Chapter 1 The Ambiguity

The little loli tilted her head slightly. She always felt that Zhou Ze was deliberately saying things with double meanings. She didn't answer. This question was tricky no matter how you answered it.

Moreover, the little loli believed that Zhou Ze could see that too.

Yes, Zhou Ze saw it. All along, Zhou Ze had thought that Wang Ke had some special fetish. Now it seemed that it wasn't Wang Ke's problem, but his wife's.

Wang Ke was a psychologist, responsible for treating his wife's problems. He even had to deliberately cooperate with her quirks when living at home.

He was acting, performing to make his wife happy.

A successful man had to pretend to be happy at home every day, constantly eating meat and drinking meat soup, and had to act like he enjoyed it.

His wife bought meat back every day and watched him eat.

For others, it might be torture.

"Tie her up, you keep an eye on him, don't let anything happen to her," Zhou Ze said to Bai Yingying.

Bai Yingying nodded, went straight over, grabbed Wang Ke's wife, and took her into the study.

Without being told, the old Daoist picked up the unconscious Wang Ke, put him on the sofa, and checked his injuries.

Zhou Ze didn't directly call 120 to send Wang Ke to the hospital and his wife to a mental hospital. Wang Ke should have the right to choose regarding his wife's affairs. Zhou Ze didn't need to add trouble to his life or take matters into his own hands. Besides, Zhou Ze was too lazy to deal with such troublesome matters.

Although Wang Ke was unconscious and injured, the problem wasn't too serious. He should wake up soon. When that happened, he could make his own decisions.

Moreover, at this moment, Zhou Ze still had something he needed to resolve.

He picked up the little loli.

The little loli struggled.

In the past, the little loli had asked Zhou Ze to pick her up, but that was because she wanted to be on equal footing with Zhou Ze in terms of height. At that time, she was reserved, restrained, and possessed absolute oppression and control.

But now, the tables had turned. This time, when Zhou Ze picked her up, he was purely treating her like the little girl next door.

Let me squeeze you,

Let me pinch you,

See if you're still naughty.

Zhou Ze carried the little loli upstairs.

The old Daoist stood at the bottom of the stairs, watching Zhou Ze carry the little loli up.

His face showed some struggle and hesitation. He was considering whether to stop his boss from doing such a beastly thing.

Too beastly,

She's just a child.

If Zhou Ze knew what the old Daoist was thinking now, he would probably blast a few holes in him without mercy.

Putting the little loli on the bed, Zhou Ze took a step back. He saw that the little loli had already fallen asleep when he picked her up to go upstairs. Now, lying on the bed, she was making soft, adorable "snoring" sounds, like a delicate piece of porcelain.

After a while, she rubbed her eyes and looked at Zhou Ze with some surprise, saying in a soft voice:

"Uncle, why are you in my house, and in my room?"

So cute, so adorable.

But Zhou Ze was like a rough, unromantic man, directly picking up the little loli again, shaking her back and forth in his hands, and said:

"I don't care if you're pretending or not, I don't care. If you're pretending, then stop pretending now. If you're not pretending, then wake up and take back the main consciousness.

I have some things and some scores to settle with you.

Don't overestimate my patience. I'm not the kind of weird uncle who likes to invite little girls home to look at goldfish."

Zhou Ze shook her back and forth. At first, the little loli was crying and even started calling "Mom and Dad," but after a while, she calmed down. Her eyes were calm, and she bit her delicate red lips, saying in a deep voice:

"Put me down."

"Oh, you're still being naughty!"

*Smack!*

A slap landed on an unspeakable place. The little loli's eyes widened, and she turned her head to look at Zhou Ze, wanting to devour him alive!

You actually dared to hit this one's unspeakable place!

You still dare to say you're not a weird uncle?

"Oh, sorry."

Zhou Ze let go, and the little loli fell onto the bed.

But the little loli was still glaring at him. Zhou Ze was a little embarrassed and said:

"I just slipped up, didn't notice you were back."

"Zhou Ze, do you think you can do whatever you want now?"

The little loli scolded.

*Smack!*

The unspeakable place suffered another heavy blow!

The little loli had an unbelievable look on her face!

You just said it was a slip of the tongue, not intentional!

Zhou Ze stroked the palm that had just slapped the unspeakable place and said:

"This time it wasn't intentional either."

Saying that, Zhou Ze also leaned against the edge of the bed and sat down,

Said:

"Don't act like the protagonists in movies, still being stubborn when death is near, because I'm not the villain in a movie. I don't want to waste so much time talking nonsense with you."

"You dare to kill me?" The little loli asked back.

*Smack!*

*Smack!*

*Smack!*

Three slaps on the unspeakable place,

The little loli's body trembled three times,

Her pearly teeth were about to bite through her red lips.

"Someone said the same thing to me a while ago, but in the end, she died. So, don't use this to threaten me, because it's useless.

Even if you hide in this body, I have a way to force you out."

"She was killed by you?" The little loli knew who Zhou Ze had killed, no, more precisely, who that ghost was.

A ghost messenger, Zhou Ze had already killed one, so he didn't care about killing another.

"What do you want to ask? Speak."

The little loli turned over and sat on the bed, hiding her unspeakable place.

Zhou Ze took out his certificate, held it in his hand, and asked, "How exactly do ghost messengers get appointed? Am I considered appointed now?"

"You have a certificate and the key to my Gates of Hell, so you are a ghost messenger."

"Is the management so lax?" Zhou Ze was a little surprised.

"Ghost messengers are just the lowest level of the underworld. The Yang realm is so big, if even the lowest level ghost messengers needed the upper levels of the underworld to choose and appoint them one by one, then the upper levels of the underworld wouldn't need to do anything else.

Even ghost catchers, who are above ghost messengers, don't need certification. They only need to obtain the corresponding qualifications, but after that, the inspectors must be personally certified by the underworld."

"Oh, so that's how it is. The working environment is so relaxed. Doesn't that mean whoever kills you can obtain the identity of a ghost messenger?"

"The underworld is in order, the Yellow Springs can..."

*Smack!*

Zhou Ze turned the little loli over, another strike on the unspeakable place!

"Why!" The little loli endured the terrible sense of humiliation.

"Speak properly, don't always shout slogans," Zhou Ze reminded.

"The underworld has its rules. Killing a ghost messenger is a great taboo!" The little loli replied.

"Sounds like nonsense. I killed one, and that guy in Rongcheng definitely killed one too. It's fine if nothing happened to him, but why hasn't anything happened to me?"

Saying that, Zhou Ze raised his hand, preparing to strike again.

Hmm,

Nice feel.

"That's because you didn't break any rules. Moreover, the ghost messenger you killed already had a problem. Rather than saying she was a ghost messenger, it's better to say she was a fierce wandering ghost!"

"Okay, let me summarize this and see if I'm right. The meaning is that ghost messengers are just the lowest-level small fry. No one is responsible for their death or work-related injuries. Even if their identity is taken, as long as the successor doesn't mess around and even inherits the original work and continues to be a ghost messenger, the underworld won't care?"

The little loli nodded.

"Seriously, being a civil servant is really boring."

Zhou Ze curled his lips. Wasn't this undermining his work enthusiasm? He was still a temporary worker, but now he knew that even if he got a permanent position, there was no guarantee. He immediately felt that the future of this job was so bleak.

In the Yang realm, everyone fights to become a civil servant just for a secure job.

When you get to the underworld, it's not a secure job. Even this job has to be rotated.

"Ghost messenger is the best way for ghosts to enter the underworld and seek an identity. Moreover, the identity of a ghost messenger certificate is not so easy to obtain. Basically, it is impossible to inherit."

The little loli took another look at the certificate in Zhou Ze's hand, pursed her lips, and continued:

"Throughout the ages, how many mountain and river gods couldn't take the proper path to be sealed by legitimate dynasties, and wanted to seek advancement, so they voluntarily became ghost messengers and took the path of the underworld. That's the reason."

"Okay, one more thing." Zhou Ze spread out his palm, "Can you still take this mark back?"

The little loli didn't say anything.

"Answer me."

Zhou Ze's face slowly darkened.

The little loli nodded.

Zhou Ze took a deep breath, slowly clenched his fist, and continued to ask in a soft voice:

"How do you take it back?"

"I have my own way to take back what I gave you."

"You're avoiding the question a bit." Zhou Ze reached out and rubbed the little loli's head and said, "Come on, be good, tell uncle more specifically, this mark, this key to the Gates of Hell you mentioned, what method is needed to take it back?"

The little loli looked at Zhou Ze, she was hesitating.

"Speak."

Zhou Ze raised his voice, and at the same time his nails grew longer, the tips of his nails gently sliding across the little loli's face.

The little loli said in a low voice:

"Kill you, and I'll get it back."

The expected answer,

But it made Zhou Ze's eyes completely deep,

He wasn't angry,

He wasn't furious,

At least, he didn't show it, he just said lightly:

"The meaning is that the pie you drew for me, the promises you made to me, and the future expectations you gave me, were all fake.

You just needed to go to Rongcheng to do something, so you let me do the work for you to earn performance.

When you came back,

You were planning to kill me, even, I was the performance you had planned for,

Right?"

The little loli closed her eyes.

Time went back to that day when Zhou Ze calmly watched Tang Shi and the old Daoist vent their anger about the Rongcheng matter, and even made many moves that ordinary people would only make when they were excited.

At that time, he was still able to calmly drink coffee!

If he had known that if the person in Rongcheng lost, when the little loli came back, not only would his interests be damaged, but he would also be completely screwed, would he still have been able to calmly sip coffee!

Maybe he would have been even more crazy, buying ten thousand yuan worth of fireworks to set off.

Sticking out his tongue and licking his lips, Zhou Ze still calmly looked at the little loli, not flustered, not hysterical, just asking:

"Why don't you go back to hell? Is it because you were so badly injured that you can't even go back to hell, or even, you don't dare to go to hell and pass the Yellow Springs Road?"

The little loli didn't answer. Silence was also a kind of default.

Zhou Ze clipped his certificate, glanced at it, as if talking to himself, and said: "How much performance can I earn by sending a ghost messenger back to hell?"

"I'm a ghost messenger, sending me to hell doesn't earn any performance," the little loli replied.

"Oh, sorry, I wasn't clear;

What I mean is,

Destroying a ghost messenger's certificate, then torturing her into a fierce ghost without clear sanity, and then sending her back to hell,

Would that earn performance?"