PD -Chapter 91 Throat Slitting in the Dormitory Building

“Parents worrying about their children is normal. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Go back to the dorm and rest early,” I said with a faint smile to comfort her.

Yu Qi nodded and turned to walk back toward the dormitory area. Liu Xiaopeng and I didn’t think much of it either, so we got into our car and headed toward the demolition site as planned.

However, what we didn’t know was that another tragedy was already brewing around Yu Qi…

We quickly drove to the barren land that was about to be demolished. The police cordon was still there, and not far from it, dark stains of blood mixed with mud could still be clearly seen on the ground.

We switched on the car’s high beams, got out, and circled the open area. Then we approached the dilapidated unsafe buildings and searched around, but found nothing unusual.

“Want to try the Spirit Gathering Array?” I turned to Liu Xiaopeng and asked.

My intention was clear—I wanted to test him and see whether, with his current strength alone, he could successfully complete the most basic formation recorded in the Records of Heavenly Mystery.

Liu Xiaopeng hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.

He slowly walked to the center of the open ground, took position, and under my watchful gaze, closed his eyes and began circulating his spiritual energy.

Soon, golden light began to flicker between the index and ring fingers of his right hand.

“Remember, first clearly visualize the formation in your mind. You must understand every single path of its structure. Only then can you draw it without mistakes,” I reminded him.

Liu Xiaopeng nodded slightly and slowly raised his hand, beginning to draw in the air with his two fingers.

His speed wasn’t very fast, but it was fairly steady. Soon, a circular formation took shape in front of him, glowing with golden light that resonated with the light on his fingers.

He didn’t stop. Continuing the hand seals, he eventually crouched down and pressed his right hand—now completing the final seal—onto the barren ground.

The small floating formation in front of him immediately responded, dropping down and merging into the ground.

The Spirit Gathering Array was complete!

Golden patterns spread across the earth, expanding into a five-meter-wide formation. The runes inside shimmered brilliantly.

At the same time, faint, ghostly figures began to appear around Liu Xiaopeng.

They were wandering spirits drawn in by his formation.

The Spirit Gathering Array used his spiritual energy to draw in natural spiritual essence and concentrate the surrounding yin energy. Because of this, it had an irresistible attraction to nearby wandering spirits and malevolent entities.

The spirits gathered in increasing numbers. I quickly noticed Liu Xiaopeng’s energy within the formation becoming somewhat unstable and immediately reminded him not to panic. These spirits couldn’t harm him—their energy was too weak, like jellyfish in the sea, instinctively drifting toward places rich in spiritual and yin energy.

This was Liu Xiaopeng’s first time independently controlling a formation. Although he was familiar with the process, this was the real test of his mental stability.

People fear ghosts by three parts, but ghosts fear humans by seven. As long as he remained steady within the formation and did not lose focus, even malicious spirits would not dare to act rashly.

But if he panicked and disrupted his own formation, then these wandering spirits might gain the courage to swarm him.

The number of spirits around the outer edge of the formation kept increasing. I observed closely… although there were many of them, none were capable of independently attacking a living person, and there were no mad Taoists or sword-wielding ghost-like entities among them.

“Enough!” I called out after the formation had been running for about five minutes.

Liu Xiaopeng let out a breath of relief and immediately withdrew his spiritual energy. The formation collapsed at once, golden light fading from the ground… and the ghostly figures vanished into the night.

“Still nothing?” Liu Xiaopeng wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered to himself.

At that moment, my phone suddenly rang urgently.

I took it out and saw it was Zhu Zhu calling. For some reason, a bad premonition instantly rose in my heart.

“Hello…” I answered, frowning.

There was noise on the other end. Zhu Zhu was breathing heavily, as if she had just been running.

“Brother Heng, come back quickly! Something’s happened at the school!” she said anxiously.

My heart sank. “Don’t panic. Tell me slowly—what happened?”

“Another murder at the school… Yu Qi’s roommate… is dead!”

Her voice was trembling, and I could faintly hear police sirens in the background.

“We’re coming back right now!”

I hung up and motioned for Liu Xiaopeng to get in the car. We rushed back to the school at full speed.

When we arrived, the girls’ dormitory entrance was already crowded with people. We pushed through the crowd and saw that the building had been sealed off by police tape.

Zhu Zhu was standing with Yu Qi beside a police car, where a female officer seemed to be questioning her about the details.

Yu Qi was wrapped in Zhu Zhu’s coat, arms crossed tightly over her chest, trembling uncontrollably, her eyes filled with terror—she was already crying her eyes out.

We walked over and asked if she was okay. Yu Qi shook her head while crying, saying she was fine.

“Maybe… all of this is my fault. Something must have targeted me. They all died because of me…” she sobbed harder and harder.

I didn’t know how to comfort her for a moment. After thinking briefly, I signaled Liu Xiaopeng to stay with her, while I pulled Zhu Zhu aside to ask for details.

Zhu Zhu was also visibly frightened—she was one of the first people to see the body.

She told me that the scene of Yu Qi’s roommate’s death was very similar to Li Fei’s: the victim’s neck artery had been slit while lying in bed, blood soaking the sheets and spreading across the entire dorm room. The scene was horrifying.

It was a surprise dorm inspection by the student union that discovered the incident when they found the door of their dorm slightly unlocked.

At the time, only Yu Qi and the deceased girl were in the room. Yu Qi slept on the upper bunk, while the victim slept below her.

When the body was discovered, Yu Qi was still asleep—she was only awakened by screams.

“Can Yu Qi’s involvement be ruled out this time as well?” I asked Zhu Zhu.

She nodded and sighed. “The police have already conducted a preliminary investigation. They found no evidence linking her to it… in fact, they found no clues at all.”

I looked toward Yu Qi in the distance. At that moment, her father, Daoist Yu, had arrived. He was holding his daughter’s hand and arguing with a female officer.

“Why can’t I take my daughter home?” Daoist Yu said firmly.

The officer remained polite, lowering her voice slightly. “Your daughter is connected to two murder cases now. We must clarify the situation.”

Daoist Yu was silent for a moment, then said coldly, without backing down, “If you have evidence that she committed these two murders, then arrest her immediately. Otherwise, I will take her home.”

The officer was left speechless. At that moment, an older detective-looking man walked over, spoke with Daoist Yu briefly, and in the end, Yu Qi was allowed to leave with her father.

It was obvious that this Daoist had some reputation locally… otherwise the police would not have let her go so easily.

Or perhaps it was simply that they truly had no evidence linking Yu Qi directly to the murders, and were left with no choice.

Liu Xiaopeng walked over and lowered his voice. “The demolition site that used to be a prison is at least five kilometers from the school. Why would that entity travel so far to kill someone… and why are all the victims connected to Yu Qi?”

“We need to go check the crime scene,” I said quietly, looking toward the cordoned-off dormitory building.

“But… can we even get in now?” Zhu Zhu asked, pointing at the crowd at the dorm entrance.