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Chapter 14: and translation of title, then ===GLOSSARY=== with list of named entities appearing in these lines

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14 It turns out that ghosts really do exist in this world.

Zhang Xuefeng finished examining the scene, walked over to Song Guogang's side, and reported: "Captain Song, the preliminary judgment from the forensic side is consistent with Lin Fenglan's cause of death."

"Xiao Liu's side also investigated that Tang Wen had no acquaintance with Lin Fenglan before his death, and there is no direct or indirect relationship."

Song Guogang: "Understood."

Zhang Xuefeng hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Captain Song, in a while, Mr. Xu and them......"

Song Guogang was also in the meeting room yesterday, so he naturally knew what he wanted to ask.

After Mr. Xu and the others and Ren Hongtao left, they also discussed this matter privately.

Zhang Yue and Song Guogang just quietly listened to them speak, no matter how everyone tried to pry information from their mouths, they couldn't succeed.

Finally, Song Guogang sternly clapped his hands to call a halt, revealing a little bit to them.

He said it belonged to a supernatural phenomenon, and told them not to spread it outside, otherwise the consequences would be serious.

But people are curious; the less they said, the more curious Zhang Xuefeng became.

Well, just a few hours later, such a thing actually happened again.

Speaking of Lin Fenglan, that human trafficker, they basically wouldn't sympathize with her; indeed, if it were really a ghost that killed her, they'd even want to applaud that ghost.

But now this Tang Wen is not a human trafficker, so why would that thing seek him out?

What exactly is the connection here?

Just as he was thinking, Song Guogang's phone rang.

"Hello, Director Ren."

"Okay, I understand, I'm waiting here for Mr. Xu."

"Hmm, understood, I'll remind them."

When Zhang Xuefeng heard Song Guogang address him as "Director Ren", his brow twitched and he roughly guessed.

At this time, all the onlookers outside had been evacuated, and Song Guogang, while on the phone, walked toward the villa area's entrance, presumably to pick someone up.

He glanced at Zhang Yue, who was standing at the doorway smoking.

Zhang Xuefeng walked over.

Zhang Yue glanced at his stubbly face, handed him a cigarette, and said, "From now on, study well under Song Guogang; he's more capable than your master, me."

Nan Cheng Criminal Investigation Brigade Captain Song Guogang is a classmate of Zhang Yue from the police academy, and also a veteran criminal investigator with rich experience from many years of case work.

Initially, Song Guogang and he both took a liking to Zhang Xuefeng as a promising seedling, but the Zhang family interfered.

Later, Zhang Xuefeng went to Yun Shi; if he had stayed in Nan Cheng back then, who knows whose disciple he might have become.

After lighting the cigarette, Zhang Xuefeng seemed unwilling and took two hard drags.

What he dislikes most is this feeling of being in a haze.

And having been his master for seven or eight years, how could he not understand his temperament?

Zhang Yue patted the back of his head and warned, "You brat, don't take my and Old Song's words lightly; that sort of thing is not something we can touch. Ordinary people should just do ordinary people's business; don't try to push open that window, otherwise your worldview will be in peril."

Zhang Xuefeng opened his mouth, wanting to continue asking something.

But Zhang Yue didn't give him a chance, directly cutting him off: "Alright, time's about up, I need to go to the airport; you work well, and when you have free time come back to hand over; I'll have your luggage packed and mailed over in a couple of days; I'm leaving."

But he had just taken a couple steps out when a commotion came from behind.

It was Song Guogang returning after going to pick someone up.

Zhang Xuefeng and Zhang Yue both turned their heads to look, and indeed it was still the person called Mr. Xu from yesterday, as well as Chen Rang and Lin Xiu'er.

However, this time the three were dressed uniformly in black work uniforms, with a few golden characters embroidered on the chest representing the Nan Cheng Office, and beside those golden characters was an extremely obvious taiji symbol.

Master and disciple exchanged a glance; Zhang Yue raised his eyebrows, pulled out a small yellow triangular object from his pants pocket and slipped it into Zhang Xuefeng's clothing pocket, saying, "Hurry up and go to work; I'm leaving first, stay safe."

Zhang Xuefeng lowered his eyes, glanced at it, then stubbed out the cigarette in his hand, saying, "Okay, Master, take it slow; I'm going in, we'll stay in touch by phone."

Inside the master bedroom on the top floor of the villa.

Xu Jiangshan and the others didn't even glance at the corpse; instead they began observing the surroundings, and only then walked to the corpse's side.

Suddenly, Chen Rang exclaimed delightedly, "Mr. Xu, there's a trace of resentment on this corpse, left by that thing."

Saying that, he hastily took out a talisman paper, closed his eyes, and chanted the incantation.

The talisman paper quickly self-ignited.

Chen Rang suddenly opened his eyes, "She hasn't gone far, 500 meters to the southwest!"

Lin Xiu'er had long been prepared; at the moment Chen Rang announced the direction, she shot out like a small artillery shell.

Xu Jiangshan and Chen Rang closely followed behind.

As soon as Zhang Xuefeng came up, he saw this shocking scene.

The Tang family's villa is three stories, with the corpse in the master bedroom on the third floor.

Did those three people jump directly down from that southwest window?

Zhang Xuefeng gritted his teeth, turned, and ran downstairs.

Song Guogang saw it and shouted, "You little brat, get back here!"

But there was no trace of Zhang Xuefeng at this moment; Song Guogang swore, then hurriedly gave chase.

How could these two ordinary people possibly catch up to those three?

Although Zhang Xuefeng had rushed downstairs at his fastest speed, he still hadn't even caught a glimpse of their backs.

Song Guogang, being somewhat older, was panting as he came up and kicked Zhang Xuefeng, "Damn, you little brat, are you tired of living? Fine, it seems I have to make you realize you can't give up."

Upon hearing that, Zhang Xuefeng's eyes instantly lit up.

Song Guogang glared at him angrily, pulled out his phone, made a call from the side, said a couple of sentences, then hung up.

Not long after, he walked over and handed the phone to Zhang Xuefeng, "Sign it; after you sign, I'll tell you."

Zhang Xuefeng lowered his gaze; the phone displayed an electronic agreement, bearing the words "Confidentiality Agreement of the Netherworld's Stationed Office in the Human Realm."

Guessing it in one's heart is one thing; actually encountering it is another.

As it turns out, there really are ghosts in this world.

Moreover, they can actually kill people so brazenly!

Zhang Xuefeng signed his name there without hesitation.

His future road is still long; no one can guarantee he won't encounter such things again.

Even if he cannot participate, he wants to know the specific details; he doesn't want to handle the case in a muddled way!

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