Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 12: Yin and Yang Transgression

"What's going on? I'm asking you a question."

Seeing that Lin Bei didn't turn his head, the tone of the person behind him became heavier, as if he was angry, giving people an inexplicably irritating feeling.

Lin Beixuan pondered for a moment, without turning back, but stood straight, trying not to show his timidity: "Excuse me, is this Butler Xu?"

As Lin Beixuan asked, he took a step forward, wondering whether the other party was real or fake.

The man behind him was startled when he heard it, and immediately replied: "It was me, I heard someone shouting back and forth, so I came here to check, I didn't expect it was you."

"I see."

Lin Beixuan nodded, licked the corners of his cracked lips, and already had the answer in his heart.

"run!"

As soon as the words fell, Lin Beixuan rushed forward regardless of anything, but the butler's voice was still echoing in his ears.

"Why are you running? I'm asking you a question..."

The tone of voice changed again and again. This time the voice behind him was no longer the same as before, but sinister, as if there was a head on Lin Beixuan's shoulder, and that head was constantly scolding him.

A cold wind blew towards him and hit Lin Beixuan's face. Something took the opportunity to get into his eyes, and suddenly a burning pain burned the nerves in his eyes.

Lin Beixuan forced himself to open his eyes, quickened his pace, and stretched his hand forward, but groped and touched a wall.

The wall was solid and soft, and a little wet to the touch. A cold air was coming out of it. After Lin Beixuan's palm came into contact with it, it immediately moved upwards and happened to touch a cold and stiff cheek.

Only then did he realize that what was blocking his way was not a wall at all, but a dead person.

Judging from the coldness of the corpse and the damp and sticky feel, it looked like someone had been drowned.

But why was there a drowned body blocking the way in the middle of the corridor?
Lin Beixuan didn't dare to breathe, nor did he dare to think about the reason, and simply walked around the corpse blocking his way.

There was no prompt on the panel in his mind, which meant that the thing in front of him should not be able to cause him any harm. As long as he overcame his fear, it would not affect him. The most troublesome thing at this time was the "butler" who kept nagging behind him.

He felt that he could no longer suppress his temper.

Since he assumed the fate of being extremely evil, he found himself becoming irritable and easily angered, often unable to control himself.

This can give him enough courage when facing danger. It should be a positive buff, but the situation is different now. There are words behind him that keep stimulating him to look back. Several times, Lin Beixuan was almost affected by the buff and was ready to turn around and fight, but fortunately he stopped himself in the end.

You must not be impulsive at this time!
Lin Beixuan always remembered what the doorman Wu Qi told him, and someone beside him shouted, "Don't look back!"
However, the sound disappeared after he passed through the corridor. With the faint light, Lin Beixuan saw a familiar place in front of him and smelled a faint stench.

He remembered that when he came here during the day, there was water flowing from the rockery into the pool below, but now the rockery seemed barren and the pool below had a strange red color.

The scene during the day and at night is completely different.

But when he got here, he was a little more familiar with the way forward.

When passing by the door of the firewood room where he lived, Lin Beixuan took out his usual hatchet.

"From now on, you should carry your self-defense weapons close to you!"

Putting the hatchet on his waist, Lin Beixuan felt a little relieved.

"I wonder what other people who enter the secular world experience during their novice period. They shouldn't be chased by evil spirits like me, right?"

For some reason, he always felt like he was being targeted by the secular world.

He shook his head left and right to get his mind back on the topic. He remembered that Xiao Shitou had told him that Butler Xu's room was not far from the woodshed, across the terrace, and was the third room from the front.

After finding the room, Lin Beixuan knocked on the door. Seeing that no one responded, he cleared his throat and shouted.

"Butler Xu, it's me, something happened to Little Stone!"

After a long while, just when Lin Beixuan couldn't help but want to force his way in, the door of the room opened.

Xu Shounian was holding an oil lamp in his hand, and the dim light shone on his gloomy face, making him look extremely creepy.

"Did you really forget or are you pretending not to know the rules?" "Who would dare to pay attention to you if you shout like that in the house at night?" Xu Shounian stared into Lin Beixuan's eyes, his tone somewhat intriguing.

Lin Beixuan was stunned, he had actually forgotten about this. Not only was the Ruan family in turmoil outside, it seemed even more dangerous inside.

"What's wrong with Xiao Shitou?" Xu Shounian first glanced behind Lin Beixuan and then asked.

Lin Beixuan briefly described the whole incident, and then saw Xu Shounian frowning slightly. He raised his hand and quickly brushed it across his shoulder, pinching a long hair between his fingers.

"You wait for me."

After saying this, Xu Shounian went back into the house. When he came out again, he had a small wooden box slung across his waist.

Handing the oil lamp to Lin Beixuan, Xu Shounian said coldly: "You go ahead."

"Ah."

There was no displeasure on Lin Beixuan's face. He took the oil lamp and walked in front.

With the light of the oil lamp, it was much faster to go there than to come here in the dark, and the two of them soon arrived at the corridor.

Lin Beixuan consciously raised the oil lamp two inches. He remembered that there was a drowned body blocking the way in the middle of the corridor. But when he looked, he found that the body had mysteriously disappeared.

"What are you doing standing there?"

This time the butler's voice came from behind. Unlike before, this time the voice was full of energy and not at all cold.

"nothing."

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Beixuan did not tell anyone about the strange things he had encountered. He just glanced at both sides of the corridor. Under the deep shadows, those things seemed to be hidden.

This butler must not be an ordinary person!

Lin Beixuan wanted to look back, but finally suppressed the thought.

He must make it a habit not to look back at night, no matter whether the other person is a human or an evil spirit.

He brought the butler to the gatehouse and the journey was very smooth. However, when the butler saw Xiao Shitou lying on the small bed with dull eyes, he was startled.

"How did that old man teach you? Why did he lose his soul?"

Lin Beixuan raised his eyebrows, it was pretty much what he thought.

"We are guarding the gate exactly as the old gatekeeper Wu instructed. There is nothing against the rules." Lin Beixuan shook his head. He was actually very confused.

According to Wu Qi's instructions, red lanterns were hung high in the houses to distinguish between life and death, so there was no reason for ghosts to break in.

But both Xiao Shitou and he were hit when the lanterns were still on, which makes it hard to explain.

Xu Shounian frowned when he heard this, and walked to the bottom of the lantern with his fingers pinched, looked around, took out a brush without ink, and painted on the gate. When he was about to draw the last stroke with the brush, he found that he couldn't go down at all.

"wrong."

Xu Shounian's pupils suddenly shrank, and under Lin Beixuan's shocked gaze, he pushed open the door of Ruan's house.

"Squeak..."

Along with the harsh and piercing sound of a door saw, the gate of the Ruan family residence was opened in the deep darkness.

And what’s even more shocking is yet to come.

I saw two broken red lanterns in front of the gate fallen to the ground, the fuel inside had spilled, and the candle wicks had long disappeared.

Lin Beixuan’s eyes widened and his whole body felt cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

"This... no one told me there were two lanterns outside the door!"

(End of this chapter)