Inside a house in Dongkeng Town.
"All right. Once we finish up here, we'll head to Tianmen County."
Wang Wei hung up and looked at Pei Ran, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor beside her.
"Brother Hua is planning to go, and I agreed too. But could those things Chen Bai told us really be true?"
Pei Ran opened his eyes.
"Let's go. We'll find out whether it's true when we get there. At least Chen Bai is someone we can trust."
Wang Wei nodded at that.
They had previously traded talisman-drawing methods to Chen Miao for talismans, and he had mailed all of them over shortly after returning home.
Those talismans had improved their situation considerably.
Otherwise, as a Spirit Medium who could no longer perform deity invocation, Pei Ran would have been unable to help at all.
"How are you feeling? How's that ghost?"
Pei Ran stood up and stretched.
"It's much weaker than the malevolent fiend I had before, but at least it's stronger than an ordinary ghost."
"Since Brother Hua is going to Tianmen County too, we can ask him and Chen Bai to help catch that malevolent fiend we got information about. That should restore my strength to what it used to be."
Wang Wei nodded.
"Good. Come on, let's take care of this commission."
"Sure!"
With that, Wang Wei and Pei Ran left Dongkeng Town and headed to the county seat.
Two days earlier, Wang Wei and Pei Ran had received a commission through a broker in their line of work. The pay wasn't much, only fifty thousand, but the job was simple.
Apparently, a woman had noticed that ever since her husband disappeared for a night a week ago, he had been acting strangely, spending all day researching all sorts of bizarre