I asked in astonishment, "She was exorcised? So shouldn't that mean..."
Ye Qing had been involved in what happened back then. He'd found someone to exorcise her, so the matter should have been settled properly. How could this female ghost still have appeared?
Gu Mo shook his head. "Although she was exorcised, some souls can't forget what happened in the past. The slightest trigger can make them reappear as ghosts."
I was stunned.
This was beyond anything I'd imagined.
After death, someone could become a ghost. After being exorcised, they'd already left the world of the living, yet they could still reappear as ghosts?
Nangong Yao parked beside the building.
The police officers at the entrance didn't stop us.
The moment I entered the building, I felt a powerful wave of yin energy.
It was the yin energy Mo Wen had left behind.
The building had sustained some damage. Furniture lay toppled and broken across the floor. There were cracks all over the glass windows, and some had been completely shattered.
A set of clothes had been left where I'd attacked Mo Wen.
The rotary phone was still there too. Its cord had been torn out, and the receiver lay on the ground.
Nangong Yao paused briefly in front of the receiver and the phone. Gripping his heel, he swept his eyes around the room, then let his gaze drift into the distance.
"Looks like she's lost her mind," Nangong Yao said.
Gu Mo added, "Yeah."
The two of them could each see and hear things ordinary people couldn't. They'd made their judgment.
I was worried about my younger sister, and I wasn't curious about anything right now. I just hoped they'd find the female ghost—and my sister—as soon as possible.
"Let's go." Nangong Yao seemed to have found the