In a World Full of Ghosts I Became a Witch

Chapter 8 Apprehend him:

Hua Cheng, Mu Dan Street.

Hua Cheng, an old city in the southwest with some history.

There were many houses that were painted white with dark gray rooftops, with ancient looking streets, Mu Dan street was such that was rather famous.

At the entrance of Mu Dan Street stood an old entrance archway, the entrance archway had a dark gray rooftop, with four majestic stone lions at the four corners of the entrance archway that were so clean it seemed shimmering.

On the entrance archway wrote the words【Mu Dan Street】[1]

With a canal in the center of the street flowing from north to south in a meandering shape.

With hundreds of pebble alleys on both sides of the canal and it smelling like a waterway.

But all this was not the actual appearance of Mu Dan Street, but a pseudo classical landscape built a few years ago to attract tourists.

Only some of the older residents in flower city know that surrounded by those quaint buildings, a small street with a length of no more than 200 meters, dilapidated roads, a narrow and inconspicuous street was the true appearance of Peony Street.

The real Mu Dan Street was also where the headquarters of Hua Cheng’s Night Party resided.

Ten o’clock in the morning, the sun was already up and Bai Kai, who had worked all night, had a meat bun in his mouth while stretching his back swaggering to Peony street’s entrance to leave.

In the distance, a rather luxurious looking suv drove along the road and stopped at the entrance of Peony street, blocking the road that was not spacious to begin with.

Upon seeing the suv pull op, Bai Kai spat out the half-eaten meat bun in his mouth, holding it in his hands, rolling his eyes saying in an unhappy tone, “Tsk, unlucky……”

The person who arrived was Jiang Li, who was the operative for tonight.

Because of what Jiang Li said to him last night, making him feel very hurt, he pondered about what she said before deciding to put the blame of Lu Yi Bei adding him to his blacklist as all Jiang Li’s fault.

I’m so kind to little Beibei, I really want to wear the same pants as him and sleep in the same bed!

How is it possible that he hates me?

That’s right! Little Beibei doesn’t hate me! It’s all Jiang Li’s fault. She is a bad omen, her words are like poison, like a curse!

Just as Bai Kai thought about it, he shoved the meat bun back into his mouth again taking a ferocious bite of it.

Just then, the maid got out of the car and opened the door for Jiang Li.

Jiang Li got out of the car and saw Bai Kai standing there, with a meat bun in his mouth like an old dog.

He lowered his eyelids and frowned slightly, with a disdained expression, as if he had just left the house in the morning and stepped on dog shit.

Jiang Li showed a kind of expression, especially effective for a beautiful girl of the iceberg type[2], the destructive power of such was unrivaled.

After the brief confrontation, brother Shui was defeated, clutching his chest and backing off.

I did not lose! It’s just because I am older than Jiang Li so I let her have one! Bai Kai comforted himself, but why did he feel like crying a bit?

Could it be because…

That’s right, it’s onions! There were onions in the meat bun!

Jiang Li withdrew her gaze, completely disregarding Bai Kai who was looking upwards forty-five degrees, leaning on her cane, walking forward with great difficulty towards the building that looked like an ancestral shrine at the end of the street.

At this moment, Bai Kai called out to her.

“Oh yeah, when we were investigating at Chang Sheng Road yesterday, we also found that at the suburbs another incident happened. I think you can take a look at the file!” Bai Kai called attention to her about the incident.

Loathing should not affect work related matters, Bai Kai felt it was necessary to remind Jiang Li about it.

“Oh.” Jiang Li nodded her head, responding to his heed coldly.

……

The old ancestral shrine was hidden by some maidenhair trees, the gray stone steps were covered with a few strands of moss, the red paint of the pillars of the entrance was peeling off, with a brass coloured sign made of a metal hanging on top of the door, the sign hanging on top read【Flower Cities Folk Custom Cultural Research Administration Office】

Entering the ancestral shrine, not many people could be seen inside, with a quiet and solemn atmosphere, going further in a building opposite the direction of the entrance could be seen.

Entering the building, a bright and simple hallway could be seen stretching onwards with seemingly no end in sight.

If someone were to see the interior of this building, they would be puzzled at how a thick and long hallway was stuffed in such a small space.

On both sides of the corridor were thick metal doors that were facing each other.

The first seven doors were marked with numbers from 1 to 7, which represented the rotating operatives for each day of the seven days in a week.

Some of the numbers were written in traditional Chinese characters, some were in Arabic, some were in Greek and even in hieroglyphs, which made it seem very messy.

The rooms were inseparable with the identity of the owner of the room.

Further down the corridor was engulfed in darkness.

Although people instinctively felt that you could go further inside, they could not see further with the naked eye.

Jiang Li walked until she was next to the metal door with “V” written on it, before twisting the door handle, entering her office.

The room seemed rather dated, with a square desk, the table top was covered with glass, along with a layer of a white laced protective cover.

On the table was a green tinted lampshade table lamp, a telephone with a rotary dial and a mug with the words “Serve the People” printed on it.

If it wasn’t for the brand-new computer on the table, this kind of office decoration from the 1970s and 1980s would definitely make the people who came into the room for the first time, feel as if they went back in time.

Although today was Jiang Li’s turn on duty, there usually weren’t a lot of ghost incidents before dark, which is to say she still had seven or eight hours to do what she wanted to do.

It was still early, Jiang Li patiently watered the flower on the windowsill, taking her own sweet time to brew a cup of strong tea for herself, sitting in front of the computer she opened mahjong.

Such a beautiful girl who looks cold and uncaring, holding a mug similar to those of an old manager’s, using a top of the line computer to play mahjong, no matter how you look at it, there is a sense of incongruity.

Half an hour later.

Jiang Li won two mahjong games dominating the others, then closed the game, clicking on a crescent-shaped icon on the desktop and the words【Night Party incident archive System】popped up on the screen.

She started reading the new ghost incidents report that were uploaded when she wasn’t on duty.

“Click–!”

【Ghost incident no 1032

Ghosts name: Mr Rabbit, Energy Level C

Date of the first incident: May 5th.

Case of incident overview: There were consecutive cases of disappearance in Hua Cheng, and each case had 4 things in common.

1.Before they were missing, they were always alone, including in the workplace, in the neighborhood, in their residence, etc;

2.White rabbit hair was found near the place of disappearance.

3.All the missing people received an advertisement flyer from someone in a rabbit costume at different times and at different locations.

Pertaining to the advertisement flyer: It is made from a material made of an unidentified biological fur imitating paper and its composition is temporarily unknown after analysis. The dimensions of the flyer are 176mmX250mm.

It was first discovered at the site of the first victim’s disappearance, the flyer is pure black with bright yellow patterns and text on it.

[image], [image], [image]

……】

Jiang Li didn’t thoroughly read the advertisement flyer yesterday.

After reading the text on the flyer, she frowned slightly while talking to herself, “Is it a spell written in hebrew? Why would he grasp such a thing? “

From what Jiang Li remembered, the witch twilight[3] definitely didn’t know this kind of spell, so the origin of Mr Rabbit’s spell was definitely not from her.

But if it wasn’t from Twilight, then where did he learn this spell?

“Oh… a triggered curse? Looks like that rabbit uses this curse to lock on to the target.”

For a long time, at the night party they have come to the conclusion that sunlight suppresses the power of ghosts through their interactions with ghosts during day time compared to night time.

Ghosts similar in power to Mr Rabbit aren’t particularly strong.

So it was rather difficult for them to successfully hunt a target, it wasn’t out of the norm to use an advertisement flyer with a curse on it to lock onto the target before striking at night.

“Tsk, why does someone always read the contents of the flyer when it looks so shady looking? Obviously, if they just thought of a way to dispose of it, the danger would be greatly reduced, a bunch of r̲e̲t̲a̲r̲d̲s̲ I swear!”

Jiang Li continued scrolling through the cases involving Mr Rabbit.

After a while of scrolling, she stopped at an audio file.

【No: 103203, victim Lin Ke Xin’s call with the police before her death01.wav】

“Oh? A call with the police?” Jiang Li muttered to herself while pensively thinking about something, while opening the audio file.

“Click!”

“Shhhhh–Shhhhh–!” After the annoying static noise a voice could be heard.

“Hello……Hello? Is this the police station? I, I want the police!”

“Hello ma’am, this is the Lin Jiang Road’s Police Station. May I ask what you need help with?”

“Police officer help! I feel like someone wants to kill me!”

“Ma’am, please don’t joke around, we…”

“I’m not joking!” the woman interrupted.

After a pause, the operator on the phone held back his temper and asked, “Really now? Then……then what did you base this conclusion on?”

“At the beginning, there was a man walking around downstairs in our company, just constantly staring in my direction…… I, I looked at him, although I didn’t see him clearly, I am sure that he also saw me too!”

“He, he then followed me back to my house, he, he’s just outside! I can hear his footsteps and every time the footsteps were right outside the door, the footsteps noises would disappear……”

“He, he’s back again… listen there’s footsteps!”

“……” It was dead silence, no sound at all.

“Strange……he seems to be gone?”

“Haha, ma’am, I think you must be too stressed with work making you a bit paranoid. I suggest you take a hot bath, drink a glass of milk and get some rest earlier. I wish you the best!”

“beep–!”

【No: 103204, victim Lin Ke Xin’s conversation with the police before her death02.wav】

“Click!”

……

“Please save me…… I called just now, I took a shower and came out only to find that he’s back again, he’s just outside my house door, I’m begging you guys please! I don’t want to die!”

From the woman’s sobbing tone, you could tell that she was very scared and from time to time her low sobbing would cover up her trembling voice.

The operator was obviously stunned for a few seconds when he heard her cry of help, and his tone became solemn and anxious, “Ma’am, don’t fret, we will definitely help you, just tell me your address! I will dispatch the police immediately!”

“I live at Fu Ming Road, 3rd building, No. 28! My name’s Lin Ke Xin!” The woman responded quickly.

“Okay, ma’am, I……”

Before the operator could finish speaking, the woman shouted in a panicked voice, “Wait! Are you going to hang up? Don’t! Don’t hang up! Don’t! Please, I’m begging you!”

“I think you misunderstood ma’am, I will be on the line with you, please don’t panic, I have already alerted the officers of the police station and they are currently rushing over as fast as they can.”

“You…why did you hang up!?”

“Ma’am I didn’t……”

“Why did you hang?! Why?!” the woman cried, which was followed by incoherent screeches, “What should I do? What should I do! He, he’s right outside my door, I already used the sofa to block the door. but I feel like he’s about to come in! He’s about to come in!”

“Wait a minute? the bed, the bedroom……”

“……”

“Ma’am? Did something happen in the bedroom?”

“……”

“Ma’am? Ma’am are you there!?”

The operator shouted twice anxiously, but it was dead silence on the other end.

“……”

“Ka–kaka–!”

A sound of a rodent biting on a hard object could be heard in the dead silence and then the recording stopped.

……

“Ai!”

After closing the audio file, Jiang Li frowned, while lost in thought.

A Spell of unknown origin, multiple attacks and the ability to pass through walls, these were all feats that Mr Rabbit were unable to do in the past.

It seems Bai Kai was right, Mr Rabbit is trying to become a witch!

Thinking about this, she decided to look further, but someone opened the office door.

The person who came in was her maid, holding a stack of documents and a few photos in her hand.

“Miss, there’s a new trail for Mr Rabbit. Early in the morning, someone found two carcasses with high psychic energy near an apartment building near a university. The carcases seem to be puppet bodies of Mr Rabbit. This is the data collected from the on-site data analysis and these are the photos.”

Is there someone or something at that apartment building that is able to kill Mr Rabbit’s puppet, causing Mr Rabbit to fail his objective?

Was it a person or ghost who did this?

This kind of behavior is equivalent to encircling his territory and declaring war with Mr Rabbit!

The strength of this unknown person must be pretty good as they seem to be so confident in themselves to do such a thing.

Jiang Li picked up the document and looked through it roughly, before turning her attention to the photos and after a while, she locked her gaze on a young man and frowned.

Black coat, sunglasses and a mask, while creeping around……

“This person……” Jiang Li pointed at the young man in the photo and said, “It is human nature to get in on the action. When the group of people gathered there, he not only deliberately hides his appearance, but judging from his overly calm and uncaring demeanor, I think there’s a good chance somethings wrong with him.”

“Is it? Then miss, I will now……”

Jiang Li lightly tapped on the photo with her slender fingertips, pointing at the young man and said coldly, “This person, apprehend him.”

“Understood, miss, I understand, I’ll go apprehend him now!”

Translator notes

1. the words are supposed to be on an artwork which had peony flowers at the bottom and a red sky↵

2. iceberg type just means cold and uncaring personality↵

3. The author is revealing the witch’s name one word at a time and theres still one more word so it might change again↵