I suddenly felt that what Wu Ling had said sounded very familiar.
A powerful ghost teaching other ghosts to do something...
Wasn't that what the Guide of the Return Township did?
My nerves immediately went taut.
Had a terrifying evil ghost appeared in People's Celebration City?
No, that wasn't right. People's Celebration City had already had a terrifying evil ghost for a long time.
The mastermind behind that delivery shop, the mastermind behind that fried chicken shop!
I had originally suspected that the one controlling those ghosts might be someone like Bai An, the master of the Green-Faced Ghost. But thinking about it now, there was another possibility: another evil ghost had done this.
Could it be the same one?
I felt uncertain and alarmed again.
Wu Ling had already voiced her guess, which was exactly what I had been thinking.
"...Ye Qing and Master Xuanqing suspected this before, but they never managed to catch it. Judging from the situation, there's a good chance that a powerful ghost has appeared in People's Celebration City, too. So much time has passed, and we can't be sure whether Yujing has stayed in contact with the other party. Nangong has looked into Yujing's current situation. She was discharged six years ago and should have stayed in People's Celebration City. The last time her ID was used was to rent an apartment. She only rented it for half a month before ending the lease and disappearing. We'll contact the landlord and Han Jiesheng next to see if they know anything." Wu Ling spoke methodically. She wasn't excited by the major discovery, nor was she anxious about what it might mean.
I couldn't help voicing my own suspicion: the delivery job Greenleaf had handled, the fried chicken shop, Zheng Wei's mother, and the evil ghost