Chapter Fifty-Four: The Female Ghost's Background

  "Hah, you've finally dared to come out?" I saw the female ghost appear before us. "In the cycle of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, three lives and five elements..." I saw her anger flare up, but instead she knelt down in front of us...

  "Get away from the fire!..."

  "Wait, Brother Zichuan... she seems to want to tell us something." I was about to take her in even if she knelt down, after all, it's just a fierce ghost. But Shitian stopped me, so I decided to calm down and see what she wanted to say.

  "Why harm people." I coldly stared at her, watching how she would confuse us.

  "I didn't mean to hurt anyone." Her voice was still quite pleasant, but I saw that she was disheveled... even some parts were faintly visible.

  "Still making excuses!" I got angry again when I heard her explanation. "Can you guys listen to me till the end?" She looked a bit worn out... Seeing this appearance, I couldn't bring myself to be harsh.

  "Go ahead." Shitian stood in front of me, as if afraid that I would make a move and blocked my way.

  "Avenge me... I know you two are no ordinary people or you wouldn't have come to find me..." She forced out four words: "Help me avenge?"

  "Who? What's wrong with you?" I pushed Seten aside, indicating that he was blocking me.

  "I was also a student at this school before. At that time, the building had not been abandoned yet, and I was a biology major. That evening, our class had a night self-study session, and when it ended, it was already past 10 o'clock. I was about to leave, but the teacher called me back. He usually took care of me and often discussed difficult problems with me..." She was originally quite calm when she said this, but suddenly clenched her teeth and a few gusts of cold wind blew by. I watched her warily, afraid that she might have some sudden change.

  "But that night, after everyone had left, I asked him what was wrong. He started asking me how my studies were going lately. I didn't think anything of it, but his hands began to touch me. I was scared, and there wasn't a single person in the entire building...I tried to leave, deliberately avoiding his hands."

  What happened next, I should have guessed from her outfit... but after hearing it, I realized that guy was such a beast! "But when I turned around to leave, he hugged me from behind and kept saying 'I'll take care of you'. I was so scared, he kept kissing me. I struggled, he pushed me to the ground, tore my clothes open, I cried... When his tongue entered my mouth, I bit down hard on it."

  "I bit down hard, I felt his tongue was bitten through by me, he kept pinching my neck, I loosened my mouth, he pinched even harder, I felt myself unable to breathe, but he pinched even more fiercely, I was strangled to death by him! And after I died, he still didn't let go of me!" I saw her coldly smiling with a sneer, this chilliness was even more piercing...

  "Good deeds will be rewarded with good, and evil deeds will be punished with evil. Since he was the one who harmed you, why do you want to harm these innocent people?" Although I sympathize with her experience, how can she explain it to those innocent people?

  "Hmph, I only harmed the first one, and he was willing too."

  "What? He's willing?" The more I heard her say this, the more confused I became.

  "After I died, I went to the underworld, and only then did I realize that after death, there really is a place to return to... But the underworld wouldn't accept me, saying my physical body had no place to rest. I couldn't be reincarnated, so I could only wander around this building. I will come back to this building and personally kill him!"

  "Where is the flesh going?" I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence for a moment, and I looked at Shiteng.

  "Zihe Dage, her physical body has no place to rest, which means it hasn't been buried. The underworld is in charge of the souls of the dead, and every day there are births and deaths. No matter how big the underworld is, it can't accommodate so many people, so they have a set of rules underground that resemble ours on earth, such as household registration records. They think that being buried in a place is like registering one's household, becoming a resident of the underworld." Does the underworld really have household registration? I had no idea... I went there once before and was caught by Mengmeng... although I've interacted with Heibai Wuchang twice, they both let me run away...

  "Then where did your physical body go?" I understood this sentence and asked her...

  "My flesh... Ah, my flesh was buried by that beast over there." I followed Mengmeng's pointing finger and saw a lectern.

  "What?"

  "My body was buried under the podium by him...", he even wanted to cover up after killing someone! I felt my fists clenched, and Shitian's knife was trembling.

  "I thought of taking revenge on him, but I couldn't leave this building!" Why can't you leave this building?

  "What's going on?" I looked at Shi Teng, who had become my interpreter. "After a person dies, their body is buried, but if they did many evil things during their lifetime, they will either go to the eighteen layers of hell or be knocked down to the mortal world as a lonely ghost. That kind of ghost can roam freely, but since she wasn't buried, her soul can't leave her body too far."

  "After that, the person contacted the relevant department, bribed them with some money, and got a certificate saying that this building is a dangerous house... and then it was sealed off." After hearing her experience, I feel that this person is very ruthless.

  I felt relieved when I heard this... "But why did you want to harm Yi Sheng?"

  "I couldn't find that person to take revenge, but I know Yisheng is his nephew! I often give him a dream, letting him come here and think of going out to find that person."

  "What? He's that person's nephew?" It feels like everything has been carefully arranged by her...

  "Yes, I had a dream and told him that there was a god in this building who could help him. That night he really came, bringing others with him. I followed them all the time, just didn't show up, until he took out his knife to chase those people, then I appeared. At first, he was scared when he saw me, but lost his mind and kept saying that he wanted to kill them..."

  "I asked him if he was willing to accompany me, so that you can have the ability to kill them, and he agreed with his own mouth. I originally wanted to go on his body to find that person for revenge, but thinking about it again, all those related to him will die!" The word "die" was bitten very heavily by her...

  Hearing this, I couldn't say she was wrong either... I also saw the extreme side of Yi Sheng... willing to become a ghost to kill them. I looked at her... "What's your name."

  "My name is Wang Shu... That beast's name is Wu Tianyu!"

  "I'll help you with this, and I'll make sure you're buried properly. I hope you can let go of all your obsessions and enter the afterlife peacefully. I'm a police officer too, and I'll make sure Wu Tianyu gets punished by the law - he won't be able to escape. Are you willing?" I advised her, this is the best way to do it.

  "Uh, thank you. I've been stuck in this building for many years..." Looking at her, I felt a bit sad. "Alright, wait for me, I'll send someone to help dig out your body."

  I pulled out my phone and saw Shitian carrying a knife out of the door. I grabbed him and said "Where are you going!"

  "I'm going to cut down that Wu Tianyu!"

  "I also want to hack! But is it useful? Rather than letting him die quickly, it's better to be tortured in prison for a lifetime!" Shitian stopped and agreed with me when he heard me say this.

  "Director Jiang, can you bring some people over now? Remember to bring tools like shovels." I took a look at Wang Shu, her clothes were still disheveled... "Right, help me bring a set of women's clothes."

  I hung up the phone and didn't dare look at Wang Shu anymore. She also felt a bit embarrassed. "Thank you..."

  Before long, the police car came in and I asked Director Jiang to bring people directly to this room on the second floor. As soon as Director Jiang came in, he asked me what I wanted to do with these shovels? They couldn't see Wang Shu, I looked at Wang Shu, she pointed to a place for me.

  "Director Jiang, excavate at this location." I spoke with Director Jiang and he immediately dispatched people to start work over there.

  "Zi River, what's down there?" Jiang Ju still didn't know the purpose of my actions.

  "You'll know soon enough..."

  They moved the podium, and it was clear that the cement on the ground was a different color from the surrounding area, obviously having been filled in by someone. After digging for about ten minutes or so, I felt a hand emerge...

  "Dig! Don't destroy it! Be careful digging." Jiang Ju saw this scene and became tense too, this is no small matter!

  I took a look at Wang Shu, her complexion was somewhat dismal. It's something that nobody wants to see - their own corpse. Wang Shu's body had been dug up, and due to the long time it had been buried, it had become solidified with some cement. The faces of everyone present didn't look too good... Her entire body was dressed in tattered clothes, and there were scars on her legs.

  "Director Jiang, go and arrest the person named Wu Tianyu from this school right now!", I said in a harsh tone. Director Jiang had already looked pale when he saw the body, after all, it was a student who died, and as a parent, no one would want to see such a scene. When he heard me order him to make an arrest, his expression turned stern. "You go and bring that person to me right now! Also, bring the principal here!"

  Those police officers heard that and all of them stormed out in anger. I took the clothes brought by Director Jiang, pulled out a lighter, and prepared to burn them for her.

  "Zihe Dage, this is not enough, you have to write her birthdate..." Shitian reminded me, I asked Wangshu and wrote it with my finger after biting it open, then ignited it... Seeing the clothes that were just burned on Wangshu's body slowly reappear, she also became much more delicate.

  Wang Shu knelt down again and kept thanking us.

  Director Jiang saw all of this, he figured out that there should be a ghost around him, but he wasn't too afraid. "Director Jiang, we need to give the corpse a proper burial, can't just leave it in the funeral home." After everything is arranged, I think I'll put Wang's book away first...but what about the Four Square Jade?

  "Shi Teng, does your school have any methods for collecting souls? Or perhaps some sort of container?" I asked Shi Teng, but he just said to me: "No need to go through so much trouble, just find an umbrella and let her stay under it."

  "Ah? That's it?"

  "Yes, it's just that simple."