Chapter 1 The Explosion

The explosion came so suddenly, as if intentionally slapping Lawyer An in the face.

The expected stalemate, negotiation, and tug-of-war never materialized. In the end, everything seemed incredibly simple and straightforward.

Lawyer An's eyes narrowed, and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

A flicker of anger began to rise in Boss Zhou's eyes.

The reason why desperate people are terrifying is that they can cause extremely terrible destruction before they are completely cornered, and the masked man in front of them seemed to be illustrating this point.

If there was really no way out, then who would care about heavenly punishment?

Ordinary people who fall into the hands of their opponents can still shout, "Twenty years later, I'll be a good man again!" But if someone from the underworld falls into the hands of someone from the underworld, do you still expect to have a next life?

For Zhou Ze, who had just experienced the Buddhist karmic fire during the day, he knew very well the terrible consequences this explosion would have on the vehicles on this road!

It was estimated that at least dozens of drivers and passengers in the vehicles would be evaporated from the world, and these out-of-control vehicles would cause a terrifying chain collision. In the end, the casualties would be difficult to count.

In an instant, flames soared, but quickly dissipated, like a firework stick in a child's hand. It seemed to be surrounded by fire, but you could reach out and touch its sparks without feeling any heat.

And this road with eight lanes in both directions was now experiencing this scene.

The momentary flash startled many drivers. Some felt a blur before their eyes, some happened to be squinting, and most drivers were affected at this time.

The shortest following distance written in the traffic rules seemed pale and powerless again at this time.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

A series of rear-end collisions occurred, followed by irritable honking and then arguments and shouts.

More than a dozen cars were involved in a series of rear-end collisions, but apart from limited damage to the vehicles, there were no serious effects. The drivers took emergency measures after their brief moment of blurred vision.

What just exploded was just a firework, not Buddhist karmic fire.

The masked man who was trapped had his arms hanging down, and in his one eye, what remained was loneliness and disdain.

He was looking at An Buqi, who shrugged and said to Zhou Ze beside him:

"Boss, some people are just like this, beyond saving."

Zhou Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He looked at Lawyer An and said:

"I said, how villainous were you back then? Why do you always provoke these honest people?"

The last time it was Old Zhang's great-grandfather. Looking at Old Zhang, one could actually see what kind of person that red-nosed old man was. The fact also proved that the old man was indeed a good "person." He was a rare middle-level underworld official with a sense of public service that Zhou Ze had encountered since entering the business.

The masked man in front of him was actually the same. He had just given up the chance to fight to the death, and even abandoned the choice to vent and indulge one last time before dying.

And Lawyer An was on the opposite side of these two people back then. Both good people hated Lawyer An so much that their teeth itched. It could be seen how much Lawyer An was hated when he was a top inspector in the underworld. He was probably no different from a secret agent of the ancient Eastern Depot. He was completely intolerable to the righteous path.

Lawyer An sighed helplessly and said:

"When you're in the government, you can't help yourself."

It's all society's fault; I'm still pure.

Zhou Ze walked up to the masked man and asked:

"You came to Tongcheng to find a ghost officer certificate?"

The masked man nodded.

Zhou Ze also nodded. "Then I'm sorry."

The masked man smiled. His mask was too thin, so thin that Zhou Ze wondered what the point of him wearing it was.

However, just as Zhou Ze raised his fingernails to pierce the other person's body, the other person's body suddenly deflated, directly shriveling up.

In the distance, the body of the puppet old woman who had just been knocked away by Yingying actually stood up again. Her hands and feet climbed onto the high-rise building in front of her in a very strange posture, moving quickly like a spider!

Yingying and the little boy immediately exploded. The two zombies worked together to chase after the puppet that was trying to escape as quickly as possible!

However, Zhou Ze still didn't move, nor did he call Yingying and the little boy back. He slowly peeled open the masked man's stomach.

There wasn't much blood flowing out, which seemed a little dry, like a riverbed that hadn't rained for a long time, with cracked paleness everywhere.

But when Zhou Ze's fingernails slowly pierced into it, a force inside grabbed Zhou Ze's fingernails.

Zhou Ze smiled slightly and slowly pulled his fingernails out, bringing out a baby from the masked man's stomach whose eyes didn't even seem to be open.

One of the baby's little hands was grabbing Zhou Ze's fingernail, swaying as Zhou Ze took it out.

Lawyer An, who was standing beside him, took a deep breath and then exhaled heavily, saying in surprise:

"Boss, you really have sharp eyes."

Just now, even Lawyer An almost thought that the other party had pulled off a trick, and that their true form was the puppet old woman, or rather, their true form was inside the puppet old woman's body.

But who would have thought that this time, the other party would choose to put their true form in this little baby's body.

Of course, Lawyer An showed this expression, but it was hard to say whether he was really fooled, because he didn't move either, and didn't chase after the puppet like Yingying and the others.

"Geng Chen, you really play a unique game."

Lawyer An still remembered how he and Feng Si'er designed to trick the person in front of him, and they were almost successful, but he still managed to escape at the last moment.

That's right, someone who was so difficult to kill back then, how could it be so easy to kill him now?

"An Buqi, after so many years, you're still so shameless."

The baby opened his mouth to speak, with a hint of childishness.

Lawyer An smiled slightly. "Thank you for the compliment."

Zhou Ze shook his fingernail, and the baby with his little hand grabbing the fingernail also swayed along with it.

"Did you get your certificate?"

Zhou Ze asked.

The baby grinned, smiling innocently, and said:

"You want to let me go?"

Lawyer An's expression suddenly changed when he heard this, but with Boss Zhou himself here, there was no room for his lackey to refute or change his boss's decision.

"I have that idea. You shouldn't be alone, right?"

Boss Zhou wasn't interested in being a snake spirit or a scorpion spirit, catching a grandpa and then attracting a string of calabash brothers to come and cause trouble.

Besides, although the other party made him a little wary, the kind of unrestrainedness he showed made Zhou Ze feel that he could accept not killing him.

Anyway, with Lawyer An as a comparison, the worse the relationship with An Buqi in the underworld, the better the person's character! Lawyer An was a guiding light!

"If you're missing a certificate, I still have some here. I can give it to you. I just want one promise from you."

"What promise?"

"You and your companions, don't get close to Tongcheng in the future. You've seen it too. I'm not really interested in helping the underworld clean up its messes. It's not like I have 'loyal servant of the underworld' written on my face. You're defectors, and we ourselves don't really have any principled opposition or conflict."

Lawyer An rolled his eyes beside him, but he had to admit that his boss's choice was right. At least, Lawyer An recognized this person's character. As long as the other party agreed, there shouldn't be any more problems below.

At this thought, Lawyer An couldn't help but sink into contemplation. It seemed that he had really gone too far as a villain in the past.

The baby continued to grab Zhou Ze's fingernail with his little hand, shaking his body, and then said in a childish voice:

"Tongcheng is really interesting."

"But the 'Welcome to Tongcheng' sign at the Tongcheng highway entrance isn't written for you," Zhou Ze said.

"You're also very interesting."

The baby looked at Zhou Ze.

"Thank you," Zhou Ze responded.

"I can agree to everything else, but he..."

The baby looked at An Buqi and continued:

"He must die."

Zhou Ze turned his head and looked at Lawyer An, who was standing beside him, with a puzzled look in his eyes.

The meaning was, what terrible things did you do back then that made the honest person hate you so much?

Lawyer An shook his head innocently and said:

"He violated the rules back then, trying to collect the souls and consciousness of his wife and daughters, and he was reported. I could only act impartially."

Zhou Ze nodded when he heard this and looked at the baby hanging on his fingernail, saying:

"You see, he's also acting according to the rules, right?"

The baby looked at Zhou Ze with a playful look on his face and said, "Then you can ask him who reported it."

Zhou Ze took a breath, didn't look at Lawyer An, and said directly:

"An Buqi?"

"Ah, everyone is responsible for reporting illegal phenomena and exposing corruption and malfeasance. I was also acting out of a sense of public service."

As expected...

But Boss Zhou didn't give up and continued to persuade:

"Now that you've been reborn, you can go find them in this life. Actually, I've always agreed with a saying that letting go is also a kind of love sometimes."

Lawyer An reached out and touched his chin. Before his boss could finish speaking, he interrupted:

"Boss, this is Feng Si'er's fault. He directly scattered the souls of other people's wives and daughters. I told Feng Si'er a thousand times and ten thousand times not to be so absolute, but Feng Si'er just wouldn't listen."

At this time, Zhou Ze really wanted to turn around and leave, leaving Lawyer An for the baby to kill.

The baby said in a deep voice: "He did it to force me to get angry and go berserk. He succeeded. Because of this, I violated even greater underworld laws, and he replaced me in the duty of guarding the nineteenth level of the small hell as he wished."

Lawyer An looked up at the sky. Today, the moon is so...

Well, it seems I can't see the moon.

The baby's body floated up and continued slowly:

"Originally, if he wasn't doing well, I wouldn't do anything, but I found that he's living very well and comfortably now, so I must..."

Lawyer An interrupted while looking at Zhou Ze in front of him:

"Brother, you really misunderstood..."