bookrandom Chapter 759 Lin Xiaoyu
Chapter 759 Lin Xiaoyu
Chen Yile's heart skipped a beat.
The black shadow became clearer and clearer. It was a figure wearing a tattered school uniform. There were no facial features on his face, only a dark void.
Its movements were extremely strange, like liquid flowing on the ground.
Chen Yile stretched out his hand tentatively.
The shadow suddenly moved.
It pounced on Chen Yile at incredible speed. Chen Yile subconsciously stepped back but was tripped by something.
He looked down and saw a rusty chain wrapped around his ankle.
The black shadow was already very close, and Chen Yile could feel the chill emanating from it, as if it was going to freeze his soul.
Just as the black shadow was about to touch him, a dazzling red light suddenly burst out from his chest.
It’s that jade pendant!
The rune on the jade pendant suddenly lit up, and the red light illuminated the entire alley.
The black shadow let out a shrill scream and turned into a black mist and dissipated in the red light.
Chen Yile slumped on the ground, gasping for breath.
The rune on his arm was beating wildly, as if devouring his vitality.
He could feel waves of dizziness coming over him and his vision began to blur.
"Damn it." He gritted his teeth, fighting against fatigue.
Just then, a hunched figure suddenly appeared at the end of the alley.
He was an old man wearing a Zhongshan suit and holding an oil-paper umbrella in his hand.
The moonlight shines through the umbrella, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
"Young man..." The old man's voice was hoarse and low.
Chen Yile stood up cautiously: "Who are you?"
The old man didn't answer, but just walked slowly to him.
The oil-paper umbrella opened gently, making a rustling sound in the night wind.
"There's a curse within you." The old man stared at the runes on his arm and said, "To break it, you must find three pieces of broken jade."
"What broken jade?" Chen Yile frowned.
The old man didn't answer, but walked deeper into the alley. His steps were slow, but each one was firm and resolute.
"Hey! Wait!" Chen Yile shouted.
The old man stopped and said, "Fate has its own destiny..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly disappeared into the night.
Chen Yile stood there blankly. A gust of cold wind blew past, and he shivered.
At that moment, my phone suddenly vibrated. It was a message from Teacher Li: "Wait for me at the back door of the school."
When Chen Yile rushed to the back door of the school, Teacher Li was leaning against an old bicycle.
The moonlight stretched her figure very long, casting a slender shadow on the ground.
By the time Chen Yile arrived at the school's back gate, the night had already darkened to the point of seeming ink. The dark alley was eerily quiet, broken only by the occasional barking of dogs in the distance. He hurried to the back door and saw Teacher Li leaning against an old bicycle, her silhouette slender and blurred in the moonlight.
"Teacher Li, why are you here?" Chen Yile asked, panting.
Teacher Li did not answer immediately, but raised his hand and pointed deep into the dark alley.
Moonlight leaked in from the alley, casting a narrow strip of light on the ground. At the end of the strip of light, something seemed to be glowing faintly.
"Follow me." Teacher Li said softly.
Chen Yile met her gaze, his glasses-covered eyes looking particularly deep in the moonlight.
He nodded and followed Teacher Li.
The dark alley was filled with a damp and fishy smell, and the air was filled with a faint smell of blood.
Chen Yile followed closely in Teacher Li's footsteps and walked forward, each step being at the junction of moonlight and shadow.
His hand unconsciously reached for the jade pendant in his pocket, and he felt a little relieved when his fingertips touched the cool surface of the jade.
"It's here." Teacher Li suddenly stopped.
Chen Yile looked up and saw a mottled brick wall at the end of the alley.
The wall was covered with vines, and the moonlight shone through the gaps between the vines, casting sporadic spots of light on the wall.
And among those spots of light, some dark red symbols can be vaguely seen, and those symbols are exactly the same as the runes on the jade pendant.
"This is where the boundary gate is." Teacher Li's voice trembled slightly. "These runes are part of the seal, but they are starting to loosen."
Chen Yile's heartbeat suddenly quickened. He could feel the jade pendant warming slightly in his pocket, as if echoing the runes on the wall.
"Where is Lin Xiaoyu?" he asked anxiously.
Teacher Li did not answer, but walked to the wall and reached out to push away the vines.
As the vines moved, an ancient bronze mirror appeared before them.
The surface of the mirror was covered with cracks, but it still emitted a faint cold light under the moonlight.
"She found this here." Teacher Li gently wiped the dust off the mirror. "This is one of the magical instruments used to seal evil spirits a hundred years ago."
Chen Yile took a closer look and saw a complex rune pattern engraved in the center of the mirror.
Those runes were almost identical to the patterns on the jade pendant, except that their colors were darker, as if soaked in blood.
He was about to speak when he suddenly felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet.
The ground seemed to shake slightly, and the runes on the wall began to emit a faint red light.
"Be careful!" Teacher Li grabbed his arm.
At this moment, the mirror suddenly made a crisp cracking sound.
Fragments flew everywhere, leaving silver trails in the moonlight.
At the same time, the runes on the wall suddenly burst out with a dazzling red light, illuminating the entire dark alley like daylight.
Chen Yile saw a dark red figure slowly seeping out from the crack in the wall.
It was a vague human outline with distorted facial features and a strange smile on the corners of his mouth.
"Don't come near!" Teacher Li quickly took out a bottle of holy water from his bag and sprinkled it on the figure.
The dark red figure let out a shrill scream and then disappeared into the air.
But the smell of blood in the air became stronger, as if something was watching them in the dark.
Just then, Chen Yile heard a faint sob.
"Lin Xiaoyu!"
He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a figure curled up behind a pile of debris in the corner.
Lin Xiaoyu's face was as pale as paper, and her hair was messy and stuck to her face.
She was hugging a tattered cloth bag tightly, her whole body trembling slightly.
"What happened?" Chen Yile walked over quickly and asked.
Lin Xiaoyu raised her head, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I found this when I was sorting out the clutter."
She handed over the bag with trembling hands.
Chen Yile took the cloth bag, opened it and poured out a palm-sized piece of jade.
The surface of the jade piece was engraved with the same runes as the jade pendant, but the color was slightly darker.
"What is this?" He looked at the jade piece in surprise.
"This is the first broken piece of jade." Teacher Li's voice was filled with shock. "It seems that the jade pendant was broken a hundred years ago."
Chen Yile carefully put the jade piece into his pocket and looked up at Teacher Li: "So what should we do now?"
Teacher Li was silent for a moment. "We need to find the remaining jade fragments and unlock the secret of the jade pendant. Only then can we prevent the gate from being opened."
Chen Yile took a deep breath: "Then let's go now."