Chapter 113 Haunted house (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 113: Good Brothers Should Dig Graves Together
Gu Ye said helplessly, “If you hadn’t killed anyone, I would definitely help you. But now you’ve already taken 6 lives. How can I help you with that? Take my advice. Stop killing people and stop committing sin. Whether you’ll have a next life is uncertain, but even if you do, it’ll be a life of atonement. Do you understand the consequences?”
“They all deserve to die!” Lu Xi rushed forward again, her black ghostly hand clawing at Xie Cheng’s face. “Because they blocked the rescue, my son and daughter died! I’ll kill everyone who watched! Not a single one will be spared!”
Gu Ye’s expression sank. “That’s hundreds of lives!”
Lu Xi raged, “If there are a hundred, I’ll kill a hundred. If there are ten thousand, I’ll kill ten thousand! Even if they all die, it won’t bring back my son and daughter’s lives! It won’t bring back my home!”
Gu Ye said coldly, “Even if you hadn’t killed the old woman you killed last night, she would have suffered the consequences of her actions and would have been paralyzed soon. Everything they did has its own consequences, and they will all suffer retribution. You killed so many people, you must bear the consequences!”
However, Lü Xi already like a madman, said with resentment, “No matter what, even if I go to the 18th level of Hell, I will still avenge my child. Scram!”
Gu Ye reluctantly took out 2 talismans. “I don’t want to fight you.”
“Hmph, since you two dare to meddle in my business, you both must die! Everyone! Must die!”
Lu Xi, her eyes crimson and filled with murderous intent, rushed towards Gu Ye.
Before Gu Ye could react, Xie Cheng snapped his whip at her arm, yanking her back. He snarled at her, “What your children want to see was not you avenging them! They died prematurely and need to remain in the human world for many more years before being reborn. What they need is your care! Look at you now. They’ll only be afraid of you!”
Seeing the frightened children hiding behind Gu Ye, Xie Cheng became furious and flung Lu Xi far away. “Look at the look in your child’s eyes!”
“Mommy…” The little boy looked at his mother, who looked completely different than usual. Terrified, he hugged his sister and hid behind Gu Ye, crying, “She’s not Mommy! You lied to me! She’s not my Mommy.”
The young boy’s words made Lu Xi pause in her steps. After being sent flying by Xie Cheng, she didn’t even have time to fight back. She only stared at her child in disbelief. “Nan Nan, I’m your Mommy. Don’t believe them. Come here, come to me.”
“You’re not my Mommy. She’s not like that!” The little boy was so frightened that he held onto his sister with one hand and clung to Gu Ye’s legs with the other. Compared to his menacing-looking mother, he trusted Gu Ye more, who was a stranger.
Lü Xi was completely stunned. “Nan Nan! I’m your Mommy! Look at me!”
The little boy shook his head in fear. Seeing Lu Xi’s even more terrifying expression after she got angry, he closed his eyes in fear. The little girl burst into tears, “Mommy, Mommy! Find Mommy!”
The girl was too young, so she couldn’t even speak a complete sentence. While she was calling out for her mother, she hid in her brother’s arms in fear. She didn’t recognize Lu Xi as she was, nor did she recognize her mother.
Lü Xi said sadly, “I’m your Mommy. Niu Niu, can you please look at me? Why don’t you recognize me?”
Gu Ye patted the child’s head soothingly and said helplessly, “Look at you now. How can you be their mother? If you don’t control the evil aura within you and continue to kill people, it will only add to your sins. At that time, you won’t even recognize them. These 2 little ghosts will only be your food. Do you want to kill your children?”
“I don’t want to. I just want revenge. I want to kill those who killed us! My children didn’t deserve to die.” Lü Xi cried as she looked at her children; two streams of bloody tears flowed down her cheeks. “They were so young. They didn’t deserve to die. If the fire truck had come 3 minutes earlier, they wouldn’t have died!”
Gu Ye sighed. “6 lives are enough. Even if you killed them all, the children wouldn’t have come back to life.” Gu Ye advised, “Don’t let hatred blind you any longer. Look at the children.”
Lü Xi cried as she looked at her 2 children. The resentment within her gradually dissipated, her pupils slowly turning pink, and her high body temperature subsided. Lü Xi nervously said, “Come to Mommy.”
The two children noticed that Lü Xi finally resembled her appearance when she was alive. Curious, they poked their heads out to see her, but they still didn’t dare approach.
Gu Ye hesitated for a moment, then nudged the two children. “Go ahead. She’s really Mommy.”
The little boy asked fearfully, “Mommy? Why are you like this?”
Lü Xi covered her face with trembling hands, rubbing them and trying to appear normal. “I…”
Gu Ye softly asked, “Does Mommy look good with makeup on?”
The little boy paused for a moment, then shook his head. “No, Mommy, I’d better her not wearing makeup. She looked better before.”
Lü Xi nodded quickly. She reached out with trembling hands at the children, her eyes pleading. “If you don’t like it, Mommy won’t wear makeup anymore.”
Seeing that Lu Xi’s resentment had dissipated somewhat, the little boy finally felt less afraid. He led his sister over and threw himself into their mother’s arms. “Mommy, we can’t find you. We were so scared, so we hid. Why didn’t you come find us?”
Lü Xi kissed her son’s forehead, then cupped her daughter’s face and kissed her lovingly. “Mommy has been looking for you for ages, but I didn’t know where you were hiding. I’m sorry, Mommy was so stupid.”
Gu Ye watched Lu Xi’s resentment gradually dissipate and breathed a sigh of relief. Ultimately, in a mother’s heart, revenge still carries less weight than her love for her child.
Lu Xi held the children and looked up at Gu Ye. “I still can’t forgive them, but I don’t want my children to be afraid. I won’t kill again.”
After the evil aura around her dissipated, her ghostly aura began to dissipate. Gu Ye frowned. “Cause and effect are not equal. You even devoured 6 souls, leaving them without the chance of reincarnation. This is a grave sin. Once your obsession dissipates, your soul will be shattered.”
Lu Xi looked at Gu Ye tearfully. “Please help me, these two children…”
Gu Ye sighed. “Don’t worry, these children are innocent. I will send them to reincarnation.”
“I’m sorry for deliberately breaking your divination plate. I’m sorry for delaying the haunted house owner’s business.” Lu Xi apologized, her body nearly transparent. She stared in a daze at her 2 naive children. Finally, in a heavy voice, she said, “Master Gu, I killed those people, but I have no regrets.”
With a complex expression, Gu Ye held the 2 children in his arms and watched Lu Xi’s soul scatter. Finally, only a sigh remained.
Xie Cheng picked up a fiery red bead from where Lu Xi had disappeared. “What is this?”
Gu Ye shook his head. “It doesn’t matter what it is. What matters is how this tragedy which was caused by people watching the fun, can be used as a wake-up call for the world.”
Xie Cheng sighed as he looked at the 2 naive children. He couldn’t tell who was right or wrong in this matter. He put the bead away and tucked it into Gu Ye’s pocket. “She probably left it for you as a thank you for taking care of her children. Let’s go back and research what it is.”
Gu Ye glanced at the 2 children and said helplessly, “I’ll have a ghost servant take them when we get back. When the time is right, I’ll send them away for reincarnation.”
Xie Cheng said sympathetically, “In this life, the children have not yet enjoyed the blessing, but have already suffered. It’s pitiful.”
After returning to the hotel, Gu Ye called Mu Jingfei and recounted what had happened. “Lü Xi’s spirit has dispersed. She won’t kill again. So Xie Cheng and I are withdrawing from this case; we won’t be involved anymore.”
Mu Jingfei said with a headache, “If I write ‘ghost was the murderer’ in the closing report, I’ll be scolded to death.”
Gu Ye laughed. “Good luck. We’ll be back tomorrow.”
Mu Jingfei sighed wearily. “Okay. I’ll treat you to dinner when you get back. Thanks for your help.”
“No need,” Gu Ye said seriously, “We’re here to make money. We’ll take the money and leave tomorrow morning. Your side also provided us with a clue. I’ll treat you when I’m free.”
After hanging up, Gu Ye knocked on Xie Cheng’s door. “Xie Cheng, I’ve found a problem.”
Xie Cheng was packing his things, preparing to leave early the next morning. As the old saying goes, ‘When your parents are still alive, don’t travel far.’ His master was old, and he felt uneasy when he hadn’t seen him for 2 days. He asked nonchalantly, “What’s the problem?”
With a serious tone, Gu Ye said, “I’ve figured out a way to solve this problem when a ghost is protected by an ancient jade and concealing its aura.”
“What?” Xie Cheng dropped his things in surprise. “My master and the others couldn’t do it, so how did you manage to find the solution?”
“Here’s how,” Gu Ye took out a blank piece of talisman paper and a cinnabar brush. “We can change the way this talisman is drawn. Before drawing this aura-detection talisman, we can use an aura-breaking talisman to connect it. We can use both functions together.”
Just the thought of the complexity made Xie Cheng’s head ache. “Who the hell could draw an advanced version like this? Drawing just one talisman on its own would be incredibly exhausting, a’ight? And if I lose focus or my hand trembles, the talisman would be rendered useless. And then there’s the matter of drawing 2 talismans on the same piece of paper without making any mistakes. Next, I have to ensure the spiritual energy flows smoothly, activating them one after the other. It’s simply impossible.”
Gu Ye listened quietly to Xie Cheng’s ranting before saying. “I can draw it, it’s like this.”
Gu Ye’s brush flew with flourish, completing the task in a single stroke. After finishing one talisman, he paused his brush for a moment before drawing another. The spiritual energy from the two talismans merged, and when the brush stopped, the talisman was complete. Xie Cheng saw the faint golden glow and could already tell the talisman’s quality. He stood stunned for a moment, his mouth agape. “You… there’s no word to describe you. Calling you a genius doesn’t do your talent justice.”
“I can teach you,” Gu Ye said before starting to draw a new talisman.
Xie Cheng was stunned. “Holy crap! You can draw a second talisman of this level!”
“Don’t talk. Watch. Don’t break off the end of this talisman. Then draw the aura-detection talisman. I think it should work.” After Gu Ye finished, he called Ye Li over. “Let’s do an experiment. I have a piece of ancient jade here. Let my son take it and see the effect.”
This piece of jade was obtained when Miss Ghost1 was sent away. It was very old, but it wasn’t something Ye Li carried with him, so the concealment wouldn’t have achieved its full effect in such a short time. Even so, with Ye Li clutching it in his hand, the ghostly aura within him was still suppressed.
Gu Ye nodded. “It’s truly concealed. Let’s burn the talisman paper.”
After the talisman paper ignited, a red web appeared. It absorbed the ancient jade spiritual energy from Ye Li. Then, a golden light enveloped him, greedily absorbing his ghostly energy. Gu Ye raised an eyebrow. “Success! This thing works.”
Xie Cheng was speechless. In just 2 days, Gu Ye had figured out a way to break the spell. Genius wasn’t enough to describe him. His master always said he was gifted, but he just didn’t study hard. His master really should have seen Gu Ye’s talent. It was so amazing that it was beyond the level of jealousy.
Xie Cheng put the already-useless talisman away. “I want this one.”
Gu Ye scoffed. “So that you can sell it when you’re broke?”
Xie Cheng said angrily, “I’m going to show it to my master. Am I that kind of person in your heart?”
Hearing the reason, Gu Ye held Xie Cheng back. “Sure, I can draw you 10 more if you want. Now, I’ve even taught you the secret techniques of my sect. Shouldn’t you lead the way and go to Huaixin City to dig a grave with me?”
Xie Cheng’s breath caught. Why couldn’t Gu Ye get over the idea of digging graves? He hadn’t even learned it!
The author has something to say:
Gu Ye: I want to dig graves. I must dig graves!
Xie Cheng: I’m already dead. Burn offering to me if you need me for anything. For minor things, you can call back my spirit. For major things…
Gu Ye: Major things, dig graves!
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