Chapter 9: A Skeleton Under Clothing 2; Hazy Ghost Villa
Translated by Shiya of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Karai
After Chen Yang decided on a series of matters and had a certain understanding of the job, he set out with Mao Xiaoli. They were going to meet up with the two Tianshis from headquarters, who took the job, then go to the villa together.
Who knew the two from headquarters notified them that they already went to the Villa District by themselves and asked the people of the branch office to meet them there. Their arrogant attitude showed that they were not satisfied with cooperating with the branch office.
Mao Xiaoli was indignant, “Why are they acting like this is rare? We can also take orders on the App.”
“Are you sure you’ll get a 20 million dollar check from the app?” Chen Yang retorted.
No. One was only a DuGong (6th), the other with no grade, so they were essentially two rookie Tianshis. Them receiving a two-star job was already not bad. Although Mao Xiaoli understood, she still felt uncomfortable. She asked, “Are you not angry, Brother Chen?”
“There is nothing to be angry about.” Headquarters was the one who should be angry. They had to give them 10 million dollars, Chen Yang was satisfied with the feeling, “The ten million is already in my heart. Even if they show disgust in my face, I still won’t get angry.”
Not only was he not angry, but he was very happy. Ten million!
Mao Xiaoli also thought of that ten million, and suddenly she had no anger at all. She couldn’t help smiling to herself, “Yes, I’d be happy if I could get ten million dollars every day just by taking their crap.”
The villa was located in a rather peaceful suburb, which was in a remote location. It was quiet, with few people. There were about forty villas in the Haoyuan Villa district, and seventeen permanent households living there. Chen Yang’s customer was not a permanent tenant of Haoyuan Villa, nor would he necessarily stay in this villa for even a week in a year.
The distance between each villa was about ten meters 1, and the surrounding grasslands and trees were separated, so each independent villa was very pleasant and quiet. They needed to find the JingGuai in the remaining seventeen permanent households.
While they were searching, the JingGuai would have time to kill even more people.
This would be very difficult.
Chen Yang and Mao Xiaoli arrived at the customer’s villa and pressed the doorbell. It took several minutes for the door to open. A beautiful girl leaned against the door and looked at Chen Yang. She asked, “Who are you? What are you doing here?”
Chen Yang, “Tianshis, here to exercise evil.”
The girl had a slight smile on her face, and her eyes were suspicious. “Sorry, we have invited other Tianshis.”
“I know.” Chen Yang nodded, “We are colleagues.”
“Sorry, wait a minute. I need to ask them.”
Chen Yang nodded. He thought she would enter the room and ask, but didn’t expect her to use her cell phone. After confirming that Chen Yang and Mao Xiaoli were indeed invited, the girl let them into the house.
“My name is Ge Qing. Master, what is your name?” Ge Qing was very fond of Chen Yang.
“Chen Yang. She is Mao Xiaoli.”
Ge Qing glanced at Mao Xiaoli and made a faint ‘oh’ sound then continued to flirt with Chen Yang.
They went into the living room and saw that there were three young people in the living room, chatting with each other. After introduction, Chen Yang found out that they were all friends of Ge Qing and the real clients of this incident.
They were a group of college students. One of them, Feng Yuan, was the owner of the villa and the son of the customer. When they were traveling, they met a JingGuai. They were targeted, and they quickly fled. They didn’t think anything of it and now one of their companions on the trip had died.
Chen Yang was sitting opposite the young people. Mao Xiaoli stood behind him and looked around.
“I want to know how you guys came in contact with the JingGuai and led to the death of your companion.”
Before Feng Yuan spoke, another young man stood up and said impatiently, “I’m going back to my room. Call me again at dinner time.”
Chen Yang glanced at him with indifferent eyes, he felt no anger or irritation.
Feng Yuan smiled embarrassedly, “Our dead companion was his good friend, so he’s not in a good mood.”
Chen Yang shook his head, “It’s okay.”
Beside the young person who just left, the other three were very cooperative. Since it was a matter of vital importance, all three of the students told them everything they knew. Through their story, Chen Yang learned that Feng Yuan and the others went to Laotun Town, which was not far from the suburbs of the Imperial City, for their 1st May holiday [efn_note]Holiday celebrating workers.[/efn_note] three weeks ago. There were six people, four men and two women.
“One isn’t here?”
In addition to the young man upstairs, and their dead companion, only Feng Yuan, Ge Qing and Wei Changping were present. When Chen Yang asked this, Feng Yuan and Wei Changping looked at Ge Qing.
Ge Qing shrugged, “Don’t look at me. Ma Qiqi is stubborn. I couldn’t persuade her to come and she thought we were pranking her.”
Chen Yang, “What do you mean?”
Feng Yuan said with embarrassment, “Ma Qiqi is one of our classmates and one of the six. But she doesn’t believe in ghosts. She firmly believes that we are playing a prank on her.”
“She doesn’t believe your friend died?”
“She thought it was only an accident, and she didn’t see the corpse.”
If Ma Qiqi saw the dead companion’s body, she would believe it. Because the death of the deceased was so bizarre and tragic, it was for this reason that Feng Yuan hired Tianshis.
Chen Yang looked down and said lightly, “Whether she believes it or not, you have to find a way to call her over.”
Ge Qing leaned on the back of the fabric sofa and got closer to Chen Yang curiously. She asked, “Master Chen, why?”
When Mao Xiaoli came back to the circle, she saw this scene. After shaking off her goosebumps, she hurried forward and pushed Ge Qing away. She laughed and said, “Because the evil being is targeting you people. If you separate yourself from the others, you are most likely to be killed. Although her safety is not within the scope of our business, if you don’t want her to die, you’d better lie to her and get her to come here.”
Chen Yang nodded, “Here, at least we can protect her.”
Ge Qing smiled and said, “Okay, I promise to lie to Ma Qiqi and get her here.”
“I want to know why you chose LaoTun Town as your May holiday site.”
“The scenery there is good, the mountains are beautiful, have clear rivers and it is a thousand year old ancient town. It is a tourist resort that is nearby and does not require a lot of traveling. It’s the best choice.” Feng Yuan smiled and said, “Is there a problem?”
Chen Yang stared at him expressionlessly, “Yes.”
“What’s the problem?”
“Because I want to know how you provoked the evil being, and why it is now seeking revenge or if you are being targeted unjustly.”
As soon as his voice fell, Feng Yuan, Ge Qing and Wei ChangPing became slightly unnatural.
Mao Xiaoli frowned and said with displeasure, “Whether you provoked it or if you’re being targeted is a serious question. Please don’t treat this as a game, okay?!”
Ge Qing also frowned, “We are paying, you got hired to solve the problem. Why do you care what we think about this?”
“You!”
“Xiaoli.” Chen Yang called Mao Xiaoli behind him, and said with a pleasant face, “Before solving any problem, one needs to know the cause and effect, both of which are related to the safety of your life. As you know, the evil and ferocious being has killed many people already. If your concealment leads us to having wrong assumptions of the situation, you will lose your lives.”
Feng Yuan and the others looked at each other with grave expressions and thought for a while, then they decided to push Feng Yuan forward. Feng Yuan asked, “What does that have to do with our deaths?”
“The so-called evil spirits occur when coincidences align and form JingGuais, and they are led astray to a path of bloodbath. Once they try to take shortcuts to cultivation, they can never go back. Such evil spirits are usually very persistent with their revenge. If you provoke them on your own initiative, then wherever you go, they will come after you until they kill you. On the contrary, if you are only targeted for convenience, then when there are external forces obstructing them, the evil being will choose to give up over killing you.”
It was not easy for creatures to become JingGuai, so they value their own lives. Unless it was the last resort, they would never threaten their own lives to kill humans. That was unless there was hatred involved. If that was the case then they would not stop. So Feng Yuan’s answer was very important to save their lives.
“In addition,” Chen Yang’s thumb slid over his phone’s screen a few times, it stayed on a page, and he raised the cell phone up for everyone to view, “Miyun (Thick clouds) Ghost House. I think this is why you went to Laotun Town.”
Feng Yuan’s expression changed, he was shocked that their thoughts were seen through.
Mao Xiaoli stood on her toes and looked at Chen Yang’s phone, “Miyun Ghost House? What is that?”
She grabbed the cell phone and scanned the page, then she looked at the three of them. She wanted to say something but was not sure how to say it, finally she shook her head, “That’s why I’m really fed up with your kind of people, who like to challenge death.”
Young and fearless.
People who liked to play all kinds of spiritual games, exploring all kinds of haunted houses, all to seek excitement. They never thought things through, what if they really encountered an evil ghost? Evil ghosts were ferocious and would never give up before massacring everyone.
Miyun Ghost House was a villa located in Laotun Town, which was not far away from Miyun District. It was one of the top ten haunted houses in the Capital, which were circulating on the Internet and had a lot of fame. This one had relatively less information than the others, there were only a few words in the description. Compared with other ghost houses, this belonged to a less well-known abandoned estates.
According to the legends, Miyun Ghost House had been abandoned for ten years, and had many residents leave. There was a heavy Yin aura, and it was an extremely demonic place.
Feng Yuan grinned bitterly, “We know it’s wrong now.” He shook his head and sighed, “If we had known it would kill Lu Nan, even if we had to stay at home instead, we would not have gone to Laotun Town.”
Lu Nan was the only one who died among the six people as of now. According to the records, he died in his apartment, where he lived alone. All six people here were rich second generations. Apart from the college dormitory, Lu Nan rented an apartment in the urban area. Originally he was living with his girlfriend, when the accident occurred, his girlfriend was not home. The door was locked tight and the flat was on the twentieth floor. When he was found, his limbs were incomplete and flesh was in pieces, as if he had been gnawed on by some kind of beast.
The most terrifying thing was that it had been identified that the bite marks came from human teeth. Moreover, all of Lu Nan’s skin was peeled off. His autopsy showed that it was peeled off of him when he was still alive and he was slowly bitten to death. His death was very painful.
The more tragic the death of the deceased was, the more people the evil being had killed in the past, as their temperament became more ferocious and cold-hearted along with the murders, and the stronger the ghosts would be. So Chen Yang was very vigilant about this case and dared not take this lightly.
“In fact, we went to visit the ghost house in Laotun Town because of Lu Nan’s suggestion. His old home was in the Miyun District. He heard that there was a ghost house in the town ever since he was a child. He had always wanted to go there. We were interested and went looking for some information. No one thought that the first one to go would be Lu Nan.” Feng Yuan couldn’t go on anymore, he was sad and felt guilty about his companion’s death.
“What did you see in that ghost house?”
“Nothing.” Feng Yuan said firmly, “Really nothing! That was why when we left, we were all sad and thought that we had wasted our time. And nothing unusual happened in the few days we stayed in Laotun town. We never expected that we would attract something evil.”
“Are you sure there were no anomalies at all?” Chen Yang didn’t believe that. Generally speaking, there would be anomalies. It was the same for ghosts as demons and evil spirits, they did not have much patience when they wanted to harm humans. They would usually frighten them first and they would possess them, since it would be easier that way.
“I remember something!” Ge Qing suddenly shouted, “It suddenly occurred to me that Lu Nan looked odd when we were leaving town.”
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