Chapter 1 A Snack Street in Changzhou

Not many of the streetlights along the snack street in Changzhou were working, but the vendors and diners below created a hot and noisy atmosphere.

A young man walked slowly down the street, holding the hand of a little loli.

The aroma of various snacks wafting from both sides would have been enough to make anyone else drool,

but for these two, one big and one small,

it only made them frown.

Except when they needed to eat their three daily meals, they would only drink a little bit of Bianhua (Perilla Flower) oral solution. They naturally saved whenever they could. And when they weren’t taking the oral solution, the smell of food was like torture for ordinary people walking through a garbage dump.

After walking for a while, the two stopped together in a dark alley at the corner of the snack street.

Even the liveliest places had quiet corners, and this was one of them. Several tricycles that sanitation workers would use for work tomorrow were locked here, next to a large garbage bin filled with things.

As a result, the food stalls on the street were far away from here. After all, the things sold at the stalls weren’t that clean to begin with. Although it was said that a little dirtiness wouldn’t hurt, probably not many customers would be willing to eat next to a garbage heap.

Therefore,

This was the only place on the entire street without the smell of cooking fumes or drifting food. Although it was mixed with the unique sour and rotten smell of the garbage dump, Zhou Ze and the little loli breathed a sigh of relief,

feeling that they could breathe normally here, at least a little.

Zhou Ze looked at the little loli and gestured with his mouth.

The little loli turned her head.

"The stars are so pretty tonight."

"It's cloudy today."

The little loli froze for a moment and glared at Zhou Ze with great dissatisfaction.

Zhou Ze took a step back and looked at her.

The little loli clenched one small fist at Zhou Ze, while rotating the other.

The clenched fist slowly raised a middle finger at Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze shrugged,

not taking it to heart.

Who told him to be so picky?

Taking a deep breath,

the little loli walked into the garbage dump with great disgust and threw aside the garbage on top.

A girl as delicate as a porcelain doll was rummaging through the garbage dump like a scavenger. If Hans Christian Andersen saw this, he might write a story called "The Little Girl Who Picked Up Garbage."

Finally,

after moving aside a few more garbage bags,

a bruised and swollen human face was revealed inside.

Liu Chuyu, who was originally quite handsome with Korean oppa qualities,

was now lying below,

looking sickly.

The little loli reached out and patted him on the face.

"Pa! Pa! Pa!"

Zhou Ze's eyebrows twitched slightly,

afraid that the little loli would directly kill Liu Chuyu, who wasn't dead yet.

Zhou Ze knew that this was the little loli venting her resentment about picking up garbage. She didn't dare to get angry at Zhou Ze, so she could only blame Liu Chuyu for being so useless as to be beaten up and thrown into a garbage dump.

Fortunately,

Liu Chuyu's vitality was still quite strong,

or perhaps the other party disdained or deliberately didn't deliver a fatal blow.

After being slapped a few times,

Liu Chuyu slowly opened his eyes,

He saw the little loli first, froze for a moment. He didn't recognize her.

Then,

he saw Zhou Ze standing behind the little loli,

the man he had always hated so much that he wanted to make a paper effigy and curse him.

In the next moment,

he was so moved that he shed tears,

like a wronged baby who had been bullied by classmates at school and went home to cry:

"Wuwuwu… my life… is so hard…"

………………

Liu Chuyu's home was in an ordinary residential area. This guy first bought the ground floor apartment, then bought the two apartments above it and connected them, creating something like an internal villa.

The decoration of the house was simple. There were two nice cars parked in the garage, but the house decoration retained large areas of white roughcast.

The bedroom was even more exaggeratedly simple:

a straw mat and an air conditioner.

Besides that, there was nothing else.

The little loli went to buy a lot of medical supplies. Zhou Ze had just helped Liu Chuyu with bandaging. Although the external injuries were quite serious, especially the fingerprints on his chest, with the left nipple as the center, five sunken spots, still radiating heat like he had been poisoned by fire. But the problem wasn't too big. At least, his life wasn't in danger.

After bandaging him, Zhou Ze made a point of washing his hands, then walked back and lit a cigarette.

"Speak." The little loli nodded slightly to Liu Chuyu.

At this time, it was no longer necessary to hide anything,

A prey,

only when you have the ability to capture it,

is it called a prey.

If your prey turns around and beats you up,

you should have some self-awareness about who the real prey is, right?

So at this time, Liu Chuyu didn't need to hide anything for fear of having his merit points snatched away. On the contrary, if Zhou Ze could help him catch that prey, he could get a little bit of the merit points for himself, which would be a kind of comfort and compensation, although he wouldn't get the lion's share.

"Originally, I was about to catch him."

Liu Chuyu had lost two teeth, and they were in the front, so he spoke with a lisp.

"That guy has been chased by me for two days. He's very cunning and good at hiding, but I still managed to track him down. He wanted to resist, but his resistance was just a trapped beast's struggle in front of me."

"Get to the point." Zhou Ze tapped on the windowsill.

"What's the point?" Liu Chuyu asked.

"Start from the part where you got beaten up."

"…………" Liu Chuyu.

After a moment of silence, Liu Chuyu continued, "Originally, everything was under my control, then suddenly another guy appeared. He clawed me, and then I felt like I lost all my strength."

"So the injuries on your body were also left by him?"

Zhou Ze pointed at his face.

Liu Chuyu shook his head. "It was the evil spirit I had been chasing before. He saw that I had been knocked down and came up and beat me up. It was the person who appeared later who stopped him from continuing, otherwise I would have already reported to hell."

"Okay, I understand." Zhou Ze nodded. "I'll handle this matter for you for the time being. After all, you're my subordinate."

"I have no objections." Liu Chuyu seemed very relaxed. "I can't possibly have any objections in my current state."

"By the way, there's one more thing I want to ask you. Are there any other ghost messengers in Changzhou?"

"There are two others, and they're together."

"Where are they?"

"They're like you, they opened a shop, but it's a nightclub called 'Dark Color.' You can search for it using map software. That nightclub is quite famous in Changzhou."

"You got into trouble, and they didn't react at all?" Zhou Ze narrowed his eyes. "Or, they're not at all tempted by the rewards for chasing down evil spirits?"

"Boss, let me put it this way, their attitude towards life and work is even more exaggerated than yours."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Ze looked at Liu Chuyu.

"It means they're even more salty fish than you," the little loli explained.

"Heh."

Zhou Ze didn't continue to dwell on this topic, but asked, "Do you have any clues about the evil spirit you were trying to catch?"

"I do. This guy was a bus driver in his previous life. Because of his own mistakes, he caused a traffic accident, and eleven passengers, including himself, died because of him.

I found out his identity, so I deliberately set up surveillance near his house and discovered his traces.

Anyone who is reborn wants to go back and see their home, see their wife and children."

"You think he'll go again?" Zhou Ze pointed at Liu Chuyu. "You're in this state now. If he wanted to go, he could have gone already."

"His wife remarried a long time ago. His mother felt very remorseful for her son's affairs and has been living in a temple in Changzhou. His daughter used to be a nurse in a hospital a few years ago. She resigned last year and found a job at the temple, taking care of her grandmother.

That temple is very effective, and it has a restraining effect on people like us. I also instructed the thugs to keep an eye on the grandmother and granddaughter from the outside. It's difficult for them to meet for the time being."

"So troublesome." The little loli pouted.

"The ghost messenger certificate can't sense their location, you know?" Liu Chuyu said excitedly, "Damn it, they have the ability to hide their aura, so even if you pass by him face to face, you can't sense it."

As he spoke,

Liu Chuyu took a deep look at Zhou Ze,

and said:

"Boss, I don't know if this girl has told you,

Nine out of ten evil spirits who escape back

are just here to deliver a meal, just like a New Year's benefit for us ghost messengers,

But there are also some people who have a background and have made prior arrangements.

Like… this one.

I spent a lot of effort to find out his identity, peeling away the layers to finally track him down."

"Since you knew he had a background, why were you still so persistent?"

"Boss, not everyone is as open-minded as you about getting promoted and getting rich.

I want merit points,

I still want to climb up,

I don't want to be stuck in this place for ten years or even sixty years!"

"Lin Ke, re-dress his wounds in an hour," Zhou Ze instructed the little loli, and then walked downstairs.

After Zhou Ze left, the little loli bent down and looked at Liu Chuyu sitting on the straw mat. "Your speech just now was good. With a little adaptation and polishing, it can be included in textbooks.

Let's call it "My Struggle - Ghost Messenger Edition",

or "Not Only Love, But Also Struggle After Death"."

"These are my sincere words," Liu Chuyu said calmly.

"Yeah, I know, I believe you."

"The ghost messengers in your Tongcheng are very strange."

"A little irresponsible?" the little loli helped him describe.

Liu Chuyu smiled.

The little loli also smiled and asked, "How did you die in your previous life?"

"I overworked myself to death after working overtime at the company for many days in a row."

The little loli pouted,

"In this life, I think you're very likely to go down the same road. People who are too active and want to climb up too much often don't get the good results they expect.

On the contrary, if you just eat, wait to die, and bask in the sun every day,

good things will come to your door one after another."

"Hehe, where did you hear that nonsense?"

The little loli froze for a moment, looked at the door of the room where Zhou Ze had just left, shook her head, and said:

"I didn't hear it,

I saw it."