I gently moved the tip of my blade. "Can you talk properly now?"

The living corpse blinked at me twice before I slowly withdrew my dagger.

Who knew, the moment I pulled out the dagger, a ghostly shriek erupted from the corpse's mouth.

The next thing I knew, my vision went white, and my right hand instinctively thrust the dagger forward.

When my sight returned, the dagger was already embedded in the creature's head.

I said coldly, "Try yelling again!"

As the living corpse glared at me through gritted teeth, all the nearby cars simultaneously lit up their headlights, swiveled around, and surrounded me and Ye Yang.

The hoods of the cars vibrated, creating a series of protest-like thuds that echoed around us.

So, each car concealed a living corpse; the corpses were the key to the ghost cars traveling between the realms of the living and the dead.

In the next instant, countless ghosts appeared within the abandoned cars of the repair shop.

My gaze swept outward, and I saw at least a dozen ghosts covered in blood.

As Ye Yang and I drew our blades, we heard Old Zuo shout from upstairs, "Stop, stop! They are my honored guests."

With Old Zuo's voice, the cars extinguished their lights and slowly returned to their original positions.

Old Zuo emerged from the repair shop to greet us. "Please, come inside, let's talk slowly!"

Old Zuo's eyes were bloodshot, and the tear tracks on his face hadn't been wiped clean, as if he'd just finished crying.

Qin Xin's *Reminiscence* must have worked.

As I followed Old Zuo towards the building, I said to Nie Xiaochun, "Have Xiao Chengzi check if the Huangquan smugglers have hidden any corpses nearby? Also, have Mi Tianyue move the bodies of those people she just killed here."

While Nie Xiaochun contacted Chen Shuyu, I followed Old Zuo into the office and sat down again. "Have you figured it out?"

Old Zuo sighed deeply. "I have. Loyalty is a two-way street. It's foolish to hold onto it myself! This is also because when I was younger… never mind, I won't talk about it."

"Master Li, ask whatever you want!"

I pointed to the vehicles outside. "Those don't seem like Tong Yang Che Ma (vehicles for traversing the Yang realm), do they?"

"Of course not!" Old Zuo said. "Those are ghost cars I made using hired ghosts. They're alright for traveling through ghost secret realms, but they're not quite up to par for traversing the Yin and Yang realms."

"Tong Yang Che Ma are difficult to make!"

"Including the two taken by the Underworld, only the Zuo family's three remain."

"If Master Li is interested, I can bring out the Che Ma now and show you."

I waved my hand. "No rush. Let me ask about something first."

"Tell me, what happened after Zuo Hanyue reorganized the Tong Yang Che Ma?"

Old Zuo said, "Our ancestor, Zuo Hanyue, found the two Che Ma that our ancestor hid in the mountains and started the business of traversing the Yin and Yang realms and carrying ghost artifacts again."

"Nothing major happened during his lifetime."

"However, something did happen to his grandson's generation."

"The Zuo family has always passed down through a single heir. But when it came to Zuo Hanyue's grandson's generation, he had twins, one named Zuo Feng and the other named Zuo Lin."

"To be fair, Zuo Hanyue divided the two Che Ma between his two grandsons, which led to the later separation of the Zuo family."

"According to the family records, Zuo Feng and his brother separated because of disagreements and each took a set of Che Ma."

"After that, the two families never formally met again."

"I belong to the Zuo Lin branch. We have always been doing business in the ghost secret realms. When our ancestor was doing business, he saw the other branch of the Zuo family driving their Che Ma towards the Huangquan Road (Road to the Yellow Springs) several times."

"Our ancestors therefore judged that the other branch of the Zuo family was still doing business with the Underworld."

"To avoid being implicated by that branch, we simply moved the entire family to the Northeast."

"Over the years, we have been doing business secretly, and very few people know about us."

Old Zuo explained at this point, "You just said that someone brought a Huangquan Bidi Lian (Huangquan Twin Lotus) out of the Underworld. I estimate that it was the business done by the Zuo Feng branch."

I nodded. "Can you contact anyone from the Zuo Feng branch?"

Old Zuo shook his head. "We broke off contact long ago. However, I can roughly guess where they are. Let me draw a range for you."

While Old Zuo drew a circle on the map, I said to Nie Xiaochun, "Send the map to Zero later, and tell her about what's happening here."

"Maybe it will be of some help to her!"

Nie Xiaochun nodded in agreement, and I continued to ask, "What about the person who came to you for business?"

Old Zuo said, "That was a business introduced by a friend. They said they wanted to send a hundred warlock corpses to the Da Meng Xiang (Great Dream Village). They would provide the corpses, and I would be responsible for transporting the goods."

"I saw that there was profit to be made, so I took the business. Who would have thought it would turn out like this."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but sit up straight. "You've been to Da Meng Xiang?"

Old Zuo said, "I've been there a few times. Those times, it was to send living people to Da Meng Xiang. Sending dead people was a first."