Ya Zi was secretly pleased to find that Yue Jiuling's mood was a bit off, since he had always hoped that Yue Jiuling would notice him.

"Um, Jiuling, what kind of fish do you want to eat? And bok choy, what about you?"

Ya Zi flipped through the menu and said, "I'll just have one spicy chicken dish, the rest is up to you guys."

Yue Jiuling saw that the waiter had apologized, so she didn't pursue the matter any further. However, she still felt a little annoyed, though she didn't understand why she felt that way.

She pointed to the menu and said, "I'll have a sweet and sour fish, a salt and pepper shrimp, and a stir-fried vegetable dish."

Seeing that everyone else had ordered, Xiaobaicai also ordered a soup and a stuffed tofu: "That's all."

The waiter took the menu away, and Yue Jiuling picked up her phone to check the group messages. While looking at the chat history with boredom, she said, "Speaking of which, I don't know when we'll be able to go back this time. Dongfeng and Yinni should be going back soon too. If we don't go back to work soon, there really won't be anyone left to work in our department."

Ya Zi said, "Yes, but Yin Ni and Xin Yu have things to do when they return to the demon realm, while Dong Feng and Xiao Yi have to prepare for the Ghost Festival. I estimate that Yin Ni and the others will return before Dong Feng and the others."

"Yeah, I haven't seen them in a long time either, I miss them a bit."

Little Cabbage, holding the duck, sighed, "I just don't know if we can make it back before the Ghost Festival."

This time when we went out to eat, Xiao Baicai was smarter. She learned from Ya Zi to hide the duck before bringing it in, so the duck got into the restaurant smoothly just like before.

"I don't know, but there are still less than half a month until the Ghost Festival in the human world. If we move quickly enough here, we should be able to get back, right?"

Yue Jiuling actually wanted to go back, because she felt very uncomfortable here. Living with Wu Jing required her to be very careful to hide herself, and she was constantly worried that Wu Jing would discover her secret. It was exhausting to continue like this.

Ya Zi knew that Yue Jiuling didn't really like this place, since everyone was already so familiar with each other. He said, "Emmm, since everyone wants to go back as soon as possible, then we should do our best to cooperate with Miss Wu. Once her work is finished, we can go back."

"That's right, so let's cooperate with Ms. Wu properly."

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After returning home and discovering the situation at his house, Mr. Xu hurriedly made a phone call, and shortly afterward, someone arrived at his villa.

The man was a middle-aged man in his fifties. The first thing he did upon entering Mr. Xu's villa was not to look at the coffin or the corpse, but to look at the door gods at the main entrance.

But when he found that nothing was wrong with the gatekeepers, he went around to the back door. The back door also looked normal, but the ghost guards who were watching the backyard had all hidden in dark corners. When the man saw this, he knew that something was not simple.

"All of you, come here," the man said sternly, then asked the ghostly security guards, "Speak, what happened? Don't you usually like to wander around? Why are you all too scared to come out today?"

These ghostly security guards were brought by this man to guard Boss Xu's house. Because he had many shady dealings with Boss Xu, he arranged many things in Boss Xu's house, such as the door gods outside, the ghostly security guards, and the corpse on the first floor.

The ghost security guards had all hidden in the corner, but now that they saw this man coming, they all timidly came out. They seemed very afraid of him and didn't dare to get close to him.

Mr. Xu had been following the man the whole time. He knew what kind of things were in the house, so when he saw the situation, he asked, "What happened to you? The sun isn't even that strong today. Don't you usually come out during the day? By the way, why didn't I come back last night? What happened? Why is the first floor like this?"

Hearing Mr. Xu's questioning, the security captain stepped forward and recounted what had happened in the villa the night before. He said with lingering fear, "We don't know who that woman is. The fire she set off could burn our ghosts. If we hadn't been lucky, we might not even be able to become ghosts anymore."

"Yeah, she's amazing, none of us can beat her."

"That's right, but she doesn't look like a ghost or a Taoist priest, so we don't know anything about her."

The other ghost security guards echoed their captain's sentiments.

After hearing what the ghost security guards said, Boss Xu turned to the man and said, "Master Li, what do we do now? Before you came, I went upstairs and checked. My safe has been opened and a lot of documents have been taken away."

Master Li's face had already darkened when he heard what the ghost security guards said, and now that he heard Boss Xu say that the documents in the safe had been taken away, his face darkened even more!

"Damn it, we have to get those documents back!"

Master Li was about to walk into the house when he entered. He saw a male corpse lying on the ground, and next to it was a broken coffin.

Master Li, upon seeing the male corpse, asked the ghost security guard, "How did he get out? Did he come out on his own, or was he forced out?"

Upon hearing this, the ghost security guard immediately said, "The corpse came out on its own. At that time, the woman had already come down from upstairs with some things, but as soon as she came down, the corpse broke through the coffin and came out."

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