Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 805 - 38. Alarm Warning

Chapter 805: 38. Alarm Warning

"I confess! My apprentice, Martin, was caught seeing the secret by Lu Li of the Noble Detective Agency. That foolish apprentice wanted to kill to cover it up, just trying to threaten with words, so wrote a threatening letter and sent it over. I tried to dissuade but failed."

Kong Nanqing stared at the old man for a few minutes, the latter trembling slightly, saying nothing and returning to the bedroom. Moments later he came out again, having removed the mask from his face.

She ignored the old man who was kneeling on the ground, passed by him and went to the desk, picked up the neatly folded note and unfolded it.

How little respect for the elderly and care for the young, I’m still kneeling here.

The old man with his forehead against the ground glanced sideways with his peripheral vision, mumbling in his heart.

After reading the content on the note, Kong Nanqing called Lu Li, informing him of the situation happening at the Detective Agency.

"Sure enough, someone came. A person and a ghost, they seem to know you and hold a grudge against you. That little boy I left some yin energy on him and let him go, the ghost remained behind."

"Speakerphone."

"Hmm."

Pressing the speakerphone, Kong Nanqing moved to the side of the desk.

The weather was somewhat stuffy; she opened a window, letting a slightly cool breeze into the Detective Agency.

Kong Nanqing’s crimson eyes lowered, pausing momentarily on a black luxury car downstairs, then withdrawing her gaze.

"Tell me the course of events."

An untroubled voice from Lu Li came through the phone.

"Okay, okay..."

The old man, who had already prepared the adverbs, raised his head, unable to get up, and spoke in a flurry: "Martin is my apprentice, her temperament is not bad, just a bit extreme and... well, that. I couldn’t bear to see her go down the wrong path, so I surrendered directly in front of the master’s ghost friend, hoping there’s still a chance to save her."

"Is that so."

He uttered two words plainly, leaving no further sound from the phone.

The old man worried that any moment, a voice from the phone might say "Kill him," couldn’t help but disclose more: "Actually, my cheap apprentice is also a pitiful person; I deceived her by saying I was a Nascent Soul Stage master from an alien world, found she had a spirit root and planned to take her as a disciple..."

"Nascent Soul Stage? Cultivator?"

A clear voice sounded from the phone.

The old man surmised it might be another ghost following Lu Li, responding with undiminished respect: "This... Actually, it’s a lie from this old man. I am a person from the Republic of China, after death, fortuitously fell into a ring. I was discovered a while ago by my apprentice who went down the mountain to exorcise a ghost, then... then..."

The old man was embarrassed to continue.

"So to escape danger, you deceived that boy, claiming to be a cultivator, let him spare you, and lured him to become your apprentice?"

Lu Li supplemented for him, his tone carrying slight regret.

After becoming a ghost envoy, Lu Li indeed had some fantasies. Since there were ghost envoys, did it mean there was an underworld, were there corresponding immortals?

It seemed the answer to uncovering the mystery did not lie with him.

Lu Li’s guesses were mostly accurate, the old man had no power to refute, simply replied: "Uh... Master, Martin is actually a girl..."

"A girl?"

"Yes, but she always identified as male, and... well, she liked women, so everyone around thought she was male."

"That’s unimportant, I want to know why she targeted me."

"Master, do you remember the trial at Jinlongyu Taoist temple?" The old man smiled bitterly. "I hid in the ring and was discovered by the master, Martin worried the secret would be exposed, so..."

"So wanted to kill me."

"No, no, we came this time just to deliver a letter." The old man dared not confess the truth, defensively denying.

After a moment of silence, a calm voice issued from the receiver, chilling the old man’s body: "Kong Nanqing, help me exorcise him, please."

"Wait a moment! Please wait!" The old man hastily shouted, attempting to stop Lu Li’s directive. "Master, my actual body is that ring, even if you kill me, I’ll reappear in the ring and won’t die, it’ll be a loss for both of us..."

"Dispersing you won’t work either?"

"Yes! It seems so..." The old man broke out in cold sweat.

He didn’t know whether he would return to the ring if he died or truly perish; he lacked the courage to test it.

Lu Li pondered, perhaps similar to that ghost cheongsam? If that’s the case...

"I can let you go back, but you need to cooperate with me moving forward."

The old man, no less fearful, cautiously asked: "May I know what master wishes me to do...?"

"She wants to kill me, so let her come. You stick with her and instigate her to act, I’ll record her actions and then report to the police."

The old man’s already intangible soul trembled: "This... isn’t appropriate, right?"

"Being caught and imprisoned is better than dying." Lu Li replied with a plain voice.

The old man impulsively advised: "Murder is illegal..."

"Ghosts killing won’t be."

"..." The old man fell silent, with nothing to retort.

"What choice will you make then?"

Faced with survival or betraying his apprentice, the old man made the decision without hesitation. Righteously declared: "I’ll follow master’s instructions, thinking after years inside, my apprentice will correct herself!"

"Hmm. I have other matters to attend to now, will contact you after I resolve them."

"Ah, okay, okay, thank you master for sparing my life..." The old man finally had the courage to get up, smiling bitterly, continually paying respects to Kong Nanqing, leaving not through the front door, but swiftly stepping towards the window.

As a ghost creature, he could not touch physical objects, directly passing through glass, plummeting straight down—

Seconds after the old man jumped out the window.

"That was too thrilling." Dracula in the oil painting let out a long breath, his face filled with a flattering smile as he looked at Kong Nanqing. "Sis-in-law, about that trouble..."

Beep—

[You’re cold, you’re heartless, you’re unreasonable!]

[How am I cold, heartless, unreasonable!]

The TV turned on, playing a drama.

"Hehe, thanks, sis-in-law."

...

"Damn... damn..."

Martin clenched her teeth, her fists tightly gripped, nails piercing into her palms with a heart-wrenching pain.

She originally thought the plan was foolproof, not only was it seen through by that bastard, even her master for saving herself...

She sat in the car, roaring in fury: "Lu Li, was all this within your calculations!"

Suddenly, at this moment, a phantasmal figure descended from the sky, transforming into a smoke that slid into the ancient ring on her hand.

"Master!?" Martin exclaimed.

"Quickly go!!! She’s temporarily trapped by the formation I set up!" The ancient ring emitted a weak, elderly voice.

Martin hesitated no more, starting the black luxury car, quickly leaving the residential area.

"I don’t want to be human anymore! Master!" Martin pursed her lips, firmly deciding: "Teach me the Heaven-grade Cultivation Technique, I want to start cultivating immortality!"

"I can’t harm you, my child..."

Martin’s expression was cold, full of worldly detachment: "It’s better than being betrayed, caught and used as a guinea pig."

"No, I can’t use your future as a gamble." The old man instinctively resisted, suddenly realizing Lu Li’s arrangement, hesitantly said: "But we can explore a different path, use other methods."

"Other methods...?"

"Disciple, have you heard of the Invisibility Technique?"