Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 297 Radio Station
Mo Li's question silenced Ran Qing.

Long Zongshu scratched his head and asked, "Um... are we still going to Xiong Dacheng's house?"

The three of them had finished packing and were about to set off when a strange, ghostly phone call came in, telling them not to go looking for Xiong Dacheng...

Mo Li looked at Ran Qing and said, "How about we go to Plum Blossom Mountain? Let's take a look at the pine forest behind Plum Blossom Mountain?"

Those two blood-soaked corpses were a thorn in Ran Qing's side.

Li Hongye is trapped by the blood corpses of her parents, and is in a very strange and evil state.

Previously, Ran Qing was wary of the two blood corpses and could only temporarily put Li Hongye aside.

But he was no longer the same person he used to be, and now he had Muneki's help. Muneki's nameless fire was most effective at dealing with these zombie monsters.

That pine forest behind Plum Blossom Mountain seems to be something we can't afford to mess with...

But as soon as the thought crossed her mind, Ran Qing immediately shook her head and rejected it.

"We won't go to Plum Blossom Mountain. We'll continue looking for Xiong Dacheng, but we won't go to his house."

Ran Qing quickly made a decision: "Following Li Hongye's suggestion, let's go to Qingyuan Road!"

Li Hongye's death remains a mystery to this day; it appears she was forced to die by her mother.

But there must be a third party involved.

Since Li Hongye's mother died first, and Li Hongye went to her death later, how could her already dead mother force her to seek revenge when Li Hongye clearly did not want to?

Ran Qing suspects that someone is helping Li Hongye's mother to supervise and force Li Hongye to commit suicide.

And this third party could very well be the group of ghost breeders...

The reminder Li Hongye gave Ran Qing last time led Ran Qing to find the destiny tablet.

Now that Ran Qing is going to find Xiong Dacheng, Li Hongye urgently warns him.

During the day, Ran Qing felt that there was something wrong with the layout of Xiong Dacheng's house; it didn't look like the lair of a ghost-raiser at all.

Li Hongye's urgent reminder at this moment perfectly confirmed Ran Qing's suspicions.

The three of them took Little Cotton out and headed towards Qingyuan Road.

When we arrived at Qingyuan Road, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. The road was dimly lit, with piles of household garbage on the roadside and a rat wriggling across the stinking sewer.

Once here, Ran Qing was quite familiar with the place.

They quickly arrived near Chen Laosan's house, but did not approach it immediately.

Chen Laosan is a monk on Qingyuan Road. He usually works as a boiler operator at a guesthouse. He is over forty years old and still single.

His house was always a mess, with piles of garbage at the door, and he was often scolded by his neighbors.

This kind of unkempt, single old man in his forties claims to be able to predict the future and perform shamanic rituals, and occasionally he can swindle some pocket money or a few chickens from people.

Ran Qing had been curious about this person before, but found that he had no real skills and couldn't even see ghosts.

The so-called Mila and Shiva are the most common charlatans in Zangke.

These kinds of people often claim that they can see ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, and that their abilities are not learned but rather acquired inexplicably after they suddenly fall seriously ill and recover.

There are quite a few people like this in Zangke, but 99% of them are scammers.

The remaining small group are not scammers, but sometimes they may be even worse than scammers.

Their shamanistic abilities are actually targeted by evil lords or some kind of unclean spirit, making them work as henchmen for evil spirits.

For this reason, such people tend to have very bad luck and mostly live a life of poverty and hardship. Even if they occasionally manage to acquire some wealth, they cannot hold onto it.

—The evil spirits behind them will not let them live comfortably.

After observing in the darkness for a while, Ran Qing actually saw Chen Laosan returning home from get off work. This slovenly middle-aged man had a dirty, stubble-covered mouth and messy hair that looked like it hadn't been washed for days.

His clothes were filthy, the fabric shiny and greasy, the grime soaking into it.

He's the kind of slovenly man who smells terrible even from a distance.

Mo Li stared at him suspiciously for a while, and after Chen Laosan opened the door and entered the house, she couldn't help but whisper, "This guy is a ghost keeper? That can't be..."

This Chen Laosan doesn't seem like someone who raises ghosts at all. His house is messy and dirty, and from the outside, there's no sign of any evil or death.

It was even less like a den of ghost breeders than Xiong Dacheng's house.

Ran Qing said expressionlessly, "Just go in and see for yourself. It's easy to get into Chen Laosan's house."

If you went to the wrong place, it's not too late to change course and go to Xiong Dacheng's house now.

Anyway, the two places are very close to each other.

The straight-line distance between Xiong Dacheng's house and Chen Laosan's house on Qingyuan Road is no more than one kilometer.

Long Zongshu asked, "How do we get in? There's just one door, no yard, and the owner has come back..."

Chen Laosan's house is a single-story cement house with its own entrance. It is smaller than the cement house that Liushen lives in in the park, and there are no more than three rooms in the house.

From the outside, the doors and windows are tightly closed and the curtains are drawn.

The light bulb in the room only turned on after Chen Laosan entered the room.

Ran Qing walked towards the room and said, "Just say that a friend of ours has been possessed by an evil spirit and we're asking this old swindler for advice."

After saying that, Ran Qing walked outside the door.

But instead of going inside immediately, he walked around the house and sprinkled incense ash around its edge.

Finally, they circled back to the front of the house and knocked on the door.

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

After the knocking sounded, Chen Laosan's impatient voice came from inside the house.

"Who is it? So late at night."

Along with Chen Laosan's voice, there was also a faint radio-like sound.

It seems that Chen Laosan is listening to the radio at home.

Ran Qing said, "I am a student living in Old Chen's house. One of our classmates seems to be possessed by an evil spirit, and we would like to ask Uncle Chen for help."

Ran Qing adopted a very humble posture, and her polite and obedient tone clearly indicated that she was an ordinary student.

Inside the house, Chen Laosan looked somewhat surprised: "A student living in Old Chen's house? Tsk..."

He was a little impatient, but he still came over to open the door.

As the footsteps drew near, the dilapidated wooden door was pulled open, revealing Chen Laosan's stubble-covered, grimy, dark face to Ran Qing.

“I should have been asleep by now, but since you’re staying in my Chen family’s house… please come in.”

Chen Laosan adopted the air of an elder and a superior, his gaze sweeping over the three people, especially taking a second look at the young and beautiful Mo Li before turning and walking into the house.

The sound of a radio playing in the room was a ghost story being broadcast on a nighttime station.

Under the dim light bulb, the house was smaller than Ran Qing had expected, with only two rooms.

There is a main hall or living room facing the front door, and inside is an inner room hidden by a curtain.

There was a faint sour smell in the air, the kind of rotten smell you only hear in the homes of people who haven't showered or washed their bedding in a long time.

(End of this chapter)