Chapter 5032 — Two More Ghosts
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The trouble was that the little ice queen's attitude had only shifted from icy to resigned. Wei Zhao still could not get a word with her, and there had been no proper opening to bring out spirit medicines or spirit jade and take things a step further. To say he was not anxious at all in his heart would be pure self-deception.
Unfortunately, anxiety was useless. He could only keep waiting, and in the end, what he got was not an opening but two ghosts.
Of course, like the old man and the buzz-cut fellow last time, these were another pair of fake ghosts. Boss Huang had spent a long while and finally found two replacements, swindlers who had been in the game for years. When it came to the matter, they thumped their chests with a resounding thud, and looked far more reliable than the old man and the buzz-cut fellow.
What Boss Huang never imagined was that this time he had been fooled as well. These two were not professional swindlers like the old man and the buzz-cut fellow at all; they were simply two street thugs who happened to be good at talking big. They knew nothing of the tricks of the trade, and thought that posing as ghosts was just a matter of giving people a casual scare. Little did they know how many finer points there were to it.
Never mind scaring Wei Zhao off; these two could not even manage to open a door smoothly. Though they plainly held the key Boss Huang had given them, they ended up stuck before Wei Zhao's door studying it for ages, and still could not find where the keyhole was...
"Good heavens, what kind of broken door is this? How does it not even have a keyhole?" one of them, done up as Black Impermanence, could not help complaining.
"Shh!" The other, White Impermanence, hurriedly clapped a hand over his mouth. "Are you daft? We're here to play ghosts and scare someone. Can you talk that loud? You want to wake him up?"
"So what if we wake him? The moment he opens the door and sees the two of us, Black and White Impermanence, he'll still be scared half to death." Black Impermanence chuckled, then turned to glance at White Impermanence. "Honestly, even I'm scared looking at this getup. You don't think we'll scare the life out of him?"
"You think everyone's as timid as you? You don't even dare walk a night road alone. If you can't even scare yourself, who exactly are you going to scare?" White Impermanence said with a curl of his lip.
"Honestly, you don't think this place is really haunted? I heard this residential compound used to be an abandoned crematorium, and that's why so many of the flats won't sell. This place is downright eerie." Black Impermanence shrank his neck and looked around. The corridor light was sound-activated, and it had already gone out; the surroundings were dim and murky. If he were alone, he would have been frightened to death long ago.
"Hearsay. The crematorium is clearly in the west, and this is the east. You believe that crap?" White Impermanence snorted. But after a pause he said, "I did hear this place used to be an unmarked graveyard, and when they put up the buildings they dug up no small amount of bones. Even the police were alerted."
"Good heavens, yours is even scarier!" Black Impermanence shuddered inwardly.
"All right, don't go scaring yourself, damn it. If there really were ghosts here, would that Boss Huang have nothing better to do than hire the two of us to play ghosts? Hurry up and find where the keyhole is. I'm about ready to smash the door in myself!" White Impermanence cursed.
The two of them put their heads together and studied it for another good while. Never mind a cultivator like Wei Zhao; even an ordinary person would long since have been woken by them!