Chapter 1 Zhou Ze Hates Trouble

Zhou Ze hated trouble, he really did. But that didn't mean that when something was specifically directed at him, he would foolishly cover his eyes with leaves, pretending he didn't see anything.

Seeing Zhou Ze's serious expression after he finished speaking, Xu Qinglang was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously, "Is something wrong?"

Zhou Ze shook his head. "Nothing."

"Then I'll go up first?"

"Okay."

Xu Qinglang went upstairs, looking back every few steps. Instinctively, he felt something was wrong, but since Zhou Ze wasn't willing to share it with him, he wouldn't force it. Everyone had their own little secrets and their own plans.

"You're serious?"

Tang Shi looked at Zhou Ze, a teasing smile on her face.

Zhou Ze was also looking at Tang Shi, flicking the ash from his cigarette. "Why did you investigate me?"

"I told you, it's because I'm curious." Tang Shi took the initiative to walk to the bar, closing the distance between herself and Zhou Ze, while her fingertips slid across the bar. "You know, you're different from us, really different."

"You said that before, because I haven't really experienced hell, while you have all been tortured."

"No, it's not that simple. The two of us barely managed to escape after experiencing the great terror of hell, while you were able to escape from the Yellow Springs Road (the road to the afterlife) just as you stepped onto it.

Do you know,

one thing, one experience,

is enough to completely change a person.

For example, every time the two of us talk about the word 'hell,' we instinctively tremble, because the word 'hell' and all its images are a great terror imprinted in our hearts.

Even though we have both 'lived' again, our personalities and behaviors have been greatly changed as a result.

You're different. You just took a trip to the outskirts of hell and came back.

So, you can sit at a small table with that policeman, laughing and chatting about hell, all smiles and spring breeze."

"So, what exactly do you mean? What else did you find out?"

The truck driver who ran me over died,

Xu Le's cousin, who helped Xu Le hire someone to kill me, also died,

Two people, died together in a short period of time;

Ordinary people might not connect the deaths of these two people, but for Zhou Ze, this matter was very unusual.

Xu Le died, and his body was given to me,

The driver died,

The cousin also died,

Everyone who was involved in this matter before died.

Is there really such a coincidence?

"We are anomalies in this world. We are even different from the ghost servants. We are stowaways, while you are an anomaly among anomalies.

We are different."

"Get to the point." Zhou Ze tapped on the blackboard (bar).

"Have you never suspected that your death and your rebirth were not an accident?"

Tang Shi lowered her voice and asked slowly,

"Think carefully, are there any details in this that you've overlooked before?"

…………

"They're coming after me, they've found me..."

The old man's fingernails pierced into his arm, and the old man had a relieved smile on his face.

At the traffic light, my car had just started to move,

A truck ran a red light,

and charged straight towards me.

The firelight and heat of the crematorium;

The numbness and desolation on the Yellow Springs Road in hell.

The faceless woman's roar and unwillingness,

The black fingernails that grew from my fingertips.

I was staggering vaguely by the roadside,

A man in a hoodie ran out of the bookstore,

He beat Xu Le to death with a baseball bat,

And then I entered Xu Le's body.

…………

Zhou Ze slowly raised his head and opened his eyes.

What happened to the person who killed Xu Le,

after I reported it to the police that time?

Zhou Ze had been ignoring this matter.

He had been going back and forth between the bookstore and Doctor Lin, interpreting Xu Le's death and his own "usurpation" more as a cycle of karma.

It was also another kind of divine retribution.

But since the old man who was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment deliberately pierced his arm with his fingernails,

The truck driver who ran the red light and killed me was deliberate,

So many people, were deliberate,

Then,

That man who I previously explained as having a momentary impulse to rob money and beat Xu Le to death with a baseball bat,

Could he,

also be deliberate?

If he was deliberate,

It would mean that my death to my rebirth,

This line,

was all considered to be designed. I was like a toy car in a toy racetrack, seemingly speeding along, but actually just following a set track.

"It seems you've thought of something."

Tang Shi put another White Rabbit candy into her mouth.

Zhou Ze picked up the phone. He was going to call the police station. He had reported the case last time and made a statement at the police station. His first meeting with Doctor Lin was also at the police station.

The policewoman led Doctor Lin in front of him and said, "Your wife has come to take you home."

Zhou Ze was in a daze for a long time.

However, before dialing the phone, Zhou Ze looked at Tang Shi and asked,

"How did you find out?"

"You know, compared to us,

you're like in a wolf's den,

a cute husky got mixed in."

………………

The rain was still falling, with no sign of stopping. Tongcheng is located in the Yangtze River Delta region, and naturally, there is plenty of rain in this season.

There are no earthquakes or tsunamis here. The only thing that happens fairly often and may cause some impact is flooding.

Wearing a raincoat, Zhou Ze walked downstairs in the old apartment building. The trash cans had been soaked in rainwater, and some of the trash had already floated out.

Tang Shi was wearing rain boots and a black raincoat, her legs faintly visible in the rain, but Zhou Ze naturally didn't have the leisure to appreciate this scenery.

He had called to check the situation earlier. The person he had sent to the police station had only been detained for half a month. The charge was only violating public security regulations. After all, although he went to Zhou Ze's store to "commit violence," the end result was that Zhou Ze knocked him down. It was difficult to get him a major charge.

And Zhou Ze couldn't possibly say:

Police officer,

he's a murderer,

he killed me,

and I'm not me,

I'm a ghost possessing a corpse!!!

If he said that,

probably, he wouldn't go in,

but he would be forcibly sent to a mental hospital instead.

However, Zhou Ze still found that person's address from there, in this area.

"It's this one."

On the second floor, Zhou Ze stopped in front of a door.

Most of the apartments in this area are rented to migrant workers who come to Tongcheng to work. The environment and facilities are actually very poor, and they still use public toilets.

"Are you sure?" Tang Shi asked.

"The house number should be correct."

Zhou Ze tried to look towards the window. There was a screen window blocking it, and there were also old curtains, so it was impossible to see clearly from the outside.

"I'll find something to pry the door open first..."

"Click..."

The door lock opened automatically.

Tang Shi made a gesture for Zhou Ze to enter.

Zhou Ze was stunned for a moment,

Smiled,

and walked in.

Thinking that it was a pity not to be a thief with her.

The house was actually just a one-bedroom apartment,

One room,

with a bed, wardrobe, and a small stove with an electric stove.

The house was fairly tidy, but some places had accumulated dust, obviously not inhabited for a long time.

"How long has he been released?"

"Several months. I sent him to the police station the day after I was reborn. He was released half a month later."

Zhou Ze looked around, checking the details here.

"Did he move?" Tang Shi said.

Zhou Ze shook his head. "Not sure."

The guy who beat Xu Le to death with a baseball bat,

disappeared?

Zhou Ze suddenly noticed that there was a different area on the wall behind the bed. He stepped onto the bed, reached out and touched that area of the wall, and then said:

"This wall seems to have been painted later."

"Is there something hidden inside?" Tang Shi asked.

Zhou Ze put his ear close to the wall and knocked on the wall with his hand. "It doesn't sound hollow."

In fact, hollow walls are very common in this type of house. When a new apartment is being renovated, the renovation team will first send a master craftsman to knock on the walls and floors with a ruler. If they find any problems, they will ask the developer to rectify them before proceeding with the renovation.

"It's better to open it and take a look." Tang Shi said.

Zhou Ze nodded. He was just about to say that he would find a tool, then glanced at Tang Shi and consciously took a few steps back.

Tang Shi looked at the cleaver and other hard objects next to the electric stove, and then these objects flew out, constantly hitting and chiseling the wall, again and again.

The idea of a construction company reappeared in Zhou Ze's mind.

Bai Yingying alone was worth the labor of a construction team,

Tang Shi could be worth a batch of engineering equipment,

He just needed to sit there and count the money.

However, as the wall continued to crack, Zhou Ze immediately abandoned those miscellaneous thoughts in his mind.

"Bang!"

A piece of the wall shattered and fell,

A human face was revealed,

This human face still maintained a horrified expression, seemingly perfectly continuing the emotional state before death.

It was that person,

It was the person who beat Xu Le to death with a baseball bat!

In the air,

There was a sour smell.

Zhou Ze reached out and checked the corpse inside, frowned, and said:

"The corpse has only been dead for less than a week."

"You don't seem to be a forensic doctor." Tang Shi reminded.

"This is common sense for a surgeon. The time of death can be roughly judged based on the extent of the corpse's decomposition." Zhou Ze explained.

"Then I can tell you that the wall I just knocked on definitely hasn't been sealed for less than a week. It's been at least three months."

Tang Shi peeled open a candy, put it in her mouth, and continued:

"Unless you think he was killed a week ago and then moved into the wall that was sealed three months ago."

Zhou Ze immediately realized that something was wrong.

Obviously, the corpse could not have been "space-transmitted" into the wall later, and the wall was intact before Tang Shi chiseled it open.

Sniffing,

That sour smell,

Before, he only thought it was the smell emitted by the corpse,

At this time,

Zhou Ze suddenly realized something, pulled open the corpse's head hair,

Sure enough,

He found a small hole. It was an injection hole.

"Yes, the corpse has been dead for a long time, but he was injected with formalin, so the corpse could be preserved so well.

In addition,

Formalin should have been slowly injected into him while he was alive,

Because the effect would be better if it was spread throughout the body with the help of blood circulation."