CHAPTER 39: CHAPTER 39: THE ONE MILLION DOLLAR CLIENT

"Alright, James, I think we need to hurry and leave this hospital!"

Chu Feng immediately pulled James up, urging him to get out of bed and get dressed quickly.

"Why the rush? Could there still be people from the Cult?" James asked with some concern as he dressed.

"Don’t worry, the Cult members shouldn’t appear for the time being. However, this hospital might run into some trouble, so we need to leave quickly."

Seeing James dressed, Chu Feng immediately pulled him towards the exit.

"Chu, trouble? What kind of trouble?"

"It could be an Evil Spirit or something similar! The key is no one wants to pay to solve it, so, do you want to stay?"

James, who had wanted to ask more questions, quickened his pace upon hearing Chu Feng’s words.

"Chu, let’s hurry!"

Now, it was James who, with an urgent expression, was pulling Chu Feng towards the hospital exit.

After completing the discharge procedures, the two directly boarded Chu Feng’s Wrangler and left the hospital.

"Chu, where are we headed?" James asked, looking at Chu Feng driving with some confusion as he noticed the car wasn’t going towards Chu Feng’s home.

"Of course, we’re going to buy you a taxi. Have you forgotten your true love?"

"Chu, thank you! You’re a really kind person."

"No need to thank me; after all, those Cult members came for me. By the way, remember to send me the hospital bill. I’ll reimburse you for it all at once!"

More than two hours later, a happy James drove away from Chu Feng’s villa in a brand-new yellow taxi. Chu Feng, who hadn’t had a proper rest since getting off the airplane, finally lay down on his own large bed and fell into a deep sleep.

「Meanwhile, at Central Hospital in Queens.」

Kelly rushed to the hospital upon hearing that her mother had fallen ill again. After receiving the same diagnosis from the doctor once more, and remembering how her mother’s condition hadn’t improved with treatment but had instead worsened, she fell into deep self-doubt. Kelly sat at her mother’s bedside, looking at her mother who was sleeping peacefully after an injection of sedatives; her face was almost unrecognizable. She began to hesitate about whether to call the Exorcist again or to continue trusting the doctor’s diagnosis and treatment plan.

After much hesitation, Kelly finally took out her phone. After searching for a long time through countless call records, she found the Exorcist’s phone number.

She got up, walked outside the ward, and looked around to make sure no one was nearby before dialing Chu Feng’s number.

"I’m sorry, the number you have dialed..."

The voice prompt from the other end left Kelly somewhat at a loss. In disbelief, she redialed, only to hear the same message.

Only then did it dawn on her: her number had actually been blocked by the Exorcist she hadn’t trusted much in the first place!

「The next morning.」

The familiar vibration of his phone awoke Chu Feng. With his eyes still closed, he let out a long sigh before opening them to answer the call.

"James, what is it now?"

"Chu, I’m so lucky! I got orders from two clients last night."

"Alright! Come over to my place, and we’ll talk over breakfast."

Indeed, although James had the bad habit of calling early in the morning, he always managed to bring surprising business to Chu Feng’s Exorcism Studio.

「Half an hour later.」

Just as Chu Feng was enjoying a delicious breakfast from his hometown, James finally showed up in his brand-new yellow taxi.

"James, come and try some food from my hometown. By the way, how does the new car feel?"

"Chu, it’s perfect! It’s like I got a new wife!" James had no interest in breakfast; instead, he gesticulated animatedly, expressing his delight with the new car.

"Alright, that’s enough for now!" Seeing James wanted to continue, Chu Feng hurriedly interrupted him. "Let’s talk about those two orders you got!"

"Right, right, right! The orders are important."

"The first order, Chu, you should be interested in this one! It’s a long-term order placed by many merchants!"

"Wait a minute, James, are there long-term orders in the exorcism business now?" Chu Feng was baffled by James’s words.

"Yes, the order is for the long-term purchase of vampires, dead or alive!"

"What would they want with vampires, those Dark Creatures?"

"Not sure. But I heard from colleagues it might be for consumption! There’s a legend from the East that eating vampires can extend one’s life!"

"Now that you mention it, that’s certainly a possibility!" Chu Feng couldn’t help but wonder if someone back home had actually experimented with that internet saying.

"And regardless of whether the legend is true or false, their buying price is definitely real. They’re willing to pay $100,000 for a complete vampire!"

Upon hearing the offer, Chu Feng shook his head with a wry smile. Indeed, from ancient times to the present, humanity has never been able to resist the lure of immortality! And from now on, the question of who was the food—humans or vampires—was no longer so clear!

"Alright, let’s put this order aside for now. I’ll keep an eye out if I come across any vampires! Now, let’s talk about the second order."

When it came to the second order, James clearly couldn’t suppress his excitement.

"Chu, this second order is a big one! If the problem can be solved, the client is willing to offer a reward of $1,000,000."

Hearing such a high reward piqued Chu Feng’s interest as well.

"What’s the client’s problem? Why such a high offer?"

"The client is a private high school principal. According to him, their school has been forced to suspend classes."

"Oh? How many people have died for that to happen?"

When Chu Feng heard the school had suspended classes, it reminded him of American TV shows and movies he’d seen. He recalled that in those, three or four people could die quite casually, yet classes were rarely, if ever, suspended.

"The principal didn’t answer that question, but I managed to get some information from other sources. Apparently, there have been at least a dozen deaths at the school, one after another! And the bodies they found were just piles of bones; all the flesh and blood had vanished!"

After listening to James’s description, Chu Feng had a few ideas. An ogre? A ghoul? Or something else?

He sat in his chair, fingers subconsciously tapping the table, carefully searching his mind for potential culprits.

"Chu, can we take this order?"

Seeing Chu Feng still deep in thought, James grew restless; after all, this was the first time he had landed an order worth $1,000,000.