Chapter 1: Strange Phenomena in the Underworld

  Dugu Jin said something that made everyone present gasp in shock, staring at him blankly, while he himself couldn't understand why they were all speechless.

  He glanced at the people present, then continued: "You don't know the Four Books and Five Classics, if you have read books, the old master in the private school can't help but teach."

  He spoke with a sigh, but the crowd stared at him in a daze, as if they were stunned. Especially the middle-aged couple, seeing their "son" speaking strangely, thought he had gone crazy and didn't know what to do, so they turned to ask the doctor beside them.

  "How is my son? Is he...?" The middle-aged man was somewhat uneasy, originally thought to be dead, never expected the child to come back to life, it's an extreme surprise. But after this surprise, there is still sorrow. The only comfort obtained is that the child has been found again, even if he really has a mental problem, I have accepted it.

  "This can't be," the doctor said, using his stethoscope to listen to Dugu Jin's chest for a long time, but he couldn't hear any sound at all. He was even more shocked, and beads of sweat as big as beans appeared on his forehead, and even his back was slightly damp. But he didn't dare say anything about it, fearing that others would suspect his medical skills. After all, he was a well-known chief physician in the city, even in the province, and yet he couldn't hear the heartbeat of a living person? If this got out, he would definitely be ridiculed by his peers, and how could he continue to work in the hospital?

  "Congratulations!" The doctor turned around and forced a smile at the middle-aged man, "And congratulations to him too!"

  "Why should I be congratulated?" the middle-aged man asked in confusion, still thinking that the doctor was mocking him. His child had died once and after waking up became such an idiot, yet the doctor said thank you, wasn't he being sarcastic?

  "Your child seems to have recovered!" The doctor finally found such an embarrassing reason, stuttering and saying, "He's fine, but just in case, let's give him a shot before he leaves the hospital. I'll go arrange for a nurse to give him the shot, and then he can be discharged?"

  "Really?" The middle-aged woman was also puzzled, saying in dismay, "Was the diagnosis wrong? How could there be nothing wrong with him at all? Weren't you just saying that he already... Doctor, can you check again carefully? For the sake of the child!"

  The doctor was also not comfortable hearing the patient's mother say this. Indeed, the patient had died of cancer, but less than an hour after being declared dead at the hospital, he suddenly came back to life. Moreover, judging from his facial expression and spirit, it seemed as if he had never been ill at all. Now, there were no signs of anything, so how could this be explained? How could this be explained to people?

  "Sometimes willpower can enhance a person's resistance to disease, and the desire to survive can bring people back from the brink of death." The doctor couldn't explain why, so he thought for a moment and came up with this sentence that even he himself couldn't understand, let alone others. After speaking, he hastily made an excuse and left, feeling embarrassed to continue staying there.

  Dugu Jin's parents listened seriously to the doctor's mysterious words, blinking their eyes and opening their mouths without saying a word. They also pretended to understand the meaning of this sentence, nodding their heads, then turned back to look at the child.

  "If you feel uncomfortable in any part of your body, tell me, and I'll spare no effort to cure you," the woman said.

  Dugu Jin understood that it was his soul that had brought the dead back to life, but others didn't know about this phenomenon. If he said nothing happened, no one would believe him. So, he rolled his eyes and said: "Mother, I feel a bit of a headache, but it's not serious, just need to rest for a while and I'll be fine. Mother, don't worry, just take care of your health."

  Although his words were a bit awkward, the fact that the child could say such filial things was somewhat comforting to Dugu Jin's parents.

  At this time, the nurse came in, pushing a small cart with injections and dressing changes, and smiled in front of Du Gu Zhong: "Time for injection." As she said that, she took out the needle and held it high, waving it back and forth in front of Du Gu Zhong.

  "Hidden weapon!" Dugu Jin shouted in surprise. "Miss, have I offended you in any way? Why do you want to harm me in public?"

  The nurse laughed loudly at "haha" and said: "You didn't offend me, I'm giving you an injection, I'm a nurse."

  "Nurse?!" Dugu Jin heard the word "officer" in the girl's words, so he quickly sat up and clasped his fists: "I am from the Ministry of Rites, with the title of Vice Minister of Rites. I don't know which department you are from, Miss? What is the difference between you and a university scholar?"

  The nurse Miss Zhang was speechless, she didn't understand what Du Gu Jingzhong said. She stood still for a while before saying: "I'm not an official, I'm here to give injections to patients."

  "Isn't the one who heals illnesses called a doctor? How can someone of your level also see patients? Even if you are seeing patients, it shouldn't be called nursing, but rather imperial physician." said Du Guozhong.

  The nurse said nothing, but looked at the people in the room with an inexplicable gaze. Without saying another word, she quickly pushed Dugu Zhong onto the bed, pulled down his pants, revealing half of his buttocks, and gave him a shot, causing Dugu Zhong to let out a pained cry.

  When the nurse pulled out the needle, Dugu Jin's eyes widened in anger and he glared at the nurse, saying: "How dare you! I am the current Minister of Rites, and yet you, a young lady, dared to stab me. Are you a Khitan spy? Even if you are a Khitan agent, we each have our own masters. If you want to kill me, I won't say anything, but as a woman, you shouldn't humiliate me in public by stripping off my pants. Don't you know that a scholar can be killed but not humiliated?"

  "Whatever!" The nurse couldn't take it anymore, let out a cold laugh and quickly turned around and ran out of the ward.

  Dugu Zhong's parents felt a bit embarrassed, and in front of everyone, they had nothing to say, so they just kept silent. In their hearts, they thought that if they could just get through the night, and tomorrow if they didn't see anything unusual with their son, then they would leave. If things went on like this, their son would definitely become a laughing stock for others.

  The silence was so awkward that the onlookers also left one by one, laughing and discussing this strange affair as they walked away. Only Dugu Zhong and his parents were left behind. It was already nighttime then.

  The next day, Du Gu Jing returned home under the leadership of his "parents" and stayed at home for a day. He then told his "parents" that he had something to do outside and went back to the ruins where Qi Gui was waiting.

  When Dugu Jin arrived, the other six ghosts were already there, discussing their experiences of possessing bodies. The loudest ones were Qian Xiaohong and Lu Xiaoying, who chatted and laughed as they talked about how they had finally found beautiful corpses to possess. Now all that was left for them was to find men, fall in love, and get married multiple times - if human laws allowed it, they would even want to do it once a year, making up for the romance and marriage they missed out on in their past lives.

  Everyone was talking about their own possession experience, but Lan Jingqiu remained silent. This time, he chose to possess a middle-aged man with the same name as him. In fact, the names of the people they possessed were all the same as their own names, which seemed like an arrangement by heaven. The body he possessed looked like that of a successful gentleman, and although he now had a worried expression, it couldn't hide his cleverness and wisdom.

  "Everyone is chatting, why are you so silent?" Du Gu Jing walked up and sat down beside Lan Jingqiu.

  Lan Jingqiu looked up at the sky, saw a starry night, a crescent moon hanging in the air, and an autumn breeze blowing by, withering grass rolling, and leaves falling. He sighed and shook his head, saying: "I've seen my son!"

  "This is a good thing," said Dugu Jin, smiling, but he soon became despondent. "Since I passed the imperial examination and became an official, I have not been able to reunite with my family. My relatives are far away in another land, and we rarely meet. In fact, I have never seen my own son. Thinking about it, I am truly a failed person."

  "Are you kidding me?" Lan Jingqiu sneered, "You don't know the suffering I've endured. A lifetime of fighting in the business world, and I finally established the Lan Corporation, with a net worth of tens of billions. But then, one illness brought me to the brink of despair, and my children abandoned me in a simple room, leaving me to fend for myself. They were too busy fighting over the inheritance to even visit me when I was dying. Today, I see that the Lan Corporation's stock is plummeting, and there are rumors that it will be acquired by another company. My life's work is about to go up in smoke, and my heart is aching with sorrow. So I'm wondering, what should people pursue in this life? Is it family or wealth?"

  "Brother Lan's words are indeed true," said Dugu Jin, slowly lowering his head as if in deep agreement. "I have been an official for many years, and when I was a county magistrate, my greatest wish was to be promoted and become wealthy. But now that I am a second-grade official, I will ultimately die an unjust death, without even being able to reunite with my family. I will die in a foreign land, becoming a lonely soul. Thinking about it, this life is also full of regrets. Compared to me, Brother Lan is indeed a fortunate person."

  "Yes," Lan Jingqiu said, "so now I think ordinariness is happiness."

  "What does your brother plan to do next?"

  "I thought of my years at Lanzhi Group and the job I applied for, trying to save the company, after all it's my life's work, how can I just let someone else have it?"

  "I don't know what dynasty it is now, but I see so many strange and weird houses that look like boxes, and on the ground there are many things running around that also look like boxes, and people sitting inside, so I think I've come to the mortal world without knowing what to do."

  "Just follow me, we'll go to the company for an interview together, work together and make a career out of it."

  "Excellent!"

  The two of them talked for a long time and finally reached an agreement, so the depression in their hearts disappeared instantly. The two stood up and returned to the lively atmosphere of everyone's conversation.

  "What's next?" Lan Jingqiu asked after everyone had quieted down.

  As for this matter, the two girls didn't think about it at all. The only thing they wanted to do was to keep getting married. As for the work arranged by Yan Wang, the two of them seemed to have forgotten. Now every moment is spent on makeup, even when they were talking just now, they were so energetic and loud, but still didn't forget to put on makeup. If not putting on makeup, they would be busy fixing their hair, with both hands constantly fiddling with other people's skulls that are now controlled by their thoughts.

  "I want to be a police officer!" Chen Zhenhua exclaimed loudly, "This is the career I've been dreaming of my whole life! You see, the person I'm possessing used to be a police officer too. He was scared to death. One time, he and two colleagues were staking out to catch a horse thief, and they hid in a ruined building. But unexpectedly, a white shadow flashed before his eyes, and he unintentionally saw it. He was stunned for a long time and finally died of fright. It's said that the white shadow turned out to be just a rabbit."

  "You've eaten so much, you're so fat, and yet you're a police officer? It's laughable. In the end, you were even scared to death! Many people in this world, when they see them, they always seem to be bullying others, but when it comes to doing something, they can't do anything. They just push and block, and everyone sees them as untrustworthy."

  "Alright," Lan Jingqiu thought for a moment, "we should start discussing our next move."

  "I want to go to the police station?" Chen Zhenhua thought for a moment and said, "I will use my wisdom and this righteous heart to defend the people's lives and property."

  "Alright," said Lan Jingqiu, "we'll first do things our own way and gather here every week."

  "Good!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

  "That's all for now." Lan Jingqiu saw that everyone agreed and hastily requested to adjourn the meeting, as he still had something more important to attend to.

  The next day, two people appeared at a flower shop. They made very strange requests. They didn't want wreaths or incense paper money. Instead, they asked the owner of the flower shop to make some things out of paper, such as tires, wind direction indicators, engines and other car parts. They also negotiated with the owner of the flower shop to regularly make these things for them, and then burn them in the underworld according to the names they provided. The two people would come on time to settle the account and pay the money.

  The boss initially refused, but later reluctantly agreed. Although he had agreed, his heart was not in it, and he didn't know that he had become a supplier to an underground car parts repair factory!