Workers and Peasants Sixth Village was deserted.
Most of the people who lived there had already moved away.
Under the normal demolition process, people would move only after the demolition office had arranged media coverage. The first family to move out would appear on camera, and we would also be filmed helping families in need with their move.
Things had been different in Workers and Peasants Sixth Village from the very beginning.
We parked wherever we could in front of the residential building that housed the residents' committee. When we got out, we all stood beside the car for a while.
"Did the Housing Administration Bureau leave too?" the Thin Man asked, stating the obvious.
"Hadn't they finished checking everything yesterday?" the Fat Man replied.
Chen Xiaoqiu and Guo Yujie talked about how many property owners had already signed the agreements.
The conversation was perfectly calm, as though we were all living in a very harmonious world without ghosts or anything supernatural, just like the world we'd lived in a year ago, before we came into contact with the Greenleaf Paranormal Agency.
But we weren't living in such a beautiful world after all.
When we entered the residents' committee office, we saw Director Mao looking troubled.
"You're here," Director Mao greeted us.
"Has something happened?" Guo Yujie asked with concern.
"Ah, it's not..." Director Mao hesitated, then sighed. "It's about Auntie Song again."
Song Xian?
I raised an eyebrow.
Guo Yujie asked, "Have her two sons objected to the original compensation agreement?"
That question showed that Guo Yujie still thought like a normal person. Unlike me: my first thought was that something had happened to the head, and my second was that Song Xian had become a ghost and was causing trouble.
I could imagine how much trouble it would