Chapter 168 She is Gone

As Zhou Ze closed his eyes,
the blue enchantment disappeared as well.

Everyone in the Late Night Bookstore was sprawled on the ground, panting heavily, exhausted.

You know, even just shouting "6666" on the sidelines during a fight is tiring.

Lawyer An looked at the deep pit in front of him, then at his boss standing there with his eyes closed, motionless.

This was,
what Lin Ke had spoken of,
the power of the one hidden inside his boss…

He swallowed with some difficulty.
He had only heard about it before, never witnessed it himself.

This time,
he had witnessed it firsthand,
and it had brought him tremendous shock.

He swallowed with some difficulty again.
At this moment,
Lawyer An suddenly felt ashamed,
ashamed that he had repeatedly urged his boss to be diligent in the past,
to be ambitious,
not to be a slacker,
not to be lazy,
not to be complacent;

He had even been disappointed in his boss because of this.

However, looking at it now, having a Judge of Hell's ghost messenger license and an ancient great zombie sealed within him,
was equivalent to having a maxed-out account and godly equipment.

To force him to do "medicine delivery" or "letter delivery" quests in the newbie village,
wasn't that asking too much?

How could I be so inconsiderate!

Isn't it alright for this kind of boss to bask in the sun and be a slacker?

With a "thump,"
Zhou Ze sat down on the ground,
his chest heaving,
his eyes slowly opening,
and then wearily closing again.

Bai Yingying immediately came over and helped Zhou Ze up.

"Boss, are you alright?"

Zhou Ze shook his head, instinctively clenching his fists.

There was a bit of unexpected joy, which was that his previously fractured arm had healed, and the broken fingernails had also recovered.

Of course, this bit of joy wasn't enough to get too excited about; it was just another way of drinking poison to quench thirst.

The stupid seal wasn't endless either. After this release, Zhou Ze could clearly sense that the "seal" character, no matter how much *sha bi* (idiot) continued to trace it, was no longer as bright and thick as it had been at the beginning; it had faded a lot.

The little monkey sat beside Zhou Ze with a swollen belly, secretly sizing up Zhou Ze with some embarrassment. It knew that this matter had started because of it. If it hadn't stupidly rushed to the police station, the subsequent trouble wouldn't have occurred.

Zhou Ze reached out and stroked the little monkey's head. The little monkey seemed very docile, not resisting, but instead rubbing against Zhou Ze's palm.

"Monkey, from now on, I don't owe you anything anymore."

The little monkey stood up and timidly pointed its finger towards the inside of the wall.

The meaning was simple,
since everyone was already here,
could they please rescue the old Taoist priest as well?

"Not now." Lawyer An immediately walked over, his left hand covered in blood, looking very terrifying, but he still endured his pain and said, "Now that the phantom of the xiezhi here has been resolved, the xiezhi's real body must have sensed something. Although it may not know exactly what happened, it will definitely be wary of this place.

We can't act in the police station anymore. We can't even show our strength when entering and exiting the police station in the future. If we're not careful, we'll be noticed by the xiezhi that's deliberately watching this place."

Zhou Ze nodded. He knew what the one inside him had done just now, which was to swallow the phantom and prevent it from going out to report.

It seemed like a quick and clean solution, but in reality, if there was a slight oversight, it would be a disaster!

Heaven knows, if he hadn't managed to stop it successfully, or if he didn't have this bronze ring, once the news leaked out,

perhaps he would have just gotten up from the sofa tomorrow morning,
and all the enemies from the gods, Buddhas, and hellish beings would already be gathered on the first floor of the bookstore.

Everyone would be playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who would come up to dismember him first, fighting to take the lead in revenge.

Just thinking about that scene made him shudder.

Everyone cleaned up and went back to the bookstore together.

In the detention center, the old Taoist priest, who had already been shouting injustice and tiredness, was still fast asleep,

completely unaware of the great commotion that had been caused outside because of his matter.

………………

When they returned to the bookstore, it was already past five in the morning. Zhou Ze took a shower and was about to go upstairs to sleep.

At this moment, someone was actually knocking on the door. It was a man and a woman, who looked to be about fifty years old.

The two were dressed very simply, and their faces were clouded with worry.

Bai Yingying went to open the door and asked, "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

At this moment,
the woman knelt on the ground, and the man followed suit,

"Please, have mercy, help us, please help us."

As she spoke,
the woman was about to open the plastic bag in her hand, which seemed to be filled with many things.

"Yingying, chase them away, don't let her open the bag!" Zhou Ze, who was still on the stairs, immediately shouted.

"Alright!"

Yingying thought that these two had some other purpose,

so she kicked the bag in the woman's hand away with one foot.

The bag flew out, and many slips of paper fell out.

Yingying grabbed the woman by the neck and lifted her up,

"Say, what is your purpose!"

The man beside her immediately came up to save his wife, but even with his strength as a grown man, he couldn't make Yingying's hand loosen in the slightest.

"…………" Zhou Ze.

This was a bit of a headache.

Zhou Ze could only walk down the stairs and signal his maid to let go.

The woman fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

The man knelt beside her, looking angry but not daring to speak.

"Boss?" Bai Yingying couldn't understand.

Zhou Ze sighed, bent down, and picked up everything that had just been kicked out of the plastic bag by Yingying.

On these, there were stamps from the local village committee, proving that the couple were local impoverished households.

There were also photocopies of various test reports from the hospital, and case files opened by doctors.

Boss Zhou was professional in this regard. These days, many crowdfunding events for medical treatment end up in chaos, largely because the public is unfamiliar with medical issues.

For example, how much it costs to treat a certain disease, how much it costs to do rehabilitation, how much urban and rural medical insurance can reimburse, except for professional medical workers and a small number of people whose families happen to have similar patients, the rest are basically clueless.

However, after Zhou Ze looked at it, the patient should be their daughter, who had leukemia, had already been successfully matched, and needed a transplant surgery.

Moreover, what surprised Zhou Ze was that the girl's name on the case file was "Zhou Zeya," only one character different from his own name.

"How much is still needed?" Zhou Ze asked.

"One hundred thousand," the man replied.

"Yingying, how much money do we have in the counter?"

Yingying secretly approached the boss and whispered, "Boss, we don't have much money left after buying coffee last time. Should I burn some ghost money now?"

Zhou Ze's gaze turned to Lawyer An, who was sitting there, bandaging his hand and drinking expired coffee from a "Super Cup."

"Old An," Zhou Ze called out.

"Hmm?" Lawyer An looked over.

Zhou Ze rubbed his fingers together.

Lawyer An frowned, "Are you opening a charity hall, Boss?"

"That's why I told Yingying not to let them open the bag. I didn't want to see what difficulties they were having. If I didn't see it, I wouldn't be bothered, and I could go upstairs to sleep peacefully."

Who knew that Yingying would directly kick the person's bag away? If he didn't come down to stop her, the female zombie might have really hurt someone.

"Boss, there is a disease that can never be cured."

"I know."

Lawyer An took out a card from his wallet and threw it over, "There's about seventy or eighty thousand in this card. The password is 116114."

Zhou Ze held the card in his hand and twirled it on the table.

"Not sending it over?" Lawyer An asked.

"Make a phone call and ask."

Zhou Ze remembered the hospital name written on the case file, which happened to be Lin Yuanzhang's.

He dialed Lin Yuanzhang's number, and it took a long time for him to answer. He must still be asleep.

"Hello, what's the matter?"

"Asking you something, do you have a leukemia patient named Zhou Zeya there?"

"Yes, we do."

"The treatment fee hasn't been collected yet?"

"It has been collected."

Zhou Ze was stunned for a moment,
and then turned to look at the man and woman still standing at the door.

"It has been collected?"

"The hospital made donations, and we also did crowdfunding outside. The entire cost of the surgery is probably around 250,000, and it has been collected, but the patient was taken away by her family and won't have the surgery."

"Why?"

"I don't know. I've also sent people to look for them. I was planning to report it to the police station if I couldn't find them today.

Oh right,
that girl is not even twenty years old yet, and she's quite good-looking. You also have a connection with her, and her name is so similar to yours."

He didn't know if it was because he had just woken up or what, but Lin Yuanzhang actually made a rare joke,

However,
thinking about the two nurses she had arranged in the pharmacy next door,
Zhou Ze didn't find this joke funny at all.

Heh,
a hypocritical woman.

"Okay, I understand."

Zhou Ze hung up the phone,
and pointed at Bai Yingying,

"Grab them."

Without saying a word, Bai Yingying,
grabbed both the man and woman with one hand each.

The man and woman were both stunned.
Weren't they supposed to give money and donations? It seemed like they would give a lot, and they were still waiting.

"I asked, the hospital said that the surgery fees have been collected, why are you not having the surgery? Also, where is the patient?"

"We plan to change hospitals, change to a better hospital," the man replied.

Zhou Ze frowned. His intuition told him that these two were lying.

"Let me do it."

Lawyer An got up, walked over, and placed his left hand on the man's forehead. The man's eyes suddenly became dull.

"Why are you not having the surgery?" Lawyer An asked.

The man said in a daze:
"My son is getting married and buying a new house. Adding the money raised for her sister's illness, we are still 100,000 short of the down payment. Houses are so expensive now, how can he get married without a house?

Where do we have money for her surgery…………"