“Huizhen, your physical condition is getting worse and worse. Don’t use the power of the malevolent ghost so casually anymore. Besides, it’s useless now.”
Chang Feng glanced at Wang Liang and spoke in a low voice, stopping the thought Lu Huizhen had of making a move.
With someone like that standing nearby, so what if they could kill that square-faced man?
“Huff, I understand.”
Lu Huizhen took a deep breath, calming her turbulent emotions. She no longer tried to bargain, and instead took a yellowed paper envelope from within her clothes and handed it to Wang Liang.
After Wang Liang took it, he carefully examined this letter from the Ghost Post Office.
The envelope was intact—so intact that there was not the slightest trace of a seal, as if it had been made as one whole piece from the very beginning.
But when Wang Liang felt the surface of the envelope, he could sense that there was a layer inside. There was indeed a sheet of letter paper contained within.
Seeing Wang Liang groping at the envelope, Chang Feng hurriedly spoke up.
“Don’t open that envelope, or it will immediately draw an attack from a malevolent ghost. In the past, there were messengers who tried to peek at the letter inside, but without exception, they all died.”
Wang Liang knew that the letter inside contained no useful information. It was all inexplicable nonsense, like “Do not open the envelope under any circumstances” and “Whoever opens it will be killed by a ghost”—useless words that it was already too late to see.
However, it was also possible that this kind of envelope required a special method to open before one could see the correct contents. Wang Liang was more inclined toward that possibility.
He did not open the letter, but put it into the pocket of his overcoat.
“How many times have you delivered letters?”
“Twice. Including this time, it’ll be the third. Ah Rui and Huifang have one less than me; this is their second time. In the post office, after three successful deliveries, you go up one floor. If this delivery succeeds, I’ll go to the second floor. Huizhen and the others will still have to deliver once more on the first floor.”
“What happens when you go upstairs?” Zhou Kun asked at this moment.
“All I know is that the higher the floor a messenger is on, the longer the interval between each delivery. That way, they can live longer too, with a longer, safer period of rest. The post office has five floors in total. Perhaps once you deliver up to the fifth floor, all of this can end,” Chang Feng explained.
“There are actually five floors, and every floor is delivering letters. Damn it, how many supernatural incidents in the country have been caused by you people! It really is a dangerous place. A dangerous place like that should be dealt with immediately!” Zhou Kun said in a low voice.
Fear appeared in Lu Huizhen’s eyes as she murmured,
“That’s impossible. How could anyone possibly deal with that place? You don’t know what it’s like there. Who knows how many ghosts are in that place!
“If you’re summoned by the post office and go there to stay overnight, then after six o’clock every evening, the lights in that place go out. If you haven’t returned to your room and linger in the hallway, you’ll be attacked by the malevolent ghosts wandering there.
“After the last delivery, I was lucky enough to control a malevolent ghost, but before this delivery, I was still summoned over by the post office. I couldn’t resist the post office’s summons. I was just as powerless as an ordinary person.
“After the lights went out, I wanted to rely on the ghost’s power to escape that place, but in the end, as soon as I stepped out of the room after the lights went black, I was attacked by some inexplicable malevolent ghost. In the end, I barely managed to flee back into the room. The ghost inside me was restlessly agitated, but fortunately, I kept my life.”
“Are you very strong? Are you good at fighting? Says the person who got her neck seized in one grip.” Zhou Kun glanced sideways at her.
“You!” Lu Huizhen glared at Zhou Kun, unable to say a word.
“Enough. That’s as far as this goes,” Wang Liang said. “Zhou Kun, don’t underestimate that place either. There’s one thing she wasn’t wrong about. Dealing with that place really isn’t so simple. Forcing it head-on will be difficult.”
“Is that so? I understand.” Zhou Kun’s expression turned serious. He trusted Wang Liang’s judgment.
“What should we do next?” Zhou Kun asked.
“This letter is very likely—no, it is definitely related to the supernatural incident that is about to descend upon this place. I’m going to deliver it. It should be this very letter that allows the malevolent ghost here to appear. We can’t waste too much time here. I need this ghost to appear, and once it does, I’ll contain it on the spot,” Wang Liang said coldly.
“Understood. Then we’ll do as you say. I’ll help.”
Hearing that the two of them had chosen to deliver the letter, the three messengers let out a sigh of relief. But then they heard them say they intended to actively contain the malevolent ghost that was about to appear, and Fang Rui found it unbelievable. They actually wanted to take the initiative to contain a malevolent ghost. What did they think a ghost was? At last, he could not help but ask.
“Brothers, who exactly are you?”
Zhou Kun snorted coldly.
“Hmph. I am the person in charge of Dahuai City, Zhou Kun. This is an area under my jurisdiction. He is the person in charge of Da’an City, and he has come this time to handle a supernatural incident as well. You people dared to trigger a supernatural incident in advance right in front of two city persons in charge. You’re simply courting death.”
“People like us are responsible for handling the supernatural incidents that occur in cities. You parasites of society—have you ever thought about what this world will eventually become if no one deals with one outbreak after another, while people like you exist, drawing out supernatural incidents and then just walking away? Society will collapse sooner or later! Damn things!”
“Persons in charge! People who specialize in handling supernatural incidents—there are actually people like that?” Fang Rui muttered to himself, his expression dazed.
Lu Huizhen was also in disbelief. She had not known of the existence of persons in charge either, but from the looks of it, every city’s person in charge was an existence like her, someone who had controlled a malevolent ghost.
Thinking of how they had continuously delivered letters and drawn out supernatural incidents, Lu Huizhen shuddered. No wonder this man named Zhou Kun had wanted to kill them immediately after learning of their objective.
Among the three, Chang Feng was the only one who did not show too much surprise. Clearly, he had some understanding of the supernatural circle.
He simply had not expected that this time, they would actually be caught by the persons in charge of two cities in such a remote little village.
“Then, brothers, after you deliver the letter, can we leave?” Fang Rui asked carefully.
“Leave? Heh.” Zhou Kun snorted in disdain, not even bothering to respond.
Wang Liang said, “Stay here obediently. We’ll talk about the rest after this incident is over.”
“Oh, oh. All right, brother.”
“Right, I almost forgot.”
Wang Liang walked up to Chang Feng and stretched out his hand.
“Hand over that seal.”
“This...” Chang Feng’s expression darkened, but after hesitating for a moment, he still took that ancient-looking seal out of his pocket and handed it to Wang Liang with the top facing downward.
“What is the effect of this supernatural object?”
“Press the bottom of the seal onto your own body, and the bottom will absorb part of your flesh and blood. Then, if you take it and stamp a malevolent ghost, you can force the ghost back. It’s just that for some reason, it failed this time.
“If you stamp a person, it will absorb all of that person’s flesh and blood until they become a dried corpse.
“Oh, when using it for the first time, you have to let the seal absorb part of your own flesh and blood first, so that things like blood vessels climb up along the side walls. It can’t be someone else, or livestock. Otherwise, you won’t be able to hold the seal after it has absorbed blood, and you’ll likewise be corroded and absorbed by the blood-soaked seal.”