After showering, Zhou Ze, dressed in a white shirt and casual pants, was carried out by Bai Yingying and placed on the bamboo mat on the second floor. When Bai Yingying came down, Xu Qinglang immediately rushed over and asked:

"What's the situation?"

Secretly,

cautiously,

this feeling was akin to running an underground casino, filled with trepidation, as if the police would burst in at any moment to catch them gambling.

Bai Yingying hesitated, her face flushed.

Xu Qinglang frowned,

*You’re a zombie, why are you blushing?*

"What's going on?" Xu Qinglang pressed, eager for an answer.

"Wha..." Bai Yingying stammered.

"Hey, stop stalling. Do you still want that latest graphics card?"

"The boss said he'd get me a new, top-of-the-line computer after the shop moves," Bai Yingying said shyly.

"You've been bought off?" Xu Qinglang’s face darkened.

"Yeah," Bai Yingying admitted honestly.

"Wait, he only has a little over ten thousand yuan. Moving and decorating will cost a lot, and I'm covering the rent. He doesn't have that much money."

"The boss took two of my jade hairpins and pawned them for five hundred thousand, saying he'll give me seven hundred and fifty thousand in half a year."

"He tricked you into pawning funerary objects?" Xu Qinglang looked at her like she was an idiot. "Are you stupid?! Those were your burial goods!"

"The boss said he'd return them," Bai Yingying muttered.

"You believe everything he says? If he said he was your zombie ancestor, would you believe that too?"

"I would," Bai Yingying said softly.

Because she really sensed the aura of a zombie on the boss.

"You're hopeless, silly girl." Xu Qinglang looked at her with exasperation. "By the way, I wanted to ask you something. Do you have any sisters?"

"Huh?"

"I want to find a female zombie to be my maid too. It's a sure-win deal."

"Oh."

Bai Yingying straightened up.

A cold aura suddenly emanated from her body,

The silly girl instantly transformed into an Ice Queen.

Xu Qinglang, still wallowing in self-pity, suddenly shuddered.

That familiar trembling sensation from their first meeting returned, and almost instinctively, Xu Qinglang turned back into a little quail.

"You said, hire who as a maid?" the female zombie asked.

"No, I said I'd go buy a new graphics card for you this afternoon so you can play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with the highest settings."

…………

"Here, this is the Qingyi Niangniang's (Azure-Clad Goddess) information."

Tang Shi handed a tablet to Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze's hair was still wet. He leaned against the wall and sat on the bamboo mat, looking like a handsome but頹廢 (tuí fèi, dispirited) college student who had just finished playing basketball and taken a shower.

Xu Le had all kinds of shortcomings and was a complete waste of space in many ways,

but you couldn't deny that Xu Le was good-looking.

Otherwise, the Lin family parents wouldn't have chosen him as their live-in son-in-law.

"Seeking children?" Zhou Ze said, glancing at the Qingyi Niangniang's information.

Qingyi Niangniang was a small local temple in Tong City. She didn't exist in historical records, and she didn't even have a place in the mainstream mythology. Even in Tong City, she wasn't exactly a household name.

Her popularity wasn't widespread. Most of the stories about her were made up by later generations.

Just like how many scenic spots in Yangzhou's Slender West Lake were related to the Qianlong Emperor's visits to Jiangnan, as if the Qianlong Emperor did nothing but tirelessly create stories in the Slender West Lake to give these scenic spots their names.

The story of Qingyi Niangniang was also a bit far-fetched. There was a town in Tong City called Lüsi, supposedly named because Lü Dongbin had come here four times. This Qingyi Niangniang was a widow that Lü Dongbin met when he came to Tong City.

The widow was childless and didn't remarry, honoring her deceased husband. She loved children and was kind-hearted, so she took in many orphans, essentially running an ancient orphanage and daycare center. Lü Dongbin discovered her and gave her an azure robe as encouragement.

After her death, the locals built a temple to commemorate her merits, calling it Qingyi Niangniang.

Most of the people who came to this temple to offer incense were seeking children and the continuation of their family line, similar to the effects of the Guanyin (Goddess of Mercy) who grants children.

However, it was mentioned at the bottom that the Qingyi Niangniang Temple had been demolished during the old city renovation.

As for rebuilding it, it was difficult. Firstly, she wasn't as famous as Mazu (Goddess of the Sea), and secondly, building a new temple was indeed very difficult. Developers wouldn't add to their own workload. Although some local elders opposed it, the temple was eventually demolished.

The information included a photo from a few years ago. The Qingyi Niangniang Temple in the photo was already dilapidated. The head of the statue had fallen off God knows when, leaving only a headless sculpture standing there.

This did match the image of the headless woman.

"So-called temple gods are soul fetuses shaped by faith and incense, just like the faceless woman who came to test you. She was transformed from the grievances of those who passed away on the Huangquan (Underworld) Road," Tang Shi explained.

"She knew her temple was about to be demolished and she was about to disappear, so she came out to kill people to vent her anger?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Temple gods have their own code of conduct. Even in their final frenzy, they would never act without purpose."

"I know this. I checked it out." Xu Qinglang walked up from the stairwell at this moment. "The girl whose head was cut off by the ceiling fan had had three abortions at the hospital. Qingyi Niangniang deliberately used her own code of conduct to carry out her final punishment."

"Punishment?" Zhou Ze asked back. "Who gave her the authority to do that?"

Xu Qinglang shrugged. "Everyone has a different perspective, so their position is naturally different. In her eyes, a child is a life, and having an abortion for no reason, an irresponsible abortion, is a desecration of life."

"So, if I hadn't stumbled upon it, she would have continued to find people like this and cause their accidental deaths?" Zhou Ze asked.

"That should be the case." Tang Shi nodded. "She's already crazy and obsessed. Anyone, when they reach the end of the road, will always go crazy, even if she's a temple god."

"I've always been curious about one thing. Why did she only let the women die? Old Zhou, do you remember the boyfriend of the girl in the noodle shop? Why was he okay?

Does Qingyi Niangniang also favor boys over girls?"

"So the most pitiful one is still that student boyfriend."

Zhou Ze gave the answer.

Xu Qinglang was stunned when he heard this.

A look of understanding appeared on his face as he said:

"When will my thinking be as excellent as yours?"

"In short, you can slow down a bit next time you do things," Tang Shi reminded. "Don't touch desperadoes, or these kinds of temple gods, next time. Whatever she does, she has her previous merits to offset it. It's not your dereliction of duty."

"It's not a question of whether I want to touch them or not. It's that I just happened to encounter them, and then..."

After thinking about it,

Zhou Ze thought of the monkey back then,

and suddenly felt uninterested in explaining. He simply waved his hand and said, "Never mind, I won't talk about it."

Tang Shi smiled at this moment and said, "I originally thought you were different from him, but now I suddenly realize that you're essentially the same."

"I don't want to walk his path. By the way, is your injury healed?"

"Almost."

"Then what are you still doing here? Why don't you go help that friend of yours? I can help you book a flight to Rong City."

"Going or not, it won't make much of a difference. The outcome won't change because I went, and I believe he can come back."

Xu Qinglang was about to leave at this moment when he suddenly thought of something and said, "By the way, the shop's matters have all been handled. We can move at any time."

"I'll wait until my body recovers a bit more," Zhou Ze said.

He didn't want to be in a wheelchair when he was taking care of the shop's business.

"Okay, then take good care of yourself and be careful not to get wet."

Xu Qinglang went downstairs.

Tang Shi was still standing here. With a wave of her finger, a White Rabbit candy took off its wrapper and flew into her mouth,

Then, while chewing, she asked Zhou Ze:

"Something seems to have changed about you."

"Maybe."

"But I still need to remind you to take good care of your body, because for us, coming back from hell and choosing a body is a one-time opportunity. Once this body is ruined, you'll become a wandering ghost."

"Are there no exceptions?" Zhou Ze frowned. He wasn't very fond of this body, although he had gotten used to it, there were always some unspeakable reasons.

Especially when facing Doctor Lin.

Tang Shi thought for a moment and said, "That one seems to have the ability to switch bodies, but he's just a special case. For us, there's only one unique and single chance."

"You seem to be in a good mood today." Zhou Ze noticed that Tang Shi was talking a lot today.

Zhou Ze wouldn't be narcissistic enough to think that this woman was so happy and talkative because he had returned safely.

"He sent a message. There will be a result at the end of the month."

"Oh, the hope stone got the news, so she's overjoyed."

Zhou Ze stretched, "I hope he can unleash his full potential over there, kill all those ghost messengers, faceless women, and everything else. Even if he has to self-destruct at the end, he should drag them down with him, so I can continue to live my comfortable little life."

The little loli and the faceless woman were like a Sword of Damocles hanging over his head.

"When things are settled over there, he might come here too. Maybe you guys can become neighbors."

Heh, woman.

To be honest, Zhou Ze wasn't very confident that he could safely return from Rong City, but he also knew that, for the Tang Shi in front of him, she wouldn't listen to any rational words.

Zhou Ze could only continue along this line of conversation:

"That's fine. We can form a group too. Doesn't Marvel have something called the Avengers? We can have one too,

《Hell Visitor Alliance》?

《Hell Dwellers Alliance》?"

"Too obviously copying them, and it's corny." Tang Shi was clearly dissatisfied with the name.

"Heh, then you suggest one."

"《Anorexic Alliance》, how about that?"