Afterlife Department

Chapter 269 - Massacre

Hospital.

Lu Si looked at his subordinate who was grinning from ear to ear as he approached him. "Boss!" he called him. "My wife finally gave birth!" he told him, his face is red and his eyes are sparkling in excitement.

"Then, why are you here? Go accompany your wife!" he told him.

"Yes! But, boss, you should be the third person to see our beloved child. The first and second is me and my wife, of course!" he stupidly giggled.

Lu Si helplessly sighed as he followed him. "Then, what about the nurses and the doctor?" he asked.

"Ah. Wait… one, two, three…" his subordinate counted the number of the nurses and the doctor present when his wife gave birth.

Lu Si finally couldn't hold back his laughter as he patted his subordinate's back. "Let's go." He told him. He knew his subordinate is uneducated, but what he wanted in his people is a kind heart and not their educational background.

His subordinate slowly opened the door and his eyes lit up when he saw his wife was lying on the bed together with their newly-born child. "Wife!" he cried and ran to his wife.

A thin but beautiful woman smiled affectionately at her husband. "You came back." She weakly said. She still felt weak after she gave birth, but both her and their child are healthy.

Lu Si looked at the woman and the woman also looked at him. Then, she smiled. Lu Si nodded at her before he glanced at their child.

The woman is Qiu Xi. But, her real name is Xie Ningxi. Jonathan Baurne took her together with her nephew, and Joseph Baurne's and Xi Ningsu's corpses. Xi Ningxi then always visited her sister's tomb next to her husband's, and she's the one cleaning their tomb. Jonathan Baurne didn't force her. It was her will.

It was then that Lu Si's subordinate passed by and he saw how filial she was towards her sister. He fell in love with her at first sight and proposed to her. Xi Ningxi has become cold after her sister died, and all her affection disappeared after Xi Ningsu left. However, Lu Si's subordinate didn't give up and continued to pursue her. It was then that Lu Si found out that she can be considered as one of Jonathan Baurne's people.

Lu Si went to talk with Jonathan Baurne about his subordinate pursing Xi Ningxi. Jonathan Baurne also wanted one sad person less, and so he helped Xi Ningxi change her name to Qiu Xi. She finally relented and married Lu Si's subordinate.

Lu Si excused himself and went out, only to almost run into Jonathan Baurne who came to visit Qiu Xi. Lu Si nodded at Jonathan Baurne and left without looking back, and so he missed the pain that passed in Jonathan Baurne's eyes.

Jonathan Baurne lowered his head and fixed his expression before he knocked on the door and went inside the room. He didn't see that Lu Si stopped and turned to look at him.

Qiu Xi's eyes lit up when she saw Jonathan Baurne. "Jonathan." She called and nodded at him.

Jonathan Baurne smiled. "Don't force yourself. You just gave birth." He told her when she's about to sit up.

Lu Si's subordinate goofily smiled when he saw Jonathan Baurne. "Boss." He called.

Jonathan Baurne's smile stiffened before he regained his calm. "I'm not your Boss." He told him.

Lu Si's subordinate is thick-headed so he didn't understand the implication of Jonathan Baurne's words. It was Qiu Xi, who found out Jonathan Baurne's and Lu Si's past after Jonathan Baurne once became drunk and confided at her, who hit her husband, catching his attention.

Her husband immediately went out to buy them food. Qiu Xi and Jonathan Baurne were left. They chatted about the past, while not knowing that Lu Si's subordinate saw Lu Si. "Boss, you still haven't left?" he asked.

Lu Si glanced at the door of Qiu Xi's room, where Jonathan Baurne is, one more time before he finally left.

At the hotel, Si Shui's usually bland expression finally cracked after listening to Liu Lin's report about the Lee family.

There was once a family of merchants, surnamed Li. They are a big family, and were once called the family of wealth. One day, their whole family went on a vacation, never knowing that it will be a tragic day for them.

Their family was massacred. The parents, the three brothers, and two sisters. The murderers have long been eyeing the Li family. They didn't know that the fourth son, who never came out of the house and so few people knew him, and so they overlooked him, has escaped from their clutches. They were thieves, and is engaged in black market. Thus, they easily replaced the Li family and became the Lee family today. It was the literal and human version of 'doves occupying the magpies' nest.

When Lu Si was escaping, he didn't know he had ventured into the underworld. He was still young at that time, and is very handsome. Many had taken an interest in him, for their own personal reasons. Fortunately, even though he is the fourth son and the last in the line of inheritance, he isn't lazy or stupid. Instead, he is also sharp and is determined to make his own business.

Thus, when those people with evil intentions tried to approach Lu Si, Lu Si escaped very fast. He knows he is younger than them, so weaker in strength. But, he made use of his small body and speed to escape through small passages, rendering his pursuers unable to follow him anymore and lose him in their sight.

Since Lu Si has no money on him, he became hungry for days and, added to the fact he was always escaping, he had consumed too much of his energy. He was finally exhausted and collapsed. But, it seems that god has no plan for him to die and increased Lu Si's luck to the max. Not only he managed to escape from the family massacre, but he was also found by Jonathan Baurne.

Liu Lin read Di San's text message about Lu Si and relayed it to Yi Bing and Si Shui.

"What a coincidence." Yi Bing said when Liu Linn was finished.

"Do you think your soul is on Lu Si?" Liu Lin asked.

"What made you think so?" Yi Bing asked.

"Tenacity." Liu Lin simply answered.

Yi Bing fell silent. "I have met Lu Si before, as well as Jonathan Baurne." He said. "I don't think the other half of my soul is in them." He told them before he paused. "Of course, not in Lao Xie, either." He added.

Liu Lin and Si Shui looked at each other. They don't dare think of Lao Xie as one of the 'candidates' for Yi Bing's soul! "You also said it wasn't on Hao Baiyun and Gu Xingfeng." Liu Lin said. "If it's not on them, then where do you think it went to?" he asked.

Yi Bing looked at the unfinished wraps in his hand. He didn't think it wouldn't be up to his palate. "Other than them, there's only one person around Huo Ling." He said.

Liu Lin and Si Shui attentively listened to him. "You mean…" Liu Lin said. "Huo Ling's enemy?" he said.

"Not only his enemy." Yi Bing said. "He's his biological cousin." He looked at them. "As well as his 'enemy' who's living in the same roof as him: Jason Baurne." He said.

Liu Lin and Si Shui were stunned. "If your soul is really on Jason Baurne… then how do we take it back?" Liu Lin asked.

"There's one way that's always the most effective and foolproof, right?" Yi Bing asked back and smiled.

Liu Lin fell silent while Si Shui spat out a word. "Death." He answered.

"But, we can't harm the humans!" Liu Lin said.

Yi Bing frowned and contemplated. Liu Lin felt speechless as he looked at Yi Bing. He knows Yi Bing really wanted to kill Jason Baurne! "Then – " he heard Yi Bing said. " – let's others kill him?" he asked.

Liu Lin's face darkened while Si Shui remained deadpan.

Yi Bing saw their expression and finally withdrew his desire to kill Jason Baurne. Suddenly, he thought of something. "I think the other half of my soul is really on him." He said.

Liu Lin and Si Shui looked at him. "Why?" they asked.

"Because I hate him." Yi Bing simply answered.

Liu Lin and Si Shui. "…" so you actually contradict yourself?

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door before it opened. "What did I miss?" Feng Er's beaming face appeared. She closed the door behind her and walked towards them.

"What did you find out about the Xi family?" Yi Bing asked. Seeing Feng Er's gloating expression, it must be a fruitful result.

As expected, Feng Er sweetly laughed. Her smile is of that of a schadenfreude towards the Xi family. "I found out why the Lee family wanted to destroy the Xi family."