Detective Ghost Empress

336 Old man with a moustache

That night Liu Hui Ying changed into the appearance of the young man with the identity of Lord Chi again, she knew that she was being hunted by the people of the Ji family but she was more than capable of taking care of herself which was why she was not at all worried.

At the current moment, the only thing that she cared about the most was meeting with the ghost of the witch whom Jia Li met with and see what the woman has to say to her. If she could tell Jia Li something like how Jia Li did not belong to this era and time, Liu Hui Ying was certain that the ghost of the witch was not as insane as Jia Li thought that she was, most probably she might be crazy since most witches who exorcised ghosts would be driven to a point on insanity when she turned old.

After all, witches no matter in the modern world or the old eras they all lived in the forest away from the crowd of people where they cultivated their yin energy and slowly climbed up the ranks, unlike the celestial masters the witches did not have any inherent powers which were why they have to start from the very basic which sometimes included learning spells and getting enchanted weapons from the celestial masters.

The witches were normal humans whose yin and yang eyes were opened because of some traumatic experience, they will see something that others could not which was why they would come up with the thought of eradicating the evil spirits but they lacked the powers that were handed to the celestial masters and under the pressure of the life they chose, they would sometimes become a bit unhinged.

That’s right, unhinged but not crazy at least that was what her experience with witches has taught her. They were different from witches who had powers and could concoct potions and spells, they were humans with barely any spiritual powers, they were bound to become bitter with their experience with time with the meek powers that they had and in case they met with a real celestial master, they truly became bitter to the point of no return where instead of serving gods they would start cursing them.

Liu Hui Ying snuck out of the window of her room with an invisibility talisman stuck to her body she looked left and right before hopping out of the window and then started walking towards the entrance of the courtyard. What she missed was that in the evening there was heavy rainfall and thus when she jumped on the ground, her footprints were imprinted on the wet mud which was caught by the guard that was arranged by Zhai Tianyu.

The woman looked at the footprints that appeared out of nowhere and thought of what Zhai Tianyu has told her when he was assigned to protect the queen. His majesty has told her that she needed to relay anything that was happening even if it felt weird and completely beyond the human experience, even though the guard has seen a lot of things she was a bit surprised when she only saw footprints appearing on the ground and not a person.

But she still wrote a letter to his majesty and then whistled, her whistle was silent to human ears and could only be heard by the pigeon that she has raised thus when she whistled she did not attract the attention of anyone other than her pet pigeon who came rushing in her direction with a flutter of his wings.

” Take this to his majesty,” the guard told the pigeon who was now sitting on her proffered arm that she has stretched out such that her pigeon could perch himself on it. The guard tied the letter to the leg of the pigeon before sending him flying to the courtyard of the emperor while she herself chased after the footprints that were trailing out of the courtyard.

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This time the guard that Zhai Tianyu sent was better than the last one, Liu Hui Ying did not notice her from the start to finish but she still heard the sound of the whistle which made her frown and turn her head to look behind.

“What’s wrong?” She heard Li Gang ask as she stopped on her path to the entrance of the courtyard. ” What are you looking at?”

” I feel like I heard something just now,” she replied to him with a frown that was still etched on her forehead and that made Li Gang roll his eyes as he said, ” You don’t say that, this place is like a battlefield on its own. I hear a bunch of sounds as soon as night falls, it is as if the people who live here are all waiting for the night to come before they could start their own murder mystery plot.”

Liu Hui Ying did not say anything because what Li Gang said was the right thing. The people in the imperial palace were so scheming that even she felt a bit terrified at night having witnessed an assassin almost dropping on her roof, thankfully he did not come to hunt her down and was after someone else.

Seeing something like this happen in front of her she could not help but agree with what her sister once said——

‘It’s the human that you have to watch out for, ghosts can still be restrained but what humans with bad intentions? They were near to impossible to catch because they hid themselves too well in the darkness of the night.’

Back then she did not think much about these wise words that her sister told her but now she could not help but agree, her sister was indeed right. More than the ghosts she has to now be more wary of humans who hid themselves in the darkness of the night.

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