Chapter 45: Psychiatric Patients Have Lots of Fun

Only two days had passed since their last trip to Sheiluozhou to deal with the Qin Dynasty corpse. When Lin Bei met Uncle Feng again, he found that the older man looked as though he had been relentlessly tormented by a group of women day and night without sleep. Not only were there heavy dark circles under his eyes, but his tightly knitted brows had not relaxed for a single moment since they met.

The very first thing Uncle Feng did upon seeing Lin Bei was to pull him aside and say earnestly, "Later on, no matter what you see or hear, don't take it to heart. There are always some special people in this world who use extraordinary methods to drive away demons and exorcise evil spirits."

Lin Bei raised an eyebrow. Previously, it had only been a guess, but upon hearing Uncle Feng say this, it was basically confirmed. Uncle Feng must have encountered Leon from *Out of the Dark*, and had been frightened into doubting his entire outlook on life by those outrageous, off-the-wall antics.

For a moment, Lin Bei did not know how to comfort Uncle Feng. Aside from that mentally unstable Ah Qun, anyone else watching Leon's methods would find them utterly absurd.

Faced with Uncle Feng's warning, Lin Bei could only nod to show he understood.

Following that, Uncle Feng led Lin Bei to the security office.

The moment they stepped inside, Lin Bei was instantly stunned by the scene before him. Several security guards were surrounding a dog cage, holding various makeshift weapons and pointing them at the buck-toothed man inside—who was cosplaying the male protagonist of *Léon: The Professional*—hurling a barrage of fierce abuses at him with expressions as venomous as if they had encountered their fathers' murderers. Even Uncle Feng, standing right beside Lin Bei, was watching the buck-toothed man's miserable plight with a face full of amusement.

Lin Bei rubbed his chin. Why did the scene before him feel strangely familiar? Although he was devastatingly handsome, his last name wasn't Liao!

While Lin Bei was pondering this, the people inside gradually shifted their attention toward him. It was a rare novelty indeed to see one of the top ten billionaires in the flesh!

However, Lin Bei's attention was not on them; his eyes remained fixed on the buck-toothed man inside the dog cage without moving away.

Lin Bei squatted down and yanked off the padlock that was blocking the dog cage. This action startled everyone in the room except for Uncle Feng. That was a steel lock, not plastic—just how much strength did it take to rip such a thing off with bare hands? Even the buck-toothed man stared at him with wide eyes, as if trying to see right through him.

Lin Bei calmly and casually opened the door of the dog cage and said, "Care to come out and chat?"

Seeing this, the surrounding security guards wanted to stop him, but out of deference to Lin Bei's identity, none of them dared to speak up.

Leon the buck-toothed man, seeing that the guards were grinding their teeth with hatred toward him yet dared not act out with Lin Bei present, seized the opportunity to put on airs. "You lock me up when you want, and let me out when you want. Don't I have any pride?"

Lin Bei raised an eyebrow and asked, "Then what do you want?"

Leon glanced at the bodyguards led by Captain Lu and said, "I want them to apologize to me!"

As soon as those words fell, the short-statured Iron Dan couldn't help cursing, "No way! You bastard tortured us for seven days, a full seven days! Not only did you make us play with feces, but you almost sent us flying with explosives. I reckon you weren't here to teach us how to catch ghosts at all, but deliberately came to prank us! Damn it, the more I talk about it, the angrier I get. I'm going to hack you to death, you bastard!"

As Iron Dan spoke, he began searching around for a weapon.

At that moment, Old Lai—whose appearance was somewhat wretched, especially his two prominent buck teeth—stepped forward, walked between Iron Dan and Leon, and said, "Hey, hey, hey, let's not be so impulsive. Let me say a fair word!"

While speaking, Old Lai shoved the wrench in his hand directly into Iron Dan's grip, then turned to Leon and said, "You said you wanted to teach us how to deal with ghosts, and I believed you. After all, you ended up in the hospital more times than we did during this process. But that doesn't give you the right to fool us to death. Just because we believed you when you said smearing ox tears in our eyes would let us see ghosts, we almost got collectively charged with attempted rape. Killing you outright might be a bit unjust, but smashing your dog head is giving you preferential treatment! Iron Dan, do it!"

With that, Old Lai stepped aside. And Iron Dan, holding the wrench, really did raise it high, intending to smash it down onto Leon's head. Such a brainless act was only possible because this group of people had been completely driven past their breaking point by Leon.

Even Uncle Feng, a police officer, showed no intention of stopping them, clearly harboring the desire to teach this lunatic of a Leon a lesson.

Just as the wrench in Iron Dan's hand was about to come crashing down on Leon's head, Captain Lu, who still maintained a shred of sobriety, hurriedly stepped forward to block it.

"Enough! Do you guys really want to end up committing murder? When the time comes, every single one of us will have to pay with our lives for this lunatic!"

Captain Lu then snatched the wrench away from Iron Dan and tossed it into a toolbox nearby.

Only then did he turn to look at Lin Bei, wearing a ingratiating smile as he said, "Mr. Lin, what brings you here today?"

Lin Bei glanced at Leon, who was still squatting in the dog cage and refusing to come out, and replied, "I came to see Uncle Feng, and just happened to hear about some things going on here, so I came to take a look."

Hearing this, Captain Lu felt his heart skip a beat. After three consecutive deaths, their neighborhood had become a veritable haunted house district. Captain Lu knew that Pan-Asia Corporation had previously expressed an intention to acquire their shopping mall, and he heard the deal was nearly finalized. With Lin Bei showing up now, surely he wasn't here to settle accounts with them?

Displaying a flattering expression, he said, "Mr. Lin, I can explain this..."

Lin Bei waved a hand, cutting off Captain Lu's words, and then looked at Uncle Feng, asking, "Is your mission this time to deal with those two spirits about to return for their soul-returning night?"

Uncle Feng nodded. Back on Old Mrs. Li's seventh day after death, she had already turned the entire neighborhood upside down. If things continued like this, the residents of the entire area would likely unite to protest against the government. As a veteran scapegoat, Uncle Feng was naturally chosen by the higher-ups: it would be best if he could resolve it; if he couldn't, they would make him take the fall and kick him back to Dongping Island.

Lin Bei rubbed his chin and said, "Then I'll join you in sorting out the business here first, and afterwards we can look into my matter."

Uncle Feng already knew that Lin Bei wanted to learn Maoshan Taoism from him, and he didn't feel any resistance to the idea. He was getting older, and with only a niece at home, he needed to find someone to pass down his lineage of Taoism. Lin Bei was a fine choice—leaving aside his natural talent, the most important thing was that he had money. Just that single point could resolve many difficult problems encountered during cultivation.

Leon was aware of Uncle Feng's background, but he held traditional Taoism in utter contempt, believing only in the methods he had figured out himself. Hearing the conversation between Lin Bei and Uncle Feng, he couldn't help letting out a sneer, clearly doubting that the two of them could deal with the ghosts of Mr. and Mrs. Li.

Seeing Leon's reaction, the corners of Lin Bei's lips curled up slightly, and he asked Captain Lu beside him, "When you guys captured him, did he have anything with him?"