The female ghost pointed at the weakened old male ghost and then lifted her chin, revealing the obvious marks on her neck.
Xia Chi: “Are you trying to tell us that this person strangled you?”
The female ghost nodded.
“Then what about your eyes and mouth?” Bai Lixin asked, “Was it this man who sew them shut?”
The female ghost shook her head and pointed her left index finger at the male ghost, then extended her right index finger and placed it next to her left index finger.
Bai Lixin: “Someone else was involved?”
The female ghost nodded, then elegantly took two steps and adjusted her hair before looking expectantly at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin replied, “That person was a woman.”
The female ghost clapped her hands happily and silently gave Bai Lixin a thumbs-up —You’re so smart, young man, well done!
Just like that, the others stared blankly as the two communicated in their unique way and the painting style soon changed to a guessing game.
Seeing the female ghost struggling to convey something, Xia Chi said, “Um, brother, can’t you read lips?”
“?”
The female ghost: “…”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Thank you for the reminder. Don’t remind me next time.’
Bai Lixin nodded and coughed lightly, “Well… Uh, Grandma’s mouth seems to be able to open now.”
‘As long as I’m not embarrassed, others will be.’
The female ghost froze for two seconds, touched her neck hesitantly, and then tried to form a mouth shape.
Bai Lixin translated, “Hello?”
The female ghost’s eyes brightened, and she jumped up, gesturing wildly.
—Yes, yes, yes!
“You, grandma seems… quite lively, dear,” a soft voice rang out in the attic, and everyone turned to see the previously unconscious girl now awake, staring at the lively female ghost with her big black eyes.
The young man saw his girlfriend wake up and hugged her excitedly. “You’re awake? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere? Are you in pain?”
The girlfriend pushed away the young man’s heavy shoulders and complained, “I wasn’t scared to death by ghosts, but you’re going to suffocate me! Let go, I’m fine, just a bit dizzy and my head hurts a little.”
She touched her head in pain, “Why does my forehead feel swollen? Did someone hit me on the head just now?”
Xia Chi froze and nervously looked away.
On the other side, the female ghost used her gestures to communicate while Bai Lixin translated slowly.
“You said your relationship was still good before marriage, but one night, after your husband got drunk… he hit you?”
Xia Chi exclaimed, “Fuck, he’s an abusive husband? Book him a ticket to the eighteenth level of hell!”
The female ghost nodded and continued passing on the information.
Bai Lixin: “Abuse either happens zero times or countless times. After the first time, he started hitting you from time to time… and almost caused you to have a miscarriage.”
“His temperament changed drastically, and to avoid him, you suggested going to the countryside for teaching.”
“But on the night before you left for teaching… you found him acting intimate with a mysterious woman?”
“You felt betrayed and had a fierce argument that night. When you suggested divorce, he went crazy and beat you and then he strangled you…”
After the female ghost finished speaking, she looked up and burst into tears, but not a sound came out.
Bai Lixin waited until her emotions calmed down a bit before asking, “What happened later?”
“Later,” the female ghost continued to speak silently, “Later, my eyes were sewn shut, my mouth was sewn shut, and I was trapped in this confined space, living in eternal darkness. He still had some reputation at school, so fearing that the truth of killing his wife would be exposed, he stayed here, guarding my body. Even after his death, he didn’t dare to leave, afraid that my body would be discovered and ruin his maintained reputation and loving husband image.”
“Just a few years, and this place would be designated as a dangerous house. By then, no one will live here, and no one will discover his secret.”
The young man looked at the limp old man with complex eyes. “So, scaring those people who came to buy the house was my grandfather’s doing?”
He glanced at the female ghost and lowered his head in shame.
The girl beside him asked seriously, “Honey, what are you going to do?”
The young man looked at the girl with a questioning gaze, “What do you mean?”
Not wanting to push the pressure onto the young man, she tentatively asked, “Should we tell Uncle and Auntie and let them handle it, or should we call the police directly?”
The young man looked at the female ghost with a slightly bitter expression, then glanced at the trembling male ghost huddled in the corner. He licked his dry lips and said in a solemn voice, “Call the police.”
The male ghost, who had been trembling all this time, suddenly went crazy and roared at the young man. The female ghost acted swiftly and slapped the male ghost hard against the wall.
The girl suddenly covered the back of her head. She looked at the young man with a complex expression, then glanced at Xia Chi, who seemed visibly guilty. “Is my headache caused by this?” she questioned.
Xia Chi quickly waved his hands to explain, “No way, I didn’t hit you that hard.”
“!” The girl suddenly jumped up from the young man’s embrace, glaring at Xia Chi, “It’s you! I knew my head wouldn’t hurt for no reason!”
Xia Chi: “…”
‘It’s not me, you’ve got the wrong person. There’s a vast world out there.’
After the female ghost finished explaining, she picked up the male ghost by his collar like an eagle catching a chick. She bowed to Bai Lixin respectfully and then glanced deeply at the young man and the girl, expressing regret through her eyes.
Interestingly, though the young man couldn’t lip-read, he immediately understood the message conveyed by her eyes.
He rubbed his hair with difficulty, stood up unsteadily, and looked at the female ghost, asking, “Are you leaving?”
The female ghost nodded and pointed outside, then pointed downward.
Xia Chi understood, “Your grandmother means she should go to the underworld.”
The young man asked, “Is there really an underworld?”
Xia Chi looked at Bai Lixin.
The ball came his way, and Bai Lixin caught it steadily. “If you believe that ghosts exist, then why not believe in the underworld?”
The young man’s tense shoulders relaxed slightly, and he looked at Bai Lixin excitedly, “If there is an underworld, does it have Black and White Wuhong, a Judge, and the King Yama? If some people didn’t pay the proper price for their mistakes during their lifetime, can the King Yama find them and make them receive the deserved punishment there?”
Bai Lixin answered, “Yes.”
Satisfied with the answer, the young man finally relaxed, “That’s great. That way, it’ll be fair. Thank you.”
One was his grandmother, and one was his grandfather. Setting aside these emotions, even if it’s a long-sealed case, or even beyond the statute of limitations, he would still report to the police to seek justice for his grandmother and bring the truth to light.
His grandfather lived to the end without facing any punishment and lived a fulfilling life with fame and fortune.
Even though he might recall his grandmother from time to time and wake up from nightmares, as the perpetrator, he lived for so long while his grandmother’s life ended prematurely, and she couldn’t rest even after her death.
Moreover, just now, his grandfather was willing to use his girlfriend’s body to kill him just to preserve his reputation.
He never felt that he was in the wrong. On the contrary, he became even more ruthless.
This kind of person, why should he go unpunished?
The female ghost smiled at them, her smile reminiscent of the yellowed photos, both beautiful and charming.
Just as the female ghost was about to leave, Bai Lixin remembered something and stopped her, “You mentioned a mysterious woman earlier, what does she look like?”
The female ghost furrowed her brows slightly and mouthed: a perfect woman with irresistible allure.
After saying that, the female ghost carried the male ghost and disappeared through the wall.
Bai Lixin stared at the talisman he took from the corpse, lost in thought. What kind of woman could be considered the epitome of perfection?
He recalled the name of this copy – [Urban Beauty]. Could this “perfect woman” be the “Urban Beauty”?
“The body is in there,” Bai Lixin pointed to the concealed triangular area behind the bookshelf. “The situation has been resolved. We are ready to leave. You should call the police now.”
Hearing Bai Lixin’s intention to leave, the girl hurriedly said, “Wait, wait a minute. Aren’t you going to wait for the police to arrive before leaving? We’re scared here alone.”
The young man also glanced nervously at the triangular area and nodded in agreement, “Yes, we’re scared. After all, it’s a corpse!”
Bai Lixin: “Alright, we can wait until the police arrive before leaving. But I have something to do before 7 pm. If they are not here by then, I won’t stay here any longer.”
The girl’s scared face relaxed a bit, “Oh, it won’t take that long. You guys are underestimating the speed of the police. I’ll call them right now. But can we leave this place first? There’s too much mold and dust here, which could cause respiratory problems.”
Bai Lixin: “Okay, let’s go downstairs and talk.”
The four of them descended using the makeshift “stairs” and entered the normal room. It was around 10 in the morning, and a cool breeze blew in through the open windows, carrying the curtains with it.
As Bai Lixin was about to close the curtains, his gaze inadvertently swept the ground, and he saw a strangely dressed man standing in the dim and narrow alley.
Despite no sun or rain, the man was holding an umbrella.
He was dressed entirely in black, making it difficult to see his appearance above the shoulders due to the umbrella’s shade. However, Bai Lixin could still determine that he was a man from the other features.
Using the brick wall as a reference, the man was at least 1.8 meters tall, standing tall next to the telephone pole.
One might say he looked sneaky, but at the same time, he stood erect.
One might say he had no issue being out in the open, but his attire was bizarre.
“Brother, what are you looking at?” Xia Chi patted Bai Lixin’s shoulder from behind.
Bai Lixin looked slightly to the side and gestured in the man’s direction, “Over there, a sneaky man.”
Xia Chi stretched his neck and leaned out, curiosity filling his eyes, “Where? I don’t see him. Is he behind the telephone pole?”
Bai Lixin was taken aback for a moment. When he turned to look at the telephone pole, the mysterious man had already disappeared without a trace.
Xia Chi, still acting like a curious baby, asked, “Where is he, brother?”
Bai Lixin retracted his gaze and finished closing the curtains before answering casually, “No need to look, he’s gone. He was a man dressed entirely in black and carrying an umbrella.”
“Entirely in black?” The girl approached with her phone and said, “Speaking of which, when we were in the elevator earlier, didn’t we also encounter a man dressed entirely in black? Could it be the same person following us?”
Bai Lixin shook his head, “Not sure. Did you finish the call?”
The girl nodded, “Yes, I’ve reported it to the police. They said they would be here within ten minutes. Thank you so much for your help. You’ve done us a great favor.”
“Master, forgive me for my initial doubts,” the young man apologized, “This morning, I thought you were just a swindler, but I was ignorant. I remember you said your hourly rate was 300, so I’ll pay you 3500 now. That covers the time from 8 am until now, and if the investigation takes until 7 pm, I’ll consider the extra money as your transportation fee.”
Before Bai Lixin could say anything, Xia Chi immediately took out his phone, opened the payment code, and handed it over, “Thank you for choosing us. We appreciate your five-star rating~”
‘Making money with their abilities, why not take it?’
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Whose abilities are you talking about? And you just accepted the money?’
In less than ten minutes, the sound of police sirens echoed outside the alley. Several police officers in uniforms, three men and one woman, ran over with precision.
Upon seeing them, the girl shouted loudly from the window, “Officers, we’re up here on the third floor.”
As they ran, the police officers looked up, confirmed the location, and swiftly entered the building.
Soon, they heard footsteps coming from the corridor.
The door was left open, and the four police officers soon arrived at the scene. One of them, who looked to be the team leader, immediately issued orders after entering the room, “Xiao Song, take a brief statement downstairs. Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhao, let’s go upstairs to have a look.”
The four officers were well-trained. The only female among them, called “Xiao Song,” was the one who took down a simple statement, while the other three men climbed up the stairs. The female officer, after setting up the caution tape at the door, handed the evidence collection box to the others.
Bai Lixin raised an eyebrow and muttered, “Efficient.”
After the evidence had been located, Officer Luo’s voice came from above, “We found the body. Xiao Song, put up the caution tape, and hand us the evidence collection kit.”
Xiao Song responded, “Sure thing, boss!”
The female officer handed a square black box to the officer on top and then retrieved a police caution tape from her backpack. She skillfully wrapped it around the entrance and returned to Bai Lixin’s group.
Her gaze fell on Bai Lixin and Xia Chi, “Are you two the masters of the supernatural?”
The female ghost pointed at the weakened old male ghost and then lifted her chin, revealing the obvious marks on her neck.
Xia Chi: “Are you trying to tell us that this person strangled you?”
The female ghost nodded.
“Then what about your eyes and mouth?” Bai Lixin asked, “Was it this man who sew them shut?”
The female ghost shook her head and pointed her left index finger at the male ghost, then extended her right index finger and placed it next to her left index finger.
Bai Lixin: “Someone else was involved?”
The female ghost nodded, then elegantly took two steps and adjusted her hair before looking expectantly at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin replied, “That person was a woman.”
The female ghost clapped her hands happily and silently gave Bai Lixin a thumbs-up —You’re so smart, young man, well done!
Just like that, the others stared blankly as the two communicated in their unique way and the painting style soon changed to a guessing game.
Seeing the female ghost struggling to convey something, Xia Chi said, “Um, brother, can’t you read lips?”
“?”
The female ghost: “…”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Thank you for the reminder. Don’t remind me next time.’
Bai Lixin nodded and coughed lightly, “Well… Uh, Grandma’s mouth seems to be able to open now.”
‘As long as I’m not embarrassed, others will be.’
The female ghost froze for two seconds, touched her neck hesitantly, and then tried to form a mouth shape.
Bai Lixin translated, “Hello?”
The female ghost’s eyes brightened, and she jumped up, gesturing wildly.
—Yes, yes, yes!
“You, grandma seems… quite lively, dear,” a soft voice rang out in the attic, and everyone turned to see the previously unconscious girl now awake, staring at the lively female ghost with her big black eyes.
The young man saw his girlfriend wake up and hugged her excitedly. “You’re awake? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere? Are you in pain?”
The girlfriend pushed away the young man’s heavy shoulders and complained, “I wasn’t scared to death by ghosts, but you’re going to suffocate me! Let go, I’m fine, just a bit dizzy and my head hurts a little.”
She touched her head in pain, “Why does my forehead feel swollen? Did someone hit me on the head just now?”
Xia Chi froze and nervously looked away.
On the other side, the female ghost used her gestures to communicate while Bai Lixin translated slowly.
“You said your relationship was still good before marriage, but one night, after your husband got drunk… he hit you?”
Xia Chi exclaimed, “Fuck, he’s an abusive husband? Book him a ticket to the eighteenth level of hell!”
The female ghost nodded and continued passing on the information.
Bai Lixin: “Abuse either happens zero times or countless times. After the first time, he started hitting you from time to time… and almost caused you to have a miscarriage.”
“His temperament changed drastically, and to avoid him, you suggested going to the countryside for teaching.”
“But on the night before you left for teaching… you found him acting intimate with a mysterious woman?”
“You felt betrayed and had a fierce argument that night. When you suggested divorce, he went crazy and beat you and then he strangled you…”
After the female ghost finished speaking, she looked up and burst into tears, but not a sound came out.
Bai Lixin waited until her emotions calmed down a bit before asking, “What happened later?”
“Later,” the female ghost continued to speak silently, “Later, my eyes were sewn shut, my mouth was sewn shut, and I was trapped in this confined space, living in eternal darkness. He still had some reputation at school, so fearing that the truth of killing his wife would be exposed, he stayed here, guarding my body. Even after his death, he didn’t dare to leave, afraid that my body would be discovered and ruin his maintained reputation and loving husband image.”
“Just a few years, and this place would be designated as a dangerous house. By then, no one will live here, and no one will discover his secret.”
The young man looked at the limp old man with complex eyes. “So, scaring those people who came to buy the house was my grandfather’s doing?”
He glanced at the female ghost and lowered his head in shame.
The girl beside him asked seriously, “Honey, what are you going to do?”
The young man looked at the girl with a questioning gaze, “What do you mean?”
Not wanting to push the pressure onto the young man, she tentatively asked, “Should we tell Uncle and Auntie and let them handle it, or should we call the police directly?”
The young man looked at the female ghost with a slightly bitter expression, then glanced at the trembling male ghost huddled in the corner. He licked his dry lips and said in a solemn voice, “Call the police.”
The male ghost, who had been trembling all this time, suddenly went crazy and roared at the young man. The female ghost acted swiftly and slapped the male ghost hard against the wall.
The girl suddenly covered the back of her head. She looked at the young man with a complex expression, then glanced at Xia Chi, who seemed visibly guilty. “Is my headache caused by this?” she questioned.
Xia Chi quickly waved his hands to explain, “No way, I didn’t hit you that hard.”
“!” The girl suddenly jumped up from the young man’s embrace, glaring at Xia Chi, “It’s you! I knew my head wouldn’t hurt for no reason!”
Xia Chi: “…”
‘It’s not me, you’ve got the wrong person. There’s a vast world out there.’
After the female ghost finished explaining, she picked up the male ghost by his collar like an eagle catching a chick. She bowed to Bai Lixin respectfully and then glanced deeply at the young man and the girl, expressing regret through her eyes.
Interestingly, though the young man couldn’t lip-read, he immediately understood the message conveyed by her eyes.
He rubbed his hair with difficulty, stood up unsteadily, and looked at the female ghost, asking, “Are you leaving?”
The female ghost nodded and pointed outside, then pointed downward.
Xia Chi understood, “Your grandmother means she should go to the underworld.”
The young man asked, “Is there really an underworld?”
Xia Chi looked at Bai Lixin.
The ball came his way, and Bai Lixin caught it steadily. “If you believe that ghosts exist, then why not believe in the underworld?”
The young man’s tense shoulders relaxed slightly, and he looked at Bai Lixin excitedly, “If there is an underworld, does it have Black and White Wuhong, a Judge, and the King Yama? If some people didn’t pay the proper price for their mistakes during their lifetime, can the King Yama find them and make them receive the deserved punishment there?”
Bai Lixin answered, “Yes.”
Satisfied with the answer, the young man finally relaxed, “That’s great. That way, it’ll be fair. Thank you.”
One was his grandmother, and one was his grandfather. Setting aside these emotions, even if it’s a long-sealed case, or even beyond the statute of limitations, he would still report to the police to seek justice for his grandmother and bring the truth to light.
His grandfather lived to the end without facing any punishment and lived a fulfilling life with fame and fortune.
Even though he might recall his grandmother from time to time and wake up from nightmares, as the perpetrator, he lived for so long while his grandmother’s life ended prematurely, and she couldn’t rest even after her death.
Moreover, just now, his grandfather was willing to use his girlfriend’s body to kill him just to preserve his reputation.
He never felt that he was in the wrong. On the contrary, he became even more ruthless.
This kind of person, why should he go unpunished?
The female ghost smiled at them, her smile reminiscent of the yellowed photos, both beautiful and charming.
Just as the female ghost was about to leave, Bai Lixin remembered something and stopped her, “You mentioned a mysterious woman earlier, what does she look like?”
The female ghost furrowed her brows slightly and mouthed: a perfect woman with irresistible allure.
After saying that, the female ghost carried the male ghost and disappeared through the wall.
Bai Lixin stared at the talisman he took from the corpse, lost in thought. What kind of woman could be considered the epitome of perfection?
He recalled the name of this copy – [Urban Beauty]. Could this “perfect woman” be the “Urban Beauty”?
“The body is in there,” Bai Lixin pointed to the concealed triangular area behind the bookshelf. “The situation has been resolved. We are ready to leave. You should call the police now.”
Hearing Bai Lixin’s intention to leave, the girl hurriedly said, “Wait, wait a minute. Aren’t you going to wait for the police to arrive before leaving? We’re scared here alone.”
The young man also glanced nervously at the triangular area and nodded in agreement, “Yes, we’re scared. After all, it’s a corpse!”
Bai Lixin: “Alright, we can wait until the police arrive before leaving. But I have something to do before 7 pm. If they are not here by then, I won’t stay here any longer.”
The girl’s scared face relaxed a bit, “Oh, it won’t take that long. You guys are underestimating the speed of the police. I’ll call them right now. But can we leave this place first? There’s too much mold and dust here, which could cause respiratory problems.”
Bai Lixin: “Okay, let’s go downstairs and talk.”
The four of them descended using the makeshift “stairs” and entered the normal room. It was around 10 in the morning, and a cool breeze blew in through the open windows, carrying the curtains with it.
As Bai Lixin was about to close the curtains, his gaze inadvertently swept the ground, and he saw a strangely dressed man standing in the dim and narrow alley.
Despite no sun or rain, the man was holding an umbrella.
He was dressed entirely in black, making it difficult to see his appearance above the shoulders due to the umbrella’s shade. However, Bai Lixin could still determine that he was a man from the other features.
Using the brick wall as a reference, the man was at least 1.8 meters tall, standing tall next to the telephone pole.
One might say he looked sneaky, but at the same time, he stood erect.
One might say he had no issue being out in the open, but his attire was bizarre.
“Brother, what are you looking at?” Xia Chi patted Bai Lixin’s shoulder from behind.
Bai Lixin looked slightly to the side and gestured in the man’s direction, “Over there, a sneaky man.”
Xia Chi stretched his neck and leaned out, curiosity filling his eyes, “Where? I don’t see him. Is he behind the telephone pole?”
Bai Lixin was taken aback for a moment. When he turned to look at the telephone pole, the mysterious man had already disappeared without a trace.
Xia Chi, still acting like a curious baby, asked, “Where is he, brother?”
Bai Lixin retracted his gaze and finished closing the curtains before answering casually, “No need to look, he’s gone. He was a man dressed entirely in black and carrying an umbrella.”
“Entirely in black?” The girl approached with her phone and said, “Speaking of which, when we were in the elevator earlier, didn’t we also encounter a man dressed entirely in black? Could it be the same person following us?”
Bai Lixin shook his head, “Not sure. Did you finish the call?”
The girl nodded, “Yes, I’ve reported it to the police. They said they would be here within ten minutes. Thank you so much for your help. You’ve done us a great favor.”
“Master, forgive me for my initial doubts,” the young man apologized, “This morning, I thought you were just a swindler, but I was ignorant. I remember you said your hourly rate was 300, so I’ll pay you 3500 now. That covers the time from 8 am until now, and if the investigation takes until 7 pm, I’ll consider the extra money as your transportation fee.”
Before Bai Lixin could say anything, Xia Chi immediately took out his phone, opened the payment code, and handed it over, “Thank you for choosing us. We appreciate your five-star rating~”
‘Making money with their abilities, why not take it?’
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Whose abilities are you talking about? And you just accepted the money?’
In less than ten minutes, the sound of police sirens echoed outside the alley. Several police officers in uniforms, three men and one woman, ran over with precision.
Upon seeing them, the girl shouted loudly from the window, “Officers, we’re up here on the third floor.”
As they ran, the police officers looked up, confirmed the location, and swiftly entered the building.
Soon, they heard footsteps coming from the corridor.
The door was left open, and the four police officers soon arrived at the scene. One of them, who looked to be the team leader, immediately issued orders after entering the room, “Xiao Song, take a brief statement downstairs. Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhao, let’s go upstairs to have a look.”
The four officers were well-trained. The only female among them, called “Xiao Song,” was the one who took down a simple statement, while the other three men climbed up the stairs. The female officer, after setting up the caution tape at the door, handed the evidence collection box to the others.
Bai Lixin raised an eyebrow and muttered, “Efficient.”
After the evidence had been located, Officer Luo’s voice came from above, “We found the body. Xiao Song, put up the caution tape, and hand us the evidence collection kit.”
Xiao Song responded, “Sure thing, boss!”
The female officer handed a square black box to the officer on top and then retrieved a police caution tape from her backpack. She skillfully wrapped it around the entrance and returned to Bai Lixin’s group.
Her gaze fell on Bai Lixin and Xia Chi, “Are you two the masters of the supernatural?”
