Chapter 281: The Widow of the Ghost Master
Before receiving the world's information, Lin Zhi wondered why his lover turned into physical fragments this time. Obviously, according to the world's trajectory, his lover must have died by suicide. How heroic must his death have been to turn out like this?
After receiving the information, he found it was indeed heroic. Not only heroic but also torn into pieces. No wonder 01 said that he wanted to piece together the body first.
This is a modern city where metaphysics exists. Due to the frequent occurrence of strange events, the government has established an official department to handle special affairs.
What is different from official departments are naturally non-governmental organizations. Taoism, Buddhism, and witchcraft are collectively referred to as Xuanmen.
This time, the lover's fragment is named Lian Qing.
Lian Qing is the leader of the action group of the Special Affairs Handling Department. He used to be a member of the Xuanmen sect. When he was nine years old, his family was retaliated by a suppressed evil spirit and all the members of his family died suddenly. He escaped the disaster because he was protected by his parents.
The evil ghost ran out of power and had to flee before the people from Xuanmen arrived. Before leaving, it cursed Lian Qing.
Lian Qing originally had excellent talent, but because of the curse he had to be in a half-human, half-ghost state. He lived in the Buddhist sect for many years before he barely recovered. He was still concerned about the revenge of his family's extermination, so he did not stay in the Xuanmen, but accepted the official recruitment and joined the Special Affairs Handling Department.
He knew very well that the old ghost would never behave himself, and that he would definitely eat humans to restore his ghost power. It would be difficult to search for him alone, and he was not willing to owe too many favors to others. For him, the Special Department was the best choice.
The state machinery has a strong ability to aggregate information. After working for several years, Lian Qing finally found traces of the old ghost.
At his own expense, he lured the old ghost into eating him, and then exposed himself as planned, preventing a large-scale living sacrifice.
His body was thus swept away by the evil spirit's scattered ghost power and became torn into pieces. However, 01's ability to locate the mission target was still there, which meant that the black dot representing the target was divided into six parts, located in the southeast, northwest, and northeast directions.
01 was a little frustrated: [The limbs, torso and head can be located, but I don’t know where the owner’s consciousness is. 】
Lin Zhi smiled and comforted: [You will know. 】
01 reacted: [Yes, host, you are here, the master will definitely come to find you! 】
Isn't the reason why this world is abnormal because only after someone dies do people realize that they still have a wife who is waiting for them? No matter how he is torn into pieces, his soul will definitely come!
Lin Zhi nodded slightly, realizing that the occupied memory really had an impact on the system. After the program abnormality was repaired, it seemed much more efficient than before.
Of course, whether children are stupid or smart, they are all cute.
Lin Zhi collected his thoughts and, combining so much information, concluded that the fragments must have had similar experiences that originated from the main body. It seemed that his lover had suffered a disaster in which he lost his family members when he was around nine years old, and that he was able to survive because of his parents' full support. This might be the main cause of his illness.
Lin Zhi sighed lightly. From what he understood about his lover, his lover was far superior to him in terms of sense of justice and ability to empathize. He didn't care much about these things.
Even though his cognition is slightly distorted, he still has little regard for family affection, and can even simply summarize those feelings and interests as the relationship between need and being needed.
He fulfilled the wishes of his relatives and did what they expected him to do. He did not feel sad or relieved about their departure, and naturally did not feel traumatized by losing them.
After sorting out his lover's information in his mind, Lin Zhi began to sort out the original owner's identity information.
The original owner's life was very simple, and Lin Zhi didn't need long to digest it completely. However, the situation was not good, and he couldn't help but press his forehead.
The original owner was an orphan who grew up in a dilapidated Taoist temple in the village. Because of the compulsory education requirement, he did go to school and later to high school, but he didn't have the money to go to college because the old Taoist priest who raised him didn't have that much savings.
The original owner didn't care about studying. He was not a hardworking person. After the old Taoist priest died, he took his tools and started to swindle people, reading fortunes and doing feng shui, and he was able to make a living.
But he is a half-witted man, without any skills, and can only fool people.
Such interpersonal relationships made Lin Zhi less worried, and her job was barely related to Lian Qing's special affairs handling department.
Lin Zhi stood up and looked around. This was a small house with two bedrooms and a living room, about 70 square meters, located in an old neighborhood. The furnishings were all left by the landlord and were very old. The refrigerator was at least ten years old.
The original owner's savings were not enough to buy a house, and he didn't know how to buy a house. He had a strong sense of professional crisis. From the first day of working in this industry, he was ready to run away at any time and specially chose a cheap house to rent.
Lin Zhi went to the bathroom and frowned slightly at the scale next to the sink and the faucet that was still dripping slowly even after it was closed.
The mirror was covered with a layer of water stains, making it look grey. The light bulb in the bathroom had been replaced, and the incandescent light was a bit dazzling, making people's faces look pale.
Lin Zhi wiped the mirror with water. The face was his, only thinner.
This is because the pupil occupies too large a proportion of the face, and it looks a bit creepy at first glance.
Perhaps it was for this reason that Lin Zhi felt somewhat strange after looking at him for such a long time.
Tick. Tick.
The water drops fall into the ceramic basin, making a slightly louder sound.
Lin Zhi left the bathroom without trying to tighten the already tightened faucet.
The phone suddenly vibrated and rang. It was the number that had been simply noted. Lin Zhi remembered that this was the order that the original owner had just completed yesterday.
He was a man in his thirties who was into short video live streaming. A few days ago, he went to a cemetery to test his courage to do a live streaming. After coming back, he kept complaining about feeling cold on his back for a few days.
It's June now and the weather is starting to get hot. It's not the time for the temperature to drop, so it's impossible for him to be cold. But he kept sweating and saying that his back was cold. Scraping and cupping helped a little, but not completely.
His mother-in-law was one of the original owner's clients. She would buy amulets from the original owner from time to time and ask the original owner to take a look. The original owner lied and said that the new furnishings in his house were not placed well and the feng shui was wrong, and because he had brought back death energy from the cemetery, he was possessed by evil spirits.
This scared the man so much that the original owner changed the furnishings in the man's house, chanted a spell for him, and swept his body with willow branch water, and took the reward of three thousand yuan.
Lin Zhi thought that he might be here to call for punishment.
"Master Lin, you are truly a master! Hey, I am not cold at all now. Master, when are you free? I will buy a peace amulet for my parents."
The man's loud voice came through the phone, and his joy couldn't be concealed.
Lin Zhi frowned slightly, said a few nonsense words, and hung up the phone.
If the original owner was listening to this phone call here, he would definitely be happy that he had successfully deceived another person and had an additional customer, but Lin Zhi knew something was wrong.
The original owner thought that there were no ghosts in this world, so he had no guilt at all about cheating people, but Lin Zhi knew that there were indeed inhuman creatures in this world.
Lin Zhi didn't hesitate much. He simply packed up the important things and left as planned.
The small mirror in the entrance reflected the young man's profile. Under the dim light, his face looked a little blue, which made his lips look even redder.
The security door was closed, making a hollow echo.
It was dark outside, and it was now past nine o'clock in the evening. Lin Zhi called an online taxi and told the landlord about the cancellation of the lease in the car.
The original owner had paid a deposit, but now that he was no longer living there, the deposit would not be refunded. Lin Zhi didn't care and settled the matter with the landlord before it was time to get off the bus.
After arriving at the destination, Lin Zhi got off the car with her suitcase.
Tianshui Garden was a property built five years ago, and Lian Qing’s home is here.
Lin Zhi asked 01 to tamper with the data of the password lock, entered his own fingerprint, opened the door and walked in.
Lian Qing hasn't been home for a month or two because he was busy with things involving evil spirits, and his house is already covered with a layer of dust.
The furnishings in the house were simple. Although Lian Qing was a Taoist, he did not have a feng shui arrangement. Some old ornaments made the house look quaint, but because it had been unoccupied for a long time and it was night, it seemed a bit cold.
Lin Zhi walked around the house. There were no photos in the house, but there were some framed calligraphy and paintings in the study. They were elegant and gave us a glimpse into the owner's personality.
Lin Zhi hung the clothes in the closet in the master bedroom, next to Lian Qing's clothes.
Lian Qing has the dual identities of a member of the Xuanmen and the leader of the action team of the Special Affairs Handling Department. He wears many styles of clothes, including combat uniforms, western suits, and Tang suits. Looking at the size of his clothes, one can infer that he should be tall and have a large frame.
After replacing the quilt with a new one and putting the previous one into the washing machine, Lin Zhi did not just rest there, but went to the branch of the Special Department according to the information.
The main office of the Special Division is in the government building. Lin Zhi didn't want to go through the cumbersome procedures to negotiate with irrelevant people, so he wanted to be more direct.
The Jade City branch of the Special Department is located on a commercial street and is openly a cat cafe.
They don't need to solicit business themselves. Any supernatural incidents that the police come across will be handed over to them. They just need to pay attention to whether there are any abnormalities in their area.
The glass door was pushed open, and the girl sitting at the bar said without even looking up: "Sorry, we're closed."
She was in a bad mood, and it could be said that everyone in the Special Department was in a bad mood.
The company leader is the soul of their special department. He is not the director because he does not want to communicate with the people above him or make reports in official language, so he only serves as the leader of the action team. But in the hearts of everyone in their special department, the company leader is the pillar.
Dealing with those strange things requires a strong heart. The team leader is their mainstay. As long as he is there, they believe they will be rescued even if something happens. But the team leader died in the line of duty.
For the lives of the people of a city, his death was heroic, great and glorious, but also sad.
I heard that the company leader's family members had all passed away, and the department didn't even have a family member to notify, so they planned to bury the company leader in the Martyrs' Cemetery and then build a cenotaph for him in his family tomb.
Shuang Ling was immersed in her thoughts when she suddenly realized that she didn't hear the footsteps of the person who came in and left, nor did she hear the sound of the wind chimes ringing at the door.
She raised her head and saw a black-haired young man in a white shirt standing not far away. When he approached, he looked like a beautiful woman walking out of a misty painting.
Shuang Ling subconsciously looked at the black cat lying lazily on the counter, then looked at the shadow of the young man, and felt relieved, at least it was a human.
The young man opened and closed his red lips, and said politely: "Hello, I am here to collect Lian Qing's relics."
Shuang Ling stood up suddenly and asked with some caution: "Who are you and what is your relationship with him?"
"He is my love."
When saying this, Lin Zhi's eyes softened unconsciously, and the sigh that escaped from his lips seemed to be filled with a hint of smile, but the color in his eyes soon calmed down again, and became calm and deep.
Suddenly a strong wind blew, making the wind chimes ring.
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