Chapter 5 Car Accident 05

  The elevator arrived at the first floor, and the elevator door slowly opened. Qin Fei followed Gu Wenkai into the elevator, and after Gu Wenkai pressed the button for the twelfth floor, the elevator doors closed, and the elevator began to ascend.

  There were only two people in the elevator, Qin Fei and Gu Wenkai. Qin Fei slightly tilted his head to look at the jumping floor numbers inside the elevator, while Gu Wenkai was looking at Qin Fei with a hesitant expression. Qin Fei saw Gu Wenkai's expression from the reflection on the elevator door and turned around, "What's wrong?"

  Gu Wenkai scratched his head, seemingly unsure of how to express himself for a moment. He furrowed his brow and thought for a while before letting out a long sigh, leaning back against the elevator's inner wall, and asked: "Qin Xiaofei, that girl you told me about yesterday, the one you saw on Zhang Jianqiang's accident car... she's a ghost."

  Qin Fei was taken aback, looking at Gu Wenkai with some confusion. Qin Fei had guessed that the girl might be a ghost, because he had been in contact with ghosts quite often during this period, and he knew the feeling of "encountering" one。 Although when he first saw the girl, because he had never encountered a ghost with such a clear shape before, he couldn't judge it immediately, but afterwards, his destroyed protective charm, Zhang Zhineng's judgment, plus the photo of the girl he saw from Song Meng, made him certain that the girl was a ghost。 But - how did Gu Wenkai know?

  "Don't you believe it, in this world, ghosts do exist..." Gu Wenkai saw Qin Fei stunned there, remembering that his sworn brother didn't believe in ghosts and gods, suddenly he didn't know what to say next.

  "No, I don't disbelieve you. I know that girl is a ghost, but... " Qin Fei paused, looking at Gu Wenkai with an puzzled expression, "How did you know?"

  "I knew that because I'm a family man... Huh? Wait! You said you knew that girl was a ghost, how did you know?"

  Qin Fei: "......"

  Gu Wenkai: "......"

  The two of them stared at each other for a while before Qin Fei finally spoke up to explain.

  "When I moved out of the house for a year, didn't my mom ask Third Uncle to take care of me? Third Uncle...” Qin Fei thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, “Third Uncle is a Taoist priest... probably. It was about a month ago that I started encountering these things, and I know how it feels when I encounter them. Although I couldn't confirm it immediately at the time, after you told me yesterday that there was no girl at the accident scene, I basically confirmed that what I encountered were ghosts, not humans."

  "Is that so......" Gu Wenkai nodded and began to explain his side of the story, "I know that girl is a ghost, it's because my family, the Gu's, you're not from the Taoist world, I suppose you haven't heard of us. The bloodline of the Gu family can communicate with ghosts and ask about the underworld. Yesterday, I went to the hospital to visit Zhang Jianqiang and his family, I saw that girl you mentioned......"

  Qin Fei was taken aback, "Why did that girl run to the hospital?"

  "Because Zhang Jianqiang went to the hospital," said Gu Wenkai. "The girl was following Zhang Jianqiang, and since he's in the hospital, she must be there too. I reckon that girl's death has something to do with Zhang Jianqiang. Don't bother about that little devil anymore, focus on your own problems for now."

  Qin Fei looked dazed: "My question?"

  "That's right! Your problem. It's not a good thing for ordinary people to see ghosts." Gu Wenkai said, "But I'm not very good at this either. Coincidentally, my second brother came to S city yesterday and he's much better than me in the aspect of ghostly skills."

  Gu Wenkai and Qin Fei were talking when the elevator arrived at the 12th floor. Gu Wenkai led Qin Fei to his own door, opened it with a key, and then took Qin Fei into the study, where Qin Fei saw the person Gu Wenkai had asked him to meet today.

  That was a man who looked extremely elegant, when Qin Fei walked into the study, he was standing in front of the bookshelf, holding a book and flipping through it. After hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, he closed the book, turned his head to look at the two people entering the room. His gaze swept over Gu Wenkai, and when it landed on Qin Fei's body, his narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, then he raised his hand to adjust the frameless glasses on the bridge of his nose, revealing a polite smile: "Qin Fei?"

  "Hello." Qin Fei nodded at him in greeting.

  "My name is Gu Wenqing, I'm Wenkai's second brother, you can call me Second Brother like Wenkai does." Gu Wenqing's second brother said as he put the book back on the shelf and walked over to sit down on the sofa near the door of the study room, looking at Qin Fei, "Please take a seat first."

  Qin Fei sat down on the single sofa beside Gu Wenqing, and Gu Wenkai walked over to sit down together. Before he could even settle in, he saw Gu Wenqing glance at him sideways, "Wenkai, go make some tea."

  Gu Wenkai pursed his lips and got up to make tea in the kitchen.

  "Wenkai said you can see things from the underworld?" Gu Wenqing looked at Qin Fei and directly got to the point.

  "Yes." Qin Fei nodded and said.

  "Is it visible from birth, or does it appear later?"

  Qin Fei said: "It started a month ago, before that it wasn't visible, just a strong feeling of its existence. Yesterday at the car accident scene, I saw it for the first time."

  "As a person of the Yang world, under normal circumstances, without relying on external objects, there are only two situations in which one can see things from the Yin world. One is to be born with a pair of yin-yang eyes that can clearly see all kinds of ghosts. The other is when the soul is unstable, the luo fire is too low, and the yang energy is not strong enough, allowing yin energy to enter the body. In this case, ordinary ghostly spirits cannot be seen clearly at first, only those with strong obsessions can be seen clearly." Gu Wen said slowly, "Your situation sounds like the latter."

  "Can't ordinary ghosts be seen clearly at first? Does it mean that even ordinary ghosts can see their shapes clearly later on?"

  "It's okay, you'll see clearly later, but by the time you see clearly, you're not far from death." Gu Wenqing said, "The former is innate, as long as you can grasp your own state of mind, it's unimpeded. The latter is one foot in the ghost gate, and if you're not careful, you'll lose your life."

  "I remember some people who practice the occult, don't have yin-yang eyes, but in order to possess the ability to see ghosts, they will also deliberately make their souls unstable. Qin Xiaofei's situation should be similar to those people, right?" Gu Wenkai came in with a cup of tea and placed it on the tea table in front of Qin Fei and Gu Wencheng, interrupting them.

  "Is there such a situation, if it is this kind of situation then it's not difficult to solve..." Gu Wen Qing pondered for a moment, saying: "Qin Fei, before you could feel the existence of ghosts, had you encountered anything unusual?"

  "Anything special?" Qin Fei thought for a moment and then shook his head, "No."

  "Then broaden the time frame a bit, have you ever encountered anything strange that shouldn't have happened and made you feel uneasy?"

  Something strange... shouldn't have happened... yet can't help but care about?

  Qin Fei furrowed his brow and thought for a while before speaking again: "I really do have something on my mind..."

  "What is it?"

  "I was eight years old that winter, spending the New Year at my grandfather's house in the countryside. I went out to play and fell into the water, but I completely don't remember how I fell into the water or what happened before that." Qin Fei gazed down at the steam rising from the cup of water in front of him, "At the time, I didn't hit my head or anything, but I just couldn't recall what had happened. Although I couldn't remember anything...I always felt like there was something very important that I had forgotten to do back then."

  Gu Wenqing fell into deep thought after listening, and didn't speak for a long time.

  "Second Brother..." Gu Wenkai urged impatiently.

  Gu Wenqing's fingers tapped twice on the tea table and he said to Gu Wenkai: "Give me a cup of clear water and a brush pen."