When I heard that familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar landline ringtone,
Though I had been utterly drained and sleepy, my spirits jolted awake.
My head snapped around as I looked at that old-fashioned landline.
It was an old red household telephone.
It had always sat beside the counter...
Its red buttons were beginning to go dark as the countdown started.
"Ring, ring, ring. Ring, ring, ring..."
The numbers had already gone dark down to eight.
This was not the first time I had seen it ring. I knew another mission had arrived.
Every mission it issued could be said to be extremely serious.
The first time it rang was the corpse-collection mission at South Heaven Lake.
Water ghosts in the lake, vicious corpses harming people.
That was the first time I had faced a red-clad ferocious ghost, a Water Demon, and Nine Corpse Daoist's immortal straw body.
Master had yet to recover from his serious injuries then, and his cultivation was at its lowest. He had nearly died there.
The second mission was at Shen Family Village.
Besides evil ghosts, we had encountered Qing Dynasty zombies and evil spirits.
The Great Fiend Eye had appeared out of thin air and even triggered a landslide. On our way down the mountain, we had also run into a Great Fiend spy.
The third time, we handed three utterly wicked criminals over to the men in black.
Those seven days of running the Yin Longevity Shop had nearly killed me too.
It could be said that danger had lurked at every turn.
Among the missions I had carried out, it ranked fairly high in terms of danger.
Now that the phone was ringing again, I would have been lying if I said I was not uneasy.
But I did not dare hesitate. The numbers