Postmortem Appointment - C93

The old man seemed to be able to read my thoughts and hurriedly said. I looked at the old man in surprise. I wanted to see something from his eyes, but I couldn’t see anything. I could only smile awkwardly.

“The reason why I brought him to find you this time is actually to ask you to help me investigate this evil ghost’s background. To tell you the truth, the reason we came here is to settle this problem for him, but Zhang Yu’s dream recently was very bad. I suspect that this isn’t a good sign, which is why I hope to know more about this evil ghost.”

After Bai Hua heard the old man’s words, her eyebrows slightly knitted, although she said anxiously.

After the old man heard Bai Hua’s words, he hesitated for a moment before speaking, “Since we have a relationship with Qiu Baihe, I’ll help you guys this time, but the opportunity is still in your hands. I am only responsible for tying the strings, if we are unable to find the answer in the end, then it can only be my own problem.”

I nodded. Naturally, I could tell that this old man didn’t want to get into any trouble, so he strongly rejected me.

Even though I only found out what Bai Hua wanted to take me for, I did want to know what kind of conflict I had with that evil ghost. Why did she insist on holding onto me, so she came to ask for your help.

Since he didn’t want to get into trouble, I might as well tell him I didn’t want to bother him. I just wanted to find out what I wanted to know.

After the old man heard my words, he pondered for a moment before asking, “Lad, are you afraid of death?”

It is difficult to say that I am not afraid of death. After all, all humans have the instinct to survive and no one is unafraid of death when facing ordinary people. The reason why I came here to find him is to allow me to defeat that evil ghost and live longer.

But I knew that his question must have had something to do with finding out what had happened to the evil spirit, so even now, with my heart in my throat, I nodded.

The old man sighed and took out two items from his bag: a red thread and a letter. He tied the red thread around my left wrist and handed it to me.

Bai Hua can cultivate the Taoism Arts so she can leave, but you can’t, so I have to tie a red thread around your wrist. This red thread is tied to your soul, so a normal person’s soul cannot leave their body for more than twelve hours.

At that time, I didn’t even believe that there were ghosts in this world, so how could I believe that there was a place that ghosts could stay. But now, after experiencing so many things, I couldn’t help but believe that there was still Bai Hua to accompany me.

But I couldn’t help but ask, “What if I don’t come back?”

The old man looked at me and lit three joss sticks beside me. He said word by word, “If you don’t come back, you’ll never come back!”

After saying that, he took out a pile of paper money from his bag and stuffed it into my pocket. “Young man, there are some areas in the underworld and the underworld that are similar. You have to be more flexible when encountering Yin and not fight to the death. You have to learn how to be flexible, otherwise, I won’t be able to save you!”

The old man made Bai Hua and I turn around and take seven steps back with our eyes closed. I did as he said, and slowly turned around to count in my mind, step by step, and the more I thought about it, the more panicked I became. If I didn’t know earlier that there was a life saving red thread tied to my wrist, I would have already collapsed.

When I counted to seven, before I could even react, I felt Bai Hua push me a little, and then she said in a low voice: “We’re here, you can open your eyes, I’m also risking my life to accompany you this time, although I’ve learnt using yin techniques, this is also my first time here.”

I opened my eyes and looked at the scene before me. Initially, I thought that those myths and legends were all fabricated, but when I saw the bunch of fellows in front of me, I realized that there were a lot of things that weren’t as simple as just baseless rumors.

The surrounding environment was rather desolate. The sand that filled the air was blown randomly by the wind. The sound of the wind could be heard, but one couldn’t feel the feeling of the sand hitting one’s face, much less the burning sensation of the sun.

I squinted up at the sky. There was no sun in sight, but there was a faint yellow glow.

Everything was grey and deathly. However, when he thought about it again, this was indeed where the dead were.

I was in a trance. I looked down at my feet and realised that I was stepping on a yellow dirt road. The surroundings seemed to be in silence. I pressed my hand on my chest and realized that my heart had stopped beating.

“Only the soul can go away, our physical bodies are still at Senior Hong’s house, so we don’t have a heartbeat right now.” Bai Hua reminded her from the side.

I nodded my head in a daze. I suddenly had a strange feeling. I looked at my surroundings and thought to myself, ‘Could this be the legendary Road to the River Styx?’ Standing on this road, he didn’t know if he should be happy or afraid.

I never thought that in my lifetime, I would be able to walk the Yellow Springs Road, and I wouldn’t need to drink Grandma Meng’s Elixir to maintain this memory. For ordinary people, this is something that would never happen in their entire lives.

“Stop looking, we still have important things to do!” Just then, Bai Hua shouted into my ear.

I snapped out of my daze and turned my head. My heart almost stopped beating when I saw all sorts of people floating around me.

Their feet were three feet off the ground, and when they moved, their feet were almost still. Their arms were hanging down stiffly, making them look like puppets. All of them looked lifeless and extremely strange.

Although I have already seen a lot of ghosts, but seeing the group in front of me still made my heart go cold.

I wiped my face, trying my best to calm down, and then followed Bai Hua to quickly head towards Fengdu City. That place was completely different from the Fengdu City of the human world, it was a place where the truly dead live, and the thought of going there made me both scared and excited.

Bai Hua had always urged me to run with her so that we could go and return early. I looked around, but instead of stopping, I kept on running, and kept on walking past the ghosts. It was probably because I had been watching them for too long, but suddenly I felt that these ghosts were not as evil as they seemed.

I laughed bitterly, and just as I was about to heave a sigh of relief, I heard Bai Hua whisper in my ear: “Zhang Yu was not far away from the Feng family, but we don’t know much about the human world here, if you offend the Ghost Officer, he might let you stay here, so be smart.”