Chapter 117: I Will Haunt You Forever! (1/2)

Lao Yao told us that Zou Wei arrived with another man, who looked like he was a Taoist priest. It turned out that Zou Wei was so afraid of his dead wife’s ghost that he had to ask a Taoist priest to accompany him.

That didn’t matter to us, of course. Even if Zou Wei had brought a priest with him, he’d still be meeting with his dead wife soon!

Once the two men entered the building, Lao Yao began to make preparations. The projector and the speaker had been connected to a computer here, and Lao Yao controlled them remotely.

I saw blood ooze out of the walls. A ghostly voice echoed in the corridor. If I hadn’t known that it was Lao Yao’s doing, this would’ve been a terrifying scene indeed.

Zou Wei screamed and begged the priest, “Please help me, Master!”

We then heard the ringing of a bell in the corridor. Lao Yao informed us that it was the Taoist priest trying to exorcise the evil spirit. He was also spreading raw glutinous rice everywhere. Lao Yao scoffed and said this must be a fake Taoist priest, since even a layman like him knew that glutinous rice was only used against possessed corpses, not ghosts.

“Let’s advance to the second phase!” I ordered.

Wang Yuanchao and I held up a big plastic board in front of us and approached Zou Wei in the corridor. The projector projected an image of a car on the board, while the speaker played the sound of a loud crash.

“Get away from me!” Zou Wei shouted hysterically. “I didn’t kill you! I didn’t kill you!”

Through a small hole on the plastic board, I saw Zou Wei collapsed on the floor. The fake Taoist priest was so scared he pissed himself and crawled away to escape.

As we walked forward, Xiaotao followed behind us. When Zou Wei saw her, his eyes bulged in sheer terror. His dead wife had just appeared in front of him out of thin air.

Lao Yao then played a recording of Xiaotao’s voice.

“Look at what you’ve done to me, darling…”

Zou Wei whimpered, then knelt on the floor and desperately pleaded, “Please let me go, Xiaoli! I had no choice! I had to pay off the debt!”

Pay off his debt? I wondered, excited that we now had a new clue to follow through.

Suddenly, she burst into tears and wailed while covering her face. It even creeped me out. I then noticed that Zou Wei had wet his pants. He was now kneeling in a pool of his own urine.

“How could you be so cruel!” yelled Xiaotao. “I will never let you off! I will always haunt you till the day you die! You will never live in peace!”

“It’s all Fat Wu’s fault!” shouted Zou Wei. “He pestered me about the debt all the time! I wouldn’t have done such a thing to you if it hadn’t been for him! You know I love you more than anything!”

“Was he involved in my murder too?” Xiaotao asked.

“Yes, he was! It was all his plan! Go find him! I’ll tell you his address!”

Zou Wei then blurted out an address. I knew it would be wise to be sceptical of his claim, but nonetheless this Fat Wu might turn out to be an important witness to the case.

I made a gesture to Xiaotao, and she quickly slipped through a door. Wang Yuanchao and I then followed her into the room and we blocked the door with the plastic board, which prevented Zou Wei from seeing what went on inside.

We quietly observed him through the small holes of the plastic board. Once he walked by the room, I made a gesture to Xiaotao again. She joked, “Looks like you’re having fun with this!”

“I just want to bring the murderer to justice, that’s all!”

As soon as Zou Wei walked past the door, Xiaotao slipped out the door and tapped Zou Wei on the shoulder. Zou Wei jumped in fright and his legs turned so wobbly he could barely stand up straight. He slowly turned around. Xiaotao said, “I’m going to pay Fat Wu a visit. Once I’m done with him, I’ll come back and kill you!”