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"Talk about bad luck. Tsk~"

A man wearing Black Sunglasses cursed as he stormed out of the Hangcheng City Police Department. He glanced back, spat into the flower bed, and fled before the nearby duty Criminal Inspector could react.

"I’m seriously pissed to death. Huff~~ huff~~"

The man jogged to the parking lot outside the City Police Department, leaned against a black sedan, and panted heavily. He continued cursing, "Damn old woman. She’s really like a mad dog.

"It’s not like her son disappeared for more than one night—just one night! He isn’t dead, so what’s she panicking about? Damn~"

After cursing for a while, he opened the sedan’s door and sat in the driver’s seat. He picked up the teacup beside him and took a sip of strong tea, then loosened his collar and took several breaths. After turning on the air conditioner, he leaned back in the driver’s seat.

"Damn it. What the hell is going on? Hanzi and the others have vanished, and I can’t get in touch with that second-generation heir, Zheng Shaotian. What am I supposed to do now?"

After resting for a while, the man sat up. He took a sip of tea and muttered worriedly to himself.

The five of them, including Hanzi, hadn’t called him last night, so he had sensed that something was wrong. However, he had only acted as a middleman in the matter and hadn’t participated himself. He didn’t know much, so he hadn’t paid it any attention.

But when Hanzi’s mother came to his door and caused a scene, he realized there was a problem. He hurriedly called Zheng Shaotian’s secondary number, but no one answered. Even now, he still hadn’t received any news, which left him flustered.

"What should you do? Just tell me everything you know."

At that moment, a man’s cold sneer suddenly rang out inside the sealed car. The Black Sunglasses man’s back instantly broke out in sweat, and every hair on his body stood on end.

"Who is it? Which friend is joking around with me, Hu Si?"

As Black Sunglasses man Hu Si spoke, he widened his eyes and looked around, but couldn’t find the source of the voice at all. The air conditioner was clearly running, yet he felt cold from the bottom of his heart, from head to toe.

"You want to see me? I can satisfy your request. Hahahahaha~~~~~"

Amid a burst of laughter that filled him with terror, a small paper doll glowing with a bloody red light appeared before his eyes.

The small paper doll drifted and danced in midair. Even more frighteningly, its face seemed filled with intelligence. When the laughter rang out just now, the paper doll had also been grinning and laughing.

"A ghost!"

Hu Si stumbled backward into the driver’s seat, scrambling frantically to open the door and escape.

"You think you can still get away?"

Amid a series of cold, stern male voices, another paper doll suddenly appeared and wrapped itself around Hu Si’s right hand. His right hand began moving against his will, suddenly grabbing his still-free left hand and wrenching it violently.

"Crack~~ Ah~"

Hu Si’s right hand actually bent his own left forearm until it was crooked. It was clearly dislocated at the very least. Pain surged through him, turning his entire face deathly pale and covering it with sweat.

"M-Master, whatever you want to know, I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you everything!"

Seeing that escape was impossible and that he had been injured, Hu Si immediately became submissive. He began begging and fawning over the little paper doll before him, hoping to win his life.

"Tell me everything you know. Regarding what Zheng Shaotian instructed you to do yesterday, don’t leave out a single word. Explain every detail clearly."

After the paper doll finished speaking, the red light on it seemed to dim somewhat. In reality, Gu Sheng, who was casting the spell from the lounge, was indeed in poor condition.

Because he had already made plans to use Le Erya, he had asked her to stay and look after him.

But that also meant that with her nearby, Gu Sheng had to be extremely careful while casting the spell. He couldn’t release fluctuations of mana that were too strong, or Le Erya, who possessed Telekinesis, might detect them.

The lounge was not as far from the parking area outside as Zhenglin Manor had been from the hotel, but it was already close to the limit of the distance over which Gu Sheng could transmit his voice back and forth.

Thus, every time Gu Sheng received a message and controlled the paper doll to speak, he expended a considerable amount of mana and spiritual sense.

"Yes, yes, yes~~~"

Hu Si was terrified. Upon hearing Gu Sheng’s words, he hurriedly nodded in agreement, then began recounting what he knew. "I don’t know much about this matter, sir.

"Yesterday afternoon, a little after two, Zheng Shaotian, the Third Young Master of the Zheng Family, called me and told me to find some people to teach a student a lesson. I’ve known Zheng Shaotian for quite a while, and this wasn’t the first time he’d asked me to do this kind of thing.

"I agreed without thinking much about it. However, I had something else to deal with yesterday, so I didn’t personally lead anyone there. Instead, I sent my subordinate Wang Wan with four others. Hanzi, whose mother was making a scene today, was one of them.

"I don’t know much about what happened afterward. I only know that they seemed to have been taken by Zheng Shaotian to identify someone. I don’t know what happened after that. I was mainly busy with other things and didn’t pay much attention. There seemed to be something else too…"

Hu Si spilled everything in one breath, though his account wasn’t very detailed. Every now and then, he blurted out another tidbit, as if he had only just remembered it. His words were somewhat disjointed, which confirmed what he had said: he truly didn’t know much.

"That’s all you know? You haven’t told anyone else about this, have you?"

The paper doll drifted and spun again, while the red light gathered upon it seemed to begin fluctuating.

"O-Of course not! I’ve told you everything. I really haven’t told anyone else. Can you let me go now?"

Hu Si sensed danger as well. He struggled to escape, twisting his body in an attempt to free his right hand from the paper doll’s control. Unfortunately, his left arm had been dislocated, and every exertion brought a burst of pain. He was completely unable to break free from the increasingly thin yet dazzling red light.

Hu Si struggled and screamed as if he were having a seizure. The entire car shook. "Let me go! Let me go…

"I’ve only been married for ten years. My youngest son is just seven, and my elderly mother is at home too. I’m the pillar of my family. If I die, my entire family will have nothing to rely on. Let me go! I don’t want to die! Let me go~~"

"You don’t want to die? What about the wronged souls and vengeful ghosts you killed? Just because you don’t deserve to die, others do? Heaven watches everything people do. If you don’t deserve to die, then no one in this world deserves to die."

The red light atop the two paper dolls began to spread, and a cold, furious shout echoed through the car. Hu Si had revealed many secrets while recalling the past, including what they had done to Chu Xin and the others that day. This group had done such things more than once.

They often helped certain second-generation heirs deal with female students in this way. After committing their evil deeds, they took photos of the girls and threatened them, forcing them to sink step by step.

After these girls had been used for every last bit of their value, those once lovely girls, as delicate as flowers, became walking corpses, living only for the sake of staying alive.

"Ah~~"

A shrill cry abruptly cut off, and the rocking sedan suddenly fell silent.