Chapter 107: A Visitor

“Then, was he cursed by a ghost?” I asked uneasily.
Perhaps Yi Zhiqiu would be able to see that the curse on Cao Bao originated from the life-buying money.
Although even if he did, the probability of him connecting it to me was not high.

“I can’t be sure.”
“This incident happened very covertly and secretly.”
“The source of the curse is no longer on him.”
“Even I can’t reverse-investigate the cause,” Yi Zhiqiu said, turning to me.

“I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble you again.”
“Help me investigate which classmates that Cao Bao has offended.”
“I suspect that this time it wasn’t a ghost’s curse, but that he was plotted against.”

Yi Zhiqiu’s deduction was very accurate.
Despite having almost no clues, he could actually guess that Cao Bao had most likely been plotted against.

Unfortunately, his reasoning could probably only go this far.
Not only were there no clues left on Cao Bao, but there was also no way to investigate his social connections.
The hooligans who were on good terms with Cao Bao had already been killed by the Painted Skin Ghost, and the number of students he had offended was simply too many to count.

And yet, Yi Zhiqiu had specifically asked me to help him investigate.
In that case, I would just have to casually investigate for him and then report back truthfully.
Anyway, I wasn’t included among them.
I nodded, “Okay, leave it to me.”

“You’re a great help.”
“I’m not very familiar with the students, after all, and I need to be careful with my words when I talk to them.”
“As for the reward I said I would give you, allow me some time to prepare.”
“And I will also go to the Supernatural Events Department to express my thanks,” Yi Zhiqiu added.

“Okay, I’ll go and inform them,” I replied.
Everything was going according to Senior Sister Mo’s plan so far.

“Oh, and one more thing.”
“Try to avoid this spot in the future.”
“It’s very dangerous here.”
“I will slowly investigate,” Yi Zhiqiu said, pointing to the spot on the running track where the former Safety Consultant was likely buried.

“I understand,” I nodded obediently, then left.
Soon after, rumors spread throughout the school that the school bully, Cao Bao, had been seriously injured in a car accident and was hospitalized.
He would be taking a leave of absence for a period of time and might even drop out.

I felt that he had gotten off easy.
If Yi Zhiqiu hadn’t treated him in time, he might have died directly.
And I didn’t expect the life-buying money to be so effective.
I had only given him ten notes, and he had gotten into a car accident so quickly.
He probably still thought it was just an accident.

When I got home and opened the door, a chill ran down my spine.
My room door had been opened!

I had a habit of double-locking the door with a key when I went out.
But this time, when I came back from school and opened the door, I found that the door was not double-locked, but merely closed.

Someone had entered my house!
Or it might not even be a person.
My heart suddenly started beating extremely fast.
I wondered if I should just run away, call the police, or find someone to help.

Just then, the Golden Bee Gu flew out on its own and circled in front of me.
I had almost forgotten about this little thing.
It could go in and scout the way for me.

I retreated to the stairwell, ready to escape at any moment, and then sent the Golden Bee Gu into the house, synchronizing our vision, and carefully scouted the situation inside.

If the intruder was really still in my house, he should have been alerted by my opening the door just now.
Now, he would either be hiding in a panic or waiting in ambush for me.

But the Golden Bee Gu did a rough sweep, checking the living room, bedroom, and bathroom, but found no one.
Could it be that the person had already left?

That was possible too.
If it was just a thief, they wouldn’t likely still be in the house when it was time for school to end and people to get off work.
Thinking about it this way, it was indeed possible that he had already escaped.

And the Golden Bee Gu hadn’t issued any warnings, which meant the house hadn’t been entered by a ghost.
To be honest, I didn’t think a ghost would use a door, or open a double-locked door and then close it properly.

But I was still very careful and had the Golden Bee Gu check every corner of the house, including the bedroom, closets, balcony, and so on.
After confirming that no one was hiding in these places, I felt a little more relieved.

When I went to check the stairwell on my way back, I found that there were many black and red ghost-like scribbles in the corridor.
I didn’t know what was written, it looked like a child’s random doodles.

I usually took the elevator up and down and had never taken the stairs.
It would be a bit too tiring to climb the stairs to the twelfth floor, so this was the first time I had seen these ghost-like scribbles in the stairwell.
Who would be so inconsiderate?

I walked back into the house, carefully opening the door, my hand tightly clutching the jade pendant.
It was one thing to know that there was no one in the house, but it was still very nerve-wracking and scary to know that someone with unknown intentions had been inside.

I didn’t even close the main door completely, so that I could escape at any time.
Then I slowly went deeper into the house, step by step.

The first thing I checked was if anything was missing.
I had neither jewelry nor cash in my house.
If I had to say what was valuable, it would be the laptop I won from the bubble tea shop and the life-buying money locked in the cabinet.

But my new laptop was right on the desk, untouched.
The cabinet where the hell money was locked was also intact.
If a thief had taken the life-buying money, I estimated he would be at his own funeral by now.

I looked around and confirmed that nothing was missing from the house.
There weren’t even any signs of things being moved.
It was as if the person had done nothing but open the double-locked door and walk around, without taking anything.
I wouldn’t have even noticed someone had been inside.

The question then was, who would privately open my door and come in, yet take nothing?
Unless their goal was not theft at all.

I had calmed down now.
This house had a high-grade security door.
An ordinary thief couldn’t possibly pick the lock, or if they did force it open, they would inevitably leave traces.
It was more like someone had opened the door with a key.

I hadn’t changed the lock on the door.
I had just used the key from Xia Yubing’s family to open the door and move in.
So it was possible that someone else had a key to this house, for example, Xia Yubing’s other relatives, or the tenants who had moved out before.

Why would they come and open the door?
Or was it just that they wanted to see the house, and left when they found someone was living here?

I was deep in thought when I inadvertently came to my original bedroom, where the incense holder for Xia Yubing’s parents was now enshrined.
I finally noticed that something was wrong.

The candles were shorter.
It seemed that after I had left home, someone had lit the two candles again, and they had burned for some time.
And the offerings in front of the incense holder were gone again.

I opened the door of the incense holder.
The two paper figures were still on the altar, but I had a gut feeling that this door had been opened.
I hadn’t closed it this tightly yesterday.

Someone had entered my home while I was away and paid their respects to Xia Yubing’s parents!
How was that possible?