Chapter 104 The Cipher Room

The secret room entrance that Old Liu spoke of was hidden beneath a desk against the wall.

I reached out to move the desk, only to discover that the other half of it was embedded in the wall. The desk legs against the wall were nothing more than a facade, or part of some mechanism.

If I wanted to get into the secret room, I’d have to crawl under the desk first.

I glanced at Old Liu, then at the desk, raised my hand and smashed the entire wooden desk to pieces. Stepping on the broken wood, I walked directly to the wall and kicked at the beast-head mechanism.

As the hidden door in the brick wall fell vertically to the ground, I saw the envelope on the table in the secret room by the light in the room.

Although I wasn’t as proficient in mechanisms as Ye Yang, I could tell that it was just a secret room for refuge, with no real function.

I placed one hand on the entrance to the secret room and used the technique of telekinesis with the other to grab the envelope two meters away. There were only eight characters written in the letter: "The past life is gone. Leave this place quickly."

I handed the letter to Old Liu, "Chen Xiaobei has awakened her memories of her past life."

Old Liu carefully folded the letter and put it into his inside pocket, "Master, when do you think Xiaobei recovered her memory?"

"It must have been on the way here." I thought for a moment and said, "Lies always have flaws, only when you use the truth to deceive people, there are no flaws. I think Chen Xiaobei should have recovered her memory in the car. When she arrived at the entrance of the alley, she had already remembered everything, including the secret techniques she had learned."

"When she pretended to be a ghost, she was reminding us that there was a scam here. But none of us thought deeply about it. When she hid in the Chen family's house, there should have been no one left in the Chen family."

"Let's go! We're going to Jinshan Temple to find Chen Xiaobei!"

I turned around to leave, but Old Liu reached out and stopped me, "Master, let me go by myself!"

"We can't turn back now, does it matter who goes?" I walked past Old Liu and went straight to the door.

Before my front foot could step over the threshold, I saw a light from a car shining into the alley.

As I turned my head slightly, I saw a white van parked behind us out of the corner of my eye.

The van next door to Yu Xuelin's house drove out, and the taillights shone directly on the front of the Chen family's house. The yin energy, like water vapor, rose in the light and slowly drifted towards the car windows.

Several figures were also reflected in the rear window of the van. When I looked at the rear window, the figures all turned their heads together. It was the internet celebrities I saw at the entrance of the alley in the afternoon, but now, they had turned into fierce ghosts with bloodshot eyes.

The four people concentrated in the back seat raised their hands at the same time, waving at me with a miserable, cold smile. The car moved forward silently, stopping only at the next yard.

As the car door and the yard door opened at the same time, a family of three walked out of the yard, squeezing into the car one by one.

The car kept stopping and starting in front of us, and each time it passed a yard door, it would take away all the ghosts inside. The car, which could never be filled, seemed to be leading the way for us, taking us towards Jinshan Temple.

I thought the car would stop at the temple gate, but to my surprise, the car suddenly sped up as it approached Jinshan Temple, speeding past the gate.

As the car passed the temple gate, I clearly heard the sound of the car door opening and closing suddenly, but I didn't see anyone getting into the car at that moment.

I walked up to Jinshan Temple in a few steps and glanced into the empty temple, "Old Liu, tell Ye Yang to stay in touch at all times. Jinshan Temple is just the starting point of the Art of Synchronization. Only when we move forward in sync can we cooperate to activate the secret art."

"Tell Ye Yang to slow down a bit, preferably maintain the same speed as us. Don't forget to notify me when you reach the destination."

While Old Liu was sending a message to Feng Ruoxing, I couldn't help but look up at the nearby hillside, "Old Liu, how far do you think Ye Yang is from us?"

Old Liu was stunned for a moment, but I quickened my pace, dragging Old Liu and sprinting south from Jinshan Temple.

I didn't want to chase the van, but it kept driving in front of me. Even if I deliberately turned around to avoid it, the car with the flickering ghost fire would reappear in front of me after a few seconds.

Old Liu's cultivation couldn't keep up with my speed, and he was speechless after a few steps. In order not to delay the message, he simply opened the sound transmission talisman.

"Five hundred steps south of Jinshan Temple is a forest." As Feng Ruoxing spoke, I also saw the van driving into a patch of white banners—what I saw from my position was hundreds of soul-attracting banners.

The bamboo poles and wooden sticks hanging the white banners were of varying heights, and the white banners on them were of different lengths, looking like a forest of pale branches and leaves. The paper money scattered under the white banners looked like autumn leaves, covering the ground.

Before I could stop, I heard Feng Ruoxing's voice coming over, "The wind is rising in the forest, there are people in the wind."