Chapter 135
Chapter 135
Old Zhao Seven actually agreed.
He even highly approved of Meng Yifan’s approach.
“Not all Stigmatized Properties are haunted, but a haunted one will definitely affect the living. What do you do if someone is affected? You have to find someone to solve it. But there are too many scammers nowadays, and the victims don’t know where to find someone who actually knows their stuff.”
Old Zhao Seven explained his reasoning to us logically: “If they can find someone, that’s fine. But if they can’t, not only will they be swindled out of their money, but the problem won’t be resolved in the end.”
“But if we do as Little Meng suggested, we solve the problem for them on one hand and make money on the other. It’s a way to kill two birds with one stone. What is there to worry about?”
Meng Yifan slapped his thigh, his face practically splitting from a wide grin. “Exactly! Perfectly logical! Seventh Master’s words are incredibly logical! Did you hear that? This is the foresight of a master!”
Old Zhao Seven naturally knew much more than we did. Once he spoke up, Song Xiaotian completely lost his stance and joined Meng Yifan in trying to persuade me. “Chen Mo, I think Seventh Master has a point too.”
I nodded. “Seventh Master, you’re not wrong, but if you always walk by the river, your shoes are bound to get wet eventually. What if we encounter a powerful ghost one day and we all kick the bucket?”
Song Xiaotian wavered again. “Chen Mo is right. After all, we’re just flesh and blood.”
Old Zhao Seven glanced at us. “Is Du Ruhai a ghost?”
We thought about it and shook our heads.
Old Zhao Seven continued, “He isn’t a ghost, yet he almost made you kick the bucket several times. Whether you die or not doesn’t depend on whether the opponent is a ghost.”
As he spoke, Old Zhao Seven seemed to target me specifically. “Don’t you think whether you kick the bucket or not is your own problem? Don’t you think it’s because you’re too weak? Don’t you think…”
Before he could finish, I quickly raised my hand to stop him. “I agree, I agree! Please don’t say any more.”
If he kept going, it would turn into a personal attack.
He might as well just call me a useless waste.
Though, it’s not like he was wrong.
“Then it’s settled!”
Meng Yifan was very excited. “Right now, every major agency has one or two Stigmatized Properties on their hands. We’ll go and collect them. At the start, it doesn’t matter if we make less profit. Although these houses are hard to sell, if we specialize in only Stigmatized Properties, people will eventually come to buy. If we can sell a few a month, that’s still a lot of money!”
Old Zhao Seven raised a hand. “I have a condition.”
Meng Yifan grinned. “Name it. I’ll agree to any condition.”
Old Zhao Seven looked at me and said seriously, “I know you definitely won’t agree if I ask you to help me kill Du Yuwei. So, I want you to stop Du Yuwei from killing people.”
I froze for a moment. “Me? Stop her from killing? You’re joking. How could I possibly stop her? Why would she listen to me?”
“Stop pretending.” Old Zhao Seven walked straight over and tilted my chin up. “You went to see her again last night, didn’t I? Look at your face-it’s whiter than a corpse in a morgue.”
I was startled. Was my face really that pale?
I had come straight to the shop after leaving the park; I hadn’t had a chance to look in a mirror yet.
Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian also stared at me, their brows furrowing. “You bastard, you really went to mess around with a ghost. What are you trying to do? Looking to be a ‘step-daddy’ for a ghost’s kid? Or maybe the ghost is gifting you a child?”
“How can you do this to Fang Man!”
The more I heard, the more ridiculous it got. I snapped back irritably, “Please rephrase that. What do you mean ‘step-daddy’? I was just… letting them feel some human warmth…”
“Keep pretending, just keep pretending.” Song Xiaotian looked at me with a lecherous expression. “They’re twins. Since the dead one is off-limits, you’re setting your sights on the living one, aren’t you? Playing the ‘nice guy’ now.”
“Go to hell!” I cursed. “I already tried to persuade her last night, but it was useless. Her way of thinking is completely different from ours. How am I supposed to stop her from killing people?”
Old Zhao Seven said, “You can’t stop her from wanting to kill, but you can stop her while she’s doing it, because she won’t kill you.”
I was even more confused. “How am I supposed to know who she’s going to kill? Lanjiang City is huge, with over ten million people.”
Old Zhao Seven put his hands behind his back, preparing to leave. “Then you’d better find someone more capable.”
Seeing that Old Zhao Seven was about to walk out, Meng Yifan hurriedly held him back and ran over to persuade me. “You’re the one who knows her best here. Think about it-who would she want to kill? You’re so smart.”
I thought to myself, no matter how smart I am, I’m not a god.
How could I possibly know who her next target was?
“Wait!”
It suddenly clicked. “He Tao’s Girlfriend. If He Tao’s Girlfriend hasn’t been killed yet, the next person she… she should be the next one.”
Last night, when I asked her why she killed He Tao, she said it was because he refused to be with her, which led to her death.
In reality, her death had nothing to do with He Tao. But according to her logic, He Tao’s Girlfriend deserved to die even more than he did.
After all, it was because she went to bully He Tao’s Girlfriend that night that she ended up getting hit by a car and dying.
“Right, He Tao’s Girlfriend!” Meng Yifan hurriedly pulled Old Zhao Seven back.
Old Zhao Seven said, “Go check. Find out if He Tao’s Girlfriend is still alive.”
Song Xiaotian spoke up, “I’ll handle it. All three of them go to the same school; it should be easy to find out.”
That afternoon, Song Xiaotian went to look into He Tao’s Girlfriend.
Meng Yifan, meanwhile, went to pursue his grand ambitions. He planned to visit other agencies to take over their Stigmatized Property listings, intending to split the commission with the original agents once they were sold. As for the exact split, that would require specific negotiations.
At four o’clock in the afternoon, I called Song Xiaotian to ask if he had found anything, but the call went through with no answer.
At five o’clock, I called Song Xiaotian three more times. He still didn’t pick up.
I was starting to feel uneasy. He never ignored calls. If it was inconvenient for him to talk, he would always send a text in advance to let us know.
Time flew by, and soon it was five-thirty. Old Zhao Seven returned to the shop to ask about the situation with Song Xiaotian.
I told him that Song Xiaotian hadn’t been answering his phone.
“Try again. Keep calling,” Old Zhao Seven said, his expression turning grave. He also felt something was wrong.
I placed three more calls right in front of him, but there was still no answer.
“Something might have happened,” Old Zhao Seven’s tone grew heavy.
I panicked instantly. “Could he have run into Du Ruhai’s people… No, even if it was Du Ruhai’s men, they couldn’t possibly do anything to him.”
Song Xiaotian’s combat prowess was such that even Old Zhao Seven was no match for him. Moreover, Song Xiaotian had a background; Du Ruhai had looked into him and likely wouldn’t dare treat him the same way he treated Meng Yifan and me.
Old Zhao Seven frowned. “That kid’s martial skills are extraordinary. Even professional Bodyguards couldn’t touch him. It’s likely Du Yuwei…”
Hearing Old Zhao Seven say this made my heart race with even more anxiety.
Song Xiaotian was indeed peerless against humans, but ghosts were a different story.
And he was afraid of ghosts.
He had been a police officer before, and his blood could suppress a Ghost, but that was limited to ordinary spirits. Du Yuwei was a Sha.
But why would Du Yuwei go after him?
Du Yuwei clearly knew that Song Xiaotian was my friend. I didn’t believe she would do such a thing…
I quickly called Meng Yifan and told him to get back here.
We waited in the shop until it got dark, staying until eight o’clock that night. During that time, we took turns making forty or fifty calls.
But Song Xiaotian didn’t answer a single one.