Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Chapter 372 5 ghosts

In the new video, Yu Ru is squatting in front of several cardboard boxes that are as big as an adult man, reaching inside and rummaging through them looking for something.

A moment later, a male voice appeared in the video.

"Boss, the water's all gone. Sister Shan said you still have work for me to do. What is it?"

Yu Ru looked up and saw Liu Bujing had arrived, his two pets following closely behind him. She had just assigned him the task of carrying bottled water for the bodyguards responsible for different areas, and he seemed to be doing it quite easily. Not bad, not bad, the young man looks thin, but he's quite strong.

Yu Ru stood up, walked to the side, picked up a megaphone, and handed it to him. "Can you record audio for this megaphone?"

Liu Bujing took the megaphone, examined it, and then nodded. "Yes."

"Then record this message over the loudspeaker: 'Kang Zhuyu, Li Xuye, Dai Zhenzhu, Deng Yuehui, Su Jinyi, hurry to the second-floor stairwell. Lin Xiaocao is waiting for you here. Got it?'"

Yu Ru repeated the names three more times.

Liu Bujing nodded. "I'll remember."

"Okay, after you record this sentence into the loudspeaker, turn the volume up to the maximum and walk around outside with this loudspeaker, playing it on a loop. After you've walked around the whole house, you can rest. You don't need to come to me to report. Give the loudspeaker to Sister Shan and Sister Ping, or to those guys in black."

"Ok."

After Liu Bujing left, Yu Ru continued rummaging through the box. Using the body of a dumpling, Shan Ci hovered in mid-air around her, pointing the camera at the contents of the box and asking, "Mom, are these clothes? Why do they look so thin?"

"These are clothes. They're not for people to wear, they're for ghosts. That's why they look so thin. You have to burn them so the ghosts can receive them."

"Mom, is it for those ghosts?"

Yu Ru nodded.

……

A while later, Yu Ru was sitting in a chair playing on her phone when she suddenly felt a gust of cold wind around her. She looked up and saw several pairs of bloody feet in front of her, and above them, several rotting faces. Yu Ru was startled and, though she didn't scream, she fell off the chair.

"Lin Xiaocao, you've seen us before, why are you so scared?" Dai Zhenzhu said with a smile.

Dai Zhenzhu and the other ghosts were victims discovered by Yu Ru one after another after Kang Zhuyu, who died here. According to them, the person who killed them hired a master to perform a ritual to trap them here, preventing them from reincarnating. It wasn't until she came here and went on a killing spree, destroying many things in the villa, that she inadvertently broke some important components of the array set up by the master, allowing them to break free and escape.

Yu Ru's throat hadn't fully recovered, so she mostly spoke through a megaphone. She raised the megaphone around her neck and said, "If you appeared in such a terrifying way, even Buddha would be frightened."

"Why did you call us over?" Kang Zhuyu asked.

"I bought you clothes, see if they fit." Yu Ru stood up, patted her bottom, then opened the box, picked up a paper dress, and held it in front of them.

Li Xu also noticed the writing on the clothes. She leaned closer to look and discovered it was her name written on it. She exclaimed happily, "It says my name and birthday! Is it my clothes?"

"Yes." Yu Ru nodded, took out a lighter from her pocket, lit the clothes on fire, and put them into the brazier next to her. "I'll burn them for you now and see if you can receive them."

A moment later, Li Xu, who had been dressed in tattered clothes, suddenly appeared wearing a light blue, sleeved, A-line dress. She excitedly twirled around, and the dress blossomed like a flower. "I can't believe I actually received it!" she exclaimed, looking at Yu Ru. "That thin piece of paper looks so ordinary, but it looks so good on me. How did you manage to buy the style I liked?"

“Because I looked through the social media you used before you died and the photos stored in the database, and did a simple analysis of your preferences, these clothes were all customized based on the styles you wore most often.” Yu Ru then took out a pair of shoes and a Birkin bag from the box and said, “They’re all matched, including the shoes and the bag. Stand back a bit, I’m going to burn them all together.”

There were many bonsai trees in the villa, and Yu Ru chose one with a diameter of one meter, hollowed it out, and turned it into a brazier. The brazier was big enough, and being made of porcelain, it wouldn't be afraid of being burned by a small fire, so she decided to simply put all the paper clothes, paper shoes, and paper packages in the box into the brazier and burn them all at once. She put the lighter back in her pocket, then took out a box of matches, took one out, lit it, and threw it into the brazier.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the clothes and shoes in the basin were instantly engulfed in flames, sizzling and crackling, and the leaping flames illuminated Yu Ru's face red.

In a short while, the five ghosts were all transformed, each wearing a new outfit.

"Ms. Lin, this suit is too formal. Do you have a casual version?" Su Jinyi carefully examined his brand-new suit. The soft and textured fabric made this ghost, who had been living in a state of near-nakedness for a long time, unable to resist touching it again and again.

Deng Yuehui held the Birkin bag in her hands and grinned, "Xiao Cao, I really benefit from your luck. I wanted this bag when I was alive, but it costs almost two million, which I couldn't afford. I never thought I would be carrying it after I died."

“Mr. Su, yes, we have prepared two sets of clothes for each of you ghosts, one formal and one casual. Ms. Deng, I’ve had the series you wanted made. Wait a minute, there’s another box, I’ll burn it for you now.”

Yu Ru burned two sets of clothes for the ghosts, as well as some entertainment items and daily necessities for them, including cell phones, routers, mahjong sets, game consoles, skateboards, and quilts.

"This phone can be used!" Dai Zhenzhu exclaimed in surprise, holding the phone.

"You guys go ahead and play. I have something to do, so I'll be going now," Yu Ru said as she bent down to tidy up the boxes on the ground.

"Hey, wait a minute." Kang Zhuyu called out to her.

Yu Ru straightened up and looked at her, asking, "What's wrong?"

“A few days ago you asked us to think about the characteristics of the person who sealed us here, and we’ve remembered them these past few days. It’s a man who looks like a squinty-eyed rat, and he has a spider pattern on his neck. We feel like he’s from some gang,” Kang Zhuyu replied.

“The spider’s body looks like an eye,” Su Jinyi added.

“It’s the Spider Cult,” Yu Ru said immediately. “This cult is still up to no good and is harming people here. It seems to be the root of all evil.”

"The Spider Cult, is it very powerful? What else has it done?" Dai Zhenzhu asked.

Yu Ru nodded, turned around, turned the box upside down on the ground, and sat on it. "This sect is a cult. Its origins can be traced back more than a hundred years. Back then, it had a rudimentary form but was scattered and insignificant. Thirty or forty years later, a feng shui master joined in and it was officially established. This feng shui master also became the nominal founder and leader. Many celebrities in society joined this sect. They shared resources, strengthened their own power, and did many heinous things."

"Most of the major social events that people can name involve members of this cult. About fourteen years ago, a criminal case that shocked the whole country occurred in northern my country. The related incidents almost violated a whole criminal code. As a result, we finally tore open a corner of the Spider Cult here. People from relevant departments began to clean up the important locations where the Spider Cult had infiltrated here, and a year later, the Northeast was restored to a clean land."

"But this cult is too powerful, almost all over the world. Wherever there are resources, there are people from all walks of life. In addition, the cult does a very good job of keeping secrets, so it is not easy to detect their specific activities in advance. Therefore, the Spider Cult has not been completely eradicated to this day, and there are still remnants of the cult causing trouble."