The door opened.
The warm air from inside rushed out.
Luo Xuezheng, wearing a casual jacket, stood at the doorway, sizing up Li Aiguo.
"You?"
It wasn't that he had high standards.
Just looking at Li Aiguo's black padded jacket, which screamed cheapness, and his dark, farmer's face.
He didn't look like any kind of master.
At the doorway,
Seeing who opened the door, Li Aiguo's expression also faltered.
So ghosts really existed!
But then again, what had happened to him wasn't exactly normal.
If his new boss hadn't said he could, he wouldn't have known he could see these ghostly things now.
Sensing the suspicion in the other person's eyes, Li Aiguo didn't mind.
Having lived for decades, he had seen such looks countless times.
He simply repeated, "The doctor sent me."
"Alright, come in."
Luo Xuezheng turned and walked back into the house.
Completely unaware that a lurking ghost was perched on the ceiling above his head.
Li Aiguo entered the house and closed the door.
Seeing shoe covers in the entryway, he took out two blue ones and put them on.
Luo Xuezheng turned and saw his action, scoffed, and said nothing.
This little farmer was quite particular.
After entering the house, Li Aiguo looked around and then asked,
"Are the bedroom, kitchen, and other areas okay to enter?"
His new boss had said there were two things here.
But he had only seen one.
Luo Xuezheng sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette.
"Feel free to look around yourself."
Hearing this, Li Aiguo began searching the house.
The kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom...
Just as he reached the master bedroom door, it opened from the inside.
Zhao Yi, wearing a beige coat, walked out.
She glanced at Li Aiguo, her eyebrows raised.
"Is this the master?"
"Master, have you seen anything?"
Li Aiguo didn't speak.
He stared at Zhao Yi, his gaze tracing from her neck downwards.
Finally stopping at her abdomen.
Zhao Yi felt uncomfortable under his stare and instinctively pulled her coat tighter.
She wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but her abdomen also began to ache faintly.
She frowned, her eyes sharp, and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Li Aiguo said directly, "A little ghost."
"Forgive my intrusion."
As he finished speaking, before Zhao Yi could react, he reached out.
And pulled the ghost infant out of Zhao Yi's belly.
"Wuwuwuwu... Wuwuwuwu..."
Startled, the ghost infant was unwilling to leave.
It struggled in Li Aiguo's hand.
Zhao Yi's heart skipped a beat, and she seemed to hear a baby's cry.
The cry was sharp and piercing.
She watched Li Aiguo withdraw his hand, her heart filled with dread, and she instinctively took a step back.
Leaning against the master bedroom door.
Luo Xuezheng, who was on the sofa, saw this and couldn't help but get up and look over.
Staring at Li Aiguo's hand twisting in the air.
"There really are ghostly things?"
These two had initially felt something was strange, but they attributed it mostly to their own psychological state.
So, just in case, they had invited someone to take a look and dispel any ill fortune.
They hadn't expected something to actually be following them!
The thought of this ghost being present whenever they... made them feel strange.
"Mm."
Li Aiguo responded and put the thing into the small glass bottle his new boss had provided.
As soon as the ghost infant entered, the inch-long glass bottle turned black.
This amazed Zhao Yi and Luo Xuezheng.
Then, Li Aiguo looked at Luo Xuezheng, "Please stand here and don't move."
He could tell that the larger ghost was moving with Luo Xuezheng.
Wherever Luo Xuezheng went, this ghost followed.
Luo Xuezheng looked surprised, "There's more?!"
"There's another big ghost."
Li Aiguo said, found a ladder in the room, set it up next to Luo Xuezheng.
Then he climbed to the top of the ladder and reached out to grab the larger ghost.
The larger ghost's resentment was even heavier than the smaller one's. Seeing Li Aiguo's outstretched hand, the black mist around it surged and attacked him directly.
Li Aiguo, already a little apprehensive, instinctively raised his hand to block.
A moment later, he found that it didn't hurt at all.
"Kill you, kill you..."
The larger ghost unleashed various attacks again, but none of them caused any harm to Li Aiguo.
Seeing this, Li Aiguo understood.
It seemed his new boss was right.
These newly formed ghosts couldn't hurt him.
What... had he become?
Li Aiguo pondered this, while watching the attacks of the larger ghost in front of him.
Seizing an opportunity, he grabbed the ghost's arm and shoved it into the glass bottle.
The glass bottle seemed to have a suction force.
As soon as the larger ghost's hand approached, it was automatically sucked in.
During this process,
Zhao Yi and Luo Xuezheng had been watching Li Aiguo's every move.
Seeing that the other bottle in his hand also turned black, they spoke:
"Master, is it over?"
"Mm, two in total."
Li Aiguo nodded and returned the ladder to its original position in the center of the room.
Then he prepared to leave.
...Is that it?
Is catching ghosts this easy?
Luo Xuezheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly chased after him.
"Master, why don't you stay for dinner? Let us thank you properly."
Li Aiguo walked directly to the door, took off his shoe covers, and shook his head.
"No need. Just remember to transfer the final payment."
He was just a worker, he couldn't afford to associate with these wealthy people.
...
After leaving the apartment.
Li Aiguo took a taxi to the pharmacy where his new boss was located.
In the car, the glass bottle in his pocket jiggled.
One of them rolled onto the adjacent seat.
Li Aiguo picked it up to put it back in his pocket, but he faintly heard a voice.
It sounded like a hallucination.
He thought for a moment and leaned closer to the glass bottle to listen.
Wang Chengming, who had regained some consciousness, shouted from inside:
"If you're truly a celestial master, you should kill those two scoundrels! They aren't human!"
"If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have become like this!"
"Let me out! Let me out!"
Amidst Wang Chengming's shouts, the taxi slowly came to a stop.
The driver said, "We're here. Twelve yuan."
Li Aiguo put the glass bottle back into his pocket and paid with cash.
After getting out of the car, he took many turns.
Finally arriving in front of an unremarkable, closed pharmacy.
"Let me out! You black-hearted celestial master! Those two aren't human!"
"For money, have you lost all your conscience?!"
The glass bottle in his pocket kept shaking, and its voice grew louder.
Reaching Li Aiguo's ears.
Conscience...
Just as Li Aiguo fell silent, the side door of the pharmacy in front of him suddenly opened.
A man in black, holding an umbrella, stood inside. "Did you bring everything?"
Li Aiguo responded with a sound and silently handed over the two bottles.
The man in black took the bottles and examined them for a moment.
"For your first mission, you did quite well."
"You have a daughter to raise, right? I'll transfer some bonus to you later."
As he spoke, the man in black glanced at him. "Do you know why smart people die quickly?"
"Don't ask about things you don't need to know."
Li Aiguo was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."
"Go ahead. I'll contact you if there's another mission."
After coming out of the pharmacy,
Li Aiguo's footsteps felt heavy.
Conscience...
...
...
[Ding——]
A phone notification chimed.
【XX Bank: Your bank card ending in 7653 has just received: twenty thousand yuan.】