Chapter 122: My Guardian Spirit is Dead (8)
Xie Yunzhi encountered Jiang Zhiyan for the first time, truly understanding the meaning of Jiang Zhiyan’s previous words.
“The Xie family gave me a mission,” Xie Yunzhi said, glancing at Jiang Zhiyan, holding her fingers.
“What?”
Xie Yunzhi pushed the tablet towards her: “I haven’t decided whether to accept it yet, but I’ve only just started learning, isn’t it too much to make me do fieldwork already?”
“Is the Xie family that short-handed?” Xie Yunzhi frowned.
She had already found the Xie family unreliable and somewhat looked down on them, now even more so. She seriously doubted if their reputation as a first-class family was exaggerated, self-proclaimed, or perhaps, there simply weren’t any more competent people in the mystical world, they were all unreliable.
“There’s nothing wrong with that, practical experience is necessary,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “Song Zhili is a typical example of someone who only knows theory, he hasn’t faced any real challenges, and his mentality is weak.”
“You seem to know him quite well,” Xie Yunzhi raised an eyebrow.
“Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Knowing his weaknesses will allow me to deal with him more effectively,” Jiang Zhiyan said with a smile.
Xie Yunzhi: …
Xie Yunzhi was very curious about what Jiang Zhiyan had done. Song Zhili had indeed been very quiet recently, hadn’t appeared even once. Before, even with his injured leg, he still came to find her, she had thought his determination was very strong, not easily swayed.
As expected, it was more reliable to follow a vengeful spirit, none of the “righteous” people were capable.
Xie Yunzhi sighed softly: “So should we accept this job?”
“How much does it pay?”
“It shouldn’t be much…” Xie Yunzhi said, flipping to the last page, then her eyes widened slightly seeing the amount. “One hundred thousand? I’ll take it! I thought a practice job wouldn’t pay much, it’s actually quite lucrative, no wonder they all dislike me.”
One hundred thousand wasn’t a lot of money for Xie Yunzhi, but it was much more than she expected. She was currently studying a major that might not even earn her six thousand a month after graduation.
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Xie Yunzhi, this outcome wasn’t surprising to her at all.
“Don’t you want to look through it first?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
“It’s just a haunted house,” Xie Yunzhi looked at Jiang Zhiyan. “For someone who lives in a haunted house every day…”
“I’m going to watch you from outside.”
Xie Yunzhi: ???
Xie Yunzhi looked at Jiang Zhiyan, having been leaning lazily against the sofa, she sat up straight upon hearing her words.
“Huh? You’re saying I have to go alone?”
Jiang Zhiyan nodded: “This is your training, after all.”
Xie Yunzhi took a deep breath and pursed her lips: “What if there are many ghosts?”
“Haven’t you already learned many talismans? Prepare more before you go,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Xie Yunzhi looked at Jiang Zhiyan: “As expected, cold words from a cold mouth.”
Jiang Zhiyan narrowed her eyes and stared at Xie Yunzhi.
“What’s with that look?”
“How do you know my mouth is cold? Did you secretly kiss me?” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Xie Yunzhi and clapped her hands.
Xie Yunzhi ignored her.
“Don’t worry, since they’re entrusting you with this task, it probably won’t be life-threatening,” Jiang Zhiyan paused. “Of course, there’s still a small chance it might be.”
Xie Yunzhi: ???
“You really know how to comfort people.”
“If I go with you, no ghost will dare show themselves,” Jiang Zhiyan said helplessly. “If there’s really a problem, I’ll come find you.”
Xie Yunzhi felt slightly reassured.
“Be confident, you’re very strong,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Xie Yunzhi looked at the mission details again, the location was in City A, a well-located villa built thirty years ago. The owner bought it five years ago, but rarely lived there. They only renovated and moved in this year because their child was getting married. After moving in, strange things started to happen, like the garden lights turning themselves back on after being switched off, seeing shadowy figures running in the garden, and all the flowers being picked overnight…
Later, they dug up a skeleton in a corner of the garden. Forensic analysis showed that the skeleton was eighty years old, which was strange, there shouldn’t be an eighty-year-old skeleton here, because this land had seen three different houses built on it in those eighty years, yet it was still there.
The owner had even invited someone to perform a ritual, then continued to live there, but strange things continued to happen.
“What do you think is the cause?” Xie Yunzhi looked at Jiang Zhiyan.
“Ghosts.”
Xie Yunzhi continued to look at Jiang Zhiyan with a deadpan expression: “Are you being serious?”
“We’ll know when we get there, there’s no point in speculating.”
Xie Yunzhi sighed.
To deal with this, Xie Yunzhi had to spend a night there. Because of the haunting, the family had moved to another house, so she would be alone. They were so scared that they just left her at the door and ran away.
Xie Yunzhi dragged her suitcase, feeling a bit speechless, but still took the key and went inside.
During the day, the villa was quite beautiful, with flowers blooming in the garden, but there was a clearly damaged patch. She walked over and took a look, there was definitely ghostly energy there.
She didn’t know where it was hiding, after all, ghosts couldn’t just disappear into thin air.
Not seeing the ghost directly made Xie Yunzhi relieved, it probably wasn’t a powerful ghost, the kind like Jiang Zhiyan, who could roam freely in broad daylight and slap people, was terrifying.
Xie Yunzhi calmly entered the house, stayed in the guest room as instructed by the owner, then toured the entire villa and returned to her room.
She lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
She was used to having someone chattering beside her, it felt strange being alone.
She yawned and set an alarm for 10 pm.
…
Jiang Zhiyan wasn’t in this area, she was still in her own apartment, watching TV.
“Aren’t you going to take a look?” the System asked.
“Nothing will happen during the day,” Jiang Zhiyan said, floating cross-legged in the air. “But wasn’t this incident solved by Song Zhili in the book?”
“Mm, but you’ve already sent Song Zhili packing.”
“He actually went back?” Jiang Zhiyan was surprised. “Were my words that effective?”
Jiang Zhiyan shook her head: “Tsk, as expected, no one can compare to my Liaoyi.”
Jiang Zhiyan smiled, filled with pride.
System: …
“Keep an eye on her, call me if anything happens.”
“Okay.”
This book was from the female lead’s perspective, not the male lead’s, so there were no details about how Song Zhili handled this incident, it just said he solved it and gained a good reputation.
…
Xie Yunzhi’s alarm didn’t go off. She slept until 11:30 pm. When she opened her eyes, the house was dark and silent, for a moment, she felt like she was trapped in a box.
She picked up her phone, saw the time, frowned, immediately sat up, turned on the light, then quickly got up and opened the curtains.
The garden was brightly lit, and there were several tables set up, as if for a banquet.
Xie Yunzhi frowned, it was a beautiful scene, but also very eerie.
She took out a talisman, which spontaneously combusted upon unfolding, there hadn’t been such a strong Yin energy during the day, but now… Xie Yunzhi felt like she had entered a gathering place for ghosts.
Xie Yunzhi touched her stomach, rummaged through her bag, and stuffed a piece of bread she bought earlier into her mouth.
After eating the bread, she checked the time again, five minutes until midnight.
She suspected something terrifying would happen at midnight.
Time ticked by, there was no clock here, but she could hear the clock in her heart ticking.
Xie Yunzhi clenched her fists, looking at the “people” who suddenly appeared at the tables, and the food laid out. Judging by their clothes, they seemed to be from different eras.
So these ghosts held gatherings in this house every day?
The Yin energy grew stronger. Xie Yunzhi gripped the talismans and noticed a ghost at one of the tables looking up at her.
Then, one after another, the ghosts all looked up.
Xie Yunzhi saw a ghost fly towards the window, then twist its head off its neck.
“She can see me! She can see me!” it shouted, its long tongue licking the window. “Ha ha ha, is this the expert they found to catch us? Is she scared to tears?”
Xie Yunzhi took a deep breath, opened the window, and slapped the talisman on its forehead, watching as it fell vertically from the window, clutching its head. Her racing heart calmed down a bit.
However, her actions also meant the start of a “war.” The ghosts in the garden, who had looked relatively normal before, now revealed their terrifying forms.
Xie Yunzhi ran downstairs, holding a stack of talismans and a peachwood sword, silently chanting exorcism and purification incantations.
Jiang Zhiyan watched from afar: “She’s really brave, there are thirty-four ghosts in the garden.”
“Should we eliminate them? They don’t seem to be vengeful spirits, just wandering souls,” the System said.
“According to the rules of the mortal realm, any ghost that harms humans can be eliminated, it’s up to her, but to solve the problem here, these ghosts aren’t the key,” Jiang Zhiyan said, drawing a circle on a certain spot with her hand. “Isn’t that spot where Yin and Yang converge? It appeared suddenly, which means it emerged from somewhere, there’s probably something buried underground.”
Jiang Zhiyan paused, suddenly realizing something: “The male lead has a magic weapon that can connect Yin and Yang, didn’t he get it while handling this incident?”
She looked at Xie Yunzhi, who usually ate so elegantly, now wildly waving her peachwood sword, sticking talismans on the ghosts whenever she found an opening, her image completely ruined, nothing like an “expert.”
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