Chapter 133: I’m Not Taking This Job
Jiang Beishu incoherently pointed behind himself: “It was clearly right behind me just now! I saw it in the underground parking lot! I even heard its footsteps clicking away!”
“Really, I’m not lying or deceiving anyone!”
After hearing what he said, Zheng Feiyu felt chills all over his body. He lifted his buttocks and then dropped them back down, desperately wanting to jump to Nan Yuanman’s side and sit there: “Damn! Old Jiang, you’re not being fair! There was something following behind you, and you didn’t even warn me!”
Jiang Beishu’s face looked embarrassed: “Wasn’t it because… I was afraid you’d be scared?”
Nan Yuanman scratched her head: “That might be because I’m here, so it was afraid and didn’t dare to come in.”
Jiang Beishu nodded repeatedly, his face full of excitement as he said: “Master, everything I said is true. You have to believe me! Half a month ago, when I was coming back from… cough cough, after work, I started feeling like something was following me from behind…”
At first, Jiang Beishu thought it was a woman from the bar who had taken a liking to him and wanted a one-night stand with him, but after he rejected her, she chased him out. But when he turned around to look, there was no one behind him.
He didn’t take it to heart and went home as usual to wash up. But while he was taking a shower, he heard footsteps—tap, tap, tap—coming from outside the bathroom!
Jiang Beishu’s already unpleasant complexion turned slightly pale: “I thought it was the nanny at home asking if I wanted to eat something, so I shouted ‘who’s there?’, but there was still no one answering me from outside the bathroom. It was just pacing at the bathroom doorway.”
His bathroom door was fitted with frosted glass, so when a person was inside showering and looked out, they could only see a shadow moving back and forth outside. Most importantly, he noticed that the shadow was very thin! Abnormally thin! Just like it was only a skeleton left!
Jiang Beishu also got a bit scared. He hurriedly rinsed the foam off his body and wanted to go out to scold the nanny for pacing around the bathroom door, but… there was no one outside the bathroom! Only a trail of muddy footprints was left, making his room filthy.
Jiang Beishu, who already had a bit of a cleanliness obsession, instantly exploded. He immediately went downstairs to settle accounts with the nanny. After going downstairs, he only then discovered the note his parents had left on the coffee table.
His parents were going abroad for a week-long trip. The nanny’s daughter-in-law was giving birth, so they had temporarily given her a week’s leave to go back and be with her for the delivery. For this week, Jiang Beishu had to fend for himself with food and drink.
When Jiang Beishu saw the note, he froze in place, cold air rising straight up. His parents had gone on a trip, and the nanny was on leave too. Then… who was the person who had been pacing outside his bathroom just now?!
Jiang Beishu immediately checked the surveillance camera, wanting to see if anyone had sneaked into his home. But the surveillance showed that from start to finish, he was the only one at home.
This discovery scared Jiang Beishu so much that he didn’t even dare stay home. He immediately packed his things and ran to his friend’s house to stay.
“Nothing happened during the few days I stayed at my friend’s house. I thought the whole thing was over, so I packed up and went back home. For the first three days after moving back home, nothing really happened either. I just felt a bit tired when sleeping.”
As Jiang Beishu spoke, he seemed to remember something and suddenly started taking off his T-shirt.
Zheng Feiyu: “???”
He hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Beishu’s hand: “What are you doing? Old Jiang, this isn’t the time to play rogue or use a honey trap! Yuanman is only five years old!”
Jiang Beishu found it both funny and annoying: “What are you thinking? With how I look now, how could I have the face to use a honey trap…”
Besides, he wouldn’t go so far as to lust after a five-year-old little girl!
“Then why are you taking off your clothes for no reason?” Zheng Feiyu looked vigilant.
“I wanted Master to see the weird thing that appeared on my body.” Jiang Beishu pushed Zheng Feiyu’s hand away. Looking at Nan Yuanman’s clean and clear eyes, his hand paused while taking off his shirt. He tugged his short sleeve down, exposing his shoulder.
On his shoulder was a distinct bluish-black five-finger mark!
Zheng Feiyu suddenly felt his hair stand on end and subconsciously let go of the hand grabbing Jiang Beishu’s clothes. He turned to look at Nan Yuanman: “Yuanman, come take a look.”
Nan Yuanman had come over when Jiang Beishu was pulling at his clothes. She tiptoed to look, and upon seeing the bluish-black five-finger mark, she felt it looked very familiar, like she had seen it somewhere before.
Nan Yuanman furrowed her little brows, trying hard to recall.
Jiang Beishu continued: “I originally thought that incident was over, but when I was sleeping, I always felt like someone was still walking around in my room. And inexplicably, this bluish-black five-finger mark appeared on my left shoulder.”
“My body has also been getting weaker and weaker, losing weight faster and faster. Every day I feel like I’m soaking in ice water. Afraid that I was sick, I went to the hospital for a full-body checkup. The results showed my body was very healthy!” Jiang Beishu smiled bitterly: “If I were really healthy, I wouldn’t be losing weight so fast.”
“The hospital couldn’t solve it, so I had to resort to some metaphysics. But every master I found took the money, performed the rites, and yet it had no effect at all.”
“After the second master finished the ritual, something even more terrifying happened. I saw that a skeleton had been following behind me all along! Even when I slept, it followed me!”
As he spoke, Jiang Beishu was on the verge of collapse: “Master, you are my only hope now!”
He really didn’t want to sleep with a skeleton anymore!!
“Ah!” Just as he finished speaking, Nan Yuanman, who had been deep in thought, suddenly exclaimed. Her steamed bun face was full of realization: “I remember where I’ve seen this mark of yours before. When Grandpa took me to handle a borrow lifespan client before, he had a handprint like this on his back too!”
Jiang Beishu was dumbfounded: “Borrow lifespan?”
Zheng Feiyu looked at him, then at Nan Yuanman: “Yuanman, do you mean Old Jiang borrowed lifespan from someone?”
“No no no, he didn’t borrow lifespan from a person. He borrowed lifespan from a ghost!” Nan Yuanman shook her head: “Grandpa told me there are some evil methods specifically for helping people borrow lifespan from ghosts.”
The natural lifespan a person has while alive is called positive lifespan. After dying unexpectedly, the unused lifespan turns into negative lifespan in the underworld.
Therefore, some on the evil path use evil methods to borrow the ‘positive lifespan’ that ghosts hadn’t used up in the mortal world. The borrowed positive lifespan is repaid by deducting the borrower’s negative lifespan and merit after they die.
This kind of evil method is quite complicated. Grandpa hadn’t taught it to her, but he had told her that those who use this method are no good people. It’s best not to save them and just let them die.
They were supposed to die anyway, and saving them wouldn’t contribute much to society. Why bother?
Nan Yuanman thought Grandpa made a lot of sense, so while Zheng Feiyu and Jiang Beishu were still reacting, she spoke up: “I won’t take this job. Please leave.”
After saying that, Nan Yuanman turned and walked away with pattering steps. But before she could take two steps, she was grabbed by the collar by Jiang Beishu, who had snapped out of it: “Why, why won’t you take it? I-I haven’t done anything harmful to heaven or humanity!”
Nan Yuanman gagged a little. Zheng Feiyu reacted and slapped his hand away: “Dead hand, what are you grabbing?”
“You scared me to death. I thought I was going to be strangled.” Nan Yuanman touched her little neck and turned to look at the sheepish Jiang Beishu: “Because this is the contract agreement between you and him. It’s a contract agreement that both sides consented to.”
Nan Yuanman spread her little hands: “He came to find you definitely because you didn’t fulfill the agreed content. This is something you two need to handle between yourselves. As an outsider, I can’t interfere.”
