Chapter 92: A Farce

Chapter 92: A Farce

If that is the case, then those vengeful ghosts have truly become a force to be reckoned with.

White Impermanence gritted his teeth.

To cause trouble right under Fengdu’s nose, if they were caught, even skinning, extracting bones, and boiling them in oil would be considered light punishment.

“Carefully investigate the recent years of underworld messenger recruitment and resignation records. If you peel back layer by layer, you will always find clues.”

White Impermanence: “...”

Pei Ye asked in surprise, “What did I say wrong?”

“You did not say anything wrong.” White Impermanence shook his head. “But do you not think your tone when giving orders is too natural?”

If not for the wrong place and wrong situation, he would have thought he was facing the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

And he was not even her subordinate. She really did not treat herself as an outsider at all.

“This?” Pei Ye said, “Occupational habit. I have not adjusted after retiring for a few years.”

White Impermanence silently noted this down.

It seemed this calamity-like existence had once been some kind of mountain overlord, used to commanding everything.

Since the matter was too serious, White Impermanence said a few more words before preparing to return to Fengdu to report to the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

“Oh right!”

Just as the yin energy vortex was about to close, White Impermanence poked his head out again.

He wore a serious ghostly expression.

“Please change your summoning decree. The Great Emperor rules over countless underworld messengers. Fengdu does not only have one courier department.”

Black and White Impermanence were not permanent staff of the courier division either.

Summoning Black and White Impermanence is fine, but please give them at least a bit of dignity.

Besides, if Pei Ye kept acting like this, if a normal underworld messenger was summoned next time, they might be scared to death.

Pei Ye: “...”

There is an old saying, whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat.

By the same logic.

No matter what summoning decree it was, as long as Black and White Impermanence showed up, it counted as success.

As long as she did not summon the Great Emperor of Fengdu himself.

After sending White Impermanence away, Officer Tang and his team finally arrived in police cars.

“Boss, this place feels kind of eerie.”

“A Celestial Master deals with ghosts. Wherever there are Celestial Masters and ghosts, how can it not be eerie?”

Officer Tang was not new to working with Celestial Masters, nor was it his first time seeing ghosts, so he remained calmer than the others.

“Do ghosts really exist in this world?”

A newcomer in the team, instead of being scared, sounded excited and eager to try.

Officer Tang reminded him, “We must firmly believe in socialist core values. Do not be curious about these feudal superstitions.”

Newcomer: “...”

One moment saying there are ghosts and Celestial Masters, the next moment calling it feudal superstition. So should he believe it or not?

After getting out of the police car, the surroundings were pitch black.

A night wind blew across their necks, raising goosebumps.

Near the abandoned dormitory building, they saw two traffickers lying on the ground, their pale, eerie faces filled with terror.

When they saw the police officers in uniform approaching, they were instantly moved to tears, eyes overflowing with emotion.

The police are truly good servants of the people.

Family, real family.

As the police approached, the Skinless Ghost on top of the two traffickers turned into smoke and disappeared.

With the pressure gone, the traffickers suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of relief, as if they had been freed.

“Comrade!”

“Officer!”

“We surrender!”

“We are truly scum!”

“We sold many children and committed unforgivable crimes!”

“…Thank you for coming to save us!”

“…From now on, we will repent and be good people and contribute to society!”

If their hands and feet had not been unable to move, they would have rushed into the arms of the officers to absorb some yang energy and seek comfort.

They usually gritted their teeth in hatred toward the police and wished the station would explode every day, but only in moments of crisis did they realize.

The chests of these officers were so warm and so reassuring.

Officer Tang and his team: “...”

“Who used such brutal force? Both of them had their limbs dislocated.”

A newcomer muttered, while Officer Tang looked up at the only lit room on the fourth floor, where a familiar slender figure stood.

Pei Ye waved at them from above, signaling them to come up.

“A ghost?” Officer Tang said, “No, a Celestial Master.”

What ghost?

Clearly a ghost’s nightmare.

The four kidnapped children were carried downstairs, and Bai Zixuan closely followed the little girl.

He did not want to go home.

As he thought this, something cool was placed on his forehead, and a faint mint scent reached his nose.

“A cooling patch.”

Pei Ye handed the remaining ones back to Officer Tang, then carried Bai Zixuan into the police car and got in as well.

She also needed to go to the police station to give a statement, and incidentally help connect the two enthusiastic citizen ghosts upstairs.

After returning to the police station, the parents of the abducted children arrived one after another upon receiving the news.

“Xuanxuan!”

“My precious Xuanxuan!”

Bai Zixuan’s grandmother hugged him and wailed loudly, like a slaughtered pig. “It is all your mother’s fault, that woman has a black heart. She only cared about herself and let Xuanxuan be taken by bad people. I already hit your mother. Xuanxuan, do not be close to your mother in the future, be close to grandma instead.”

After Pei Ye finished her statement and came out, she happened to see a man and a woman she had seen earlier at Xinhua Bookstore rushing in while crying.

Bai Zixuan’s mother was pushed aside by her husband and mother-in-law.

Bruises had appeared on her face, and the corner of her mouth was split.

The little girl’s soul stood beside the woman, looking up at her mother with a dead, silent ghostly face that carried a hint of sadness.

At that moment, Bai Zixuan, who had been struggling all along, suddenly exerted force and pushed his grandmother down.

“You are murderers!”

This sudden change caught everyone off guard.

He turned and ran toward the police. “Officer uncles and aunts, they are killers! They are bad people!”

Bai Zixuan’s grandmother and father instantly changed expressions.

Their kind faces turned ferocious.

The man raised his hand and tried to slap his wife.

It must have been this damn woman who taught the child to say that.

But the slap stopped in midair.

“Ah!”

A scream rang out as the man’s arm was twisted behind his back by Pei Ye with one hand.

“Is the police station a place for you to throw tantrums and commit domestic violence?”

Bai Zixuan’s grandmother snapped out of it and rushed forward to tear at Pei Ye.

“Who are you!”

“The benefactor who saved your grandson.”

The scene descended into chaos, and Officer Tang led people to separate them all.

Pei Ye looked at the little girl standing outside the crowd, watching coldly, and felt a heavy pressure in her chest.

Officer Tang looked at the family and signaled his subordinates to separate and question them.

Bai Zixuan’s grandmother raged and shouted.

“We did not commit murder or break the law, why are you wrongly accusing us?”

Bai Zixuan’s father even threatened to post everything online and expose the police for wrongful enforcement.

“Can you trust what a child says? He is just being stubborn and making trouble. Last time we did not buy him a Transformers toy, and now he is copying his mother and lying!”

“I did not lie! You killed sister!” Bai Zixuan shouted with his neck stiff. “Sister is here too! Father and grandma are bad people!”

Bai Zixuan’s father and grandmother looked as if their throats had been grabbed, their expressions both frightened and absurd.

“Your sister died of leukemia, what nonsense are you talking about!”

He raised his hand again to strike the child.

Officer Tang looked toward Pei Ye.

She nodded.

Since this involved the supernatural, Officer Tang led them into a meeting room.

Bai Zixuan’s father and grandmother both looked extremely ugly.

“Officer, children do not know what they are saying! You cannot believe him! My granddaughter has been dead for eight years. There are no ghosts in this world at all!”