Chapter 12
Lin Lang hesitated: "Isn't this bad?"
"There's nothing wrong with it. If we can make Aunt Wu change back to normal, at least we can... take a nice posthumous photo of her." Su Yun said softly.
Aunt Wu died in a hurry, and the Wu family had not prepared anything. Wu Jin did contact a lot of things, but there was not a single photo suitable for use as a posthumous photo, whether it was to be placed on the urn or on the tombstone.
When Wu Jin told Su Yun about this, he also asked Su Yun if he could take a posthumous photo. If not, he would arrange for another photographer to go to the funeral home and take the photo after Aunt Wu was buried. Su Yun said that she had the best makeup artist and photographer, so Wu Jin could rest assured.
Not everyone can foresee their own death and prepare a beautiful and appropriate posthumous portrait. In the past, many people did not prepare, and had no way to take a photo at the last minute, so they would find a very skilled sketch artist to draw a sketch of the deceased's face, which would be considered the posthumous portrait.
The ghost bride came closer at this time, hiding behind Su Yun and watching: "Director, what should we do now? I dare not keep watch alone. If she jumps up again, she will stab me to death."
"What do you want to kill her with? Do you look down on Master Lin's ability so much? Don't move this talisman, and don't move the lotus lamp. When Yan Gui comes to take over tomorrow morning, we will have to send her to the morgue over there in the dressing room. You won't have to guard her then." Su Yun said unhappily. She was fed up with these unreliable employees. They would cause trouble for her every day.
"Then, then should we just ignore it? For example, we can help her remove the spell or something..." the ghost bride suggested in a low voice.
Su Yun crossed his arms and said, "Can you?"
As a ghost, the ghost bride couldn't do this. She quickly shook her head and said, "I can't do this. I belong to the category of ghost, not zombie."
Then Su Yun nodded at her: "Well said, I don't know how to do it either, so why don't you ask Lin Lang if he knows how to do it?"
Lin Lang paused and said, "I'm not sure which faction this spell belongs to. I don't dare to use it. What if I make a mistake..."
They cannot just try to remove the spell on Aunt Wu now, for fear that they might guess wrong and something might happen to Aunt Wu's body. Wu Jin and Wu Yu are still living in the funeral home. If they directly damage Aunt Wu's body, the entire Wu family will probably not let them go.
Moreover, they would feel guilty about damaging the corpse for no reason and would also have to bear the consequences.
Instead of putting yourself in a dilemma, it is better to do nothing now and see if you can survive until the day of cremation, or find a solution before then.
Even Lin Lang was a little hesitant, so the ghost bride didn't know what to say. She stayed behind as a ghost feeling aggrieved, holding Su Yun's sleeve and was reluctant to let go. Sometimes a ghost is really helpless.
Su Yun pulled back his sleeves coldly: "You keep watch carefully. Before you play rock-paper-scissors tomorrow, worship the Queen Mother of Earth and ask her to bless you so that you don't lose again."
Lin Lang wanted to stay and accompany the ghost bride, but was driven away by her. She felt that compared to the resurrected Aunt Wu, Lin Lang covered in purple light was more terrifying. Who knew if she would be burned to ashes by the purple light on Lin Lang if she was distracted?
After all this commotion, it was past two in the morning. Su Yun was so sleepy that she could not open her eyes. She floated back to her room and fell asleep.
This time, I was still half asleep when I heard the cry for help again.
Su Yun turned over speechlessly, holding the little yellow chicken and trying to pretend to be dead. As long as she tried hard to pretend to be dead, no one could wake her up.
However, after a while, the cry for help came closer and closer, almost to the window - the ghost bride flew directly to Su Yun's balcony and knocked on the balcony door: "Director, Director, something happened!"
He was knocking on the door right next to her. Even if Su Yun couldn't remember, he could only put on his robe again angrily, got up, walked to the balcony door, and opened it: "If you don't have anything important to do, I will let you guard the coffin from now on!"
"Director, Ms. Wu is gone!" the ghost bride said in horror, "Director, can you understand? It's like you were staring at a cockroach without disturbing each other, but then you blinked and the cockroach disappeared, and you don't know where it will come out from!"
After hearing this, Su Yun's eyes went dark: "No, she disappeared? There was a talisman on her head, and it disappeared?"
This is worse than if they had damaged the body! The body is lost!
As a last resort, Su Yun immediately jumped off the balcony and ran straight to the coffin building.
When the cooling system of the coffin building was turned on, all doors and windows except the main door were locked in order to maintain the temperature. Now there was no particularly obvious damage to the entire building, and the lotus lamp in front of the altar was intact and not even extinguished.
Su Yun strode into the coffin building. She suddenly stopped in front of the coffin and lifted her hair: "Xinxin, where is my talisman?"
When Aunt Wu first arrived, there was no coffin lid, so Su Yun wrote a talisman and pasted it on the head of the coffin to replace the coffin lid, suppressing Aunt Wu and preventing her from rising from the dead.
The ghost bride appeared in a hurry. She took a look and shook her head: "No, I don't know. I just blinked and Ms. Wu disappeared. I hurried to find you. Maybe, probably, the talisman disappeared when I left."
I don’t know when the talisman disappeared, and I don’t know when Aunt Wu disappeared. Su Yun felt that it was a wrong decision to let the ghost bride keep watch tonight.
Things had turned out like this, and there was no way to sleep anymore. Su Yun could only gather all the employees together to discuss what to do. It would be best to find the bodies before Wu Jin and Wu Yu woke up.
Finally, a group of people gathered in the coffin building, and the ghost bride was very servile and closed the door to avoid being discovered that they were conspiring here.
Su Yun briefly explained the situation and asked the ghosts and Lin Lang what they thought.
The fireman will stay in the city tonight, so he's the only one who hasn't come back. But one less ghost won't make much difference to them.
Lin Lang had seen Aunt Wu's appearance just now. He thought for a while and said, "Maybe they prepared a formation for Ms. Wu in advance, so that she could go to a certain place at a fixed time. And she just raised her corpse so that she could leave the funeral home."
If Aunt Wu had not been buried in the Xicheng Funeral Home, tonight would probably have turned out like this - Aunt Wu would have risen from the dead in the middle of the night, first searched around the funeral home, and after finding no trace of the Wu family, she left the funeral home, and then suddenly disappeared on the street, without being captured by the surveillance cameras.
After Aunt Wu finished her work and really died, the police went to investigate, but probably wouldn't be able to find the murderer, so they could only treat it as an unsolved case.
The ghost officer Ah Xiu checked the coffin and said, "Looking at the ghost energy left, it must have left directly, with no signs of overflow."
If a ghost moves, it will definitely leave a trace of its movement, but if it disappears directly, there is no way to track it.
"The most urgent priority is to find the body, Director. I think she will return to the Wu family's old house. Ah Huo may be nearby. Why don't we contact him?" said the cook.
Ah Huo is the fire-maker. He is a brother of the cook. The cook is called Ah Da, and he is the head chef of the funeral home. The fire-maker is the second chef.
Su Yun was silent for a while, then nodded: "Okay, if we find them there, first bring back Aunt Wu, and Lin Lang. Now, come with me to where Aunt Wu lived before."
Originally Su Yun didn't want to make this trip, but he didn't expect that he would have to go after all.
Things developed too suddenly. Su Yun temporarily arranged for the ghost and the ghost bride to guard the coffin building and the dressing room. Su Yun would definitely not be able to come back tomorrow. In order to prevent the Wu Jin brothers from discovering that the body was missing, the ghost lied to them and said that the body had been sent for burial and family members were not allowed to see it.
The question is that the burial method may not be acceptable to the family members, and the body needs to be cleaned and preservatives need to be used, which is not a very good scene.
The ghost messenger Ah Xiu and the cook were guarding the funeral home. In case Aunt Wu fought back, they could hold off the attack, but they could not directly burn Aunt Wu's body.
After Su Yun finished explaining, he hurried back to his room to change his clothes, took his cell phone, Qiankun bag and folding fan, and called Lin Lang to set off.
According to what Wu Jin had said before, when Aunt Wu was sent by the old man to apologize, she jumped out of the car outside Bincheng. Later, she was worried that she would be caught by the old man, so when she was still in a coma, she crawled to any remote place.
She was also stunned at the time, otherwise she would have thought about what a beautiful woman in her prime meant to a remote and poor area.
Aunt Wu fainted in a forest on the outskirts of Bincheng and was picked up by a strange man. She was never let out afterwards and the windows were sealed shut, not letting her in even a ray of light. However, the house had poor sound insulation, so Aunt Wu later determined that it was a village under the jurisdiction of Bincheng through various sounds outside the window.
In the past, in order to develop towns and villages, the country re-planned the land and merged many towns and villages into urban areas. This was also to expand the area of the city. This led to two results - some villages developed and became new urban areas, while some villages did not develop and became more desolate because of road construction.
Because of poverty, the fat man who picked up Aunt Wu and brought her back has not moved to another place for twenty years. The sealed doors and windows have also gradually aged over time, making it possible for Aunt Wu to escape.
Su Yun seldom goes to such a remote place. She was taken away by the Su family, an old family in Bincheng, when she was young, and was later found by her biological parents. Her daily activities are near the funeral home, which is just as poor, but there are more ghosts than people.
It was difficult to get a taxi at night, so Lin Lang's driver's license came in handy. Su Yun was very shocked. He didn't expect that Lin Lang, a Taoist priest, could actually drive a car!
"You actually have a driver's license?" Su Yun sat on the passenger seat in shock. They were driving a funeral home's car, which was usually used to deliver portraits and urns to people.
"Well, in the past, there were only my master and I in the Taoist temple. When the temple needed to purchase something, we couldn't always use the Qiankun bag. That would look too strange. If we had a car, others wouldn't wonder how we transported things up the mountain." Lin Lang explained as he started the car.
Su Yun thought about it and felt that what Lin Lang said made sense. Ever since she learned how to use the Qiankun bag, she felt that this thing was a must-have for home and travel. She didn't have to worry about forgetting to bring anything when she went out. Anyway, she would always put the things she used frequently in the Qiankun bag.
However, all the people and ghosts in their funeral home use Qiankun bags. When people ask them how they buy vegetables, incense, candles, and paper money, if they mention Qiankun bags, others will think they are crazy.
It would be better to do as Lin Lang said and drive there occasionally to buy it, so as not to arouse suspicion.
Thinking about it this way, Su Yun felt that hiring Lin Lang as an employee was the best decision she had made recently. A Taoist priest who can fight, drive, and manage things is hard to find even with a lantern!
It takes about two hundred kilometers to get from the funeral home to the fat man's house. By the time we arrived, it was already dawn.
Su Yun told Lin Lang that she would take a nap first, and if she felt tired, she could be woken up and someone else could drive. She still had a Class C driver's license and could drive a four-wheel manual transmission car.
However, Lin Lang was very quiet along the way. When Su Yun woke up at dawn, she found that Lin Lang had been driving alone and had not called her at all.
"Lin Lang, why didn't you ask me to change hands?" Su Yun asked, rubbing his eyes.
"It's okay, I'm not tired yet." Lin Lang's voice was very clear, and it could be seen that he was quite energetic.
Su Yun stretched his muscles and bones: "Ah, you cultivators can really endure, but I can't. The bodies of ordinary people always feel exhausted after just a little movement."
Lin Lang noticed the words Su Yun used, "the body of an ordinary person". He actually had little contact with ordinary people outside the Taoist temple, but he still felt that Su Yun sometimes spoke as if she was describing something from a third-person perspective, and was not talking about herself.
Lin Lang didn't know how to respond to this, so he just nodded lightly.
It was already daybreak. Su Yun checked her cell phone. Yan Gui had sent her a message not long ago, saying that Wu Jin had asked her in the morning if there was anything she could do. She had dealt with it, but it would certainly not be easy to hide the fact that there were two living people walking around in the funeral home.
Su Yun was too lazy to type, so he sent her a voice message directly: "Just hide in the dressing room and don't come out. Pretend that you and Xinxin are working hard to put makeup on Aunt Wu. I haven't arrived yet, so stay calm, okay?"
After receiving the message, Yan Gui sent a bunch of crying emojis, as if she was very aggrieved.
It took more than an hour to drive to the place Aunt Wu mentioned. The car couldn't drive in, so we had to find a parking space outside.
Su Yun looked through the information Wu Jin had sent him before, and tried his best to find a house that matched Aunt Wu's description. After walking around, he found that many houses met the requirements, because the customary house construction in this area was square bungalows, and every household was similar, with only a small attic on the roof.
Some backward areas still retain many ancient customs. For example, when building a house, a large beam must be left behind. In order to keep this beam, even if the house is built with reinforced concrete, the builders will add a loft with a sloping roof on the top floor.
Aunt Wu said that she had been locked in a small room with sealed windows. Based on the size she described, Su Yun initially thought it was a storage room. But now that he had arrived at the outskirts of the city, he realized that it should be an attic.
That kind of attic is usually only four or five square meters in size. After putting down a bed, there is not much space to walk around. Moreover, given Aunt Wu's previous height, she would not even be able to stand up straight in the attic.
Lin Lang followed and walked around, then suddenly called Su Yun: "Director, look at that man."
"Man?" Su Yun withdrew his gaze from the rooftop beside the alley in confusion, and looked in the direction Lin Lang pointed. He saw a familiar fat figure, who turned out to be Aunt Wu's fat son!
Su Yun immediately pulled Lin Lang along and followed him. They followed carefully, making sure the fat son didn't notice them.
The fat son moved his bloated body. After not seeing him for a day, he seemed to be trying hard to get closer to his father's body shape. His face looked greasy and shiny, and it seemed that he was living a happy life without his father's pressure.
The roads in this area are very narrow, and at most can only accommodate an SUV and an electric car. There are also some very small chopped pepper fish heads parked on the roadside. My fat son walked with difficulty, and every step seemed like he was squeezing through the alley.
After finally squeezing out of the alley, the fat son came to a slightly larger road. A car from the funeral home was parked nearby, but the fat son didn't pay any attention to the cars on the road. It was still early and the neighborhood was very quiet.
The fat son walked to a nearby supermarket, picked up the basket and started buying things with a grunt, looking like a wealthy man. He only chose snacks with very high calories and didn't buy any ingredients.
Lin Lang and Su Yun were waiting under a tree outside the supermarket. Lin Lang asked quietly, "Director, do you know this man?"
"He is not a man, he is only fifteen years old and is Aunt Wu's son." Su Yun answered casually, but she was not surprised that Lin Lang was wrong. No matter who saw the fat son's appearance, they would think he was at least twenty-five or twenty-six.
Even if you are an expert at face reading, you would think he is twenty-five or twenty-six, because a person's facial features can change with their lifestyle habits. The fat son is obviously living more and more like his father, so his age will naturally go up.
When Lin Lang heard Su Yun say this, his pupils suddenly trembled. He couldn't help but look at his fat son's face again, and even calculated it for him. He found it still very strange: "How can he look so old?"
Su Yun fanned himself with a folding fan and said, "Appearance is determined by the heart. Many children nowadays look very mature. When you calculate their ages, they seem to be right. But when you look at the household registration book, the result is that they are underage."
When reading his fat son's face, Lin Lang even suspected that he had lost his skills, but since Su Yun said so, he felt that maybe times had changed.
"By the way, how did you find out that there was something wrong with him just now? How did you figure out that he was Aunt Wu's son?" Su Yun asked again when Lin Lang was shocked.
"Oh, I just felt a trace of corpse energy on him, which is a bit similar to the one on Ms. Wu." Lin Lang replied immediately.
Su Yun raised his eyebrows and stared at his fat son who was about to check out in the supermarket: "Corpse Qi? A lot of people died in their family."
The fat son did not see the dead Aunt Wu in the hospital because of the obstruction of the Wu family. His father had only suffered a stroke and was not dead yet. What's more, he left his old father who had a stroke in the hospital. Now he lives at home. How could he have the same corpse aura as Aunt Wu?
Unless someone had died in their family before, and the dead person's corpse had stained Aunt Wu and the fat son.
Yesterday in the hospital, Su Yun did not sense any corpse energy on the father and son, and thought they were just ordinary scoundrels. Now, looking back, he found that Lin Lang was right. There was suddenly a trace of corpse energy coming out of the fat son, and it was somewhat similar to that of Aunt Wu.
Soon, the fat son checked out and left the supermarket. Carrying a huge bag, he went to the roast pork trotter shop, cake shop, fried chicken shop, and hamburger shop to buy various high-calorie foods. He turned back home when he could hardly carry it anymore.
On the way, the fat son couldn't help but start eating. He ate the hamburger in big mouthfuls while walking slowly towards the house. Seeing his eating habits, which were uglier than a pig eating slop, Su Yun inexplicably felt that she didn't want to eat today's meal very much.
The fat son ate up all the hamburgers on the way home, and then used his dirty hands to eat the fried chicken. His hands were covered with sauce and oil, and looked very dirty and disgusting. Su Yun almost vomited after seeing it for a few seconds.
Lin Lang couldn't stand it anymore, so he walked over quickly. Thinking that the fat son had never seen him, he handed him a tissue. However, the fat son didn't even look at him, and walked around him and continued walking forward. He soon turned into another smaller alley and opened a rusty iron door.
Judging from the layout of the building, that should be the house they built. It has four floors in total, and there is a small attic on the top. The windows and skylights are sealed with black plastic bags and iron plates, so it is impossible to see what is inside.
At this time, Su Yun walked to Lin Lang's side. They both saw the house that the fat son entered. It was really effortless and he found the house that matched Aunt Wu's description.
Lin Lang looked around and whispered to Su Yun, "Director, I'll go up and take a look."
"Be careful," Su Yun said, pausing, "Don't let anyone find out. This is a society ruled by law. If we are found out, we will be arrested and taken to the public security bureau."
"...Okay." Lin Lang, who thought Su Yun was worried about him, responded helplessly, then climbed onto the roof by stepping on the uneven parts of the wall.
Su Yun moved closer to the windows of the house, trying to observe the layout inside.
There are anti-theft railings outside the windows, and the windows are frosted with patterns, so you can't see clearly what's inside.
After a while, Lin Lang came down and said directly: "Director, there are two large refrigerators in the attic upstairs, and inside are the bodies of two elderly people."
Su Yun was a little surprised: "Two old people's bodies? I remember Aunt Wu said that the fat man later asked his parents in the countryside to come and look after her. Could it be these two old people? No wonder Aunt Wu and her son have similar corpse auras."
The reason why the corpse qi remained on Aunt Wu's body for so long was because she was considered dead anyway, so it remained longer. The fat man and the fat son had been to the police station, and their bodies were contaminated with yang qi, and when they went to the hospital, the corpse qi had dissipated completely, until the fat son returned home and was contaminated again.
If the two bodies upstairs happened to be the fat man's parents, and they died but were not buried, the father and son might be trying to defraud the old man of his pension.
"Should we call the police?" Lin Lang directly asked the most crucial question.
"Report, but not now. When you went up just now, didn't you find any problems other than the corpse? Anything related to Aunt Wu." Su Yun was still more concerned about Aunt Wu's whereabouts. If she couldn't find her within three days, she didn't know how to face the Wu family who trusted her.
By then, we can’t say that Aunt Wu ran away on her own.
Lin Lang shook his head silently. He went up to take a look around, and even used the Bagua mirror to look around, but he didn't find any extra traces, not even blood or hair.
Su Yun frowned and put his hand on Lin Lang's shoulder: "No matter what, let's go in and knock out the fat son, and check this house thoroughly. I don't believe there won't be any traces left."
The meaning of going in and knocking the fat son unconscious is to let Lin Lang use the wall-walking technique to take Su Yun in through the wall first, and then use special methods to knock the fat son unconscious and let him sleep - these are the methods that the righteous faction will use, and they will not use excessive ones.
Lin Lang hesitated for a moment, and felt that finding the body was more important, so he agreed. As long as he was gentle, nothing would happen to his fat son.
The art of walking through walls is a relatively low-level spell in the process of cultivation, but it is a little more difficult than the initial art of lighting fire and summoning water. Lin Lang has already mastered it to perfection, and he can walk through walls without any problem with Su Yun.
The square concrete house looks very small from the outside, and it is even narrower inside, covering an area of less than 20 square meters. Except for the stairs, the first floor is filled with garbage and debris, as well as broken modified bicycles.
Su Yun originally wanted to go upstairs, but the stairs were piled with all kinds of debris and garbage, leaving her with nowhere to step. She was still wearing a long black skirt, and she felt that if she stepped on it, her skirt would get dirty.
It was not easy for two people to stand side by side in the narrow house. Seeing Su Yun hesitate, Lin Lang jumped directly onto the stairs and cleared a path for Su Yun to go upstairs.
The fat son was watching TV and playing games on the second floor. I could hear very loud game sound effects and music. Before I went upstairs, I smelled a foul smell of rotting food. If you didn't know, you would have thought you had entered a garbage dump.
Lin Lang poked his head out from the stairs, then dodged and rushed behind his fat son. He raised his hand and pinched the acupoint on the back of his neck hard. He was worried that the other person's fat was too thick and he couldn't pinch accurately, so he put in quite a bit of force. Fortunately, the fat son fainted successfully.
Su Yun walked up to the second floor with difficulty, holding up her skirt. She saw that the second floor was separated by various curtains. There was a kitchen, bathroom and living room. It was littered with garbage bags, food scraps and takeout boxes. Some of the takeout boxes were even moldy, but no one threw them away.
There is an old-style LCD TV in the living room, but it is not turned on. The fat son is playing games on his computer. Various killing sounds can be heard from the computer, and someone is swearing at him from the opposite side, asking why the fat son is AFK.
There was not a single place on the entire second floor that people could feel safe to touch. Even the computer keyboard and mouse were covered with food residue and grease. The fat son went straight to play games without wiping his hands after eating. The gaps between the keyboard and the mouse were filled with greasy dirt, and one look at it made people almost want to vomit.
Su Yun didn't look at it for long, but couldn't stand the noise from the computer and didn't want to touch his fat son's dirty device, so he just unplugged it. His fat son probably didn't move the computer, so apart from the dust on the plug, it was quite clean compared to his mouse and keyboard.
Without the noisy and piercing sound, Su Yun finally felt better. She said to Lin Lang, "Let's check it out now."
Lin Lang agreed and asked Su Yun to go upstairs to check. The second floor was too dirty, so he could do it himself.
Su Yun did not refuse. She could accept a person's poverty, but she really couldn't stand how dirty and messy a poor family could be.
Poverty can be unavoidable, but how you live your life is your own choice. Su Yun used to study in the best middle school in Bincheng, and he had seen poor students who got in with their good grades. Although some of these poor students were poor, their clothes were always clean and tidy, and they were never as dirty as his fat son.
Compared with the second floor, the third floor is relatively cleaner, but it is obvious that the third floor is used as a bedroom floor. The space of more than 20 square meters is divided into three rooms. You can tell who lives there by looking at the current condition of each room.
The rooms where the elderly live will be filled with a lot of unnecessary sundries, which are saved up in the belief that they can be used in the future and sold for money; the rooms where middle-aged men live are very messy and dirty, and no one cleans them up. They would rather live in a place that is like a pigsty, lying in a position that is about to ferment sewage every day and don't want to move.
The last room was filled with various game derivatives and expired foods, which were obviously for the fat son. Young people must like these things, and their father and grandparents spoiled them and doted on this only incense.
Su Yun stood at the stairs and thought for a while, then decided to go to the old man's room to check first. Judging from the traces at the scene, the old couple had not appeared in the room for a long time. There was even a thick layer of dust on the ground and even on the bed.
A room where people live won't accumulate so much dust. People walking around every day will stir up dust even if the room isn't cleaned up, so it won't be so obvious.
Then Su Yun went to the fat man's room. The fat man had suffered a stroke and now he didn't know how he was treated by the hospital. It seemed that he had not returned.
There were obscene items in various corners of the fat man's room, some of which were dirty. It was obvious what the man had done in the room.
Next was the fat son's room. After checking, Su Yun still didn't find anything special, not even any trace of Aunt Wu's existence. There were only traces of the fat man's life in his bedroom.
Lin Lang came upstairs at this time. He was wiping his hands with a tissue and said, "Director, I checked. All the food in the refrigerator is expired. Some of it has rotted. There are pots in the kitchen that have been used and never washed. Some of them have been there for at least half a month. It is possible that this father and son never cleaned them up."
In this family, the father is the "prince" who was spoiled by his parents, the son is the noble "grandson", and even though the elderly parents have one foot in the coffin, they are still taking care of them and even trapping a beautiful lady from a wealthy family for them.
However, after their parents really died, the father and son were unable to even live a normal life. Like two giant babies, they tried every means to find Aunt Wu back and wanted the last woman in the family to continue to take care of their daily life.
Su Yun nodded to Lin Lang: "I see. I didn't find anything special on the third floor. I just saw that the old man must have been dead for quite a while."
There were only four floors and an attic left in this narrow house. Lin Lang explored the way ahead and only let Su Yun follow after making sure that it was passable.
The fourth floor is different from the downstairs. It is relatively not crowded and contains some tools that are not used in daily life. It seems that the fourth floor is a bit high and the family doesn't like to climb up there.
No clues were found on the somewhat empty fourth floor. The attic was too small and only one person could go up at a time. For someone of Lin Lang's height, he had to bend down to go up, which was very painful, so he had to let Su Yun go up first.
Outside the attic is actually the rooftop, but the door is locked and the key is hung at the entrance of the stairs on the fourth floor, which is difficult for people with mobility impairments to reach.
Su Yun is 1.68 meters tall and wore Hanfu shoes with three-centimeter wedge heels. After she walked up to the attic, she couldn't straighten her back before she even entered the door, let alone entered the room. It can be seen how painful it was for Lin Lang to come up to check on her just now.
Lin Lang, who was at the bottom of the stairs, stretched out his hand behind him, fearing that Su Yun would hit his head and fall down: "Director, be careful."
"It's okay, I'll find the light." Su Yun said, inserting the folding fan into his belt, and began to feel for the light switch on the wall with both hands.
The attic is about four to five square meters in size. In the corner opposite the entrance, there is a 90-centimeter-wide iron bed. There is no bedding on it, just a wooden bed board and some iron chains and ropes. It is obvious that they are used to tie people up. There are many barbs on the wooden board. Not to mention sleeping, people would probably be worried about getting a hole in their legs if they sit down.
Next to the entrance, there are two freezers commonly found in convenience stores. They have large capacity and are not divided into layers, making them suitable for freezing large items without forcing yourself to divide them into pieces and then freeze them.
Su Yun couldn't find the light switch, so she took out her cell phone and turned on the flashlight. Only then did she realize that there was no light in the room, not that she couldn't find the light switch.
Aunt Wu said that she was locked in a dark room and never saw the light again. She didn't just mean that the windows were sealed and she couldn't see the sunlight. She actually lived in an almost completely dark place for twenty years. In such an environment, she would escape if there was any chance, whether it was life or death.
Black plastic sheets covered the two refrigerators. Su Yun held up his phone and went over to open them. The lids of the refrigerators were made of transparent glass. He could see two old people wrapped tightly in plastic wrap. Their wrinkled and old faces were squeezed into a ball of wrinkled skin by the plastic wrap, and then frozen into a piece of shriveled meat by the refrigerator.
There seemed to be nothing else in the attic except these few things. Su Yun raised her phone higher and checked the walls and the low ceiling. She was afraid of touching her hair, so she kept bending her body, which was a very tiring posture.
Su Yun looked around and suddenly saw some black mold on the rooftop door.
Just now, when Lin Lang went upstairs, he directly used the wall-walking skill and did not damage the doors and windows, so the door still looked intact. The mold and rust on it showed that the door had never been opened since it was closed.
The dark mold scattered on the door panel looked like blooming flowers. It felt like touching something furry, but in reality it only got your hands covered in dirty mold.
Seeing Su Yun approaching the door, Lin Lang also hunched over and squeezed half of his body into the attic, and leaned over to look at Su Yun: "Director, have you found anything?"
"This kind of mold... I seem to have seen it somewhere..." Su Yun reached out and pinched a little bit off, rubbing it gently with his fingers. It had a familiar touch and smell.
The pungent smell seemed to bring Su Yun back to the darkest and most helpless time in her life. That day, she also fell in the darkness with her cheek pressed against the dirty ground. In her peripheral vision, she just happened to see some blooming, pitch-black flowers.
Su Yun couldn't quite remember what she was thinking when she saw those pitch-black "little flowers". Maybe she thought they were ugly and smelled bad, or she hoped someone would help her up from the ground. Even if she died, she wanted to die with her back straight, rather than falling to the ground like a dog waiting to be slaughtered.
As he was reminiscing, Su Yun suddenly heard Lin Lang calling him, and he was startled: "What did you say?"
Lin Lang looked at Su Yun calmly, then said, "I called you several times just now, but you didn't respond."
"Oh..." Su Yun took out a tissue and wiped his fingers clean. "I remembered some past events. I didn't hear you. Do you have anything to tell me?"
"Yes, I didn't notice it just now. This thing is not mold, it's a kind of... how to say it, because it's too small, we don't even have a specific name for it, but when it grows up, people call it a monster." Lin Lang was not worried that Su Yun didn't understand, he knew that Su Yun's basic skills must be solid.
Su Yun naturally knew what this was. There were many varieties of this thing, and they would change into different appearances as they grew. Sometimes, it might simply have accumulated too much resentment and eaten too many bad things, and would slowly grow in the house and turn into a house demon.
Some will turn into monsters that specialize in sucking human essence, and some like to eat dreams, and are called nightmares.
These monsters are too weak and inconspicuous before they grow up, and people can even get rid of them easily, so no one will give names to some molds. Only when they grow up and begin to affect people's lives and are killed by Taoist priests will they be named and recorded.
In some strange stories, resentment can accumulate into mold that appears in a house. People living in such a house will gradually become physically deteriorating, emotionally unstable, and irritable.
Of course, not all things that look like this are little monsters. Some are real molds, which are poisonous. People living in them must get rid of them, otherwise they will get sick.
Whether it is real mold or false mold, cleaning it before living there is the key to ensuring your health.
Su Yun was silent for a while, and then said, "This mold must have been raised by someone. The other party came here and planted the root of resentment. Aunt Wu, who was already close to death, lay with two dead people every day. She should not be able to bear the temptation of resentment."
These molds feed on resentment. There just so happens that in this attic, there are two corpses and one and a half living people. The resentment is so heavy that it can make its growth rate several times faster. After eating the two corpses, it can then parasitize Aunt Wu's body.
In other words, fusion.
Aunt Wu accepted the resentment emanating from her heart and didn't want to care about anything except the obsession in her heart. Then she became neither human nor ghost, escaped from the house, and returned to the Wu family's old house.
Lin Lang couldn't understand Su Yun's statement: "Why do you say that someone raised him?"
"I seem to have seen something similar. Look at these molds. Do they look like clusters of black flowers?" Su Yun asked softly, and stepped back a little so that Lin Lang could see the entire door panel clearly.
Lin Lang, who had practiced for many years and had never thought of such a metaphor, was stunned for a moment. However, from Su Yun's words, he found that Su Yun was actually right. It was like a bunch of blooming flowers.
If we compare these molds to flowers, it seems that we can distinguish their categories before they grow.
Lin Lang turned his gaze to Su Yun again. Su Yun was in the dark with his backlight, and his face could not be seen clearly: "Director, so, do you know who to look for?"
Su Yun tilted her head slightly and blinked her big and beautiful peach blossom eyes: "I'm not sure, but the other party should be a professional, so instead of looking for it ourselves, why don't we ask who the Wu family has offended recently and why they went through so much trouble to take their lives."
Having found the clue, Su Yun didn't want to stay here anymore, so she asked Lin Lang to use the wall-walking technique to take her out. She then called the police and said that the neighbor's house smelled terrible, as if someone had died.
On the way back, Su Yun received news that the fireman had returned with Aunt Wu.
Su Yun hurriedly called Yan Gui and asked her about the situation at the funeral home and the fireman, and what exactly happened.
It turned out that in order to make time to attend Aunt Wu's funeral, Mr. and Mrs. Wu decided to live directly in the company last night and do all their work in advance to avoid going back and forth between the old house and the company.
The fireman sent them directly to the city center. Then, while Wu's father and mother were working in the company, he found a nearby hotel to stay in. In the early morning, he received a message from the sexy ghost. He immediately went to the vicinity of Wu's father and mother. After waiting for a while, he really saw Aunt Wu suddenly appear.
The fire-maker had never seen Aunt Wu's appearance when she was young before, but her aura had never changed. In addition, her face was similar to the description of the ghost bride, so it was easy to recognize her.
As a fire master who burns corpses, he is not afraid of these ghosts, but the ghosts are afraid of him.
So the fire-maker chased after her, grabbed Aunt Wu's neck and took her back to the funeral home. Aunt Wu was struggling on the way, but considering that she was a customer, the fire-maker did not use any harsh force. At the same time, he also found that Aunt Wu was not tired at all.
Generally, as long as ghosts are still conscious, they will stop when they find that their struggles are useless, and wait for an opportunity to strike again. They will not keep wasting energy.
Aunt Wu, however, seemed tireless and struggled all the way until dawn.
After dawn, the fireman had not returned to the funeral home yet, but Aunt Wu had turned back into a shriveled corpse, and there was no trace of the ferocious face she had as she looked like she was about to kill someone just a second ago.
Things were strange. The fire master didn't know the reason, so he sped up the process of sending Aunt Wu back to the funeral home. Unexpectedly, Su Yun and Lin Lang were not there. Now Su Yun and Lin Lang, who could suppress corpses and ghosts, were not there. The ghost employees could only follow Su Yun's instructions and send Aunt Wu to the morgue.
During this time, they also had to avoid Wu Jin and Wu Yu who were in a daze in the yard. They knew that staying in the funeral home meant accompanying their aunt to the funeral, but they didn't expect that there was no entertainment in the funeral home and it was terribly boring.
The sexy ghost asked Su Yun what to do and whether to start the burial ceremony that had been planned.
According to the procedure, Aunt Wu's body should be cleaned today, and then preservatives should be applied. At the same time, her body should be examined, and the bones that need to be reconnected and the repairs that need to be done should be done. But now there are obvious problems with Aunt Wu's body, and the ghost doesn't know whether to take action or not.
After listening to him, Su Yun said, "We still need to use the preservatives. Let's clean it up and apply the medicine first. As for the rest, I'll go back and talk to Wu Jin and decide."
The sexy ghost agreed, and then the two hung up the phone. Su Yun felt tired. She felt that this order was a bit of a loss. She was charged the same amount of money, but did several times more work than before. It was really not cost-effective.
The journey back took another half day, and Su Yun only arrived at the funeral home at noon. As soon as he entered the door, he ran into Wu Yu who was strolling around.
Wu Yu looked at Su Yun who had just entered the room in surprise: "Su Yun? Wait, Ah Xiu just said that you were asleep and hadn't woken up yet, and asked us not to disturb you because you are very grumpy when you wake up, and you must get enough sleep."
"..." Su Yun sometimes really felt that his employees all needed a set of nine-year compulsory education. At least they should learn how to do reading comprehension. "So I went out for a walk after waking up to cool down before coming back. Is there a problem?"
"It seems there is no problem..." Wu Yu's not-so-bright brain couldn't wrap its head around it. He felt that what Su Yun said made sense, but it seemed like something was wrong.
Su Yun ignored him and went straight to the funeral home's complex building. The morgue was there, and the dressing room was also in the complex building. The ghost employees had already carried the coffin over in the morning. After Aunt Wu came back, she went straight into the coffin. No other problems have been found so far.
In order to deceive the smart Wu Jin, there are only the sexy ghost and the ghost bride in the complex building. The two of them get together to do the basic cleaning of Aunt Wu's corpse. The ghost bride has been trembling, fearing that Aunt Wu will change size again.
According to the time it takes for a corpse to begin to decay, rigor mortis will begin to set in about three hours after death. The heart stops beating and blood cannot circulate, causing the corpse to remain soft. Livor livor mortis will then appear.
Aunt Wu's body was clean, without any signs of corpse spots, and not even any odor caused by gastric acid reflux corroding her internal organs. If it wasn't confirmed that she was not breathing, anyone who saw her would have thought she was still alive.
Su Yun came to the bathroom behind the dressing room. Aunt Wu was lying on the operating table, her body being wiped bit by bit.
Seeing Su Yun coming, Yan Gui hurriedly said, "Director, you are finally back. Take a look at Ms. Wu's body. She has no signs of corpse spots and no swelling. She looks like a very well-made zombie."
Since the ghost bride arrived late, she did not attend too many funerals in the funeral home. The sexy ghost has been there for a long time and has seen all kinds of zombies. Some of them are holding a grudge in their hearts and want to find a way to come back to life after death.
Some were turned into zombies accidentally, for example, because the ancestral grave had bad feng shui or was cursed, and one breaking a taboo would turn them into zombies.
"So, Ayan, do you think Aunt Wu became like this because of human factors?" Su Yun asked back.
"Of course, I've been painting skins for so many years, this little trick is just a show-off for me, right? Ms. Wu is not a painted skin, she was made into a living zombie." The ghost said proudly, it was a rare opportunity to prove her ability, she would certainly not let it go.
The so-called living zombies, the key point is the word "living". Zombies can be divided into living and dead. Dead zombies are those who become zombies due to various reasons after death. They are generally the clients of corpse drivers. The scope of living zombies is much smaller, and the conditions for their formation are harsh. The corpse must be turned into a zombie when the person is about to die.
It can't be too early or too late. If it's too early or too late, the zombies will be considered dead. Only when they die can they be made into living zombies. This is something many corpse drivers cannot do. Cultivation is one aspect, and opportunity is another. Where can there be so many living people who are just the right type for corpse drivers to practice on?
Su Yun immediately figured out the key: "If you want to make a living zombie, is there a way to plant resentment in a living person first, and then wait for the living person to die, so that because he has an extra breath before death, he can directly become a living zombie?"
The ghost nodded: "Of course, but this is also a probabilistic event. As I said before, it is really difficult to find a living person who has resentment in his heart, is willing to be resentful, and is dying——"
Before she could finish her words, the ghost suddenly realized that there was someone in front of her, and she was washing the other person's body.
"So, if you want to plant resentment in people, where can you find it?" Su Yun ignored the ghost's shock and continued to ask.
"Resentment is everywhere. If you want to become a zombie, go find it in a zombie coffin. It's easy for it to grow on the coffin if there's no light." The ghost answered blankly, still staring at Aunt Wu. She obviously didn't expect that such a low probability thing would actually happen to her.
Su Yun understood, and she said to the two of them, "Okay, I've finished asking. The arrangements for Aunt Wu remain the same. You guys should clean her up first today. I have to go find a zombie coffin that can scrape away the resentment."
After saying that, Su Yun turned around and prepared to leave, then the ghost bride and the sexy ghost hurriedly called her back.
The ghost bride whispered, "Director, where are you going? The old director won't let you run around."
The ghost also said, "Yes, yes, you have done your best by going out to look for Ms. Wu. Why don't you leave the rest to Wu Jin and the others? They have the connections, so we don't have to do it ourselves."
After listening, Su Yun stroked her folding fan and turned around to say, "This is not just about the Wu family. I saw a kind of resentment gathering like black flowers in the house where Aunt Wu lives. I have seen resentment like that before, and I thought it was just damp and moldy air."
For a period of time before and after her death, Su Yun's memory and senses were very vague. She could no longer remember many things after her rebirth. Her biological parents wanted to avenge her, but Su Yun could not remember them no matter what. She also felt that it was not easy for her to be reborn, so she didn't care.
Su Yun was living a peaceful life, but suddenly something he saw before his death appeared. It was hard for him not to care.
Su Yun didn't tell anyone about this. If she hadn't seen almost the same resentment again, she would have almost forgotten this memory.
Hearing this, the ghost and the ghost bride looked at each other. They were silent for a while, and the ghost tried to persuade: "But the old curator..."
"I won't go to dangerous places by myself, so you don't have to worry. Besides, I have a bodyguard now. Wherever he goes, who can dare to touch me?" Su Yun laughed as he spoke.
Seeing that the ghost and the ghost bride had nothing to say, Su Yun strode away. After a while, he poked his head out of the door again and said, "Also, don't inform my parents. They have worked hard for more than 20 years to go on a honeymoon. Don't disturb their world of two."
The sexy ghost and the ghost bride nodded reluctantly, agreeing to Su Yun not to inform Su Yiling and Ji Weitong.
After leaving the complex building, Su Yun thought for a while at the door and went to the yard. He heard that Wu Jin was drinking tea and daydreaming there.
When he arrived at the yard, Su Yun saw Wu Jin and Wu Yu were both there. Wu Yu couldn't sit still and kept playing with his mobile phone, while Wu Jin was slowly making tea and drinking it, trying to entertain himself.
Su Yun strode over and sat down in his main seat: "It's boring here, isn't it? There are not many entertainment activities. All we can do is fold paper money and make paper figures. We make them for half a month and burn them on the first and fifteenth day of each month to the graves and the heaven and earth that no one worships."
Wu Jin gave Su Yun a cup of brewed tea and replied, “It’s okay. I usually work and drink tea. Only Wu Yu would feel bored.”
"Brother, it's fine that mom said I couldn't stay here, but why are you scolding me too? Haven't I been sitting here obediently?" Wu Yu put down his phone with a groan. When sending his parents to the car last night, Wu's mother told him that he should not make trouble or offend Su Yun when living in such a serious place, even for his aunt?
In the past, when Su Yun was still the daughter of the Su family, everyone knew that Wu Yu and Su Yun did not get along. It was not certain why, but they had a good relationship when they were young. But since when, whenever he saw Su Yun, he would say a few words to her, and then be made to cry by Su Yun.
Wu's mother naturally remembered the grudges between the two children, but now their Wu family was asking Su Yun for help. No matter how the identities of both parties changed, their attitude should always be better.
Facing Wu Yu's rebuttal, Wu Jin simply laughed: "You haven't been sitting down for half an hour. You just came back from a stroll. What are you talking about being obedient?"
Wu Yu had indeed run around just now, and ran into Su Yun who had gone out to cool off. Wu Yu had no way of refutation, and lay down on the table listlessly, humming as if he was feeling uncomfortable all over.
Su Yun was watching with interest, and after a while he said, "Actually, I went to Aunt Wu's son's home this morning, which is... that man's home, and the situation may be a little different from what we know."
When mentioning the shameless father and son, Wu Jin and Wu Yu's faces darkened. As relatives of Aunt Wu, they really hated this father and son. If the law allowed it, they really wanted to make this father and son taste the suffering that Aunt Wu had suffered.
"Then what? What did you find out?" Wu Jin took a deep breath and calmed himself down before asking. He knew that Su Yun would not mention this for no reason.
"It may be hard to believe for you, but I still want to ask, have you offended anyone recently? The kind who wants to kill your entire family, or are there such people in the company?" Su Yun asked tentatively.
Wu Jin frowned when he heard this, trying to understand the hidden meaning of Su Yun's words. He said carefully, "No, my father and I have never offended anyone, and my mother is famous for her good temper. The Wu family's company is clearly controlled, and no shareholder has made any unusual moves. Why do you ask this?"
Su Yun did not doubt Wu Jin's words. There was no need for Wu Jin to lie about such a matter. She thought about it and told the truth: "What I am going to say next may shock your worldview, but I still have to say that Aunt Wu was turned into a zombie. She ran away last night and was found by the fireman this morning."
After finishing speaking, Wu Jin and Wu Yu were unable to come back to their senses for a long time. The two brothers had similar dazed expressions, as if their CPUs were burned out.
Afraid that the two brothers would not be able to accept it, Su Yun gave them enough time to calm down and did not finish his words in one breath.
After more than ten minutes, Wu Jin spoke with difficulty: "Are you kidding me? Where are there any zombies in the world? Didn't you say yesterday that this was just a psychological comfort for the industry?"
"That's right!" Wu Yu also came back to his senses. He slammed the table and stood up. "Su Yun, do you not want to help? Or do you want money? Just say it directly. Why do you have to say all these roundabout things? And zombies! If you want to play tricks on me, you should at least have a more reliable reason!"
Su Yun knew that it was troublesome to explain this to ordinary people. She sighed: "Hey, for many things, what you hear is not as good as what you see. I understand if you don't believe me. I told you in advance because I wanted you not to be too scared tonight. After all, seeing an aunt who can move is different from seeing the aunt from 20 years ago, right?"
Wu Yu was about to continue scolding when he was frightened. He stuttered, "No, no, what nonsense are you talking about? Are you crazy? What do you mean by aunt from twenty years ago?"
Wu Jin looked at Su Yun's expression and found that she was serious, so he raised his hand and pulled Wu Yu to sit down, saying: "Su Yun, please explain the matter clearly first. Also, you asked if our family had offended anyone just now. What does it have to do with aunt?"
Seeing that Wu Jin had finally calmed down, Su Yun nodded and began to speak from the beginning: "I'll be frank. When I first heard you talk about Aunt Wu's situation, I concluded that Aunt Wu was dead. If she wasn't dead, she couldn't return to the Wu family's old house. The environment she lived in was something you could never imagine in your lifetime."
When Aunt Wu told them about it before, the description was not particularly detailed, perhaps because Aunt Wu herself did not want to recall it. Now, through Su Yun's detailed description of the layout of the four-square-meter attic, Wu Jin and Wu Yu finally realized what kind of life their aunt, the once noble and proud aunt, lived.
Not even as good as a human being and having not seen the light of day for twenty years, facing such a life, turning into a zombie doesn't seem to be something unbearable.
Su Yun told them that some things that could create zombies were found in that house, which could be understood as seeds. Someone had sown the seeds in the attic. Aunt Wu was facing the two corpses day and night, and the father and son downstairs were selfish and lazy. Perhaps Aunt Wu was starved to death.
After hearing Su Yun's words, Wu Jin and Wu Yu crushed two more glasses. They wanted to go back and beat the father and son to death. How could a stroke be enough? They should also have their hands and feet broken and tied to a formwork bed to live in darkness for twenty years and finally starve to death!
After Su Yun finished speaking, Wu Yu asked with red eyes: "Su Yun, you said before that you really attracted my aunt's soul in the hospital, so that man had a stroke, and it was my aunt who was taking revenge, right?"
At this moment, Wu Yu and Wu Jin both hoped that their aunt had really turned into a ghost and tried hard to avenge them, otherwise how could they get rid of the hatred in their hearts?
Su Yun blinked: "Oh, I did that."
"..." The emotions that were originally surging in Wu Jin and Wu Yu were all scared away in an instant. They looked at Su Yun in amazement, unable to believe that she had actually caused a stroke in someone. The most important thing was that none of them noticed that it was Su Yun who did it!
"It's not the first day you have known me. I always take revenge. He smashed my incense burner and dared to knock over the incense I handed over. So any retribution he got is his destiny and he deserves it." Su Yun said calmly, not feeling that there was anything wrong at all.
After a long while, Wu Jin asked in confusion: "But... you didn't do anything."
Su Yun smiled and said, "I stepped on the incense sticks that fell on the ground and broke two of them. I don't know if you have heard this saying, people hate three long and two short, and incense hates two short and one long. The incense sticks that he should have lit were knocked down by him, and two of them were broken. If he doesn't get hurt, who will?"
The truth they suddenly knew made the Wu Jin brothers unable to recover for a long time. They were stunned for a long time, and finally sorted out a little bit of thoughts. Wu Yu asked: "Then, what about aunt? If she was there at the time, didn't she say anything?"
"This is the main point I want to tell you. Aunt Wu should have actually died in the attic, but someone planted a seed of resentment in her and turned her into a zombie. I invited her soul here at the time hoping that after seeing this, she would not let that man die so easily. But because she was turned into a zombie, she has no thoughts of her own now, and her soul is also stupid." Su Yun said helplessly.
No matter whether Aunt Wu becomes bigger or smaller, she has no thoughts of her own. Ordinary living zombies should be like living people. Either the person who cast the spell is not good enough, or the other party deliberately made Aunt Wu into this easy-to-control state so that she can be manipulated to kill the Wu family.
After listening to Su Yun, Wu Jin and Wu Yu looked at each other. They still found it difficult to understand these things and felt that it would take a long time to digest them.
This time, Su Yun didn't wait for them to continue asking and told them what happened last night. First, Aunt Wu suddenly turned back into her young appearance and chased Xinxin and her who were contaminated with the aura of the Wu family. Then she was subdued and sent back, and then suddenly disappeared.
Afterwards, she suddenly appeared near the Wu family company in the center of Bincheng City, a hundred miles away, and was caught by the fire-maker. It was obvious that because she couldn't kill anyone in the funeral home, she was going to kill Wu's father and mother. If Su Yun hadn't asked the fire-maker to send her off, there would be three people holding the funeral the day after tomorrow.
The latter part made Wu Jin and Wu Yu break out in cold sweats in the nearly 40-degree weather. They couldn't imagine what would happen if their aunt really turned into a zombie and killed their parents...
Wu Jin and Wu Yu couldn't accept this possibility just by thinking about it.
"That's roughly what happened. I felt something was wrong, so I went to the home of the father and son and discovered that someone had done something to Aunt Wu. Wu Jin, you said the Wu family doesn't have any enemies, and I believe you. But sometimes it's not necessarily that your enemies hate you so much, do you understand?" Su Yun gestured for him to suspect all the possible suspects first.
People die for money and birds die for food. There are many reasons for wanting to kill someone, not necessarily because of any grudges. A psychopath does not need a reason to kill someone.
Wu Jin and Wu Yu were digesting the information in anger and confusion. Taking in so much information in the middle of the day seemed like their heads were about to explode.
Su Yun planned to give them some private space, and said before leaving: "Oh, by the way, in case you don't believe me, you don't have to go back to the room tonight, and wait here for Aunt Wu to turn back into her young appearance. I believe you will miss her very much. Of course, if you are scared, remember to run fast. Also, you can choose whether to take a portrait of the young aunt or the old aunt."
After saying that, Su Yun slowly went back to take a nap, fanning herself with a folding fan. After tossing and turning all night, she was too sleepy to eat.
I don’t know if one afternoon is enough for the Wu Jin brothers to regain their sanity. Whether they accept it or not, they still have to meet their aunt tonight. Otherwise, Su Yun is worried that they will not believe it and will not take precautions. She can help deal with it this time, but what about next time?
People still have to know where the problem lies, find the problem and solve the problem in order to live a peaceful life.
Su Yun slept until six in the afternoon, so she could have dinner directly. After getting up, she simply washed up and went downstairs to the yard to check out tonight's meal.
Everyone was already seated, calculating the time and waiting for Su Yun to arrive. She usually had a very standard schedule, and even when she was sleeping, she would wake up just before meals, as if her body knew when to eat.
After everyone was seated, Su Yun glanced at everyone's face and nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that everyone is in a good spirit today, let's eat!"
Everyone at the funeral home ate happily and contentedly, except for the Wu Jin brothers, who had a hard time swallowing. No one knew whether they were sad or hadn't accepted the fact. However, they finished all their meals and didn't waste any, so it didn't matter if they ate slowly.
It was dark after dinner. The sexy ghost turned on the lights in the yard, which immediately dispelled the darkness in the yard.
Su Yun took a sip of water and looked at Wu Jin gently: "Are you ready? You should be able to see your aunt after about twelve o'clock."
Wu Yu swallowed nervously, moving around as if he had ADHD, but he never said a word of refusal.
In fact, after Su Yun described the whole process in such detail at noon, Wu Jin and Wu Yu had already believed most of it. The main reason was that Su Yun said that she was the one who caused the fat man to have a stroke. This was too shocking. If Su Yun really had no skills, how could she have caused the fat man to have a stroke under such circumstances at that time?
When they heard the news in the hospital, they all felt happy and that the fat man deserved it. Now that they thought about it carefully, the man got into trouble after Su Yun stepped on the incense and broke it. Before Su Yun stepped on it, Wu Jin was going to speak out to stop her and told her not to hit anyone in the hospital.
Because of this incident, Wu Jin felt that what Su Yun said about Aunt Wu being framed and turned into a zombie should be true, but he really couldn't figure out who was targeting their Wu family.
After dark, there was still some time before the midnight when the zombies would turn into zombies. According to previous habits, everyone watched the moon in the yard, had a midnight snack, and chatted to pass the time, or just stared blankly without saying anything.
When it was almost midnight, Wu Jin couldn't help but say to Su Yun, "Su Yun, I've been thinking about it for the whole afternoon, but I still don't think our family has made any enemies. Besides, I haven't heard of anyone wanting our money recently. Could it be that you saw it wrong?"
Even if you are against the rich, it is impossible to be so roundabout, right?
Moreover, being able to find Aunt Wu and turn her into a zombie is obviously a big deal. Ordinary people don’t have such access to such resources. Only aristocratic families of similar status to them can invite talented people to do it.
Coming back to the topic, Wu Jin didn't think that their family had offended anyone recently.
Su Yun was silent for a while: "But I am sure that it was man-made. The seeds of resentment that can turn people into zombies must be taken from the coffins of zombies. If it is not to offend people, who would go to such great lengths to leave the seeds in the attic where Aunt Wu lives and turn her into a zombie?"
There was another thing that Su Yun didn't say, which was that she had seen that kind of pattern before.
These seeds of resentment actually have their own shapes. House demons, zombies, nightmares... the "mold" caused by each monster has a different shape. She has seen two almost identical seeds of resentment. If she doesn't find out the reason, she won't be able to sleep well at night.
Seeing Su Yun's confident words, Wu Jin began to have some doubts in his heart. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Then ask my parents. They are the only ones who know more than me now."
When it comes to family affairs, Wu Yu, this useless second-generation rich guy, knows nothing. He has basically never even heard of the things that Wu Jin doesn't understand.
In the anxious waiting, midnight slowly arrived.
There was no special lotus lantern lighting or yellow talisman sticking for Aunt Wu tonight. She would rise from the dead when the time came, and we wouldn't have to wait until the early morning like we did last night.
The door of the morgue was left open, allowing Aunt Wu to come out and look for Wu Jin and Wu Yu.
The yard was brightly lit. Lin Lang had already carried his tools, ready to control Aunt Wu if anything went wrong. The three male ghost employees sat silently at their seats, as if they were already accustomed to such things.
Only the sexy ghost and the ghost bride came and sat next to Su Yun as time went by.
Wu Jin and Wu Yu became nervous because of Yan Gui and the others, and subconsciously moved towards the reliable Lin Lang. But after they got over there, they realized that although Lin Lang acted so reliable, none of the employees of the funeral home approached him.
Since the sexy ghosts are girls, it is natural for them to stick to Su Yun. The three male employees form a group on their own as if they are isolating Lin Lang. There are seven people in the funeral home, and they are still forming small groups. Wu Jin cannot understand why.
However, the fact is that no ghost wants to get close to Lin Lang, otherwise, before Aunt Wu arrives, they will have been burned to ashes by Lin Lang.
In the entire funeral home, the only people and corpses who could get close to Lin Lang was Su Yun.
After about a few minutes, a gust of cold wind blew, and the full moon in the sky became brighter and brighter, as if it was brighter than the light tubes in the yard, illuminating the earth like daytime, which was so eerie and creepy.
Soon, Aunt Wu came over wearing the clothes that she had just changed today. Her blood-red eyes were wide open as if they were about to pop out of their sockets. Her defeated face was still beautiful, and her long black hair fluttered in the wind. Everything looked just like when she was young.
Before Aunt Wu entered the funeral home, Su Yun asked Wu Jin what kind of shroud their family planned to wear for Aunt Wu for the funeral. This shroud would be the last piece of clothing Aunt Wu would wear as a human being, and she would not take it off except for attending the funeral and entering the incinerator.
After some selection by the Wu family, they decided to choose the dress that Aunt Wu liked the most in the past. The snow-white silk skirt had wide sleeves and a large skirt. When the wind blew gently, the thin skirt fluttered, adding a sense of ghostliness to Aunt Wu.
Wu Yu, who had long forgotten what her aunt looked like when she was young, almost fainted on the spot and was rescued by Lin Lang.
Wu Jin was older than him and still had some impression of his aunt. He was frightened by Aunt Wu and his face turned pale. He would never have thought that he would be able to see his aunt at her most beautiful appearance after her death. If his eyes were not red, he would probably have thought that his aunt who had run away from home was willing to return home.
Seeing that the two brothers were almost frightened to death, Su Yun coughed lightly and signaled Lin Lang to take action and cast a talisman on his aunt, so as to let the Wu Jin brothers see the world.
After receiving Su Yun's eye hint, Lin Lang took out a yellow talisman from his sleeve, and threw it onto the forehead of Aunt Wu who was rushing towards him. The moment the talisman was stuck, Aunt Wu's body shrank rapidly, and in the blink of an eye she turned back into an old lady. The whole body shook twice, and then fell back to the ground, motionless.
Seeing this scene, Wu Jin couldn't help but shout: "Auntie——"
"Don't shout, Aunt Wu is fine. This is her original appearance. She looked younger because she turned into a zombie. Her soul is dead after she turned into a zombie. She doesn't know what she is doing. Even if she becomes beautiful, she will only kill you who are related to her by blood." Su Yun said half-comfortingly and half-explanatoryly.
With the yellow talisman suppressing them and Aunt Wu turning back into an old lady, Wu Jin and Wu Yu were a little less frightened. They calmed themselves down and walked to Aunt Wu together. They looked at her thin body for a long time, not knowing what to say.
After Aunt Wu turned back into her old self, the moon in the sky lost its dazzling light and only cast soft moonlight on the earth, and the night breeze was gentle.
Su Yun looked at the starry sky, calculated the time, turned to Wu Jin and said, "Wu Jin, you have also met, it's time to send aunt back. You should think about how to take the portrait. The funeral will be the day after tomorrow, and there are still many things to be resolved."
Neither of the brothers answered immediately. After a while, Wu Jin stood up first and nodded to Su Yun: "Okay, thank you for your hard work these few days. I will find a way to find out who is targeting our family. My aunt...can't die in obscurity."
Su Yun felt relieved after hearing Wu Jin's words. She curled her lips slightly and said, "It's as it should be. After all, the purpose of our funeral home is to satisfy our customers. Ayan, Xinxin, send Aunt Wu back. The clothes are dirty. Wash them tomorrow. You can't attend a funeral like this."
The sexy ghost and the ghost bride agreed and tried to lift up Aunt Wu. The shrunken Aunt Wu was very light and didn't require much effort.
Just after walking a distance, the ghost suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, curator, who will be on guard tonight? Ms. Wu's situation needs no one to keep an eye on her. What if she disappears in the middle of the night again? Where can we find her?"
Aunt Wu suddenly disappeared last night, and even the talisman written by Su Yun disappeared. The yellow talisman that Lin Lang had pasted on Aunt Wu's head also disappeared. When Aunt Wu was caught by the fireman in the morning, there was no yellow talisman drawn by Lin Lang on her head.
Su Yun frowned and said, "You guys, play rock-paper-scissors to decide, except Xinxin. She was already on guard last night, but she still hasn't held on, so you can't rely on her."
The ghost bride lowered her head in grievance, knowing that she had not done well. She did not expect that the corpse could disappear under heavy protection, and she herself was not good at zombie-related spells, so something went wrong.
The remaining few employees chose to roll the dice tonight. Whoever has the lowest number will be on guard. After a round of rolling, the ghost catcher A Xiu had the lowest number. He rolled out a one, and there was no number lower than his.
The ghost Ah Xiu returned the dice to the ghost with an expressionless face and signaled her with his eyes to put the body in the coffin first.
After they entered the complex building, Wu Jin asked Su Yun worriedly, "Su Yun, are you sure it's okay to let Ah Xiu go? He's so thin. If something really happens to him, will my aunt find out?"
After hearing this, all the people and ghosts in the funeral home fell silent. If a retired ghost catcher couldn't subdue a living zombie, then Ah Xiu would have no future.
Su Yun smiled politely: "Don't worry, although Ah Xiu looks thin, he runs fast. Whenever there is a ghost here, he is always the first one to run."
"The first one... to escape?" Wu Yu asked hesitantly.
"The first one to rush up and beat the ghost." Su Yun answered calmly, as if he was talking about something very ordinary.
The sudden turn almost sprained everyone's back, except for the cook and the fire-maker who looked as if it was nothing new.
Lin Lang's expression now was the same as that of the Wu Jin brothers. They both wanted to say something but felt they shouldn't say it, so they held it in until their faces turned blue.
Su Yun nodded to them: "Anyway, everyone get a good night's sleep tonight. Tomorrow we will officially start preparing for the funeral. There are only two days in total, so the time is tight and the schedule is tight. Regardless of whether you sleep well tonight or not, you must try to get up early tomorrow."
After saying that, Su Yun staggered back to his own building, and soon the light in the upstairs bedroom came on.
The cook and the fireman in the yard had already started to clean up. They were tall and strong, but their movements were very quick and meticulous. It seemed that they cleaned up the yard without much effort, and moved the tables back to a nearby utility room.
Wu Jin and Wu Yu didn't dare to stay in the yard any longer and hurried back to their rooms. They still remembered what Su Yun said that as long as they didn't leave their room at night, they would be fine.
A silent night without ghosts means a happy and peaceful sleep.
Su Yun woke up as soon as her biological clock struck, and she didn't need an alarm clock at all. After getting up, washing up, and walking downstairs with a folding fan, she first went to the comprehensive building to check on Aunt Wu and Ah Xiu, hoping that Aunt Wu hadn't run around.
Arriving at the door of the morgue, Su Yun suddenly retracted his foot as he was about to step in. He saw that the temperature in the already cold morgue was close to minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the flesh was frozen into shreds.
Countless pitch-black chains crisscrossed in the morgue, wrapped around the uncovered coffin in the middle. The ghost Ah Xiu was sleeping on one of the chains like Xiao Longnu, and only sat up when he heard Su Yun's footsteps.
"What are you doing?" Su Yun asked with a smile.
"She wants to escape. Director, you know I can't resist this kind of game." The ghost Ah Xiu said shyly with an expressionless face.
[End of this chapter]
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