Inside the ward.
A short, stout old man with gray hair, wearing a tank top and with loose, aged skin, was pointing at Lu Xu, who was sitting on the hospital bed, and cursing loudly: "You're just like your good-for-nothing father! You can't do anything right!"
"Why don't you just die with him? Why are you still alive and tormenting this old man like me!"
"A good-for-nothing idiot! A moron!"
The old man got more and more into cursing, eventually mixing his local dialect with Mandarin in a jumbled mess. Lu Xu's face turned pale, his lips were tightly pressed together, and his hands were clenched into fists as he tried to endure it.
Finally, when the old man started cursing his parents, Lu Xu couldn't hold back anymore and opened his mouth to curse back, but at that moment a cold wind suddenly rose in the room, and the curtains were blown loudly.
The electrical appliances in the ward flickered on and off, emitting a crackling sound.
This bizarre scene suddenly reminded Lu Xu of the ghost he had seen in the toilet, and his expression changed drastically.
The old man was hit in the face by a sudden gust of cold wind. Before he could react to what was happening, he cursed under his breath, "What kind of lousy hospital is this? Don't they know there are patients here? They don't even know to close the windows! I'm going to complain about those incompetent nurses—!!"
Before he could finish speaking, his vision blurred, and a man with an extremely mutilated body appeared before him, his face contorted in a grotesque expression as he reached out a hand that had been corroded to the bone.
The old man shuddered, his pupils dilated suddenly, and he screamed, "Ah—! A ghost!!"
He turned to run out of the ward, but he was old and not as agile as before. He was knocked to the ground by the vengeful ghost as soon as he turned around.
The vengeful ghost seemed to hate him intensely. It opened its blood-red maw and bit the old man's shoulder, drawing blood.
The old man's wails echoed throughout the ward, but strangely, the nurses and patients coming and going outside seemed not to hear them, and no one came to check on him.
Lu Xu, who was already lying in his hospital bed waiting to die, was stunned and stared blankly at the old man being torn apart by vengeful ghosts on the ground.
What's going on? Isn't he the one this ghost is haunting?
Why did they suddenly attack Grandpa?
Just as the vengeful ghost was about to bite the old man's neck off, Nan Yuanman rushed in and blocked the ghost's mouth with his copper coin sword.
The vengeful ghost bit down on the copper coin sword, and the sword flashed with golden light, instantly sending the ghost flying.
The vengeful ghost seemed to be consumed by hatred, completely disregarding its own soul injured by the copper coin sword, and roared and struggled as it lunged at the old man who was struggling to crawl out on the ground.
Nan Yuanman quickly pulled out a talisman and threw it at the vengeful ghost's body, his childish voice surprisingly authoritative: "Wake up!"
With this clear shout, Nan Yuanman unconsciously used his power of merit. The vengeful ghost, who had been stimulated to the point of losing his mind, only felt a buzzing in his head, and his consciousness gradually returned.
Upon seeing this, the old man scrambled and crawled towards the direction of Nanyuan, crying out, "Help me! Help me! A ghost! There's a ghost!"
The vengeful ghost's last remaining eyeball was exceptionally blood-red. It glared hatefully at the old man crawling on the ground, gritting its teeth as it demanded, "Lu Weiguo! Why! Why did you hurt me! Why!"
The accusations and questions from the vengeful ghosts made Lu Xu and Nan Yuanman subconsciously look at the old man who was groaning and crawling on the ground.
Lu Xu's mind went blank for a moment, his face filled with disbelief: "Sir, you...you killed someone?!"
Upon hearing this question, Lu Weiguo's writhing body froze instantly. Forgetting to refute Lu Xu, he turned his head in terror to look at the unrecognizable ghost behind him, his voice trembling: "You...you are Fang Yunfei?!"
How is that possible!
Didn't that master say back then that Fang Yunfei was trapped in the same place and would never come looking for him?
Fang Yunfei sneered, "Yes."
He remembered, he remembered everything.
His name was Fang Yunfei. He had a wife and children. He wasn't killed in his home while he was sleeping. Instead, he was deceived and killed by his neighbor, Lu Weiguo!
"Lu Weiguo, how cruel you are! I've never done anything to wrong you, and I often help your elderly mother. How could you, how could you harm me! Do you know that my wife, Xiaojuan, is due to give birth in three months!"
As Fang Yunfei finished speaking, his voice involuntarily rose, and his soul trembled violently with hatred.
Lu Weiguo felt a pang of guilt and quickly retorted, "It wasn't me! I didn't harm you! Fang Yunfei, if you want revenge, you should seek it out on the contractor from back then! Why are you coming to me!"
"Yunfei, just as you said, you've been so good to me, what reason would I have to harm you! If you want revenge, you'd better choose the right enemy!"
Fang Yunfei's eyes turned even redder, and resentment surged wildly within him: "Don't lie! I saw it! I saw everything!"
"It was you! You were the one who recommended me to the foreman, to drive the live stake!"
Nan Yuanman's chubby, round face instantly fell.
The term "driving a living person into a foundation" refers to the practice of forcibly burying a living person into the ground before the commencement of a major construction project. This is done to "worship the land" and "appease the spirits," thereby ensuring the smooth completion of the project and avoiding disaster.
No wonder this uncle became a vengeful ghost; the resentment on his body could not be dispelled.
It turns out he was buried alive!
Furthermore, judging from the extensive corrosion on his body, he may have endured inhuman torture before being buried alive!
Lu Weiguo panicked even more and shouted, "I didn't! Don't frame me!"
Lu Weiguo's repeated rebuttals drove Fang Yunfei to the brink of madness once more. His resentment exploded, engulfing Lu Weiguo in a torrent: "I've wronged you! Then come and see if I've truly wronged you!"
Nan Yuanman was taken aback and quickly rescued Lu Weiguo to prevent Fang Yunfei from getting his hands dirty with blood, which would affect his reincarnation.
The moment her hand touched Fang Yunfei's resentment, memories of him surfaced in her mind.
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Fang Yunfei was born in a small village in Qincheng. Due to a leg problem, he was abandoned by his biological parents in a mountain valley three months after birth.
He was lucky; he was found by the village's guardian and taken in.
The village keeper was an old man who was blind in one eye. He often helped the villagers with their affairs, and all the food, drink, and supplies he received were used on him.
Unfortunately, the village keeper was unlucky. When he was three years old, he accidentally rolled into a ravine while picking wild vegetables on the mountain, and his head hit a rock, killing him.
Three-year-old Fang Yunfei grew up stumbling and struggling, relying on the help of the villagers.
He knew that after the village keeper was gone, he would have no one to rely on, so he worked hard and diligently, often helping the elderly in the village who were not in good health.
Lu Weiguo was his neighbor at the time. His father fell to his death while working outside, and his mother cried until she went blind, but she still struggled to raise Lu Weiguo.
However, Lu Weiguo was spoiled by his grandparents. He was naughty outside and didn't help his mother with chores at home. Fang Yunfei would help his mother when he could because he felt sorry for her.
Originally, it was just neighbors helping each other out, and there was a bit of sympathy between them. But Fang Yunfei's help deeply hurt Lu Weiguo's pride.
Why should someone who's worse off than him pity him? Does he finally think someone is worse off than him?
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