This Damned Thirst for Survival

The demon’s demeanour was intriguing, as he looked out of the window at the shadows with twinkling eyes, an unmistakable look of relief and even anticipation just waiting to be discovered by the young Chi You.

Jiang Luo thought for a couple of seconds, then decided to get out of bed, tugging the evil spirit by the collar and pushing him into the wardrobe, and just as he closed the wardrobe door, the door was pushed open.

Chi You has already had a bath and a change of clothes.

There was no expression on his face, but when he saw Jiang Luo, there was a little more warmth in his eyes, “Young Master Jiang, did I scare you today?”

Jiang Luo withdrew his hand from the wardrobe and turned to lean against the door, fearing that the evil spirit inside, who was only afraid of the world, would come out of it, “Hahahaha, no.”

Chi You turned and closed the door and walked over to him.

The dust rises and falls in the air in the slightly grey room. Chi You looks into Jiang Luo’s bright eyes and some unknown emotion seems to grow like a weed.

Chi You whispered, “Young Master Jiang, what do you think when you see me teaching Chi Tian a lesson?”

Will you be scared?

Jiang Luo raised an eyebrow in some surprise and asked rhetorically, “Do you even care what I think?”

He grunted twice, “If you really want to know, I just don’t think it’s hard enough.”

Chi You froze, and then laughed silently. But he soon stopped laughing and looked deeply at Jiang Luo, and the atmosphere changed somewhat subtly as Chi You raised his hand and moved closer towards the young master’s face, wanting to continue what he hadn’t done last time.

But before he could touch Jiang Luo, Chi You’s face went cold, “There seems to be another person in the house.”

He lifts his eyes and Yu Guang slides seemingly over the wardrobe.

Jiang Luo said in surprise, “Is there someone else in this house? How come I didn’t see it. Young Master Ji, did you get the wrong feeling?”

Chi You looked at him, then at the wardrobe, eyes narrowed slightly, “Maybe.”

He suddenly reached out his hand and pulled Jiang Luo to the table to sit down, walking alone to the two large red wooden boxes barricaded up in the corner, “Young Master Jiang, the day you and I were married, I also received a nice gift that would suit you.”

Jiang Luo was curious, “What kind of gift?”

Chi You did not reply, but leisurely searched through the mahogany box, and after a few moments he finally took out a black wooden box and placed it in front of Jiang Luo.

“Young Master Jiang, open it and take a look.”

Jiang Luo opened it and inside was a brand new pistol in solid black.

Chi You took the pistol in his hand and took another aside and loaded it, “Young Master Jiang, I’m sure you haven’t used this before, let me show you how to use it.”

With that, Chi You suddenly raised his hand and fired a swift shot into the wardrobe before Jiang Luo could react.

“Boom…”

After a loud bang, a black hole opened up in the wardrobe.

Jiang Luo : “……”

If memory serves, that is the position of the evil spirit’s arm.

Chi You smiled gently at him, as if he hadn’t noticed anything, but his mood turned visibly better and his tail tone lifted, “Haven’t you seen it yet?”

He sent three more rounds out and three more smoking holes turned up in the wardrobe.

Jiang Luo wouldn’t believe him if he said Chi You hadn’t found anything. He volunteered, “Let me try the remaining two rounds.”

Chi You raised an eyebrow and gave him the pistol.

Jiang Luo held the gun in his hand and familiarised himself with the feel of it. The bullet struck quickly. The more Jiang Luo thought about it, the more he thought it would work, and he decided to ask Kuang Zheng to make him such a weapon.

He didn’t forget to do his business either, raising his hand to glance into the wardrobe, feeling a little insecure, and stood up again.

Standing up and aiming the gun at the wardrobe, Jiang Luo hesitated for a few moments but did not pull the trigger, instead walking all the way to the wardrobe door and positioning the pistol to about the vital point of the evil spirit’s chest before turning back to Chi You with a broad smile, “I think it’s safer to be this close.”

Chi You, on the contrary, is a bit speechless.

Jiang Luo didn’t need a response from Chi You as he cheerfully looked back at the wardrobe with an absent-minded gaze, then pulled the trigger without mercy, the same shot ringing out, Jiang Luo’s palm jolted by the recoil. White smoke billowed from the spot where the pistol had been pressed against.

The dark-haired youth raised his hand as if nothing had happened and placed the pistol again where the evil spirit’s brain was, “Young Master Chi, this wardrobe is broken like this anyway, so just use up the bullets in it, there’s only one last round left.”

Jiang Luo couldn’t hide the laughter in his tone at the thought that the evil spirits would be pitted, and he noticed it himself, coughing up his throat, and without waiting for Chi You to respond, cleanly sent another bullet in.

Jiang Luo can no longer stop laughing, and it’s a bit of a shame.

His hand slowly moved down to the man’s focal point and flicked the trigger with a hollow sound, no more bullets to spare.

Gee, how nice it would be to have one more bullet.

Behind him, Chi You’s gaze at Jiang Luo slowly turns strange.

Does Jiang Luo hate him that much in the future?

No, well it doesn’t seem to be hate.

Rather, it is a mixture of gloating, deception and crisis all at once.

Jiang Luo seems to be enjoying it.

Chi You lowered her eyes and hid her deep thoughts.

Jiang Luo , as if he knew the future.

“Young master, it’s not good!” A butler hurried in from outside, “Many people have come outside, and they are in an uproar, saying that they want to find the evil spirits hiding in the Chi family! The clan elders have rushed over and asked me to call you over as well.”

Chi You frowned, knowing almost immediately what the patriarchs were planning to do. Just now, when the deputy had sent Chi Tian to the police station, the sidekicks had looked at him with more than a little terror in their eyes, fearing that they had a grudge against him and wanted to teach him a lesson sometime.

I just didn’t expect the lesson to come so quickly, one after the other, and in just an hour.

But Chi You had just finished thinking that when she looked up and was slightly startled, “It’s already dark?”

“Yes,” the butler, not understanding how he could ask this strange question, replied anyway, “Young master, it is six o’clock in the evening.”

There was a Western clock in the house and Chi You looked back at the clock and saw that it was indeed six o’clock.

He felt like something was wrong, but the next moment he accepted the fact that it was “night time”. Chi You nodded, “I see.”

Jiang Luo also noticed the sudden darkening of the sky, and was indeed right, the flow of the mirror world was getting faster, and the source of the faster …… he Yu Guang glanced at the wardrobe, as if it had accelerated since the evil spirits entered the mirror world.

He put the pistol down and walked over quickly, “I’m with you.”

The two men hurried towards the door and before they could reach it they heard a noisy argument.

Hundreds of voices intermingled, making people irritable. Jiang Luo listened carefully and saw that the voices came from the people who were blocking the gates of the house, clamouring for the Chi family to hand over the evil spirits.

The people outside were in an uproar, and someone said indignantly, “The evil spirits are from your family, aren’t they, and you’re the only ones in Bujiu City with this ability! We all guessed that if you want to make money, your ghost hunters must be haunted by evil spirits, so you deliberately use evil spirits to harm people and then take advantage of the opportunity to make money, right?”

“That’s right, you guys, say it’s true or not!”

“Give up the evil spirits that harm people!”

“Hand it over! If you don’t hand it over we’ll consider your Chi family to be evil spirits!”

With a forced smile on his face, the Chi family elder did his best to calm everyone down, “The evil spirits are not our Chi family, we are also human, how can we be evil spirits? But we have already found the culprit, the previous murders were all due to the incompetence of our Young master of the house, who accidentally let an evil spirit out to do mischief. We have already called someone to come and we will certainly make him apologise to you and put the evil spirit away. If you have any complaints afterwards, please feel free to say so, we will definitely admonish him properly, and as long as no lives are harmed, we will make him apologise to you all as much as possible.”

At these words, Jiang Luo almost gagged.

The Chi family elder heard footsteps and turned around, his gaze became sinister and venomous as he sneered twice, ” Chi You , come here!”

These Ikarians in the mirror world are really more villainous than one another.

Chi You stepped forward, exposed to the view of the people outside.

He could almost anticipate what would happen afterwards and was inevitably disinterested, but with a look of self-condemnation and guilt on his face.

Chi You did raise many ghosts, and those ghosts killed many people to strengthen themselves, but the evil spirits that killed the maids and servants in the house and the beggars and watchmen outside the house were indeed not the ghosts raised by Chi You.

The Chi family elder pointed at him and said, “This is the Young master of our house, and it’s all because of him that-”

Before he could say anything, he was interrupted by the people, “Do you take us for fools? How could Young Master Ji do such a thing!”

“Yes, Young Master Chi would never do such a thing, you must have deliberately taken Young Master Chi out to cover for him, trying to protect the real killer!”

“We don’t believe that the murderer is Young Master Chi, come on, you guys hurry up and hand over the evil spirits or we’ll make you look good!”

The Chi family elder couldn’t believe it, “It’s him ……”

The people became even more furious, “This old man still refuses to tell the truth even now, brothers pick up your weapons and we’ll charge in ourselves to find the evil spirits!”

“Don’t be afraid, Young Master Chi, we believe you, the murderer will definitely not be you!”

It wasn’t just the Chi family sidekicks who were shocked, Chi You was frowning too. The people of Bujiu City waved their arms, surprisingly all convinced that he could do no harm.

It was a good result, but Chi You found it bizarre.

The people were about to rush towards the Chi family home, and the Chi family elders rushed to stop the people, one by one, old men in their seventies and eighties were knocked unconscious, and a few were knocked unconscious.

When the people became more and more agitated, the Chi family could only change their tone and say that they had misunderstood Chi You, that the murderer was someone else, and that they would definitely catch him, thus stabilizing the people.

Jiang Luo couldn’t believe how easily the matter had been resolved. At that moment, there was a sudden shout from the crowd, “The ghost is behind us!”

Jiang Luo looked behind the crowd and saw a figure clad in black robes and holding a cold sword, standing behind the crowd like a ghost.

After it saw that it had been spotted by the crowd, it fell silent and turned to flee in another direction.

The humans who had been silent since it appeared were still a little frightened, but as soon as they saw it run away, they felt a surge of courage in their hearts, and hundreds of them went after it and said, “Don’t run!”

Jiang Luo also took the lead and went after him.

Also catching up were Lian Bing and Lian Qiang.

The ghosts were fast, and Jiang Luo was getting faster and faster, and they were gradually losing everyone. Lian Qiang gritted his teeth and followed closely behind, Lian Bing looked around at the path and suddenly turned right, “Brother, let’s take a short cut!”

The ghost kept running until he reached the deserted alley and had to run again when he saw the two panting Lian Qiang men appear in front of him, both of them bent over their knees and panting, sweating profusely, “Don’t you dare try to escape!”

The ghost took two steps back and turned around to see Jiang Luo. Jiang Luo formed a seal with both hands and quickly said, “The word position of the word “li”, fire.”

A raging fire instantly surrounded the black-robed ghost.

The fire continued to shrink the space, and the black-robed ghost cowered together, terrified of the look of the fire. The fire condensed into a ball and lunged fiercely at it. The black-robed ghost screamed miserably and disappeared in place without even resisting, leaving only a black robe falling to the ground.

Jiang Luo frowned, retrieved his Li-fire and went forward to pick up the black robe, finding it soaked through with water, not only the clothes but also a puddle of water underneath.

Jiang Luo is thoughtful.

The black-robed ghost turned into water after meeting fire?

Lian Bing Two men ran up to him and were just about to ask how it was when they pointed dumbfounded at the sky and stammered, “Master, brother, look!”

Jiang Luo looks back and the sky is falling.

The sky looked like a shattered mirror, transparent mirror blocks kept falling down, falling into mid-air and disappearing again. At this rate, this mirror world would collapse in five hours at most and they would be able to get out.

The man behind the curtain said “kill the evil spirit and you can go back”, so this black-robed ghost is the evil spirit they are looking for?

Jiang Luo stood up, squeezing his black robe tightly, and looked at the mirror world that was beginning to shatter, but his heart was not so much happy as it was disappointed.

It’s that easy to get out?

A black-robed ghost this weak killed three of them?

Is this the black-robed ghost that Jiang Luo wanted to see as “the birth of evil”, a ghost that could not resist a single blow?

Jiang Luo only found it a little funny, but that was the reality. He turned around and said, “Come on, let’s go back to Lian Xue and the girls and wait to leave the mirror world.”