Chapter 1 "Go!"

The little loli urged Bai Yingying, her small hands pushing Bai Yingying's back to make her go outside.

"What are you doing!"

Bai Yingying retorted.

"Your boss is already in the car, helping us to catch someone."

Only then did Bai Yingying realize that her boss was already sitting in the car outside the bookstore. Without another word, she walked straight out of the bookstore and got into the car.

Zhou Ze sat in the back seat, and Bai Yingying followed, sitting next to Zhou Ze.

Bai Yingying noticed that her boss's face didn't look too good, as if someone had just stolen a mountain of gold and silver from him.

In fact,

that was indeed the case.

Zhou Ze had thought that when he woke up, he could be like those greedy Western dragons, surrounded by beautiful women and mountains of gold and silver. But dreams were so full, and reality was so skinny. When he woke up, all his gold and silver coins had been handed over to the state.

And, not even a banner for him,

couldn't be given to him.

What, was he supposed to write "Aspiring Youth Hunts Down Brutal Earth God, Eliminating Evil and Protecting the Peace of the Land" on the banner?

"Hey, who's driving?"

The little loli sat in the passenger seat, pointing to the empty driver's seat.

"You drive."

Zhou Ze said numbly.

"............" The little loli was speechless.

Next, the little loli actually moved to the driver's seat and skillfully started the car. She could drive, and maybe her actual driving experience was even longer than Zhou Ze's. But just as the car started, a police car brushed past them in the distance.

The little loli quickly moved back to the passenger seat, and said helplessly:

"I can't drive."

Don't even think about going to catch people by yourself and end up being caught by the traffic police first. Moreover, the bookstore was really strange, and several accidents had happened because of driving without a license.

Zhou Ze raised his head,

not paying attention to the surrounding situation,

He was just thinking about how, in his previous life, the hospital had organized a trip to Putuo Mountain, where a monk at a fortune-telling stall had said that he was "deficient in metal in the Five Elements."

At the time, he thought the monk was talking nonsense,

but now that he thought about it,

sigh.

"Old Daoist, get in the car!"

The old Daoist was playing with the monkey. When he heard someone calling him, he came over happily. He glanced at Zhou Ze and the others sitting in the car, nodded, and obediently sat in the driver's seat.

A furry head poked out from the old Daoist's shoulder. It turned out that the little monkey had also come along.

It was enough to leave a sickly Xu Qinglang in the bookstore to watch the store. Anyway, he didn't expect the bookstore to have much business.

Zhou Ze was still in a state of shock and hadn't fully recovered. The little loli, on the other hand, was very concerned about this matter. The sooner Zhou Ze became a constable, the sooner she would be freed. Moreover, it wasn't often that she could come across such a great opportunity to earn merit points. Therefore, the little loli had pulled in all the manpower she could use in the bookstore.

In her words, even if they were using a machine gun to kill a mosquito, they had to make sure the mosquito was torn into five pieces!

It was conceivable that if Xu Qinglang hadn't just recovered from a serious illness and the death puppet wasn't still a flower of the motherland,

these two would definitely have been dragged along by the little loli this time.

After the car got on the Jianghai Avenue overpass, Zhou Ze took a deep breath and finally woke up from the blow of watching his mountain of gold and silver slip away.

Looking at the car packed full of people and a monkey,

Zhou Ze subconsciously grinned and smiled,

No matter how eloquently the little loli spoke,

it couldn't change the fact that she was afraid.

After what happened in Rongcheng last time, the little loli probably had some psychological shadow about catching these escaped hell ghosts. But she was reluctant to give up such a big temptation of merit points, so she pulled in so many people to embolden herself.

In the final analysis,

she was still afraid of encountering another Liang Chuan.

However, that blind man had been in Shanghai for more than half a year. Apart from Tang Shi coming back once in the middle, it seemed that there had been no movement. Tongcheng was not far from Shanghai, just over an hour's drive. After all, the two cities faced each other across the river. Driving across the Sutong Bridge would get you there.

But the other party had not contacted him again, so Zhou Ze naturally didn't bother to contact him again. As long as they could live peacefully.

Shigang Town, located in Tongzhou District, could be reached by driving north for half an hour after getting off the Jianghai Avenue overpass at Xingren Town.

The little loli immediately took out her ghost messenger certificate and began to guide the old Daoist to drive according to the specific instructions on it. The car didn't drive to the countryside, but kept circling in the town.

Finally, it stopped in front of a supermarket.

To be precise, it should have been a supermarket before, but it should have closed down. The door was tightly closed, and there were no goods inside. There was a second floor, with several small rooms separated, which was a common layout of a shop below and a house above.

Everyone got out of the car, and Zhou Ze lit himself a cigarette. Then, he took two steps forward, directly pinched off the lock on the supermarket door with his fingernails, and then pushed open the door of the supermarket.

The inside was not small, but it was messy and covered with dust. It seemed that no one had been here for a long time.

"Search, it should be nearby. Don't act rashly after finding the target. Call for help first!"

The little loli said while holding the ghost messenger certificate. Then, she glanced at Zhou Ze, who was still standing in place, and was too embarrassed to urge him. Instead, she joined the search.

The little monkey on the old Daoist's shoulder directly窜 jumped out and was also helping to find people.

Zhou Ze found it quite funny that the ghost messenger certificate could actually determine the specific location of the target so precisely, even more accurate than the map of Didi Dache.

From a feeling point of view, these evil ghosts who had managed to escape from hell were like dishes that were delivered to the door on their own initiative, just waiting for the ghost messengers from all over the world to follow the map and go through a simple formality.

Perhaps, this was the change in identity, just like the Liangshan heroes in the late Northern Song Dynasty, who first fought with the imperial court, and then ran to fight with those who used to belong to the same camp after surrendering.

It was really a bit like that, except that he had already washed his identity and become a lackey of the underworld.

He dropped the cigarette butt and stomped on it with his shoe.

"Found it!"

Just then, the old Daoist's voice came from upstairs.

Everyone immediately ran upstairs through the stairs in a swarm.

The old Daoist stood at the door of a room on the second floor, reached out and pointed inside, and said:

"Boss, there's a person lying inside."

Zhou Ze nodded and said directly, "Break the door!"

"Okay!"

Bai Yingying took the lead, grabbing both sides of the door with both hands. With a slight exertion, the entire door was directly removed. Then, she turned her body and gave the open door to her teammates behind her.

The old Daoist breathed a heavy sigh, feeling that Yingying was really domineering.

Then,

The old Daoist walked into the room, took a deep breath, and then his face turned green, and he immediately began to vomit on the ground.

There was indeed a person lying inside. It was a woman. The old Daoist hadn't seen it wrong from the window before. But at this time, the woman's body looked as if it had been gnawed by something. It was horrible to look at, and a strong stench filled the air.

Zhou Ze reached out and gently covered his nose, walked over, and squatted down next to the corpse.

The little loli also walked to the side, reached out and lifted the female corpse's arm. White bones were visible on the arm, and the little loli threw it down again.

"How long has she been dead?" the little loli asked.

"Five days, maybe. The weather is hot now, so the corpse is rotting faster."

Zhou Ze gently fiddled with the corpse in front of him with his fingernails, looking for some clues, and at the same time asked:

"The time doesn't match, does it? Or is the task issued by hell delayed?"

The little loli shook her head, "In theory, there shouldn't be any delay."

"Then this guy has been dead for five days."

Zhou Ze looked at the other party's tattered arm and found dense needle marks there.

"I don't know either." The little loli was a little puzzled.

"Um, can I ask, if this corpse is cremated, does it count as being burned to hell?"

"That's not right." Zhou Ze frowned, "Something seems wrong."

"What's wrong? What did you find?" The little loli asked immediately.

"If the task issued by hell isn't delayed, then this corpse that has been dead for more than five days shouldn't be the person we're looking for."

Zhou Ze said as he took out his ghost messenger certificate and turned to the wanted list page,

"The soul is female, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the one who possesses the body after coming up is female. There is also a big misunderstanding, that is, not every evil ghost who returns to the human world from hell does the first thing to find a body to possess and disguise themselves as a living person. They may not have time, other accidents may occur, or even, she may still be a soul,

Or..."

"Or what?"

"Heh, this woman's corpse has been gnawed."

"We saw that too. Do you mean she was bitten to death by something?"

"It shouldn't be. This woman has many needle marks on her arm. She should be a heavy drug addict. Although I haven't done a real examination, based on my experience, she should have died from an overdose."

"But her body?"

"Her body should have been discovered by something after her death, and then that thing couldn't wait to eat her corpse."

As Zhou Ze spoke, he stood up,

Stuck out his tongue and licked his lips,

and continued:

"The wounds that were bitten out, the teeth are very small, should be from a very small animal, much smaller than a cat or dog."

"Much smaller than a cat or dog?"

"It's a rat." The old Daoist said immediately.

The corpse had been gnawed by rats.

Zhou Ze nodded, "Moreover, judging from the traces on the ground that we found after we came in, this room hasn't been visited by a group of rats. Perhaps, there was only one rat that came to eat the corpse, and that rat gnawed on this corpse for a long time."

As he said that,

Zhou Ze pointed to the information sheet on the wanted list again,

"According to the statement on the wanted list, this female evil ghost was a drug dealer before she died, and was executed. Most drug dealers are actually for the purpose of supporting their own addiction with trafficking.

So, after suffering in hell, having finally returned to the human world, if you were her, what would be the first thing you would want to do?"

"Have a good吸美吸一口*?" the old Daoist said. (*T/N: Meaning to have a good hit of drugs.)

"But you can't find any drugs for a while, what do you do?" Zhou Ze continued to ask.

"Eat...eat the flesh of drug addicts!"

The old Daoist's face suddenly changed.

"Moreover, if the instructions on the ghost messenger certificate are correct, what it's guiding us to find shouldn't be this corpse,

But that one that ate the meat,

and continues to lurk here,

the one possessed by a ghost,

a big rat!"