bait, in addition to the short videos she uploaded herself, she had already seen more than a dozen videos of people jumping off buildings on short video platforms.

Without exception, they were all naked, seemingly falling accidentally, but in reality, they jumped intentionally.

This is just what she saw; who knows how many more there are that she didn't see or that didn't upload videos.

She had no idea how many people that ghost had killed after killing Ke Ting.

I wonder if the hundred tigers around her can deal with the evil spirit and protect her.

But she knew that if she didn't do it, she would never forgive herself.

Time passed by, and after several hours in the room, Bai Xue suddenly felt the urge to use the restroom.

Looking at the toilet door, which was a good five meters away from her, she remained silent for a moment, then got up and left the pile of tigers.

As she walked towards the restroom, Bai Xue's heart began to pound.

But until she entered the toilet and sat on the toilet, there was no movement at all.

This made her a little disappointed.

Perhaps there are too many tigers?
Bai Xue pressed the flush button, a decision forming in her eyes.

Back in the living room, she picked up the thirty tiger cubs and headed towards the second bedroom, which was furthest from the living room.

The reason there are thirty is because Ke Ting had twenty Ai Hus but still couldn't stop them.

Thirty is a rather delicate number.

After Bai Xue stepped out of the range of the seventy tigers in the living room, she was not attacked. Therefore, the thirty tigers should be enough to make that ghost wary.

After putting down the thirty tigers she was holding, she returned to the living room.

This time, she picked up all thirty again and went to the master bedroom.

The same procedure was repeated, but still nothing happened.

Back in the living room, looking at the remaining forty tigers, Bai Xue picked up twenty of them and walked to the living room window.

Opening the window and feeling the wind outside, Bai Xue suddenly raised her hand and threw all twenty tigers she was holding out the window.

The twenty tigers continued to fall, and the moment they were more than ten meters away from the snow in a straight line...

A gust of wind blew from the window onto Bai Xue's face.

After a moment of confusion, a figure suddenly appeared before Bai Xue's eyes.

"Tingting!"

Outside the window, Ke Ting smiled and nodded under the night sky, extending her hand to Bai Xue.

If we disregard the floor Bai Xue is currently on, then this scene is quite normal.

At this moment, Ke Ting was outside the window on the fourteenth floor.

She was floating in the air!

But Bai Xue didn't notice this strange scene.

Looking at Ke Ting's face, Bai Xue reached out her hand from the window with tears streaming down her face.

Why are you so stupid?!

She wanted to reach the living room, but the window blocked her way.

Stand on tiptoe, lift your leg, and lean forward.

Bai Xue's fingertips were now only an arm's length away from Ke Ting's fingertips.

It's just a hand's length away; if you move forward a little more, you'll be able to touch it!

Bai Xue thought this to herself, and then she did it.

Just as Bai Xue was about to lean out of the window again, a warm feeling suddenly enveloped her.

Suddenly, Ke Ting's face in front of him twisted and became a bloody mess.

Looking at that face, Bai Xue came to her senses.

Looking down at my body leaning out of the window, I looked down at the forty or fifty meters below.

She felt a little dizzy and was about to pull away when a hand grabbed hers.

It's 'Ke Ting'.

Bai Xue failed to move forward, but 'Ke Ting' took the initiative to bend down.

At close range, Bai Xue could feel the warmth that had enveloped her earlier burning 'Ke Ting'.

However, 'Ke Ting' did not give up.

"Xiaoxue, come with me."

'Ke Ting' didn't seem to notice anything wrong with her face, and her tone was still hopeful.

Bai Xue looked at that face and murmured, "If only you were Tingting!"

"Unfortunately, you are not!"

She grabbed Ke Ting's hand and pulled her back sharply, trying to drag Ke Ting back and pin her down within Ai Hu's range.

However, 'Ke Ting', who was clearly floating in the air without any support, remained completely still.

The smile on her face vanished, and 'Ke Ting' looked coldly at Bai Xue.

Bai Xue tried to escape, but those hands gripped her tightly like steel clamps, and then slowly pulled her toward the window.

Bai Xue wanted to shout, but she found that she had no control over her body at that moment.

She could only watch helplessly as three-quarters of her body jutted out of the window.

The only points of support for the entire body now are 'Ke Ting's' hand and lower leg in front.

Suddenly, 'Ke Ting' stopped.

Its hand slowly withdrew from Bai Xue's grasp. One finger, two fingers, three fingers...

When only two fingers remained, 'Ke Ting' stopped and looked at Bai Xue.

The wind on the fourteenth floor made Bai Xue's body sway.

Despair was in Bai Xue's eyes, but even more so, there was anger!
This anger, however, could not harm 'Ke Ting'.

Ke Ting, who was staring at Bai Xue, suddenly pulled out her last two fingers.

Without any support, Bai Xue fell headfirst, stiffly plummeting towards the ground dozens of meters below.

The feeling of weightlessness gradually intensified.

During her descent, Bai Xue saw the scene in the living room on the thirteenth floor below.

Hu Guohao was standing on a stool, pushing dozens of tigers toward the ceiling.

Just as Bai Xue saw Hu Guohao, Hu Guohao was also looking out the window.

The moment their eyes met, Bai Xue saw the horror in Hu Guohao's eyes!

With a sigh, Bai Xue felt a pang of regret.

All her previous actions were planned.

When she throws out those twenty Ai Hu, Hu Guohao on the thirteenth floor below will be approaching with thirty Ai Hu.

Although there is a layer between them, the effectiveness of Ai Hu is not diminished.

In this way, when the ghost appears, it will be greeted not by twenty tigers, but by fifty!
That warmth is the effect of those fifty tiger tusks.

Her and Hu Guohao's plan was good, but they overestimated Ai Hu and underestimated that ghost.

That ghost was able to withstand the attacks of fifty tigers and pull Snow White out the window.

Hu Guohao's previous judgment was incorrect.

The ghost's previous battle with Ke Ting didn't seem particularly intense.

As she flew past the thirteenth floor and descended further down, Bai Xue remembered what the crow had said.

It seems that, just as the crow said, this kind of tiger is no match for those powerful and cunning creatures.

Simply piling up the quantity won't work either.

Well then, I'll just consider it as going to keep Tingting company.

Snow White closed her eyes and let herself fall.

Suddenly, she felt something wrap around his waist and abdomen, constricting her into an inverted 'V' shape.

The pain made her frown, but it stopped her falling.

Not only did it stop, it's still rising.

In the blink of an eye, she was pulled back to the living room on the fourteenth floor and thrown onto the living room floor.

Turning her head, she saw that it wasn't just her who had been pulled back, but also 'Ke Ting'.

At this moment, Ke Ting was hanging motionless on the barb of the rope that brought her back.

The same barbs were also on her waist, but they did not harm her.

Just then, Bai Xue saw the ropes around her waist loosening and retracting.

The end of the rope was held in the hand of a humanoid creature.

The creature was shrouded in a mass of black feathers, and its face was covered by a crow's beak mask.

Bai Xue immediately thought of the crow, so she asked directly, "Are you a messenger from the underworld?"

After Bai Xue finished speaking, she saw the man turn his head and glance at her.

That's all.

Then she saw the man raise his left hand, pick up 'Ke Ting' from the rope, and hold her in his left hand.

It seems like they're sizing each other up?

Bai Xue didn't understand what the other party was doing. Just as she was about to ask the other party to kill the ghost and avenge Ke Ting.

The door was forced open by Hu Guohao and his group.

A group of people from the Bureau of Polling rushed in.

But when they saw the living room, they were all stunned.

Hu Guohao reacted the fastest, immediately saying, "Thank you for your help, Underworld. May I ask which underworld official it was?"

Hu Guohao's words went unanswered.

With a flick of his left hand, the ghost vanished without a trace.

Then, he transformed into a flock of crows and flew away through the balcony window.

After a long silence in the room, Hu Guohao exclaimed, "How dashing!"

Bai Xue looked at Hu Guohao upon hearing this.

"What exactly is the underworld?"

Hu Guohao's eyes held a complex expression.

A person who knew nothing was granted the qualification to join the underworld.

Is it the time or the fate?

……

After Chen Xin left, he returned to Li Ruonan's home through the Netherworld.

But when he saw through the net that the light on Wu Mengmeng's head had not disappeared, he exclaimed in surprise.

"what happened?"

Li Ruonan asked.

Chen Xin did not reply.

Logically speaking, since the ghost has been dealt with, its methods should naturally dissipate without needing to be addressed.

But now, that mark is still there.

what does this mean?
Chen Xin did not believe that the ferocious creature had the ability to leave a permanent mark on a person, one that could not be removed even after death.

So, there is only one answer.

That ghost has nothing to do with the mark on Wu Mengmeng's head!

After reaching this conclusion, Chen Xin became even more puzzled.

If they are unrelated, why does tracing back lead to that ghost?

If it's unrelated, why would Wu Mengmeng have thoughts of jumping off a building?

So all of this must be related to that ferocious beast!

"Where exactly did things go wrong?"

Chen Xin said goodbye and left Li Ruonan's house.

After returning to the scene through the underworld, all the Bureau of Investigation personnel there had already left.

Chen Xin traced the source again using a mesh screen.

After grasping the ghost's aura, Chen Xin did not follow it away.

He opened his phone, found a video of someone jumping off a building, memorized the surrounding terrain, and then used his Netherworld ability to travel there.

After Chen Xin quietly entered the deceased's room, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

There was no trace when it was sieved through the mesh!
The deceased jumped from the building three days ago. Logically, the Luo Wang sieve can trace back up to seven days. If that ghost came here, the Luo Wang sieve should be able to see its trail.

But, no!
Chen Xin released his tracking and locking onto the ferocious creature, then traced back through the room, capturing the aura that had appeared there three days prior. Chen Xin then returned to the spot where Ke Ting had jumped from the building.

The same thing happened; Chen Xin couldn't see any trace of the wisp of energy he had just grasped.

So... the ghosts at the two crime scenes are not the same one!
There is more than one ghost in this series of suicides!

It wasn't the same ghost, but they were killing people using the same rules. Chen Xin couldn't believe there was such a coincidence, except that they were being manipulated.

Therefore, there is a manipulator in this matter!
Because of his existence, these ghosts kill according to the same rules.

Is that guy a human or a ghost?

What is the purpose, and what is it for?

Could it be that some organization is brewing something big again?
Chen Xin felt a headache coming on for the Bureau of Investigation.

But in order to resolve Wu Mengmeng's issue, he had no choice but to work as a laborer for the Bureau of Investigation.

Well... it's not exactly hard labor, after all, he's a Bureau of Investigation agent, isn't he?

Returning to the room where he had previously seized the vital energy, Chen Xin transformed into a crow and began to trace back!
He wanted to see if he could follow the ghosts at these crime scenes tonight and find the source!
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