Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 204 7:30! (Two-in-One)

Chen Miao finished eating at five o'clock and arrived at the unfinished building at six o'clock.

Chen Miao parked the car nearby and then walked towards the prime location of the unfinished building.

During the process, Chen Miao read the book, and the contents were still the same as before; nothing had changed.

Chen Miao took a step and headed towards the seventh floor.

Because of the discovery of those jars containing Gu worms, Chen Miao deduced the location where he went upstairs in the book.

Therefore, it's easy to guess the approximate location of Sokun on the seventh floor.

This unfinished building has two units. If Chen Miao went upstairs to Unit 1 in the book, then Suo Kun was in Unit 2.

However, because the building was not completed, the two units were not separated but connected, which is why Chen Miao could go up one staircase, walk to the other staircase, and then go down.

Based on the building's layout, it should have two elevators serving four units per floor, making the entire floor have four elevators serving eight units per floor.

The developer who built this building must have big ambitions. Chen Miao had taken a look around and found that every unit was a large apartment.

One floor, two units, eight households.

The total area is estimated to be around 2,000 square meters. After deducting the shared area, each household has an average area of ​​over 150 square meters.

This resulted in a lot of rooms on the first floor, with interconnected passageways and a somewhat complex layout.

In just the four apartment types in Unit 2 where Chen Miao lives, there are nearly thirty unfinished rooms.

Therefore, it would be difficult for Chen Miao to try his luck and find the room where Suo Kun might be hiding.

However, Chen Miao doesn't need to worry about this.

Chen Miao could see the contents of the book as soon as it was 8 p.m.

He would keep changing the places he was waiting, and then use the information in the book to determine which room was the best place to wait.

What Chen Miao needs to do now is to familiarize himself with the terrain of the seventh floor and memorize it.

After finishing these tasks, Chen Miao found a room at the very edge of the room and put the things inside.

He then began the cleaning work.

After cleaning up the traces he had left behind, Chen Miao threw the grass down from upstairs.

With the peach wood sword and black umbrella slung over his back, Chen Miao hid in a dark corner, the closest to the window, where even the moonlight couldn't reach.

After checking the time on his phone, Chen Miao turned the screen brightness down to the lowest setting and switched to airplane mode.

After doing all that, he hid in a dark corner, looking down at the empty, unfinished building below.

Chen Miao didn't know how long it had been since he had been able to calmly appreciate such a night view.

Even when he went up the mountain with friends and looked down at the night view of the entire Tianmen County, he never had the same feeling as he did today.

very quiet.

The silence was so profound that Chen Miao began to contemplate life and drift into a daze.

Fortunately, Chen Miao did not activate his Ice Heart state, otherwise, he would not have found the time to be entertained by daydreaming.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Miao suddenly heard some noises.

At first, he thought it was a hallucination, but when he focused his attention, the sound kept entering his ears.

Although it was very faint, Chen Miao still heard it clearly.

It's footsteps!

It wasn't the sound of footsteps going upstairs, but rather the sound of footsteps walking this way.

Chen Miao broke out in a cold sweat and immediately activated his Ice Heart and Hide-and-Seek states.

He ran his fingers along the blade inside the vest, activated the Yang-Suppressing Talisman, and was about to spray invisibility spray when he remembered something.

Immediately, he unscrewed the spray cap and applied the liquefied concealment spray little by little to various parts of his body.

This is done to prevent the sound of the spray nozzle from being heard.

After doing all that, Chen Miao shielded his eyes from the light and glanced at the time on his phone.

7:30 PM!
Why did Sokun arrive at 7:30?

"The timing may vary, but that's okay, don't panic."

“I know all his methods, so even if there are some minor problems, it won’t matter.”

Chen Miao slowly moved towards the corner where the door of the room was located, so that even if the other party appeared at the door, they would not look at his position immediately.

Even with the added bonuses of various stealth abilities, one cannot act recklessly.

After the move was complete, Chen Miao listened to the sounds outside.

The footsteps were much clearer.

Chen Miao also sensed something was amiss.

Footsteps are not a solitary journey.

Chen Miao thought of the four figures on the eighth floor.

So, were the five flying skulls around Sokun originally five people?

However, they were later beheaded, so the book did not explain the existence of those five people.

Chen Miao continued listening, his hand already resting on the location of the exquisite talisman on the vest.

Tap tap~ Tap tap~ Tap tap~
The footsteps grew closer, and Chen Miao's brows furrowed even more.

Could it be that the room he chose was the one Sokun selected?
Such a coincidence?
Just as Chen Miao was ready, the footsteps stopped and ceased to approach.

Chen Miao slowly exhaled.

After that, Chen Miao waited for another ten minutes or so, during which there were footsteps moving around, but not many.

Knowing that there would be no problem for the time being, Chen Miao slowly squatted down and reached out to the handbag.

Holding down the zipper, Chen Miao slowly unzipped the bag.

What usually takes a second, Chen Miao took a full minute to do.

After that, they took out the contents one by one and placed them on the ground.

Two memorial tablets, a compass, a sealed sachet, incense sticks, and a blowtorch specially bought to quickly light the incense sticks.

After doing all that, Chen Miao finally pulled the book out of his vest.

When he opened the book, a serious problem arose.

It's too dark, I can't see!

"..."

This situation was unexpected by Chen Miao.

The original plan was to adjust the content to its optimal state after 8 o'clock, based on the book's content, during the time before Suokun arrived.

There was no one around at the time, so he could simply turn on his phone's light.

But not now.

Even the faint light from a mobile phone poses a risk.

He might not be discovered, but if he were, Chen Miao would lose the opportunity to take the initiative.

Without the first-mover advantage, Sokun might issue commands to the scorpion, adding another variable.

In reality, Chen Miao would never choose to die together with his opponent.

How to do?
Chen Miao stroked the book in his hands in the dark corner.

At one point, his fingers paused.

Yin-Yang Eyes, activated!
His gaze shifted downwards, and he saw the book in his hand, but he still couldn't see it clearly!
The ability to see ghosts is not night vision; under the vision of the ability to see ghosts, the entire world will appear gray.

However, there are different shades of gray.

The areas that were already brighter were grayish-white.

Areas that were previously difficult to see are now slightly clearer.

It was originally a black and lightless place; it was a blackness that was gray to the extreme.

At this moment, Chen Miao's location wasn't completely dark, so after his vision turned gray, he could see more than the naked eye, but still only a limited amount. Dispelling his Yin-Yang Eyes, Chen Miao closed his eyes again.

With his eyes closed, Chen Miao could see even less clearly than with his Yin-Yang Eyes, but through this method, he learned a piece of information.

There was no trace of those people within a six-meter radius of him.

The range of closed-eye perception was originally only four meters in the Ice Heart state. After the Ice Heart state was enhanced once, the range of closed-eye perception increased by two meters, which was an unexpected bonus.

"If there is no one within six meters."

Chen Miao's heart skipped a beat.

He was prepared to take the risk.

At the very least, he needs to see how it ends.

If the ending already states that he died, why would he be afraid of being exposed?
Thinking this, Chen Miao slowly turned the pages of the book in the darkness.

Relying on his memory, Chen Miao counted the pages and turned to a certain page of the book.

In the dim light, he saw large blank areas on the page, with only half of the page containing some writing.

Chen Miao took out his phone and held up a book to block it.

The phone lit up, and the faint light from the screen illuminated the last paragraph of text.

"...With the blessing of a high-quality Bloodlight Talisman and an Evil-Exorcising Talisman, I ran my palm across the blade on the vest, and my blood was smeared onto the sword."

"I shouted and charged into the incense smoke, the crimson sword light flashing and disappearing in the smoke."

"I heard a scream but didn't stop. Instead, I kept going forward, breaking through the smoke."

"I saw Sokun lying on the ground, with a pool of blood beneath him."

"I walked over, stood in front of Sokun, and thrust my sword downwards while holding it upside down!"

“Puff!”

"Sokhun, there's no movement at all."

"Finally, he's dead."

After quickly reading through the text, Chen Miao suddenly heard footsteps.

After turning off his phone, he closed his eyes.

A figure entered his perception range, but it didn't come towards him; instead, it went to the window at the end of the corridor.

After that, the figure never moved again.

At this moment, Chen Miao was less than five meters away from his opponent in a straight line, but there was more than one wall in between.

Chen Miao slowly squatted down, placed his phone and book on the ground, and then stood up again, one hand on the hilt of his sword and the other on the talisman.

This continued for five minutes, and the figure remained motionless.

Chen Miao breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Is he observing?"

Chen Miao understood that Suo Kun probably had no way of knowing the situation of the entire unfinished building area.

This situation gave Chen Miao even more confidence.

Ultimately, Sokun is still human, and his methods are limited.

Thinking this through, Chen Miao began to ponder again.

"The last part of the book just now showed that I killed Suokun, but why did it use the incense smoke from the Six Subduing Techniques?"

"Also, what's in the smoke?"

"According to the description in the book, it's impossible for me to have used a peach wood sword to cleave Sokun that far, so there must be something else in the smoke?"

"There's another question: what time is it in the book? When did I kill Sokun? Was it a successful surprise attack or was I forced into battle? This is very important."

"I need to review another portion of the documents to determine the opportune moment for the attack."

With his eyes closed, Chen Miao sensed that the figure outside hadn't moved, and then squatted down again.

Just as Chen Miao opened the book and was about to use his phone to illuminate it, a faint, chilly aura emanated from the side.

Before Chen Miao could turn his head, he caught a glimpse of something floating silently into the room and coming to the window.

Looking at the back of that head, Chen Miao silently put down his phone and book, and placed his hand back on the hilt of his sword.

But just then, the head fell down and came to rest on the windowsill.

Chen Miao watched the scene, his eyes twitching.

Just then, Chen Miao heard footsteps outside again!
With his eyes closed, Chen Miao saw the person outside the window walking back, quickly disappearing from his perception range.

Chen Miao suddenly had a guess, so he kept his eyes closed and waited.

Fortunately, the head in the room was also within his perception range, so Chen Miao didn't need to open his eyes frequently.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Chen Miao sensed another change.

Another head flew into his perception range and landed at the window where the previous person had been standing.

Chen Miao opened his eyes and sighed inwardly.

"As expected, Sokun didn't harvest those people's flying skulls before he arrived, and only now has he started harvesting them one by one."

"If we had rushed out and killed Sokun when we discovered his arrival, it would probably have been much easier than it is now."

Chen Miao's initial regret was quickly dispelled by Bingxin's composure.

The opportunity is gone, and there's no need to let it disrupt our subsequent plans.

Afterwards, Chen Miao closed his eyes and sensed for a long time, but found no other traces of flying skulls intruding. He figured they must have been sent by Suokun to other locations to act as 'alarm devices'.

After confirming this, Chen Miao looked at the flying skull in front of him, and then at the book on the ground.

After thinking about it, he didn't continue.

Since Sokun died in the end, it means that his idea was feasible.

Next, it’s all about waiting.

If we can wait for Sokun to come over on his own, then things will be simple.

If he can't wait any longer, Chen Miao can observe the flying skull. If Suo Kun really wants to leave, he will naturally take the flying skull with him.

We'll see how things go when the time comes.

Thinking this, Chen Miao slowly stood up.

It's better to stand than to squat.

Otherwise, if you suddenly get up and everything goes black, you might never wake up again.

Looking at the back of the flying skull, Chen Miao leaned against the wall and slowly closed his eyes.

……

The night was very quiet in the unfinished building; apart from the occasional sound of the wind, there was no other sound.

Sokun, who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet, opened his eyes and took out his phone to look at it.

"It's 10:10 already. It seems my good disciple has broken his promise."

A cold smile appeared on Sokun's face.

"Very well, nine flying skulls are enough to let that person witness the power of black magic."

Sokun's eyes lit up when he thought of the reputation of the organization that person belonged to.

"The cultivation methods of the Great Xia are indeed quite remarkable. Once I learn them and master them, I will go back and begin training my disciples. Then I will let these arrogant cultivators of the Great Xia know the power of a sorcerer!"

Sokun raised his hand, and a sudden wriggling sensation appeared in the empty space in his palm.

A large black scorpion, as if faded, appeared in my palm.

After the scorpion appeared, it crawled up Sokun's arm and onto his face.
Gradually, the black color faded from the scorpion's body, and its skin color returned. In the blink of an eye, the large black scorpion on its cheek could no longer be seen.

Feeling the icy touch of the scorpion on his cheek, Sokun closed his eyes again.

……

(End of this chapter)