Siheyuan: The Corpse Returns to the World of the Living, and the Deaf Old Lady Faces Judgment

When Zhang Aiguo was beaten to death by Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and the others and dumped in a mass grave, he could still hear the Deaf Old Lady's cane tapping beside him. "Throw him farther away, and clean up properly." His parents' compensation money was divided among them, and his six-year-old sister, Zhang Xiaocao, was sold.

But he opened his eyes among the corpses. The System bound itself to him, repairing and strengthening his body, while grandmaster-level fighting skills were poured into his bones.

On a nighttime visit to the courtyard compound, Xu Damao was stealing money to buy white-flour buns for Silly Zhu. In a hushed voice, he said, "That little girl Xiaocao really was taken by that old hag..." Silly Zhu cut him off. "Keep it buried!" The System revealed a lead on enemy spies: the Deaf Old Lady was suspected of being one, and seven children were being held in an abandoned courtyard on Lao Mao Alley, guarded by armed sentries.

At midnight, Zhang Aiguo climbed over the wall. A short baton smashed a guard's throat, and a homemade gun blasted open the main room's wooden door. Zhang Xiaocao was huddled in the grime by the wall, trembling. When she looked up and saw her brother, her whole body shook. She was afraid this was just her final hallucination.

Zhang Aiguo reached out and wiped the black smudges from her face. "Your brother's here." Gripping the iron bar tightly, he turned toward the main room. Tonight, the Deaf Old Lady would pay the first installment on her debt.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.