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On the second morning, the first thing I did after a sleepless night was to contact Zhang Team Leader. From him, I learned that the bodies of several girls who had met with misfortune were currently being stored in the Morgue at City Hospital. Since all of them had died under suspicious circumstances, the police suspected foul play. Generally, in such cases, bodies are not buried until the situation is fully clarified. Moreover, the families of the victims were currently in an uproar, making it even less likely for the bodies to be buried. After all, once a body is buried, the most compelling evidence disappears, and the case would be considered closed.
However, since these bodies were under police control as victims' remains, I couldn't enter the Morgue without proper procedures. Fortunately, Zhang Team Leader took charge of this matter and told me to wait at the hotel. So I patiently decided to have breakfast with Big Mouth Lee and others. When we returned, Zhang Team Leader was indeed waiting for us in the lobby of the hotel, accompanied by a pair of middle-aged parents dressed quite plainly.
Zhang Team Leader introduced me to them, and I realized they were the parents of one of the victims. Although the body was under police control, the parents had the right to visit it. With their cooperation, we could proceed smoothly.
Zhang Team Leader had evidently informed the victim's parents about my background. As soon as she saw me, the middle-aged woman grasped my hand tightly, tears welling in her eyes as she said, "Master, Zhang Team Leader has already told me about what happened last night. If there really are Dirty Things harming people, please make sure to root it out and avenge our child!"
Looking at the wrinkles and pain etched on her face, I sighed softly. For a moment, I didn't know how to comfort this grieving mother; I could only unconsciously clench my fists.
"My poor daughter!"
The middle-aged woman seemed deeply affected by her daughter's death; her mental state appeared somewhat disoriented as she clung to my hand and murmured incessantly, "Our child was a good kid. It's because her father and I are incapable that we let her down. If it weren't for us, perhaps she wouldn't have gone to play that game!"
From her words, I sensed something unusual; it seemed there was more to why the victim went to play the Yokai Lantern Game. Otherwise, given her timid nature, how could she possibly have ventured into a Supernatural Game? This was something I had been pondering for some time, so I began to inquire about this aspect from Zhang Mother.
"Well, it's because her father and I are poor," she sighed. "Our daughter had just started her internship and still had student loans to pay off..."
She continued with a heavy heart: "Not long ago, her father lost his job and has been ill for quite a while. We drained our savings completely. Our family was already struggling without much savings; losing our main breadwinner made things even tighter. Relying solely on my meager wages as a bathhouse scrubber is simply not enough. Our daughter was anxious about it all; although she never openly defied us since she was born, she secretly sought ways to help us out. Just a week before her accident, she suddenly called me excitedly. She had managed to gather enough money for her medical expenses. At that moment, I thought she might be involved in something unsavory and scolded her for it—telling her that even if she were to die, she shouldn't sell herself short. I was genuinely angry; we may be poor but we must maintain our dignity! My words must have hurt her deeply because she cried and insisted that she wasn't that kind of girl and had no ulterior motives. Someone had invited her to play a game called Yokai Lantern; if she agreed to play it, they would give her a considerable sum of money. At that time, I thought it sounded suspicious—how could playing a game earn so much money? So I warned her to be careful not to get deceived. She half-heartedly reassured me before hanging up the phone; soon after that, strange incidents began happening around her. You know how it goes; ultimately she couldn't resist the temptation and ended up playing that game—losing her life in the process!"
Poverty brings sorrow in every aspect!
After hearing all this, my heart felt heavy with sadness but even more so with confusion!
According to the woman, it seemed that the victim was different from others. Was she not drawn to the Supernatural Game out of curiosity? Instead, did someone pay her to participate?
If that were the case, then this incident became more complicated. It was no longer just a simple matter of a group of female students getting carried away with the Supernatural Game; someone had orchestrated this tragedy!
So, who was behind this? What was their purpose?
I had many questions in my mind, but unfortunately, the woman did not know who had given her daughter the money. Initially, during the phone call, her daughter hadn’t mentioned anything about it, and the police had followed the leads provided by Zhang Mother. In the end, they found nothing; no one knew who had recruited her into this.
Thus, the police shifted their focus onto the game’s initiator.
However, after some investigation, the police were baffled. The ten people who played this game had almost all been brought together by one another. The two individuals who initially went around gathering participants were both dead. There was no way to trace who had started the game; they were all drawn in by those two deceased girls. So, who had recruited those two girls? With no witnesses left, that lead was cut off!
However, they did find the money she received; it was located in a safe for valuables in her dormitory. A total of twenty thousand yuan was discovered—clearly a recent acquisition, as she hadn’t even had time to send any home.
After hearing this, I felt my head spinning. Many things were now confirmed, and some doubts were resolved, but with that came even more confusion. I wasn’t trained in criminal investigation; I felt utterly overwhelmed. Finally, I gritted my teeth and decided to check out the body.
With the cooperation of a middle-aged woman, we managed to gain access to the Morgue under the guise of being friends and family.
The Morgue was eerie and cold. It was indeed a place where dead bodies were stored, filled with an overwhelming sense of death and eerie energy—also a place where dirty things could easily occur.
The victim's body lay in a corner at the back of the Morgue, covered with a white cloth. Upon seeing the corpse, the middle-aged woman began to weep softly beside me. With a complex mix of emotions, I lifted the cloth covering the body. When I saw what lay beneath, my heart sank.
Was this still that quiet and beautiful girl?
Now she was unrecognizable—emaciated and almost skeletal. Her once fair skin was covered in dark livor mortis marks. Due to being frozen, her body hadn’t decayed; it looked like a well-preserved corpse.
Looking at her lifeless form, combined with her experiences before death, I realized that she had been completely drained of her Yang Qi and Vital Energy!
Previously, it had been established that aside from Spirit Ghosts, ordinary Yin People and Yang Persons generally did not fare well during intimate encounters. Regardless of whether the Yin Person consented, they would inevitably absorb the Yang Qi and Vital Energy from the Yang Person, something beyond the control of the Yin People!
I gently turned my head away, unable to bear the sight any longer. After a long while, I managed to compose myself and prepared to use the corpse as a medium to see if I could summon Zhang Keke's lingering spirit.
To my surprise, Zhou Jing suddenly said, "There's no need for Soul Calling; her spirit is not in the Underworld."
I was taken aback and asked Big Mouth Lee how he could tell.
"Though I may not be very accurate when it comes to the living, I can certainly see things clearly regarding matters of the dead!"
Then, Big Mouth Lee turned to me and slowly said, "Her affairs after death are shrouded in emptiness. It is evident that she has experienced Soul Shattering or her soul has been suppressed, leaving no possibility for Reincarnation!"
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