Chapter 78: Chapter 76: What’s the Point of Doing This?
The Jin Ancestral Hall is made of wood and can’t withstand any force.
"Alright." Mo Lin agreed with what Li Hui said.
He was in a good mood now; if a fight broke out at night, it would be a slaughter.
He wouldn’t care about minor issues like damaging buildings when caught up in the heat of the moment.
Mo Lin sat in a chair, leisurely sipping tea.
Quietly waiting for the night to fall.
The dark gray color gradually covered the sky.
Night was slowly descending.
Time passed little by little.
The workers outside who were moving items noticeably quickened their pace.
All the valuable items that could be moved from the Jin Ancestral Hall had been taken away.
Some of the staff at the Jin Ancestral Hall quietly evacuated as well.
Leaving behind Li Hui and others with status.
"Dong dong dong.."
A bell in the backyard rang out crisply.
This bell sound signified that it was already seven o’clock.
As the bell rang.
Qingyun and Li Hui’s faces instantly turned grim.
The hall was exceptionally quiet; you could even hear everyone breathing.
"Pat pat pat..."
A dense sound of footsteps came from outside.
The main door slowly opened.
Five men wearing black hats walked in.
These five were dressed uniformly, in black coats and wearing black hats.
As if they were afraid someone might see their faces.
Mo Lin’s pupils suddenly shrank.
A vast amount of Ghost Qi surged from behind this group of people.
"Where is he?" a burly man in black broke the silence.
"Here." Qingyun stepped forward and greeted the man in black.
"I came to collect the money," said the man in black plainly.
Before Qingyun could speak, Mo Lin interrupted.
"Was it you who caught the Ghost Messenger?"
Mo Lin’s attire was quite conspicuous.
In a bright red Yin Department robe, with a long sword at his waist.
The man in black was visibly startled when he saw Mo Lin, his face turning cold.
"What do you mean?"
"Is the Jin Ancestral Hall breaking the rules? I sell things here, and you leak my information?"
The man in black pulled off his black hat.
Revealing a plump face.
His face was covered with pitch-black scars; it was deathly pale, with no hint of blood.
It looked very terrifying.
With his action, the other four also pulled off their black coats.
Revealing their original faces.
Among them, three had deathly pale faces, with no hint of blood at all.
If they weren’t standing here, it would be hard to believe these people were alive.
Seeing Mo Lin, the man in black instantly understood the situation.
These people were like Mo Lin, filled with Ghost Qi in their bodies.
Especially the man with stitched marks on his face before him, his Ghost Qi was even stronger.
He looked very peculiar.
"Don’t beat around the bush; you’re selling the Ghost Messenger deliberately to lure me out, right?"
"Why play tricks when we’re all seasoned foxes?"
Seeing this group, Mo Lin understood immediately.
Everything that happened before now made sense.
When Mo Lin first arrived in Yun Chuan, someone was selling the Yin Messenger.
Wasn’t that suspicious?
Even if they were from the Ghost Realm, why not just kill the Yin Messenger they caught?
Why sell the Yin Messenger?
For thousands of Netherworld Currency?
Specifically selling the Ghost Messenger in Yun Chuan?
And still adopting the method of listing it for sale?
Yesterday, when Mo Lin went to look for the Ghost Witch, he realized it.
As soon as Mo Lin arrived in the mortal world, he was targeted by these people.
Since Mo Lin was human, not a ghost, they couldn’t track his whereabouts.
So these people devised a scheme to sell the Ghost Messenger as a way to lure him out.
When Mo Lin initially unsealed the enchantment, these people should have known Mo Lin had taken the bait.
Qingyun listened in confusion.
Why did he feel like they were just tools?
"You probably came with the idea of exterminating me, right?"
Is there even a need to guess?
They laid so much groundwork and only sent four people?
They certainly didn’t just come for sightseeing.
These people must have prepared many tactics.
"Yin Messenger Mo... no, it should be Head of Yin Department, Mo... you are indeed clever," the plump man said slowly to Mo Lin.
"You know me?"
Mo Lin mockingly said to the group before him, "I really find you ghosts from the Ghost Realm disgusting... truly disgusting."
"You ghosts have no bottom line, refuse to follow rules... just like nasty rat droppings."
It’s not a prejudice Mo Lin has; he genuinely finds the ghosts from the Ghost Realm repulsive.
Even in the Underworld, they are the kind of ghosts without a baseline, ignoring rules.
"Why do you choose to possess the bodies of the deceased instead of being proper ghosts? What’s the point of doing that?"
When Mo Lin detected that strange smell, he was certain.
The few before him were not human.
They were ghosts.
They had just used special methods to possess the bodies of the dead to operate.
There’s a saying, respect the dead.
Even in death, can’t people rest in peace?
Why possess them and engage in such meaningless behavior?
What’s the point of this?
Possessing the dead brings no benefits, nor can it make these ghosts stronger.
The Underworld has its own rules.
For example, don’t possess the dead; don’t possess humans; and don’t kill the innocent randomly.
But ghosts in the Ghost Realm refuse to follow any rules.
They behave the same way within the Ghost Realm.
They capture groups of ghosts and refine Yin Artifacts.
Or slaughter an entire district of ghosts, then use their Ghost Qi to bolster their strength.
Constantly breaking the rules.
Therefore, Mo Lin despises the ghosts from the Ghost Realm.
If he had to compare it to something.
He would use the current environment as an analogy.
Even when the ghostly presence descends, not all ghosts go on killing sprees.
Not all Ghost-Controlling Masters rely on their ghosts’ protection to kill indiscriminately.
Even if such people exist, they are in the minority.
Everyone operates within a set framework of rules.
And ghosts descending to the mortal world don’t just harm anyone, do they?
But the ghosts from the Ghost Realm are truly peculiar.
These ghosts are a nuisance even in the Underworld.
"Head of Yin Department, Mo, you sure have quite the temper!" the plump man taunted.
"Trying to find a sense of justice on our behalf?"
As he finished speaking, the plump man somehow pulled out a head.
Blood dripped from the head onto the ground.
It was the head of a little girl, and she hadn’t even reached adulthood.
Like throwing away trash, the plump man tossed the girl’s head onto the ground.
"I killed her entire family; are you going to avenge her?" the plump man taunted.
Seeing this girl’s head.
Qingyun frowned deeply.
Even Li Hui’s expression looked unpleasant.
"Why did you kill her?" Li Hui asked slowly.
"I came across her on the road, so I killed her casually," the plump man answered casually.
It sounded like killing a chicken.
Even easier than killing a chicken.
At that moment, Li Hui understood why Mo Lin found these ghosts disgusting.
"I am not a particularly good person, nor do I have any sense of justice."
"I truly find you disgusting... absolutely disgusting.." Mo Lin said, gritting his teeth word by word.
These ghosts, what’s the point of doing things like this?
Did anyone provoke or annoy them?
Yet they come up and kill people?
Ghost-Controlling Masters exist to deal with those ghosts that commit atrocities.
To capture them and eliminate them.
Mo Lin suddenly restrained his anger, a hint of murder intent emerging in his eyes.
"Today, I will, as the Head of the Yin Department, exact justice on you."
"None of you ghosts... will leave here alive."