Chapter 1: Strange Phenomena in the Underworld

  According to the orders of Yan Wang Ye, the seven people came to the mortal world mainly to attach their souls to the bodies of seven people who were about to die soon in the mortal world. In other words, it was a case of borrowing corpses to return souls.

  Although the seven ghosts said that borrowing someone else's body was always a bit awkward, being able to live in the world was already very good, so everyone wanted to find an ideal person's body to attach their soul to, especially Qian Xiaohong and Lu Xiaoying.

  "I was ugly in my past life, and nobody looked up to me at school. Seeing classmates fall in love one by one, while I sat alone, made me feel so envious. So, I must find a stunningly beautiful corpse to possess, and have a good romance, ideally with a new partner every week. I want to make up for the emotions I couldn't get in my past life all at once." Qian Xiaohong's face was filled with infatuation as she spoke, her eyes gleaming with longing for a future where she could love enough.

  "What you said is absolutely right!"

  Lu Xiao Ying heard about dating, and it seemed to have touched her pitifully lonely life in her previous life. Because of her ugly appearance, no one liked her. Thinking back, whenever she saw couples walking hand in hand in front of her on the street, she would have loved to rush up and strangle the woman to death, then take her place with the man's arm around her; seeing others get married, she had also fantasized about the groom turning his back on the bride to find her, or the bride dying directly at the wedding, then the groom taking advantage of the ready-made facilities at the wedding scene to force her into marriage, while she pretended to be unwilling.

  It's actually quite funny to think about now, but back then there were things I didn't have time for or couldn't do even if I wanted to. Now I can make up for all of them at once. She wants to date dozens of boyfriends and get married dozens of times, just to satisfy her craving for marriage.

  Lan Jingqiu was also thinking, he didn't want to possess the body of a handsome young man, but rather the body of a wise person, so that he could use that person's body to do something great, he had faith in himself, previously in the business world he could give orders and make things happen with ease, although he was dead now, it would still be possible.

  Dugu Zhong lived in ancient times and was unfamiliar with modern life, so he could only follow Lan Jingqiu, who reminded him what to do and what not to do.

  Huojufei thought to himself that he wanted to find a "rich second generation" to possess, he wanted to continue playing in the mortal world, but now he was no longer as foolishly wasteful of his time as he had been when he was alive. He had made some progress compared to before and had the idea of working hard and showing his personal value.

  As for Ou Yang Qing and Chen Zhen Hua, one wants to be a police officer and the other wants to be a civil servant.

  Once they made up their minds, they went off like hunting dogs in search of their ideal bodies.

  Everyone went their separate ways, Qian Xiaohong and Lu Xiaoying went directly to the hospital. They just wanted to wait at the morgue entrance, if there were any bodies being transported in, they could take a look to see if it was what they were looking for.

  Two souls were drifting outside the hospital morgue, they were waiting foolishly for a long time, and just when they were about to give up in frustration, they finally saw two nurses pushing a stretcher with a corpse into the morgue. What made Lu Xiaoying and Qian Hong even more delighted was that they saw the deceased was a woman. Just as the two nurses pushed the cart past the storage room door next to the morgue, a gentle breeze blew by, lifting the white cloth covering the woman's body, revealing her beautiful face. The woman was stunningly beautiful, a rare beauty indeed.

  Lu Xiaoying and Qian Xiaohong were both very satisfied, so they both wanted to possess the body. They couldn't agree on who should get it, and just as the corpse was about to be taken into the morgue, Qian Xiaohong suggested using "rock-paper-scissors" to decide who would get the beautiful corpse. In the end, Qian Xiaohong won, and she happily flew off in a hurry.

  When her soul was attached, the woman opened her eyes.

  As soon as he opened his eyes, the two nurses pushing the carts were frightened and screamed, urinating in their pants. At first, they went limp and fell to the ground, but then they struggled to get up and fled in a hurry.

  Qian Xiaohong didn't care what the two nurses looked like, she was just thinking that she was finally a beauty, and her heart was filled with joy. Even Lu Xiao Ying, who had lost to her, stood by with envy. So, she excitedly flipped over the stretcher.

  But she never expected that as soon as she stepped onto the platform, she would fall to the ground like a soft eggplant, unable to exert any strength in her left foot. It wasn't until she sat on the ground that she thought of reaching out to touch her left leg.

  This move left her crying and laughing at the same time.

  It turned out that this was a woman who had just died of medical malpractice after being amputated. In other words, if she were attached to this corpse, she would be a cripple, a disabled person.

  She didn't want to be a disabled person, she wanted a perfect and flawless body.

  So she was somewhat disappointed and looked down at the body with regret.

  The two nurses' shouting voices as they fled caused a commotion among the doctors and patients in the hospital, with everyone asking what had happened. Upon hearing that the woman who had just died had come back to life, people curiously rushed over to see for themselves, especially the woman's family members, who were skeptical but pushed their way to the front of the onlookers.

  Qian Xiaohong heard the footsteps of people and hastily turned over and lay back on the platform, opening her eyes to look at the crowd running towards her.

  "Child, what's wrong with you? I'm your mother! You're alive!" A middle-aged woman rushed to the stretcher and wailed as she looked at her daughter who had clearly stopped breathing. Her eyes scanned up and down her daughter's lifeless body while she herself held the severed left leg in her arms. The severed leg was a bloody mess, with fresh blood dripping from the cut end, forming a small puddle on the ground.

  To avoid arousing suspicion, Qian Xiaohong also pretended to have just woken up and looked weak, opening her eyes to gaze at the middle-aged woman who was crying hysterically. Upon hearing the woman refer to the corpse as "daughter", Qian Xiaohong believed that this person in front of her should be the mother of the beautiful female corpse. The woman's wailing moved Qian Xiaohong to pity, and she thought about how to wrap things up in her mind, because she would not choose to possess this corpse. However, once her soul left this body, the woman would no longer move. How to deal with it?

  With a thought in her mind, she rolled her eyes and immediately came up with an idea. She pretended to be weak and said: "Mother, I don't want to die, but I have to go. I'm worried about you, mother, take care of yourself." As soon as she finished speaking, her soul floated out of her body, and the woman's body stopped moving again.

  Lu Xiaoying stood by and watched Qian Xiaohong from possession to leaving the body, seeing Qian Xiaohong's embarrassed face, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  After that, the two souls hastily left the hospital, leaving only the middle-aged woman and the deceased woman's relatives surrounding the corpse wailing in grief.

  The two ghosts came to another hospital in the city again, continuing to look for a body that would satisfy them. However, having learned from their previous experience, Qian Xiaohong and Lu Xiaoying were no longer reckless this time, they must make sure the corpse was intact.

  As expected, in this hospital they all found their own relatively satisfactory bodies. Although the body they found now is slightly inferior to the previous one, compared to their original bodies, it's much better. At least they won't be like the two of them without a man liking them.

  The soul floats into the dead person's body, and the other party suddenly wakes up. As a result, they inevitably encounter the same scene as last time. The deceased's relatives rush to see what's going on. An old woman holds the hand of the revived deceased, crying excitedly: "Child, you've come back to life! If something really happens to you, how can this old woman live?"

  "Mother," Qian Xiaohong's mind flashed back to the last possession, thinking that this old man was her mother, and she said without thinking, "How can a daughter bear to leave you?"

  "What are you talking about?" The old woman frowned and looked at her, saying, "Little Hong, I'm your grandma!"

  "Qian Xiaohong has amnesia?" someone whispered beside her, "Died and came back to life, could she have lost her memory?"

  "She's also called Little Red?! Qian Xiaohong was shocked, never expecting that the name of the body she had found was the same as her own, and even shared the same surname, it was simply unbelievable. So she started pretending to be this Qian Xiaohong. She stammered and said, "What's wrong with me, grandma? Have I lost my memory? I don't recognize anyone now."

  It's said that Sun's granddaughter suffered from amnesia, and the old lady was somewhat disheartened. However, she thought to herself that losing one's memory is still better than losing an entire life. She was still delighted and hastily called for a doctor to check on Qian Xiaohong's physical condition. An elderly Chinese medicine practitioner stepped forward to take Qian Xiaohong's pulse, but after feeling it for half a day, he couldn't diagnose her physical condition. He was very surprised and stared blankly at Qian Xiaohong because he had never encountered a pulse like hers before.

  The old doctor was stunned for half a day, unable to find the words to say, and could only awkwardly tell his wife: "Your granddaughter's body is fine, just rest at home for a few days and she'll fully recover. I really didn't expect her to recover so quickly."

  It was said that the granddaughter was fine, and the old lady was overjoyed. She hastily asked to handle the discharge procedures, and under everyone's embracing gaze, Qian Xiaohong - this person with the same name but different body and soul - left the hospital and returned home. She arrived at the old lady's house and saw that her living conditions were not bad. There was a luxurious mansion, with a beautifully decorated interior, famous paintings in the living room, and gold and jade everywhere. There were gardens in front of and behind the house, and a wide green lawn in front of the main gate, surrounded by sturdy trees. At this time, the leaves had fallen, and countless bare branches pointed towards the sky like withered fingers. However, this did not affect the solemnity and grandeur of the old lady's villa, nor would it make the villa appear desolate due to the flying dry leaves in the garden.

  Qian Xiaohong liked all this very much, because she was clear in her heart that with such a residence, her future life would be rich and contented, so she was extremely satisfied. Then she walked to her own room, she lay on the bed, because of excitement, she couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

  Her six companions also didn't know what to do, she started thinking of her companions coming.

  "But that's not important, two days later, they will gather at the abandoned factory and discuss their next plan. By then, everything will be clear." She muttered to herself.

  In fact, other souls were not as smooth and lucky as Qian Xiaohong. Especially Dugu Jinzhong, although he also found an object to attach himself to, with the same name as the deceased. Also named Dugu Jinzhong, a university student studying finance, who died of stomach cancer. When Dugu Jinzhong arrived at a hospital - he didn't know what a hospital was, just wandering around randomly - his soul floated into the hospital corridor and first heard a cacophony of wailing cries, as well as the sound of urgent footsteps, with people rushing back and forth in the corridor. In short, everyone on this floor seemed to be busy running around. Not long after, the crying stopped, and two nurses were seen pushing a cart carrying a corpse through the corridor, heading towards the morgue.

  It's him! thought Dugu Zhong.

  He hastily attached himself to the body, and in the blink of an eye, the corpse opened its eyes. Similarly, as soon as it opened its eyes, the two nurses screamed like they had lost their souls and ran away, shouting "The corpse is fake!"

  Their cries attracted many curious onlookers, and a middle-aged man and a fashionably dressed middle-aged woman rushed forward. They stared from afar for a while, their faces filled with fear, until they were certain that the deceased was not a zombie but had come back to life. Then they flung themselves onto Du Gu Jing's body, wailing loudly. Du Gu Jing didn't recognize them either, and he lay there with his eyes open, unsure of what to say. When the middle-aged woman reached out to stroke his face, he hastily dodged to one side and said, "As Confucius once said, 'Men and women should not touch each other in public.' I hope you will restrain yourself, madam."

  "What did you say?" The middle-aged woman's eyes widened, staring at Dugu Jin for a long time before saying: "Child, what's wrong with you? You wake up and don't recognize me? I'm your mother, this is your father."

  Dugu Jin's eyes rolled, and this time he knew the identity of the man and woman in front of him. He hastily said: "Mother, your son is unfilial, letting Father and Mother suffer, which is a great sin."

  "What's gotten into this child, talking so strangely?" said the middle-aged woman to the man. "But still, being alive is the best."

  "Alright, as long as the kid is fine, let's have the doctor check first," said the middle-aged man with a smile.

  The woman hastily called the doctor, and everyone pushed Dugu Zhong into the ward. The doctor took out his stethoscope and placed it on Dugu Zhong's chest, just about to listen, when Dugu Zhong suddenly sat up, looked at the stethoscope in surprise, and said: "What is this thing? Why put it on my body?"

  "Has he gone mad?" a nurse whispered.

  The onlookers who heard Du Gu Jing Zhong speaking also thought that after the thrill of his resurrection, it was a pity that he had become mentally ill.

  "Is this a stethoscope?" The doctor explained: "You should have read books, and heard that it's still a top university student, don't you know what this is?"

  Dugu Jin furrowed his brow and listened carefully, waiting for the doctor to finish speaking. Then he said: "What is this 'stethoscope' you speak of? I'm afraid I don't know. You are correct that I have read the 'Great Learning', not to mention the 'Doctrine of the Mean'. I can recite the Four Books and Five Classics with ease, so while I wouldn't dare claim to be the best poet in the land, I was at least famous in my time. And yet, despite all this, I've never seen any mention of this strange device you call a 'stethoscope' in the 'Great Learning'."

  When it comes to knowledge, he is almost garrulous, but the crowd is dumb and silent, staring at him blankly.