At this moment, Li Huai also realized that something was wrong.
His eyes suddenly widened, and he pointed behind the old man.
"Brother Yan, this old man doesn't have a shadow!"
I activated my third eye and discovered that the old man was indeed dead!
Behind him, a female ghost dressed in red was pressed close to him.
I swallowed hard.
Just then, Luo Tianhe returned with a joyful expression. I took a closer look and saw that his forehead was dark, a very ominous sign, yet he was still so happy.
"He's here to deliver money, look."
Luo Tianhe picked up the money in his hand and showed it to us.
Immediately, Li Huai and I looked even more unpleasant.
"Brother Luo, take a good look at the money in your hand."
After a moment of silence, Li Huai spoke up to offer a reminder.
Luo Tianhe held the ghost money in his hand up to his eyes and looked at it, then suddenly exclaimed in surprise:
"wrong!"
Li Huai thought Luo Tianhe had figured out that these were ghost money, so he went up to Luo Tianhe to ask him what was wrong.
I grabbed Li Huai and shook my head, saying,
"He's possessed; he can't tell the difference."
Sure enough, the next moment, Luo Tianhe shouted:
"This old man gave too much! These are all denominations of 10,000, but we agreed on 100,000. This is already 10 million!"
As he spoke, Luo Tianhe was about to chase after the old man.
My lips twitched, and I kicked Luo Tianhe to the ground, then pinned him down and shouted at Li Huai:
"Li Huai, go and get me a few yellow talismans. I don't have any more on me!"
Luo Tianhe beneath me struggled, turning his head to look at me, but his eyes had already rolled back.
"Chen Yan, what are you doing?! Are you just after money?!"
"Fuck you!"
Li Huai handed me the yellow talisman and helped me hold down Luo Tianhe.
I grabbed Luo Tianhe's right hand and pierced his fingertip. Luo Tianhe's struggling movements paused, and his eyes regained clarity for half a second before he continued to struggle.
I dipped my fingertip in Luo Tianhe's blood and quickly engraved Luo Tianhe's birth date and name on the yellow talisman. Then I pried open his mouth and stuffed the burning yellow talisman into it.
Soon, Luo Tianhe's eyesight returned to normal. He realized that he was being controlled by me and Li Huai. He was full of confusion and was about to speak when he choked on the talisman ash in his mouth.
"Cough, cough, holy crap, what happened? Li Huai, you idiot, stop locking me up, you're about to break my arm!"
Seeing that Luo Tianhe was back to normal, Li Huai let go of his hand, breathed a sigh of relief, and explained:
"Brother Luo, you were possessed just now! Your rolling eyes were so scary!"
Luo Tianhe sat up, rubbing his arm, and noticed a bundle of ghost money beside him. He immediately backed away.
"Who put ghost money next to me? Damn it, this is so unlucky."
I rolled my eyes in annoyance.
"Now you know it's ghost money? You were treating it like a treasure just now!"
"Me? Treat it like a treasure?"
Luo Tianhe pointed to himself, his face ashen.
Li Huai recounted everything that had just happened to Luo Tianhe, who couldn't believe that the idiot he had just encountered was himself.
“Your soul was knocked away just now. I will use your blood, your birth date and time, and your name to call your soul back.”
"Brother Yan, how could that old man have died?" Li Huai was completely baffled.
"Heh, who do you think would have such malice towards him, let alone such deep malice towards us?"
I sneered, already guessing who was behind this.
Luo Tianhe and Li Huai, also thinking of that matter, said in unison:
"That woman from during the day!"
I nodded, not caring whether it would disturb anyone's sleep in the middle of the night, and called Zhang Qiang directly.
"Hey, Chen Yan, what's up?"
Zhang Qiang must have already fallen asleep; he was speaking in a drowsy voice.
The woman you arrested during the day is dead!
I got straight to the point, and Zhang Qiang on the other end of the phone immediately snapped out of it.
"What did you say? How is that possible? She's in jail, under 24-hour surveillance."
Zhang Qiang's tone was filled with disbelief.
"But we just saw her ghost, and the old man died during the day, probably because he lured us here, so the first person the female ghost wanted to take revenge on was him!"
After I finished speaking, Zhang Qiang had no more doubts, but he still had some questions.
"Even if she committed suicide, how could she have turned into a vengeful ghost so quickly? I've heard that ghosts get scarier the longer they're around. She's only been dead for a day, how could she be so terrifying?"
"I just saw her. She was covered in blood. She must have died with resentment in her clothes."
"I'll call the station right now. How could that be? Is there a mole in the police station who made her change clothes before she died?"
Zhang Qiang hung up the phone in a hurried voice.
Luo Tianhe still felt a sense of disbelief and dazed when he thought about how the guy he had kicked unconscious during the day had suddenly become so strange at night.
I looked at him, sighed, and explained:
“My grandfather told me that red symbolizes the yang energy of the living. Cinnabar and red rope can ward off evil spirits because their strong yang energy can suppress evil spirits. When a person dies wearing such extremely yang items, it creates an extreme contradiction!”
"This contradiction tears apart the normal order of life and death, preventing souls from entering the underworld, thus accumulating into a huge, unquenchable resentment!"
"This resentment, amplified by the color red, becomes extremely yin and intense, thus transforming into a vengeful ghost!"
"So that's how it is."
"Moreover, even if good people die, it is difficult for them to become vengeful ghosts and harm others, because their resentment is generally not strong, and they do not have the intention to harm others."
"Bad people, on the other hand, often harbor deep resentment, whether towards themselves or society. Even in death, they are not good ghosts!"
Luo Tianhe nodded. The woman dared to kill so cruelly while she was alive, and didn't even bother to dispose of the body properly. It was understandable that she would turn into such a terrifying vengeful ghost after she died.
Li Huai nodded thoughtfully.
After a pause, Luo Tianhe's face hardened:
"I'll buy a full red outfit then. Whoever killed me, I'll haunt them and settle the score! We'll all be ghosts then, so who's afraid of who!"
I briefly imagined Luo Tianhe covered in red in my mind, and I immediately felt a chill.
"Come on, good people don't live long, but evil people live for a thousand years. It's none of your business if you die and become a ghost."
We were still chatting when my phone suddenly rang. It was Zhang Qiang calling.
It seems I'll be able to find out the truth. I answered the phone, and Zhang Qiang's voice came from the other end.
"You're right, she's dead!"
"Hmm, suicide? Where did she get that red dress? Is there a mole in the police station?"
"There was no mole, it was just that someone was cheating and there was no monitoring of the situation in the prison."
Zhang Qiang's voice sounded somewhat tired.
"She didn't change her clothes; instead, she bit off all ten of her fingers and smeared the blood on her clothes."
"She was too cruel. The cause of death was excessive blood loss!"
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