Chapter 151: Ghost Story (Part 2)
Note: This chapter contains some detailed descriptions of a s.e.xual activity. If you do not want to read it or are under 15 years of age, skip the section between the double lines.
Chen Afu was frozen in place. Yang Ming was a ruthless person. Even though Chen Afu was really 'scary,â Yang Ming wasnât afraid at all. If he were a real ghost, Yang Ming would beat him up regardless.
In fact, Chen Afu had overestimated Yang Ming. If it was a real ghost, Yang Ming would hesitate for a moment. As the saying goes, âCheat the Yama King but never the little ghost.â [1] If he had indeed triggered that little ghost, what if that little ghost invited hundreds or thousands of little ghosts to disturb him â that would surely torture him.
It was because Yang Ming now knew the personâs ident.i.ty a.k.a. Chen Afu that he became so violent. But Yang Ming had already decided that he wasnât going to reveal Chen Afuâs ident.i.ty, treating him as someone he didnât know at all, and dragged him to w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs window.
âBegin.â Yang Ming said plainly.
âBegin what? What do you want to do?â Chen Afu purposely lowered his voice so that it wouldnât sound the same as his usual voice.
âDonât you know what needs to be done? What you wanted to do before, do it now!â Yang Ming pointed at w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs window and said.
âI donât understand what you meanâŠâ Chen Afu hesitated.
âDonât you know how to frighten someone? Quickly. Stop chatting. If I get into a bad mood, I am going to beat you up until you look scarier than this face mask!â Yang Ming cracked his knuckles as he threatened Chen Afu.
As Chen Afu saw such a fierce looking Yang Ming, he knew that if he didnât obey Yang Mingâs instruction he would take some very harsh beating. Therefore, he had no choice but to pretend to be a ghost to frighten someone.
However, this time, he no longer felt that sense of exhilaration he had beforeâŠ
âWoo wooâŠâ Chen Afu knocked on the gla.s.s and squeezed the ferocious âbig faceâ on the window.
w.a.n.g Zhitao was genuinely enjoying himself. There were rumors that this part in most prost.i.tutes would be fairly âloose,â but the girl in front of him seemed quite âtight.â Even though w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs family had some shares in Tavern Heaven on Earth, his father closely kept an eye on the place. Therefore, w.a.n.g Zhitao didnât dare to find a prost.i.tute there. It was only because of this that he was in such a rush to f*** around even when he was at camp.
What sound is that? w.a.n.g Zhitao raised his head and looked toward the gla.s.s. In that split second, his pupil expanded by an unlimited amount! Guai guai ge long di dong [2], the thing outside wasâŠ
âOh my G.o.d, what the f*** is this?â w.a.n.g Zhitao shouted, shocked to the point where his lower half body had become flaccid.
âWhat are you shouting for?â The prost.i.tute frowned. âYou canât do it, is that it? Looking for some excuseâŠâ
âF*** me, what the heck is that thing?â w.a.n.g Zhitao dropped his jaw and pointed toward the window with one of his fingers.
The prost.i.tute unwillingly raised her head as she looked toward the window. âAhhhhhâŠâ then her eyes rolled back.
Of course, Yang Ming had recorded the entire scene â including Chen Afu pretending to be a ghost â with his camera. After he finished, he quietly left the scene.
For Chen Afu, looking at how he had frightened his âboss,â he didnât dare do other things. Once he turned around and realized that Yang Ming had gone, he hurriedly left the scene too.
The reason why Yang Ming didnât reveal Chen Afuâs ident.i.ty was that he wanted both Chen Afu and w.a.n.g Zhitao to have a mutual loss. He didnât want to aggravate the relations.h.i.+p with w.a.n.g Zhitao so soon.
If Yang Ming had revealed Chen Afuâs ident.i.ty and subsequently asked him to shock w.a.n.g Zhitao, then he couldnât guarantee that Chen Afu wouldnât tell w.a.n.g Zhitao the truth. Even if Chen Afu didnât say it, he had no guarantee that Yang Ming wouldnât reveal his ident.i.ty to w.a.n.g Zhitao.
Chen Afu would have thought that instead of letting w.a.n.g Zhitao hear it from Yang Ming he may as well confess to it since he was forced to do it anyway.
However now, since Yang Ming âdidnât knowâ his own ident.i.ty, why would Chen Afu reveal himself? He wasnât entirely an idiot either. Not only had Chen Afu seen the âgood thingâ of w.a.n.g Zhitao, he had also ruined the âgood thingâ for him. w.a.n.g Zhitao would surely hate him. Even though Chen Afu can be surprisingly dumb, but he understood this basic logic and obediently chose silence.
Events did unfold exactly as Yang Ming predicted. w.a.n.g Zhitao was at a complete loss. He didnât dare to report to the police, and he didnât dare to tell others as well. After he woke the prost.i.tute, he gave her a thousand yuan to dismiss her and asked her not to tell anything to anyone.
Even though the incident had pa.s.sed, w.a.n.g Zhitao was still impotent! The âlittle brotherâ seemed to have gone into hibernation. No matter how much he excited it, it just wouldnât stand!
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Yang Ming lay down comfortably on the hotelâs bed and started fiddling with his camera. However, his eyes were scanning at w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs room. When he saw that w.a.n.g Zhitao was abusing himself again and again in the washroom, Yang Ming almost jumped out in joy. Can it be that magical? w.a.n.g Zhitao had actually become impotent!
This night, there would be four people with insomnia. They were Zhang Bing, Zhao Sisi, Chen Afu and w.a.n.g Zhitao.
After w.a.n.g Zhitao lay down on the bed, he still continued to stroke his d*ck under the blanket. However, the situation was still helpless.
Chen Afu felt rather weird when he saw w.a.n.g Zhitao m*st*rb*ting under the blanket. This guy is too audacious, right? But when he saw how w.a.n.g Zhitao kept sighing, he understood the crux of the whole situation. He knew that he had frightened w.a.n.g Zhitao to the point of impotence, therefore he didnât dare make any noise. If w.a.n.g Zhitao knew that this was because of him, w.a.n.g Zhitao would have sent him to h.e.l.l. Therefore, Chen Afu pretended as though he didnât see anything.
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The next day, w.a.n.g Zhitao had lost interest in having fun and maintained a gloomy face. His three underlings were also completely silent.
On the contrary, Zhang Bing and Yang Ming were exceptionally happy. Last night, Chen Mengyan and Zhao Sisi had already explored the problem of Zhang Bing. Even though Zhao Sisi didnât directly state her position whether she accepted Zhang Bing or not, seeing her non-resistant att.i.tude toward him today, there was a 90% chance that it would happen.
However, Yang Ming was even happier. Dear w.a.n.g Zhitao, you shall now go peacefully to be a fake man! You are already impotent, how are you going to fight me for the girl? Go fight for your bird [3]!
Even though w.a.n.g Zhitao didnât report to the police, after the incident, he still told the story about how he met a ghost to his three confidants, so that they could secretly investigate that for him.
Of course, w.a.n.g Zhitaoâs primary suspect was Yang Ming, but he had second thoughts about it as well. Because when Yang Ming came, other than a bag of snacks, he didnât bring anything else. The same goes for Zhang Bing. Other than a bag of snacks, he only brought a camera bag beside him.
The ghost mask could surely fit into the camera bag, but the leather raincoat worn by the person who pretended to be the ghost wouldnât have fit! w.a.n.g Zhitao, of course, didnât believe that he had seen a real ghost. He was a person would receive a higher education and didnât believe in all these superst.i.tious beliefs. But not believing it didnât mean he wasnât afraid of it. The moment when the image abruptly jumps on him was enough to send chills down his spine.
Since w.a.n.g Zhitao no longer found Yang Ming suspicious, Chen Afu didnât want to get himself involved in any additional matters. If not, when w.a.n.g Zhitao would ask him, âHow do you know it was done by Yang Ming?â then it would be hard for him to answer.
Therefore, this case was left unresolved. Once w.a.n.g Zhitao was back home, he wanted to âtest it out,â and he simply typed out the keywords âHaunted West Star Mountainâ on the internet search. He found a huge number of news articles. Most of them were from three years ago about a ghost in West Star Mountain that had shocked someone into having a mental disorder!
It was only at this moment that w.a.n.g Zhitao finally dismissed his suspicion of Yang Ming. He had taken things as a coincidence. Seeing how the suspect from three years ago wasnât captured yet, it was likely that it was the same person who did it this time. He could only chalk it to bad luck.
Once Chen Afu returned home, he hid the raincoat and face mask. For a long time afterward, he wouldnât dare to think abnormal thoughts.
Once they were back in the city, everyone was tired, so Yang Ming didnât stay too long either. He called a cab to send Chen Mengyan home. Zhang Bing and he each took a taxi to go home.
Once he was home, Yang Ming took the SD card from Zhang Bingâs camera to transfer the data onto his computer. Other than the standard group photos with Cheng Mengyan and Zhang Bing, Yang Ming copied everything related to w.a.n.g Zhitao and Chen Afu into a single folder. Then, he deleted the pictures on the SD card with a file shredder software.
For these pictures, Yang Ming first used nEO iMAGING software to remove the âExif data,â then he processed it with a similar method as the videos. He first compressed and split them into multiple files then he forwarded them to the email inbox that he registered overseas.
The reason he removed the âExif dataâ was so that if these photos got leaked out one of these days, anyone with intention wouldnât be able to trace the source of the photos back to himself.
Exif is an abbreviation for âExchange image file formatâ which was purposely made for digital cameras. It records the pixel size as well as data on the camera. From the Exif data of a picture, we can find out the digital cameraâs manufacturer, model, captured timing, aperture, shutter speed, etc. On this trip, only Zhang Bing had a Canon 450D, so Yang Ming was very cautious about it.
After it was all done, Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, if there werenât any scandalous photos in his hands, he wouldnât be so careful after all.
Chapter Notes: [1] The author used the literal meaning of the idiom. Yama King refers to the king in h.e.l.l, the general of the little ghosts. The usage of the idiom is actually on how upper management is easier to deal with as compared to lower management, as lower management are fighting between different departments to prove themselves to the upper management â which leads to more drama and stricter policies etc.
[2] A phrase in Chinese (which sounds rather cute in my opinion) thatâs used to express amazement or shock. In this case, definitely shock.
[3] Bird is commonly used to replace d*ck.