Ghost Catching System

Early one morning, Chu Hao was still sound asleep. He was truly exhausted from yesterday, even spitting up blood.

Outside, the voice of the old Dean came, ”Little Maozi, Liu Zhenqiang and his dad are looking for you.”

Reluctantly getting up, Chu Hao, wearing only a pair of underwear, opened the door and poked his head out. ”Old Dean, ask them to wait a bit, will you?”

”You, young man, what were you up to last night? The Dragon King Temple was actually demolished. Now the whole town is stirred up,” the old Dean said with concern.

”It’s nothing.”

After washing up, Chu Hao lazily came out to the courtyard. He saw Liu Zhenqiang hurriedly approaching him. By Liu Zhenqiang’s side was an old man, almost sixty years old, who was Liu Zhenqiang’s father.

Liu Zhenqiang, afraid Chu Hao wouldn’t save him, had brought his own father along.

Liu Zhenqiang’s father said, ”Little Maozi, Grandpa Liu watched you grow up. Xiaoqiang told me you could save him. You have to lend a hand.”

Chu Hao glanced at Liu Zhenqiang and said, ”Since Grandpa Liu is here, I can’t just stand by and do nothing.”

Liu Zhenqiang was thrilled. Most people in the yard came out to watch, especially the children. A bunch of naughty kids climbed up the trees, wanting to see what was going on.

Chu Hao looked at Liu Zhenqiang and said, ”Grandpa Liu, I can treat him, but this is only a temporary fix, not a cure.”

”Ah!” Grandpa Liu was startled.

Liu Zhenqiang panicked too. He started to kneel down, his voice trembling, ”Master Chu, please, you must save me.”

Grandpa Liu panicked too; Liu Zhenqiang was his only son.

”Little Maozi, Grandpa begs you, you must help Xiaoqiang,” Grandpa Liu said.

Chu Hao pinched his fingers and calculated, then said, ”The thing in your chest can be treated. However, even with treatment, you’ll be ruined within three years. You have two strands of black energy in your brow. One is the black energy of the Ghost Heart. The other strand will surely deepen in three years.”

”Ah!” Liu Zhenqiang was so scared that he cried, immediately kneeling down to Chu Hao, begging him to save his life.

Chu Hao said indifferently, ”I can’t save you unless you quit gambling. If I’m not wrong, your life will be lost at the gambling table.”

”I won’t gamble anymore! I won’t gamble ever again!”

Chu Hao waved his hand and said, ”Don’t think I’m joking. Take control of your own life. Naughty kid, come here.”

A naughty kid jumped down from the tree and said, ”Brother Mouse, what’s up?”

”Go, get a mineral water bottle, and pee in it.”

The naughty kid didn’t ask why and ran off to pee. Chu Hao drew a talisman and said, ”Go home and boil the boy’s urine. Burn this talisman, mix the ashes with water, and drink it. The thing in your chest will be expelled.”

Liu Zhenqiang, holding a bottle of bright yellow boy’s urine with a pained expression, said, ”Master Chu, is there... any other way?”

The naughty kid couldn’t contain his laughter upon hearing that Liu Zhenqiang was going to drink his pee.

Chu Hao said, ”You can drink a bucket of boy’s urine if you prefer.”

Liu Zhenqiang quickly waved his hands. ”I’ll drink one bottle.”

News of this incident quickly spread. Most people in the town soon knew that the orphanage had produced a young living half-immortal.

Living half-immortal. This is how countryside towns refer to those who specialize in dealing with strange affairs. In some places, they call it ’spiritual medium.’

After Chu Hao became famous, many people from the town came looking for him. Most of them had helped the orphanage during tough times. Initially, Chu Hao obliged by solving a problem or two. However, the requests soon became too numerous. Stranger still, some people came just to see if he really was a living half-immortal.

An auntie burst into the room excitedly, saying, ”Oh! It’s finally my turn! Little Maozi, you’ve grown so skilled! I even bathed you back in the day. You have to give your auntie a good fortune-telling.”

Chu Hao, with a pleasant expression, answered, ”Auntie, may I know what you’d like me to divine?”

”Quick, help me divine how many piglets our old sow at home will give birth to.”

Chu Hao: ”...”

Flip the table!

How am I, Master Chu, supposed to deal with these absurd people?

They’re all asking for such nonsensical fortunes to be told.

A frail man said, ”Master Chu, please tell me quickly if my wife is cheating on me with someone else.”

Chu Hao: ”...”

I feel like hitting someone!

How would I know if your wife is seeing someone else?

Even more absurdly, an old woman holding a rabbit tremblingly said, ”Master Chu, please have a look at my cat. It often says it’s a rabbit at night. Is it sick?”

She’s holding a rabbit, and she’s talking about her cat?

Chu Hao hastily burned a Talisman Paper. It wasn’t to cure the rabbit, but to treat the old woman.

Zhang Qin’ai and Ju Desheng, who were greeting guests, were left speechless as they watched the chaotic stream of people looking for him.

Then another middle-aged woman said, ”Master Chu, take a look at this. These are my daughter’s birth details. See if they match with yours.”

What the hell!

Chu Hao hadn’t even said anything when Zhang Qin’ai, standing beside him, coldly said, ”They don’t match, they don’t match! What nonsense are you all asking about?”

Even the old Dean was speechless and quickly issued an order to send the guests away.

It couldn’t be helped. Since everyone was from the same village, it would be rude to drive them away. So, they could only say that Master Chu had depleted his energy and needed to rest.

Chu Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, ”I’m going back tomorrow.”

The town finally calmed down for the moment. The villagers were too enthusiastic, and Chu Hao estimated he would die of exhaustion if he stayed here.

In the afternoon, a large crowd gathered, besieging the courtyard.

They were from the city. Car after car arrived, many of them luxury vehicles. Nearly twenty people got out, all looking fierce and imposing as they surrounded the courtyard.

Ju Desheng’s face turned pale as he said, ”It’s the Bai Family’s people.”

Then they saw two people being carried out of a Mercedes. If they weren’t Bai Jiangming and Bai Jingyu, who else could they be?

These two were lucky; they hadn’t died yesterday.

But they were not in good condition. Bai Jingyu was staring up at the sky with a vacant look on her face, as if she was questioning life itself.

Bai Jiangming sat in a wheelchair, one arm wrapped in bandages. He had been bitten by the Water Corpse. His body was covered in red spots, a clear sign of corpse toxin poisoning. The two siblings had endured an inhuman ordeal the previous night.

A man in his fifties got out of a car. Seeing his son and daughter in such a state, pain twisted in his heart.

”Everyone inside, come out, or I’ll burn this place down!”

A man in his forties poured a large amount of gasoline in a corner of the courtyard, his attitude extremely arrogant.

The people in the courtyard were terrified, especially the children. They had never witnessed such a display of force, with newcomers looking so fierce and menacing.

”What should we do? What should we do? It’s all my fault,” Ju Desheng muttered, blaming himself. The thing he feared most had happened.

The Bai Family were influential people in Anli City. They managed many nightclubs and KTVs in the underground market and could be considered the rulers of Anli City’s north district.

Ju Desheng gritted his teeth and said, ”I’ll go out. If worse comes to worst, they can take me away.”

This Ju Desheng, he’s still reliable at critical moments.

Chu Hao patted Ju Desheng on the shoulder and said, ”It’s not a big deal! None of you go out. I’ll go out for a bit.”