Chapter 152: You Can Just Ask the Auntie (1)

The two of them arrived at the center of the downtown area. Due to a city-wide blackout today, not a single shop was open for business.

The light on the streets at this moment was rather dim, making things appear somewhat surreal and blurry, with certain objects barely discernible.

Gu Zhiheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the high-end residential complex a hundred meters away. Good grief, what on earth was going on here, were they holding a gathering?

They had heard earlier in the day that a woman in her late twenties had jumped to her death from the building at noon. According to her neighbors, she was a minor supervisor at a private company, the hardworking type.

The reason the two of them came over was because Fang He claimed there was an evil ghost here boiling with monstrous grievances, and invited him along to watch the spectacle.

Yes, just to watch the show, because the ones handling the matter tonight were not the two of them, but someone else entirely.

The two had looked into the busybody meddling in this affair: he was a half-baked young Taoist priest, poorly trained in his craft, but gifted with a remarkably slick tongue.

That fellow didn't rely on any genuine supernatural ability to capture ghosts; he simply depended on that mouth of his, nagging his targets until they willingly followed him out of sheer annoyance, or else helplessly gave up the struggle and let the kid dispatch them.

Because of this character, every ghost in the residential compounds around this area stayed far away. They couldn't come out during the day, and now they refused to come out even at night.

It wasn't out of fear of encountering that kid, but simply a deliberate choice to avoid him.

Yet tonight was strange. Why were dozens of ghosts from this residential complex gathered together? Weren't they afraid of running into that kid here?

"Excuse me, what are you all doing here?" Fang He and Gu Zhiheng altered their appearances slightly and asked the crowd of ghosts cautiously.

"Are you from the neighboring residential complex? You wouldn't understand this. A very kind-hearted young woman jumped from the building."

"Exactly, exactly. She was quite pretty and worked very hard, but the man she married was absolute scum."

"Eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling—he relied entirely on this young woman to support him, just a good-for-nothing, idle piece of trash."

"And that's not even the worst of it. What's even more abominable is that he was a domestic abuser. Not satisfied with all that, he beat the poor young woman every single day."

"Such a pitiful young girl, her fate was truly bitter. How could she have run into such a beast!"

"How come we don't see her soul? Didn't she die?"

All the preceding remarks were made by the ghosts chattering away, while the final sentence was asked by Gu Zhiheng.

Logically speaking, more than six hours had passed since her death, so her soul should have appeared by now, but there was no sign of it down here!

"I used to be her neighbor. When I came downstairs, I seemed to see her inside her home, though I'm not sure if she's still there right now," an older woman squeezed her way to the front and told Gu Zhiheng.

She was very enthusiastic and didn't forget to tell Gu Zhiheng where the young woman lived: "This is Kuncheng Residential Complex. The young woman lived in Building 6, Unit 2, Apartment 902. Her name seems to be Li Yanni."

"Alright, thank you, ma'am. We'll go up and take a look, and we'll come back down to give you updates if there's any news!" Fang He thanked the elderly residents, then grabbed Gu Zhiheng and headed straight for the place the older woman had mentioned.

Building 6, Unit 2, Apartment 902.

As soon as the two stepped into the doorway of Apartment 902, they heard cursing and swearing from inside: "Damn it, this is so unlucky! Now that this dead woman is gone, who is going to make money for me to spend?!"

"I have no idea what goes on inside this bitch's mind. How dare she abandon me and just up and die like that?"

The voice came in fits and starts, interspersed with the sound of beer bottles crashing onto the floor, and other sounds best left unbroadcasted.

"Quite interesting, his psychological resilience is not bad. We won't need to hold back later," Gu Zhiheng smiled seductively, and Fang He knew this fellow was up to mischief again.

Suddenly, a strong wind rose outside, making the night even darker and gloomier, and the howling of the wind sounded rather hair-raising.

The man inside got goosebumps from the wind blowing past, feeling that tonight's gale was somehow eerie, with an intensely chilling sensation.

He raised a hand to rub the goosebumps on his arms, then got up and went to the kitchen, retrieving a few more bottles of beer under the dim light of his cell phone.

He placed the beer bottles on the table, turned around to close all the living room windows, took a careful glance around, and sat back down on the sofa to continue drinking.

While the man continued to drink, right by the living room window stood the soul of the woman who had jumped to her death at noon. She was staring fixedly at the man, her eyes filled with bitter grievance and rage.

Since Gu Zhiheng and Fang He were in a state of invisibility, neither the man nor the ghost could see them, so the two of them simply stood quietly and watched the scene unfold.

The man drank his beer while cursing with a ferocious expression: "Li Yanni, you bitch, you're dead so you're dead. Anyway, I can just sell the apartment to pay off my debts and have money to spend. Did you really think you could find peace just by dying?"

Perhaps feeling that his initial curses weren't vicious or satisfying enough, he went on to utter even more outrageous remarks: "Bah! Even if you're dead, I won't let you go. I'll pay people to go to your grave and disturb you every single day. If you won't let me live in peace, I won't let you off either."

Gu Zhiheng and Fang He stood quietly at the doorway observing, while Li Yanni continued to glare at the man from her spot by the window. For a moment, the atmosphere froze completely.

It wasn't until the man uttered a certain sentence that Li Yanni completely lost control, drifting toward the man with clear intent to attack.

"So what if she lost a child? What was there to make such a big fuss about? Big deal, she could just get pregnant again. Women are just overly dramatic and delicate!" The moment the man finished speaking, Li Yanni by the window instantly snapped and charged forward in a fury.

Fang He waved a hand to intercept Li Yanni, feeling that she shouldn't act so rashly. For scum like this, garbage should naturally be dealt with the way garbage is treated.

"Hey, don't be rash. Let's handle this in a different way." Fang He and Gu Zhiheng used magic to make themselves visible to Li Yanni, and the three of them stepped aside together.

After listening to Li Yanni recount the entire sequence of events, both Gu Zhiheng and Fang He turned pale with anger. This beast didn't even deserve to be human—what an absolute piece of trash!

"Just stand aside and watch. The two of us will go give him a scare, and whatever you left behind won't fall into his hands." Watching Fang He push Li Yanni to the side, he and Gu Zhiheng stepped forward directly.

As for the two men who had suddenly materialized out of thin air inside the room, the man was startled out of his wits—especially seeing the two dressed in black and white—and he wet his pants on the spot.

"Get pen and paper, and write that out of deep remorse for your wife's passing, you voluntarily transfer all your assets to Li's elderly parents, and will sever all ties with the Li family thereafter." Gu Zhiheng stood threateningly in front of the man, planting one foot on the table and staring down at him with a fierce glare.

Trembling all over from terror, the man nevertheless followed Gu Zhiheng's instructions, his mental state entirely on the verge of collapse by this point.

However, Gu Zhiheng and Fang He had no intention of letting him off that easily. They further forced him to post the text he had just written online, broadcasting it across all his social media accounts.

At this moment, Gu Zhiheng beckoned, and Li Yanni obediently walked over toward the two of them.

With a mischievous urge, Gu Zhiheng made the man witness his deceased wife face-to-face, letting him look directly at her bloodied and mutilated appearance.

Perhaps the visual was simply too stimulating; the man blacked out and fainted on the spot. Finding it dull now, Gu Zhiheng and Fang He exchanged a few brief words with Li Yanni before heading straight downstairs.