I suddenly remembered that Ru Xue kept rummaging through her bag when she left. Now, I 

realized

 that she was searching for her mobile phone. Perhaps,

 the mysterious person had

 deliberately 

left his phone behind, and the call history might have been

 made on purpose. He wanted to create a dispute between us!

Ru Xue 

was gone

, so we had to put everything aside to find her

. This 

gave the ghost 

plenty of time

 to kill Li Mazi. 

There was still one thing that made me wonder. Ever since Li Mazi had joined this Circle, he was my assistant. He

 didn’t have

 any grudges against 

anyone

. If we had offended someone inadvertently, the other party should 

have targeted

 me. Why did they exert their efforts to kill Li Mazi? 

At this

 moment, Li Mazi was worried and 

felt very guilty. He lingered 

at the hotel entrance

, unsure as to

 what to do. 

Ru Xue had left for quite a long time. The camera showed that she 

got into

 a taxi, but we 

didn’t

 know where she 

went. 

“Little 

B

rother Zhang, do you think Ru Xue 

will

 encounter danger?” Li Mazi squatte

d and looked

 dispirited. “Ru Xue’s a pregnant woman. She 

wouldn’t

be

 a threat to anybody. She wouldn’t be in danger, 

right

?” 

I frowne

d as I

 didn’t know how to answer. The other party had tried their best to split us apart. How could they 

leave

 Ru Xue 

alone

? 

There was no

 doubt that Ru Xue 

was

 kidnapped. 

It was like the time Li Mazi and his son were kidnapped. 

Besides

 waiting for the other party’s call, we couldn’t do anything. 

Moreover, I believed that if they 

were able to take 

Ru Xue’s phone right under our 

noses

, they would have to be more than one person

. T

hey could be 

watching

 every move of ours! 

I believed that they would call us soon. I asked Li Mazi to wait for me outside 

as

 I went to the hotel toilet to call Chuyi. From what I knew, 

h

e had returned to Hong

 Kong as

 a rich man had asked him to solve a problem. I hadn’t heard from him 

since then and

 didn’t know where he was now. If possible, I hoped he could come to rescue us. 

I realized that our enemy wasn’t the female ghost but the living people hiding in the dark. They 

were

likely 

people from the Longquan Villa! 

After the line connected, Chuyi 

went

straight

 to the matter. “What’s the problem?” 

This habit of his would never 

change

. I sighe

d and

 quickly briefed him about the situation. “Could you come to Italy to help us?” 

With his nature, he would normally agree immediately. However, this time, he kept silent for a while then slowly spoke up. “I can’t 

come to help you

.” 

I was bewildered

 and recognized 

that his voice

 was

 feeble. It 

sounded like he was 

wounded. “What happened? Are you all right?” 

“Yeah. Zen Master 

Baimei

 and I got a case. But we’re in trouble. It seems 

that

 the Longquan Villa is behind this. I can’t 

come

 there to help you.” 

“Take care and be more careful. No need to worry about me here. I know what to do

,

” I said, then hung up the call. 

Chuyi was always frank 

with

 me. If he said he couldn’t help us, it 

meant he was 

in great trouble. Moreover, Zen Master 

Baimei

 and Chuyi’s situation 

sounded

 even more perilous than mine. I was now worried about them. 

I thought about the situation and clenched my 

teeth. Then, I called Senior Shu

. Unexpectedly, that despicable old man was

 also busy

. His hideout was exposed

, and he was now on the run.

 Despite being a millionaire, he didn’t even have a decent place to stay in.

Senior Shu

 wasn’t a righteous person

, and h

e liked to fool 

his

 junior

s. B

ut every time we sought his aide, he 

would help us

. He didn’t need to pretend to 

refuse to help

. I told him to take care, then hung up the call with a discouraged face. 

I now recognized that after so many case

s

, I had never been parted from the help of 

Chuyi

, Zen Master 

Baimei

, 

Senior Shu

, 

or

 my grandfather. 

Since

 they couldn’t help me now, I 

was useless

! 

With this thought, I suddenly 

realized something. All

 of us were in trouble at the same time. 

This

 had never happened before. 

I hoped that everything was just a coinciden

ce.

I worriedly went back to the door to wait there with Li Mazi. 

Soon, Ru Xue’s phone rang. Li Mazi resolutely stood up

 and snatched 

the phone from me. He accepted the call

 and shouted 

crazily

,

 “What do you want? I’ll 

do whatever you want

! Don’t hurt my Ru Xue!” 

The people on the other end of the line kept quiet for a long moment before 

they spoke

 up

. The man’s voice was cold. 

“You want me to release her? 

That’s e

asy. 

Just c

ome to the Ghost Castle.

 Come

alone

!” 

I couldn’t help 

but shout 

at the phone. “Who are you? Why do you want to harm 

us

?” 

The other party sneered. “Zhang Jiulin, if you don

’t 

want to see the girl 

die

, you shouldn’t come! 

Otherwise

, they 

will both

 have to die! Of course, Li Mazi can choose not to come. Haha!” 

Then, he 

hung up

. Li Mazi

 glanced at me and asked 

me to wait in the hotel. He made a turn to the meandering path. I grabbed him

 and scoffed,

 “You 

bastard

, you don’t want to live anymore? You want to go there to die?” 

Li Mazi halted for a moment. He gave me a wry smile 

and kept

 walking away. I was bewildered but didn’t stop him. 

His wife and child were kidnapped. It was understandable 

that he wanted to go there.

In the worst case, he would die together with his beloved. I couldn’t stop him, so I had to follow him 

from a

 distance. 

Lu Dongbin had wounded the ghost, so the thick layer of fog outside the Ghost Castle was much thinner. Under the pale moonlight, we could see the rows of seats facing the door. 

W

e couldn

’t see anything beyond 

that. 

“Take care of Li Meng and Ru Xue for me

,” said

 Li Maz

i. He

 didn’t 

look back and entered 

the church. 

It was his

 way of telling 

me to stop following him. 

There was no

 need to imagine

 it. Awaiting 

us inside was the female ghost and even our enemy. If I went with him, I would be 

killed too

.

Anyway, I was certain that the enemy wasn’t afraid of me. 

Such being the case

, why 

didn't they

 want me to enter the church? 

I couldn’t figure it out. However, 

at

 this moment, I wasn’t the one who 

was in control of

 the situation. If Li Mazi couldn’t return, my only hope was that the enemy would keep their words and release Ru Xue. 

I would bring her and Yin Xinyue back to China

 and 

hide them 

somewhere. Then, I would try

 all means to find these people and take revenge for Li Mazi! I would destroy everything that belonged to them, including their families! I swore I would never leave anyone alive! 

Just in case

, I 

headed back

 to the hotel

. I needed to 

ask Yin Xinyue to leave first. If 

something happened to her

, I 

wouldn’t even be able to

 take care of Li Mazi’s funeral! 

On the way back, I saw two 

people

walking

 toward me. They were 

Marco

 and Dr. 

Paolo

. Dr. 

Paolo

 had a wooden scepter in his hand. When he 

saw

 me, he exhaled

 and asked

, “What’s going on in there?” 

When 

Marco

 saw me and Li Mazi worriedly 

leave

 the hotel, he realized that we were in trouble. He hurried to bring his father here. From the surveillance camera, they knew we had departed to the Ghost Castle. That

 was

 why they hurried to come and help us. 

After listening

 to him, I was so touched that I couldn’t even utter a word. I could only give a deep bow 

and

told

 them about the mysterious person.

Dr. 

Paolo

 laughed. 

He pointed

 at the haunted church

 and

 said boldly, “In this old castle,

no one has the right to speak 

except for

 me!” 

Then, he carried his scepter

 and took 

the lead

. He entered 

the church. 

Marco

 followed his father

 and gave 

me an OK gesture to comfort me. I gave him a thumbs-up

, feeling a little better. 

Since

Paolo

 and his son

, two experts in the field,

 were here to deal with those 

people

, 

there was no need for me to be afraid.

Paolo

 walked into the church resolutely. I followed after him. Soon, I saw Ru Xue tied 

to the

 bench and Li Mazi on the ground. Three people wearing black clothes 

stood

 by them. Although they 

wore 

black 

veils

that concealed

 their faces, they couldn’t hide their 

Asian

 facial features. 

I looked around. The female ghost was nowhere to be seen. I guessed that since Li Mazi was in their hands, 

these

 people didn’t need to use the ghost. 

They

 had seen us as soon as we stepped into 

the

 church. However, they didn’t stop us 

nor did they 

say anything. Right from the start, their eyes were fixed on the scepter in Dr. 

Paolo

’s hand!