bullyxtreme Chapter 22 She is the dead
Chapter 22 She is the dead
Fortunately, he had a century-old piece of wood struck by lightning.
The Five Thunder Commands are used to exorcise evil spirits.
Just as Li Tingyun was about to make a move, a gust of wind that pushed the door open disrupted his thoughts.
Those ghostly hands suddenly stopped moving and burrowed back underground, never to emerge again.
Li Tingyun looked towards the doorway, where a cat was crouching against the light.
A black cat.
The black cat transformed into human form, tall and thin, dressed in black.
He stepped over the threshold and walked towards me step by step.
"get out."
The man shouted.
"Are you the owner here?"
Li Tingyun narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I'll say it again, get out here!"
The man roared angrily.
"Everything should be done reasonably. If you hadn't been pretending to be a ghost to scare people, I wouldn't have been forced into your coffin."
Li Tingyun stepped on the half-open coffin lid and said, "It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away. You should at least be polite and 'invite' me out."
While he used his words to stall for time, he held the lightning-struck wood and three fire-attribute talismans tightly behind his back.
If this move were used, it would definitely create a trail of sparks and lightning. Even if the opponent was a Golden Core cultivator, it would be enough to give him a hard time.
The man remained silent.
After a long pause, he made a "please" gesture.
Li Tingyun accepted the offer and knew when to stop, but the hand behind his back remained firmly in place.
The tall, thin young man in black then walked to the center of the room, knelt down beside the coffin to carefully examine the extent of the corpse's damage, and then took out a hammer and a brush from his sleeve, and began to... repair the remains as if no one else was around.
"Emperor".
Li Tingyun asked, "Is this what you do?"
The man nodded silently.
Li Tingyun suddenly remembered something, "I saw a stone tablet in front of the coffin shop before..."
There were words carved on the stone tablet. He leaned closer to look and read: "When you see these words, you will already be standing on my head."
He played an absurd joke on everyone.
"You didn't erect that stone tablet, did you?"
"Exactly."
"Are those ghostly hands your goalkeepers?"
"Exactly."
"Did you erect these stone tablets?"
"Exactly."
Who were they in life?
"Men, women, all sorts of people."
"They're all people who died here?"
"..."
The young man paused in his work and said, "If we don't see eye to eye, a few words are too much."
Li Tingyun chuckled and had nothing more to say to him.
After confirming that the person posed no threat to him, he climbed onto the window again to observe the activity outside.
On the deserted and desolate street, hurried footsteps echoed, ethereal and distant.
The voice was quite soft, so the person coming from there was probably not very big, possibly even a child.
As he was thinking this, a bright crimson color caught his eye.
Across the street, a little girl in a red gauze dress stumbled and fell, unable to run any further.
He hugged his legs tightly and huddled under the eaves, hoping to escape capture.
Someone is pursuing her.
Li Tingyun craned his neck out of the window to look at the path the girl had come from.
At the end of the road, a dark, ghostly mass of figures appeared.
Hundred Ghosts at Night.
[001 Warm Reminder: The host is about to trigger a main quest to rescue a little girl wandering the streets.]
She is the spirit of the dead.
The system suddenly made a sound, which almost startled Li Tingyun.
Unlike Wang Laoliu, who chattered incessantly like a sparrow, the artificial intelligence system was much quieter. Most of the time, it was in standby mode and would not provide clues or help on its own. It could only be activated when Li Tingyun summoned it.
However, it's a bit difficult to communicate with AI. It's like a robot that's set up to reply automatically. The conversation can only continue if a question is asked to trigger a keyword. It's useless in a critical moment. It's not as convenient as the magical artifacts in the Qiankun bag.
Li Tingyun hadn't heard the system's intelligent voice for a while.
This is to give him a task.
His merit points were negative at this point, and the mission was part of the main storyline, so he had no way to refuse.
"She...is she a spirit of the dead?"
Li Tingyun suddenly remembered the Yin Messenger decree that rang out in the sky when the Eternal Calamity Town barrier was initially closed.
Some undead have escaped from the gates of hell and are hiding in Eternal Calamity Town, which is why the barrier around Eternal Calamity Town was closed.
The underworld official ordered everyone inside the barrier to conduct self-examination and expose wrongdoing.
It seems that the results have been found.
The spirit turned out to be a little girl.
What's even more unexpected is that she has a lucky streak; even in such a terrible situation, she managed to escape the barrier and wander into the streets.
Li Tingyun wondered: Why would someone with such experience in countering encirclement and suppression need his help?
So I decided to wait and see.
But the system doesn't allow it.
[001 Warning to the host: The task has a three-minute time limit. Please complete the task as soon as possible to receive 300 merit points. If the task is not completed within the time limit, an electric shock punishment will be immediately imposed.]
Li Tingyun punched the window paper until it shattered.
"You damn system, are you some kind of monkey sent to torture me?!"
He cursed and yelled as he climbed out the window and ran towards the little girl as fast as he could.
He scooped her up like a sandbag and then returned the way he came.
Something strange happened.
He could only run for about ten meters, but he couldn't reach the shop on the side of the road no matter how hard he tried.
It feels like a dream.
In his dream, he was being chased by monsters, but strangely enough, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't run far.
He was always ten meters away from his destination.
"Yuanbao..."
“Master, Master?!”
Li Tingyun saw Mei Shiyu's figure not far away and was overjoyed. He grabbed the little girl's collar and rushed over.
He tripped over a protruding rock halfway there. Luckily, he really could do a one-handed backflip and showed off his skills to Mei Shiyu. However, his performance wasn't perfect. With a twist of his wrist, he still fell face-first into the mud.
It rolled like a winter melon to Mei Shiyu's feet.
He laughed and pulled her up.
"Yuanbao, leave the little girl to me."
Li Tingyun nodded coldly, then suddenly felt something was wrong. Mei Shiyu was clearly right in front of him, but her voice was sometimes near and sometimes far, sometimes high and sometimes low, as if she were in a dream and couldn't hear it clearly.
But he still stood there dumbfounded, grabbing the girl's collar.
No, the weight is wrong.
He looked down and saw that the girl had changed.
Her body was shriveling up at an unbelievable speed, her blood-red internal organs and intestines spilling out onto the ground.
So she became lighter.
The internal organs slowly melted, leaving behind a bloody mess and a crimson stain on the ground.
With two "thuds," the rotting eyeballs fell to Li Tingyun's feet, utterly disgusting.
In the end, all he had left was a gruesome human skin.
Li Tingyun tried to shake her off, but he couldn't get rid of her no matter what he did. The girl's long, black hair had spread all the way up his arm, the roots sticking to his skin like grass roots absorbing water, drawing nourishment from his flesh and blood.
"Yuanbao, did you kill her?"
"Master, I didn't!"
Li Tingyun looked up angrily, but Mei Shiyu was nowhere to be seen.
He searched everywhere but couldn't find anyone. A sharp pain shot through his left arm, as if thousands of tiny insects were crawling and gnawing beneath his skin.
He gritted his teeth and grabbed that thick clump of hair, pulling it desperately.
He ripped strands of hair, along with flesh and blood, from his arm.
Despite the excruciating pain, he absolutely refused to tolerate such a disgusting thing growing on his body.
"Master...Master?! Where are you, Master?"
Li Tingyun's lips trembled. He looked at the street scene around him, which was like a reflection in the water. The wind rippled the water, and the reflection kept changing. He felt as if he had been pushed into the water, and even breathing was difficult.
As the water submerged the blood moon in the sky, the feeling of suffocation grew stronger.
He was genuinely scared. "System! 001! Three minutes... three minutes must have been up! You were going to give me an electric shock, weren't you? Come on! Come on!?"
No, no... the timeline is messed up.
The system will never make a mistake. The key to artificial intelligence is that the program is unchangeable. It is impossible that three minutes have passed without any punishment being imposed on him.
So, although he felt that a long time had passed, it was actually less than three minutes.
That means all of this...
It's an illusion!
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his back, as if he had been hit by something hard.