Afterlife Department

Chapter 523 - Ferrying

"You Ri, age 25, female, a fashion designer in Haoming Company." Huo Ling spoke as they walk down the street, looking for the ghost You Ri. "She is single. Her father is a retired policeman and her mother is also a retired teacher. She has an older sister who is married with four children and her husband is a bank manager. Her younger brother is studying in college, and her youngest sister is a teenage magazine model." He said and raised his head. "Her family can be said to be average, but also can be called well-off. They don't need to worry being hungry." He flapped the pages.

Yi Bing nodded. "That's why she died in peace." He spoke.

Huo Ling nodded in agreement. "Car accident, huh…" he muttered. "Should we go first to the place where she died and check about the accident?" he asked.

Yi Bing was about to nod when he suddenly paused after he recalled something. If we want to check about the details of the investigation regarding the accident, then we will have to go to –

"Oh! Look! We've reached the police station!" Huo Ling said and pointed to a direction. "The car accident is under this station's jurisdiction, so this is just right. We are lucky to find the police station fast!" he grinned and walked towards the police station.

No one has seen him since they are currently in an invisible state so they won't disturb the natives of this world and know of their presence since the natives of this world are already wary of ghosts. If they would see their unusual pale face and feel their strange cold body temperature, then they would definitely identify them as zombies. This is how sharp the natives of this world are, given that they have become so familiar with ghosts and other supernatural forces.

But, currently, what Yi Bing is more concerned about –

"Argh! That company again!" a young police officer screamed in frustration as he pulled his hair as soon as he placed down the cradle of the phone.

"That company?" the police officer beside his table frowned.

"Yes…" the young police officer slumped on the table. "This is the nth time… they said that there is a ghost in their company. If they know that it is a ghost, then what can we do about it?!" he said. "We can't hit it! We can't subdue it with just our fists! Also, if it comes to it, our guns also wouldn't work! Ugh!" he grunted, feeling angry.

"Then what will you do?" his colleague asked. "You… do you want to ask chief Gu?" he said in a low voice.

As soon as Yi Bing heard the surname, he knows that he and Huo Ling will definitely meet them again.

"'chief Gu'? Gu Xingfeng?" as expected, Huo Ling guessed it.

"… it seems that we will be meeting him again." Yi Bing muttered. "As well as that Hao Baiyun." He added.

"Oh!" Huo Ling nodded and looked for the chief's office. "This reminds me when we sneaked in chief Gu's office that time." He smiled.

"Yeah. And then you went berserk so I have no choice but to freeze your soul." Yi Bing told him.

Huo Ling frowned.

Yi Bing looked away. "Let's wait for that young police officer to enter Gu Xingfeng's office. Then, let's see whatever we will see in there." He said.

"Okay." Huo Ling nodded and reviewed You Ri's profile again. "She should have directly entered her reincarnation cycle, but then she suddenly turned into a resentful ghost." He muttered. "She must have found something suddenly and it reminded her, made her angry so she turned into a resentful ghost." He said.

Yi Bing nodded.

"If we could find that something… no. We should find her first and ask her whatever she remembers." Huo Ling spoke.

The soul that had peacefully died should have directly entered their reincarnation cycle, and then their biography would appear on the Death Note. But, You Ri's biography not only appeared on the Death Note, but the Death Note shook violently to alarm them. Yi Bing then checked what it is, only to find out that a peaceful soul has become a resentful soul. This is unacceptable.

To prevent duplication of tasks, the grim reapers' Death Notes have different qualities. For example, a newly-died soul that has a weak attachment will appear on the junior grim reapers' Death Notes for them to take care of the soul. Then, they would mark it as their task. Then, that soul's biography would disappear on the other junior grim reapers' Death Notes and would only continue to appear on their Death Note.

On the other hand, senior grim reapers like Yi Bing, Gu Shi, Di San, Feng Er, Si Shui, Jin Wu, Liu Lin and Qi Shan would only have the problematic souls that will appear on their Death Notes. For example, an Abnormal Soul like Huo Ling has appeared on Yi Bing's Death Note. It didn't appear on Qi Shan's Death Note since Qi Shan's task is only Lei Shan, as well as Di San, Feng Er, Si Shui and Liu Lin if they have received a specified task like looking for Soul Fragments. They will give their Death Notes to Gu Shi for him to keep so that they can focus on their specified task.

Meanwhile, Jin Wu is now the head of the Disciplinary Committee. Although he has his Death Note, but only the specified tasks will appear on his Death Note like helping Yi Bing and Huo Ling in Normal World 2828, or the apocalypse world. His Death Note also contains the list of the grim reapers being punished, or those who are in prison – both grim reapers, angels, or souls. But, although the prison is in the Rainbow Tower, but Di San and Gu Shi didn't need to ask for his permission to enter the tower since he doesn't own the tower, they are under Shen Sheng's order, and Di San's and Gu Shi's task isn't related to the prison.

So, right now, only Yi Bing and Gu Shi knows about You Ri, this problematic soul that will now be labelled as an Abnormal Soul like Huo Ling before. Gu Shi felt his head ached when he found out that there is another Abnormal Soul. The last time was Huo Ling. So, he pushed this matter to Yi Bing, and since the task this time is still ferrying even if it is an Abnormal Soul, Huo Ling will be ferrying the soul this time.

Ferrying includes resolving the soul's attachment, satisfying their wishes until they become a peaceful soul and directly enter reincarnation cycle by themselves, or be accompanied to the Pathway of the Clouds and walk through the rain of Meng Po's soup and go to their next reincarnation cycle. Although these peaceful souls have directly entered their reincarnation cycle and wasn't rained by Meng Po's soup, they will still forget their past life since travelling between the worlds has a confusion effect because of the unstable space that affects time. Although when they suddenly wake up in another world again, they might have actually spent an entire century in the space before so their soul should have already forgotten their past life's memories.

But, if one were to use the Pathway of the Clouds, it will be safer to travel through to another world because it is near the Middle Heaven where Shen Sheng resides. Also, between the Stable World and another world, and another world to another world, the former is safer since the other side is the stable world.

So, although they wish for the souls to become peaceful souls and directly reincarnate, but the grim reapers also wish to ferry the souls. Not only because it is their task to ferry them, and also to care about them, but they also have once been souls. So, they felt a sense of kinship with them.

"Let's do that, then." Yi Bing agreed.

So, Yi Bing and Huo Ling waited until the young police officer finally gathered his courage and decided to go and see Gu Xingfeng.

"This isn't my fault… it's that company who are shameless!" the young police officer muttered to himself as he took deep breaths while he paced back and forth outside the door.

"What's the matter with him?" Huo Ling asked.

"Who knows? I don't know him. How can I know?" Yi Bing asked back. "Why don't you ask him?" he added.

Huo Ling's face darkened but he decided not to argue with Yi Bing.

"Chief ah… can I really ask chief about this matter?" the young police officer asked himself and was about to cry. "But, this…" he said and bit his lip.

Huo Ling felt that there is something strange. Gu Xingfeng is this scary? He thought. Just as he finally decided to speak to Yi Bing again, he heard a voice spoke.

"Brother… this is my brother's company!" the familiar voice spoke.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling looked at each other, and decided to turn. Since they heard it, but the young police officer didn't hear it, it means that the voice belongs to…

"It's really my brother's company!" Hao Baiyun, who is floating behind the young police officer and is looking at the document in the young police officer's hand, exclaimed.