Chapter 73 - Ghost’s Bride (9) (1/2)
As the silver coin fell to the ground, Cheng Zhi Chu’s strange behaviour also drew Bai Xi Xing’s attention.
He saw his pale face and trembling body and couldn’t help but frown. He didn’t know what was going on.
The reason why he told Cheng Zhi Chu these things was because he knew that Cheng Zhi Chu had some unusual powers and might know something about Mr. Mu or may be of help.
More importantly, Cheng Zhi Chu had managed to learn of the name of the cousin who had been missing for the past few years. He was certain that, before his cousin had disappeared, the two had almost never had any contact. Cheng Zhi Chu had also lost his previous memory so he shouldn’t know of his cousin.
Bai Xi Xing’s eyes sank.
For this reason, he guessed that Cheng Zhi Chu probably came to know of his cousin through another means, but he had hired people to watch over Cheng Zhi Chu and didn’t see any signs of him coming in contact with his cousin. It was very strange.
He didn’t suspect Cheng Zhi Chu, but things were indeed strange. At the moment, it seemed like Cheng Zhi Chu may have come into contact with the people from the organisation and somehow learned of Bai Yi’s existence.
But when the two met during the variety show filming before, Cheng Zhi Chi didn’t seem to know that his cousin had disappeared so he either had only just heard of Bai Yi or Bai Yi was normal when they met. The probability of the latter option happening was almost minimal.
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, but Bai Xi Xing still maintained a normal expression. He asked Cheng Zhi Chu: “Junior Cheng, what’s wrong? Did you think of something?”
“…………”
Cheng Zhi Chu trembled. His face was void of blood. His chest was both stuffy and painful, and strong grief and pain turmoiled inside him. In an instant, his eyes were red and tears fell from his eyes.
Six years ago, Bai Yi had most likely died……….And it was just because of some so-called “good luck”………..
But if he really did have good luck, why would he run into someone like Mr. Mu and even have his head cruelly cut off?
Why did it have to be Bai Yi who encountered these things…….
His heart was extremely painful. Bai Yi’s gentle smile and warm gaze appeared in his mind. The silent tears gradually turned into a soft sob, and it latter turned into a loud wail. He cried until he was out of breath and he desperately wiped away the tears using his forearm making his eyes even more red and swollen.
Bai Xi Xing was surprised. He didn’t know what Cheng Zhi Chu had thought of to make him cry so badly.
No matter whether the person crying is a man or a woman, Bai Xi Xing couldn’t bear seeing another person crying. Panicking, he picked up a napkin from the coffee table and wanted to give it to Cheng Zhi Chu, but it was taken away by the groom.
“………..”
Bai Xi Xing gripped his empty hand and looked at the headless man in confusion. For some reason, that action of his felt very familiar……….
“Don’t cry.”
The groom patted Cheng Zhi Chu’s back gently and wiped away the tears on his face.
Cheng Zhi Chu’s eyes were red, and soon it was slightly swollen. The tears from earlier stained his face and it even made his eyes sting a little.
Although he used to think that, as a man, it is very shameful to cry like this but now he understood that, if he was really sad, he wouldn’t care about what others thought of him
He sniffled as the groom wiped away his tears. Seeing the gaping wound on the neck, he guessed that the groom had probably went through the same thing as Bai Yi and had his head cut off by Mr. Mu just so that he could steal their good fortune.
If they wanted to find the head, they must first find Mr. Mu’s place of residence and take the head from there. In addition to the grooms, he must find Bai Yi’s head and put it together with Bai Yi’s body.
[Where does Mr. Mu live?]
Cheng Zhi Chu picked up the coin that had fallen onto the floor. Sniffling, he asked internally.
[Even if I tell you, you can’t enter his home. If he knows that you have stolen from his head collection and destroyed his luck, he will definitely kill you.]
[Unless you become my master and free my powers.]
The silver coin said this so quietly that it was almost inaudible.
[At that time, in order to leave Mr. Mu, I could only choose to seal away most of my powers. Otherwise, he wouldn’t let me go.]
[Only when I unseal my powers can I help you. And only I can help you.]
Cheng Zhi Chu who heard this felt his heart tighten. He had always felt that the coin was plotting something and was constantly tempting him so, no matter how pitifully it behaved, he never intended to use it. However, now he seems to have no choice.
At this moment, Elder Li who was lying on the floor suddenly gasped and slowly awakened from his comatose state.
He glanced at the headless groom and widened his eyes and mouth in fear. It was as if he would faint again. But this time, Bai Xi Xing took the lead. He pulled him up by the collar and asked coldly: “Who is Mr. Mu? How should can we contact him? Where is he now?”
The groom’s body had also turned towards Elder Li, and seemed to be watching him: “Speak, or I will kill you.”
“Don’t come over…….Don’t come over!!”
“I can tell you everything that I know so please, please don’t kill me……..My knowledge is very limited but I’ll tell you everything. Don’t let the ghost eat me!”
Elder Li was trembling like a leave. His face was void of colour and even his voice went a few pitches higher than usual. His expression was very pitiful and scared. He shook his head and quickly said:
“………..No one knows Mr. Mu’s real name. We don’t even know if Mu really is his surname.”
“He is very mysterious. I only saw him once six years ago. At that time, he didn’t seem to be as powerful as he is now and seemed to have only just started. He only wore a hat and sunglasses as disguise.”
“He was dressed in black, but you could tell that he was a young man, about 24-25 years old. He looked quite handsome and had a tall and thin figure. I couldn’t hear any accent in his voice so I can’t tell where he is from.”
“He said that he could see that my luck has been quite bad recently and that it is related to money. I had already reached a dead end so if I didn’t do something about it, I would soon become bankrupt. He even suggested that he could help me change my luck.”
“I saw that he was still young, yet he disguised himself and I thought that he was a fraudster. Just when I wanted to drive him away impatiently, something came over me and I suddenly changed my mind before proceeding to have a few words with him.”
“Now that I think about it, he probably did something. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have responded to him.”
“Mr. Mu took me to a lottery store and instructed me to buy a few lottery tickets. He said that the sum of those tickets would add up to about 10,000 yuan and that it was his deposit to prove that he is not a liar.”
“If I believed him, I was told to go to the same place at the same time to find him the day after the lotto draw results are out. He said that he would be there waiting for me.”
“On the day of the draw, I checked the results with some doubt only to find that the tickets won several prizes which more or less added up to 10,000 yuan.”
“I realised at that time that I had met an amazing man and that our family could finally be saved so the next day I took my two sons and brought along many gifts. I waited there for a long time and wanted to beg Mr. Mu save us.”
“That day, Mr. Mu really did come. He saw us and said that he could help us change our fate but, in addition to the remuneration, we must agree to a condition that he promised wouldn’t be too difficult.”
Having said that, Elder Li was somewhat out of breath. He recalled the events that happened back then, and a hint of fear appeared in his eyes.
“At that time, our family were at a dead end. We regarded Mr. Mu as a last life-saving straw. Even if he wanted us to kill or commit arson, we were willing. However, he made a strange request. He wanted me to find a way to bring Bai Yi over to the neighbourhood.”
“We didn’t know what relationship he had with Bai Yi that child, and we didn’t know why he was looking for Bai Yi and not contacting him directly, but we didn’t dare ask about it. We just followed his instructions.”
“Our family is not very close to Bai Yi, and we thought of many ways to try and trick Bai Yi over. We had originally thought that it was because Mr. Mu had something to say to Bai Yi but who would have thought that he would take out an iron rod and render Bai Yi unconscious the moment they met.”
“And then?” Bai Xi Xing’s expression was extremely ugly. He asked coldly.
Elder Li spoke until his mouth was dry. He poured a glass of water for himself and caught his breath. Not daring to delay things for too long, he continued: “The blow landed very heavily. It was as if he wanted to kill Bai Yi. After Bai Yi fell and blood flowed across the ground, he was completely unconscious.”
“We were petrified. He asked Mr. Mu what he was doing, but he was completely calm. He even seemed like he was used to doing this kind of thing and he smiled indifferently.”
“He warned us not to speak a word about it. He told us not to worry and that he would deal with the rest. Although it is through the sunglasses, we could feel a hair rising feeling coming from his eyes. If we were to disobey him, he probably wouldn’t mind doing the same thing to us.”
“After that, we left the place and we don’t know what he did to Bai Yi. But since Bai Yi hasn’t returned after so many years, Mr. Mu likely——–”
“Shut up.” Bai Xi Xing interrupted him with a steel face. “I have no interest in your opinion. Continue telling me about everything that you know.”
“After Bai Yi went missing, our entire family was anxious. After all, what we did wasn’t very secretive and there were lots of evidence indicating that we were the ones that took Bai Yi away.”
“But Mr. Mu seemed to use some sort of means to get rid of the evidence. After that, no one suspected us. Our family’s situation got better and better and has been good until now.”
“After that, our family has never seen Mr. Mu again. He developed very fast, and soon set up an organisation. This organisation had no name and only has the icon that you have in your hands now as a symbol. This organisation similarly grew at a very fast speed.”
“My second son also joined this organisation, but he is only a lacky. He never saw Mr. Mu after that. It was like he had completely hidden himself away.”
“What do you know about this organisation?” Bai Xi Xing asked.
Elder Li looked like he had aged significantly. His face was filled with fear.
“I don’t know………Our family just happened to meet Mr. Mu many years ago. Later, my son joined the organisation and he seemed to have been forced to make an oath. If he was to reveal anything, he would die, and our family will suffer too.”
Hearing Elder Li’s recount, Cheng Zhi Chu gradually calmed himself down from his sorrow, and only his eyes were red. Elder Li himself had said that he didn’t know much. He was very disappointed as he muttered: “Then you probably don’t even know where Mr. Mu lived…….”
“Of course I wouldn’t know.”
Elder Li glanced at the headless groom and revealed a fearful look. His lips trembled as he said: “But I still remember the place where we met. It was on Xin Hua Street north of the city………….”