Chapter 50

As soon as Luo Yu's front foot touched the ground, he was kicked in the back foot. He fell forward directly, surrounded by a heart-wrenching roar.

"Don't touch me! Give me back my wife and kids! Give me back my wife and kids!"

"What is this place?!"

"Where did you send my wife and children? Get them out..."

Luo Yu was kicked on his right knee, and the force was quite strong. He endured the pain and stood up staggeringly, the sound still roaring.

After seeing the situation clearly, he was stunned.

A female ghost covered in white fluff was suppressing a male ghost. The male ghost was struggling on the ground with his eyes wide open and covered in scars, but except for his mouth, he could not move anything else.

The sheep ghost Meimei only found time to look up at this time. When she saw Luo Yu, her heart skipped a beat and her eyes became rounder than those of the ghost on the ground.

Luo Yu felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by her. He didn't know what they were doing, but he had no right to interfere, so he walked around them and looked around. He was standing at the door of the Life and Death Chamber, some distance away from the lobby of the Ghost Mansion.

"Save me! He threw my wife and children into that lake. Save us!"

"How many times do I have to tell you this? You're already dead, you're already dead, you're already dead, you're no longer human! Every ghost must take the afterlife bath!"

"Impossible! Our whole family was watching TV at home, how could he suddenly die? It must be you! It must be you!"

"Give me back my wife and children! Give me back my wife and children!"

Luo Yu stopped and turned to look at the man on the ground again. He spoke with a Lingcheng accent, and from his tone it seemed as if he had just died, and it was very unjust.

For some reason, my heart started to panic.

"What do you mean you're watching TV? You're mistaken. Hurry up and get in!" Meimei picked him up with one hand and prepared to throw him into the bath.

"Wait!" Luo Yu spoke out to stop him.

Meimei paused, her whole body a little stiff. She turned her head inch by inch to look at Luo Yu.

Luo Yu ran over and saw the male ghost still roaring.

"Did he die recently? Maybe he was really wronged. Can I ask him a few questions?" Luo Yu asked.

The recent case of the male corpse in the abandoned factory and the body buried under the tree in Huangbei City are very confusing. If he really died unjustly, perhaps we can get some clues from him.

Meimei changed her hand from holding the belt to pinching his neck, her face solemn, "What do you want to say to him? He's been dead for nearly ten years. It was my fault that he escaped and didn't go to the bathhouse. I finally caught him this time, I can't make the same mistake again."

She opened the door of the life and death room and said, "Please go outside first. We are doing something here."

Luo Yu didn't move. "Then what about the wife and children he just mentioned?"

The male ghost whose neck was being strangled stared at Luo Yu with wide eyes. His unyielding eyes seemed to have a lot to say, but his neck was strangled so he couldn't speak at all. He could only let out a suffocating groan.

Luo Yu frowned, "I think..."

"You have nothing to do here. If you interfere with my work again, don't blame me for being rough with you."

These words were as serious as her face, and even carried a hint of murderous intent. Luo Yu was stunned.

In just a few seconds of distraction, Meimei had already pinched the male ghost and disappeared in front of him.

The door of the life and death chamber slammed shut with a bang, shocking Luo Yu so much that he took two steps back unconsciously.

Before entering the lobby of the ghost house, Luo Yu met Gi in the alley.

Gi's eyes were red. He was stunned when he saw Luo Yu, then noticed that his leg was a little lame, and asked, "What's wrong with your leg? Is it injured again?"

Luo Yu said, "I was just kicked by a male ghost, it's nothing serious... What's wrong with you? Are you crying?"

Gi turned his head and rubbed his eyes. When he turned back, he was smiling. He said, "I just took out a BenBen storybook and read it. I was moved."

Luo Yu smiled and didn't think too much about it. "That's good. I thought something happened. By the way, where is Luo Zhi?"

"He..." Gi pointed to the closed wooden door of the lobby, "He and the Ghost King are doing something in there. I guess he won't be able to come out today."

Luo Yu lowered his head, feeling a little lost, but he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why do you need to stay in there for so long? Is it something important?"

"Yeah," Gi said, "very important."

Luo Yu handed the rolled-up banner to Gi.

Gi looked at him in confusion.

"This is a big red banner, a must-have for opening a business, hung on the door plaque."

Gi said "Oh", put the banner away, coughed, and said seriously: "Was it that blind ghost who kicked you just now? Do you remember what he looks like? I'll teach him a lesson for you."

Luo Yu smiled and shook his head, "No, he just bumped into me accidentally, it wasn't intentional."

"Is that so?" Gi led him outside. "Then let's go to Xiangxu Street and take a look at your store. Then you can tell me what the stores in the human world usually sell."

Luo Yu nodded and followed it, hesitating whether to ask about the male ghost.

After struggling for a while, Luo Yu finally spoke: "Gi."

"Huh?" Gi turned around.

Luo Yu said: "I just saw a male ghost in the Life and Death Chamber, he..."

"Oh." Gi interrupted him, "You're talking about the one Meimei has been looking for for more than ten years, right? He was just caught, so it's inevitable that his mind is not clear. Don't worry about it. He will be fine after taking the bath."

"But I think he died unjustly." Luo Yu said.

"Everyone's death is unfair," Gi said. "Some people get hit by cars, some choke to death while eating, and some get hit by objects falling from the building while taking out the trash. Fate is so absurd, so just forget it."

After hearing what Gi said, Luo Yu felt that it was indeed true. Fate was so absurd.

He sighed helplessly and stopped thinking about the male ghost.

In the hall of the ghost palace, the Ghost King was still wearing the torn clothes he wore in the human world. He sat with his legs crossed on the red and golden dragon chair, his eyes fixed on a ball of translucent light in front of him.

Luo Zhi accidentally killed someone in the human world, and his physical body was completely destroyed after he entered the Gnawing Hell. At this moment, his soul was even more fragmented. It was all thanks to the Ghost King that he was able to stand here in a translucent state.

And yesterday, the Ghost King spent a lot of spiritual power to help him create a physical body, but it couldn't last long.

Things are unpredictable. Luo Zhi's original plan was to exchange the lives of Luo Yu and his family and then completely destroy his soul. Then, after Luo Yu ran the human store for a year, he would return to normal life and no longer have anything to do with him.

From the moment he saw Luo and his family about to die in the life and death chamber, Luo Zhi vowed to prevent this disaster from happening even at the cost of his own life.

But that was ultimately a matter of the human world, and Luo Zhi could only see a "murder" in the room of life and death.

So he made this ridiculous-sounding plan of 'opening a small human store in the underworld for a year in exchange for the lives of his entire family'.

It was unexpected that Luo Yu believed it so easily and didn't seem to have any doubts.

But as a ghost, living in the underworld, a place that has no interference with the human world, how could it be so great as to easily change the lives of three people?

But there are plenty of ways in this world. After looking up some information, he discovered a forbidden technique called: life for life.

As the name suggests, it means exchanging the life of another person for the life of another.

However, accidents always come unexpectedly. The death of the security guard and the body for which paper was burned were actually related to a murder case that happened last month. All this disrupted the original plan.

He was unable to accompany Luo Yu to finish running the convenience store for a year. He was now just a scattered soul maintained by the Ghost King. He was nothing, even more worthless than garbage.

Therefore, he could only let the Ghost King disguise himself as a Taoist priest in the human world to make Luo Yu believe that this was a scam from the beginning to the end.

Luo Zhi lowered his head, looked at his almost transparent hands, and smiled, "Maybe he... hates me very much."

The Ghost King stood up and walked to his side, patting his shoulders twice, but each time he patted nothing.

He sighed, "We can close the passage after he returns today. The longer he stays, the easier it will be for him to be discovered." He sighed again, "You've done well. No normal person would get this kind of treatment."

Luo Zhi still lowered his head, "He will hate me very much."

The Ghost King said, "When he finds out he can't get in tomorrow night, he'll definitely contact me. By then, I'll make him realize that this is all a scam. As for the life-swapping, he won't know about it. Don't hold on any longer."

Luo Zhi no longer felt the pain, but he felt as if every part of his body was being sawed. He wondered where the pain was coming from.

"If I had known earlier, I would have thrown you into the bath of death again to avoid so many things happening." said the Ghost King.

"I won't forget." Luo Zhi said with certainty.

"It would be better to forget. Remembering it will only cause you trouble. Look what you have done to yourself." The Ghost King sighed again after saying this.

"I'm repaying a favor. If I die, I die." Luo Zhi said.

When the Ghost King heard this, he was immediately speechless. "I raised you for so many years, but in the end, it's still not as good as your life as a human, right?"

"It's different." Luo Zhi said.

The Ghost King said nothing, waiting for him to continue.

"They are ordinary people and cannot be compared with you," Luo Zhi said.

The Ghost King pondered for a long moment, then sighed, "Do you want to go see him?"

Luo Zhi shook his head, "After seeing this, I can't help but say goodbye to him. So be it, my life has been changed anyway."

"You're about to cry." The Ghost King folded his arms and looked at him. "It's really embarrassing that a bad boy can cry."

Luo Zhi laughed, looked at the Ghost King, and said, "Fortunately, you are not a human."

On the street, Luo Yu successfully got a cup of tea from the tea stall owner and said to him, "I will be your neighbor from now on." However, for some reason, the tea stall owner had lost all his enthusiasm and just nodded like a robot, without any expression or words.

"Stroke," Gi said.

Luo Yu was startled, and the tea in his hand spilled out. "You're still selling after having a stroke?"

Gi took a sip from the teacup in his hand, smacked his lips, and said, "It tastes pretty good. Ghosts who have had a stroke are different from humans. They just can't speak much, but everything else is normal."

Luo Yu looked at the tea in his hand that Gi had drunk, and couldn't help asking: "Are you usually like this with Luo Zhi?"

Gi: "Huh?"

Luo Yu pointed at the cup.

"The young master doesn't usually eat, and I've never shared a cup of tea with him," Gi realized. "What's wrong? Are you unhappy that I took a sip of your tea? Then I'll go buy you another cup?"

Luo Yu shook his head, "No, I'm just asking casually."

Gi said "Oh".

It was only then that Luo Yu noticed that Gi was also wearing a brooch, and it looked like... Bulgari's latest snake brooch?

Damn, that’s impossible.

"Gi! Gi! Gi!"

Just when he was still trying to determine whether it was a fake, a clear shout suddenly came from behind, and Gi Luo and Qi turned around to look.

Chi'er was running towards them with a basket on his back, smiling brightly.

"Oh, as soon as I saw that graceful back, I knew it was you!" said Chi'er.

Gi chuckled twice. What it was wearing today was the loose boyfriend-style sportswear that the Ghost King had bought for it in the human world a few days ago. Since it was men's clothing, it had returned to its male body. How could it be so graceful?

Luo Yu was attracted by the basket on Chi'er's back. He tilted his head and looked at it. "Chi'er, what are you carrying?"

"Master Benben will stay in the ghost town for a while later, so he asked me to bring his unfinished and completed notebooks to the ghost town first." Chi'er said.

Luo Yu stepped forward and asked, "Can I take a look?"

"Of course, storybooks are meant to be read." Chi'er put down the basket and squatted down to pick up a few books in his hand.

He thought, since he couldn't meet Luo Zhi today, he would take a look at the books in the underworld to see if Benben's story-telling skills could compare with those of any writer in the human world.

Luo Yu found a place nearby to sit down. He had just picked up four books, two new and two old. All of them were made of kraft paper on the outside and white paper on the inside. He picked up a wrinkled one to look at first.

"Do you understand? There is a slight difference between the words in the underworld and those in the human world," said Gi.

Luo Yuyan said without even looking up: "I half understand, but I have a general idea of ​​what happened."

Gi also took out a book from Chi Er's basket. "There's a noodle stall up ahead. I want to eat while I watch. Do you want to join me?"

When he heard about the noodle stall, Luo Yu immediately thought of the bowl of foot bath soup, and a feeling of nausea ran through his body, as if a dense group of centipedes were crawling on him.

"No, you can go by yourself. I'll just sit here and watch. Thank you." After saying that, Luo Yu quickly found a place to sit down.

Gi looked at him for a while, then walked forward without saying anything.

To be honest, it really wanted Luo Yu to go eat a bowl of noodles with it. After all, today would be the last time they met.

The book that Luo Yu was reading should have been written by Benben a long time ago, or the first time he wrote with a pen. When there were some parts that he really couldn't understand, he would call Chi'er to explain them.

After he shouted so many times, Chi'er finally told him the whole story.

This story is about a group of evil spirits being reformed by an ordinary little ghost. It is very clichéd, brainless and illogical.

The story begins with a group of evil spirits constantly eating the little ghosts in the village, and soon there are only a few ghosts left in the village.

Our protagonist, Xiao Gui, is a mentally retarded person and one of the survivors. He doesn't know what they are doing. Every time the evil ghost wants to eat him, he always smiles. The evil ghost thinks he is a big guy. After all, we have to beware of smiling tigers.

When the evil spirits had eaten all the ghosts in the village until only the mentally retarded were left, he still didn't make any move, so they asked him impatiently:

"Hey, when are you going to make your move?"

The mentally retarded man walked up to the evil ghost and touched his belly. The evil ghost was so scared that he took a few steps back and drew his sword to attack him.

The idiot couldn't understand that he was drawing his sword to kill him and then eat him, so he continued to approach him and touch his stomach.

The evil ghost felt that the mentally retarded man didn't seem to have any murderous intentions, so he made a bet with himself and let him touch his belly.

When the idiot touched the ghost's belly, he laughed and said, "All the uncles, aunts, fathers and mothers in the village live in the ghost's belly together. Why don't you put me in too?"

The evil ghost was so frightened that his jaw dropped. It turned out that the little ghost he had been worried about for so long was actually a mentally retarded person.

The evil spirit chuckled at his own stupidity and said, "Don't worry, I'll put you in now. Remember to be patient."

The idiot was still laughing, and he put his hand to the evil ghost's mouth.

The evil ghost was stunned. He usually chased ghosts when eating them, but this was the first time he encountered one throwing itself into his arms. He lost his appetite for a moment.

Seeing that he didn't open his mouth, the retarded man scratched his head and said, "Did Daddy tell you that I shouldn't go into your belly and live with them? Well, they still hate me so much, so I'm leaving." The retarded man waved at him, "Goodbye."

After the idiot had left for a while, one of the little followers behind the evil spirit came forward and said, "Boss, do you want to eat or not..."

The little follower froze in the middle of his speech and almost suspected that he was hallucinating.

His eldest was crying.

The evil spirit wiped away his tears and sighed, "How pitiful! How could there be such a pitiful child?" The evil spirit wiped away his tears twice more and shouted, "Little ones!"

The little followers responded one after another: "Yes!"

The evil spirit said with great vigor, "From now on, we will no longer eat ghosts! We will eradicate evil and violence!"

The little followers all joined in the commotion, shouting their new slogan:

"No more eating ghosts! Eradicate the evil!"

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