After Ye Chen left, Li Mazi and I wandered around the villa.

Perhaps Mr. Jin’s oddness had scared people. Except for a few bodyguards, there was only one chef in this vast villa. 

The chef

 didn’t look anything special. After 

taking a 

first glance, I didn’t pay any more attention to him. 

After touring one round, I found no problem with the villa’s 

geomancy

. It meant Mr. Jin’s sickness wasn’t accidentally caused by 

a

 wandering ghost.

It 

pointed to the

 characteristics of 

an

 otherworldly item! 

Besides

 the guest rooms, most of the other rooms were locked. I didn’t find anything strange. 

A moment later, the chef brought us two sets of French lunches. This man didn’t look tha

t

 nice, but his French food 

was

 excellent. Li Mazi and I had 

to compete

 for the last piece. After dinner, we got on the big bed

 and slept

. 

At around twilight, we heard the roar of a car engine outside. I thought

 that 

Mr. Jin 

had returned

. I woke Li Mazi to prepare. 

Indeed, Ye Chen soon came to fetch us. 

As soon as I crossed the threshold of the lobby, I 

smelled a

 faint floral aroma. It wasn’t hard to recognize

 that it 

was Yin energy. 

The sm

ell

 came

 from Mr. Jin. It seemed the spirit had been following him day and night. I couldn’t help but frown. 

Li Mazi 

reached

 the lobby before me

. H

e suddenly screamed, “Oh hey, why does Mr. Jin look so familiar? Oh, he is…” 

I hurried to follow him. I was thrilled when I saw the so-called Boss Jin. He was the strange pedestrian we had seen while passing the Eastern Qing 

T

ombs. If we 

didn’t need

 to follow the young man in the suit, we would have stopped to talk to him. 

Mr. Jin 

looked at the two of us in surprise. He 

asked skeptically

,

 “You are Master Zhang and Master Li, right? Why do you look so surprised 

to

 see me?” 

“It’s nice to meet you, Mr. Jin. I am Zhang Jiulin.” I shook his hand. “I saw you on the way here. 

Jin Shengqing nodded. “Yeah, 

I

 have a routine of running in the Eastern Qing 

T

ombs area.” 

I didn’t want to linger 

o

n this topic

 and went

 straight to the point. “What happened to you? How is your situation?” Although Ye Chen had told us

 about the situation,

 it wasn’t as sufficient

. I needed to hear it 

from the victim. 

Mr. Jin forced a smile

 and talked 

slowly. “It’s embarrassing. I don’t know why I have turned into this. At night, I can’t control my body. I will weep like a girl.

My consciousness is clear, but I can’t control myself. I 

get

 an extremely sorrowful feeling but c

an’t

 tell what has caused it. I just want to cry…” 

No matter what, Mr. Jin was a successful businessman. Although he was scared, he didn’t show his panic. He continued, “Moreover, every time I cry, I feel like someone is strangling me. I can’t see anything, but when I 

get

 up the next day, I see new bruises on my neck.”

Then, Mr. Jin pulled the collar of his shirt

 to show us 

his neck.

I saw many finger bruises on his neck

. His skin was s

calded. 

I 

felt

 anxious 

after

seeing that

. Although I had accepted many otherworldly item cases and 

dealt with 

extraordinary 

evil 

spirits, I knew this otherworldly item had harmed its host. 

I decided to look 

and

 see what kind of otherworldly item it was. 

“Mr. Jin, tonight, you should rest as you normally do. I’ll be by your side, watching

. 

Don’t worry

,

” I 

said

 to Mr. Jin. 

Mr. Jin thanked me a lot. I recognized that his eyes were bloodshot. It seemed he had received enough torment these days. 

Soon, the chef brought us dinner. It was beefsteak and foie gras. After dinner, I asked Mr. Jin and Ye Chen to wait for us downstairs

. 

Li Mazi and I would 

go

 to his room to arrange something. 

Since the 

spirit

was

 a female and she wept all the time, I guessed she had suffered grievance before her death. I wrote the name

,

 Dou E

,

 on a sheet of paper and posted it on the wall. 

Whether 

the Yin spirit was from ancient times or 

modern-day

, she would know about Dou E. 

Everybody knew the Injustice to Dou E

[1]

, right?

Then, I sprinkled a layer of the best cinnabar underneath his bed to protect him.

After everything was done, I asked Mr. Jin to come to his room. When he tucked into his bed, I turned off the lights in the corridor and his room. Then, Li Mazi and I hid in the closet

 and 

quietly wait

ed

.

As the night 

grew

 darker, the room became quiete

r

. At the same time, the plants outside rattled in the mountainous wind. 

The clock hand ticked. 

I felt tired at

 around midnight

;

 I wanted to take th

is

 time to puff a cigarette to relax. 

Then, 

Li Mazi suddenly 

nudged

 me.

I was surprised

 and followed 

his finger. The door had opened a little bit. We heard low footsteps from the corridor

. The figure was approaching the room. 

I pulled myself together

 and held onto the 

Sirius Whip

 tightly as I waited 

for that thing. However, the footsteps disappeared when 

they

 reached the door. 

I thought it had recognized me and Li Mazi, so I hurriedly adhered two Yang Concealing Talismans 

to

our bodies

. It would help cover our Yang energy. 

T

he ghost still had not entered the room. I was skeptical

 and craned 

my neck out to check. There was nothing else in the room. 

“

It s

eems she has spotted us…” I told Li Mazi, feeling a little los

t

. Then, I crawled out of the closet

 and

 found two lines of faint footprints. It was really hard to wait for her

, so h

ow could I let her go like this? After clearing my head, I followed the lines of footprints. 

Those footprints led me around two kilometers away from the villa. I stood and looked around for a long time. I didn’t find anything strange, so I decided to return. 

However, a flow of cold air blew behind me. Instinctively, I turned to see. A pair of bleeding eyes 

were

 gazing at me. Subconsciously, I took a step backward and lashed the Sirius Whip at her. 

Before the Sirius Whip hit her, the ghost disappeared. I was stunned.

Then, Li Mazi’s voice 

from

 behind me. “Little 

B

rother Zhang, she’s right behind you!” 

Before I could react, a bluish pair of 

hands

 reached my neck. Her fingernails sparkled

. They were 

really sharp 

like

 daggers. 

At the moment my life was at stake, I riskily threw the Sirius Whip. The female ghost 

subconsciously 

grabbed the whip. She screeched as her hand 

started to turn into smoke

. The ghost flashed then disappeared. Perhaps she thought she wasn’t my opponent. 

“It’s so 

freaking

strange

. We were almost 

done for

!” 

Li Mazi spat

,

 “What should we do next?” 

“We have to go back first. I’m worried about Mr. Jin.” I shook my head. 

As soon as

Mr. Jin’s name came up

, I suddenly

 saw the light

. Li Mazi 

had

 the same reaction. The female ghost had

 lured

 us on purpose

. She wanted to

 make us leave Mr. Jin

! 

I didn’t have time to nag here

. I turned 

and 

ran

 toward the villa.

As soon as we entered the villa, I felt thick Yin energy shrouding the 

place

. Then, I heard 

a

 woman crying upstairs. I didn’t have the mind to worry about anything else

. I

 immediately 

ran

 upstairs. 

At the moment I walked through the threshold, a 

cold

 wind blew right at my face. I quickly 

lowered

 my head to dodge it

, but I could still feel 

my scalp tingling! 

A loud thud echoed behind me. I moved aside and saw 

that a

 fiery red arrow 

was stabbed

 into the door. The arrow 

was

 burning

, and it 

eventually disappear

ed

. 

It seemed the

 ghost 

was 

in the room and had ambushed me with that arrow. I switched on the light and looked 

in

 the direction 

of

 the thickest Yin energy. 

A

 woman wearing Manchurian traditional clothes floated. Her feet were bound

, and

 she was holding a flaming bow. 

I didn’t know what kind of 

status

 she had 

while

 she was alive, so I had to be ready

. I held 

the Sirius Whip tightly! 

The female ghost wasn’t 

surprised

. She raised her bow, aimed at me, and pulled the string. 

A

nother fiery arrow 

was immediately

 shot toward me. She

 had 

made me her prey. 

At first, I 

had

 the Sirius Whip with me, so I could dodge around seven or eight arrows. After the power of the Sirius Whip was used up, I became passive. I had to jump and bounce around to avoid her attack. 

Mr. Jin 

was no longer

 snor

ing

. I guessed he 

had fainted. 

I couldn’t just l

eave him like this. 

At the same time, I couldn’t let the ghost shoot me as though I were a rabbit. At this moment, I felt restlessly anxious

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