“How did you know I came back from that place?” I asked the woman in front of me.

“There were seven souls detained this time. The birthdates of you seven are very special. Gathering the souls of five of you together can open a channel you can’t even imagine. Now, those five are already dead. My grandfather is unconscious, and only you are still alive and kicking, so I came to find you.”

“You determined that I came back from that place through my birthdate?” I frowned.

“That’s right. According to the order of the birthdates, you should have been the sixth, and my grandfather was the last. But now that Grandpa is unconscious and you are still in a normal state, there is only one possibility: you escaped from that place alive.”

I chuckled inwardly. This little girl is really quick-witted, making up stories as she goes. She even claims that seven people are going to have their souls detained. If you ask me, I doubt she even has a grandfather. She just doesn’t want me to know what happened in the paper shop.

However, that’s enough. I never intended to sacrifice my lifespan to calculate anything.

No one thinks their life is too long, and I’m certainly not tired of living. Let alone the fact that the day I restore the truth might not even have any clues, even if it did, I wouldn’t want to trade ten or more years of my life for it.

I just don’t want to continue investigating based on innocent people’s clues, and I don’t want any more ordinary people to die because they are being used as intermediaries in my investigation. I want the real culprit to come out directly, or at least someone close to the real culprit.

This little girl who stopped me from divining is naturally the person I’m waiting for.

“Who are you? And who is your grandfather?” I asked.

“There’s no time to say so much. Grandpa has been detained for a long time. Old people are already weak, and if it goes on any longer, I’m afraid his body won’t be able to hold on even if his soul returns. Let’s go quickly.”

The girl was too lazy to continue making up stories, and pulled me out of the shop.

This time I didn’t refuse. I shouted into the shop, asking Ding Kan to take good care of the place, and then got into the girl’s car.

“What’s your name?” I asked the girl.

“You can just call me Lingdang.”

Okay, Lingdang it is. I’ll see where you’re planning to take me.

If she could kill me directly, she wouldn’t have to go to so much trouble to drag my soul into the mystic realm, so I’m not particularly worried right now. I’m very relaxed.

The car drove all the way to the city center, and finally drove into a building under the name of the Bai Corporation.

There was a huge screen on the building, on which the well-dressed Bai Tingting was smiling and saying something.

I was stunned. Bai Tingting, the one with the broken leg and disfigured face, has not only stood up, but her face has also recovered.

Seeing me staring blankly at the screen, Lingdang snorted and said, “Wan Qian, you don’t need to be self-righteous now, do you? You think you know a lot of things, you think you’re very powerful, you think your abacus can calculate everything, but there are still many things in this world that you don’t know.”

“How did she stand up? How did her face recover? Why can’t I sense anything?”

Bai Tingting was cursed by the abacus for failing to pay her debt, and I am the owner of the abacus. Bai Tingting breaking the curse is equivalent to breaking my spell. Logically speaking, not only would I sense it, but I would also suffer a serious backlash. But I’m fine now, without any reaction at all. If I weren’t so familiar with Bai Tingting, I would even suspect that this isn’t Bai Tingting at all.

But it is. I can’t deceive myself. This is indeed Bai Tingting. She has broken the curse of the abacus.

“Now you know that there are people beyond people, and heavens beyond heavens, right?” Lingdang sneered.

“What, what’s going on? How did she recover?”

Lingdang didn’t play coy, snorted, and said directly, “White Fox, Half-Fox, Bai Tingting, now they are the same person. I don’t know how they merged into one, and I don’t know who is dominating that body, I only know that that woman’s body and face are intact, and she also has very powerful demon magic.”

I stared fixedly at Bai Tingting on the screen until Lingdang’s car drove into the underground garage.

“Let’s go.” Lingdang stopped the car and motioned for me to get out.

“Go where?”

“Of course, to see my grandfather.”

“Do you really have a grandfather?”

“Yes, my grandfather’s soul has been detained. His soul is detained in that evil place. I’ve already looked for several feng shui masters, but none of them can bring my grandfather’s soul back. You are my last hope.”

I was stunned. This girl really has a grandfather, and his soul is really stuck in a strange place.

Looking at the pale-faced old man lying on the bed, I didn’t know what to do for a moment.

“Wan Qian, quickly help my grandfather summon his soul! If it’s too late, even if Grandpa’s soul comes back, this body won’t be useful anymore!” Lingdang urged.

I felt the old man’s breath and pulse. This body really can’t hold on for long. If the soul doesn’t return, many organs in the body will fail.

But am I really going to summon the soul for the old man as Lingdang said? There’s something fishy about this today.

My eyes swept over every corner of the room, and finally stopped on Lingdang.

“You, why are you looking at me like that?”

Perhaps my eyes were too sharp, Lingdang was a little flustered by my gaze.

“I want to read your face to see if you and this old man are really related as granddaughter and grandfather,” I said, staring at Lingdang, word by word.

Lingdang suppressed the panic in her heart and said, “So what if he’s not my biological grandfather? So what if he picked me up? I was raised by Grandpa. Grandpa is my only relative in this world. Now that Grandpa has encountered such an accident, is there anything wrong with me wanting to save him?”

“There’s nothing wrong with that. You’re very filial,” I said coldly, staring at Lingdang. “It’s just that I didn’t study under the Ma Yi school, and I can’t read faces. I can’t tell if you two are related as granddaughter and grandfather at all. I was just trying to trick you, but you couldn’t resist the trick and confessed directly.”

“You!” Lingdang wanted to get angry, but didn’t know what to scold me with.

I sneered, “What, you don’t dare to open your mouth, afraid of saying too much and being caught by me for more evidence, right?”

“Shopkeeper Wan, I have no choice. I beg you, please save my grandfather. There’s no time left. I beg you. I’ll agree to any conditions. Really, as long as I have it, I’ll give you anything.”

Lingdang knelt directly on the ground, kowtowing to me non-stop, crying and begging. Coupled with the half-dead old man lying on the bed next to her, this scene really looked like a filial granddaughter trying to save her grandfather.

But is that really the case? I raised my leg and kicked over the bed the old man was lying on, and the old man rolled directly to the ground wrapped in the quilt.