The Herbal Scents of Farm Life

Chapter 3312 - 3313: The Client Is Dead

They held no power or skills, and any ordinary ghost guard in the Ghost Palace could easily kill them.

So he thought, should they hide away for a few days?

"You... perhaps don’t need to."

The minister thought that precautions were necessary for others, but for this couple in front of him, Seven and his wife, it was completely unnecessary.

The Ghost Emperor would not harm two insignificant people. Killing them would serve him no purpose. Why bother?

"They really do need to leave."

Lin Caisang looked at Seven and spoke softly.

Others might not need to, but these two really needed to hide. If anything happened to them, wouldn’t her mission be ruined?

"Dear sirs, the Ghost Emperor shouldn’t..."

The minister was about to say that the Ghost Emperor wouldn’t bother with nobodies, that his vision wasn’t so shallow.

"If the initiator dies, our mission would end immediately, as if we never accepted it in the first place. Don’t you agree?" Lin Caisang interrupted the minister, countering him.

The most important person in this mission at the Wuzhu Teahouse was the person who initiated it.

If the task initiator were to die, what point would there be in continuing the mission?

"Uh."

The minister was at a loss for words and dared not contradict her.

"Find a place to hide. Return only when the danger has passed." he told the couple.

"Yes, sir." Seven responded.

...

The couple quickly hid away.

They didn’t go anywhere far, just to a hidden basement within their home that no outsider could find.

So they moved their home’s food supplies into the basement and lived there.

Considering the state of affairs, nowhere was safe. Ironically, staying in the least suspected place — their own home — was safer. Even if the ghost guards sent by the Ghost Emperor saw the empty house, they’d assume the couple had fled elsewhere.

Meanwhile, on the Ghost Emperor’s side, when the ghost guards he sent vanished without a trace, he realized it was impossible to kill the people from Wuzhu Teahouse.

Yet he was furious, pounding the table with force.

"Those useless fools! They can’t even handle such a trivial matter, useless!"

Unable to kill even two people and vanishing without a trace indeed made them useless.

The people were about to discover him, yet he couldn’t even drive away those from Wuzhu Teahouse. He didn’t know how enraged he was — he was about to explode with anger.

"Ghost Emperor, I heard that the Wuzhu Teahouse people took the task to investigate the disappearance of infants, but what if those who asked them die?"

Beside the Ghost Emperor, a ghost guard whispered in his ear.

"Hmm?"

The Ghost Emperor turned his gaze towards the ghost guard.

"You mean..."

"I heard that once, the Wuzhu Teahouse people took a task in the Human Clan, but the person who gave them the task died, and then they just left without accomplishing anything."

The ghost guard explained to the Ghost Emperor.

He had investigated the people from Wuzhu Teahouse. Their goal was simple: to help their clients achieve what they wanted.

But if their client died, they would stop their investigation and leave immediately.