I Am a Fierce Ghost, How Could I Possibly Submit to Living Under Others - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Old Deng

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Without a doubt, Old Wang had gone mad.

This man in his fifties had encountered something unclean.

Given his current mental state, no one knew exactly how long it would take for him to return to normal.

Before Liu Haoyu entered the hospital room, there were several people outside who appeared to be Old Wang’s family members, crying.

“There’s not much I can do for you.”

Liu Haoyu took out a calming talisman from his pocket, lit it, and quickly stuffed it into Old Wang’s mouth.

The calming talisman could heal some mental damage, but whether it could completely cure him depended on Old Wang’s own fate.

After finishing all this, Liu Haoyu walked out of the hospital room and returned to the sales office along the original route.

“Do you still have the structural layout of that haunted house?”

“Sorry, Mr. Liu, that house is too old, and except for Manager Wang, no one knows the structure of that house.”

The answer didn’t surprise Liu Haoyu.

He sighed with disappointment, then said to the receptionist at the sales office.

“If Manager Wang recovers, please make sure to notify me, I have some things I need to ask him about.”

“No problem.”

Because of this incident, Liu Haoyu no longer felt like shopping for furniture, instead he went to a folk custom shop in the city district.

The joss paper and incense he mentioned buying before were all purchased from this folk custom shop.

However, this shop’s location was quite remote, situated in an alley within an urban village, making it truly difficult for ordinary people to discover its existence.

Of course, as a regular customer, Liu Haoyu naturally made his way to the shop with ease.

As soon as he entered the shop, a strong smell of incense hit Liu Haoyu’s forehead.

Behind the counter was an elderly man with sharp eyes, holding a pipe in his hand. He took a puff and then said to Liu Haoyu.

“Coming and going in such a hurry, do you have some urgent matter?”

“Old Deng, I need some jade pieces, preferably red jade.”

“Oh?”

The elderly man surnamed Deng looked at Liu Haoyu, then took a heavy drag from his pipe and said.

“Say, young Liu, why do you bother with this?”

The old man naturally knew Liu Haoyu’s background, he slowly exhaled the smoke and continued.

“This isn’t something young people like you should be doing.”

“Someone has to pass down these practices.”

Liu Haoyu smiled, not contradicting the other’s words, and the old man could only sigh helplessly after hearing this.

“It’s unnecessary, unnecessary, the world has its own cycle of karma, why risk yourself doing these unclean things… Young Liu, I see you’re a good person, I have a granddaughter here, I can introduce her to you, people should have a family.”

“Thank you for your kindness, Old Deng, but I don’t have plans for marriage at the moment.”

Although he might be casual elsewhere, when facing this elder, Liu Haoyu’s attitude was quite respectful.

The elder didn’t continue persuading, but instead started rummaging through the counter while saying.

“If someday you want to settle down, you can contact me, my granddaughter quite likes you, you two might make a good match.”

Liu Haoyu didn’t continue speaking, just maintained a calm smile.

Saying more would hurt the other’s face, so it was better to maintain silence.

“Here you go, I don’t have much red jade left, use it sparingly.”

“Thanks.”

Liu Haoyu accepted the three pieces of red jade handed over by the other. Although it wasn’t five pieces, it was enough to use.

This thing had another name, called ghost jade.

As the name suggests, it could seal ghosts within the jade, just like catching Pokémon.

After handing the ghost jade to Liu Haoyu, the elder said slowly.

“Remember not to be careless when doing things, don’t underestimate your opponents, otherwise… you could stumble anywhere.”

“I will remember that.”

After getting what he needed, Liu Haoyu left the folk custom shop satisfied.

Because the haunted house was some distance from the city district, Liu Haoyu took an hour-long bus ride to return to the haunted house.

It was still 2 PM, considered a time of day when yang energy was quite strong, and ghosts wouldn’t appear at this time, they would be lurking in the darkness.

Therefore, trying to investigate this haunted house during the day was almost impossible.

Moreover, Liu Haoyu had checked many times, but he just couldn’t find the entrance to that basement.

Whether it was a secret passage or some mechanism, there was nothing.

If Old Wang hadn’t personally told Liu Haoyu about the basement, even Liu Haoyu would have wanted to give up the idea of continuing to search.

Unfortunately, now that Old Wang had gone mad, the location of the basement entrance was completely lost.

“Let’s put this matter aside for now.”

Although the haunted house was important, there was a fierce ghost harming people outside, so naturally, he had to deal with that fierce ghost first.

Moreover, perhaps after dealing with this ghost, Old Wang might recover.

As for whether the ghost that turned Old Wang into this state was the same ghost as the one in the haunted house.

Liu Haoyu didn’t think so.

The reason was simple, the location where Old Wang had his incident was far from here, and when Old Wang left, the fire candle in his pocket didn’t react.

This meant that the fierce ghost from the haunted house hadn’t followed the car.

And Old Wang was harmed by a ghost from outside into that state.

To ensure his mental state for the night, Liu Haoyu lay on the bed and closed his eyes.

He planned to investigate the place where the car accident happened tonight.

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After Liu Haoyu fell asleep, a pair of curious, bright eyes fell upon him.

And this person hiding in the darkness was naturally Qin Liu.

She looked at Liu Haoyu sleeping soundly, feeling both annoyed and angry.

Qin Liu couldn’t understand what was going on with this person.

How was he not afraid of ghosts at all?!

Is it normal for someone to first lift the skirt when seeing a hanging corpse?

Qin Liu couldn’t figure it out, but now this man was still occupying her bed.

Her shoes were still on the shrine, and after this man came back, he not only added several sticks of incense to the shrine but even burned several dozen pieces of joss paper.

Qin Liu looked at the several dozen pieces of joss paper in her hand, feeling quite bewildered.

What? Was he trying to bribe her?

But the problem was, even if the joss paper was burned for her, she couldn’t use it.

Ever since becoming like this, Qin Liu hadn’t left this house one step.

It was as if she was sealed here.

“Hmm… speaking of which, what’s that?”

Qin Liu’s gaze fell on the few pieces of red jade by the bed.

The red jade was crystal clear, and its texture looked quite beautiful.

To the extent that Qin Liu couldn’t help but mutter.

“If you want to bribe someone, you should use something like this, right? What’s the point of giving me joss paper?”

While muttering, Qin Liu walked to Liu Haoyu’s bedside, she looked at the sleeping Liu Haoyu, then looked at the red jade on the table.

After careful consideration, she placed her hand on one of the red jade pieces.

However, at this moment, a strong suction force directly pulled her into the jade.

The room fell into silence, and after about 10 seconds, a small head full of question marks peeked out from the jade.