161: Chapter 161: City God’s Office, Night Patrol, Fellow Female Senior!
161: Chapter 161: City God’s Office, Night Patrol, Fellow Female Senior!
“I can speak Chinese.”
“Ah…
sorry, I just heard there was a sister from abroad.”
The woman in red, who had appeared in the midst of the late-night fog, immediately showed a smile full of apology on her face.
Then she extended her hand generously.
“Let’s introduce ourselves first.
I’m a True Disciple under Her Highness, Night Patrol of Tianmen City’s City God’s Office, Zuo Yan.
May I ask how the junior sister addresses herself?”
Uh…
The amount of information was too much, and Li Mumu was a bit slow to react.
“The Highness you mentioned is…
the Guiding Bodhisattva?”
“We refer to her as Lady Holy Mother of Red Lotus on our side.”
The woman who called herself Zuo Yan seriously corrected, “The name Guiding Bodhisattva is actually designated for Overseas Chinese…
ah, sorry, you are Overseas Chinese, right?
My apologies, it didn’t cross my mind.”
This sister is a bit out of the loop, huh…
Li Mumu didn’t know how to describe her feeling, but after returning to the country, the first person she encountered was such an easygoing older sister, which involuntarily relieved her.
Great, she’s one of our own.
“Hello, senior sister.
My name is Li Mumu, Mumu of wood, with the characters for water and wood…”
“Li Mumu?
Your name sounds nice!
And you are quite a looker, but you were not easy to find.”
Zuo Yan covered her face and sighed, “Her Highness rang me up to come and fetch you.
I’ve scoured this place back and forth for several days, turning both the Netherworld and Mortal World upside down, and you crawled out from underground?
Is this how all Overseas People have fun?”
Rang up?
As in made a phone call?
What Li Mumu noted first was the key piece of information inadvertently revealed in her words.
Of course, this question could be explored later at length.
The most important thing was that the Guiding Bodhisattva…
oh no, Lady Holy Mother of Red Lotus had really saved her life!
Domestic Immortals are truly better, look at all those animals overseas!
“Senior sister, I need to report to the police!”
Li Mumu hurriedly spoke out: “I’m looking for the Special Service Bureau… or any department responsible for handling abnormal affairs, I don’t know what it’s called.
I have very urgent information to report immediately!”
“Report to the police?”
Zuo Yan paused for a moment, then nodded somewhat slowly, “Ah, certainly, your situation definitely seems out of the ordinary.
How about, junior sister, you…
retract your manifested form first?”
Manifested form?
Li Mumu followed her gaze and subconsciously turned her head to look behind her.
It was a peacock’s tail feathers spreading out…
No, not that, it was a blossoming of human heads!
Li Mumu had always thought that the bodies entangled with her red string were those the Miasma Giant had discarded; indeed, those bodies were still obediently waiting for her next command inside the cave.
But in addition, there were more than a dozen heads silently suspended behind her, scattered like the petals of Manjushahua, resembling the blood-red, head-laden banquet she had witnessed with her own eyes on the night at Blueberry Street in Saifu City!
What exactly did I look like now?
Seeming to notice the shock and embarrassment on Li Mumu’s face, Zuo Yan smiled gently and softly said, “It’s okay, don’t be nervous.
Now close your eyes and chant the Heart Clarity Spell with me.
I’ll say a line, and you repeat after me.”
“Ah, okay.”
Li Mumu complied and promptly closed her eyes.
“na mo sa duo nan…”
“na mo sa duo nan…”
Crack—
“san miao san pu tuo…”
“san miao san pu tuo…”
Click, click—
Li Mumu secretly opened her eyes, turned her head, and then saw Zuo Yan with one hand holding a burlap sack and the other a pair of scissors, cutting off heads one by one behind her like a farmer uncle harvesting crops, and tossing them into the sack.
“Close your eyes, calm your heart, don’t think about these things.”
“Oh!”
So this was the method to solve the problem!
Li Mumu could only obediently do as told, closing her eyes and following Zuo Yan in reciting the entire Heart Clarity Spell.
“All right, there’s also your hands…”
With the bulging burlap sack thrown over her shoulder, Zuo Yan’s gaze then fell on Li Mumu’s four arms and the last head in her hand, “You’ll have to figure out a way to deal with this yourself.
If you really can’t manage, then you should go back to the temple later and light a stick of incense for the Holy Mother, ask for help.
This isn’t the place to talk, I’ll take you to the police station first.”
You were about to say ‘make a call’, weren’t you?
Li Mumu mentally scoffed.
After Zuo Yan helped her cut off those Red Strings, the remaining ones reattached themselves to her wrist again, and the newly formed Concentric Knot was clearly a whole circle larger than it had been at first.
With the Concentric Knot back on her wrist, she quickly re-experienced the vulnerability of mortals.
Cold, hunger, anxiety, fear…
And the feeling of being alive.
It was not until now that Li Mumu felt like she was truly alive.
Zuo Yan, with the sack slung over one shoulder and holding her hand, walked along the dark streets.
With every step she took, it seemed she could span half the street’s distance.
It appeared to be some sort of Dharma Gate that shrinks the ground into inches.
In just the span of a few breaths, they arrived at the entrance of a building.
Li Mumu looked up and saw the sign hanging above the gate, written in black calligraphy on a white background—Tianmen City Nantong District Police Station.
“Uncle He?”
Zuo Yan reached up to knock on the window of the security guard booth, waking the old man inside who was dozing off.
“Who…
I’ll be damned!”
The moment he opened his eyes, he was so startled by the sight of Li Mumu that he nearly jumped out of his chair, clutching his chest and coughing violently.
“You hellion, trying to send me to the grave, aren’t you?
Scram, scram!
This is an Official Residence, Evil Spirits be gone quickly!”
“Uncle He, you’ve forgotten, I’m also a government officer!
And this is a living person, a living person…
right?”
Zuo Yan turned to glance back at Li Mumu, a look of guilt crossing her face, “Mumu, you’re still alive right now, aren’t you?”
How would I know!
Li Mumu could only nod obediently.
Old Master He took out a cigarette and lit it, taking a deep drag, then scrutinized Li Mumu carefully, his forehead quickly furrowing.
“Come inside and we’ll talk.”
He pushed open the gate, side-eyeing Zuo Yan and Li Mumu as they walked in, and he didn’t relax until he was sure everything was normal.
“I told you I’m a government officer, bringing her in is no issue.”
Zuo Yan carelessly threw the sack containing the heads aside and smiled at Old Master He, “This child wants to report something important to the police.
Uncle He, could you help her with the paperwork first?
I’m going to get her something to eat.”
“Me, a gatekeeper, doing paperwork?”
Old Master He bristled with anger, but as soon as Zuo Yan finished her sentence, she turned and slipped away quickly, not giving him a chance to refuse.
“This damned girl, becoming more and more annoying.”
He sighed heavily and then turned to Li Mumu, “Come with me.
Don’t tell me anything, my old bones don’t have many years left, I can’t bear all that filthy stuff you have.”