Afterlife Department

Chapter 522 – Stupidity

Normal World 112.

"Oh! The Foul is too strong!" Wu Yi spoke as he waved the Foul floating around them away.

"Achoo!" Bai Wu, instead, sneezed.

Bai Liu, Yi Bing and Huo Ling. "…" really an idiot.

"Ahaha…" Jiu Ye forced a laugh. "Senior… I mean, master… shall I open the window and make a mirror for the sun outside to be reflected inside, decreasing the yin energy in this house?" he asked. They were inside a house that looked haunted when they arrived in this world.

"Good." Bai Liu answered and glanced at Bai Wu with a disdainful gaze. "… why did I have an idiot apprentice? Why can't I meet Jiu Ye sooner?" he muttered.

Wu Yi pulled Bai Wu who cried after hearing what his master said. Bai Liu was his first master but he was thrown to Wu Yi after Bai Liu discovered that he was an idiot.

"Liuliu, why are you so harsh to our son? Look, he even has your surname!" Wu Yi told Bai Liu who is frowning while Bai Wu continued to cry, though he really understands much.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling who witnessed everything. "…" fck. Have we joined a stupid family… ehem, team?! They thought, hoping that these people aren't pig teammates. Then, they looked at Jiu Ye who seemed to be the only one reliable.

"Master! The window is now open!" Jiu Ye called as sunlight flooded the room inside. "I'll take out the mirrors around the house and will make more if they aren't enough!" he said as he ran outside the room.

"Stupid Bai. Go help Jiu Ye look for mirrors." Bai Liu ordered.

"Oh! Okay!" Bai Wu wiped his tears and immediately ran after Jiu Ye. "Jiu Ye! Wait for me! I'm scaredddd!!!" they heard him screamed in the hallway.

Bai Liu. "…" fck. Can I still recover my face that Bai Wu lost?

Wu Yi. "…" sht. How can I make Liuliu calm down because what our stupid son did?!

Yi Bing and Huo Ling. "…" is it too late to change teammates? We don't want to board this car of stupid idiots!

The adults left have different thought, but unanimously decided to follow Jiu Ye's words of making the mirrors reflect the sunlight inside the house to gather more yang energy and replace the overflowing yin energy inside. The yin energy is what they call 'Foul' in their world, the Stable World.

"This house is too dirty and old. Should we buy a new villa?" Wu Yi asked as his index finger touched the large, mahogany table.

"The house of the target soul Ruo Yi is near so we landed here. From her biography, she is a filial daughter so she must visit her parents after her death and pass by here. Let's make do with this house." Yi Bing explained.

"Okay." Wu Yi shrugged. "We only need to clean this… ah! I'll call Sha Jiu for a housecleaning robot maid!" he said and sent Sha Jiu a message. After receiving a reply, he pressed a button on his watch and his briefcase appeared and is glowing. Then, he opened his briefcase and pulled out a doll.

It is Anji Li. "Greetings, masters." She spoke and respectfully bowed. "Master Yi Bing! Master Huo Ling!" she called and sweetly smiled.

"Huh? Sha Jiu's daughter knows them?" Bai Liu was surprised.

"I've borrowed her before." Yi Bing answered.

"Ji-er, can you clean the house for us?" Wu Yi asked.

"What's with that disgusting name? She's not a chicken (ji)!" Bai Liu chided as he glared at Wu Yi.

"Then, I'll call her young lady." Wu Yi said.

"I can. Please wait, masters." Anji Li spoke and took out some brooms and mops before she cleaned the first floor in a fast pace.

Even Jiu Ye and Bai Wu who are looking for more mirrors were startled when she passed by them and, after a blink, saw that everything around them became clean!

"… perhaps we should call her the snail girl." Huo Ling spoke when he remembered the story about a farmer who saved a snail that turned to a woman who cleaned his house. In the end, they got married.

"En. You're right." Yi Bing, Bai Liu and Wu Yi agreed as they sat on the now clean sofa. Anji Li even had a time to serve them tea before she resumed cleaning the entire house, including the courtyard.

"Master! We have finished installing mirrors by the windows to bring sunlight inside the house!" Jiu Ye said as he and Bai Wu returned.

"Good disciple. I didn't waste my time and effort in teaching you." Bai Liu spoke as he drinks his tea while Bai Wu's eyes instantly reddened and he retreated to Wu Yi.

"Ai…" Wu Yi helplessly smiled while Jiu Ye's expression turned awkward. He also wanted to comfort Bai Wu but in the end just silently sat beside Bai Wu and secretly tugged his sleeve to comfort him.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling. "… what is this 'family' drama… they thought and looked at the 'evil mother' Bai Liu.

"Ehem." Yi Bing coughed, breaking the atmosphere. "I and Huo Ling are planning to go and find the target soul first before we investigate her family, friends, relatives and colleagues to find more about her life and have deeper understanding of her." He said. "What about you?" he asked. Although their tasks coincide, but after all, their objectives might be different.

As expected, Bai Liu spoke. "The grim reaper who had a task in this world before have slipped up and let a native escape from him when he was conducting the brainwashing to wipe his memories about him." He answered. "If we weren't careful enough and had heard him once drunkenly slipped up while talking with another grim reaper, we wouldn't have found out." He took a sip of his drink. "Although this world is a supernatural world and believes in ghosts, and our existence as grim reapers must also be acceptable, but we, after all, don't exist, shouldn't exist, in this world." He looked at them. "This is the mission of the Inspection Department: to not allow any slip-ups." He said.

Silence fell.

"May I know what is that grim reaper's task?" Yi Bing asked. "It might be related our task, to Ruo Yi." He said.

"It's just a simple thing." Wu Yi shrugged. "That grim reaper is one of our subordinates in the Inspection Department. He went to check this world after another grim reaper finished his task of ferrying a soul. But, someone accidentally saw him and he didn't notice. By the time he was about to follow that native, more people are arriving so the grim reaper has to either stay and wait or leave." He explained. "He chose to leave." He finished.

"Did something big happen that's why you punished him?" Huo Ling asked.

"Whether there is or not, we, from the Inspection Department, as the chief said, do not allow any slip-ups." Wu Yi answered. "Even if nothing will happen, but the fact that someone knows about our existence… what if they will be harmed from knowing it?" he smiled.

Huo Ling sensed that he is implying something.

Yi Bing explained it for him. "Everything contains energy, including memories." He spoke. "So, if someone who knows how to read the energy looks into that memory of that person, then our existence will be revealed." He explained.

Wu Yi pouted, feeling that Yi Bing spoiled his fun.

"For example… a Soul Eater?" Huo Ling asked.

Silence fell in the room. Huo Ling doesn't know why, but even if he said it was the Soul Eater, there seemed to be another matter in Yi Bing's, Bai Liu's and Wu Yi's eyes. Before he could ask, Yi Bing placed down his cup.

"Since our tasks aren't entirely related, then we will take our leave." Yi Bing said as he rose from his seat.

"Sure." Bai Liu nodded and resumed drinking.

"Let's go." Yi Bing told Huo Ling.

"Oh, okay." Huo Ling nodded and followed after him.

When Yi Bing and Huo Ling left, Bai Liu lowered his cup. "Anji Li." He called.

"Here." The robot doll as well as maid answered.

"You can go back." Bai Liu spoke.

"Thank you, masters." Anji Li answered and returned inside Wu Yi's briefcase. The briefcase expanded before it shrank, indicating that she has returned to the Stable World.

"Jiu Ye. Stupid Bai." Bai Liu called.

"Yes?" the two silent juniors who can't understand the matters of the adults answered.

"Go and label our rooms so that Yi Bing and Huo Ling would know which rooms are theirs when they returned." Bai Liu answered.

"Yes!" the two juniors answered and left.

"That really bothers you?" Wu Yi spoke as he refilled Bai Liu's cup.

"Yes." Bai Liu answered.

"It has been a long time…" Wu Yi heaved a sigh.

"But, it was only us who remembers it." Bai Liu spoke.. "How Yi Bing almost died before, because one of our people made a mistake in erasing the memories of the natives…" he sighed.