Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 232 The Weak Black Hand

Xiao Mianhua's tone was light, and she thought that Ran Qing felt guilty about being so drunk that she needed Mo Li to carry her back.

Ran Qing was completely distraught.

Talking nonsense while drunk can sometimes be more terrifying than a drunken outburst.

Although Mo Li spared Ran Qing's feelings by not mentioning the matter at all, and only Mo Li and Xiao Mianhua knew about this embarrassing incident, Ran Qing was still extremely ashamed.

"I absolutely must never get drunk again..."

Ran Qing silently made a decision and set a prohibition for herself.

After he begged Xiao Mianhua to keep the secret, the matter was temporarily considered over.

Ran Qing finally managed to adjust her mindset before entering the main room next door.

In the stuffy main room, a black clay pot tied with a red rope sat quietly beneath the ancestral tablets for Heaven, Earth, Ruler, Parents, and Teacher.

Today is the third day since the female ghost was captured, and no more black energy is emanating from the black clay pot.

The female ghost's resentment and death aura had been almost completely dissipated, and it was finally time for her interrogation.

Ran Qing walked over with the staff bearing the human head, poked the clay pot with it, and asked, "Can you hear me?"

He pondered that if the female ghost refused to answer, he could resort to some methods.

The book "Witchcraft and Ghostly Arts" contains several minor methods for dealing with vengeful ghosts, all of which Ran Qing happens to be able to use.

Unlike the first time we caught the water ghost in the well, we no longer had to rely on weak and ineffective threats.

Upon hearing Ran Qing's voice, the clay pot bound with red rope shook violently, and a woman's voice came from inside.

"...A spirit medium, right?"

The female ghost's voice was very weak, intermittent, as if she were on her deathbed, giving the impression that she might breathe her last at any moment.

"They even brought me back... Mo Baifeng has taken on a good disciple."

The female ghost's weak, half-dead voice carried a numb sense of world-weariness.

Upon hearing the female ghost's voice, Ran Qing frowned slightly: "You know my master?"

He asked the question, but he wasn't surprised, as he had previously suspected that this female ghost was unusual.

The female ghost in the jar remained silent for a while, seemingly too exhausted to answer.

After a long while, it mumbled weakly, "You want to know where the ghosts on Longchang Street came from, and about the Ghost Platform, right?"

"For Mo Baifeng's sake, I can tell you some things, but there are some things I cannot answer."

The female ghost said wearily and world-weary, "Ask whatever you want, I'll only answer what I can. But I don't have much time, so hurry up and ask, and don't ask about trivial matters..."

Ran Qing was puzzled by the female ghost's weak and exhausted appearance.

The ghosts we caught before were much weaker than this one, yet they didn't seem this weak—was this female ghost deliberately feigning weakness? Was she trying to lull Ran Qing into a false sense of security and find a chance to escape?

Ran Qing, wary of the female ghost's strange behavior, asked, "Did you set up the Ghost Platform on Longchang Street?"

The female ghost in the jar answered weakly and wearily, "No."

Ran Qing pressed further, "Who set up those ghost altars?"

Could it be that the elevator building and the ghost platform on Longchang Street really share the same origin?
The female ghost's weak voice echoed from the main room: "This cannot be said, pass..."

The female ghost avoided the question.

Ran Qing asked, "Why can't I tell? What will happen if I do?"

The female ghost was somewhat surprised: "...You kid don't know anything? Then why did you come to Longchang Street to arrest me?"

Ran Qing wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the female ghost seemed a little... wronged at this moment.
The female ghost clearly hadn't expected that Ran Qing knew nothing.

After a few seconds of silence, Ran Qing said, "My master told me to do this, but she didn't explain why."

Ran Qing's statement was ambiguous, and she did not reveal any key information.

The female ghost sighed and said, "It's better that you don't know. Not knowing is to protect you. It seems that Mo Baifeng has also found a way to deal with that guy."

The female ghost's voice was still weak: "The person who set up the altar for all ghosts is very evil." "But as long as you don't know him, it will be difficult for him to find you and harm you."

"But once you find out about him, he'll come knocking on your door very quickly, offering you an irresistible price and asking you to do things for him."

"Sometimes, I even doubt whether he is a living person, or even a living person from our time..."

The female ghost's answer stirred something within Ran Qing.

If you don't know that person, the other person can't find you?

Is this why Aunt Liu didn't write anything in the booklet?
But who is this person so strange, with such a strange state of being, and even stranger behavior in setting up the altar for ghosts...?

Ran Qing pondered for a few seconds and asked, "What are this person's weaknesses?"

Ran Qing had a hunch that he would inevitably have to face this mastermind in the future.

I want to know as much as possible about the other person.

But the female ghost chuckled and said, "Weaknesses? That guy is all weaknesses."

"Or rather, he's not strong at all."

“A stray dog ​​on the roadside could kill him, and any strong adult could beat him to death.”

“You people who walk the path of the dead have a whole host of ways to torture him until he’s unrecognizable.”

The female ghost's words carried a hint of self-mockery.

It's as if he's mocking himself.

But what it said left Ran Qing bewildered and puzzled.

"So weak?"

How did the other party become the mastermind behind the scenes and raise ghosts everywhere?

Ran Qing instinctively began to have doubts.

The female ghost coldly replied, "I told you, when that person finds you, he will offer you a price you can't refuse."

"He seems to be able to see into people's hearts, to see what people want most, and to help them get it."

"And the price is doing things for him."

The female ghost sneered as she spoke, "That person doesn't even know illusion magic, and he stutters when he speaks."

"But as soon as he opens his mouth, he can offer conditions that you can't refuse."

"Unless he is a high-ranking monk who has no desires or wants, I can't think of anyone who could remain calm in front of that guy."

The female ghost's answer was beyond Ran Qing's expectations.

He originally thought that the mastermind behind raising ghosts everywhere was a mysterious, powerful, and terrifying heretical cultivator.

But the female ghost said that the other party was very weak, only able to see through people's hearts...

Ran Qing was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "So what is he trying to do by setting up ghost altars everywhere to raise ghosts?"

People always have a purpose in doing things.

Ran Qing was concerned about this person's purpose.

The female ghost thought for a moment and replied, "Maybe she wants to live, or maybe she has some other purpose. Anyway, I don't know and I didn't ask."

"That man is very strange, but what's strange about him is that he will offer you an irresistible price, make you his pawn, and make you do things for him."

"But as long as you don't trade with him or have any contact with him, then he is harmless."

"Since you don't know this person, he won't be able to find you in a short time."

"You should be more worried about the ghosts behind the red door than him..."

The female ghost said in an icy tone, "The Red Gate opens wide, and the Ghost Kingdom descends to earth. This is a legend passed down by the elders of Zangke."

“A red gate has already appeared. If the prophecy of the elders is true, then the legendary ancient Luo Kingdom will return to the world.”

(End of this chapter)