It landed on a highway, the caution tape still in place. But it was late at night, and there was no one guarding it.
This was a winding mountain road, with many twists and turns, making it easy to miss what was ahead. If vehicles suddenly stopped, accidents were likely to occur. Therefore, passing vehicles would usually honk and slow down when turning.
When asked if Zhao Liu had heard a horn at the time, the female ghost shook her head, saying she hadn't heard anything.
Jiang Wen knew in his heart that this was a deliberate murder, and that it would only take a hundred thousand or so to get a truck driver to willingly do it.
“Why would your boss think of parking here? Where did he go to use the restroom? Don't you have any suspicions?” Jiang Wen asked Zhao Liu, looking at the steep cliffs around them.
Zhao Liu shook her head, quite silent: “He's usually very nice to me, always giving me things… …and he's never overstepped his bounds in the slightest. I thought he was trustworthy…”
“Always giving you things but never doing anything out of line, you don't think he's a philanthropist, do you?” Jiang Wen sighed. “If you were usually on good terms, then it must be something you said that triggered his murderous intent.”
“This… …I only remember that we had a falling out once. And I said that if he dared to do anything, I would reveal his tax evasion.” Zhao Liu recalled.
“No wonder.” Jiang Wen understood why her boss wanted her dead. Tax evasion was no small matter, especially for a publicly listed company. Once outsiders found out, the company could be ruined and bankrupt overnight.
“I didn't think he would be so deranged.” Zhao Liu said, still in disbelief. “He's usually very gentle and always treats his colleagues like friends.”
“Sometimes, good and evil are just a matter of a single thought.” Jiang Wen said. “The human heart is complex.”
“Let's go down and look for your body. I suspect that because your body hasn't been found yet, you're still stuck in this form.”
He jumped off the hundreds-of-meters-high cliff, only to hear the sound of panicked braking and honking from the car behind him.
Looking again, Jiang Wen had already landed in the jungle at the bottom of the cliff. Looking at the dense jungle, he patted the bracelet.
“Thank you, Little Huai Spirit.”
“Got it.”
The surrounding vegetation stirred silently, spreading in all directions. Soon, Little Huai Spirit's reply came, she had found the female ghost's body in a riverbed.
Jiang Wen looked at the direction and found that it was about ten miles from the scene of the incident. Presumably, after the car accident, Zhao Liu's boss and the truck driver cleaned up the scene, destroyed Zhao Liu's body, and then reported it to the police. After all, the hardest cases to solve are those where the person can't be found.
However, there is a saying that it is easy to kill a person, but it is extremely difficult to dispose of the body. No matter what you do, you will always leave traces, especially in today's highly technologically advanced world.
Following the direction, in just a few breaths, the man and the ghost arrived at the side of a turbulent riverbank.
Jiang Wen threw a Water Repelling Talisman into the water, and the river surface naturally separated.
The river water was invisibly raised, slowly flowing away from both sides.
In the silt at the bottom of the river, a burlap sack stood out. Iron weights were tied to both sides of the burlap sack, weighing as much as thirty or forty pounds.
Sinking like this to the bottom of the river, if there was no specialized salvage, I'm afraid no one would be able to discover it for decades. By then, the case would become a mystery, and whether Zhao Liu was alive or dead after falling off the cliff would be unknown.
And the boss only needed to pay Zhao Liu's family a sum of money to stay out of it.
“… …How could he do this.” Zhao Liu couldn't believe it. If she hadn't seen the burlap sack at the bottom of the river, she wouldn't have been willing to believe that her boss had murdered her.
“The human heart is like this, able to use any means for the sake of profit.” Jiang Wen comforted her, then lifted the sack from the river and placed it in front of him.
After untying the burlap sack, a female body that had already begun to rot was curled up inside. Judging from her clothes, she looked exactly like Zhao Liu.
“I, what should I do?” Zhao Liu looked at Jiang Wen helplessly.
“Report it to the police.” Jiang Wen looked at her.
“Then I'll have to trouble you, Daoist Priest.” Zhao Liu thanked him sincerely.
“This, this.” Even as a ghost, Zhao Liu's mind was still buzzing, and she was speechless for a moment. In her life, she had only seen such scenes on TV. Seeing the scene of flesh growing back from bones in reality was truly shocking to the ghost.
“You will keep this Life Extending Talisman close to your body. This talisman can only allow you to live for seven days. After seven days, you will die completely. Therefore, please resolve the things you have not finished in the human world in these seven days.” Jiang Wen stuck the talisman on the chest of Zhao Liu's corpse, and pointed his finger on the female ghost's forehead.
Zhao Liu only felt the world spinning, and the whole ghost seemed to be stuffed into something. After she woke up, she only felt uncomfortable and wet all over.
She retched a few times in disgust, spitting out silt and bitter water.
She stood up and moved her hands and feet, and then she was sure that she had really come back to life.
Looking at the young man standing in front of her, Zhao Liu knelt on the ground and bowed to him: “Daoist Priest's great kindness, I'm afraid I will never forget it in my life. After this matter is over, I will ask my parents to offer incense at the Taoist temple to repay the Daoist Priest's kindness.”
“These are all small things, hurry back and settle the things you haven't finished.” Jiang Wen flew her back to the suburbs, and also gave her money for the bus. Taking advantage of the darkness, he strode away freely.
Zhao Liu came back to her senses, looking at the bus stop as if she had been reborn. She reached out and touched the talisman on her chest, her expression firm.
She got on the bus, got off at the station, and resolutely walked towards the police station.
Not long after, a case occurred in Jiangcheng that shocked the entire financial industry. The boss of a listed company actually deliberately murdered an employee, and the employee miraculously came back to life. When the boss saw the employee, he was like seeing a ghost, and he went crazy.
Practitioners were amazed, after all, the company's financial reports were excellent every year, and it was very popular in the stock market. How could it suddenly be revealed that there was a serious financial deficit, and that the boss had even gone so far as to murder the accountant?
Everyone thought that this case was too bizarre, and they were talking about how the accountant fell from a cliff hundreds of meters high and escaped from the car.
Jiang Wen naturally didn't care much about this matter. He had been organizing his cultivation experience in the temple these days, and also managing the Taoist temple and receiving pilgrims.
This morning, when he opened the door, he saw two white-haired old people kneeling at the entrance of the Taoist temple. When they saw Jiang Wen, their faces were tearful, and they knelt at the door and kowtowed to Jiang Wen several times.
The two old people talked to Jiang Wen about Zhao Liu, about what happened after she returned home. The old people said that their daughter said that she only had three days to live when she returned home. They didn't believe it at first, but later they saw the evidence and were convinced.
The daughter said that she had 200,000 yuan in her bank account and asked them to donate 100,000 yuan to the Taoist temple.
The daughter said that she had a cat and hoped that her parents would treat it as their own child.
The daughter said that she had done many wrong things and should not have been greedy for temporary vanity. She hoped that she would have the opportunity to be their daughter again in the next life.
The old people babbled on, and Jiang Wen listened quietly. Finally, the two old people supported each other and left, leaving a letter for him.
Jiang Wen opened the letter and looked at it, and couldn't help but reveal a smile.
