Chapter 447

Chapter 447: Mr. Xu’s Last Words

According to Chu Pingshan’s description, Chu Jiang learned that his parents had been following his news ever since he became the Ghost Master.

However, even though they hesitated, they didn’t approach him directly. Especially when they saw Chu Jiang’s zombie hands, they couldn’t help but feel suffocated.

It wasn’t as Chu Jiang had imagined: Since I have already shown traits of the Chu’s Jiang lineage, if there are any living members of the Chu family, they should have contacted me.

Another thing is, when Chu Jiang fully transformed into the Chu’s Jiang, Chu Pingshan could sense it. After all, the Chu’s Jiang was passed down to Chu Jiang from him.

At the moment Chu Jiang completely transformed into the Chu’s Jiang, Chu Pingshan had a premonition that there might be no more Chu Jiang, only the ghost of Chu’s Jiang. He sighed, knowing that this day had finally come.

Of course, Chu Jiang’s arrival now directly crushed all his doubts and speculations…

The two of them talked for a long time, from the afternoon until the evening.

In the end, they agreed to pack up and leave this tomb-filled Chushan with Chu Jiang.

They were willing to believe Chu Jiang, but they also needed more time to get closer to him and truly let go of the barrier between them.

As he left, Chu Jiang glanced back at the strange and ominous mountain peak. He muttered to himself, "Let the fate of the Chu’s Jiang lineage end with me. From now on, there will be no more Chu’s Jiang in the world."

After saying this, he left without looking back, taking his parents with him.

When everything became quiet in this secluded and supernatural place, faint sobbing could be heard from an unknown location. The sounds echoed in the wind, settled into the ground, and resonated beneath the water, seemingly everlasting…

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After settling his parents’ residence at the company, Chu Jiang systematically started on his next task.

It wasn’t that he didn’t have time to rest, but his longing in his heart became more and more urgent. Everything was just within reach. In the past, that ghost disrupted his life’s trajectory and forced him onto this irreversible path.

Now it was time to put an end to that ghost and let Chu Jiang return to his peaceful daily life.

The next day, Chu Jiang headed to the headquarters of Research Institute No. 21.

Before leaving, he informed several experts to meet in Expert Chen’s office.

However, when Chu Jiang arrived at headquarters, he found the atmosphere a bit serious and the staff hurriedly moving about, as if something had happened.

The same was true when Chu Jiang arrived at the office. The experts were sitting silently on their office chairs, and there was a letter on the desk.

When Chu Jiang arrived, Chen Yehua nodded and said, "Let’s read this letter first. It’s from Mr. Xu, left for you."

"Left?" Chu Jiang frowned. "Where did he go?"

"He passed away. Well, actually, he died quite a while ago. Anyway, you will understand after reading the letter."

Mr. Xu, dead?!

To be honest, even though Chu Jiang knew that Mr. Xu was nearing the end of his life, he never expected this mysterious old man he had only met once to quietly leave the world in such a way.

And isn’t Mr. Xu Xu Fu? If that’s the case, how could he suddenly die at this point in time, after having lived for over two thousand years?!

The research institute didn’t keep the news a secret. Even the ordinary staff knew about it. It’s likely that this matter will spread quickly, causing a big commotion.

Holding many doubts, Chu Jiang picked up the letter to examine it.

The first sentence of the letter said, "Seeing these words is like seeing me in person. Mr. Xu is no longer here from now on."

Chu Jiang continued reading. Mr. Xu, using simple words, told him a strange story.

In fact, Mr. Xu didn’t live directly from the Qin Dynasty until now. In his early years, he traveled to an island country and only learned this news about the downfall of the Qin Dynasty while he was overseas. He felt it was sad and regrettable.

Mr. Xu lived until he was 96 years old. Aware of his approaching end, he didn’t want to die in a foreign land, so he secretly took a boat back to the Central Plains.

By that time, it was already the Han Dynasty. Mr. Xu brought only a few trusted individuals back to his hometown, instructing them to bury him under his old village, and even be buried while still alive.

After being buried underground for countless centuries, with the changes of the world, Xu Fu shouldn’t have been able to reappear.

However, unexpectedly, during the last supernatural revival period, which was during the Republican era, Mr. Xu somehow "awakened" from the underground.

He didn’t say why he woke up in the letter, nor did he say whether he was alive or a ghost. He only mentioned that it might be related to the "elixir of immortality," and also related to his historical image being fixed in people’s minds.

In short, Mr. Xu lived a second life. He took the name of Mr. Xu and lived in that chaotic era, secretly doing his best to help the people of the Nine Provinces.

Of course, Mr. Xu stayed out of the struggles among mortals. Mortals were mortals, and he only intervened to deal with certain evil ghosts that harmed the world.

Until the end of the previous round of supernatural revival, Mr. Xu disappeared into the mountains again. It wasn’t until Research Institute No. 21 was established that he was asked to come back and support this official force.

However, Mr. Xu himself said that he didn’t have a way to live forever. His "second life" had limits.

In fact, after he forcefully intervened and disposed of the S-class ghost[众生]that escaped from the old mansion and had the ability to multiply infinitely, he completely exhausted his last bit of strength.

Chu Jiang realized here that the two key clues he had learned from the research institute were actually connected…

In the psychological testing stage when Chu Jiang joined the research institute, the psychologist Zhou Wenshan had mentioned a special ghost.

This ghost was the first S-class ghost in Chu Jiang’s understanding.

It has the ability to "multiply" and forcefully occupy a living person’s body; theoretically, if there are no obstacles, it only needs thirty-four days to complete the feat of destroying the world.

At that time, Chu Jiang kept doubting that this was not just an isolated case, the ghost itself, and the old house that trapped it, should all be real.

However, as more and more ghosts were encountered later on, Chu Jiang got caught up in one dangerous supernatural event after another, and forgot to ask Zhou Wenshan where that ghost was.

Another clue was: during the Black Sun incident, Chu Jiang received a reminder from the Ghost Diary, immediately called headquarters for help, and even suggested that Mr. Xu help.

At that time, Deputy Minister Liu Xuewen of the Supernatural Department responded: Mr. Xu’s life is at its limit; and before that, there had already been an S-class event in Kyushu.

The S-class ghost in that incident was personally dealt with by Mr. Xu, but outsiders were not aware of it.