Chapter 1 The Lawyer

Lawyer An hobbled over, his pace a little slow; clearly, there was still a significant problem with his knee.

The bells rang, signaling the call to return home.

When the bell in the temple was struck, how much real, substantial threat and harm did it actually possess? In reality, almost none, but the power of this bell lay in its ability to awaken the true nature of the yin and evil things, reminding them to "perform their respective duties."

For example, the bailiff's clothes that appeared on Boss Zhou seemed a bit like the supporting role extras on a Peking opera stage. According to the little loli, if the ghost messengers were summoned back to report on their duties, they would appear in their respective official uniforms when entering the various halls of the underworld.

The underworld was a place that paid great attention to order and hierarchy, where even the slightest mistake was not allowed.

Lawyer An was a bit special because he was stirred up by the memories of being shackled in the past. That heavy sense of humiliation and the powerful crushing force that would shatter his knees in an instant, no matter how tough they were, made him a little absent-minded.

When he arrived, Lawyer An saw the middle-aged man leaning against the bus stop, just like Zhou Ze.

"Caught him?"

Lawyer An stepped forward and asked, then noticed something was wrong.

He sniffed the air.

He smelled a faint odor and saw that the middle-aged man leaning there was no longer moving.

He said with some surprise, "You scattered him?"

Zhou Ze nodded.

"Why?" Lawyer An asked, puzzled.

Even if a deal couldn't be made, there should still be some goodwill. When he burned the playing cards in front of Zhou Ze, he had already decided not to continue the business, and he was prepared to bear the subsequent troubles.

He couldn't let a stimulated evil spirit continue to roam in society uncontrolled; that would cause even more damage than a mad dog.

But Lawyer An hadn't expected Zhou Ze to directly beat the man into oblivion.

How much resentment must there have been!

Moreover, the most important point was that Lawyer An, who had once worked in the underworld system, understood that doing so was simply not cost-effective.

"Because I felt like it."

Zhou Ze looked at Lawyer An and used his eyes to signal the next sentence:

Is that any of your business?

The middle-aged man was right. Boss Zhou didn't dare let him go back down, even if it was a bit of an overreaction, a bit like trying to cover something up, Zhou Ze still didn't dare let him go back.

Lawyer An licked his lips with some bitterness. The deal hadn't been made, and letting the person return to hell would have allowed him some room to maneuver, but now that the person had been beaten to nothing, the deal had fallen apart, and he was missing an important source of customers.

Damn it, was it easy for me to earn this hard-earned money?

"Let's go; there's still something I haven't explained to you."

Zhou Ze reached out and hooked Lawyer An's shoulder.

"I have nothing to do with your wife."

Lawyer An immediately explained.

Zhou Ze smiled.

"No, it's not about her."

"Then I have nothing to do with you either." Lawyer An was a little unhappy that Zhou Ze was so close to him.

"What if I said I wanted to have something to do with you now?"

"…………" Lawyer An.

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"Ding ding ding…"

The doorbell rang.

The little loli opened the door and saw that Zhou Ze had returned.

And there was another person beside Zhou Ze, the one she had seen at the nightclub.

Liu Chuyu, with his pig-like head, sat on the living room sofa. When Lawyer An saw him, he subconsciously looked away.

Liu Chuyu even offered him a cigarette, thinking that the boss had brought back some important figure.

Zhou Ze sat down and signaled to the little loli to pour him a glass of water, iced.

The little loli pouted, a little unwilling, but went anyway.

After everyone sat down, Zhou Ze pointed to Lawyer An and said, "Speak."

"Speak about what?" Lawyer An shrugged with an innocent look, as if he was very honest and transparent.

The reason he had been brought back by Zhou Ze was partly due to his weakness after the bell rang, and partly because he didn't want to resist. For some reason, when he got close to Zhou Ze, he always had an ominous premonition of his eyelids twitching.

It was as if there was something extremely fierce hidden within Zhou Ze.

He himself found it very funny.

"Talk about your business."

"I'm just a lawyer, helping people deal with some things, smoothing out relationships."

Lawyer An rubbed his hands in front of him.

"Now that you're here, be more honest."

Boss Zhou took a sip of ice water, chewing the ice cubes in his teeth, making a "crunching" sound, while warning:

"If you don't explain clearly, you won't be leaving through this door. I'll help you open the gates of hell."

"On what basis!" Lawyer An straightened his neck immediately. "I'm not a wandering ghost."

"In our boss's eyes, only performance matters," the little loli reminded him, "regardless of whether you have a certificate of good citizenship or not."

"Dude, just say it," Liu Chuyu advised. "Who exactly are you? I'm also quite curious."

Liu Chuyu enthusiastically persuaded Lawyer An.

The more enthusiastic he was, the more uneasy Lawyer An felt.

"My job is, whenever there's a ghost riot in hell and they want to come out, I help a few of them arrange bodies and hidden identities.

"The follow-up service is to help them integrate into their current lives, let them study hard, improve every day, and pay taxes on time, to be useful members of society.

"Speak civilly, be polite, love d…"

"Bang!"

Zhou Ze directly smashed the empty glass in front of him.

Lawyer An reacted quickly, catching the cup instantly.

"It also includes operating identities for them, as ghost messengers?" Zhou Ze pressed.

Lawyer An was a little surprised, but he figured that Zhou Ze must have asked something when he beat that ghost into oblivion.

Immediately, Lawyer An didn't deny it and simply nodded.

"Operating the identities of ghost messengers is also within my business scope."

Hearing this, the way the little loli looked at Lawyer An became a little cold.

This was easy to understand; it was like someone pulling strings, begging their grandparents, and spending a lot of money to finally become a civil servant, ready to bring glory to their ancestors and show off back home, only to find someone suddenly saying that they could do it casually, as easily as a street vendor making fake certificates.

This made people very unhappy.

Liu Chuyu fell into deep thought.

Immediately afterward, he suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Damn, you were the one who came out that night?"

He finally remembered.

Lawyer An nodded. "Sorry, the one you were chasing was my client. Of course, that client is now gone."

"I…"

Liu Chuyu got up from the sofa, ready to rush up and fight Lawyer An to the death. He still had the appearance of a pig's head, all thanks to the person in front of him.

He had been about to catch that evil spirit and happily send it down to exchange for performance points.

As a result, this person suddenly appeared that night and knocked him down.

The evil spirit he had been chasing turned around and beat him up, making him lie in a dirty and smelly pile of garbage for a whole day!

What a great humiliation!

Zhou Ze frowned and said directly, "If you want to duel, we'll go upstairs first, leave the living room for you, and when the duel is over, we'll come down."

Liu Chuyu was stunned, looking at Zhou Ze in disbelief, feeling disheartened.

"Boss, he hit me."

"I've hit you too," Zhou Ze said.

"…" Liu Chuyu.

Somewhat dejectedly, Liu Chuyu sat back on the sofa. He knew very well that if it weren't for Zhou Ze and the little loli's help, not to mention that he was still injured, even when he wasn't injured, he wouldn't be able to beat this guy in front of him.

Lawyer An adjusted his glasses.

He clapped his hands.

"We've met, and we've said what needed to be said. Now, can I leave?

"Also, I have a piece of information to give away for free. There are no more escaped evil spirits in Changzhou. You two can go back to Tongcheng or try your luck elsewhere."

Lawyer An stood up.

He even turned his head back, looking at the three people in the room, and said, "No need to see me off."

Zhou Ze sat there without moving.

Liu Chuyu was looking at Zhou Ze.

Just as Lawyer An reached out and opened the door, a tongue suddenly lashed over. Lawyer An dodged sideways, and the tongue struck the door, closing it instantly.

Lawyer An asked with some doubt, "Anything else?"

He was looking at the little loli.

The little loli stretched and pointed to Zhou Ze.

"Our boss hasn't finished asking the serious questions yet."

"Serious questions?"

Lawyer An found it a little funny and continued, "I used to be in the same system as you guys, but now I've gone into business for myself. Although I've used a little bit of my old connections, everyone does that, whether it's in the underworld or the mortal world, right?

"However, in the end, I'm in the smuggling business, doing human trafficking.

"You guys are the officials.

"We're not on the same boat anymore, so there's no need to get any closer, right?"

Liu Chuyu was also a little curious as to why Zhou Ze wanted to keep this person. Did he really intend to send him to hell?

Zhou Ze waved to Lawyer An, signaling him to sit back down.

Lawyer An obediently walked back and sat on the sofa.

"Don't be nervous."

Zhou Ze took out the Nine-Five Supreme cigarette that the fat monk had given him from his pocket, pulled out two, and was about to throw one to Lawyer An as a sign of friendship when Zhou Ze's pupils suddenly contracted.

Because he saw Lawyer An silently taking out a pack of Chunghwa Fuchun Mountain Dwelling from his pocket.

His hand holding the cigarette was trembling slightly.

Damn it, he was too embarrassed to give this cigarette away.

But at the same time, it strengthened some of Zhou Ze's thoughts.

Lawyer An lit his cigarette and leaned back on the sofa.

Honestly, he was now only thinking about staying far away from Zhou Ze. He didn't even plan to continue with the Tongcheng deal.

No matter how much business he did or how much ghost money he earned, he had to be alive to spend it. He was as docile as a kitten in front of Zhou Ze, but that didn't mean he liked being a kitten.

If an ordinary ghost messenger dared to forcefully drag him over to play some identity introduction game, he would have slapped them across the face with his big ears.

So what if they were ghost messengers!

Back in the day, his official position was much higher than theirs!

If he hadn't committed a crime and been stripped of his rank back then, these ghost messengers would have to kneel and salute me as "Your Honor" when they saw me now.

They'd have to lick my official boots!

Exhaling a smoke ring, Lawyer An said with a slightly flattering tone, "Tell me, what else do you need me to do?"

Zhou Ze licked his lips and asked, "How's business?"