Chapter 71 - 71 Seventy-one

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71: Seventy-one. Ghost Employee 71: Seventy-one. Ghost Employee “What was that noise?” The couple looked suspiciously in the direction from which the sound had come. “It sounded like a gunshot...” Jojo murmured, and in the void that she couldn’t see, a figure darted past her and rushed towards the source of the gunshot. Lu Li had run into trouble! Anna’s lips were tightly pressed together as she transformed into a blur and dashed the remaining distance to the room with the dried-up well. Without even glancing at the dry well in the center, she burst into the next room where a flickering light source was visible. Under the oil lamp, Anna clearly saw the scene in the mirror room: Lu Li was holding a gun in his right hand, and the young tourist who had been with her was painfully sprawled on the ground. She did not conceal her presence, and her unfamiliar ghostly aura was perceived by the young man, who curled up like a quail, not daring to lift his head. “Were you attacked?” Anna gauged Lu Li for a moment and, seeing that he appeared unharmed, felt a slight relief. “They wouldn’t dare,” Lu Li put away his gun and turned his head towards her, “Have you had your fun?” Anna’s attention was diverted, and she nodded listlessly, “Yeah, but it was just so-so...” Perhaps because she had interacted with Lu Li a lot, or maybe the ghosts here were too weak, Anna didn’t feel any fear or terror. Maybe she had grown braver? “But I didn’t expect the Haunted House to actually have living ghosts...” “Bring the other ghosts from the Ghost House here,” Lu Li said, no longer needing to hide his intentions. Anna was puzzled; wasn’t their goal to confirm if the Haunted House had supernatural occurrences? Why gather the ghosts? However, she complied, crisply responding, “Leave it to me,” and dashed out of the room, disappearing in an instant. Her presence quickly faded away. “Eh? Is someone hurt?” A sudden light exclamation came diagonally, Jojo and the couple walked up from behind the door. The couple was startled and quickly asked. As Jojo passed by the young man who dared not stand up, she naturally moved closer to Lu Li. Lu Li said, “Go negotiate with them and persuade them to leave.” “Understood.” Jojo returned to the couple, speaking seriously, “We are handling a paranormal incident here, and we would like you both to step aside and leave the Ghost House for now.” “Huh...?” The couple looked at each other, not understanding. “Cough cough... Let me explain,” a voice sounded at the door. A plump man with a flowered shirt and suit pants, dressed as a manager, hastened his short legs toward the couple. He passed by the young man, exchanged a glance with him as he looked up, signaling him to get up quickly, and said, “Sorry about that. Let me introduce myself, I’m the manager here, the owner of the Ghost House. This gentleman is our employee, who is responsible for hiding among the visitors and then suddenly revealing himself to scare them. However, there was a bit of an accident just now, our employee scared this gentleman too closely and startled him. Then, this gentleman accidentally injured our employee... The Ghost House is temporarily closed as we need to handle the situation, and we might not be able to let you continue. But you can consider yourselves having completed the challenge; there are staff outside prepared with completion gifts for you. Would you like to go collect your completion gifts?” The girl looked suspiciously between the two and reluctantly agreed, heading toward the exit the manager had indicated. Once the couple had left, the manager’s expression instantly turned from beaming smiles to annoyance. At the doorway, Anna mercilessly herded three wailing ghosts into the mirror room. “Did I say something wrong...?” Jojo walked back to Lu Li’s side, ponderingly asking. You couldn’t call Jojo stupid... but she certainly acted quite cluelessly. “Doesn’t matter.” Lu Li replied, indifferent to whether something might have been revealed, as long as his goal was achieved. With a proud tone, Anna clapped her hands and returned to Lu Li’s side, “All done~ There are a total of five ghosts in the Ghost House. Hey you! Line up for me!” The five ghostly figures shuddered and obediently lined up in front of Anna, a slightly stronger ghost. Jojo glanced sideways, unable to see how Anna, who usually looked like a noble young lady, could be so imposing. Da-da-da-da... The sound of teeth chattering seemed to come from nowhere. Lu Li calmly swept his gaze over them and spoke, “Let’s introduce ourselves.” “My name is Lou...” “I am...” “Please, I beg you...” “Spare me...” “Whimpering...” The chaotic noise immediately burst into a commotion, and Lu Li, disliking the noise, slightly furrowed his brows. “Quiet!” At Anna’s crisp command, the five ghosts instantly fell silent, as if chilled by winter frost. Lu Li looked at the young man on his left. “You go first.” The five distinct, chilling spirits dutifully stood in a line, their expressions fearful. “My name is Louis, twenty-seven, unmarried, a local from Belfast...” the young man stammered as he began. There was a scorched bullet hole in the leather jacket he wore, but it didn’t seem to bother the ghost, whose spirit form had started to turn slightly transparent from the beginning of his gaze. “Cause of death.” The young man looked down, “I fell off a carriage and was hit by another carriage coming from the opposite direction and died...” “Why are you here?” The young man looked up, quickly glanced at the ghost house manager on his far right, and slowly said, “The boss brought me here, said they could shelter me and I could work here...” “Anything else to add?” The young man was startled, then shook his head in confusion, “That should be all.” Lu Li shifted his gaze to the second one, a woman in a white dress: “How about you?” The woman in the white dress stepped forward conservatively, “My name is Lilith, twenty-six, unmarried, forgot where I was born, everyone calls me ‘Tater’... was drowned in a well by my boyfriend...” “Anna, find a phone.” Lu Li turned his head and said, intending to call the police. “Wait a minute, sir! Please let her finish!” The manager, realizing what Lu Li was about to do, frantically tried to intervene, anxious to step forward but not daring to. Lu Li and Anna glanced sideways, their questioning eyes on the woman in the white dress. She quickly added, “Then my boyfriend jumped in as well, and we drowned together... It’s just that I turned into a ghost, and he didn’t.” “Was it agreed?” “Yes.” Lu Li was slightly silent. It was a suicide pact, not a murder. In such cases, he could not interfere. Seeing Lu Li’s seemingly regretful expression, Anna muttered in her heart, how much do you love calling the police... “Why are you here?” “Same, the boss pulled me over. Said they’d take care of food and lodging, though I don’t need to eat.” Next up was a twisted ghost shadow. The twisted ghost shadow said succinctly, “22 years old, died falling off the edge of a rooftop during a game of truth or dare while standing on my head.” Lu Li noted the twisted, tattered body hesitating briefly before shifting his gaze away, “Next.” The fourth was the headless ghost. He was clutching his head as if a biker holding a helmet or an astronaut holding a space helmet. Given the state of the ghost, it might be necessary to call the police for this type of death.

Chapter 71 - 71 Seventy-one

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