Chapter 51: The Reappearing Death Scene

I was slightly dazed, never expecting that Jinyuan, who had remained unconscious all this time, would appear before me at this moment.

He was standing right there in the hallway, not far away from me. At this moment, Jinyuan seemed like a completely different person, utterly unlike his former self.

I walked toward him involuntarily, stopping right in front of him, and couldn't help looking him up and down. Jinyuan, however, looked at me with a somewhat indifferent expression and didn't even greet me.

I said, "Jinyuan? Is it really you, kid?"

Jinyuan nodded at me without speaking. Seeing him act this way made me even more puzzled: "What is wrong with you, kid? You act like a totally different person."

Jinyuan shook his head and finally opened his mouth: "Master told me to come and tell you not to provoke that fox demon for the time being."

"Fox demon?" I recalled the incident involving Qiu Xiaoli, and my confusion toward Jinyuan deepened: "What does your master mean? Who is your master?"

Jinyuan walked over to a bench, sat down, and then told me, "Liu Sui."

Next, Jinyuan recounted the sequence of events to me, leaving me somewhat dazed as I listened.

It turned out that Liu Sui had known about the existence of a fox demon for a long time; he even suspected that our school was built directly over the fox demon's nest. That was why strange occurrences happened repeatedly at our school. Now, the reason Liu Sui told me not to provoke that fox demon just yet was because we had not yet located where the fox demon's nest was.

Upon hearing Jinyuan's words, I nodded with sudden realization: "I understand. I won't provoke it then. Go back and tell Liu Sui that."

Jinyuan did not leave. He looked at me and said, "Master also gave another instruction."

I asked what it was, and Jinyuan replied, "Master said that you don't understand even the basics, yet you mess around blindly every day. He has given me some tasks for the two of us to complete together."

Hearing this, a surge of anger immediately welled up in my heart. I teased Jinyuan, saying, "Now that you've taken Liu Sui as your master, you're acting all high and mighty. What do you mean I don't understand the basics?"

Jinyuan did not answer my question. He stood up, glanced toward Cheng Keyan's hospital room, and said, "Let's go."

I stared at Jinyuan's back, muttering silently to myself. Jinyuan's current demeanor did indeed bear a strong resemblance to Liu Sui. I truly never would have expected that Jinyuan, the spoiled rich second-generation heir, would end up taking a campus handyman as his master.

Along the way, I glanced at the piece of paper in Jinyuan's hand. Written on it were the tasks Liu Sui had assigned to the two of us. These tasks included finding a corpse for a certain family, and dealing with corpse worms appearing in a certain restaurant, among others. I snatched the paper from Jinyuan's hand and looked at it carefully, realizing there were quite a few tasks.

I stopped in my tracks and asked Jinyuan, "What on earth does Liu Sui want us to do these tasks for?"

Without turning his head, Jinyuan said, "First, to practice exorcising ghosts; second, Master said that he once caught a glimpse of that book of yours, *Ghost Arts*, when he was dealing with the telephone ghost. He said that profound Daoist techniques are hidden within that book, but you haven't mastered them at all. Completing these tasks will be helpful to you."

I asked, "Why does Liu Sui want me to master the Daoist techniques inside *Ghost Arts*?"

"Because—" After uttering these two words, Jinyuan paused. "Master has a premonition that the bloody rain from his dream is about to fall very soon, right within this period."

I handed the paper back to Jinyuan, and he lowered his head and walked silently ahead. Under his guidance, I unconsciously arrived at a highway.

At this moment, the sky was still pitch black, and the highway was pitch black as well. Jinyuan said to me, "Later on, no matter what you see, do not get nervous."

I gave a disdainful smile: "Me get nervous? I think you're the one who shouldn't be nervous."

I casually asked another question, "What is going to appear?"

Jinyuan said, "A person went missing on this stretch of highway. Before disappearing, he had called his family. His family suspects that he likely got into a car accident on this stretch of highway, and now he is neither seen alive nor found dead."

I seemed to have guessed something, but couldn't help asking, "Then what specifically will appear?"

Jinyuan turned his head back: "If he really died in a car accident on this stretch of highway, he will appear here once more."

I understood in an instant. Wasn't what Jinyuan described precisely the reenactment of a death scene as recorded in *Ghost Arts*?

This reenactment of a death scene actually happens because of lingering resentment. Even after a person dies, resentment remains at the place where they died. If, after their death, environmental and temporal factors happen to coincide with those of the day they died, the scene of their death is very likely to reappear.

Thinking of this, I perked up and no longer had the time to mind Jinyuan.

The highway was somewhat dark at the time. Fortunately, a waning moon hung in the sky, otherwise, truly nothing would have been visible.

Just as I stared at the highway for a brief moment, the death scene indeed appeared.

First, I saw a white object appear in the distance. As soon as this white object appeared, it rapidly approached me. When it got a little closer, I saw that it was a deathly pale face.

Even though I was mentally prepared, I still gasped.

At this moment, I witnessed an even more bizarre sight. After this face appeared, we then saw a slightly dimmer body belonging to it. Combined, the body and that face formed a complete person.

This person was currently suspended in the air about forty centimeters off the ground, sitting in an upright posture. His hands were stretched forward, as if grasping something. Yet apart from seeing him, we saw neither the object he was grasping nor whatever was supporting him in mid-air.

According to what Jinyuan had said, when this person died, he was driving a car. Wasn't his current posture precisely the posture of driving a car?

However, a car is an inanimate object and leaves behind no resentment. Therefore, in the reenacted death scene, no car would appear. Now, we could only imagine him sitting inside a vehicle.

This person quickly arrived in front of us, and I saw clearly that it was a man. Although this man was currently merely the embodiment of resentment rather than a ghost, as I stared at him, I felt a powerful sense of oppression that left me breathless.

Maintaining his driving posture, the man suddenly came to a halt as he passed right in front of us. It wasn't that he stopped; rather, it was as if he had collided with something. Then, his body lurched violently forward, followed by spinning in place four or five times.

His body abruptly broke out of the driving posture and flew four or five meters high into the air, looking very much as though he had been thrown out of a vehicle.

Soon, his body landed on the ground, struggling incessantly. Yet at that exact moment, his limbs suddenly deformed and twisted, as if being pressed down by some heavy object—likely a car running over his body. Finally, he stopped struggling.

A moment later, his body became suspended in mid-air once again, moving slowly. It looked as if he was being carried by someone. When they reached the roadside, his body plummeted instantly, rolling down the slope. It seemed the people carrying him had abandoned his corpse.

Having watched this entire sequence of the reenacted death scene, I rapidly pieced the information together in my mind.

This man had first suffered a traffic accident, and his body was thrown out of the car, but he had not died. Yet the cold-blooded driver had driven the car over him once more, crushing him to death. After crushing him to death, the driver had disposed of his body.

The death scene came to an end. I looked toward the slope down which the corpse had rolled, and called out to Jinyuan, "Let's go, let's go take a look."

We quickly walked down the slope. Sure enough, in a patch of grass at the bottom of the slope, we spotted a heavily decomposed corpse.

So, the reenactment of death scenes could be used in this way?