This was a bad sign.

 This 

meant 

that an 

intimidating

 spirit was down there,

 and i

t was probably a fiend! 

If

 a

 fiend

 was involved,

 I 

would have

 to give up this case. My grandpa used to tell me 

it was better to 

provoke a hundred ghosts than meddle with a fiend

.

However

, the compass

 needle suddenly 

stopped spinning. Moreover, the 

needle

 sank as if it 

was

 really heavy. 

My spirit was lifted. I moved the compass over the hole where 

the

 henchmen had dug 

and shifted 

to a few locations. The 

needle

 sank in every location. 

“Phew…”

I sighed then put the compass back 

in

 my bag. 

“What did you find?” 

Baldy

 sounded worried. 

“The compass

 needle 

sank. 

This

 means that your hotel 

is haunted

. However, it’s not the doing of a malicious ghost. 

T

he deceased 

is calling

 for attention to seek justice.” 

I was puzzled

 though

. If it 

wasn’t

 an evil ghost, why did it murder so many innocent people? Did something happen when 

Baldy

 decorated the hotel? I as

k

ed him. 

Baldy

 shook his head repeatedly. “No, no, I just decorated the hotel

 and made 

it more lavish and luxurious. I didn’t dig anything from the ground!” 

“

That’s

 strange then…” My head was filled with questions. 

Li Mazi chimed, 

“Why 

are you hesitating so 

much? Just dig it up, and 

we’ll know what it is

.”

Then, he picked up a shovel 

that was positioned

 against the wall and started to dig. 

If the

spirit 

was

 underground, it would have to attach to something. 

Such being the case, it was

 an otherworldly item, and not a fiend. That

 was

 why I didn’t stop Li Mazi. 

However, 

not even a 

whole minute ha

d passed when

 the enthusiastic Li Mazi started to sweat hard. His face paled, 

which made

 him look like a patient that had just recovered from a serious sickness.

“Stop!” I shouted. 

I didn’t 

expect this

 otherworldly item 

to be this

 formidable

. It

 seemed Li Mazi couldn’t hear me

; h

e started to dig even harder. 

I was scared

 and guessed 

the spirit had possessed him. I rushed to the hole to pull him up. 

“Little 

B

rother Zhang, don’t pull me up. 

I’m not convinced yet

!” 

It turned out he just 

wasn't ready to give up yet

.

I pulled him up

 and shouted,

 “You should stop now! If something happens, I can’t save you!” 

“

Shoot

! Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Li Mazi threw the shovel aside.

Then, he sat on the ground

 in low spirits.

 “

This is

 the only clue we h

ave

. If you don’t 

let

me dig

 it up, what should we do?” 

I rubbed my head then asked 

Baldy

 to go to the food markets to find some butchers. Although he didn’t know 

the reason,

 he didn’t ask much

 and left 

immediately. 

“This man isn’t vigilant at all. There’s no one 

else in

 this big hotel. Isn’t he worried that we will clean up

 the whole place

?” 

As we talked, 

Li Mazi scanned the place. 

He

 was looking for some valuable 

items

.

I patted his hea

d and scolded him.

 “Don’t stay idle. You should also go and prepare some 

things

 for me!” 

“What 

do you

 need?”

I thought of the items and said, 

“A massive mirror that can cover an entire wall, the ashes of fresh grass, and 

blood from a male

 bat.”

Li Mazi 

made

 a face

 and pouted. 

“The two first items are okay, but where

 can I

 get bat blood? Also, 

m

ale 

bat blood?” 

“I can feel this otherworldly item’s energy. It’s so tremendous that eel blood

 is not enough

. We have to use male bat blood. It’s the top tool to 

summon

 spirits

,

” I told him 

in

 a serious tone. 

Li Mazi stopped 

smiling.

 “Don’t worry. 

Leave it to me

.” 

Then, he left. I was now alone in this hotel. Since I had nothing to do, I decided to pick up the shovel and dig. However, after a few minutes, my chest felt heavy,

 and 

my heart started to 

race

. I had to put the shovel away and decided to 

wander

 around the silent hotel. 

I had to admit

, Baldy

’s hotel was ultra-lavish. From the second 

floor

 upward, the floors were made of mahogany wood. The teahouse 

on

 the third floor had green bamboo partitions, 

which gave the room

 an elegant touch. Unfortunately, the room was now half burned. 

The fourth and fifth floors were guest rooms. I skipped them

 and headed 

to the sixth floor. 

Baldy

 said that the sixth floor was 

meant to

 be a casino. I had never been to a casino, so I wanted to take a look. 

Before I could get there, I felt thick Yin energy surround me. After a few seconds, my body was chilled from the toes upward. 

My heart sank. I didn’t expect that it would dare to show up here. I didn’t 

carry

 any defensive tools 

with

 me

, so

 I quickly 

made up my mind and

 rushed downstairs. 

Luckily for me

, it didn’t follow me. I exhaled in relief.

I 

wanted to learn

 what that thing was tonight

!

At around noon, 

Baldy

returned

 with five or six burly men. I checked each of them. They all had a

 strange

 murderous aura. I gave 

Baldy

 a satisfied nod. 

Since butchers had slaughtered pigs daily, they had accumulated murderous energy in their bodies. They could help subdue the spirit. That

 was

 why I had asked 

Baldy

 to invite them here. 

The

 men’s shirts had dabs of dirt. It seemed 

Baldy

 had invited them from the countryside. I guessed they were also superstitious. When they saw the burned, dark lobby and the hole by my feet, they began to talk amongst themselves. Perhaps

they were considering whether to take this job or not. 

“Talk to those people. Don’t let them run away tonight

,” 

I reminded 

Baldy. Then, I 

found a sofa

 and took 

a nap. 

If 

Baldy

wasn’t

 even able to 

handle

 those butchers, he shouldn’t be in the mafia anymore!

 After I had slept for around an hour, 

Li Mazi 

returned

 with a bag

. 

“Did you prepare all the stuff?” 

“Oh, I got two of the items, but I couldn’t find bat blood.” Li Mazi sounded a little embarrassed. 

“A

ll right,” I sighed

 and knew 

that he had tried his best. We had to use eel blood then. 

Unexpectedly, when 

Baldy

 heard that, he told me he knew where we could get some male bats. He 

had

 a friend who liked to keep small, exotic pets like bats, hedgehogs, and even chinchillas.  

I was excited

 and asked 

him to get me several male bats. 

Baldy

 was also hurried. He drove away and returned 

shortly

 with a cage 

that contained

 seven or eight bats. 

When the bats 

flew around

, they 

looked

 okay. 

But

 when they 

folded

 their wings into 

a 

ball, 

they looked

 even uglier than a bunch of rats. I felt a little 

scared

, so I didn’t want to take their blood. I gave this task to Li Mazi. 

At twilight, the mirror that Li Mazi ordered arrived. I asked them to install the mirror on the kitchen wall. Afterward, I sprinkled a thin layer of ashes on it. Since 

there wasn’t 

much bat blood, I 

decided to

 save it 

for 

later

.

I didn’t know what tactic 

Baldy

 had used, but all the butchers decided to stay and help us. He then invited us to dinner.

The way he treated us and the butchers 

was

 respectful. He offered us liquor with equal treatment and manners. What a generous and frank man he was!

When we returned to the hotel, it was 11:00 PM. After drinking, the butchers looked 

fearless

. On my command, they picked up the shovels and started to dig. 

Baldy

 was surprised. “You invited them here just to dig this hole?” 

I smiled. 

“

That’s r

ight

. E

verything in this world has a nemesis. Although the

spirit is fierce, it will be afraid of these butchers.” 

“If I had known th

is

 earlier, I 

would have chosen to become

 a butcher

!” 

Baldy

 smacked his tongue.

While we were talking, the butchers were digging hard. They looked 

much more at

 ease than when we dug the hole

 earlier

. After a long time, nothing strange had happened. 

I thought they 

would

 be able to dig this hole to the end. Unfortunately, around fifteen 

minutes

 later, they stopped. 

One of them

 crawled out of the hole 

and

said,

 “Brother, 

something’s

 wrong down there. We don’t want your money. Can we stop?” 

“

What

?” I frowned

 and took a look at the hole

. 

A blood-like substance was gushing out from the ground

. 

T

here wasn’t much 

of it. I

t was just a thin layer of a liquid substance, but it bubbled like boiling water. It 

rose 

higher than the butchers’ soles. The liquid continued to gurgle and rise over the butchers’ ankle

s that 

were still standing in the hole. 

“Stop digging. Climb up!” 

I didn’t know what kind of blood it was, so I 

asked

 them to leave the hole first. With a stern face, I jumped into the pit and bent to dip a finger into the blood. I brought my finger to my nose to sniff it

, but

 there was no smell of blood. 

Feeling suspicious, I

 rubbed my nose and took another sniff. It wasn’t blood but 

rather a

 strange red liquid. 

I put my entire hand into the 

red water

 to dig some soil. However, as soon as my hand reached the blood, I felt a massive suction force! 

It felt like a vortex was spinning underneath the blood surface. I didn’t have time to react

, and m

y entire hand was sucked in. The mud and soil under the red liquid 

were

 so cold. I felt a chill deep to the bone. 

I paled

 and quickly

 retrieved my hand. I also took a handful of mud. 

I studied

 the red-blood mud in my hand

 and 

soon noticed a detail. People 

who lived

 in the Northeast knew that the soil would 

freeze

 in winter

. It created a 

sort of cold mud, which was similar to the mud in my hand. 

However, it was just the beginning of autumn. How could it be frozen 

already

? 

I scratched my head and suddenly had a terrifying thought

.

 The mud and soil here 

were

 frozen by the thick Yin energy! 

To verify this 

guess

, I asked the butchers to 

go

 down there again and dig one meter deeper. When the small hole 

was deep enough to

 bury 

a

 person standing upright, I asked them to stop and get up. 

Then, I poured the 

bat’s

 blood around the hol

e and waited

!