Otherworldly Merchant - Chapter 485: Devil
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Chapter 485: Devil

Those people seemed to be 

very

 afraid of 

Paolo

. The leader of the group scoffed, “You want to put your hands in our Longquan Villa’s business? Have you thought of the consequences?” 

The three of you should

 leave.” 

Paolo

 didn’t even bat an eye. He looked at Ru Xue and Li Mazi while waving his hand disdainfully at the other three. 

After hearing

 him, my courage swelled up

.

 My blood boiled as if I 

was

 watching a thrilling American-European movie. 

The three men in black were angry

. They gazed at

 

Paolo

 like 

a

 tiger watching 

his

 prey. They seemed to want to attack him. 

Paolo

 held his scepter horizontally in front of him

 and read 

something. Immediately, the room temperature dropped sharply. Moreover, 

judging by

 the horrified looks on the three men, I knew there 

was

 something behind me. 

Marco

 stopped me 

right as

 I was about to turn my head around to see. He looked at me

 and shook 

his head. 

I had to give up this thought

 and kept 

my eyes on the enemies. They hesitated for a long time before reluctantly bowing to 

Paolo

. Afterward, they left through the back door. 

As soon as they left, I rushed to untie Ru Xue. 

After confirming

 she wasn’t hurt, I heaved a sigh of relief. Then, I woke Li Mazi up. He was stunned but the people in black 

hadn’t

 hurt him. 

I didn’t know why they just wanted to keep them unconscious here

I asked 

Paolo

 about this. His current performance proved that he was more than capable to help us. 

Paolo

 didn’t answer me but scanned the place. When he looked at the ceiling, he took a deep breath. 

Marco

 and I followed his 

gaze

. A female body was hung above our heads. Her long hair hung like a waterfall

 that billowed 

with the wind. 

I turned on the flashlight

 and

 carefully 

shone

 it 

over

 her. It was a dried body. Except for her hair, her entire body was withered

. Her 

clothes were faded and tattered. She looked disgusting. 

I noticed her outfit

 and found it

 familiar. It was the satin dress the ghost had worn the other day! Was 

this

 the dead body of the violinist? 

“Father, what’s going on?” 

Marco

 turned to 

Paolo. In a shivering 

voice, 

he said,

 “Why are her remains here?”

I

’ve

 always had keen eyes 

when it comes to reading 

people. 

Marco

 was the sort of man that could remain calm in every situation. However, this body made him flustered. I felt my heart 

sink

It seems

 this group

 doesn’t just

 want to kill Zhang. They want to 

create a 

devil! Are they crazy?!” 

Paolo

 was enraged. Then, he took us

 and left 

the Ghost Castle. 

When we returned 

to the hotel, 

Paolo

 asked 

Marco

 to stay with us. He was 

getting ready

 to prepare something. “Before I 

return

, do not leave the hotel.” 

I then knew that this hotel belonged to their family. I had thought that 

Marco

 was just a bellboy here

, but i

t turned out that he was the Crown Prince… 

As soon as 

Paolo

 left, I 

impatiently asked

, “

Marco

, could you tell me about that dead body? I don’t understand what your father

 meant

.” 

Marco

 gave me a nod. 

To Western people, devils were like 

ghosts

 in our country. They were classified as spiritual 

beings

The difference was that 

an expert

 could 

restrain a

 spirit, but 

a

 

d

evil would listen to no one. 

D

evils didn’t have sanity

, and t

hey had only one purpose: 

To 

destroy every living thing around them. That

 was

 why Western people hated 

them.

 

Before Paganini died, he had confessed his sin. 

A

 kind man held the funeral for his teacher. He also put the violin whose strings w

ere 

made of her intestines into the coffin with her in hopes that her grudge would 

disappear

 and that she could go to heaven. 

Unfortunately, the ghost had been hurt too deeply

, and

 she didn’t want to leave. The ghost

ly

 nature made her harm people. However, she 

had

 always been a kind woman

, so s

he didn’t want to kill anybody. 

Paolo

 had built 

the

 hotel to watch over the Ghost Castle and help people that were attacked by the ghost. The two parties somewhat had a vague agreement.

 

However, those mysterious men had unearthed her body and hung her on the ceiling of the church. 

This action

 provoked the ghost

, making it easier for her soul to merge with her

 dead body. 

Coupled

 with the Yin energy in the castle, 

she would eventually

 become a devil. Those mysterious 

people

 had also

 brought

 Li Mazi and Ru Xue inside the 

castle

 to offer their souls to the ghost, which would

 give

 her the 

nutrients

 to become a devil even quicker. 

After listening

 to 

Marco

, I felt angry and scared. I hated them for 

trying to create

 a devil that 

could

 kill anybody

, but I was also

 afraid of the enemy’s madness

.

“Zhang, you’ve offended 

a

 powerful person. I’m afraid 

this

 means big trouble…” 

Marco

 patted my shoulder. 

I

 had a

 

headache

. However, I knew those people were from the Longquan Villa. My only enemy 

that would go to such lengths

 was the Longquan Villa. 

After talking to 

Marco

, it was almost three o’clock in the morning. I helped

 

Li Mazi to support Ru Xue upstairs to the room. She was polite to me, but she shot cold looks 

at Li

 Mazi. It seemed 

she

 was heartbroken because Li Mazi 

didn’t believe

 her.

I couldn’t help them with this. It was up to Li 

Mazi to

 

coax

 and 

comfort

 his wife. 

After sending them to their room, I returned to m

ine

. Yin Xinyue was sleeping

, her 

phone 

still

 in her hand. I checked her phone

, and s

he had 

looked at

 the pictures of the four of us before falling asleep. 

My heart ached

, and

 I pulled her into my 

arms

“You are back.” Yin Xinyue shuddered when I suddenly hugged her. She woke up

 and looked 

at me

, looking rather sad.

 “How is Ru Xue?” 

“Silly wife, everything is over.” I hugged her tighter

 and told 

her every detail.

 

Yin Xinyue smiled after listening to me. “Haha, I 

knew

 Ru Xue 

would

 never betray us!” 

“Sleep

. H

oney, we 

will return

 home tomorrow!” 

As the 

situation remained

 unsolved, Li Mazi and I couldn’t leave

, and Paolo was now 

involved because of us. However, if the girls stayed here, I was afraid that they would be in danger. I had to send them home first. 

Yin Xinyue didn’t want to leave us. However, she understood the situation

, so s

he eventually agreed to leave first. 

After the women had fallen asleep, Li Mazi and I went downstair

s and waited

. Soon, 

Paolo

 returned. 

H

brought back 

a copper mirror and a bust of Paganini. 

On the way to the Ghost Castle, 

Paolo

 told us that he wanted to use the Paganini bust to attract the female ghost. Then, he would seize that chance to 

climb

 up to the ceiling to get her body down. As soon as we could separate her body and her soul, 

those people’s 

plan of making a devil would 

fail

But 

that

 ghost had 

existed for

 a few hundred years, so the bust of Paganini 

wasn’t

 enough to trick her. We 

needed 

someone 

to hold

 the copper mirror and the bust. 

That person would need to 

let his image and the bust reflect in the mirror at the same time. 

The mirror belonged to the category of Yin items

, especially this

 copper mirror dat

ing to

 the Medieval Age. When someone 

looked in

 the mirror with the Paganini bust, th

ey would leave their

 soul aura in it, which would trick the female ghost 

into thinking

 that it was Paganini’s soul. 

However, this task was extremely dangerous. Since the ghost was about to become a devil, her resentful energy had 

rocketed

. If one didn’t dodge fast enough, he would perish. Li Mazi and I competed to do this task. Unexpectedly, 

Paolo

 asked 

Marco

 to hold the mirror. 

Because Li Mazi and I didn’t speak Italian, our plan would fail if the ghost talked to us

.

 We had to

 follow

 

Paolo

’s arrangement. 

After 

we entered

 the Ghost Castle, 

Paolo

 wrapped some clothes around the Paganini bust.

He moved a rusted, steel ladder from the back of the church 

and brought it to

 the main hall. 

Then, he slowly

 started to climb up. Li Mazi and I held the ladder for him. 

Marco

 picked up the Paganini bust. Soon, a 

cold 

wind blew into the hall from a small room in the back. The female ghost appeared at the lectern. When I saw her face, I 

took a d

eep breath.

 Her face was ashen, h

er eyebrows had turned purple,

 and 

her lips were 

deep red.

When she saw me, she was 

puzzled

. Then, she saw 

Paolo

 on the ladder

, who was ready 

to remove her body. She bared her fangs

 and flew 

toward us. 

Everything happened 

too

 

quickly. Before

 

Marco

 could react

, the 

ghost came right in front of us. I got a flash of wit 

at

 this instant

 and picked up Paolo

’s scepter

 to attack 

her. The ghost was sent a few meters backward. 

Unfortunately,

 the scepter was broken into two pieces

. My 

purlicue was tor

n and bled

.  

Marco

 seized the time

 and

 said something in Italian. The female ghost now turned to him. 

When she saw

 the bust of Paganini, she turned extremely malicious

. I had never seen her so angry before. 

I was a few meters away from her, but I 

could feel

 her sky-reaching resentful energy! 

However, she didn’t advance

. Instead, she hesitated

 at her spot. 

Marco

 thought it was the right time. 

He immediately

 raised the copper mirror

 and shone his figure in it

. The blurry mirror suddenly had the head of Paganini

. It 

looked so real. 

The ghost didn’t hesitate anymore

. She roared 

and 

flew quickly

 toward him!