Chapter 37 - Vengeful Ghost’s Soul Lock, Unraveling the Mystery
Li Guanqi had just uncovered a dark secret that most of the town deliberately avoided discussing.
As the sun gradually set, the golden glow of the sunset disappeared behind the mountains. The two women who had spoken to Li Guanqi hurried home.
“Li Lanhua, Zhang Cuifen. Child traffickers,” Li Guanqi murmured calmly, his face unreadable. The tangled mess in his mind had finally begun to unravel.
Now, all that remained was to wait for the vengeful ghost to appear and uncover the whole truth.
Night fell. The mayor had long since left his house, leaving Li Guanqi alone in the courtyard.
The brightly lit room was empty, save for a single oil lamp and a torn paper effigy positioned in front of the flame. The lamp cast a shadow of a person sitting upright on the window.
The moment the hour of the ox[1] arrived, the already silent Cloud Town grew even stiller. Not even the wild dogs made a sound, as if the town had been swallowed by death itself.
An unusually chilly wind swept fallen leaves along the ground.
Suddenly, a ghostly figure flickered into existence, appearing atop a tree branch at the village's entrance. The next instant, it shot toward a house on the town’s western side.
Inside the tightly shut house, a rugged-looking man lay snoring heavily on his bed.
The vengeful ghost materialized directly above his face, barely three inches away.