Afterlife Department

Chapter 299 - Impression

The favoritism of Huo Ling\'s grandfather towards Huo Ling is very obvious. Yi Bing would be an idiot and blind if he couldn\'t see that. But – "Even so, one shouldn\'t get it to their head." He said.

"I know that!" Huo Ling cried. "That\'s why I didn\'t become a tyrant, right?" he pouted, his cheeks puffed up in anger. His eyes are also watery, making his brown pupils looked crystalline. No matter where you look, he looked like he had just suffered the greatest injustice in this world. He looked like he had just been bullied.

And the culprit is none other than this elegant grim reaper who looked abstinent in his bitter black suit perfectly hugging his lean body. He looked like a gentleman, but he\'s definitely not. In a literal sense, he isn\'t a man, but a grim reaper. And his actions are completely not gentlemanly! Didn\'t he just bully a poor soul named Huo Ling?

Scratch that. Doesn\'t he always bully a certain pitiful soul? If Di San would be here, he would definitely agree.

Speaking of Di San, he is now waking up after Ruan Yu treated his soul injuries.

Di San slowly opened his eyes. "Where… am I…?" he asked as he lifted his hand to hold his head. He felt dizzy.

"City of the Dead." A male voice answered.

Di San turned and saw an unfamiliar man wearing a white coat that of a doctor\'s. He is wearing an eyeglasses that made his temperament look stern and cold. His head is lowered as his gaze is on the book in his hand.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Ruan Yu." Ruan Yu coldly answered.

"\'Ruan Yu\'…?" Di San muttered absent-mindedly. The name sounds familiar…

"Do you feel any discomfort?" Ruan Yu asked as he sat on the chair beside the wall. His legs are crossed and he\'s still reading.

After hearing Ruan Yu\'s question, Di San subconsciously felt his soul. It\'s only just then that he realized his soul felt better. "None…" he answered. He looked around the room and found out it was a hospital room like that of the mortals\'. "You just said… this is the City of the Dead?" he asked.

Ruan Yu finally lifted his gaze and looked at Di San. He opened his lips to speak. However, before he could, they heard a noise outside. There\'s a commotion.

"Let go of me!" a voice very familiar to Di San shouted from outside before the people inside the room heard rushed footsteps. Before they could react, the door opened. The newcomer looked around the room and saw the cold doctor before he swept his gaze past him and his gaze finally landed on Di San who is lying on the bed. "San Di! Are you alright?!" Gu Shi asked, his eyes and voice filled with concern as he ran towards the patient bed and checked Di San\'s limbs.

"Gu Shi…?" Di San muttered, surprise in his voice.

"En." Gu Shi nodded. "I came here after Yi Bing went and…" his voice trailed off and he turned to look at the people outside the door. "I already told you. I am Gu Shi, the director of the Afterlife Department. It was Yi Bing who told me to come here!" he told them.

Pei Guang, the leader of the group, raised his brows. "We don\'t care about you, but our boss does." He said. "However, that doesn\'t give you the right to create havoc in the city." He told Gu Shi. Then, he turned to look at Ruan Yu whose face is cold. His expression looked as if he doesn\'t care about anything around him aside from his book. "Doctor Ruan. I\'ll be bothering you to look after these two." He told him.

Ruan Yu\'s expression didn\'t even change. "No." he answered.

Pei Guang, Gu Shi and the others. "…"

Di San. "…?" he looked very confused.

Gu Shi has already observing Di San and so he noticed Di San\'s confused expression. "San Di. Do you remember what happened?" he asked.

Di San raised his head to look at Gu Shi. "…?" he blinked his eyes as he thought, before he tilted his head. He doesn\'t remember.

"Temporary amnesia." Ruan Yu spoke.

"What?!" Gu Shi exclaimed. He turned to glare at Ruan Yu. "What did you do to San Di? Have you been so idle for three hundred years and under Yi Bing\'s protection, you think you can do as you please?" he asked.

Ruan Yu, however, just indifferently looked at Gu Shi. "Temporary amnesia is a side effect of treating his injuries." He said, his voice flat as if he didn\'t hear Gu Shi\'s voice. He sounded like a science teacher emotionlessly discussing about fertilization. "The graver the injury to the soul, the bigger the side effect will be. We are naturally different from the mortals, since we are souls. Soul is the essence of life. Our spiritual body – our soul, is naturally more important than our physical body. That\'s why mortals are very faithful to the gods they believed in." he spoke and closed his book before he rose from his seat. "Fortunately, your friend\'s injuries are not that gravely threatening." He told Gu Shi.

Gu Shi fell silent. He admits, he despises Ruan Yu because he is prejudiced with the grim reapers in the City of the Dead. That\'s why there was a commotion that happened, too, when he arrived. The banished grim reapers in the City of the Dead mutually dislikes them official grim reapers.

Except for one: Yi Bing, their boss.

"I also heard from Yi Bing – " Ruan Yu spoke. " – about him breaking the Conferment Seal." He said and looked at Di San who innocently blinked his eyes. Obviously, he doesn\'t understand what they are talking about.

"What?!" Pei Guang and the others exclaimed as they looked at Di San in shock. "Buddy, you\'re very bold!" they said as they walked towards the dumbfounded Di San and surrounded him. "Only Boss can break the Conferment Seal. We didn\'t expect you could, too! As expected of Boss, he is a very capable man, even managed to teach the others how to break the Conferment Seal and also survive." He grinned as he patted Di San\'s shoulder.

Meanwhile, Gu Shi silently watched Di San. Guilt was written on his face. "Breaking the Conferment Seal made his injuries worse." He heard Ruan Yu spoke as Ruan Yu walked towards the door. "Yi Bing told me to erase the traces of breaking the Conferment Seal on your friend\'s body. He knows I have vowed to never touch anything regarding the Conferment Seals, but…" he didn\'t speak anymore and just left.

Gu Shi lowered his head. One of the reasons why Ruan Yu\'s patient before has died is because the Foul has invaded the Conferment Seal on his patient\'s body. Ruan Yu reacted too late, which can\'t be blamed on him. The Conferment Seal reacted, and strongly after it was influenced by the patient\'s turbulent emotions.

The Conferment Seal doesn\'t want to be contaminated by Foul, and so it released a strong force. It was the final nail on the coffin. The patient died, and Ruan Yu, who was treating the patient, bore the brunt and was injured. Adding salt to his wounds, he was banished. If it wasn\'t for Yi Bing, Ruan Yu would have deviated.

Speaking of Yi Bing, who is in another world, he is currently hiding the smile that appeared on his face after teasing Huo Ling. He doesn\'t even have a slightest look of guilt on his handsome face. Damn. He\'s really so fun to tease~ the secretly and surprisingly black-bellied model of the grim reapers thought as he turned to look at the cute soul Huo Ling growing mushrooms in a corner.

"Should we finally call the cops?" the passersby asked each other seeing the smile on Yi Bing\'s face. Instead of looking like a refreshed smile, but the passersby already labeled Yi Bing as a mentally-handicapped \'person\', and so, his teasing smile looked scarily murderous instead to them.

"Such a pity, that handsome face…" someone sighed.

Huo Ling doesn\'t have the energy to ridicule Yi Bing from being perceived as a crazy person since he is busy nursing the grievance he feels in his heart after Yi Bing dealt blow after blow on him. Although he was spoiled, but he is much better than those rich second-generation young masters who only knows how to play and not work and always rely on their parents to eat and spend their parents\' money extravagantly. He, at least, has a job and is considered as a good and obedient child. He also never harmed people, nor abused his status as a wealthy person.

Thus, he felt hurt when Yi Bing thought and, outrightly told him, he was spoiled and arrogant. His heart ached so much. Only then did Huo Ling realize that, after being buttered up by the people around him, he actually can\'t handle criticisms and so he easily becomes sensitive.