Chapter 22

Before the words had even finished, the lights in the private room crackled and suddenly burst. A ghostly voice came from the mirror. "Fuck, are your tastes really that heavy?"

The childhood friends: "!!!"

Everyone creakily turned their necks and stared stiffly at the mirror.

In the previously ordinary mirror, three or four female ghosts with disheveled hair and horrifying deaths crowded together. Seeing everyone look over, the ghosts kindly waved in greeting. One of them crawled out of the mirror and asked as she climbed, "Actually, I've got a pretty good figure. If you don't mind—"

"Ah—ghosts—"

Five minutes later, one row of living people and one row of female ghosts sat facing each other in the KTV room. The female ghost who had eagerly crawled out of the mirror and claimed to have a great figure occasionally tossed flirtatious looks at the childhood friend who had gone "hehehe."

But the sight of a female ghost with blood pouring from all seven orifices, a gruesome death, and not even any black pupils throwing flirtatious looks at someone... well, everyone could imagine it for themselves!

The childhood friend who had been especially mouthy earlier hid behind Yin Li with a face full of anguish and whispered, "What do we do?"

"How would I know? I told you not to talk nonsense." Yin Li was equally depressed. Who would have thought that coming out to sing karaoke would lead them into a group of ghosts? And one of them was a lovestruck ghost.

Worst of all, they couldn't get out now—because the private room door would not open, QAQ.

The three female ghosts seemed to have set up a barrier, trapping them inside.

"Are they going to kill us?" The young models and influencers brought along by the childhood friends were on the verge of collapse. They had only wanted to hook a rich guy and find someone powerful to rely on. There was no need to gamble with their lives!

Yin Li touched the hairs standing up on his body and his goosebumps, then forced himself to say, "Probably not."

Feng Yang had told him that the soul power of the Vengeful Ghost Talisman protected him. Once something unclean approached him with ill intent, the Vengeful Ghost Talisman would automatically strike back.

But the Vengeful Ghost Talisman had not reacted at all. Did that prove these female ghosts meant them no harm?

At that thought, Yin Li's gaze swept over the female ghost who kept flirting with his friend. Even if she had no ill intent, showing up looking like that to hook up was still unbearable!

Wasn't his childhood friend already cowering behind him, too scared to show his face?

Could it be that the condition for these female ghosts to let them go was for Duan Mingxu to stay behind and spend the night with them?

Sitting on the sofa, Yin Li's imagination ran wild as he quietly clenched his right hand. His childhood friend might be a womanizer with a filthy mouth, but he would never trade his friend's chastity—

That was when Feng Yang called.

A highly rhythmic electronic ringtone sounded in the quiet KTV room, startling everyone when it suddenly went off. Yin Li fumbled to answer the call, so excited he practically bristled. "Feng Yang, I ran into ghosts again!"

"These female ghosts trapped us here and won't let us leave. They insist my friend sleep with them!"

Yin Li's childhood friends: "!!!"

The female ghosts sitting nearby: "???"

"Fuck, don't talk nonsense!" Both humans and ghosts protested at once.

"When did we ever say we wanted to sleep with your friend?"

"Didn't your friend personally say that I should pursue him, and if I caught him, we could hehe with each other?"

"The only one getting slept with is Duan Mingxu. The rest of us are innocent, okay~"

"Don't slander our reputations. I'm still a pure, untouched ghost maiden!"

The chaotic protests mixed with Yin Li's energetic plea for help carried through the phone, and Feng Yang's expression unconsciously softened.

"Don't worry," Feng Yang reassured him gently. "They probably don't mean any harm."

Feng Yang had transferred half the Vengeful Ghost Talisman's soul power into Yin Li. That soul power was fused with the golden light of merit and strongly restrained things of the utmost yin and evil. If those female ghosts truly harbored malicious intent, they would be struck into soul-dispersing oblivion by the Vengeful Ghost Talisman as soon as they touched Yin Li's body.

As Feng Yang spoke, he remotely stimulated the Vengeful Ghost Talisman in Yin Li's palm. The talisman, which had been quietly resting there, suddenly lit up, and the three female ghosts in the private room immediately screamed and fled.

Yin Li: "..."

Yin Li's friends: "..."

"Lizi, you never said your Feng Yang was a ghost-catching master!" The childhood friends muttered to themselves, utterly stunned by the scene before them, which completely defied the scientific worldview of socialism.

"What exactly was that glowing thing just now?" A group of them crowded around Yin Li, holding up his right hand as though it were a treasure and constantly rubbing his palm. "The light came from inside here, right?"

"You guys!" Covered in goosebumps, Yin Li shook off his hooligan friends. "Stop touching me. You're making all my hairs stand on end."

"A master! He's definitely a master!" Duan Mingxu, who had nearly lost his chastity to a female ghost because of his filthy mouth, threw his arms around Yin Li's leg. "Lizi, ask when the master is coming to Yanjing! Can he get me a protective talisman too? I'll pay a fortune for one. Is a hundred thousand enough? A million is fine too! As long as the master says the word, I'll have my family's company promote him as the center debut, okay?"

"I want one too! Me too!" The childhood friends all raised their hands and joined in the excitement.

Even the young models and influencers who had come along to fill out the party were whispering among themselves. A hundred thousand yuan was no small sum to them, but compared to their lives, they would buy one no matter how expensive it was. They just wondered whether the master offered installment payments.

The mortals who had just seen ghosts trembled in fear. No one had seen ghosts before, so everyone had dared to make any joke they pleased. Now that they had seen them with their own eyes, even though the three female ghosts had not actually done anything in the end and had instead been scared off by Yin Li's protective talisman, ghosts were different from people. With a protective talisman to keep them safe, they could at least buy themselves some peace of mind.

Feng Yang was both amused and helpless. In his previous life, he had partnered with a vengeful ghost for over twenty years and had never considered helping people drive out ghosts. Who would have thought that after living again, Yin Li would help him develop a new line of business?

Although the Vengeful Ghost Talisman's soul power was abundant, Feng Yang had no intention of abusing it. Nor did he intend to exchange soul power for money or material things. Still, if Yin Li's friends wanted protective talismans to keep them safe, he could agree.