The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 526: Hong Kong Past (7)

The fat landlord's face turned pale all of a sudden. A gust of cold wind blew over him, causing him to shiver suddenly. He then laughed dryly and said, "That room... let's not look at it anymore. There's nothing to see there."

Ah Fa felt a little dazed when he saw so many talismans densely pasted on the door, but he still refused to admit defeat and laughed, "Didn't you say there would be no ghosts? Why would you post those ghost things?"

"Hey, shut up!" The fat landlord quickly covered his mouth and said, "What are you doing? Don't shout! It's normal to have some good brothers in the house! Don't say that word!"

Ah Fa slapped his hand away and asked impatiently, "Since there's nothing strange, do you want to rent the room or not? If not, we'll leave."

The fat landlord was still hesitating, and Taoist Jingde also said: "This boss does not need to be so nervous. We monks do not taboo those things. Places that ordinary people cannot live in are nothing to us. It doesn't matter even if there are good brothers inside."

"The two masters are really great!" The fat landlord gave a thumbs up. Seeing that the two tenants didn't say anything and looked calm, what was he afraid of? If you don't make money, you're a bastard.

So he lowered his head and found several keys to the house from the keychain. He suppressed his fear and led them to the front of the house. He opened all the locked chains, but he still didn't dare to go in. He just bowed outside and said to them with a forced smile: "Master, the door is open. You can go in."

Taoist Jingde nodded, pushed open the door and walked in first. Taoist Lingkong followed closely with a compass in his hand.

After the two walked into the house, a strong musty smell came from inside. As the door was opened, the ceiling fan was disturbed, and it turned slightly and made a creaking sound.

The house looked very ordinary on the surface. Apart from the fact that it had not been cleaned for a long time and there was a thin layer of dust on the furniture, there was nothing unusual. However, what was strange was that there was a table in the middle of the room with neatly arranged mahjong tiles on it, as if they were ready for someone to play with.

"Wow, mahjong..." Ah Fa peeked out from outside and saw the mahjong table. He was surprised and said, "Could that legend be true?"

Taoist Lingkong took out three incense sticks from his bag and gave them to Taoist Jingde. After Taoist Jingde lit them, he walked around the house holding the incense, muttering inaudible scriptures. The house was suddenly filled with smoke.

The fat landlord didn't dare to come in from outside. He didn't even dare to breathe. He stared at the actions of the two Taoists with wide eyes, his body trembling, because he seemed to have just seen, in the flow of smoke, the outlines of four people seemed to appear near the mahjong table.

"Oh my god..." Ah Fa poked the fat landlord next to him and said, "Did you see that? There seemed to be another figure in there just now..."

"No... I didn't see anything..." The fat landlord's teeth were chattering: "I didn't see anything."

Ah Fa was not as scared as he was. The young man was very angry. He said teasingly: "Everyone knows that there is something wrong with your appearance. It seems that the legend is true."

"Please don't mention that word, boss..." The fat landlord was about to cry. This place was getting weirder and weirder. He wanted to turn around and run away. "Is that the legend they are talking about?" Qian Xiaoyi suddenly asked.

Taoist Lingkong nodded: "Yes, it was a very famous urban legend at that time - [Ghost Meal]."

This incident is said to have occurred several years ago in this room on this floor.

The legend is very simple. It says that one night, a tea restaurant received a takeout order. The caller asked them to deliver the midnight snack to the restaurant, and the sound of mahjong was heard over the phone.

This sounded like a very ordinary order, so after the midnight snack was ready, the waiter from the tea restaurant came to the 18th floor of the Happiness Building. At that time, he did not notice anything wrong and successfully delivered the meal to the outside of the room.

After knocking on the door, a pale hand brought in the midnight snack and paid the bill. The delivery clerk didn't see the scene inside clearly, but only heard the sound of mahjong and a strange smell, but he didn't care, took the money and left.

The next day, the boss called all the delivery employees and gave them a scolding because he found some ghost money mixed in the bill when he was checking the bill! This made him very angry and he thought someone was messing around and deliberately using ghost money to pay the bill. So he told the employees to look carefully and not be cheated again.

But in the next few days, he still found ghost money! It was as if it appeared out of thin air. After repeated investigations, the restaurant owner finally determined the source of the ghost money, which was the meal ordered from Xingfu Building!

So he called the police directly. Regardless of whether the money he collected turned into ghost money or those people deliberately used ghost money to pay the bill, the police should be allowed to handle this matter.

Then the police came. They came to the door during the day and found that no one responded. After asking the residents around, those people said that they had not seen the tenant here recently. The police felt something was wrong, so they forced the door open.

Then, they found four bodies that had been dead for a long time next to the mahjong table in the house. After forensic examination, it was found that the cause of death of the four bodies was carbon monoxide poisoning. When the bodies were found, there was a brazier around them. It is speculated that they may have felt cold on a winter night, so they burned charcoal to keep warm, resulting in poor ventilation and poisoning death.

But what was shocking was that when the forensic doctors performed autopsies on them, they found that there was still undigested food left in their stomachs, which were the meals delivered by the tea restaurant in the past few days!
At that time, some people speculated that these people might have died unknowingly. They did not know that they were dead and were still immersed in the moment before death, so they called to order food and paid the bill normally. In addition, the feng shui of the 18th floor of the Happiness Building was poor, so their souls remained in the mortal world and could not be reincarnated.

After this incident, the residents nearby could always hear the sound of mahjong being played outside, and some even saw a figure wandering in the corridor...

These rumors became more and more exaggerated, and it was said that the 18th floor of the Happiness Building was connected to hell. In addition, the feng shui of the 18th floor of the building was indeed not good, and it was not very comfortable to live there for a long time, and hallucinations were often seen, so the residents here moved away one after another.

The landlord here, the fat man outside the house, has invited many masters to come and exorcise the evil spirits, but none of them could suppress the evil spirits here, so he could only seal up the room. It was not until Taoist Jingde and Taoist Lingkong arrived here that the room saw the light of day again.

(End of this chapter)