Chapter 14: I Found You
“Chen!”
“Master Chen, what’s going on here?”
Song Shuqiao hurried to the bedside. Seeing Zhang Chen, emaciated to the bone, wailing in agony, she couldn’t help but feel a sharp pain in her heart.
Zhang Qiankun’s voice was grave. “This is the aftermath of the Feng Shui backlash, penetrating almost to the bone.”
Chen Fan raised an eyebrow in surprise; he hadn’t expected Zhang Qiankun to perceive it so clearly.
The wandering spirits before them, after having devoured the burial clothes completely, all bowed to Chen Fan before gradually sinking into the floor and vanishing.
Watching the last few formless infant spirits disappear, Chen Fan frowned slightly.
Among the spirits that had just appeared, the majority were elderly, followed by young adults, with very few children.
Logically, even unborn fetuses terminated in the obstetrics ward should become wandering spirits.
Thus, the number of elderly and child spirits in the hospital should be roughly equal.
Yet, the number of child-type spirits was somehow off.
It seemed as if someone had deliberately released those child ghosts toward him.
As Zhang Chen’s agonized cries subsided, he slowly opened his eyes.
“What... what happened to me?”
“What happened to you? You don’t even have the skill, yet you imitate your grandfather by trying to read Feng Shui for others!” Zhang Qiusheng couldn’t help but scold. “If it weren’t for Mr. Chen today, we’d all be preparing your funeral!”
Zhang Chen looked at the tearful Song Shuqiao, then glanced at Zhang Qiankun, who was standing with a gentle gaze.
Finally, his eyes settled on Chen Fan.
Surprise flickered faintly on his weak face.
“Why is it you?”
Chen Fan ignored him and calmly said to Zhang Qiankun, “While the backlash was being removed, a portion of his vitality was taken away as well.”
“For the next six months, no swimming or worshipping. Perform more good deeds.”
Zhang Qiankun immediately nodded. “Understood, Master Chen!”
“Thank you, Master Chen!”
“Wait...” Song Shuqiao hurried forward, determined to press the bank card into Chen Fan’s hand no matter what.
But Chen Fan shook his head gently. “If you insist on giving me a reward, it’s better to donate it.”
“No, no, no, it’s a gift, not a reward!” Song Shuqiao smiled brightly.
A gift...
Chen Fan was slightly stunned. This person, who appeared so proper, was truly adept at finding loopholes!
“Sigh, I can’t refuse your kindness.” Chen Fan sighed helplessly.
Song Shuqiao obediently slipped the bank card into Chen Fan’s pocket.
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going.”
After exchanging a few polite words with Zhang Qiankun and the others, Chen Fan pushed open the door and left.
At the entrance, Jiang Yueshan and the two others fell silent as they watched Chen Fan walk out.
All their previous arrogance toward Chen Fan had vanished.
Jiang Xiao bit her lip, a trace of grievance in her eyes.
“Chen Fan... you will definitely! definitely regret this!”
At that moment, Zhang Qiusheng pushed open the door and stepped out.
His face darkened. If he weren’t from the Jiang family, he wouldn’t have given Chen Fan such a poor first impression.
“I won’t pursue this legally.”
“But from now on, Qingcheng will know that anyone cooperating with the Zhang family will no longer do business with the Jiang family.”
“Mr. Zhang...” Jiang Yueshan opened his mouth to plead, but Zhang Qiusheng had already closed the door.
At that instant, the three from the Jiang family lowered their heads in unison.
“It’s all Chen Fan’s fault!”
“If it weren’t for him, how could we have fallen to such a state!”
A flash of resentment flickered in Su Juan’s eyes. “Husband, don’t you know that person?”
Jiang Yueshan hesitated briefly, then said gravely, “If we want to stay in Qingcheng, we have no choice but to seek that person’s help...”
At the mention of that person, Jiang Xiao shivered suddenly.
...
Chen Fan stepped into the elevator but did not leave the hospital immediately. Instead, he rode down to the lowest floor accessible by the service elevator.
Hospitals gather yin energy and serve as gateways to the afterlife.
That’s why at night, hospitals appear eerie and frightening.
However, the number of vengeful spirits causing trouble is very few.
Most are lingering souls attached to the mortal realm, who missed the seventh day after death to enter the underworld and reincarnation.
Places heavy with yin energy are often perfect spots for dark cultivators practicing forbidden arts.
“Going any further, and it’s the morgue...” Chen Fan murmured.
Without connections, entering the morgue would be difficult.
He noticed a nurse approaching not far away and smiled faintly.
“Miss, could you take me to the morgue?”
The young nurse was about to refuse but then her eyes glazed over in confusion before she nodded.
“All right.”
With the nurse as his pass, Chen Fan took the medical staff elevator down to the morgue.
The temperature there was ten degrees lower than upstairs.
The nurses nearby shivered slightly.
“Hmm...” Chen Fan pondered, then asked in a low voice, “Do many people get abortions in your obstetrics department?”
“Quite a few...” The young nurse trembled from the cold. “About ten a week.”
“So many?”
Chen Fan was somewhat surprised; the abortion rate was rather high.
By normal reasoning, there should be many child spirits in the hospital.
Yet he had only escorted seven or eight child spirits into the underworld earlier.
There had to be a dark cultivator involved!
The morgue was heavy with yin energy. Chen Fan stepped out of the elevator deliberately.
“Go back and do what you’re supposed to do, then forget you ever met me.”
Having spoken, the elevator doors slowly closed.
The cold air blended with the yin energy, enveloping Chen Fan.
He observed many newborn souls, still foggy and confused.
It seemed he couldn’t find any clues among these spirits.
“Three Realms Spirit Seeker, unobstructed sight.”
Chen Fan formed a hand seal. A flicker of azure light flashed deep within his pupils.
With the sudden glow, his vision transformed.
He could see through the metal to the corpses inside the freezer.
He could also see through the walls to the forensic pathologist conducting an autopsy.
Interestingly, the body under examination was that of Master Kushan, who had died suddenly just yesterday.
Chen Fan looked down and a smile crept across his lips.
“Found you.”