Midnight Bookstore - Chapter 159

Chapter 159: Don’t Treat Village Officers As Officers!

Zhou Ze’s lips parted slightly before he subconsciously grabbed the woman who was still walking forward.

The woman was surprised. She glanced at Zhou Ze, not knowing what he was up to.

“I take back what I just said.”

Zhou Ze gently twisted his neck.

“Your house is really dirty.”

The woman looked pensive.

“Don’t worry, I’m not a scammer.”

“I believe that you’re not a swindler,” the woman said seriously. “Besides, it’s only a few million. It doesn’t matter if you get cheated.”

These words…

What a joke!

How ear-piercing.

A few million yuan was like a few hundred yuan, just to buy peace of mind?

What a wastrel.

Zhou Ze mourned for the old man upstairs in his heart. He was already so old, why was he still working so hard? The family business that he had worked so hard for had all fallen into this woman’s hands?

Luckily, Zhou Ze still had some professional ethics. The person who hired him was this woman, so he would not cause too much trouble.

Of course, in Bai Yingying’s eyes, Zhou Ze and this woman seemed to be in cahoots with each other. They looked just like the New Era version of Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian.

If this were to be filmed into a television drama, the boss and this woman would be the typical villains!

“Your husband is not mentally unstable. There is really something dirty here. Let’s not talk about the money for now. We can talk about it after I’ve settled everything here.

Yingying, bring her up. ”

“Boss, you’re alone…” Bai Yingying did not want to go up. Her boss was injured.

At this moment, Zhou Ze really wanted to poke his middle finger on his maid’s head. It was fine if something happened to him, but if something happened to this woman, who was he going to ask for the rest of the money?

The woman was very obedient. Even though she could not see anything, she at least showed a “I believe” attitude and took the initiative to retreat.

She was really a smart woman. She knew how to do things, change her temperament, slouch in bed, play nice in bed, cook, act, and pretend to be understanding.

Zhou Ze looked at Bai Yingying again. Sigh, his Yingying still had many things to learn.

Under Zhou Ze’s stern gaze, Bai Yingying could only accompany the woman upstairs. She needed to protect this woman and the old man.

After that, only the family and Zhou Ze were left in the hall.

These people maintained their upright sitting posture like they were attending a class. Even the oldest old woman was the same.

The old woman should be the wife of the old man upstairs.

Normally, even if the souls of their deceased relatives did not disperse, there would at most be one or two of them. This old man, on the other hand, had a family of four. Zhou Ze counted, and there were actually more than twenty people.

The provincial team was indeed huge. No wonder the old man was so scared.

If it was an old partner, a child, or a granddaughter who came back, that would be acceptable. However, if the whole family came back together, anyone would be scared out of their wits.

Leaning on his walking stick, Zhou Ze moved closer to them. The closer he got, the clearer Zhou Ze could feel a wave of coldness assaulting him. The surrounding air was also thick with saltiness.

It was said that the old man’s family had died in the sea because of the cruise ship incident. As for whether there was any inside story, Zhou Ze did not know and did not want to know.

No matter what, the family in front of him was quite a big deal. He could take them away.

Gulp…

Gulp…

The sound of water began to fill the air.

The sound of water came from these people’s necks. From the old woman to the children, their necks swelled like bloated frogs.

Then…

“Urgh…”

Everyone in the hall began to vomit.

The muddy seawater came out of their mouths with dead fish and shrimps!

The hall before could only be considered to have been dragged to the ground.

And now…

It was like a seafood market, and it was filled with the stench of seafood. It was like a room in a couple’s hotel had been used for a month without changing the bedsheets.

Zhou Ze covered his nose and lifted his leg, only to realize that the seawater had reached his ankle.

The hall was like a reservoir, and the twenty or so people were like the twenty or so faucets at the edge of the pool, letting water in.

Water gathered without dispersing, slowly filling the hall.

Zhou Ze leaned over and placed a hand on a middle-aged man’s shoulder. His nails grew out and pierced the man’s shoulder.

Zizizi…

The sound of a frying pan could be heard. Thick black smoke began to rise from the middle-aged man’s body, but he still sat there without moving, as if he was completely at Zhou Ze’s mercy.

Crack…

A crisp sound came from Zhou Ze’s feet.

And then…

A green leather belt wrapped around Zhou Ze’s arm. Zhou Ze subconsciously retreated. This belt was very agile, and it shot straight at him.

When one end of the belt was lifted, it stopped when it was less than one meter away from Zhou Ze’s eyes.

How was this a belt? It was clearly a blue sea snake.

The sea snake flicked out its tongue. After it grasped the perfect offensive stance, it stopped, as if it was just trying to intimidate Zhou Ze.

The water around them started to increase. It was as if the food in the stomachs of the twenty over people could not be finished. At that moment, the water level in the living room had already reached Zhou Ze’s waist.

This was fake, but it was real.

Zhou Ze could choose to leave this feeling and then choose to leave, but this meant that he had admitted defeat and walked down from the arena.

Even if he could not get the labor fees, he would not be able to exchange the souls of this family for sales.

Pa da…

The painting hanging on the wall in the living room was washed away by the water and slowly floated to Zhou Ze’s side.

Previously, Zhou Ze had felt that this statue was a little strange. This was because most people would only hang a statue of Maitreya Buddha, Guan Yin, or the God of Fortune in their hall. However, the God in this painting was obviously not a common one.

There was a man in the picture. His body looked like a fish, but he had human hands and feet. Sitting on a double-headed dragon, he was definitely a god. However, most normal families did not have such a body. This was like a non-mainstream person.

At this moment, the sea snake seemed to be slowly shrinking its body. Zhou Ze also felt a force on his wrist. This was a warning, a second warning.

Warning Zhou Ze.

This matter…

He did not need to interfere.

The painting slowly reached Zhou Ze and touched his body.

Zhou Ze frowned slightly and thought hard. Finally, he remembered who was in this portrait!

Therefore, he really had to thank himself for reading so much after becoming a bookstore owner. Every day, when he had nothing to do, he would sit on the sofa downstairs and drink coffee to read. Furthermore, he emphasized the ancient stories.

This is… the Sea God!

For people nowadays, the first person they thought of when talking about the Sea God was Momzu or Poseidon. However, in reality, there was an even older Sea God in the Chinese mythology system.

There was a record of the Mountain Sea Scripture and the Great Desolate East Scripture. “There’s a god in the Archipelago of the Eastern Sea. It has a human face and the body of a bird. There are two yellow serpents, and they practice two yellow serpents. They’re called Yu Guo. The Yellow Emperor gave birth to Yu Guo, and Yu Guo gave birth to Yu Jing. Yu Jing is located in the Northern Sea, and Yu Guo is located in the Eastern Sea. It’s the Sea God.”

The ancient Sea God. Actually, thinking about how the old man upstairs had started out as a smuggler in the sea, it was understandable that he had this statue hanging at home.

But what did that mean?

A group of relatives who died on the sea suddenly returned to seek revenge five years later?

Who brought them back?

Who allowed them to come back?

Due to their remote deaths and the fact that they were people who had died, it was actually very difficult for their souls to return. Therefore, there was a segment that could not be ignored when people burned scriptures and paper money, and that was Soul Summoning. It meant that the souls of the people they were paying their respects to would return and enjoy the incense offerings of the later generations.

Those who died in the sea were either directly sent to hell. Even if they were left with their souls, they were like Pirates of the Caribbean. They could only sink to the bottom of the sea or follow some ghost ship.

Now, the whole family had come back together. They sat upright and asked the old man to come and save the family. There was no external force behind them, no acquiescence from one side.

Was that possible?

Could it be…

Was the Sea God really angry?

It was almost certain that there was something fishy about the death of the old man’s family. Moreover, the old man had married this woman that year.

If a certain Almighty was really angry and came to punish him,

He was just a small fry.

They really did not have the right to stop him, did they?

Moreover, it was to fight against an existence in the sea for the sake of ‘earning money’.

Isn’t that a little silly?

Zhou Ze raised his head. That woman and the old man should be upstairs. That woman wanted the old man to die so that she could inherit his legacy, and the supernatural item would not be captured by the surveillance cameras.

“Hey, bro, can we discuss something so that the old man can die more naturally?

“Then, I’ll take the old man’s second wife away. Is that okay?”

Zhou Ze asked the portrait.

Zi!

The sea serpent suddenly became angry.

It opened its fangs and bit at Zhou Ze’s chest.

Zhou Ze’s eyes narrowed. He had been guarding against this snake all along. He immediately grabbed the snake’s tail with his fingertips and stopped just a few centimeters away from Zhou Ze’s chest.

“There’s no room for negotiation? Give us some room for negotiation, Big Brother.”

Zhou Ze smiled bitterly.

Even though I’m a lousy ghost and the lowest ranking officer of the Department of Shadow Division, I’m still a cadre. Don’t ignore me like this, boss.

Zizizizizi!

The sea serpent twisted its body wildly.

Slurp!

The snake’s body broke, and the snake head flew to Zhou Ze’s chest and bit him.

In that instant,

What Zhou Ze sensed was not the injury on his body, but the pain from his soul. It was as if two holes had been pierced through his soul by the snake’s fangs.

Cold sweat immediately flowed out. Zhou Ze half knelt down and supported himself with one hand to prevent himself from falling into the “water”.

“Hu… Hu…”

The snake head was forcefully pulled out by Zhou Ze.

His black fingernails crushed the snake’s head.

“How unreasonable…”

Zhou Ze muttered to himself as his expression darkened.

Then, he slowly raised his head. There was a black light swirling in the depths of his eyes.

“Then I want to see if you can f*cking run from the sea to the land to show off!”