Chapter 142 The Miao Village (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 142 Besides Your Face, What Else Do You Have?
Gu Ye drew an array on the ground, placed the piece of skin within it, and began to summon the soul.
A gust of cold wind blew past, but the magic circle remained empty. Gu Ye didn’t summon anything. Undeterred, Gu Ye tried again, but still failed to summon the person’s soul. There was only one possibility: the soul was not nearby and was extremely far away.
Squatting to the side, Xie Cheng said helplessly, “I already said the ghostly aura was very weak. Since she’s been dead for so many days, her ghost must have gone far away long ago. According to the police, she wasn’t from around here. Could she have floated home on her own?”
Ge Qiaojun looked at Gu Ye disdainfully, “Useless.”
Gu Ye rolled his eyes at Ge Qiaojun. Then he called out Gou Ya1, letting it sniff the piece of skin. “Gou Ya, quickly find the soul of the person who died in your brother’s house.”
Ge Qiaojun raised an eyebrow. “Brother who?”
Gu Ye patted the dog’s head. “Older Brother Qiao, Younger Brother Dog.”
Seeing that the two were about to argue again, Xie Cheng felt exhausted inside. He sent a message to Yu Ze: [They met during the day, argued 8 times, and fought twice. Brother Yu, help!]
Yu Ze quickly replied: [En.]
Xie Cheng was exasperated. What did ‘En’ mean? Wasn’t he going to do anything?
Back home, Gu Ye was thoroughly provoked by Ge Qiaojun. To prove he wasn’t useless, after releasing Gou Ya, Gu Ye summoned over a hundred wandering spirits and a hundred ghost servants, unleashing them all to search for the victim’s soul.
Gu Ye slammed his fist on the table arrogantly, “If we don’t find her tonight, my friend Xie Cheng will eat shit2!”
That random statement made Xie Cheng take a deep breath. Clutching his chest, he said with a heavy heart, “Gu San’er, you beast!”
But Gu Ye only snorted coldly. Then he went to sleep, having already secured a spot on the bed.
Around 4.00 am, Gu Ye heard a familiar dog howl and opened his eyes. He detected the excitement in the howl, and a smile crept onto his face. Fighting off sleepiness, Gu Ye sat up and woke the two people sleeping on the floor. “Gou Ya is back. It found that soul.”
A dog ran ahead, carrying a rope in its mouth, the other end of which was tied to a young female ghost. Dozens of ghost servants followed behind. The female ghost trembled with fear, looking around in terror. Unable to break free, she was dragged by the dog and floated back to the mountain where she had been murdered. The girl cried incessantly, terrified.
When Gu Ye and the other 2 got up and opened the door, they saw a tear-streaked ghost face.
Gu Ye frowned. So young?
When the girl saw Gu Ye and his 2 male companions, she screamed, “AHHHHHHH, please let me go! My parents are rich! My parents will give you lots of money, please let me go! I want to go home, I want to go home!”
The girl screamed and cried, her shrill voice piercing the eardrums, so Gu Ye swiftly slapped a silencing talisman on her. Looking at the girl’s terrified eyes, Gu Ye said earnestly, “Don’t be afraid. We brought you back to solve your case and find your killer. The police are working hard to solve the case. If you can provide clues, it will save them a lot of trouble.”
The girl stared at Gu Ye in terror. After a moment, her emotions calmed slightly, and she mouthed, “Gu Ye?”
For the first time, Gu Ye felt his celebrity status was actually effective. He nodded, ripped off her silencing talisman, and said, “I am Gu Ye. Tell me, how did you die?”
Hearing that, the girl covered her face and squatted down in despair, before bursting into tears again.
Gu Ye quickly reattached the silencing talisman to the girl, letting her cry out her emotions before speaking. Then, he looked at the wandering spirit who had followed her back, “Where did you find her?”
The wandering spirit hurriedly replied, “This girl had already run more than 200 miles away, but she got lost in the mountains. When we found her, she was crying too.”
Gu Ye offered a fair assessment, “So pitiful, weak, and helpless.”
After the girl finished crying, Gu Ye tore off the talisman. “Alright, stop crying. How old are you? What’s your name?”
The girl wiped away her tears and whispered, “My name is Tian Sihui, I’m 18.”
Judging by her age, Gu Ye thought she was about the same age as Gu Yang. “Did you graduate from high school?”
Tian Sihui shook her head. “I’m a senior this year.”
“Then how did you get here?”
At this, Tian Sihui wanted to cry again, but Ge Qiaojun said impatiently, “Stop crying! You died in my house, and I haven’t even cried yet! Tell me! How did you get here? Who killed you? Who set fire to my house? Who killed my bugs?!”
Tian Sihui was so frightened that she moved back a little and secretly wiped away her tears. “My boyfriend brought me here, killed me…” The girl started crying again, so heartbroken that she couldn’t even speak.
Gu Ye was about to ask, ‘If you keep crying, how are we going to solve this case?’ when Ge Qiaojun, already annoyed, slammed his hand on the table and asked coldly, “What’s your boyfriend’s name? What does he look like? Where is he now?”
From Ge Qiaojun’s words, it seems like he is planning to find the man right now and kill him to vent his anger.
Gu Ye quickly stopped Ge Qiaojun, urging him to calm down. “Tell me, why did he kill you? How did he kill you? Where is your home? I’ll pass the information to the police so they can contact your family and give you a proper burial.”
“I’ve been lied to by my boyfriend,” Tian Sihui said desperately.
Hearing this, Xie Cheng couldn’t help but ask, “How old are you? At 18, you already have a boyfriend? How old is he?”
Tian Sihui cried and said, “He’s 30.”
Hearing that age, Gu Ye sighed. This was a foolish girl. “You’re going to take the college entrance exam this year, and you ran off to this mountain with a man. Don’t your parents care?”
Tian Sihui said regretfully, “I lied to them, saying I was going to visit friends. He was so good to me before; I never expected him to do this.”
“You’re so different in age. How did you meet?”
Tian Sihui whispered, “Online.”3
Gu Ye’s lips twitched. They say girls in love have zero IQ, and that’s no exaggeration. “You’re just a young girl, and you listened to someone online and came all the way here with him? Are you crazy?!”
Tian Sihui started crying again, explaining the situation between sobs. Her family didn’t live nearby; they lived in a first-tier city, and they were quite wealthy. She had played piano since elementary school and had even won awards in the city, but her parents were very strict. The stricter they were, the more rebellious she became.
Seeing Tian Sihui like this, Gu Ye knew the child wasn’t lying. She was beautiful and had a good temperament. Even now, looking like a ghost and crying, her good looks couldn’t be hidden. Girls like this are prime targets for scoundrels. She’s at the age where her heart is just beginning to open to love; if her parents don’t cultivate her sense of caution, trouble could easily ensue.
As expected, Tian Sihui met a guy online who studied photography. He was older and more mature than her, and he was a good listener. Many young girls these days like older, ‘uncle-type’ boyfriends, fantasizing about being pampered like princesses. And that guy gave Tian Sihui exactly that feeling.
The man chatted with Tian Sihui every day. Tian Sihui would confide in him about anything that bothered her, and he would shower her with concern and care. Every word he said resonated with her. Moreover, he was a photographer who frequently traveled to different locations to take pictures. His photos were exceptionally beautiful, and he would often send them to Tian Sihui. Tian Sihui admired his talent and was completely captivated by him.
The two finally met secretly in real life. He doted on Tian Sihui, buying her clothes and taking her out to eat. The man even impersonated her parent to get her excused from school and secretly take her out. Their relationship grew stronger, but Tian Sihui dared not tell her family and kept it a secret. This year, during the Spring Festival, he wanted to come to the mountains to scout locations and asked Tian Sihui if she wanted to come along. At that time, Tian Sihui was tired of being forced to practice the piano at home, so she readily bought a train ticket and rushed to see her boyfriend without hesitation.
Unexpectedly, it wasn’t just her boyfriend who was scouting locations; his friends were also there. And in front of these friends, her boyfriend seemed like a completely different person, no longer attentive to her. Most terrifyingly, his friends started touching Tian Sihui inappropriately. Tian Sihui was terrified and wanted to go home, but her boyfriend wouldn’t let her, saying she was overthinking things.
That night, the wind picked up in the mountains. They found an abandoned compound and went inside for shelter. As night fell, Tian Sihui grew increasingly frightened by the sound of the wind. She also sensed the men’s increasingly strange gazes towards her. Terrified, she went to find her boyfriend, who was still drinking. Unexpectedly, she overheard his conversation with those men. Her boyfriend said he only wanted to play with her, that she was an easy target for deception. He also said that he had no real feelings for her and only brought her out to have fun.
After understanding what was happening, Tian Sihui tried to escape, but she didn’t know the way back. Just as she was getting scared, those men finished their drinks and made another request. They wanted to take ‘artistic photos’ of Tian Sihui, which actually means nude photos.
Tian Sihui disagreed, and a conflict ensued. This resistance angered them, and while tearing at her clothes, the young girl was accidentally killed by her so-called boyfriend.
After Tian Sihui finished explaining, Gu Ye and the others were speechless. After a long silence, Gu Ye asked impatiently, “Girl, how old are you? What do you have? Besides your face, what else do you have that would make anyone want you? What gives you the right to believe in love? Do you have talent? Charm? Money? Or do you have the feelings you’ve built up through a long and loving relationship? Do you know what? If you hadn’t died, you would have faced something far more painful than death. They will take nude photos of you, but do you think that they’ll just stop at that point?”
Ge Qiaojun said coldly, “She also has the ability to aro_use male se_ual desire. She’s naive, brainless, and easily fooled.”
Gu Ye sighed; although the words were harsh, they were the truth.
“You have nothing, you’re still a student. How many times have you contacted this online friend? Add it all up, how many days? Do you even know where he’s from? How many people are in his family? What do they do? Is that guy out of his mind? Why is he being so nice to you when you have nothing? When he invited you to a secluded place, you should have thought about why he wanted to bring you out. He set you up from the start! He’s just taking advantage of naive girls like you! Love? Always giving in to your every whim isn’t love. True love is wanting you to improve and correcting your flaws!”
Tian Sihui cried with regret. Besides crying, there was nothing she could do; she couldn’t even find her way home. “I was wrong, I want to go home,” Tian Sihui cried, “I’m so sorry to my mom and dad, they must be frantic with worry.”
Raw word count: 6159 (whole chapter)
[Banana: Feels like the story shouldn’t stop here so Banana translated another chapter XD Onwards to the Next button~]
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