He held up his phone, looking confused. He didn't know whether to send a message or not. Finally, he laughed dryly and said, "Sir, you...what did you leave here?"
When encountering some embarrassing situations, if the person standing opposite is someone else, Ethan Xie will definitely turn a blind eye, do what he wants to do, then turn around and leave without paying any attention; if the person standing opposite is someone from Taixuan Dao, he will inevitably say a few sarcastic words.
But this time he acted out of character. Instead of making any sarcastic remarks, he actually replied to Marcus Li: "I found something, but since Gabriel Yin is coming, I won't bother with it." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
The rainy days in this season were already very damp, and a gust of evil wind blew from somewhere, causing Ethan Xie to cough again.
"Sir---" Marcus Li couldn't help but shouted worriedly.
However, Ethan Xie had no intention of listening to him at all. His expression remained cold, but his steps were hurried. He didn't even wait to walk into the darkness before he raised his hand to throw out a cloud of black mist. He covered his face with his scarf to suppress his cough and stepped into the black mist.
As a result, the floating black fog was suddenly dispersed and dissipated into the air like real smoke.
A tall figure took its place and stood where the black fog had been floating. Without even showing his full face, he said with a disgusted tone, "This muddy water under your feet is simply---"
Ethan Xie suddenly braked and subconsciously took a step back. If he was a second later, he would have crashed into the arms of the person who came.
"...Xiaobai?" As soon as the black fog dissipated, the person in front of him interrupted the conversation and called out in surprise and hesitation.
Ethan Xie subconsciously raised his head and almost responded, but the "hmm" rolled twice in his throat before he swallowed it back.
Gabriel Yin...
The name that he could say at any time could not be called out at this time. After all, a hundred years ago, Ethan Xie had never called this person by his full name, and a hundred years later, he had not seen this person for too long...
Ethan Xie suppressed his cough in his chest with a cold face, and simply ignored the long-unseen address, remaining silent.
Judging from Gabriel Yin's expression, he obviously didn't expect that Ethan Xie, who had "already left", would be standing here. He didn't even have time to put down his left hand, and his slender five fingers loosely grasped a piece of dove-gray cloth.
Ethan Xie was very familiar with this look. With Gabriel Yin's extremely picky personality, when he came to a place where the smell of the Oliver Stork corpse had not yet dissipated, even if he blocked his sense of smell, he would still symbolically cover his mouth and nose, as if his tongue would rot if he opened his mouth to speak in the bad smell.
Ethan Xie remained silent, and he was not in a hurry to speak. Instead, he stared at Ethan Xie for a long time before he moved slightly and tilted his head to glance at the two figures huddled beside the flower bed.
Marcus Li said awkwardly: "Boss, you came so quickly."
Thaddeus Feng followed with a cry, then squatted back to guard the dug hole, watching his nose and mouth, pretending that he didn't exist.
Gabriel Yin made a "hmm" sound from his nose as a sign of agreement, and then turned his gaze to Ethan Xie again.
This man is very tall and he always lowers his head when looking at anyone.
He was dressed like any other person on the street, and his iron-grey half-stand collar coat made him look handsome and steady. His eyebrows and eyes were beautifully formed, and his dark eyes were dark and deep under the warm yellow street lights, and seemed to contain a layer of water. With his eyebrows slightly furrowed and his eyes lowered, one could tell that he was affectionate even if he was not affectionate.
His eyes fell straight on Ethan Xie's face, as if he wanted to see Ethan Xie's eyes through the three layers of black bandages.
Unfortunately, Ethan Xie had no intention of removing that layer of cover.
"You..." Gabriel Yin started, but for a long time he didn't know what to say next. After a long pause, he laughed at himself and said, "It's been too long since we last met. I can't even speak clearly."
Ethan Xie smiled sarcastically, "If someone I have avoided for a hundred years suddenly appeared in front of me, I would be incoherent too, because I have no intention of speaking at all."
Gabriel Yin frowned slightly, his expression was strange for a moment, as if he understood something but didn't quite understand. He paused, and then said, "If I hadn't planned to speak, I wouldn't be standing here."
Ethan Xie pulled the scarf with his right hand again, covering most of his mouth and nose, then sneered and replied unceremoniously: "Are you kidding me?"
Gabriel Yin: "Hmm?"
Ethan Xie raised his chin towards Marcus Li and said calmly, "I just happened to hear the message you sent when I came back."
Gabriel Yin: ...
He looked at Marcus Li expressionlessly, and the latter immediately raised his hand and swore to the sky: "I must remember to wear headphones next time."
Gabriel Yin retracted his gaze, thought about the conversation he had just had with Marcus Li, waved his hand and said, "It's just a misunderstanding. I did intend to..."
As he was explaining, he found that Ethan Xie had already turned his head to face the flower bed, raised his hand and pointed at the hole that Thaddeus Feng was guarding and said: "Instead of standing here, why not go and see what's inside? After all, it's not a good thing to be half exposed like this. Isn't this what you came for?"
Gabriel Yin: "That is indeed the reason, but---"
"I'm also very busy and don't have time to waste here." Ethan Xie interrupted him, covering her eyes with her scarf, and walked around Gabriel Yin who was blocking her way to leave.
Gabriel Yin grabbed him with his backhand and said, "Wait a minute."
Ethan Xie looked down at the hand that was holding him. The fingers wrapped in black bandages struggled but failed to break free.
He raised his head and interrupted Gabriel Yin expressionlessly: "This hand just touched the Oliver Stork corpse."
Gabriel Yin: ...
Ethan Xie: "I touched it many times."
Gabriel Yin: ...
His face turned from blue to green, and then to emerald green, but he didn't let go in the end. He took a deep breath, suppressed the green aura, and said helplessly: "Xiaobai, you---"
Ethan Xie was extremely annoyed and didn't want to hear him talk at all, so he struggled again and used his ultimate move with a cold face: "The entire Oliver Stork corpse was sucked by this hand, and the blood is still stuck on it."
Gabriel Yin was defeated and stopped talking in a second.
Marcus Li groaned and fell on Thaddeus Feng's body: "These two damn uncles simply don't give my obsessive-compulsive disorder a chance to survive. They interrupt every sentence. It's so frustrating. Just finish what you're saying!"
Thaddeus Feng: ...
Marcus Li grabbed his collar and shook him: "I wonder what I should do if I beat them, but I don't dare. How about you go for me?"
Thaddeus Feng had a wooden face: "I didn't take drugs today, my mind is still clear, and I don't want to commit suicide for the time being."
Ethan Xie heard it clearly: ...
These two subordinates who were specifically making trouble actually brought Gabriel Yin back to his train of thought. While Ethan Xie was speechless, he directly dragged Ethan Xie to Thaddeus Feng's side.
Ethan Xie didn't want to lift his feet, but Gabriel Yin's hands were famous for making even gods and ghosts worry. Nothing caught by him could escape. And he was a dignified Yinke, as famous as Taixuan Dao, supervising millions of Oliver Stork in the world. Taixuan Dao controlled life, and he controlled death. Being dragged in such a shabby neighborhood, even if the other party was Gabriel Yin, it would be a joke to tell others.
So Ethan Xie took a few steps reluctantly, with a cold face and tightly pursed lips, standing by the pit to let out the cold air.
Thaddeus Feng silently looked at his boss's hand holding Yinke's, then silently lowered his eyes, pointed at the deep pit in front of him, and said: "This is the hole we dug out just now. It's a little...long and thin."
The cave was not only long and thin, but also had a narrow entrance and was bottomless. Standing at the edge of the pit, one could only see the darkness deep inside with the help of street lights. It was unknown how far Thaddeus Feng's hand stretched to get the Oliver Stork corpse out of such a ghost place. As a result, Marcus Li secretly studied the entrance of the cave for a long time, but still couldn't figure out why Gabriel Yin wanted to see this cave.
Gabriel Yin held Ethan Xie tightly with one hand to prevent him from running away, and covered his mouth and nose with a dove-gray cloth with the other hand. He stood next to Marcus Li and the others, looking down at the cave entrance with a serious expression.
"Boss, what's so special about this cave that it's worth you looking at it for so long?" Marcus Li saw that he didn't move and finally couldn't help asking.
Ethan Xie sneered and said coldly, "He is just worried about not being able to do anything."
Marcus Li and Thaddeus Feng looked up at the same time, looked at the cloth in his left hand, and then looked at the Yinke in his right hand: ... I really can't free my hands.
Thaddeus Feng said slowly: "This cave is indeed strange. The Oliver Stork corpse had such a strong smell just now, and it was everywhere, but there was not a trace of it in this cave."
Gabriel Yin raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and without saying a word, he put the cloth in his left hand back into his coat pocket. Then he shook his wrist in the air, and a thin wooden branch appeared between his two fingers, emitting a faint wood fragrance. The branch was engraved with complicated runes, and a very thin silver spider silk was tied in the middle, and the other end hung naturally.
He flicked the branch lightly with his fingers a few times, and the branch began to roll sideways. The spider silk wrapped in the middle was lengthened little by little, and soon fell into the narrow and deep pit.
As the spider silk went deeper, the wooden branch swayed under Gabriel Yin's fingertips, like a compass that had lost its direction.
After turning back and forth for a while, the branch suddenly stopped steadily. Gabriel Yin then raised the corner of his mouth, twisted the branch lazily, and began to recycle the spider silk.
Marcus Li and Thaddeus Feng could not help being curious, and they stretched their necks to stare at the hole intently. They saw the long silver spider silk stretched straight and finally being pulled up. The moment it came out of the hole, they saw a very strange thing hanging at the other end of the spider silk, which was a circle larger than a fist. The original color seemed to be very dark, a little reddish, but it was wrapped in a thin layer of white film, and there were traces of blood on the white film.
Ethan Xie, who had been keeping a cold face, finally couldn't help but turned his head towards the cave entrance, then quickly turned away.
Gabriel Yin quickly collected the strange thing along with the branches and spider silk.
Marcus Li asked in confusion: "Boss, what is that?"
Gabriel Yin: "Heart."
Marcus Li: "...Whose heart is so miserable that it was dug out and buried in a place like this?"
Gabriel Yin smiled calmly: "Mine."
Marcus Li and Thaddeus Feng crashed: ...
Their shocking boss, however, was so casual as if he had just dug out a stewed duck heart. He turned around and asked Ethan Xie, "Xiao Bai, don't turn your head away. I want to ask you something serious. Where is the Oliver Stork pill of the Oliver Stork corpse we just dug out? Burying the Oliver Stork corpse in a place like this is really weird."
Ethan Xie replied: "I took it out."
Behind the two, Marcus Li and Thaddeus Feng silently covered their chests. Marcus Li rolled up a paper ball and threw it to Thaddeus Feng, saying, "See? These two ancestors, one loves to dig out hearts, and the other specializes in digging out elixirs. They are of the same lineage, very cruel, and both are perverts."
Thaddeus Feng finally couldn't help but asked: "Wait a minute, what's the meaning of the same bloodline?"
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