Several people and ghosts on the terrace were chatting around a tablet computer, which was playing news from the port city.
"This earthquake caused 27 deaths and 153 injuries. The relevant disaster relief work is proceeding in an orderly manner..."
He Ling took a sip of the long-lost hot tea and seemed to enjoy it very much. He squinted and shook his head, then said in an unfathomable voice: "Is this how the Special Security Bureau handles things? Earthquake? Where did the shaking come from yesterday? Your way of cleaning up the mess was too casual, wasn't it?"
"Then can you help them think of a solution?" Chi Shen interjected.
"It's not my job..." He Ling paused for a moment, then recognized Chi Shen's voice and immediately changed the subject, "Ahaha, I don't know about that either, but it's good enough if I can fool them. But how do you ordinary people who are involved deal with it? Do you have some kind of forgetfulness technique where you can just wave your hand and the other party will forget about it."
Xiao Yuan looked at him speechlessly: "There is no such thing, but we have other ways to make people think that it was all a dream."
He Ling's eyes lit up: "Oh?"
"This is an internal secret," Xiao Yuan knew what he wanted to know at a glance, and shook his still intact hand, "It's not convenient to disclose it, even if you are a river spirit."
Upon hearing this, He Ling's eyebrows drooped and she became dejected.
As they were chatting, Chi Shen sprinkled a handful of candy on the table. He Ling immediately and happily grabbed half, and Huang Lingling reached out and grabbed half, so they divided it equally between the two.
"Although it was indeed confidential before, to be precise, the efficacy was unclear and it consumed too many things to use, so it was kept secret," Yuan Yiping was different. In broad daylight, when others were drinking tea, he was drinking beer. "Now the principle has been studied clearly, which is to use drugs to assist hypnosis and eliminate some unnecessary processes. It has been commonly used."
He Ling suddenly understood and nodded: "So that's how it is, and why is it so mysterious."
Xiao Yuan looked at the wine in Yuan Yiping's hand, frowned, and turned to ask Chi Shen: "Don't you manage your employees' drinking?"
Chi Shen had already laid down on a lounge chair nearby. He took out a pair of sunglasses from somewhere and put them on to bask in the sun. He said lazily, "We don't care what our employees do after get off work, but Brother Yuan, I remember you don't drink."
Yuan Yiping took two more bites and said, "Yes, I suddenly wanted to taste it after I died. I didn't think so much when I was alive. After I died, I realized that there are still many things in life that I haven't experienced. Ghosts can't smell or taste anything. It's a pity to think about it. Thank you, Boss Chi, for giving me a body so that I can taste it again."
"So are you ready to experience smoking, tattooing and hair perming?" Chi Shen suddenly asked.
"With this plan, this body shouldn't break down," Yuan Yiping said, "If it does, I can reset it to its original state."
Xiao Yuan said from the side: "You became more talkative after you died."
"Some things still need to be expressed, otherwise others will never know what you want to express." Yuan Yiping took another sip of wine and put the empty bottle aside.
He Ling echoed beside him: "Yes, that's how it should be. You have learned the truth now."
Chi Shen said: "I understand it now."
He imitated Ji Xingchen and pushed up his sunglasses, but Ji Xingchen always looked cold when he did this, while he looked lazy when he did it. He continued, "But Brother Yuan is not dead now. He is in a superposition state of being dead and alive. He can live or die as he wishes. This is the right that the captain of the gatekeepers should have."
"What is a gatekeeper?" He Ling began to ask.
"Well, let me think about it. The main job is to help me welcome the souls entering hell, to capture those souls who don't want to enter hell, and to maintain the peace of hell. That's about it."
Ji Xingchen, who was looking at the flowers on the terrace and planning how to place them, turned around and said, “It’s the security guard.”
He Ling was silent, Xiao Yuan was also silent, and Yuan Yiping looked indifferent.
"The security is great!" Huang Lingling looked around and suddenly shouted, "Thirty years of hard work will be saved!"
"Children shouldn't be so lackluster." He Ling blocked her mouth with candy.
"No, no, no," Chi Shen stretched out a gun and shook it, "This is a regular employee. He should be a police officer. Brother Yuan was a police officer before he died, and he will be a police officer after he dies. This is an honorable profession."
"Well," Yuan Yiping said, "I am quite satisfied with my current job. It has plenty of holidays and I can go home."
At this point, Yuan Yiping paused and added: "It's just that the salary is a bit low."
Chi Shen raised a corner of his sunglasses and stared at him: "I paid you with my salary, that's enough."
"By the way, have you ever gone home to visit?" He Ling suddenly asked a question.
Xiao Yuan also said: "I came here this time, in addition to thanking Huang Lingling, to communicate with Brother Yuan is also a purpose."
Yuan Yiping was silent for a moment: "I'm afraid of scaring them, let's talk about it after a while."
Xiao Yuan said: "I will explain your situation to them when I go back for the New Year. You can come anytime."
Yuan Yiping nodded.
"You haven't been home for a long time. Come home and spend the New Year." Xiao Yuan added.
This time Yuan Yiping finally relented: "Okay."
"Go back and spend time with your family. You yourself said that if you want to talk, you should communicate." Chi Shen said leisurely.
Xiao Yuan suddenly turned his not-so-flexible head and looked at Chi Shen: "There's one more thing, I hope Brother Shen can help you with it."
Chi Shen put on his sunglasses and looked up at the sky: "You talk first, I'll see if I'm free."
Xiao Yuan said: "Regarding the trial of Bai Ximing's case, we hope you can appear in court to testify."
Chi Shen touched his chin and said, "Isn't the evidence you have enough for him to be sentenced to death?"
"That's enough, but we need to give an explanation to all the victims," Xiao Yuan paused, as if thinking carefully about how to say this, and then said, "He has done a lot of things to let you down. Don't you... want to go and see what happened to your father?"
Chi Shen yawned: "Not interested."
Xiao Yuan said, "Then I will go back and explain the situation to my superiors. You can take a rest."
After saying everything that needed to be said, Xiao Yuan said goodbye to everyone and prepared to leave. However, his legs and arms were injured, making it difficult for him to move around. He came here in a wheelchair, so he called Zhong Yi and asked him to push him away in the living room.
Zhong Yi asked him to wait for two minutes. He was coordinating matters related to the Life Retirement Office and the Special Security Bureau with Zhang Yao, and it would be over soon.
Chi Shen asked him to play with Huang Lingling for a while. Because Xiao Yuan killed the murderer in Huang Lingling's dream, Huang Lingling is still very close to Xiao Yuan. This made Xiao Yuan a little at a loss as he obviously didn't know how to take care of a child.
It rained the past two days, but the weather was very good today. It was a rare warm sun in winter. Next to him was the noisy sound of friends chatting, and Ji Xingchen was helping him plan a small garden. He was lying on a recliner, drowsy.
...In two days' Spring Festival holiday, I'll take everyone out to play, to the beach, and to bask in the sun.
The cell phone suddenly rang. Chi Shen picked it up and took a look. It was an unfamiliar number from Gangcheng.
He pressed answer.
"Hello." A gentle and cautious female voice came from the other end, "Excuse me...Excuse me, do you know Wei Zhuo?"
Chi Shen calmly replied: "I don't know him. If you have nothing else to do, I'll hang up."
"Wait, wait a minute," the female voice became anxious, "This is the number my father gave me. He said I could call this number for help if there was an emergency. My father hasn't been home for a long time, and I can't contact him. Do you know where he is?"
"I know. If you want to see him, I can take you there, but I suggest not to." Chi Shen did not ask who the other party was. He guessed the other party's identity when he answered the phone. She was Wei Zhuo's daughter, the girl that Wei Zhuo was willing to sacrifice his life to save.
"I want to see him. I haven't seen him for a long time. Is my father okay?" Wei Zhuo's daughter asked.
"Not very good, you'll know when you see it." Chi Shen said, "I'll give you an address, you can go there now."
Huang Lingling next to her was still sharing her past with Xiao Yuan, probably about how she took advantage of her resentment and basically no one cared about her so she did evil things. Xiao Yuan obviously couldn't resist her enthusiasm and could only pretend to drink tea and then say "hmm hmm".
Chi Shen stretched himself lazily and decided to save Xiao Yuan from the dire situation: "I'll take you back. Let's go."
Xiao Yuan was assigned to live near the Special Security Bureau. Chi Shen sent him back and went to the Special Security Bureau as well.
There was a girl about fifteen years old waiting at the door. When she saw Chi Shen coming, she looked around for a few times, then looked around uncertainly until Chi Shen called her, "Wei Xiaomei."
The girl then turned to look at him. She looked very surprised, her eyes widened, and she felt a little embarrassed. She immediately retracted her gaze from Chi Shen and whispered, "Is it Dad's friend?"
"My name is Chi Shen, you can call me Brother Shen. Come on, I'll take you in." Chi Shen gestured to the gate of the Special Security Bureau and led her inside.
Wei Xiaomei looked at the gate with some hesitation. She asked Chi Shen in a low voice: "Is this the police station?"
"Yes." Chi Shen said.
"Did my father do something wrong and that's why he hasn't contacted us?" Wei Xiaomei continued to ask.
Chi Shen thought for a moment and replied, "Let him tell you this himself."
As soon as he walked in, Chi Shen explained his purpose to the staff in the hall and said that he wanted to see Wei Zhuo. When the other party saw that it was Chi Shen, he immediately said that he would apply. Chi Shen and Wei Xiaomei sat in the hall for a while, and were briefly baptized by various gazes from the Special Security Bureau. Soon someone came to take them in.
Wei Zhuo chose to surrender himself after Bai Ximing was arrested. According to him, he didn't have many days left to live, and the reason he didn't surrender before was to serve as an insider for Chi Shen. When he surrendered himself, he even caught the last helper of Bai Ximing and surrendered himself together with him.
Wei Zhuo has become extremely haggard now. The long scar on his neck looks more obvious in the prison uniform. His shaved head makes him look haggard and fierce. When he saw Wei Xiaomei coming in, he showed a soft expression for a moment, and even his eyes were a little evasive.
Wei Xiaomei burst into tears the moment she saw her father and was speechless for a long time.
"Dad is wrong," Wei Zhuo coaxed carefully in a rare soft tone, "Originally, I wanted to hide this from you. Dad didn't want you to know."
"And then you die outside, and mom and I are still thinking that you are just too busy to come back?!" Wei Xiaomei cried and cursed, "Or the police suddenly called us and said they would collect your body. Is this what you want?"
Wei Zhuo wiped his face, tears already in his eyes: "My dear daughter, don't cry, Dad knows he was wrong."
While Wei Zhuo and Wei Xiaomei were meeting, Chi Shen was chatting with Li Shuan outside.
No one in the Special Security Bureau mentioned Chi Shen's threat to them again. Instead, Chi Shen asked them if they needed to take any responsibility for this. Everyone was scratching their heads. The witty Li Shuan stood up and said, "This was Chi Shen's plan. In order to deceive Bai Ximing and Wen Qin, he didn't tell you. He only told me and Uncle Zhang. That's why Uncle Zhang handed over the token so neatly. Don't you think so, Uncle Zhang?"
Uncle Zhang nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, yes."
Chi Shen: “Oh.”
You will or you will.
At this time, Li Shuan came to ask him: "Bai Ximing's case will be heard in the afternoon. Do you want to go and see it?"
"So fast?" Chi Shen was a little surprised. In his opinion, such matters would take a long time to prepare before being tried.
Li Shuan shook his head: "Our process is different from the shocking criminal cases, because there are too many variables in our case, so once the evidence is conclusive, the trial will basically start immediately, and many files will be supplemented after the trial."
Chi Shen nodded in understanding. He was a little curious about the specific trial process and said, "Then I'll go and take a look."
When the time came, Li Shuan took Chi Shen to the court of the Special Security Bureau.
The court of the Special Security Bureau looks similar to an ordinary court, except that it is a little smaller and there are very few seats in the gallery. Because the cases of the Special Security Bureau have never been tried in public and the regulations also state that they cannot be tried in public, basically no one comes to listen, so the gallery is more of a decoration.
This time, Chi Shen is an insider. Although the Special Security Bureau did not give him a position, he is the one who manages hell, so how can he not be an insider?
When Chi Shen arrived, the trial had already begun. It was basically just a list of evidence, and they didn't care whether Bai Ximing admitted it or not.
Bai Ximing was silent from beginning to end, looking lifeless, without saying a word, until Chi Shen came in, when he suddenly changed his appearance.
"For the blackmail case at Liyuan Restaurant in the northern part of Gangcheng District, the above is all the evidence." The prosecutor put a thick stack of documents aside, "The next one is the ghost murder case at Guangwang Station in the northern part of Gangcheng District..."
"I admit it!" Bai Ximing suddenly shouted, "I did it all, I want to report it!"
Everyone at the scene looked over and saw Bai Ximing pointing his finger at Chi Shen: "I want to report that my son, Bai Ximing's son Chi Shen, who was kept outside, is also a fierce ghost!"
Chi Shen tilted his head to look over and suddenly smiled.
Bai Ximing was frightened by his smile and took half a step back, bumping into the iron railing behind him with a clanging sound.
"He is also a ghost. He is an unforgivable ghost! Catch him, catch him!" Bai Ximing shouted at the top of his lungs, but no one paid attention to him. The prosecutor continued to read the documents related to the case.
In the audience, Li Shuan whispered to Chi Shen, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to encounter something like this as soon as you arrived."
Chi Shen shook his head: "It doesn't matter. Although I am not a ghost now, I was once one. He is right."
Li Shuan said helplessly: "Just let it go."
The trial lasted for a long time, and Chi Shen was listening nearby. At the beginning, Bai Ximing still had the strength to roar, but later on, his angry expression turned into fear. Not only did he look at Chi Shen with fear on his face, he even looked at the judges with fear in his eyes, as if he did not exist in a real world and these people were all evil spirits who came to harm him.
No one cared what he was thinking or what he imagined the people around him to be like. For this extremely evil man, everyone just wanted a quick verdict to bring a happy ending to the case.
When the trial was over, I heard the sentence of death penalty.
Chi Shen stood up and prepared to leave, when he suddenly heard Bai Ximing's voice coming from behind him: "Shen Shen, do you hate your father very much?"
Chi Shen didn't look back.
Behind him, Bai Ximing was still crying: "You shouldn't hate me, I do this just for the Bai family to continue, if you let these ghosts let me go, I can give the Bai family to you!"
Chi Shen did not stop. He might have hated Bai Ximing before, but it didn't matter anymore. In the hundred years of the Hell Game, hatred had become very distant. After he became a god, such feelings no longer existed.
He just came to see the case trial process of the Special Security Bureau and to witness the decline of the old family in Hong Kong City.
From now on, there will no longer be a Bai family in Gangcheng who can block out the sun and the dark clouds here have finally dispersed.
Coming out of the Special Security Bureau, it was just the time when the lights were on and the streets were bustling with activity. Spring Festival songs could be heard everywhere on the streets. Chi Shen smiled and asked Ji Xingchen, "What do you want to eat? Dumplings?"
"Do you want to pack it yourself?" Ji Xingchen said.
Chi Shen thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. Let's go back and make dumplings."
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