Ch 18 - A crowd of evil spirit lines up to confess to me

Chapter 18

Gu Wu Ji thought of the time when the female ghost pressed the button, this building has a total of 12 floors, where did the 13^th floor appear?

However, if this was the case, Cheng Jia was now most probably staying on this extra floor that emerged, so he also did not stop the other’s action.  

The moment the elevator door opened, Gu Wu Ji quickly went out with quick steps, at the moment his foot had been set on the ground, he felt like he had stepped into an even gloomier and colder space, and was able to seemingly hear the whispers of the ghosts past his ears, what they were talking about could not be completely heard, but upon listening carefully, an incomparably intensifying pain will be felt in the head, making them lose their sanity.   

However, Gu Wu Ji did not have any opinion with regards to this, he even felt that these voices he heard were just like his precious memory, there was a feeling of going back to childhood.

Gu Wu Ji looked around for a bit, rather than saying that this this strange place was a hospital room, it would be better to say that this was more like a morgue.

In the entire corridor only the signs which directs the escape route was lit up, which made the surrounding walls deathly pale, the outside was pitch black when looking through the window, the bustling night scenes of the outside world could absolutely not be seen.

Clearly this place was already just like the previous road, which had taken form of a mysterious space that ordinary people couldn’t step into.

Gu Wu Ji’s mind rapidly contemplated things, while simultaneously advancing towards the area where the location of the yin energy was the strongest in a hurry, fearing that being a step late would result to Cheng Jia’s life ending here.  

“A a a a--”

Just at this moment, a screaming voice filled with fear sounded at this time, Gu Wu Ji quickly ran heading towards the place where the voice came from, and soon arrived in front a hospital room, reaching over to push the door open, and sure enough found out that the door has already been locked.

There was also a piece of paper attached on the wall at the side, written here were the doctors and nurses in charge, there was even a diagram on the location of the office that had been marked out.

But what was horrifying was that, the faces of the doctors and nurses on the paper were all blank, looking at it can make people have a creepy feeling in their heart.

Of course, this did not include Gu Wu Ji who was looking at this piece of paper in this very moment.

Gu Wu Ji: “……”

No matter how it appears this implies that he must go look for the key.

But Cheng Jia would surely die, who has the time to play this terrifying game of riddles ah! Oh

Fortunately, this place was just a common ward room, the door was also very ordinary, without any particular protective measures.

This kind of situation completely did not pose a problem for Gu Wu Ji, he took a deep breath, and suddenly slammed towards it, the door then sent out an extremely heavy and loud sound, and was directly knocked open.

After Gu Wu Ji has forcefully knocked the door open, he did not stop his momentum but still rushed advancing in several steps.

In this split second, the whispers of several surrounding ghosts stopped, it was estimated that they without a doubt did not expect that this youth with a slender and tall figure before them could actually have this kind of strength, this was simply not scientific at all!

Gu Wu Ji stopped his steps, and suddenly saw Cheng Jia’s body tottering on the window’s ledge.

It was reasonable to say that the windows in this kind of high-rise buildings was not possible for a person to easily climb up, but this space was manipulated by the ghosts, everything cannot be determined by the common sense, the window sill on this hospital ward even occupied the whole wall, and was no different from the floor to ceiling window.

Realistically speaking, the 13^th floor was the rooftop…… Supposing that if one were really to fall, the other people will be under the impression that the young master of the Cheng family committed suicide by jumping off the top of the hospital building.

“Y-you can’t come over again!” Cheng Jia completely did not notice the scene of Gu Wu Ji forcing the door open, but was looking towards a completely empty space, with a face filled of horror, and was still continuously retreating backwards, as if he was confronting something more terrible than jumping off the building.

Gu Wu Ji made no action to stop it, the mind was well aware that this was the manifestation of the 5 senses being influenced by the ghost, it might be impossible for Cheng Jia to hear him speak, it was also uncertain that he might be mistaken as a ghost, which might lead into jumping off the building to be much more faster.

However, the ghost clearly didn’t give enough time for Gu Wu Ji to hesitate, as Cheng Jia had once again shifted back a bit, the body at once became unstable and began to fall backwards.

“Dammit!” Gu Wu Ji suddenly rushed past, and with one hand grabbed the other’s hand, the two people were suddenly in a dangerous position.

At this moment, Gu Wu Ji ‘s body was leaning over the window’s ledge, a bit of instability would cause them to fall down, he held on to the hands of Cheng Jia who was still frantically struggling like he saw a ghost, and was so frightened that it seemed like foam was about to be emerge from his mouth.

What was even more depressing was that, a pair of ice-cold hands had unknowingly appeared on top of Gu Wu Ji’s shoulder, a malicious laughter came from behind his body, as if he would be pushed deep in the abyss in the next moment--

After that, Gu Wu Ji without delay pulled Cheng Jia upwards, pulling him indoor in a flash, the faceless female ghost behind him was even knock back and stumbled.

The scene had once again became extremely awkward.

After all, under the strange strength of Gu Wu Ji’s body, those tactics used to deal with ordinary people simply cannot be put into good use with him at all.

Because Cheng Jia’s struggling was actually causing such great problems, Gu Wu Ji extended his hand, directly knocking him unconscious, then set his gaze on the female ghost in front of him again, using a tone brimming with righteousness said: “Miss female ghost, you don’t have to be anxious, I will absolutely make him be punished according to the law!”

Female ghost: “??”

“I know, that Cheng Jia must have certainly done something to make you become like this today. He must have tried doing something against the law with you, which then caused you to die, and as a result, became a malicious spirit to come back and take revenge.” Gu Wu Ji heaved a sigh, “Even if I recently had some interaction with Cheng Jia, but it’s also impossible for me to cover-up this kind of conduct.”

Female ghost: “……”

“This kind of person is exactly what I detest the most in life!” Gu Wu Ji said with great indignation.

The female ghost having heard up to here, after some silence, unexpectedly, still shook her head.

“It’s wrong? Then could it be that an accident happened while he was driving under the influence of alcohol?” Gu Wu Ji quickly said each and every kind of conjecture he could think of, “Or could it be a hostile takeover of whose company, that made someone bankrupt, and implicated you in the end, that cause all this to happen?”

It was not known when Chen Jia had already woken up, his eyes widened and almost popped out after hearing the words of Gu Wu Ji, but did not have the strength to speak a word because of the body’s weakness.

He actually had this kind of image in Gu-dashi’s heart! Even though he had really done a lot of wrong things before, but he wasn’t this kind of ignorant and incompetent hedonistic son of rich parent…… Fine, as a matter of fact, he is precisely that ignorant and incompetent hedonistic son of rich parent, but he has absolutely never done this kind of terrible things ah!

On the other side, Gu Wu Ji saw that the female ghost had never answered, so he still continued to talk about all his speculations, which made Cheng Jia momentarily forget the fear with his direct confrontation of the ghost, and only wished to recover his strength right away to face Gu Wu Ji to prove his own innocence.

Even though the female ghost had no face, but Gu Wu Ji was clearly able to sense her giving him a glance, then soon after swept her gaze to Cheng Jia’s body.

After an intense gaze on Cheng Jia, the figure of the female ghost dissipated little by little.

A gust of cold wind blew pass, the two people were generally just like suddenly waking up, and only then did they notice that they were standing at the edge of the rooftop, if one was inattentive then he would surely fall down and would be destined to die horribly.

Thinking about it now, it is estimated that after Cheng Jia went to the toilet, at the moment he returned he had already been influenced by the ghost, he had assumed that he was heading downstairs and kept hitting a ghost wall, but was in fact on the roof top.

“It seems that the incident has been resolved.” Gu Wu Ji said in a hushed tone, “But what could be the meaning of that final look……and in the end what could be the reason for that kind of space yo appear here.”

Even though Gu Wu Ji would constantly encounter ghosts, the number of times he entered into this kind of space were also not much, after all, this kind of space would generally require a great amount of resentment, or a specially abnormal amount of dead people…… and yet this hospital was obviously fine before, nevertheless this incident only occurred after Cheng Jia came.

He then immediately gave a meaningful glance towards Cheng Jia’s body.

At this point, Cheng Jia’s entire body was covered in cold sweats, finally regaining his strength, he immediately held tight on Gu Wu Ji’s thigh, for fear that Gu Wu Ji would still have some misunderstanding towards him, “No! Gu-dashi! I’m innocent, I have definitely never done anything outrageous, the things that I have previously done to you was when my mind was in a haze, I have already changed now!”

“You also don’t look like your lying.” Gu Wu Ji reasoned: “But, can you get up first? We still need to go down.”

“Ah, en!” Cheng Jia’s face flushed, immediately getting up, while walking also spoke with Gu Wu Ji: “Gu-dashi, I was really frightened to death just a while ago, and always thought that I would certainly die, don’t you know, when I was inside the room, that faceless nurse came in just like that, then I without knowing what happened almost fell down…… At that time, a male ghost with an extremely terrible appearance had also unexpectedly appeared! And even caught my hand, it was truly very frightening……”

Gu Wu Ji: “……”

Cheng Jia completely did not notice the subtle expression of Gu Wu Ji, “But after I woke up you appeared, you are really very benevolent! So many times, regardless of danger, helping me during the midst of calamity……What I want to say is, Gu-dashi, do you have that……”

“What?” If not for the feeling that there still seems to be something unresolved in Cheng Jia’s side, Gu Wu Ji would certainly have immediately walked away.

“Do you have that idea of accepting an apprentice?” Cheng Jia mustered up his courage and spoke, “Even though I am that ignorant and incompetent hedonistic son of rich parents, but I have a sincere heart! You can examine whether or not I have that talent!”

“There’s none.” Gu Wu Ji bluntly said.

Gu Wu Ji felt that Cheng Jia seems to have misunderstood something, but explaining things were too troublesome, as a result he felt disinclined to say anything more to Cheng Jia.

“As expected, I knew it, I am just an ordinary person……” Cheng Jia heaved a sigh, but he to one’s surprise had yet to give up, looking over with a bright gaze, “But remembering a follower is also possible! No, doing odd jobs is also alright, as long as you can let me follow your side!”

“The hospital room is finally here, you should go in.” Gu Wu Ji completely gave up in listening to Cheng Jia’s words.

They had now reached the normal 12^th floor, the nurse attending Cheng Jia was currently anxious and was looking for someone, after seeing the two was then able to sigh in relief, and was later sent away by Cheng Jia.

Cheng Jia faced the nurse with a flamboyant manner, when the person went out his complexion immediately became deathly pale, “Gu-dashi, I-I don’t want to continue and stay in this hospital! I beseech you, let me, let me go back home with you! It doesn’t matter even if I sleep on the floor!”

Having encountered this kind of terrible things twice in a short amount of time, had already made Cheng Jia frightened like a dog, how could he still dare to live in the hospital room on his own? And simply couldn’t help but wish to follow by Gu Wu Ji’s side 24 hours a day.

“What you said also makes sense.” It also came to Gu Wu Ji’s mind that not everyone was just like him, after previously encountering a ghost, was still able to continually live as nonchalant as before, an average person would possibly have immediately chosen to move away……

“Alright then.” Gu Wu Ji thought of a decision, “Bring me back to your house.”

“W-what?” Cheng Jia became surprised.

“Why? Are you unable to?”

“No, I just didn’t expect……didn’t expect that Gu-dashi would actually……if you can……” Cheng Jia had a bashful appearance, just like having a very embarrassing idea, “If you want, I can certainly devote my life to you!”

“What are you thinking about?” Gu Wu Ji suddenly wanted silence.

He had just thought that the aura around Cheng Jia was different from the usual, adding the hint of that ghost lady from just a while ago, and as a result, felt the possibility that he might have been infected by something bad from somewhere, and then thought that the greatest probability was within the other’s home, nothing more.

In the end, how did this devoting oneself to him come up from!

Cheng Jia seeing Gu Wu Ji’s subtle expression, later hesitated, while continually saying: “If Gu-dashi already has a partner, then it doesn’t matter even if I’m a lover on the side! Or I can be your Cicisbeo* or something……”

*a man who has professed to be a lover of a woman married to someone else

Gu Wu Ji: “……”

Gu Wu Ji: “I changed my mind, I’ll go home by myself.”

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The author has something to say: Of course, this is just a younger brother.

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