35 The Peace Before the Storm

"Have mercy on me, sir!"

Upon seeing that Zhou Kai had killed her friend easily, the fiery girl knelt right away submissively.

Zhou Kai laughed. "So corpse spirits are also afraid of death. Come on, tell me. What's up with this body?"

The fiery girl didn't dare conceal anything from him and thus spilled the beans.

It turned out that a few vengeful spirits, who had been hookers when they had been alive, had occupied the bodies of these girls. Anyang had still been Anyang County at the time.

They had suffered a bad fate living in poverty in the mortal world. However, they had ended up in a war and had their hard-earned money they had made by selling their bodies stolen. After they had been violated, they had been shot to death.

Since they had died so miserably, they naturally didn't want to be reincarnated and had hence transformed into a vengeful spirit.

However, they had gotten bored after being a vengeful spirit for a long time. They wanted to become human, but they couldn't be reincarnated.

Then, they had met a fierce spirit.

That fierce spirit had told them that there was a way to become human again: by transforming into a corpse spirit.

By directly snatching the body of someone who had died an unnatural death and tempering with it through an evil magic, they could be reborn as humans again.

However, they had to pay an enormous price for such a transformation. First, they had to nourish themselves with the Yang Qi of living people daily.

Despite that nourishment, a body could only at most last them several years before they had to change into another body.

Weaker vengeful spirits could only change bodies three times before they were annihilated.

The fierce spirit asked that they provide it with Yang Qi in return for its help.

This also meant that most of the Yang Qi they'd acquired from their customers had been given to the fierce spirit.

Although they knew fully well that they were being used, being a human was much better than being a vengeful spirit. This was already the second time they were changing bodies, so they simply couldn't resist the temptation.

In addition, they were not the only corpse spirits being used by the fierce spirit. There were actually dozens of them.

Because of the existence of the Analogous Department, they could only move around in small places and they didn't dare cause any fatalities. Thus, they lived cautiously.

Some time ago, for some reason, the fierce spirit had told them that they would move somewhere else and enter the big city. The few of them had also received the fierce spirit's help when their time had almost been up during their first body transformation. They had gotten a small shop the second time they had become human and opened for business.

Unexpectedly, they had met Zhou Kai during their first business day after entering the city.

Zhou Kai's gaze flickered when he heard the vengeful spirit's recount.

The information of the vengeful spirit and the many anomalies happening in Anyang now seemed inextricably linked.

A fierce spirit was behind the death of the fiery girl, the wronged souls controlled by the fierce spirit, the Fox Spirit Lady, and the god statue behind the Fox Spirit Lady.

Evil thoughts had suddenly appeared and occupied the Grand View Hotel.

The lucky parchment didn't seem to be anything good either.

These things had definitely not emerged without a reason.

"What is that fierce spirit? What is its weakness?" Zhou Kai asked.

The vengeful spirit froze and replied weakly, "Sir, the fierce spirit will always appear in a ball of black energy. I don't know what it is or what its weakness is."

Zhou Kai stared at it. "What do you know then?"

The vengeful spirit shrank its neck and said while feeling aggrieved, "I really don't know. It rarely ever appears. It basically appears only when it's absorbing Yang Qi or changing bodies."

Zhou Kai asked, "Changing bodies? That kind of evil magic is definitely detrimental. How did it go unpunished upon doing that?"

The vengeful spirit said, "I know that. It changes our bodies through a game called Pen Spirit to entice the mortals, thus causing those people to make a promise they couldn't fulfill. That's why they ended up paying with their lives. By the way, a few of them were on the hook today. I think a student from the Institute of Engineering was among them."

Zhou Kai narrowed his eyes. This Institute of Engineering couldn't be the Anyang Institute of Engineering, right?

Why are college students these days so much into seeking a thrill? Why do they have to play Pen Spirit out of all the games out there?

Even though he sighed silently, Zhou Kai's eyes flickered as he looked at the vengeful spirit. He then said, "Good. Do you want to live?"

The vengeful spirit quickly nodded and looked at him expectantly.

"Can you promise me not to harm anyone?" Zhou Kai smiled slightly.

The vengeful spirit nodded firmly and vowed. "Sir, I promise not to harm anyone. If I do, let me be struck by lightning and die a terrible death."

Zhou Kai, who looked satisfied, released the Exorcism power in his hands onto its face, blowing off its head.

Then, the Exorcism power slowly spread, making the fiery girl disintegrate.

You can't live without harming anyone. How dare you even vow!

Tsk, tsk… I cannot trust these anomalies.

As he thought about that, Zhou Kai opened the door and went out. He saw Little Leopard Cat licking ice-cream with her little scarlet tongue. There was also another corpse spirit with its limbs twisted off that was crumpled into a ball underneath her butt.

He directly stepped on the corpse spirit as the Exorcism power erupted, obliterating it as a result.

Although he didn't have a good impression of the three women, a dead person had to be respected. It was better not to desecrate a corpse.

"There's still another one in the room. However, he has fainted because his Yang Qi has been sucked away," Little Leopard Cat said.

Zhou Kai replied, "He reaped what he sowed. Don't bother helping him."

"Then where are we going now?"

Zhou Kai answered, "Where can we still go? We've eaten and drunk our fill, so we're going home to sleep."

"Huh! Are you not going to search for the fierce spirit, Big Brother? It's going to harm your schoolmate," Little Leopard Cat said in surprise.

Zhou Kai laughed. "So what? He reaped what he sowed. Whom can he blame? I'm not someone who cleans up other people's messes."

Little Leopard Cat was speechless.

"Alright. Enough nonsense. Let's go back and rest. We'll change places tomorrow," Zhou Kai added.

Little Leopard Cat said, "Change places?"

Zhou Kai replied cockily, "Who am I? I'm a multi-millionaire. Would a multi-millionaire stay in that tiny courtyard? How is that worthy of my status? I'm going to stay in a villa, and it would be best if it was a detached and spacious one. That would make it convenient for me to raise a few little things."

He suddenly recalled that the two evil thoughts he had captured were still with him.

That enchanting woman was very wild, but the old man was not bad, as he had hindsight.

As Zhou Kai thought about it, he took a dried sweet potato out of his pocket and released the evil thought of the old man.

The old man had to be sleeping, as he didn't seem to be awake.

When the old man saw Zhou Kai, he quickly came back to his senses before giving him a flattering smile. "You were looking for me, sir?"

Zhou Kai answered, "Can you become stronger?"

The old man quickly said, "I can, but I need to capture souls. As long as I devour souls, I can become stronger." As he said that, he looked at Zhou Kai cowardly, afraid that he would not be satisfied.

Zhou Kai said expressionlessly, "Take a look at this. It's a vengeful spirit. However, I've crippled it. Is it useful to you?"

The old man looked over and his eyes instantly lit up. He then said excitedly, "It's useful to me. Really useful. This is a decade-old vengeful spirit. Although it's dispersed, it's as good as dozens of spirits! Sir, can you give it to me?"

Despite being full of greed, the old man still tried to get the upper hand rationally.

There is no hurry. I'll do it slowly. One day, I will be able to devour this person's soul and become the strongest evil thought in the world.