Chapter 79: Ghost Footprint
“Huff huff. My neck hurts so much. What the hell hung me up? I almost died. Thanks, little brother.” Zhang Dongxing, who had just climbed up from the ground, said with a face full of relief.
“Thank you, bro. You’ve saved me so many times. I don’t know how to thank you.” Liu Yingying continued at this moment.
Jiang Shan did not answer the two, but instead looked solemnly at the Wooden Fish Ghost not far away.
He discovered that the Wooden Fish Ghost was staying in place, maintaining a weird meditation posture.
This ghost seemed to have lost its target. It neither wandered nor moved, just sitting motionless in place.
“Safe now?”
Jiang Shan, Ren Ying, and the others vigilantly observed for more than ten minutes. In these ten minutes, the Wooden Fish Ghost really did not attack them anymore.
Several tens of minutes of peace finally allowed the crowd’s tense nerves to relax.
But Jiang Shan was still worried at this time, because the three ghosts remaining in the porcelain bottle had not appeared. Although the Wooden Fish Ghost was not attacking them, that did not mean those three would not.
“Worry will only make oneself depressed. Better to do something. If a problem arises then, deal with it then. First, let’s see what this Ghost Soil is all about.”
With that thought, Jiang Shan lowered his head and glanced at the Ghost Soil on the ground. The bright red soil undulated up and down as if it had life, and just stepping on it made one shudder.
Looking around, not only was the wooden house on the Ghost Soil, but the woods behind the wooden house and the suspected rural pig slaughterhouse behind the woods also had scarlet red ground.
“Supernatural Land? Damn, there’s not a single day of peace.”
Jiang Shan, with an icy expression, let out a long breath. He remembered that right after arriving in this world, he encountered the Newspaper Ghost at home, and almost had his memory taken by the Newspaper Ghost.
Then at school, he encountered Ghost Characters, Dead Face Ghost, Knocking Ghost, Ghost Painting.
If not for his kind act saving Chen Yue, and using a life-gambling method to make the four ghosts form a confrontation, that transmigrator called Jiang Shan would have long returned to his ancestors.
Next, because the Dead Face Ghost’s terror level increased, to balance the ghosts in his body, he had to try to detain Ghost Blood.
Seeing the crowd resting, Jiang Shan raised his arm and looked at his hands, which had no blood color and were slightly black, and could not help but become solemn.
Now his body was neither human nor ghost. If those Republic of China old guys saw it, they would directly treat him as a ghost and handle him.
“Taking a bus either flames out or malfunctions. F**k, just kill me directly.” Jiang Shan cursed inwardly.
Although angry in his heart, Jiang Shan could feel that if it were the previous him, he would definitely be full of rage and curse this world’s s**t.
After all, in his previous life, he was just a 26-year-old doctoral student academic slave.
Facing injustice, rising up to resist is the true color of youth.
No way, the red inheritance deep in the bones of Huaguo youth.
But from being eroded by the Blood Ghost until now, only three or four days had passed, and Jiang Shan could feel his emotions draining away. His emotions were gradually becoming stable, without major fluctuations.
This made him involuntarily think of a sentence:
“When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you.”
And for Ghost Wielders, this group of unlucky bastards, while controlling ghosts, the ghosts were also controlling them.
Although Jiang Shan made his emotions look normal in everyday expression, that indifference and desireless feeling was only known to him.
“Phew~ Little brother, we’re safe now. By the way, bro, what’s your name? Big Sister Liu Yingying and I still don’t know. You don’t even talk to us when smoking. Be more open, bro.” Zhang Dongxing walked over with a smile.
At this time, Jiang Shan was paying attention to the changes in the dark shadow at the porcelain bottle, but it was too far and too dark.
He looked for a few minutes without seeing anything clearly, and at this moment Zhang Dongxing put his arm around him and said:
“Bro, I want to go check that wooden house. I always feel there’s something good inside. And we can’t just keep sitting on the ground. Look at this soil, red like blood clots. Sitting on it makes my butt cold.”
“Jiang Shan.”
“I disagree with going into that wooden house. Once a Fierce Ghost is released and can’t be suppressed, we’re all dead.” Jiang Shan said in an icy tone.
“Alright, Brother Jiang Shan. By the way, take a look at this. If you can use it, bro, keep it. Buddy, I don’t have anything good on me. Don’t dislike me. Once we get out, buddy will get you an A6 to thank you for saving my life.”
The rejected Zhang Dongxing was a bit disappointed. Then he took out three green “paper money” from his pocket and handed them to Jiang Shan.
“Ghost Money?!”
Seeing the three weird paper money like spirit money, Jiang Shan’s expression changed. He looked at Zhang Dongxing with some doubt and asked:
“Where did you get these?”
“Hahaha, just picked them up earlier. Looks like they’re useful to you, bro. Take them. No need to be polite with buddy.” Zhang Dongxing scratched his head and laughed.
Although his nerves were a bit thick after leaving the casino, through the subtle changes in Jiang Shan’s expression, he could tell that Jiang Shan really wanted this paper money like spirit money.
“Gratitude.” Jiang Shan said.
“No need to be polite, bro.”
Next, the crowd sat on an open space beside the wooden house, observing the Wooden Fish Ghost for nearly an hour. During this time, no abnormalities occurred, and the crowd was already exhausted.
Even Ghost Wielders, as long as they were not Anomalies, could not escape human physiological instincts—fatigue, hunger, sleep.
Even Jiang Shan, whose body was now Half-Anomaly, felt a trace of tiredness at this time, let alone the others who had not eaten properly or rested for three consecutive days.
So the crowd decided to take turns resting with night watches.
Six hours later.
Jiang Shan, leaning against the wooden table with eyes closed resting, felt someone patting him. He opened his eyes and saw it was Liu Yingying, then stood up and glanced at his watch.
Checking the time, it was time to change the night watch.
“Brother Jiang, it’s your turn with Sister Ren Ying.” Liu Yingying looked at the already standing Jiang Shan, full of fatigue.
“Mm, go rest.” Jiang Shan replied.
Just as Jiang Shan and Liu Yingying passed each other, he suddenly heard a faint footsteps sound.
The Ghost Soil was like a muddy road in the rural area after rain. Stepping on it, forget footsteps—even if a person’s foot did not sink in, it meant that person was lightweight.
How could there be footsteps?
Jiang Shan’s face turned cold. He immediately covered Liu Yingying with his Ghost Domain. In the Ghost Domain, he could clearly see every hair on Liu Yingying’s body, even every hair follicle.
“Still has body temperature, movements not stiff. Doesn’t look like a Ghost Slave, but her footprints are off!”
In the Ghost Domain, Liu Yingying had nowhere to hide. Jiang Shan spotted the anomaly on her at a glance.
He saw that on the ground where Liu Yingying walked, there were footprints that did not belong to her.
Her feet were at most size 37, but the footprints on the Ghost Soil were at least size 44!
Clearly, these were not her footprints, but a ghost’s.
Jiang Shan looked closely and discovered that the footprints were not made by Liu Yingying stepping, but every time she stepped out a new footprint, the Ghost Footprint would immediately follow and cover it.
And that faint footsteps sound came from that.
Now the Ghost Footprint was only three footprints away from Liu Yingying.
Jiang Shan guessed that when the Ghost Footprint overlapped with her feet, it would be Liu Yingying’s death.
“Don’t sit, keep walking, don’t run!”
Can’t do five updates today, brothers. Really can’t type anymore.
Begging brothers for forgiveness!!!
