Chapter 1

It was already night, but the summer heat hadn't quite faded. The torrential rains that had lasted for over ten days had also ended, making it still feel stiflingly humid outside, even in the evening.

Zhou Ze sat in Lawyer An's car. They had been driving around for half the afternoon.

But the little loli's phone was unreachable, and they had no idea where she had gone.

Fortunately, Zhou Ze wasn't worried about the little loli being kidnapped by human traffickers.

If any human traffickers dared to mess with the little loli,

Zhou Ze would genuinely lie on the bookstore sofa and applaud, cheering for the human traffickers with good taste.

But that girl…

She was definitely unusual!

For local officials, achieving political success was the icing on the cake, something for those with ambition.

Their real primary task was maintaining stability!

Political achievements determined your ceiling, while stability determined your floor.

Zhou Ze was the head of the ghost catchers in Tong City, and he would soon become a constable. In reality, he was basically in charge of all the underworld affairs in Tong City.

Now, a case of a family of three being murdered had already occurred. If any more trouble cropped up, Boss Zhou would be held responsible as well.

When Lawyer An called to tell him that the little loli and the girl named Zhu Shengnan were both missing, Zhou Ze immediately left the crime scene and started searching with Lawyer An.

However, although Tong City was only a second-tier city, even a broken ship had three pounds of nails. It was really difficult to find two girls within Tong City's one urban district and six counties in a short period of time.

"Boss, I don't think anything will happen. Lin Ke is still with her, after all."

Lawyer An could only try to comfort Zhou Ze at this time.

"I performed the surgery on that girl."

"Boss, you don't need to feel guilty about it. Saving lives and helping the injured is your inherent duty and instinct from when you were a doctor in your previous life. Your choice at the time was the right one.

Even if it causes other subsequent problems, it has nothing to do with you."

Lawyer An remembered reading a diary of a World War I veteran. During the war, the veteran had captured a German soldier: Adolf Hitler.

If that World War I veteran had directly shot and killed the prisoner at the time, perhaps World War II wouldn't have happened.

Moreover, even in Europe, which touted itself as a civilized region, killing prisoners of war wasn't uncommon.

"She's a good girl, she's not bad."

Zhou Ze said with a frown.

During the surgery and the brief interaction, Zhou Ze could sense that Zhu Shengnan had no malice in her heart. She was a very pure and innocent girl.

So pure,

Like a blank sheet of paper.

"Boss, you can't say that. We can't be too emotional…"

"No, Lao An, you misunderstood me. She is very innocent, very pure.

But the more someone is like that,

If given the opportunity, given the right trigger,

The damage she can cause will be even more terrifying!"

"Hmm…" Lawyer An nodded. "Boss, I understand what you mean."

It was like an utterly evil person racking their brains and spending a long time plotting to murder their wife in order to defraud a large insurance payout.

A naive and innocent child threw their toy into the airplane propeller before takeoff, as a wish.

Which would cause more terrifying damage?

Just then,

Zhou Ze and Lawyer An's expressions changed simultaneously!

They sensed it,

Extremely terrifying ghost energy!

It was a bit far away, but still very clear, which was enough to show how astonishing the ghost energy that was erupting in that place was!

"It's to the west!"

Lawyer An gritted his teeth, made a turn immediately, ran a red light, and sped off.

…

"Stop crying, I told you to stop crying!!!"

The little loli shouted.

But Zhu Shengnan, hugging her knees and sitting there, was still shedding tears non-stop, like a helpless and pitiful child.

And in fact, that was exactly the situation she was in.

Her childhood had been covered in a thick shadow,

Her life had gone down a distorted path from the very beginning,

Her family could only bring her a chilling coldness;

She was strong,

Suffering will make you stronger.

This was a meaningless load of bullsh*t,

But suffering could indeed make you numb; that was true.

For some reason,

The previously numb her,

Seemed to have gradually let down her guard after being with her "friends" here,

Tearing open her scabbed-over, even calloused, wounds,

Revealing her most essential heart.

She felt wronged,

She felt lonely,

She felt uncomfortable,

She wanted to cry,

She couldn't help it.

Even though she bit her lip tightly, the tears in her eyes still kept dripping down non-stop.

But for some reason,

Her emotions were actually able to stir up the emotions of these surrounding "phantoms."

These weren't souls at all.

They had already died long ago, and their souls had gone to hell.

These were the lingering grudges or attachments they had left behind.

However,

Now, these remaining phantoms were gradually becoming more substantial,

As if emotions were being poured into them,

And they were being influenced extremely strongly.

They weren't souls,

But they were starting to expand constantly, and the baleful aura on their bodies was also starting to become increasingly heavy.

This was a sign of turning into vengeful ghosts!

This was a scene that the little loli herself had never seen before,

A scene that subverted all of her previous understanding.

The little loli gritted her teeth, pushed herself backward, spread her hands open, and opened her mouth.

Her long tongue stretched out,

Like forming an ancient path leading to hell.

No matter what,

She couldn't sit idly by and watch hundreds of vengeful ghosts actually succeed in taking shape.

If that happened, not to mention that she wouldn't be able to handle it herself,

Even if everyone from the bookstore was here,

Facing the emergence of hundreds of vengeful ghosts all at once,

They would be caught completely off guard!

"The underworld has order, the Yellow Springs can be crossed!!!"

The chanting sounded,

The gates of hell opened.

The little loli wanted to take them all away before these phantoms had time to fully take shape!

If a hundred vengeful ghosts suddenly came out, the harm to the mortal realm would be terrifying!

Many nearby girls were implicated,

And in an instant, seven or eight girls were taken into the gates of hell by the little loli.

The other girls started crying even louder,

After seeing this scene,

Zhu Shengnan's eyes began to ripple with white light,

She seemed very lost,

Seemed very helpless,

And even,

Seemed very sad.

"Why… why… why…

Why even you, Auntie, who had similar experiences in the past,

Are abandoning us?

They,

They are all people like us.

We and them are all the same people. They are already so pitiful, why are you still treating them like this?

They could have been born, they could have come into this world happily.

They should be about the same age as me now, or older or younger than me,

But they should have had their own warm families, with fatherly love, motherly love, the care of relatives, and everyone's protection…

Why!

Why!

Why do you have to kill us

just because you prefer boys!

Why?

Just because we are girls,

Don't we even have the right to be born and treated normally?

Why!

Why!!!"

Zhu Shengnan started shouting hysterically.

In an instant,

The girls who had been crying around her also started screaming loudly!

Their suffering, their unwillingness, how many people could know?

Before leaving this world, in their mothers' wombs, they had also yearned for this world, had expectations, had attachment, had hesitation.

But when the cold forceps suddenly pierced in,

Directly dragging their still-immature bodies out and discarding them in a metal basin,

Who would care about their feelings?

If they were unwilling, if it was inconvenient, if there were various reasons that prevented their parents from giving birth to them and raising them properly, then so be it.

But why did their parents immediately try to have a second child, wanting a son?

Why was that!

"Aaaaaaaah!!!!!"

"Aaaaaaaah!!!!!"

The screams of a hundred girls

Gathered into a terrifying vortex,

And streaks of pitch-black shadows crawled out from their bodies,

Like Asuras from hell,

Being given a new definition.

"Don't cry, don't cry! Don't shout, don't shout!"

The little loli started to panic.

The vengeful ghosts…

Their speed of taking shape was accelerating,

So fast that she didn't even have time to take them away!

It was over,

It was really over this time!

The little loli knew that the reason for all of this was Zhu Shengnan!

It was her,

She didn't know what she had experienced,

But it seemed that she had the ability to communicate directly with souls,

And even her emotions, her thoughts,

Could control and intensify those souls!

She and they were one!

She cried, everyone cried together!

She hated, everyone hated together!

She screamed, everyone screamed together!

"Buzz!"

Suddenly,

Zhu Shengnan stood up,

She was still staring blankly at the little loli.

"I've already asked my mom and dad and my grandma.

Now,

I'm going to take them one by one,

To find their parents, grandparents,

To,

Ask them clearly."

"Boom!!!"

The terrifying baleful aura had almost become tangible.

"Slap!"

The little loli had no choice but to retract her tongue, and at the same time, her entire body was swept away and smashed heavily on the ground.

"Don't go, don't go, don't leave here!"

The little loli shouted.

But Zhu Shengnan turned around numbly.

Around her,

There were hundreds of terrifying,

Sinister and terrifying,

Vengeful ghosts of young girls.

…

"We're almost there, it's up ahead, it seems to be near that hospital," Lawyer An said as he drove.

"That hospital is XX County Hospital, right?"

"What's wrong?"

"I remember more than a year ago, a few months before my car accident, the president and several directors of that hospital were all dismissed."

"Why?"

"Because the hospital's conditions weren't good, so in order to generate revenue, they directly helped parents check the gender of their unborn children and unconditionally performed abortions. This led to many people in Tong City, and even nearby cities, specifically coming to that hospital to check,

and,

Abort."