Chapter 90: Conspiracy
“A Xia, don’t be afraid. I’m here,” Li Hanyan said, holding Liu Chuxia’s wrist and comforting her.
“Mhm.”
Li Hanyan used a tracking talisman, but there was no reaction.
“Hah! Interesting. You like to scare people secretly, do you?” Li Hanyan took out five more tracking talismans. “Let’s see how you hide.”
With Li Hanyan setting an example, Liu Chuxia’s courage grew. She was already holding an Exorcism Talisman in her left hand and the iron sword in her right, just waiting for the ghost to appear.
Only one of the five tracking talismans reacted. The green light shot towards the women’s toilet and then went straight through the fourth door.
Li Hanyan kicked the door open directly, self-ignited an Exorcism Talisman, and threw it in. Liu Chuxia also reacted quickly, swinging the iron sword at the air. Instantly, sparks flew. Then she immediately self-ignited another Exorcism Talisman and threw it over.
Under their series of operations, they could only hear the ghost’s miserable screams.
When the smoke cleared, they saw a white-clothed female ghost with disheveled hair kneeling on the ground, looking at the two of them with venomous eyes.
Just as Li Hanyan was about to kill her with a Soul-Extinguishing Talisman, Liu Chuxia stopped her.
“What’s wrong?” Li Hanyan asked with some confusion.
“Her eyes are not right. They shouldn’t be like this,” Liu Chuxia said, then knelt down to look at her at eye level. “You resent us very much. Why?”
“If you want to kill me, just kill me. Why be so hypocritical?” the female ghost said angrily, looking at Liu Chuxia.
“You’re causing trouble and intimidating ordinary people, and you think you’re right?” Li Hanyan couldn’t stand seeing Liu Chuxia being yelled at.
“Do you think I wanted to? A bunch of hypocrites who only know how to act.”
Liu Chuxia stood up and looked at Li Hanyan. “Hanyan, someone is planning something, but what’s the purpose?”
Li Hanyan shook her head, took out a bottle from her bag, and said to the female ghost, “You get in first.”
“I won’t. If you want to kill me, kill me now. Why do you have to take me away?”
“We’re not going to kill you. You get in first,” Liu Chuxia said to the female ghost.
“I won’t.”
Li Hanyan had endured for so long, she had no good temper left. She folded the female ghost up and stuffed her into the bottle.
During this time, the female ghost was constantly shouting, “Ah! Killing a ghost! Abusing a ghost! Help!”
She only quieted down after getting into the bottle.
“Hanyan, can you tell what kind of ghost she is?” Liu Chuxia asked, turning to look at Li Hanyan as she walked out of the toilet.
“I can’t tell. But it has the invisibility ability of an Illusory Ghost, yet it can evade my Heavenly Eye. I feel there’s something we don’t know. Let’s go back first.”
Liu Chuxia nodded and went back to the bookstore with Li Hanyan.
They went straight up to the fourth floor and to the conference room.
They found that Xiao Xu and Ke Yan had already returned.
“Did you two encounter anything?” Li Hanyan asked, looking at them.
“No, just an ordinary ghost causing trouble. But it was very talkative, saying things like, ‘we’re the same kind, why are you helping those hypocrites,’ blah, blah, blah,” Xiao Xu said, eating a sachima.
“Did it really say that?”
“Yes. What’s wrong?” Xiao Xu asked, looking at them in confusion.
“Don’t you think there’s a problem?” Liu Chuxia asked, looking at her.
“No. I’ve heard this kind of talk countless times. My ears are calloused from hearing it. What’s the problem?”
“Why do ghosts call us hypocrites?”
“Maybe some Spirit Masters did something.”
“Then which Spirit Masters? And what did they do? To make the ghosts ruin our reputation like this?” Liu Chuxia asked, looking at Xiao Xu.
“I don’t know about that,” Xiao Xu said, scratching her head.
“Sister, do you suspect that someone is trying to ruin our Spirit Masters’ reputation?” Ke Yan asked.
“It might be more than that. I suspect there’s more to it. I don’t know what their purpose is, whether it’s to make Spirit Masters and ghosts irreconcilable, or to make the ghosts misunderstand us, so that they will do something for them,” Liu Chuxia said, stroking her chin.
“Should we tell Master?” Li Hanyan asked.
“We can.”
Just then, Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian also came back.
“Did you guys notice that the ghosts today are very different? That venomous look in their eyes, as if we have some great enmity with them. In the past, those ghosts were either angry or scared. They’ve never had that kind of look before,” Jiang Jiajia said with a frown.
Xiao Nian took out a bottle from her bag and placed it on the table.
Liu Chuxia also quickly took out a bottle from her bag and placed it on the table.
Xiao Xu scratched her head and said with some embarrassment, “It’s my fault for being careless. I killed that ghost directly.”
“It’s not a big deal. Let them out,” Li Hanyan said, walking over and releasing the ghosts from the two bottles.
On the left was the white-clothed female ghost that Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan had encountered. On the right was the white-clothed female ghost that Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian had caught.
The one on the left was holding her waist and still cursing, “F*ck, you dog Spirit Masters. Don’t you know how to be gentle? Forget it, it would be a miracle if you knew how to be gentle. A bunch of hypocrites, liars!”
As for the one on the right, she was sitting quietly on the ground, but her eyes were venomously staring at Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian.
Liu Chuxia walked up to the female ghost on the left and asked, “Why do you call us hypocrites? This is the first time we’ve met, right?”
“Hah, it is indeed the first time we’ve met. But you Spirit Masters are all the same. Even if the people are different, what you do to us is the same.”
“Then tell me, what have we done to you?”
“Are you crazy? You’re a Spirit Master, how could you not know?”
“I really don’t know. I don’t even know where your hatred for us comes from. We haven’t done anything bad to you,” Liu Chuxia said with a frown.
“You don’t know? How is that possible? Aren’t you the Spirit Masters of the Qi family?”
“No. I’ve never heard of any Qi family. There are only the four great families now: the Liu family, the Jiang family, the Zhang family, and the Xiao family. She and I are Spirit Masters of the Liu family, and those two are Spirit Masters of the Jiang family,” Liu Chuxia said, pointing to each of them as she introduced them.
“How is that possible? What about the Qi family? Did it disappear? I was just eliminated from there a few days ago. This isn’t right,” the female ghost said, sitting on the ground and lowering her head in thought.
The female ghost on the right also became bewildered after hearing Liu Chuxia’s words, her eyes filled with confusion.
“Let’s put them away first,” Li Hanyan said with a frown.
Xiao Xu and Ke Yan nodded, each took a bottle, and put the female ghosts inside.
“I feel this is probably related to the ‘Master’ again,” Liu Chuxia said.
“Why do you think so?” Jiang Jiajia asked, looking at her.
Liu Chuxia shook her head. “Just a hunch. Hanyan and I both want to tell Mom about this. What do you guys think?”
“We can,” Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian had no objection.
“Okay.”
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Early the next morning, Liu Chuxia got up and also pulled Li Hanyan up. They went downstairs together.
After sending the message to Liu Chu last night, she had said she would rush over this morning. Liu Chuxia didn’t know how early it would be, but it was no problem to get up early.
She also called Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian up.
Then she took Li Hanyan’s hand and went downstairs. Not seeing the familiar figure, Liu Chuxia breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s a good thing Mom isn’t here yet. Let’s go and buy breakfast first?”
“Okay,” Li Hanyan replied with a yawn.
After the two of them had bought breakfast, they had some themselves. Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian also came down and had a little.
Xiao Xu and Ke Yan brought down the two bottles and placed them on the table.
