"The deceased is a 21-year-old female university student in her junior year from a nearby university, named Luo Lin. The cause of death is unknown, but there is a bruise on her forehead that is identical to the one found on the deceased from this afternoon. I initially thought it was another case of premeditated murder like Zhao Zhi Gang's, but after investigating the victim's background..."

  "The victim's family is wealthy and he was renting a house outside of school. Last night, he felt that the rented house was leaking water, so he moved to this hotel to stay for one night. He didn't leave his room all day, and when the hotel staff came to clean the room at noon, they found the body and reported it to the police. At that time, I was busy with another case, so I didn't come over. Later, the police officer who investigated this case discovered something strange about the victim, which is why he notified me."

  After Director Luo finished speaking, I furrowed my brow and walked to the bedside, lifting the white cloth covering the corpse. The deceased looked quite pretty without makeup, with an obvious bruise on her forehead from being hit.

  "Just like the deceased this afternoon, the key is that there was no one who had the opportunity to enter her room and knock on her forehead. We investigated the surveillance video from last night until the time of her death, and no one entered her room." Director Luo said, his face already darkening, "I suspect this case."

  I glanced at the police around us and then whispered in his ear, "Do you suspect that this case is the work of ghosts?"

  Director Luo nodded.

  I thought for a moment and took out my phone to call Hong Zhuo. He answered quickly and asked, "What's up, Fengzi?"

  "Something's happened again, at the Hongyuan Hotel near Guanyin Bridge. Can you come over?" I hung up the phone and stood there thinking about that dream from before. Now that I think about it carefully, these two cases might really have some kind of ghostly interference."

  Hong Zhuo's place is very close to Guanyin Bridge, about ten minutes away. Hong Zhuo arrived soon after, wearing a white coat, looking like he had just gotten off work and hadn't had time to change clothes yet.

  I went downstairs to the hotel lobby to pick up Hong Zhuo and brought him upstairs. Hong Zhuo briefly examined the body, his face was quite calm, without much surprise.

  "Brother Hong, the cause of death for this deceased is unlikely to be human factors, which means there may be other reasons. You mentioned earlier that there's another reason that could lead to such a death, can you tell me about it?" I asked Hong Zhuo.

  Luo Bureau Director also looked at Hong Zhuo with curiosity.

  "Come out and talk." Hong Zhuo took me to a staircase in the hotel and lit a cigarette, saying: "There is a kind of ghost on the Hundred Ghosts List called Meng Xi."

  "Is it very fierce?"

  "This ghost is ranked 30th on the Hundred Ghosts Chart, isn't it formidable?" Hong Zhuo smiled wryly and said: "This kind of ghost will climb onto a person's body when they are asleep, then use its fingers to tap on the person's forehead. As long as it taps forty-nine times, the person's three souls and seven spirits will be lured away by Meng Xi, and then these souls and spirits will be caught by Meng Xi to be devoured."

  "As soon as I heard it, I felt a bit nauseous and asked: 'Can this thing kill people while they're sleeping? It's really disgusting.'"

  Hong Zhuo nodded: "Meng Xi is a rare kind of ghost that can make people die unknowingly. Especially if Meng Xi catches many ghosts, wanting to deal with it would be equivalent to dealing with a large group of evil spirits."

  I heard it and complained: "Damn, why do I always encounter so many abnormal ghosts."

  I'm not kidding, don't think I encounter ghosts every day, this world is just like that. In fact, other Yin Yang masters may not even meet a real ghost in a year, let alone those rare creatures like monsters. When Li Mingyao gave me that forum, I went to take a look and saw a guy who had encountered a monster, he was so excited it was like Chinese New Year, just short of opening champagne to celebrate.

  "You little devil, wherever you go, there's trouble." Hong Zhuo gave me a white eye and said.

  I'm also depressed, and I said: "You think I want to? It's really damn evil. You can't say that these strange things are all happening to me one after another."

  "This kind of demon is rarely recorded in various materials, so I only know roughly. How to find this ghost depends on you, catching ghosts is not something I can help with. However, it's better to find it as soon as possible, otherwise, the more people it kills, the harder it will be to deal with later."

  I let out a sigh and nodded: "Alright, I'll go back and think about it carefully."

  Then I said hello to Director Luo and went back to school.

  I walked to the bottom of Zhao Shenyu's dormitory building and called her. I didn't know who to ask about Meng Xi either, but after thinking about it, I still thought it was most suitable to find Zhao Shenyu.

  "Hey, wife, where are you?" I asked.

  Zhao Shanyu's voice on the other end of the line sounded like she was already asleep. She mumbled drowsily: "Xiaofeng, what's wrong?"

  "Wife, I'm under your dormitory building, can you come down for a bit? I have something to ask you."

  "What's going on? It's so late already."

  "I met a ghost named Meng Qi, I want to ask you something specific." As soon as I finished speaking, Zhao Shenyu on the other side said anxiously: "Meng Qi? Xiao Fengfeng, stay downstairs, I'll come down right away"

  After finishing speaking, Zhao Shenyu hung up the phone. I lit a cigarette and sat down on a flower bed under their dormitory building. Soon, Zhao Shenyu ran down from her dormitory building, wearing a white nightgown with messy hair, panting and running to my front asking: "What's going on? How did you meet Meng Xi?"

  She spoke while walking back and forth beside me, asking "Are you okay?"

  "What could I possibly have going on? It's like this." I looked at Zhao Shenyu's anxious expression and couldn't help but smile inwardly, then told him about the two sensitive matters that had arisen today.

  Zhao Shanyu let out a sigh of relief as soon as she heard that I hadn't encountered Meng Xi himself, but rather the person who killed him. "Don't bother with this matter anymore," she said. "Meng Xi is a terrifying creature. If it kills 49 people, it can absorb their three souls and seven spirits, become demonic, and turn into a dream demon that can kill people in their dreams. You should tell Li Mingyao in Chengdu about this; the Mao Shan sect will definitely take action to eliminate this Meng Xi."

  "Hey, what's wrong with my little girl today? Are you afraid something will happen to me?" I asked with a strange smile.

  Zhao Shenyu kicked me in the butt and scolded: "Take it seriously, or else when the time comes, you'll be dead and have something to cry about."

  "This thing that kills people... I've seen it before in the underworld..." Zhao Shanyu suddenly stopped talking and stared at me, saying "Underworld"

  I suddenly felt someone was following me, I turned around and saw a black shadow standing behind the tree on the flower stand, I shouted loudly: "Who"