After Waking Up, I Inherited a Bookstore 59

Chapter 59: Zhang Shicheng Goes Mad

Xiao Nian hid in her embrace and hummed in a muffled voice, as if to forgive her.

Xiao Xu and Ke Yan were a bit more normal.

Ke Yan leaned against Xiao Xu’s embrace, sniffing her faint fragrance like she was sniffing a cat. Xiao Xu couldn’t dodge no matter how she tried, so she had to compromise.

When Li Hanyan turned her head after her phone call, she saw a pair of ghosts and a pair of humans, all emitting pink bubbles. She looked at them with disdain, then said, “Zhang Shicheng has been caught, and most of the evidence has been found. But the people over there said that Zhang Shicheng has gone mad. They are contacting a hospital to see if he’s really mad. They also sent me a video of him going mad. Come and see.”

When the two humans and two ghosts heard this, they quickly gathered around. Just then, Liu Chuxia also came out after her shower. Seeing them gathered together, she asked in confusion, “What are you guys doing?”

Xiao Xu quickly explained to Liu Chuxia.

Li Hanyan, who hadn’t been able to get a word in, was not in a good mood.

After hearing Xiao Xu’s words, Liu Chuxia’s face also instantly turned serious. “This person is really a scumbag.” Then she walked to Li Hanyan’s side to watch the video together.

In the video, Zhang Shicheng was still in his business suit, but his glasses were broken, his clothes were wrinkled, and his hair, without the hold of gel, was a bit messy.

He first lowered his head and laughed, then slowly raised his head and laughed wildly, his expression arrogant and excited. Suddenly, his eyes focused on the camera and he said, “The Master can lead humanity to a better home, a place without ghosts, without oppression, without that damn work! Only peace and beauty.

People just need to live their lives peacefully there. Whatever you want, you will have it. It will be delivered directly to you. Such a good place, why are you stopping me! Why! Why are you stopping me!”

He rushed forward like a madman, wanting to smash the camera, struggling with his hands, trying to break free from this hindrance.

Then the video suddenly jumped to the interrogation.

The law enforcer behind the camera asked, “Why did you torture and kill so many women?”

Zhang Shicheng was silent for a moment, then looked up and said, both crying and laughing, “I couldn’t help it. I couldn’t control myself. I really couldn’t control myself. They were too beautiful. But in this world, beautiful things shouldn’t exist, so I wanted to send them to a beautiful world. As long as I complete the Master’s mission, I will go and be with them. Hahahahahahaha…

Then we can live together in a beautiful world and spend the rest of our lives together. Isn’t that wonderful?”

The law enforcer did not show much emotion at Zhang Shicheng’s madness and calmly asked again, “Who is the Master?”

“The Master? The Master is our god, the god who can lead humanity into a beautiful home! Hahahahahahaha… a god! He’s a god!”

Then the video ended.

The faces of the four humans and two ghosts were all heavy. No one spoke for a moment. It was Liu Chuxia who first broke the heavy atmosphere, “From what he said, this Master is very powerful. From my conclusion, she is very good at brainwashing, like a pyramid scheme leader.”

Li Hanyan and Jiang Jiajia, for some reason, suddenly burst out laughing.

“Chuxia is right. Hahahaha,” Jiang Jiajia said with a chuckle, leaning against Xiao Nian.

This immediately lightened the atmosphere a lot.

Xiao Xu also chimed in, “Isn’t that right? A pyramid scheme leader. Even ghosts can be brainwashed by her and used by her.”

“Is it the fierce ghost you mentioned before?” Liu Chuxia asked, looking at Xiao Xu.

Xiao Xu nodded. “This fierce ghost is very powerful. Yanbao and I attacked together, but she was still at ease and could even seriously injure us. You have to know that my strength has already surpassed that of a fierce ghost, not to mention Yanbao’s strength has greatly increased after forming a contract with you. But we were still easily defeated by her. This ghost’s strength should not be underestimated.”

Liu Chuxia’s face turned serious. “In that case, is there no other way besides Hanyan’s karma fire?”

Li Hanyan held her hand and said, “There is, but we haven’t tried it yet. We don’t know if those things will be useful against her. After all, that fierce ghost’s strength has already surpassed her original range. This is not a good thing. If there are other ghosts like this, then it will be even more difficult for us Spirit Masters. So, we need to investigate some information about the Master as soon as possible. Otherwise, we will be very passive if we are in the dark and know nothing.”

Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian agreed with her. “Indeed. Aren’t we not taking any orders now? We can take this opportunity to focus on the investigation. I’ve also talked to Wanfeng about this matter before. She’s also willing to help us investigate. And she said she’s seen this fierce ghost before, but the reply she got from the family after reporting it was not to meddle. This is very strange. Those family members clearly know what’s going on.”

After speaking with a frown, Jiang Jiajia leaned against Xiao Nian and waited for everyone’s response.

“I think the reason the Zhang family is keeping quiet about this fierce ghost is probably because of the ‘Master.’ Based on what Mom reminded us of, she clearly knew that danger was coming, but she didn’t tell us the reason. So Mom must know who the ‘Master’ is. And I suspect that this ‘Master’ appeared many years ago and even had contact with these families. It might be another big battle,” Liu Chuxia said, stroking her chin with a frown.

Xiao Xu looked up and thought for a moment, her brows furrowed into a deep ‘川’ character. After a while, hearing no one speak, she said, “I haven’t found any documents about the ‘Master’ in the family. Not a single one. So I suspect that the incident caused by the ‘Master’ might have been devastating, so no one recorded it at all.”

Li Hanyan disagreed with her. “It’s not that no one recorded it, but that the records were erased. Otherwise, how would Master and the others know?”

Xiao Xu nodded. “Mhm, indeed. That’s much more reasonable. Hehe, that’s all I can think of.”

“But I agree with you that the ‘Master’ caused a devastating incident. I think something big happened, which is why all the families are keeping quiet about it now. I tried to ask Dr. Han. She clearly knows something, but she just won’t say,” Li Hanyan said, looking at Xiao Xu.

The three humans and two ghosts all agreed with Li Hanyan’s statement.

“So now, besides preparing more things, our goal is to investigate the ‘Master’? Since Zhang Shicheng can deify her, let’s assume for now that she is a human. Only a human can do this, right? I’ve never heard of a ghost being able to brainwash,” Jiang Jiajia said, looking at them.

“So you thought she wasn’t a human before?” Liu Chuxia asked, looking at them.

“That’s right. After all, to be able to control such a powerful fierce ghost, our previous inclination was that she might be an even more powerful existence than this fierce ghost. But now that she can brainwash humans, it means that the possibility of her being a human is very high.

Ghosts are not like this. They are generally divided by strength. If they were to control humans, they would probably intimidate them, then torture them, using this method to make humans fear them, thereby achieving the purpose of control.

Anyway, they wouldn’t go to the trouble of brainwashing humans to do things for them. This is much more difficult than beating, scolding, and intimidating,” Jiang Jiajia said, explaining her reasoning to Liu Chuxia.