Ghost World Office

Tao Ye couldn't smell a bit of soul breath, and there was only a damp musty smell in the air. This musty smell that appeared out of nowhere made him even more vigilant.

He stared at the female corpse closely, and he didn't believe what the female corpse said at all.

Seeing that the three people present did not speak, the female corpse slightly tilted her head while holding the pipa, and said:

"I'm not malicious, but I'm sorry..."

"Sorry for what?" Tao Ye interrupted the female corpse, staring at her coldly, guarding against her sudden attack.

A smile of unknown meaning appeared on the face of the female corpse, and she kept her eyes on Tao Ye with a slightly mocking tone.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to leave here alive today."

As soon as the female corpse finished speaking, Lao Xu's legs went limp and he almost fell to the ground.Tao Ye cast a sideways glance at Old Xu's ashen face, and took a step forward to stand in front of Chen Xiang and Old Xu.

"Okay, are you going to give us a good time, or are you going to hang around for a while?"

Tao Ye was very calm at the moment, and his voice was not mixed with any emotion.

A chuckle came from the female corpse's throat, as if mocking the insignificance of the three people in front of her.She lightly plucked the strings of the pipa, and Tao Ye felt dazzled by the irregular notes.

The dizziness is fleeting.

Tao Ye collected himself and found that he was still standing where he was.He hurriedly turned back to confirm the situation of Lao Xu and Chen Xiang, and found that they were no longer where they were.

"Don't worry, they're fine."

The female corpse suddenly appeared beside Tao Ye, with her lips pressed against Tao Ye's ears, she spoke softly.

The moment the female corpse approached, Tao Ye smelled a strong stench, which was mixed with musty and rotting corpses.

Suppressing the nausea surging in his chest, Tao Ye dodged aside, clenched his fists vigilantly, ready to pull out the chains in his body at any time.

At this moment, Lao Xu's voice came from above Tao Ye's head:

"Little Tao! Help me!"

Tao Ye followed the sound and looked up, only to see Lao Xu and Chen Xiang being hung on the roof.Wrapped around them are lengths of white ribbon.

Old Xu was struggling to break free from the ribbon, but Chen Xiang seemed to have lost consciousness, allowing his body bound by the ribbon to sway back and forth in the air.

In the dim light, the hanging of the two looked very strange, like insects bound by spider silk, with a broken beauty.

"What did you do to them?" A trace of cruelty flashed in Tao Ye's eyes, and his voice lowered unconsciously.

The female corpse stared closely at Tao Ye's eyes, as if trying to dig out something from Tao Ye's eyes.

"Don't worry, I'm just afraid that they will get in the way on the ground."

The female corpse spoke lightly, as if she was just telling a trivial matter.

Tao Ye's gaze followed Lao Xu and Chen Xiang down, and landed on the floor directly below them.

On the marble floor, there was an iron plate.

There are sharp thorns standing on the iron plate, like an ancient torture tool, more like a device for catching animals.Even in a dim environment, the flashing edge on the spikes is still eye-catching.

"As long as I loosen the ribbon, they will fall onto this iron plate." The female corpse looked at Lao Xu struggling, appreciating her masterpiece with satisfaction.

Seeing the iron plate under him, Lao Xu realized that he was on the verge of life and death.

He has been in the human world for a long time, and his daily life is selling noodles, delivering food, and at most catching a few ordinary souls to earn extra money. He has never experienced such a big scene.

Taking a long breath sadly, Lao Xu felt his throat was blocked by something, and he couldn't make any sound.

"Then please hurry up and kill them both." Tao Ye squinted his eyes and said to the female corpse very cheerfully.

He no longer looked at the female corpse, nor at Old Xu, but looked up at the murals on the surrounding walls.

From the moment he discovered the iron plate, Tao Ye had a guess in his mind—the target of the female corpse should not be Lao Xu and Chen Xiang, but Tao Ye.

Judging from his many years of experience as a killer, the female corpse probably wanted to threaten him with the lives of Lao Xu and Chen Xiang, forcing him to hand over something.

Ever since he came to the Human World Office in S City, he discovered that many things were aimed at him.Tao Ye was also very concerned about Lao Xu's "extraordinary talent" that he accidentally said last time.Even though Lu Yi had explained to Tao Ye, Tao Ye didn't fully believe it.

The next move of the female corpse confirmed Tao Ye's conjecture.

Seeing that Tao Ye was unmoved, even a little careless, the female corpse bit the corner of her lips lightly, and raised her hand to vibrate the strings of the pipa.

With the sound of the piano, there was a sound of cloth breaking on the ceiling.

Old Xu screamed, he felt his body was falling.

In Old Xu's shaky vision, Tao Ye still looked up to admire the colorful clouds floating on the mural.

Little Tao, oh little Tao... After all, I believed in the wrong person...

Old Xu tightly closed his eyes, ready to face the sharp thorns on the iron plate below him.Unexpectedly, the fall only lasted less than two seconds.

The falling stopped, and Lao Xu was still safely suspended in the air, only falling about a meter away.

Tao Ye leisurely turned his gaze back to the female corpse, and said slowly:

"Fun."

Evidently, she did not expect such a reaction from Tao Ye. The female corpse was silent for two seconds, as if she was thinking about what went wrong.

"What fun! My life is almost gone!" Old Xu opened his eyes, impotently furious, and yelled at Tao Ye.

Tao Ye blinked innocently, and refuted Old Xu: "Aren't you still alive and well?"

Although the power of the female corpse was beyond Tao Ye's imagination, what happened just now made Tao Ye clearly know that the target of the female corpse was himself.

The profession that understands humanity and games most in this world is a killer.

As long as a person has goals, they also have weaknesses.What's more fatal, this weakness is usually fatal.

The female corpse looked at Tao Ye with a bright smile, and sighed, "I underestimated you."

Tao Ye snorted disapprovingly, but did not speak.

"Then I'll get straight to the point. As long as you hand over your soul, I can let these two go."

Faced with the conditions offered by the female corpse, Tao Ye was not moved.In his bones, he is not the kind of person who sacrifices himself to help others.

"Why do you want my soul? Dan wants my soul?" Tao Ye asked.

"You don't need to know that." The female corpse's voice was still soft, but when she heard the word "Dan", the female corpse frowned slightly.

The subtle expressions on the female corpse's face were sensitively captured by Tao Ye, and he was now very sure that the female corpse and Dan must have a close connection.

"Well, let's make a bet."

Tao Ye lowered his head and flicked the zipper of his jacket with a very relaxed tone. He really enjoyed the feeling of being in control of the situation.

The female corpse obviously didn't want to waste time with Tao Ye, but she had to continue to deal with Tao Ye.

A month ago, the female corpse was the most ordinary of the many souls raised by Dan.

Dan named her Autumn Tide.

Qiu Chao has forgotten her original name. She has been with Dan a long time ago and was sent by Dan.

On a winter rainy night, Dan called Qiu Chao and asked her:

"I'm kind to you, right?"

Qiu Chao lowered her head, and the faint blue light of her soul surrounded her. She was just an ordinary abnormal soul, and of course she couldn't answer Dan's question.

In the sound of continuous rain outside the window at night, Dan leaned lazily on the back of the recliner, holding a dagger engraved with water ripples in his hand.Dan lowered his head slightly, the lights in the room were not turned on, and the pattern on the dagger was extremely blurred.

With the faint city light coming in from the window, Dan wiped the handle of the dagger carefully with a flannelette.

Qiu Chao didn't reply for a long time.Of course, Dan didn't expect Qiu Chao to respond either.

"Do you want to be like their soul?" Dan continued.

Although he doesn't have a complete mind, Qiu Chao knows what "they" refers to.

Dan will infuse the power of law into his highly valued abnormal souls, so that these souls have complete minds and great strength.

Of course Qiu Chao wants to think like a living person.Although she couldn't nod, the longing in her eyes was hard to hide.

Dan didn't look up, he was very aware of Qiu Chao's desire for the power of law.Putting the dagger in his hand on the tea table aside, Dan raised his fingertips slightly.

A force surged into Qiu Chao's soul in an instant, and she felt a joy she had never had before.

A large amount of lawful power quickly restored Qiu Chao to normal thinking, and also brought her a powerful ability that she had never thought of.

Afterwards, Qiu Chao was sent to the museum by Dan, and possessed the body of the female corpse in the museum.

"A man surnamed Tao will come to you, and you must bring his soul back intact."

Dan ordered Qiu Chao.

After all, Qiu Chao who was possessed by the female corpse actually didn't know why Dan wanted Tao Ye's soul, so naturally she couldn't answer Tao Ye's question.

It stands to reason that Qiu Chao, who has acquired a large amount of power of law, can easily capture Tao Ye's soul.

But Dan's order to Qiu Chao is to let her bring Tao Ye's soul back intact.

This command may seem simple, but it is actually very difficult.

It is very simple for abnormal souls to deprive ordinary people of their souls. They don't even need the power of law, they just need to create a field.

However, there is a special device on the soul of the members of the Human World Office - the soul lock.

The soul lock firmly binds the soul and body of the members of the Human World Office.If Qiu Chao forcibly deprives it with external force, he can only get a mutilated soul.

There is only one way to completely strip the souls of the members of the Human World Office:

If a member of the Human World Office makes any kind of promise, promising to donate his soul, then once the conditions of the promise are fulfilled, the soul can be completely stripped from the body.

The soul lock is a means to prevent the members of the Human World Office from being killed by abnormal souls and to seize the power of law.

The promise rules exist to allow the members of the Office of the Human World to return to the ghost world smoothly after completing the tasks in the human world, and their souls will not be damaged.

"What bet?" Qiu Chao's brows were furrowed, and her heart was already in chaos.

She can hide her soul breath, but she can't hide the field she created.

After seeing the scene, other members of the Human World Office will definitely come to reinforce it, and things will be difficult to handle by then.