"You liar! You gave the password to Wu Mingyu!"
Du Peilin pouted and said, "We just ran into her downstairs."
"I... I was just waiting for her to leave me!"
A sinister smile appeared on Zhou Wei's blood - smeared face. "I'm going to call the police and have them arrest her! Say she kidnapped me!"
Saying that, he managed to crawl over to the gap between the bed and the wall with difficulty and fished out a phone.
"Wow, you're quite sly!"
Du Peilin laughed. "Then we don't have anything to do here. Let's get out of here quickly, or we might be mistaken for accomplices when the police come!"
"Master, don't go!! I still want you to save my life!"
Zhou Wei pointed at the talisman tightly taped to his head and said, "Every time I close my eyes, I can see the Black and White Impermanence coming to take me away. I... I still want to live!!"
"Why do you deserve to live..."
I said coldly, "You killed your wife and that innocent young nurse. It would be unjust if you could live!"
"... I was wrong! I was just bewitched by Wu Mingyu. It was all her instigation!"
Even now, Zhou Wei showed no sign of repentance and still shifted all the blame onto others.
I thought for a while, rummaged in my pocket, and took out a small yellow porcelain bottle.
Inside was the soul of the young nurse Li Li, who had been contaminated by the One - Eyed Buddha Mother and captured by the Red - Dressed Ghost King Wang Yingxiu.
Li Li was killed by Zhou Wei. Until her death, she didn't know what she had done wrong...
A faint chill emanated from the bottle. Li Li had regained her pale yet delicate look. She looked around blankly, and suddenly caught sight of the blood - smeared Zhou Wei. Scared, she instinctively hid behind me.
"Don't be afraid, Li Li. This is the scoundrel who killed you!"
Li Li's soul was almost completely absorbed by the One - Eyed Buddha Mother. I used a soul - calming spell to barely stabilize her soul. "Now I allow you to avenge your grievances. This guy is on the verge of death. You can take him to the Underworld with you. You don't have to worry about incurring karma!"
After hearing my words, Li Li looked at Zhou Wei, shook her head with disgust on her little face, and said, "Forget it. This kind of person will dirty my hands..."
As a young nurse, Li Li was a bit of a clean - freak. She took a look at Zhou Wei, who was living a life worse than death, and seemed quite satisfied. "It's better for him to live than to die!"
Saying that, she also glanced at Zhou Wei's wife behind me. "Right?"
The two female ghosts actually started to communicate.
Zhou Wei's wife sighed, though. "As long as he doesn't die, he'll squander the little money left. What about our son?"
Zhou Wei's wife's parents were not rich people. They were just ordinary retired workers. After the death of their only daughter, they were in so much pain that they almost didn't want to live. If it weren't for their little grandson, they would have wanted to accompany their daughter in death.
Zhou Wei's son had been a carrier of the syphilis virus since birth and would need corresponding treatment for his condition all his life.
That would be a huge expense, and it would be almost impossible to maintain with just the two old people's pensions.
Zhou Wei's wife wanted him to die!!
Zhou Wei couldn't see the two ghosts who died because of him. He was fiddling with the phone!
He had prepared two phones, both with mobile banking installed.
When Wu Mingyu tricked him out of the hospital and settled him here, he hid one of the phones in the gap between the bed and the wall.
What he didn't expect was that as soon as Wu Mingyu entered the door, she showed her true colors. She tied him up like a dog and took away his phone, saying that the money he was spending now belonged to her!!
Wu Mingyu originally wanted to embezzle all of Zhou Wei's remaining money and didn't intend to split it with Du Peilin at all.
So, every extra cent Zhou Wei spent in the hospital made her feel as if her flesh was being cut!
The rented house she had now was only a shabby single - room for two weeks, which cost a total of 1,000 yuan!
Today, after receiving Du Peilin's call and encountering ghosts, Wu Mingyu was both scared and anxious, so she started to force Zhou Wei to hand over the password.
At this moment, Zhou Wei didn't care about us anymore. The phone hadn't been turned on, so the battery was still sufficient. He was busy changing his online banking payment password. Wu Mingyu should not have reached the ATM yet. If he changed the password, that woman wouldn't be able to withdraw any more money.
Just now, Zhou Wei asked Wu Mingyu to untie his ropes so that he could operate the phone with his fingerprint. When Wu Mingyu saw the amount in the bank account, she was so happy that she forgot to tie him up again.
That's how Zhou Wei got the chance.
Even if we hadn't broken in, he could have saved himself!
After a series of operations, Zhou Wei let out a long sigh. Looking up and seeing Du Peilin and me looking at him coldly, he quickly showed an obsequious smile and said, "M - Master, I did this for you... All the money here is yours!"
He waved his phone. "As long as you can let me live."
"Ding ding ding..."
Suddenly, Du Peilin's phone rang. It was a WeChat video call from Zhao Zifeng.
"Uncle Du, I'm already downstairs!"
Zhao Zifeng's bright face appeared on the phone screen. "Shall I come up?"
"Yeah, come on!"
Du Peilin nodded and then opened the door.
The sound of "tap tap" footsteps came up, accompanied by the sound of Zhao Zifeng talking "babbling" with a child.
"Auntie... go find daddy."
"Yes, go find daddy."
"Daddy... bad..."
"Yeah, go see how bad he is!"
...
Zhao Zifeng's voice was getting closer. Finally, she showed her head from the stairs. In her arms was a little baby who looked only two or three years old. Behind her were two old people with wrinkled faces and red - rimmed eyes.
"Come on, it's in here."
Du Peilin stood at the door and waved to the group of people.
Zhao Zifeng walked into the room with the child in her arms.
"It stinks..."
As soon as the little child entered the room, he covered his nose. "Auntie... where's daddy?"
The little child was very thin, with a sallow face and two dark eye - circles. It was obvious that he was extremely weak.
Before Zhao Zifeng could say anything, Zhou Wei's wife behind me let out a heart - rending wail full of sorrow and resentment.
"Baby... baby!!"
She instantly floated in front of Zhao Zifeng. Her face, which was bleeding from the seven orifices, immediately turned back to what it looked like when she was alive. She recognized the child in Zhao Zifeng's arms. That was her baby, the child she had carried in her womb for ten months with great hardship.
Zhou Wei's wife always felt that she was sorry for her child. If she had been able to stop Zhou Wei, the child might not have contracted this virus that would cause harm for a lifetime.
The little baby was young, and his celestial eye hadn't closed yet.
As soon as he saw his mother whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he immediately stretched out his little hands and cried "wa wa".
"Mommy... mommy..."