Chapter 27 Rescue
As King Yama for so long, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
Shock turned into a fierce slam of the gavel, so loud that the plaque of “Ming Jing Gao Xuan” on the hall roof seemed to shake.
“Nonsense!”
“Who burned ghost money for me? Are they trying to curse me to death?”
White Impermanence shrunk his neck and whispered, “Your Majesty King Yama, you are already dead.”
Hearing this, King Yama reacted. His expression was a bit awkward, but he quickly recovered his composure, puffed out his chest, and continued to say.
“I am an upright and incorruptible official. Who is so disheartened that they want to bribe me?”
“Qin… Qin Liu.”
Upon hearing this name, the anger on King Yama’s face instantly froze. The anger vanished bit by bit, and then he unceremoniously flipped the inverted gavel back.
“Ahem!” King Yama cleared his throat. “Take this money back, take it back…”
“What does that crazy girl want from me? Hasn’t she already found her silly basket, Liu Haoyu? She can’t possibly want to flip through my Book of Life and Death, can she?”
“No, no, it’s not to flip your Book of Life and Death,” White Impermanence continued to explain. “She’s here to ask for reinforcements.”
“Oh?” King Yama was even more surprised. “With her skill, she needs to ask for reinforcements?”
“Ah… yes, yes. She and Liu Haoyu are trapped in a sealed mirror world and want us to send someone to help them.”
“This?”
King Yama finally reacted.
He thought it was this crazy girl who wanted to find some ancestor again. If that were the case, wouldn’t his newly rebuilt Hall of Hell be smashed to pieces again?
Thinking of this, King Yama took the yellow paper from White Impermanence, glanced at it, and let out a helpless sigh.
“So be it, so be it. Although the crazy girl has no manners, who let her be capable?”
“It’s just opening a door for her. You and Black Impermanence will handle this matter.”
“I don’t want my name to appear in the Book of Life and Death anymore.”
“Go, go, go, what are you still standing there for… hurry up, hurry up,” King Yama waved his hand, dismissing White Impermanence. “This brat is tougher than me, and still wants me to save him? What kind of justice is this…”
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After Qin Liu finished burning the ghost money, nothing happened for a long time.
This made Liu Haoyu and Black Book a little confused, as neither of them had seen Qin Liu write anything on the paper.
“Who did you burn this for?”
But Black Book, as the embodiment of the King of Rebirth, seemed to sense something. With a sighing expression, it looked at Qin Liu, and couldn’t help but pity the old man Yama.
“Give me another handful of ghost money.”
“Okay.”
Just as Qin Liu was about to continue burning ghost money, two eerie voices sounded in their ears.
“Guide to the underworld, borrow passage from the human world…”
As the voices appeared, the air in front of the three of them slowly cracked like a mirror.
It was very difficult to get out from within, and even Black Book had no solution.
However, opening the mirror world from the outside was very simple. Just two ghost messengers, Black and White Impermanence, tore open a gap in the mirror world.
A tall white pointed hat protruded from the crack, and then the crack in the mirror surface collapsed again.
Black and White Impermanence also appeared in front of Qin Liu.
Black and White Impermanence looked at Qin Liu, who was squatting on the ground about to continue burning ghost money, and Liu Haoyu, who was looking at them with some surprise not far away. The scene was momentarily silent.
Especially Liu Haoyu, who was questioning his life at this moment.
“Three of you…” Black Impermanence broke the silence first. “At King Yama’s request, we are here to get you out.”
“Thank you, two Ghost Messengers.”
As an ordinary person, Liu Haoyu was very respectful of ghost messengers.
Qin Liu’s expression was very calm, and she stood up.
“Thanks.”
But even so, facing her gaze, Black and White Impermanence felt uncomfortable all over.
It was like being caught slacking off by a supervisor at work.
Especially… with the King of Rebirth present.
“Please follow us, three.”
White Impermanence eased the awkwardness on his face, then moved aside, letting the three go out first.
When they returned to the bright world outside, Liu Haoyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, his gaze couldn’t help but appraise Qin Liu.
He almost forgot one thing, Qin Liu not only had strong strength, but also not bad power in the Underworld.
Well… it really was eating soft rice already served to his mouth.
Facing the gazes of the three, Black Impermanence was fine. He didn’t slack off much, so he wasn’t flustered at all.
But White Impermanence, being a big slacker, naturally had no confidence under the gaze of Black Book.
“Three esteemed ones, I have more business to attend to, so I’ll take my leave.”
With that, she carried her mourning stick and made as if to leave, but a pale hand suddenly landed on her shoulder.
And this hand was extended by Black Book.
“Busy Miss White Impermanence,” Black Book said with a trace of a smile in his tone. “Why couldn’t I get through to you on the phone?”
“This… regarding White Impermanence, didn’t we just go to a meeting with King Yama? So it’s also reasonable that we didn’t receive the call, right!”
Under the high hat, White Impermanence’s eyes flickered from time to time, as if guilty.
“Oh~” Black Book said with a kindly smile. “I thought you played out your phone’s battery during the meeting, so you didn’t receive my call.”
“…”.
More cold sweat appeared on White Impermanence’s forehead.
But fortunately, Black Impermanence came to help his good partner.
“Lord King of Rebirth, we are currently investigating the whereabouts of Gu Qianyang, so as White Impermanence said, we are indeed very busy.”
“I hope so,” Black Book withdrew his gaze and said to the two of them. “So, do you have any clues?”
“Last night, the last place we found Gu Qianyang was in the underground tunnel on the west side of the city, where there was a corpse.”
“And we found this symbol on the corpse…”
Saying that, Black Impermanence took out his phone and showed the photo he took to the three of them.
“Your phone… it’s quite advanced?”
“This is called a law enforcement recorder, and the point is not this, look here.”
Seeing this familiar symbol, Liu Haoyu suddenly froze.
Without a doubt, this was the seventh deceased person!
Thinking of this, he immediately took out his phone. Only after his phone regained a signal did he discover that he had several missed calls, all from Wang Wenqi.
Besides these calls, there was also a text message left by Wang Wenqi.
The text message read.
“Brother Liu, are you okay?”
“According to intelligence from Feiying Sunying, two more deceased have appeared.”
“We have gone to investigate the situation and have protected the remaining potential victims.”
“The whereabouts of one deceased is unknown, and Feiying Sunying is leading a team to search…”
“And the other deceased should have entered the underground tunnel on the western outskirts of the city.”
“Since your phone has been unreachable, I have dispatched a team of police officers to pick you up in Shigu Town.”
“If you see them, please follow them to the underground tunnel on the west side of the city as soon as possible.”
