He swallowed, and there really was a fishy taste in his mouth.
Lowering his head again, he saw that Bo Si’s index fingertip had split open with a cut, and there was still a faint trace of blood.
He really had fed him blood.
Would he, while still half-conscious, actively suck his blood? Or, deep down, with Bo Si’s blood in him, would he no longer hurt so much?
This was not a good sign.
If that blood was like poison, making one addicted, what then?
Gu Yi said nothing. Bo Si asked him, “Can you stand up?”
Gu Yi nodded and, with Bo Si’s support, stood up.
His head was still a little dizzy. Rising too suddenly, his legs went weak, and he staggered again, bumping into Bo Si’s chest.
Bo Si touched his forehead and said with some concern, “Kid, can you manage?”
“I’m fine.” Gu Yi forced himself to focus and said, “By the way, Boss, next time my eyes hurt, can you not feed me your blood?”
Bo Si was puzzled. “What’s wrong?”
“…I’m afraid that if you keep feeding me for too long, you’ll get anemia.” Gu Yi was afraid of getting addicted, but that was indeed one of the reasons for his worry.
Bo Si laughed. “I said employees don’t need to worry about the boss’s affairs. One or two drops of blood won’t do anything to me. As for you, without my blood, you really would pain yourself to death.”
This time, Gu Yi said nothing.
The two of them turned around, only to see that Lin Ming was still sprawled on the ground, on the verge of collapse.
At that state, even getting into the car would require someone to support him. Gu Yi really did not want to touch him, and even seeing his face made him feel sick and want to vomit.
In the car, Gu Yi was still immersed in the scene from earlier and in Bai Nuo’s sorrow. He remained silent for a long while, his expression grave.
Bo Si noticed this and asked, “Still thinking about what happened just now?”
Gu Yi froze slightly and asked, “You know what I saw?”
“I don’t know, I guessed.” Bo Si looked ahead and said, “Her resentment was so heavy, she must have let you see some scenes from when she was alive.”
Gu Yi lowered his head and said, “Where are we going now?”
“To that brat’s house.”
“Can’t we not go?” Gu Yi almost blurted it out.
Thinking of Bai Nuo’s suffering in those images, for the first time, a kind of unforgettable hatred appeared in Gu Yi’s eyes.
Lin Ming had used those despicable methods to hurt Bai Nuo. Why should they still help him? Wouldn’t it be better to just let him die?
Lin Ming, slumped in the back seat, heard that they were not going and immediately lifted his head in panic.
Bo Si glanced at Gu Yi and gave a low sigh. “That kind of person deserves to die, but your sweetheart cannot reincarnate because of him, forever bound by the shackles of hatred. She has already killed several people, and although those people were not innocent either, she still has to bear a great deal of karma. If we do not stop her from continuing to kill, then in hell, she may have to suffer for eternity.”
Hearing this, Gu Yi fell into a long silence.
Naturally, he did not want Bai Nuo to suffer for eternity. To free her, they had to stop her actions.
“Oh, right.” Suddenly, Gu Yi remembered the scene he had seen in front of the tombstone. He turned to look at Bo Si, somewhat anxiously, and said, “In the memories Bai Nuo gave me, there was another person. She called that person Teacher. She asked Teacher for help, but Teacher ignored her. Now Zhang Qiang, Wang Hao, and Du Ran are all dead. She said the next one would be Lin Ming. Then would that Teacher also be in danger?”
“There’s another Teacher? No wonder her resentment was so heavy, the tombstone was even bleeding. Looks like tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.”
With Lin Ming leading the way, the car soon drove into an upscale residential district.
Lin Ming’s family really was wealthy. This residential district was worth every inch of land, and every house was a detached villa. The people who could live here were probably all political or business elites.
Seeing this, Gu Yi finally understood why Lin Ming could be so arrogant and overbearing at school, and even do such utterly heinous things, because the environment he grew up in and the environment of others were indeed worlds apart. In Lin Ming’s eyes, as a rich second-generation heir, there probably was no problem in the world that money could not solve.
Even so, Gu Yi still felt that people like that were so disgusting that even looking at them once was unbearable.
Calling them beasts would be an insult to beasts.
It was not until they drove into the garage that all three of them fell silent. Later, when they entered the villa, Gu Yi saw that in the magnificent and luxurious living room, aside from maids standing on both sides, there were also three people seated on the exquisite leather sofa.
Tea had been brewed on the table, with steam rising from it.
A middle-aged man in a suit and tie, wearing glasses, looked at Lin Ming and spoke with a somewhat tired voice, “Xiao Ming, you’re back.”
“Dad.”
Lin Ming straightened his clothes and walked over, pointing at Bo Si and Gu Yi as he introduced them to the middle-aged man, “This is Boss Bo, this is my classmate, Gu Yi. I specially invited them here to help me.”
The middle-aged man stood up, smiled at Bo Si and Gu Yi, then sighed and said, “Your problem this time is indeed quite tricky. Dad is very worried about you, so I also found you two helpers, Miss Xia, Mr. Qing.”
The other two people on the sofa stood up, and only then did Gu Yi study them carefully.
One man and one woman. The man looked about the same age as Bo Si, in his twenties, very handsome and dashing, wearing casual clothes, like the male lead of an idol drama. As for the girl, she was extremely petite, perhaps only around 1.5 meters tall, and looked to be fifteen or sixteen years old. She was dressed in Lolita style, like a walking doll. She was so delicate that every strand of hair and every lash seemed to glitter. A girl like that, paired with the man beside her, really made for a pleasing sight.
The man’s eyes were full of tenderness when he looked at the girl, but the girl, the moment she saw Bo Si, had stars bursting in her eyes. She hopped over to Bo Si, tilted up her cute little face, and said with a bright smile, “Hello, my name is Xia Wan’er. I’m a web-famous ghost hunter. Nice to meet you. What’s your name?”
This girl was not only cute, her voice was like silver bells too, crisp and pleasant, with a hint of coquettishness.
No man could resist such enthusiasm, but Bo Si was the exception. He did not even glance at the girl, and only politely said his name, “Bo Si.”
“Bo Si? BOSS? Wow, what a cool name!”
Xia Wan’er said excitedly, then pointed at the handsome man beside her and said, “His name is Qing Sang. He’s my good friend, and his family also knows the art of exorcism. He came specially to keep me company this time.”
Hearing the words good friend, a trace of disappointment clearly flashed through Qing Sang’s eyes, but it was quickly hidden again. He smiled at Bo Si and Gu Yi and said, “Hello, I’m Qing Sang.”
“Little brother, what’s your name?”
Xia Wan’er circled around to Gu Yi’s side, took his hand, and blinked her watery, gem-like eyes.
From childhood to adulthood, Gu Yi had never been touched like this by a girl. For a moment, he felt a little awkward. He gently pulled his hand back and said softly, “Hello, my name is Gu Yi.”
“Gu Yi? Such a strange name, but easy to remember, I like it!” Xia Wan’er took Gu Yi’s hand again and looked at him with an innocent expression, her pair of giant eyes making Gu Yi so flustered he did not know what to do. “Brother Yi, let’s be good friends. The first time I saw you, I knew we would definitely become good friends!”
“…”
Bo Si pinched the bridge of his nose and truly could not stand this inexplicable atmosphere. He turned back and glared at Gu Yi, and that look was so fierce it seemed like he wanted to swallow him whole. “What are we here for? If you keep dawdling, you won’t need to call me Boss anymore.”
After saying that, Bo Si said to Lin Ming, “Where is your room? Take me there.”
Lin Ming hurriedly walked in front.
“Hey, Boss, Boss!”
Seeing Bo Si get angry, Gu Yi also intended to chase after him, but who knew that before he even took a step, he was grabbed again by Xia Wan’er.
“Brother Yi, you call him Boss, so he really is your big boss, huh? But why is he so fierce, does he not like me?”
Xia Wan’er looked at him pitifully.
Being clung to by a little girl was also a first for Gu Yi, and seeing her so pitiful, his tongue tied itself in knots. He did not know how to comfort her, so he could only say, “No, he doesn’t dislike you. He’s just like that, a little irritable, but he’s not a bad person. Don’t take it to heart.”
“Wow, Brother Yi really knows Boss Bo well, I’m so envious of you.” Xia Wan’er sighed.
“…”
Gu Yi was somewhat speechless.
How did he know him well? They had only known each other for less than a few days, and as for his affairs, he could be said to know nothing at all. He was even still guessing whether he was human or ghost.
He only knew that Bo Si had a bad temper, was somewhat overbearing, and was moody, constantly threatening him with pay cuts.
However, Gu Yi’s intuition told him that Bo Si should not be a bad person.
At the very least, his life had been saved by him.
But of course, he could not let this little girl in front of him know any of that.
After a round of entanglement, Lin Ming’s father very politely led Qing Sang upstairs as well. Only Gu Yi, because Xia Wan’er was holding on to him, moved very slowly.
“Brother Yi, don’t you and Boss Bo usually go online? How could you not know me?” Xia Wan’er asked as they walked, looking at him with some dissatisfaction.
“We… the shop is usually very busy, so we rarely go online.” Gu Yi scratched his head and said with a smile.
Although he had come to the shop, not a single coffin had been sold there… More importantly, he was holding a flip phone… there was simply no way to watch videos, hey…
“Brother Yi, does Boss Bo have a girlfriend?”
Xia Wan’er naturally hooked her arm through Gu Yi’s and asked gossipy questions.
“This… probably not?”
“Probably? You’re his employee, how could you not know whether he has a girlfriend?” Xia Wan’er looked at him in confusion.
Gu Yi tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, “That’s his private matter, how would I know?”
“Oh, that’s true… but Boss Bo is so handsome, I really hope he doesn’t get a girlfriend too soon.” Xia Wan’er sighed with deep sorrow.
“…”
Gu Yi thought, could this little girl have fallen in love with Bo Si at first sight?
The two of them fell briefly silent. At this point, Gu Yi finally noticed that something was wrong.
“Why is this road so long? We’ve walked for so long and still haven’t arrived?”
Gu Yi looked around the staircase and found that only he and Xia Wan’er were on the stairs, and there was no end ahead, nor any way back behind them.
However, Xia Wan’er was not anxious. She chuckled and said, “We’ve received that female ghost’s hospitality. But it’s fine, this little formation can’t trap me.”
As her voice fell, Xia Wan’er pulled some yellow paper from her clothes. Her hands were very nimble, and in just two or three moves she folded the paper into a shape.
“A lantern?”
Gu Yi was surprised by her skill, but also curious why she was folding a lantern.
Xia Wan’er coughed and corrected him seriously, “This is a paper crane, the kind of paper crane from a thousand paper cranes.”
“…”
Gu Yi stiffly said, “Can such a fat paper crane fly?”