Otherworldly Merchant
Chapter 579: Blood Splashing

Themiddle-aged mansuddenlyraised abutcher knife. It seemedhe wanted to kill Lin Xia!

As the situation was urgent, I couldn’t think much. I directly sprinted into the villa and lashed the Sirius Whip. My whip made the mandrophis knife. Then, I pulled Lin Xiaand ranaway.

After a few steps, I felt a sharp paininmy left arm. I turned and saw Lin Xia’s dull face on my arm. He was biting me!

“Damn you!”I couldn’t helpbut curse. That middle-aged man had found meand had attempted to slash Lin Xia just to force me tocomeout. And now, he was controlling Lin Xia to attack me!

I gritted my teethand gatheredall of my strength to give Lin Xia a strong whip. A transparent figure whined and flew out ofhisbody. Then, itreturned to the side of the middle-aged man, who was chasing after me. I finally saw the face of the transparent figure. He was a fat man.

Lin Xia was baffled. “Whyam Ihere?”

I didn’t have time to explain to him. Ibrusquelysaid, “There’s a car parked outside.Drive it to my antique shop and ask Li Mazi to bring my stuff to me.”

Then, I gave him a few spirit talismans.

Lin Xia was a smart person.Although hewas a little bewildered, he didn’t ask anythingand quickly rushedaway.

The middle-aged man held the pinky phalanx in his hand. The spirit immediately chased after Lin Xia, butI wielded my Sirius Whip to stop it. The man saw that Lin Xia had already driven the car away, so he controlled his spirit to attack me instead.

After several lashes, the Sirius Whip had temporarily used up its energy. I putitbackatmy waist. I took out a few talismans and smeared them on my wounded arm. Then, I attacked the spirit with the blood-stained spirit talismans. Although the blood on my arm wasn’t essence blood, it contained Yang energy.

When the middle-aged man saw my attack, he controlled the spirit to back off. However, his control wasn’t smooth. After a few steps, the spiritwashit. I was able to smack a talisman onitsforehead.

The spirit immediately screamed and shrank. The middle-aged man rushed forward to retrieve his Yin spirit and returned it to the phalanx.

I exhaled in relief. Now, there was only the middle-aged man I needed to deal with! I took out a sharp dagger from my bag. I staredat him. “Whydoyou want to harm Lin Qiusheng?”

The middle-aged man sneered darkly. “That’sbusiness between me and Lin Qiusheng. You shouldn’t put your nose in someone else’s business.”

I spat and raised my bleeding arm. “You made your spirit bite me. Yet,you’retelling me not to put my nose in your business?”

The middle-aged man’s face turned dark. He picked up thebutcherknifefromthe groundand aimedat me.

My body twistedto the sideto dodge hisattack. At the same time, I moved behind him. The dagger in my hand that was aimed at his chestcutdown furiously.

As I hadrepeatedly been in contactwith otherworldly items and seen many dead bodies, I understood the structureof the humanbody very well. I attacked him precisely and cruelly. The man roared, but his knife was still attacking me.

I was weary from the previous fight, so I was half a beat slower. Thebutcherknife brushed my shoulder. Immediately, blood spurted. To prevent the man from attacking me again, I rolledto the side.

When I turned around, I saw the middle-aged man clutchinghis chest and wieldinghis knife one more time. He wasdashing toward me. I clenched my jaw to focus. With the dagger in my hand, Iglaredat him.

As the man was shortening the distance between us, I grabbed my dagger tighterand wasready to risk my life with him. Suddenly, the vrooming noiseof a carengine arose outside.

The middle-aged man knew that my reinforcement had come. His face changed drastically. He rushed into a thick bush and disappeared into the night. His movement was so smooth.It seemedhe had borrowed thespirit’s power.

Li Mazi and Lin Xia got out of the car and found me wounded and bleeding. Li Mazi simply checked my wound and took me to the hospital where the doctor disinfected my wound and wrapped it up. The cut on my shoulder looked terrible, but it wasn’t deep.However,the spirit had bitten deep enough to my veins, which would take quite a long time to fully recover.

“Brother, you should rest well.Why don’t you ask Senior Shuand Chuyi to take over this case?” suggested Li Mazi.

“I don’tthinkweneed to. It’s just my arm that got hurt. I am not paralyzed.”

After the fight tonight, Ihadaccomplishedsomething. The spirit wasn’t strong. As long as I could solve the man who controlled it, the case would be solvedaltogether. However,becauseI had stabbed that man,I wondered if he wouldmeet up with Ru Xue tomorrow.

Li Mazi was puzzled. “LittleBrother Zhang, did they hit you until you turned crazy? You’ve seen him twice, right? You can tell Lin Qiusheng some specialfeaturesabouthim.”

I listened to him and found no reason to rejecthisidea…

Earlythe nextmorning, I told Lin Qiushengabout the appearance of the middle-aged man. Lin Qiusheng put on a grimace afterward. After a long time, he sighedand cursed, “Ican’tbelieve that it’s him!”

“What’s the matter?” I pulled myself together as Ilearnedthat Lin Qiusheng knew that man.

“He’s Wang Jie. He was my roommate in university. We had a goodrelationship,but wedidn’t keep in touch after graduation.Two years ago, I met him at our class reunion. I got his contact afterward.”

Li Mazi pursed his lips. “Why does he want to harm you?”

Lin Qiusheng’s face stiffened. After a while, he sighed again. “Wang Jie and I are similar. We do cooking shows. However, he has no significant talents. His career isn’t going well.SinceI’ve beendoing well with my career, he asked me to help him. I had never expected that he would turn hostile toward me.”

It turned out Lin Qiusheng introduced Wang Jie to his company and made him his assistant. Lin Qiusheng was dedicated to teaching him about his various experiences with workingoncuisine shows. After one year, Wang Jie had finally hosted a show on his own. However, he wasn’t a gifted person. His episodes failed one after another.

Lin Qiusheng didn’t know who had instigated Wang Jie on the thought that hewanted totake his gloryas agourmet, and that he had secretly worked with the television station to cancel Wang Jie’s show. Dissatisfied and angry,the manresigned. They had stopped contact with each other afterward. Lin Qiusheng had never thought that Wang Jie would harm his entire family.

I thought it was absurd that Wang Jie wanted his benefactor’s life because of something trivial like that.

However, Li Mazi understood the story better. “There are many types of people in the world. It’s okay, wewere bound tobump into this sort of person someday.”

“Your sense of tastewent awayunknowingly? Have you seen a doctor?” Iasked.

Lin Qiusheng got my idea immediately. “You think Wang Jie did this, too?”

I nodded. Although I couldn’t confirm it now, from my experience, itwascertainlyrelated to Wang Jie.

Lin Qiusheng was so angrythat his face turnedred. He grunted and cursed Wang Jie for being heartless. I shook my head. If we knew the murderer, Ru Xue wouldn’t need to go to see him.

“No, she should still go!” Lin Qiusheng insisted.

“Wang Jie isn’t only greedy, but he’s alsoperverted. If he’s not seriously hurt, he will goon thedate.”

Sooner or later, we had todeal withhim. I contemplated and agreed with his idea.

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