"Wu Feng from Qingxi Mountain, you are the new thirty-six talents, right? Please take a seat."
It took three days, and they finally arrived at Xiafeng Town on the afternoon of the third day. The six people also met Wu Feng, who had been waiting for a long time, in the only inn in the town.
After introducing themselves one by one, and after everyone was seated, Wu Feng went straight to the point and told everyone the detailed plan of the mission and the intelligence currently obtained.
Three months ago, a group of businessmen with strange behavior came to Xiafeng Town. According to the innkeeper's description, there were seven of them, wearing black clothes and robes, and had a cold attitude.
The middle-aged man in the lead gave the shopkeeper some money and asked him about the location of a wealthy local businessman. The shopkeeper took the money and told them the address of the wealthy businessman. A day later, several people left the inn together.
Within a few days, the entire families of two wealthy businessmen here were tragically killed in their homes, and the only remaining wealthy businessman moved out of Xiafeng Town overnight.
After that, the government officials who went to investigate the two wealthy businessmen never left the two houses again. Everyone said that the two families were being pursued by evil spirits, and the evil spirits are still lurking in the courtyards of the two houses.
Wu Feng found a servant from one of the families who had returned home for family matters and escaped the disaster. He asked which family had hosted those strange merchants and had also purchased an ancient jar from the merchants.
So Wu Feng deduced that what those merchants were selling must be ghosts in jars. This was not the first time this happened. Many wealthy businessmen or rich people would superstitiously believe that ghosts in jars would bring them good luck, but the ending was often tragic.
The superstition of ghosts in jars originated from some ghosts that would trade with humans. The ghosts sealed in jars are of all kinds, and not all ghosts will trade with humans. Most of them just want to escape from the jar.
"So, Senior Brother Wu suspects that the two families asked the ghost in the jar for something and were then brutally slaughtered by the ghost in the jar?" Ye Xinxi asked.
"Perhaps someone who touched the jar was possessed by an evil spirit and committed this crime. However, it takes a long time for the evil spirit to control the empty-skinned people. We must eliminate them before the evil spirits can move freely." Wu Feng explained.
The situation was urgent and he had limited abilities, so he asked for help from the sect and called Ye Xinxi and others here.
"Okay, watch me!" Ye Xinhe clenched his fists and said loudly.
Because there were two families involved, Wu Feng suggested that everyone pool their strength to eliminate them one by one. There were seven of them in total, so it was more than enough for them to deal with several evil spirits together.
He had made full preparations. He had found out the addresses of the two houses, informed the authorities, and evacuated the surrounding residents. This operation was bound to succeed.
Several people took their weapons and rushed straight to the street where the first rich businessman was located without wasting time.
Arriving at the tightly closed door, Wu Feng signaled everyone to get ready for battle, then pushed the door open with force.
As the door slowly opened, the orange-red light of the setting sun shone into the courtyard, and a hellish scene appeared before everyone.
The blood dyed the fish pond red, and broken limbs fell to the ground. Every dead person had a look of fear on his face, and the strong smell of blood filled the air and could not be dispelled...
There were three bodies lying in front of the gate. The dirt under their fingernails and the scratches behind the gate proved that they wanted to escape so badly, but were dragged back mercilessly.
Not only that, there was not a single intact body in the mansion, which shows that the murderer's killing method was extremely brutal and cruel.
How could a kid who had just left the mountain gate endure this? Except for the team leader Wu Feng and the experienced Yu Shaoyang and Zhuang Chuxin, the other four immediately covered their mouths and ran to the side of the road to vomit.
Especially Ye Xinhe and Ye Xinxi, both of whom had lived in a stable and safe environment since childhood. The tragic situation in the mansion was too much of a shock to them and they were unable to digest it for a while.
At this time, a cold wind blew and a dark shadow appeared in the courtyard of the mansion. The strange thing was that it did not make any sound, as if it appeared out of thin air.
"Here it comes." Wu Feng drew his sword and immediately entered combat mode.
The others also reacted immediately. Lu Zongquan and Lan Ziyun endured the discomfort and circulated the spiritual power in their bodies. Only the brother and sister were unable to escape from the pain.
The black shadow leaned backward in an extremely strange posture, and bounced back like a spring, using the momentum to quickly approach the crowd.
Spiritual power surges and the battle begins.
But the shadow's target was not these guys who were ready for battle, its target was the brother and sister who were still immersed in negative emotions.
Ye Xinhe only heard Wu Feng yelling at him to be careful, and when he looked up, he saw the enemy already in front of him. A pale human skin emerged from the dark shadow, with empty eyes and an extremely fishy stench.
He instinctively wanted to escape, but his legs lost strength and went limp. His body was shaking from the inside out, and he couldn't stop the fear that was growing inside him.
At the critical moment, the sharp sword blocked the black shadow's arm that was grabbing Ye Xinhe's arm. The sword tip pierced into the black shadow's skin like piercing a gas-filled skin bag.
A small figure stood in front of Ye Xinhe. It turned out that Zhuang Chuxin had saved him.
Obviously, Ye Xinhe had felt that this senior sister was a little too fragile before, and was worried whether she would get hurt during the mission, but now the petite figure surrounded by spiritual energy was protecting him.
"Junior Sister Lan, you go and protect Junior Sister Xinxi, we will attack the others together!" Wu Feng commanded.
Lan Ziyun immediately protected Ye Xinxi and gently comforted the frightened girl with his left hand. Yu Shaoyang and Lu Zongquan both used their magical powers to attack the black shadow.
"Brothers, be careful, it seems that it can already control the air-skin man!" Zhuang Chuxin shouted.
Seeing the three people rushing towards him together, the black shadow flashed and turned into mist and dissipated in full view of everyone, leaving only a piece of human skin falling from the air.
"Tsk." Seeing the black shadow disappear, Lu Zongquan cursed inwardly in anger.
"Have you abandoned your body and run away? What should we do now?" Yu Shaoyang asked, turning around.
After surveying the surroundings and making sure that there was no trace of the shadow, Wu Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It has no choice but to return to the jar after abandoning its human skin, otherwise it will not survive. But it is so decisive, so the jar it lives in must have been hidden away long ago..."
"What a cunning guy, he knew he couldn't win so he immediately abandoned the rook to save the king... It's really troublesome..." Yu Shaoyang looked up at the sky, said helplessly with empty eyes, he was most afraid of trouble.
After failing to attack the brother and sister who were unable to fight, he quickly made a decision and fled, knowing that his strength was inferior to the three people present... Everyone could feel that this ghost sealed in the jar was definitely not a good person.
After arriving at the mansion and searching carefully, they still couldn't find the ancient jar that the servants had mentioned. As Wu Feng had guessed, the ghost had moved the jar away long ago.
"Are they okay?" Wu Feng came out of the mansion and asked Lan Ziyun who was comforting the two.
"Junior Brother Xinhe is fine, Junior Sister Xinxi is..."
Ye Xinhe sat next to her sister, looking at her dull eyes, and couldn't help feeling sad.
"It's okay. This is what happens on your first mission... It would be the same for anyone..." Yu Shaoyang seemed to remember something and spoke to comfort him.
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