Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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As they were talking, Taoist Master Yu, who was standing by the bed, tried several times and finally invited a ghost messenger. The messenger appeared in the ward with a chain in his hand and a sinister aura. He was wearing a long robe and seemed a little impatient. But after seeing Taoist Master Yu and the paper banknotes that Taoist Master Yu had burned, his expression changed. He seemed to be quite familiar with Taoist Master Yu: “It’s you, Taoist Master Yu. I was just about to come to the hospital to summon souls. What’s the matter with calling me here?”
After Taoist Master Yu finished burning the ghost money, he politely explained to him the disappearance of the little girl’s soul on the hospital bed. The ghost accepted the burned paper money without hesitation, then took the birth date and accident address provided by Taoist Master Yu, thought for a while, and left with sudden enlightenment.
After a moment, he reappeared, bringing back a confused little soul: “Look, is it her that is missing? I have been in the special investigation team for the major traffic accident on Mingbei Road for several days. I was wondering why there is no information in the soul-collecting book.”
After seeing clearly, Taoist Master Yu replied happily: “Thank you very much, it is definitely her!”
The underworld official complained speechlessly, “What is this naughty soul doing running around the accident scene? This major car accident has brought back more than 30 souls. You guys are busy up there, and we’re busy enough down there too.”
Then he threw the confused soul onto the bed and said, “Go, go, go!”
Kuang Zhiming said to Wei Xi in astonishment: “Did they really hook up the wrong soul?”
After being surprised, he sighed with relief, “Fortunately, Taoist Master Yu has a good relationship with the Underworld. Otherwise, if the child’s family gave up on treatment, the consequences would be disastrous.”
Wei Xi stared at the messenger and asked, “Is this the Black and White Impermanence?”
It doesn’t look like it.
The second disciple explained from behind: “He is just an ordinary soul-collector from the underworld. He should be affiliated with the land administration office near the Immortal Palace, so he has a good relationship with the Immortal Palace.”
In short, they were the subordinates who ran errands for the Black and White Impermanence. The country was so vast that the functional departments were divided very finely. Most of the City God’s Offices and Land Temples in various places had similar positions. The soul-catchers also had to work in divided areas like the local police.
Oh–
Wei Xi nodded, and happened to meet the ghost’s gaze, and saw that the other party was suddenly stunned.
“Hey.” The ghost carrying the chain came closer and looked him up and down, “Is this the chief of Taicang Sect?”
Wei Xi was not afraid at all, and even thought that he had a strong yin energy, which should be quite delicious: “Do you know me?”
Shuo Zong’s gaze on the underworld messenger immediately became sharp. The other people in the room were also frightened by this sudden change and exchanged glances – he was actually recognized by the underworld messenger, could it be that Brother Wei’s life span has come to an end?
The long-robed underworld official slapped his head and laughed, “It’s you! What a coincidence! I was just planning to look for you in a few days, but I didn’t expect to run into you here.”
Everyone including Wei Xi: “???”
Kuang Zhiming was also frightened: “In a few days? Is it the last day of Master Wei…?”
“No, no!” The long-robed ghost messenger put away the chain in his hand and took out a certificate from his robe with a smile. “It’s like this. Our local City God’s Office recently conducted a census of temporary ghosts and found several places where they live together. It turned out that Taicang Sect actually provided jobs for more than 700 ghosts in the world of the living. So we reported this matter. The underworld government was very happy when they heard about it, and specially approved this certificate and asked us to send it to Taicang Sect.”
Everyone: “…………”
Wei Xi: “???”
….
The ghost messenger stuffed the certificate into Wei Xi’s hand and said with a smile, “I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to go. I just happened to meet you today. Master Wei, please accept it first, and we’ll do the certificate ceremony another day. You don’t know that there have been a lot of ghosts in the world in recent years, and the residential area is not enough, and there are limited jobs, which has caused many ghosts waiting to be reincarnated to have nothing to do and become difficult to manage. Your sect can provide these ghosts with suitable jobs under such circumstances, which really solves our urgent needs. Considering that your company has a large number of ghost employees and cannot be bound by the laws of the world, our local ghost administration department has specially approved you as a pilot complaint cooperation unit, and you will enjoy the treatment of a director-level official. In the future, if you encounter illegal and disorderly behavior of temporary ghosts, Master Wei can use this certificate to complain to our City God Department at any time, and we will definitely deal with it seriously.”
Wei Xi spread out the certificate in confusion, and sure enough, there was a red official seal on the bottom – it was from the underworld.
The ghost official looked at the seal representing the highest administrative body of the underworld with some longing. The pilot complaint cooperation unit, the salary of a director-level official, the government really spent a lot of money to encourage the employment, combat job shortages and idle ghosts and even gave out such a practical reward. Not to mention the salary of a director-level official, he, a ghost official who had been running errands and collecting ghosts for so many years, worked hard and performed well, was just a small section chief of the local City God Department. Just the pilot complaint cooperation unit could be said to have firmly strangled the lifeblood of all the ghosts temporarily living in the world of the living.
The underworld had always adopted the attitude of “no complaints, no punishment” towards ghosts who hid in the world because the Underworld was too small to accommodate them. However, despite this, since few people in the world knew that they could go to the City God’s Office to complain about ghosts, these underworld officials rarely received reports in their daily lives. Sometimes, if the problem was not too serious, they would just take some bribes and let the ghosts get away with it.
As a result, Taicang Sect now had the right to report directly to the emperor. From now on, could any ghosts or monsters who fall into their hands escape?
The underworld official was so scared from thinking about it that he became very polite. His superiors had specifically reminded him to maintain a good cooperative relationship with this company that could provide jobs.
However, no matter how he thought about it, Wei Xi had only one thing in his mind at this moment.
He looked at the certificate over and over again and felt that the format of the certificate seemed to be as formal as his own company’s business license, so he immediately thought of the most troubling problem at the moment.
He handed the certificate to Kuang Zhiming and asked tentatively: “Master Kuang, if the Taoist Association does not recognize the business license, can it be approved with this certificate?”
Kuang Zhiming: “…”
Kuang Zhiming stared at the document spread out in front of him in bewilderment. What did Taicang Sect mean? What did it mean to be a cooperative unit of the local City God Temple? Did it become a public institution? Or a government agency?
Wait a minute, this doesn’t seem to be an institution in the normal sense. What does an institution approved by the underworld government do?
He imagined himself handing this document to the association’s management office and then introducing the Taicang Sect to the Taoist friends in the management office, saying that although it had no approval documents and no Taoist certificates, it was actually very formal and was actually a civil servant in the underworld.
Kuang Zhiming was temporarily lost in the trance of his own imagination, muttering to himself: “It should…it should be possible.”
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