Afterlife Department

Chapter 636 – Smell

"How is it? Did you manage to get it?" Mu Li asked as soon as Xiao Hualing appeared inside their car without the doors opening.

Obviously, she teleported inside the car. Mu Li and Zhuo Xia were surprised by this at first, but later didn't bother themselves with it since they thought that Xiao Hualing doesn't want to be seen outside so she didn't open the car's door. They don't know that Xiao Hualing actually just doesn't know how to open a car's door.

"En. I will immediately email the data to Mr. Fei Xuli so that they would have more solid evidence." Xiao Hualing said before she rubbed her earring. Then, a holographic screen appeared before her.

She didn't waste time and immediately sent the data to Fei Xuli's email, as well as Hao Baiyun and Gu Xingfeng. Lastly, she sent the data to Yi Bing. Mu Li doesn't fear that Xiao Hualing's email would be traces since she is a grim reaper and isn't from this world. So, he immediately started the car and drove to the other end of the city for them to meet with Lin Shu.

Just then, Zhuo Xia coughed and his face turned green.

"What's wrong?" Mu Li asked as he drive.

"Disgusting… smell!" Zhuo Xia answered as he immediately and tightly covered his nose and mouth.

"'smell'? What smell?" Mu Li asked. Then, he discreetly tried to smell himself.

Zhuo Xia rolled his eyes at him. "Not you! It is something else! Outside!" he told him.

"Oh. Outside." Mu Li muttered and sighed in relief. Then, his brows knitted. "But, why don't I smell it? What is there outside?" he asked as he looked out of the car. "Aside from cars, there are…" he said when his voice trailed off.

Xiao Hualing also looked outside the window before her eyes narrowed.

"Although I can't smell it, I can still see it." Mu Li said as he looked at Zi Chen and Lan Tian who are in another car following a truck.

Yes. A truck. It was a truck of the Golden-Haired Monkey corpses. As to why the other people didn't notice it, it was because this truck is covered with a tarpaulin. As for how did Mu Li know that it was the corpses of the Golden-Haired Monkeys, it is because he saw a dense black qi from it, as well as –

"A soul!" Xiao Hualing cried.

Mu Li turned to her. He was about to ask, 'you can also see it?' when he recalled that Xiao Hualing is a grim reaper. Then, he shut up.

"Such a heavy aura of death! Ai!" Xiao Hualing sighed in lament. "But, why is there a soul there…? And it looked like a monkey…?" she muttered, before she froze. "A Golden-Haired Monkey's soul?!" she exclaimed in shock. "Could this be… senior Huo Ling's assignment?!" she exclaimed before she immediately dialed Huo Ling's contact number.

…

"What?! Is that true?!" Huo Ling exclaimed when he heard what Xiao Hualing said from the other side of the phone.

Yi Bing who just entered the room while bringing a fruit platter to Huo Ling, paused.

"Alright. I understand." Huo Ling answered. "Leave a tracking device on the truck so I will find it later. Leave this matter to Zi Chen and Lan Tian now and resume your task with Mu Li and Zhuo Xia." He told her. Then, he ended the call.

"A new lead?" Yi Bing spoke.

Huo Ling turned to him then shook his head. "No. She told me that she might have found my soul assignment." He answered.

Yi Bing was surprised. "Is it?" he muttered, looking skeptical. He didn't expect this to be so easy?

Huo Ling saw his expression and he also thought that this was too easy. "But I can't use the direct teleportation spell… yet my soul assignment suddenly appeared?" he said. He doesn't doubt Xiao Hualing.

Yi Bing's expression looked complicated. In the end, he sighed. "There must be an explanation for this." He said.

Huo Ling nodded. "I also think so." He smiled.

Yi Bing had Huo Ling finish the fruits before they left to find Huo Ling's soul assignment, which is a Golden-Haired Monkey. If they can talk to him, then they might find more clues.

…

"Yo. They are so fast!" Lan Tian chuckled when he saw a low-profiled car joined them in the lane after the car of Mu Li's group of three turned to another direction and left, going to the other end of the city.

"Is that it?" one of the police officers in civilian clothes asked Ke Congyi in the car.

Ke Congyi looked at the blinking red light on the screen of his tablet. "It is." He answered. "Xiao Song, closely follow the car of Hao Baiyun's subordinates, making the enemies think that it was them who we are tailing instead of them, in case they would notice us." he explained.

"Yes." Song Mingfan answered.

"Ke-ge. I think those people also noticed us." Xiao Xie said as he pointed Zi Chen and Lan Tian.

"Don't mind them. Don't lose the truck in your sight." Ke Congyi told their youngest officer.

"Okay!" Xiao Xie bubbly answered.

Ke Congyi smiled while Song Mingfan's expression didn't even change. Then, their car moved, closely following behind.

…

In a skyscraper, in one of its floors, and by the window, Jie Yao stood while looking at the cars and people on the ground. The sun is now sinking in the horizon.

Suddenly, the door opened loudly as if someone can't wait to smash it. "Jie Yao, you bastard!" a middle-aged man said as he glared at Jie Yao murderously. "Why did you kill boss Josh and his subordinates?! Now, look! Our company's stocks have fallen and even the other forces in the black market are suppressing us!" he roared in anger.

But, Jie Yao's expression is unperturbed. "Then, should I wait for them to kill me?" he asked. His tone is so flat as if this matter got nothing to do with him.

The middle-aged man fell silent. Then, his expression suddenly changed as if he had thought of something. A flattering smile immediately formed in his lips as if it wasn't him who yelled at Jie Yao just now. "Nephew. I apologize. Your uncle is getting older so I can't control my temper." He explained and laughed.

Jie Yao didn't answer nor his expression changed. He just turned his back on his uncle and resumed watching the outside view. Then, he saw, through the glass wall, the reflection of his uncle's twisted face while glaring at his back.

Yet, the tone of his uncle is still a loving one. "Have you already eaten?" he asked him.

"I don't have the appetite." Jie Yao flatly answered. As expected, he saw his uncle's face twisted and turned red due to suppressed anger.

However, his uncle's tone remained the same. "Aia! You young men have to eat as much as you want while you are still young! It is bad to skip your meals!" he told Jie Yao.

Jie Yao just made a non-committing hum, which is not known whether he heard him or not and he agreed to his uncle's words or not.

"I will call for the hotel's service to send you a meal." His uncle said as he walked back to the door. "You also just returned… you have a rest first." He told him.

"Take care." Jie Yao just said, not even moving or turning.

A vein popped in his uncle's forehead but the uncle, having dealt with many kinds of people before, knows not to show his temper again to Jie Yao after earlier. "En." He answered and then left. "That damn kid!" he finally can't help but utter in irritation as soon as he got out of Jie Yao's suite. "He really gave me a big headache this time!" he said before he marched away in anger.

Meanwhile, Jie Yao who was left in the suite coldly smiled. His 'take care' is really 'take care', meaning that his uncle should take care of himself first instead of others. The 'take care' he meant is that, in his calculations, his uncle's 'accident' would be happening in an hour.

Yes. He poisoned his uncle, who is not even his uncle. The middle-aged man just earlier is just another yao that saw that he is strong, not to mention that he also knows his way in the human society. So, after gaining the person's trust, Jie Yao was given his first serious and important task which is to negotiate a project.

Jie Yao, after leaving Hao Baiyun's side and was assumed dead by then, naturally knows that there is something wrong with this project. Fortunately, his 'uncle' didn't know that he has worked for Hao Baiyun before. Or else, his 'uncle' would have exploited him more of his skills.

Jie Yao naturally doesn't want his skills to be used in doing bad things, albeit he had done bad things before.