Bulu Wang, or some others would call him, Old Wang, was one of the higher level executives of the unity watd patrol division in the South-Eastern Distriormally for any other kinds of is, paranormal or not, he would not evehere. But he was here right now. And he was here with only one assistant.

  “Mr. Wang!” Tae Kuo was almost stunned into silence. “Wha - what are you doing here?”

  “I am here because of the report you just called in to file.” Bulu Wang nodded with a gentle smile, while his assistant was standing on the side, stern and brooding like a tall and buff bodyguard. He might be just the bodyguard.

  “I - thank you for ing, please let us know what else we eborate on.” Tae Kuo showed Bulu Wang into the Fuman Coffin Home.

  “How long have you beeing?” Bulu Wang looked at the nine coffins, his eyes stayed on eae for a simir amount of time, then he looked up at the ceiling, the ceiling and the beams, and the way to the ba.

  “I have beecher here for about 10 years, sir. And before that the previous watcher has been here for more than 20 years.” Tae Kuo answered.

  “I see.” Bulu Wang nodded and walked up to the two coffins surrounded by the most sticky rice: “Tell me what happened.”

  “Yeah - let me start from the beginning. Gloria, please correct me if I get anything wrong.” Tae Kuo coughed to clear his throat, the on to retell the events during st night and today.

  Gloria budged in to expin some details a few times, but overall Tae Kuo did a pretty good job in sifting through the details aelling. She awaited a response from Bulu Wang. She would not want to be the oalking to him right now, fht now, a simple misspoken word could have bad sequences for her and the coffin home. She was only the temporary watcher, she did not o be on the hook. She could only offer Tae Kuo help when he .

  “... I see.” Bulu Wang carefully stepped over the sticky rid looked into the two coffins. He stared into the test one for a particurly long period of time, the his hand on the lid, and slid it pletely open, and did so with ease.

  Very impressive trol of Qi, and with the Qi barely leaking out. Gloria ented in her mind. The words oreet were that Bulu ossessed a much higher level of mastery in mystic martial arts, and right now they seemed to be true.

  The lower body of this corpse of a supposedly young man who supposedly died of a fiery act seemed to have withered, dried up and even cracked a little si ced. Definitely unnatural looking. Gloria herself did not have mu-depth knowledge of how bodies like this would decay. But judging from the look on Tae Kuo and Bulu Wang’s face, they seemed to have somewhat reized what was happening.

  “What is it?” Siae Kuo and Bulu Wang were silent for quite a while, Gloria couldn’t help but ask.

  “Spirit Gu?” Tae Kuo looked at Bulu Wang.

  “Maybe, too soon to tell.” Bulu Wang shook his head, then turo Gloria: “I have some questions for you.”

  “Oh? Yeah, sure… ” Gloria was stunned for one quient, then aowledged rather relutly.

  “Let’s go to the ba then, we’ll have a seat first.” Sensing Gloria’s nervousness, Tae Kuo immediately stepped in to lighten the mood.

  “Alright. Before that, why don’t you seal these coffins first?” Bulu Waured to his assistant to follow him.

  “Okay, don’t worry, don’t be too nervous.” While sealing the coffins with talismans, threads and symbols drawn on the lids, Tae Kuo said to Gloria: “Just be ho, and try to remember what the old woman looks like.”

  “Okay, okay…” Gloria had to take a few deep breaths before calming down. If it wasn’t a potential issue of liability that could threaten the normal operation of Fuman Coffin Home, she would not be so worried and nervous.

  After clearing her head, Gloria went into the ba. Tae Kuo had already gone in before her, servio Bulu Wang and his assistant/bodyguard. Judging from the smell, Tae Kuo had really busted out his good stuff.

  “Okay, thanks for the tea, Sifu Kuo.” Bulu ut down his cup and looked straight at Gloria: “Have you tried to verify the body? I ’t help but notice that the body was nowhere near reizable.”

  “She had a pt order from the local chapter of the unity collective. So Gloria didn't really have a choice.” Tae Kuo hahe copy of the death certificate along with the pt order to Bulu Wang.

  “Hmm, iing. ” Bulu Want took a long, slow, careful look at both dots, then he looked up at Gloria: “I uand. But this pt order seems to be fed. You see this order’s serial number? It’s missing one digit. ”

  “I just double-checked the serial number, it’s not in our records.” Bulu Wang’s assistant looked up from his phone: “Looks like we o look into this.”

  Gloria sighed: “My - my apologies, I am really not familiar with how pt orders - ”

  “The death certificate is real. I just checked in our system.” Bulu Wang’s assistant added from the side: “And the cause of death is true - just not officially issued yet. There is a pending iigation into the actual act, so the details still o be added.”

  “Okay.” Bulu Wang shook his head, then looked at Gloria: “When you were spending the night here, why didn’t you tact the collective?”

  “We locked ourselves in the ba in a hurry, Sue’s phone was dropped on the ground, and mine was in my bag and - it was on the clothing rack.” Gloria rubbed her temples: “I’m sorry - it’s just - everything happened so fast, I had to act quick…”

  “It’s fi’s fine. You acted in accordah the best practices of a watcher. And this is really an abnormal situation. Though the process dictates that there will be an official inquiry into how you hahis i.” Bulu Wang sighed and shook his head.

  “e on, sir. This is clearly not her fault.” Tae Kuo budged in once more from the side: “We are the victims of fed unity collective dots.”

  “Don’t worry about it, it’s just a on procedure. Because it’s tied to an ongoing iigation, and involves fed official dots.” Bulu Wang stood up: “Alright, I think I have everything I need. And I don’t think I o remind you, that the details should not be released to the civilians or any other individuals who are not involved?”

  “Please, Mr. Wang. Help us here. This is clearly some kind of direct attempt at sabotage. ” Tae Kuo sighed.

  “It’s definitely a delicate situation, which is why I suggest you keep us updated.” Bulu Wang nodded: “And I’ll make sure the inquiry s up as soon as possible. A speedy means speedy iigations.”