A single corridor might be thousands of kilometers long, with countless doors on both sides. Without Ma Fan leading the way, how would he know which door led to the Wandering Souls Office? And how many floors does this building actually have? And how many rooms like this are there?
If a ghost wanted to handle business in an unfamiliar department or place, wouldn't it be completely clueless? This is a strange thing indeed, and Wang Yao couldn't help but secretly admire Ma Fan's good memory.
It's important to understand that from the perspective of the human world, the place where Ma Fan works is not even in the same city as this place.
Even mortals in the human realm, or immortals like him, would have to search for quite a while to find the person in charge when they occasionally went to another city on business, even though there were signs everywhere.
Judging from Ma Fan's tone, he hadn't received any immortals in many years and probably rarely came here. Yet, he led them as if they knew the way well, without asking a single ghost along the way, and directly brought them into the gate.
Upon entering, Wang Yao found it to be just a lobby, with no one working and only ghosts coming and going. There were two doors, one on the left and one on the right, just like the ones outside, both of which were open. Ma Fan led Wang Yao and his companion directly through the right door, which led to another long corridor.
Ma Fan walked forward for a while, then turned right and went through a door. There was another lobby with three more doors inside. Ma Fan led the two through the middle door. After many twists and turns, Wang Yao quickly lost count of how many doors they had entered and how many corridors they had walked down.
Finally, he saw a closed door in front of him, and Wang Yao felt a sense of warmth. He had seen too many open doors, and seeing a closed one felt like seeing a relative. However, Ma Fan, who was standing next to him, turned pale when he saw the closed door.
"Is the Ghost Office closed today? Oh no, oh no, oh no! I have to ask right away..." Ma Fan said, taking out his phone and dialing.
Wang Yao found his words strange, but since entering the underworld, he had too many questions in his mind. Seeing how anxious Ma Fan was, he didn't dare to ask.
"Hello! This is Ma Fan, the guide at the No. 1 ordinary entrance of the Underworld! Today, there's an immortal, and... a monk brought over a wandering ghost. What's the matter with the wandering soul office...? Oh, okay..." Ma Fan's expression calmed down after hearing the phone call.
“I thought the Ghost Office should have ghosts stationed there all the time…” Ma Fan said, pushing the door in front of him. The door opened, revealing a large, round room, about the size of a medium-sized conference room.
In the center of the room sat a ghost with a desk in front of him and a computer on it. The ghost was burying its head in its hands, typing away at the computer, seemingly busy with something.
The ghost was surrounded by a circle of chairs resembling those used in the human world for tooth extractions. The backs of the chairs faced the ghost, while the fronts faced the four walls of the room. Wang Yao noticed that on the circular walls of the room, directly opposite the chairs, were closed doors.
"Entrance No. 1 of the Underworld is open for reception. A celestial being has captured a wild ghost and brought it here." Ma Fan entered the room and called out to the ghost in the center with its head bowed.
“Uh… a wild ghost?…” The ghost raised its head, and Wang Yao noticed that the ghost was wearing glasses. Looking at the rings on the glasses, good heavens, the prescription was quite strong.
"Let the wild ghosts out and have a look," the ghost in the center said, rolling its eyes and looking at Ma Fan through its glasses.
"The ghosts are in the hands of the immortals. I'm just responsible for leading the way and taking them in. My business is finished. I have urgent matters to attend to and need to get back quickly," Ma Fan said anxiously.
"Oh, I see... Where's the wild ghost?" The bespectacled ghost that Ma Fan had called "the one to be taken in" nodded casually, his gaze shifting from Ma Fan to Wang Yao and Hui Shuo, moving back and forth between the two as he asked.
"This... he's gone, and we don't know how to get back?" Wang Yao panicked when he saw Ma Fan was about to leave. With so many doors, he didn't even know how to find his way back to the shuttle. If the guide left, wouldn't he and Hui Shuo get lost in the underworld and be unable to get out?
"It's alright, it's alright, we'll find out sooner or later... Hurry up and release the wild ghost." The bespectacled ghost still had that indifferent expression. Wang Yao saw that Ma Fan had long since disappeared, so he had no choice but to suppress his unease for the time being and release the magic "Capture".
Lin Yazhi suddenly appeared in the room, and a relaxed expression appeared on her face. She looked around and realized that the bespectacled ghost seemed to be in charge here, so she hurriedly bowed gracefully to him.
"Look up!" the bespectacled ghost shouted, picked up a magnifying glass-like object from the table and looked at Lin Yazhi, then lowered his head and started fiddling with the computer keyboard.
Wang Yao thought to himself, "The underworld is more advanced in technology than the immortal realm. In the immortal realm, Liu Fu and Li Shishi didn't even have computers on their desks."
"Lin Yazhi... wife of Zhao Benshui in the human realm. Because of her affair with Xu Xiaoyou, she was killed by Zhao Benshui. After becoming a ghost, she caused Xu Xiaoyou to die from exhaustion, then caused Ke Zhou to fall to his death, and then caused Fang Yanqing and Gu Shenmo to shoot and kill... Luo Zhaohai and Li Xiaorong..."
As the bespectacled ghost stared at the computer screen and muttered to himself, Wang Yao thought to himself, "The underworld is pretty quick at gathering information. Things like Ke Zhou falling from the building and the police shooting happened just before I came down here, but the underworld already knows everything clearly, even who is dead."
"Adultery is punishable by one level of punishment. Each death adds another level. You've lost two... three... four! So you should be punished by four levels of punishment, plus another level for adultery. So you have to go down to the fifth floor. Do you have anything else to say?" the bespectacled ghost asked Lin Yazhi.
Once inside the underworld, Lin Yazhi's face, which had been covered in white powder, returned to its original color, making her look truly radiant and beautiful. Hearing the words of the bespectacled ghost, she didn't know the difference between going down five floors and going down four floors. She just kept kowtowing and begging the bespectacled ghost for mercy.
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