"Are you Secretary Tian?"
Lin Fan thought the voice sounded like Tian Mengyao.
"Bad boy, you can't even recognize my voice anymore?"
It was indeed Tian Mengyao.
No one else would call him that.
He hurried over and pulled open the door of the medical clinic.
"Secretary Tian, why are you here so late at night?"
Lin Fan stood at the door, seeing she was only wearing a camisole dress, and felt a pang of concern. "Are you crazy? Don't you feel cold? Come in quickly."
"Mmm."
A hint of smugness flashed in Tian Mengyao's eyes as she followed him inside.
"Go upstairs, plug in the electric blanket, and there's a blanket there too. Get warm first."
After nagging, Lin Fan asked, "What's so urgent that you had to come now?"
He didn't notice that Tian Mengyao, following closely behind him, was staring intently at the back of his head, her eyes filled with murderous intent!
"Quick, hurry."
Upon reaching the second floor, Lin Fan first plugged in the electric blanket and then turned to look at Tian Mengyao.
He realized then that Tian Mengyao had been following him at a distance of less than half a meter.
"Mengyao, why do you seem a little strange?"
"Bad boy, I'm so cold~"
Tian Mengyao shivered and asked, "Can I crawl into your quilt to warm up?"
"Uh?"
Lin Fan swallowed, his entire body instantly feeling heated.
"Okay, I wish I could."
Lin Fan threw back the blanket. "I've already warmed it up. You get in quickly."
"Mmm."
Tian Mengyao nodded, then quietly took off her small leather shoes and began to loosen her dress straps.
"Hey~" Lin Fan held out a hand. "Do we have to do it like this?"
Although he longed to see this scene, Tian Mengyao's sudden assertiveness made him feel unaccustomed.
"Don't you like me?"
Tian Mengyao's voice was filled with a mournful tone.
Her voice was even more coquettish than usual!
"I..."
Lin Fan was speechless.
He wasn't a block of wood. After spending so much time together, he had long harbored feelings for Tian Mengyao.
At this moment, Tian Mengyao had already crawled into the quilt.
She poked her head out, looked at Lin Fan, and giggled, "Xiao Fan, aren't you cold?"
"Cold."
Lin Fan, still in a daze, answered casually.
"If you're cold, come in and warm up with me~"
Tian Mengyao's voice became increasingly sweet.
"Wait a moment, I'll go lock the door."
As he turned, Lin Fan activated his Purple Extreme Spirit Eyes!
Damn it!
The slightest breeze stirred by his movement made Lin Fan feel a chill down his spine. It was the cold sweat from being scared.
The moment he sensed something was wrong with Tian Mengyao, his back was already drenched in sweat.
In his entire life, he had never seen such a situation.
In the past, the purple aura above Tian Mengyao's head had formed a three-tiered pagoda shape and was a deep color, almost matching the color of the purple energy in his own dan tian.
Although he didn't know what it meant, he knew it was an extremely rare anomaly.
Even Wang Ying only had a wispy purple mist above her head, indicating how bright her future career in politics would be.
But now.
What he saw was a ferocious and terrifying monster swirling above Tian Mengyao's head!
This monster, entirely gray and black, exhibited all sorts of distorted forms!
Even though the monster was gaseous, its visual impact was more terrifying than any creature in movies or television!
Lin Fan's heart pounded after just one glance, and he quickly averted his eyes.
"What to do, what to do?"
Lin Fan was extremely anxious, having no time to lock the door.
"It must be that thing from the cave on Luofeng Mountain."
"Damn it, I don't even know you. Why are you trying to harm me out of the blue?"
"If I wasn't so lustful, you would have killed me tonight!"
Lin Fan paced back and forth in the downstairs lobby, unable to think of a solution.
"Xiao Fan, is the door locked? Hurry up~"
A seductive voice came from upstairs, making Lin Fan shudder.
"Almost done. I'm more anxious than you are."
Lin Fan tried to calm himself down and continued to think of a counter-strategy.
"Hehehe..."
A bell-like laughter echoed from upstairs, sounding incredibly creepy in the quiet night.
Lin Fan propped his chin.
Based on his previous experience, purple energy should have some restraining effect on that thing.
But the problem was, it was now possessing Tian Mengyao.
If anything went wrong, what if Tian Mengyao was injured?
Inadvertently, Lin Fan's gaze swept over the Chinese herbal medicine cabinet.
"Wait!"
"It seems there are several medicinal herbs that can ward off evil spirits. I just don't know if they'll work."
Lin Fan took a deep breath, his heart no longer pounding wildly.
"Bad boy~ Why aren't you coming yet~"
A sweet and soft voice came from upstairs again.
Lin Fan cleared his throat and shouted loudly, "Wait a moment, I'm preparing some medicine for myself. Tonight, we'll have a good time!"
Lin Fan, suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, walked to the counter and scanned the contents rapidly.
"Realgar, that should work."
"Bai Niangzi drank realgar wine and revealed her true form, scaring Xu Xian to death."
Lin Fan quickly took out a piece of realgar and put it into the mortar.
"Mugwort sticks, these might work too."
Lin Fan looked down and saw several mugwort sticks in the cabinet.
These were used for moxibustion, with the main ingredient being mugwort leaves, the same herb that families hung at their doors on the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil.
"And... sandalwood, perhaps it's useful."
Lin Fan picked out a few medicinal herbs that he thought could ward off evil spirits, put them all into the mortar, and began pounding them with a "dong dong dong" sound.
Lying on the sofa upstairs, Tian Mengyao heard the sound of medicine being pounded downstairs and a look of disdain flashed in her eyes.
As expected, a lustful man, thinking of taking medicine!
"Hmph, after I drain you dry, I'll ensure you never reincarnate!"
Lin Fan finished pounding the herbs and added some water, mixing them into a paste.
He took a few deep breaths and thought, "Save the person first."
"If I can't drive it out of Tian Mengyao's body, then self-preservation is paramount. I'll escape."
"When dawn breaks, I'll go directly to its lair to find it."
"I refuse to believe that a cowardly monster dares to show itself openly!"
"If you don't show yourself, I have plenty of ways to deal with you!"
"Coming!"
Lin Fan's gaze was resolute as he held a bowl of evil-warding medicine and walked step by step towards the second floor.