Chapter 12: She is clearly not wrong, but she remains for resentment and obsession
Behind Lin Zhuyue, the blazing white light faded, and the silvery laughter faded with it. Only the pitch-black room remained, and several overlapping sobs.
Lin Zhuyue asked nervously, "Is it a ghost?"
"It's not a ghost, it's a human."
Shi Can warned,
"Don't lift the broom, keep it in this position."
He grasped the Lingwu Absolute Blade in both hands, and the blade pierced through the gap in the broom and directly into the ghost's head. The next moment, the ghost stopped struggling and slumped to the ground, allowing the Bagua bag to take her in.
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia entered the door to check the situation.
Inside the door were old furniture, a thick hemp rope hung from the fan blades on the ceiling, and underneath was a kicked-over bench.
There are many dresses in the closet. Although they look a bit old-fashioned now, they must have been very fashionable when many people lived in this building.
There is also a shoe cabinet... Most of the shoes in the cabinet are flat-heeled shoes, with only one pair of high heels. However, this pair of high heels has been worn many times because the heels are severely worn.
Six young people, both men and women, huddled in a corner and cried bitterly.
Even someone as gentle as Wen Miyan was not kind to the City Exploration Team - not only did they put themselves in danger, they also caused the team of trainee spiritualists from Tiancheng to risk their lives in order to save them.
Wen Miyan just glanced at them, and after confirming that no one was missing any limbs, he took out his tablet and retrieved the information, checking them one by one to confirm that this was the missing city detective team.
"It's them. All six of them are here."
Wen Miyan said to Ye Yangjia,
"We sent them downstairs and notified the police to pick them up downstairs. We gave them some instructions and conducted a thorough ideological education. We also asked them to sign a confidentiality agreement."
Although the main task is to rescue the city detective team, there are other powerful ghosts in the building that also need to be dealt with, so Lin Zhuyue and his team cannot leave for the time being.
They left the house together.
Before leaving, Lin Zhuyue looked back.
She saw an incandescent light in the house, and a long-haired girl wearing a beautiful floral dress and a pair of high heels. The girl wasn't good at wearing high heels, and she would twist her ankle every few steps, so she walked back and forth around the house, holding onto the back of the sofa, to get used to the shoes.
The girl was a great singer, like an oriole, capable of delivering the most captivating songs. She had appeared on a TV show but was quickly rejected. To make a living, she had to work in a dance hall. All the girls in the hall wore high heels, so she had to wear them too.
She only sang for money, not as a drinking companion. But the nightclub had customers whose bosses desperately wanted to please, and they liked her looks. So one day, she was offered up like a cheap bird. She got drunk and remembered nothing, only waking up in disarray, with a thick wad of banknotes beside her pillow.
People talked about her and blamed her. It was obvious that she was forced to "make mistakes", but she had to face so many unbearable words and looks in her life.
Why?
Why...
Her boyfriend, who had promised to stay with her forever, to overcome difficulties with her and was planning to get married, also chose to leave amid rumors.
She hung the rope on the fan blades, took off her shoes, and stood barefoot on a stool. The rope loop was so high that she had to stand on tiptoe to get her head through it. Then she kicked the stool over.
Suffocation, pain, bloating...
Why is this happening?
She was obviously not wrong.
Along with the extreme pain of death came an equal amount of resentment. She hated those who talked too much, hated those who didn't know the truth, hated those who had promised to be with her forever but didn't stay with her... She hated it so much, she hated this world.
She wants revenge, she wants revenge on everyone...
She clung to the fan blades, breathless, her bare feet no longer struggling. She was dead, but resentment and obsession kept her here, lingering forever.
Shi Can asked, "Lin Zhuyue?"
Lin Zhuyue came back to his senses and replied, "I'm coming."
She followed Shi Chan and asked:
"What happens to a captured ghost?"
"Those without sin will be sent to the afterlife, while those with sin will be scattered or thrown into a well or a pagoda."
Shi Chan looked at the bag of gossip in his hand.
"She has hurt people before, so she should be broken up."
Lin Zhuyue couldn't help but say: "She..."
Shi Chan interrupted her directly:
"Whatever you see, there's no need to speak it out. No matter how pitiful you were in life, if you make mistakes after death, you're guilty."
Wen Miyan said, "Many evil spirits were pitiful when they were alive, but that's no reason for them to harm people after they die."
Lin Zhuyue nodded silently.
After sending the City Detectives downstairs and handing them over to the police, Lin Zhuyue and his four companions reentered the building. This time, there was no ghost wall to separate them. Shi Can, Wen Miyan, and Ye Yangjia, armed with spiritual weapons, displayed their full fighting prowess, with Lin Zhuyue's broom in hand having no chance of interfering.
At four in the morning, they finally cleared out the demons and monsters in the residential building. Ye Yangjia looked at the compass spinning normally and nodded with satisfaction.
Shi Can put away his sword and poured a basin of cold water on him:
"Why are you so happy? We'll get together again in the future."
Ye Yangjia put the compass back into his bag and said:
"A real estate developer associated with Sky City will soon buy this building and tear it down and rebuild it. Sky City's Feng Shui masters will be involved in the design, and it won't be left in this mess again."
Lin Zhuyue couldn't get a word in, and she was almost exhausted.
"Let's go now."
Wen Miyan said to Shi Can and Ye Yangjia who still had the energy to argue,
"Let's find a hotel to rest. After I wake up, I have to hurry back to Tiancheng. I have an exam soon, and I don't want to fail and have to retake it."
Shi Can and Ye Yangjia also didn't want to fail the course.
Lin Zhuyue had no objection because she would definitely die.
The four of them packed up their equipment, returned to the parking lot on the second underground floor of the hospital, threw their travel bags into the trunk, drove to a nearby four-star hotel, and booked two standard rooms.
Lin Zhuyue and Wen Miyan lived in the same room. Both of them were very tired. They plugged their phones into the charging cable and lay down on the bed without taking a shower.
Lin Zhuyue said, "The hotel is very clean."
Wen Miyan knew what she meant by "clean".
Lin Zhuyue wiped his eyes with bamboo leaves and rootless water, temporarily opening his eyes. This brief period of open eyes had not yet ended. In this four-star hotel, from the first-floor lobby to the twelfth floor where they lived, there was not a single dead soul.
“Some hotels are specially designed.”
Wen Miyan covered herself with the quilt and said,
"Did you see the Xuanwu on the first floor? Hotels like this are usually very safe and clean."
Lin Zhuyue did not reply.
"Moon-chasing?"
Wen Miyan stood up and glanced at Lin Zhuyue, then smiled helplessly - Lin Zhuyue had already fallen asleep.
She stood up and pulled the quilt for Lin Zhuyue, then lay back down, turned over, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
In the next room, Shi Chan was fiddling with his phone.
Ye Yangjia asked: "What are you going to do?"
Shi Chan swiped the screen of his phone:
"There's a Bawang Tea House nearby that's still open. Would you like some?"
"Drink shit." Ye Yangjia cursed, "Are you crazy? Do you want to go to sleep?"
"I'm quite sleepy, but I don't really want to sleep."
Shi Can threw his phone aside and said,
"You guys really found me a good teammate."
Ye Yangjia was not stingy in praising Lin Zhuyue:
"Really? He can beat ghosts down with a broom. If he awakens his spiritual power, I wonder how powerful he will be."
"That's not what I meant."
After Shi Can opened the chat software, he threw the phone to Ye Yangjia and said,
"Fu Xingwei asked me to give her extra lessons until she catches up with the average score of the previous class."
Ye Yangjia: “…”
Ye Yangjia was shocked:
"The average score of Class 1 is full marks!"
"So I think Mr. Fu is probably crazy."
Shi Cansheng said with despair,
"There's a 20% chance he's insane."
Ye Yangjia walked over, patted Shi Can on the shoulder, and encouraged Shi Can with a look that said, "There is a long way to go."
"Or maybe he's crazy and insane."
Counting the six years in the Introductory Department and the three years in the Elementary Department, they had been attending the Spiritual Master Academy for nearly twelve years. Lin Zhuyue, who had suddenly transferred to the third year of the Advanced Department, had a twelve-year gap in metaphysics compared to the others. Forgetting a perfect score, even passing the exam would be like winning the lottery.
Shi Chan lay on the bed and said:
"I'm still a little unwilling."
Ye Yangjia asked: "What are you unwilling to accept?"
Shi Can put his hands behind his head and said:
"Her spiritual power may be stronger than mine."
Ye Yangjia responded calmly:
"That's a descendant of the Ling family. Their heritage is no less than yours. If nothing had happened, who knows who would have been the most powerful family in Tiancheng. It's not surprising that their spiritual power has caught up with yours. Stop being so competitive and go to bed early."
Shi Can asked, "Is it really from the Ling family? Have you done a DNA test?"
"You haven't seen Ling Yan's photo?"
Ye Yangjia sat up and asked,
"Lin Zhuyue looks a lot like him."
Shi Can didn't say anything for a long time.
After a moment, he turned his back and sneered:
"Once Lingwu awakens, everything will be revealed. To be honest, when you awakened and took out two guns, I was really disappointed. Who knew you could only use the Little Five Emperors' coins as bullets?"
Ye Yangjia: “…”
Most spiritual weapons were melee weapons like swords and knives, with bows and arrows being rare. Who knew Ye Yangjia would awaken a spear, two at that, and be called the greatest genius of his generation?
Who knew that his gun could only use the Five Emperors' coins as bullets, and that bastard Shi Can had even mastered the skill of chopping bullets with a knife. Is this kind of strength something a human can achieve?
Shi Can still didn't order the King's Tea Girl and went to sleep quietly.
It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Lin Zhuyue opened his eyes.
Wen Miyan had just taken a shower and had a bath towel still wrapped around her body. She was sitting in front of the dressing mirror combing her hair.
"Are you awake?"
Wen Miyan sighed,
"You're a good sleeper."
Lin Zhuyue is a senior high school student. He usually has trouble sleeping. Once he manages to sleep, eight hours of sleep is considered too short.
"I asked the front desk to deduct the deposit, so you can check out later."
Wen Miyan braided her curly hair into three braids.
"Go take a shower and clean up, then we'll go to the mall for dinner and then head back to Sky City."
Lin Zhuyue scratched his head: "Sorry..."
Lin Zhuyue is not short of money, but she still thinks it is a waste to sleep too long in the hotel and delay check-out, resulting in the deposit being deducted.
Wen Miyan smiled and said:
"It's okay. I've been delayed too. It seems like the two next door just woke up. It's really tiring to catch ghosts until four in the morning."
At about 2:30 in the afternoon, the four people gathered in the lobby on the first floor.
There is a library on the east side of the lobby on the first floor, where you can read or order drinks. Shi Can ordered a latte, but frowned because it was too hard to drink.
Lin Zhuyue was wearing long hair that had just been blown dry with a hair dryer and loose clothes, looking very generous.
Check-out was done quickly.
Lin Zhuyue was about to step out of the hotel——
Shi Chan yelled at her, “Don’t—!”
Lin Zhuyue had already taken a step forward, but in an instant, she stepped back, her long hair disheveled, a few strands still in her mouth. Her expression was bewildered and dazed, and she turned back to look at Shi Can who had called her.
Shi Can: "...It's a force seven wind outside right now."
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