Chapter 236: 236 What is the correct way to deal with a fierce ghost when you encounter one?

236 What is the correct way to deal with a fierce ghost when you encounter one?

Xie Shiyu, to soothe her gloomy mood, took her to eat spicy crayfish.

Having eaten to her satisfaction, she naturally forgot about it.

Because no matter what, this exam still has to be taken; after all, for them as mystic masters, the restrictions are really much fewer.

On the day Xiang Yichu returned, the three of them made time to go to the airport to pick him up.

When they were having dinner together that evening, Wang Dongqing started gossiping about how he usurped the position, and whether the mole in the Xiang family had been found.

Xiang Yichu began to tell them the process, smiling.

Everyone says that if a person can laugh while talking about their past, then they must not care about it.

They all felt that this statement was correct.

At the end of the meal, Wang Dongqing raised his cup enthusiastically and said, "Over these few months we must each strive hard, aiming to all pass the recruitment exam this year, and then form the strongest ghost‑catching squad."

He was a bit chuunibyou, but the other three raised their cups without hesitation and drank with him.

After finishing that meal, they each went back to their own lives.

Only, from time to time, bubbles would appear in the group chat, complaining about their unsatisfactory work.

Meanwhile, Xiang Yichu was diligently cultivating, striving to quickly recover the thirty percent of his former cultivation level.

However, he discovered something.

He seemed to enter the meditative state more easily, and the time to achieve deep concentration was more than twice as fast as before.

Indeed, voluntarily working hard on something and being forced by others to work hard are completely different.

In the blink of an eye, several months passed, and the ranking list updated again on the last day before the exam.

As expected, no one surpassed Xiang Yichu in the rankings; Maomao was second, and Wang Dongqing, exhausted every day, pushed Tushan Jiu down.

As for Tushan Jiu.

As expected, the score‑control master kept the thirtieth place and steadily made it into the top thirty.

On the day the ranking list was updated, someone in the big group had a mental breakdown—that was the thirty‑first‑ranked little Daoist.

He posted a 'sob story' in the group, saying the credit‑sword person was bullying people.

He had barely managed to exceed her score, but the next day she ended up with one point more than him.

His Dao heart was about to shatter!

The little Daoist tagged Tushan Jiu in the group, 【Please, you must pass this year; next year, don't let me run into you!】

After seeing it, Tushan Jiu replied seriously: 【Don't worry, you'll surely run into me sooner or later, after all you're also from Nan Cheng; once you pass, we'll still meet at the office.】

That little Daoist withdrew, gave Tushan Jiu six likes, and muted himself.

Because the exam was the next day, the whole family got up early and bustled in the kitchen.

Xie Shiyu cooked a bowl of noodles for Tushan Jiu, with two poached eggs.

Xu Aixu couldn't cook, so under the guidance of her husband Xie Wenmo, she fried a sausage, paired it with two cherry tomatoes, and specially wore the cheongsam that Tushan Jiu had given her.

The other members of the Xie family each prepared a breakfast with good auspicious meaning for her.

They didn't care whether this behavior was childish, because whenever anyone in the family experiences a major life event, they have a corresponding ritual.

When Tushan Jiu came downstairs and saw the variety of breakfasts on the table, the corners of her mouth rose high; the best thanks was to eat all of their heartfelt offerings, then head to the exam carrying the family's encouragement.

Every year, besides the supreme leader Fengdu Dadi, no other ghosts and gods know about the Underworld civil service exam.

The exam questions are absolutely confidential, yet the process is open and transparent, with an internal live broadcast throughout, ensuring fairness and justice.

This year's exam site is Nan Cheng, and among the top thirty, only two are native residents of Nan Cheng.

Those two are Wang Dongqing and Maomao.

As for Tushan Jiu and Xiang Yichu, their household registrations are not in Nan Cheng.

However, when filling out the application, four people applied for Nan Cheng.

Who those four are goes without saying.

The Nan Cheng office's top‑floor conference room is the examination hall.

The thirty examinees first took a written test.

Tushan Jiu felt as if she had returned to the time of her school exams.

However, the questions on her test paper were all common‑knowledge questions about catching ghosts.

With forty minutes to answer, Tushan Jiu finished in only twenty minutes and handed in her paper.

After all, this Underworld civil service exam differs from the mortal realm's exams in that the scores are released immediately, without waiting.

Tushan Jiu handed in her paper, and the examiner graded it on the spot.

And this year's examiner happened to be Tushan Jiu's second uncle, Tushan Liang.

He placed the paper under the 'camera' and then began grading.

Question 1, multiple choice (10 points).

When you encounter a fierce ghost, what is the correct way to handle it?

A. Run away (turning your back on the fierce ghost)

B. Close your eyes and silently chant "Lin Bing Dou Zhe Jie Lie Zhen Xing"

C. Take out your natal magic implement and talisman paper to subdue it

D. Flash your credentials and shout, "Fierce ghost, you're surrounded—give up your futile resistance!"

Tushan Jiu chose C, Tushan Liang checked it, and it was correct.

Question 2, multiple‑choice (more than one answer possible) (20 points).

What are the effective methods for breaking ghostly techniques?

A. Sprinkle the urine of a virgin boy around the surroundings.

B. Turning counterclockwise in circles, breaking the original magnetic field.

C. Pull out the phone with the downloaded metaphysics navigation app and start navigation mode.

D. Produce one's natal magic artifact and talisman strips, to dispel the evil ghost's sorcery and attack its artifact.

E. None of the above options are correct.

Tushan Jiu chose D, and Tushan Liang then drew a check mark.

He also just found out; this year's exam questions were set by the Fengdu Great Emperor using AI.

This is really bizarre; if he keeps grading for a bit longer, he might burst out laughing.

Tushan Liang hurriedly continued grading downward; the next two true/false questions she also answered correctly, marking them with checks.

Next comes the final major question.

Question 5, application question (30 points).

Note: Answer this question based on your own occupational attribute and personal ability.

One night, while you were asleep, you suddenly received a call from the office saying that a supernatural incident had occurred in a certain residential complex. Upon arriving, you discovered that the victim's home would emit a woman's wail every ten minutes, and the victim claimed to have seen a white-clad female ghost, who was the one crying.

One night, you were sleeping when you suddenly got a call from the office saying a paranormal incident had occurred in a certain residential complex. You rushed over and found that in the victim's home, a woman's sobbing would sound every ten minutes, and the victim claimed to have seen a white-clad female ghost, saying it was she who was crying.

1. Please answer the operational steps of your investigation. (15 points)

Answer: Step one, calculate with your fingers; step two, verify whether the victim's statement is true and valid; step three, if there is a ghost, catch the ghost; if there is no ghost, go home and continue sleeping.

2. If that female ghost is a twenty-year-old vengeful spirit, the victim is the ghost's enemy from life, and the ghost has come to seek revenge on the victim, how would you handle this? (15 points)

Answer: First, this question is not very rigorous; why would you let the female ghost come up? Shouldn't her soul have been taken to the Underworld as soon as it left her body? The proper procedure would be for you to conduct an internal check to see which department made this mistake.

Of course, the above is merely my personal muttering and not my standard answer; after all, the job of the Underworld's Yang-world office is to clean up messes.

My correct answer is: first step, open the Ghost Gate (more strictly, at that time I already had the authority to open the Ghost Gate directly); second step, send the ghost inside; third step, close the Ghost Gate.

My correct answer is: first step, open the ghost gate (strictly speaking, at that time I already had the authority to directly open the ghost gate), second step send the ghost inside, third step close the ghost gate.

Tushan Liang saw the answer above and the point that Tushan Jiu marked at the end, realizing she had only written it that way, but not knowing how to actually do it, since the written test is one thing and practical operation another.

But he glanced at the highest leader on the other end of the 'camera' 'connection,' and that leader's face was dark.

Tushan Jiu, on the other hand, was calm; she was just speaking frankly.

Tushan Jiu was quite candid; she was just speaking the truth.