The sudden sound outside the door was the TV in the living room turning on uedly.

  Qin Nuo paused his hand as it reached for the doorknob.

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost warned, "I ses presence, so it must have sensed us too."

  "Don't panic, that Half-Ghost is weaker than the masked ghost."

  Qin Nuo said, "I know, I'm just worried about Tang Ming's safety."

  After a moment of silence, Qin Nuo decisively turhe doorknob and walked out.

  In the living room, the TV ying ercials. Tang Ming sat on the sofa, his eyes fixed oV, but his expression was unnatural.

  "Old Tang, I came as soon as I heard the call."

  "The door downstairs is broken, so I climbed up from the banyan tree in the backyard."

  Tang Ming's lips twitched, "It's fihat door is always broken, you'll get used to it."

  "What did you need me for, sently that you couldn't say it over the phone?" Qin Nuo asked while keeping an eye on his surroundings.

  "e over and sit down first, I'll... I'll tell you slowly." Tang Ming's lips were stiff, and though he was smiling, cold sweat was dripping down his forehead.

  In this situation, anyone who wasn't a fool could tell something was wrong.

  Yet Qin Nuo didn't find any trace of another person in the living room.

  Tang Mied his request for Qin Nuo to e and sit down.

  Meanwhile, his eyes kept gng downward.

  Qin Nuo looked at Tang Ming's feet. There was no gap uhe sofa, and the coffee table was in pin vieas Tang Ming signaling toward his feet?

  "Alright, you seem off today, are you feeling unwell? Do you wao take you to see a doctor?"

  Qin Nuo said as he walked over.

  The mome down, Qin Nuo suddenly noticed something was wrong.

  The sunlight ing in from the baly wasn't strong, but Tang Ming's shadow on the sofa was very clear.

  Was the shadow fake?

  In that instant of realization, the other party also noticed.

  The shadow at Tang Ming's feet suddenly sprang up, f two spikes that aimed at Qin Nuo's forehead a.

  Qin Nuo reacted quickly, or rather, he had been keeping his body tense and nerves alert. As the spikes came, he sidestepped to avoid them and swiftly distanced himself.

  "Old Qin, behind you!" Tang Ming shouted.

  Qin Nuo turned around, and another shadow on the ground coiled around him like a snake, with a spike pressed against his throat.

  "Your rea is quite fast."

  A voice came, and a man slowly walked out of the bedroom.

  It was her than Ye Ming, who had once giveut lessons!

  Ye Ming stared ily at Qin Nuo, as if a prey had fallen into his trap, a twisted smile pying on his lips. "Or should I say, that's not a humaion, it's because of the ghost inside you."

  Qin Nuo looked at Ye Ming, not too surprised. Ye Ming had been one of his suspects, especially after their disagreement in the , when Ye Ming's gaze had felt off.

  "Isn't this Teacher Ye Ming? Long time no see. What's going on here? A magic trick?"

  With the spike against his throat, Qin Nuo asked with an unged expression.

  "You think I wouldn't notice your little schemes?"

  Ye Ming sneered, his eyes fixed on Qin Nuo. "I've spent a lot of effort to find you. Those students before, they all died because of you."

  "The first time you were forcibly sent into the Hame, you mao form a tract with a ghost. Should I say you're lucky or just unlucky?"

  Qin Nuo swallowed and said, "Teacher Ye, is there some misuanding here? Maybe we sit down and talk, o be so impulsive, right?"

  Ye Ming ughed coldly, "You keep pretending to be dumb. Oear you apart, I'll separate the ghost inside you myself."

  Tang Ming's face turned pale, his voice trembling, "Killing is illegal, Teacher Ye, aren't you a police officer too? Don't be impulsive!"

  "It seems you still don't uand the world now."

  "Sihe Hame appeared, the dark side of this world has been fully revealed. Many orders have been broken, and people fight to the death every day for the Hame, with tless deaths."

  "This 't be stopped. The only thing they do is cover up this dark side, fooling the i, like you."

  "If I kill you now, without leaving a trao one will trace it bae."

  "Your cssmates before are perfect examples."

  Tang Ming was dumbfounded, looking at Qin Nuo with eyes suddenly red and full of guilt, "Old Qin, I'm sorry, I dragged you into this because I was afraid to die. I thought he just wanted something and would let us go..."

  Qin Nuo igang Ming and suddenly asked, "Does anyone else know about this besides you?"

  Ye Ming sneered, "There's only one prey, why would I be stupid enough to share it with others?"

  "So, only you know I'm a Half-Ghost."

  Qin Nuo nodded in realization, and uang Ming's near-colpse expression, he had a slight smile on his lips, "Just you alone, I'm afraid you 't handle me, Teacher Ye."

  Ye Ming adjusted his gsses.

  "I'm a cautious person. Before taking a, I make thh calcutions."

  "A student forcibly sent into the Hame, able to form a tract with a ghost, must be a fluke."

  "Aeen-year-old student with no experien killing, while I have over twenty lives in my hands. The ghost inside you, I sensed before, it's injured and poses no threat."

  "Moreover, your body is now bound by my shadow. With just a twity finger, your throat will be pierced."

  Ye Ming spread his hands, "Do you think you have any ce of surviving today?"

  "Call out the ghost inside you, and I'll give you a quick death."

  "Otherwise, I'll start with your friend, then you, cutting off fingers one by ohen other parts."

  Qin Nuo's expression remained unged, "If you had fouwo weeks ago, I might have been at your mercy as you said."

  "But now, it's different."

  "What you do in fourteen days?" Ye Ming scoffed.

  "A lot."

  Qin Nuo's sudden smile made Ye Ming uneasy, and he swung his right hand sharply.

  The shadow spike against Qin Nuo's throat didn't pierce through; instead, it softened like a puddle of water, scattering to the ground.

  "What happened?" Ye Ming was shocked.

  His gaze suddenly focused on Qin Nuht arm, where a rge number of corpse spots spread, emitting a terrifying ghost aura.

  Ye Ming's face froze, and an eye opened on his right cheek, urgently shouting, "Run!"

  "This kid's ghost has recovered from its injuries, it's not the same level as two weeks ago!"

  Hearing this, Ye Ming's face turned pale, auro rush toward the baly.

  Smashing through the gss of the floor-to-ceiling window, before he could leap over the baly, a ghostly hand covered in corpse spots reached from behind, grabbing his neck.

  The strength was terrifying, and Ye Mi his Adam's apple about to shatter, his mouth instinctively opening, his face filled with panic.

  The sed, he ulled back.

  Ye Ming's body smmed hard against the wall, the whitewashed wall instantly denting.

  After coughing violently twice, he looked up at the now imposing Qin Nuo, his eyes filled with shod fusion.

  "You could kill me, so why all the talk at the beginning?"

  "Like you, I'm a cautious person."

  "Without firming if you have aplices, my heart was always uneasy. Now I be at ease."

  Ye Ming's face ale, and he said in a deep voice, "Even without aplices, once my guild finds out I've disappeared, they'll iigate thhly. You won't escape either."

  "We'll deal with that wheime es."

  At this point, there was no way Qin Nuo would let Ye Ming go.

  Ye Ming took a couple of breaths, seeing Qin Nuo approag, and suddenly said, "Wait, I know a secret, you might be ied..."

  Qin Nuo raised an eyebrow, "Let's hear it."

  Ye Ming didn't speak, and Qin Nuo felt a chill behind him, along with Tang Ming's excmation.

  The eerie shadow had somehow silently crept behind Qin Nuo, ready to strike, but Qin Nuo, as if he had eyes on the back of his head, grabbed the shadow with a bad.

  With a forceful grip, the shadow scattered to the ground again.

  As Qin Nuo turned back, Ye Ming once again attempted to escape, desperately rushing toward the window.

  But it was all in vain, as Qin Nuo easily grabbed his neck with one hand.

  At that moment, a sudden ge occurred.

  Ye Ming's face twisted, letting out a painful scream, his whole body vulsing wildly.

  The shadow ected to his feet suddenly opened a pair of eyes, theached from the ground, leaving Ye Ming's body.

  As the shadow separated from his body, Ye Ming's flesh seemed to be drawn out, rapidly withering.

  The moment he fell to the ground, he turned into a dried corpse, mouth agape, emitting a hoarse wail.

  His protruding eyes stared ahead, filled with terror.

  The detached shadow quickly rushed toward the baly.

  "To forcibly break the tract just to escape, is he really that afraid of death?"

  In a fsh, three blood eyes on Qin Nuht hand suddenly opened, and tless bck threads shot out, entangling the shadow outside the house, forcibly pulling it back.

  The five fingers cmped down on the shadow like a lock.

  "A shadow ghost, such ghosts are rare," the Blood-Eyed Ghost said with a greedy gleam in its eyes.

  The shadow ghost, having forcibly broken the tract, was already severely weakened, yet it hadn't expected that even at such a cost, it couldn't escape the oppo's grasp.

  The shadow ghost reflected Ye Ming's shadow, like his avatar, its eerie eyes pleading, "Spare me, I serve you."

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost sneered, "You only have one use for me."

  "And that's to eat you, a great supplement!"

  Qin Nuo's mouth twitched, "Not again..."

  Fortunately, his worry was unnecessary.

  The palm of his right hand suddenly seemed to grow a rge mouth, slowly dev the shadow ghost.

  Before the shadow ghost could scream, it was sucked into the palm, and theire arm glowed with a yer of blood light.

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost nodded in satisfa, "Not bad, the injuries have recovered a bit more."

  Qin Nuo asked in surprise, " the host and the tracted ghost forcibly separate?"

  "Of course."

  "Either party has that right."

  "But the cost is severe. If the tract isn't pleted, forcibly separating will drain a lot of life force, usually causing the host to die on the spot."

  "Just like the one lying on the ground."

  "At the same time, the tracted ghost will suffer severe injuries, beiremely weak."

  "That's the cost of breaking the tract," the Blood-Eyed Ghost expined.

  Qin Nuo chuckled dryly, "You wouldn't do that one day, would you?"

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost chuckled twice, "If it really es to a desperate situation, like just now, who say for sure?"

  "As humans say, when disaster strikes, everyone flies their own way."

  Qin Nuo didn't want to tinue discussing this topid walked over to Ye Ming's side.

  At this moment, Ye Ming looked as if his life had suddenly reached its end, his eyes bulging, his shriveled and twisted face filled with horror.

  He had already breathed his st, with no signs of life.

  Qin Nuo turned his head to look at Tang Ming.

  The color drained from Tang Ming's face, and he nervously shifted back a bit, "Old Qin, you're not going to kill me to silence me, are you?"

  What had just happened had almost scared him senseless, and he looked at Qin Nuo as if he were a monster.

  "If I really wao kill you to silence you, you'd already be lying there with him."

  Qin Nuo withdrew his gaze and asked, "How do we deal with this?"

  Ye Ming wasly killed by him, but his death was undeniably ected to him. It had to be dealt with, and poliquiries were a minor issue. If his guild found out, that would be troublesome.

  "Leave it to me." The Blood-Eyed Ghost trolled his right hand, grabbing Ye Ming and heading to the bathroom, closing the door.

  Soon, uling noises came from the bathroom.

  On the sofa, Tang Ming listeo the sounds, his heart pounding in his chest.

  Before long, Qin Nuo came out, wiping his hands with a towel.

  Tang Ming asked in astonishment, "Where's the body?"

  "Flushed dowoilet."

  Those simple words made Tang Ming's scalp tingle.

  He didn't dare ask how such a rge body could be flushed away, instead asking, "What if... someone iigates?"

  Qin Nuo smiled, "Ye Ming's words are a perfeswer."

  "Now that the world has bee chaotic due to the Horror World."

  "People are forcibly sent into the Horror World, mysteriously dying or disappearing every day, and there's no time to iigate it all. Why would they care about one Ye Ming?"

  "Today, nothing happened. I just came over to chat with you."

  "As for Ye Ming, maybe he was forcibly sent into the Horror World and 't e back?"

  "A missing person, we haven't seen him, what does it have to do with us?"

  "Besides, we shouldn't have a psychological shadow. A scumbag with over twenty lives in his hands is dead, and it's justice served."

  Qin Nuo patted Tang Ming's shoulder, his words like a brainwashing session, leaving Tang Ming's mind in chaos.

  He kept muttering, "Nothing happeoday, you came over to chat..."

  These words were also for Qin Nuo himself.

  He had been worried about how to hahings if he killed Ye Ming.

  Ye Ming's words saved him from those worries...

  JOSOLUNA