Chapter 13: Who’s on the Same Side as You?

Chapter 13: Who’s on the Same Side as You?

“You’re Lan Ying!”

As a cadre of the Celestial Masters Alliance, when Zhu Chun’an took over this case, he had carefully investigated the recent missing persons, and Lan Ying’s name had been prominently listed among them.

The moment he saw Lan Ying’s face, he matched her to the photograph.

If he remembered correctly, Lan Ying had been missing for less than two months, meaning she was a newly deceased ghost.

Even if her resentment reached the heavens, it was impossible for her to possess this level of strength.

This detail caught Zhu Chun’an’s attention.

“Were those three car accidents all your doing?”

“So what if they were? You’re about to die anyway, so why waste so many words?”

Lan Ying greedily licked her lips.

“The benefit of eating one Daoist is better than eating a hundred ordinary people.”

Zhu Chun’an’s expression changed when he heard this.

“Eat people? Five Thunder Generals, Fire Chariot General, soar through heaven and overturn earth, drive thunder and race clouds, heed my command, do not delay, by the decree of the Supreme Lord Lao, immediately as the law commands!”

Unable to wield his sword, he resorted to talismans.

Zhu Chun’an carried quite a stockpile on him.

However, the female ghost’s poison was exceptionally overbearing. Normally, the spell would activate easily, but today it was unusually difficult.

“Trivial tricks!”

The female ghost grinned ferociously as she planned how to devour Zhu Chun’an.

His flesh and blood were a tremendous supplement!

“Hey, I’m talking to you. Can you two stop being so absorbed in your little duel scene? Do all of us count as background decorations?”

With a cigarette dangling from her mouth, Pei Ye grabbed the female ghost’s claw.

They were so immersed in their dramatic confrontation that Pei Ye could not help voicing a question from the depths of her soul.

“Is my presence really that weak?”

Zhu Chun’an instinctively wanted to warn her, “Danger.”

But then...

He actually saw a dense mass of black baleful energy walking around???

Wasn’t this the same mass from daytime?

“You’re not on my side?” Lan Ying looked at her captured right wrist. Enduring the fear and submission rising from the depths of her soul, she gritted her teeth and asked Pei Ye, “When I was going to kill those people just now, you didn’t stop me!”

“Who says I’m on your side? Don’t randomly divide people into camps. How could you and I be the same kind of person? I respect your choice, so if you have vengeance, take vengeance; if you have grievances, settle grievances. I won’t stop you. But you never told me that besides your enemies, you also carried debts of innocent lives on your hands.” Pei Ye smiled. “That crosses my bottom line. Besides, when you were dealing with those pieces of trash, I never stopped you either.”

Zhu Chun’an looked at the female ghost Lan Ying, whose expression had drastically changed, then looked at the mass of black baleful energy beside her, and fell into deep thought.

He doubted the truthfulness of Pei Ye’s words.

When he first rushed in, he had indeed suspected that Pei Ye and the female ghost were working together.

Afraid or not, there were ordinary people inside the private room. Even if he couldn’t win, he still had to rush in and save them.

But looking at it now...

It didn’t seem to be that simple.

If Pei Ye could make the female ghost fearful and obedient as could be, then why could she not see how many lives the ghost had taken?

Zhu Chun’an decided to sit back and watch, while also casting several more poison-dispelling talisman spells on himself.

Damn ghostly biscuits!!!

What kind of poison had this ghost cultivated? It was unbelievably troublesome.

A crimson light flickered in Lan Ying’s eyes as her violence temporarily suppressed her fear.

“So what do you want to do? What innocent people? Humans are food for ghosts. The strong prey on the weak! If I hadn’t eaten those people and borrowed their flesh and blood, how could I have taken revenge on my enemies?” Lan Ying spoke with complete confidence, her voice dripping with yin energy. “Hah. You’re just an ordinary person. You only have a body full of baleful energy, but you’re not even a Celestial Master. You can’t do anything to me!”

An ordinary person?

Zhu Chun’an was so shocked that he forgot his incantation, wasting a poison-dispelling talisman for nothing.

An ordinary person could possess such heavy baleful energy?

According to his master, someone with this much baleful energy was either an untouchable Ghost King or an ancient ghost who had cultivated for countless years, or else a military commander who had slaughtered innumerable enemies during life.

The person before him was clearly alive, and judging by her voice, not very old either. She fit none of those categories.

Unless she was the reincarnation of some heavenly demon star.

“You say I can’t do anything to you?”

Pei Ye flicked the cigarette toward the female ghost.

The cigarette wasn’t lit, but with that simple motion, the female ghost let out an incomparably miserable scream, and the yin energy around her instantly dispersed by twenty to thirty percent!

She smiled cheerfully.

“Miss, say that again.”

The ghosts of this world resembled the spiritual lifeforms Pei Ye knew. Mental attacks alone were enough to make them suffer terribly.

Even a starving camel was bigger than a horse. No matter how sick she was, the mental domain she had left behind was still more than enough to crush weak opponents.

Since when had it become a little ghost’s turn to strut around arrogantly in front of her?

“If you’re targeting specific enemies, that’s none of my business. By your own logic, those people really do deserve to die. Since they’re going to die sooner or later, dying at the hands of their victim sounds much more satisfying.”

Pei Ye lifted Lan Ying into the air. The female ghost tried to flee, only to discover in horror how dangerous her situation was. Fear covered her ghostly face.

Because every slight movement caused another portion of her yin energy to dissipate.

A few more times, and her soul would scatter completely.

“If you hadn’t acted, I would have crippled those bastards myself today,” Pei Ye continued. “But you shouldn’t have crossed my bottom line!”

Hearing this, Young Master Du and the others trembled from head to toe.

The combat ranking inside the private room looked like this:

A group of utterly weak ordinary humans < Daoist < female ghost < Pei Ye.

As the person standing at the very top of that ranking, when Pei Ye said she would cripple them, she definitely wasn’t joking.

While they were speaking, Zhu Chun’an used more than a dozen poison-dispelling talismans in succession. His arm was still somewhat numb, but at least he could hold the peachwood sword again.

“Senior... what do you intend to do with her?”

Zhu Chun’an remained wary of both Lan Ying and Pei Ye.

No incantations, no talismans, and a single cigarette had dispersed twenty to thirty percent of the female ghost’s yin energy...

Well...

What a skilled display of showing off.

Could she be some ten-thousand-year-old ghost from a remote mountain?

“A nation has its laws. She killed people she shouldn’t have killed, so naturally she should be handed over to the relevant authorities.”

In a single day, she had encountered three ghosts and a Daoist who hunted demons and subdued evil. Presumably, this world had a fairly high acceptance of such things. The police should handle cases like this, right?

Pei Ye wasn’t entirely certain.

Zhu Chun’an let out a sigh of relief and pulled out his identification credentials from his pocket.

Old ghosts weren’t scary.

The scary ones were old ghosts without education.

If they were educated and reasonable, that meant communication was possible.

“Greetings, Senior. This junior is a Celestial Master from Group One of the Special Public Security Investigation and Management Department under the Celestial Masters Alliance. I am currently responsible for this case and for apprehending the ghost suspect.”

Pei Ye did not hand Lan Ying over to him.

It wasn’t because she didn’t trust him. There was simply a detail she wanted clarified.

“Other than those car accidents, she also ate quite a few people alive. Have you investigated those missing persons?”

Zhu Chun’an replied, “There have been quite a lot of missing persons recently. Before taking over this case, this junior reviewed all missing-person records. Lan Ying was only one of them. Besides her, there were three others. However, those three alone are insufficient to increase her strength to this degree. Judging by the bloody aura around her, the number of innocent lives on her hands is definitely far greater than three.”

“Then here’s the question. Where are the people she ate?”

Zhu Chun’an’s expression suddenly darkened. He immediately took out his phone and called his colleagues, instructing them to closely monitor missing-person reports.

After seeing him hang up, Pei Ye said, “There’s no need to make it so complicated, is there? Why not just interrogate the person involved directly?”

Zhu Chun’an: “...”

The victims were all dead, and they hadn’t discovered any suspicious newly formed ghosts. Which person involved was there to interrogate?

“Senior means... her? Lan Ying?”

Pei Ye countered, “Who else? Do we have a second person involved here?”