I hoped that Xiao Quan was just 

competing

with 

Ye Weiguo. Unfortunately, 

things

didn’t seem that way

. After I had 

closed

 my eyes for a few minutes, Xiao Quan started to call me softly. Of course, I didn’t answer him. Then, he told Ye Weiguo that he needed to use the bathroom and left the car. 

After he left, my eyes shot open.

Ye Weiguo was startled. “I thought you were sleeping

.

”

No matter what, he was an outstanding soldier. He soon recognized that I was cautious against Xiao Quan. 

Ye Weiguo cleared his throat. “Mr. Zhang, this habit of yours isn’t good. Our comrade Xiao Quan is focusing on solving these murder cases. How could 

he be involved

?” 

I had forgotten that they were

 high-ranking 

soldiers, not

 some thugs on the streets

.

 Ye Weiguo needed but a glance to know my 

thoughts

. 

Anyway, he still seemed oblivious to the fact

 that Xiao Quan wanted to take his life. 

While I was thinking about how to reveal this to him, Xiao Quan returned. He smiled at me when he got into the car. “Oh, you woke up.” 

Other people would think that he had just given me a normal greeting. 

However,

it was more than that

! 

H

e wasn’t sure if I knew about his plan

, so h

e had deliberately left the car at 

a

 critical moment. 

In hindsight

, if he wasn

’t suspecting me, 

why would he be stupid enough to leave the car in such a dangerous moment and venue? 

I 

was blinded by a quick

 success, and now

,

 I didn’t know how to deal with the current situation.

Suddenly, Ye Weiguo said, “I thought that you 

had run away

, so I woke Mr. Zhang up to talk with me.”  

I hadn’t expected Ye Weiguo to have 

a

 mind-reading ability. He

’

d helped me out of 

an

 awkward situation. Xiao Quan was bewildered. He looked at me with skeptical eyes. It seemed he hadn’t confirmed his assumption yet. 

I exhaled and pretended that nothing had happened. I lit up a cigarette and turned to look at Ye Weiguo. 

“

I feel quite sleepy.

 I’m going to smoke, too

.

” Ye Weiguo was also a smoker. He 

reached for

 a 

cigarette pack in 

his pocke

t

. 

“

There’s n

o need to dig. Here, take mine.” Xiao Quan smiled and offered Ye Weiguo a cigarette. We didn’t talk 

as

 wisps of smoke started to twirl around the car. 

Because of the smoke, I couldn’t see Xiao Quan’s face. Still, I subconsciously felt that something was wrong 

with

 him. After smoking, I wanted to 

leave the car

 for some fresh air. 

But a

t this moment, Ye Weiguo vomited blood. 

“What’s wrong?” I

 asked worriedly as I helped to support him

. 

Xiao Quan wore a puzzled face. He told me to take care of Ye Weiguo while he 

tried t

o call the doctor. 

“I feel like my 

body is being

 hacked into two pieces!” That was all Ye Weiguo could tell me before he fainted. 

I was baffled. When I pulled myself together, I checked his pockets. The Yang Concealing Talisman I had given him was nowhere to be found!

Still,

 he had never left the car! Soon, I got it. Xiao Quan had left the car and returned shortly after. He had stolen the Yang Concealing Talisman and gone out to destroy it. 

My speed and reflexes were especially 

good; n

ot many people could perform stealthy tricks under my eyes. However, Xiao Quan had stolen the Yang Concealing Talisman and nobody had found 

out

. He was fierce! 

The emergency team arrived fast, but Xiao Quan was nowhere to be seen. I felt a little relieved. I knew he was waiting for the news. If Ye Weiguo died, he would regain the right to speak. 

If Ye Weiguo didn’t die, Xiao Quan would be in trouble. He had stolen the talisman, which exposed his evil deed. 

I was worried that Xiao Quan would go to the hospital to 

finish off

 Ye Weiguo. Fortunately, the ambulance came with Ye Weiguo’s close comrades. I thought that nothing dangerous would happen to him. 

As

 the others left, I grabbed the Sirius Whip and crazily dashed upstairs. Judging from Ye Weiguo’s strong reaction, his soul was 

undoubtedly

 hit hard. 

The birth da

te

 had a connection with the sou

l. 

I believed the spirit was upstairs and 

had attacked the paper stand-in

! 

When I 

went

 upstairs, I switched on the light. At first glance, I found that the realistic paper stand-in was now separated into halves. Although I had a strange feeling that something else was wrong, I couldn’t point out what it was. 

As soon as I 

was about

 to leave, a cold wind came from above. I wielded the Sirius Whip instinctively. At the same time, I leaned and rolled forward. When I got up, I saw a shadow standing at my previous spot. 

T

hat shadow was a cyan color and had a long beard. He was holding a giant cold weapon. 

It seemed t

his cyan shadow had killed those victims. But since the spirit was placing his hands behind his back, I couldn’t see what kind of weapon 

he was holding

. 

While I was looking at him, he was eyeing me. However, his eyes seemed sharp enough to be able to drill through my soul

.

H

e was the one that stood in front of my room’s peephole yesterday.

I didn’t know 

much

 about th

is

 opponent, so I didn’t dare to attack first.

Unexpectedly, the shadow had a skeptical gleam on his face after studying me for a while. In the next second, he flashed and disappeared. 

“What kind of trick is this?” I was confused. After I was sure that the spirit had left, I went to check the stand-in doll. Indeed, 

there was a

 problem!

This paper stand-in had Ye Weiguo’s birthday on it, but it wasn’t the one I had bought! 

I clear

ly 

remembered that to persuade the spirit, I had intentionally given the craftsman Ye Weiguo’s portrait

. E

ven Ye Weiguo agreed that it looked like him. However, this broken paper doll had 

a

 face similar to Xiao Quan!

Only

 the three of us knew about this paper stand-in plan!

 Xiao Quan couldn’t have

 replaced the doll with 

a

 doll that had his face! The person who had done that was Ye Weiguo! 

But w

hy did he do that...?

After c

onsidering Ye Weiguo’s 

personality

, I suddenly thought 

of

 a possibility

.

 Ye Weiguo wasn’t attacked by the spirit. He had fabricated the story 

about being

 the spirit’s target! 

And, his soldier, who 

appeared

 to be murdered instead of him, was the one the spirit wanted to kill! I had this thought because the spirit had come to me even before Ye Weiguo’s incident, and it 

had 

left me two words. 

At that time, I 

didn’t know

 how the word ‘

D

eath’ and the word ‘

L

oyalty,

’

 which was crossed, were related to each other. Tonight, after knowing the secret between Ye Weiguo and Xiao Quan, my thoughts 

were

 clear. 

The spirit wanted to tell me that those who were disloyal should die! In other words, he had warned 

me to not

 stand in his way of killing those disloyal people. If so, those who were murdered were from the same side 

as

 Xiao Quan. 

It also meant that Ye Weiguo had known everything, and he tried to find the opportunity to take advantage of the spirit to deal with Xiao Quan and his team. The 

man

 had just pretended to be 

dumb

. 

As the spirit had killed only bad guys, Ye Weiguo 

wasn’t

 likely 

a

 bad guy. 

I

nstinctively, I thought he was a good man. 

I had good eyes when it came to assessing people. Ye Weiguo had given me the impression of an honest and righteous person. He had become heartless for the sake of his country, but I thought it was acceptable. I even got 

a

 clue of who the spirit could be. 

A

 person that always talked about loyalty

 and

 wore cyan clothes with a red face and had a long beard

… T

here was only one historical character that fitted these features. 

It

 was Guan Yu! 

Guan Yu was a legendary figure during the Three Kingdoms period. In the peach garden, he had

 become 

sworn brother with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. Holding the 

fifty kilograms

 Green Dragon Crescent Blade and riding the Red Hare steed, he had beheaded Yan Liang and killed Wen Chou. He was matchless in th

e world

. 

Even though Cao Cao had rewarded him with a generous amount of wealth

, 

countless beauties

,

 and threw parties for him every three days and big banquets every five days, Guan Yu didn’t yield to him. 

Eventually, in the name of loyalty, Guan Yu traveled thousands of miles alone on his steed to leave Cao Cao’s side

. He 

returned to Liu Bei, his

sworn brother.  

Afterward, Guan Yu 

became

 the leader of the Five Tiger Generals of Shuhan. Unfortunately, he died in the battle of Jingzhou. His loyalty 

was 

praised by the later generations. In recognition of Guan Yu’s loyal and righteous spirit, the emperor of the next generation 

granted

 him the posthumous title as the Saint of War, or Guan Di (Emperor Guan). All the Guan Di temples in the Mainland were built to commemorate him.   

I

f that spirit 

wasn’t wielding

 the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, I 

don’t think

 he would

 have been

 able to 

cut

 people in half that easily. When he showed up, he looked casual, 

which

prevented

 me from recognizing his identity. Unfortunately, his features were too obvious

. I

t wasn’t difficult to see who he was! 

As Guan Yu was confused about me, I guessed he didn’t know which side I was on. However, I was invited by Xiao Quan. That

 wa

s why he was hostile toward me. 

Today, 

I met

 Ye Weiguo and 

became

 his friend. Plus, I was holding the Sirius Whip – the symbol of righteousness – in my hand

. I

t was understandable that Guan Yu wasn’t clear about my motive.

At the same time, if Xiao Quan 

was

 on the spirit’s blacklist and he had survived until now, I guessed he would have a guardian or was a colleague of mine. He was just pretending to be a nice piggy that wa

nted t

o 

eat

 a tiger when he got the right chance! 

Anyway, Y

e Weiguo’s move had caused losses to both sides

.

 Not only 

did 

Xiao Quan 

get

 hurt, but 

he also hurt

 himself. 

T

he moment Ye Weiguo got hurt, I caught a glimpse of pain on Xiao Quan’s face. At that time, I thought he flinched because he was worried about his friend. I hadn’t thought it was because his soul was hurt.  

I felt happy with these findings. But soon, I pulled myself together and started to 

feel

 anxious. I was able to figure out that Ye Weiguo had replaced the paper stand-in. 

This

 meant that Xiao Quan 

w

ould also 

reach

 the same conclusion! 

At this

 moment, the two sides had already turned their backs to each other. They wouldn’t stop until one 

of them 

died. 

One more piece of evidence was t

hat

, when Ye Weiguo got hurt, his people came with the medical team. It was easy to tell that he had planned things well beforehand. 

It was clear now. 

Once

 Ye Weiguo was discharged from the hospital, he would use all of his power to finish Xiao Quan. Under such circumstances, Xiao Quan’s only 

way of protecting

 himself was to make sure that Ye Weiguo would never 

wake

 up again. 

Ye Weiguo would be in grave danger, and his people were just ordinary soldiers. If Xiao Quan 

had an 

expert like me on his side, the situation would become very tough to deal with. 

What 

I was

worried about the

 most was that I was now forced to stand on the same side 

as

 Ye Weiguo. I couldn’t retreat. As long as Ye Weiguo died, the right to speak would belong to Xiao Quan. At that time, even if Xiao Quan didn’t 

know my secrets

, I 

would fail to 

explain my relation t

o 

Ye Weiguo’s death

. 

Before Ye Weiguo was taken to the ambulance, I was dumb enough to check his pockets and leave 

my fingerprints

 behind…

With this thought, I rushed out of the house

 and headed 

to the hospital. When I got there, I saw 

a hoard

 of policemen and soldiers surrounding the hospital from a distance. It seemed they were guarding the entire hospital.