Chapter Thirty: Human Strife

  Qin Zhongzheng was speaking when his eyes suddenly turned to the white skull that had rolled to the ground, and he found a strange object inside the skull. It was round, about half the size of a palm, and seemed similar to the so-called "ghost-avoiding pearl" he had seen before. How did such an object end up in this skull?

  "Oni no Tama?" Hanmura also saw it, that thing.

  That female ghost was furious: "Where did the Avoidance Bead come from in my corpse? If it wasn't you who put it there, then who was it?"

  "Hey, you're wronging us. You say this ghost has a bad temper, is it that serious? What's going on that you can't think straight? If it weren't for me, you'd have been taken by someone else long ago."

  "Stop selling me a bill of goods, I'm not buying it. I just want to know where the Ghost Pearl came from." The woman's unyielding attitude made Han Jun unable to hold back his anger.

  The soldier rummaged through his pocket and pulled out a pair of glasses, looked at some information on his phone, and after a while said to the female ghost: "You planted an evil-repelling bead in our place, and that bead is tied to your soul. Now you're going back, and as soon as your spirit enters the corpse, that bead will naturally find a new owner, sinking into your white bones."

  "What? You're saying I put the ghost-repelling bead into the skeleton myself? Are you trying to get me to throw away my own skeleton?"

  "Alright, after I've properly buried your ashes and you've spent 49 days in the urn, you can return to reincarnation as usual. Hopefully, you'll be reborn into a good family next time. No use talking about it anymore, come back."

  "You? If you burn my corpse into ashes, I really won't be able to come back!"

  "What are you going back for? Still want to cause trouble?" Qin Zhong was about to scold loudly, but then thought better of it, considering that they were all ghosts and quite pitiful, so he let it go.

  Big Tooth was stunned and asked stupidly: "Director, they are ghosts!"

  "What's wrong with the ghost?"

  "Aren't you afraid of her?"

  Qin Zhong burst out laughing: "What's there to be afraid of? In a few decades, we'll all be ghosts anyway. Are others supposed to fear us then?"

  The female ghost seemed to have cried, and that kind of wailing sound was really unbearable. As the saying goes, "ghosts cry and wolves howl", what a terrible noise.

  Qin Zhong waved his hand and then cupped his hands together, saying: "Ghost sister, consider this a request from me, Qin Zhong. Stop crying, your wailing is too disturbing. Let's just do things as we originally agreed, can't you give me some time to finish what I need to do here?"

  The female ghost seemed to have tears all over her face. When a woman cries, she's not always that beautiful, but when this female ghost cried, apart from the sound being able to shatter people's hearts, at least it couldn't be said to be ugly.

  Qin Zhong opened the bag full of her husband's white bones and pointed to the white bones inside, saying: "Well, I'll just throw your bones here, go back."

  The female ghost seemed to have given up, at least her husband's remains were in front of her, and there was no reason not to get close. Qin Zhong didn't care about anything else, stuffed the woman's bones into a white bone bag, and secretly plucked the Avoidance Pearl from the female ghost's skull.

  At this moment, the female ghost had flown back into the needle tube. Qin Zhong put away the paper box again and let out a sigh of relief. As soon as he did, the lights in the room flickered on. The four people blinked in surprise, scanning the entire room. Indeed, this was a place that could serve as evidence. On the walls of the house, there were still remnants of toxic gas valves used for poisoning, and on a broken wooden cabinet, several anti-toxic masks were placed, looking like they had rotted beyond recognition.

  "It seems this is a poisonous gas laboratory, these little devils are really abnormal." Qin Zhong couldn't help but sigh.

  The four of them gathered all the information in the house and headed towards the end point of the entire map. When they had almost collected all the evidence from the underground cave, they discovered that there was a path leading to the outside, but it seemed to have been abandoned for years and looked like it had no practical use anymore.

  Qin Zhong followed the direction of the light and wind: "Follow me, this should be a place where we can find a way out."

  But they walked for over ten minutes and found a large iron gate that had been tightly closed, this gate seemed to have not been opened for 180 years, however through the rusty gaps of the gate you could feel the wind blowing and the grass moving, through those rusty holes, you could see the light outside.

  "It's here, come on, help me pry open the iron gate." Han Jun and Da Ya tried to open the rusty iron bolt on the iron gate, but they failed.

  Qin Zhong picked up a rusty iron rod from the side of the door and struck it against the iron plates on the door with great force, creating holes in the door panel. He then shouted to Da Ya: "Come, take down this piece at the bottom, let's climb out."

  "Hmm! Alright!" Dàyá knew that such a job couldn't be done without him.

  Na Muna smiled on the side, Qin Zhong saw that Da Ya was successful and crawled out first. Several people climbed smoothly to the door, and outside the door, they found that the door actually had the number of this cave "137".

  Several people walked for a long time, and when he came out of the front guide tunnel of the cave, it was bright outside, but there were several cars parked at the entrance of the tunnel. When they came out, they found that this was actually a parking lot. This is also the northernmost end of Qinglong Mountain's traffic, and setting up a parking lot here is normal.

  The parking attendant felt very strange when he saw the few people coming out from inside, and after careful observation, he called two people to come forward and ask: "Hey, what are you guys doing?"

  Qin Zhong and others paused for a moment, blinked their eyes and looked at each other: "What are we doing? Just passing by!"

  "Nonsense! I clearly saw you coming out of the cave. Tell me, when did you go in and what were you doing there?"

  "We don't even know when you guys came in, which means you're not doing your job. If I were your boss, you'd all be fired by now. Since we don't know when you came in, how would you even know what to do? Are you saying I'm talking nonsense or are you just pretending like I don't know anything?"

  Two people were left speechless by Qin Zhong's words, blinking and staring at him. Qin Zhong sneered: "Forget it, don't waste our time, we're not car thieves, as long as the cars you're taking care of aren't stolen, that's enough. But I have something to remind you." He lowered his voice and said in a low tone, close to the two people: "Hey, that cave is really nothing to worry about, there are... ghosts inside!"

  The two people who were watching the car turned pale when they heard this, and Qin Zhong's voice was drawn out for a long time, making the atmosphere of the haunted house even more intense. The four people left with light footsteps after finishing speaking.

  After a journey, Qin Zhong and others bypassed the mountain road and arrived at the other end of Cave 137, where someone had dropped the iron gate that day. This time, it was repaired by Qin Zhong's ingenuity, just as they arrived, a person came out from behind them.

  "Director Qin, my task is complete. Just now, someone went in. Do you want us to lock him inside or wait for him to come out?" said Mark. Mark had been notified by Director Qin to come here and find someone to repair the iron door, and also install a camera to record everything, just as he was about to re-enter cave 137.

  "Hmm, I think it's better to close the iron gate. With these video recordings as evidence, I'm not afraid that this person won't show their true colors eventually."

  "If it's locked, then he won't be able to get out!" Mark was worried about this too.

  Qin Zhong smiled and said: "This doesn't matter, I think there should be other ways for this guy to get out, if he really dies in there, then it's just his fate."

  Mark was quick enough, upon hearing Qin Zhong's words, he immediately pressed the button in his hand, and the iron door came crashing down, sealing the entrance tightly in an instant. It would be extremely difficult for even a fly to fly out.

  Qin Zhong casually took down the surveillance DV hanging from the tree, and after flipping through it for a few minutes, he didn't see anything in the still images of the past few dozen minutes. However, when someone appeared, he noticed a figure that suddenly made him think of someone.