After Waking Up, I Inherited a Bookstore 99

Chapter 99: The Starving Ghost’s Past

Liu Chuxia shuddered, immediately raised her sword, and swung it back. Then she lightly tapped her toes and retreated from the starving ghost.

“A Xia! Are you okay?” Li Hanyan couldn’t get close because she was holding the Evil-Dispelling Sword and could only shout loudly.

“I’m fine! You be careful too.”

“Okay!”

The starving ghost flashed again and appeared behind Liu Chuxia. And Liu Chuxia, with a beautiful turn, already had five Exorcism Talismans in her hand. After self-igniting them, she threw them all at the starving ghost.

Then she quickly retreated. The whole movement was a single, fluid motion.

Li Hanyan felt that her chance had come. While the starving ghost was stunned, she raised her sword and swung it at it.

Instantly, the starving ghost’s arm was cut off by Li Hanyan. Originally, Li Hanyan had wanted to cut off its leg as well, but the starving ghost had already reacted and flashed away.

But its voice still echoed in the air, “I’m not playing with you anymore. Hahaha, I’ve already finished what the Master asked me to do. I’ll be going now. See you again, ladies.”

How could Li Hanyan let it just run away?

Liu Chuxia was even more unwilling.

Both of them took out ten tracking talismans, self-ignited them all, and threw them out.

All ten of Liu Chuxia’s had a reaction, turning into green balls of light and flying upstairs.

As for Li Hanyan, only seven of hers had a reaction.

“It seems it’s only a matter of time before A Xia surpasses me,” Li Hanyan said as she walked upstairs, a hint of unwillingness in her voice.

“Hanyan, you’re already very outstanding. I’m just lucky to have this talent. And I still have a lot to learn from you.”

Liu Chuxia took her hand and led her upstairs, turning her head to say to her.

“I’m just envious of your luck.”

“Alright, just don’t compare yourself to me. We have to hurry. I can feel the tracking talismans getting impatient.”

“Mhm.”

The two of them immediately ran quickly up the stairs.

By the time they followed the green light to the third floor, Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan had no time to catch their breath.

The ball of light was still moving rapidly. The two of them had no choice but to chase after it.

Finally, the green ball of light entered a hospital room, and then they heard a series of explosions from inside, followed by the miserable screams of the starving ghost.

The starving ghost, which had already been seriously injured by Li Hanyan, had used its last bit of energy to flash here, thinking it could escape. It really hadn’t expected to be blasted into a severely injured state by ten green balls of light.

The moment Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan entered, they saw the starving ghost lying on the ground, on the verge of death.

Liu Chuxia walked over and kicked it. Seeing that there was no movement other than gasping, and that its eyes were calmly staring at Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan.

“What did you do for the Master?” Li Hanyan asked, patting its leg with the wrapped Evil-Dispelling Sword.

“If you want to kill me, just kill me. I won’t say anything. I’ll die anyway if I say it,” the starving ghost said calmly, looking at Li Hanyan.

“Hah, are you really not afraid of death, or are you just pretending?” Liu Chuxia said, raising her iron sword and about to stab its glabella.

But the starving ghost closed its eyes. Was it finally going to be free? It was good to be dead. There would be no more attachments, and it would no longer think of that person.

However, Liu Chuxia did not continue downwards. Her sword was only a little distance away from the starving ghost’s glabella.

Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan exchanged a glance.

Liu Chuxia spoke first, “Why do you have no will to live? If I really stab down, you’ll really be dead.”

The starving ghost opened its eyes and looked at Liu Chuxia with the same calm expression as before.

“It’s better to be really dead. There will be no more attachments. Hehehehahahaha.”

“I can give you a chance. Tell me what the Master had you do, and I’ll let you go to the underworld and be reincarnated,” Li Hanyan said, looking at it.

“Hah, just kill me. There’s no point in living. I can’t live anymore anyway. You might as well give me a quick death.”

Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan had no way to deal with this starving ghost, but the information about the ‘Master’ was also very important.

“How about this? You tell us about the person you’re attached to, and I’ll let you see her one last time. In exchange, you tell us what the Master had you do,” Li Hanyan said, kneeling down and looking at it.

The starving ghost closed its eyes and thought for a while, then nodded.

“If you can really find her, I’ll tell you everything I know.”

“Okay.”

Li Hanyan gave it a healing talisman, which only gave it the strength to stand up. It couldn’t attack.

“This is not a place to talk. Get in the bottle first,” Li Hanyan said, taking out a glass bottle and looking at the starving ghost.

The starving ghost nodded, then turned into a wisp of black smoke and entered the bottle.

Liu Chuxia tried to hold it. “So cold. This is colder than frozen water from the refrigerator.”

Li Hanyan smiled and took her hand. “Of course. This is yin cold. It can’t be compared to a refrigerator.”

The two of them talked as they walked. Then they reached the second floor. The scene here was completely different from before. All the dismembered limbs and blood were gone. The dense rows of heads on the ceiling were also gone, as if none of it had ever existed.

“Were those fake before?” Liu Chuxia asked in surprise.

“Not exactly fake. Half real, half fake. It’s a passive skill that advanced ghosts have. As long as they stay in one place long enough, the scene around them will slowly change into what they want, or a scene they’ve encountered before.”

“So it’s like a built-in battlefield?”

“You can understand it that way,” Li Hanyan said with a smile.

“Hehe, then how long do they have to stay in one place to form it?” Liu Chuxia asked, linking her arm with hers and looking up.

“At least a week, at most half a year. It depends on the size of the area they change.”

“Oh, okay.”

The two of them left the abandoned hospital and took a car straight back to the bookstore.

After taking a shower, the two of them went to the interrogation room and released the starving ghost.

“Speak. Tell us all the information about that person so we can find her,” Li Hanyan said, holding a notebook and looking at it.

“What is this place? I feel like I’m being crushed and can’t breathe.”

“This is the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.”

“No wonder.”

“First, tell us your name. Then tell us about that person’s situation,” Liu Chuxia said, resting her head on her hand.

“I’ve been dead for too long. I don’t remember my own name anymore. I only remember one character, Ling, as in ‘undead.’ Just call me Xiaoling.

Her name is Zhang Yunyi. She’s a very good girl. We grew up together. Every time I was abused by that woman, she would protect me.

Once, that woman, I don’t know what provoked her, rushed into the shed I had built myself with a pair of scissors. I was sleeping at the time.

I remember it was because I had been picking mushrooms for that woman all day the day before, so I was so tired I fell asleep during the day. Hehe.

In my sleep, I felt a pain in my hand. I opened my eyes and saw that my palm was bleeding.

And that woman was holding a pair of scissors, stabbing them into my palm. Instantly, pain swept through my whole body. I was in so much pain I was rolling on the bed.”