Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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It seemed that this was the first time that Xie Lingya was complained against by a ghost. He was a little embarrassed, but he quickly calmed down and said, “Why are you in such a hurry? The masters are talking. Don’t interrupt as a ghost.”
Female ghost: “…”
However, this female ghost helped Xie Lingya get rid of the awkward atmosphere. Moreover, Xie Lingya heard that the ghost was quite organized and not as irrational as he imagined. So he raised his chin to the female ghost and said, “What’s the matter with you? Tell me first, what are you doing here?”
The female ghost was silent for a while and said, “Looking for people, looking for those who killed me. There were three people, two men and one woman. They covered their faces and robbed me and then killed me and threw my body into the river. I saw the documents on them and knew that they lived here. But the police couldn’t find them, so I had to come here myself.”
Xie Lingya frowned and said, “But you have harassed more than three people these days. One of them is a teacher in our school. The teacher wouldn’t have robbed you of your money.”
Female ghost: “I said they were masked!”
“So you are just looking blindly! And you are so confident!” Xie Lingya thought to himself, no wonder they say they would catch whoever they wanted, but no one had died, so they just went after whoever looked like the person. As they were trying, they found other places that didn’t look like the person, “In that case, I won’t chop you up, I’ll just hand you over to the City God for trial, and you can also state your case to the underworld, which is much better than looking blindly.”
The female ghost lowered her head and said, “If we hand it over to the underworld for judgment, it will only deprive them of their sentence. I want to fight back.”
Xie Lingya could understand the female ghost’s feelings, and said, “Then you should stop wasting time, use the underworld money you have to fight… With that, you can also send a dream to the police to reveal some information. There are even examples of people in the underworld returning to the world of the living to seek revenge under the supervision of the underworld officials.”
The female ghost looked up suddenly: “Is it true?”
Xie Lingya: “Yes, it is not necessary to wait until after death to judge, but this kind of case requires waiting for trial and application, and your own case must also meet the conditions. Some trials take too long, and revenge is in the next life.”
But the important thing was fairness and legality, especially for someone like her who didn’t know who hurt her. She must be tried for the crime of harming others, but her grievances would also be sorted out, one thing for another.
The female ghost looked at Xie Lingya suspiciously: “Have you died before? How do you know so much about it?”
As a ghost, although she had not been taken to the underworld, she knew several of her kind, but none of them knew as well as Xie Lingya.
“Comrade female ghost, why are you so poor? I understand it’s because…” Because his uncle told him about it but Xie Lingya still remembered that the second generation of officials should keep a low profile, and coughed and said, “We often deal with the underworld.”
The female ghost thought it over again and again, and said, “I escaped from the soul-catching by the underworld officials and came here to take revenge. But I never found the real enemy… In this case, I am willing to surrender.”
Xie Lingya thought that she was unable to enter the City God’s Office due to other reasons, but he didn’t expect that she had escaped. Xie Lingya was surprised and said, “You are really brave. Okay, then let’s do this.”
He activated the seal of the City God’s Office, summoned the nearby ghost soldiers, and handed the female ghost to the other party.
After the work was done, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan walked out silently, with a distance of about half a meter between them, neither far nor close, neither close nor distant.
Professor Zhu and Xie Fan took the lady to the hospital and asked them how they were doing.
Xie Lingya told them about the female ghost and told them to be careful, as it was bad enough that this community was haunted, but there was actually a robber and murderer living there.
This was the first time that Professor Zhu encountered a supernatural incident. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would not have believed such a mysterious thing. At this time, he said with a bitter face: “I thought that… everything was solved, but there is actually a murderer living here, and he is at large. Oh my God.” Xie Fan had encountered many such cases, so it was not that difficult for him to accept it. Besides, he did not live here, so the psychological pressure was not that great. He also comforted Professor Zhu a few words, saying that they would not dare to commit crimes around their home.
“It’s okay. Some things can be hidden from humans but not from ghosts and gods. The underworld will naturally have records. I have already instructed her that when there is a result, she will send a dream to the people handling the case. In this way, the murderer will be brought to justice sooner.” Xie Lingya said.
This matter also involved the murderer in the world of the living, so he was quite concerned about it. He planned to tell Ning Wanlai about it when the time came. If there were any problems with the female ghost, Ning Wanlai, who was immortal, could also give some advice.
There was also the matter of clues from dreams. Although ghosts and gods were not important in today’s society, so people may not care if you received a dream once, but it would be fine after you receive it a few more times. As for how to write the report, that was their own business.
Xie Lingya downplayed the incident, but Professor Zhu was still frightened. It was not until later when the police actually arrested several people from their community that he realized Xie Lingya was not lying.
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After finishing their work, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan naturally went back. Professor Zhu originally wanted to let Xie Lingya stay for one night, but he declined. Tomorrow was the weekend and he could sleep in when he went back. It was not comfortable to get up too late at his tutor’s house.
They had no idea how many times they had acted together late at night. The atmosphere was a little different this time, so there wasn’t much to talk about.
The taxi drove directly to the rental building. Xie Lingya was too lazy to make any more trouble. The car had to take a detour to get to the front gate of Baoyang Temple, but it would be faster for him to take the alley from here to the back door, so they got off the car together.
“I’ll take you there.” Shi Changxuan said suddenly.
“No need.” Xie Lingya said quickly, “It’s just a short distance, why should you send me off?”
In the past, Xie Lingya would definitely not take it seriously, he would just let him send him off if he wanted to. But now he couldn’t help but think more, was Shi Changxuan expressing his feelings? Unfortunately, he couldn’t tell from his face or hear it from his tone.
Before Shi Changxuan could say anything else, Xie Lingya said helplessly: “Are there still ghosts in the three nearby streets who don’t recognize me? Is there anyone who dares to commit a crime within a mile around me?”
This year’s Zhongyuan Festival was held a few days before the start of the school year. Qin Liming had already asked Zhang Daoting to perform a ritual to liberate his soul, but the toilet ghost, Ding Aima and the others were still there.
As for the Jingui Pedestrian Street area, God knows that the criminals won’t come here, because there had been many cases of enthusiastic Taoist priests providing clues to solve cases, and there had been many examples of inexplicable problems when committing crimes. Criminals in the city also found it spooky. Even though there was a large flow of people here, few criminals came here, and the public security could be said to be very good.
In a place like this, did he really need to be escorted when he walked such a short distance at night?
Shi Changxuan said instead: “I’ll go back with you.”
Xie Lingya: “…”
Alas, Xiao Longnu is a little bit repressed…
Xie Lingya only dared to think about it in his heart, and Shi Changxuan really accompanied him to the back door of the Taoist temple. He regretted that he did not refuse firmly, because the atmosphere along this stretch of the road became even weirder.
He didn’t know before, but now that he knew, even without Shi Changxuan saying a word, Xie Lingya could imagine a lot in his mind: What is senior brother thinking?
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