The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 73 - 70: Chu Yan, actually, I am a fairy, and you are unworthy.

Chapter 73: Chapter 70: Chu Yan, actually, I am a fairy, and you are unworthy.

"Where’s the ghost?"

Captain Huo looked at Qin Zhao with a complex expression.

"She’s gone to tip someone off."

Qin Zhao walked in one direction, the others hesitated for a moment, then quickly followed her.

There was hardly any light inside the abandoned factory, and now it had gotten dark.

Qin Zhao did not lead them far before they left the factory.

Because a car had plunged into the river and the area was quite remote, they couldn’t hail a taxi, so they had to call the police station to pick them up.

"Miss Qin, I’m very sorry for the misunderstanding earlier."

After making the call, Captain Huo took the initiative to apologize to Qin Zhao.

If Qin Zhao really intended to harm them, she would not have rescued them in the river earlier.

"It’s okay."

Qin Zhao’s expression was indifferent; she didn’t care much about such matters.

Instead, she was pondering over something strange.

Why did the Ghost help the killer conceal the truth?

From initially identifying the body to now, leading them here and setting up a ghost wall that caused the police car to plunge into the water,

it was all to help the killer cover up, right?

Captain Huo, on the other hand, was discussing the body in the river with his teammates.

"Have there been any missing person reports in Imperial City recently?"

"There are several, but we’ll only know when we compare the data they bring over."

"By the way, Captain Huo, why did we come here?"

The other three police officers still didn’t know why they had come here. Did Captain Huo already know there was a body here, and that’s why he brought them? That would be incredible!

Captain Huo naturally had no idea. He turned his gaze to Qin Zhao.

He approached her to ask, "Miss Qin, could you please explain this to me?"

"It’s simple. The body in the river is that of the ghost we saw earlier. As for the remains in the escape room, they belong to someone else. And this body in the river, I suspect, was also murdered."

"I observed earlier that there was a rope tied around the foot of the body in the river."

So indeed, the body in the river was killed by someone else. The rope probably had stones attached, causing the body to sink to the bottom of the river.

The lightning strike earlier must have broken the rope, allowing the body to float up.

"Captain Huo should be able to sense that the ghost deliberately led us away. Why did she want to lead us away? It can only be to protect the killer."

Captain Huo nodded, "The killer must be someone she knew. Once the police arrive and confirm the identity of the body in the river, maybe we’ll know who the killer is."

The killer here referred to the person responsible for the dismemberment in the escape room.

"But who killed her?"

Captain Huo fell silent for a moment, unable to resist voicing his question.

The ghost was protecting the perverted killer responsible for the dismemberment. But her death in the river was also at someone’s hands, so who was it?

Captain Huo suddenly felt overwhelmed; this case had two bodies and was quite complicated.

Qin Zhao was also pondering these questions. When she was in the escape room, she knew the ghost was an imposter.

The reason she followed the ghost was to see what this person was up to.

It was almost an hour.

Finally, the police arrived.

Qin Zhao saw Chu Yan step out of the car and was stunned for a moment.

"I asked him to come over. It’s late at night, after all; we have to pick up the wife, right?"

Captain Huo’s voice came through.

Chu Yan got out of the car and, seeing that Qin Zhao’s clothes were soaking wet, quickened his steps. He then draped his coat over Qin Zhao.

With displeasure, he looked at Huo Xun, "Why did you bring her to such a desolate place?"

"She’s the one who reported the case, she led me here!" Huo Xun rolled his eyes.

A good turn fed to the donkey, I let you come to pick up your wife, why are you scolding me?

Chu Yan scoffed, pulling Qin Zhao to leave, but Qin Zhao stood still.

"Wait a minute, I want to watch them retrieve the body, just in case something unexpected happens."

"What could possibly happen? Let’s go back and change your clothes first, or you’ll catch a cold."

"It’s dry." Qin Zhao extended the sleeve of her clothes to show him.

Chu Yan’s expression stiffened for a moment; weren’t her clothes wet just now?

How did they dry so fast?

After a while, he noticed Qin Zhao had gone to the riverbank with the police, and his expression softened a bit.

Since he’d even witnessed catching ghosts, her suddenly drying her clothes didn’t seem so strange.

Retrieving the body went smoothly without any accidents, and the female ghost from before did not return.

"We need to transport the body back for autopsy; we won’t have results until tomorrow."

Qin Zhao nodded, saying to Captain Huo, "Could you inform me tomorrow? You catch criminals, I catch malicious ghosts, let’s cooperate."

Catching and eliminating evil ghosts and purifying Ghosts with obsessions could accumulate merit, conducive to Qin Zhao’s cultivation.

Her Cultivation Technique involved absorbing negative energy; a mishap could give rise to a Heart Demon, so she needed to do more good deeds to maintain her true nature.

"Are you saying you are one of those," Captain Huo pondered for a bit before finding an apt description, "those Heavenly Masters that only exist on TV?"

He had always thought fortune-telling, feng shui consulting, and ghost catching were all scams. Turns out these things actually existed in the world!

"Pretty much, if you encounter any supernatural incidents in the future, you can also call on me for help."

Captain Huo nodded, smiling wryly, "Alright, I hope I won’t have to."

Today had been thrilling enough; he didn’t want to encounter any more strange phenomena.

Qin Zhao finally went home with Chu Yan, where dinner had been prepared but had gone cold.

Qin Zhao was about to sit down and eat casually when Chu Yan took it away, "I’ll make you something fresh."

"There’s no need, it’s still good after reheating."

Upon saying that, she suddenly wondered, "Have you not eaten either?"

"Mm."

He quietly affirmed and still went to the kitchen to cook.

The meal was a simple bowl of noodles, but still delicious. Eating such warm noodles late at night was especially comforting, especially since Qin Zhao had been immersed in water earlier.

After finishing her meal, Chu Yan automatically took her dishes away and then went to wash them.

Her expression rarely showed a trace of emotion as she propped her chin and sat at the table, staring blankly at his silhouette.

Chu Yan finished the dishes, tidied up the kitchen, and turned around to come back before she snapped out of it.

Qin Zhao suddenly spoke, "Chu Yan, actually I am a fairy."

"?" Chu Yan regarded her with a strange and complex look, then reached out to feel her forehead, "Are you feverish?"

Qin Zhao pushed his hand away, "It won’t be long before I have to return to the heavens."

She was trying to convey that they were not of the same kind and would eventually part ways.

In her lifetime, she still wanted to continue her cultivation, to achieve Ascension to the Immortal Realm, and Chu Yan was just an ordinary person. With past experiences as a lesson, she could not take him as a disciple and teach him cultivation again.

Chu Yan said nothing and then took a thermometer, dropping it beside Qin Zhao’s ear.

"Thirty-six point eight, no fever."

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