Chapter 342
Chapter 342
A delicate, pretty young woman gazed at a female ghost in red whose eyes had bulged out of their sockets and whose face was a sickly bluish-white, then sweetly called her Big Sister.
The sight delivered a devastating critical hit.
Naturally, Mu Xin gained a huge wave of Popularity.
“Big Sister, can you tell me where the key is?” Mu Xin asked before continuing in a delicate voice, “I’ve been looking for so long, but I still can’t find it. I’m so useless. I wish I could be as capable as you. You’re truly amazing, Big Sister. I like you so much.”
Mu Xin was now playing her coy little charmer persona to perfection.
Moreover, the target of her coquettish behavior was so absurd that it created an enormous contrast, sending her Popularity soaring.
The female ghost in red had spoken rather harshly before, but faced with Mu Xin’s delicate manner, her entire demeanor softened.
How could they tell?
The eyeballs that had bulged out returned to their sockets.
Apart from her bluish-white complexion, at least she was no longer quite so terrifying.
“The key is in Dr. Zhao’s office,” the female ghost in red actually told Mu Xin.
Mu Xin was delighted.
This NPC could genuinely provide clues. In that case…
Mu Xin looked at the female ghost in red before her and smiled even more sweetly.
What terrifying ghost? This was clearly a human-shaped–no, ghost-shaped–bug delivered right to their door!
“Big Sister, who is this Dr. Zhao? You know so much. I don’t even know who Dr. Zhao is. Is Dr. Zhao very capable? Anyone you know must be very capable too.” Mu Xin continued to maintain her persona.
The female ghost in red was deeply pleased. She tucked the hair beside her ear back with some embarrassment. “It’s not quite as exaggerated as you make it sound. Although I’m very capable, I do know some ordinary friends.”
At once, Mu Xin’s eyes reddened. “That’s right. I forgot. You’re so capable, Big Sister, but you still got to know someone as useless as me, didn’t you? You’re so capable, while I don’t even know Dr. Zhao, much less where Dr. Zhao’s office is. I’m utterly useless. How can I be this useless?” As she spoke, tears began spilling down her cheeks like pearls from a broken string.
Qin Nan had already seen Mu Xin’s ability to cry on command, but witnessing it again still left him in awe.
Good grief.
Girls these days were truly terrifying.
Seeing Mu Xin like this, the female ghost in red appeared to feel sorry for her as well. She immediately said, “It’s all right. I’ll take you there.”
Mu Xin instantly raised her head, her eyes sparkling. When she looked at the ghost, it was as though she saw a heroic savior, the only person who mattered to her. She asked excitedly, “Really?”
How could the female ghost in red withstand that? She immediately nodded. “Really.”
At that, Mu Xin pressed her lips together in a shy smile. “You’re so kind, Big Sister. I like you so much.”
The female ghost in red could not help but smile.
Although the ghost’s smile looked terrifying, Mu Xin continued smiling at her without the slightest change in expression.
Inwardly, Qin Nan silently gave Mu Xin a thumbs-up.
Just like that, the female ghost in red was won over by Mu Xin and voluntarily led her to Dr. Zhao’s office.
On the way there, Mu Xin chatted with the female ghost from time to time. In only a few exchanges, she coaxed out more useful information, including the backstory behind the haunting of this hospital building.
Originally, there had been no ghosts in the hospital.
Although the hospital was steeped in yin energy, the ghosts had not dared move around inside because the hospital exerted a suppressive force on them.
That changed three years ago.
An eighteen-year-old boy named Qi Xu, dressed in a hospital gown, jumped straight from the roof of this building and died on the spot.
After Qi Xu’s death, his resentment was so intense that he transformed directly into a vengeful ghost and became a dominant ghost in the area. He lingered near this hospital building, and his resentment overwhelmed the hospital’s suppressive force.
Whenever night fell, he would open his eyes and watch everyone in the hospital building, searching for prey to tear apart and devour.
It was also because of Qi Xu that patients who later died in the hospital no longer had to leave. They gained the ability to remain and wander through it. The female ghost in red was one of those who had died there.
This explained why such changes occurred at night: it was because of Qi Xu.
The female ghost in red had said that if she dared call herself third, no ghost would dare claim second. Naturally, that made Qi Xu number one–the hospital building’s final boss.
Mu Xin not only obtained useful information from the female ghost in red; her Popularity also kept rising.
Without a doubt, all of that Popularity belonged to Mu Xin.
The bullet comments were extremely lively at the moment as well.
“Oh my god. All I can say is, damn.”
“She’s the ultimate little charmer, no question.”
“Hahaha, was Big Sister Ghost won over just like that?”
“I’m dead. I’m dead.”
“I kind of ship them. If only Big Sister Ghost weren’t so scary.”
“…”
When Qin Nan saw the final comment, his gaze involuntarily flicked toward the female ghost in red before he hurriedly pulled it back.
Good grief. What was wrong with viewers these days? They could ship even this?
Mu Xin noticed none of it.
She was in an excellent mood.
Her Popularity was climbing rapidly, and the female ghost in red was still talking to her.
She was telling Qi Xu’s story.
“Qi Xu could become a vengeful ghost after death because he already carried so much resentment. He had a pitiful life too. He was only eighteen when he jumped, still in his final year of high school. I heard his grades were excellent. Maybe he wouldn’t have ranked first in the national college entrance examination, but he should have had his pick of top universities. Who could have imagined that he would suddenly jump from the building one week before the exam?” The female ghost in red shook her head repeatedly as she spoke, clearly finding it a great pity.
Now Mu Xin was genuinely curious. “There was only one week left. Why did he jump?”
“He didn’t want to live anymore. Life had no meaning,” the female ghost said.
“His home life was terrible to begin with. Human traffickers had sold him to a remote mountain village. His adoptive parents were dirt-poor and cruel, beating and cursing Qi Xu from the time he was little. Qi Xu started collecting trash to sell for money at a very young age. All he wanted was to study hard and carve out a path for himself. Who would have thought that right before the national college entrance examination, he would faint? The hospital examined him and said it was some hereditary disease caused by a genetic defect.”
“I didn’t understand it either. In any case, it was an illness that cost money to treat. It could be treated, but that required money. Qi Xu still didn’t want to die then, so he wanted to struggle a little longer. He had saved some money for university–not much, only a few thousand yuan–and originally planned to use it for the emergency. Then his adoptive parents found it and took every last bit. With no money, Qi Xu could not treat his illness, and the money he needed for university was gone too. Overcome with rage and despair, he jumped straight from the hospital roof.”
At this point, the female ghost in red sighed. “There are ghosts who had it worse than him, but perhaps smart people are simply formidable in their own right. In any case, he transformed directly into a vengeful ghost after he died. He almost always stays in the hospital. The one time he left, he killed those adoptive parents of his. Good riddance!”
Mu Xin listened with a sigh of her own.
Although this was only a backstory in a variety show within one of the Realm of Death’s small worlds, there was no shortage of people like Qi Xu in reality.
Abducted, sold, and abused, with no path ahead in sight–an eighteen-year-old child who had only just reached adulthood was crushed by society until he could no longer breathe, ultimately becoming a tragedy.
“We’re here,” the female ghost in red suddenly said, interrupting everyone’s thoughts.