Afterlife Department

Chapter 639 – Conspirators

Zhuo Xia abruptly rose from his seat. "Lies!" he said. "You are lying! The Sunflower Clan aren't thieves!" he glared at Huo Ling.

Yi Bing frowned and coldly looked at Zhuo Xia because Zhuo Xia yelled at Huo Ling. No one can yell nor glared at Huo Ling, not even him! he thought as his eyes narrowed dangerously. Meanwhile, Xiao Hualing shook her head as she looked at Zhuo Xia with her eyes filled with pity.

Everyone suddenly a bone-biting chill and Mu Li's scalp felt numb. Meanwhile, Zhuo Xia froze on the spot and couldn't make his body move as all the hairs on his body raise. He sense danger! Everyone turned and, as expected, they saw Yi Bing glaring at Zhuo Xia.

Mu Li immediately reacted and pulled Zhuo Xia back to sit down and replaced their seats so that Zhuo Xia would be sitting farther from Yi Bing.

"I'm sorry… Xia Xia was very emotional just now… he didn't mean it…" Mu Li immediately apologized to Yi Bing before he turned to look at Huo Ling whose expression didn't change as if this matter is unrelated to him. "Sorry… after all, he thought that the Sunflower Clan was his family." He explained.

Neither Huo Ling nor Yi Bing spoke.

"Xia Xia…" Mu Li called Zhuo Xia, who almost jumped on his seat, startled.

Zhuo Xia's face was pale in fear right now. He couldn't move his body, and only feel that his entire body turned to ice. "I… I am sorry…!" he sincerely apologized and lowered his head.

Gu Xingfeng, Hao Baiyun, Zi Chen, Lan Tian and Xiao Hualing sighed.

Huo Ling's expression remained indifferent as he looked at Zhuo Xia. "I am not forcing you to believe me, whether or not you have seen the evidence." He said before he took out Yi Bing's cellphone. "To start with, you already know that I came here in this world because I have a soul assignment." He  placed the cellphone in the coffee table.

They nodded, indicating that they know.

Huo Ling looked at them. "And this soul assignment of mine is someone from the Golden-Haired Monkey Clan." He told them.

They looked at him in surprise. They only know that Huo Ling's assignment is a soul, but they didn't know that it was the soul of someone from the Golden-Haired Monkey Clan! They only know that it was Xiao Hualing whose task is related to the Golden-Haired Monkey Clan!

"We have already heard chief Gu's words earlier, and, as expected of you, you got everything right." Huo Ling said and glanced at Gu Xingfeng before he opened an audio file and tapped the 'play' button.

Then, everyone heard a voice talking.

…

In a foreign country, a plane arrived. Its passengers then came out of the arrival area.

"Hey! Your flight is ten minutes late!" someone said while frowning as he looked at Jie Yao who walked towards him. "Including your turtle-like walk, I waited for twelve whole minutes!" he added.

If only Yi Bing, Huo Ling, as well as Hao Baiyun were here, they would recognize this person wearing a white coat.

"Jiang Ce. I am a snake, not a turtle." Jie Yao coldly looked at him.

Jiang Ce chuckled. "Snakes even crawl faster, and are agile when they move. Yet you are so slow!" he scolded Jie Yao as they walk to the parking lot. "You are not really a snake, are you?" he asked and suspiciously looked at Jie Yao.

Jie Yao rolled his eyes at him. "I am. As you said, snakes crawl faster but right now, I have two legs." He retorted. "Have you seen a snake walk on two legs?" he smiled as they entered Jiang Ce's car.

Jiang Ce finally can't hold back his laughter. "Fine, fine. I will let you off!" he said as he started the car, then drove out of the airport.

Not long after, a group of low-profiled cars followed them. Jie Yao looked at the side mirror and saw them. "You are really a bigshot now, huh?" he said and clicked his tongue.

Jiang Ce smiled as he waved at the cars following them. They are his subordinates.

"How is he?" Jie Yao suddenly asked.

Hearing the question, Jiang Ce's smile became brighter. "Thanks to your medicine, combined with my skills, his illness now is starting to disappear." He answered.

Jie Yao's face was covered in black lines. "I mean, mine! My lover! I am not talking about your lover, Harry Walter, his condition!" he corrected him.

"Pft! Well, sorry! Just tell the name directly next time, okay?" Jiang Ce chuckled. "Yang Lin's injuries were now recovering. He only needs more rest, and within this week, he might finally wake up." he told him.

Upon hearing this, Jie Yao sighed in relief. Yang Lin is his lover and someone from the hawk clan. He met him three hundred years ago when Yang Lin mistaken him for an ordinary snake. Upon sensing danger, he immediately turned into his human form, and their gazes met. It was love at first sight. Starting then, they lived with each other.

It was actually not his family who called him back, but Yang Lin. And as soon as he heard Yang Lin's barely audible voice, his heart turned cold, and then turned ash when he heard from Yang Lin that his family tried to escape the Golden-Haired Monkey's massacre, but failed to escape. No one expected for the Golden-Haired Monkey to do this, and no one knows why they did. It was also a covert operation of theirs so no one knew aside from Yang Lin who happened to visit Jie Yao's family that time, only to meet them half-way when they were trying to flee.

Yang Lin immediately guessed that something happened, and he brought Jie Yao's family to escape, only for them to be surrounded fast. Jie Yao's family can't escape and they fought to death with the Golden-Haired Monkeys. Yang Lin was grievously wounded and almost lost his life. The Golden-Haired Monkeys thought that Yang Lin died, too, but through Yang Lin's will, he still has a half-breath left on him.

In his semi-unconscious state, he heard the Golden-Haired Monkeys talking about their clan's secret technique of gaining powers by using the Snake Clan's yet-to-be-shed skin and the Sunflower Clan will refine the Snake Clan's skin. Then, in his blurred vision, Yang Lin saw how the Snake Clan was made to smell a special type of grass for them to return to their original form, and then were skinned.

That day that he received the call, he actually took Hao Baiyun, Lan Tian and Zi Chen with him so that they could arrive faster. When they finally arrived, Yang Lin was about to take his last breath. Hao Baiyun immediately fed him a magic pill, barely keeping his life. Then, Yang Lin told them everything. Hao Baiyun was shocked, and to save Yang Lin, he called Jiang Ce back to the country to save him.

But, Hao Baiyun could have never predicted that Jie Yao would hypnotize him, including Lan Tian and Zi Chen. Normally, it wouldn't work on Hao Baiyun who is far stronger than Jie Yao. But, Jie Yao was stimulated and his power increased, and Hao Baiyun also has lowered his guard to him. So, Hao Baiyun, Zi Chen and Lan Tian were hypnotized to forget this happened.

As for Jiang Ce, it was actually the turn of fate for him. He has been looking for miracle medicines to save Harry Walter. Yes, he was unwilling to let go of Harry Walter, especially for death to take him away from him. In looking for miracle medicines, he instructed the Walter family's butler and subordinates to look in the black market, only for them to unexpectedly gain a foothold in the black market.

Suddenly, Jiang Ce found his drug he has been formulating since before when he was creating clone for Harry Walter. He has already noticed the Walter family's defect, yet he ignored it at that time. Only when he recalled it did he make a drug in passing to cure this defect. Who would have expect that it would keep Harry Walter's life, prolonging it temporarily?

When he received Hao Baiyun's call, he initially doesn't want to go and leave Harry Walter. Yet, his instinct told him to go, and he made the right decision. When Jie Yao told him to save Yang Lin's life using their Snake Clan's secret formula, it was as if Jiang Ce saw hope. He then made a deal with Jie Yao for Jie Yao to share this secret formula with him and he will save Yang Lin.

The Walter family's butler who saw Jiang Ce returned with Jie Yao and the half-dead Yang Lin was shocked, but when he heard what Jiang Ce said, he was immediately overjoyed. The Walter family may have died, but their subordinates didn't.. They just retreated to the shadows, waiting for them to touch the light again.