Chapter 25: Return of the Soul 05

  "What should we do?" Qin Fei asked.

  "Grant his wish, let him rest in peace and reincarnate, or directly help him ascend to the afterlife, forcing him to go to the underworld and then reincarnate." Zhang Zhixin said, stroking his goat beard again, "However, we probably can only choose the latter, directly helping him ascend to the afterlife, forcing him to go to the underworld."

  "No way!" Xiao Rong opened his arms to block Zhang Zhixin, shaking off the previous depressed look, and a strange strong aura appeared on his pale face. "I didn't ask you here to see Ah Cheng off, I agreed to find you because I wanted you to tell me what Ah Cheng's wish is? If you can't do it, please leave."

  Zhang Zhixin stared at Xiao Rong, "Do you mean to leave this ghost behind?"

  Xiao Rong: "That's right!"

  Zhang Zhi Xin's beard quivered with rage as he shouted, "Nonsense! Haven't you heard that the paths of humans and ghosts are different? He can't withstand the yang energy of the mortal world on his own, which is why he's attached to you. If you keep him by your side, your body will eventually collapse!"

  As for Zhang Zhinew's remarks, Xiao Rong was completely unmoved, "Whether my body can hold up or not is my own business, it has nothing to do with you."

  "Hey!" Zhang Zhixin's face twitched, and he found himself unable to come up with a retort for the time being. In his life, except for Qin Fei's place, where he had gone to help drive out ghosts, he had never been so despised before. Zhang Zhixin felt very humiliated, and his eyes rolled over to the half-transparent figure beside Xiao Rong. He snorted twice, then said with a scornful expression: "You can't even block him, your husband's philandering is right behind you, on your left!"

  Xiao Rong looked around for a while, but still couldn't see anything. She could only hesitate and move to the left, trying to hide her husband's ghost.

  Upon seeing Xiao Rong move, Zhang Zhi Xin burst out laughing, "Hahaha... You've been fooled! He's on your right side! Watch as I use my skills to defeat him!"

  Qin Fei: "......" This is unreasonable to others, starting to bully them for not seeing ghosts, at this age, can't you be more mature?

  Xiao Rong's eyes turned red with anger, ready to fight, Qin Fei quickly stepped in and separated the two, "Third Uncle, stop joking around."

  Zhang Zhixin turned his head away, "Was I the one who wanted to play? I was seriously suggesting that we directly cross over, but that girl wouldn't let us!"

  Xiao Rong's emotions Qin Fei could understand to some extent, someone who had once been desperate due to loss and had come back, even if it was just a wisp of soul that she couldn't see or touch, couldn't erase her desire to hold on to him at all costs. This emotion was obsessive and even pathological, yet it was also a characteristic possessed by humans as emotional animals.

  Qin Fei took a look at Xiao Rong, who had a stubborn expression on her face, and knew that it was almost impossible to persuade her. He could only turn to ask Zhang Zhi Xin, "Let's not talk about the super degree for now, do you have any way of figuring out what Rong Jie's husband wants?"

  "It's precisely because I don't understand that I said it can only be directly transcended." Zhang Zhi Xin furrowed his brow, "Ghosts speak ghostly language, and there are very few people in this world who can hear the ghostly language. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. For those of us in this line of work, we often use the method of inviting ghosts to possess our bodies. However, this soul is too weak, he can at most hide in his wife's body to avoid the sun, and has no way of possessing a person's body or controlling their movements. People with pure yin bodies, or those whose souls are unstable, may be able to successfully let him temporarily possess them, but who would willingly let a ghost..."

  Zhang Zhixin was halfway through his words when he saw Qin Fei pointing to himself and saying, "I'm the one with an unstable soul, and it's not cured yet..."

  "You?" Zhang Zhixin crossed his arms and looked at him sideways. "Even a fierce ghost wouldn't dare to possess your body, but he possessed yours, and in just a minute or two, his soul would scatter."

  Qin Fei was puzzled, "Isn't it said that people with unstable souls can do this?"

  "You are a pure Yang destiny with four Yang energies gathered together. Haven't you noticed that because your soul is unstable, the evil spirits and ghosts dare not approach you?"

  Qin Fei thought for a moment and it seemed to be true. Although he always encountered ghosts, when he really bumped into them, none of those things had ever attached themselves to him.

  "But don't be too careless because of this, ghosts won't dare to possess you, but your current state is extremely susceptible to the influence of evil spirits." Zhang Zhixin sounded a warning bell for Qin Fei and turned the topic back around, "Where were we just now? It's not possible to possess the body, right? And also, have you ever had any dreams about your husband?"

  Xiao Rong thought seriously for a moment before shaking her head gloomily.

  "That's to say, this ghost doesn't even have the power of a dream, let alone the ability to make illusions or draw ghostly symbols. As for methods of communicating with ghosts, I only know these, in short, I really can't think of any other way to communicate with him." Zhang Zhixin said with a spread of his hands.

  Qin Fei silently stared at Zhang Zhixin for a while, then lowered his head to think for a moment, and turned to look at the half-transparent figure beside Xiao Rong.

  "Can you use a gesture-like method to tell us what you want?" Qin Fei asked.

  Li Cheng's ghost looked at Qin Fei for a while, then glanced around and started floating around the living room.

  "What does this mean?" Zhang Zhixin scratched his head, watching Li Cheng's ghost float back and forth. "Enclose the living room? Are you going to build a wall around the living room? Oh, this design is quite innovative and creative."

  "It shouldn't be what you're thinking... right?" Qin Fei was covered in black lines.

  "What is Lao Cheng doing?" Xiao Rong followed Qin Fei's line of sight, constantly turning her gaze around, but she couldn't see the invisible ghost, and all she saw were the decorations in the living room. She had no idea what Li Cheng was actually doing.

  "I think... he's looking for something..." Qin Fei replied.

  Not long after Qin Fei's words fell, Li Cheng, who was wandering around the living room, walked through a door and entered a room next to the living room.

  "What's with that room?" Qin Fei turned his head to look at Xiao Rong.

  "It's a study room." Xiao Rong said, leading Qin Fei and Zhang Zhixin to the door of that room, opening it and walking in.

  Li Cheng pointed to the calendar hanging beside the bookshelf and gestured for them to go past it.

  Qin Fei and Zhang Zhixin walked to the calendar, Xiao Rong followed and stood beside Qin Fei, looked at the calendar for a while, then turned back to look at Qin Fei, but saw that Qin Fei furrowed his brow, with a look of being stumped.

  Li Cheng floated in front of the calendar, pointing at it with his hand. However, since his fingers were completely transparent, it seemed like he was pointing at something, but Qin Fei saw that only half of his fingers were suspended a short distance away from the calendar. Li Cheng pointed for a while, seemingly also discovering this problem, and then moved his fingers forward, making it look like half of his fingers had passed through the calendar and into the wall.

  Qin Fei: "......"

  Zhang Zhixin: "......"

  "After a long time, Zhang Zhi Xin finally spoke up: 'Is he performing magic for us?'"

  "It shouldn't be." Qin Fei looked at Li Cheng's anxious face, then glanced at the calendar again, and finally sighed, "Sorry, I don't understand what you mean."

  After a long struggle, Qin Fei and Zhang Zhixin watched Li Cheng's various movements, but they couldn't guess what Li Cheng wanted to express. They also tried asking Xiao Rong, but unfortunately, Xiao Rong didn't have any clues either. In the end, the communication between humans and ghosts ended in failure. Zhang Zhixin thought of directly helping Li Cheng ascend, but was stopped by Xiao Rong, so he couldn't take action and could only temporarily retreat with Qin Fei together.

  After leaving Xiao Rong's residential area, Zhang Zhi Xin expressed his dissatisfaction with Xiao Rong to Qin Fei again before parting ways with him - he went to a friend's house to play mahjong. However, before going to the book bar, Qin Fei ran to a breakfast shop to buy another portion of breakfast, as the previous one had gone cold due to the long wait.

  Qin Fei rebought breakfast and came out of the breakfast shop. As soon as he walked onto the pedestrian path, he saw two people walking towards him from across the street. Coincidentally, he knew both of them. One was Gu Yin, and the other was Geng Bowen, with whom he had a nodding acquaintance at Gu Yin's doorstep.