Chapter Thirteen New Mission

  I was in a daze and had a bunch of weird dreams, when I opened my eyes again, I found myself already at home.

  I stared blankly at the white wall for a while, and my numb and itchy hand was stimulated. I looked down and saw needle holes on it, indicating that I had received an infusion.

  There's no one else in this house, I'm a bit lonely, so I open my mouth and shout a few sentences.

  Lu Yufeng was in the living room, he cared about me and hurriedly ran in, without even finding a stool, squatting beside me to ask, "How is it?"

  I nodded slightly to indicate that nothing was wrong, and then asked him, "Did I get some strange disease or something? Why did I suddenly faint?"

  Lu Yifeng said that the doctor had examined me and found that I had residual scopolamine and phenobarbital in my body, which are components of hallucinogenic drugs, indicating that I had recently been drugged, which was also the main reason for my coma.

  I suddenly thought of the white-haired ghost strangling me, and I wondered if it was all an illusion. I was pulled back and forth by his rope, just like being hypnotized, triggering the production of illusions?

  This is just a guess and there's no evidence yet. I thought further and wondered how we got poisoned.

  I remember going to the medium's house and opening a bedroom door, only to be hit with a strong, strange smell. I thought for sure there was cat urine in that smell. At the same time, I started worrying about Panzi. So I asked, "Where is Panzi?"

  Lu Yifeng couldn't help but laugh and said that Pan Zi later fainted at the police station, but before he passed out, he went crazy for a while, climbed onto the table and performed a very revealing striptease.

  I didn't experience it myself, but I can sense how awkward the atmosphere was at that time.

  Lu Yufeng let out a gentle sigh and said, "We've both been unconscious for three days now. Since I was the first to wake up, it means that Panzi's medicine didn't have any major effects on me."

  I was anxious for three days and didn't expect to sleep for so long. Originally, I still had some doubts, but my phone was by the pillow, I took it out and looked at it, and my heart was shocked.

  I felt a bit embarrassed and said to Lu Yifeng, "The two of us slept like this, didn't we delay the task?"

  Lu Yifeng said yes, but the spiritual medium is not as cunning as the Mandarin duck thief. The police also sent local informants to follow up. As for what I said about the white-haired ghost, based on the current clues, this strange thing, whether it's human or ghost, must be a killing machine under the control of the spiritual medium. As long as the spiritual medium is caught, it will come out sooner or later.

  I can only think of it this way, to be honest I'm not very willing to do so. This case has been followed up by both of us to such an extent, and suddenly handing it over to someone else gives me a feeling of having no place to vent my energy.

  I thought that after Panzi woke up, we would return to Wuzhou, but Lu Yifeng told me that although we don't need to follow the spirit medium, there is another task for us to do.

  I asked him what it was, he said the police recently received a message, and another old man said his time had come, the police thought this matter was strange, wanted us three to take over and protect.

  I heard the word "protection" and was taken aback for a moment, thinking that using an undercover agent to gather clues was enough, why would they still use the undercover agent as a bodyguard?

  Moreover, I heard that Ah Feng has agreed to this task, and I didn't want to refute anything. In my heart, I had another plan, thinking of using this task to drag things out a bit longer in Longzhou, to see how the Lingmei case would be cracked in the end.

  Pan Zi was also lying in his room. This guy woke up three hours later than me, just after noon, he opened his eyes and shouted that he was hungry.

  We hastily ate something. Although I and Panzi slept for so long, resulting in a bit of physical exhaustion, it didn't delay our mission.

  Lu Yifeng drove a motorcycle, taking us two to the old man's home.

  At first I didn't understand, thinking that we have a car and don't need to ride a motorcycle, but after arriving at the place, I understood.

  This old man actually lives in a slum. In fact, there is no specific term for slums in our country, I call it that because this place is really too broken, looking around, the ground is full of broken bricks and tiles, many buildings have incomplete glass, and even saw a leaning building, I suspect that if Panzi and I throw two bricks at this building, it will collapse.

  We saw the old man living in a dilapidated building in this environment, he lived on the third floor. When Lu Yifeng took us upstairs, he told us that this area was originally going to be renovated, but it ended up becoming a no-man's land due to some issues. Those who had some money moved out and only poor people and deaf individuals remained, struggling to make ends meet.

  I have a question after listening, I don't know why he emphasized the deaf son, is there any advantage for the deaf son to live here?

  Before I could even ask, we arrived at our destination. Ah Feng knocked on the door and soon the old man opened it.

  The moment I saw this old man, I immediately had an impression of him - he was a martial arts expert. He had a pair of sword-like eyebrows that seemed to be saying "don't mess with me". Although he was advanced in years, if you stripped him naked, his body would still be as tough as steel from head to toe.

  The two of us were tasked with protecting him, he must have also received the message. I thought he would be happy to see us, but instead he came over in a bad mood, hummed and let us in without a word.

  I don't know why either, just like Panzi, they all looked at Lu Yifeng.

  Lu Yifeng was very polite and addressed the old man as "Uncle", also asking if there had been any strange occurrences recently.

  This old man was the only one in the house, and he was originally eating in the living room. Now he stopped eating, and while cleaning up the dishes, he said to us, "Young men, your police instincts are really keen. I just casually mentioned to a friend that I recently had some 'disaster', and you all came over. I'm not an unreasonable person. Since the police think I'm in danger and need protection, then you should fulfill your duties as police officers. From now on, this living room belongs to you, but I won't provide food or drink, and don't go into my house to disturb my life."

  I found this old man to be quite stubborn, treating us like police and daring to speak like that. After he finished speaking, he took his food and went back into the house to eat, without showing any intention of entertaining us at all.

  Lu Yufeng didn't think it was strange and happily invited us into the hall, first helping the old man sweep the floor, then sitting down together.

  There were two previous cases of elderly deaths, so I think this old man is probably closely related to the spiritual medium and those two elderly people. Especially since he's a martial arts expert, could it be that he used to be a bandit or involved in some kind of illicit activity that offended the spiritual medium? But now the old man simply won't cooperate with us, so there's no way to ask him about this.

  I had no choice but to chat with Ah Feng and Pan Zi about something else.

  The two of us sat there until nightfall, and Lu Yifeng's intention was that we would make do with sleeping on the sofa and chairs in the evening. We could tolerate not sleeping, but we couldn't tolerate not eating.

  Although this old man's home has a stove and some vegetables, we didn't dare use them.

  I told them to sit down and I went out to buy some food.

  Lu Yifeng nodded and handed me the motorcycle key.

  I rode a motorcycle without Ah Feng's skills, but I wasn't worse than ordinary people, so I rode it to find restaurants everywhere.

  But there's no restaurant in this poor area, I searched around and finally gave up. Happened to be a small grocery store on the edge of an alley, I thought for a moment, tonight we'll just have bread and milk.

  There aren't many types of Western food in this store, I picked for half a day and could only buy some to make do, I was also afraid that Panzi the beast would not be full, so I brought two portions and carried a big bag.

  As I was about to start the motorcycle, I suddenly found a piece of paper on the ground.

  This piece of paper is actually not very big, at most it's half the size of a business card, but the image of the Jade Emperor printed on it is too obvious, I suddenly became sensitive, this is a small half-sheet of hell money.

  I don't believe this was blown here by chance, it's probably a spirit medium or a white-haired ghost that came and deliberately put the hell money here.

  I really want to take a look around, but I don't have the guts, that white-haired ghost is too powerful, if I really encounter it, I won't be able to fight it.

  I hastily rode the motorcycle and ran away, thinking that when I returned home, there would be Lu Yifeng and Panzi, and if that white-haired ghost came again, we could get through it together.

  I rode the motorcycle very fast, especially on this bumpy road. Once, a bag of milk even fell out of my pocket and I didn't have time to pick it up.

  As I turned the corner, the old man's building appeared in front of me, and my heart finally settled down a bit. But before I could fully catch my breath, two yellow and green lights appeared in the window of the old man's house.

  These two rays of light flew particularly fast, and in the blink of an eye they were gone. I believe this is not an illusion, and my mind was puzzled again, wondering what this soul-like thing was.