Chapter 158：

late at night.

"Ah~~~~" Tang Xi lifted the drawing paper on the table directly, clutching her hair with a face collapsed, "What the **** is this! Thirty minutes... Can't see anything!"

Because the desk in the study was not big enough, they moved the battlefield to the long dining table in the living room. The paper they used was the whole roll of uncut drawing paper that they had just bought from the stationery store in the afternoon.

Cheng Huaying painted while thinking, and had finished drawing more than four meters of paper.

"Xiao Xi, Mr. Cheng, Mr. Pei, let's eat some supper before continuing." Aunt Zhang came out with a pot, and Yueyue in the back bounced around holding a stack of bowls.

"It smells good." Tang Xi moved her nose.

"Osmanthus fragrans and chestnut soup." Aunt Zhang looked at the empty table, and motioned to Yueyue to follow her to bring the supper to the coffee table and filled three bowls.

"Just to take a break." Cheng Huaying threw the pen, moved to the sofa, sat down, took a bowl of chestnut soup, first smelled the fragrance, and then laughed, "The delicacy of the world is really good, envy and jealousy. Do not?"

Xie Changan floated behind the dining table and looked at the array. Although he was facing the sofa, he didn't bother to look up at him.

Cheng Huaying felt boring, shrugged, and ate himself.

"Xiao Xi, don't look at it, let your mind rest." Su Huang brought another bowl of chestnut soup.

"Thank you." Tang Xi took it and took a sip without a bit of taste.

"Watch it too." Su Huang couldn't laugh or cry. "Is my tongue hot?"

"It's okay." Tang Xi took two breaths and shook his head.

"This pattern is difficult?" Yun Qi walked out.

"It's very difficult and complicated. I have never seen such a complicated array. Moreover, I am not the best at runes, although it is much better than fortune-telling." Tang Xi muttered.

"Use spiritual power to crush people all day?" Yun Qi glanced at her diagonally.

"I can easily crush the target with one fist. Don't you think it's stupid to use tactics in a roundabout way?" Tang Xi was eloquent.

"Then what are you struggling with now?" Yun Qi sneered.

"What I'm struggling with is... not just difficulty, but where I seem to have seen similar runes!" Tang Xi sighed.

"Have you seen it? Where?" This sentence comes from the ensemble of Cheng Huaying and Xie Changan.

"Uh... I just don't remember where I saw it!" Tang Xi was helpless.

"Think about it, this is very important!" Xie Changan looked at her solemnly.

"Xiao Xi, don't worry, think slowly." Pei Qingzhi's voice is still gentle, which can calm people's irritability.

"Yeah." Tang Xi frowned and thought hard.

I've definitely seen it, but where is it?

"It's not logically possible." Cheng Huaying muttered, "I can't remember this pattern. It's not just a complicated problem, but a problem of realm and level. If I force it to memorize and understand, it will become more and more dizzy. In the end, it seems that all the characters are spinning, and the whole spirit is about to explode. If it weren't for the adults to use their own power to engrave the formation in my memory, I wouldn't be able to draw it. That's it... I want to vomit."

Tang Xi pursed her mouth, and the warm chestnut soup slid down her throat, warming her stomach. She wants to throw up too...

"Ah, yes." Cheng Huaying said suddenly, "The seal you showed me last time is a bit different, but..."

Before he could finish speaking, Tang Xi dropped the bowl and rushed into his room. He quickly took out the seal of the murder house and the seal of the funeral parlor freezer.

"This rune... has similarities, but..." Xie Changan thought.

"If this image is the universe, then the rune on the seal is one of the planets." Tang Xi said after careful comparison, "Although a planet is as small as a dust in the air and the sea in comparison with the entire universe. A plankton in it, but it is also real and part of the universe."

"You're right." Xie Changan nodded. "It is difficult for people who have not studied the formations to draw such runes."

"And made innovations." Cheng Huaying was holding the bowl in one hand, not knowing when she stood behind them, shook a seal with one hand, and sneered. , Even Western things are used, which really embarrass Chinese people."

"You said'familiar', is this?" Yun Qi asked with some doubts.

"No." Tang Xi said bitterly, "I absolutely, absolutely, I have seen others!"

At this moment, everyone and the ghost couldn't help looking at each other.

"Crack." At this moment, the door opened.

"..." As soon as Chu Li entered the door, he received the sight of a room of people and ghosts, and he couldn't help but stiffen, "What are you doing?"

"No, supper?" Tang Xi smiled dryly.

Chu Li looked at Pei Qingzhi suspiciously, and Pei Qingzhi directly gave him a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus and chestnut soup.

"What are you doing?" Chu Li said.

"Save the world!" Tang Xi looked serious.

"Oh, when will we leave?" Chu Li responded with no surprise.

"Can't you cooperate!" Tang Xi glared at him.

"How old do you think you are." Chu Li gave her a speechless look.

Tang Xi gritted her teeth dissatisfied, saying yes, am I your little princess? fraud!

"This..." Chu Li came to the table, glanced at the long array map, and hesitated, "This is... a seal? It's so complicated, how long does it take to draw."

"You..." Tang Xi looked at him in surprise, and then said for a while, "Aren't you dizzy?"

"Why are you dizzy?" Chu Li looked inexplicable, "Although this drawing is a bit...but I don't have a intensive phobia, don't you memorize more books than this character before the college entrance examination?"

Tang Xi suddenly got up, pulled Pei Qingzhi over, pointed at the formation and asked, "Do you think this is dizzy?"

"Dizzy." Pei Qingzhi nodded with a wry smile, "I endured for ten minutes at most. After longer, I feel that the characters seem to have come alive, and they dig into my mind one by one."

"What are you talking about, isn't it just a picture?" Chu Li put the Li Zigeng aside, took the drawing paper aside, and stared at it without blinking.

The whole room was full of people and ghosts watching him nervously.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes...

"Is it enough?" Chu Li asked.

"You don't feel anything?" Tang Xi asked unwillingly.

"No." Chu Li replied simply.

"I think, I understand." Cheng Huaying finally said.

"What?" Tang Xi looked back at him.

"Because he is the only person in this room who is a real mortal, and the props are foreign objects after all." Cheng Huaying said.

"Huh?" Tang Xi went to see Pei Qingzhi puzzled.

Doesn't this count?

"Permanent yin and yang eyes still can't be closed, do you think he is still a mortal?" Cheng Huaying couldn't help rolling his eyes, "and don't say you can't see it, he has a body of merit."

"Bonus?" Pei Qing was puzzled.

"Oh, that, it's nothing important, probably because you saved the world in your last life." Tang Xi shrugged, "If you hadn't had the merit to protect the body, the Doom Puppet wouldn't just make you lose a little memory. "

"It sounds so mysterious," Pei Qingzhi murmured.

"Don't think too much. Although merit is rare, it is not invisible." Xie Changan added, "More than a hundred years ago, it happened to be an era of war and chaos. There were beasts that deserved to be the lower eighteen layers of **** in the chaotic world. There are even more heroes praised by thousands of people. If they are reincarnated, part of the merits will be converted into the future life, such as a good fetus, life will be smooth and so on, and if the merits are too much to consume, they will continue to be retained in the next life."

"However, your merits, reincarnation can still be so profound, maybe you really saved the world in your previous life?" Cheng Huaying continued.

"So--" Chu Li interrupted, "Is this thing for a mortal like me?"

"It's not for mortals." Cheng Huaying looked at him with a hint of sympathy, "You look at this, it's like... how do you put it? It's like an old professor citing classics and writing a great essay cursing people. , But the one who was scolded was an illiterate who didn't know a lot of characters. It's good to be able to comprehend a word and still write it hahahahaha..."

"Hey--" Chu Li's face turned black.

"Hey, don't be angry, it's about the meaning, just feel it. Feel it." Cheng Huaying smiled.

Chu Li was speechless, turned his head and said, "This guy is possessed by a ghost? Why has his temperament changed drastically."

"Puff--" Tang Xi also laughed, "Isn't it just being possessed by a ghost, Master Heiwuchang."

"Don't, I'm not possessing my body to seize the house." Cheng Huaying hurriedly said.

Pei Qingzhi explained it again.

"So, our cat is black and impermanent...No, half a black impermanence, Uncle Cheng is the other half?" Chu Li thought for a while.

"That's right." Tang Xi nodded.

"Well, who will tell, what is the purpose of this blueprint that only mortals can see?" Chu Li asked.

For an instant, all the people and ghosts were silent.

"It seems that this matter... only he is the most suitable." Xie Changan said.

"But mortals don't have spiritual power, how can they draw a symbolic array?" Cheng Huaying retorted.

"A person with spiritual power can't hold on to the talisman for a few minutes, even Tang Xi can only last for half an hour, is it possible to get on in a round? Spirit power doesn't connect either." Xie Changan said.

"So this is simply a refutation!" Cheng Huaying gritted his teeth.

"So, Second Uncle Cheng, can't you paint?" Pei Qing asked in confusion, "No matter what the reason, you are the only one who can draw a talisman."

"I don't have enough spiritual power." Cheng Huaying looked depressed. "The adults can only forcibly engrave the formation in my memory, but it doesn't matter if I reproduce it on paper. I don't have the ability to really arrange the seal."

As he said, he looked at Xie Changan again with a complicated expression: "You were able to see Tang Xi in the first place, wasn't it because she was special?"

"Yes." Xie Changan nodded, "Xiao Xi's spiritual power is close to infinite, and she has unlimited possibilities."

"Wait, wait." Tang Xi couldn't help interrupting their argument. "The problem now is that Chu Li can draw a formation, but he doesn't have spiritual power. I have enough spiritual power but I can't persist in drawing the formation, right? "

"Do you have a way?" Xie Changan and Cheng Huaying stopped quarreling and turned to look at him together.

"Then I can add up to him. Give him my spiritual power and he will paint." Tang Xi took it for granted.

"..." For a while, there was no sound in the living room.

"Xiao Xi, although there are methods for temporarily borrowing spiritual power, if the spiritual power is loaned to the Chu team, he will have spiritual power and the formation will also work on him." Xie Changan hesitated.

"No, doesn't it mean that foreign objects don't work? He can **** with glasses, and he won't be affected by the formation." Tang Xi replied lightly.

"You mean, store your spiritual power in an external object and use it by him?" Cheng Huaying jumped up.

"It just so happens that we have an expert here who is committed to doing this kind of thing." Tang Xi smiled.

The principle of the psychic pen and the psychic gun is similar, I believe that Mr. Wen can easily get it out.

"So, who of you clarifies first, what on earth do you want me to do?" Chu Li said helplessly.

"It's very simple. Just draw the pattern on the drawing on the seal. You don't care about the others, we will take care of it all." Tang Xi said.

Chu Li paused for a while and didn't speak. He knew very well that Tang Xi said it lightly, but what really needs to be done will never be so easy.

Not unwilling to take responsibility, but afraid of something wrong-what will happen next?

This kind of pressure is too much, far greater than that of going to overseas organizations to undercover.

At that time, he had just walked out of the Public Security University, and he had a youthful spirit and passion. He never thought about death and failure. He had experienced the test of life and death, and the death of his comrades-in-arms is different after all.

"It's okay, you can." Tang Xi said with a smile.

Chu Li took a deep look at her, and finally said, "Okay, I see."

"I didn't expect it could be solved so easily." Cheng Huaying muttered.

Even if they know that mortals can be unaffected by the formation, but how many people in this world dare to go deep into the underworld to seal the source of Yin Qi, even if someone dares, and they can really believe that he can do it?

In the dark, the encounter of Tang Xi and Chu Li was also destined.

"When I set off, even if I follow the painting, I have to get familiar with the picture." Chu Li picked up the drawing paper.

"Wait a minute!" Cheng Huaying shouted.

"Why?" Chu Li looked at him suspiciously, "Are you trying to say, let me memorize it? It's impossible!"

"No." Cheng Huaying looked unlovable, and pointed to the blank part of the paper, "I haven't finished painting yet."

"..." Chu Li was silent for a moment, "how much more?"

"Probably... there is half?" Cheng Huaying thought for a while.

"..." Chu Li wanted to explode and curse again and interrupted Lao Tzu to quit.

This is not writing, doubling...Eight|nine meters long and one meter wide drawing paper, full of screens do not know the so-called ghost symbol, can you be blinded by the description?

There was a thief boat, but the boat had been driven to the middle of the river and couldn't get off the fuck|dan.

"I'm going to see Lao Wen tomorrow morning." Tang Xi smiled dryly, "By the way, send the things that Lao Wen needs."

"I'm going with you, just something happened." Chu Li said.

"Speaking of, you looked so serious when you entered the door, what did you find?" Pei Qingzhi asked suddenly.

"Check the communication records." Chu Li sneered.

"Communication records... haven't you checked it before?" Pei Qing asked doubts.

"This time it's a private investigation." Chu Li glanced at him, if there was a deep meaning.

"The insider of the police station...have you found out who is telling the news?" Tang Xi blurted out.

"Forget it." Chu Li's face was calm, but he could see the flames deep in his eyes, "He didn't move before, and I didn't have a clue, but this time we went to Qingjiang, he was anxious and inevitably showed his feet. Xiao Xiao used fake recordings as bait for fishing, and then hacked Telecom's network--"

"Team Chu, knowing the law and breaking the law." Tang Xi black line.

"No." Chu Li swept across her face coolly, "I asked Wang Ling to give Xiao Xiao the order."

"Huh?" Tang Xi was confused.

"A special department like PEI has a certain degree of'legitimate and illegal rights', don't you know?" Chu Li asked back.

"I know--" Tang Xi could only nod her head.

She has not used the so-called legal and illegal rights. Otherwise, who can be within the scope of the law when they arrest criminals? It’s just a matter of mastering a proper measure. If you use a legal and illegal public tool for private use, the internal punishment of PEI is definitely heavier than the law. It's just that she didn't expect that Chu Li would actually take advantage of this. He was not afraid that PEI's **** would be Wang Ling? Not right...

"If Wang Ling has a problem, Xiao Xiao will not find anything." Chu Li saw that she understood, and then said, "When Xiao Xiao can find that person, it means that Wang Ling didn't tell the news. In other words, Wang Ling didn't. problem."

"Smart." Tang Xi couldn't help but exclaimed.

"So, who is that traitor?" Pei Qing asked curiously.

"Zhao Ju." Chu Li spit out two words directly.

"This..." Tang Xi said in a daze, "The one I've seen?"

"Yeah, the first case we cooperated with PEI, the meeting chaired by the Bureau of Zhao, do you remember it?" Chu Li said.

"I remember, but I'm not familiar with it. I occasionally saw it in the Municipal Bureau a few times." Tang Xi hesitated, "Isn't that, when the Tan Bureau retreats, Zhao Deputy Bureau will improve the game?"

"Yes." Chu Li paused, "I just came out of Tan Ju's house before I came back."

"Tan Ju's retirement is really troublesome." Tang Xi sympathized.

"Fortunately, Tan Ju hasn't retired, otherwise it will be more troublesome." Chu Li rubbed his temples, "Forget it, I have a headache, I have to think about what to do next, first..."

Before he finished speaking, the window suddenly lit up, a blood red.

"What's wrong? Natural disasters?" Tang Xi said in astonishment.

Su Huang, who was closest to the floor-to-ceiling windows, opened the curtains.

Everyone and ghosts couldn't help but shook.

I saw the sky in the distance was fiery red, as bright as day, the red light penetrated half of the day, and it was more brilliant than the fire clouds in the evening in summer.

"This is on fire, right?" Pei Qing asked.

"Definitely not!" Tang Xi gritted his teeth, "Didn't you notice? The red light came on in an instant. Even if the gas station is on fire, it can't be burned to such a large area in one second. After all, the gas station is low in construction. It's short, and at that height, at least a dozen stories have been burnt through."

"It's strange." Chu Li walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, frowning, "Suddenly there was such a big fire, it was mostly an explosion, but we didn't hear the sound of the explosion. At this distance, it is impossible that there will be no movement at all. ."

"Compared to this, don't you think that direction is a bit weird?" Tang Xi said.

"PEI dormitory!" Chu Li blurted out, startled.

At this moment, Tang Xi's phone rang.

"Gu Ran?" Tang Xi took a look and connected the phone.

"Hey, where are you? Come here quickly!" Gu Ran's voice was a little frustrated.

"What's the matter?" Tang Xi's expression was solemn.

"I was attacked cough cough cough cough...I came to the research room of Old Wen!" Gu Ran coughed as he spoke. It is conceivable that the environment he was in was surrounded by fire.

"Hold on, I'll be there soon!" Tang Xi said immediately after changing his face.

Just before she was about to hang up, Gu Ran said anxiously: "Wait! Old Wen said, let you bring all those materials, just in case...dududu..."

"Hello? Hey! Gu Ran!" Tang Xi shouted twice, but only heard the busy tone, and almost dropped the phone with anger.

"Don't worry, we will go over immediately." Pei Qingzhi comforted.

Because Gu Ran's voice was too loud, even if he didn't turn on the speakerphone, the people next to him could hear it.

"I'll drive and wait for you downstairs." Chu Li turned and went out.

Tang Xi rushed into the room to get things, stuffed them all into the backpack and threw them on her shoulders, while dialing the phone.

Gu Ran's, Wen's, Fang Tianchen, Fang Tianyun, and even Wang Ling's, but the female voice of the cold mechanical reminder: The number you dialed is not in the service area, please call again later.

"Xiao Xi, it's okay. If you are too anxious, you will lose sight of the status quo." Pei Qingzhi pressed her shoulder and said in a deep voice.

Tang Xi was taken aback, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded: "I see, we can set traps for the other side, and the other side can also design us against us. I will be careful."

"Yeah." Pei Qingzhi hugged her and quickly let go, "Be careful."

"Don't worry, you will wait for me at home. Uncle Cheng is very safe." Tang Xi waved and rushed out the door, while the ghosts in the room were successively thrown into her bracelets.

Pei Qingzhi looked at her back, with some regrets inexplicably.

He is not strong enough, Chu Li can fight alongside her.

"Boy, don't look, there are also things you can do here, only you can do." Cheng Huaying beckoned with a serious face.

"Only, can I do it?" Pei Qingzhi pointed at himself with a face full of doubts.

"Yes, maybe only you." Cheng Huaying looked at him with an unprecedented seriousness.

On the other side, Tang Xi rushed downstairs, just as Chu Li's car stopped, and the co-pilot's door popped open.

She jumped into the car and was still busy wearing her seat belt. Chu Li had already rushed out with a kick of the accelerator, and the security guard at the door jumped with anger.

Chu Li gave a "tsk", holding the steering wheel in one hand, taking out the police light in the other, poking out from the window, and placing it on the roof of the car.

Suddenly, the harsh sound of police sirens crossed the long street, and the flashing red and blue police lights left an afterimage, which instantly disappeared at the end of the street.

"It's a case..." The security guard touched his head in a nonsense manner, then looked at the red light in the distance, and muttered to himself, "No matter where the gods and Buddhas bless you, you must be okay..."

"Is that defensive magic weapon of PEI invalid?" Chu Li asked.

"Who knows." Tang Xi snorted coldly, clutching the seat belt to prevent him from being dangled by the centrifugal force, and said, "Last time I felt that there must be a back door for that thing, and it's not reliable at all! Sure enough! , Something has happened, and I don’t know how many ordinary people will be affected."

Along the way, I have met several fire trucks and police cars, converging there. Fortunately, it was midnight and the road was smooth.

At this critical juncture, Chu Li couldn't consider the issue of turning over the rules at all. The dial pointer pointed to more than 180, and he didn't even slow down when turning, completely like a road racer.

"Anyone who says I'm driving too crazy must let him take the car you drove once!" Tang Xi said angrily.

Chu Li couldn't care to speak, and stared at the front with all his attention, the community was already in sight.

More than a hundred people have gathered at the gate, and the number is still increasing. Most of them are wearing home clothes or even pajamas, and some are holding valuables at home. The scene is in chaos. The only security guards and the police who arrived first are almost unavailable. Live order. After all, in the middle of the night, the police were also sleeping, only a few people on duty were there, and it took time for others to arrive.

This is also thanks to the year, because every year someone sets off fireworks and firecrackers privately to cause fires, so the firefighting has been fighting hard.

Chu Li parked the car on the outside, and as soon as he opened the door, he could feel the heat wave on his face.

Obviously it is a big winter.