Chapter 12

"You actually dared to stop me! I'll kill you!" Huo Yanran's eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Feng Yang. Blood streamed from all seven orifices of her bruised, discolored face, making her look exceptionally horrifying.

"Calm down!" Having grown accustomed to all manner of sudden developments in his previous life, Feng Yang remained remarkably composed. Like a doctor facing a patient, he waved his right hand again. A mass of soul power flew out of the Vengeful Ghost Talisman, transforming into a rope that bound Huo Yanran tightly. "We haven't finished talking yet!"

Forced to calm down under the deterrence of the golden light of merit, Huo Yanran stared at Feng Yang with a savage expression.

Knowing full well that vengeful ghosts were fickle and could suddenly lash out and kill at any moment, Feng Yang paid no heed to Huo Yanran's terrifying deathly appearance and continued, "I already called the police. Based on these traffickers' crimes, they'll likely get at least ten years, with the death penalty as the maximum sentence. As for the villagers who bought people, they can receive up to three years."

As for those villagers who had stood by and watched people die, or even kicked them while they were down, the law might not be able to punish them, but that did not mean Feng Yang had no way to deal with them.

Hearing this, Huo Yanran grew even more agitated. Those people had ruined her entire life. Yet they would only serve a few years in prison, or perhaps not go to prison at all. Why?

"We can expose what they did!" Feng Yang said.

It was impossible to expect Huo Yanran, who had become a vengeful ghost and only wanted to kill for revenge, to think of any method of vengeance beyond murder. A newly born low-level vengeful ghost did not have that kind of intelligence. Feng Yang would not place his hopes on such ghosts either.

He continued on his own, "We can find the media and make a special report. We can put this online and let everyone know about their evil deeds. We can make a movie to publicize their crimes and let everyone know the victims' grievances. We can set up an array in the village and make them relive what happened to you over and over again. As long as they don't die, they'll spend the rest of their lives living in all kinds of fear. And you can reincarnate and begin a new life. Wouldn't that be a better punishment?"

Feng Yang had researched this in his previous life. Newly born vengeful ghosts had the intelligence of only seven- or eight-year-olds. Once they became stained with human lives, they did not even possess the intelligence of a seven-year-old and could only degenerate into vengeful ghosts that killed relentlessly on instinct. After that, they would either be devoured by other vengeful ghosts or advance into high-level vengeful ghosts by "eating" vast numbers of souls. But regardless of the path they took, their final fate would be to have their souls scattered and vanish, never entering reincarnation.

Feng Yang had been trapped by Huo Yanran for more than an hour. He did not know how much longer the three traffickers could hold on. To protect Huo Yanran and keep her from becoming stained with human lives and degenerating into a vengeful ghost that knew only slaughter, Feng Yang had no choice but to repeat his plan again and again. Then, using the abundant soul power of the Vengeful Ghost Talisman as a threat, he finally persuaded Huo Yanran to sign a Vengeful Ghost Contract with him.

He would find a way to make the traffickers and villagers face legal punishment, expose all their evil deeds, and ensure that they spent the rest of their lives in fear. Then he would send Huo Yanran to be reincarnated as her parents' second child.

And when Huo Yanran reincarnated, she would give all her remaining vengeful ghost soul power to Feng Yang, including the negative energy she had absorbed through the vengeful ghost illusion.

The moment the Vengeful Ghost Contract was signed, the ghostly barrier before them immediately dissipated. The three unconscious traffickers appeared not far from Feng Yang.

At the same time, the police, who had received the report and circled the mountain again and again, along with the Yin family, all found their way over.

Chapter 12

"Found them! They're over there!"

The police in the distance gathered around, looking excitedly at Feng Yang and the three traffickers in the hollow. Dozens of them had searched more than half the mountain before accidentally discovering the traffickers' hideout halfway up the slope. After rescuing all the victims imprisoned in the cave, they learned from the traffickers that three accomplices had followed Feng Yang to kill him and silence him. They immediately brought one of the suspects along and hurried over. They happened to run into the four people who had emerged from the vengeful ghost barrier.

"It's the police! The police are here! Save us! There's a ghost! A ghost!"

The three traffickers, who had nearly been devoured by the vengeful ghost, scrambled over to the police and babbled incoherently in terror. "There's a ghost! A ghost came for revenge! It wants to kill us—"

Several police officers frowned and handcuffed the three suspects without further ado. "Where would a ghost come from in broad daylight? I think you're the ones with guilty consciences."

"It's true! It's true! There really is a ghost!" Afraid the police would not believe them, the three traffickers pointed at Feng Yang and insisted, "He's in cahoots with that female ghost. He even wants to plot with her to kill us and avenge that ghost!"

The newly born vengeful ghost lacked soul power. After Feng Yang had forcibly broken into the ghostly barrier and used the golden light of merit to bind her, she naturally no longer had enough soul power to maintain the ghostly realm and torture her enemies. Thus, the three traffickers had heard every word of Feng Yang's deal with the vengeful ghost.

"He has supernatural powers too! He can stop bullets in midair and even make them fly back along their original path to hit people!"

Unfortunately, the police did not believe the traffickers' nonsense at all. Though all three traffickers swore up and down, no officer carrying out official duties would believe that ghosts existed in the world, that people possessed supernatural powers, or that someone with supernatural powers would conspire with ghosts to harm others. Especially not when such claims came from criminals.

One police officer asked what exactly Feng Yang and the vengeful ghost had planned to do to harm them. The trafficker answered, "Create an environment and make us have nightmares." The officer was instantly speechless.

"Take them back!" The officers could not be bothered to deal with the traffickers pretending to be crazy and acting foolish. They directly escorted them down the mountain and into the police vehicle.

The police station chief who had met Feng Yang before smiled and extended his right hand. "Thank you, student Feng Yang, for bravely doing the right thing and helping us solve another major case."

"I was helping myself too." Feng Yang explained part of the truth—that the three traffickers had targeted him to silence him—while leaving out the Vengeful Ghost Talisman and the ghostly barrier. No one would have believed him even if he had said it.

"There are many bones down there." Feng Yang pointed to the hollow beneath their feet. "I wonder whether the police can identify the victims. These people were killed by traffickers when they were alive. If even their remains cannot be returned to their families, that would be far too pitiful."

The families of trafficking victims usually reported the case as soon as their children disappeared. With the police's current technology, once the victims' DNA was extracted, it should not be difficult to identify them by comparing it against the DNA database of missing persons and their family members in the public security system. Feng Yang said this to lay the groundwork for contacting Wen Wan and Huo Yanran's families later.