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Chapter 337: Chapter 282: Regret (4600 words)_2

Yan Junze looked over and heard Liu Hao say in a low voice, “It’s fine for us, but you made him wait for twenty minutes. Go over and greet him, and make sure to be polite.”

Yan Junze was taken aback and likewise lowered his voice, “He is…”

“Shi Tai, a four-star Exorcist,” Yu whispered.

“Shi Tai?” Yan Junze was puzzled.

Liu Hao gave Yu a glance, seemingly blaming him for not making things clear, and explained, “The Shi as in ‘no other recourse’, the Tai as in ‘remain calm’.”

Yan Junze nodded, “He’s a four-star Exorcist. Is he here because you’ve discovered something dangerous in Yan Long’s lair?”

Liu Hao smiled and said, “Don’t worry, the team only asked Shi Tai to come as a precaution. He’ll leave after a quick check, and the detailed search will still be conducted by us.”

Yu quickly added, “And when you talk to him, don’t even mention words like ‘poor monk’ or ‘old monk’, not even homophones, or Shi Tai will get angry at you. Once he gets mad, neither Brother Liu nor I can hold him back.”

Yan Junze pressed his lips together to suppress a laugh, but still nodded his head and scuttled over, a look of embarrassment on his face, “I’m sorry, Big Brother Shi, because of exorcising a strangeness last night, I was up until midnight, and woke up late this morning.”

Shi Tai was of average appearance and not very tall. He seemed to be no more than thirty-five, much younger compared to Guo Youliang, who was over fifty with greying hair. Yet, Shi Tai was already a four-star Exorcist, which showed he must have had a very strong foundation.

To tell the truth, Shi Tai was somewhat annoyed. Having a dignified four-star Exorcist like him wait for Yan Junze for twenty minutes, doing nothing, was costly in terms of time for an Exorcist team.

After the check here, Shi Tai had to rush to Yannan District immediately to assist another Exorcist team in eliminating a powerful strangeness.

So he was definitely not too pleased internally.

Shi Tai nodded his head, giving Yan Junze a cold once-over, and said nothing.

“Shall we… go in now and start?” Yan Junze proposed.

Yu ran over to open the clinic’s main door, which had been under lock and key, while Liu Hao removed the seal put up by the Safety Bureau.

Shi Tai didn’t lift a finger but just watched everything, and asked Yan Junze, “How many stars are you, Exorcist?”

Yan Junze took out his bronze badge, “I’m not officially on board yet, currently working as a contractor.”

Shi Tai’s mouth twitched slightly, his gaze turning to Yu, who was struggling to pull up the heavy rolling shutter of the clinic, and asked, “Semi-spirit?”

“Yes,” Yan Junze nodded.

“What’s your attitude towards strangenesses?” asked Shi Tai.

Because those with a Semi-Spirit Body were usually humans who had partially combined with strangenesses. These people were somewhat like Spirit Cultivators, and if their intentions were not pure, they could easily misuse their semi-spirit powers and go astray.

Knowing that Yan Junze was a Semi-spirit, Shi Tai intended to probe him with a question or two from the onset because he didn’t take a liking to him, even though he was well aware that the Exorcist team must have conducted a background check on Yan Junze beforehand.

“I stand against strangenesses my whole life,” Yan Junze declared with conviction. @@novelbin@@

As he finished speaking, Liu Hao and Yu, who had just opened the clinic door, suddenly turned around, looking at him in surprise.

Looking again at Shi Tai, the corners of his mouth twitched several times.

“Monk? My whole life?” Yan Junze pondered carefully, smacking his lips, “There’s a rolled ‘r’ sound. Could it be that Shi Tai is sensitive even to the distinction between retroflex and non-retroflex sounds?”

“I meant, my whole life is committed to opposing strangenesses,” he decided to amend his words just to be safe.

After all, it was Shi Tai’s territory, and it was important to give the man some respect.

“Let’s go in,” Shi Tai said, as if he hadn’t heard anything, and gave the order.

Liu Hao and Yu immediately took the lead, turning on all the lights in the clinic and started their separate investigations.

Yan Junze also began searching, focusing on corners to check for any jars or pots, as Yan Long’s disciple liked to fiddle with those things, and it was likely that the master and his disciple shared similar methods of cultivating spirits.

Yan Long seemed to be not much older than Guo Youliang, but in fact, he was already in his seventies. Once retired from Tianyi District’s Seventh Hospital, he had opened this clinic.

Normally, he treated all kinds of patients, but his cures for skin diseases were particularly remarkable.

The clinic wasn’t very big. Besides the somewhat spacious room at the front, there were two rooms inside—one was for the doctor’s rest, and the other had two beds for patients who needed to be on a drip.

Yan Junze, Liu Hao, and Yu were still inspecting the larger exterior room when Shi Tai had already moved on to one of the interior rooms.

Because the outer room was filled with large medicine cabinets, diagnostic equipment, and furniture, it took more effort to search.

After Yan Junze and the others confirmed there was nothing abnormal, they proceeded to the room with the infusion beds, where they discovered the door on the other side was wide open, and Shi Tai was nowhere to be seen.

They walked through the infusion room into the resting room that Yan Long usually used.

There, Shi Tai stood in the middle of the room, next to a small bed for resting, with a desk on the other side strewn with over a dozen medical books.

Due to the lack of any visitors for a while and the absence of windows, the bedding on the bed had developed significant mold spots and was emitting a musty smell.

After Yan Junze and the others entered, Shi Tai ignored them and walked towards the desk.

He lifted the desk with one movement, positioning it about ten centimeters away from the rear wall, and then bent down to carefully inspect the wall.

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