Emergency

Er Yuehong walked around the big mansion. There weren’t any decorations in this big mansion, so it looked particularly empty.

The last owner had been a fastidious man who loved his possessions, so he took everything with him. This was actually good for Er Yuehong because he wouldn’t need to clean the other man’s stuff up. Moreover, Er Yuehong also had a lot of possessions. He was a meticulous man who didn’t like ordinary objects. In fact, he preferred his things to be exquisite and rare.

He walked back and forth a few times, looking at every detail clearly. He had stepped on every blue brick under his feet and confirmed that the ground was firm and flat.

It was a nice mansion. The backyard was full of green grass, and there were lots of flowers and plants. Despite the fact that it had been so long since anyone took care of it, the feng shui here was still considered very good.

Why hadn’t anyone bought the mansion in the past three years? There was still a trace of worry in Er Yuehong’s heart. Was it because society was in chaos, so this kind of real estate business was dying? Or were there any details that made the other potential buyers give up the house and he had somehow neglected them?

He felt like he was quite the cautious man, so if he didn’t discover any problems, he didn’t think anyone else could.

He hesitated for a moment, but decided to buy it after all. His original mansion could no longer handle so many affairs and it was time for a change.

As for the trace of worry he felt, he paused and decided to leave it behind.

He walked out of the house and nodded to the housekeeper who immediately started bargaining with the government official.

The owner of this house had left three years ago, so the place was eventually taken over by the government and was now being sold as public property.

The previous owner was able to move everything out of this house before leaving, but he wasn’t patient enough to sell the house himself. There were probably many stories behind it, but things were different and the people were gone now. No matter how many stories there were, they had nothing to do with him.

He walked to the downtown area alone. At this time, he felt that it would be a pleasant thing to drink a bowl of tea while thinking about how many days it would take for him to move all of his stuff and make his new place look decent. Or, he could think about whether to open another opera stage at the dock. He had been too lazy and could hardly remember how long it had been since he went to the suburbs to make some money.

After he took a few steps, he heard someone calling out from behind him. He looked back and saw a uniformed soldier. Er Yuehong recognized this man. He was one of Fo Ye’s guards.

“Er Ye, Fo Ye is looking for you. It’s an emergency.” The guard wiped the sweat from his head. He was only about sixteen years old. Zhang Qishan told him that soldiers who were going to be guards had to be trained from an early age. The world was too complicated and it was too difficult to read someone if you didn’t know them for decades.

Why did Fo Ye bother reading people? Er Yuehong found it a little funny, but Zhang Qishan was the type of person who picked his words cautiously. If Zhang Qishan said it was an emergency, then Er Yuehong was afraid that it was something that couldn’t be delayed.

The car was parked on the side of the road. Er Yuehong was still unaccustomed to the smell inside this kind of monstrosity and said, “Go ahead and turn it around first. I’ll do anything as long as I can wait until the last second to get into this thing.”

“Er Ye, we’re not going to headquarters. We’re going to the train station.”

“Hmm? Why?”

“I’m not sure. It’s under martial law right now. I’ve been looking for you for a while. Er Ye, please get in the car. The others should be there soon.”

“Others? Who else is going besides me?”

“They’re all there,” the guard said. “Eight cars were sent out.”

Er Yuehong frowned. Eight people.

Of course, he knew who those eight people were. But from what he could recall, there was nothing in this world that required those eight people to gather together for a discussion. Even if they did manage to discuss something together, it wasn’t like any progress would be made. Those eight people weren’t friends at all.

So, this definitely didn’t mean that Fo Ye had some joyful news to share with them. If Fo Ye and those eight people were together, this indicated that something extremely bad had happened. With that in mind, he immediately got in the car and said to the driver, “Hurry up.”

It only took five minutes for the car to get to the train station, and when it did, it drove directly onto the platform. Er Yuehong drew the window curtain aside and looked out, finally realizing what “heavily guarded” really meant. The entire train station was full of soldiers dressed in green uniforms. They were Zhang Qishan’s military police. The machine guns and roadblocks had nearly been placed all the way to the eastern side of Pozi Street.

“Is the chairman here? Does he want to hear me sing? Why are we meeting at the train station? Is he in a rush but wanted to hear me sing a song on the platform before he leaves?” Er Yuehong joked. He felt that it was the only possibility.

The driver and the guard remained silent. As they went along the platform, he saw a train on the tracks, but he didn’t see those people whom the guard had mentioned.

After Er Yuehong got out of the car, the train carriage’s door opened a crack. Zhang Qishan stretched his hand out from the inside and asked him to get on the train quickly. The air was filled with the smell of gas cutting and the inside of the car was so dark that Er Yuehong couldn’t see clearly. The only thing he could make out was Zhang Qishan’s figure.

Er Yuehong began to feel puzzled and asked, “Fo Ye, what’s the emergency? Where are the others?”

“They’re all on the train. It was hard to find you,” Zhang Qishan said as the guards outside immediately closed the door. There were suddenly only a few rays of light coming in through the window, but in the next instant, the entire carriage was lit up. A light bulb had been installed inside the train, its power source seemingly coming from outside.

That was when he saw that all of the Mystic Nine members in Changsha were gathered in this carriage. No one had reacted to his arrival. Instead, everyone was looking at a huge object in the middle of the carriage.

Er Yuehong walked over and found that it was a crystal coffin that was a white translucent color.

He was an expert and knew at first glance that this was an ancient coffin from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The coffin was almost as high as his chest, but it was indeed a coffin and not the coffin cover. As he approached it, he saw that everyone’s attention was on the light shining from the coffin.

The lights in the carriage had been placed at the lower edge of the coffin so as to increase the light transmittance and reveal the shape of whatever was inside the coffin.

It appeared to be a burly shadowy figure, but the strange thing was that there was no order to this figure. In other words, they couldn’t find which end of the figure was the head based on its shadow.

“Where did this thing come from?” Er Yuehong asked.

Zhang Qishan shook his head. “I don’t know. This train transported this thing here last night.”

“If that’s the case, then where did this train come from?”

“I don’t know, either.” Zhang Qishan continued to shake his head and gave a wry smile.

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Tiffany’s Notes: I feel that this is still about the ghost car, but the plot is quite different from that of the Mystic Nine story. I wonder if the author changed his mind along the way, and this is one of his ideas for the story.

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Translated by: Tiffany X
Edited by: merebear226